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Dayton
City (pop., 1996 est.: 173,000), SW Ohio. Settled on the Miami River in 1796 by a group of Revolutionary War veterans, it developed as a river port shipping agricultural produce. The 1829 opening of the Miami and Erie Canal between Dayton and Cincinnati, and the arrival in 1851 of the railroad stimulated its industrial growth. It was home to W. and O. Wright, and is also their place of burial. The city is a market and distribution center. It is the site of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (established 1946) and the Air Force Institute of Technology (1947). Home to several colleges and universities, it also has an art institute and a symphony orchestra.


Altona
Former city, Germany. It was a fishing village when it passed to Denmark in 1640. It grew into a city, and was granted customs privileges with the intention of making it a rival to Hamburg. Despite the Napoleonic Wars, it prospered until 1853, when it lost its privileges. Altona was occupied in 1864 and became Prussian in 1866; in 1937 it was incorporated into Hamburg.


Danton
French revolutionary leader. A lawyer in Paris before the French Revolution, he cofounded the Club of the Cordeliers (1790) and frequently made impassioned speeches before both it and the Jacobin Club. He was elected minister of justice in 1792, and he became a member of the first Committee of Public Safety in April 1793. Effectively the head of government for three months, he pursued a policy of compromise and negotiation. He was not reelected to the Committee when its term expired in July, and became leader of the moderate Indulgents, which had risen from the Cordeliers. His moderation and opposition to the Reign of Terror led to his own death at the guillotine.

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