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The term ABC Region refers to three smaller cities bordering on metropolitan São Paulo, capital of the Brazilian state of the same name. Originally, these three cities were Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, and São Caetano do Sul. Later, the region became known as the ABCD, with the addition of the city of Diadema. Today the region is formally, and less memorably, known as the ABCDMRR, with the addition of Mauá, Ribeirão Pires and Rio Grande da Serra. ...more on Wikipedia about "ABC Region"

Bestial beast is a Brazilian version of a centaur. According to legend, it is believed that it is the Devil who leaves hell during full-moon nights. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bestial beast"

(Boi-tata) Boi-tatá [Boytata] is a monster from Brazilian folklore. Regionally it is called Boitatá, Baitatá, Batatá, Bitatá, Batatão, Biatatá, M'boiguaçu, Mboitatá and Mbaê-Tata, this last variation being the etymological form meaning fiery serpent in the Tupi language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boi-tata"

The Federative Republic of Brazil (in Portuguese, República Federativa do Brasil; pron. IPA / / ) is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and fifth largest in the world. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it is the easternmost country of the Americas and it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French department of French Guiana — every South American nation except for Ecuador and Chile. Named after brazilwood, a tree highly valued by early colonists, Brazil is home to both extensive agricultural lands and rain forests. Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it is South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. As a former colony of Portugal, Portuguese is its official language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brazil"

Brazil Futbol Club is a Brazillian- American fantasy soccer franchise that formed in 1999, as an independent soccer team. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brazil F.C."

The Brazilian Space Agency (Agência Espacial Brasileira) is the civilian authority in Brazil that is in charge of the country's burgeoning space programme. It operates a rocket launch site at Alcântara. Its location near the equator means that less energy is required to launch into space. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brazilian Space Agency"

Bruna Surfistinha is the fictional name of Raquel, a Brazilian prostitute who attracted the attention of Brazilian media and television by publishing, in a weblog, her sexual experiences with clients. Bruna explained in television programs that she was a normal girl, but that at around the age of 17 she needed to leave home because of oppression by her father and to start to earn money. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruna Surfistinha"

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Caatinga is a type of vegetation and an ecosystem having this vegetation mainly in the northeastern part of Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation" (kaa = forest, vegetation, tínga = white). It covers between 700,000 km² and 1,000,000 km² (depending on the source), over 10% of the national territory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caatinga"

Candomblé Ketu' (or Queto in Portuguese spelling) is the largest and most influential nation ( sect) of Candomblé, an Afro-American religion widely practiced in Brazil. Its beliefs and rituals are similar to those of other Candomblé nations in general terms, but different in almost every detail. ...more on Wikipedia about "Candomblé Ketu"

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art developed initially by African slaves in Brazil, starting in the colonial period. It is marked by deft, tricky movements often played on the ground or completely inverted. It also has a strong acrobatic component in some versions and is always played with music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Capoeira"

Casseta & Planeta is a Brazilian group of comedians who run a TV show named Casseta & Planeta Urgente, broadcasted by Rede Globo. The group merged the nonsense from Monty Python and the social caricatures from Saturday Night Live. ...more on Wikipedia about "Casseta & Planeta"

Cuca (from Portuguese) is a female monster from Brazilian folklore. It is an ugly old alligator that eats disobedient children. There is a very popular lullaby in Brazila about it: ...more on Wikipedia about "Cuca"

Municipalities of São Paulo ...more on Wikipedia about "Divisions of São Paulo"

Fome Zero ** ( English: Zero Hunger) is a Brazilian government program introduced by the president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva in 2002 with the objective to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in Brazil. According to the program's website, 44 million people in Brazil are threatened by hunger. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fome Zero"

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Fundação Nacional do Índio (FUNAI or Funai) is the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency. It was originally called the SPI or Indian Protection Service. Its first director was Marshall Cândido Rondon. He also invented the agency's motto, "Die if necessary, but never kill." ...more on Wikipedia about "Fundação Nacional do Índio"

The Greater São Paulo Area is a large metropolitan area in Brazil consisting of the municipalities of São Paulo, Guarulhos, Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano do Sul, Osasco. ...more on Wikipedia about "Greater São Paulo Area"

Língua do Pê ( Portuguese, P Language) is a language game spoken in Brazil with Portuguese. ...more on Wikipedia about "Língua do Pê"

This is a list of Favelas in Brasil. This Portuguese word is commonly used in Brazil to describe shantytowns or slums - especially those on the hills of Rio de Janeiro. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Favelas of Brazil"

List of main brazilian televangelists: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of televangelists in Brazil"

The slaves of Brazil had been freed in 1888. More and more in the following decades, the coffee barons tried to obtain laborers from other sources, mostly from " white" European sources. The sinister plan to bring in white people with the purpose of "whitening" the Brazilian population by intermixing should sound like a disturbing thought today. However, apparently that was very much the intent of the Brazilian " Lords" of the day. This plan had a name, it was called Branqueamento (" Whitening"). Yet another sad commentary on humanity's propensity for racism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lithuanians in Brazil"

The Mantiqueira Mountains (Portuguese "Serra Da Mantiqueira") are a mountain range of eastern Brazil, rising abruptly from the northwestern bank of the Paraíba do Sul River and extending northeastward for approximately 320 km, reaching a height of 2,821 m in the Pico das Agulhas Negras. The mountains, which eventually merge with the Serra do Espinhaço, were originally forest-covered except for the peaks that rise above the tree line. They provide charcoal and pasture for cattle; on the lower slopes there are several health resorts, including Campos do Jordão. The name Mantiqueira derives from a Tupi-guarani Indian word meaning “mountains that cry", thus called because of the large number of springs and streams found on their slopes ...more on Wikipedia about "Mantiqueira Mountains" http://www.shortopedia.com , this is it!

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About Topazio The Capoeira Group TopÃ¡zio was established in Salvador (Bahia) March 1988 by Raimundo dos Santo, more known in the "capoeirÃstico" world as Mestre Dinho. Mestre Dinho teachings were generated from Mestre Finho, a teacher known in the rodas (capoeira circle) of Salvador of Massarunduba. Today, the Group TopÃ¡zio is undergoing important work with their own methods as well as their own affluent philosophy, different to the other existing groups in Bahia. With a strong technique, the TopÃ¡zio Group is spreading capoeira in three aspects, they include: a) CAPOEIRA ART and CITIZENSHIP b) CAPOEIRA SHOW. c) CAPOEIRA FIGHT. Capoeira art and Citizenship Through this project, the TopÃ¡zio Group is helping in the recovery and integration of the "children of the streets". With implantations of communitarian schools (public schools where it is introduced to them with the purpose of one first taking contact with the educative world) in the districts with greater deficiency in urban zones as well as in suburbs of the Salvadoran city. This project has given rise to quite positive results: causing that the minors of the street leave the sub-world of drugs, and allow them to train in capoeira in the communitarian schools and day-care centers extended by the entire suburb. In addition, these children and adolescents learn another type of activities related to folklore and music: Maculele, Puxada de Rede, Dance of the Cafezais, Samba, and as well as knowing to play instruments like berimbau, pandeiro, atabaque and others. Capoeira Show In the Solar de UnhÃ£o, one of the touristy restaurants in Salvador, there are daily exhibitions of folkloric shows that are organized and directed by the Mestre Dinho. Besides the rich bahiana gastronomy, the tourists attend the spectacles dance, afros rates, and of course, capoeira. Mestre Dinho, along with the Group, participates in exhibitions for local and national networks of television, having already participated with articles in the best magazines and newspapers of all the country. With more than 33 years of capoeira, Mestre Dinho has already visited a great number of countries, in which he make courses, seminaries and spectacles as well as disclosing the work of the TopÃ¡zio Group in benefit of capoeira Bahiana and Brazilian. Capoeira Fight It is our own Mestre Dinho that says: "capoeira always was and it will always be a fight". The TopÃ¡zio Group is comprised of highly studied techniques that were introduced by the Mestre, but at the same time conserving the roots of mother capoeira (case of Angola and Regional). The Mestre recently created a different technique and eventually other capoeiristas from other schools began to criticise. We refer ourselves to the union of capoeira with diverse movements in the hand-to-hand combat. And it is then when Mestre Dinho began to train in capoeira, he viewed other martial arts like: Taekwondo, Judo, Jiu-jitsu, Free Fight, Boxing, etc for knowledge, but always staying faithful to capoeira. Its objective is to learn the different techniques and what he found better in each one of them to give greater efficiency to his own technique within capoeira. With time, Dinho became one of the most famous and respected capoeiristas in Bahia. OBSERVATION: That introduction of the hand-to-hand combat is the continuity work of Mestre Bimba. When creating capoeira regional, he introduced styles from other arts including those of hand-to-hand combat. When still he made exhibitions in the Moenda restaurant. The Capoeira-Jiujitsu is neither more nor less than a perfect and harmonious combination of techniques. Thus returning, the Capoeira TopÃ¡zio, an instrument of defence is able to give security, confidence and tranquillity to the athletes of the Group. Vale Tudo The TopÃ¡zio Group also participates in competitions of "everything counts" and having Mestre Dinho as one of the organizers as well as participating as a judge in the fights made in Salvador. == ...more on Wikipedia about "Mestre Dinho"

Midnight Beauty (Portuguese: A Bela da meia-noite) is a ghost from Brazilian folklore. It is believed that she is the ghost of a beautiful woman, most often with red or white clothes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Midnight Beauty"

Mineiros is a city and municipality in the center-west of the state of Goiás, Brazil. The population in 2000 was 39,204 and the area of the municipality was 8.896 km² making up 2.6159% of the state of Goiás, 0.5558% the Region and 0.1047% of all Brazilian territory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mineiros"

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