He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

The Aethiopian Sea, Ethiopic Ocean or Ethiopian Ocean ( Okeanos Aithiopos ), is an old name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean, which is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia.

** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.

** Eunectes notaeus, the yellow anaconda, a smaller species, is found in eastern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.

** Eunectes deschauenseei, the dark-spotted anaconda, is a rare species found in northeastern Brazil and coastal French Guiana.

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

There is one test based on " Brazil law twinning " ( a form of quartz twinning where right and left hand quartz structures are combined in a single crystal ) which can be used to identify synthetic amethyst rather easily.

Amethyst is produced in abundance from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil where it occurs in large geodes within volcanic rocks.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

Ayahuasca is known by many names throughout Northern South America and Brazil.

In Brazil, the brew and the vine are informally called either caapi or cipó ; the latter is the Portuguese word for liana ( or woody climbing vine ).

In the União do Vegetal of Brazil, an organised spiritual tradition in which people drink ayahuasca, the brew is prepared exclusively from B. caapi and P. viridis.

Religious use in Brazil was legalized after two official inquiries into the tea in the mid-1980s, which concluded that ayahuasca is not a recreational drug and has valid spiritual uses.

It is also found in pegmatite in Madagascar and in Brazil.

In Brazil, unlike most Civil-law jurisdictions, there is no specialized court or section to deal with administrative cases.

The politics of Brazil take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Currently, Brazil is divided politically and administratively into 27 federative units, being 26 states and one federal district.

Transport infrastructure in Brazil is characterized by strong regional differences and lack of development of the national rail network.

South America is a relatively peaceful continent in which wars are a rare event ; as a result, Brazil hasn't had its territory invaded since year 1865 during the Paraguayan War.

However, Brazil is the only country besides China and Russia that has land borders with 10 or more nations.

The Ministry of External Relations is responsible for managing the foreign relations of Brazil.

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

By 1935, the only significant independent nation that did not possess a central bank was Brazil, which subsequently developed a precursor thereto in 1945 and the present central bank twenty years later.

Peirce has gained a significant international following, marked by university research centers devoted to Peirce studies and pragmatism in Brazil ( CeneP / CIEP ), Finland (

In the twentieth century, Fortaleza underwent significant urban changes, with improvements and the rural exodus to the city, with growth mostly happening towards the end of the decade of 1910, which helped promote the city to the title of seventh best city in population in Brazil.

This network would have enabled easy access by road to the neighbouring countries of Brazil, Venezuela and Surinam ; reduced the costs of utilising the country's timber and natural resources, thus making them more competitive in international markets ; diversified agricultural development by making more easily available suitable areas in the hinterland, particularly in the Intermediate and Rupununi savannahs ; relieved the over-crowded coastland of a significant proportion of its population, thus improving the quality of life of the inhabitants of both the coastal and interior areas ; and made more feasible the equitable distribution of economic activity, not only in the agricultural but also in the manufacturing and small-industries sector.

There are also significant numbers of Polish speakers among Polish emigrants and their descendants in many other countries, including Argentina, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Peru, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the UAE, the UK, Uruguay and the United States.

Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, the Philippines, and the Eastern United States.

Other significant deposits of precious opal around the world can be found in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Turkey, Indonesia, Brazil ( in Pedro II, Piauí ), Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ethiopia.

The Clay County Courthouse built in 1913-1914, is one of the most historically and architecturally significant buildings in Brazil and Clay County, Indiana.

Due to the significant number of Italian immigrants that arrived in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, gnocchi, ñoqui ( Spanish, ) or nhoque ( Portuguese, ) is a popular dish, even in areas with few Italian immigrants.

Magnetite bearing banded iron formation is currently mined extensively in Brazil, which exports significant quantities to Asia, and there is a nascent and large magnetite iron ore industry in Australia.

Brazil is the country where the most significant number of adherents can be found, reaching numbers as high as 4 million adepts.

As of 2011, the Catholic Church had 3, 068 churches of cathedral and co-cathedral status around the world, predominantly in countries with a significant Roman Catholic population: Italy ( 357 ), Brazil ( 280 ), United States ( 207 ), India ( 156 ), France ( 103 ), Mexico ( 98 ), Spain ( 87 ), Philippines ( 87 ), Colombia ( 83 ), Canada ( 74 ) and Argentina ( 72 ).

The initial releases by Gilberto and the internationally popular 1959 film Orfeu Negro (" Black Orpheus ", with score by Luiz Bonfá ) brought significant popularity of this musical style in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.

As a republic with a presidential Executive, Brazil grants significant powers to the President.

Presidents in Brazil also have significant lawmaking powers, exercised either by proposing laws to the National Congress, or else by using Medidas Provisórias ( Provisional Measures ), an instrument with the force of law that the President can enact in cases of urgency and necessity, except to make changes to some areas of Law ( provisional measures cannot be used to change criminal law, electoral law, tax law, among other cases ).

The Vestey Group ( Vestey Group Ltd ) ( formerly Vestey Brothers ) is a privately owned UK group of companies, comprising an international food product business ( that includes meats, dairy products, frozen vegetables, bakery products, food services and trading ) and significant cattle ranching and sugar cane farming interests in Brazil and elsewhere.

After a period of major restructuring in the late 1990s, Vestey Group today consists of Angliss International and significant cattle ranching and sugar cane farming interests in Brazil and Venezuela.

Despite their name, the most significant exporter of Brazil nuts is not Brazil but Bolivia, where they are called almendras.

Australasia and Brazil also have significant pulp and paper enterprises.

The first significant colony was Brazil whose history included a period as kingdom within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarve ( 1815 – 1822 ), before a political schism would result in its independence in 1822.

In contrast to other Portuguese colonies like Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde, the fado song tradition did not penetrate Guinea-Bissau to any significant degree.