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    Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE GCIH (Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛl doliˈvɐjɾɐ]; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter...
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    João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira – Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist...
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    including Sete de Setembro, Canto do Rio, São Paulinho, and Ameriquinha. Pelé led Bauru Atlético Clube juniors (coached by Waldemar de Brito) to two São...
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    City's Plaza de Toros, two nights at Monterrey's Auditorio Coca-Cola, and two nights (with over 50,000 attendees each) at the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata in...
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    Clarice Lispector (category Deaths from cancer in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    retrato, p. 114. Lispector, "Lembrança de uma fonte, de uma cidade." In: A Descoberta, p. 286. Marly de Oliveira quoted in Regina Pontieri, Clarice Lispector...
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    brother's death. Meirelles was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Meirelles' father, José de Souza Meirelles, is a gastroenterologist who travelled regularly to Asia and...
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    Lui Morais, Luís Carlos de (2004). Crisólogo: O estudante de poesia Caetano Veloso. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: HP Comunicação. De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo...
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    (1968) Recital na Boite Blow Up (1969) Brasileiro, Profissão Esperança (1970) Rosa dos Ventos (1971) Drama - Luz da noite (1973) A cena muda (1974) Chico &...
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    secondary school Portuguese teacher. In 1944, he married Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, a fellow teacher. The two worked together and had five children. In...
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    novel, The Country of Carnival, in 1931, aged 18. He married Matilde Garcia Rosa and had a daughter, Lila, in 1933. The same year he published his second...
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