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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Jose Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, Honorio Carneiro Leao, Marquis of Parana, Joao Goulart, Gilberto Gil, Getulio Vargas, Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Cristovam Buarque, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Jose Serra, Celso Furtado, Osvaldo Aranha, Nelson Jobim, Antonio Palocci, Roberto de Oliveira Campos, Darcy Ribeiro, Tancredo Neves, Jose Bonifacio de Andrada, Marta Suplicy, Jose Gomes Temporao, Francisco de Sales Torres Homem, Viscount of Inhomirim, Zelia Cardoso de Mello, Ruy Barbosa, Paulo Renato Souza, Jose Bonifacio the Young, Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, Eduardo Gomes, Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre, Alberto Goldman, Ozires Silva, Fernando Haddad, Celso Lafer, Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, Pedro Malan, Guido Mantega, Erenice Guerra, Yeda Crusius, Altino Arantes Marques, Marcilio Marques Moreira, Pedro de Araujo Lima, Marquis of Olinda, Miro Teixeira, Tarso Genro, Waldir Pires, Geraldo Magela, Quintino Bocaiuva, Joao Mauricio Wanderley, Baron of Cotejipe, Tomas Antonio Maciel Monteiro, 1st Baron of Itamaraca, Elcio Alvares, Adib Domingos Jatene, Joao Pimenta da Veiga Filho, Jose Antonio Saraiva, Bernardino Jose de Campos Junior, Jose Maria Alkmin, Renato Archer, Ricardo Berzoini, Armando Falcao, Silas Rondeau, Americo Brasiliense de Almeida Melo, Uladislau Herculano de Freitas, Rui Falcao, Alfredo Nascimento, Ibrahim Abi-Ackel, Lourival Fontes, Francisco Luiz Sibut Gomide, Odilon Braga. Excerpt: Jose Maria da Silva Paranhos, the Viscount of Rio Branco (16 March 1819 - 1 November 1880) was a statesman, monarchist, diplomat, teacher and journalist of the Empire of Brazil (1822-1889). Rio Branco was born in Salvador, in what was then the Captaincy of Bahia, to a wealthy family, but most of the fortune was lost after his parents' deaths early in his childhood. Rio Branc...