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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world first became conscious of the Big Woods province 30 years ago when toothsome Teddy Roosevelt, Son Kermit and Brazil's great pioneer explorer, General Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon (now 78), floated down and mapped the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt). The river was later named Rio Roosevelt. Flaviano Van-ique's sphere of action is a section neglected by Roosevelt and Rondon, east of T.R.'s treacherous River of Doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: East of the River of Doubt | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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