POLAR BEAR CUB: Mum, am I a real polar bear? POLAR BEAR MOTHER: Yes, dear, of course you are. POLAR BEAR CUB: Really? POLAR BEAR MOTHER: Yes, son. I’m a polar bear. Your dad’s a polar bear. Your grandparents are polar bears. Your sisters are polar bears. Your brothers are polar bears. POLAR BEAR CUB:
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Nowhere else on the planet is hit by more lightning than Brazil. It kills about 130 Brazilians a year, and injures over 200. It also causes damage worth R$ 1 billion a year On March 5 the city of Rio de Janeiro was struck by 2,149 lightning bolts. It's an impressive number, but
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A little prince lives alone on an asteroid. One day, on one of his journeys through the universe, he finds a lost aviator in the Sahara desert. A beautiful friendship then develops between them. This is the starting point of the book 'The Little Prince,' considered one of the greatest works of 20th century literature.
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When Maurício de Sousa created this character in the 1960s, most Brazilians lived in rural areas, in harmony with nature, just like Chico Bento. Now, only 15% of the population lives in the countryside Just like the young Chico Bento (Chuck Billy in English), thousands of young Brazilians have left the countryside and small towns to
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In late November 2014 the world lost one of its most brilliant television comedians: Roberto Bolaños, the creator of the Chaves and Chapolin series Some journalists said Bolaños was a Latin version of Charles Chaplin. Just like Chaplin, Roberto Bolaños was a master of the art of writing and acting. In the early 1970s he created
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