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BLUMENAU, BRAZIL - OCTOBER 23: A man bikes past an old German-style wood home on October 23, 2015 in Blumenau, Brazil. The city, founded in 1850 by Dr. Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau and seventeen other German immigrants, is holding its annual Oktoberfest. An estimated 30 percent of the city's 320,000 residents are of German descent. Its Oktoberfest is one of the largest in the world outside of Germany and attracts hundreds of thousands. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)