R7 Entretenimento: Mortes do escritor Euclides da Cunha e do filho foram uma tragédia em dois atos
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Euclides da Cunha
Euclides da Cunha was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões, a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos.
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science · Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer · writer · journalist · engineer · military personnel · university teacher · sociologist · poet · novelist · botanist · historian · also Euclides da Cunha, Euclydes da Cunha, Euclides Rodrigues Pimenta da Cunha, Euclydes Rodrigues Pimenta da Cunha, Cunha
Born 20 January 1866 · Died 15 August 1909 · Q470334
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globo: São José do Rio Pardo celebra legado de Euclides da Cunha na 87ª Semana Euclidiana
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globo: São José do Rio Pardo celebra legado de Euclides da Cunha na 87ª Semana Euclidiana
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1909· 3 entries
Died 1909-08-15.
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Finding about his wife's affair, Cunha went to Assis' house to kill him
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Cunha was admitted as chairman and professor of Logic at the Colégio Pedro II, a public secondary school in Rio
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1903· 1 entry
Was elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters) and the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico, the Historical and Geographic Institute In 1904, Cunha was employed on a joint Brazilian-Peruvi
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1897· 1 entry
Accompanied the Army in the Campanha de Canudos, against a rebellious group of peasants under the leadership of Antonio Conselheiro
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1896· 1 entry
In order to dedicate himself to studying civil engineering
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1888· 1 entry
Due to his participation in an act of protest during a visit of the Brazilian War Minister, Tomás José Coelho de Almeida, who was a member of the last Conservative cabinet of the Brazilian Empire
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1885· 1 entry
Escola Politécnica, and after he attended Escola Militar da Praia Vermelha, a military school in Rio, beginning in 1886
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-01-20.
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