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5th largest country in surface area.
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Brazil
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3rd largest country in surface area.
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China
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2nd largest country in land area.
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Canada.
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4th largest country in land area.
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USA
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Marks the most southerly latitude at which the sun can appear directly overhead at noon.
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Tropic of Capricorn
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Marks the most northerly latitude at which the sun can appear directly overhead at noon.
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Tropic of Cancer
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The word "tropic" itself comes from the Greek tropos, meaning what?
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turn
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The line of longitude at which longitude is defined to be 0°.
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The Prime Meridian
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Portuguese explorer, commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
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Vasco da Gama
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Portuguese navigator and explorer. Generally regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil.
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Pedro Álvares Cabral
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The second largest city of Brazil and South America.
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Rio de Janeiro
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largest city in Brazil
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São Paulo
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Capital of Brazil
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Brasília
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One of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
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Greater Antilles
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Refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea.
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The Antilles
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the second-largest and most populous island of the Antilles
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Hispaniola
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic occupy this Island.
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Hispaniola
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served as president of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954
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Getúlio Dornelles Vargas
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the second and last Emperor of Brazil, having ruled for almost 50 years, reign 1831 - 1889
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Pedro II
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current President of Brazil
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus as described in the Book of Acts
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Pentecost
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an Indian spiritual and religious term, that means one's righteous duty or any virtuous path in the common sense of the term
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Dharma
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world's third largest religion
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Hinduism
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world's largest religion.
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Christianity
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the longest river in Pakistan
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The Indus River
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a branch of Hindu, is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world
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Sikhism
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is a concept of Hinduism, is the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe.[
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Brahman
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Obama's Press Secretary
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Robert Gibbs
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