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  • Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 21 Pernambuco 24789651911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 21 — PernambucoPERNAMBUCO, a north-eastern state of Brazil,...
    305 bytes (1,056 words) - 08:46, 25 December 2020
  • ​NINA, João Estevam Miguel da Silva (ne-nah), Brazilian author, b. in Pernambuco about 1770; d. there in 1813. He received his early education in Brazil...
    535 bytes (145 words) - 11:39, 25 April 2024
  • city of Brazil in the N.E. angle of the state of Pernambuco, about 65 m. N. of the city of Pernambuco. Pop.(1890) 15,436. It is built on a fertile plain...
    294 bytes (156 words) - 01:48, 23 November 2017
  • E.George E. Loyau Layout 2 ​ J. W. Jenkinson, A.M.I.C.E., WHO died at Pernambuco, on March 10, 1885, was a young man of great engineering talent and for...
    177 bytes (303 words) - 07:43, 25 June 2021
  • Parahyba (1892) and Alag as (1900). It is now coextensive with the State of Pernambuco, lying between 7 and 10 40 S. latitude, and 34 35 and 42 10 W. longitude...
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  • Britannica, Volume 22 — Recife ​RECIFE, or Pernambuco, a city and seaport of Brazil, capital of the state of Pernambuco, in 8° 3' S. and 34° 55' W., near the...
    265 bytes (1,114 words) - 07:22, 4 January 2020
  • ​ALAGOAS, a maritime state of Brazil, bounded N. and W. by the state of Pernambuco, S. and W. by the state of Sergipe, and E. by the Atlantic. It has an...
    313 bytes (289 words) - 03:29, 11 July 2021
  • Rev. James OkeyJoseph Foster ​Nash, Rev. James Okey, 2s. Thomas, of Pernambuco, arm. Hertford Coll., matric. 19 Oct., 1881, aged 18; scholar 1880-5,...
    186 bytes (57 words) - 05:03, 18 November 2020
  • Mosambique, Johanna, and Quiloa; to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus frigate(1819) (external scan) Memoir of the Life...
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  • family of Benedict da Rocha, with whom he afterwards made the voyage to Pernambuco in Brazil. There he abandoned mercantile pursuits, and was admitted a...
    280 bytes (482 words) - 04:43, 29 December 2020
  • maritime state of the republic of Brazil, bounded on the N. and W. by Pernambuco. The country is mountainous in the N. W., and low, marshy and unhealthy...
    199 bytes (84 words) - 08:44, 25 December 2020
  • do Norte, Brazil, situated on the Atlantic coast, 140 miles north of Pernambuco (Map: Brazil, K 5). The estuary which forms the harbor is obstructed by...
    202 bytes (87 words) - 18:47, 11 April 2019
  • pleasure of capturing several specimens in Lat. 8, 24, S. in the vicinity of Pernambuco, where great numbers appear during the early weeks of May, and again in...
    3 KB (386 words) - 15:25, 21 February 2024
  • the Diocese of Olinda. It comprises the State of Alagoas, bounded by Pernambuco on the north and north-west, the Atlantic on the south-east, and Sergipe...
    367 bytes (130 words) - 08:20, 3 February 2020
  • Doris 42, at Pernambuco, into which frigate he had been posted by the Admiralty, on the 2 1st of October preceding. The port of Pernambuco was then closely...
    563 bytes (1,419 words) - 17:49, 21 February 2024
  • ClarkeHawkshawBritish civil engineer "Notes on the Consolidated Beach at Pernambuco" in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London volume 35...
    367 bytes (92 words) - 13:11, 5 August 2022
  • criminals, and a garrison of 150. Communication is maintained by steamer with Pernambuco. The island takes name from its Portuguese discoverer (1503), the count...
    260 bytes (183 words) - 20:04, 1 February 2022
  • countries that are now known as Guiana and Brazil, advancing as far south as Pernambuco, and thence returned to Surinam. He discovered the properties of the ipecacuanha-bark...
    604 bytes (195 words) - 07:18, 25 April 2024
  • Belmonte in the S. to the Rio Real in the N. It is bounded by Sergipe and Pernambuco on the N., by Piauhi on the N.W., by Goyaz on the W., and on the S. by...
    404 bytes (353 words) - 09:32, 1 August 2023
  • remained so until 1894. The first bishop, François de Rogo Maia, b. at Pernambuco, 29 Sept., 1849, was elected in Sept., 1893. The second bishop, Jean-François...
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