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Aryan
Prehistoric people that settled in Iran and N India. In the 19th cent. there arose a notion, propagated by the Comte de Gobineau and later by his disciple H. S. Chamberlain, of an "Aryan race": people who spoke Indo-European, especially Germanic, languages and lived in N Europe. These Aryans were considered to be superior to all other races. Though repudiated by numerous scholars, incl. F. Boas, the notion was seized on by A. Hitler and made the basis of the Nazi policy of exterminating Jews, Gypsies, and other "non-Aryans." See also racism.


bagasse
Fiber remaining after the extraction of the sugar-bearing juice from sugarcane. The term was once applied more generally to various waste residues from processing plant materials. Bagasse may be used as fuel in the sugarcane mill or as a source of cellulose for manufacturing animal feeds. Paper is produced from bagasse in several Latin-Amer. countries, in the Middle East, and in all sugar-producing countries that are deficient in forest resources. It is the essential ingredient for the production of pressed building board, acoustical tile, and other construction materials.


Bayard
U.S. statesman, diplomat, and lawyer. Born in Wilmington, Del., to a family prominent in Delaware politics, he succeeded his father in the U.S. Senate (1869-85). He served as secretary of state 1885-89 and as ambassador to Britain 1893-97, the first to hold that title. A champion of arbitration, he was critical of the aggressive position of Pres. G. Cleveland in the dispute with Britain over the Venezuelan boundary (1895).


canasta
Form of rummy, using two full decks, in which players or partnerships try to meld groups of three or more cards of the same rank and score bonuses for seven-card melds. Eleven cards are dealt to each player, the undealt portion of the pack is placed on the table, and the top card is turned up to start the discard pile. Each player in turn must draw, may meld, and must discard one card. A hand ends when a player melds his last card (goes out). Canasta originated in Uruguay in the late 1940s; its name (meaning "basket") is probably a reference to the tray for holding discards.


Dayaks
In Borneo, a non-Muslim indigenous people of the S and W interior (modern Kalimantan). Dayak is a generic term that has no precise ethnic or tribal significance but distinguishes the indigenous people from the largely Malay population of the coastal areas. Most Dayaks are riverine people who live in small longhouse communities. Children live with their parents until marriage, and boys, who usually seek brides outside their own village, go to live in their wife's community. Their subsistence economies rest on the shifting cultivation of hill rice, supplemented by fishing and hunting. Today they number over 2 million.


Dayan
Israeli soldier and statesman. Born on Israel's first kibbutz of Russian parents, ...

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