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  • Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful ... Commissioned by King Manuel I of Portugal to find Christian lands ...
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  • The War of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War ... The cause of the war has been widely attributed to causes as varied ...
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  • The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...
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  • The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... by human activity. The resident population of Fernando de Noronha is less ...
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  • South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...
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  • historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism ... Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São ...
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  • The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... ratified by Spain (at the time, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon), July 2 ...
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  • Many Jews converted to Christianity after the reconquest of Spain ... The conversion of these Jews to Christianity soon became suspect, ...
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  • The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to ...
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  • 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...
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  • to the East, which was to be the scene of his future triumphs. In company ... for some time known as The Great, The Caesar of the East and as The Portuguese ...
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  • on the article prepaid, often in the form of adhesive stamps. In general ... The evolution of the postal system to the collection of national organizations ...
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  • ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World ...
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  • or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when ... For much of the twentieth century, typewriters were indispensable ...
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  • played as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all ... In Brazil, he was hailed as a national hero for his accomplishments ...
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  • The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... of royal succession. His eldest son, Pedro I of Brazil became Pedro IV of ...
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  • Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county ... city is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the ...
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  • August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... in politics, especially in the matter of Catholic emancipation, though ...
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  • The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... the "Black Pope" after the color of the Jesuit habit) has occasionally ...
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  • mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...
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