novelist, orator, and champion of Finnish independence from Russia; his works were instrumental in forming Finnish national consciousness in the early 20th century.
theatrical lighting device by which silhouettes, colour, and broad outlines can be projected as part of the background scenery. Originally developed in the 19th century by the German lighting expert ...
(Carduelis, sometimes Acanthis, cannabina), seed-eating European finch of the family Carduelidae (order Passeriformes). It is 13 centimetres (5 inches) long and brown streaked, with a white-edged forked tail; the crown ...
type of print made from a sheet of linoleum into which a design has been cut in relief. This process of printmaking is similar to woodcut (q.v.), but since linoleum ...
smooth-surfaced floor covering made from a mixture of oxidized linseed oil, gums and resins, and other substances, applied to a felt or canvas backing.
genus of extinct articulate brachiopods (lamp shells) found throughout the midcontinent region of North America as fossils in Early Carboniferous to Late Permian rocks (from about 360 to about 245 ...
one of the Pelagie Islands, which are part of Italy. The islands lie in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunis, about 30 miles (48 km) north-northeast of Lampedusa Island. ...
(trademark), typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a complete line, rather than as individual characters as on the Monotype typesetting machine. It was patented in ...
city, west-central Sao Paulo estado ("state"), Brazil. It is located in the highlands at 1,299 feet (396 m) above sea level, south of the Tiete River. Formerly known as Santo ...
novelist of Brazil's Northeastern school of realists, best known for his five-book Sugar Cane Cycle, which described the clash between the old feudal order of plantation society and the new ...
any of three species of long-tailed, catlike mammals belonging to the civet family (Viverridae). The African linsang (Poianarichardsoni), the banded linsang (Prionodon linsang), and the spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor) ...
seed of a variety of the common flax, Linum usitatissimum, grown for its yield of linseed oil and meal. This variety of flax has shorter straw, more branches, and more ...
in Greek mythology, the personification of lamentation; the name derives from the ritual cry ailinos, the refrain of a dirge. Two principal stories, associated with Argos and Thebes, respectively, arose ...
pope from about 67 to 76 or 79, who may have been the immediate successor to St. Peter. St. Irenaeus identifies him with the Linus in 2 Timothy 4:21 and ...
city, capital of Oberosterreich Bundesland (federal state), north-central Austria. Linz lies along the Danube River 100 miles (160 km) west of Vienna. It originated as the Roman fortress of Lentia ...
expression of German nationalist radicalism within Austria-Hungary, named after its town of origin in Upper Austria (Oberosterreich). It was drafted in 1882 by the extreme nationalist Georg Ritter von Schonerer ...
large, powerfully built cat (family Felidae) that is second in size only to the tiger. The proverbial "king of beasts," the lion has been one of the best-known wild animals ...
in Chinese art, stylized figure of a snarling lion. Its original significance was as a guardian presence in a Buddhist temple. Lions of Fo are often created in pairs, with ...
gulf of the Mediterranean Sea, extending along the coast of southern France from the Spanish border (west) to Toulon (east). The gulf receives the Tech, Tet, Aude, Orb, Herault, Vidourle, ...
(Pterois), any of several species of showy Indo-Pacific fish of the scorpion fish family, Scorpaenidae (order Scorpaeniformes). Lion-fish are noted for their venomous fin spines, which are capable of producing ...
French secretary of state for foreign affairs from 1663 to 1671 who laid the diplomatic groundwork that enabled King Louis XIV to initiate wars of conquest against the Spanish (War ...
civilian service club organized by a Chicago insurance broker, Melvin Jones, in Dallas, Texas, U.S., in 1917 to foster a spirit of "generous consideration" among peoples of the world and ...
French mathematician known for his work in analysis, differential geometry, and number theory and for his discovery of transcendental numbers-i.e., numbers that are not the roots of algebraic equations having ...
ferns of the genus Cheilanthes (family Adiantaceae), about 180 species of tropical and temperate regions. Most are small, sturdy, often evergreen plants that thrive in dry and rocky areas. The ...
objects, usually ring-shaped, inserted into the lips to alter their shape, used as decoration by certain primitive peoples. The lip plug is also known as a labret.
chartered city, southwestern Luzon, Philippines. Formerly a Spanish military headquarters, it is a market town for a fruit-growing region. Lipa was rebuilt (including its cathedral) after a disastrous volcanic eruption ...
in geology, time span suggested in an attempt to explain the sudden appearance of abundant life forms in the earliest known Cambrian rocks (approximately 570,000,000 years old), in contrast to ...
any of a group of fat-splitting enzymes found in the blood, gastric juices, pancreatic secretions, intestinal juices, and adipose tissues. Lipases hydrolyze triglycerides (fats) into their component fatty acid and ...
city and administrative centre of Lipetsk oblast (province), western Russia. It lies along both banks of the Voronezh River in the Don Basin. A fortified settlement existed on the site ...
oblast (province), western Russia. It is situated on the rolling hills of the Central Russian Upland and, in the east, the low Oka-Don Plain. The Don and Voronezh rivers cross ...
any of a diverse group of organic compounds found in plants, animals, and microorganisms. Lipids are greasy to the touch and insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol, ether, and ...
any of a group of relatively rare hereditary disorders of fat metabolism, characterized by the accumulation of distinctive types of lipids, notably cerebrosides, gangliosides, or sphingomyelins, in various body structures. ...
breed of horse that derived its name from the Austrian imperial stud at Lipizza, near Trieste, formerly a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The founding of the breed dates to ...
German-born American biochemist, who received (with Sir Hans Krebs) the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of coenzyme A, an important catalytic substance involved in the ...
a written text deliberately composed of words not having a certain letter (such as the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus, which had no alpha in the first book, no beta in the ...
any member of a group of substances containing both lipid (fat) and protein. They occur in both soluble complexes-as in egg yolk and mammalian blood plasma-and insoluble ones, as in ...
one of the smallest of the former German states, forming, since 1946-47, the northeastern corner of the Land (state) of North Rhine-Westphalia; the rather smaller Schaumburg-Lippe, now in the southern ...
river, a right-bank tributary of the Rhine, that flows through North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state) in Germany. Rising near Bad Lippspringe on the western edge of the Teutoburger Wald, the Lippe ...
Florentine painter in the second generation of Renaissance artists. While exhibiting the strong influence of Masaccio (e.g., in "Madonna and Child," 1437) and Fra Angelico (e.g., in "Coronation of the ...
German-American aerodynamicist whose designs of tailless and delta-winged aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s were important in the development of high-speed jet and rocket airplanes.
French physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for producing the first colour photographic plate. He was known for the innovations that resulted from his search for ...
German psychologist best known for his theory of aesthetics, particularly the concept of Einfuhlung, or empathy, which he described as the act of projecting oneself into the object of a ...
city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Lippe River, on the slopes of the Teutoburger Wald. Lippstadt was probably founded by the lords of Lippe in ...
American gridiron football player and larger-than-life "character" whose exploits helped make professional football the most popular sport in the United States during the late 1950s. A 6-foot 6-inch (2-metre), 284-pound ...
American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1976 for his research on the structure and bonding of boron compounds and the general nature of chemical bonding.
American sociologist and political scientist whose work in social structures, comparative politics, labour unions, and public opinion has brought him international renown.
German Protestant theologian who clarified the origin and authorship of early Christian literature, particularly the apocryphal acts of various apostles in his Die Apokryphen, Apostelgeschichten und Apostellegenden (1883-87; "Apocrypha, Acts, ...
natural gas (primarily methane) that has been liquefied for ease of storing and transporting. LNG takes up about 1600 the space that natural gas does in its gaseous form, and ...
any of several liquid mixtures of the volatile hydrocarbons propene, propane, butene, and butane. It was used as early as 1860 for a portable fuel source, and its production and ...
flavoured and sweetened distilled liquor, with alcohol content ranging from 24 percent to 60 percent by volume (48-120 U.S. proof). Liqueurs are produced by combining a base spirit, usually brandy, ...
in phonetics, a consonant sound in which the tongue produces a partial closure in the mouth, resulting in a resonant, vowel-like consonant, such as English l and r. Liquids may ...
a substance that flows as a liquid but maintains some of the ordered structure characteristic of a crystal. Certain organic substances when heated will not melt directly but will turn ...
substance that blends the structures and properties of the normally disparate liquid and crystalline solid states. Liquids can flow, for example, while solids cannot, and crystalline solids possess special symmetry ...
electronic display device that operates by applying a varying electric voltage to a layer of liquid crystal, thereby inducing changes in its optical properties. LCDs are commonly used for portable ...
in nuclear physics, description of atomic nuclei formulated (1936) by Niels Bohr and used (1939) by him and John A. Wheeler to explain nuclear fission. According to the model, the ...
discharge of a debt or the determination by agreement or litigation of the amount of a previously unliquidated claim. One important legal meaning is the distribution of the assets of ...
in economics, the premium that wealth holders demand for exchanging ready money or bank deposits for safe, non-liquid assets such as government bonds. As originally employed by John Maynard Keynes, ...
in music, a pear-shaped bowed instrument with three to five strings. Closely related to the medieval rebec and, like the rebec, a precursor of the medieval fiddle, the lira survives ...
river in central Italy, made up of two streams, the Rapido (or Gari) and the Liri, and having a total length of 98 mi (158 km) and a drainage basin ...
genus of small marine jellyfish of the class Hydrozoa (phylum Cnidaria). Its medusoid body is characteristically hemispherical and measures up to about 30 mm (1.2 inches) in diameter. Eight short ...
