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Dachau
First Nazi concentration camp in Germany, established in 1933. It became the model and training center for all other SS-organized camps. In World War II the main camp was supplemented by about 150 branches in S Germany and Austria, which were collectively called Dachau. It was the first and most important camp at which laboratories were set up to perform medical experiments on inmates. Such experiments and the harsh living conditions made Dachau one of the most notorious camps, though it was not designed as an extermination camp.
Dacia
Ancient country, central Europe. Roughly equivalent to modern Romania, the area's earliest known inhabitants were Getae and Dacian people of Thracian stock. Known for its rich silver, iron, and gold mines, the region was made a Roman province in AD 107 after two centuries of hostilities. It was abandoned to the Goths in 270 and ultimately divided into the principalities of Walachia and Moldavia.
Dallas
City (pop., 1996 est.: 1,053,000), N Texas. Located on the Trinity River, it was first settled in 1841, and was probably named for G. Dallas. While cotton fed the town's growth, the discovery in 1930 of the great E. Texas oil field made the city a major center of the petroleum industry. It saw spectacular growth after World War II, when several large aircraft-manufacturing firms located in the area. These were followed by electronics and automobile-assembly plants. It is the headquarters of more than 100 insurance companies, and the Southwest's leading financial center, as well as a transportation hub. Its many educational institutions include Southern Methodist Univ. (founded 1911). It is known for its cultural activities; the Dallas Theater Center is the only theater designed by F. L. Wright.
Duchamp
French artist and art innovator. In 1904 he arrived in Paris and earned his living by drawing cartoons for comic magazines. In 1913 he caused a sensation at the Armory Show with his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912), combining the principles of Cubism and Futurism. He then abandoned conventional media and, with F. Picabia, became the leader of the New York Dada movement. He invented the ready-made, notably a urinal titled Fountain (1917), and snubbed the traditional values of art, living by the conviction that life is meaningless and absurd. Though among the most gifted painters of his time, he lacked faith in art itself, seeking to replace aesthetic values with an aggressive intellectualism and irreverence for the common-sense world. He greatly influenced the Surrealists, and his attitude toward art and society led to Pop art and other modern and postmodern movements. A legend in his lifetime, he is considered one of the leading spirits of 20th-cent. art
Lachaise
French-born U.S. sculptor. Son of a cabinetmaker, he was trained in the decorative arts and studied sculpture at the É cole des Beaux-Arts ...
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