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The article discusses a signature specimen of Elbaite, also known as "gem tourmaline," from the Cruzeiro Pegmatite in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Elbaite is highly valued for its range of colors, crystal size, and aesthetic appeal. The specimen, known as the "Jolly Green Giant," is a large crystal surrounded by smaller crystals on a quartz base. It is a deep green color with color zoning and is embedded in translucent quartz. The Cruzeiro mine, where the specimen was likely discovered, is known for producing green elbaite and blue indicolite. The Jolly Green Giant was donated to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in 1974 and has been on display since 1978. It is currently showcased in a custom mount with a reflective base. To see the specimen, visitors must visit the museum in Los Angeles, California. [Extracted from the article]

Small-scale mining has become an emblematic social reality in the history of Brazil and has become a latent public problem on the government’s agenda due to the illegal and informal issue. As a form of solution, the State prioritized the cooperative model in the Permission of Mineral Prospector Mining, with Law n. 11.685 of 2008, which resulted in a significant increase in the constitution of mineral cooperatives. Cooperatives are collective organizations that prioritize self-management, cooperation, and respect for the environment and the community, different principles of individualism and conflicts that seem inherent to illegal mining activities. Within this supposed inconsistency, the following research problem arises: principles of cooperative doctrine apply to mineral prospector cooperatives? The objective of the work is to verify if the cooperative minerals of the state of Minas Gerais adhere to the principles proposed by the doctrine of cooperativism. To answer this question, 11 mineral cooperatives located in nine municipalities in the State of Minas Gerais were studied. We conducted semi-structured interviews with representatives of the cooperatives and the local government. The main findings indicate that the induction of mining prospector activity in cooperative organizations does not mean the promotion of cooperation or the application of the principles of cooperativism to mining prospector activity. The main conclusion is that mineral cooperatives show significant differences from other branches of cooperatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is the result of research that has as its object of study the potential of local and regional History in the teaching and learning of History and an analysis of the commemorative centennial issue of Ituiutaba of the Jornal do Pontal (VI Year, Issue 951 process). From these studies, the paper presents a proposal of a sequence of lessons working in the context of questioning the official story of the city of Ituiutaba, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was concluded that work in the classroom with regional and local History to articulate content and methodology, considering the contributions of the theory of History and drawing on multiple views, it is possible to provide students with learning experiences that develop critical insight, creative and transformative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work is to present an experience report on the educational actions developed at the Center for Documentation and Research in History (CDHIS) and to expose its relevance in the extension processes of the Federal University of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and in the training of History licentiate degree students. The text was divided in two parts: on the first part we seek to contemplate some aspects of the concept of cultural mediation. The second part deals with the educational actions developed at CDHIS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on archival research, this article analyses the publishing history of the map of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the Petermanns Mitteilungen journal. Commissioned by the provincial government between 1836 and 1855, this map was drawn up by two German army officers who had emigrated to Brazil. In 1859 the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi acted as an intermediary between the Brazilian authorities and the German publishing house Perthes in Gotha. The editorial process reflects both the transatlantic circulation of maps and geographical knowledge and the creation of a global community of map readers and users in the German-speaking context in the mid-nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many studies are seeking to understand the several facets -- spatial, social, cultural, economic, symbolic, and others -- of religion. These studies aim to better understand the elements around the phenomenon of Pentecostalism, rather than emphasizing classifications and typologies. There seems to be real interest on the part of academia to comprehend the emergence of alternative, unconventional, underground, neo-Pentecostalism. This article is part of the academic efforts to approach these phenomena. By adopting a qualitative methodology, the main objective of the study is to learn the history and particularities of a non-traditional neo-Pentecostal religious institution -- a spin-off from the Pentecostal Shalom Church -- established in an inner municipality of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the late 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is aimed at understanding the repertory of ideas around the first education reforms within the Republican Period: Benjamin Constant (1890), Epitácio Pessoa (1901), and Rivadávia Côrrea (1911); the consequences these reforms had on an important undergraduate institution in the history of Brazil, the School of Pharmacy in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, and the reactions from the pharmaceutical class in face of the educational vicissitudes in the First Republic. In order to carry out this research, it was necessary to appraise studies from the Historiography of Education, as well as those of the New Political History, and the theoretical support from the concept of Republican Political Culture. Regarding documentation, we performed an investigation of the collection of laws and decrees of the education reforms, the President's reports of the State of Minas Gerais, besides other documents found within the School's Archive, composed of regulations, enrollment books, and individual documents. Analyzing the entrance exams required to study at the School of Pharmacy and the courses offered by this institution, it is noted that the Ouro Preto's pharmaceutical group composed of teachers, students, and principals, was divided between a wish for change and resistance to the reforms implemented at the beginning of the republican period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geraldo Pereira comes up as an important name in the history of Brazilian Popular Music and of Samba for being considered the most brilliant upholder of syncopated rhythm. However, there are few studies about his work, composed of 77 samba songs, registered along 16 years of career (1939-1955). The objective of this article is to analyze the lyric love production of the composer from Minas Gerais State, aiming to reflect, in 5 of his lyrics, about love disagreements motivated by uncompromising relationships between male and fame genders, dwelt in Samba world, as they happened in the historical context of his production, specially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the process of non-professional players and clubs claiming urban spaces for the practice of "várzea football", an amateur football mode existing in different cities, including the state capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte. Through this case study we aim to show new facets of the Brazilian sports universe, according to the oral narrations by anonymous actors and their respective associative entities. Which were capable of proposing approaches to community dimensions that are uncommon when compared to the international image of the "country of football". This demonstration uses sources and methods based on Oral History and whose history of development in Brazil is contextualized in this article. With the same intent, this paper presents an overview of the introduction of football studies in the country from the 1970s, when the theme was not recognized in the academia, to contemporaneity, a period when research on the topic grows with significant qualitative and quantitative range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to present a semiolinguistic analysis of the text History of Brazil, written by Paulo Mendes Campos, author from de Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. The analysis started from the theoretical and methodological postulates of Semiolinguistic Discourse Theory (2012), by Patrick Charaudeau, as well as from specific concepts coming from the Systemic-Functional Grammar. During this analysis, we demonstrate how the enunciating subject lends his voice to the Creator, the Judeo- Christian God, in an interdiscursive process between literary, religious and historical text that briefly and critically narrates Brazilian History. In this process, several meanings can be found in the text that, even if produced many decades ago, still remains current. From the perspective of the literary scope, Paulo Mendes Campos' text is timeless and makes the reader critically immerse in the historical events that decipt Brazilian alienation since colonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the history of indigenous soldiers of the Rio Doce Divisions in Minas Gerais during the Portuguese war against natives in Brazil between 1808 and 1850. The author examines individuals who served as cultural intermediaries between the Portuguese and native Brazilians, explores how militarization served as a means of mediation, and discusses how the discovery of gold impacted the conflict.

The article presents a case study of public records relating to the slave and freedmen populations in the parish of Santo Antônio, vila of São José do Rio das Mortes, Minas Gerais, Brazil for the period from 1750 to 1850. The data considers whether slaves were either Blacks or mestizos: mestizos being further denoted as either Pardos, Crioulos, or Cabras. The data analyzed included parish list censuses known as the Rol de Confessados taken in 1795 and 1831, notary records of manumissions called cartas de alforria, and baptismal church records.

Focuses on textile production in Minas Gerais, Brazil, during the late colonial era. Growth of the cottage textile industry in the final quarter of the 18th century; Resemblance of the cottage industry to Europe's proto-industrialization era; History of cotton weaving in Brazil; Difference between textile production in Minas Gerais and the rest of Brazil.