"I´ve gotta go back, Marty!" "Back where, Doc?!" "Back . . . to the future!" Brasília, that is. I left behind the old, bustling, savage world of the Amazon for the complete opposite in little less than a four hour plane ride. For those of you who don´t know (which I´m guessing is pretty much everyone), I´ll give you a little history lesson, free of charge. Brasília is an enormous planned city, probably the most unique in the world. And it has a very interesting history, besides its odd buildings. Way back in the mid-to-late 19th century an Italian bishop named Dom Bosco had a dream in which he saw a great new civilization rising up between the 15th and 20th parallels. The dream became widely known in Brazil, and soon there was talk of moving
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