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Academia Brasileira de Letras
Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) (English: Brazilian Academy of Letters) is a Brazilian literary non-profit society established at the end of the 19th century by a group of 40 writers and poets inspired by the Académie Française.
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Afro-American religion
Afro-diasporic religion (also known as African diasporic religions) are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas in various nations of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southern United States.
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Afro-Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians (afro-brasileiros) are Brazilian people who have African ancestry.
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Alberto Nepomuceno
Alberto Nepomuceno (July 6, 1864 – October 16, 1920) was a Brazilian composer and conductor.
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André Diamant
André Diamant (born February 9, 1990 in Fortaleza) is a Brazilian chess Grandmaster.
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Aquiraz
Aquiraz is the thirteenth largest city in the state of Ceará and is located on the nation's northeast coast.
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Araripe Júnior
Tristão de Alencar Araripe Júnior (27 June 1848 – 29 October 1911) was a Brazilian lawyer, literary critic, and writer.
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Asian Brazilians
Asian Brazilians are Brazilian citizens of full or predominantly East Asian, South Asian and in some cases South East Asian ancestry, or an Asian-born person permanently residing in Brazil.
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Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the north to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south, and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where the region is known as Selva Misionera.
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Beach Park (water park)
Beach Park is a Brazilian water park and tourist resort, situated on the beach of Porto das Dunas in the municipality of Aquiraz, in the Metropolitan region of Fortaleza.
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Behind the Sun (film)
Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado) is a 2001 Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles, produced by Arthur Cohn, and starring Rodrigo Santoro.
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Bike lane
Bike lanes (US) or cycle lanes (UK) are types of bikeways (cycleways) with lanes on the roadway for cyclists only.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Boat
A boat is a watercraft of a large range of type and size.
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BR-020
BR-020 is a federal highway of Brazil.
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BR-116
BR-116 is a federal highway of Brazil.
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Brasília
Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Brazilian general election, 2014
General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the President, the National Congress, state governors and state legislatures.
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Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil.
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Brazilian Socialist Party
The Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro, PSB) is a political party in Brazil.
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Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a century-old American research group on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C. It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Bus
A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.
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Bus rapid transit
Bus rapid transit (BRT, BRTS, busway, transitway) is a bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system.
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Bus station
A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers.
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Camões Prize
The Camões Prize (Portuguese, Prémio Camões), named after Luís de Camões is the most important prize for literature in the Portuguese language.
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Camilo Santana
Camilo Sobreira de Santana (Crato, June 3, 1968) is a Brazilian agricultural engineer and politician, affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT).
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Candomblé
Candomblé (dance in honour of the gods) is an Afro-American religious tradition, practiced mainly in Brazil.
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Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde), officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.
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Caracas
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and centre of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela.
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Carnival
Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian and Greek Orthodox festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.
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Casimiro Montenegro Filho
Casimiro Montenegro Filho (29 October 1904—26 February 2000) was a Brazilian army and air force officer.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Caucaia
Caucaia is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Ceará As of 2015, it has a population of 353,932.
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Ceará
Ceará (locally in Ceará or in Northeast Region of Brazil the pronunciation is) is one of the 27 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast.
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Ceará Sporting Club
Ceará Sporting Club, or Ceará, as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Fortaleza in Ceará, founded on June 2, 1914 by Luís Esteves Júnior e Pedro Freire.
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Central Bank of Brazil
The Central Bank of Brazil (Banco Central do Brasil) is Brazil's central bank.
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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus) is a 2005 Brazilian film directed by Marcelo Gomes.
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Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.
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Confederation of the Equator
The Confederation of the Equator (Confederação do Equador) was a short-lived rebellion that occurred in the northeastern region of Brazil after that nation's struggle for independence from Portugal.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) (translit.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
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Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)
The Democratic Labour Party (Partido Democrático Trabalhista, PDT) is a social democratic political party in Brazil.
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Deputy mayor
Deputy mayor is an elective or appointive office of the second-ranking official in many local governments.
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Dragão do Mar Center of Art and Culture
The Dragão do Mar Center of Art And Culture (in Portuguese: Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura) is a government funded cultural center in Fortaleza, Ceará in Brazil.
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Dune
In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.
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Dutch West India Company
Dutch West India Company (Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie, or GWIC; Chartered West India Company) was a chartered company (known as the "WIC") of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors.
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Ecotourism
Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.
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Ed Lincoln
Ed Lincoln (Eduardo Lincoln Barbosa de Sabóia; May 31, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was a Brazilian musician, composer and arranger known for a wide variety of styles.
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Education
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.
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Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and (until 1828) Uruguay.
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Environmental education
Environmental education (EE) refers to organized efforts to teach how natural environments function, and particularly, how human beings can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Eusébio, Ceará
Eusébio is a municipality in the state of Ceará, Brazil, located within the metropolitan area of Fortaleza (the state capital).
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Farias Brito
Farias Brito is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil.
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Federal University of Ceará
The Federal University of Ceará (Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC) is a federal university with campuses in the cities of Fortaleza, Sobral, Barbalha, Russas, Quixadá and Crateús, in the state of Ceará, Brazil.
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Ferroviário Atlético Clube (CE)
Ferroviário Atlético Clube, or Ferroviário as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Fortaleza in Ceará, founded on May 9, 1933.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Forró
Forró (*) is a genre of Brazilian music that originated in Northeastern Brazil.
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Fortaleza Esporte Clube
Fortaleza Esporte Clube, usually known as Fortaleza, is primarily a football club, but is active in other sports such as futsal, handball and basketball.
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Fortaleza Metro
The Metropolitan of Fortaleza, also known popularly as Metro of Fortaleza or Metrofor, is a system of metropolitan transport that operates in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, operated by Companhia Cearense de Transportes Metropolitanos, company of social capital, captained by the Government of the State of Ceará, in Brazil, and has as current president Eduardo Hotz.
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Franklin Távora
João Franklin da Silveira Távora (January 13, 1842 – August 18, 1888) was a Brazilian novelist, journalist, politician, lawyer and dramatist, famous for his Regionalist romance O Cabeleira, set in 18th-century Pernambuco.
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Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
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Futuro Beach
Praia do Futuro (English: Futuro Beach) is a 2014 Brazilian-German drama film directed by Karim Aïnouz, and starring Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick and Jesuíta Barbosa.
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Gilberto Câmara
Gilberto Câmara (born 29 March 1956) is a Brazilian computer scientist and former director of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) (between 2006—2013).
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Grandmaster (chess)
The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.
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Gustavo Barroso
Gustavo Dodt Barroso (December 29, 1888 in Fortaleza – December 3, 1957 in Rio de JaneiroREES, Philip, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, pp. 25-26) was a Brazilian writer and politician associated with Brazilian Integralism.
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Hélder Câmara
Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara (February 7, 1909 – August 27, 1999) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop.
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Heloneida Studart
Heloneida Studart (Fortaleza, April 25, 1932 – Rio de Janeiro, December 3, 2007) was a Brazilian writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, advocate for women's rights, and political figure.
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Hermes França
Hermes França Barros (born August 26, 1974) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist.
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High school (North America)
High school is a term primarily used in the United States to describe the level of education students receive from approximately 14 to 18 years old, although there is some variation.
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Higher education
Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.
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History of Brazil since 1985
Brazilian history since 1985 is the contemporary epoch in the history of Brazil, beginning when civilian government was restored after a 21-year-long military regime established after the 1964 coup d'etat.
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Housing in Fortaleza, Brazil
Fortaleza is a coastal city in northeastern Brazil, and the capital of Ceara province.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic (composite index) of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (20 September 1897 – 18 July 1967) was a Brazilian military leader and politician.
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Indigenous peoples in Brazil
Indigenous peoples in Brazil (povos indígenas no Brasil), or Indigenous Brazilians (indígenas brasileiros), comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who have inhabited what is now the country of Brazil since prior to the European contact around 1500.
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Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
The Instituto National de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA; National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.) is widely considered to be the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in the area of mathematics.
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Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
The Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA; Technological Institute of Aeronauticshttp://www.ita.br) is an institution of higher education and advanced research with emphasis in aerospace science and technology maintained by the Brazilian Federal Government with the support of the Brazilian Air Force.
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 17 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
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Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy.
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Irreligion
Irreligion (adjective form: non-religious or irreligious) is the absence, indifference, rejection of, or hostility towards religion.
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Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
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Itaitinga
Itaitinga is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Jangada
A Jangada is a traditional fishing boat (in fact a sailing raft) made of wood used in the northern region of Brazil.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity.
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Jorge Gurgel
Jorge Valente Gurgel (born January 25, 1977) is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist who most recently competed in Titan FC's Lightweight division.
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José de Alencar
José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist.
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Journal of Climate
The Journal of Climate (JCLI) is a scientific journal published semi-monthly by the American Meteorological Society.
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Judaism
Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.
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Karim Aïnouz
Karim Aïnouz (born January 17, 1966) is a Brazilian film director and visual artist.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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Lei Áurea
The Lei Áurea (Golden Law), adopted on May 13, 1888, was the law that abolished slavery in Brazil.
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Lions Clubs International
Lions Clubs International (LCI) is an international secular, non-political service organization established originally in 1916 in chicago, Illinois by Melvin Jones.
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Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.
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List of largest cities in Brazil
Brazil has a high level of urbanization: 82 out of every 100 Brazilians live in cities.
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List of sovereign states
This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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Literacy
Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.
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Lobster
Lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans.
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Lower City
Lower City (Cidade Baixa) is a 2005 Brazilian drama film directed by Sérgio Machado.
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Mackay, Queensland
Mackay is a city and its centre suburb in the Mackay Region on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.
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Madame Satã
Madame Satã was the artistic name of João Francisco dos Santos (1900–1976), a Brazilian drag performer and capoeirista.
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.
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Maracanaú
Maracanaú is a municipality in the state of Ceará, Brazil.
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Maracatu
The term maracatu denotes any of several performance genres found in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil.
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Marcus Aurélio
Marcus Aurélio Martins (born August 18, 1974) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist.
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Maurício Peixoto
Maurício Matos Peixoto, (born April 15, 1921, in Fortaleza, Ceará), is a Brazilian engineer and mathematician.
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Mayor
In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.
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Mayor–council government
The mayor–council government system is a system of organization of local government.
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Mário Jardel
Mário Jardel de Almeida Ribeiro (born 18 September 1973) is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a forward.
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Música popular brasileira
Música popular brasileira (Popular Brazilian Music) or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and baião and other Brazilian regional music, combining them with foreign influences, such as from jazz and rock.
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Melkite Greek Catholic Church
The Melkite (Greek) Catholic Church (كنيسة الروم الملكيين الكاثوليك) is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church.
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Mercosur
Mercosur (also known as Mercosul or Ñemby Ñemuha) is a South American trade bloc established by the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 and Protocol of Ouro Preto in 1994.
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Metropolitan area
A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or commuter belt, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing.
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Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
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Ministry of Tourism (Brazil)
The Ministry of Tourism (Ministério do Turismo) is a cabinet-level federal ministry created on January 1, 2003.
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Modern Art Week
The Modern Art Week (or Semana de Arte Moderna, in Portuguese) was an arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil, that ran from February 10 to February 17, 1922.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.
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Montese
Montese (Frignanese: Muntês) is a town in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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Mormons
Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.
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Motto
A motto (derived from the Latin muttum, 'mutter', by way of Italian motto, 'word', 'sentence') is a maxim; a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of an individual, family, social group or organization.
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Municipalities of Brazil
The municipalities of Brazil (Municípios do Brasil) are administrative divisions of the Brazilian states.
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Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Natal ("Christmas") is the capital and largest city of the state Rio Grande do Norte, located in northeastern Brazil.
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National Institute for Space Research
The National Institute for Space Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE) is a research unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, whose main goals are fostering scientific research and technological applications and qualifying personnel in the fields of space and atmospheric sciences, space engineering, and space technology.
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Nautical mile
A nautical mile is a unit of measurement defined as exactly.
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Northeast Region, Brazil
The Northeast Region of Brazil (Região Nordeste do Brasil) is one of the five official and political regions of the country according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
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Pacatuba, Ceará
Pacatuba, Ceará is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil.
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Pacoti River
The Pacoti River is a river of Ceará state in eastern Brazil.
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Pardo
Pardo is a term used in the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas to refer to the triracial descendants of Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and West Africans.
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Passenger
A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle.
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Pedra da Risca do Meio Marine State Park
The Pedra da Risca do Meio Marine State Park (Parque Estadual Marinho da Pedra da Risca do Meio) is a state park in the state of Ceará, Brazil.
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Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country.
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Philanthropy
Philanthropy means the love of humanity.
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Pinto Martins – Fortaleza International Airport
Pinto Martins – Fortaleza International Airport is the airport serving Fortaleza, Brazil.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
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Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire (Império Colonial Português), was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in world history and the first colonial empire of the Renaissance.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.
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Portuguese people
Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.
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Praia
Praia (lit. "beach", in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole), is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal.
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Praia de Iracema
Praia de Iracema (lit. "Iracema Beach") is a beach and a neighborhood located in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza in the state of Ceara.
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Primary education
Primary education and elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool and before secondary education (The first two grades of primary school, Grades 1 and 2, are also part of early childhood education).
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Primary school
A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.
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Programa Saúde da Família
The Programa Saúde da Família (PSF), Family Health Program, in Portuguese language is one of the national public health programs in Brazil, which implements a national policy for primary care settings with the aim of substituting part of the traditional model of primary care based on medical specialists.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Rachel de Queiroz
Rachel de Queiroz (November 17, 1910 – November 4, 2003) was a Brazilian author, translator and journalist.
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Racine, Wisconsin
Racine is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Raffael (footballer)
Raffael Caetano de Araújo (born 28 March 1985), simply Raffael, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga, mainly as an attacking midfielder.
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Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, MRT, subway, tube, U-Bahn or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas.
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Recife
Recife is the fourth-largest urban agglomeration in Brazil with 3,995,949 inhabitants, the largest urban agglomeration of the North/Northeast Regions, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast corner of South America.
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Regions of Brazil
Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions) by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE); each region is composed of three or more states.
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Relative humidity
Relative humidity (RH) is the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapor to the equilibrium vapor pressure of water at a given temperature.
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Reptile
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.
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Restinga
Restinga — a spit and a distinct type of coastal Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, found in eastern Brazil.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.
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Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
The Festival do Rio is an international film festival in Rio de Janeiro.
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Roberto Cláudio
Roberto Cláudio Rodrigues Bezerra (or locally) is a Brazilian politician, currently the mayor of Fortaleza, the fifth largest city in Brazil.
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Ronny (footballer, born 1986)
Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araújo (born 11 May 1986), known simply as Ronny, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays mainly as a left midfielder but also as a left back.
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Saint-Louis, Senegal
Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof, is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region.
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Salvador, Bahia
Salvador, also known as São Salvador, Salvador de Bahia, and Salvador da Bahia, is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia.
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Samba
Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style, with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions, particularly of Angola and the Congo, through the samba de roda genre of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, from which it derived.
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Same-sex relationship
A same-sex relationship is a relationship between persons of the same sex and can take many forms, from romantic and sexual, to non-romantic homosocially-close relationships.
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Santa Casa da Misericórdia
Santa Casa de Misericórdia is a Portuguese charity founded in Lisbon in 1498 by Queen Leonor of Portugal.
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São Paulo
São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.
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São Paulo Fashion Week
The São Paulo Fashion Week is an clothing trade show held semi-annually in São Paulo.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.
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Senegal
Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.
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Shelda Bede
Shelda Kelly Bruno Bede (born January 1, 1973 in Fortaleza) is a retired beach volleyball player from Brazil who won silver medals in beach volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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Shrimp
The term shrimp is used to refer to some decapod crustaceans, although the exact animals covered can vary.
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Sister city
Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.
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Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than approximately.
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Spaniards
Spaniards are a Latin European ethnic group and nation.
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Spiritism
Spiritism is a spiritualistic religion codified in the 19th century by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, under the codename Allan Kardec; it proposed the study of "the nature, origin, and destiny of spirits, and their relation with the corporeal world".
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Spiritualism
Spiritualism is a new religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.
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St. Joseph's Cathedral, Fortaleza
The St.
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States of Brazil
The Federative Republic of Brazil is a union of 27 Federative Units (Unidades Federativas, UF): 26 states (estados) and one federal district (distrito federal), where the federal capital, Brasília, is located.
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Suely in the Sky
Suely in the Sky (O Céu de Suely; also known as Love for Sale) is a 2006 Brazilian drama film directed by Karim Aïnouz.
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Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector or service sector is the third of the three economic sectors of the three-sector theory.
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Theatro José de Alencar
The Theatro José de Alencar is a Brazilian theater located in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará.
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Thiago Alves (fighter)
Thiago Alves d'Araujo (born October 3, 1983) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist currently competing as a welterweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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Time in Brazil
In use from 21 February 2016, to 16 October 2016.
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Townsville
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas (Tratado de Tordesilhas, Tratado de Tordesillas), signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
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Tropical climate
A tropical climate in the Köppen climate classification is a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures of at least.
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Tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".
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Umbanda
Umbanda is a syncretic Afro-Brazilian religion that blends African traditions with Roman Catholicism, Spiritism, and Indigenous American beliefs.
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UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations (UN) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.
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United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was a pluricontinental monarchy formed by the elevation of the Portuguese colony named State of Brazil to the status of a kingdom and by the simultaneous union of that Kingdom of Brazil with the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of the Algarves, constituting a single state consisting of three kingdoms.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
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Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (Palos de la Frontera, Spain, c. 1462 – after 1514) was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador, the younger of the Pinzón brothers.
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Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (Villa-Lobos - Uma Vida de Paixão) is a 2000 Brazilian drama film directed by Zelito Viana.
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Western esotericism
Western esotericism (also called esotericism and esoterism), also known as the Western mystery tradition, is a term under which scholars have categorised a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements which have developed within Western society.
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White Brazilians
White Brazilians (brasileiros brancos) refers to Brazilian citizens of European or Levantine descent.
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Wilson Gouveia
Wilson Gouveia (born October 3, 1978) is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist.
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Workers' Party (Brazil)
The Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) is a political party in Brazil.
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1884
No description.
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19th century
The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.
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2013 FIFA Confederations Cup
The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup was the ninth FIFA Confederations Cup, which was held in Brazil from 15 June to 30 June 2013 as a prelude to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
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2014 FIFA World Cup
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organized by FIFA.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortaleza
