* Porto Alegre, Brazil – since 2002

It was supported by the city of Porto Alegre ( where it took place ) and the Brazilian Worker's Party.

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.

Each of the seven military commands has its headquarters in a major city: Eastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Leste-CML ), Rio de Janeiro ; Southeastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Sudeste-CMSE ), São Paulo ; Southern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Sul-CMS ), Porto Alegre ; Northeastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Nordeste-CMN ), Recife ; CMO, Campo Grande ; CMP, Brasília ; and CMA, Manaus.

The 1st Naval District is located at the country's main naval base in Rio de Janeiro ; the 2nd Naval District is in Salvador ; the 3rd Naval District is located in Natal ; the 4th Naval District is located in Belém ; and the 5th Naval District is located in Porto Alegre.

Capoeiristas in a roda ( Porto Alegre, Brazil )

* 1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.

( which circulates in cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo ), most publications from Grupo RBS ( especially the Porto Alegre daily Zero Hora ), and, in March 2009, Rio de Janeiro-based O Dia switched to tabloid from broadsheet.

* September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto-Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Among them is Instituto Liberdade, a University-based Center at Tecnopuc inside the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, located in the South Region of the country, at the city of Porto Alegre.

Edipucrs, Porto Alegre.

Several Roman Catholic Marian churches around the world have also been named after the rosary, e. g. Our Lady of the Rosary Basilica, in Rosario Argentina, the Rosary Basilica in Lourdes and Nossa Senhora do Rosário in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Image: N-s-dos-passos-14. jpg | Rosary Madonna, Porto Alegre, Brazil

The fifth World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2005 was attended by representatives from more than 1, 000 NGOs.

An assembly last met in Porto Alegre, Brazil in February 2006, under the theme " God, in your grace, transform the world ".

* Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 14 – 23 February 2006

Southern Brazilian parades take place in Curitiba, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre and Pelotas, and Center-Western ones happen in Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Goiânia and Brasília.

2 ) The World Social Forum at Porto Alegre was an event localised in time and place.

From now on, in the certainty proclaimed at Porto Alegre that " Another World Is Possible ", it becomes a permanent process of seeking and building alternatives, which cannot be reduced to the events supporting it.

The first World Social Forum was held from 25 January to 30 January 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, organized by many groups including the French Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens ( ATTAC ).

The WSF was sponsored, in part, by the Porto Alegre government, led by the Brazilian Worker's Party ( PT ).

The second WSF, also held in Porto Alegre from 31 January to 5 February 2002, had over 12, 000 official delegates representing people from 123 countries, 60, 000 attendees, 652 workshops, and 27 talks.

The third WSF was again held in Porto Alegre, in January 2003.

The fifth World Social Forum 2005 was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil between 26 January and 31 January.

He was struck by another heavy storm and was unable to carry out even that task, and while Porto Santo in Madeira was plundered, his flagship, the Revenge, sprang a leak and almost foundered as it led the remainder of the fleet home to Plymouth.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

Captain Musmanno's renovated schooner with the flamboyant name Unsinkable had just left Porto Vecchio with a cargo of badly-needed olive oil for the Sorrentine's civilian population.

Ferries also leave regularly from Quai L ' Herminier on the west side of the gulf for Porto Torres, Marseille, Toulon and Nice.

Porto Novo on Santo Antão is the only source for imports and exports of produce from the island as well as passenger traffic since the closure of the airstrip at Ponta do Sol.

The Madeira river rises more than 15 m ( 50 ft ) during the rainy season, and ocean vessels may ascend it to the Falls of San Antonio, near Porto Velho, Brazil, above its mouth ; but in the dry months, from June to November, it is only navigable for the same distance for craft drawing about 2 m ( from 5 to 6 feet ) of water.

He was re-elected for a further 2. 5 years at the PES Congress in Porto on 8 December 2006 and for another 2. 5 years at the Prague Congress in 2009.

With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff, who was condemned for performing the functions of a bishop when he had been deposed and for receiving the pontificate while he was the bishop of Porto, among other revived charges that had been leveled against Formosus in the strife during the pontificate of John VIII.

He was probably a Roman soldier martyred for the Christian faith during the persecution of Diocletian in 304 in the city of Porto Torres (), according to the legend on the orders of the governor ( preside ) of Sardinia and Corsica, a certain Barbarus.

In 1418 two of the captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, were driven by a storm to an island which they called Porto Santo (" Holy Port ") in gratitude for their rescue from the shipwreck.

But on March 15, 1147 Afonso stormed the fortress of Santarém, and about the same time a band of crusaders on their way to Palestine landed at Porto in 16 June 1147, and volunteered for the impending siege of Lisbon.

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 ).

Other names recorded for the town and the castles are Avarmus, Abarinus, Albarinos, Albaxinus, Avarinos, Coryphasium, Iverin, Nelea, Port de Jonc, Porto Giunco, and Zunchio.

In addition, concessions were granted for expansions to the network: the A3 would extend the north-south highway from Porto up to the Spanish border, the A4 would reach east from Porto to the city of Amarante, and the A5 was to reach from Lisbon about west to the coast.

In 1938, Remarque's German citizenship was revoked and then in 1939 after he and his ex-wife were remarried to prevent her repatriation to Germany, they left Porto Ronco, Switzerland for the United States of America.

Other landmarks of the city include Palazzo del Principe, the Old Harbour ( Porto Antico ), transformed into a mall by architect Renzo Piano, and the famous cemetery of Staglieno, renowned for its monuments and statues.

Except for Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia at the river mouth, the only population centres of any note are Foz do Tua, Pinhão and Peso da Régua.

The reservoirs for the hydroelectric power plants of Sobradinho Dam, Tucuruí Dam, Porto Primavera Dam, Balbina Dam, Serra da Mesa Dam and Furnas Dam are all larger than the one for Itaipu, but have a smaller installed generating capacity.

After the introduction of the title of doge for life ( 1339 ) and the election of Simone Boccanegra, Genoa resumed its struggles against the Marquis of Finale and the Counts of Laigueglia and it conquered again the territories of Finale, Oneglia and Porto Maurizio.