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The Gracie family (Portuguese:) is a family of martial artists originally from Belém, state of Pará, Brazil whose ancestors came from Paisley, Scotland.They are known for promoting the self-defense martial arts system of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, commonly known as Brazilian jiu-jitsu, [1] originating from Kano jiu-jitsu (Judo) brought to Brazil by judoka prizefighter Mitsuyo Maeda.
Family tree of the British royal family. House of Tudor Patrimonial/Welsh Lineage. House of Bebbanburgh ealdorman and high-reeve of Bebbanburgh (now Bamburgh) Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk (picture) and Dukes of Norfolk (clickable) de Clare, descendants of Richard I, Duke of Normandy's, Earls of Pembroke, Glamorgan, Hertford and Gloucester, etc.
The Brazilian diaspora is the migration of Brazilians to other countries, a mostly recent phenomenon that has been driven mainly by economic recession and hyperinflation that afflicted Brazil in the 1980s and early 1990s, and since 2014, by the political and economic crisis that culminated in the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, as well as the ...
For Americans of Brazilian descent, see Brazilian Americans. An American Brazilian (Portuguese: américo-brasileiro, norte-americano-brasileiro, estadunidense-brasileiro) is a Brazilian person who is of full, partial or predominant American descent or a U.S.-born immigrant in Brazil. The Confederados is a cultural sub-group in the nation of Brazil.
Donald J. Harris. Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. [2] He was the first Black scholar granted tenure in the Stanford Department of Economics, and he is the father of Kamala Harris, the ...
Landers calls her small-scale, fast-acting efforts “guerrilla preservation.” Local students and archivists in places like Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and St. Augustine, Florida, receive ...
The Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree is a tree grown by Eliza Tibbets in Riverside, California, in 1873. The Riverside County tree was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.20) on June 1, 1932, at the corner of Magnolia Street and Arlington Street, Riverside. [ 1 ] The Bahia, Brazil, Washington navel orange was brought to the United ...
MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services, introduced by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003. [2] [3] [4] Users of the platform can obtain their family trees, upload and browse through photos, and search through over 19.9 billion historical records, among other features.