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Misc. Photos Around Rio De Janeiro, Brazil  
   

Misc. Photos Around Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Yup, Lots of People Packed into a Small Space
Carnival Weekend in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

February 19th 2023
Carnival is an annual six-day Brazilian festival held, technically, only the Tuesday afternoon before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. During Lent, that forty-day period before Easter, many Christians, especially Roman Catholics, abstain from the consumption of meat and poultry. Those perishables would not survive through the end of Lent, so Carnival in Brazil or Mardi Gras in Louisiana or Fa ... read more
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Brazilian Flag Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. 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 t... ... read more
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