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Memory

The feats of a flying priest

Gusmão proved that an object heavier than air could fly 300 years ago

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Secrets from the heart

A book that explained blood circulation is published in a trilingual edition

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Divide and rule

Sixty-seven years ago Brazil adopted a regional division proposed by geographer Fábio Guimarães

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On their own skin

106 years ago, Emilio Ribas and Adolpho Lutz proved that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes

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Pages from time past

Inmet assembles 12 million documents of the oldest meteorological records in Brazil

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Film showing

The first known science fiction film was made 107 years ago

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The gears of life

The first machines in Brazil to replace heart and lung systems appeared in the 1950's

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Advance under the sea

Forty years ago the P-1 was built, the first moveable Brazilian oil drilling rig

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Chasing the barber bug (T. cruzi)

Emmanuel Dias prepared the earliest campaigns to eradicate Chagas Disease in Brazil

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The control of electronics

Sixty years ago, Bell Labs introduced the transistor

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Parallel paths

Some 175 years ago Hercule Florence, who lived in up-state.

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The price of old science

Rare scientific books go for millions of dollars in US auction

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Help from the past

Four small hydroelectric power plants are generating electricity again

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Sickness caused by love and longing

A pioneering L.P. of colonial and imperial modinhas to be relaunched after 40 years

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Fungus in the air

Adolpho Lutz published two articles describing a new disease, 100 years ago

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Like firewater

In 1925, researchers tested 70% alcohol in internal combustion engines

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Rigor and generosity

Simão Mathias was the first student to get a doctorate from the University of São Paulo's School of Philosophy, in 1942

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In earth as in heaven

Christian festivals and calendar are based on astronomy

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Recovered treasure

1936 film on Rio de Janeiro shows how the Internet helps to recover the past

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The height of knowledge

63 years ago, Barbara McClintock discovered on making a study of corn that the genome is not stable

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Star gazing

The request for funds to observe Venus gave rise to discussions

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A story-studded sky

National Observatory completes 180 years of service and research

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Official verdict

An unprecedented document signals the start of immunization in Brazil back in 1804

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Star gazing

The request for funds to observe Venus gave rise to discussions

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Alcohol conversion

Of the three cars that crisscrossed the country to publicize the new fuel in 1976, only one is still standing

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Brick by brick

Studies on global warming have been conducted for 180 years

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Windmill power

Created in the 19th century, wind-generated electricity is expanding worldwide

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Always in the vanguard

Carmen Portinho helped to change architecture and the arts in Rio de Janeiro

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20th century Bandeirantes (Trailblazers)

121 years ago a wild region of São Paulo began to be explored

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In the days of maxambomba

140 years ago, the country's first urban railroad was inaugurated in Recife.

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