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Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on Brazilian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.

Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo modernism, and became Brazil's national polymath. He was the driving force behind the Week of Modern Art, the 1922 event that reshaped both literature and the visual arts in Brazil. After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist he published his great novel, Macunaíma, in 1928. At the end of his life, he became the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture, formalizing a role he had long held as the catalyst of the city's—and the nation's—entry into artistic modernity.

Andrade was born in São Paulo and lived there virtually all of his life. As a child, he was a piano prodigy, and he later studied at the Music and Drama Conservatory of São Paulo. His formal education was solely in music, but at the same time, as Albert T. Luper records, he pursued persistent and solitary studies in history, art, and particularly poetry. Andrade had a solid command of French, and read Rimbaud and the major Symbolists. Although he wrote poetry throughout his musical education, he did not think to do so professionally until the career as a professional pianist to which he aspired was no longer an option.

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. It is famous for its urban planning, daring architecture, and overpopulation. It is located in the Brazilian Federal District, created from the state of Goiás in the Mid-West region of the country.

...that the most visited museum in Brazil is the Imperial Museum, located in the town of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro?

...that the name Rio de Janeiro means "river of January" and is an allusion to the fact that the Portuguese first entered the Guanabara Bay, where the city now is, on January 1, 1501 and thought that it was a river?

...that in Brazil (and other nations) Santos Dumont, not the Wright brothers, is regarded as the inventor of the modern airplane?

...that in the 18^th century Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais was the largest city in all the American continent because of its diamond and gold trade?

...that Brazil was the first country in the world to have fully electronic elections?

...that, although Brazil is officially the fifth largest country in the world, its territory is larger than the continental United States (the fourth largest), as well as the added areas of the continental US, Hawaii and 2/3 of the state of Alaska?

...that the city of São Paulo is the only city in the world to have a control tower exclusively dedicated to monitoring helicopter traffic?

Founder: Redux

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• November 12: The Brazilian national beach soccer team won the 2006 installment of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. It was the country's first triumph in the competition. Although the Brazilian team had already won the Beach Soccer World Championships 9 times, the country had failed to win the first installment of the FIFA-endorsed World Cup, which replaced the World Championships in 2005, when it finished third.
• November 10: FIFA announced that it was removing from its official records a goal in the 1938 FIFA World Cup that, until now, was credited to Leônidas da Silva, also known as "the black diamond". Leônidas had allegedly scored 2 goals in the third place match against Czechoslovakia, but FIFA claims that new investigations have revealed that one of the goals had been credited to Leônidas unduely, since it was allegedly scored by another Brazilian player, Roberto. Despite the change in the official record, Leônidas remains as the main scorer of the 1938 World Cup, now with 6 goals.
• November 10: In Rio de Janeiro, a man identified as André Ribeiro da Silva hijacked a bus in the municipality of Nova Iguaçú. The man was seeking revenge on his wife, who he alleged had cheated on him. He followed her into the line 499 bus, then held her at gunpoint for the entire time, while keeping the other passengers as hostages. After ten hours of negotiations, Ribeiro turned himself over to the Federal Highway Patrol (the bus had been taken while on a Federal Highway) and there were no physical injuries to any of the involved.
• October 29: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was reelected for another 4-year term starting on January 1, 2007. The President won the runoff against PSDB's Geraldo Alckmin with nearly 61% of the popular vote. Sunday's runoff also included 10 Gubernatorial elections, concluding the 2006 electoral calendar in the country.
• October 23: Brazil marks the centennial anniversary of the maiden flight of the 14 Bis, Santos Dumont's groundbreaking flight, which took place in Paris, France, in 1906. As part of the celebrations, an exact replica of the original flying machine was built and took off from a lawn in Brasília, without the aid of any modern machinery.

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