On June 12, 3 new cases were confirmed by the Minister of Health, 1 in Minas Gerais, 1 in Distrito Federal and 1 in Bahia, the last is the first confirmed case in the Northeast Region, Brazil, and the 55th in the country.
Apurinã people: An indigenous South American people from western Brazil
Born to migrants from the North East of Brazil in the commercial hub of São Paulo, Kleber Gomes a.k.a. Criolo was born in the 'Favela das Imbuias', one of the many shanty towns that girdle the city.
1800 and two brothers of the Rhineland branch migrated to Brazil in the 19th century.
The novel was published in several countries, including Brazil, where it was first released in 2007 by Bertrand Brasil.
The airline began operations on August 25, 1995 with a Boeing 727-200 as a charter carrier linking Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to holiday destinations in the northeast of Brazil.
Janete Clair (April 25, 1925–November 16, 1983) was a Brazilian television, radio play, and novel writer born in Conquista, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Born John Gustave Davis in Brazil, Indiana, into a family of musicians, Davis developed an interest in music during his childhood.
Jornal Nacional has preferred to broadcast stories produced on the Southeast, in spite of Globo having affiliates in every Brazilian state.
Ezechiele Ramin, died in 1985 while defending the rights of the farmers and the Paiter people of the Rondônia area (Brazil).
The Parnaíba River rises in the Chapada das Mangabeiras range, and flows northeastward for 1,056 miles (1,700 kilometers) to empty into the Atlantic Ocean, being the longest river entirely located within Brazil's Northeast Region.
Pedro de Toledo, Brazil, a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.
The imposition of the metric system led to demonstrations in the northeast in 1874 with metric weights and measures destroyed by peasants, and land and tax records burned.
The Clinton campaign team (including James Carville and George Stephanopoulos) released a video tape of a Brazilian newscast which showed Bush re-election campaign materials being printed in Brazil.
Sergio (carbonado), a 3167 carat carbonado found in Bahia (Brazil) in 1895, the largest carbonado diamond and the largest rough diamond ever found
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista Junior Team is the youth team of Brazilian football club Sport Club Corinthians Paulista.
Brazilian cotton is a perennial cotton with long, silky fibers.
The Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (Unesc) is a community university, located in the municipality of Criciúma, in the southern part of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
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An Abrolhos squall (or Abroholos squall or simply abroholos) typically occurs from May through August (austral winter) near the Abrolhos Islands off the coast of eastern Brazil near 18°S latitude, located between Cabo de São Tomé and Cabo Frio.
Altevir Silva Filho de Araújo (born December 23, 1955) is a retired sprinter from Brazil, he was a Brazilian champion, but he was best known for winning two gold medals (100 and 200 metres) at the 1979 South American Championships in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Shortly after signing for Bayern, Görlitz made his debut for the Germany national team, appearing in the last five minutes of the 1–1 friendly with Brazil, on 8 September 2004; the following month, he assisted veteran Thomas Brdaric as the striker closed the score at 2–0, in another exhibition game, now with Iran.
Antonio Roque Gobbo is a writer, born 11 November 1935 in São Sebastião do Paraíso, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Aquiles Priester (born June 25, 1971) is the drummer of the Brazilian power metal band Hangar and the prog metal band Midas Fate.
Associação Acadêmica e Desportiva Vitória das Tabocas, commonly known as Vitória das Tabocas, or as Acadêmica Vitória, is a Brazilian men's and women's football club based in Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco state.
The Brasiliense Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football team, based in Taguatinga, Brasília, in Distrito Federal.
Bruno César Correa (born 22 March 1986) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for UAE Pro-League side Dubai CSC.
The Campeonato Pernambucano de Futebol (Pernambuco Football Championship, in English) is the football championship of Pernambuco state, Brazil, and is organized by the Pernambuco Football Federation.
Cantagalo Station is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Copacabana borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In his last voyage he collected more than 500,000 specimens, which were donated to the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as the founder and director of the section of geology from 1866 to 1867.
Influenced by such musicians as James Brown, Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow, their music cleverly fused rock, funk, and hip hop with maracatu and other traditional rhythms of Brazil's Northeast.
Professor Nortje has spoken extensively in Maxillofacial Radiology scientific meetings in Hungary, Italy, USA, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, Lebanon, Bangkok, Thailand, China, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Clube Atlético Pirassununguense, commonly known as Pirassununguense, is a Brazilian football club based in Pirassununga, São Paulo state.
Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues (born 3 June 1981), commonly known as Cristiano, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a striker for Club Deportivo Olimpia of the Liga Nacional de Honduras.
In his first year with Braga, Custódio battled for first-choice status with Brazilians Leandro Salino and Vandinho, but managed to appear in nearly 25 official games.
The Polytechnic School of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), also called "Poli", founded in 1792, is the third most ancient engineering school of the world and the most ancient of America, with the Military Institute of Engineering (Instituto Militar de Engenharia - IME), being one of the firsts institutions of higher education in Brazil.
Not officially recognized by the Catholic Church, Anastacia is still an important figure in popular Catholic devotion throughout Brazil.
On March 15, 1975, the states of Guanabara, which consisted essentially only of the city of Rio de Janeiro and until 1960 the federal capital district of Brasil, and Rio de Janeiro, essentially the non-metropolitan area of today's state of Rio de Janeiro were merged to today's State of Rio de Janeiro.
To oppose the U.S. arbitration plan the Latin delegations supported a joint proposal drafted by Argentina's Sáenz Peña and co-sponsored by Brazil.
Jerry Goldsmith composed the music for seven of his films, including Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Islands in the Stream and The Boys from Brazil.
Fuleco the Armadillo is the official mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
He was also part of the team that defeated the strong teams of Argentina and Brazil, and defeated Poland in the semi-final.
Gilmak Queiroz da Silva, commonly known as Gilmak, (born December 2, 1986 in Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for the Brazilian football club Botafogo-SP.
The company further expanded internationally in 2012, first purchasing distributor Kotek Eletro Eletronica Ltda, based in São Paulo City, São Paulo, Brazil, and then later that same year opening offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Suzhou and Dongguan, China.
The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.
I Am Brazil is the third album from Dublin-based instrumental band The Redneck Manifesto.
The specimen was collected by Peter Wilhelm Lund in the caves of Lagoa Santa in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the first half of the 19th century and described by Herluf Winge in 1887 as Calomys anoblepas.
Mamaindê, also known as Northern Nambikwara, is a Nambikwaran language spoken in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil, in the very north of the indigenous reserve, Terra Indígena Vale do Guaporé, between the Pardo and Cabixi Rivers.
He has been responsible for the first professional course in animation in Brazil, held in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada from 1985 to 1987.
Born in Palmeira d'Oeste, Brazil to a second generation Japanese-Brazilian father and Italian-Brazilian mother, Tulio moved to Japan at age 15 to complete his high school studies.
The government of the Federal District - the Brazilian state where the country's capital, Brasília, is located - is called Palácio do Buriti ("Buriti Palace").
The entire Misiones shores along the Paraná River is now confined by two dams, one of them Yaciretá, downstream of the river, and the other Itaipú, located in Brazil and Paraguay, upstream of the river and north of Puerto Iguazú.
The first myotoxin to be identified and isolated was crotamine, from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus, a tropical South American rattlesnake, by Brazilian scientist José Moura Gonçalves, in the 1950s.
In 1951 the first missionaries were sent to Brazil, where in 1963 they founded their own monastery in Itararé in the state of Sao Paulo.
Palestra de São Bernardo, commonly known as Palestra, is a Brazilian football club based in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo state.
a native of North Rhine-Westphalia who, in the 1880s, left his hometown of Ennepetal and emigrated to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he became Guillermo Lenninghaus, and collected cacti for the German grower Haage.
Since the 1980s, Roupa Nova has had many hits in Brazil, such as Sapato Velho (Old Shoe), Anjo (Angel), Whisky-a-Go-Go, Linda Demais (So Beautiful), Volta pra Mim (Come back to me), Coração Pirata (Pirate Heart) and Videogame.
13 May 2012, Sally wins the Billabong Rio Pro in Brazil, Fitzgibbons was up against Coco Ho in the final.
Sandra Jovchelovitch was trained as a clinical social psychologist at the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Brazil.
Simone Saback (born 25 February 1956 in Jacobina, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, singer, writer, poet and journalist.
The cancellation of its 18th annual industry conference, scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro in November 2013, caused concern that there might be problems with the 2014 FIFA World Cup, due to be held in Brazil in June and July of the following year.
Stephen Nash's titi (Callicebus stephennashi), also known as just Nash's titi or Stephen Nash's monkey, is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey, endemic to the eastern bank of the Purus River in Brazil.
Thiago Cruz Reggiani, known as Thiago Cruz (born 15 July 1981 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a football manager and a former striker.
Goiânia accident, an incident of radioactive contamination in central Brazil, a real life accident with some similarities.
Ronildo Pereira de Freitas (born 23 October 1977 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais), aka Tininho, is a Brazilian retired footballer.
On August 23, 2008, a deal was signed between Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela to develop an electified railway link between these countries.
Tupy Futebol Clube, commonly known as Tupy, is a Brazilian football club based in Crissiumal, Rio Grande do Sul state.
The Xavante language is a Ge language spoken by the Xavante people in about 170 villages in the area surrounding Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil.