The Brazilian Armed Forces (, ) is the unified military organization comprising the Brazilian Army ( including the Brazilian Army Aviation ), the Brazilian Navy ( including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation ) and the Brazilian Air Force.

* Brazilian Air Force

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

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

Search and Rescue aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force in special markings for RIAT 2009.

Esquadrilha da Fumaça | Brazilian Air Force Smoke squadron in the city of Avaré.

In 1944 the Brazilian Air Force joined Allied forces in Italy and operated there for about seven months, this was the FAB baptism in a real conflict.

The Mirage 2000s are meant to be in service until at least 2015, when the Brazilian Air Force foresee the ( postponed ) F-X entering in service.

Defense Minister Nelson Jobim and Commander of the Army Enzo Peri board a Brazilian Air Force plane headed to Haiti, to join assistance efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake there.

* Brazilian Air Force

* August 24 – The Brazilian president, Getulio Vargas, commits suicide after being accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder a Brazilian Air Force officer.

In 1941 the airport was taken over by the Brazilian Air Force and renamed Santa Cruz Air Force Base.

* Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão 1685-1724 " Translated from the article which appeared on the Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão page of the Brazilian Air Force website.

* Smoke Squadron Brazilian Air Force

* The Brazilian Air Force ( Command of Aeronautics ) awards the Santos Dumont Medal of Merit to important personalities in the world of aviation.

After the crash of Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, Brazilian Air Force personnel recover the flight data recorder of the flight.

Parma was liberated of the German occupation ( 1943 – 1945 ) on April 26, 1945 by the partisan resistance and troops of Brazilian Expeditionary Force.

* July 16 – WWII: The first contingent of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force arrives in Italy.

As in most South American nations, the Brazilian Army (, ) has been the most influential of the services because of its size, deployment, and historical development.

It is part of the Brazilian ensino básico (, " basic education "), which does include early childhood, elementary and secondary education ( the latter 2 mandatory ), all of those part of the Brazilian public education that should be provided free, as obligations of municipal ( only for early childhood and elementary education ) or state governments, to all its citizens ( including adults ) as defined in the rights of the Constitution of Brazil, and the duration is ideally 18 years if one enters the Day care at its 0 year ( pronounced, in Brazil this term is synonymous with nursery school or preschool ).

Carmen Miranda, GCIH (, 9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955 ) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Campinas (, Plains ) is a Brazilian city of São Paulo State, in the country's Southeast Region.

Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas (, Botafogo Football and Regatta ), also known as Botafogo and familiarly as Estrela Solitária, is a Brazilian sports club based in Botafogo, neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, best known for its football team.

Sport Club Corinthians Paulista (, commonly known as Timão () or Coringão (), is a Brazilian multisport club based in the city of São Paulo.

Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (, Vasco da Gama Rowing Club ), usually known as Vasco da Gama, is a famous and traditional Brazilian multisports club from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nelson Piquet Souto Maior (, born August 17, 1952 ), known as Nelson Piquet, is a Brazilian former racing driver and businessman.

Café com leite politics (, Coffee with milk ) was a term that referred to the domination of Brazilian politics under the Old Republic ( 1889-1930 ) by the landed gentries of São Paulo ( dominated by the coffee industry ) and Minas Gerais ( dominated by dairy interests ).

Morena Baccarin (, born June 2, 1979 ) is a Brazilian American film and television actress best known for roles in several American science fiction television series: as Inara Serra in the series Firefly and the follow-up film Serenity ; as Adria in the series Stargate SG-1 and the follow-up film Stargate: The Ark of Truth ; and as Anna in the 2009 version of the series V. She currently co-stars as Jessica Brody in the Showtime series Homeland.

The First Brazilian Republic or República Velha (, Old Republic ) is the period of Brazilian history from 1889 to 1930.

Porto Velho (, Old Port ) is the capital of the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in the upper Amazon River basin.

São Luís (, Saint Louis ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (, PMDB ) is the successor of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.

A strong Brazilian influence was also exercised by the Jesuits in religion and education.

The Brazilian military has also four times intervened militarily to overthrow the Brazilian government.

The Department of Defense of Brazil, in 2009 also asked the Brazilian Navy to develop a plan for the next 30 years.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.

Usually Brazilian bocks are produced by local breweries or craft breweries, especially in the cities of German settlement in Santa Catarina State and also in Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro.

Crux also appears on the Brazilian coat of arms.

The five stars are also in the logo of the Brazilian football team Cruzeiro Esporte Clube and the Brazilian coat of arms ; it is mentioned in the Brazilian national anthem, and even featured as the name of the currency ( the cruzeiro from 1942 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 1994.

The Corcovado is also a symbol of the Brazilian culture.

The Santo Daime also includes children in their Entheogenic rituals ; studies done by the Brazilian government concluded that there were no physical or mental damage caused by this practice, so it is allowed.

The colors and pattern were influenced by the Austrian dragoons of the period, as the Brazilian Empress Consort was also an Austrian Archduchess.

* Glaucineis Martins, also known as " Inca ", Brazilian footballer player.

The jaguar also appears in banknotes of Brazilian real.

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.

* The machete is also a performance weapon used in variations of the Brazilian martial dance called maculelê, often practiced by proponents of capoeira.

The Brazilian navy has also trained marines for the Namibian navy.

The elder López also had infuriated the Brazilians by not helping overthrow Rosas in 1852 and by forcing Brazilian garrisons out of territory claimed by Paraguay in 1850 and 1855.

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 ).

Brazilian pizzerias offer also Brazilian variants such as " pizza com catupiry ".

In the middle of the 19th century, the word samba defined different types of music made by African slaves when conducted by different types of Batuque, but it assumed its own characteristics in each Brazilian state, not only by the diversity of tribes for slaves, but also the peculiarity of each region in which they were settlers.