The First Brazilian to go into space

Marcos Cesar Pontes (born March 11, 1963) is a Brazilian Air Force pilot. He became the first Brazilian and the first Lusophone to go into space when he launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006. He is the...

Top 5 most lucrative banks in the world – 2009

A research released this Friday (20) puts the top three Brazilian banks – Itaú, Banco do Brasil and Bradesco – among the top five more profitable banks in 2008 in the Americas, excluding the Canadian institutions. The Brazilian...

Brazilian hottest girl of 2009

Priscilla was elected the hottest girl in the 2009 Boy and Girl Fitness Competitions. Elected the hostess Brazilian girl in a contest hosted in Sao Paulo, Priscila Saravalli, 23, stayed six months without drinking soda and eating chocolate to...

Largest biodiesel plant in Portugal will use grains from ...

Refinery will start to operating in 2010. Main raw materials are soybean and sunflower. A Portuguese consortium is preparing to build the largest biodiesel plant in the country, which will operate with 90% of its raw material – mainly...

Follow the crowd and get a site now

Basically I don’t review products here in this blog, but I had to talk about Netfirms and its way to help people to get a website. Netfirms powers over 1.2 million businesses to online success every year with all-inclusive web hosting...