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[Video] American Kids Try Breakfasts From Around the World

Video courtesy of www.kitchenbowl.com http://aboveandbeyondtravelcc.com/2015/08/28/video-american-kids-try-breakfasts-from-around-the-world/

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Clashes break out as residents are evicted from a Brazilian slum

On Thursday, violence erupted in Sao Paulo, Brazil when police were sent to evict an estimated eighty families from government owned land from a slum district.   Residents protesting threw rocks and torched ten cars and one bus to prevent … Continue reading

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For Brazil’s 1 Percenters, The Land Stays In The Family Forever – Lourdes Garcia-Navarro AUGUST 25, 2015 4:49 AM ET

Almost everyone who owns a home in the city of Petropolis — where the Brazilian royal family once had a summer palace — still pays tax to the descendants of the former rulers. Amadeu Júnior via Flickr Here is a … Continue reading

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Brazil has tallest environmental research tower in Latin America

Brazil and Germany have opened the tallest environmental observation tower in Latin America, a 325-meter (1,065-foot) structure that will allow scientists to study the effects of climate change on the Amazon jungle, officials said. The Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory, or … Continue reading

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Secret Brazil – Part 2

https://kevinswildside.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/secret-brazil-part-2/

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“The kitchen” at Mangueira’s Technical Rehearsal/Mangueira 2015 – Bateria (1º recuo) – Ensaio técnico

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MSS play Acoustic Amnesty!

We are playing this next week (despite the fact they can’t get our name right)!

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Caveirão

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Carnival In Rio 1955

A tour of Rio de Janeiro and the annual carnival in the 1950s. Good POV aerial PANs over Rio De Janeiro. Pan American four engine clipper landing at airport, people deplaning, President Vargas exits limo. Various, crowded streets filled with … Continue reading

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Amazônia: manauara

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