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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.
Lachaise
French-born U.S. sculptor. Son of a cabinetmaker, he was trained in the decorative arts and studied sculpture at the \u00c9 cole des Beaux-Arts (1898-1904). He was a designer of Art Nouveau decorative objects for R. Lalique before emigrating to the U.S. in 1906. His most famous work, Standing Woman (1912-27), a female nude with enormous breasts and thighs and sinuous, tapered limbs, typifies the image he worked and reworked throughout his career. He is also known for his portrait busts of J. Marin, M. Moore, E. E. Cummings, and others.
Machaut
French poet and composer. After possibly receiving a university education and taking holy orders, he traveled throughout Europe as secretary to the king of Bohemia. From 1340 he settled in Reims, supported by several royal patrons, incl. the duc de Berry, and King Charles V. Beside 14 narrative poems incorporating short lyrics, he wrote more than 400 separate lyric poems. His musical output numbers dozens each of the genres of formes fixes, as well as the first complete setting of the mass for four voices, and he was the outstanding figure of the Ars Nova. His poetry was a source for G. Chaucer.
machismo
Exaggerated pride in masculinity, perceived as power, often coupled with a minimal sense of responsibility and disregard of consequences. In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and denigration of characteristics associated with the feminine. It has for centuries been a strong current in Latin Amer. politics and society. Caudillos, prominent in the history of Latin America, have typified machismo with their bold and authoritarian approach to government and their willingness to employ violence to achieve their ends.
Naivasha
Lake, SW central Kenya. Located in the Great Rift Valley, at 6,135 ft (1,870 m) above sea level, it is 12 mi (19 km) long and 9 mi (14 km) wide and has an area of 108 sq mi (280 sq km); it has no known outlet. It serves as a weekend resort for residents of Nairobi, to the southeast.
Nanchang
City (pop., 1991 est.: 1,350,000), capital of Jiangxi province, SE China. An old walled city on the right bank of the Gan River, it was founded in 201 BC. In AD 959 under the Tang regime, it became the S capital. At the end of the Mongol period it was a battleground between the founder of ...
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