#iguacu

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Here are the metro and bus lines in the Cuyahoga River neighborhood. Looks pretty well serviced--especially if you're going north-south.

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I hate these dudes

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The cataracts of Iguaçu in Rogério Dias' (Rogério José de Moura e Dias) 50 m wide tile mural from 1996 at Praça Rio Iguaçu, Curitiba (BRA).

Source: own photo, 2024.

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Iguaçu Falls - Brazil 🇧🇷

one of the most beautiful places in the planet

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The Atlantic Rainforest is beautiful. Very beautiful. It enchants, fascinates, teaches us. Made of life, multi-organisms, species, biodiversity. Beauty in every breath, evolution and discovery. It is the forest of Brazilian birds, unique and abundant. The Bird Park is one of the largest bird parks in Latin America, conserving120 species of birds of the Atlantic Forest. It is located on the Brazilian side of Iguazu Falls. https://buff.ly/35gJYwY #iguazufalls #iguassu #iguacu #birdpark #ParquedasAves https://www.instagram.com/p/CqSct_XgD5_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Iguacu Falls, Iguassu Falls, Border of Brazil and Argentina by Keith Kapple

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Sebastião Salgado. Girl from a settlement of landless peasants in Rio Bonita Do Iguacu. Parana State, Brazil. 1996

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Hotel Foz do Iguacu Welcome to Hotel Foz do Iguacu, a delightful 3-star hotel nestled in the vibrant city of Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil. With its convenient location and comfortable accommodations, this hotel is the perfect choice for both business and leisure travelers seeking a memorable stay. When it comes to check-in and check-out, Hotel Foz do Iguacu ensures a seamless experience for its guests. Check-in begins at 02:00 PM, allowing you plenty of time to settle in and start your vacation. On the day of your departure, you can enjoy a leisurely morning as check-out is until 12:00 PM, giving you ample time to pack up and bid farewell to this charming hotel. Families planning a stay at Hotel Foz do Iguacu can rest assured that their little ones are welcome. However, it's important to note that this hotel does not allow children to stay free of charge. Additional charges may apply, ensuring that all guests can enjoy a comfortable and enjoyable stay. The hotel's friendly staff will be more...

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Random Real Thoroughbred: IGUACU

IGUACU is a chesnut mare born in Brazil in 2000. By MIDNIGHT TIGER out of JAMBAGE. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/iguacu

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Como é feito o monitoramento do consumo de geração de energia?

Curioso sobre como monitoramos o consumo em relação à geração de energia dos nossos clientes? No vídeo de hoje do Canal Soreli Sol Energias, nosso diretor Amon Sousa vai te mostrar exatamente como fazemos isso! Descubra como utilizamos o SolarZ, o maior software do Brasil, para monitorar em tempo real o consumo e a geração de energia de cada cliente. Assista agora e entenda como estamos garantindo eficiência e transparência em cada instalação solar! 

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Black farmers in Brazil changing views on coffee production

Raphael Brandao beams with pride as he describes the high-end Brazilian coffee he produces with beans sourced exclusively from Black farmers in a country where many still associate the product with slavery. The 31-year-old buys his coffee beans solely from farms owned by Afro-descendents and says his goal is to "reverse this logic that Black people" like himself "are mere laborers."

"In my own way, I am trying to make historical reparations," Brandao told AFP at his roastery in Nova Iguacu, a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro.

Four years ago, he launched his brand Cafe di Preto.

By 2022 he sold 800 kilograms (about 1,700 pounds), the following year 1.4 tons. This year he hopes to increase that to more than two tons following a 20-percent sales increase in the first quarter alone.

The logo for Cafe di Preto is a raised Black fist clutching a coffee branch, and the different flavor lines are each named after important Black women of Brazilian history.

Continue reading.

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The heron bird in Rogério Dias' (Rogério José de Moura e Dias) 50 m wide tile mural from 1996 at Praça Rio Iguaçu, Curitiba (BRA).

Source: own photo, 2024.

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Robert Cunninghame-Graham 1st President of National Party of Scotland and the first MP to call himself a socialist died 20th March 1936.

To me Robert Cunninghame-Graham is one of the most interesting of our 19th/20th century politicians.

please just like the post as a historical entity, and just dinnae........

Cunninghame Graham was an author, traveller explorer, politician and adventurer, he was a man of extraordinary talents, tireless energy and considerable courage. His friend and contemporary Joseph Conrad remarked, “When I think of Cunninghame Graham, I feel as though I have lived all my life in a dark hole without seeing or knowing anything.” and I have to agree with him, I use the term Polymath now and then for some subjects I post about, he was that, and more.

Born in London in 1852, educated at Harrow, but always, always, a Scot to his marrow, Cunninghame Graham was a descendant of the Earls of Menteith and the son of a laird whose lands eventually extended from Gartmore in Stirlingshire to Ardoch in Dunbartonshire and Finlaystone in Renfrewshire. It was there that Robert was largely brought up, coming heavily under the influence of his Spanish grandmother.

After schooling, at Harrow, Robert finished his education in Brussels, Belgium, learning, among other things, the art of swordsmanship at which he became an expert.

In a crowded life — Cunninghame Graham was variously a Member of Parliament, a gaucho in South America, a fencing master, a founder member of both the Independent Labour Party and the Scottish National Party, a rancher, horse-trainer, buffalo hunter and Long Rider through North and South America — he wrote prolifically. He called himself, "Don Roberto,". He also enjoyed a journey into Morocco, disguised as an Arab Sheik, he was, as they say, some man!

In 1872 Cunninghame Graham rode on horseback 600 miles up the river Parana to the Iguacu Falls, researching the role of the early Jesuits with the local Indians. His subsequent book, A Vanished Arcadia, was made into a film, The Mission starring Jeremy Irons. He lived for a time in Argentina, where his extended family had a ranch, by way of Uruguay and Paraguay. He became an expert horseman, riding with gauchos, and his admiration for these men was such that he often wore gaucho clothes when back home, he must have been quite a sight!

He wrote that one day on a knoll in the pampas he met a man who greeted him in halting Spanish. Cunninghame Graham suggested he speak in English and referred to the view. The man, said, perhaps hearing a Scots accent for the first time in 20 years, “Aye, but man, it’s naething tae the view off Dumyat.”

Don Roberto married to an equally colourful and talented woman that he met in Paris, Gabrielle de la Balmondiere, who had been described as a Chilean princess. In fact, she was an actress called Caroline Horsfall, who went on to be a published poet. Among her many admirers was WB Yeats.

His contact with poor people everywhere made him a socialist before that term was even coined. On returning from South America, he rapidly took up political campaigning and in 1886, there being no Labour Party, he stood on a radical ticket for the Liberals in North West Lanarkshire, winning comfortably.

On 12th September 1887 he was suspended from parliament for making what was called a "disrespectful reference" to the House of Lords. He was the first MP ever to be suspended from the House of Commons for swearing; the word was damn.

He was suspended from the House of Commons in December 1888 for protesting about the working conditions of chain makers. His response to the Speaker of the House, "I never withdraw", was later used by George Bernard Shaw in Arms and the Man.

He truly was a courageous man – in 1887, he was beaten up badly by police at the original Bloody Sunday in Trafalgar Square and was jailed for six weeks.

His leftward move and meetings with James Keir Hardie led him to co-found the Scottish Labour Party with Keir Hardie, but has been largely airbrushed out of the history of the party, due to his Scottish Nationalist views.

Its manifesto included nationalisation of land and minerals, an eight-hour day, State insurance, the abolition of the House of Lords and all hereditary offices, home rule for Scotland, the abolition of the liquor tariff and the disestablishment of State Churches.

Yet Labour disappointed him, don’t they always, and after World War One – he volunteered a the age of 62 and became a horse-buyer for the Army – his growing nationalism saw him become president of the National Party of Scotland, the forerunner of the SNP. On 23rd June, 1928, in the King’s Park, Stirling, he presided at its inaugural rally.

He was friends with everyone from Buffalo Bill Cody to George Bernard Shaw, had his portrait painted by Sir John Lavery, knew the Glasgow Boys cirlce of artists personally, was close friends with the writers Joseph Conrad and G.K Chesterton, and generally personified the word kenspeckle. A writer of over 30 books himself, there is a seat dedicated to Cunninghame Graham in the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh with the inscription: "R B 'Don Roberto' Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore and Ardoch,

Few Scots actually know of yer man, but In Entre Rios, in the north east of Argentina is the Instituto Magnasco, in Gualeguaychu (pronounced Wally-wy-chew) there is a Cunninghame Graham library and museum! His books are available there to read on the premises, and the Smith’s library is based on that facility.

The Journalist and author, the late Rennie of the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum wrote a booklet about Robert Cunninghame-Graham, called Braw Gallant, he wrote of the man : “He was a pioneer of socialism and Scottish nationalism, fought unemployment and poverty, backed the rights of native peoples against colonialism and short-sighted development, supported free speech, was an active conservationist, got caught up in the Irish question, attacked brutal wars when it was not fashionable to do so and was prepared to die or be imprisoned for his beliefs.

“The words knightly and chivalrous come to mind.”

Robert Cunninghame-Graham retired to Argentina, where he continued to be active, he would still ride daily while in his 80′s, he died on this day in 1936 of pneumonia at the Plaza Hotel in Retiro. Such was his standing he lay in state in the Casa del Teatro and received a countrywide tribute led by the President of the Republic of Argentina, before his body was shipped home to be buried beside his wife, in the ruined Augustinian Priory on the island of Inchmahome, Lake of Menteith, Stirlingshire. There is a memorial to him at at Castlehill, Dumbarton. The monument, which is built of Scottish stone, but also contains stones from Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

Between these stones is a medallion of Cunninghame Graham (in his latter years) by the Liverpool born artist Alexander Proudfoot, RSA, who taught sculpture at Glasgow School of Art. Below the medallion is an epitaph which reads:

"Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham 1852-1936 - Famous Author - Traveller and Horseman - Patriotic Scot and Citizen of the World - As Betokened by the Stones above. Died in Argentina, interred in Inchamahome - He Was a Master of Life - A King Among Men"

On the Argentinian stone, there is a portrait of his favourite horse Pampa, an Argentine mustang which he had rescued from pulling trams in Glasgow and rode for some 20 years and the inscription:

"To Pampa my black Argentine who I rode for twenty years without a fall. May the earth lie light upon him as lightly as he trod upon its face. Vale...or until so long. Don Roberto."

One of Pampa's hooves is buried beneath the monument.

The monument suffered considerable damage through vandalism during the 1970s and was moved in May 1981 to the village of Gartmore (where, until 1900, Gartmore House had been the principal seat of the Cunninghame Graham family), and was unveiled on Cunninghame Graham's birthday (24 May) by the Argentinian Ambassador. It is currently in the care of the National Trust for Scotland. Despite the removal of the monument to Gartmore, the Cunninghame Graham Memorial Park at Castlehill is affectionately known as "the Mony" and the original site of the Memorial marked by a stone.

In 2012 the National Trust for Scotland carried out significant conservation work on the monument which was completed in time for the 160th anniversary of Cunninghame Graham's birth. A new stone was added to commemorate another of Don Roberto's horses, Pingo, and a new information panel was placed nearby, as seen in the photos, the painting is Don Roberto on Pampas, and recently sold at Christies for over 31 thousand pounds.

The pics are my own from a visit to Kelvingrove Art Gallery last month.

Aye ah ken this post has gone on a wee bit more than my usual, I hope you have enjoyed reading it, but please, go have a look at this wee article about the man by Dominic Hilton, on The Critic web page, it is quite amusing. https://thecritic.co.uk/from-gaucho-to-rive-gauche-and.../

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Iguacu Falls, Brazil

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Hexel's World Tour Week 5 - Brazil

This week it's off to Brazil! The first stop was Sao Paolo! This city is amazing! I am already exhausted from all the exploring, but there's still so much more I want to do! Maybe I can convince Georgia and the others to come back with me. There's something for all of them here! The colorful street art scene is right up Georgia's alley, and the nightlife is something Dustin will totally appreciate (not to mention all of the food!). The street markets are something I know Mac and Krista would both appreciate. I found one street artist painting a portrait of a mom and her daughter‍. I don't know why, but it made me really sad yet I couldn't look away... It made me think of my mom and wondering if she's still out there. If she's looking for me at all...what Sena said about my mom is still echoing in my head.

Dustin “the Food Dood” would be so proud of me. So far, I've tried Picanha, Feijoada, Brigadeiros, Bolinho de Bacalhau. And OMG, have you all tried Moqueca (they told me it's pronounced "mo-KEH-kah")? It's a seafood stew and it somehow tastes earthy, and bright, and of the sea all at once!🥘 Mine had shrimp and fish in it, even though some versions only have one or the other.

Iguacu Falls was so gorgeous! They told me that it's actually shared between Brazil and Argentina. And it's considered one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. Though the locals told me it's THE most beautiful waterfall, and honestly, after seeing it, I have to agree.

Vermelha beach in Rio De Janeiro and these really famous Mountains called Sugarloaf are, like, RIGHT THERE! ⛰️It was so epic. It actually kind of reminded me of somewhere, I'm not sure where exactly, but I know it's a place with a lot of beaches and a lot of mountains. Maybe it's home?