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The samba school Unidos da Tijuca parades in the annual Carnaval parade held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One of the school's floats depicts the Nick Ut Pulitzer-prize winning photograph of a girl, Kim Phuc, whose clothes and skin were burned off in a napalm attack during the Vietnam War.
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One of dozens of giant Carnaval floats awaits action in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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The samba school Viradouro has come under criticism for a float it commissioned for this year's Carnaval parade, which features a mound of corpses in reference to the Holocaust.
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Model and lingerie designer Angela Bismarchi in her home in Niteroi, Brazil, had her eyes surgically altered this year to appear more Asian in preparation for leading her samba school parade's celebration of a century of Japanese immigration to Brazil.
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Model and lingerie designer Angela Bismarchi has had 42 plastic surgeries performed on her body and is just five surgeries away from tying the world record for most plastic surgeries performed on a single person.
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As part of its Carnaval parade about things that raise goosebumps, the Viradouro samba school has commissioned a float featuring a 16-foot-tall, bloody newborn baby.
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Workers prepare a Carnival float in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Paulo Barros, director of the Viradouro samba school, shows off the floats he's designed for the school's 2008 parade. One float, seen in the background, that depicts a mound of bodies in reference to the Holocaust has stirred outrage.
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