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Nicknames Tell The Story in Brazil; From Lula to Pele, Familiarity Favored
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Brazilians seem to have trouble holding on to their official
names. Sports stars, politicians and other celebrities in this
vibrant, freewheeling country are mostly known by nicknames. Legal
names become practically irrelevant.
Take Ronaldo de Assis Moreira and Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo.
Both play important roles in Brazilian society, but few here would
know them by those names.
Ask about Ronaldinho Gaucho, as Moreira is called, and eyes will
light up. He's a soccer superstar who was named the world's best
player for 2004 and pictures of his trademark bucktoothed smile are
all over the ...
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Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., Archibald Grimke: Portrait of a Black Independent.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...inadvertently helped the Grimke boys make contact with Henry Grimke's estranged sisters, the famous Boston abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Emily Grimke Weld, initiating one of the more famous American...
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Did you know?(information about 19th-century women writers)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone
; ...the Archives" on page 48). Upon Emily Dickinson's death in 1886, her...more than 1,000 poems tucked into Emily's desk, This great American poet...s rights supporters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke used their writings And speeches...
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History Day winners
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; ...Kambouroglos, "Iwo Jima," St. Anne School; 3. Emily Hartman, "Pro Life: Roe v. Wade," St. Anne School...individual exhibit: 2. Alison Busby, "Sarah and Angelina Grimke - Conflict in Fight for Abolition," Columbia Junior...
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PM students' projects lead History Day
Newspaper article from: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
; ...Alison Busby, Columbia Jr./Sr. HS, "Sarah and Angelina Grimke-Conflict in Fight for Abolition. Group Documentary...Kambouroglos, St. Anne School, "Iwo Jima"; 3. Emily Hartman, "Pro Life: Roe vs. Wade."
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ABOLITIONISTS FOUGHT SLAVERY'S DEEP ROOTS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...weekend and decided to take her 6-year-old daughter, Emily, to see the exhibit. "It's great for her to be...abolitionists - Garrison, former slave Frederick Douglass, and Angelina Grimke, who was one of the first women to lecture for the...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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PUPILS LEARN ABOUT FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS; READ-IN ALSO GIVES THEM A CHANCE TO EXPERIMENT WITH PUBLIC SPEAKING.(Neighbors West)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...Fulton Sage Hart, "A Dream Poem," Langston Hughes Emily West, "My People," Langston Hughes Brendan Lamphear...Hughes Corinne Sartori, "A Winter's Twilight," Angelina W. Grimke Erica Shenandoah, "Friendship Quote," Muhammad...
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Gay Boston since days of Puritans
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...city, from "Boston marriages" to butch balls, from Emily Dickinson to drag queen Sylvia Sidney, the self...color -- including sculptor Edmonia Lewis and writer Angelina Weld Grimke -- are also featured, a rarity in books on lesbia
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