The Simpson desert is located in central Australia. Underneath it lies the Great Artesian Basin, waters from which rise to the surface both at several natural springs (especially at Dalhousie[?]) and artificial bores (some drilled for stock routes, others during failed oil exploration.)
... Brazil's domination by the "coffee oligarchs")
Coronelismo (reference to machine politics)
Integralism (influnential Brazilian fascist movement in the 1930s)
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