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CAMINHO DE PEABIRU

 Se chamava Caminho de Peabiru e passa por 4 países da América Latina. É um antigo caminho utilizados pelos indígenas e que liga o litoral catarinense, passando pelo Paraná e chegando até o Peru, com...

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COMO ERA A VIDA DOS FAZENDEIROS NO VALE DO PARAÍBA

 Segundo narradores da própria região cafeeira, os barões e viscondes da época tinham costumes bastante característicosNo primeiro período da expansão cafeeira, o movimento de investimento em terra e...

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O ÚLTIMO MOMENTO DE GLÓRIA DA MONARQUIA BRASILEIRA NO BAILE DA ILHA FISCAL

 Uma semana antes da queda do Império, Pedro II brincou na festa: "O monarca tropeçou, mas a monarquia não caiu"O vaivém não parava. Eles desciam das barcas a vapor e moças em trajes de fadas e sereias...

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SEBASTIÃO SALGADO, A GREAT BRAZILIAN PHOTOGRAPHER

 Sebastião Salgado is noted as the photographer of modern human labor. Thus, he focuses on muddied laborers dredging from the depths of the earth iron ore that is shipped halfway around the world where...

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ADAM

 The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo TintorettoThe name given in the genealogical lists of Gn 4.25–5.5 to the first human being, identical in form with the Hebrew word for man, ’a¯da¯m. He is named simply...

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CONHEÇA A HISTÓRIA DE UM DOS VINHOS MAIS FAMOSOS DA ITÁLIA

Os Chianti são produzidos em oito sub-regiões com características específicas.Desde a queda de Roma até o Risorgimento, por volta de 1850, o esfacelamento dos estados italianos em pequenas repúblicas e...

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DEGUSTANDO VINHO...UM POUCO DE HISTÓRIA

 As regiões Chianti e Alto Douro (Porto) reivindicam o título de primeira região demarcada para a produção de vinhos com denominação de origem. Entretanto, fatos históricos ligados a essas regiões e...

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FROM TURRETS TO TOILETS - A PARTIAL HISTORY OF THE THRONE ROOM

 For centuries the humble bathroom has been shaping the space we live and workIn a catalog assembled for the 2014 Venice Biennale to accompany an exhibition on architectural elements, the bathroom is...

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HOW EARLY HUMANS SURVIVED THE ICE AGE

 Our human ancestors' big, creative brains helped them devise tools and strategies to survive harsh climates.The most recent ice age peaked between 24,000 and 21,000 years ago, when vast ice sheets...

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HISTÓRIA DA LIVRARIA SARAIVA

 Uma das livrarias mais tradicionais do Brasil foi a Saraiva. Fácil de encontrar, com unidades em todos os shoppings, essa empresa marcou gerações de leitores pelo Brasil. Lembro de, muito pequeno,...

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A VIDA DOS JUDEUS EM PORTUGAL NA ERA DAS DESCOBERTAS

 Expulsão dos Judeus de Portugal (aquarela de Roque Gameiro)Com a Reconquista da Península Ibérica pelos cristãos, os judeus passaram a temer novamente pela sua sorte. Todavia, pelo menos em Portugal...

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ACHILLES

 The only mortal son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones at Phthia in Thessaly, and the Nereid Thetis; he grew up to become one of the leading heroes of the Trojan War and the literary hero of Homer’s...

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THE PREHISTORIC CARIBBEAN

 The islands of the Caribbean offered a bewildering variety of landscapes and resources to early prehistoric peoples. The diversity of their interactions with local environments led to different kinds...

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DEFINING JUDAISM

 Religion as an Account of the Social OrderJudaism is a religion, so we begin by asking what we mean when we define religion in general and one religion in particular. In general, people treat religion...

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CALENDARS: AN OVERVIEW

 The absence of a historical dimension and the scant attention paid to the religious aspect of the question are the most notable limitations of the specialized literature on calendars during the...

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THE MYSTERY OF THE MARY CELESTE

 On the afternoon of December 5, 1872, the sailing ship Dei Gratia was gliding calmly across the Atlantic towards Portugal. The weather was fair, and Dei Gratia’s captain, David Morehouse, was...

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HISTORY OF THE CAMERA

Pinhole cameras were used in ancient times to project images, but they couldn’t take a picture—that had to wait until the 1820s. The first photographs took several hours of exposure in the camera. Now,...

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OS PERIGOS DA CARNE GRELHADA

 Enquanto muitos de nós podem ficar entusiasmados com aquele churrasco ao ar livre, devemos estar cientes de que essas marcas de grelha são carcinógenos, que se formam quando a carne é cozida em fogo...

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HISTÓRIA DA MORTADELA CERATTI

 Resgatamos a história de uma empresa que trouxe muito sabor às mesas dos paulistas e de todos os brasileiros, a Ceratti.  A empresa, tradicional pela produção da deliciosa mortadela, é parte da vida...

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THE GERMANIC GODS

 As a result of the work of the medieval mythographers who compiled the Norse and Germanic myths, we know that the gods were divided into two major families: that of the Æsir (the plural form of áss,...

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