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Originator of the jogo do bicho was one Baron Drummond, a bluff, bawdy, Brazilian-born Englishman, to whom Emperor Dom Pedro II gave a title and the concession to the Rio zoo. To popularize the zoo, the Baron encouraged visitors to guess the identity of an animal concealed behind a curtain, paid off to winners. In time the guessing game became a tremendously popular numbers game, with different numbers for 25 Brazilian beasts...
...Christian Democratic Party embodying Integralist principles was on the way. Instead of the old slogan, "God, Country and Family," Integralist leaders would shout, "Christ and the Nation." And the propaganda organ would be a new and well-named weekly, Reaçâo Brasileira (Brazilian Reaction), edited by Pedro Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira, one of the followers of Nazi-loving ex-Police Chief Felinto Muller...
Frank Sinatra plunged into the water off San Pedro, Calif., rescued a three-year-old boy from drowning, bashfully disappeared before the newspaper photographers arrived...
...candidate was thoroughly enjoying Mexico's presidential election campaign last week. He was a squat, rumpled gum-chewing artist, palmist and poet named Pedro Rend...
...behavior. While a few surrendered (see above), and a few more tried to do so, most of the cut-off enemy groups ran around wildly, then blew themselves to bits with grenades. One captured Jap went out (on his parole to return) and brought in twelve others. Major General Pedro...