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- (from the article "radar") ...active-aperture phased-array radar that operates within the X-band of the spectrum. A different approach to ballistic missile defense is the Israeli tactical system known as Arrow, which employs an L-band ...
- L carrier system
- (from the article "telecommunication") ...Therefore, an FDM signal must be transmitted over an analog channel. Examples of FDM are found in some of the old long-distance telephone transmission systems, including the American N- and ...
- L'Amour, Louis
- American writer, best-selling author of more than 100 books, most of which were formula westerns that were highly popular because of their well-researched portrayals of frontier life.
- L'Aquila
- city, capital of Abruzzi region, central Italy. It is situated on a hill above the Aterno River, northeast of Rome. The area was settled by the Sabini, an ancient Italic ...
- L'Enfant, Pierre-Charles
- French-born American engineer, architect, and urban designer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. [6 Related Articles]
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- American author of imaginative juvenile literature that is often concerned with such themes as the conflict of good and evil, the nature of God, individual responsibility, and family life. [1 Related Articles]
- L'Estrange, Sir Roger
- one of the earliest of English journalists and pamphleteers, an ardent supporter of the Royalist cause during the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period (1649-60), who was eventually rewarded for ... [1 Related Articles]
- L'Hospital, Michel de
- statesman, lawyer, and humanist who, as chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568, was instrumental in the adoption by the French government of a policy of toleration toward the Huguenots. [2 Related Articles]
- L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
- city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It is a southwestern industrial suburb of Barcelona city and ...
- L'Isle-Adam, Villiers de
- (from the article "Verlaine, Paul") ...he was writing verse and frequenting literary cafes and drawing rooms, where he met the leading poets of the Parnassian group and other talented contemporaries, among them Mallarme, Villiers de ...
- L'Obel, Matthias de
- French physician and botanist whose Stirpium adversaria nova (1570; written in collaboration with Pierre Pena) was a milestone in modern botany. It argued that botany and medicine must be based ...
- L-1011 TriStar
- (from the article "flight, history of") ...the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 was created to meet an estimated market requirement for about 750 wide-bodied aircraft. Lockheed sought to enter the same market with its technologically more advanced L-1011 ...
- L-dopa
- (from the article "dystonia") ...groups. Although dystonias may occur in families or sporadically, many are secondary to other disorders as reactions to medications; for example, one of the most common dystonias is induced by ...
- L-head engine
- (from the article "gasoline engine") ...is affected by the location of the valves of the four-stroke-cycle engine and by the provision of cylinder ports in the two-stroke type. An overhead-valve engine, which has largely replaced ...
- L-tyrosine
- (from the article "catecholamine") All catecholamines begin with the amino acid L-tyrosine. Through a series of enzymatic reactions, L-tyrosine is converted to L-dopa, then to dopamine, then to norepinephrine, and finally to epinephrine. Catecholamines ...
- L-wave
- (from the article "ultrasonics") ...important examples of infrasonic waves in nature is in earthquakes. Three principal types of earthquake wave exist: the S-wave, a transverse body wave; the P-wave, a longitudinal body wave; and ...
- L. Straus and Sons
- (from the article "Straus Family") During the American Civil War the family aided the Confederacy, but, following its defeat, they resettled in New York City. There they established L. Straus and Sons, a merchandising firm ...
- L.A.
- (from the article "New jack swing") The key producers were L.A., Babyface, and Teddy Riley, who crafted romantic songs for the dance floor. L.A. (Antonio Reid, whose nickname was derived from his allegiance to the Los ...
- L1 carrier system
- (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...systems were introduced in the United States in 1946. The early American cable systems known as the L carrier employed analog FDM methods. With frequency multiplexing, the first coaxial system ...
- L4 carrier system
- (from the article "telecommunication") ...the 1940s, the master group was transmitted directly over coaxial cable. For microwave systems, it was frequency modulated onto a microwave carrier frequency for point-to-point transmission. In the L4 system, ...
- L5E carrier system
- (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...carrier) could support 1,800 two-way voice circuits by bundling together three working pairs of cable, each pair transmitting 600 voice signals simultaneously. In the last analog coaxial system (the L5E ...
- La Barre, Jean-Francois Lefebvre, chevalier de
- (from the article "French literature") ...appeals to justice were the main focus of Voltaire's writings in his last 20 years, as he protested against such outrages as the executions, motivated by religious prejudice, of Jean ...
- La Baule-Escoublac
- fashionable resort, Loire-Atlantique departement, Pays de la Loire region, western France. It lies along the Atlantic coast near the mouth of the Loire River, west of Saint-Nazaire. Facing south and ...
- La Blanca
- (from the article "Oran") Modern Oran is divided into a waterfront and old and new city sections occupying terraces above it that were formerly divided by a ravine (now built over). The old Spanish-Arab-Turkish ...
- La Boetie, Etienne de
- (from the article "Montaigne, Michel de") ...the Parliament of Bordeaux, one of the eight regional parliaments that constituted the French Parliament, the highest national court of justice. There, at the age of 24, he made the ...
- La Bourdonnais, Bertrand-Francois Mahe, Count (comte) de
- French naval commander who played an important part in the struggle between the French and the British for control of India. [1 Related Articles]
- La Brea Tar Pits
- tar (Spanish brea) pits, in Hancock Park (Rancho La Brea), Los Angeles, California, U.S. The area was the site of "pitch springs" oozing crude oil that was ... [2 Related Articles]
- La Bruyere, Jean de
- French satiric moralist who is best known for one work, Les Caracteres de Theophraste traduits du grec avec Les Caracteres ou les moeurs de ce siecle (1688; ... [3 Related Articles]
- La Calprenede, Gaultier de Coste, Seigneur de
- author of sentimental, adventurous, pseudohistorical romances that were immensely popular in 17th-century France. To this rambling and diffuse genre he imparted vigour through swift-moving plots.
- La Ceiba
- city, northern Honduras. It lies along the Gulf of Honduras, in a lush, hot valley at the foot of 7,989-foot (2,435-metre) Mount Bonito.
- La Chalotais, Louis-Rene de Caradeuc de
- French magistrate who led the Breton Parlement (high court of justice) in a protracted legal battle against the authority of the government of King Louis XV. The struggle resulted in ...
- La Chapelle-aux-Saints
- cave site near the village of La Chapelle-aux-Saints in central France where the bones of an adult Neanderthal male were found in 1908. Studies of the remains published in 1911-13 ...
- La Chaussee, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de
- French playwright who created the comedie larmoyante ("tearful comedy"), a verse-drama form merging tearful, sentimental scenes with an invariably happy ending. These sentimental comedies, which were precursors of Denis Diderot's ... [1 Related Articles]
- La Chetardie, Jacques-Joachim Trotti, Marquis de
- French officer and diplomat who helped raise the princess Elizabeth to the throne of Russia.
- La Colombiere, Claude Blessed
- Jesuit who assisted St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in establishing the devotion to the Sacred Heart. [1 Related Articles]
- La Condamine, Charles-Marie de
- French naturalist and mathematician who accomplished the first scientific exploration of the Amazon River. [4 Related Articles]
- La Coruna, Battle of
- (from the article "Moore, Sir John") ...west of Burgos. Learning that Napoleon had cut off his route of withdrawal into Portugal, he led his forces over 250 miles (400 km) of snowclad country to his shipping ...
- La Crosse
- city, seat (1851) of La Crosse county, western Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River at the influx of the La Crosse River, about 130 miles (210 km) northwest ...
- La Crosse Railroad
- (from the article "Sage, Russell") Sage had lent some money to the La Crosse Railroad in Wisconsin. To save his loans, he advanced more money and, in 1857, he became vice president with a major ...
- La Esperanza
- town, southwestern Honduras, at an elevation of 4,951 ft (1,509 m) above sea level in the Sierra de Opalaca. It was founded in 1848 adjacent to the Indian settlement of ...
- La Farge, John
- American painter, muralist, and stained-glass designer. [1 Related Articles]
- La Farge, Oliver
- American anthropologist, short-story writer, and novelist who acted as a spokesman for the American Indian through his political actions and his fiction.
- La Farina, Giuseppe
- Italian revolutionary, writer, and leader and historian of the Risorgimento.
- La Fayette, Gilbert Motier de
- marshal of France during the Hundred Years' War and noted adviser to King Charles VII.
- La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine, comtesse de
- French writer whose La Princesse de Cleves is a landmark of French fiction. [2 Related Articles]
- La Ferrassie
- paleoanthropological site in the Dordogne region of France where Neanderthal fossils were found in a rock shelter between 1909 and 1921. Though the first report was made in 1934, investigation ...
- La Ferrassie skeletons
- (from the article "La Ferrassie") paleoanthropological site in the Dordogne region of France where Neanderthal fossils were found in a rock shelter between 1909 and 1921. Though the first report was made in 1934, investigation ...
- La Flesche, Francis
- U.S. ethnologist and champion of the rights of American Indians who wrote a book of general literary interest about his experiences as a student in a mission school in the ... [2 Related Articles]
- La Flesche, Susette
- Native American writer, lecturer, and activist in the cause of American Indian rights.
- La Follette Seaman's Act
- (from the article "La Follette, Robert M") ...battling the same enemies that menaced consumers and because consumers benefited directly from improvements in working conditions. He believed, for example, that his most famous achievement, the La Follette Seaman's ...
- La Follette, Philip Fox
- (from the article "La Follette, Robert M") Philip Fox La Follette (1897-1965) served as governor of Wisconsin in 1931-33 and 1935-39. In his first term he secured enactment of the first comprehensive unemployment compensation act in any ...
- La Follette, Robert M
- U.S. leader of the Progressive Movement, who as governor of Wisconsin (1901-06) and U.S. senator (1906-25) was noted for his support of reform legislation. He was the unsuccessful presidential candidate ... [3 Related Articles]
- La Follette, Robert M., Jr.
- (from the article "La Follette, Robert M") Both of La Follette's sons carried on his work after his death. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1895-1953), was elected in 1925 to fill his father's unexpired term in the ...
- La Fontaine
- also called Mlle De Lafontaine French ballerina and the first woman professional ballet dancer.
- La Fontaine, Jean de
- poet whose Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature. [7 Related Articles]
- La Fosse, Charles de
- painter whose decorative historical and allegorical murals, while continuing a variant of the stately French Baroque manner of the 17th century, began to develop a lighter, more brightly coloured style ...
- La Fresnaye, Roger de
- French painter who synthesized lyrical colour with the geometric simplifications of Cubism.
- La Frontera
- (from the article "Chile") ...these are Norte Grande (extending to 27° S); the north-central region, Norte Chico (27° to 33° S); the central region, Zona Central (33° to 38° S); the south-central region, La ...
- La Galaisiere, Legentil de
- (from the article "Trifid Nebula") (catalog numbers NGC 6514 and M 20), bright, diffuse nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, lying several thousand light-years from the Earth. It was discovered by the French astronomer Legentil de ...
- La Galissonniere, Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de
- mariner and commandant general of New France. [1 Related Articles]
- La Gomera
- island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Spain, in the North Atlantic Ocean. The island ... [1 Related Articles]
- La Goulette
- town located in northern Tunisia and an outport for Tunis. Situated on a sandbar between Lake Tunis and the Gulf of Tunis, La Goulette (its Arabic name, Halq al-Wadi, means ...
- La Grande
- city, seat (1905) of Union county, northeastern Oregon, U.S., between the Blue Mountains (west) and Wallowa Mountains (east), on the Grande Ronde River. The region was once roamed by Umatilla ...
- La Grande River
- river in Nord-du-Quebec region, north-central Quebec province, Canada. Rising from Nichicun Lake in the Otish Mountains of central Quebec, it descends 1,737 feet (529 m) in its westward journey to ...
- La Gruyere
- region and southernmost district of Fribourg canton, western Switzerland. La Gruyere lies along the middle reach of La Sarine (Saane) River, on the edge of the Vaudois uplands and the ...
- La Guaira
- city, northern Distrito Federal (Federal District), northern Venezuela. One of the country's leading seaports, La Guaira lies in the narrow, arid coastal zone along the Caribbean at the foot of ... [1 Related Articles]
- La Guardia Airport
- (from the article "airport") ...of heavy monoplanes for transport, such as the Douglas DC-3, during the late 1930s that extensive takeoff and landing distances were needed. Even then, the prewar airfields at New York ...
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- American politician and lawyer who served three terms (1933-45) as mayor of New York City. [2 Related Articles]
- La Guma, Alex
- black novelist of South Africa in the 1960s whose characteristically brief works (e.g., A Walk in the Night [1962], The Stone-Country [1965], and In the Fog of the Season's End ... [3 Related Articles]
- La Habra
- city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. The city lies just north of Fullerton and southeast of Los Angeles. Its name derives from the Spanish abra ("pass"), with ...
- La Harpe, Bernard de
- (from the article "Little Rock") city, capital of Arkansas, U.S. It is the seat of Pulaski county, on the Arkansas River in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains in the central part of the state. ...
- La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar de
- Swiss political leader and Vaudois patriot, tutor and confidant to Tsar Alexander I of Russia and a central figure in the creation of the Helvetic Republic (1798). [1 Related Articles]
- La Harpe, Jean-Francois de
- critic and unsuccessful playwright who wrote severe and provocative criticisms and histories of French literature.
- La Hire, Laurent de
- French Baroque classical painter whose best work is marked by gravity, simplicity, and dignity.
- La Jaunaye, Convention of
- (from the article "Vendee, Wars of the") ...(May) and the rise to power of the moderate Thermidorian faction in Paris (July), a more conciliatory policy was adopted. In December the government announced an amnesty, and on Feb. ...
- La Jolla Canyon
- (from the article "Scripps Canyon") ...to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for which it was named. The canyon's shallow tributary valleys head very close to shore in water only 40 feet (12 m) deep. The valley ...
- La Joya
- (from the article "Spain") ...of the former rulers, new adventurers came onto the scene. Their traces can be seen in rich tombs around Carmona at cemeteries such as El Acebuchal, Setefilla, and in Huelva ...
- La Junta
- city, seat (1889) of Otero county, southeastern Colorado, U.S. It lies along the Arkansas River at the northern edge of the Comanche National Grassland, at an elevation of 4,052 feet ...
- La Libertad
- city and port, southwestern El Salvador. Its open roadstead port as well as its location south of San Salvador encouraged La Libertad's development in the 19th century as a shipping ...
- La Linea
- city, Cadiz provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. It lies along the Bay of Gibraltar, between San ...
- La Louviere
- town, Hainaut province, southwestern Belgium, on the Central Canal, about 11 miles (17 km) east of Mons. It has been a centre of coal mining since the 14th century. La ... [3 Related Articles]
- La Macarena Mountains
- (from the article "Colombia") ...and buttes with rapids in the streams. This slightly higher ground forms the watershed between the Amazon and Orinoco systems. Some 60 miles (100 km) south of Villavicencio the elongated, ...
- La Mancha
- barren elevated plateau (2,000 feet [610 metres]) formed over limestone in central Spain, stretching between the Toledo Mountains and the western spurs of the Cuenca hills and bounded by the ... [1 Related Articles]
- La Marche, Olivier de
- Burgundian chronicler and poet who, as historian of the ducal court, was an eloquent spokesman of the chivalrous tradition. [1 Related Articles]
- La Marfee, battle of
- (from the article "Soissons, Louis de Bourbon, Count de") ...other malcontents joined him; and in 1641 he published a manifesto against Richelieu and invaded France with a Habsburg army. He defeated the Marshal de Chatillon (Gaspard III de Coligny) ...
- La Marmora, Alfonso Ferrero
- Italian general and statesman who, while in the service of Sardinia-Piedmont, played an important role in the Risorgimento. [1 Related Articles]
- La Marmora, Mount
- (from the article "Sardinia") The island's relief is dominated by mountains of granite and schist. The highest point is Mount La Marmora (6,017 feet [1,834 m]) in the Gennargentu Massif. The climate is subtropical ...
- La Matanza
- partido (county) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina, directly southwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). The present-day ...
- La Mesnardiere, Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de
- (from the article "French literature") ...(1647) records polite usage of the time. In the field of literary theory the same rational approach produced the Poetique (1639; "Treatise on Poetry") of Hippolyte-Jules Pilet ...
- La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de
- French physician and philosopher whose Materialistic interpretation of psychic phenomena laid the groundwork for future developments of behaviourism and played an important part in the history of modern Materialism. [3 Related Articles]
- La Mothe Le Vayer, Francois de
- independent French thinker and writer who developed a philosophy of Skepticism more radical than that of Michel de Montaigne but less absolute than that of Pierre Bayle.
- La Mothe-Fenelon, Francois de
- (from the article "French literature") ...Discourse on Universal History); but he also exerted a considerable moral influence in his sermons and funeral orations, which took the art of pulpit oratory to a new high level. ...
- La Motta, Jake
- American boxer and world middleweight boxing champion (1949-51) whose stamina and fierceness in the ring earned him the nickname "the Bronx Bull." Lacking finesse, he often allowed himself to take ... [4 Related Articles]
- La Motte, comtesse de
- (from the article "Affair of the Diamond Necklace") scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 that discredited the French monarchy on the eve of the French Revolution. It began as an intrigue on the part of ...
- La Nina
- (from the article "atmosphere") ...from the Equator such that the deeper, colder waters move to the surface. In the central and eastern Pacific Ocean near the Equator, when this upwelling is stronger than average, ...
- La Noue, Francois de
- Huguenot captain in the French Wars of Religion (1562-98), known for his exploits as a soldier and for his military and historical writings.
- La Orotava
- town, northern Tenerife island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), Spain, just southwest of Santa Cruz ...
- La Oroya
- city, central Peru. It is situated at the junction of the Mantaro and Yauli rivers on a central plateau of the Andes Mountains, at an elevation of 12,195 feet (3,717 ...
- La Palma
- town, eastern Panama, on the estuary of the Tuira River near the Gulf of San Miguel. It is the principal trading centre for the large sparsely populated region that surrounds ...
- La Palma
- island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of the Canary Islands of Spain, in the North Atlantic Ocean, ...
- La Pampa
- provincia (province), central Argentina. It lies immediately west of Buenos Aires province and straddles drier sections of the Pampa (northeast) and semiarid sections of the Patagonian Desert ...
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