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Is Brazil safe

Is Brazil safe for the final game of the World Cup? I think so, and I am sure that if you have been watching Globo and Record, the two main networks in Brazil, you feel the same way. No matter what network you have been watching, I am sure you also know that the national team was massacred by Germany this week in the first semifinal game, 7-1. This score in soccer is like a…

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Porto Portugal Tourist information

You are here: Porto intro > Porto day trips > Guimarães intro Guimaraes is a charming and historic city that makes for a fascinating day trip from Porto. Guimaraes is regarded as the birth place of Portugal and this extensive history is reflected in the variety of national monuments and historic buildings found within the city. As a tourist destination, there…

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Inoculation for Brazil

Title: Contribution à létude de lintoxication dorigine ophidienne Identifier: contributionltud00vita Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Vital Brazil, Oswaldo, 1865-1950 Subjects: Poisonous snakes; Venom; Poisonous snakes; Antivenins Publisher: Paris : A. Maloine Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research…

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In Brazil

Brazilians have a lot to worry about these days: unfinished Olympic venues, surging crime, a crippling recession, the biggest corruption scandal in the country’s history, and a political crisis that has government in gridlock. Now they can add to their list of headaches an increase in Amazon deforestation. According to remote sensing scientists, deforestation in June was the…

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