Show Naming Cities for Dates What is perhaps the oddest of or all aU va ways s 's to select a name for a n city or Jr r street is to name it fo for a n date and yet et this has bas been dono don m aril Brazil for hundreds of years It was wason wason on January 1 1 1531 31 that a Portuguese captain Alphonso de Souza by nune entered the mouth month of that hat marvelously sly beautiful Im buy bay on n the shores of which now stands the capital of the vast as republic republic re- re re- re republic I public of Brazil Thinking that ne no yas ras I sailing into a n great river he tamed named I the stream Rio de Janier or January Januar I river and arid all nIl through the centuries s the name mane has remained I |