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    "Captain" Virgulino Ferreira da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese: [viʁɡulĩnu feˈʁejɾɐ da ˈsiwvɐ]; 7 June 1897 – 28 July 1938), better known as Lampião (older...
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  • businesswoman and philanthropist Vergílio Ferreira (1916–1996), Portuguese writer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva (1897–1938), known as Lampião, the leader...
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    with Maria Alia da Silva and Maria Gomes de Oliveira also attributed. She was the girlfriend of "Captain" Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, better known as...
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    associated with the whole history of the cangaço, was a man called Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, also known as "Lampião" ("Oil Lamp", because, he could fire...
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  • newspaper was a play on the Brazilian folk hero “Lampião” or Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, a famous bandit leader in the Brazilian Northeast in the 1920s...
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  • Manuel: e estudo sobre o regicídio. Alfa. p. 237. Então já o Sr. Heitor Ferreira confessa 'ter importado a carabina do regicida Buíça', dourando essa confissão...
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    photographer. He is best known for filming the Cangaço and its leader Virgulino Ferreira da Silva. He was murdered during the Estado Novo period in Brazil. Benjamin...
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    cangaço bandits (cangaceiros), the most well-known of which is Virgulino Ferreira da Silva (Lampião). In 1928, João Pessoa (the nephew of Epitácio Pessoa...
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    distributing a large number of modern weapons. Even the bandits of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, known as "Lampião", were incorporated. They were a way of decentralizing...
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  • Dantas 1938 Virgulino Ferreira da Silva "Lampião", leader bandit of Cangaço Killed during the Massacre of Angico, led by João Bezerra da Silva 1938 Maria...
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