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São Salvador

(Encyclopedia)São Salvador, Brazil: see Salvador, city. ...

Bananal Island

(Encyclopedia)Bananal Island, Brazil: see Araguaía, river. ...

Solimões

(Encyclopedia)Solimões, river, Brazil: see Amazon, river. ...

Paulo Afonso Falls

(Encyclopedia)Paulo Afonso Falls, Brazil: see São Francisco. ...

(Encyclopedia)John VI, 1769–1826, king of Portugal (1816–26), son of Maria I and Peter III. When his mother became insane, John assumed the reins of government (1792), although he did not formally become regent...

All Saints Bay

(Encyclopedia)All Saints Bay, Brazil: see Todos os Santos Bay. ...

Odebrecht corruption scandal

(Encyclopedia)Odebrecht corruption scandal, series of graft scandals involving the Odebrecht (now Novonor), a Brazilian construction and petrochemicals conglomerate, as well as Petrobras, the Brazilian multinationa...

Peter IV, king of Portugal

(Encyclopedia)Peter IV, king of Portugal: see Pedro I, emperor of Brazil. ...

Brazilian literature

(Encyclopedia)Brazilian literature, the writings of both the European explorers of Brazil and its later inhabitants. In 1902 Euclides da Cunha wrote his masterly description of an uprising in the Brazilian northe...

Vieira, Antonio

(Encyclopedia)Vieira, Antonio əntôˈnyo͝o vyāˈērə [key], 1608–97, Portuguese Jesuit orator and missionary. Born in Lisbon, he grew up in Brazil. He was sent by the Jesuits to Portugal to salute the new kin...