British-born architect and civil engineer who established architecture as a profession in the United States. Latrobe was the most original proponent of the Greek Revival style in American building.
early name for the Pentecostal movement within U.S. Protestantism; it began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Tennessee and North Carolina and took its name from the ...
Brazilian physicist who, with American physicist Eugene Gardner at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1948 confirmed the existence of heavy and light mesons formed during the bombardment of carbon ...
amount of energy released when gaseous ions are brought together from infinite separation to form a crystal. For each particular solid, the lattice energy is a constant that measures how ...
French army officer and posthumous marshal of France who became one of the leading military figures in the French forces under General Charles de Gaulle during World War II. He ...
country of northeastern Europe, one of the Baltic states. It lies along the shores of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga and borders Estonia in the north, Russia ...
East Baltic language spoken primarily in Latvia, where it has been the official language since 1918. It belongs to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. (See Baltic ...
body of writings in the Latvian language. Latvia's loss of political independence in the 13th century prevented a natural evolution of its literature out of folk poetry. Much of Latvian ...
island cluster of Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean, east of the Koro Sea. Mainly composed of limestone, the 57 islands and islets cover a land area of 188 square ...
archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45) and religious adviser to King Charles I of Great Britain. His persecution of Puritans and other religious dissidents resulted in his trial and execution by the ...
one of the chief ministers of King Charles II of England (reigned 1660-85); he earned notoriety for his repressive rule in Scotland during Charles II's reign.
Austrian field marshal who was one of the most successful Habsburg commanders during the Seven Years' War (1756-63) and the Austro-Turkish War of 1787-91.
in X rays, a regular array of spots on a photographic emulsion resulting from X rays scattered by certain groups of parallel atomic planes within a crystal. When a thin, ...
German recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X rays in crystals. This enabled scientists to study the structure of crystals ...
former duchy of northern Germany, stretching from south of Lubeck to the Elbe and bounded on the west and east, respectively, by the former duchies of Holstein and Mecklenburg, an ...
(Streptopelia senegalensis), bird of the pigeon family, Columbidae (order Columbiformes), a native of African and southwest Asian scrublands that has been successfully introduced into Australia. The reddish-brown bird has blue ...
an extinct bird of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes) that was native to New Zealand. It was last seen in the early 1900s. Laughing owls nested on the ground, where ...
any of the 45 species of the Asian genus Garrulax, large, strong-billed, sometimes strikingly patterned song-babblers, family Timaliidae. The name laughing thrush is sometimes used for the song-babbler (q.v.) group ...
American physicist who, with Daniel C. Tsui and Horst Stormer, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1998 for the discovery that electrons in an extremely powerful magnetic field can ...
in Baltic folklore, a fairy who appears as a beautiful naked maiden with long fair hair. Laumas dwell in the forest near water or stones. They yearn for children, but ...
common hydrated calcium and sodium aluminosilicate mineral in the zeolite family, formulated (Ca,Na2)Al2Si4O12·4H2O. Its white to yellow or gray prismatic crystals typically occur filling veins and vesicles in igneous rocks. ...
chief city and port of northern Tasmania, Australia, lying where the North and South Esk rivers meet to form the River Tamar, a navigable tidal estuary that winds 40 miles ...
town ("parish"), North Cornwall district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. Situated on the Devon county border, Launceston has sometimes been described as "the gateway to Cornwall." The keep ...
largest of a ship's boats, at one time sloop-rigged and often armed, such as those used in the Mediterranean Sea during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although present-day launches can ...
rocket system that boosts a spacecraft into Earth orbit or beyond the gravitational dominance of the Earth. A wide variety of launch vehicles have been used to lift payloads ranging ...
the beloved of the Italian poet Petrarch and the subject of his love lyrics, written over a period of about 20 years, most of which were included in his Canzoniere, ...
order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the subclass Magnoliidae. The Laurales are characterized by woodiness, aromatic parts, and a single strand of conducting tissues continuing from the stem ...
early Italian Renaissance sculptor and medallist, especially distinguished for his severely elegant portrait busts of women and as an early disseminator of the Renaissance style in France.
hypothetical continental mass in the Northern Hemisphere that included North America, Europe, and Asia (except peninsular India). Its existence was proposed by Alexander Du Toit, a South African geologist, in ...
city, Prince George's county, central Maryland, U.S., on the Patuxent River midway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. The land was patented to Richard Snowden, who arrived about 1658 and founded ...
any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Laurus within the family Lauraceae; the name is chiefly applied to L. nobilis (also called bay, sweet bay, bay ...
city, coseat (1906) with Ellisville of Jones county, southeastern Mississippi, U.S., on Tallahala Creek, about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Hattiesburg. Founded in 1882 as a lumber camp, it ...
American fashion designer who, by developing his brand around the image of an elite, American lifestyle, built one of the world's most successful fashion empires.
nee Wemys Canadian writer whose novels portray strong women striving for self-realization while immersed in the daily struggle to make a living in a male-dominated world.
county, northern South Carolina, U.S. It is situated in a hilly piedmont region between the Saluda River to the southwest and the Enoree River to the northeast. The county is ...
French sculptor known for his Cubist works and his later massive studies, particularly of the female figure. He also made collages, lithographs, and other works on paper.
Belgian administrator, legal scholar, and historian noted as the author of a monumental universal history and a series of comprehensive works on civil law.
mountains forming the Quebec portion of the Canadian Shield, particularly the area partially bounded by the Ottawa, St. Lawrence, and Saguenay rivers. It is one of the oldest mountain regions ...
submarine glacial trough in the eastern continental shelf of North America, the most impressive such feature on Earth. It extends from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River eastward through ...
principal glacial cover of North America during the Pleistocene Epoch (1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago). At its maximum extent it spread as far south as latitude 37° N and covered ...
English Lawrence antipope in 498 and from 501 to about 505/507, whose disputed papal election gave his name to the Laurentian schism, a split in the Roman Catholic church.
Italian admiral in the service of Aragon and Sicily who won important naval victories over the French Angevins (house of Anjou) in the war between France and Aragon over the ...
northernmost of a chain of glacier-fed lakes in the Andes Mountains, central Peru, about 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Lima. It lies at an elevation of 12,615 feet (3,845 ...
the first French-Canadian prime minister of the Dominion of Canada (1896-1911), noted especially for his attempts to define the role of French Canada in the federal state and to define ...
industrial town of the nomos (department) of Attica, on the Aegean Sea, famous in antiquity for its silver mines. Its port, sheltered by Makronisos island, imports coal, loads ore, and ...
capital of Vaud canton, western Switzerland, on the northern shore of Lake Geneva (Lac Leman); built on the southern slopes of the Jorat heights, its altitude ranges from 1,240 ft ...
(June-July 1932), conference that was held to liquidate the payment of reparations by Germany to the former Allied and Associated powers of World War I. Attended by representatives of the ...
(1923), final treaty concluding World War I. It was signed by representatives of Turkey (successor to the Ottoman Empire) on one side and by Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, ...
island off the southeastern coast of Borneo, Kalimantan Selatan provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. Laut Island lies in the Makassar Strait, 105 miles (169 km) east of Banjarmasin city. It is 60 ...
town, Bern canton, south-central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland, on the Lutschine River, south of Interlaken. The river valley is bounded by impressive cliffs of 1,000-1,500 feet (300-450 m) and ...
American chemist who, with English physicist Sir Peter Mansfield, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a computerized scanning ...
city on the northwest coast of Viti Levu (island), Fiji, in the South Pacific. Situated on the dry side of the island, Lautoka (originally called Namoli) serves an important sugarcane-growing ...
