* Srpska Demokratska Stranka (Serbian Democratic Party), the main organ of the Bosnian Serbs.
* Hrvatske Odbrambene Snage (Croatian Defense Force), the private army of Dobroslav Paraga’s party of rightwing extremists, HSP, whose antecedents were in the Nazi period.
* The Ustashe were Croatian Nazis who committed many atrocities against Muslims and Serbs during World War II. Accordingly, Serbian ultranationalists during the Yugoslavian Civil War a half-century later referred to Croats as Ustashe. This hateful appellation was mostly slanderous, but not entirely, for some Croatian irregulars from the Dalmatian coast (Dubrovnik) and elsewhere did gleefully style themselves after the Fascist model.
* 27 June.
* This later became a point of some trouble to their husbands, who found that the Cirtovich women were unaccustomed to the lot of wives; indeed, all they had to do was complain to their doting father, and the husbands would be informed that there were wolves in the forest and in the islands uskoks who enjoyed burning captives alive. Until the end of Cirtovich’s life, only two of his daughters were beaten even once; and of these, one was unmolested forever after; the other became mysteriously widowed and soon remarried on very good terms.
* Serbian outlaw.
* 24 April (Old Style).
* It might be best to be a tree, drinking sunlight, eating dirt and budding for ever so many seasons, probably without the knowledge which doubles pleasure but also without the corresponding double pain when autumn requires the tree to shed pieces of itself. For a tree, life might be experienced as easy and semicontinual aggrandizement, death as nothing—but who can say? Is it any worse to while away an afternoon over a grappa or two, at a little round table, drinking in the sunshine of passing women?
* Judge.
* An image, often naïve in style and technique, commissioned in honor of a saint, or more specifically to acknowledge some miracle or favor. Nineteenth-century Mexican retablos tend to be oil-painted on tin-coated iron.
* Light spring wagon.
* As for Dominga, her doom is obscure.
* Mexicans seeking illegal entry into the U.S. Along the border they are memorialized by their clothes, left behind in the course of a crossing or an arrest.
* Indigenous name for Malinche.
* A mixture of palm-oil, flour, water and pepper, served out on some slave ships. Doubtless its low nutritive value made the human cargo less dangerous (at the cost of increasing mortality).
* Gull means “gold.”
* A sheath-knife or dagger.
* A maiko is a young apprentice geisha. (This category exists in Kyoto only.) She dresses more vibrantly than her Elder Sisters. Her kimonos often sport accents of red, the color of sexuality and youth. In her last year, her red collar is gradually altered, month by month, into a silver one, until she has entered into the more somber maturity of geishahood.
* Kabuki actors who specialize in female impersonation.
* Japanese “Mafia.”
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