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Brazilian History: GONQALVES DIAS, goN-sal'vez Ae'ss, Antonio (1823-1864), Brazilian poet and scholar. He was born near Caixas, Maranhao, Brazil, on Aug. 10, 1823. He completed his secondary education in Portugal, where he received a law degree from the University of Coimbra in 1848. He returned to Brazil in 1849 and lectured for several years in Latin and Brazilian history at the College of Pedro II in Rio de Janeiro. Gongalves Bias was drowned on Nov. 3, 1864, in a shipwreck off the coast of Maranhao.
NY, IL, gwa-ra'ne, a grand opera in four by the Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes ,). It was first produced at La Scala in on March 19, 1870. // Guarany (Portu-0 Guarani), with libretto in Italian by ;o Scalvini, is based on a Brazilian romantic mel by Jose de Alencar.
In 1946 the Comodoro Rivadavia military zone was established by the Argentine government which took part of the territory's northern area. Pop. (1950) 286,145.
SANTA CRUZ, department, Bolivia, bounded on the north by the Department of Beni, and the Brazilian Province of Mato Grosso; on the east by the river Paraguay and the Brazilian territory; on the south by the desert of Gran Chaco (Chaco) and Chuquisaca Department; on the west by the Department of Cochabamba; area 142,105 square miles. |
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