The original inhabitants of Ilhabela were simple people who lived off fishing and wild harvesting and made their homes around the edges of the island. To this day, the outer rim of the island is mostly inhabited by families of the island’s original inhabitants, still fishing the waters for sustenance.
During the 19th century, the...
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Considered the most important symphonic group in Latin America, the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra presents almost 100 performances each concert season, most of them sold-out at the Sala Sao Paulo, which seats 1500. Under the direction of Maestro John Neschling since 1997, the orchestra has grown to become a major world symphony and...
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A Night of Jungle Dreams
by Edna Sousa
After a long day working with just a few things completed…I came home and decided to escape. I decided to travel to a place where I could be myself, where I could get the power. So I went to the jungle. Oh yes, I go wild every night. Hot, jungle wild!
Ok…I’m talking about my nighttime...
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Brazilian bikini fashions are famous the world over. Bikini manufacturers of all types and sizes are scattered throughout the Southeast Region–not just on the coastline. Key production areas include Belo Horizonte, Divinopolis, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, and topping them all…Cabo Frio. Known as the capital da moda praia,...
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If you walk up Rua Gonçalves Dias from the Largo da Carioca, youll pass a number of cool shops. This is a great area for finding good deals on clothes. But the highlight of the street is the classic coffee shop and bakery, the Confeitaria Colombo (Gonçalves Dias 32). Used as the backdrop for numerous Brazilian films and soap...
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When gold starting pouring out of Minas Gerais in the early 1700s, the small and innocuous town of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro turned into the most important port town on the Brazilian coast, even surpassing Salvador in importance. It wasn’t long before the Portuguese Crown took the capital of the colony away from Salvador...
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In Portuguese, the word rocinha (pronounced ho-seen-yah) a literally means a tract of land that has been cleared for planting. It is also used colloquially to refer to any field or backwoods area and that is exactly what Rocinha was in the late 1800s. It started as a settlement near the sugar plantations where poor ranch hands and...
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That phrase in Portuguese is: ” Nos e’ que bebemos e eles que ficam tonto”.
We use that for the situation when people freak out or act stupid.
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In Brazil in this situation we say in Portuguese: ” Eu e’ que nao vou colocar meu cu na praca”. Meaning ” I’m not going to put my ass in the Plaza.”
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Chocolate, or more specifically the Cacao fruit, first appears on our radar in Egypt in the 16th century BCT. Little is know of its use in Egyptian culture, but the first known cultivation of the fruit is by the Aztec culture of around 600 CT. The Aztecs and Mayans believed that their ancestors brought the Cacao seeds from paradise...
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