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• 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?
• the Brazilian sex worker organization Davida created the fashion label Daspu which prostitutes presented at fashion shows, culminating in a show at the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial?
• the Brazilian rodent Calomys cerqueirai was named only in 2010?
• the Brazilian fashion label Colcci has 1,659 stores in 31 countries, but only one in the United States?
• the Brazillian endemic genus Philcoxia, which may represent another genus of carnivorous plants, was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?
• the French car Simca Vedette (pictured) was first marketed as a Ford and later manufactured as a Chrysler in Brazil?
• the Early Cretaceous turtle Caririemys was the fifth such turtle genus to have been discovered in Brazil's Santana Formation?
• the Brazilian orchid I. virginalis (pictured), the first species of Isabelia discovered, remained without a formal description or scientific name for four decades after its discovery?
• the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo had its origins in a humble Jesuit mission known today as Pátio do Colégio?
• only about 10% of Brazil's water resources is located in the southeast, the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population lives?
• on February 9, 1913, a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth?
• over 200 towns and cities in Brazil are served with a sewer system known as condominial sewerage?
• the palm Aiphanes deltoidea, which occurs across a broad area encompassing parts of Colombia, Peru and Brazil, is present at such low densities that it is considered a rare species?
• the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s?
• the Afro-Brazilian trader Octaviano Olympio dominated the politics of Lomé, Togo, for the first 50 years after its inception?
• the Bahá'í community in Brazil was established when Leonora Holsapple Armstrong, the first Bahá'í permanent resident in South America, arrived in Brazil in 1921?
• the Confederation of the Equator was a short-lived state established in northeastern Brazil during her struggle for independence from Portugal?
• the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is crossed by an 18th century aqueduct (pictured) nicknamed Arcos da Lapa?
• the Palace in the Quinta da Boa Vista park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was inhabited by one King of Portugal and the two Brazilian Emperors?
• the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, and Romania?
• the city of Puerto Suárez in eastern Bolivia is supplied by the Brazilian power grid, not the Bolivian?
• the city of Barreiras in Bahia, Brazil remained isolated for nearly a decade in the 1960s when the power plant closed?
• with the Minas Gerais (pictured), Brazil became the third country to have a dreadnought under construction, ahead of traditional powers like France and Russia?
• the indigenous Nambikwara language of Brazil has a special implosive consonant used only by elderly people?
• the War of Canudos was an armed conflict in the 1890s in the Northeastern village of Canudos, Brazil, that was started by a Christian mystic and messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?
• the United States Academic Decathlon National Championships have featured teams from Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Northern Ireland and Brazil?
• the Majorca Sheepdogs were exported to Brazil and used to protect private property?
• the Ibirapuera Auditorium (pictured) in São Paulo, Brazil, features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out?
• the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (pictured) in Paraná, Brazil was reinaugurated to honor its famous architect Oscar Niemeyer, who completed his design for the museum's annex at the age of 95?
• the Paço Imperial, a Baroque palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?
• the Suite Vollard in Curitiba, Brazil, is the only building in the world in which floors can independently rotate 360° in either direction?
• the salt industry sector of Ghana aims to compete with Brazil and Australia in supplying salt to western Africa?
• nine new permanent competition venues will be constructed for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
• more than 95 percent of the electricity generated in Paraguay is produced by two hydroelectric plants in Itaipu and Yacyretá, most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina?
• Ilha dos Marinheiros, the largest and most fertile island in the lagoon Lagoa dos Patos, produces about 80% of the vegetables consumed in Rio Grande, Brazil?
• France Antarctique, a short-lived French colony, was not in Antarctica but in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
• Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil, despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?
• John Mawe, who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil?
• Junqueirópolis, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil, is nicknamed "Acerola Capital" for its agriculture?
• M. D. Madhusudan, who received the Whitley Award for 2009, uncovered links between coffee production in Brazil and cattle ownership and grazing in Bandipur National Park?
• Luís Alves de Lima e Silva was a Brazilian military hero praised for his victories in the War of the Triple Alliance, and that his birthday is celebrated annually as Dia do Soldado?
• Claude d'Abbeville was a Franciscan missionary who wrote in 1614 about the dispatch of Brazilian Tupinambá Indians to the French king Louis XIII?
• Carlos Minc, the current Brazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of the Green Party?
• Brazilian footballer Bobô won the 1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A before playing three games for the Brazil national team in 1989?
• Brazil has recently opened a commercial fishery targeting the Colares stingray, for export to Europe?
• Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo?
• Brazilian director Humberto Mauro first became interested in film after buying a Kodak camera in 1923, and won the Brazilian film of the year award only 4 years later?
• Brazilian nursing assistant Edson Isidora Guimaraes is thought to have killed patients in a hospital in São Paolo because a funeral home was paying him $60 a time for the relatives' contact details?
• Brazilian actress Carmen Silva was diagnosed with the same illness, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, as actor Oswaldo Louzada, who played her husband on the Brazilian telenovela, Mulheres Apaixonadas?
• Marcos Daniel is the highest placed Brazilian tennis player on ATP's ranking despite not winning any official ATP tournament?
• Ottomar Pinto has served three non-consecutive times as governor in the history of Roraima, Brazil?
• during the five years of fighting in the Cabanagem revolt in Brazil, it is estimated that the population of Pará was reduced from about 100,000 to 60,000?
• during the Brazilian Tenente revolts the Prestes Column of guerrillas marched more than 25,000 kilometers (16,000 mi)?
• at the town next to the Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada, thousands of underage girls prostituted themselves for gold flakes while around 60–80 unsolved murders were registered every month?
• in 1994, a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal?
• in a few villages and towns of southern France and Spain it is illegal to die, and that there are attempts to have the same law in a town in Brazil?
• in the Brazilian kidnapping of Abílio dos Santos Diniz the kidnappers were of various nationalities, including two Canadian university students?
• in the 1920s and '30s, various countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Chile issued Art Deco stamps?
• an "exact replica" of the Temple of Solomon called the Templo de Salomão is being built in Brazil?
• although she was born in Argentina, Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater, film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil?
• Lytocaryum weddellianum, an endangered species of palm trees endemic to Brazil, may be saved from extinction as it has become a common potted plant in Europe?
• water privatization in Brazil began under Brazil's post-colonial Empire Pedro II of Brazil?
• Polyandrococos, a genus of palm trees endemic to Brazil, is so named partly because of its hairy tomentum?
• Penedo, a small town in Brazil was colonized by immigrants from Finland?
• all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina?
• Rev. Justus Henry Nelson (pictured) (1850-1937) established the first Protestant church in the Amazon Basin and was a self-supporting Methodist missionary in Belém, Pará, Brazil for 45 years?
• Brazil has been the world's largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years?