А вот я спросил у знакомого бразильца о названии его страны:

dkmeron® (14:57:31 13/12/2006)
why you country called as brasil ?

RICARDO (14:57:53 13/12/2006)
Because a wood very common here when Brasil was discovered.

RICARDO (14:58:03 13/12/2006)
Called "Pau-Brasil"

RICARDO (14:58:16 13/12/2006)
:-)

dkmeron® (14:58:21 13/12/2006)
=-O

dkmeron® (14:59:01 13/12/2006)
why this wood called brasil?

RICARDO (14:59:02 13/12/2006)
http://images.google.com/images?q=pau-brasil&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

RICARDO (14:59:20 13/12/2006)
Actually, I don´t know :-)

dkmeron® (14:59:30 13/12/2006)
:-D

RICARDO (14:59:51 13/12/2006)
I don´t know who called this wood Brazilwood. (pau-brasil)

RICARDO (14:59:52 13/12/2006)
:-)

dkmeron® (15:00:12 13/12/2006)
indeans?

RICARDO (15:00:23 13/12/2006)
perhaps (maybe)

dkmeron® (15:01:30 13/12/2006)
:-)

RICARDO (15:02:06 13/12/2006)
The ink extract from this wood was used to tinge king´s dresses.

RICARDO (15:02:25 13/12/2006)
They were "exported" (many of them) to Portugal.

dkmeron® (15:03:01 13/12/2006)
were grow this wood?
only in brasil?

RICARDO (15:03:25 13/12/2006)
As many of gold, diamonds, ... were extract by portugueses and it was "eхported" to Portugal.

RICARDO (15:03:27 13/12/2006)
Yes.

RICARDO (15:03:41 13/12/2006)
It is typical wood from Brasil.

dkmeron® (15:03:55 13/12/2006)
ONLY from brasil?

RICARDO (15:04:15 13/12/2006)
I think so.

RICARDO (15:04:27 13/12/2006)
But I must search more about this.

dkmeron® (15:04:38 13/12/2006)
it very interesting

RICARDO (15:05:06 13/12/2006)
http://www.globaltrees.org/reso_tree.asp?id=25

RICARDO (15:06:50 13/12/2006)
Pau brasil is confined to the Atlantic Coastal Forest of Brazil, an ecosystem recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot.

dkmeron® (15:06:59 13/12/2006)
i read it...

dkmeron® (15:07:40 13/12/2006)
i read about "VeraCrusia"

RICARDO (15:08:20 13/12/2006)
"Vera Cruz"

dkmeron® (15:08:34 13/12/2006)
old name brasil?

RICARDO (15:08:40 13/12/2006)
yes.

RICARDO (15:08:49 13/12/2006)
brasil had other names before Brasil.

dkmeron® (15:12:40 13/12/2006)
what is Brasserie?

dkmeron® (15:15:41 13/12/2006)
intresting about name your country:
http://chronologia.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=10983&forum=DCForumID2&viewmode=all
on russian, but with images

RICARDO (15:17:04 13/12/2006)
Very interesting...

RICARDO (15:17:07 13/12/2006)
pau-brasil to describe them: pau is Portuguese for "wood", and brasil is said to have come from brasa, Portuguese for "ember"

dkmeron® (15:17:33 13/12/2006)
what is ember?

RICARDO (15:17:45 13/12/2006)
Brasil - Brasa in portuguese (ember) because the strong red color from the wood.

RICARDO (15:18:18 13/12/2006)
ember is coal or iron in high temperature.

RICARDO (15:18:24 13/12/2006)
it becomes red.

RICARDO (15:18:29 13/12/2006)
like ember...

RICARDO (15:19:15 13/12/2006)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilwood

RICARDO (15:20:04 13/12/2006)
http://chronologia.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=10983&forum=DCForumID2&viewmode=all (funny pics)

dkmeron® (15:20:18 13/12/2006)
thanks!

RICARDO (15:22:23 13/12/2006)
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandeira_do_Brasil