Another major treasure in the exhibition, "Wisdom Instructing Youth in the Science of Geography, " about 1800, was purchased by Winterthur just this year.

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Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, told the Brazilian network TV Globo that today it could already be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

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He graduated this year with a bachelor of science, majoring in geography.

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The introduction of the English Baccalaureate - which will be awarded to pupils gaining good GCSE passes in maths, English, two science subjects, a language and history or geography - would increase the uptake of history, he added.

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This is not a new qualification in itself, but a way of measuring how many pupils in a school pass GCSEs in a science, language and history or geography, as well as English and maths.

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