Marquinhos began his career at
Corinthians, and after winning the
2012 Copa Libertadores he moved to
Roma for an eventual fee of €3 million. He was a regular in his only season as Roma reached the
Coppa Italia final. In July 2013, he moved to Paris Saint-Germain for €31.4 million on a five-year contract, one of the highest fees for a player under the age of 20. Marquinhos played less frequently after the acquisition of compatriot
David Luiz in 2014, returning to an integral role after the latter was sold in 2016. Marquinhos was part of PSG's team that reached the
2020 UEFA Champions League final. After
Thiago Silva's departure in August 2020, Marquinhos took up the role of captain. His trophy cabinet with PSG includes a record nine Ligue 1 titles and thirteen domestic cups, and he ranks
top for all-time appearances for the club. (Full article...)
Pelé began playing for
Santos at age 15 and the
Brazil national team at 16. During his international career, he won three
FIFA World Cups:
1958,
1962 and
1970, the only player to do so and the youngest player to win a World Cup (17). He was nicknamed O Rei (The King) following the 1958 tournament. With 77 goals in 92 games for Brazil, Pelé held the record as the
national team's top goalscorer for over fifty years. At club level, he is Santos's
all-time top goalscorer with 643 goals in 659 games. In a
golden era for Santos, he led the club to the
1962 and
1963 Copa Libertadores, and to the
1962 and
1963 Intercontinental Cup. Credited with connecting the phrase "
The Beautiful Game" with football, Pelé's "electrifying play and penchant for spectacular goals" made him a star around the world, and his teams toured internationally to take full advantage of his popularity. During his playing days, Pelé was for a period the best-paid athlete in the world. After retiring in 1977, Pelé was a worldwide ambassador for football and made many acting and commercial ventures. In 2010, he was named the honorary president of the
New York Cosmos. (Full article...)
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Umbanda (Portuguese pronunciation:[ũˈbɐ̃dɐ]) is a religion that emerged in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 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. The religion is broadly divided between White Umbanda, which is closer to Spiritism, and Africanized Umbanda, which is closer to Candomblé.
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 White Umbanda these are viewed as divine energies or forces of nature, while in African-oriented 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 rooted in spiritual evolution, through a system of
reincarnation according to the law of
karma. The religion's ethical systems 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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Martha Watts (February 13, 1848 – December 30, 1909) was an American
missionary and school teacher who established four educational facilities in Brazil. Educated in
Kentucky at the Louisville Normal School, she was in the first graduating class in the early 1870s and became a teacher, working in the public schools. After joining the Broadway Methodist Church in 1874, Watts joined a youth missionary society and founded a
Sunday school class. In 1881, after applying to the Women's Board of Foreign Missions, she was accepted as the second woman from the United States to act as a foreign missionary and was the first woman to be sent to Brazil.
Arriving in the
state of São Paulo in 1881, Watts' mission was to establish a school in
Piracicaba. Within months, though she only had one student, Watts had opened the Colégio Piracicabano and began by recruiting a French teacher,
Marie Rennotte, in 1882. At the time, most educational materials had been translated into French, as it was the
universal language of education. The two women worked together to design an innovative
co-educational learning environment, which offered courses in languages, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and the natural and physical sciences. Though criticized by conservative sectors of society and the Catholic Church, Watts gained powerful supporters, including prominent progressive politicians, lawyers,
masons, and
abolitionists. By the 1890s, the school method and curricula had gained wide support, the student body had grown substantially, and their methods were being implemented throughout the state. (Full article...)
Maurício Gugelmin (born 20 April 1963) is a Brazilian former
racing driver. He took part in both
Formula One and
Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). He participated in 80 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in
1988 for the
March team. Gugelmin achieved one top-three finish and scored a total of ten championship points in the series. He competed in CART between 1993 and 2001, starting 147 races. Gugelmin won one race, in 1997 in
Vancouver, finishing fourth in the championship that year. His best result in the
Indianapolis 500 was in 1995 where he started and finished in sixth position, leading 59 laps. For a period, he held the world speed record for a closed
race track, set at
California Speedway in 1997 at a speed of 240.942 mph (387.759 km/h). Gugelmin retired at the end of 2001 after a year that included the death of his third child. (Full article...)
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Cielo after winning the 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
César Augusto Cielo Filho (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈsɛzɐʁsiˈeluˈfiʎu], born 10 January 1987) is a Brazilian competitive
swimmer who specializes in sprint events. He is the most successful Brazilian swimmer in history, having obtained three
Olympic medals, winning six individual
World Championship gold medals and breaking two world records.
Cielo is the current world record holder in the
50-metre freestyle (long course). He received induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, with a ceremony organized for September 29 and 30, 2023. César Cielo is the third Brazilian to enter the International Swimming Hall of Fame, after Maria Lenk and Gustavo Borges. (Full article...)
Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin (born February 7, 1972), known as Amon Tobin (/ˈɑːmɒnˈtoʊbɪn/), is a Brazilian
electronic musician, composer and producer. He is noted for his unusual methodology in sound design and music production. He has released eight major studio albums under the London-based
Ninja Tune record label. He has also released two albums under the alias Two Fingers with collaborator
Doubleclick. His latest release, Nomark Selects V.1, was released on April 28, 2023.
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...)
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...)
The following is the discography of
Sepultura, a Brazilian
heavy metal band. Sepultura was formed in
Belo Horizonte,
Minas Gerais, in 1984 by brothers
Max and
Igor Cavalera. After several lineup changes,
Paulo Jr. and
Jairo Guedz became permanent members for the band's first studio album Morbid Visions, released in 1986 through Cogumelo Records. Guitarist Jairo Guedz left Sepultura following the band's first tour and was replaced by
Andreas Kisser. With the new lineup, Sepultura recorded Schizophrenia in 1987. Beneath the Remains, the first album from the band's contract with
Roadrunner Records, was released in 1989, followed by Arise in 1991 and Chaos A.D. in 1993. Sepultura's best-selling album Roots, was released in 1996 and debuted at number 27 on the
Billboard 200.
In 1996, vocalist Max Cavalera left the band and formed
Soulfly. The other members announced that they would continue under the Sepultura name and were searching for a replacement.
Derrick Green was chosen to replace Cavalera, and with the new vocalist the band released Against in 1998. Nation was released in 2001, the band's last studio album with Roadrunner Records. Sepultura signed to German label
SPV and released Roorback. Dante XXI was released in 2006 as a
concept album inspired by the
literary classicDivine Comedy by
Dante Alighieri. Igor Cavalera left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Jean Dolabella. In 2009 Sepultura released A-Lex, a concept album about A Clockwork Orange, followed by 2011's Kairos. Drummer
Eloy Casagrande replaced Dollabella and in 2013 the band released The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart, which was loosely based on
sci-fi filmMetropolis. In 2017, Sepultura released their fourteenth studio album Machine Messiah, and followed this in 2020 with their fifteenth studio album Quadra. (Full article...)
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USS Orizaba (ID–1536) departing New York via the
North River for France in
World War I (1918)
Orizaba made 15
transatlantic voyages for the navy carrying troops to and from Europe in World War I with the second-shortest average in-port turnaround time of all navy transports. The ship was turned over to the
War Department in 1919 for use as army transport USAT Orizaba. After her service in World War I ended, Orizaba reverted to the Ward Line, her previous owners. The ship was briefly engaged in transatlantic service to Spain and then engaged in New York–Cuba–Mexico service until 1939, when the ship was chartered to
United States Lines. While Orizaba was in her Ward Line service, American poet
Hart Crane leapt to his death from the rear deck of the liner off Florida in April 1932. (Full article...)
It was at this race that
Sebastian Vettel won the 2012
World Drivers' Championship, his third title in a row.
Fernando Alonso finished second in both the race and the championship and had the provisional championship lead at a late stage of the race, before Vettel moved up the order to have a three-point cushion. The race also marked the 306th and final one for
Michael Schumacher, after he announced his retirement for the second time. (Full article...)
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Rennotte ca. 1900–1910
Marie Rennotte (11 February 1852 – 21 November 1942) was a Belgian-born Brazilian physician, teacher, and women's rights activist. She was active in the fight for women's rights. After earning her teaching credentials in
Belgium and France, Rennotte taught for three years in Germany before moving to Brazil as a governess. Giving private lessons and teaching at a girls' school, she lived in
Rio de Janeiro from 1878 to 1882. Hired to teach in the
State of São Paulo, she moved to
Piracicaba where from 1882 to 1889 she taught science, developed the curriculum, and enhanced the reputation of the
Colégio Piracicabano [
pt]. The co-educational school was an innovative institution offering equal education to girls and boys.
In 1889, on a scholarship provided by the State of São Paulo, Rennotte enrolled in medical school at the
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia. That year, she was granted citizenship when a legal change allowed all foreigners permanently living in Brazil to become
naturalized. Graduating in 1892, she studied at the Paris
Hôtel-Dieu Hospital between 1893 and 1895, completing a specialization in
obstetrics and gynaecology. Upon her return to Brazil, she
defended her thesis to a jury from the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the
University of Rio de Janeiro, validating her degree and allowing her to practice medicine in the country. From 1895 to 1899, Rennotte directed the obstetrics and maternity unit of the
Maternity Hospital of São Paulo [
pt]. She attended patients in the hospital as well as in private homes where she helped to deliver babies. Opening her own practice after she resigned from the Maternity Hospital, she operated a dispensary for the poor and immigrant communities, while continuing to see paying patients. (Full article...)
As a development of 1960s
música popular brasileira, the genre was pioneered by recording acts such as
Jorge Ben,
Tim Maia, and
Trio Mocotó. It gained a wider popularity in the following decades after breaking through into
discotheques. By the 2000s, samba rock had grown into a broader cultural movement involving dancers, disc jockeys, scholars, and musicians, who reinvented the genre in a modernized form. (Full article...)
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Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, at age 55, 1856
In the aftermath of emperor
Pedro I's
abdication in 1831, a
regency created to govern Brazil during the minority of the former emperor's son,
Pedro II, soon dissolved into chaos. Paraná formed a political party in 1837 that became known as the Reactionary Party, which evolved into the Party of Order in the early 1840s and in the mid-1850s into the
Conservative Party. He and his party's stalwart and unconditional defence of constitutional order allowed the country to move beyond a regency plagued by factious disputes and rebellions that might easily have led to a dictatorship. Appointed president of
Rio de Janeiro Province in 1841, Paraná helped
put down a rebellion headed by the opposition
Liberal Party the following year. Also in 1842, he was elected senator for Minas Gerais and appointed by Pedro II to the
Council of State. In 1843, he became the de facto first
president (prime minister) of the Council of Ministers, but resigned after a quarrel with the emperor. (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...)
The capybara or greater capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a giant
cavyrodent native to
South America. It is the largest living rodent and a member of the genus Hydrochoerus. The only other
extant member is the
lesser capybara (Hydrochoerus isthmius). Its close relatives include
guinea pigs and
rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the
agouti, the
chinchilla, and the
nutria. The capybara inhabits savannas and dense forests, and lives near bodies of water. It is a highly social species and can be found in groups as large as 100 individuals, but usually live in groups of 10–20 individuals. The capybara is hunted for its meat and hide and also for grease from its thick fatty skin. (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...)
DonaMaria Amélia (1 December 1831 – 4 February 1853) was a princess of the
Empire of Brazil and a member of the Brazilian branch of the
House of Braganza. Her parents were Emperor
DomPedro I, the first ruler of Brazil, and
Amélie of Leuchtenberg. The only child of her father's second marriage, Maria Amélia was born in
France after Pedro I abdicated the Brazilian throne in favor of his son Dom
Pedro II. Before Maria Amélia was a month old, Pedro I went to Portugal to restore the crown of the eldest daughter of his first marriage, Dona
Maria II. He fought a successful war against his brother
Miguel I, who had usurped Maria II's throne.
Only a few months after his victory, Pedro I died from
tuberculosis. Maria Amélia's mother took her to Portugal, where she remained for most of her life without ever visiting Brazil. The Brazilian government refused to recognize Maria Amélia as a member of
Brazil's Imperial House because she was foreign-born, but when her elder half-brother Pedro II was declared of age in 1840, he successfully intervened on her behalf. (Full article...)
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large
cat species and the only
living member of the genus Panthera native to the
Americas. With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb), it is the biggest cat species in the Americas and the
third largest in the world. Its distinctively marked
coat features pale yellow to tan colored fur covered by spots that transition to
rosettes on the sides, although a
melanistic black coat appears in some individuals. The jaguar's powerful bite allows it to pierce the
carapaces of
turtles and
tortoises, and to employ an unusual killing method: it bites directly through the skull of
mammalianprey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain.
TV Bahia (channel 11) is a
television station in
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, affiliated with
TV Globo. Owned by Rede Bahia, TV Bahia is the principal station of
Rede Bahia de Televisão, a statewide television network composed of another five
owned-and-operated stations. TV Bahia's studios and transmitter are located on Prof. Aristídes Novis Street in the Federação district, in Salvador. Its terrestrial signal, through the station in Salvador and translators, reaches 133 cities in the state. Currently, besides being the leader in Salvador, it has the largest ratings among Globo's stations in Brazil.
TV Bahia is the fourth oldest television station in Bahia, having officially started broadcasting ten months after receiving the
authorization for channel 11 VHF in Salvador from the federal government, on March 10, 1985. It was inaugurated as an
Rede Manchete affiliate, starting its operations with the most modern equipment among the state's television stations at the time. (Full article...)
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Bahia sometime before its mid-1920s modernization, as indicated by its two funnels
Bahia was the lead ship of a
two-vessel class of cruisers built for Brazil by the British company
Armstrong Whitworth. Crewmen mutinied in November 1910 aboard Bahia,
Deodoro,
Minas Geraes, and
São Paulo, beginning the four-day Revolta da Chibata (
Revolt of the Lash). Brazil's capital city of
Rio de Janeiro was held hostage by the possibility of a naval bombardment, leading the government to give in to the rebel demands which included the abolition of
flogging in the navy. During the
First World War, Bahia and its sister ship
Rio Grande do Sul were assigned to the Divisão Naval em Operações de Guerra (Naval Division in War Operations), the Brazilian Navy's main contribution in that conflict. The squadron was based in
Sierra Leone and
Dakar and escorted convoys through an area believed to be heavily patrolled by U-boats.
Bahia was extensively modernized in the mid-1920s. It received three new
Brown–Curtis turbine engines and six new
Thornycroft boilers, and it was converted from coal-burning to oil. The refit resulted in a striking aesthetic change, with the exhaust being trunked into three funnels instead of two. The armament was also modified, adding three 20 mm (0.79 in)
Madsen autocannons, a 7 mm (0.28 in)
Hotchkiss machine gun, and four 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes. In the 1930s, it served with government forces during multiple revolutions. (Full article...)
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On March 27, 2017, Bruno de Melo Silva Borges, a Brazilian student, disappeared after leaving his home in
Rio Branco, Acre. In his bedroom, Borges left several encrypted messages, 14 handwritten books, and a statue of philosopher
Giordano Bruno. The Civil Police of Acre investigated the case and
Interpol was called. Borges's disappearance received wide coverage on the Internet, generating
memes and online investigations. During the investigation, it was revealed Borges had the help of two friends and a cousin to carry out the project, and that he had signed a contract allocating part of the proceeds of the sale of his books to his three helpers.
At dawn on August 11 the same year, Borges returned to his house barefoot, debilitated, and dehydrated. Soon after, he began working on corrections for his book TAC – Teoria da Absorção do Conhecimento [
pt] (lit. Knowledge Absorption Theory), which had received negative reviews. Borges told police chief Alcino Júnior he "disappeared of his own free will and that he was not coerced by any external force". He did not reveal his hiding place. By September 26, Borges had gained 13 kg (29 lb) and said he was surprised by the reactions to his project. Two days later, Borges opened his room, which he considered a "work of art", for visitors. (Full article...)
The total installed
solar power in Brazil was estimated at 41.1 GW at April 2024, which consists of about 18.0% of the country's electricity matrix. In 2022, Brazil was the 8th country in the world in terms of installed solar power capacity (24.079 GW).
Brazil expects to have 1.2 million solar power generation systems in the year 2024. Solar energy has great potential in Brazil, with the country having one of the highest levels of
insolation in the world at 4.25 to 6.5 sun hours/day. As of 2019, Brazil generated nearly 45% of its energy, or 83% of its electricity, from renewable sources. For example, 60% of Brazil's electricity generation came from renewable hydropower. However, to meet energy demands in the entire country, and to diversify its energy portfolio, other renewable energy sources, such as solar power, are being expanded. (Full article...)
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.
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.
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.
Sugarloaf Mountain is a peak situated in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, from the mouth of
Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that sticks out into the
Atlantic Ocean. Rising 396 metres (1,299 ft) above sea-level, its name is said to refer to its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf sugar.
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.
Pipa Beach is a village and beach in the state of
Rio Grande do Norte,
Brazil. It is situated in the municipality of Tibau do Sul, about 84 km south of the capital of the state,
Natal.
Itajaí is a
municipality in the state of
Santa Catarina in
Brazil and is located in the Southern part of the country, about 94 km norther of
Florianópolis. It's estimated population in 2009 is 172.081. The current
mayor (Prefeito) of Itajaí is Jandir Bellini. The municipality was created on Juny 15, 1860.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gramado ia a famous tourist city in the southern Brazilian state of
Rio Grande do Sul. The city is known for its high standard tourism, international gastronomy, artisan chocolate shops and unique Christmas festivities. With strong German and Italian influence, it's the capital of winter tourism in the country.
Bonito is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. It is the capital of ecotourism in Brazil, being famous for its caves, rivers and lakes with transparent or intense blue water.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Caymmi in 1938
Dorival Caymmi (Brazilian Portuguese:[doɾiˈvawkaˈĩmi]; April 30, 1914 – August 16, 2008) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years, beginning in 1933. He contributed to the birth of Brazil's
bossa nova movement, and several of his
samba pieces, such as "Samba da Minha Terra", "Doralice" and "Saudade da Bahia", have become staples of música popular brasileira (MPB). Equally notable are his ballads celebrating the fishermen and women of
Bahia, including "Promessa de Pescador", "O Que É Que a Baiana Tem?", and "Milagre". Caymmi composed about 100 songs in his lifetime, and many of his works are now considered to be Brazilian classics. Both Brazilian and non-Brazilian musicians have covered his songs.
Ben Ratliff of The New York Times wrote that Caymmi was "perhaps second only to
Antônio Carlos Jobim in 'establishing a songbook of [the 20th] century's Brazilian identity.'" Throughout his career, his music about the people and culture of Bahia influenced Brazil's image in the eyes of both Brazilians and foreigners. Caymmi was married to Brazilian singer Stella Maris for 68 years, and the couple's children,
Dori,
Danilo, and
Nana, are also prominent musicians. Each debuted professionally by accompanying Caymmi onstage and in recordings. In 2014, Caymmi's granddaughter
Alice also began a musical career. (Full article...)
Robert Scheidt (born April 15, 1973) is a Brazilian sailor who has won two gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze from five Olympic Games and a Star Sailors League Final. He is one of the most successful sailors at Olympic Games and one of the most successful Brazilian Olympic athletes, being one of only two to earn five medals along with fellow sailor
Torben Grael, and the only Brazilian sailor to win medals in both dinghy and keelboat classes.
He is widely considered to be one of the greatest sailors of all time. (Full article...)
...that the
Brazilian city of Corumbaíba was founded after a local rancher saw a white wolf, which, according to a legend, would give him good luck, and then built a chapel thanking his luck?
Botafogo is a beachfront neighborhood in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. It is mostly a middle and high-class and small commerce community, located between the hills of Mundo Novo, Santa Marta and Morro de São João. It is named after João Pereira de Sousa Botafogo, who was its landowner in colonial times. Its name literally means "set it on fire" and is related to the Italian surname Buttafuoco.
The following are images from various Brazil-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1São Paulo, the financial capital of
Brazil is one of the most sought after places in tourism by having different cultures (from Tourism in Brazil)
Image 24Petrobras 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 92Rio 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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