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	List of Heads of the Brazilian Imperial House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On September 7, 1822, Prince Pedro of Portugal, heir apparent to the Portuguese throne and the King's representative in Brazil, declared the country's independence from Portugal and proclaimed himself Emperor of Brazil.
		Brazil had been officially elevated to the status of United Kingdom (with Portugal) in 1815, in the reign of Queen Maria I of Portugal, by the Prince Regent Dom João (future John VI).
		Isabel (I) of Brazil (1846–1921): Princess Imperial and former Regent of Brazil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Family_of_Brazil (530 words)

	Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (July 29, 1846—November 14, 1921), nicknamed the Redeemer, was heir to the throne of Brazil (with the title of Princess Imperial) during the last decades of the reign of her father Pedro II of Brazil, and sometime Regent.
		In the political history of Brazil she was the first female ruler in the postcolonial period.
		As the imperial couple had only daughters living, dom Pedro designated Isabella, the heir presumptive as the official heiress (although she was not heir apparent in the strictest sense of that concept) whereby she received the titles Princess Imperial and Princess of Brazil already in the lifetime of her father.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isabel,_Princess_Imperial_of_Brazil (1086 words)

	Brazil
		Brazil suffered particularly, due to its dangerous combination of a young and vulnerable industrial sector with a large population of peasant farmers in the Northeast.
		Later in the decade, Brazil took the lead in South America in adopting the latest technologies, building the skeleton of a national segment of the Euronet by 1979 and completing a TGV line stretching from the Uruguayan border near Porto Alegre in the south to Belo Horizonte in the north.
		Brazil acquired a reputation as a country that worked; arguably, it was the single most important country in the entire world, and it certainly ranked as the most important country in the entire Southern Hemisphere..
	www.ahtg.net /TpA/tpbrazil.html (3677 words)

	* Irene's Country Corner * - Brasil - 503 Years of History
		Accompanied by the royal family and a horde of nobles and functionaries, Dom João arrived in the Brazilian coast on January 22, in the state of Bahia.
		To accommodate the imperial administration and to answer local demands, a ministry and a council of state were installed in Rio de Janeiro, and a supreme court of justice, the Bank of Brazil, and the royal printing office were established.
		Among many of the improvements brought to Brazil with the arrival of Dom João and the royal family, is the coming of the French artistic mission in 1816, which represents an important role in the Brazilian artistic scenery.
	www.irenescorner.com /home/braziliancorner/history/history04.htm (1333 words)

	The Amazon Throne: The Orleans-Braganza of Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first was established by the Portuguese royal family in Brazil during Napoleonic times; the second was established under the sponsorship of Napoleon III in Mexico.
		Francisca of Braganza was married to Prince Philippe of Bourbon-Orleans, the fourth son of King Louis-Philippe of France; Januaria of Brazil was married to Prince Louis of the Two-Sicilies, Count of Aquila, brother of Empress Theresa.
		Princess Imperial Isabel's decree eventually led to the proclamation of the Brazilian republic on November 16, 1889.
	www.eurohistory.com /braganza.html (5175 words)

	The Emperor of Japan and Members of the Imperial Family
		Olav (Norway), the elder son of the late Emperor Shôwa (Hirohito) and Empress Kojun (Nagako), was born on 23 December 1933 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
		Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamatsu (Takamatsu no miya Kikuko Shinnô-hi), Order of the Precious Crown, Order of the Sacred Treasure is the widow of Prince Takamatsu (Nobuhito), the third son of the late Emperor Taishô and a younger brother of the late Emperor Shôwa.
		[The chrysanthemum is the crest of the Imperial family and the hollyhock is the crest of the Tokugawa family.] In September 1999, Princess Takamatsu underwent surgery at St. Luke's International Hospital to alleviate a duodenal ulcer and a fractured left femur.
	www.geocities.com /jtaliaferro.geo/imphous.html (3737 words)

	Our History
		However, Oberdiebach was not the original home of the family Strassburger as there are historical and church registers to show that the earlier ancestors came from the city of Strassburg, the capital of Alsace-Lorraine.
		Brazil's emperors sought to attract European immigrants to the south of the country by offering them plots of land that they were entitled to work as smallholders.
		The first group of German immigrants arrived in Brazil shortly after the country became independent, as part of a settlement programme devised by the Brazilian Government to develop agriculture and ensure settlement in the southern tip of the country.
	www.strassburgerweb.com /cutelaria/ourhistory.html (1415 words)

	Brazil
		Brazil is a constitutional federal republic composed of 26 states and the Federal District.
		According to the police, close family members, in particular, the victim's children, committed 90 percent of the offenses registered, the most common of which was the confiscation of the senior citizen's pension.
		The program provided stipends of approximately $9 to $14 (25 to 40 reais) to low-income rural and urban families for each child (up to a total of three children per family) between the ages of 6 and 15 whose school attendance rate was 85 percent.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41751.htm (18826 words)

	African American Registry: Brazil Abolishes slavery!
		The Portuguese royal family in Brazil was established during Napoleonic times.
		The peaceful existence of the Brazilian imperial family came to an end in the late 1880s.
		The abolition of slavery subjected landowners to higher capital investment in manpower, and since these conservative groups were the mainstay of the military, the armed forces were predisposed to side with the land owning classes.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/854/Brazil_Abolishes_slavery (527 words)

	Brazilian Calendar - Monarchy in Brazil
		Dom Pedro I is crowned as emperor of Brazil.
		Brazil is defeated in the Battle of Las Peidras, the final conflict with Uruguay during their struggle for independence.
		Dom Pedro II and his family embark for Europe just two days after a republic is proclaimed, for which they are paid by the new republican government.
	www.southamericanway.com /calendar/monarchy.html (790 words)

	Travel: Brazil's 'Imperial City'
		The Imperial Palace in Petropolis is now one of Brazil’s most visited museums and is in a garden in the city’s center.
		The royal family enjoyed music, and several rare instruments are displayed in one salon, including a jacaranda Chickering piano, a one-of-a-kind 1788 Portuguese espinette, and an 1878 French-made violin.
		The 19th century architecture of the Imperial Palace and courtiers' homes is complemented by the later construction of local industrialists and coffee barons, who prefered Swiss-style villas.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/01/09/Travel/Brazil_s__Imperial_Ci.shtml (1420 words)

	Hispanic Magazine.com - March 2003 - La Buena Vida - Travel
		Brazil’s top brands of bottled water come from this region of the inland state of Minas Gerais, and the brand from the town of Caxambu was a worldwide favorite long before France’s Perrier became the standard for mineral water.
		Once in a family way, the daughter of Dom Pedro II became a walking billboard for the potency of Caxambu’s mineral waters, and the once sleepy village has never been the same.
		During the off season, virtually any time but Brazil’s summer and holidays like Easter, the Gloria and other charming hotels and pousadas (guesthouses) in the city of 50,000 are all but vacant, awaiting the rare visitor with an extra measure of service and hospitality.
	www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/2003/march/LaBuenaVida/travel.html (699 words)

	Thurn und Taxis: The history of an enterprising family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From their origin in Bergamo to becoming the couriers of the imperial court in Vienna, the family also expanded its relations through the palaces of the German nobility.
		One of the first prominent matrimonial alliances of the family was that of Eugene-Alexander, I Prince of Thurn and Taxis, to Princess Anna of Fürstenberg.
		Administration of the family fortune fell on the shoulders of Prince Johannes, who was in his mid-twenties.
	www.eurohistory.com /thurn.html (1647 words)

	United States and Brazil: The Republic / Brasil e Estados Unidos: A República
		Despite, or possibly because of, the relative freedom of opinion that prevailed during Brazil's imperial period, the idea of a republican party was not openly entertained before 1870.
		However, for all the nation's benevolent imperial parliamentarianism, the travails of the war with Paraguay and the growing awareness of other possible systems of government provoked many in the civil and military elite to reconsider Brazil's situation.
		Recognizing the respect and high regard with which the emperor and his family were held in much of the country, the cabinet asked them to leave Brazil but offered five thousand réis to cover their expenses.
	international.loc.gov /intldl/brhtml/br-1/br-1-6.html (1785 words)

	Correio Imperial Brasileiro - Projeto Pró-Monarquia do Baronato de Fulwood e Dirleton
		She was born as the eldest surviving child of Emperor Dom Pedro II and Teresa of the Two Sicilies, herself the youngest daughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies, in the Paço de São Cristóvão, Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, on July 29, 1846.
		As the imperial couple had only daughters living, Dom Pedro designated Isabella, the heir presumptive as the official heiress (although she was not heir apparent in the strictest sense of that concept) whereby she received the titularies Princess Imperial and Princess of Brazil.
		Her father's and her mother's remains were brought to Brazil in 1922, and were reburied in Petrópolis, their former summer residence, in 1939.
	www.monarquia.com /Isabelofbrazil.htm (815 words)

	Brazil
		The Kingdom of Brazil was established by Dom João VI while Regent of Portugal in exile in Rio de Janeiro during the Napoleonic wars.
		The Head of the Imperial House: Prince or Princess of Brazil, with the style of His or Her Imperial and Royal Highness.
		Note: the children and descendants of Dona Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, by her husband the Count d'Eu, were recognised as Princes and Princesses of Orléans-Bragança with the style of His or Her Royal Highness, 26th April 1909.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Brazil/brazil.htm (853 words)

	PIRAHA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is the morning sun on the Maici River, a tributary of the Madeira River located in Northwest Brazil.
		It was reported that the Piraha were first contacted in 1741, at which time their population was estimated to be approximately 50,000.
		These are examples of individual family homes built on the edge of the river.
	www.imperial.cc.ca.us /gary.rodgers/piraha.htm (320 words)

	:: MyOwnHistory.com ::
		By that time the economic conditions (and their great difference reported by friends, family, and neighbors in America) represented both a push from the Baltic and a mighty pull from America and elsewhere.
		German/Pommern immigrants and the Toebe family in Brazil
		In Brazil at the time of the first German settlements in 1824-25, Brazil was an Empire, divided into Provinces, administered by their presidents,who were assigned by an act of the Emperor.During the 1820s, the official religion and the only acceptable one under the Imperial Constitution was the Roman Catholic Church.
	history.otash.com /toebe (1122 words)

	United States and Brazil: The Imperial period / Brasil e Estados Unidos: O Período imperial
		Brazil remained territorially united under a monarchy, with no more than minor clashes between those who supported Portugal and those loyal to Dom Pedro I. In December 1824, in spite of its preference for republican government, the United States became the first country to recognize Brazil's independence.
		The period of his monarchy, known as the Second Reign, extended from 1840 to 1889 and was marked by expansion of national territory, continued westward extension of the national frontier, and relative stability and progress.
		Although Dom Pedro I was the first emperor of Brazil and the person who declared its independence, his son, Dom Pedro II, was the most important figure of the Imperial Period.
	international.loc.gov /intldl/brhtml/br-1/br-1-5.html (1367 words)

	South American Way - Monarchy in Brazil - Brazilian Imports
		Dom Pedro is proclaimed emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro is proclaimed emperor of Brazil, October 12, 1822.
		Portugal recognizes Brazil, Portugal recognizes Brazil, August 29, 1825.
		The Imperial Family leaves Brazil, The Imperial Family leaves Brazil, November 17, 1889.
	www.southamericanway.com /monarchy.html (987 words)

	Lawrence Lessig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		While attempting to explain Brazil’s position, for instance, you fall into the ubiquitous semantic trap of confusing free as in beer (actually, an abbreviation of “free of charge!”) with free as in speech, an inevitable trap for the unwilling.
		Brazil’s coffee is still free (as in speech), and Brazil has gone along with that forever.
		Brazil was the last country to free itself from pre-industrialized physical slavery, in 1888, it may pay its moral debt to history leading the fight to free the world of pos-industiralized digital slavery, affirming human rights to express and access knowledge in an information society.
	www.lessig.org /blog/archives/002411.shtml (12808 words)

	Prince Imperial of Brazil to Speak at SLU \| SLU Newslink - The Inside Guide to Saint Louis University
		Prince Imperial of Brazil to Speak at SLU
		Prince Imperial of Brazil to Speak at SLU
		Born in France, educated by the Jesuits in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), a graduate of the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo, Prince Bertrand is second in the line of succession to the Brazilian Throne.
	www.slu.edu /readstory/newslink/417 (290 words)

	Index Ah-Al
		In time-honoured imperial fashion, the prince was separated from his parents at about the age of three and raised by nurses, tutors, and chamberlains.
		Nagako reportedly resented the intrusion of a commoner into the family, and the situation was exacerbated when the couple chose to raise their children at home.
		As scion of the oldest imperial family in the world, Akihito was, by the traditional account, the 122nd descendant of Jimmu-tenno, Japan's legendary first emperor.
	www.rulers.org /indexa2.html (17205 words)

	About Family Travel - Brazil!
		Located near the junction of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, Iguacu Falls (pronounced eeh-gwa-SUE) is a must-see: It may be the greatest waterfall in the world.
		Petropolis' main attractions are its Crystal Palace, Gothic cathedral, Museu Imperial (imperial crown and robes-the marble floors are special, too) and the house of Santos-Dumont.
		This park in southern Brazil has a beautiful crater lake and odd rock formations (some are 650 ft/200 m long and 1,970 ft/600 m wide) that-with the help of your imagination and a guide-appear to be carved in the shapes of people, animals and objects.
	www.about-family-travel.com /travel/brazil_sights.htm (5511 words)

	Consolidated Tours - Brazil: Boa Morte 2002
		This exciting city is the soul and symbol of Brazil and may well be the capital of the pleasure-seeking world.
		Drive to Petropolis which was established as a farm where the imperial family of Brazil built its summer residence.
		Petropolis is a fine mountain resort city famous for its museum, with a nice selection of memorabilia from imperial times and its many cultural activities.
	ctoinc.com /dest/specials/brazil.html (1309 words)

	Women with power 1870-1900
		She died on the boat on the way to Brazil in 1921 and was succeeded by her grandson, Pedro Henriques d'Orléans e Bragança (1909-81) who was later succeeded by his son Luiz.
		María Cristina was born as Her Imperial and Royal Highness Archduchess of Austria-Hungaria, Princess of Este and had been Princess-Abbess of Prague 1875-79, and lived (1859-1929).
		As a member of the royal family, she ruled over a large section of Oukwanyama where she took all relevant political decisions and sentenced in court.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Womeninpower1870.htm (7594 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Monitoring \| Media reports \| Bones found at Tsar's murder site
		Their bodies were not among those buried in the mass grave after the Romanov family were executed by Bolsheviks, following the Russian Revolution the previous year.
		Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and three of his five children, Tatiana, Olga and Anastasia, were reburied in the imperial tomb in St Petersburg's St Peter and Paul Cathedral in 1998, along with their doctor and three of their servants.
		Scientists say the bones found in the mass grave are highly likely to be those of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, but their identities have not been conclusively established.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/2007956.stm (516 words)

	Visiting Marcus' Childhood
		Marcus had warned me that Brazil is third world, meaning the service would be even less present than in Spain.
		They were the second and last imperial family of Brazil before the Republic started in 1889.
		We arrived to Ana and Luiz Carlos' studio (Marcus' aunt and uncle who are both architects), where I met Marcus' dad Lucio and cousin Isabella who is two years younger than me. We went back to their house and ate a chicken stroganoff for dinner.
	homepage.mac.com /mvillaca/detour/C1937511265/E1837016419 (795 words)

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