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Agostinho enjoyed substantial success in the Tour de France, where he finished in the top 10 eight times, twice in 3rd place and once in 2nd place in the Vuelta a España ( only 11 seconds behind the winner José Manuel Fuente ).
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Joaquim Agostinho Tour de France 1972with Raymond Poulidor | Poulidor and Lucien Van Impe | Van Impe
Eddy Merckx said in 1969, the year when he and Agostinho made their debuts in the Tour de France, that Agostinho was the rival who worried him most, indeed the only rival who had worried him at all.
Joaquim Agostinho was caught three times in drugs checks: in the Tour of Portugal in 1969 and 1973, and the Tour de France of 1977.
Agostinho was leading the Tour of the Algarve at Quarteira in April 1984 when a dog ran into the race a few hundred metres before the finish.
João Roque, Leonel Miranda, Joaquim Agostinho and Marco Chagas, among others, all shone in cycling in Portuguese as well as foreign events, with Agostinho achieving an impressive third place in the Tour de France, second place in the Tour of Spain and three victories in the Tour of Portugal – dying on the 10th of May 1984 in a crash caused by a dog while he was racing in his yellow jacket in the Algarve on behalf of Sporting.
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Flamengo was founded on November 17, 1895 ( although the club celebrates its founding every year on November 15, which is also a Brazilian national holiday ) as a rowing club by José Agostinho Pereira da Cunha, Mário Spindola, Nestor de Barros, Augusto Lopes, José Félix da Cunha Meneses and Felisberto Laport.
MPB's early stage ( from World War II to the mid-60s ) was populated by male singers such as Orlando Silva, Nelson Gonçalves, Jamelão, Agostinho dos Santos, Anísio Silva, Ataulfo Alves, Carlos Galhardo, Ciro Monteiro, Ismael Silva, João Dias, Jorge Goulart, Miltinho, Jorge Veiga and Francisco Egídio and female singers started to mushroom: Nora Ney, Dolores Duran, Ângela Maria, Emilinha Borba, Marlene, Dalva de Oliveira, Maysa Matarazzo, sisters Linda Batista and Dircinha Batista, among others.
At present, major mass organizations of the MPLA-PT include the Organização da Mulher Angolana ( Angolan Women's Organization ), União Nacional dos Trabalhadores Angolanos ( National Union of Angolan Workers ), Organização dos Pioneiros de Agostinho Neto ( Organization of Pioneers of Agostinho Neto ), and the Juventude do MPLA ( Youth of MPLA ).
Joaquim Fernandes Agostinho, OIH ( born Praia de Santa Cruz, Torres Vedras, Portugal, 7 April 1942, died Lisboa, 10 May 1984 ) was a Portuguese professional bicycle racer.
Agostinho stayed with de Gribaldy as his teams were successively sponsored by Frimatic, Hoover, and Van Cauter Magniflex.
* In 1984 Agostinho was awarded the official title Grau de Oficial da Ordem do Infante, by then President of Portugal Ramalho Eanes.
He was a master of short improvised lyrics as of satire, which he used to effect in the " Pena de Talião " against Agostinho de Macedo.
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* In Torres Vedras, on top of the Parque Verde da Várzea, there is a monument built in honour of Joaquim Agostinho.
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After the death of Angola's first president, Agostinho Neto, on September 10, 1979, José Eduardo dos Santos was elected as President of the MPLA on September 20, 1979, and he took office as President of Angola, President of the MPLA, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces on September 21.
António Agostinho Neto ( September 17, 1922 – September 10, 1979 ) served as the first President of Angola ( 1975 – 1979 ), after having lead the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) in the war for independence ( 1961-1974 ).
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This, together with his many successes in Portugal ( three times winner of Volta a Portugal ), transformed Agostinho into one of the legends and symbols of Sporting.
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* In 2000 the journalists of A Bola selected Agostinho as the 4th most important Portuguese Sportsman of the 20th Century, behind Eusébio ( 1st ), Carlos Lopes ( 2nd ) and Rosa Mota ( 3rd ).
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During his tenure as Vice Minister he published several novels, including Mayombe, a novel that had been written when he was an active MPLA combatant in the early 1970s, the publication of which only came about with the explicit support of President Agostinho Neto.
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Maintaining control over Luanda and the lucrative oil fields of the Atlantic coastline, Agostinho Neto, the leader of the MPLA, declared the independence of the Portuguese Overseas Province of Angola as the People's Republic of Angola on November 11, 1975, in accordance with the Alvor Accords.
The position was originally created when Angola achieved independence from Portugal on 11 November 1975, but was abolished in 1978 when President Agostinho Neto consolidated his power.
José Agostinho de Macedo ( September 11, 1761 – October 2, 1831 ), Portuguese poet and prose writer, was born at Beja of plebeian family, and studied Latin and rhetoric with the Oratorians in Lisbon.
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Poet and freedom fighter Agostinho Neto became the first president upon independence, and he was succeeded by José Eduardo dos Santos in 1979.
Then the population of the area risen against the Hermes da Fonseca presidence, and, for some of the same reasons that were in Canudos, the war became a " guerra santa " ( jihad, Religious war ) and got a lot of messianic symbols, like the flag of the movement, inspired by Knights Templar, or the miracles done by José Maria de Santo Agostinho, and also the presence of D. Sebastião.
The Director of the Observatory in Angra, Lieutenant-Colonel José Agostinho overflew the area, and Bernado Almada ( at the Prince Albert of Monaco Observatory, in Horta ) sent several bulletins relating the increased seismic activity of the area.
His poverty compelled him to eat and sleep with friends like the turbulent friar José Agostinho de Macedo, and he soon fell under suspicion with Manique.
The fossil deposits, usually located approximately 40 m above sea level, have generated great interest in the scientific community, resulting in several palaeontological studies in the 18th century, including Georg Hartung ( 1860 ), Reiss ( 1862 ), Bronn ( 1860 ), Mayer ( 1864 ), Friedlander ( 1929 ) and José Agostinho ( 1937 ).
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