Word: braziller
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Today Americana's population has swelled to 160,000, largely owing to waves of Portuguese, Italian and Japanese immigrants who came to Brazil. It looks like any other small Brazilian city. A tiny cluster of taller office buildings dwarfs a semi-industrial sprawl. Intermarriage has turned today's generation of Confederate descendants into darker-skinned Brazilians...
...pillared mansions and plantations between 1866 and 1867 in what was one of history's more notable organized exoduses of Americans. Immigrants, especially those from the Deep South, were drawn by the promise of cheap land, a booming cotton industry and the existence of slavery, which was tolerated in Brazil until 1888. But not all of them succeeded in making a life here. Tropical diseases, drought and the remoteness of their settlements drove back 80% of the refugees...
Other immigrants came prepared for such adversity. William Mills of Texas, who had heard Brazil was full of wild animals, brought his four hunting dogs on the boat to Rio. "Granddad was smart to do so," pipes up Rancher Sydney Mills, 70, wearing a straw sombrero, braided string tie and cowboy boots. "The dogs would often chase and tree pumas that raided the backyard chicken coop, and Granddad would down them with his shotgun. He killed over a dozen...
...faith is one way descendants, particularly the older ones, so mindfully tend ancestral memories. "Preserving our heritage helps us hold on to cherished values and pass them on to future generations," said the FDA's official historian, Judith MacKnight Jones, 71. She has chronicled the Confederate immigration to Brazil in a book titled Soldado Descansa (Soldier Rest). With a certainty that transcends national labels, she adds, "And that's important in a world where values are changing for the worse...
...Brazil an international medical team tries out an experimental drug on victims of the West' s worst radiation accident...