* 1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.

American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.

He contends that in American Beautys case it is neither Mendes nor Ball.

Mendes said that Ricky's staring into Lester's dead eyes is " the culmination of the theme " of the film: that beauty is found where it is least expected.

Lester's fantasies are emphasized by slow motion and repetitive motion shots ; Mendes uses double-and-triple cut backs in several sequences, and the score alters to make the audience aware that it is entering a fantasy.

Other projects include the new district near the Santa Gilla pond ( Piazza Santa Gilla ), a luxurious beauty-center on the Poetto beach, where now is the old abandoned " Marino " hospital, the new university campus, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and the new " Parco della musica ", a great park with an amphitheatre and fountains, channels and water-games, between T-hotel and the Civic Theatre ; the latter will be finished by the end of the year, while the other works will be finished by 2010 – 2011.

* King Amyrtaeus of Egypt is defeated in battle by his successor, Nepherites I of Mendes, and executed at Memphis.

Mendes (), the Greek name of the Ancient Egyptian city of Djedet, also known in Ancient Egypt as Per-Banebdjedet (" The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet ") and Anpet, is known today as Tell El-Ruba ().

Overall, Mendes is about 3 km long from north to south and averages about 900m east-to-west.

Jeremy Mendes is an interactive artist producing English-language interactive works for the NFB, whose projects include a collaboration with Leanne Allison ( Being Caribou, Finding Farley ) on the webdoc Bear 71.

Louis Mendes is recognized by noted and award-winning journalists, authors, and sources, including The New York Times.

" Mas Que Nada " by Sergio Mendes & Brazil ' 66 accompanies Joe while he is driven around New York City.

* The Mendes family of string pinsetters is not as common as the PBS family.

; 1899: Henry Pereira Mendes publishes Looking Ahead: twentieth century happenings, the premise of which is that the restoration of Jewish sovereignty over historic Israel is essential to the world's peace and prosperity.

Samuel Alexander " Sam " Mendes, CBE ( born 1 August 1965 ) is an English stage and film director.

His grandfather is the Trinidadian writer Alfred Mendes.

Several notable performers and directors have played there including Emma Thompson, Hugh Bonneville ( alumnus of Corpus Christi ), Sam Mendes and Stephen Fry, who is the Playroom's patron.

Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes.

Mendes and cinematographer Conrad Hall sought to convey similar atmospheric lighting for the film's scenes, applying a " less is more " mantra.

Said Mendes, " is in a battle for the soul of his son.

) José Mendes Bota is another left-wing populist.

Hentzi accused Mendes and Ball of identifying too readily with Jane and Ricky, saying the latter was their " fantasy figure "— a teenaged boy who's an absurdly wealthy artist able to " finance own projects ".

Maslin felt that Mendes directed with " terrific visual flair ", saying his minimalist style balanced " the mordant and bright " and that he evoked the " delicate, eroticized power-playing vignettes " of his theater work.

In 2005, Premiere named American Beauty as one of 20 " most overrated movies of all time "; Mendes accepted the inevitability of the critical reappraisal, saying, " I thought some of it was entirely justified — it was a little overpraised at the time.

Mendes considers the voice to be Ball's, but even while the writer was " strongly influential " on set, he often had to accept deviations from his vision, particularly ones that transformed the cynical tone of his script into something more optimistic.

Ball and Mendes revised the script twice before it was sent to the actors, and twice more before the first read-through.

Instead, Mendes asked Fred Elmes, who turned the job down because he did not like the script.

Hall was involved for one month during pre-production ; his ideas for lighting the film began with his first reading of the script, and further passes allowed him to refine his approach before meeting Mendes.

Turan felt that Mendes ' accomplishment was to " capture and enhance duality " of Ball's script — the simultaneously " caricatured ... and painfully real " characters.

This production featured brand new music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart, and also additional dialogue not featured in the original script, added by Bart and Sam Mendes.

Mendes described the script as having " no moral absolutes ", a factor that appealed to the director.

In May 2012, Ronaldo and his agent, Jorge Mendes, decided to fund a pioneering treatment for a nine-year-old boy when it seemed that there was no hope left for the child, who has been battling cancer since before his second birthday.

The prototype for this model can be found in Bolos of Mendes ' second century BCE work, Physika kai Mystika ( On Physical and Mystical Matters ).

At the temple of Mendes, figures of Osiris were made from wheat and paste placed in a trough on the day of the murder, then water was added for several days, until finally the mixture was kneaded into a mold of Osiris and taken to the temple to be buried ( the sacred grain for these cakes were grown only in the temple fields ).

Ball felt that Mendes liked to look under the story's surface, a talent he felt would be a good fit with the themes of American Beauty.

" Mendes cut much of Barbara's dialogue, including conversations between her and Col. Fitts, as he felt that what needed to be said about the pair — their humanity and vulnerability — was conveyed successfully through their shared moments of silence.

Mendes insisted on two weeks of cast rehearsals, although the sessions were not as formal as he was used to in the theater, and the actors could not be present at every one.

Mendes spent two days filming Spacey against bluescreen, but removed the sequence as he believed it to be too whimsical —" like a Coen brothers movie "— and therefore inappropriate for the tone he was trying to set.

The show will be directed by Sam Mendes.

Today the New York City-based street-photographer Louis Mendes may be the longest user – actively using the Speed Graphic for over forty years.

In his memoirs published in 1614, Portuguese adventurer turned author, Fernão Mendes Pinto placed himself in that first landing party, although this claim has been roundly discredited and in fact contradicts with his claims to be simultaneously in Burma at the time.

-HUMILITY: " How to be Somebody " by M V Mendes or go to HOWTOBESOMEBODY. ORG how to be somebody

The construction of Maracanã was criticized by Carlos Lacerda, then Congressman and political enemy of the mayor of the city, general Ângelo Mendes de Morais, for the expense and for the chosen location for the stadium, arguing that it should be built in the West Zone neighborhood of Jacarepaguá.

It has been twinned with Vila do Bispo, Portugal since 1 October 1993 in recognition of the fact that it was Fernão Mendes Pinto a Portuguese who claimed to be the first European to set foot on Japan and did so on Tanegashima in 1543.

Mendes considered the story's theme to be about how children deal with violence, and whether exposure to violence would render children violent themselves.

Though originally planned to be directed by Sam Mendes, this did not come to fruition and Andrei Belgrader was instead hired.

Called to task by his superiors, Sousa Mendes answered: " He informed me that, were he unable to leave France that very day, he would be interned in a concentration detention camp, leaving his wife and minor son stranded.

The mansion that Sousa Mendes had to abandon and sell in the poverty of his final years was left for decades to rot and decay, and at one time was to be razed and replaced by a hotel.

Nowadays it is worth mentioning Maria João Abreu, José Raposo and Fernando Mendes, who perform this form of theatre at the well known " Parque Mayer " ( a theatre in Lisbon where the " Revista " used to be performed ).

A team led principally by Gentil Cardoso, later by the architect Anselmo Fernandez and other great names of " Lions " and national football such as Carvalho, Pedro Gomes, Lino, Alexandre Baptista, José Carlos, Hilário, Fernando Mendes ( The Great Captain ), Geo, Pérides, Osvaldo Silva, Figueiredo, Mascarenhas ( managed to score 6 goals in one single European match, which is still a record ) and Morais: scorer of the infamous goal directly from a corner ( known as " o cantinho de Morais ") in Antwerp that would prove to be the winning goal of the match.

This first gig would actually be an opener for Sérgio Mendes, a renowned jazz / R & B artist in the 70s and 80s.

Sérgio Mendes is the only performer to be nominated twice in one year.