A popular legend is that the first Europeans to discover Warrnambool were Cristóvão de Mendonça and his crew who surveyed the coastline nearby and were marooned near the site of the present town as early as the 16th century, based on the unverified reports of local whaler's discovery of the wreck of a mahogany ship.

The Bridge Mr Darcy Castelo de Mendonça, known as Third Bridge ( Portuguese: Terceira Ponte ), is the second tallest bridge in Brazil, connecting and reducing the distance between the cities of Vila Velha and Vitória.

Sancho of Portugal is linked to the founding of this settlement in 1200, although he left its administration to Count Mendonça de Peas Rofinho, to which the village became known.

The present Mayor is Armando Mendonça Varela, elected by the Social Democratic Party.

Mendonça is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonça ( born April 18, 1978 in Arapongas, state of Paraná ) is a retired Brazilian cyclist.

“ It is still too small for our purposes ,” says Timothy Mendonça, policy adviser of the Airport Management Authority, adding, “ The plans cost much, but will yield much as well .”

* Sophie Johnson ( Barbara Durkin ) ( 1999 – 2000, 2005 ); Carla Mendonça, ( 2001 – 2006 ) is a Valuxian alien and Brian's wife.

Unlike Brian, she is not good at morphing and can only do so when eating ice cream ; after morphing into a new shape at the start of the third series, Sophie finds she is unable to return to her previous form, and decides to stay as she is ( Carla Mendonça took up the role ).

Mendonça is known from a small number of Portuguese sources, notably João de Barros.

Barros mentions that Cristóvão de Mendonça was the son of a Pedro de Mendonça of Mourão, but his date of birth is not given.

As there is no further mention by Barros of the quest by Cristóvão de Mendonça for the Ilhas do Ouro, it is not clear whether he ever carried out this commission, or whether Barros intended by relating how he was diverted to the defence of Pedir to explain why it was not carried out.

( Bill ) Richardson of Flinders University, South Australia suggested the claim that Cristóvão de Mendonça sailed down the east coast of Australia is sheer speculation, based on voyages about which no real details have survived.

José Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mendonça, known as Duda Mendonça, ( Salvador, Brazil, August 10, 1944 ) is one of the principal advertising and political strategist specialists in Brazil.

* Some believe that Australia was sighted by a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão de Mendonça.

It was composed by Alfredo Keil and written by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça during the resurgent nationalist movement ignited by the 1890 British ultimatum to Portugal concerning its African colonies.

Inspired by the outrage felt by the Portuguese people, the lyricist, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, accepted Keil's request to create words to suit his melody.

Mendonça said A Portuguesa was a song " where the fatherland's wounded soul would merge with its ambitions of freedom and revival "; he hoped it would be an anthem, embraced by the people, that could express their yearning for national vindication.

Many of the points are illustrated with readings by Martin Hyder, and Carla Mendonça.

In 1977, Kenneth McIntyre hypothesized they were dropped by Portuguese sailors under the command of Cristóvão de Mendonça.

The formal delimitation of the parish was presided by Father Domingos Nunes Pereira, and the new Fajãs parish priest Father André Alves de Mendonça, on 12 / 13 July 1676.

In 1701, the Hermitage of Pilar () was built by Father Filipe Furtado de Mendonça, along the edge of the parish ( along Espalamaca ), where he was eventually buried.

He composed the music of A Portuguesa, the Portuguese national anthem, in 1891, with lyrics by poet and playwright Henrique Lopes de Mendonça ; it was adopted in 1911, after the proclamation of the Republic the previous year.

The closest heir who was undoubtedly Portuguese was Constança Berquó de Mendonça, 4th Duchess of Loulé ( a great-great-granddaughter of King John VI ), but her branch of the family put forth no claim at that time, nor King Manuel II ever considered it, and many scholars claim the Loulé lost their rights to the throne since the marriage ( secret ) of the Infanta Ana de Jesus with the Marquis of Loulé had not been authorized by the competent authority, the Cortes, nor either by the Regency Committee, although it had been autohorized by the regent Infanta.

The money in both cases was found to have originated from private sources as well as from the advertising budget of state-owned enterprises headed by political appointees, both laundered through Duda's Mendonça advertising agency.

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The departure and arrival lounges are currently apart from each other, but plans are to connect them by 2014 with airbridges, so passengers need not walk in the rain or sun anymore, Mendonça says.

Barros promises to return to the topic of the voyage to the Isles of Gold, and subsequently does so, relating how Mendonça was diverted from the quest by the requirement to assist with the building and defence of a fort at Pedir in the territory of the Sumatran principality of Pacem ( Pase ).

Mendonça and other Portuguese captains are described as assisting with the construction of a fort at Pedir ( Sumatra ), after which he proceeded to Malacca: And there came to the port of Pedir Raphael Catanho and Christovão de Mendoça with his three ships for the discovery of the Isles of Gold … Antonio de Brito was still commanding there … as the construction of the fortress had taken much time, and Raphael Catanho, Raphael Perstrello, and Christovão de Mendoça had to provision and take on pepper and other things for their voyages, and also as the monsoon season by which they each had to go, principally Christovão de Mendoça, had already passed, they were all ordered to stay there to assist and support the fortress, as it was not yet in a state where it could be defend itself … After putting the fort in a good state of defence, Christovão de Mendoça and Dinis Fernandez departed for Malacca.

Invested in his new title of regent, he presented his Ministers of State in the evening: Nuno III Álvares Pereira de Melo ( Duke of Cadaval ), José António de Oliveira Leite de Barros ( later Count of Basto ), Furtado do Rio de Mendonça ( 7th Viscount of Barbacena & 2nd Count of Barbacena ), José Luis de Sousa Botelho Mourão e Vasconcelos ( Count of Vila Real ) and the Count of Lousã.

Some of the most famous bandeirantes were Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva ( the Anhanguera ), Antônio Dias de Oliveira, Fernão Dias Pais ( the Hunter of Emeralds ), Domingos Rodrigues do Prado, Antônio Rodrigues de Arzão, Domingos Jorge Velho, Salvador Furtado Fernandes de Mendonça, Antônio Raposo Tavares, Estêvão Ribeiro Baião Parente, Brás Rodrigues de Arzão, Manuel de Campos Bicudo, Francisco Dias de Siqueira ( the Apuçá ), Pascoal Moreira Cabral, Antônio Pires de Campos, Manuel de Borba Gato, Francisco Pedroso Xavier, Lourenço Castanho Taques, Tomé Portes del-Rei, Antonio Garcia da Cunha, Matias Cardoso de Almeida, Salvador Faria de Albernaz, José de Camargo Pimentel, João Leite da Silva Ortiz, João de Siqueira Afonso, Jerônimo Pedroso de Barros and Bartolomeu Bueno de Siqueira.

Barros relates that prior to Mendonça being ordered to discover the Isles of Gold, they had already been sought by Diogo Pacheco, whose attempt came to grief on the coast of Sumatra: Diogo Pacheco came there a little before Manuel Pacheco from Malacca, and brought much information on the Isles of Gold that were generally known in India to be to the south of Sumatra.

While there are few Portuguese documents or maps beyond Barros that mention Mendonça, and none to directly connect Mendonça with Australia, McIntyre hypothesized that in 1521-4 Mendonça captained a fleet of three caravels which charted the east coast of Australia.

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo () was born in Lisbon, the son of Manuel de Carvalho e Ataíde, a country squire with properties in the Leiria region, and of his wife Teresa Luísa de Mendonça e Melo.

He then moved to Lisbon and eloped with Teresa de Mendonça e Almada ( 1689 – 1737 ), the niece of the Count of Arcos Sebastião.

** Maria da Graça dos Santos Lopes de Mendonça, married on 11 May 1939 to Jorge Maia Ramos Pereira ( Caminha, Vila Praia de Âncora, 6 April 1901 – Lisbon, 16 March 1974 ), an Officer of the Portuguese Navy, without issue

McIntyre's identification of Mendonça as the likely commander of a Portuguese fleet that charted Australia's east coast c1521-4 has also been accepted by other writers of the Theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia, including Lawrence Fitzgerald ( 1984 ) and Peter Trickett.

Peter Trickett, for example, argues in Beyond Capricorn that the Portuguese explorer Cristóvão de Mendonça reached New Zealand in the 1520s.

One of the subjects of the documentary Fast, Cheap and Out of Control ( 1997 ) was George Mendonça, the topiarist at Green Animals for more than seventy years: " it's just cut and wait, cut and wait " Mendonça says in a filmed sequence ..

) They had issue including, Filipa de Mendonça who married João Teixeira, son of Tristão Vaz Teixeira, First Captain of Machico, Madeira, Catarina Furtado Mendonça who married Mem Rodrigues de Vasconcelos, Knight of Prince Fernando's Household and Judge for the City of Funchal, and Izeu Perestrelo, wife of Pedro Correia da Cunha, First Captain of Graciosa Island in the Azores and one of King John II's twenty-five bodyguards.

According to McIntyre the Mahogany Ship was part of a secret expedition, under Cristóvão de Mendonça, that set out from the Spice Islands in 1522 to look for the Isles of Gold.

One key event that broadened the scandal into more of a general investigation of the Workers ' Party history as whole was the sudden testimony of Duda Mendonça, public relations specialist and campaign manager for Lula's 2002 campaign, on August 11.

Walter Wanderley ( born Walter Jose Wanderley Mendonça, 12 May 1932, Recife, Brazil – died 4 September 1986, San Francisco, California, USA ), pronounced " VON-DER-LAY ", was an organist and pianist, best known for his lounge and bossa nova music.