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The Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (lit. ' Brazilian Post and Telegraph Corporation ' , abbr. ECT ), also known as Correios ( Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [koˈʁejus] ), is a state-owned company that has operated the national postal service of Brazil since the 17th century.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, Latin American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲos ðe soleˈðað]) is a Colombian magical realism television series based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez.
Dez Anos Depois (transl. Ten Years Later) is a 1971 double album of bossa nova standards by Brazilian singer Nara Leão. The first LP is entirely acoustic. The arrangements and accompaniment, made by Brazilian guitarist Tuca , with occasional piano lines, were recorded in France; Nara was living in Paris at the time.
O Dia que Durou 21 Anos (The Day That Lasted 21 Years [1]) is a Brazilian documentary film directed by Camilo Tavares that shows the influence of the U.S. government in the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.
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The Plano Real ("Real Plan", [1] in English) was a set of measures taken to stabilize the Brazilian economy in 1994, during the presidency of Itamar Franco. Its architects were led by the Minister of Finance and succeeding president Fernando Henrique Cardoso .
As early as April 2, 1841, he had said in a letter to General Saint-Cyr Nugues: [10] Le fameux dicton ... me semble beaucoup moins vrai, pour le XIX e siècle, que Si vis pacem, para pacem. The famous dictum ... seems to me much less true, for the 19th century, than Si vis pacem, para pacem. with reference to Algeria. By way of elucidation ...
In financial difficulties, he sold his lands in Paraná to the allotment company formed by Colonel Francisco Moreira da Costa and Antônio de Paiva. Before that, however, Junqueira planned the subdivision of properties and the establishment of two urban centers, called Santa Mariana, in honor of his wife, Mariana, and Cornélio Procópio, in ...