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Sao Paulo

São Paulo
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About Sao Paulo

São Paulo is the capital city of the state of the same name, as well as the most populous city in Brazil, South America, the Americas, and in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres. The city exerts international influence in commerce, finance, culture, gastronomy, arts, fashion, technology, entertainment and media, having been listed by UNESCO's Creative Cities Network as a "City of Film" and the title of "World Capital of Gastronomy", and by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as an alpha global city. It is the largest urban area by population outside Asia and the most populous Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city's name "São Paulo" honors Paul the Apostle and people from the city are known as paulistanos. The city's Latin motto is Non ducor, duco, which translates as "I am not led, I lead".

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In Sao Paulo, there was a Brazilian clown who was called Tiririca, who won an election, and he was going for a federal deputy, and this was in 2010.

from No Such Thing As A Squashed Microbe, 2019-06-28 at 00:41:41 · read transcript

Other times Sao Paulo came up

  1. So it's a big deal because you are welcoming a new human to the world. Friends and family go. to the hospital with the person who's going to give birth. There's a gallery that's specially built for the purpose very often. In Sao Paulo, I think there are a few of these. They even have frosted windows. Then the windows turn transparent at the moment of birth.

    No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall, 2019-09-06 · listen

  2. In the really rich hospitals, you can change the furniture in the hospital suite if it clashes with the decorations that you've got planned. There are some quite opulent ones. Wow. Fair enough. They're actually designing a new one, I think, in Sao Paulo, which is going to be a 22-story high maternity ward. It's going to have a... Very tall women giving birth. Or who intend to sort of project their baby up to the air.

    No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall, 2019-09-06 · listen

  3. Know in the really rich hospitals You can change the furniture in the hospital suite If it clashes with the decorations that you've got planned There wasn't quite opulent ones Wow Fair enough They're actually designing a new one I think in Sao Paulo Which is going to be a 22 story high maternity ward And it's going to have a very tall woman giving birth Or who intend to sort of project their baby up to the air No this is going to have.

    285: No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall, 2019-09-06 · listen

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