Everardo

His name is Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, but he's better known by his professional name, Tiririca, which means grumpy.

Clown Wins Congressional Election In Brazil 2010

Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, an illiterate clown, won election Sunday to Brazil's Congress, getting more votes than any other candidate.

Mark C. Miller: 10 Best Topical Jokes of the Week Mark C. Miller 2010

Everardo Carrillo and his co-workers say they've been moving Walmart goods in a warehouse where the temperature regularly climbs to over 90 degrees, walking in and out of 53-foot-long steel containers that get even hotter baking in the Southern California sun.

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011

His name is Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, but he's better known by his professional name, Tiririca, which means grumpy.

Clown Wins Congressional Election In Brazil 2010

Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, an illiterate clown, won election Sunday to Brazil's Congress, getting more votes than any other candidate.

Mark C. Miller: 10 Best Topical Jokes of the Week Mark C. Miller 2010

(Soundbite of applause) SAGAL: Proud holder of the congressional seat from Sao Paulo is Francisco Everardo Oiliveira Silva, the first circus clown to serve in Brazil's government.

Limericks 2010

For Mr. Borda, it was a year after his son Everardo went missing that he finally heard that his body was found in the mass grave site - and that the army had allegedly left him there claiming he was a guerrilla killed in combat.

Kelly Nicholls: Mass Graves and Alleged Extrajudicial Executions in the Macarena, Colombia 2010

For Mr. Borda, it was a year after his son Everardo went missing that he finally heard that his body was found in the mass grave site - and that the army had allegedly left him there claiming he was a guerrilla killed in combat.

Kelly Nicholls: Mass Graves and Alleged Extrajudicial Executions in the Macarena, Colombia Kelly Nicholls 2010

Victims, like Everardo 'father, Gerardo Borda, took the stage to tell of how their loved ones had been disappeared and killed reportedly by the armed forces and when they were finally able to find their body - and many are still looking - they were told their family member was a guerrilla killed in combat.

Kelly Nicholls: Mass Graves and Alleged Extrajudicial Executions in the Macarena, Colombia 2010

Victims, like Everardo 'father, Gerardo Borda, took the stage to tell of how their loved ones had been disappeared and killed reportedly by the armed forces and when they were finally able to find their body - and many are still looking - they were told their family member was a guerrilla killed in combat.

Kelly Nicholls: Mass Graves and Alleged Extrajudicial Executions in the Macarena, Colombia Kelly Nicholls 2010