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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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The emperors and the mummies

The owner of Latin America's largest Egyptian collection, Brazil looks for resources to excavate in Tanis

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Indigenous cartography

Some 62 years ago, Curt Nimuendaju completed his Mapa Etno-Hist

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Atoms for peace

Ipen completes 50 years with good services rendered by means of nuclear power

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The rebirth of the Patriarch

A project publishes, on-line, documents, books and images brought together about José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

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Creation in concrete

A hundred years ago, reinforced concrete began to be used in Brazil

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Philanthropy and Science

Piracicaba's Old People's Home completes 100 years looking after the elderly with the help of the university

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Driven by passions

José Leite Lopes, who died at the age of 87, leaves a vast range of accomplishments

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The Alienist

Juliano Moreira was the first to publicize Freud in Brazil and to transform psychiatry into a medical specialty

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The multiple scientist

Some 136 years ago Charles Hartt carried out the first archeological research in the Amazon

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Laboratory in the forest

Theodoro Peckolt was a pioneer in the chemical analysis of Brazilian flora in the 19th century

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The plastic age

A hundred years ago, the first synthetic resin was invented

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Forest Watchers

Evandro Chagas Institute completes 70 years of researching endemics in the Amazonian region

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