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Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on Brazilian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.

Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo modernism, and became Brazil's national polymath. He was the driving force behind the Week of Modern Art, the 1922 event that reshaped both literature and the visual arts in Brazil. After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist he published his great novel, Macunaíma, in 1928. At the end of his life, he became the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture, formalizing a role he had long held as the catalyst of the city's—and the nation's—entry into artistic modernity.

Andrade was born in São Paulo and lived there virtually all of his life. As a child, he was a piano prodigy, and he later studied at the Music and Drama Conservatory of São Paulo. His formal education was solely in music, but at the same time, as Albert T. Luper records, he pursued persistent and solitary studies in history, art, and particularly poetry. Andrade had a solid command of French, and read Rimbaud and the major Symbolists. Although he wrote poetry throughout his musical education, he did not think to do so professionally until the career as a professional pianist to which he aspired was no longer an option.

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. It is famous for its urban planning, daring architecture, and overpopulation. It is located in the Brazilian Federal District, created from the state of Goiás in the Mid-West region of the country.

...that the most visited museum in Brazil is the Imperial Museum, located in the town of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro?

...that the name Rio de Janeiro means "river of January" and is an allusion to the fact that the Portuguese first entered the Guanabara Bay, where the city now is, on January 1, 1501 and thought that it was a river?

...that in Brazil (and other nations) Santos Dumont, not the Wright brothers, is regarded as the inventor of the modern airplane?

...that in the 18^th century Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais was the largest city in all the American continent because of its diamond and gold trade?

...that Brazil was the first country in the world to have fully electronic elections?

...that, although Brazil is officially the fifth largest country in the world, its territory is larger than the continental United States (the fourth largest), as well as the added areas of the continental US, Hawaii and 2/3 of the state of Alaska?

...that the city of São Paulo is the only city in the world to have a control tower exclusively dedicated to monitoring helicopter traffic?

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• March 30: In a disastrous day for Brazilian aviation, Air traffic controllers from SINDACTA I, in Brasília, striked for better work conditions, bringing air traffic throughout the country to a virtual stop and wreaking havoc across the country's major airports.
• March 30: FIFA recognized that Brazilian club Palmeiras is the World Club Champion of 1951. The governing body of football recognized the validity of the international tournament played that year, dubbed "Copa Rio", with the presence of international clubs and which Palmeiras won. The 1952 champion, Fluminense, has filed for recognition of its own world title, citing the precedent set by the recognition of Palmeiras' title.
• March 30: It was revealed that the Chief Rabbi of the São Paulo Israeli community, the second largest in the world outside of Israel (second to New York, in the United States) had been arrested, and released on bail, in Miami, Florida for shoplifting ties worth approximately US$ 1,400 from a Louis Vuitton store. Rabbi Henry Sobel, a US native, has since requested a temporary leave of absence from his role as President of the Israeli Congregation and, later the same day, checked into a hospital due to alleged health problems.
• March 29: The second-largest Airline company in the country, Gol has announced the purchase of former market leader, Varig. Since 2001, Varig had been struggling with financial difficulties and had since dropped from its leading position (at one time operating 60 international routes, the highest amount in history for a Brazilian airline) to third position, after Gol, which started off as a low-cost airline, and TAM, the current leader. The purchase has been approved by Varig's Board and shareholders, but it is still subject to approval by two government agencies: the ANAC (National Agency of Civil Aviation), which regulates Brazilian air traffic, and the CADE (Administrative Board of Economic Defense), which regulates all economic and business transactions and seeks to prevent the formation of cartels.

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