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(Pic source: commons.wikimedia.org) One of these days a friend of mine posted something interesting on Facebook: a Woody Allen’s article where he picks his top five books and, among them, a renowned …
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(Pic Source: Brasil Escola) On May 13th, 1888, 123 years ago, slavery abolition was (finally) signed into law in Brazil. Sadly, Brazil was the last nation in the Western …
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As many of you may already know, Rio is having horrible days of terror since this last week. The police has received the help of the Army to fight the wave of violent attacks promoted by the drug …
Linha de Passe, a film directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas Linha de Passe is a movie that shows the huge, depressing, and poisoning reality that is the lives of the majority of Brazilians, …
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Oi galera, I found this video on YouTube... American journalist Seth Kugel is interviewed by vejapontocom (Veja is a Brazilian magazine and Vejapontocom is its YouTube channel) . Seth …
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Pleonasm is the same as redundancy. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines pleonasm as "the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in the man he said)". Today I will show you …
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