Among the Barasana of Brazil, there is no absolute difference between those men recognized as shamans and those who are not.

In the beginning chapter, " Serra Pelada ", men from Serra Pelada ( a gold mine in Brazil ) are seen carrying bags of dirt up to a destination.

Hermit communities of either men or women exist in Brazil, France, Indonesia, Lebanon, Italy and the United States.

* Jurupari, a god limited to worship by men, generally limited to isolated tribes in Brazil

The number of Portuguese men in Brazil was very small and Portuguese women were even fewer in number.

This region of Brazil is known for its aridness and hardships, and in a form of reaction against the domination of the land owners and the government, many men and women decided to become nomadic bandits, roaming the hinterlands seeking money, food and revenge.

* Volleyball at the 1983 Pan American Games held in Caracas won by Brazil ( men ) and Cuba ( women )

* Volleyball at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago won by USA ( men ) and Brazil ( women )

On 26 April, as more and more curious and friendly natives appeared, Cabral ordered his men to build an altar inland where a Christian Mass was held — the first celebrated on the soil of what would later become Brazil.

" The concept has been applied to numerous aspects of public life, including accessibility of polling stations, care provided to HIV patients, whether men and women have equal opportunities to travel on a spaceship, bilingual education, skin color of models in Brazil, television time for political candidates, army promotions, admittance to universities, and ethnicity in the United States.

He is known for including members of the " Rocco Siffredi Fun Club " ( his fan club ) and anonymous local European men in his films, and for staging productions and seeking female talent in varied locales including Budapest, Prague, Russia, Brazil and Canada.

During the War, Brazil lost 948 of its own men killed in action across all three services during the Italian campaign.

Purchasing 50 slaves there, he coasted Brazil and arrived in Seville on 22 July 1530, returning home with one ship and 24 men.

They consisted of Polish men who firstly served in the French army, former POWs of Austrian-Hungarian and German armies ( nearly 35000 ) and Polish emigrants from the United States and Canada ( about 23000 people ) and Brazil ( 300 people ).

In Brazil, both men are now honored as heroes and symbols of black pride, freedom and democracy.

It is marketed in Brazil as Dramin, in Canada as Gravol, in Ecuador as Anautin, in Hungary as Daedalon, in Italy as Xamamina, in Indonesia as Antimo, in Portugal as Viabom, and in Thailand as ไดเมนน ี น ( Dị men nīn ).

In a short period of time, and with limited resources, Alvear was able to raise an army of 8. 000 men to wage war against the Empire of Brazil.

At the time, Brazil had a population of close to 5 million inhabitants ( including 2 million slaves ), a standing army of 120. 000 men and a naval fleet of almost 80 vessels.

300 naked men were employed to illustrate life in Brazil and a battle between the Tupinambá allies of the French, and the Tabajara Indians.

At the royal entry of Henry II of France | Henry II in Rouen, 1 October 1550, 30 naked men were employed to illustrate life in Brazil and a battle between the Tupinambá allies of the French, and the Tabajara Indians.

In 2009, in a survey conducted by University of São Paulo in 10 capitals of Brazil, of the men 7. 8 % were gay and 2. 6 % were bisexual, for a total of 10. 4 %, and of the women 4. 9 % were lesbian and 1. 4 % were bisexual, for a total of 6. 3 %.

Nobrega and his men began catechizing and baptizing the natives upon their arrival in Brazil.

During the Paraguayan War between the latter and Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, the Paraguayans would deploy shock troops composed of a mixture of dismounted cavalry and fit men who were able to row and swim, armed with sabres, cutlasses, knives, bayonets, pistols and hand grenades.

However, he is also remembered for the disastrous performance at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where Brazil lost 1-2 in overtime to gold medal winners Cameroon despite having a two men advantage in that game.

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.

Amerigo Vespucci () ( March 9, 1454February 22, 1512 ) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

The project studied members of the União do Vegetal ( UDV ) church in Brazil who use hoasca as a sacrament.

His goal in the 3 – 1 group win over Argentina was his 25th for England in just 38 appearances, but his individual success could not be replicated by that of the team, which was eliminated in the quarter final by Brazil, who went on to win the tournament.

Historians generally credit João Faras-astronomer and physician of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500-for being the first European to depict it correctly.

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 ).

However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were sent to Brazil, initially to escort shipments of gold and diamonds and to guard the Viceroy who resided in Rio de Janeiro ( 1st Cavalry Regiment – Vice-Roy Guard Squadron ).

Banks, who discovered just after arriving in Mexico that he had been awarded the OBE, played his 60th England game in the opening group victory over Romania before taking to the field for the keenly-awaited clash with Brazil.

Playing at pace, Brazil were putting England under enormous pressure and an attack was begun by captain Carlos Alberto who sent a fizzing low ball down the right flank for the speedy Jairzinho to latch on to.

* G4 nations, four industrially and economically powerful nations who support each other's bids to become permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan

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.

Typical among them was the fiercely anti-Semitic Curt Prufer, who joined the Foreign Office in 1907, served as the German Ambassador to Brazil in 1938 – 1942, and then worked closely with the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husayni in recruiting Balkan Muslims to kill Jews in 1943.

:* Persons who self-identify with Latin America, excluding Brazil

Paraguay declared its independence from Spain in 1811 ; since then, the country has had a history of dictatorial governments, from the Utopian regime of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( El Supremo ) to the suicidal reign of Francisco Solano López, who nearly devastated the country in warfare against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay from 1865 through 1870.

The Guaraní, the Cario, Tapé, Itatine, Guarajo, Tupí, and related subgroups, were generous people who inhabited an immense area stretching from the Guyana Highlands in Brazil to the Río Uruguay.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

Flores won backing from Brazil and, this time, from Argentina, who supplied him with troops and weapons, while Berro made an alliance with the Paraguayan leader Francisco Solano López.

The other countries who signed the agreement included: Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, the French Committee of National Liberation, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia.

* December 22 – Archives of Terror discovered by Dr. Martín Almada detailing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

* January 12 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by the Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, who had previously taken the city of São Luís in Maranhão from the French.

* Physician Aleixo de Abreu is granted a pension of 16, 000 reis for services to the crown in Angola and Brazil by Philip III of Spain, who also appoints him physician of his chamber.

One group which was instrumental for ensuring the early success of the sugar cane industry were the Sephardic Jews, who originally been expelled from the Iberian peninsula to end up in Dutch Brazil.