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    succeeded in turning 17,000 acres into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra. The institute is dedicated to a mission of reforestation, conservation...
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    brother's death. Meirelles was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Meirelles' father, José de Souza Meirelles, is a gastroenterologist who travelled regularly to Asia and...
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    Clarice Lispector (category Deaths from cancer in Rio de Janeiro (state))
    123. Instituto Moreira Salles, Clarice Lispector: Cadernos de Literatura Brasileira, IMS, p. 49. Jorge de Lima, "Romances de Mulher", Gazeta de Notícias...
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    City's Plaza de Toros, two nights at Monterrey's Auditorio Coca-Cola, and two nights (with over 50,000 attendees each) at the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata in...
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    Memories and Confessions 1983 Lisboa Cultural 1983 Nice... À Propos de Jean Vigo 1986 Simpósio Internacional de Escultura em Pedra 1988 A Propósito da...
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    Pelé (category Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil))
    the British Empire (honorary knighthood): 1997 Awarded with the Order of Cultural Merit, by the government of Brazil: 2004 Olympic Order, by the International...
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    said," ascribing the government's reaction to its unfamiliarity with the cultural phenomenon of Tropicália—they seemed to say "We might as well put them...
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    João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira – Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist...
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    Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach. Boulder, CO, Westview Press. Adult education Michael Apple John Asimakopoulos Clodomir Santos de Morais...
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    Cesária Évora (category Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil))
    ambassador of the World Food Programme in 2004, and she was declared a cultural ambassador by the government of Cape Verde and granted a diplomatic passport...
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