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1 Oct 2000By official decree, Brazil celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2000: the modern history of the country dating from April, 1500, when a fleet commanded by Pedro Alvares Cabral anchored at Porto Seguro on the north-east coast of Bahia.
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18 Jun 2015For all historians of this last, most violent, century some concern with matters of war and peace has been unavoidable.