98. Ranked as one of the most important of Europe's young playwrights, Franz Xaver Kroetz has written 40 plays; his works——translated into more than 30 languages——as produced more often than those of any other contemporary German dramatist.
129. Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the 4,000 Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically seventieth-century French to which English, Spanish, and Italian words have been added.