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Fordlandia
Published 2 years, 3 months ago
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Cape Cod-style homes with white picket fences, perfect lawns, and a car in the driveway bring back memories of mid-20th century middle-class America, but did you know that deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil lay the remnants of just such a town built by American industrialist Henry Ford in the 1920s - a town he aptly named, Fordlandia?
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