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Belo

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[bel-oh, be-loo] / ˈbɛl oʊ, ˈbɛ lʊ /

noun

  1. Carlos Felipe Ximenes, born 1948, East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop: Nobel Peace Prize 1996.


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Nery, who lives in Belo Horizonte, capital city of southeastern Brazil's Minas Gerais state, and has never been to India, says she searched on Google to understand what was going on.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

The temperatures are expected to reach these blistering heights primarily in the Central West region, which includes large cities like Brasília, Manaus and Belo Horizonte.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

Economic compensation is needed, Djukurnã Krenak said, as is the creation of a museum in the capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, “so that this story doesn’t fall into the past.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

“The End We Start From,” directed by Mahalia Belo, imagines a near future where an ecological crisis literally floods Britain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2024

At Belo Horizonte, he joined the university faculty and founded, on the side, Brazil's first DNA-fingerprinting company, providing paternity tests for families and forensic studies for the police.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann