President JK

Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, known as JK, was mayor of Belo Horizonte (1940-1945), governor of Minas Gerais (1951-1955) and president of Brazil between 1956 and 1961. It was the first president of Brazil to be born in the twentieth century and was the last politician from Minas Gerais elected to the presidency by direct vote.
He was responsible for the construction of a new federal capital, Brasilia, running well, an old project already scheduled in three Brazilian constitutions, the change in the federal capital of Brazil to promote the development of the interior of Brazil and the integration of the country.
Throughout his tenure as President of the Republic (1956-1961), Brazil experienced a period of remarkable economic development and relative political stability. With an innovative style of government policy in Brazil, Juscelino built around himself an aura of friendliness and trust among Brazilians.
Juscelino Kubitschek is still one of the most admired politicians of the political landscape of Brazil, appearing in public opinion polls as one of the presidents preferred by Brazilians.
In 2001, Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira was named the "Brazilian of the Century" in an election that was published by Isto É magazine.

the name of my city..LONDRINA!

hey guys!
today I´ll explaina little bit about the history of the name of my city.
The city´s name was a tribute to John Sampsom Dominguez, one of the first directors of the Company Lands Northern Parana. Parana is the name of the state where Londrina is.
Londrina is known too like Little London, because the majority of the imigrants was english people.

so, that´s a little about the history of Londrina! bye

how it all started!

The name Londrina a reminder of our colonization by the company of English origin, a little London, started all gone by 1922, as the occupation of the old west, the government gave land to those who agreed to explore and cultivate the land. There was large areas of land in fertile ground that was occupied by people of different nationalities such as English, Polish, German, Japanese, and Brazil's other states that came for wealth and good land to build his life.
The result was a people with an intense cultural diversity that can be proven by the cultural diversity that we find in the various buildings and public places.
The first schools were in the native language of our colonizers German, Polish and only had some time in Portuguese schools.
See how our city is beautiful! Click here.

History

Hey you guys!
So, this week we were supposed to tell you a little bit about our country´s history right?
Lots of people told you about Brazil´s history and also about Londrina´s history.
So now we´d really like to know a little bit about what you´ve learned about USA´s history and also a little bit about your city´s history. =)
We´re looking forward to reading your posts!

Londrina I love you!!!!!!

This is Londrina, the city that I LOVE!!!!

I think everybody posted everything about Londrina's histori, so I will post some pictures, past and presen:

Londrina's cathedral passed for a few changes in the last 75 years!!!!

The police station!!!

The bus station!!!!!

Londrina it is young and has been changing alot throughout its history, has already been the world capital of coffee, it is the second most important city in the state, it's one of the cities that have more mobile phones in the country ( just a funny fact).

Londrina has so much potential and has demonstrated that throughout its history, and that's why I love living here.

History of Londrina

Londrina’s Cathedral is located in the town center:













The typical wooden houses (with a tile roofs) characteristic of Paraná’s early settlement period:













The theater Ouro Verde:












The former train station, now housing a museum of the history of Londrina:

History of Londrina, Paraná

The city of Londrina has a unique history. 80 years ago Londrina did not even exist. In the 1920´s, The Brazilian Plantations, Ltd, in London, England, was developing the area which today is the northern part of our state, Paraná. That company from London, England, was building a railroad from São Paulo to the Brazilian frontier (Foz de Iguaçu, PR). On August 21, 1929, the surveying crew building the railroad arrived in the area known as Três Bocas (now in Londrina) and engineer Dr. Alexandre Razgulaeff put down the first marker. When the stock market crashed in 1929, construction on the railroad came to a screeching halt sometime there after. The city of Londrina sprang up where the tracks ended. Small farm plots were sold and people started streaming into the area.

"Londrina" means "little London." Londrina was named after the town where the company founders were from. Dr. João Domingues Sampaio gave the name Londrina to this town. He was one of the directors of the "Land Company of Northern Paraná" which was part of the Brazilian Plantations, Ltd. Craig Smith is considered one of the founders of the city. He led the team of surveyors and decided that the train tracks would come through this area and would have a depot here.

History

Hello everyone;

As my classmates had told you all, we had a lot of immigration in the past.

We have a lot of japanese culture here, like festivals, restaurants and even japanese language in teaching in high school.

In São Paulo we had the greatest community.

But let´s see some pictures of Londrina:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1190237

Nice!