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Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer The Hungarian-born American architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) was among the most influential architects and teachers of the 20th century. From his early furniture design to his later massive concrete building forms, Breuer remained a bold innovator. Marcel Breuer, born in... Read more |
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goes
goes he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing involving oneself in debt is likely to lead to unhappiness; proverbial saying, late 15th century.what goes around, comes around often used as a comment on someone becoming subject to what they have visited on others. This modern saying (of US origin)... Read more |
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Gae
Gae ♀ From the English vocabulary word gay in its original meaning ‘blithe’ or ‘cheerful’. This came to be used as a given name in the early 20th century because of its well-omened meaning, but fell out of favour again in the 1960s, when the vocabulary word... Read more |
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Josef Hoffmann
Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956, Austrian architect. A student of Otto Wagner, he was a leader of Austrian decoration in the first three decades of the 20th cent. His sophisticated compositions, based on rectangles and squares, with delicate ornamental trimming, can best be seen in the architecture and... Read more |
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Stanton
Stanton city (1990 pop. 30,491), Orange co., SW Calif., SW of Anaheim; inc. 1956. The city's population grew rapidly in the late 20th century. Manufactures include electrical and electronic goods, signs, computer equipment, building materials, and plastics. There are also tool-and-die and... Read more |
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Kokkola
Kokkola, Finland Gamlakarleby The former name, which was replaced in the 20th century, meant ‘Old Karl's Village’ from the Swedish gamla ‘old’, the personal name (although the individual is not known) and bý ‘village’. The meaning of the present name... Read more |
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Linda
Linda ♀ Of relatively recent origin and uncertain etymology. It is first recorded in the 19th century. It may be a shortened form of Belinda, an adoption of Spanish linda ‘pretty’, or a Latinate derivative of any of various other Germanic female names ending in -lind meaning... Read more |
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Jablonec nad Nisou
Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic Gablonz an der Neisse According to legend, named after the only apple tree (in Czech, jablon) left standing after the area had been laid waste by the Catholic Lusatians during the Hussite Wars (1417–39). Nad Nisou means ‘On the (River)... Read more |
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euthanasia
euthanasia , either painlessly putting to death or failing to prevent death from natural causes in cases of terminal illness or irreversible coma. The term comes from the Greek expression for "good death." Technological advances in medicine have made it possible to prolong life in patients with... Read more |
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The Eight
Eight, The. A name of three groups of artists, respectively (1) American, (2) Czech, and (3) Hungarian; they were not connected in any way, but they all originally consisted of eight members, and they were all active in the first decade of the 20th century. (1) A group of eight American painters who... Read more |
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