Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

For example, while concluding meaningful trade agreements with developed countries ( such as the United States and the European Union ) would probably be beneficial to Brazil's long-term economic self-interest, the Brazilian government has instead prioritized its leadership role within Mercosul and expanded trade ties with countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco-Roman Wrestling are Olympic Sports while Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Sambo have their own World Championship Competitions.

Its importance as Brazil's national music transcends region, however ; samba schools, samba musicians and carnival organizations centered around the performance of samba exist in every region of the country and, while regional musics prevail in other regions ( for instance, in Southern Brazil, Center-West Brazil, and all of the Brazilian countryside, Sertanejo, or Brazilian country music, is the most popular style ).

The eastern corner on the Brazilian border, including the town of Cebollatí, overlaps half the South Korean island of Jeju, while the eastern coast corresponds to some small islands off the southwestern tip of South Korea, such as Jindo Island (≈ Cabo Polonio ).

The Seven Provinces ( the Dutch ) captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including the entire coasts except that of Bahia and much of the interior of most contemporary Northeastern states ( Bahia, Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará ), while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The Brazilian guitarist Sergio Assad has also experimented with folk-derived, complex virtuoso compositions that show Piazzolla's structural influence while steering clear of tango sounds ; and Osvaldo Golijov has acknowledged Piazzolla as perhaps the greatest influence on his globally oriented, eclectic compositions for classical and klezmer performers.

The Brazilian transportation system aims at allowing the increase in the number of visitors, while reducing the environmental impact, through the increase in the average number of passengers per vehicle inside the park.

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal developed a technique consisting in singing while playing the melodica, resulting in a wide tonal and harmonical palette.

In 2009, a survey conducted by the University of São Paulo in 10 Brazilian state capitals, estimated that 7. 8 % of Brazil's male population was gay and 2. 6 % was bisexual ( a total of 10. 4 %), while 4. 9 % of the female population was estimated to be lesbian and 1. 4 % bisexual ( a total of 6. 3 %).

Although Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil between 1956 and 1961, visited Israel after his tenure, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the first Brazilian president to visit Israel while in office, in 2010.

Brazilian cooking, while it has many similarities with that of its South American neighbors, is distinct.

The seleção was defeated in the match they still refer to as the " Sarrias Disaster ", a reference to the stadium's name, and manager Telê would be much blamed by the Brazilian media for using an attacking system while a 2 – 2 draw was enough.

The most famous of these events is the Brazilian Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, while the Venetians celebrate carnival with a masquerade.

Perhaps because he grew up in the countryside, he uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, in which the musicians burble water and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon: a Brazilian television broadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point by singing into a cup with his mouth partially submerged in water.

Darío Conca was named the Brazilian Championship's Player of Season, while Fred and Washington were decisive players in Fluminense's winning campaign.

In 2011, Bahia plays in the Brazilian Championship Serie A ( first division / premier league ), while Vitoria plays in the Brazilian Championship Serie B ( second division ).

The Polar Bears were voiced by a family who owned a local shop, while the Jaguar was voiced by a Brazilian student who was living in the UK, but missed his home country.

Prestes went on to lead the pro-Soviet faction of the party known as the Brazilian Communist Party or PCB while the Maoists formed the Communist Party of Brazil PCdoB.

Former UFC Light Heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida holds a 3rd dan black belt in Shotokan karate, while his brother Shinzo holds a 4th dan and their father Yoshizo holds a 7th dan and was head of the Japan Karate Association's Brazilian branch.

" Grave's Ola Lindgren and Bolt Thrower's Karl Willetts both rate South of Heaven as amongst the top five albums of all time, while Max Kolesne of Brazilian death metal group Krisiun remembers hearing the song " Silent Scream " for the first time: " It just blew me away.

The first ayahuasca ‘ Churches ’ affiliated to the Brazilian Santo Daime were established in the Netherlands.

* Constitution of 1824 – the first Brazilian constitution, enacted by Dom Pedro I.

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

* Proclamation of the Republic ( 1889 ): End of the Brazilian Empire, this was the first coup d ' état performed by the Brazilian military.

The first three C-295s, designated C-105A Amazonas in Brazilian service, were commissioned into service in a formal ceremony at Base Aérea de Manaus on March 31, 2007.

Brazilian corvette Barroso ( V-34 ) underway for the first time during sea trials.

Instead of pursuing unilateral prerogatives, Brazilian foreign policy has tended to emphasize regional integration, first through the Southern Cone Common Market ( Mercosul ) and now the Union of South American Nations.

The disease was named after the Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909, but the disease was not seen as a major public health problem in humans until the 1960s ( the outbreak of Chagas disease in Brazil in the 1920s went widely ignored ).

Of Brazilian heritage, Breez Evahflowin from the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan, and is most famous as a member of the Stronghold Crew is the first MC in hip hop with parents from Brazil.

This was the origin of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament ( later renamed UFC 1: The Beginning ) in the U. S. inspired by the Brazilian Vale tudo tradition and along with other minimal rule competitions, most notably those from Japan such as Shooto and Pancrase, have evolved into the combat sport of Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ).

The first of these eroded extensions stretching westward of the Paraná Plateau — the Northern Upland — occupies the portion northward from the Aquidabán River ( Río Aquidabán ) to the Apa River on the Brazilian border.

Argentine, Brazilian, and British companies in the late 1800s purchased some of Paraguay's best land and started the first large-scale production of agricultural goods for export.

The first was the completion of the road from Asunción to Puerto Presidente Stroessner and to Brazilian seaports on the Atlantic, ending traditional dependence on access through Argentina and opening the east to many for the first time.

It is said that the first Brazilian pizzas were baked in the Brás district of São Paulo in the early part of the 20th century.

* 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.

Batlle's five-year term was marked by economic recession and uncertainty, first with the 1999 devaluation of the Brazilian real, then with the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease ( aftosa ) in Uruguay's key beef sector in 2001, and finally with the political and economic collapse of Argentina.

At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Osvaldo Aranha, then president of the Special Session, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.

The first Indian Park in Brazil was created in the river basin by the Brazilian government in the late 1950's.

This park marks the first indigenous territory recognized by the Brazilian government.

* July 16 – WWII: The first contingent of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force arrives in Italy.

The first ever true carnival expression of this Brazilian festivity, officially recognized by Carnaval historians in Brazil, took place in Rio de Janeiro, with the " préstitos ", very similar to a musical processions, in 1641, when D. João IV was crowned in Portugal as a King and parties were celebrated in Rio public streets.

* Martin Afonso de Souza's expedition patrols the Brazilian coast, banishes the French, and creates the first colonial towns: São Vicente and São Paulo.