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A picture of the poem's author, Antônio Gonçalves Dias A decorative azulejo featuring the first two verses of the poem. Canção do Exílio (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐ̃ˈsɐ̃w dweˈzilju], Exile Song) is a poem written by the Brazilian Romantic author Gonçalves Dias in 1843, when he was in Portugal studying Law at the University of Coimbra.
The Landless Workers' Movement (Portuguese: Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST) is a social movement in Brazil aimed at land reform. Inspired by Marxism, [1] it is the largest such movement [2] in Latin America, with an estimated informal membership of 1.5 million [3] across 23 of Brazil's 26 states. [4]
Tierra Blanca is a city and its surrounding municipality of the same name located in the south-central part of the Mexican state of Veracruz. At the 2005 census the city had a population of 44,171 inhabitants, and 47,824 in 2015.
Sin Parar or Sem Parar (Non Stop in English) is a line of candy bars and ice cream made by Nestlé. They are available in Peru , Mexico and Brazil ( Sem Parar ). They are targeted towards teenagers.
The Homeless Workers Movement (Portuguese: Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto, MTST) is a social movement in Brazil. It originated from the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (English: Landless Rural Workers' Movement). Although the MTST can trace its first urban activism efforts to the occupation of Campinas in São Paulo during ...
Black God, White Devil (Portuguese: Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol; literally, "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun") is a 1964 Brazilian Western adventure film directed and written by Glauber Rocha, and starring Othon Bastos, Maurício do Valle, Yoná Magalhães, and Geraldo Del Rey.
Águila Blanca (named after José Maldonado Román and meaning "White Eagle" in English) was the name given by Los Macheteros (a guerrilla group seeking Puerto Rican independence from the United States) to its robbery of a Wells Fargo depot on September 12, 1983, a day coinciding with the birth date of Puerto Rican Nationalist Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos. [1]
The Battle of White Mountain (Czech: Bitva na Bílé hoře; German: Schlacht am Weißen Berg) was an important battle in the early stages of the Thirty Years' War. It led to the defeat of the Bohemian Revolt and ensured Habsburg control for the next three hundred years. It was fought on 8 November 1620.