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3. Brazil Brazil's flag is a deep green banner with a yellow diamond enclosing a night-blue, star-studded Southern Hemisphere sky. The sky depicts 27 white, five-pointed stars (one for each state and the Federal District). The stars are arranged in the pattern of the night sky over Rio de Janeiro on November 15, 1889 (this is the date when the last Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II, was deposed, and the republic was proclaimed).

4. Constellations The stars in view include the constellations Southern Cross (also called Crux), Scorpius, Canis Major and others. constellations Southern Cross ScorpiusCanis Majorconstellations Southern Cross ScorpiusCanis Major

5. A banner across the sky reads, "ORDEM E PROGRESSO," which means "order and progress" in Portuguese. This flag was adopted on May 11, 1992 - it was an adaptation of an earlier Brazilian flag from November 15, 1889. Portuguese

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7. Why do they speak Portuguese in Brazil? 1493- After reports of Columbus’s discoveries, Spanish rulers King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella enlisted papal (Pope) support New World in order to stop the Portuguese and other possible rivals!

8. Nationalism at its best. To accommodate them, the Spanish-born pope Alexander VI issued bulls (kind of like a law) setting up a line of demarcation from pole to pole 100 leagues (about 320 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands. Alexander VIAlexander VI

9. Spain was given exclusive rights to all newly discovered and undiscovered lands in the region west of the line. Portuguese expeditions were to keep to the east of the line. Neither power was to occupy any territory already in the hands of a Christian ruler.

10. Video Time Treaty of Tordesillas Treaty of Tordesillas