The name Angola starts as early as the beginning of slavery in Brazil, when Africans, taken to Luanda to be shipped to the Americas, were called in Brazil black people from Angola, regardless of their nationality.

In 1972 a report called Luanda the " Paris of Africa ".

A completely new satellite city, called Luanda Sul has been built.

Public transit is provided by the suburban services of the Luanda Railway, by the public company TCUL, and by a large fleet of privately owned collective taxis as white-blue painted minibuses called Candongueiro.

He attended primary school in Luanda, and received his secondary education at the colonial elite school Liceu Salvador Correia, today called Mutu ya Kevela.

Just off the coast of Luanda is Ilha do Cabo, home to an accordion and harmonica-based style of music called rebita.

Born at Ícolo e Bengo, in Bengo Province, Angola, in 1922, Neto attended high school in the capital city, Luanda ; his father, also called Agostinho Neto, was a Methodist pastor.

* 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.

In 1648, after Portugal has regained its independence from the Spanish rulers in 1640, a large Portuguese force from Brazil under the command of Salvador Correia de Sá retook Luanda, leading to the return of the Portuguese in large numbers.

The last time that American and British unlawful combatants were executed after " a regularly constituted court " was the Luanda Trial as mercenaries.

In the Luanda Trial, after " a regularly constituted court " found them guilty of being mercenaries, three Britons and an American were shot by a firing squad on July 10, 1976.

The last time that American and British unlawful combatants were executed after " a regularly constituted court " was Luanda Trial in Angola in June 1976.

A major street in Luanda is named after her, and a statue of her was placed in Kinaxixi on an impressive square.

The public university of Luanda, the Agostinho Neto University, is named after him.

The city is the second largest in Angola, after the capital city, Luanda.

In 2007, after having devoted many years to Grupo Capoeira Brasil, he founded Grupo Capoeira Luanda.

Pepetela continued to write throughout the decade, publishing O cão e os Caluandas, a novel that looks at the inhabitants of Luanda and the changes that they have undergone since independence, one year after the publication of Yaka.

However, Jairzinho was sacked by Gabon's Football Federation after a crushing defeat against Angola in a World Cup 2006 Qualifier held in Luanda.

In 1892, facing financial problems, Rebouças went to Luanda and after that, Funchal, in Madeira.

Aeronáutica ( also known as Gira Globo Aeronáutica after its parent company ) is an airline based in Luanda, Angola, operating domestic chartered freight and passenger flights out of Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda.

The other highway will connect the city center of Luanda to Viana, and was expected to be completed by the end of 2008.

He has finished outright first, or tied for first, in dozens of other international tournaments including Geneva ( 1979 ), Belfort, World Under 16 ( 1979 ), the BBC Master Game ( 1981 ), Amsterdam OHRA ( 1982 ), Baku ( 1983 ), Esbjerg ( 1984 ), Wijk aan Zee ( 1986, 1987 ), Reykjavík ( 1987 ), Amsterdam VSB ( 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993 ), Hastings ( 1987 / 88, 1988 / 89 ), Pärnu ( 1996 ), Groningen ( 1996 ), Tallinn / Pärnu ( 1998 ), Dhaka United Insurance ( 1999 ), Shymkent ( 1999 ), Pamplona ( 1999 / 2000 ), Tan Chin Nam Cup, Beijing ( 2000 ), Sigeman and Co. Malmö ( 2002, 2009 ), Gibraltar ( 2003, 2004, 2012 ), Budapest Hunguest Hotels ( 2003 ), Samba Cup, Skanderborg ( 2003 ), Taiyuan ( 2004 ), the Politiken Cup ( 2006 ), Bazna ( 2008 ), the Staunton Memorial ( 2009 ) Thailand Open ( 2011, 2012 ) and Luanda ( 2011 ).

Maybe I couldn't have called a taxi.

The taxi group ( called Taxi Co ) offer travel hearts to take place in minibus of 9 seats.

A taxi driver's license is often called a " hack license.

Most cities and towns also have a Jitney-type taxi system locally called Carros Públicos.

Gordon won an Emmy Award for a guest appearance on the sitcom Taxi, for a 1978 episode called " Sugar Mama ," in which her character tries to solicit the services of a taxi driver, played by series star Judd Hirsch, as a male escort.

Hamza al-Ghamdi and Ahmed al-Ghamdi checked out of their hotel and called a taxi to take them to Logan International Airport.

In 1935 he played the role of a strike-leading taxi driver in a drama by Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty, and his performance was called " dynamic ," leading some to describe him as the " proletarian thunderbolt.

A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi.

In Taiwan, a newspaper article headlined " Group urges more support for Prader-Willi sufferers " appeared in English in the Taipei Times in December 2011, highlighting a recent tragedy in which a taxi cab driver killed himself and his nine-year-old daughter who had the disease in what police called a probable murder-suicide.

Then a fourth dummy task can be invented, perhaps called " sitting still doing nothing ", with a cost of 0 for the taxi assigned to it.

Bill, the taxi driver Henry has called to drive his wife and himself to Heathrow, adds to the confusion.

An Aronde-powered version was also made in 1957 and called the Ariane which because of its economy combined with a large body was popular as a taxi.

In Mexico, they are called bicitaxi or taxi ecologico ( literally " ecological taxi ").

After his retirement from the Air Force, he worked for Executive Jet Aviation, a Columbus, Ohio-based air taxi company now called NetJets.

While Kosloff was away on a hunting trip, Rambova packed her bags and called a taxi.

He settled into driving a taxi by night and writing by day until the publication of his first novel, High Water Chants, in 1977, which Dennis Lee called one of the best in the language.

* A small number of volunteer experienced dancers ( called taxi dancers or taxis ) are often available specifically to dance with beginners.

In 1967, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, running a pizza restaurant called Caesar's Italian Village and driving a taxi.

A taxi was called to return him to Reno.

The young woman Charity Hope Valentine is a taxi dancer at a dance hall called the Fandango Ballroom in New York City.

A hackney or hackney carriage ( also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi ) is a carriage or automobile for hire.

UK regulations define a hackney carriage as a taxicab allowed to ply the streets looking for passengers to pick up, as opposed to private hire vehicles ( sometimes called minicabs ), which may pick up only passengers who have previously booked or who visit the taxi operator's office.

A taxicab stand ( also called taxi rank, cab stand, taxi stand, cab rank, or hack stand ) is a queue area on a street or on private property where taxicabs line up to wait for passengers.