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  2. Pero Fernandes Sardinha - Wikipedia

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    Sardinha was ordained a bishop by Dom Fernando de Menezes Coutinho e Vasconcellos, taking office on June 22, 1552. He resigned on June 2, 1556. On July 16, 1556, he and his crew were shipwrecked and captured by the Caeté people in the Captaincy of Pernambuco , a Portuguese administrative district that covered the region north of Bahia.

  3. António Sardinha - Wikipedia

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    António Sardinha (9 September 1887 in Monforte, Portalegre – 10 January 1925 in Elvas) was a Portuguese writer and leading theorist of the movement known as Integralismo Lusitano. His worldview was strongly conservative .

  4. List of presidents of the United States by net worth - Wikipedia

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    The figures in the table below are all derived from 24/7 Wall St.'s 2016 valuation of each president's peak net worth. For purposes of 24/7 Wall St.'s valuation, a president's peak net worth may occur after that president has left office. [8]

  5. Exorcist priest accused of 'flossing' with girl's hair ... - AOL

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    A priest from Michigan who hosts "The Exorcist Files" podcast is now facing charges in Illinois after allegedly pulling out a teenage girl’s hair and using it to floss his teeth.

  6. History of Ceará - Wikipedia

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    In 1535, the lands that currently belong to Ceará were donated to Antônio Cardoso de Barros, but he was not interested in colonizing them and never even visited the captaincy. He died in 1556, alongside the first bishop of Brazil, Dom Pero Fernandes Sardinha, devoured by the Caeté people after a shipwreck off the coast of Alagoas.

  7. Yahoo Sports AM: Canada beats the USA, again - AOL

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    The Celtics took 54 threes in Thursday's 124-104 win over the 76ers — well over half their total field goals — which is par for the course this season.. Record-breaking pace: Boston is ...

  8. Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro - Wikipedia

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    Known in English as City of God, Cidade de Deus is the eponymous name of a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, about three young men and their lives of petty crime during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the favela where Lins grew up. An English translation by Alison Entrekin was published in 2006.

  9. Oxford Calculators - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Calculators' advances were initially purely mathematical but later became relevant to mechanics. Using Aristotelian logic and physics, they studied and attempted to quantify physical and observable characteristics such as: heat, force, color, density, and light.