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.

Brazil is a significant political and economic power in Latin America and a key player on the world stage.

It usually does not appear in countries in which the cabinet is chosen by the executive rather than by a lower house, such as in the United States ( however, coalition cabinets are common in Brazil ).

Thus was born a new type of beef cattle for Central Brazil, with the name CANCHIM, derived from the name of a tree very common in the region where the breed was developed.

This original use, as distinct from surgeon, is common in most of the world including the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries ( such as Australia, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe ), as well as in places as diverse as Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Ireland, and Taiwan.

Both Neapolitan ( thick crust ) and Roman ( thin crust ) varieties are common in Brazil, with traditional versions using tomato sauce and mozzarella as a base.

This voyage went to Brazil, where Banks made the first scientific description of a now common garden plant, bougainvillea ( named after Cook's French counterpart, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ), and to other parts of South America.

Electoral fusion is very common in Brazil.

They are most common in northeastern Africa and the arid areas of Brazil while also being used in the southwestern United States, Mexico, India, Germany, Italy, Greece, France and Japan.

) Such arrangements, according to Graeber, were quite common in New World slavery as well, whether in the United States or Brazil.

Palm oil is a common cooking ingredient in the tropical belt of Africa, Southeast Asia and parts of Brazil.

P. crysan, P. sorbilis ) is a climbing plant in the maple family, Sapindaceae, native to the Amazon basin and especially common in Brazil.

In colonial Brazil, it was common refer to a Brazilian-born slave as a crioulo, whereas slaves from Africa were known as " Africans ".

* In variation to rice and beans, Brazilians usually eat pasta ( including yakisoba, lamen, and bifum ), pasta salad, various dishes using either potato or manioc, and polenta as substitutions for rice, as well as salads, dumplings or soups of green peas, chickpeas, black-eyed peas, broad beans, butter beans, soybeans, lentils, moyashi ( which came to Brazil due to the Japanese tradition of eating its sprouts ), azuki, and other legumes in substitution for the common beans cultivated in South America since Pre-Columbian times.

* Pinhão is the pine nut of the Araucaria angustifolia, a common tree in the highlands of southern Brazil.

* Angu is a popular side dish ( or a substitution for the rice fulfilling the " starch element " of use common in Southern and Southeastern Brazil ).

The most common one used to refer to them, especially in Brazil, is seleção, which literally means the selection.

The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands especially in Puerto Rico where they are also known as " Gallina de palo " and they are very common throughout the island where is seen as an intruder animal from South America ; and in the United States as feral populations in South Florida ( including the Florida Keys ), Hawaii, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

The term " Blonde " for pale beers is popular in Europe and South America-particularly in France, Belgium, the UK, and Brazil, respectively, though the beers may not have much in common, other than colour.

This has been done in Brazil, where bee incidents are much less common than they were during the first wave of the African bees ' colonization.

Drinking mate with friends from a shared hollow gourd ( also called a guampa, porongo or mate in Spanish, or cabaça or cuia in Portuguese, or zucca in Italian ) with a metal straw ( a bombilla in Spanish, bomba in Portuguese ) is a common social practice in Uruguay, Argentina and southern Brazil among people of all ages ; the beverage is most popular in Uruguay, where people are seen walking on the street carrying the " mate " and " termo " in their arms and where you can find hot water stations to refill the " termo " while on the road, Paraguay, Peru and Chile, eastern Bolivia and other states of Brazil, and has been cultivated in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.

Ethanol fuel is the most common biofuel worldwide, particularly in Brazil.

In northeastern Brazil, an unrefrigerated butter very similar to ghee, called manteiga-de-garrafa ( butter-in-a-bottle ) or manteiga-da-terra ( butter of the land ), is common.

The most pejorative terms for white people in Brazil, both for locals and foreigners, even used by brancos morenos against fair-skinned White Brazilians, are branquelo (, literally ) and the even more disparaging leite azedo (,, in reference to the combination of an unusual light complexion, almost white as the milk, and the negative stereotype of the bad smell in Westerners — in most of Brazil, including White-majority states of Centro-Sul such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the normative social habit is to take at least one bath per day year-round, and Westerners are said to generally be not used to this — still the term is so common that in some regions it does not carry more the same negative connotation it carried in the past, although without losing its disparaging meaning ).

In Brazil, it is very common for Mulattoes to claim that they don't have any Amerindian ancestry, though studies have found that if a Brazilian multiracial can trace their ancestry to nearly 8 to 9 generations back, they will have at least one Amerindian ancestor from their maternal side of the family, which will explain many of their physical features and characteristics.