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n. (plural of latitude English)

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Latitudes (film)

Latitudes is a 2014 Brazilian romance- drama film directed by Felipe Braga, starring Alice Braga and Daniel de Oliveira. The film tells the story of a couple who finds themselves in several places around the world, such as hotels, airports and train stations, in cities like Paris, London, Venice, Porto, Buenos Aires and Istanbul.

The film is part of a transmedia project. Initially, it was exhibited on the Internet in several episodes. Later, went on television, and finally, it was released at the cinema. This was the intention of the director and producers since the beginning of the project.

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Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves, followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets?

He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.

Banks of Newfoundland do, because of there being shallows and soundings there, but because of this remarkable meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast drifts of brit continually floating in those latitudes, where the Right Whale is often chased.

Even the surface water was extremely salty in many places and hence hard to freeze, but Kainui and its slightly smaller twin Kaihapa were far enough from the suns to freeze plenty of floe ice in the high latitudes in the winter hemisphere.

They were already well south of the latitudes maintained by most cities in this hemisphere.

Maybe it would be better to get away from this creature and simply cruise around, remaining in deep-south latitudes, of course, but not going as far as the ice, or even the calms, hoping to find another ship rather than a city, and trade off some of this stuff before going home.

In the seventeenth century we have the discoveries of Tasman, and towards its close English adventurers reported having reached high latitudes in the South Atlantic.

Her chief object was to make magnetic observations in high latitudes south of the Indian Ocean.

Our ship was a good deal too dependent on wind and weather to enable us to make any accurate estimate of the time our voyage would occupy, especially as regards those latitudes in which the winds are variable.

Generally in these latitudes one encounters extremely heavy downpours, which make it possible to collect water by Page 80 Amundsen, Ronald - The South Pole, Vol.

Thus an important stage of the voyage was concluded: the feeling that we had now reached southern latitudes was enough to put us all in holiday humour, and we felt we must get up a modest entertainment.

A circumstance which contributes an element of risk to navigation in the latitudes where we found ourselves is the possibility of colliding with an iceberg in darkness Page 85 Amundsen, Ronald - The South Pole, Vol.

No confectioner in our native latitudes could have shown a finer dough.

It is a diet that is not much sought after in our native latitudes, but latitude makes a very great difference in this world.

Through the whole Antarctic winter -- and it is a winter -- those four walls had protected us so well that many a poor wretch in milder latitudes would have envied us with all his heart, if he could have seen us.