Weird São Paulo |
See how weird São Paulo can be: motoboys galore, Flea has trouble breathing, urban birds hit the asphalt, and traffic jams on “No Car Day.”
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Dead Rabbi Performs Miracles for Christians of Manaus |
The details of Rabbi Shalon Emmanuel Muyal’s mission and death in the Amazon remain obscure, but that’s nothing compared to the mystery surrounding his afterlife. Local Catholics have named him the “Santo Judeu Milagreiro de Manaus” (Saint Jewish Miracle Worker of Manaus). His tomb receives regular visits from Christians who attribute magic to his spirit.
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Humor Brazilian Style |
A few jokes, quotes and sundry other debris.
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Brazilian Language: a Sea of Metaphors |
Portugal, like England, was a great seafaring nation - a small strip of land on the Atlantic taking for its own the seven seas. It bequeathed a language full of maritime expressions to its most important colony, Brazil, and the Brazilian popular vernacular still smacks of the sea.
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Brazil Stock Market Tourism: BOVESPA Through 3-D Glasses |
Investors are sometimes accused of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. But it was a pair of 3-D ones that the attendant handed me as I entered the São Paulo Stock Exchange.
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Brazil in Guinness World Records 2005 |
Entries may be ”weird, wonderful and often totally mind-boggling,” says the website of the British tabloid The Daily Mirror. A couple of dozen come from Brazil.
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| Carro Novo (New Car) by sculptor Alexandre da Cunha |
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