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 Southern Cross was included in the lyrics of the Brazilian National Anthem ( 1909 ): " A imagem do Cruzeiro resplandece " (" the image of the Cross shines ").

Pasta is also widespread in the Southern Cone, as well most of the rest of Brazil, mostly pervasive in the areas with mild to strong Italian roots, such as Central Argentina, and the eight southernmost Brazilian states ( where noodles are called macarrão, and more general pasta is under the umbrella term massa, literally " dough ", together with some Japanese noodles, such as bifum rice vermicelli and yakisoba, which also entered general taste ).

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 ).

* Order of the Southern Cross, a Brazilian Order of knighthood

In South America, also during the early 20th century, free-ranging boars were introduced in Uruguay for hunting purposes and eventually crossed the border into Brazil sometime during the 1990s, quickly becoming an invasive species, licensed private hunting of both feral boars and hybrids ( javaporcos ) being allowed from August 2005 on in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, although their presence as a pest had been already noticed by the press as early as 1994.

Several Brazilian neo-Nazi gangs appeared in the 1990s in Southern Brazil and Southeastern Brazil, with their acts gaining more media coverage and public notoriety in the 2000s.

* Brazil: Mainly in Southern Brazil ; there are 6 million single-ancestry ethnic Germans, 3 % of the national population ; 14 million Brazilians are part German, 7 % of the national population ; making up 10 % of the Brazilian population.

** Esfiha: another Middle Eastern dish, despite being a more recent addition to Brazilian cuisine they are nowadays easily found everywhere, specially in Northeastern, Southern and Southeastern regions.

Porto Alegre lies in a transitional area between the subtropical forest and the Southern Brazilian grasslands ( pampa ).

In the Cerrado areas, mostly in the south, central and east, there is a predominance of Southern Brazilian farmers of German, Portuguese and Italian descent.

Milonga can refer to an Argentine, Uruguayan, and Southern Brazilian form of music which preceded the tango and the dance form which accompanies it, or to the term for places or events where the tango or Milonga are danced ( see Milonga ( place )).

The state of São Paulo, with its relatively large capital-base, large immigrant population from Southern and Eastern Europe, and wealth of natural resources, led the trend, eclipsing Rio de Janeiro as center of Brazilian industry.

He is wearing the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross given to him by Emperor Pedro II of Brazil during his exile in Petrópolis in 1852

* The Brazilian National Order of the Southern Cross

In different contexts, many unstressed / e / became a close front unrounded vowel, but, in some Southern Brazilian dialects, due to the Hispanic influence, the letter / e / will never go through this change.

The same thing that happened with / e / in the example of júri / jure happened to the letter / o /, that becomes a close back rounded vowel in some cases, but, due to the Hispanic influence, never represents that sounds in some Southern Brazilian.

Pan American Christian Academy is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, by the Association of Christian Schools International, and by the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture.

He is a Grand Official of the Brazilian National Order of the Southern Cross.

Today, the city has its own culture, which is a mixture of several ethnic groups, most notably immigrants from the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, Middle Easterners, Armenians, Portuguese people, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and Paraguayans, finally mixed with Asian and White Brazilians from the Brazilian Southern and Southeast regions, its native Amerindian peoples and Afro-Brazilians.

He was awarded the Virtuti Militari 5th class ( for the Polish-Soviet war ), Cross of Independence, Order of Polonia Restituta 4th class, Krzyż Walecznych ( four times ), Golden and Silver Cross of Merit, the French Legion d ' Honneur and the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross.

In recognition of this and his other work in Brazil Hemming was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross by the Brazilian government in 1998.

* The Southern Hemisphere's largest airline, TAM Brazilian Airlines, was founded in Marilia.

LGBT communities organize a number of events to celebrate their culture, such as Pride parades, the Gay Games and Southern Decadence.

The band was started in 1971 by Robert Ward ( d. May 31, 2008 ) and quickly grew to become a staple group in parades across Southern California.

LGBTQ communities organize a number of events to celebrate their cultures, such as Pride parades, the Gay Games and Southern Decadence.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

Johnson's mood did not change ; he continued to criticize the Congress for refusing to allow the Southern states to take their seats.

In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

Staffan de Misura, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon stated that he was " deeply concerned that air violations by Israel across the Blue Line during altercations with Hezbollah are continuing to take place ", calling " upon the Israeli authorities to cease such violations and to fully respect the Blue Line ".

The people of Southern Cameroons ' claim to self-determination arises out of their allegations that the Republic of Cameroun forcefully annexed their territory by the 1961 take over of the territory and the 1972 dissolution of the federation in favor of a Unitary Republic of Cameroon.

* King Clovis I fails in an effort to take the walled city of Carcassonne ( Southern Gaul ).

The goal of the Dixiecrats was to take Southern states away from Truman and thus cause his defeat.

The following spring, the Avataras Cu Roi and Murgen take the rested and reinforced Legion over the Cloudspine and into Forest Heart in an attempt to regain the support of the Forest Giants, who mysteriously withdrew their support of the west thirteen years earlier, leading to the fall of the Southern Provinces.

The division of George Pickett started for the capital in mid-February, was followed by John Hood's, and then Longstreet himself was ordered to take command of the detached divisions and the Departments of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.

Louis XV now abandoned the invasion of the Southern Netherlands, and his army moved down to take a decisive part in the war in Alsace and Lorraine.

In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.

Fish, according to Lingua Franca, used " shameless — and in academe unheard-of — entrepreneurial gusto " to take " a respectable but staid Southern English department and transform it into the professional powerhouse of the day ," in part through the payment of lavish salaries.

In a 1943 Southern Daily Echo article, former Sapper George Harding ( 2nd Company Royal Engineers ) recalled being ordered to take a horse ambulance and find the Prince's body and bring it back to the column.

After that season, long-time manager Butch Hobson left the Pride to take the managerial job with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League, while former Boston Red Sox outfielder Rick Miller was hired as manager in Nashua.

Several district courts require attorneys seeking admission to their bars to take an additional bar examination on federal law, including the following: the Southern District of Ohio, the Northern District of Florida, and the District of Puerto Rico.

The AA Southern Association ( which never integrated ) died after the 1961 season and so the SAL was promoted to AA in 1963 to take its place ; a year later the name was changed to the Southern League.

Meadowmont and Southern Village both have shopping centers, green space where concerts and movies take place, community pools, and schools.

Now that a deadlock had been reached Louis's patience was severely tried and eventually the tempation to take possession of the Southern Netherlands while they were so vulnerable became too great.

) When the new Parliament of Southern Ireland was called into session in June 1921, only the four Unionist members of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, and a handful of appointed senators, turned up in the Royal College of Science in Dublin, where the meeting was scheduled to take place ; the others convened elsewhere as the Dáil.

However, the UP soon recovered, and was strong enough to take control of Southern Pacific Railroad ( SP ) in 1901 and then was ordered in 1913 by the U. S. Supreme Court to surrender control of the same.

This is supposed to reflect the premium frequency and non-stop service that the Gatwick Express offers, despite the fact that the Southern and other local / stopping services are actually just as frequent and take only 1 – 8 minutes longer than the Gatwick Express.

" She later convinced him to take her for a ride in the Southern Cross and went on to become a record-setting aviatrix, following his example instead of his advice (" Don't attempt to break men's records – and don't fly at night ", he told her in 1928 and remembered wryly later ).