Everybody came from everywhere else in the country to live here, so even if the original bits of samba may have come from Bahia, from Africa and such and such, uh, Rio, being a more cosmopolitan place, would incorporate all influences and create diff...
In 1888, Brazil became the last major country in the world to officially abolish slavery, 66 years after breaking away from Portugal to become an independent state. Black workers were at last free to leave the plantations. Many headed south to Rio de...
The samba rhythm developed from percussion styles used in Candomble, an African influenced religion which was banned in the slave era. In Candomble ceremonies, drummers call down different gods, or orixas who are said to act as guides and guardians f...
Samba was born along the northeastern coast around the city of Salvador/back in the days of slavery. Salvador in Bahia state was the first capital of Brazil when it was colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century. The indigenous tribes who lived...
This is the story of a country whose music has seduced the outside world and taken on an importance that goes far beyond entertainments. You want to learn about Brazilian history without going through the books? You can just listen to the music and y...
One day we might develop the magnetic field technology necessary to keep a human alive within Jupiters radiation environment. But in the near future, our exploration will continue by machine. The robotic program isnt about robots. Its a profoundly hu...
Every time we send aspacecraft to answer questions, we end up asking more. Clearly, a return to Jupiter isn't to stars. (Here we go.) In 2003, with fuel andpower running low, Galileo's 14-year odyssey was brought to an end,deliberately to ensure Euro...
As these robot submarines accomplish great missions, the possibility of one day melting our way into Europas deep ocean is moving from fiction toward fact. Lets just imagine, there were on a little spacecraft with the capability to melt to the ice, w...
the processes that hit Io or operating on Europa as well, but on a less dramatic scale. and so was this constant change(s) in Jupiter's gravitational pull that is distorting the surface and that's generating heat in the interior. This is a clue to Eu...
When Galileo took a closer look at Europa, the picture changed. Europa is a fascinating object. If you imagine descending onto a world that looks every place like the frozen ways of the Arctic and the Antarctic, youll get a pretty good impression of...
I would like to visit Jupiter one day，I think it would be a good place to take a vacation, but not on July of 1994. That would have been a terrible time. In July, 1994, the fragmented comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that David helped / discover began its fa...
Gas escaping into space from the plumes is energized by Jupiters magnetosphere, creating an intense band of ionizing radiation that bombards a surface already soaked in emissions. If you went out relatively unprotected with, like a normal spacesuit f...
Take a night flight, like Galileos, over the surface of Io and the view down to the churning lava lakes would be unforgettable. Imagine then a visit to the surface. The landscape might look quite a bit like a red and yellow sulfur-painted version of...
If gravity measurement showed no solid core, then Jupiter formed early like the Sun, with a core then its birth came later when solid materials were created. By measuring water content, Juno should also reveal how hot the solar system was, when Jupit...
This vast secret ocean of seething metallic hydrogen, not a molten iron core, is the power house generating Jupiters dangerous energy shroud. But there is one more mystery hidden inside this giant alien onion, the key to the origin of the planets the...
