so, this monday is a national holiday here in brazil, Tiradentes. Brazil has a LOT of holidays, many of which seem sort of pointless, and that most people don´t know the actual purpose behind. Tiradentes is one of these holidays. SO, in an interest of learning more about Brazil, i wikipedia´d Tiradentes. The article had this picture in it:


This painting is probably the most violent thing I´ve ever seen in art. In case you didn´t notice, Tiradentes has his legs and head separated from his torso. Gllllll.

So, anyway, it turns out Tiradentes is this martyr in Brazil. He´s from Minas Gerais, where I live, and he had all these great plans for Rio and stuff that never got approved, and he owened mines. In the 1780´s, the mining business suffered because it became less common, and the government imposed taxes and stuff, which upset the already suffering miners, so Tiradente´s stood up to the portuguese, and was killed. Hopefully not as gruesomely as the picture above showed.

I should also point out that reading this article made about half the streets I know in BH make sense. And i learned more brazilian history in this article than i have the whole year, because for some reason, history classes never seem to study brazilian history. Duuumb.

So, i hope you enjoyed a brazillian history lesson!