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Privileged Places of Marian Piety in South America

2014
A Marian apparition in the Roman Catholic tradition is an event in which the Blessed Virgin Mary is believed to have supernaturally appeared to one or more people. They are often given names based on the town in which there was an account of the apparition.
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A catalogue of Helobdella (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudinea, Glossiphoniidae), with a summary of leech diversity, from South America

, 2009
A catalogue of Helobdella produced 46 nominal species reported to date from South America. Only 14 species of Helobdella had been registered for South America until 1981. Almost 90% of the present fauna is endemic to the South American continent.
M. Christoffersen
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A new frog family (Anura: Terrarana) from South America and an expanded direct-developing clade revealed by molecular phylogeny

, 2009
Three frogs of a new species found in cloud forests on two nearby mountains in Guyana were included in a molecular phylogeny of 17 nuclear and mitochondrial genes (10,739 aligned sites) that revealed that their closest relative is Terrarana ...
M. Heinicke, W. Duellman, L. Trueb, D. B. Means, R. Macculloch, S. B. Hedges   +5 more
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Cultural Sustainability and Regional Development

2015
1. Introduction: The role of culture in territorialisation Lummina G. Horlings, Elena Battaglini and Joost Dessein 2. 'Sustainable Places': Place as a Vector of Culture. Two cases from Mexico Michael Redclift and David Manuel-Navarrete 3. Territorialisation and the Assemblage of Rural Place: Examples from Canada and New Zealand Michael Woods 4.
Florit, Luciano Felix, de Oliveira, Lilian Blanck, Fleuri, Reinaldo Matias, Wartha, Rodrigo   +3 more
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America's Natural Places: South and Southeast

2009
From the Texas Blackland Prairies to the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of the Carolinas, this volume provides a snapshot of the most spectacular and important natural places in the southern United States. America's Natural Places: South and Southeast examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry ...
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Rifting and magmatism associated with the south America and Africa break up

, 2000
Based on about 380 K/Ar dating of basic and alkaline magmatic rocks from Brazilian sedimentary basins and the Argentinean Atlantic margin it is possible to interpret the evolution of the rifting that caused the South America and Africa break-up.
Antonio Thomaz Filho, A. Mizusaki, E. J. Milani, P. D. Cesero   +3 more
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Politics Beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America

, 2004
A recent wave of decentralization in Latin America has increased the prominence of politicians at the subnational level. Politics Beyond the Capital is the first book to place this trend in comparative historical perspective, examining past episodes of ...
Kent Eaton
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Passion of the People: Football in South America

, 1996
Brazil's first World Cup win since 1970 in the United States this year, promoted widespread interest in international fooball and the Latin-American game.
T. Mason
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Leviathan dreams: State and broadcasting in South America

, 1995
This article examines different forms of state intervention in the history of broadcasting in South America. In contrast to “media imperialism”; positions, it is argued that the analysis of the evolution of broadcasting systems cannot be restricted to ...
S. Waisbord
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Faunal replacement in the Triassic of South America

, 1982
The history of South American therapsids and archosaurs during the Early, Middle and Late Triassic is analyzed. Improvements in the locomotor apparatus are discernible in seven groups of archosaurs and indicate that a great adaptive radiation took place ...
J. Bonaparte
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