Word: branca
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...hung with black velvet and flickering with candlelight, the body lay in a huge sarcophagus. In the murk of the nave, 2,000 Brazilians per hour filed slowly past day & night. The day of the funeral was a national holiday. Laurel leaves were strewn solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero's first flight. Artillery sounded the body into the grave, a five-minute Brazil-wide silence followed. Sea & land planes flew over in squadrons. At the grave was a great monument topped by a winged figure built by the dead...