Comments on: Giant Man-Shaped Lake

By: JULIANO

JULIANO — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:25:00 +0000

Hold on, this nonsense you mean may be very big in South America, but not Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia have some sort of spiritual cure and other stuff like that. We are normal people despite of everything. lol

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:15:51 +0000

I think I found the spot where this used to be. If you open Google Earth and go to April 30, 2007 you will see a big whitespot here. I’m guessing they were making it at that time since the article is dated in June.

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Stefano

Stefano — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:24:49 +0000

Patrick, weird …

Dunno why – i cant remember of any ‘mass ufo-gods-freaks suicide cult’ at least here in Brazil.

Unfortunately, we cant say the same about USA right? =/

Cut the crap dude, stupid comment.

By: AcesHigh

AcesHigh — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:33:28 +0000

Brazil was not named after the nut, specially because in Brazil (portuguese) the nut is called “Castanha do Pará”. Also, the nut was discovered AFTER Brazil was already named, since the nut is original to the amazon rainforest, while the portuguese settlers first landed in the southeast coast of Brazil.

The fact is that the coast of Brazil was full of PAU BRAZIL (Brazil Wood), a red colored tree, native from Africa, used in Europe to make ships.

The name of Brazil Wood comes from the color of the tree, RED as a BRAZIER.

By: Germano

Germano — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:24:25 +0000

Mike,
it’s not true that the country Brazil was named after the nut.
My english is too bad to write such a long story, but the country was named after a type of wood (red as fire), when the portuguese navigators discovered the land, back in the 16th century…
The nut was named after the country.

By: Usaamah

Usaamah — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:02:26 +0000

Looks like a good way to get rid of some extra cash or possibly illegal cash!

By: Flavio

Flavio — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:15:16 +0000

It’s just a fishing community in countryside of Sao Paulo state, in Brazil. These places, also known as “fish-and-pay”, are very popular down here. Too boring for me!

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:47:03 +0000

For some reason, this story from a few months ago comes to mind…
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/154586

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:41:09 +0000

http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/racy-ad-to-be-removed/2007/06/15/1181414504343.html

By: mike.

mike. — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:52:50 +0000

I’ve been poking around google trying to find an answer to this, but so far haven’t been able to come across anything. Want to agree with Patrick at 8:33, though – something about the location of the lake, the positioning of the surrounding buildings (?), and the general shape of the lake itself to me screams some sort of spiritual significance.

One thing I did learn this afternoon, however: did you know that the country Brazil was named after the nut, and not the other way around?