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Brazilian jiu-jitsu ranking system
Brazilian jiu-jitsu ranking system: adult belts white, blue, purple, brown, black, plus coral and red degrees. IBJJF minimum times, stripes, kids belts, and promotion rules explained.
Brazilian Labour Party
The Brazilian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB) was a Brazilian political party founded under Getúlio Vargas in 1945 and extinguished by the military government in 1965.
Brazilian monarchist movement
The Brazilian monarchist movement seeks to restore the constitutional monarchy abolished by the 1889 military coup, and it campaigns through petition drives and the Orléans e Bragança family.
Brazilian National Congress
The Brazilian National Congress (Congresso Nacional) is Brazil's bicameral federal legislature: a 513-member Chamber of Deputies elected by open-list proportional representation and an 81-member Federal Senate, operating under the 1988 Constitution with budget, oversight and impeachment powers.
Brazilian Navy
The Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil) is the naval branch of Brazil's armed forces, one of the two strongest navies in Latin America alongside Argentina's.
Brazilian Park Washuzan Highland
Brazilian Park Washuzan Highland (ブラジリアンパーク 鷲羽山ハイランド) is a Brazil-themed amusement park opened in 1971 on Mount Washu in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan, known for the 16-meter Sky Cycle, samba shows, and Seto Inland Sea views.
Brazilian Physical Society
The Brazilian Physical Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Física, SBF) is a non-profit association representing physicists and physics teachers in Brazil, founded in 1966 and headquartered in São Paulo.
Brazilian pop
Brazilian pop, or pop brasileiro, is the umbrella term for mainstream pop music made in Brazil, a label that has shifted from 1960s MPB to today's funk-pop and sertanejo crossovers.
Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro) is the Portuguese variety spoken in Brazil by over 200 million people, one of two major norms of a pluricentric language, differing from European Portuguese in palatalized t/d, vowel reduction, clitic placement, word order, and vocabulary.
Brazilian purpuric fever
Brazilian purpuric fever, in Portuguese febre purpúrica brasileira, is a severe childhood infection first recognized in Brazil in 1984, with case-fatality rates of 40% to 90%.
Brazilian Rally Championship
The Brazilian Rally Championship is Brazil's national rally championship, sanctioned by the Confederação Brasileira de Automobilismo and run as parallel speed rally and rally raid series.
Brazilian real
The Brazilian real (plural réais, symbol R$) is the currency of Brazil, in force since July 1994, when it replaced the cruzeiro real and ended hyperinflation.
Brazilian Revolution of 1930
The Brazilian Revolution of 1930 (Revolução de 1930) was an armed political-military movement launched on 3 October 1930 that deposed Washington Luís and brought Getúlio Vargas to power.
Brazilian rosewood
Brazilian rosewood names two trees: Aniba rosodora (pau-rosa), an endangered Amazonian laurel distilled for linalool-rich essential oil, and Dalbergia nigra, a Vulnerable Atlantic Forest timber tree on CITES Appendix I.
Brazilian Sign Language
Brazilian Sign Language (Libras, Língua Brasileira de Sinais) is Brazil's visual-spatial sign language, legally recognized by Law 10.436/2002 and Decree 5.626/2005, with its own grammar, topic-comment syntax, and documented interpreter shortages in health services.
Brazilian Social Democracy Party
The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira, PSDB) is a Brazilian political party founded in 1988, led by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who was president from 1995 to 2002.
Brazilian Socialist Party
Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro, PSB), Brazilian party number 40, founded 1947 from the Esquerda Democrática and refounded 1987; motto Socialismo e Liberdade; João Mangabeira first president, Geraldo Alckmin its vice president.
Brazilian submarine Álvaro Alberto
The Brazilian submarine Álvaro Alberto (S50, also SN-BR) is Brazil's planned nuclear-powered, conventionally armed attack submarine, first of a class of six under PROSUB, with launch planned for 2038.
Brazilian test
The Brazilian test is an indirect tensile test in which a disk of brittle material such as rock or concrete is compressed diametrically until it splits along the loaded diameter.
Brazilian War of Independence
The Brazilian War of Independence was the 1822 to 1824 armed conflict between Prince Regent Pedro and Portugal that secured Brazil's proclaimed separation across its whole territory.
Brazilians
Brazilians: people of Brazil, legally defined by jus soli nationality and statistically by self-declared color/race. Formed by Portuguese colonization, Atlantic slavery, and mass post-1822 immigration; parda plurality in the 2022 census.
Brazing
Brazing is a metal-joining process in which a filler metal melted above 840°F (450°C) flows into a narrow joint by capillary action without melting the base metals.
Brazoria County
Brazoria County, Texas, a Gulf Coast county at the mouth of the Brazos River, one of the original 1836 counties, home of the Treaties of Velasco, West Columbia's first republic capital, petrochemicals, Port Freeport, and 419,080 residents (2025 estimate).
Brazos County
Brazos County, Texas, a 588-square-mile county between the Navasota and Brazos rivers; formed 1841 as Navasota County, county seat Bryan, home of Texas A&M and College Station; 2020 population 233,849.
Brazos River
The Brazos River (Los Brazos de Dios) is Texas's third-longest river, about 1,050 miles from eastern New Mexico to the Gulf near Freeport, draining the state's largest basin, about 42,000 square miles, with 6,074,000 acre-feet average annual flow, managed by the 1929 Brazos River Authority.
Brazos Valles
Brazos Valles is an IAU-approved valley system (vallis) on Mars, 458 km across, centered at -6.23°, 18.90°E in quadrangle MC-20 southeast of Schiaparelli crater; named in 1982 after the Brazos River in Texas, USA.
Brazzavile Department
Brazzavile Department (Brazzaville Department, CG-BZV) is the first-order administrative division of the Republic of the Congo containing the capital Brazzaville; census 2023 population 2,138,236, density 3,646.81 per km2.
Brazzaville
Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, founded 1880 by Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza; capital of French Equatorial Africa and Free France 1940-1943; population 2,145,783 in 2023.
Brazzaville Conference
The Brazzaville Conference (Conférence de Brazzaville) was a 1944 meeting of French colonial governors convened by de Gaulle in Brazzaville, rejecting colonial autonomy yet setting French Black Africa toward independence in 1960.
Brazzein
Brazzein: a 54-amino-acid, 6.5 kDa sweet-tasting protein from the West African oubli fruit (Pentadiplandra brazzeana), 500-2,000 times sweeter than sucrose, heat- and pH-stable, produced recombinantly and cleared by FDA GRAS notices.