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Eichmann
German Nazi official. In 1932 he joined the Nazi Party and became a member of H. Himmler's SS organization. In World War II he organized the identification, assembly, and transportation of Jews to Auschwitz and other death camps. In 1945 he was captured by U.S. troops but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In 1960 he was arrested near Buenos Aires and taken to Israel, where he was tried as a war criminal, with huge worldwide publicity, and hanged for his part in the Holocaust.
Kathmandu
City (pop., 1993 est.: 535,000), capital of Nepal. Situated near the confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnumati rivers at an elevation of 4,344 ft (1,324 m), it was founded in 723. Its name refers to a temple (kath, "wood"; mandir, "temple") said to have been built from the wood of a single tree in 1596. The seat of the ruling Shah family of the Gurkha people since 1768, it is Nepal's most important business and commercial center and the site of Tribhuvan Univ.
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 the Ming dynasty and local warlords. In the early 16th cent. a rebellion was launched against the Ming regime. Nanchang suffered from the Taiping Rebellion. In 1927 it was the site of revolutionary activities of the Chinese Communist Party. Since 1949 it has become industrialized; its products include textiles, milled rice, and automotive parts.
Nathan
Prophet at the courts of David and Solomon in ancient Israel. In II Samuel he rebuked David for taking Bathsheba from her husband. As punishment, David was not allowed to build the Temple at Jerusalem, since Nathan had a vision informing him that its construction must be postponed until Solomon succeeded to the throne. Nathan later anointed the new king.
Tuchman
U.S. historian. Born in New York City, she wrote for The Nation and other publications before beginning to write most of the books that made her a leading popular historian. Marked by a masterly literary style and a powerful grasp of complex issues, they include The Zimmerman Telegram (1958); The Guns of August (1962, Pulitzer Prize), on the first month of World War I; Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (1970, Pulitzer Prize), a study of the China-U.S. relationship; A Distant Mirror (1978), concerning 14th-cent. France; and The March of Folly (1984).
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