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- Awesome Library in Portuguese (WorldLingo.com)
Provides online translations of the Web. 7-02
- Pictures of Famous Places (PicturesofPlaces.com)
Provides pictures of many of the tourist spots. 5-02
News
- -06-26-08 Brazil Now a Farming Superpower (MSNBC News)
"Today, the region grows some of the world's most precious commodities and has made Brazil a farming superpower, according to Robert Thompson, an agricultural economist who worked with the USDA and the World Bank." 06-08
- -07-31-08 Brazil, the World's Hottest Market (Newsweek.com)
"The specter of rising food and fuel prices now threatens to destroy an era of unprecedented global prosperity, with two notable exceptions: Brazil and Canada. Both countries produce and export enough food and fuel not just to offset the worst of global inflationary pressures but even to turn the price spike from a menace to a boon. They are the only two major economies where prices have not burst the upper limit of the central bank's inflation target." 07-08
- News in Portuguese (LanguageBox.com)
Provides news in Portuguese. Includes Diario de Noticias from Portugal, Jornal do Brasil from Brazil, Jornal de Noticias from Portugal, Folha de Sao Paulo from Brazil, O Povo from Brazil, and CNN from the USA. 8-00
Papers
- Brazil (CountryReports.org)
Provides a profile by topic, including Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People, National Anthem, Lyrics and Related Links. Provides a map and a flag. 6-02
- Brazil (Library of Congress)
Provides a profile by topic. 11-05
- Brazil (U.S. State Department)
Provides a profile by topic. 11-05
- Brazil (Wikipedia.org)
"The Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and fifth largest in the world." "Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. A former colony of Portugal, Portuguese is its official language." 11-05
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