Their motto is "Order and Progress". [+-8 < 10]
Many English spell the nation's name "Brazil", but in the country and in other parts of the world the name is spelled with the 's'. Brasil's main language is Portuguese. Their largest and wealthiest city, founded in 1554 is Sao Paulo [Saint Paul] with a staggering metropolitan population of twenty million people. The city's Latin motto is "Non ducor, duco" which translates as "I am not led, I lead". It's weather is famously erratic.
The southern hemisphere experiences summer during the months of December, January, and February, and winter during June, July, and August. Even in the winter months, Sao Paulo, one of Brasil's most polar latitude cities, has weather in the ~50*F/10*C. In February, the hottest month, heat climbs to the low 80's*F/30's*C. Brasil and most of the world uses metric and centigrade for their measurement and temperature.
Sao Paulo experiences the most rain during January and the months of that season, often seeing 10" of rainfall monthly. Rain tapers off in April and remains dry until October or November when 5" is common. In northern portions of Brasil, such as the city of Belem near the mouth of the Amazon and at the Earth's equator, the weather is around 85*F/35*C year-round.
The city is home to over 12,000 restaurants and 62 kinds of cuisine. Its historic museums and civic centers are world-class and commemorate the building of railroad stations, Brasilian colonial and contemporary artists, and dozens of festivals and events held throughout the year.
Beauty
The special X of the Octavio Frias [cold 8] de Oliviera [of Olives] bridge over the Pinheiros River in Sao Paulo.
The special H of the National Congress in capitol Brasilia.
Modern Brasil
The Brasilian population are half white and 42% "Pardo" or brown, with ~7% black and sparse Asians and Amerindians. Brasil's currency is the 'real'. In the mid 2000's it traded against the dollar at around 1.6:$1, but recent economic weakness has shifted this trade to around 2.2:$1.
Brasil has a population of about 190 million. It has 1.2 million HIV cases.
In Brasil, motorists have the right of way to pedestrians. This can make travel in cities very amazing, and a driver running down a walker would technically have the right of way. Bizarre.
Drinking rum in public is legal in Brasil. Brasil is home to much sugar cane and rum is inexpensive.
http://thenicole.info/beauty/top-10-horniest-countries/
Top 10 horniest countries. TheNicole.info lists Brasil as #2 on this list.
Brasil is home to Carnival, which is a multi-day festival held in a festival city.
The March for Jesus is an Evangelical parade that takes place on Corpus Christi Thursday every year in Zona Norte. It is organized by the "Rebirth Church", a Pentecostal denomination created in the 1980s which has grown significantly in the first decade of the 21st century. In 2007, about 1 million people took part in the event, according to official estimates.[49] Evangelicals from across Brazil flooded São Paulo Thursday for the "March for Jesus" event as live Christian bands accompanied the more than one million marchers. The annual march, organized by evangelical churches, featured a concert with 30 Christian bands carried on 17 flatbed trucks performing live as participants marched through Brazil's financial capital.
The Statue of Christ Redeemer
The beautiful and monumental Statue of Christ standing 120 feet tall rests in Rio de Janeiro. This statue was erected from 1922-1931 and stands in honor of Christianity. How beautiful.
From Darkwing at UOregon
"General Outlook of the People
Brazilians are friendly, warm, and happy people. Above all they are free-spirited and resent being told what to do. Brazilians are gregarious, outgoing, and love to be around people. The hot climate allows them to spend a great deal of time outdoors, often just chatting with friends or watching people. Women should be aware that it is common for Brazilian men to stare at them or make comments as they walk by; women should not respond in any way to such actions. Brazilians can be very opinionated, and the vigor with which they argue for their convictions often leads foreigners to believe that they are angry. Visitors should not be offended by such behavior. Brazilians tend to view time more as a sequence of events rather than hours, minutes, and seconds. For this reason they may appear to have an extremely casual attitude about time."
Historic Brasil
Native Amerindians of Brasil originally crossed the Bering Land Bridge around 9000 BC and migrated south to the rich jungles. The population of Brasil by 1500 AD was about 3 million divided into perhaps 2000 tribes.
Initial European explorers destroyed many spiritual records of the American Indians and decimated their populations and cultures with new microbes to which American Indians had no natural resistances to and used their superior metalworking and weapons technology to enslave or subjugate and colonize the New World. By the time of the scientific revolution and resurgence of popular interest in native origins, much Brasilian and global native culture was lost.
Brasil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro A'lvares Cabral in 1500 until Brasil declared independence in 1822.
Portuguese Map of Brasil, 1519
Salvador, the first capitol, was founded in 1549 at the Bay of All Saints, discovered by Ameigo Vespucci in 1501. Bahia de Todos os Santos. Sao Paulo in 1554. Rio De Janiero in 1567.
In the 1700's gold and diamonds were discovered in Minas Gerais, in the southeast.
During the Napoleonic occupation of Portugal in 1808 until Napoleon's defeat the Portuguese royal family and court spent their time in Brasil. They brought with them the capitol of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brasil, and the Algarve. Their time there and return to Portugal helped negotiate Brasilian independence, although under the rule of one of the royal family. The Empire of Brasil lasted from independence from Portugal in 1822 to 1889 when the Republic was formed as Brasilian slavery was abolished in 1888, causing a major economic and political threat to the oligarchy, and fomenting the negotiation of the Republic.
The presidency was traded between members from Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais from 1889 until 1930 when a military gang conquered the Republic from the inside and named officer Gutielo Vargas the ruler. Brasil entered World War II in 1943 for the Allies. Vargas' rule lasted until 1945. He was re-elected in 1951 and remained in office until his suicide in 1954.
Vargas and 1956-1961 president "Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira" completed many plans developing land in the interior of Brasil. The president commented "50 years of development in 5".
On April 1, 1964 a coup occurred enslaving Brasil to the military, which lasted over 20 years. Public demonstrations in 1984 contributed to the end of military rule, and in 1985 democracy was reinstated.
The land reform ministry of Brasil was formed in the early 1980's to respond to rural people seizing unused private land for their own use.
The Brasilian Constitution was presented 5 October 1988 and is the foundation of law.
The president of Brasil is "Lula" or Luiz Ina'cio Lula da Silva. I am glad he is here. He was arrested in riots protesting the military rule and is a founding member of the country's Worker's Party, a lovely left leaning political party.
The Amazon Trail game was released for Macintosh around 1993, following the successful Oregon Trail game series.
Our children are watching us... they are not just valuable friends and heirs, but they will enact the justice that we deserve.
Religions
The Dam
Brasil's monumental construction and engineering project, the Campos Novos dam in southern Brasil, cracked broadly and leaked just months after completion. Campos Novos, 3rd tallest concrete-faced dam, was compared in scale to China's Three Gorges Dam, which has been successful. Repair work on the Campos Novos dam has been a lesson. The ecological righteousness of the Brasilian expansion into the Amazon Jungle must be reformed to understand the real reasons the dam cracked, as the river forks, and lessons to be learned.
The expansion of Brasil's economy and farm space has conflicted with the Amazon Jungle, the worlds largest jungle on the world's largest river basin. The Brasilian capitol of Brasilia, planned in 1956, founded in 1960, and located in the national interior, may not be in harmony with the nature and conservation of the jungle. This globally critical megascale natural resource must be protected.
New techniques using greenspace in cities and rooftop gardens can change the way Brasil builds. Responsible farming practices and new laws can defend the Amazon from irresponsible and shortsighted farmers, who clear cut and burn rainforest land to acquire soil that is fertile for only a few years, and then becomes broken. Crop rotation, eco-friendly agriculture, irrigation projects on existing farmland,
The dam can be repaired and completed again, as can the international image that the dam brings to Brasil. The entire world has lessons to learn. China has gone forward with their polluting industrial programs and their successful dam. This kind of a failure in Brasil could illuminate and correct monumental progress.
Better and cleaner industrial and agricultural practices can make Brasil an organic breadbasket and a green industrial utopia revolutionizing the economy.
Ethanol
Sugar cane is a major export of Brasil, and ethanol from sugar is common for Brasilian automobiles. Ethanol is not a sustainable solution to the world fuel crisis, as the world is also experiencing a food shortage, and farmland used to grow ethanol competes with world food products. Better distribution of foods and changes to first world national farm subsudies could help alleviate this shortage. The publicization of modern energy sources such as the water engine could solve the world's fuel shortage. [1/2 blanked. #12. #7, 7 > -8. 7:8. < 10 < 12 "[]". 5.]
In 2007 ~71% of all cars produced ran on ethanol.
The Amazon River and Jungle
The Future of Brasil
