Its closest genetic relative was the also extinct Rodrigues Solitaire, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae of the family of pigeons and doves.

After dissecting the preserved head and foot of the specimen at the Oxford University Museum and comparing it with the few remains then available of the extinct Rodrigues Solitaire ( Pezophaps solitaria ) they found that the two were closely related.

For many years the Dodo and the Rodrigues Solitaire were placed in a family of their own, the Raphidae ( formerly Dididae ), because their exact relationships with other pigeons were unresolved.

Comparison of mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA sequences isolated from a Dodo tarsal and a Rodrigues Solitaire femur confirmed their close relationship and their placement within the Columbidae.

* 14 species of birds on the Mascarene Islands, including the Dodo, the Rodrigues Solitaire, and the unrelated Réunion Solitaire.

Osteology and DNA sequence analyses indicate that the Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire are better considered as a subfamily Raphinae in the Columbidae pending availability of further information.

As the Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire are in all likelihood part of the Indo-Australian radiation that produced the 3 small subfamilies mentioned above with the fruit doves and-pigeons ( including the Nicobar Pigeon ), they are here included as a subfamily Raphinae, pending better material evidence of their exact relationships.

These included the Dodo on Mauritius and the Solitaire on Rodrigues, both already extinct.

Many of the Mascarene birds evolved into flightless forms ; the most famous of which was the Dodo of Mauritius, and the Rodrigues Solitaire extinct flightless pigeons.

As well as the tortoises and the Dodo, thirteen additional species of birds became extinct among there were extincts Réunion Flightless Ibis, Broad-billed Parrot, Red Rail, Rodrigues Rail, Rodrigues Solitaire and the related dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ), in Mauritius, could swallow fruits from ocotea species, as several contemporary sources state that the dodo used gizzard stones.

The Rodrigues Solitaire ( Pezophaps solitaria ) is an extinct, flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

The size of a swan, the Rodrigues Solitaire demonstrated pronounced sexual dimorphism.

First mentioned during the 17th century, the Rodrigues Solitaire was described in detail by François Leguat ( leader of a group of French Huguenot refugees who were marooned on Rodrigues in 1691 – 1693 ).

alt = Skeleton of Rodrigues Solitaire

For a long time the Dodo and the Rodrigues Solitaire ( collectively termed " didines ") were placed in a family of their own, the Raphinae ; this was because their relationships to other pigeons was unresolved.

Comparison of mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA sequences isolated from the femur of a Rodrigues Solitaire and the tarsal of a Dodo confirmed their close relationship, and their placement within the Columbidae.

Others believed it was a species similar to the Rodrigues Solitaire, as it was referred to by the same name, or even that there were white species of both the Dodo and Solitaire on the island.

* Rodrigues Solitaire, an extinct bird

* Rodrigues Solitaire †

In it, the viewpoint is always that of the small man who acts as the writer's alter ego, with his " obtuse, fanatic, delirious obsessions "-the small man of the 1950s Rio de Janeiro lower middle-class, who, as Rodrigues himself, had " a single suit, a single pair of shoes ", and was torn between the longing for a lost moral order-specially, when a male, to the threat posed to his authority by the incipient female emancipation fostered by the development of an urban milieu and its possibilities of unwitnessed encounters and his ( or hers ) sexual drives.

The village ( locality ) has a single secondary school: Rodrigues College.

In a documentary chronicling the making of the first three Indiana Jones films, John Rhys-Davies stated that his character of Sallah was meant to be a cross between his character in Shogun, Portuguese Pilot Vasco Rodrigues, and Falstaff.

The cataclysmic explosion was heard in Perth in Western Australia, about to the south, as well as the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, about to the west.

Mauritius was encountered during the same expedition and received the name of " Cirne " and Rodrigues that of " Diogo Fernandes ".

A preliminary attack was foiled at Grand Port in August 1810, but the main attack launched in December of the same year from Rodrigues, which had been captured a year earlier, was successful.

By the Treaty of Paris in 1814, the " Isle de France " which was renamed Mauritius was ceded to Great Britain, together with Rodrigues and the Seychelles.

In 1893, Mauritius was linked to Zanzibar via a sub-marine telegraphic cable followed by Rodrigues in 1901.

O2EM, ( originally not open source ) was created in 1997 by computer programmer Daniel Boris and further enhanced by Andre Rodrigues de La Rocha.

Finally he had quarreled with Martinho Rodrigues, the unpopular bishop of Porto, who was besieged for five months in his palace and then forced to seek redress in Rome ( 1209 ).

Bizet relished the convivial atmosphere, and quickly involved himself in the distractions of its social life ; in his first six months in Rome his only composition was a Te Deum written for the Rodrigues Prize, a competition for a new religious work open to Prix de Rome winners.

It was this meaning that was evoked by the Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay, " L ' artiste, le savant et l ' industriel ", (“ The artist, the scientist and the industrialist ”, 1825 ) which contains the first recorded use of " avant-garde " in its now-customary sense: there, Rodrigues calls on artists to " serve as people's avant-garde ", insisting that " the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way " to social, political, and economic reform.

Born in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, Diego, the first child of João Rodrigues da Silva and Jerónima Velázquez, was baptized at the church of St Peter in Seville on Sunday, June 6, 1599.

Under Lawrie McMenemy's management, Saints started to rebuild in Division 2, capturing players such as Peter Osgood, Jim McCalliog, Jim Steele and Peter Rodrigues ( captain ) and what many people feel was the team's greatest moment ( to date ) came in 1976, when they reached the FA Cup Final, playing Manchester United at Wembley, and surprised all observers by beating much-fancied United 1 – 0 thanks to a goal from Bobby Stokes.

Dávila returned to the ring two months after the Bejines bout for a fight against Julio Rodrigues in which the WBC title was not at stake.

In Lapela, Parish of Cabril and municipality of Montalegre ( Portugal ), the land where allegedly the nickname Cabrilha originated ( allegedly pronounced at the time Cabrilhe in Galician and Cabrillo in Spanish according to João Soares Tavares, biographer of João Rodrigues Cabrilho ), and still existing in Portugal as a surname ( because of this Castro Daire, in Beira Alta, was also claimed as his birthplace ), there is the ancient house called today by local people and alleged local descendants of branches of his ancient family, the same surname ( Rodrigues Cabrilho ), as Casa do " Galego " ( House of the " Galician ") and Casa do " Americano " ( House of the " American ") where allegedly Cabrilho was born, as stated on a plaque where there is also a statue of him.

More recently Amália Rodrigues, known as the " Rainha do Fado " (" Queen of Fado ") was most influential in popularizing fado worldwide.

For decades and until her death, in 1999, Amália Rodrigues was its national and international star.

In the 1990s and the turn of the century a new generation of talented interpreters appears: Mafalda Arnauth, Katia Guerreiro, Maria Ana Bobone, Joana Amendoeira, Ana Moura, Ana Sofia Varela, Pedro Moutinho, Helder Moutinho, Gonçalo Salgueiro, António Zambujo, Miguel Capucho, Rodrigo Costa Félix, Patrícia Rodrigues, and Raquel Tavares.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the sons of Manoel de Almeida ( Antonio Antunes de Almeida and Vicente Ferreira de Almeida ) donated lands for the construction of a chapel, which in turn was blessed by the priest Joaquin Martins Rodrigues.

During the 1960s, Rodrigues was to write that giving room for the young to offer opinion was to turn society upside down, and that Betty Friedan should be locked in a mental institution.

' " The three islands ( Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues ) were encountered some years earlier by chance during an exploratory expedition of the coast of the Bay of Bengal led by Tristão da Cunha.

Other practitioners of this style were Antonio Maria, Custódio Mesquita, Dolores Duran, Fernando Lobo, Ismael Neto, Lupicínio Rodrigues, Batatinha, and Adoniran Barbosa ( this latter by sharply satirical doses ).

In 1940, the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos created a secular cantata titled Mandu çarará, based on an Indian legend collected by Barbosa Rodrigues.

* 1542 — The coast of California explored by João Rodrigues Cabrilho.

At the age of nine he won a children's sculpting competition organised for the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park by a local tutor, Agostinho Rodrigues.

The Piton de la Fournaise is created by a hotspot volcano, which also created the Piton des Neiges and the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues.

Fall River is represented by three separate Massachusetts House of Representatives districts ( one of which represents the majority of the city ) and is represented by David B. Sullivan ( 6th Bristol ), Kevin Aguiar ( 7th Bristol ), and Michael J. Rodrigues ( 8th Bristol ).

The town as a whole is represented in the Massachusetts Senate by Michael J. Rodrigues ( D-Westport ).

The town is represented by Senator Michael J. Rodrigues ( D-Westport ), as a part of the First Bristol and Plymouth District, which also includes Fall River, Freetown, Rochester, Somerset, Swansea and Westport ..

Rochester is represented by state Senator Michael Rodrigues ( D-Westport ) as a part of the First Bristol and Plymouth District of the Massachusetts Senate and by state Representative William M. Straus ( D-Mattapoisett ) as a part of the Tenth Bristol District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

In fact, the Portuguese cinema showed particular interest in the fado universe in 1947 with O Fado, História de uma Cantadeira, starred by Amália Rodrigues or in 1963, with O Miúdo da Bica, starred by Fernando Farinha.

They travel by one of Toranaga ’ s galleys piloted by the Portuguese pilot Rodrigues.