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From small villages of thatched homes to the skyline of Belém rising above mist on the river – a view sometimes called “Manhattan of the Amazon” – Brazil’s slice of the Amazon is home ...
Morrinha is also used in northern Portugal for referring to sick animals, for example of sheep dropsy, [23] and occasionally to sick or sad people, often with irony. It is also used in some Brazilian regional dialects for the smell of wet or sick animals. In Goa, India, which was a Portuguese colony until 1961, some Portuguese influences still ...
Images from the start of the first week of the 2024 Olympics. ... One of the standout moments of the Olympic Games so far came from Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina (pictured above), who was ...
Escrava Anastacia (12 May 1740 – unknown) is a popular folk saint venerated in Brazil.An enslaved woman of African descent, Anastácia is depicted as possessing incredible beauty, having piercing blue eyes and wearing a punitive iron facemask.
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
Hi there, I'm a zoo photographer, Mac So.I am currently working as a zoo photographer, mainly at Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, Hokkaido. This time, I would like to introduce some of my photographs of ...
Tristes Tropiques (the French title translates literally as "Sad Tropics") is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. [1] It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally on Brazil , though it refers to many other places, such as the Caribbean and India.
By RYAN GORMAN A Rio de Janeiro man has confessed to killing more than 40 people for fun – making him one of history's most prolific serial killers. Sailson Jose das Gracas, 26, was arrested ...