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La Pampa, University of
(from the article "Santa Rosa") ...Founded in 1892, the city developed as an agricultural centre processing grain (wheat) and cattle from the eastern part of the province. It has a regional museum of art and ...
La Paz
city, capital of Baja California Sur estado (state), northwestern Mexico. It lies about 40 feet (12 metres) above sea level on sheltered La Paz Bay of the ... [2 Related Articles]
La Paz
town, southwestern Honduras, at an elevation of 2,461 feet (750 m) above sea level in the Comayagua River valley, on the eastern flanks of the Cordillera de Montecillos. It was ...
La Paz
city, administrative capital of Bolivia, west-central Bolivia, situated some 42 miles (68 km) southeast of Lake Titicaca. La Paz, which lies between 10,650 and 13,250 feet (3,250 and 4,100 metres) ... [9 Related Articles]
La Paz, Cordillera de
(from the article "Real, Cordillera") ...(3,300 to 6,600 feet [1,000 to 2,000 metres]) valleys. From the massif of Vilcanota in the north to the pass of San Francisco in the south, the main cordillera is ...
La Perouse Strait
international waterway between the islands of Sakhalin (Russia) and Hokkaido (Japan). The strait, named after the French explorer Jean-Francois de Galaup, Count de La Perouse, separates the Sea of Okhotsk ...
La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de
French navigator who conducted wide-ranging explorations in the Pacific Ocean. [3 Related Articles]
La Piedad Cavadas
city, northwestern Michoacan estado (state), west-central Mexico. On the Lerma River, which forms the Michoacan-Guanajuato border, it is 314 miles (505 km) west-northwest of Mexico City and 119 miles (192 ...
La Planche, Francois de
(from the article "tapestry") At the turn of the 16th-17th centuries, two Flemish weavers had been taken to France by government arrangement to establish low-warp looms in Paris: Francois de La Planche (or Franz ...
La Plata
city, capital of Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina, 6 miles (9 km) inland from the southern shore of the Rio de la Plata estuary. The site ...
La Plata River
river in east-central Puerto Rico, rising on the western slope of Mount Santa (2,963 feet [903 metres]), a peak of the Sierra de Cayey. Part of the stream is impounded ...
La Plata river dolphin
(from the article "river dolphin") The smallest river dolphin species, the La Plata river dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei), also lives in South America. Also known as the franciscana, it inhabits the coastal waters ...
La Porree, Gilbert de
(from the article "Bernard de Clairvaux, Saint") In his remaining years he participated in the condemnation of Gilbert de La Porree-a scholarly dialectician and bishop of Poitiers who held that Christ's divine nature was only a human ...
la Poupliniere, Le Riche de
(from the article "Rameau, Jean-Philippe") His most influential contact at this time was Le Riche de la Poupliniere, one of the wealthiest men in France and one of the greatest musical patrons of all time. ...
La Renaudie
(from the article "Amboise, Conspiracy of") ...family gained ascendancy in the government, creating enmity among the smaller nobility. A conspiracy to overturn their government was formed at Nantes, with a needy Perigord nobleman named La Renaudie ...
La Revelliere-Lepeaux, Louis-Marie de
member of the French Revolutionary regime known as the Directory.
La Rioja
provincia (province), northwestern Argentina, extending southeastward from Chile. The province's southeastern half is an arid to semiarid plain, while the northwestern section is crossed north to south ...
La Rioja
city, capital of La Rioja provincia (province), northwestern Argentina, on La Rioja River at the foot of the Velasco Mountains. Founded in 1591 by explorers for gold ...
La Rioja
comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) and historical region of Spain coextensive with the north-central Spanish provincia (province) of La Rioja (until 1980 called Logrono). La ... [1 Related Articles]
La Rive, Auguste-Arthur de
Swiss physicist who was one of the founders of the electrochemical theory of batteries.
La Rocca, Nick
(from the article "Dixieland") ...bands in New Orleans from 1891, is often referred to as the father of white jazz. Specializing first in French and German marching music, his band by 1910 had converted ...
La Roche, Sophie von
nee Gutermann German writer whose first and most important work, Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim (1771; History of Lady Sophia Sternheim), was the first German novel written by a woman ... [1 Related Articles]
La Roche-sur-Yon
town, capital of Vendee departement, Pays de la Loire region, western France, south of Nantes. The Vendee region had been pacified at the time of the French Revolution but still ...
La Rochefoucauld Family
one of France's noblest families, traceable in Angoumois to the year 1019. Ducal titles belonging to it are: duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld (1622); duke de La Roche-Guyon (1679); duke ...
La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI, Duke de
French classical author who had been one of the most active rebels of the Fronde before he became the leading exponent of the maxime, a French literary form of epigram ... [2 Related Articles]
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Francois-Alexandre-Frederic, Duke de
educator and social reformer who founded the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Metiers at Chalons and whose model farm at Liancourt contributed to the development of French agriculture.
La Rochejaquelein, Henri du Vergier, Count de
(from the article "Vendee, Wars of the") ...Bourdic, and Jean-Nicolas Stofflet were joined by royalist nobles such as Charles Bonchamps, Marquis de Bonchamps, Maurice Gigost d'Elbee, Francois-Athanase Charette de La Contrie, and Henri du Vergier, Count de ...
La Rochelle
city, Atlantic seaport and capital of Charente-Maritime departement, Poitou-Charentes region, western France, situated on an inlet opposite Re Island. The city, which has straight, regular streets, a large park, and ... [4 Related Articles]
La Romana
city and port, southeastern Dominican Republic, on the Caribbean Sea opposite Catalina Island. Founded near the end of the 19th century, La Romana grew rapidly after the establishment of a ...
La Rue, Bubbles
(from the article "Baird, Bil and Cora") A few of their creations became classic puppet figures: Bubbles La Rue, the marionette striptease dancer; the singing frogs; Snarky Parker, the master of ceremonies; and Heathcliff, the talking horse. ...
La Rue, Pierre de
composer in the Flemish, or Netherlandish, style that dominated Renaissance music, known for his religious music.
La Sal Mountains
(from the article "Colorado Plateau") ...sunken deserts, picturesque buttes and mesas, and rare verdant sections of valley. Elevations range from 2,000 feet (600 m) in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, to more than 12,700 feet (3,870 ...
La Sale, Antoine de
French writer chiefly remembered for his Petit Jehan de Saintre, a romance marked by a great gift for the observation of court manners and a keen sense of comic situation ... [1 Related Articles]
La Salle
city, Montreal region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on the south shore of Ile de Montreal (Montreal Island), at the head of the Lachine Rapids of the St. Lawrence River. Settlement ...
La Salle
city, La Salle county, north-central Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Illinois River, about 90 miles (150 km) southwest of Chicago. With Peru (adjacent to the west) and Oglesby (southeast), ...
La Salle Street
(from the article "Loop, the") ...the area enclosed by the Chicago River, Michigan Avenue, and Congress Parkway. The Loop includes a portion of State Street, a major shopping district with several large department stores, and ...
La Salle University
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is operated by the Christian Brothers, a teaching order of the Roman Catholic church. It comprises schools of Arts ...
La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur (lord) de
French explorer in North America, who led an expedition down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and claimed all the region watered by the Mississippi and its tributaries for Louis XIV ... [11 Related Articles]
La Salle, Saint Jean-Baptiste de
French educator and founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (sometimes called the de La Salle Brothers), the first Roman Catholic congregation of male nonclerics devoted solely to schools, ... [1 Related Articles]
La Scala
theatre in Milan, one of the principal opera houses of the world and the leading Italian house. [10 Related Articles]
La Serena
city, northern Chile, lying on a marine terrace overlooking Bahia (bay) de Coquimbo, just south of the Rio Elqui and east of Coquimbo city. Founded c. 1543 on the river's ... [1 Related Articles]
La Sila
(from the article "Calabria") ...of the Apennine Range by the Mount Pollino massif (7,375 feet [2,248 m]), which is continued southward by the west coast range, which is in turn separated by the Crati ...
La Silla Observatory
(from the article "European Southern Observatory") ESO operates at three sites in Chile-the La Silla Observatory, located about 600 km (370 miles) north of Santiago at an altitude of 2,400 metres (7,900 feet), the Very Large ...
La Spezia
city, Liguria region, northern Italy. The city, a major naval base, is located at the head of the Golfo della Spezia, southeast of Genoa. The site was inhabited in Roman ...
La Taille, Jean de
poet and dramatist who, through his plays and his influential treatise on the art of tragedy, helped to effect the transition from native French drama to classical tragedy.
La Tene
(French: The Shallows), archaeological site at the eastern end of Lake Neuchatel, Switz., the name of which has been extended to distinguish the Late Iron Age culture of European Celts. ... [1 Related Articles]
La Tene culture
(from the article "La Tene") (French: The Shallows), archaeological site at the eastern end of Lake Neuchatel, Switz., the name of which has been extended to distinguish the Late Iron Age culture of European Celts. ...
La Tour, Charles
French colonist and fur trader who served as governor of Acadia (region of the North American Atlantic seaboard centred on Nova Scotia) under the French and the English.
La Tour, Georges de
painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then forgotten until well into the 20th century, when the identification of many formerly misattributed works ... [2 Related Articles]
La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de
pastelist whose animated and sharply characterized portraits made him one of the most successful and imitated portraitists of 18th-century France. [1 Related Articles]
La Trappe, abbey of
(from the article "Cistercian") ...The most noteworthy reform, because it resulted in a split observance that endures to this day, is traced especially to the efforts of Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rance, who became ...
La Tremoille Family
noble family that contributed numerous generals to France. The family's name was taken from a village in Poitou (modern La Trimouille). A Pierre de La Tremoille is recorded as early ...
La Tremoille, Claude de
(from the article "La Tremoille Family") Louis III's son Claude (1566-1604) at first fought in the campaigns against the Huguenots under Henry III but then changed sides, joining the Protestant king of Navarre, Henry III, in ...
La Tremoille, Francois de
(from the article "La Tremoille Family") Because Louis's son had been killed in the Italian campaign at Marignan in 1515, his grandson Francois (1502-41) succeeded to the family estates. Through his marriage to Anne de Laval, ...
La Tremoille, Georges de
powerful lord who exercised considerable influence over Charles VII of France. [4 Related Articles]
La Tremoille, Gui de
(from the article "La Tremoille Family") noble family that contributed numerous generals to France. The family's name was taken from a village in Poitou (modern La Trimouille). A Pierre de La Tremoille is recorded as early ...
La Trinite
town and port on the Caribbean island of Martinique, in the West Indies. Situated on the east coast 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Fort-de-France, it is a trading centre ...
La Tuque
city, Mauricie-Bois-Francs region, southern Quebec province, Canada, situated on the Saint-Maurice River. During the French regime, the site was occupied by a trading post of the Company of New France. ...
La Union
city, eastern El Salvador. It is located at the northern foot of Conchagua Volcano (about 4,100 feet [1,250 m]), on La Union Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Fonseca. ...
La Valliere, Louise-Francoise de La Baume le Blanc, Duchess de
mistress of King Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715) from 1661 to 1667. [1 Related Articles]
La Varenne, Francois-Pierre de
(from the article "grande cuisine") The greatest of French chefs-Francois Pierre de la Varenne in the 17th century, Marie-Antoine Careme in the late 18th, and Auguste Escoffier in the 19th-advanced the systematization of French cuisine ...
La Vauguyon, Antoine de Quelen de Caussade, duke de
(from the article "Louis XVI") ...of the dauphin Louis and his consort Maria Josepha of Saxony. At first known as the duc de Berry, he became the heir to the throne on his father's death ...
La Vega
city, west-central Dominican Republic. It was founded in 1495 by Bartolomeo Colombo at the foot of Concepcion fortress, which had been built by Christopher Columbus in 1494. La Vega was ...
La Venta
ancient Olmec settlement, located near the border of modern Tabasco and Veracruz states, on the gulf coast of Mexico. La Venta was originally built on an island in the Tonala ... [5 Related Articles]
La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, et de
French-Canadian soldier, fur trader, and explorer whose exploits, little honoured during his lifetime, rank him as one of the greatest explorers of the Canadian West. Moreover, the string of trading ... [6 Related Articles]
La Victoria
distrito (district) of the Lima-Callao metropolitan area of Peru, south of downtown Lima. It is mainly residential, with slums in the north, pueblos jovenes ...
La Ville Nouvelle
(from the article "Oran") ...occupying terraces above it that were formerly divided by a ravine (now built over). The old Spanish-Arab-Turkish city, called La Blanca, lies west of the ravine on a hill. The ...
La Vrilliere, Phelypeaux de
(from the article "Mansart, Francois") In the same period, Phelypeaux de La Vrilliere, an officer of the crown, commissioned Mansart to build a town house in Paris (rebuilt after Mansart's death). The building, known from ...
La-ang, Lake
(from the article "Tibet") ...Lhasa lie two large lakes, Yang-cho-yung (Yamdrok) and P'u-mo (Pomo). In western Tibet two adjoining lakes are located near the Nepal border, Ma-fa-mu Lake, sacred to both Buddhists and Hindus, ...
Laarmans
(from the article "Elsschot, Willem") ...himself to his business career and ceased writing until the 1930s. He published Kaas ("Cheese") in 1933 and followed it with the novel Tsjip ("Cheep") in 1934. Laarmans, who is ...
Laatste Nieuws, Het
daily newspaper published in Brussels. The largest daily in Belgium, it was founded in 1888 to serve Flemish-speaking citizens.
Laayoune
town, northern Western Sahara, 8 miles (13 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, situated in the geographic region of Saguia el-Hamra. It was the capital of Western Sahara from 1940 ...
Labadie, Jean de
French theologian, a Protestant convert from Roman Catholicism who founded the Labadists, a Pietist community.
Labadists
(from the article "Labadie, Jean de") French theologian, a Protestant convert from Roman Catholicism who founded the Labadists, a Pietist community.
Laban
(from the article "Jacob") ...lands and numerous offspring that would prove to be the blessing of the entire Earth. Jacob named the place where he received his vision Bethel ("House of God"). Arriving at ...
Laban, Rudolf
dance theorist and teacher whose studies of human motion provided the intellectual foundations for the development of central European modern dance. Laban also developed Labanotation, a widely used movement-notation system. [5 Related Articles]
Laband, Paul
(from the article "agency") ...development of this branch of the law. A particularly important distinction in the European law of agency was made in the second half of the 19th century by the legal ...
labanotation
system of recording human movement, originated by the Hungarian-born dance theorist Rudolf Laban. [3 Related Articles]
Labarnas I
early king of the Hittite Old Kingdom in Anatolia (reigned c. 1680-c. 1650 BC). Though perhaps not the first of his line, he was traditionally regarded as the founder of ... [2 Related Articles]
labarum
sacred military standard of the Christian Roman emperors, first used by Constantine I in the early part of the 4th century AD. The labarum-a Christian version of the vexillum, the ...
Labasa
(from the article "Fiji") ...of Suva that experienced rapid growth in the late 20th and early 21st centuries; and Lautoka, in northwestern Viti Levu, the centre of the sugar industry and the location of ...
Labashi-Marduk
(from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...general who undertook a campaign in 557 into the "rough" Cilician land, which may have been under the control of the Medes. His land forces were assisted by a fleet. ...
Labat, Jean-Baptiste
(from the article "Guadeloupe") ...in successive attempts to colonize the islands, to the authority of the French crown. It became a dependency of Martinique, which it remained until 1775. Guadeloupe benefited from the influence ...
Labe
town, west-central Guinea. Located on the Fouta Djallon plateau (at 3,445 feet [1,050 m]) near the source of the Gambia River, it lies at the intersection of roads from Mamou ... [1 Related Articles]
Labe, Louise
French poet, the daughter of a rope maker (cordier). [1 Related Articles]
labeling
(from the article "consumer advocacy") Labeling can be used either to inform or to deceive the consumer, and manufacturers, in their sales efforts, are often tempted by the latter expedient. Minimum standards of labeling exist ...
labeling theory
(from the article "criminology") In contrast, labeling theory portrays criminality as a product of society's reaction to the individual. It contends that the individual, once convicted of a crime, is labeled a criminal and ...
labelled graph
(from the article "combinatorics") A graph G is labelled when the various upsilon vertices are distinguished by such names as x1, x2, · · · xupsilon. Two graphs G and H are said to ...
labellum
(from the article "mimicry") ...fly orchid, bee orchid, and spider orchid, carries the deception further, actually mimicking the insects themselves. The best-known orchids of this type are members of the genus Ophrys. The labellum ...
Labelye, Charles
(from the article "bridge") ...consider the most beautiful arch bridge in the British Isles-the Pontypridd Bridge (1750), over the Taff in Wales, with a lofty span of 42 metres (140 feet). In London the ...
labeo
any of numerous species of African and Asian river fishes belonging to the genus Labeo in the carp family, Cyprinidae. Labeos have a thick-lipped, sucking mouth on the underside of ...
Labeo, Marcus Antistius
Roman jurist who was the greatest figure in imperial jurisprudence before the time of the emperor Hadrian (reigned AD 117-138).
Labeo, Pacuvius
(from the article "Labeo, Marcus Antistius") Labeo came from a plebeian family of Samnite origin. His father, the jurist Pacuvius Labeo, had supported the republican revolutionary Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar. ...
Laberge, Albert
(from the article "Canadian literature") ...very much in tune with the predominant agriculturalist ideology. However, Quebec authors such as Rodolphe Girard (Marie Calumet [1904; Eng. trans. Marie Calumet]) and Albert Laberge (La Scouine [1918; Bitter ...
Laberge, Marie
(from the article "Canadian literature") ...soif (1978; The Fairies Are Thirsty) and Marchessault's La Saga des poules mouillees (1981; Saga of Wet Hens). Dramatist and novelist Marie Laberge continued the tradition of ...
Laberius, Decimus
Roman knight with a caustic wit who was one of the two leading writers of mimes. In 46 or 45 BC he was compelled by Julius Caesar to accept the ... [1 Related Articles]
labi
(from the article "Gbaya") ...by the French colonizers. Clans were the primary identity group within which marriage, religious ceremonies, and trade with outsiders (e.g., Arab caravanners) were regulated. Age groups called labi cut across ...
labia majora
(from the article "reproductive system, human") The labia majora are two marked folds of skin that extend from the mons pubis downward and backward to merge with the skin of the perineum. They form the lateral ...
labia minora
(from the article "reproductive system, human") ...tissue and sweat glands. They correspond to the scrotum in the male and contain tissue resembling the dartos muscle. The round ligament (see below The uterus) ends in the tissue of ...
labial consonant
(from the article "Romance languages") ...under the same influence-e.g., tara from terram 'earth'; si 'and' from sic 'thus'; cer from caelum 'sky.' Labial consonants are also affected in some dialects: k'ept from piept from pectum ...
labial palp
(from the article "gastropod") ...as Strombus the eyes are elevated onto an accessory stalk. Prosobranchs have contractile (not invaginable) tentacles. In carnivorous snails the lateral lips of the mouth form lobes called labial palps, ...

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