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yucca
Any of about 40 species of succulent plants (genus Yucca) of the lily family, native to S N. America. Most species lack a stem and have a rosette of stiff, sword-shaped leaves at the base and clusters of waxy white flowers. The Joshua tree (Y. brevifolia) has a stem more than 33 ft (10 m) high. Commonly cultivated as ornamentals for their unusual appearance and attractive flower clusters are the aptly named Spanish bayonet (Y. aloifolia), Spanish dagger (Y. gloriosa), and Adam's needle, or bear grass (Y. filamentosa). Yucca moths (genus Tegeticula) inhabit yucca bushes, each moth species adapted to a particular yucca species. The yucca can be fertilized by no other insect, and the moth can use no other plant to raise its larvae.


Busch
German violinist and conductor. A proté gé of M. Reger, he became concertmaster of the Vienna Konzertverein at 20 and founded the legendary Busch Quartet after World War I. Forbidden to perform with his Jewish son-in-law R. Serkin by the Nazis, he moved to Switzerland, then England, and finally the U.S., where in 1950 he cofounded the Marlboro Music Festival in Marlboro, Vt. His brother Fritz (1890-1951), a piano prodigy, held several important conducting positions after World War I, incl. music director of the Stuttgart Opera. As F. Reiner's successor at the Dresden Opera, he conducted important premieres, particularly of R. Strauss's operas. Dismissed for opposition to Hitler, he conducted in Scandinavia and Argentina and in 1934 became the first music director of the Glyndebourne Opera.


Funchal
City (pop., 1991: 126,000) and capital of the autonomous region of Madeira, Portugal. Lying on the S coast of Madeira island in the N. Atlantic, it is the center of industry, commerce, and communications for Madeira. It was founded in 1421 by the Portuguese navigator Joã o Gonç alves Zarco and later came under Spanish (1580-1640) and British (1807-14) control. The city's scenery and mild year-round climate attract many tourists.


Munch
Norwegian painter and printmaker. His life and art were marked by the deaths of both parents, his brother, and his sister during his childhood, and the mental illness of another sister. He received little formal training, but the encouragement of a circle of artists in Christiania (now Oslo) and exposure to Impressionism and Postimpressionism helped him develop a highly original style. It was principally through his work of the 1890s, a series of paintings on love and death in which he gave form to mysterious and dangerous psychic forces, that he made crucial contributions to modern art. The Scream (1893), his most famous work, is often seen as a symbol of modern humanity's spiritual anguish. His etchings, lithographs, dry point, and woodcuts closely resemble his paintings in style and subject matter. After a nervous breakdown in 1908-9, therapy lent his work a more positive, extroverted tone, but his art ...

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