Jogando Capoeira
If you read about capoeira, you inevitably make a journey through Brazilian history. Origins of the martial art lie in Angola, from where traditions were shipped across the Atlantic ocean along with countless African slaves. In their hostile environment slaves would say they were dancing when a colonist came along but really they were practicing [...]
The Bulls of Barretos
Barretos (Brazil) is a small town in the northern part of the state of Sao Paulo. Founded in 1854, with currently about 100,000 inhabitants it would probably have stayed a rather insignificant rural town if it wasn’t for 20 young men. In 1955, sitting in a bar they founded the group “Os Independents”. Whoever wanted to join [...]
Illumination
Today’s story is about the illumination of the statue “Christ the Redeemer” in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). But the main protagonist is the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. Born in 1824, Nobel Prize in Physics winner in 1909, he is often credited as the inventor of radio. In 1914 he became a Senator in Italy, in 1937 he died. [...]
Eye-to-eye with the jaguar
Wow, what an encounter. Drifting in log boat down a river somewhere in the Pantanal (Brazil), I suddenly looked into the face of a female jaguar. It was a short moment of eye-to-eye before the lady followed her cub. Leopards only feed on meat and are the third-largest feline in the world. Only tigers and lions are [...]
