administrative district, west central Portugal, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean (west and south) and by the Tagus River and its estuary (southeast). Principal occupations outside Lisbon, the district and national ...
city, seat of Lisboa distrito (district) and capital of Portugal. It is the country's chief port, largest city, and commercial, political, and tourist centre. It stands on the westernmost point ...
coeducational state institution of higher learning at Lisbon. The modern university, restored in 1911, traces its history, together with that of the University of Coimbra, to the medieval University of ...
district, Northern Ireland. Established in 1973, the district is bordered by the city (district) of Belfast and district of Antrim to the north and by the districts of Craigavon to ...
in Chinese calligraphy, a style that may have originated in the brush writing of the later Zhou and Qin dynasties (c. 300-200 BC); it represents a more informal tradition than ...
town, formerly capital of the district known as the Pays d'Auge, Calvados departement, Basse-Normandie region, northern France. Lisieux has become a world centre of ...
city and administrative centre of Liski rayon (sector), Voronezh oblast (province), western Russia, situated on the banks of the Don River. It is a main railway junction, with shops for ...
village, DuPage county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A suburb of Chicago, it is located about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown. The village was founded in 1832 by James and ...
city, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, on the north arm of the Richmond River. It is situated between rainforest and sea, 18 miles (29 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean, ...
island in the entrance of the sea inlet of Loch Linnhe, Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Argyllshire, Scotland. It is about 9.5 miles (15 km) long and ...
market town, County Waterford, Ireland. It lies in the Blackwater valley, at the southern foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains. A monastery was founded in Lismore by St. Cartagh about 633. ...
miscellany of Scottish and Irish poetry, the oldest collection of Gaelic poetry extant in Scotland. It was compiled between 1512 and 1526, chiefly by Sir James MacGregor, the dean of ...
novelist and short-story writer, one of Brazil's more important 20th-century literary figures. Her works depict a highly personal, almost existentialist view of the human dilemma and are written in a ...
also called BowditchCurve, pattern produced by the intersection of two sinusoidal curves the axes of which are at right angles to each other. First studied by the ...
gemeente (commune), Zuid-Holland provincie, western Netherlands. It lies in the centre of the flower fields between Haarlem and Leiden. With Hillegom it is one of the two great commercial centres ...
Russian painter, typographer, and designer, a pioneer of nonrepresentational art in the early 20th century. His innovations in typography, advertising, and exhibition design were particularly influential.
a method of voting for several electoral candidates, usually members of the same political party, with one mark of the ballot. It is used to elect the parliaments of many ...
German-U.S. economist who believed tariffs on imported goods would stimulate domestic development. List also supported the free exchange of domestic goods, and he gained prominence as founder and secretary of ...
Spanish poet and critic considered to be the foremost member of the second Sevillian school of late 18th-century writers who espoused the tenets of Neoclassicism.
English amateur opticist whose discoveries played an important role in perfecting the objective lens system of the microscope, elevating that instrument to the status of a serious scientific tool.
British surgeon and medical scientist who was the founder of antiseptic medicine and a pioneer in preventive medicine. While his method, based on the use of antiseptics, is no longer ...
disease caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. The bacterium has been isolated from humans and from more than 50 species of wild and domestic animals, including mammals, birds, fish, crustaceans, ...
American boxer who was world heavyweight boxing champion from Sept. 25, 1962, when he knocked out Floyd Patterson in the first round in Chicago, until Feb. 25, 1964, when he ...
ethnic group who numbered more than 630,000 in China in the early 21st century. They are an official minority of China. The Lisu have spread southward from Yunnan province as ...
Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer. Among his many notable compositions are his 12 symphonic poems, two (completed) piano concerti, several sacred choral works, and a great variety of solo piano ...
chief river of Lebanon, rising in a low divide west of Baalbek and flowing southwestward through the Al-Biqa' Valley between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains. Near Marj 'Uyun it bends ...
county, northwestern Connecticut, U.S. It consists of a hilly upland region bordered to the west by New York state and to the north by Massachusetts. The Appalachian National Scenic Trail ...
town (township), Litchfield county, northwestern Connecticut, U.S. It includes the boroughs of Litchfield and Bantam. The lands that became Litchfield were purchased from the Tunxis Indians in 1715-16. The town, ...
American industrialist who was president (1926-40) and chairman of the board (1930-58) of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, a firm that he helped develop into a worldwide operation.
fruit of Litchi chinensis, a tree of the family Sapindaceae, believed native to southern China and adjacent regions. The handsome tree develops a compact crown of foliage, bright green the ...
the reasoned consideration of literary works and issues. It applies, as a term, to any argumentation about literature, whether or not specific works are analyzed. Plato's cautions against the risky ...
short prose narrative, often an entertaining account of some aspect of a culture written by someone within that culture for readers outside of it-for example, anecdotes of a traveler in ...
a body of written works. The name is often applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the excellence of their ...
sandstone (i.e., sedimentary rock composed of grains 0.06-2 mm [0.0024-0.08 inch] in diameter) containing over 25 percent rock fragments. Litharenites most often are of gray or salt-and-pepper colour because of ...
one of two mineral forms of lead(II) oxide (PbO). It is found with the other form, massicot, as dull or greasy, very heavy, soft, red crusts in the oxidized zone ...
city, east-central New South Wales, Australia, on the western slopes of the Blue Mountains. Founded in 1824 and named after former state auditor-general William Lithgow, it became a municipality in ...
complex process whereby freshly deposited loose grains of sediment are converted into rock. Lithification may occur at the time a sediment is deposited or later. Cementation is one of the ...
in pharmacology, drug that is the primary treatment for bipolar disorder. Given primarily in its carbonate form, lithium is highly effective in dissipating a manic episode and in calming the ...
chemical element of Group Ia in the periodic table, the alkali metal group, lightest of the solid elements. The metal itself-which is soft, white, and lustrous-and several of its alloys ...
biscuit, or unglazed, white porcelain decorated with a molded or impressed design, usually reproducing a painting, that was meant to be seen by transmitted light. Only a few examples were ...
brilliant white pigment used in paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powder. Lithopone was developed in the 1870s as a substitute or supplement for lead carbonate (white lead), to ...
(genus Lithops)any of a group of about 50 species of succulent plants of the carpetweed family (Aizoaceae), native to southern Africa. The plants are virtually stemless, the thickened leaves ...
country of northeastern Europe, the southernmost and largest of the three Baltic states. It is bounded on the north by Latvia, on the east and south by Belarus, on the ...
state, incorporating Lithuania proper, Belorussia, and the western Ukraine, which became one of the most influential powers in eastern Europe (14th-16th century). Pressed by the crusading Teutonic and Livonian Knights, ...
East Baltic language most closely related to Latvian; it is spoken primarily in Lithuania, where it has been the official language since 1918. It is the most archaic Indo-European language ...
body of writings in the Lithuanian language. In the grand duchy of Lithuania, which stretched in the 14th and 15th centuries from the Baltic to the Black Sea, the official ...
(Graf) Russian explorer and geographer who explored the Arctic and who exerted a considerable influence on Russian science in general and geography in particular.
mixture of coloured organic compounds obtained from several species of lichen that grow in The Netherlands, particularly Lecanora tartarea and Roccella tinctorum. Litmus turns red in acidic solutions and blue ...
(order Litopterna), any of various extinct hoofed mammals that first appeared in the Paleocene Epoch (which began approximately 66 million years ago) and became extinct during the Pleistocene Epoch (which ...
a figure of speech, conscious understatement in which emphasis is achieved by negation; examples are the common expressions "not bad!" and "no mean feat." Litotes is a stylistic feature of ...
unit of volume in the metric system, equal to one cubic decimetre (0.001 cubic metre). From 1901 to 1964 the litre was defined as the volume of one kilogram of ...
portable bed or couch, open or enclosed, that is mounted on two poles and carried at each end on the shoulders of porters or by animals. Litters, which may have ...
(French: "engaged literature"), literature of commitment, popularized in the immediate post-World War II era, when the French existentialists, particularly Jean-Paul Sartre, revived the idea of the artist's serious responsibility to ...
extensive basin occupying the northwestern part of Transdanubia in northwestern Hungary, and extending into Austria and Slovakia (where it is called Podunajska Lowland). It has an area of approximately 3,000 ...
principal American base in Antarctica, lying on the northeastern edge of Ross Ice Shelf near Kainan Bay. First set up in 1928 as the headquarters for the polar explorations of ...
kingdom established in Cilicia, on the southeast coast of Anatolia, by the Armenian Rubenid dynasty in the 12th century. The Rubenids ruled first as barons and then, from 1199 to ...
island in the northern end of Hauraki Gulf, eastern North Island, New Zealand, lying 15 miles (24 km) across Jellicoe Channel from the mainland. Cradock Channel separates it from Great ...
segment of the northern Rocky Mountains, central Montana, U.S. The Little Belts extend southward for 40 miles (64 km) from southeast of Great Falls to the Musselshell River. The range, ...
(June 25, 1876), much-discussed battle at the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, U.S., between federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and a band of Northern Plains ...
Roman Catholic religious congregations inspired by the example of Charles-Eugene de Foucauld, a French military officer and explorer who experienced a religious conversion in 1886, while serving in Morocco. He ...
mutual defense arrangement among Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania during the period between World Wars I and II. Based on several treaties (1920-21), it was directed against German and Hungarian domination ...
city, seat (1856) of Morrison county, central Minnesota, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, in an agricultural and lake area, about 30 miles (50 km) north of St. Cloud. ...
intermontane plateau basin in Western Cape province, South Africa, lying between the east-west oriented Groot-Swart Mountains (north), the Lange Mountains (southwest), and the Outeniqua Mountains (southeast), with the discontinuous Kammanassie ...
international baseball organization for children and teenagers, started in 1939 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, by Carl E. Stotz and brothers Bert and George Bebble. The league originally included boys age 8 ...
any of various small periodicals devoted to serious literary writings, usually avant-garde and noncommercial. They were published from about 1880 through much of the 20th century and flourished in the ...
(Athene noctua), brownish bird about 20 centimetres (about 8 inches) long, belonging to the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes). Little owls occur in Europe, central Asia, and northern Africa and have ...
lakeland area, southern Poland, having an area of 10,000 sq mi (25,000 sq km). Located south of the Middle Polish Lowlands, it embraces the territory from the Czestochowa-Krakow scarplands (Polish ...
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. ...
