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BRAZIL:
STUDIES |
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OnlineReference/Library
on Brazilian History and Culture
Content: This site contains an extensive collection on online
references sources for Brazilian studies on many kinds of subjects
such as culture, language, education, nature, among others. |
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BRAZIL:
GEOGRAPHY/REGIONS |
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The
Amazon River
Content: The Amazon basin (or catchment) occupies approximately
7 million square kilometers in the North Central part of South
America. Most of it is in Brazil, but it also includes parts
of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, and small parts of French
Guiana, Surinam and Venezuela. The amazon basin covers 58.5%
of the area of Brazil. |
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Pantanal
Wetlands
Content: The "Pantanal" (swamplands) of Mato Grosso,
with an extension of 250 thousand km2, is the largest flooding
area in South America and in the world. The "Pantanal"
is an enormous intercontinental bay, delimited by the Brazilian
Highlands to the east, the Mato Grosso Plains to the north,
and also by a chain of hills and highlands on the bottom of
the Andes, to the west. |
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São
Francisco River
Content: This site contains information on one a river that
is bigger than France and Portugal combined. It has a water
volume grater than of the Nile River. This site is in Portuguese. |
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The
Tropics
Content: This site contains extensive material and information
about three of the most significant imaginary lines running
across the surface of the earth are the equator, the Tropic
of Cancer, and the Tropic of Capricorn. |
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Maps
of Brazil, its states and more
Content: This site contains maps of Brazil, its states, main
cities and regions. |
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BRAZIL:
GEOGRAPHY/REGIONS | CULTURALLY | |
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Centro
de Tradições Gaúchas
Content: This site is geared towards the Gaúcho's traditions
and culture. |
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BEFORE
COLONIZATION AND EARLY COLONIZATION |
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The
history of the Indigenous people
Content: This site tells the history of the Indigenous people
and their beginnings, of how they originated in Northeast Asia,
traversed what is now known as Beringia (the region including
extreme eastern Siberia, Alaska and Yukon) before moving through
western Canada and the United States. |
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Mini-Biography
of Luis Vaz de Camões
Content: This site has a mini-biography of the man who wrote
The Lusiads [Port. Os Lusíadas=sons of Lusus,
i.e., the Portuguese] (1572), |
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Portuguese
Explorations
Content: This site gives a brief text about the Portuguese Explorations
on the 15th century. |
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Jesuit
Colonial Education
Content: This is site about a course on the influence that the
Church had on the politics during the 16th century, time of
Brazil's colonization. Focusing on the Jesuits. |
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BEFORE
COLONIZATION AND EARLY COLONIZATION | CULTURALLY | |
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Movie:
The Mission
Content: This site has the synopsis of a movie about a Jesuit
priest who enters the South American rainforest with the intention
of building a Christian mission. His challenging task is the
conversion of a small tribe of native Amazonian Indians. |
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Rock
Painting in the Serra da Capivara
Content: This site contains beautiful pictures of the Serra
da Capivara. |
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Museu do Índio
Content: This site contains researches, pictures, history, and
more about the Brazilian Indians. |
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BRAZIL,
FROM OLD REPUBLIC TO DEMOCRACY |
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The
1891 Brazilian Constitution
Content: This site contains all the articles about the rights
and obligations of all Brazilian citizens. This site is in Portuguese |
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Getulio
Vargas: Dictator or President?
Content: This site discusses on whether Getulio Vargas was really
"Father of the Poor," or did his death produce public
sympathy that strengthened this reputation? Regardless, Getulio
Vargas affected the history of Brazil more than any other character
in the 20th century. |
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The
Vargas Era
Content: This site contains extensive information, pictures
and more about the time when Getulio Vargas was the President
of Brazil. This site is in Portuguese. |
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Juscelino
Kubitschek "JK"
Content: This site contains extensive information, pictures
and more about the time when Juscelino Kubitschek was the President
of Brazil. This site is in Portuguese. |
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Brasília,
50 years in 5
Content: This site contains information about the history of
the city as well as information on tourist sightings, overview
of the city and Oscar Niemeyer, the man who designed Brasília. |
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Castelo
Branco, the Military takes over
Content: This site contains the biography and a briefing on
the military movement in 1964. |
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The
1988 Brazilian Constitution, the beginning of democratization
Content: This site contains all the articles about the rights
and obligations of all Brazilian citizens. This site is in Portuguese
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BRAZIL,
FROM OLD REPUBLIC TO DEMOCRACY | CULTURALLY | |
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Semana
da Arte Moderna
Content: This site gives a presentation with poems, texts,
bios, pictures, history and more about the Semana
de Arte Moderna of 1922 in São Paulo, Brazil. |
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Mário
de Andrade
Content: This site has the biography of one of the most
important Brazilian writers. |
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Oswald
de Andrade
Content: This site has the biography of one of the most
important Brazilian poets. |
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Heitor
Villa-Lobos
Content: This site contains the biography, music, life and
more about this legend. |
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Propaganda
no Brasil
Content: This site has the history of the beginning of advertising
in Brazil. |
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Samba
Schools in Rio
Content: This site has the history of the early history
of the Samba Schools in RIo de Janeiro. |
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Ary
Barroso
Content: This site has the biography and the MP3 of "Aquarela
do Brasil" of one of the most important Brazilian composer
of many eternal songs. |
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Carmem
Miranda
Content: This site has the biography of Carmem Miranda.
According to the site's information, "Up to this date,
Carmem Miranda stands as the most successful female Brazilian
singer outside of the country. Owner of an absolutely unique
and peculiar style, both as a singer and as a stage performer,
she lived the life of a myth, filled with glory and drama...". |
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Atlântida
Content: This site has the history of the main studio (movies)
that helped the Brazilian Cinema get started. |
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Bossa
Nova
Content: This site has the history of Brazil's most popular
music style outside Brazil, Bossa Nova. |
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Television
in Brazil
Content: This site has the history of Television in Brazil
and its beginnings. |
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Contemporary
Brazilian Cinema
Content: This site has a short review about the latest movies
that Brazil has produced and its impact in the World Cinema. |
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Telenovelas
Content: This site contains information on how telenovelas
(soap operas) are created and its impact on society. |
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BRAZIL
AND UNITED STATES |
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United
States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers
Content: This site explores the history of Brazil, interactions
between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century
to the present, and the parallels and contrasts between Brazilian
and American culture and history. The project is a collaboration
between the Library of Congress and the National Library of
Brazil. |
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