Outside the main scene of the Brazilian Popular Music festivals, the sambists founded the Bienal do Samba in the late 1960s, and it became the space for the big names of the genre and followers.

* The first Brazilian astronaut Marcos Pontes space flight to International Space Station ( ISS ) was part of commemoration of 100th of 14bis flight.

These include a depressed Gorilla, a Brazilian Jaguar and a young Hippopotamus who complain about the cold weather, the poor quality of their enclosures and the lack of space and freedom.

In 1964, Latin America's first space launch site was constructed in Rio Grande do Norte ; Barreira do Inferno ( Hell's Barrier ), which was often referred to as the " Brazilian NASA ".

* A Brazilian Space Agency VLS-1 space rocket explodes on its launch-pad at Alcântara space base, killing at least 21 people.

This was the third attempt by the Brazilian Space Agency to launch the VLS rocket into space.

The incident has caused a significant delay to the Brazilian space program because of government inquiries as well as the fact that many scientists and engineers who worked on the program died when the rocket exploded.

It is well known for its headquarters, a 1968 concrete and glass structure designed by Lina Bo Bardi, whose main body is supported by two lateral beams over a 74 meters freestanding space, considered a landmark of the city and a main symbol of modern Brazilian architecture.

It is the hometown of Marcos César Pontes, the first Brazilian in space.

He became the first Brazilian and the first Lusophone to go into space when he launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006.

In June 1998, he was selected by the Brazilian Space Agency to train in the NASA space program after he acquired a space-related background in the Aeronatical Engineering division of the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica ( the Aeronautics Technological Institute, or " ITA "), which he transferred to in pursuit of a childhood dream to become an astronaut.

It is an ode to Capoeira, the martial art of Brazilian slaves ; the ' circle of fire ' is the sacred space in which this martial art is performed.

The length was the smaller of all Brazilian wagons ( 3924 mm / 154 in ) but the internal space was equivalent to the bigger ones.

# REDIRECT Brazilian space program

Astronaut Marcos Pontes launched with Expedition 13 on the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft and became the first Brazilian in space.

Sir James Winterwood is a fictional English traveller, adventurer and writer in the second half of the 19th century and a recurring character of the Brazilian writer Rita Maria Felix da Silva.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

* 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet who designed the flag of the State of Maranhão ( b. 1833 )

( Initially composed of an infantry division, eventually covering all Brazilian military forces who participated in the conflict.

Including the Brazilian Air Force who did a remarkable job in less than nine months of war for Brazilians, with 445 missions executed.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

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 ).

Chagas named the pathogenic parasite as Trypanosoma cruzi and later that year as Schizotrypanum cruzi, both honoring Oswaldo Cruz, the noted Brazilian physician and epidemiologist who successfully fought epidemics of yellow fever, smallpox, and bubonic plague in Rio de Janeiro and other cities in the beginning of the 20th century.

Some of the well known individuals who have become involved include former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former presidents of Chile Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, actress Susan Sarandon, actors Jeremy Irons and Raul Bova, singers Céline Dion and Anggun, authors Isabelle Allende and Andrea Camilleri, musician Chucho Valdés and Olympic track-and-field legend Carl Lewis.

According to South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

His work had also noticeable influence over Brazilian author Machado de Assis, who made exceptional ( and outstandingly original ) usage of the digressive technique in the masterful novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.

However, sympathetic Paraguayan nationalists and foreign revisionist historians have portrayed Solano López as a patriot who resisted to his last breath Argentine and Brazilian designs on Paraguay.

They portrayed him as a tragic figure caught in a web of Argentine and Brazilian duplicity who mobilized the nation to repulse its enemies, holding them off heroically for five bloody, horror-filled years until Paraguay was finally overrun and prostrate.

The country was slowly being repopulated by former Brazilian soldiers who had fought in the War of the Triple Alliance, and Paraguay's government encouraged European immigration.

A considerable number of sedevacantist bishops are said to derive from Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, who in 1945 set up his own schismatic " Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church ".

) In addition, many of the 41. 5 % of the population that refer to themselves as Christian practice a syncretized religion, not dissimilar from Haitian Vodou or Brazilian Cadomblé ; indeed, many of them are descended from freed Brazilian slaves who settled on the coast near Ouidah.

An eminent French astronomer, Emmanuel Liais, who was working for the Brazilian government in Rio de Janeiro in 1859, claimed to have been studying the surface of the Sun with a telescope twice as powerful as Lescarbault's at the very moment that Lescarbault said he observed his mysterious transit.

A Brazilian miniseries in 10 episodes with Claudia Cepeda was made in 1992 by director Eric Rochat, who was the producer of the original 1975 movie.

Rapid deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon called the attention and intervention of UNESCO, who utilized its Program on Man and the Biosphere to advocate against the Polonoreste program, on the grounds of violating the rights of the indigenous groups living in the Amazon.

Another account was documented by biologist George A. Boulenger from a Brazilian physician named Dr. Bach, who examined a man and several boys whose penises had been amputated.

They say that in 1720, a Brazilian Jesuit, named Bartholomew Gusmao, possessed of abilities, imagination, and address, by permission of John V. fabricated a balloon in a place contiguous to the Royal Palace, and one day, in presence of their Majesties, and an immense crowd of spectators, raised himself, by means of a fire lighted in the machine, as high as the cornice of the building ; but through the negligence and want of experience of those who held the cords, the machine took an oblique direction, and, touching the cornice, burst and fell.

It also has a large community of Brazilian immigrants who work mainly in the maintenance of the island ’ s vacation facilities.

The 2000 Brazilian soap opera O Cravo e a Rosa was also based on the play ( this title means " The Carnation and the Rose " and comes from a children's song about a couple of engaged flowers who had a serious " fight " – which, in Portuguese, may mean either an awful argument or some physical confrontation ).

* The Revolta da Chibata was a Brazilian naval mutiny of 1910, where Afro-Brazilian crewmen rose up against oppressive white officers who frequently beat them.

He refused to pay Francisco Felix de Sousa, a Brazilian merchant and trader who had become a major middle-man in the Ouidah slave market, for services rendered, imprisoned and tortured de Souza, and then attempted to have his own ministers sell the slaves directly.

Marina Silva's Green Party in the Brazilian presidential election, 2010 won 19. 33 % of the vote of the first round taking enough votes from Dilma Rousseff of the incumbent PT party to stop her getting the 50 % needed to avoid a second round of which she went on to beat Jose Serra of the opposition PSDB party.

This image is rejected by one of the theoreticians of the party, Tibor Rabóczkay, in the book Rethinking the Brazilian Green Party, with the argument that the going round and round between legends is so common in the big parties, as in the small ones.

For 2006 the Brazilian Grand Prix, as in 2004, was moved to the prestigious position of hosting the final round of the season, in what was Michael Schumacher's first farewell to Formula One, before his return for the 2010 Formula One season.

The Brazilian cavaquinho, associated with Brazil, like the cavaquinhos associated with Lisbon and Madeira, differs from the minhoto in that its neck is elevated in relation to the body, and the sound hole is traditionally round ; thus it is more akin to the traditional guitar.

The logo, created by Raul Tabajara, reflects both the MSX imagery ( by using a font similar to the logo of the MSX game Aleste ) and the Brazilian flag ( by using the round shield with the Brazilian sky ).

American jazz and rock and almost all Brazilian styles and dances are played all over the city in bars, pubs, restaurants, nightclubs, street festivals, concerts, private gatherings, and churches all the year round.

For the second round of the season, at the Jacarepagua circuit near Rio De Janeiro, the venue for the Brazilian Grand Prix, Paletti had to prequalify on Friday morning, but a wheel fell off the Osella after a suspension failure and again he didn't make the grid.

Adult Brazilian Mergansers are believed to remain on the same territory all year round, but there is not very much information about their movements and dispersal, so information on this is presently speculative in nature.

In the round of 16 Ramos suffered a skull fracture, caused by an elbow to the head by Brazilian leftback Leonardo in the first half of the game.

He received a wildcard to the US Open, where he defeated Brazilian João Souza in the first round in a four-set match, 6 – 3, 6 – 4, 6 – 7 < sup > 5 </ sup >, 6 – 1.

Arsenal beat reigning Argentine champions San Lorenzo in the qualifying round to earn a place in the Round of 16 where it faced Brazilian team Goiás.

In 1990, Careca was part of the Brazilian team that was defeated by Argentina in the second round.

Designers, not thinking of the driver's comfort, simply designed smaller and more cramped cockpits. The problem was first highlighted at the first round, the Brazilian Grand Prix, with focus on the Ross Brawn designed Arrows cars.

In the first round Argentinos and Ferro were put into the same group with Brazilian teams Fluminense and Vasco da Gama.

The race was the third round of the 1976 Formula One season and the first new race to be added to the calendar since the Brazilian and Swedish Grand Prix were added in 1973.

Danner achieved a 14th place at the opening Brazilian round, before the improving cars of Rial's competitors forced Danner out of qualifying for the next two races, hampered by the older ARC2 chassis.

In the second round, he toughed out a 6 – 2, 4 – 6, 7 – 6 victory over Brazilian danger-man Thomaz Bellucci.

A tamborim ( or ) is a small, round Brazilian frame drum of Portuguese and African origin.

However, a run of victories went Rossi's way after the French round and didn't abate until the Brazilian Grand Prix where, one of the two most surprising incidents of Gibernau and Rossi's rivalries occurred.

The Brazilian Communist Party, for instance, supported Lula on the second round, unlike its presidential candidate Heloísa Helena, informing its members of the alleged regression Geraldo Alckmin would represent if elected.

Hence Lula's re-election in 2006: After almost winning in the first round, Lula won the run-off against Geraldo Alckmin of the PSDB ( Brazilian Social Democracy Party ), by a 20 million vote margin.