* As Yemanja, the goddess is also a very prominent subject of veneration by a Brazilian chef in the 2000 romantic comedy Woman on Top.

Category: Brazilian comedy television series

( 1987 ) is a Brazilian comedy film directed by the well-known comic artist Henfil and written by him and Joffre Rodrigues.

Lead singer João Benedan ( better known as João Gordo ) is a former well-known VJ on MTV Brasil, working now at Rede Record in a comedy TV show called: " Legendários " ( Brazilian Portuguese for " Legendaries ").

O Homem que Copiava (, The Man Who Copied ) is a 2003 Brazilian comedy film by Jorge Furtado, set in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

The show was hailed as a " breath of fresh air " in Brazilian TV comedy, given its innovative format and funny, smart stories.

Category: Brazilian comedy television series

The film is something of a black comedy about European colonialism — one that makes satirical use of the Brazilian modernist trope of Antropofagia (" cultural cannibalism "), then recently revived by the Tropicalismo movement of the 1960s — as well as a bitter commentary on the historical genocide of the indigenous tribes in Latin America and the gradual destruction of their civilization.

By November 1971, four Manhattan theaters beside the Elgin were featuring regularly scheduled midnight movies: the St. Marks ( Viva La Muerte, a blast of surrealism in the Franco-Spanish tradition of Luis Buñuel and another Lennon favorite ), the Waverly ( Equinox, which had just replaced Night of the Living Dead ), the Bijou ( both Freaks and Night of the Living Dead ), and the Olympia ( Macunaíma, a Brazilian political black comedy ).

Macunaíma is a 1969 Brazilian comedy film produced by Filmes do Serro and directed by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade.

The band was idealized by and composed of members of the Brazilian comedy act Hermes & Renato ( currently known as " Banana Mecânica "-Clockwork Banana ) that aired on MTV in 2002, in a trash horror movie-like segment that showed a youngster who bought a Massacration record and, by playing it backwards, triggered a curse that, ultimately, turned back against him.

In 2001, Joaquim de Almeida starred in the Brazilian comedy O Xangô de Baker Street, where he plays the legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes.

The show was written by Casseta Popular and Planeta Diario writers and consisted of a new approach in Brazilian comedy with sketches spoofing pop culture, Brazilian society and social life, " novelas " ( soap operas ), politics, celebrities and others with a fresh no-nonsense style of comedy ( borrowing from Saturday Night Live and Monty Python's Flying Circus ); This style of sketch comedy was considered fresh and groundbreaking for Brazilian audiences who weren't accostumed to such thing.

The TV show, however, became a cult and a landmark in Brazilian comedy as there has never been a show like it before or since.

Casseta & Planeta Urgente is one of the most popular humour shows in Brazilian TV being the next generation of TV Pirata, the late 1980s comedy show on the same network.

Category: Brazilian comedy television series

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

* Command of Communist Hunting, a Brazilian paramilitary terrorist group of the 1960s known as Comando de Caça aos Comunistas

" The Stylebook specifically lists " Brazilian " as an example of a group which can be considered Latino.

The group set up a provisional government in 1869, mainly under Brazilian auspices and signed the 1870 peace accords, which guaranteed Paraguay's independence and free river navigation.

The Brazilian psychedelic rock group Os Mutantes formed in 1966, although little known outside Brazil at the time, have since accrued a substantial international cult following.

The new group has deepened the work of Don Salvador in the double mixture of the bar with the Brazilian samba funk of the American Quaternary, based on the dynamics of implementation, driven by drums and bass.

* Vênus, a Brazilian heavy metal group

Brazilian gay group Grupo Gay da Bahia ( GGB ) reported 190 documented alleged homophobic murders in Brazil in 2008, accounting for about 0. 5 % of intentional homicides in Brazil ( homicide rate 22 per 100, 000 population as of 2008 ).

Hybris, also known as Snow White, Vecna. 22528, and Full Moon, is a computer worm believed to be written by Brazilian virus writer Vecna, member of the computer virus writing group 29A.

After arriving in Madrid, Chao and other band mates from Mano Negra formed a new group, Radio Bemba Sound System ( named for the communication system used in the Sierra Maestra by the Castro-and-Guevara-led rebels in the Cuban Revolution ), featuring groups from diverse backgrounds, such as Mexican Tijuana No !, Brazilian Skank, and Argentinian Todos Tus Muertos.

Elected for the Senate in 1986 for the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement ( PMDB ), which substituted MDB after Brazilian re-democratization, he joined a group of parliamentarians of PMDB who abandoned the party in order to create the Brazilian Social Democracy Party ( PSDB ).

The group was particularly active in the Brazilian Southeastern States of Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro, and Espírito Santo.

For the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, the Brazilian team was then almost completely renovated, so as to forget the Maracanã defeat, but still had a group of good players, including Nílton Santos, Djalma Santos, and Didi.

Pascoal would then go on to join the multi-faceted group Brazilian Octopus.

Many indigenous peoples were important for the formation of the Brazilian people, but the main group was the Tupi.

Among the recordings was a unique performance of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos ' Choros No. 10 with a Los Angeles choral group and the Janssen Symphony Orchestra ( 1940 – 1952 ) conducted by Werner Janssen, Symphony No. 3 by Russian composer Reinhold Moritzovich Glière, and César Franck's Symphony in D minor with Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Corinthians was a founding member of the Clube dos 13 group of leading Brazilian football clubs.

That same group would help Internacional become runner-ups in 1987 and 1988 in the Brazilian championship.

Cruzeiro is a member of Clube dos 13, a group of the leading Brazilian clubs and is among FIFA's Classic Club.

In 1949, a group called Filhos de Gandhi began playing afoxé during carnaval parades in Salvador ; their name translates as Sons of Gandhi, associating black Brazilian activism with Mahatma Gandhi's Indian independence movement.

Her ex-boyfriend Hélio Flanders is the lead singer of another Brazilian folk group called Vanguart.

Zouk-Lambada ( also called Lambada-Zouk or Brazilian Zouk ) is a group of closely related dance styles based on or evolved from the lambada dance style and is typically danced to zouk music or other music containing the zouk beat.

The reorganization of the Brazilian army was done by Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca during the Pena administration.

Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca (; May 12, 1855 – September 9, 1923 ) was a Brazilian soldier and politician.

During the government of President Afonso Pena, Marshal Hermes da Fonseca, War Minister approved the project of modernization of the Brazilian fleet, which began in 1906.

One of the primary goals of the joint venture will be to promote the introduction and use of Elbit Systems Hermes 450 UAV in the service of the Brazilian Air Force.