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How Europe’s exiled intellectuals ended up on a Belgian beach

Edit New Statesman 26 Jan 2016
In choosing to take up this story in the summer of 1936, Weidermann finds a moment of relative calm and normality in the émigrés’ lives. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... The following year ... Stefan Zweig’s journeys took him all the way to Petrópolis, Brazil, before he gave up hope and took an overdose of barbiturates (with his wife, Lotte) in 1942 ... . Everything is shit.” ... ... ....

How Germany’s exiled intellectuals ended up on a Belgian beach

Edit New Statesman 25 Jan 2016
In choosing to take up this story in the summer of 1936, Weidermann finds a moment of relative calm and normality in the émigrés’ lives. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... The following year ... Stefan Zweig’s journeys took him all the way to Petrópolis, Brazil, before he gave up hope and took an overdose of barbiturates (with his wife, Lotte) in 1942 ... . Everything is shit.” ... ... ....

Notice to the Market - New CFO and IRO (TAESA - Transmissora Aliança de Energia ...

Edit Public Technologies 23 Nov 2015
(Source. TAESA - Transmissora Aliança de Energia Elétrica SA). NOTICE TO THE MARKET. Transmissora Aliança de Energia Elétrica S.A ... Cristiano Corrêa de Barros destitution from the position of Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer. The Board of Directors elected at the same date Mr ... Mr. João Procópio has a degree in electrical engineering from Universidade Católica de Petrópolis ... distributed by....

Paperbacks

Edit The Charlotte Observer 15 Oct 2015
The Impossible Exile. Stefan Zweig At The End Of The World by George Prochnik. (Other Press) Fleeing Hitler, Zweig, a celebrated Austrian writer, left behind his familiar Viennese milieu and ventured westward, touching down in England, New York and, finally, Petrópolis, Brazil ... Consumed by David Cronenberg. (Scribner) Two Internet journalists transfixed by sexual perversion are at the center of this novel ... How To Be Both by Ali Smith ... Pro....

Atos supports Brazil in the race to High-Performance Computing with the installation of a Bull ...

Edit Public Technologies 07 Sep 2015
(Source ... "We are very proud to equip Brazil with a world-class, Petascale High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure and to launch a R&D Center in Petrópolis that is fully integrated with our global R&D," said Philippe Vannier, Vice-President Executive and Chief Technology Officer at Atos ... Pedro L. da Silva Dias, LNCC Director ... The supercomputer was delivered in Petrópolis on July 4th, 2015 ... About Bull ... Email ... (noodl....

Most important statistics congress in the world begins in Rio de Janeiro (IBGE - Brazilian ...

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2015
60 years ago, top names of Statistics visited Petrópolis ... Exactly 60 year ago, the city of Petrópolis hosted more than a hundred of scientists coming from 40 countries, like British Ronald Fisher - founder of the modern statistics and who also highly contributed to genetics -, Indian Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao - theorist of statistical inference ......

Brazil hosts most important statistics congress in the world (IBGE - Brazilian Statistical and Geographic Institute)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jul 2015
60 years ago, top names of Statistics visited Petrópolis ... Exactly 60 year ago, the city of Petrópolis hosted more than a hundred of scientists coming from 40 countries, like British Ronald Fisher - founder of the modern statistics and who also highly contributed to genetics -, Indian Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao - theorist of statistical inference ......

Movement, innovation and Brazilian flavour – the Rio 2016 Olympic torch is revealed (Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jul 2015
(Source. Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016). Movement, innovation and Brazilian flavour. these are the three qualities that form the essence of the Rio 2016 Olympic torch, which was unveiled on Friday (3 July) morning in Brasília. Its design aims to reflect the meeting of the Olympic flame with the human warmth of the Brazilian people, the hosts of the first Olympic Games in South America ... 77 - Petrópolis....

This cave-like studio is an inspiring retreat for its resident writer

Edit Inhabitat 02 Apr 2015
 .   ... The retreat, located in Itaipava, Petrópolis, Brazil, was created by Architectare as a place where the owner could get away to a cozy, private place where he could be inspired.  . The dwelling houses one bedroom, a bathroom and a small pantry ... Related ... + Architectare. Via Freshome. 0 ... ....

Brazil president weeps as she unveils report on military dictatorship's abuses

Edit The Guardian 10 Dec 2014
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is visibly moved while presenting the final report of the National Truth Commission in Brasilia ... “They were variations on the techniques used by the British army against Irish terrorists,” said Amílcar Lobo, an army psychiatrist who worked in a torture centre at Petrópolis known as the ‘house of death’, “ they were destined to destructure the personality of the prisoners without touching them” ... ....

Research and Markets: Beer: 2014 Global Industry Almanac for the $500+ Billion Market

Edit Business Wire 17 Oct 2014
Global Industry Almanac" report to their offering ... Key Topics Covered. Executive Summary ... Lion Nathan Ltd Coopers Brewery Limited Scottish & Newcastle Haacht Brewery Primo Schincariol CERVEJARIA PETRÓPOLIS Molson Coors Brewing Company Moosehead Brewing Co Budejovicky Budvar Carlsberg A/S Royal Unibrew A/S Diageo plc Oetker Gruppe Brau Union AG Mohan Meakin Asahi Breweries Ltd Kirin Holding Company Limited Sapporo Holdings Ltd ... ....

When the ball rolled…

Edit The Hindu 20 Jul 2014
The next morning, Ursula and Nicolas drove me to Petrópolis — the Imperial City of Brazil, the summer capital during the Portuguese reign in the 19th Century. Situated in the valleys amidst scenic mountains with its pleasant weather, Petrópolis would most definitely have been my first choice for a grand summer palace as well (given the choice) ... Brazil, FFA world Cup, Sao Paula, Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis ....

Brazil 2014: Exploding the myths of sun, samba, soccer

Edit CNN 13 Jun 2014
June 13, 2014 -- Updated 1403 GMT (2203 HKT) ... Demonstrators push over a police car ... Police fire rubber bullets at protesters in Sao Paulo ... 1 ... Imperial Museum of Brazil The former summer palace in the middle of Petrópolis was built in the mid-1800s ... Imperial Museum of Brazil, Rua da Imperatriz, 220, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro; +55 24 2245-5550; $3.50 per adult, $1.75 per student, teacher and senior over 60, free for children under 7 MORE ... ....
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