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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of east-central Germany north of Leipzig. It was the site of the Bauhaus school from 1925 to 1932.
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Examples
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It'll be hot enough to melt at this outdoor pop- and electro-music festival near the east German city of Dessau.
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What I can thoroughly recommend is a recording of Brecht songs with various composers Weill, Eisler, Dessau etc. sung by Robyn Archer - our antipodean friends may know of her.
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It'll be hot enough to melt at this outdoor pop- and electro-music festival near the east German city of Dessau.
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Dessau pointed to servers that are virtualized, running databases and dynamic web languages as examples of jobs that need more than just horsepower.
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I read in big cities and small towns: Berlin, Frankfurt, Magdeburg, Dessau, Halle, Celle and Kirn.
Lev Raphael: Foreign Language, Foreign Land: Reading My Book in a New Language Lev Raphael 2010
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I read in big cities and small towns: Berlin, Frankfurt, Magdeburg, Dessau, Halle, Celle and Kirn.
Lev Raphael: Foreign Language, Foreign Land: Reading My Book in a New Language Lev Raphael 2010
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Yet the experience did not prevent him from documenting the postwar suffering of the Germans (a wrenching picture here from 1945 shows a woman in Dessau weeping on a pile of rubble) or from sympathizing with a French female collaborator besieged by a mob of his countrymen.
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I read in big cities and small towns: Berlin, Frankfurt, Magdeburg, Dessau, Halle, Celle and Kirn.
Lev Raphael: Foreign Language, Foreign Land: Reading My Book in a New Language Lev Raphael 2010
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It then flourished from 1925 to 1932 in Dessau, an industrial backwater where the school's first director, Walter Gropius, built its image-making headquarters (see illustration on page 25); and it ultimately but vainly sought refuge in cosmopolitan Berlin, where it closed in 1933, when Hitler took power.
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It then flourished from 1925 to 1932 in Dessau, an industrial backwater where the school's first director, Walter Gropius, built its image-making headquarters (see illustration on page 25); and it ultimately but vainly sought refuge in cosmopolitan Berlin, where it closed in 1933, when Hitler took power.
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