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Elblag

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El·blg  (lblông, -blôk)
A city of northern Poland east-southeast of Gdask. It was founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1237 and passed through various hands before becoming part of Poland after World War II. Population: 127,000.


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Rose skillfully surveys Abakanowicz's career, from the early '60s, when her rather crude 20-foot-tall oval cylinder punctuated by smaller protruding tubes was included in the Biennial of Three-Dimensional Forms in Elblag (a provincial town near Gdansk), to the early '90s, when she was selected as a finalist in an urban-development competition for the Great Axis of Paris on the basis of her eccentric forest of houses resembling gigantic trees (which she dubbed "arboreals").
It will begin operations in the latter two provinces, with plans for Elblag and Jelenia Gora to follow.
 
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