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The term capoeira Angola was derived from brincar de angola ("playing angola"), the term used in the earlier days. [2] Name capoeira Angola was used by other masters too, including those who wasn't part of Pastinha's school. [2] Other icons of the capoeira Angola at that time includes Waldemar, Cobrinha Verde and Gato Preto. [60] Bahian street ...
The term jogo de capoeira (capoeira game) is used to describe the art in the performative context. [13] Although debated, the most widely accepted origin of the word capoeira comes from the Tupi words ka'a ("forest") paũ ("round"), [15] referring to the areas of low vegetation in the Brazilian interior where fugitive slaves would hide.
Casa Faena, on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, Florida, is a hotel built in 1928. It was designed by prolific local architect Martin L. Hampton, who also designed Miami Beach City Hall and who "was a master of the Mediterranean Revival style".
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By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first heyday from the 1930s through the ‘60s, was a place in transition. Let’s see what it looked like from the Miami Herald Archives.
The Collins Waterfront Historic District Designation Report prepared by the City of Miami Beach Planning Department (August 10, 2000) provides the following list of contributing properties located in the Collins Waterfront Architectural District. Authors of the report were Carolyn Klepser, William H. Cary, and Shannon (McCartt) Anderton. [1]
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Casa Casuarina, also known as the Versace Mansion, is an American property built in 1930, renowned for being owned by and the place of the murder of the Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace; he lived there from 1992 until his death in 1997.