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November 20

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on November 20 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

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The Maceió offshore natural pools (Piscinas Naturais de Pajuçara)

Maceió Brazil

are one of the more distinctive Brazilian Northeast beach features — the wider Alagoas coast has significant offshore coral-reef formations that produce the natural pools during low tide (when the receding tide exposes the shallow reef-enclosed pools approximately 1-2 km…

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