Arthur de Araújo Pereira Ramos was born in the municipality of Pilar, todayManguaba, in Alagoas, inthe house at 195 Amazonas Street (nowadaysWenceslau Batista Avenue), on 7July 1903, to doctor Manuel Ramos de Araújo and Ana Ramos.

Waldemar de Figueiredo Valente, doctor, pharmacist, anthropologist, sociologist, ethnologist, teacher, researcher, writer and humourist, was born on 9 February 1908, on the Conceição St in the neighbourhood of Boa Vista, in central Recife, to poet and journalist Samuel da Silva Valente and Orminda d