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"A Puro Dolor" is a song recorded by Puerto Rican band
Son by Four. It was written by
Omar Alfanno and released as the first single of the
second studio album of the band in 2000. Two versions of the track were produced by Oscar Llord for the album; one as a
salsa and the other as a ballad. The ballad version was arranged by Alejandro Jaén.
The song reached number-one on
Billboard Top Latin Songs chart, and became the longest running chart topper of its history, spending 20 weeks at the top; this record was broken five years later by Colombian singer
Shakira with "
La Tortura" which spent 25 weeks at number-one. "A Puro Dolor" also reached the
Billboard 100; this led to the recording of an English-language version of the track "Purest of Pain", which was also charted in the United States. (Full article...)
Throughout the chaos that characterized the years when Emperor
DomPedro II was a minor, Inhaúma remained loyal to the government. He helped quell a military mutiny in 1831 and was involved in suppressing some of the other rebellions that erupted during that troubled period. He saw action in the
Sabinada between 1837 and 1838, followed by the
Ragamuffin War from 1840 until 1844. In 1849, after spending two years in Great Britain, Inhaúma was given command of the fleet that was instrumental in subduing the
Praieira revolt, the last rebellion in imperial Brazil. (Full article...)
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An Umbandista wearing the white clothing typically worn in the religion's ceremonies
Umbanda (Portuguese pronunciation:[ũˈbɐ̃dɐ]) is a religion that emerged in Brazil during the 1920s. Deriving largely from
Spiritism, it also combines elements from
Afro-Brazilian traditions like
Candomblé as well as
Roman Catholicism. There is no central authority in control of Umbanda, which is organized around autonomous places of worship termed centros or terreiros, the followers of which are called Umbandistas.
A
monotheistic religion, Umbanda believes in a single God who is distant from humanity. Beneath this entity are powerful non-human spirits called orixás. In the more Spiritist-oriented wing of the religion, White Umbanda, these are viewed as divine energies or forces of nature; in more Africanised forms they are seen as West African deities and are offered
animal sacrifices. The emissaries of the orixás are the pretos velhos and caboclos, spirits of enslaved Africans and of
indigenous Brazilians respectively, and these are the main entities dealt with by Umbandistas. At Umbandist rituals,
spirit mediums sing and dance in the hope of being possessed by these spirits, through whom the congregations receive guidance, advice, and healing. Umbanda teaches a complex cosmology involving a system of
reincarnation according to the law of
karma. The religion's ethics emphasise charity and social fraternity. Umbandistas also seek to reverse harm that they attribute to practitioners of a related tradition,
Quimbanda. (Full article...)
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PR-MAZ, similar aircraft to the one involved
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ3054/TAM3054) was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by
TAM Airlines from
Porto Alegre to
São Paulo, Brazil. On the evening of July 17, 2007, the
Airbus A320-233 serving the flight
overran runway 35L at São Paulo after touching down during moderate rain and crashed into a nearby
TAM Expresswarehouse adjacent to a
Shellgas station. The aircraft exploded on impact, killing all 187 passengers and crew on board, as well as 12 people on the ground. An additional 27 people in the warehouse were injured. The accident surpassed
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 as the deadliest aviation accident in Brazilian territory and in South American history and was the deadliest involving the Airbus A320 series until the bombing of
Metrojet Flight 9268 in 2015, which killed 224. This was the last major fatal plane crash in Brazil until 2024, when
Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 crashed near
São Paulo which killed 62.
DonaTeresa Cristina (14 March 1822 – 28 December 1889), nicknamed "the Mother of the Brazilians", was
Empress of Brazil as the consort of Emperor Dom
Pedro II from their marriage on 30 May 1843 until 15 November 1889, when
the monarchy was abolished. Born a princess of the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in present-day
southern Italy, Teresa Cristina was the daughter of King Don
Francesco I (Francis I) of the Italian branch of the
House of Bourbon and his wife
Maria Isabel (Maria Isabella). It was long believed by historians that the Princess was raised in an ultra-conservative, intolerant atmosphere which resulted in a timid and unassertive character in public and an ability to be contented with very little materially or emotionally. Recent studies revealed a more complex character, who despite having respected the social norms of the era, was able to assert a limited independence due to her strongly opinionated personality as well as her interest in learning, sciences and culture.
The Princess was married by proxy to Pedro II in 1843. Her spouse's expectations had been raised when a portrait was presented that depicted Teresa Cristina as an idealized beauty, but he was displeased by his bride's appearance upon their first meeting later that year. Despite a cold beginning on the part of Pedro, the couple's relationship improved as time passed, due primarily to Teresa Cristina's patience, kindness and generosity. These traits also helped her win the hearts of the Brazilian people, and her distance from political controversies shielded her from criticism. She also sponsored archaeological studies in Italy and Italian immigration to Brazil. (Full article...)
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The 1943 Santa Cruz squad. Players marked with a red cross died during the tour. The Suicidal Tour (
Brazilian Portuguese: Excursão Suicida), also known as the Death Tour (Excursão da Morte), took place when Brazilian professional
football club
Santa Cruz Futebol Clube played a series of at least 26
friendly matches in six different cities across the
North Region of Brazil from 2 January 1943 to 29 April 1943, seeking to raise funds. The tour gained its name due to the misfortunes endured by the club, including financial difficulties,
the threat of German submarine attacks, and deaths.
The tour began when, looking to recover from a financial crisis,
Recife-based Santa Cruz arranged five matches in
Belém,
Pará. After those, the team was then invited to extend their tour to
Amazonas. Traveling up the
Amazon River for two weeks, Santa Cruz first started experiencing problems in
Manaus, where seven members of the team's delegation caught
dysentery. Although most of them recovered, two players went on to contract
typhoid fever and died. Two other players left the club in order to play for Manaus clubs. (Full article...)
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Maeda c. 1910
Mitsuyo Maeda (前田 光世, Maeda Mitsuyo, November 18, 1878 – November 28, 1941) naturalized as Otávio Maeda (Portuguese pronunciation:[oˈtavjumaˈedɐ]), was a
Japanese-born
Brazilianjudōka and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions. He was known as Count Combat or Conde Koma in Spanish and Portuguese, a nickname he picked up in Spain in 1908. Along with
Antônio Soshihiro Satake, he pioneered judo in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and other countries.
Maeda was fundamental to the development of
Brazilian jiu-jitsu, including through his teaching of
Carlos Gracie and others of the
Gracie family. He was also a promoter of
Japanese emigration to Brazil. His accomplishments led to him being called the "toughest man who ever lived" and being referred to as the father of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. (Full article...)
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In January 2012, Maria Verônica Aparecida César Santos (born 1986 or 1987), a Brazilian educator living in
Taubaté,
simulated being pregnant with
quadruplets. Her case was widely covered by prominent national media outlets. She notably appeared on the
Record TV show Hoje em Dia [
pt], where she received diapers and a furnished room for the alleged daughters for free. Chris Flores [
pt], the host of Hoje em Dia, was skeptical of the pregnancy and asked reporter Michael Keller to investigate the case, revealing that Santos's
sonogram had been copied from the internet and edited. Santos sought a lawyer to defend her, who later stated that the case was indeed false. Santos and her husband, Kléber, faced charges of fraud, but the proceedings were suspended and, years later, dismissed. The owner of the original sonogram also sued Santos for moral damages. (Full article...)
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Bündchen in 2015
Gisele Caroline Bündchen (Brazilian Portuguese:[ʒiˈzɛliˈbĩtʃẽ], German:[ˈbʏntçn̩], born 20 July 1980) is a Brazilian fashion model. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world. In 2007, Bündchen was the 16th-richest woman in the entertainment industry and earned the top spot on
Forbes top-earning models list in 2012. In 2014, she was listed as the 89th-most-powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Vogue credited Bündchen with ending the
heroin chic era of modeling in 1999. Bündchen was a
Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 until 2006. She is credited with pioneering and popularizing the horse walk, a stomping movement created by a model lifting her knees high and kicking her feet to step. In 2007,
Claudia Schiffer called Bündchen the only remaining
supermodel. Bündchen has appeared on more than 1,200 magazine covers. (Full article...)
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Caxias in 1878
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (pronounced[kaˈʃi.ɐs]; 25 August 1803 – 7 May 1880), nicknamed "The Peacemaker" and "The Iron Duke", was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the
Empire of Brazil. Like his father and uncles, Caxias pursued a military career. In 1823 he fought as a young officer in the
Brazilian War for Independence against Portugal, then spent three years in Brazil's southernmost province,
Cisplatina, as the government unsuccessfully resisted that province's secession in the
Cisplatine War. Though his own father and uncles renounced Emperor
DomPedro I during the protests of 1831, Caxias remained loyal. Pedro I
abdicated in favor of his young son Dom
Pedro II, whom Caxias instructed in
swordsmanship and
horsemanship and eventually befriended.
During Pedro II's minority the governing
regency faced countless rebellions throughout the country. Again breaking with his father and other relatives sympathetic to the rebels, from 1839 to 1845 Caxias commanded loyalist forces suppressing such uprisings as the
Balaiada, the
Liberal rebellions of 1842 and the
Ragamuffin War. In 1851, under his command, the Brazilian army prevailed against the
Argentine Confederation in the
Platine War; a decade later Caxias, as army marshal (the army's highest rank), led Brazilian forces to victory in the
Paraguayan War. As a reward he was raised to the titled
nobility, becoming successively a baron, count, and marquis, finally becoming the only person created duke during Pedro II's 58-year reign. (Full article...)
Noronhomys vespuccii, also known as Vespucci's rodent, is an
extinct rat
species from the islands of
Fernando de Noronha off northeastern
Brazil. Italian explorer
Amerigo Vespucci may have seen it on a visit to Fernando de Noronha in 1503, but it subsequently became extinct, perhaps because of the exotic rats and mice introduced by the first explorers of the island. Numerous but fragmentary fossil remains of the animal, of uncertain but probably
Holocene age, were discovered in 1973 and described in 1999.
Noronhomys vespuccii was a fairly large rodent, larger than the
black rat (Rattus rattus). A member of the family
Cricetidae and subfamily
Sigmodontinae, it shares several distinctive characters with Holochilus and related genera within the tribe
Oryzomyini, including high-crowned molars with simplified crown features and the presence of several ridges on the skull which help anchor the chewing muscles. Although a suite of traits suggest that Holochilus is its closest relative, it is distinctive in many ways and is therefore classified in a separate
genus, Noronhomys. Its close relatives, including Holochilus and Lundomys, are adapted to a
semiaquatic lifestyle, spending much of their time in the water, but features of the Noronhomys bones suggest that it lost its semiaquatic lifestyle, after arrival at its remote island. (Full article...)
The front cover of the band's debut album, I.N.R.I., is regarded as a great influence on
black metal's
corpse paint style make-up. That record is also considered one of the "
first wave" albums that helped shape the genre. (Full article...)
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Pedra da Gavea, Rio de Janeiro. The "eyes" of the "face" are looking towards the right-hand of this picture. The etchings that can be seen on the dome of the mountain make up the supposed inscription. Pedra da Gávea is a
mountain in
Tijuca Forest,
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Differential weathering on one side of the rock has created what is described as a stylized human face, and weathered markings on another face of the rock have been described as an inscription. Some individuals, such as Bernardo de Azevedo da Silva Ramos, have advanced the position that the inscription is of
Phoenician origin and possibly proof of
pre-Columbian contact from
Old World cultures. Alternative theories proposed include that the rock was the site of a
Norse colony or that it is connected with suspected
UFO activity.
Mainstream geologists and scientists are in agreement that the "inscription" is the result of erosion and that the "face" is a product of
pareidolia. No credible evidence has ever been collected that backs up the idea that Pedra da Gávea was discovered by Phoenicians or any other civilization. Furthermore, the
consensus of archaeologists and scholars in Brazil is that the mountain should not be viewed as an archaeological site, and hypotheses that regard it as such are
fringe theories. (Full article...)
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The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a
marine mammal and a
baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 m (98 ft) and weighing up to 199 t (196 long tons; 219 short tons), it is the
largest animal known ever to have existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can be of various shades of greyish-blue on its upper surface and somewhat lighter underneath. Four
subspecies are recognized: B. m. musculus in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia in the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda (the
pygmy blue whale) in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, and B. m. indica in the Northern Indian Ocean. There is a population in the waters off Chile that may constitute a fifth subspecies.
In general, blue whale populations migrate between their summer feeding areas near the poles and their winter breeding grounds near the tropics. There is also evidence of year-round residencies, and partial or age/sex-based migration. Blue whales are
filter feeders; their diet consists almost exclusively of
krill. They are generally solitary or gather in small groups, and have no well-defined social structure other than mother–calf bonds. Blue whales
vocalize, with a
fundamental frequency ranging from 8 to 25 Hz; their vocalizations may vary by region, season, behavior, and time of day.
Orcas are their only natural predators. (Full article...)
Massa started the race alongside
Toyota driver
Jarno Trulli. Massa's teammate Räikkönen began from third next to
McLaren driver
Lewis Hamilton. Rain fell minutes before the race, delaying the start, and as the track dried Massa established a lead of several seconds. More rain late in the race made the last few laps treacherous for the drivers, but could not prevent Massa from winning the Grand Prix.
Sebastian Vettel of
Toro Rosso finished in fourth place behind Alonso and Räikkönen. Hamilton passed Toyota's
Timo Glock in the final corners of the race to finish fifth, securing him the points needed to take the
Drivers' Championship. (Full article...)
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Transgender history in Brazil comprises the
history of transgender (
transsexual,
third gender, and
travesti) people in
Brazil and their struggles and organization from the pre-colonial period to the modern day. Before Brazil's colonization, indigenous peoples respected various transmasculine and transfeminine third genders; colonization included public executions of trans people and the systematic imposition of the Western
gender binary. In the late 1800s, there were repeated arrests of black travestis and occasional sensationalized news reports of travestis. By the 1920s there were popular
drag queens and in the 1950s travestis became popular stars in the theater and
revue shows. From the 1960s onward, LGBT periodicals publicly discussed the issues facing travestis and transsexuals.
The
military dictatorship in Brazil (1964–1985) carried out mass targeted arrests and
media censorship of travestis. Many emigrated to Paris and the majority who remained were pressured into sex work. In the latter half of the dictatorship, censorship loosened and travestis began to re-enter the theatre and organize openly. After the dictatorship, mass arrests continued along with extrajudicial killings by the military and vigilante groups. The homosexual rights movement distanced itself from travestis for
respectability. In 1992, the first political travesti organization was created and began advocating for HIV care and against police brutality. Over the next decade, more trans organizations were created and began to partner with gay and lesbian organizations. (Full article...)
Two months after its completion in January 1910, Minas Geraes was featured in Scientific American, which described it as "the last word in heavy battleship design and the ... most powerfully armed warship afloat". In November 1910, Minas Geraes was the focal point of the
Revolt of the Lash. The mutiny, triggered by racism and physical abuse, spread from Minas Geraes to other ships in the Navy, including its
sisterSão Paulo, the elderly
coastal defense shipDeodoro, and the recently commissioned cruiser
Bahia. Led by
João Cândido Felisberto, the mutineers threatened to bombard the Brazilian capital of
Rio de Janeiro if their demands were not met. As it was not possible to end the situation militarily—the only loyal troops nearby being small
torpedo boats and army troops confined to land—the
National Congress of Brazil conceded to the rebels' demands, including a grant of amnesty, peacefully ending the mutiny. (Full article...)
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Pedro II at age 9, 1835
The early life of Pedro II of Brazil covers the period from his birth on 2 December 1825 until 18 July 1841, when he was crowned and consecrated. Born in
Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Emperor
Dom Pedro II was the youngest and only surviving male child of
Dom Pedro I,
first emperor of
Brazil, and his wife
Dona Leopoldina, archduchess of
Austria. From birth, he was heir to his father's throne and was styled Prince Imperial. As member of the Brazilian Royalty, he held the honorific title "
Dom".
Pedro II's mother died when he was one year old, and his father remarried, to
Amélie of Leuchtenberg, a couple years later. Pedro II formed a strong bond with Empress Amélie, whom he considered to be his mother throughout the remainder of his life. When Pedro I abdicated on 7 April 1831 and departed to Europe with Amélie, Pedro II was left behind with his sisters and became the second emperor of Brazil. He was raised with simplicity but received an exceptional education towards shaping what Brazilians then considered an ideal ruler. The sudden and traumatic loss of his parents, coupled with a lonely and unhappy upbringing, greatly affected Pedro II and shaped his character. (Full article...)
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Jocione Mendonça (19 February 1970 – 29 June 2018), better known as Jailson Mendes and sometimes Pai de Família, was a Brazilian porn actor and
YouTuber. He became an
Internet meme for his performance in a pornographic film where he says the phrase "Ai, que delícia, cara" ("Oh, what a delight, man"). Retired due to health issues, Mendonça was invited to act in pornographic films while he was in
São Paulo and ended up making three of them. Due to his acting style, along with his phrase, he became an Internet phenomenon. Although he initially feared the repercussions, Mendonça later became used to his popularity. To change his image as a pornographic actor, he created a channel on
YouTube with videos about video games and cooking.
Mendonça died on 29 June 2018, from a
heart attack. He was considered one of the greatest Brazilian memes and one of the icons of Brazilian gay pornography. Some used Mendonça's character as a prank in news programs. (Full article...)
After the Sequel was inspired by Sonic Heroes and other games both inside and outside the Sonic series, and it was developed with Sonic Worlds, an
engine based in
Multimedia Fusion 2 that reduces the amount of
computer programming involved in game creation. It was released as a free download for
Windows personal computers on June 15, 2013. The game was very well received by video game journalists, who lauded its preservation of retro Sonic gameplay and its 1990s-style soundtrack. The trilogy of Before the Sequel, After the Sequel, and their successor Sonic Chrono Adventure performed unusually well for
fangames, having been downloaded 120,000 times by March 2014. (Full article...)
In 1904, Brazil began a major naval building program that included three small battleships. Designing and ordering the ships took two years, but these plans were scrapped after the revolutionary dreadnought concept rendered the Brazilian design obsolete. Two dreadnoughts were instead ordered from the United Kingdom, making Brazil the third country to have ships of this type under construction, before traditional powers like Germany, France, or Russia. As such, the ships created much uncertainty among the major countries in the world, many of whom incorrectly speculated the ships were actually destined for a rival nation. Similarly, they also caused much consternation in Argentina and, consequently, Chile. (Full article...)
Coutinho showed prodigious talent and excelled in
Vasco da Gama's youth system. He was signed by
Serie A club
Inter Milan in 2008 for €4 million and subsequently
loaned back to Vasco, where he became a key player. He made his debut for Inter Milan in 2010, and was later loaned to
La Liga club
Espanyol in 2012. In January 2013, Coutinho joined Premier League club
Liverpool. He flourished at Liverpool, being named in the
PFA Team of the Year in 2015, and being named Liverpool's fans' and players' player of the year in 2015 and 2016. In January 2018, Coutinho signed for
Barcelona and won two La Liga titles with the club. He was loaned to German club Bayern Munich for the
2019–20 season, being part of the team that won a
treble of
Bundesliga,
DFB-Pokal and
UEFA Champions League. He went on loan to Aston Villa in January 2022 before signing permanently for them in the summer. (Full article...)
The species feeds on fruit, flowers, and leaves. Its habit of
eating leaves is an unusual aspect of its diet. Foraging takes place in
mixed-species or single species flocks of as many as 15–20 birds. Like other tanagers in southeastern Brazil, the azure-shouldered tanager's breeding season begins after the end of the dry season. Nests are generally built deep inside tangles of
epiphyticbromeliads in trees. Eggs are laid in
clutches of two and may be either pale blue with some very dark purple spots or white with evenly spread-out small brown splotches. As of 2024[update], it is classified as being
least concern on the
IUCN Red List, an upgrade from its previous assessment of
near threatened. (Full article...)
Fernanda Lima (b. 1977) is a Brazilian actress, model, businesswoman, journalist, and television host. Following a short career in film and
telenovelas, she established herself in popular culture as the host of a variety of shows on
MTV Brasil,
Rede TV!, and
Globo TV. In 2014, she was contracted by
FIFA to be the
muse of the
World Cup and of the
Ballon d'Or.
Bothrops bilineatus is a highly
venomous species of
pit viper found in the
Amazon region of South America. A pale green arboreal species that may reach 1 m (3.3 ft) in length, it is an important cause of snakebite throughout the entire Amazon region. It is a
nocturnal species, spending the day hidden in dense vegetation in lowland rainforest, usually in the vicinity of water. It emerges at night to feed on small mammals, birds, lizards and frogs, tending to rely on
ambush rather than actively hunting for
prey. This B. bilineatus individual was photographed in an
Atlantic Forest preservation area in the state of
Bahia in eastern Brazil.
Beberibe is a
municipality in the state of
Ceará in
Brazil. It's estimated population in 2006 is 46,439. The current
mayor (Prefeito) of Beberibe is Marcos de Queiroz Ferreira. His term ends in 2008. The municipality was created on June 5, 1892, and incorporated July 18, 1892. The name 'Beberibe' means "where the sugar cane grows".
The yacare caiman (Caiman yacare) is a species of
caiman found in central South America. About ten million individuals, such as this one, exist within the Brazilian pantanal, representing what may be the largest single crocodilian population on Earth. This small-to-medium sized species feeds mainly on fish (especially
piranha), but also eats birds, reptiles, and small mammals.
A ripe passionfruit and the cross-section of another. Passionfruits are the
fruit of the
passion flowervine species Passiflora edulis, which is native to
Brazil and northeastern
Argentina, but is now
cultivated commercially in
frost-free areas in many countries for its fruit. Passionfruit comes in two varieties: purple (seen here), which is usually smaller than a
lemon, and yellow, which is about the size of a
grapefruit.
A portrait of a female bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata), taken at the
Pantanal in Brazil. This species of bird in the family
Cracidae is found in eastern-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeast Argentina. Its natural
habitats are tropical and subtropical
dry and
moist broadleaf forests.
The Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida is a Catholic
basilica located in the Brazilian city of
Aparecida. According to local tradition, a group of fishermen caught a statue of the
Virgin Mary in their nets in 1717, a find which considerably improved their subsequent catches. One of the fishermen kept the statue at his home, which became a popular site for pilgrims. A small chapel was built to house it, but was replaced by successively larger churches as the statue's popularity grew. The present building was built from 1955, and houses 45,000 people.
Parodia tenuicylindrica is a small species of
cactus native to the
Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil. It grows 4–8 cm (1.6–3.1 in) in height and 2–3 cm (0.8–1.2 in) in width. It has yellow and red-brown
spines, white wool and yellow flowers. It produces yellow-green fruit and black seeds.
An 1868 photo of an
Argentinegaucho. The term "gaucho" is used to describe residents of the
South Americanpampas,
chacos or
Patagonian grasslands, found principally in parts of Argentina,
Uruguay,
Southern Chile and
Southern Region, Brazil. It is a loose equivalent to the
North American "
cowboy" and often connotes the 19th century more than the present day. In those days, gauchos made up the majority of the rural population, herding
cows on the vast
estancias, and practicing hunting as their main economic activities.
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses) is a
national park located in
Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil, just east of the
Baía de São José. Protected since June 1981, the 383,000-acre (155,000 ha) park includes 70 km (43 mi) of coastline, and an interior of rolling sand dunes. During the rainy season, the valleys among the dunes fill with freshwater lagoons, prevented from draining due to the impermeable rock beneath. The park is home to a range of species, including four
listed as endangered, and has become a popular destination for
ecotourists.
Leblon is an affluent neighborhood in
Rio de Janeiro, just west of
Ipanema, another neighborhood in that city. In the north it is bordered by
Gávea, and in the west by a towering hill called "Dois Irmãos", which translates as "two brothers", because of its split peak.
Blumenau is a city in Vale do Itajaí, Santa Catarina state, in the South Region of Brazil. The city was founded by the German chemist and pharmacist Hermann Blumenau (1819–1899), who arrived on a boat via the Itajaí-Açu River accompanied by seventeen other Germans, and still celebrates its German heritage, including the second largest
Oktoberfest in the world.
A preparatory
study for Discovery of the Land, a
mural in the United States
Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room, by Candido Portinari. Portinari was a
Brazilianpainter who was a prominent and influential practitioner of the
neorealism style. The mural depicts two sailors who might have been found in either the fleets of
Christopher Columbus or
Pedro Álvares Cabral, and is part of a series of four that show the colonization of the Americas by Europeans.
Nova Petrópolis is a
municipality in the Southern
Brazilian state of
Rio Grande do Sul. The main town and seat of the municipality is also called Nova Petropolis. It is located in the
Serra Gaúcha region, at 29º22'35" South, 51º06'52" West, about 100 km north of
Porto Alegre, the state capital city. Nova Petropolis is situated at an average altitude of 580m above sea level and covers an area of 293 km².
Photograph credit: unknown; restored by
Adam Cuerden
Bertha Lutz (August 2, 1894 – September 16, 1976) was a Brazilian
zoologist, politician, and diplomat. She became a leading figure in the Pan-American feminist and human rights movements, and was instrumental in gaining
women's suffrage in Brazil. In addition to her political work, she was a naturalist at the
National Museum of Brazil, specializing in
poison dart frogs. Her collections were destroyed in September 2018, when a fire devastated most of the museum's collections.
Itaipu Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the
Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. It's the third largest hydroelectric dam in the world (it was the largest in the world between 1984 and 2003). In 2022, 15% of Brazil's energy (and almost all of Paraguay's energy) was produced by Itaipu.
Emperor of Brazil Pedro II was the
second and last ruler of the
Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in
Rio de Janeiro, his father
Pedro I's abrupt abdication and flight to Europe in 1831 left him as Emperor at the age of five. Inheriting an Empire on the verge of disintegration, Pedro II turned Brazil into an emerging power in the international arena. On November 15, 1889, he was overthrown in a coup d'état by a clique of military leaders who
declared Brazil a republic. However, he had become weary of emperorship and despaired over the monarchy's future prospects, despite its overwhelming popular support, and did not support any attempt to restore the monarchy.
Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as President of the Republic on 1 January 2019, succeeding Michel Temer. Bolsonaro began his cabinet formation before winning the presidency, having chosen economist Paulo Guedes as his Economy minister and astronaut Marcos Pontes as his Science and Technology minister. Bolsonaro initially said his cabinet would be composed of 15 members; this figure later rose to 22 when he announced his final minister, Ricardo Salles, in December. His predecessor, Michel Temer, had a cabinet of 29 members.
The Municipal Theatre of São Paulo is a
theatre and landmark in
São Paulo, Brazil. It is significant both for its architectural value as well as its historical importance; the theatre was the venue for the
Modern Art Week in 1922, which revolutionised the arts in Brazil. The building now houses the São Paulo Municipal Symphonic Orchestra, the Coral Lírico (Lyric Choir), and the City Ballet of São Paulo.
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The leader of the Revolt of the Lash,
João Cândido Felisberto (front row, directly to the left of the man in the dark suit), with reporters, police officers and sailors on board Minas Geraes on 26 November 1910.
At the beginning of the new century rising demand for coffee and rubber enabled Brazilian politicians to attempt to transform their country into an international power. A key part of this would come from modernizing the
Brazilian Navy, which had been neglected since the coup, by
purchasing battleships of the new "dreadnought" type. Social conditions in the Brazilian Navy, however, did not keep pace with this new technology. Elite white officers were in charge of mostly black and mixed-race crewmen, many of whom had been forced into the navy on long-term contracts. These officers frequently inflicted corporal punishment on the crewmen for major and minor offenses alike despite the practice's ban in most other countries and in the rest of Brazil. (Full article...)
At his peak, Sousa controlled eight of the country's ten largest companies (the remaining two were state-owned); his banking interests stretched over to Britain, France, the United States and
Argentina. Mauá also founded the first bank in
Uruguay (Banco Mauá y Cia). (Full article...)
Sobradinho Reservoir is both a
dam and an artificial
lake located in the north of the
Brazilian state of
Bahia and a
city with the same name located near the lake. The lake is about 320 km long, with a surface of 4,214 square kilometers and a storage capacity of 34.1 cubic kilometers at its nominal elevation of 392.50 meters, making it the 12th-largest artificial lake in the world.
Image 132Petrobras world headquarters in
Rio de Janeiro. The company is the most important energy producer in Brazil, as well as the country's second largest company, after
Itaú Unibanco. (from Energy in Brazil)
Image 140Rio de Janeiro, the most visited destination in
Brazil by foreign tourists for leisure trips, and second place for business travel. (from Tourism in Brazil)
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