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The region covers one fifth of South America, or 3600000 square kilometers, of which 2300,000 square kilometers belong to Brazil.


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The Amazonas lowland accounts for 27% of the Brazilian state's area.


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[4] The smallest of the three main zones of Brazil is the Guiana Highlands, whose Brazilian section has an area of about 400000 square kilometers, or only 5% of the total land area of the country.


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The bedrock of the Guiana Massif, a very old massif, is formed of gneiss, mica slate, granite and quartzite.


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The area is also home to younger, volcanic rock species deposited on top of old rock species.


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[4] There are a lot of rapids and falls along the border between the Massif Massif and Amazonas, because there is a steep breach in the area.


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Rapids make it difficult to get inland so much that only Karaib Indians live in the area.


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[4] In the western part of the range is the highest peak in the country, Pico da Neblina (2994 m).


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[4] [5] The Brazilian Highlands, or Planalto, has an area of about 6 million square kilometres.


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It lies to the east of the central part of South America, bounded on the east by steeply declining Atlantic Ocean and on the west by the lowlands of Pampa and Gran Chaco.


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The height of the massif is 500—1000 metres in its middle stages; in the south and east it rises to a height of 2000—3000 m.


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The highest peak in the region and the third highest mountain in all of Brazil is Pico da Bandeira (2890 m).


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[6] In addition to the Amazon River and its tributaries, there are other long rivers in Brazil.


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The length of the São Francisco River in the north-east of the country is 3160 kilometers, the length of the Tocantins River is about 2400 kilometers, the length of the Parnaíba River is about 1700 km, the Paraná River has a length of about 2570 kilometers, and the length of the Paraguay River is 2549 kilometers.


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[7] Brazil also includes Atlantic islands and island groups: São Pedro and São Paulo Rocas Atoll Fernando de Noronha Trindade and Martim Vaz Climate charts of different parts of Brazil Precipitation in blue, average highest temperature in red.


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The average highest temperature is +31.. +33 degrees in Manaus throughout the year, [8] in Porto Alegre in July +19 degrees and +31 degrees in February.


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[9] It typically rains between 1500 and 2000mm per year in the Amazon basin, rainfall is received year-round.


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The Brazilian highlands have a distinct rainy season from October to April, bringing between 1250 and 1500mm of rain.


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[10] Vegetation The rainforests in the Amazon basin form the largest unitary forest area in the world, protruding from the Amazon River delta up to the slopes of the Andes and also into the highlands of Brazil.


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The lowlands of Amazonas have very lush vegetation due to the hot and humid climate, although the soil is predominantly low in nutrients and acidic.


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Of the total tropical forests in the world, 34% are located in Brazil.


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However, forest is being lost to plantation farming, especially in the Eastern Coastal Mountains region.


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The country is home to not only the Amazonian rainforest but also a coastal rainforest that extends as a narrow coastal parallel zone as far south as northeastern Brazil.


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The coastal rainforest is located in Brazil's most densely populated region, because of which much of it has been destroyed.


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15% of Amazonian rainforest and more than 90% of coastal rainforest have been lost.


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[11] [12] [13] Initially, there were 1.3 million square kilometres of coastal rainforest, today there are only 92000 square kilometres left.


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[14] Approximately 10,000 to 25000 square kilometres of Amazon rainforest is cleared each year for grazing land or soybean field, but forest eradication has slightly decreased in recent years.


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[15] The forest will be abandoned in a few years after clearing because its production capacity has declined.


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Tropical rains in the region consume topsoil, which drains away to silt rivers.


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The latosol under the topsoil dries into hard laterite.


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[16] Brazil's area is less than 50% rainforest, other habitats include cerrado, caatinga, restinga, campos and pantanal.


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[11] The number of plant species found in Brazil is difficult to estimate, but science currently knows more than 60000 of them.


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Around twenty thousand species grow in coastal rainforest alone, half of which are endemic: protection of coastal rainforest is important not only because of animals, but also for plants.


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[17] There may be 300 woody plants in the Amazonian rainforest on one hectare.


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[18] Plants typical of Brazil are bromelias, which grow as overplants on tree trunks and branches.


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These plants create the lush look typical of rainforests, most of these plants grow in different types of forests.


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[17] 56000 species of flowering plants and ferns are found in Brazil, many of which are useful plants such as rubber tree, cacao, pineapple and guarana.


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Of the world's 20,000 orchid species, 2500 species are found in Brazil.


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[19] Fauna The world's most diverse nature is found in Brazil: there are 524 mammal species, 1800 bird species, 500 reptile species and 500 amphibian species.


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The species count of all groups, including insects, is unknown.


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There are 202 endangered species, of which the residential area of 171 is located in coastal rainforest.


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[11] [14] There are about 1800 species of birds living in Brazil, or about 18% of the total species of the world and more than 1100 of them in the Amazon rainforests.


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Of the species, 250 are such that they do not occur anywhere else.


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Eighty species of hummingbirds, 70 species of parrots and 21 species of toucans are found in the country.


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[12] [17] [20] Snakes are found in about 250 different species, 70 of them venomous.


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Millions of insect species are found in the country and also has the largest number of amphibian species in the world.


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[21] Mammals living in rainforests include the jaguar, which is the largest feline in South America, capybaras and tapires.


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[22] Other animals in the rainforest include giant snakes, vampire bats, giant earthworms and leaf-cutter ants.


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[23] Animals living in mangrove forests include jumping crabs and mangrove crabs.


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[24] Inhabitants of the Brazilian savannah, or cerrado, include, for example, seebut, crested wolves, big ant bears and nandus.


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Seebut and other cattle are brought with them by man, as originally cerradas lacked large herds of cattle, antelope and kangaroos and their equivalents.


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[25] Mainly located in Brazil, the Pantanal is the largest floodplain in the world with a very abundant fauna: 30 million alligators live in the region, many birds such as herons and hundreds of fish species.


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The pantanal is also the area of occurrence for the jabiru, the world's largest heron species.


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[11] National Parks and Nature Conservation Brazil has 16 sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, seven of which are natural sites: Brazilian Atlantic Islands: protected areas of Fernando de Noronha and Rocas Atoll, Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Park, Iguaçu National Park, Jaú National Park (as part of the Central Amazon Protected Area), Mata Atlântica Protected Areas (separately in Bahia and Espírito Santo and further south in Paraná São Paulo states), and the Pantanal Reserve.


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[26] In total, Brazil has 57 national parks whose primary purpose is to protect endangered habitats.


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Only half of the park has been opened to the public and many of them are modest in scope due to the small amount of tourist income.


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[27] History Prehistory and colonial rule Before the advent of Europeans, the territory of Brazil has been inhabited for up to 30,000 years.


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The inhabitants formed dozens or even hundreds of tribes who spoke languages belonging to different language groups.


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[28] The Portuguese arrived in Brazil in the early 16th century.


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Pedro Álvares Cabral took over the country in the name of the King of Portugal in 1500.


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However, the first colony was not established until 1532.


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[29] In 1549 it became a governor-general, with Jesuit missionaries entering the country.


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Slavery for Native Americans was outlawed in 1758, but black slaves were used in their stead, who in 1818 numbered half the population figure.


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Over the course of three centuries, Europeans sought Brazilian wood from the country.


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An abundance of sugar cane was also cultivated in the country.


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[30] Independence When France conquered Portugal in 1807, fled its King John VI to Brazil, which was elevated by Portugal with a miniature image|Law that repealed slavery in Brazil, 1888. to a Kingdom in Personal Union.


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His son Pedro I, to whom the king had entrusted control when he left back to the mother country in 1820, declared Brazil independent, forced by public opinion and was recognized as constitutional emperor on 12 October 1822.


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Pedro I (1822—1831) was succeeded by his son Pedro II (1831—1889), during which the provinces received their own legislative assemblies and extended self-government.


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The abolition of slavery caused the 1889 revolution, when Brazil was declared a republic.


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[31] Admittedly, even in the 1990s, there was still support for the kingship in Brazil, and therefore a referendum was held on 21 April 1993.


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Options included a presidential-dominated republic, a republic adhering to parliamentarianism, and a monarchy.


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Sixty-eight percent supported a republic, and 60 percent were in favor of a presidential-dominated republic.


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Supporters of the monarchy made up 12% of the electorate, and it is estimated that they were predominantly young.


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Pedro II's descendant is photographer João Henrique de Orléans e Brangança.


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[32] Brazil declared war on Germany in 1917, seizing German ships in its ports, as German U-boats had destroyed Brazilian merchant shipping.


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[31] In World War II, Brazil was initially uncommitted, but joined the Allied side in 1943.


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[33] More than two million emigrants from Europe and Asia migrated to Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


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[34] This is when the land began to industrialize, and settlement expanded into the interior of the country.


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Democracy switched to dictatorship three times; the country was 1930—1934 and 1937—1945 under Getúlio Vargas, as well as 1964—1985 under the rule of generals appointed by the armed forces.


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[35] Native American rights have been quite weak well into the 1990s.


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As recently as the 1950s, Indians had almost no rights even to the land of their residence.


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The 1988 Constitution recognized the right of Indians to their traditional lands, but the prescribed five-year transition period stretched unreasonably in many places.


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[36] It is not until the 21st century that Native American living conditions have begun to be improved.


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However, conditions are also deteriorating: among other things, dam building and mining projects have corrupted several rivers, which can no longer be engaged in fishing, so several tribes have been forced to move elsewhere.


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[37] The capital of Brazil was originally Rio de Janeiro.


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In 1956, it was decided inland to establish a new capital, Brasília, where the country's government relocated in 1960.


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[33] Timeline of political orientation of the governments of Brazil and some of its neighborsState1950s-1970s-198009090012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678BrasiliaRegentNuguay Centre/Left independent/liberal/centrist The 21st century (military) dictatorship of the center/right-wing (military) In 2002, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected the country's first leftist president in over 40 years.


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In 2006, he was elected to a second term.


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In 2010, Dilma Rousseff of the same party became the country's first female president.


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[33] In May 2016, Rousseff was forced on administrative leave due to impeachment charges.


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The Senate will consider the charges starting August 29.


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Until then, presidential duties will be handled by Vice President Michel Temer.


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[38] In 2007, the government admitted human rights violations occurred during 1964—1985.


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In 2009, a commission was set up to investigate them.


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[33] In 2009, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo suffered power outages due to problems with a large hydroelectric power plant.


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In 2010, Brazil announced it would build more hydropower in the Amazon rainforest region despite opposition.


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[33] Lula went to prison on corruption charges.


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The 2018 election was won by Jair Bolsonaro, seen as far-right.


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This promised religion to the people and to fight against the crime that has spread in the country.


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Politics Brazil's current constitution dates from 1988.


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Brazil is a presidential republic without the office of prime minister.


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The Parliament, or National Congress (Congresso Nacional), is bicameral: the upper house, or senate (Senado Federal), has 81 seats, or three representatives from each of the 26 states and federal districts for eight-year terms at a time.


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2/3 and 1/3 of the Senate seats change every four years.


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513 members are elected to the lower house, the Chamber of Representatives (Câmara dos Deputados), by proportional representation for a four-year term.


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[39] The age limit for voting rights is 16 years.


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Voting is compulsory for all literate 18-69 year olds and optional for those aged 16 to 18 and over 70, as well as illiterate Brazilians.


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[40] The last election was held in October 2018, at that time the president, vice president and members of the National Congress were elected.


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Brazil's defence forces are the largest in Latin America.


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[41] In 2012, the country spent 1.75% of GDP on defence forces funding.


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[39] The administrative division of Brazil consists of 26 states (estado) and a non-federal district (distrito federal) [39]: Acre Alagoas Amapá Amapá Amazonas Bahia Ceará Espírito Santo Goiás Maranhão Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul Minas Gerais Pará Paraíba Paraná Pernambuco Piauí Rio de Janeiro Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Sul Rondônia Roraima Santa Catarina São Paulo Sergipe Tocantins Distrito Federal (capital Brasília) The states are divided into sub-regions ( mesorregião), which are further subdivided into sub-regions (microrregião).


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Sub-regions are not of administrative significance but are formed for population calculation and statistical purposes.


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The unit of local government smaller than the sub-regions is the municipality (município).


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The number of municipalities in different states varies from fifteen in Roraima to over eight hundred in Minais Gerais.


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In total there are more than 5500 municipalities.


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[42] Economy Brazil's gross domestic product is the largest in South America.


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Agriculture, mining, manufacturing and service sectors are well developed.


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Income and wealth disparities are large.


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[1] The country's currency real was linked to the US dollar until 1999.


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[43] Agricultural products account for approximately 36% of Brazil's exports.


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Brazil is the world's largest producer of sugarcane, coffee, tropical fruits and frozen concentrated orange juice.


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It has the world's largest cattle raised for sale and is the world's second largest producer of soybeans.


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Production of corn, cotton, cocoa, tobacco and forest products is also significant.


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[44] The most significant natural resources are iron ore, gold, bauxite, manganese, uranium, oil, tin, nickel, hydropower and timber.


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[39] The most significant export products are coffee (about a quarter of the world's production), iron, vehicles, soybeans and footwear.


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[39] Economic priority sectors include: Space technology.


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The country is home to, among other things, the Alcântara Space Centre, although the country has had plenty of failures in terms of departures.


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Aircraft industry.


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Embraer, the world's fourth-largest aircraft maker, is significant for the entire country's economy.


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[45] Pharmaceutical industry.


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The country is rich in generic drug production, as well as a sophisticated gene industry.


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The first cloned calf was born in 2001.


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84% of the country's electrical energy is produced by hydropower.


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[46] Brazil is among the world's first leading producers of biofuels, but competition has risen to threaten its position in the 21st century.


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[47] Ethanol is produced as biofuel from sugarcane.


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Mixing it with gasoline is mandatory, and the blend ratio has increased over the years.


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With the price of fossil fuels falling, keeping ethanol competitive has been difficult, and the ethanol industry has been struggling since 2009.


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[48] Traffic in Brazil is more than four thousand airports.


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[39] Most international flights depart from Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo.


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[49] All major population centers in Brazil are connected to each other by paved roads, but smaller roads are often unpaved.


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Railways exist mostly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, elsewhere they are mainly freight railways carrying ores.


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Many northern regions can only be reached by air or water.


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[49] Container ports include Santos and Itajaí, other cargo ports in Belem, Paranagua, Rio Grande, São Sebastião and Tubarão.


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[39] Population The Brazilian population shows the consequences of extensive migration and assimilation.


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Just over half of the population are descendants of Europeans, in addition there are ethnically mixed Europeans, Africans and Indians.


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[39] In the 2010 Census, 64.6% of residents reported themselves as Catholic, 22.2% as Protestants, 5.2% of other faiths, and 8.0% as non-religious.


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[50] In 2007, it was estimated that approximately 0.6% of the adult population were carriers of HIV, a total of about 730000 people.


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The ARVT medication would have needed about 230,000 people, and it was received by about 80% of them, about 181,000 people.


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[51] Culture Brazilian culture is very diverse due to the variegated population.


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The country is roughly divided between a prosperous south and a poor north.


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The south is home to populations of European and Japanese background.


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Of people of African descent, a large proportion live in the north-east of the country, while Native Americans largely live in the north-central and western parts of the country.


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The Portuguese language unites the entire population, and until the mid-20th century almost all belonged, at least nominally, to the Catholic Church.


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[1] Samba and capoeira are Brazilian species distributed to the world.


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Rock in Rio festivals are native to Brazil.


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The Rio de Janeiro Carnival is known throughout the world.


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[52] [53] Brazil has 16 sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, among which cultural sites include the shrine of Bom Jesus do Congonhas, the Brazilian city, the historical centre of Diamantina, the historical centre of Goiás, the historical centre of Olinda, the historic city of Ouro Preto, The historic centre of Salvador, the historic centre of São Luís and the Serra da Capivara National Park.


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[26] Literature The roots of Brazilian literature go back to the 16th century, when the first Portuguese explorers, such as Pêro Vaz de Caminha, wrote descriptions of Brazilian animals, vegetation and native inhabitants that marveled those who arrived in Brazil Europeans.


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Brazil produced significant Romanticism period works.


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For example, writers Joaquim Manuel de Macedo and José de Alencar wrote novels about love and pain.


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Alencar also treated indigenous people as heroes in his novels O Guarany, Iracema, Ubirajara.


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[54] Jorge Amado is a great name in contemporary literature whose works have been translated into fifty languages.


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[1] Music Brazilian music encompasses several regional styles including African, European and Amerindian forms.


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It has evolved to include samba, Música Popular Brasileira (MPB), choro, sertanejo, brega, forró, frevo, maracatu, bossa nova, Brazilian rock and axé.


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Brazil's most famous composer of classical music is Heitor Villa-Lobos.


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[1] Brazilians known from the light music side include Elis Regina and Antônio Carlos Jobim, who is considered one of the most important developers of bossa nova.


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[55] Food culture Brazilian cuisine varies greatly from region to region, reflecting the diverse and diverse population of the country.


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With it, the national food culture is defined by the preservation of regional differences.


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However, rice, beans and manioc are common staple foods for all.


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A few examples of dishes include Feijoada, a slow-cooked casserole of black beans and various pieces of meat, which is considered the country's national dish, and regional dishes such as vatapá, coconut seafood stew moqueca, polenta and deep-fried shrimp bun acarajé.


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[1] [56] Brazil has its own selection of various sweets such as brigadeiros and beijinhas.


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The national drink is coffee.


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Cachaça is a Brazilian distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugar cane and used for tropical drinks such as caipirinha.


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[1] Sports In sports Brazil is known especially for football.


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Its national football team has won the world championship five times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002.


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Brazil has twice hosted the football World Cup, in 1950 and 2014.


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In 1950, São Paulo served as the host city and the championship was won by Uruguay, with Brazil icing for silver.


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[57] In 2014, the final of the Games was played in Rio de Janeiro.


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Some of the most notable Brazilian players have included Arthur Friedenreich, Pelé, Carlos Alberto, Leonardo, Garrincha, Vavá, Zico, Romário, Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Neymar, Kaká and Marta.


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Another notable sport in Brazil is volleyball.


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In the 2000s, the Brazilian national team has dominated the men's side fields sovereignly.


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The team has won no fewer than five times in the 2000s the Volleyball World League, the World Championship two times (2002, 2006) and still Olympic gold in Athens 2004.


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Some of the most notable Brazilian volleyball players have included Giba, Ricardo Garcia, Sérgio, Gustavo Endres, Murilo, Nalbert, André Nascimento.


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[58] Brazil also has many successful Formula One drivers, including Felipe Massa, Nelson Piquet, Emerson Fittipaldi, Ayrton Senna and Rubens Barrichello.


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The country also runs an annual F1 sectionalist competition in São Paulo with the Autódromo José Carlos Pace.


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[59] Brazil has developed its own jujitsu trend, Brazilian jujitsu.


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[60] Capoeira is a national species of Brazil.


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[61] Brazil hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.


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[62] Brazil has also been very successful in judo, achieving world championships and several Olympic medals in it.


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Well-known judokas include Leandro Guilheiro, Tiago Camilo and Flavio Canto.


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Question: What is the area of Brazil?

Brazil

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Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Nordcenter is a golf and leisure centre located in the city of Raasepori, about an hour's drive from Helsinki in the direction of Hanko.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Nordcenter has a golf complex with two golf courses, Fream and Benz, which are different in their golf architecture and challenge and nature values.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Nordcenter's club building, Åminne Manor, serves players from the Nordcenter fields and rents its premises as a banquet and event space for companies and individuals.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The area Nordcenter area, totaling about 200 hectares, has been designed from the outset as a diverse leisure centre.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Nordcenter differs from most other Finnish golf resorts by having a large number of leisure settlements in the immediate vicinity of its courses.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The development of the area is to continue with the construction of leisure facilities and permanent housing.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

In addition to two golf courses, a small marina, two tennis courts and nearly a hundred recreational residences are located in the area.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The Golfstrand townhouses completed in the area as early as 1989-90 are located by the sea, along the Fream Course.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The Fream field also houses the larger second homes built at different times and the Sea Wool area, which was completed in 2003, consisting of five semi-detached houses and one detached house.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

In 1992, the first Golfstudio flats were completed in the area between the Benz and Fream Courses, forming their own courtyard.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

In 2008, five new semi-detached houses were completed in this area.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The founding meeting of Historia Oy Nordgolf AB was held in November 1986.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The first board was formed by President Pohja Municipal President Kalle Lindqvist and members Ritva Rissanen and Lasse Heikkinen.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The original business idea was to set up a private field and club for select shareholders to which green fee players would not be allowed access.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The founding meeting of Nordcenter Golf & Country Club was held in August 1988.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The chairman was Niilo Pellonmaa.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The association was admitted as a member of the Finnish Golf Association in December 1988.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Seppo Sipola (pj), Pekka Sinkkilä (captain), Göran Stubb, Bertel Andler, Outi Eriksson, Riitta Lindegren-Pajarinen, Heikki S. Von Hertzen, Mikko Raunio and Esko Paltanen were elected to the first Board of Directors.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Major Kari Jaarva was elected as the club's first Executive Director from October 1989.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

In the first regular season of play, the groundwork was laid for many of the club's traditional competitions and events.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The Women's Committee developed a Nightless Night competition.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The manor house and its land passed into shareholders' ownership in 1991 when Oy Nordgolf Ab bought Oy Åminne Gård Ab's share stock in accordance with the decision of the Annual General Meeting.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The tenth anniversary celebrations were celebrated on 1 August 1998 with a celebratory competition and dinner.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Construction of the new par 3 field got underway in 2000.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

In the same year, the offices of the caddiemaster and the club moved to their present location in the stables building.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Fields Fream Fream Course renewed the design of the golf course in Finland and became the flagship of the courses as soon as it was completed, both in terms of construction and its framework.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Fream is the eighth oldest golf course in Finland.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The field circles a varied landscape type from the verdant seafront to the woodland massif of large elevation differences and the old parkland of the estate.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

American Ronald Fream was chosen as the designer of an 18-hole golf course of international competition.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Lemminkäinen was responsible for the construction of the field and the financing of SKOP.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The construction of the Fream Field and the renovation of buildings in the area took a good two years.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The Fream field was opened for use by shareholders on 6 August 1988.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

In the first season of play, there were 87 playing days and about 1,000 departures.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

At the end of the year there were 116 shareholders and 132 members.


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Nordcenter

The first pro in 1988 was Englishman Mark Whithorn, who also took pro shop into his care.


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Nordcenter

Fream field began a major renovation in August 2007.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Almost all tee bays, fairways and greens were renovated.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The size of the new greens is 20 per cent larger and the tee sites are double the size of the previous ones.


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Nordcenter

However, efforts were made to maintain the character of the Fream field as close to the original as possible


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

It has been looked after by Ronald W. Fream, the original designer of the field, who was heavily involved in the field's renewal.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The first nine fairways of the redeveloped field opened in early summer 2009 and the rear fence in June 2010.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The official opening ceremony was held at the marks of the inaugural race on September 14, 2010 and the festivities also featured the field designer Ronald Fream in attendance.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Benz Benz pitch has wide avenues, large greens and beautiful landscaped details.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

In addition to strategically placed sand barriers, several grass bunkers and large forest ponds make the field park-like and friendly.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Many of the greens are surrounded by extensive mounds.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The entire field circles around the wooded massif, where elevation differences are considerably smaller than in the Fream field.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Construction of the Benz field, designed by American Bradford Benz, began in 1990 and its first nine avenues opened on June 26, 1993.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The rest of the fairways were completed in the fall.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The Benz field opened in June 1994.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The field already proved to be a major success among the members in the first summer.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

A kiosk was built on the Benz field in 1995, when the ground held its first value competitions, the SM-team competitions.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

At that time, alignment greens and a batting canopy were also built on the range for instruction.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

In 1997 Benz played the Women's Team European Championship competition, which Sweden won.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Åminne Manor The history of Åminne Manor goes back to the 1570s.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Between the 18th and 19th centuries, it was owned by the noble families of Hisinger, Aminoff and Linder, among others.


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Nordcenter

Between 1890 and 1972, the krtano was owned by Fiskars Oy, followed by Ovako Steel Oy.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

During K. E. Lindqvist, the first Chairman of the Board of Oy Nordgolf Ab, founded in 1986, Oy Nordgolf Ab purchased the mansion from Ovako Steel Oy in the same year when construction of the Fream field began.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The renovation of Åminne Manor was completed in the summer of 1988 under the direction of interior architect Leena Kolinen.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The mansion was built with changing rooms, laundry rooms, restaurant, living and conference rooms, and a small café.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The mansion was renovated in 1995 by raising the library upstairs to give diners more space downstairs.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The estate's renovated terrace was commissioned in 2002.


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Nordcenter

The facade of the mansion was also renovated on the same occasion.


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Nordcenter

Practice Ranges In use there is a putt and chipe area centrally located in the vicinity of the mansion and on the way from caddiemaster to the number one road in Benz.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Range has target greens and the old par-3 commuter play area has been refurbished and recommissioned on 14 July 2010.


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Nordcenter

In addition, an entirely new training ground has been built at Nordcenter for grinding close play.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

Between Fream's 17th fairway and the road leading to the estate is a more than 1,000-square-foot training green where you can practice sand beats, long pitches and chippies.


Question: When is Nordcenter established?

Nordcenter

The practice green next to the first batting position on the Fream field has also been redesigned and also has a bunker in connection with it.


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Nordcenter

Sources Category:Golf courses in Finland Category:Sports in Rasebork


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Saint George or Saint Yrjana (,) in Finnish also Yrjana, Karelia also Jyri, (275/280 — 23 April 303) was a Roman soldier, martyr of Christians, legendary figure and patron saint of many countries and factions, among them Scouts.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Orthodoxies use the tribute of him to the Holy Grand Martyr Georgios the Winner.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The name Georgios comes from the Greek words ge 'land' and ergon 'work' and signifies peasant.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

According to legend, George was born in the 200th century into a Christian family.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

His father was from Cappadocia, present-day Asia Minor and his mother from Lydda, Palestine.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The father served as an army officer and the mother was widowed with her young son, for whom she nevertheless provided a good education.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

George is said to have joined the army like his father, rising to tribune and count () and to have served in the bodyguard guard of Emperor Diocletian (reigned 284—305).


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In 303, Diocletian ordered the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

His caesar Galerius influenced the decision, according to the narrative, and continued the persecution during his own empire 305—311.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

George refused to carry out the order, professing himself as a Christian and criticizing the imperial decision.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Diocletian became enraged and ordered the traitor to be tortured and executed.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

After being tortured, his neck was severed next to the Nicomedia Wall on 23 April 303.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

His suffering convinced Empress Alexandra and a pagan priest to convert to Christians and they were executed in the process.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

George's body was returned to Lydda to be buried, and Christians venerated George as a martyr.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The veneration of Saint George began early — as early as Emperor Constantine the Great (reigned 306—337, alone as emperor since 324) built a church in Lydda in honour of George.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The church was destroyed in 1010, but was re-erected by the Crusaders.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

At the time of the Third Crusade, Sultan Saladin destroyed the church once again.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The most recent and extant church was erected in 1872.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

By the 3rd century, George's reputation spread from Palestine to all of East Rome, and by the 4th century the figure had already been known in Western Rome.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Pope Gelasius I (492—496) canonized George as a saint in 494.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The first text linking the miracles to the life of George is Acta Sanctorum from the 4th century.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

According to George and the Dragon Fable, the dragon made its nest near the source of a town called Silene or Selem in Libya.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

To obtain water from the source conquered by the dragon, the townspeople had to make a pact with the dragon, who claimed for himself every day a sheep and a virgin.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The sacrifice had to be chosen by lottery, but one day the lottery fell on Princess Cleolinda.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The king begged his daughter for mercy and offered the villagers all their gold and silver, but at last the princess had to offer the dragon.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The princess was taken to the source, where she, in desperation, turned to prayer.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In this case, the travelling Yrjana happened upon the scene and, faithful to his knight promise, defied the dragon and slayed it by striking his sword into its friction.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

A rose bush full of blood-red roses sprouted from the dragon's blood.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In gratitude, the villagers rejected paganism and converted to Christians.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In other versions, George slays a dragon with a lance or wounds it so that the princess tames it by wrapping her clothes around its neck.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The king is also reported to have built a church at the site of the dragon's slaying for the Virgin Mary and Saint George, and the water in the source is reported from this point on to have cured all illnesses.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Holy Grand Martyr Georgios Winner in Orthodoxy The Grand Martyr Georgios the Winner is an important saint of the Orthodox Church.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Georgios Winner is one of the most revered military saints both in Greece and Russia.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The name Georgios comes from the Greek words ge 'land' and ergon 'work' and signifies peasant.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In Finland, it has been customary to translate the names of some saints.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In Protestant practice, Saint Georgios the Victor has been made a Saint George or even Saint George ill-suited to Orthodox practice.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[1] Georgios Winner in the icons Holy Warrior riding theme became known in the Frankish Empire during the time of the Crusades.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The dragon motif originated in the Middle East.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In Orthodox icons Georgios the Winner is depicted as a soldier until the 6th century and in the 12th century a subject appeared in which, as a dragon approaches a young girl, Georgios appears on a white steed, chisels the monster in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and impales the dragon with his spear.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[2] This image became well established in Georgios icons especially in the Frankish region.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In the iconic image, the dragon is a symbol of paganism and magical powers and Georgios, the warrior of Christ, defeats the darkness.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The Novgorodian icon is depicted the most famous episode of the legend of the saint.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In it, Georgios the Winner saves the daughter of the king of Selem from being sacrificed to the dragon.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The feat causes the whole town to convert to Christianity.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[3] The icon of Saint Georgios the Winner fights against the dragon was used in the missionary work of the Russian Church beginning in the 14th century in the northern forest areas.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In equestrian depictions, the horse symbolizes the spiritual steed set by God.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The narrative does not depict a historical event but a miracle act after death and the image is a symbol of martyrdom in which Christ blesses Georgia.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The spear coming from heaven and hitting the prince of paganism on the ground is not the weapon of the slaying, but the cross.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

After the battle, evil is bound and is under the control of the church through the sacraments.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Georgios' fight against the dragon also describes man's struggle against his own sinful self.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Saint Georgios the Winner reminds us that the overthrow of evil is worth starting with one's own self.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Georgios Winner's Nominal Churches In various parts of the world, countless Orthodox churches have been built in honour of the heavenly patron, Georgios the Winner.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In Georgia, of which Georgios Winner is the other patron saint, there are hundreds of churches.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

There is at least one in Finland, the Church of the Grand Martyr Georgios Winner in Siilinjärvi.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[4] Remembrance Day The Orthodox Church honors the memory of Saint Georgios the Winner on Memorial Day, which is celebrated in the church every year on April 23.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[5] Medieval Stories and Saint George Early in the 10th century George became a paragon of knights, whereby he was depicted in armour and still on horseback.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

George is a central figure in many works of the Middle Ages.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Jacobus de Voragine (1230—1298), Archbishop of Genoa, collected legends about saints in the “Legenda Sanctorum”, which in the 13th century became known as Legenda aurea (Golden Legend) due to his appreciation.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The fable of St George is a central part of the work and influenced the later depiction of the saint.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

He was also one of fourteen holy helpers.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

King Edward III of England (1327—1377) emphasised the honour code for knights and in 1348 established the First Order.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The only saint to be depicted on horseback was chosen as the presbytery of the knights.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In the reign of Edward III, St George also became the patron saint of all England and his colours were taken on the flag of England.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

On the Iberian Peninsula, Yrjana was the patron saint of the Kingdom of Aragon, Sant Jordi in Catalan and São Jorge in Portugal, as the kingdoms fought against Castile.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

After accepting the same patronage, England and Portugal entered into a long-lasting union in 1386.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Empress Catherine II the Great founded the Order of St George in 1769, which was intended for soldiers only and whose honours were distributed until World War I.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

St George's Crosses have been highly prized, the first class crosses have been distributed in only 25 pieces.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

There are 8 Finnish third-class knights and thirty fourth-class knights, among them C.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

G.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

E. Mannerheim, to whom the Cross was awarded in the autumn of 1914 [6].


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Title Saint and Remembrance Days Saint George is also the patron saint of Georgia, Canada, Latvia, Constantinople, Genoa, Germany, Greece, Malta, Ethiopia, Serbia, Montenegro, Palestine and Venice.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

He is also honored as its patron saint by the Scout movement.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In Finland, the Boy Scouts refer to him as Saint George.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

St George's Memorial Day is from its old age on April 23 in both the Catholic and Orthodox Church.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

It is also celebrated as an international holiday within the circle of the Scouting Movement, which considers him its patron saint.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The same day is also, for example, in Finland the name day of George and other variations of the same name.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

However, in 1969 he was removed from the Catholic Church's calendar of sainthood, and within the church circle celebrating him is no longer a local event.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

George's Day, April 23, remains the second most important celebration in Catalonia, which has traditionally been commemorated by the donation of a rose, which is answered with a gift of books.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

As a result of this custom, UNESCO declared the day to be International Book Day.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In Finland, Book and Rose Day is celebrated on the second Tuesday of May.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In view of the European Day on the same day in 2006, the day was postponed to 10 May.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In Malta, the feast day is the fourth Sunday of July.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Rumble Day in Karelia (before early May, now 23.4) was the day of exiting cattle.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The rumbling was celebrated to the model of the present midsummer and shaped the favourable soil for new growth and reproduction.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[7] On the morning of the day of the rumbling day, a cowbell was put on the neck for the children and curdled around the barn, or the dump.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[8] In Inker, the steepest day was also the day of the shepherds and the Akkai.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

From the point of view of women who are particularly focused on animal husbandry, the first day of summer was celebrated because the main responsibility for animal husbandry shifted from women to shepherds.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The day of rumbling in Inker grew to be a women's holiday, in which men other than shepherds were not allowed to attend.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[9] According to the narrative, on the day of the rumbling, “For a certain woman, barley kappa is taken towards a woman, and she brews a common beer.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Whoever takes the beer to brew gather the married ladies of the village.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Four tables are filled with food: butter, meat, eggs, fish.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

When the shepherds come home in the evening, they are also invited to join.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

In a rink or cache, one elderly woman is carried, dragged on a tightrope through the village.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The men run away when they see a group of women pass.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

The village people are laughing snots.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

Somebody has a conifer sprig as a flag, someone has horns on the head, and a stick as a neck: it is a cucumber.”


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[10] Finland has popularly lived in the rhythm of the bear year.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

On Autummat, the bear was at its most plush, on Heikinday it turned its side and woke up on the day of the rumbling.


Question: In what year was Saint George born?

St. George

[11] Sources on the topic elsewhere Category:Saints Class:Roman soldiers Category:Christian martyrs Class:Key articles of screening Category:Dead in 303


Question: What year did H. P. Blavatsky immigrate to the United States?

H. P. Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky o.s. (von) Hahn (), also known by the names Madame Blavatsky and H. P. B.


Question: What year did H. P. Blavatsky immigrate to the United States?

H. P. Blavatsky

(12 August (J: 31 July) 1831 in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) — 8 May 1891 London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), was a spiritualist, occult writer and a founding member of the Theosophical Society.


Question: What year did H. P. Blavatsky immigrate to the United States?

H. P. Blavatsky

[1] [2] Blavatsky was a charismatic leader and controversial figure.


Question: What year did H. P. Blavatsky immigrate to the United States?

H. P. Blavatsky

He had a great influence in the spread of Oriental esotericism in the Western world.


Question: What year did H. P. Blavatsky immigrate to the United States?

H. P. Blavatsky

There has been controversy over Blavatsky's life and meaning.


Question: What year did H. P. Blavatsky immigrate to the United States?

H. P. Blavatsky

According to some he was an impostor, on the other hand an opposing view of Blavatsky as a saint arose in his final years among his followers.


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[3] Life Childhood and Adolescence Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's both parents were of noble ancestry.


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Helena's father was Captain Peter (Pyotr) Alekseyevich von Hahn.


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Helena's mother Helena (Yelena) Andreyevna von Hahn, of her own family Dolgorukov, was only 17 years old when the child was born.


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[4] Helena Andreyevna von Hahn died in 1842, and 11-year-old Helena and her two younger siblings ended up being raised by grandparents in Saratov while their father was on military deployments for long periods.


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Helena's maternal mother was Yelena Pavlovna Fadejeva (of her own family Dolgorukov) and maternal father Andrei Mikhalovich Fadeyev.


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The Saratov country estate became Helena's home for the next four years.


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Helena's grandmother had acquired governesses, and Helena studied languages.


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[5] In 1846, Helena's grandfather was appointed head of the district of state lands in Transcaucasia, and he and his wife moved to Tbilisi.


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Hahn's children followed suit a little later.


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In 1846 he and his father made a trip to France and London, where he studied piano playing.


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Among Fadeev's numerous guests in Tbilisi was Deputy Governor Nikifor Vasilyevich Blavatski, whom Helena also became acquainted with.


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In Blavatsky, Helena was apparently attracted by the fact that she knew foreign lands and was serious about Helena's occult temptations.


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[6] Helena and Nikifor's wedding was celebrated on 7 July 1849 (according to some accounts as early as 1848).


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It is not known for certain what prompted Helena, aged just 17, to marry Nikifor Blavatsky, who is considerably older than herself.


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The reason was not, at least, infatuation, as the fresh-faced Mrs. Blavatsky apparently refused to fulfil her conjugal duties and eloped a few months later, riding back to Tbilisi.


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[7] Helena's father was contacted by her grandparents, who promised to come to Odessa to discuss the situation.


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Helena agreed to this but slipped out of her two escorts en route and eventually ended up in Constantinople.


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[8] The accounts of the travels of Blavatsky's movements in the following years are not very accurate, but he is known to have travelled around Europe with Countess Kiseljova among others.


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[9] The eloping of an 18-year-old woman from her husband to Europe alone was a very peculiar incident in the middle of the 19th century and caused a scandal in Russian high society.


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Rumors also began circulating.


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According to one rumour, she would have been the mistress (among other lovers) or a bigamous wife of Agardi Metrovich, a famous opera singer and carbonarian of her time, and would have had at least one illegitimate child.


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Among others mentioned as the father of the child was a cousin of the Russian Empress, Prince Emile von Sayn Wittgenstein.


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[10] Blavatsky was reported to earn a living at times in the Paris half-world, occasionally by riding in a Turkish circus, doing shady business dealings, as a medium [11] or giving piano recitals in London.


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According to Blavatsky himself, he spent that time travelling around the world looking for the Philosopher's Stone and meeting in London the Indian prince who became his master, Morya.


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[10] He also reported that he had stayed in Egypt as a pupil of Paulos Metamon, a Coptic priest, and that he joined the Druze secret society.


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[12] For two years of his travels to the Front Indian subcontinent, Blavatsky wrote a fairy-tale series of articles for Moskovskije vedomosti under the pseudonym Radda-Bai.


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[13] He also claimed to have travelled in 1852 to Quebec to meet Indians as well as thence to New Orleans to become acquainted with the voodoo cult.


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[9] The following year, he attempted with two Americans to enter Tibet via Nepal, but crossing the border was prevented.


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[14] Return to Russia In 1858 Blavatsky returned again to Russia to Pskov to meet his family and relatives.


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[15] There he told me about his travels.


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According to the memoirs of Blavatsky's sister and her aunt, she was followed by spiritist phenomena.


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Spiritist phenomena had begun to emerge in the United States about a decade earlier, and residents of Pskov had also heard of them.


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News of Helena's “mediumisticism” spread quickly.


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His talents he introduced to the public at the evening parties at the Jahontov estate.


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[16] However, most of those present suspected that they had been scammed.


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[17] In the spring of 1859, Colonel von Hahn, Helena, Vera and Elisabeth (the colonel's daughter from his second marriage) travelled to St. Petersburg.


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From there they travelled to Rugodevo, a county of Pskov, where a farm inherited by Vera from her late husband was located.


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[18] In the spring of 1860, Helena, Vera and her two sons traveled to Tbilisi to visit their grandparents.


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Two years later Blavatsky traveled in Grosia, the Black Sea coast and the Transcaucasian mountains.


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[19] Helena's relations with Nikifor were apparently friendly, as she pleaded in 1862 for a passport to a boy named Yuri, who was listed as Mr and Mrs Blavatsky's adopted child.


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[20] Some rumours suggested that the boy would have been Helena's illegitimate child, and the same was also suspected by her father until Helena presented a medical certificate to prove her innocence.


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[20] Gossip spread years later again in Germany, and he acquired Theosophical company to protect another medical certificate from the gynaecological physician Leon Oppenheimer, stating that he suffered from anteflexio uter (abnormal position of the uterus), which “is probably congenital, because according to the study, she has never given birth and has not had a gynaecological illness”.


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The signature was vindicated by Dr. Roeder, the royal district physician, and was published during Oppenheimer's lifetime.


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[21] [22] Yuri died in 1867, and only Helena Blavatsky and Agardi Metrovich were present at his funeral.


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The boy, who had been without official papers, was buried under Metrovich's name.


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[23] Blavatsky claimed to have participated in Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops in the same year in the Battle of Mentana and was seriously wounded.


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[14] [24] Egypt, Russia and Paris Blavatsky reported that in 1870 he stayed in Tibet with a Kashmiri adept.


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Blavatsky's family at the time had heard nothing from him for five years and he was feared dead.


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In July 1871, Blavatsky was en route from the port of Piraeus on the steamer Eunomia to Egypt when the gunpowder depot on board the ship exploded and 30 passengers were killed.


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[25] Blavatsky survived unharmed but lost his cash and luggage.


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After finally reaching her destination, she again attracted attention in high society by introducing psychic phenomena.


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He also founded a spiritism club called Société Spirité, where a case of sham soon emerged.


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In a letter to his aunt, Blavatsky said he had surprised psychics he acquired from the Suez Canal to deceive club members.


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[26] Soon, Agardi Metrovich, who had been asked by Helena's aunt Nadežda to depart through Cairo to meet Blavatsky, also arrived in Cairo.


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Shortly after his arrival, however, Mitrovich fell ill with typhoid fever and died, and Blavatsky arranged for his funeral.


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[27] There is also another version of the case that Metrovich would have been on board with Blavatsky and was killed in an explosion.


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According to the third version, Metrovich did indeed die in Cairo, but the cause of death was poisoning, which has also been suspected to be an assassination.


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[27] From Cairo, Blavatsky travelled via Palestine, Syria and Lebanon to Constantinople, from where by ship to Odessa, where he arrived in the summer of 1872.


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This was his last visit to Russia.


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He stayed in his homeland for less than a year and then travelled to Paris, as he said his master urged him to.


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In Paris, he spent his time painting and writing.


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From Paris, he travelled to New York, where he arrived in July 1873.


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[28] At the New York and Theosophical Society in New York, Blavatsky settled at 222 Madison Street, where a women's co-housing was located at the time.


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He supported himself by designing advertising cards for a collar and shirt factory.


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In the meantime, Blavatsky's father had died, and his sister sent him some of the inheritance money which he could use to acquire his own small rented flat at 14.


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Street and 4.


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From the corner of the avenue.


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In 1874, he acquired a partnership in the farm for $1,000, but lost the money after a partner disappeared.


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Blavatsky filed a lawsuit over the matter.


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He then earned some money by translating into Russian spiritist writings from American journals.


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[29] In October of the same year, he purchased an issue of the Daily Telegraph detailing spiritist materializations that occurred on an old farm in Vermont.


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The article was written by journalist Henry Steel Olcott.


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[30] Blavatsky traveled to Vermont, where he became acquainted with Olcott.


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Returning after two weeks back to New York, he wrote an article about his experiences, “Astonishing Spirit Phenomena”, which was published in New York's Daily Telegraph on 30 October 1874.


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In the article, he challenged a well-known critic of spiritism, Dr. George Beard, for the sum of $500, to produce in the same circumstances phenomena such as the displays of spirits.


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However, Beard did not take up the challenge.


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[31] Subsequently, he wrote several articles for the journal Spiritual Scientist.


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[32] Publicity surrounding the farm brought into his life Michael Betanelly, whom Blavatsky married on April 3, 1875.


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[33] She had heard that her former husband had died, although this was not the case.


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The marriage to Bethanelly lasted only four months, and apparently it was contracted on Blavatsky's part for financial reasons alone.


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According to her, the reason for the breakup was that despite her speeches, Betanelly had not wanted to consider the relationship any longer platonic.


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At the same time, the court hearing also ended, with Blavatsky receiving $1146 in compensation.


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Blavatsky and Olcott's intellectual pursuits had slowly gathered other interests around them, and this finally led to the founding of the Theosophical Society on 17 November 1875.


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However, the Society began to make enemies on the part of the Spiritists, as Blavatsky claimed that the phenomena of Spiritism originated not from the spirits of the dead, but from elementals, astral creatures and 'shells'.


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In the months that followed, Olcott lectured and Blavatsky held conversational nights in his New York salon and both also wrote diligently.


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[34] From 1876 onwards Blavatsky's main work was Isis the Veilless, which took two years to write.


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The 1,000 copies of the first edition sold out in nine days.


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[34] Most journals made positive statements about it, but some accused the author of “spreading transcendental absurdities”.


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Despite the great initial enthusiasm, interest in the following waned, and after the work's publication Olcott, Blavatsky and William Quan Judge were the only active members of the Theosophical Society.


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Blavatsky decided to move the club's headquarters to India.


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Before emigrating, he took US citizenship, so as not to arouse, as a Russian, needlessly suspicion in British India.


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[35] Years in India Blavatsky and Olcott arrived in Bombay on 16 February 1879.


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In India, Blavatsky became big news for the entire English-speaking press.


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However, most journals did not welcome him, and especially the missionaries opposed him, some even considered him the Antichrist.


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The Indian Spectator, however, was favourable to him, and Blavatsky wrote several replies to his accusers.


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Another journal favourable to Theosophers was the influential The Pioneer, with A.


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That's Sinnett.


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[36] In April 1879, Olcott and Blavatsky made a trip north.


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However, the British government had suspicions of Blavatsky, which is why they were followed all the way by a police detective.


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In October 1879, the first issue of The Theosophist appeared.


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Shortly after this, Blavatsky received a letter from Emma Coulomb, he met in Cairo, asking for help after running into financial difficulties.


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Blavatsky promised to help, and the Coulombs arrived in Bombay in March 1880.


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In the same year, it was decided to relocate the Theosophists' lodging at Breach Candy to a mountaintop bungalow.


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[37] Olcott and Blavatsky again made trips, gave lectures and set up lodges.


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However, due to a strenuous travel programme, Blavatsky contracted kidney inflammation.


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As a result, he travelled to Sikkim for two days to rest with his guru.


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On December 17 of that year, the Theosophical Society moved again, this time to Madras to a column house on the Adyar River.


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Subsequently, Blavatsky stayed for three months with the British, Rhodes E. Morgan, and his wife in the Nilgiri Mountains, and wrote a writing series there, “The People of the Blue Mountains”.


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Declining health eventually forced him to switch permanently to a milder air sector, and on 20 February 1884 Olcott, Blavatsky and some of the club's staff set off towards Nice.


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[38] Journey to Europe However, already twelve days after arrival, they moved on to Paris, where W. Q. Judge was waiting for them.


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From there, Blavatsky made a week's journey to the Sinnettes in England, as well as to Countess Gaston d'Adhémar at Enghien Castle, where he began his next great work, the Secret Doctrine.


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In June, they received news from London that Theosophy was there to gain great popularity among the high society.


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New backers included Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Sir William Crookes and Sir William Fletcher Barrett among others.


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In August, Blavatsky and a group of other Theosophers left for Germany as a guest of Mary Gebhard, where they stayed for three months.


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[39] On September 21, an article appeared in The Times stating that Blavatsky was a con artist.


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The evidence included letters handed over to Christian College Magazine by Emma Coulomb, which she claimed were written by Blavatsky.


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[40] Olcott immediately left for Madras, and in October Blavatsky relocated to London, recounting himself from the post of correspondent-secretary of the club.


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From Arundale, he sent a letter to The Times denying that he had written the letters Coulombs claimed.


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The letter was published on October 9, 1884.


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The Madras Theosophists, in turn, accused the Coulombs of building sliding plates and drainage doors in Blavatsky's private spaces.


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[41] Blavatsky returned to India in November 1884.


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He was accompanied by the Reverend C. W. Leadbeater.


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Although his reputation had experienced a clatter in Europe, students in Madras welcomed him with cheers.


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Yoga philosophy and belief in mahatmas were among their age-old traditions, and as a result of the incident the students had been confronted with missionaries and professors.


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[42] Secret Doctrine In January 1885 Blavatsky's health again deteriorated and in April, after a little bit of recovery, he left India for the last time.


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After staying for some months in Italy, he finally settled in Würzburg, Germany.


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There he continued to write the Secret Doctrine, accompanied by Countess Constance Wachtmeister.


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In December 1885, a report from the Society for Psychical Research appeared in which Blavatsky was considered “the most multi-talented, inventive and interesting charlatan in history.” The report, written by Richard Hodgson, was based on research and interviews conducted by him in the autumn of 1884 in Madras.


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The committee, on the other hand, did not accept Hodgson's conjecture that the reason for the winking tricks would have been to cover up his true profession as a Russian spy.


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[43] In the spring of 1886 Blavatsky decided to move to Ostend, where he worked 14-hour days working on the book.


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In September 1886, he sent the manuscript of the first volume of the Secret Doctrine to Adyar, India, for inspection by T. Subba Row and H. S. Olcott.


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In March 1887, Blavatsky again suffered from kidney inflammation, which caused hours of unconsciousness at a time.


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He was already believed to be dying, but he nevertheless healed and again continued to write the Secret Doctrine.


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In September 1887 Blavatsky moved to Upper Norwood, London, where Bertram Keightley and Dr Archibald Keightley took up proofreading, correcting and arranging the text.


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[44] Last years a new Theosophical magazine of the time was founded in London, Lucifer.


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In early September, the Wachtmeister also arrived in London.


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Overcrowding forced the Theosophical Society to move to a new location on Lansdowne Road, which was closer to central London.


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Writing work continued, and several celebrities, academics and journalists visited the house to chat with Blavatsky.


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Olcott, too, arrived in London and assisted Blavatsky in establishing the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society, which included twelve persons: Countess Wachtmeister, Isabel Cooper-Oakley, Emily Kislingbury, Laura Cooper, Annie Besant, Alice Cleather, Archibald Keightley, Herbert Coryn, Claude Wright, G.


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[45] In October 1888, the first paragraphs of the Secret Doctrine of the edition appeared.


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The book was sent for review to London journalist W. T. Stead, who ended up sending it to activist Annie Besant.


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The book made a big impression on Besant, and a commendable review was published in Stead's Review of Review.


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[46] Besant then went to see Blavatsky and joined the Theosophical Society.


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[47] Next Blavatsky focused on writing works in the Key of Theosophy and the Voice of Silence.


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In addition, he wrote long letters to the American and Indian departments.


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The Theosophical Society moved again, this time to Annie Besant's spacious apartment on Avenue Road 19.


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Blavatsky was plagued by rheumatism and had to use a wheelchair from time to time.


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On June 1, 1890, an article appeared in the New York-based The Sun, “A History of One Humbug”, followed on June 20 by a full-page spread in which Dr. Elliot Coues claimed Blavatsky was a fraud with the intent of raising money and covering up espionage activities.


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[48] Furthermore, Coues had dug up all the old rumours about his alleged lovers as well as the illegitimate child and said he could prove all his claims.


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Dr. Coues had been very interested in Theosophy and had also been to see Blavatsky.


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As early as late 1888, Blavatsky reported in a letter to Dr. J. S. Buck that Coues was seeking some sort of leadership position in the Theosophical Society, to which he nevertheless did not agree.


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[49] [50] Blavatsky brought a legal action on the matter.


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Before the case had been reached, lawyers for The Sun admitted they were unable to prove the immorality charge on which the suit was based.


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In the spring of 1891, an influenza edipemic spread to London.


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Blavatsky was also infected, suffering for several days from a severe fever.


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At noon, May 8, Helena Blavatsky died on Avenue Road 19 in the presence of three of her close students.


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His death also ended an ongoing legal action.


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Following Blavatsky's death, The Sun published an article by W. Q. Judge on his life and reported that they had been misled on the part of Dr. Coues.


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[51] Blavatsky's body was cremated at Woking in southern England on 11 May 1891, and his ashes were divided among the three main centres of Theosophists, New York, Madras and London.


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[52] Teachings Blavatsky's main work was Theosophical doctrine, into which he absorbed influences from various quarters.


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Among the doctrinal directions, works and authority that influenced Blavatsky's thinking, at least Buddhism, the Bhagavad Gita and Hindu Tantrism, Kabbalah (especially Eliphas Levi), the Bible, the Zohar and Talmud, Hermetism, Rosentarianism, Gnosticism, Zarathustranism, Chaldeans, Freemasonry, Spiritism, Mysticism, Jakob Böhme and Master Eckhart, alchemy and magic, scientific literature of his time, Robert Fludd, Paracelsus, world mythologies for example Germanic mythology, Popol Vuh and Gilgameš (also extracts from the Kalevala), ancient church fathers Irenaeš Us, Tertullian, Origenes and Eusebius, philosophers, especially Plato and Neo-Platonism, Porphyrios, Plotinos and Ammonios Sakkas, as well as historians and many other ancient writers such as Pliny the Elder, Ovidius, Homer and Josephus.


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[53] As one source, Blavatsky used science fiction pioneer Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book Vril — The Future Race.


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Furthermore, Blavatsky claimed to have studied as a pupil of notable lamas in Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Mongolia, and to be familiar with, among other things, Vajrayana esoterism, namely Kālacakrayana, the doctrine of the svābhāviks of Nepal, and syncretistic shamanism.


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[54] There are many features to be found in Blavatsky's teachings that are common to most occult Gnostic systems, and therefore it is often difficult to state exactly where any idea has been adopted.


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[55] Some of his teachings, on the other hand, can be found almost as such or slightly modified from Buddhist and Hindu teachings.


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These include periods such as the palps and jugas, the continents and human races described in the mandalas, the essence of man, the printings, the siddhs or transcendental abilities, and, for some features, the theosophical doctrine of root races.


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[56] Blavatsky's teachings were central to the Mahatmas, who, according to him, were adepts who lived in Tibet, spiritually advanced.


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The Mahatmas formed a brotherhood whose members included 'masters' Kuthumi and Blavatsky's personal teacher, Morya.


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According to Theosophists, the Mahatmas were in contact with the members of the Theosophical Society mostly through letters.