Celebration

Champagne
Wine, cry, toast
Champion
Voice, dance, feast

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King of Rock 'n' Roll

Famous in life, Elvis Presley has become even more famous in death as an icon of American music and TV-era celebrity.

Presley hit the charts as a rock 'n' roll rebel in the 1950s. His 9 September 1956 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show (with Presley shown only from the waist up to hide his swivelling hips) turned him into one of the era's biggest stars. His many hits included "Jailhouse Rock," "Hound Dog" and "Blue Suede Shoes." He also appeared in dozens of lighthearted movies designed to let him cavort and play the guitar onscreen, including King Creole (1958, with Walter Matthau) and Blue Hawaii (1961, with Angela Lansbury).

In the late 1960s, after a period of declining fame, he remade himself into "The King," a melodramatic icon known for his sequined karate-style jumpsuits and megaconcerts. The loyalty of his fans is famous; though he died in 1977, sightings of a supposedly surviving Elvis became a kind of international running joke.

Elvis's Memphis home, Graceland, has become a permanent shrine to the singer.

Tango

Tonight, a lovely show of Tango!

Greeting from Buenos Aires

Leaving Iguacu behind where the language is Portugese, I fly into Buenos Aires today, the capital of Argetina, where the language is Spanish.

Iguaçu Falls: The Great Water

One of the top destinations in South America

This magnificent array of waterfalls is located in Southern Brasil in the state of Parana on the border between Argentina and Brasil. They stretch for 2.5 miles plunging 269 feet (82m) into Iguaçu River. They are absolutely "deslumbrante." Numerous rocky and wooded islands on the edge of the escarpment over which the Iguaçu River plunges divide the falls into some 275 separate waterfalls or cataracts. The name of the falls comes from the Guarani Indian word meaning "great water." In 1986 Iguacu Falls were declared a Natural Heritage of Mankind by Unesco.

The vegetation of the region is rich and varied, ranging from semideciduous to tropical. Contrasts are also abundant, with orchids growing next to pines, bamboos next to palm trees, and mosses next to lianas and colorful begonias.

Taller than Niagara Falls, twice as wide with 275 cascades spread in a horsehoe shape over nearly two miles of the Iguaçu River, Iguaçú Falls are the result of a volcanic eruption which left yet another large crack in the earth. During the rainy season of November - March, the rate of flow of water going over the falls may reach 450,000 cubic feet (12,750 cubic m) per second.

Catedral Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro

Big, black, brutal, but undeniably beautiful, Rio's massive modern cathedral, completed in 1976, can hold a congregation of 20,000.

Rio de Janeiro

BRIC

Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
An acronym for the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China combined. The general consensus is that the term was first prominently used in a Goldman Sachs report from 2003, which speculated that by 2050 these four economies would be wealthier than most of the current major economic powers.
The BRIC thesis posits that China and India will become the world's dominant suppliers of manufactured goods and services, respectively, while Brazil and Russia will become similarly dominant as suppliers of raw materials. It's important to note that the Goldman Sachs thesis isn't that these countries are a political alliance (like the European Union) or a formal trading association - but they have the potential to form a powerful economic bloc. BRIC is now also used as a more generic marketing term to refer to these four emerging economies. Due to lower labor and production costs, many companies also cite BRIC as a source of foreign expansion opportunity.

BRIC ETFChina Investment Corporation - CICDow Jones BRIC 50 IndexEmerging Market FundEurozoneForeign-Invested Enterprise - FIEIndia ETFRussia ETFSpecial Economic Zone - SEZTiger Economy

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