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	Brazil
		Social equity and environmental politics in Brazil: lessons from the rubber tappers of Acre.
		Fuelwood in Colonial Brazil: The Economic Consequences of Fuel Depletion for the Bahian Reconcavo, 1549-1820.
		Analyzes the problems of tropical deforestation by a comparative analysis of postwar rainforest policies in Brazil and Costa Rica and evaluates the impact of environmental destruction for short-term economic gain, utilizing Richard Rose's methodology for assessing long-range consequences from his Lesson-Drawing in Public Policy (1993).
	www.stanford.edu /group/LAEH/html/brazil.htm (2383 words)

	Americana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		AMERICANA, an hour beyond Campinas, is a bustling city of about 150,000 people, but there are only 25 English-speaking families.
		Brazil rapidly established itself as one of the main destinations, offering cheap land, a climate suited to familiar crops, political and economic stability, religious freedom and – more sinisterly – the possibility of continued slave ownership.
		The region’s climate and soil were ideally suited to the growing of cotton and the Confederates’ expertise soon made Santa Bárbara one of Brazil’s biggest producers of the crop.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /south_america/brazil/about_destin/americana.html (364 words)

	Confederados - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Confederados are a cultural sub-group in the nation of Brazil.
		At the end of the American Civil War, Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil was interested in having cotton crops due to the high prices and through Masonry contacts, recruited experienced cotton farmers for his nation.
		The immigrants settled in various places in Brazil ranging from the urban areas of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to the northern Amazon region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederados (1216 words)

	Embassy of Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In 1815 the status of Brazil was elevated from colony to United Kingdom with Portugal.
		Brazil, allied with Argentina and Uruguay, fought the War of the Triple Alliance against Paraguay from 1865 to 1870.
		In 1992, President-elect Bill Clinton wrote a letter to the confederados of Americana before he took office in which he recalled that Arkansas was one of the thirteen states that had settlers in Brazil.
	www.brasilemb.org /profile_brazil/brazil_usa_war.shtml (1405 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Brazil, 1930-1945
		In 1934, Brazil's communists, whose meetings frequently were attacked by the ultraright Integralistas, founded the ANL (Alliance for National Liberation; in 1935 Brazil passed the National Security Law, permitting the state to take actions against radical political organizations willing to use violence.
		On June 30th 1944 Brazil did sent an expeditionary corps, 20,000 men strong, which fought alongside American units in Italy; of them 454 died.
		Brazil, under the leadership of President Vargas, had joined the Alliance against the Axis; yet the Vargas regime was not democratic, but rather resembled Fascist Italy.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/samerica/brazil19301945.html (587 words)

	Welcome To The ORTOLAN – ORTOLANO Family History Page
		I was born on March 21, 1959, also in the city of Americana in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.
		Americana takes such name because it was founded by US immigrants who left for Brazil after the American civil war.
		While in Brazil, the name was changed to “Ortolano” as shown in the ratification found in Antonio´s and Solidea’s marriage certificate which I now have a copy.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /O/Glauco.L.Ortolano-1/story.htm (774 words)

	The Civil War in South Carolina - The Brazil Migration
		AMERICANA, Brazil-Every year, at a secluded cemetery hemmed in by soothing hills of sugar cane, hundreds of Brazilians converge on this factory town to throw a party, complete with deep-fried chicken and biscuits, corn bread and candied apples.
		Brazil, like the United States, is a land of immigrants, and the confederados joined a rush of 2.8 million Italians, Germans, Portuguese, Japanese and others who trekked here between the 1820s and the late 1920s.
		The Americans came to Brazil at the urging of Emperor Dom Pedro II, who longed to see them bring their cotton-planting expertise to his sprawling land.
	www.researchonline.net /sccw/brazil2.htm (1080 words)

	Americana, São Paulo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coordinates: 22°44′22″S, 47°19′54″W Americana is a city and county (município) located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
		It became a district in 1924 and a municipality in 1953.
		Americana has several museums and tourist attractions, including the Pedagogic Historical Museum (with exhibits on slavery and cotton weaving), and the Contemporary Art Museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Americana,_Brazil (259 words)

	NationMaster - Statistics on Brazil. 4919 facts and figures, stats and information on Brazilian economy, crime, people, ...
		By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country when in 1985 the military regime peacefully ceded power to civilian rulers.
		Brazil continues to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of its interior.
		We read in some articles that Brazil is allowing the spreasding of input VAT on capital goods for certain years.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/br-brazil (1277 words)

	Brazil Land for Sale
		Thus, the applicant must already be employed outside of Brazil by the parent company or by an affiliate or subsidiary of the company that proposes to employ him inside Brazil.
		Any baby born in Brazil is entitled to full Brazilian citizenship and the entire family of the baby, including both parents, and all siblings, are eligible for permanent residency.
		Brazil's national health care system is toughly equal to the caliber and operational style of the V.A. hospital system in the USA.
	www.brazil-land-sales.com /usefulinfo.htm (2644 words)

	Damn Interesting » The Confederados
		Americana was as much a southern city as one could have in the jungle.
		Americana was far enough south that disease-infected mosquitoes were less of a problem than they were in Brazil's northern regions, but hostile natives were another matter.
		Americana became an image of the antebellum period of the American south.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=552 (3021 words)

	The Confederados
		Before returning to Brazil, they also attended an Atlanta Braves baseball game and had a private audience with former President Jimmy Carter, whose wife Rosalynn's great uncle, W.S. Wise, is buried in the teens' hometown of Americana, Brazil.
		In Brazil, long known for racial tolerance and intermarriage, everything is different, says Ricardo, who notes that within a couple of generations, Confederados were marrying whomever they fell in love with, including Indians, fls, Arabs, Italians and Germans.
		Today, Americana has the highest per capita income and educational levels of any city in Brazil, in part because those who went set up schools, stressed education and imported preachers and newfangled steel plows, not to mention baseball, watermelons, pecans, sewing machines, fried chicken, peaches and pancakes.
	wesclark.com /jw/brazil.html (1645 words)

	Luxner \| Articles
		AMERICANA, Brazil -- Americana, just a few miles past the Tropic of Capricorn along the congested highway north from Sao Paulo, looks much like any other mid-sized Brazilian city, with its high-rises, factories, farms and occasional favelas.
		Teresa Wagner, the trade specialist who prepared the study, said in an interview that Americana was "severely hurt" by the sudden rush of imports into Brazil.
		Because of Brazil's high domestic prices, it is now cheaper to fly from Rio de Janeiro to the United States, for example, than from Rio to Manaus.
	www.luxner.com /cgi-bin/view_article.cgi?articleID=572 (966 words)

	Genipap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Its usefulness to the Indians was reported by several European writers in Brazil in the 16th Century.
		It is widely cultivated in dooryards as an ornamental tree and for its fruits, but Patiño stated in 1967 that it was no longer as commonly grown in the Cauca Valley of Colombia as it had been in the past.
		In 1965, a program was launched to utilize the genipap for reforestation in northeastern Brazil and plantations were established with a view to the exploitation of the fruit for liquor manufacture and the timber and other products for local use and possible export.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/morton/genipap.html (1484 words)

	United States and Brazil: Dom Pedro II and America / Brasil e Estados Unidos: Dom Pedro II e os Estados Unidos
		Between 1867 and 1871, when slavery was still legal in Brazil, at least three thousand Confederate families passed through the port of Rio de Janeiro.
		The empire of Brazil at the Universal exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, 1876.
		The empire of Brazil at the Universal exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia [Império do Brasil na Exibição Universal de 1876 na Filadelfia], 1876.
	rs6.loc.gov /intldl/brhtml/br-1/br-1-5-2.html (908 words)

	Schools and Education in Brazil
		Absence and malnutrition One of the biggest educational problems in Brazil is school non-attendance.
		Children from large poor families start working from the age of 10 in order to help their parents, despite the law of compulsory education between the ages of 10 and 14.
		Due to the great demand for higher education and the lack of places, colleges (faculdades) and universities in Brazil, both public and private, require an entrance exam (vestibular).
	www.brazilbrazil.com /schools.html (705 words)

	Goodyear Pulls Plug on $180 Million Brazilian Plant - Site Selection Online Insider
		AMERICANA, Brazil -- Citing the nation's sharp economic nosedive, Goodyear's (www.goodyear.com) Brazilian subsidiary has punctured plans to build a US$180 million plant.
		If a new Goodyear plant in Brazil later materializes, it may be a very different animal.
		Brazil's energy pinch is rooted in a persistent drought that's crippled an energy system heavily dependent on hydroelectric generation.
	www.siteselection.com /ssinsider/snapshot/sf010813.htm (830 words)

	154 Masonic Families Founded A City of 170,000 In Brazil
		That spot in Brazil was to become the largest Confederate settlement in South America.
		It is near Santa Barbara, southeast of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
		The most encouragement, though, came from Brother Taveres Bastos, founder of the immigration society and confidant of the Emperor of Brazil whose father, Dom Pedro I, was Grand Master.
	www.srmason-sj.org /council/journal/jun01/klein.html (1420 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Dasyatis americana
		Dasyatis Americana is a coastal marine and estuarine species with a wide distribution in the Western Atlantic south from New Jersey (USA), through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, south to southeastern Brazil.
		Increasing artisanal fishing pressure in some regions of Brazil (which may mirror increases in other parts of South America) is of concern and catch monitoring in countries such as Brazil and Venezuela are a priority.
		The impact of increased harvests on populations in Brazil and Venezuela should be monitored and population studies undertaken.
	www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/60149/all (1559 words)

	Futebol The Brazilian Way of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		You can also read profiles on the entire Brazil squad.
		If you’re going to a Brazil party, then make sure to add your photographs to our global Brazil party gallery.
		He's full of opinions on domestic football in Brazil and the Seleção.
	www.futebolthebrazilianwayoflife.com (811 words)

	americana - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Americana : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Americana, americana : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include americana: aythya americana, campanula americana, fraxinus americana, fulica americana, genipa americana, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=americana (181 words)

	Porto Alegre, Brazil web design & development firms on The Firm List
		This list of web design firms located in Porto+Alegre, Brazil is not a complete list, rather it is just the firms that have either been submitted or found by the editor.
		Listings are geographically organized and should consist only of firms offering web design and/or development services.
		Americana, Balneário Camboriú, Belém, Belo Horizonte, Blumenau, Brasília, Campinas, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Franca, Goiânia, Londrina, Niteroi, Nova Friburgo, Piracicaba, Porto Alegre, Recife, Ribeirāo Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Santa Maria, Santo André, Santos, Sāo José, Sāo Luís, Sāo Paulo, Uberlândia, Valinhos, Vila Velha, Vitoria, Vitória da Conquista.
	www.firmlist.com /brazil/portoalegre.phtml (222 words)

	Americana - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		influence on music and the arts, magazine on Americana, museum displays
		Its people believe in the Bible, and hold that all radicals should be lynched.
		The 30-volume Encyclopedia Americana was originally compiled in 1829 by German American publicist and educator Francis Lieber.
	encarta.msn.com /Americana.html (89 words)

	Embaixada dos Estados Unidos no Brasil
		Study in the U.S.A. Education Advising in Brazil
		Brasília, December 19, 2006 — In a ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Clifford M. Sobel, awarded the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Prize to the best academic papers about the United States.
		Corporate Social Responsibility Focus of Brazil Conference (12/15/2006)
	www.embaixada-americana.org.br (492 words)

	University of St. Thomas - International Studies
		She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and a Master’s Degree in Demography from the University of Chicago, both sponsored by a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Rio Claro, in Brazil.
		Originally from the city of Americana in Brazil, Dr. Ring came to the U.S. in 1973.
		Her articles have appeared in publications by the University of Colorado, the Journal of Family Law, Conciliation Courts Review, American Journal of Sociology, Revista Brasileira de Estatistica (Brazil) and Cadernos Cebrap Series 23 (Brazil).
	www.stthom.edu /academics/schools/artssciences/intl_studies/ring.html (256 words)

	www.TexasSports.com
		The USA squad is preparing for the inaugural Confederation of Pan American Basketball Associations (COPABA) World Championship For Young Women Qualifying Tournament that will feature eight nations competing July 17-21 for a trio of Americas Zone berths into the 2003 World Championship For Young Women.
		The first will be against the Brazil Young Women National Team on July 14 (time TBD) in Ribeirão Preto.
		The preliminary round-robin games will kick-off with the USA facing Venezuela on July 17 (12:00 p.m., all game times are Brazil local time), followed by games against the Dominican Republic on July 18 (6:10 p.m.) and Argentina on July 19 (6:10 p.m.).
	www.texassports.com /mainpages/wbb_pages/2001_02/006/wbb_070902_10.html (941 words)

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		Collections documenting the memory of the Confederacy and efforts to memorialize it include the following: Americana (Brazil) Oral History Project (MSS740).
		The Brazilians referred to this area as Villa Americana.
		It was incorporated as such (1900), but changed later to Americana (1938).
	web.library.emory.edu /subjects/humanities/history/confederate.doc (615 words)

	Flavio Saretta Bio, Articles, News
		44-ranked Flavio Saretta of Brazil in a memorable fifth, and deciding, Davis Cup...
		Dancevic won a hard-fought four-setter over Brazil's Flavio Saretta, then ranked...
		This website is an independently operated source of news and information and is not affiliated with any professional organization.
	www.tennis-x.com /playernews/Flavio-Saretta.php (189 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - SHOOTING: U.S. Takes Silver, Bronze in Men's Trap at the Brazil World Cup
		Matt Wallace, of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, and Major Dominic Grazioli, of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, both took home medals for the U.S. Shotgun Team today in men’s trap at the ISSF World Cup Americana.
		Wallace and Grazioli, along with Russia’s Pavel Gurkin, all finished with a 144 total score, putting them in a three-way tie for second place.
		For more information or for full results from the ISSF World Cup Americana, please log on to www.issf-shooting.org.
	www.usoc.org /11716_37402.htm (268 words)

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