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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Reader of Time: "Midnight Mass", by Machado de Assis
Anapuena Havena
Rio, May 1894: a reader opens the magazine and finds a new story by Machado. It is printed here in full — a conversation the narrator never understood.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Reader of Time: News of the Drought in Ceará, July 1877
Anapuena Havena
Letters from the interior of Ceará, printed in Rio in July 1877: 4,619 migrants counted on a single road, families eating wild plants, children left behind on the way.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Personalities of the Military Dictators After 1964 and the Country That Emerged from Them
Gustavo Luís de Aguiar Vasconcellos
Five men, twenty-one years, and a machine of repression that outgrew each of them. A study of character, and of what character does when it holds absolute power.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Marquis of Tamandaré, the Old Sailor
Anapuena Havena
In 1848, off Liverpool, a Brazilian commander threw himself into the rescue of an emigrant ship bound for Boston. He refused the reward, and asked for no military honors at his own funeral.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Middle Ages and Their Military Monastic Orders
Leôncio de Aguiar Vasconcellos Filho
Warrior monks who invented banking, founded states in Palestine, and ended as a state of their own on the Baltic: the Templars and the Teutonic Knights.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Reader of Time: The Last Farewell to Dom Pedro II in Paris
Anapuena Havena
Rio, 1892: a French newspaper arrives with the Emperor's funeral on its cover. Republican France honored him; his own country sent no one.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
Dona Leopoldina, an Extraordinary Woman
Anapuena Havena
An Austrian archduchess convened the council that decided Brazil should separate from Portugal, and wrote to her husband: "The fruit is ripe; pick it now."
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Reader of Time: Preparations for O Guarani
Anapuena Havena
Rio, December 2, 1870: the night a Brazilian novel, turned into Italian opera and applauded at La Scala, finally opened at home — on the Emperor's birthday.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Guaraní War: An Episode at the Jacuí Crossing
Elaine dos Santos
Two empires traded territories on paper in 1750; on the ground, Guaraní people refused to leave the towns, fields, and graves the Jesuits had helped them build.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Emperors of Brazil and Freemasonry
Leôncio de Aguiar Vasconcellos
Pedro I was a Grand Master; Pedro II refused the Vatican's demand to punish Masons. The constitutional gap that made both possible — and the "Religious Question" that helped topple the mona…
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Reader of Time: A Moreninha
Anapuena Havena
Rio, 1885: a wife plans a trip to Paquetá because of a novel — and explains why the Court once summered on an island called the Isle of Loves.
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Artigos AcadêmicosDate: 31 de ago. de 2026
The Dezembrada: The December Campaign That Decided the Paraguayan War
Anapuena Havena
"Follow me, all who are Brazilian!" In under a month of December 1868, Caxias crossed the Chaco marshes and broke what remained of López's army.
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