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  • Developed in the shanty-towns of urban Rio De Janeiro samba became ... beginning of the twentieth century in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of ...
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  • During one of these concerts, in Rio de Janeiro on November 24, 1869 ... 18, 1869, died at his hotel in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His remains ...
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  • the Atlantic Ocean coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state to Rio ... Two of the world's largest cities, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo ...
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  • Vespucci worked for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, an Italian banker ... along the coast of South America to Rio de Janeiro's bay. ...
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  • Clube de Regatas do Flamengo from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ... (a popular football (soccer) team in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). His other patronages ...
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  • The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil: Cor/Ação ...
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  • city of Petropolis, a few miles north of Rio de Janeiro. While living in Brazil, she published an additional book of poems, Questions of Travel, dealing ...
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  • the governments of Buenos Aires and of Rio de Janeiro for hegemony in the River ... linked the province of Mato Grosso to Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian ships needed ...
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  • story to the 1960s and shifting it to Rio de Janeiro. It is popular in Brazil ... was exiled. In 1938 Andrade moved to Rio de Janeiro to take up a post at ...
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  • of approximately 3,000 feet (1,000 m). Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, located ... established themselves in the city of Rio de Janeiro. After João VI returned ...
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  • small boats frequently ascend to the Pongo de Manseriche, just above Achual Point. ... e Commercio do Amazonas" at Rio de Janeiro in 1852; and in the following ...
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  • is the patron saint of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Informally, ... * de Voragine, Jacobus, (comp.) The Golden Legend, or Lives of the ...
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  • The city was built to bring the capital, previously Rio de Janeiro ... From 1763 to 1960, Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil. During ...
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  • fought on behalf of the separatists of the Rio Grande do Sul and the Uruguayans ... offered the apostolic nuncio at Rio de Janeiro Bedini, the service of ...
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  • Gilberto Freyre, Aventura e Rotina (Rio de Janeiro, BR: Topbooks, ... * Freyre, Gilberto. Aventura e Rotina. Rio de Janeiro, BR: Topbooks ...
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  • was originally created in 1955 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1968, the ... attending the Eco-92 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, but this led him to ...
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  • fourteenth century. Explorer and writer Joao de Barros recorded that Chinese ... spearheaded by Dr. Felix Pacheco at Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of ...
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  • towns in Brazil took the names of Lídice (near Rio de Janeiro) and Nova Lídice (in the rural northeast). An area of Caracas donned the Lídice name ...
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  • and ocean liners such as the Île de France, the Queen Mary, and ... (Bahia), Iraí (Rio Grande do Sul) and Rio de Janeiro, especially in Copacabana ...
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  • Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Thomas ... Knopf author Helen Hedrick in 1967, in Rio de Janeiro. He officially retired ...
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  • Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA pronunciation: / ... December 13, anchored near present-day Rio de Janeiro. There the crew was resupplied ...
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  • 1.5 million on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in a free concert. After ... the band's shows in Austin, Rio de Janeiro, Saitama, Japan, Shanghai ...
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  • de Sá, then founded the city of Rio de Janeiro in March 1567. ... capital was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro. There was also the election ...
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  • *Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (small bureau) *São Paulo, Brazil (small bureau) *Seoul, South Korea *Tokyo, Japan |} ==Controversies and allegations ...
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  • The Pantanal has a regulatory effect on the Rio Paraguay, extensively reducing ... and P. H. Britto. 1985. Pantanal. Rio de Janeiro: Assessoria de Comunicação ...
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  • A later list, under various titles such as De septem orbis spactaculis ... *Harbour of Rio de Janeiro *Mount Everest *Aurora *Parícutin volcano ...
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  • culminating in two books, the Traité de documentation.(1934) and Monde: ... such as Paris, Washington, D.C. and Rio de Janeiro; however, difficulties ...
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  • Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Rome, Bonn, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, and Mexico City. The paper had previously employed white people only, but Chandler initiated ...
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  • into a seven-mile (11km) wide bay called the Mar de Palha. ... João and his family in flight to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Rio replaced ...
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  • from 250,000 fans at a massive festival in Rio De Janeiro buoyed his spirits and caused him to recommit himself to his career. Later that year, Taylor ...
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  • found colonies in Brazil, in 1555, at Rio de Janeiro ("France Antarctique ... Canada. A few years later, in 1608, Samuel De Champlain founded Quebec, which ...
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  • - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1985) * Japan - Fukuoka, Japan (1989) * Russia - Vladivostok, Russia (1992) * China - Shanghai, People's Republic ...
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  • on 18 July 1971 against Yugoslavia in Rio de Janeiro. With Pelé on the field ... In 2009, Pelé assisted the Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer ...
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  • her heroine addiction. Joplin went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for Carnival ... striking at a time when wearing makeup was de rigueur for female performers. ...
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  • 1947; Cleveland, 1950; London, 1955; Rio de Janeiro, 1960; Miami Beach, 1965; Tokyo, 1970; Stockholm, 1975; Toronto, 1980; Los Angeles, 1985; ...
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  • Havana, officially Ciudad de La Habana, is the capital city, major ... like the famous Cristo Redentor in Rio de Janeiro. Carved from marble by ...
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  • * Leaming, Barbara. Katharine Hepburn. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Record, 1997. ISBN 850104685X == External links== All links retrieved October 5, 2022. ...
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  • treaty that was adopted in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 and entered into force on December 29, 1993. Also in 1996, Yemen declared the Socotra ...
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  • character, as in the case of Amadis de Gaula and Don Quixote. The ... argument from the beginning to the end Rio de Janeiro, Topbooks) ...
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  • District"), formerly called Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city ... São Paulo, Mexico City, Panama City, and Rio de Janeiro. ...
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  • A. S. da Silva Valente, V. de Costa Valente, and H. F. Neto, [http://www ... fever, smallpox, and bubonic plague in Rio de Janeiro and other cities in the ...
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  • *Paço imperial, Rio de Janeiro, RJ *Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, and dotted around the campus of UEA, Norwich, UK. *Tate Gallery, London, UK ...
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  • in 1886. While presenting Aida in Rio de Janeiro, the orchestra's ... Tullio Serafin | years=1921–1929 | after=Victor de Sabata ...
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  • for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Unlike the first Earth Day in 1970, this 20th Anniversary was waged with stronger marketing ...
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  • Serra dos Órgãos Mountain Range, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 96(5): 603–609. Retrieved March 2, 2005. ...
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  • were found at a site called Chavín de Huantar in modern Peru at an ... Simón Bolívar of Venezuela and José de San Martín of Argentina led ...
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  • Speculum historale and then in Jacobus de Voragine, Golden Legend, which ... to Saint George is very strong in Rio de Janeiro, where the saint vies ...
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  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1969) * Latvia Riga, Latvia (1974) * Australia Brisbane, Australia (1985) * Spain Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (1993) ...
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  • to frenzied crowds at the Rio Palace in Rio de Janeiro. Still in Rio, on January 26, he played to a then world-record crowd of 175,000 at the Estádio ...
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  • composer Joaquin Rodrigo and also Manuel de Falla, as well as Gil Evans ... [[Image:Miles Davis 23.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Miles Davis, in Rio de ...
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