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Livorno: city, capital of Livorno provincia, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, central Italy. It lies on the Ligurian Sea at the western edge of a cultivated coastal plain and is enclosed east and ...
Livy: with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians. His history of Rome became a classic in his own lifetime and exercised a profound influence on the style ...
Lixisol: one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Lixisols develop on old landscapes in a tropical climate with a pronounced dry ...
Lixus: ancient site located north of the modern seaport of Larache, Morocco, on the right bank of the Oued Loukkos (Lucus River). Originally settled by Phoenicians during the 7th century BC, ...
Liyong, Taban lo: prolific author whose experimental works and provocative opinions stimulated literary controversy in East Africa.
lizard: any member of the suborder Sauria, a group of vertebrates that with snakes (suborder Serpentes) make up some 95 percent of living reptiles. They are scaly-skinned reptiles, closely allied to ...
lizard beetle: any member of the approximately 400 species of the insect family Languriidae (order Coleoptera). Most species occur in Asia and North America. Lizard beetles are narrow and long, between 5 ...
lizard orchid: (Himantoglossum hircinum), unusual-looking plant of the family Orchidaceae, occurring sporadically in a variety of dry European habitats. Each greenish-purple flower bears several long, slightly twisted lobes. The two side lobes ...
Lizard Peninsula: peninsula in Kerrier district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England, the southernmost part of the island of Great Britain. The coastal scenery is magnificent, with offshore rocks, rugged cliffs ...
lizard's tail: member of the lizard's-tail family (Saururaceae), found in marshy areas of eastern North America. The plant has creeping stems, or runners. Erect branches about 60 to 150 centimetres (2 to ...
lizardfish: any of about 36 species of marine fish of the family Synodontidae, found primarily in the tropics. Lizardfish are elongated with rounded bodies and scaly heads. They grow to a ...
Ljubljana: capital city and economic, political, and cultural centre of Slovenia, located on the Ljubljanica River. The city lies in central Slovenia in a natural depression surrounded by high peaks of ...
Ljusnan: river in central Sweden. After rising in the Norwegian border mountains it flows for 270 miles (430 km) in a generally southeasterly direction through the provinces of Harjedalen and Halsingland ...
LL Cool J: American rapper and actor, a leading exponent of mid-1980s new school rap and one of the few hip-hop stars of his era to sustain a successful recording career for more ...
llama: (Lama glama), South American member of the camel family, Camelidae (order Artiodactyla), closely related to the alpaca, guanaco, and vicuna, which are known collectively as lamoids. Unlike camels, lamoids do ...
Llandaff: part of the city and county of Cardiff, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales. Formerly a separate town, Llandaff lies along the west bank of the River Taff about 2 ...
Llandeilan Series: the fourth of six divisions (in ascending order) comprising the Ordovician System; it represents all those rocks on a global basis deposited during the Llandeilan Age, between 458 and 464 ...
Llandovery Series: lowermost of four main divisions in the Silurian System, representing all those rocks on a global basis deposited during the Llandovery Epoch, between 428 and 438 million years ago. The ...
Llandrindod Wells: town and resort, Powys county, historic county of Radnorshire (Sir Faesyfed), Wales. It developed as a spa, based on medicinal waters first discovered about 1696, and with the coming of ...
Llandudno: seaside resort, Conwy county borough, historic county of Denbighshire, Wales, on the Irish Sea. It fronts Llandudno Bay between the limestone headlands of Great Orme and Little Orme. Traces of ...
Llanelli: town, historic and present county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. The old, established settlement's most significant growth dates from the late 18th century, when it became a centre of nonferrous metal manufacture, ...
Llangefni: town, Isle of Anglesey county, historic county of Anglesey (Sir Fon), Wales. Situated on the River Cefni almost in the middle of Anglesey island, the town originated as a market ...
Llangollen: market town, historic and present county of Denbighshire, Wales, in the valley of the River Dee. It is the home of the International Musical Eisteddfod (festival), held there since 1947 ...
Llano Estacado: portion of the High Plains of the United States, along the Texas-New Mexico border. It covers an area of about 30,000 square miles (78,000 square km) and is bounded by ...
Llanos: wide grasslands stretching across northern South America and occupying western Venezuela and northeastern Colombia. The Llanos have an area of approximately 220,000 square miles (570,000 square km), delimited by the ...
Llanquihue, Lake: lake in Llanquihue and Osorno provincias, Los Lagos region, southern Chile. The largest and, with neighbouring Todos los Santos, the best known of Chilean lakes, Llanquihue has an area of ...
Llantrisant: town, Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales, situated on a ridge between two steep hills overlooking the valley of the River Ely and the Vale ...
Llantwit Major: town, Vale of Glamorgan county, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales. Prehistoric and Roman remains have been discovered in and near the town. Its medieval importance lay in its monastic ...
Llanvirn Series: sequence of Ordovician rocks first studied in North Wales (the Ordovician Period lasted from 505 to 438 million years ago). The Llanvirn precedes the Llandeilo Series and follows the Arenig ...
Llewellyn, Richard: Welsh novelist and playwright, known especially for How Green Was My Valley (1939; filmed 1941), a best-selling novel about a Welsh mining family. It was followed by Up, Into the ...
Llivia: town and enclave of Spanish territory in the French departement of Pyrenees-Orientales, administratively part of the Spanish Catalan province of Gerona. The Roman Julia Livia, it lay within the ancient ...
Lloyd George, David: British prime minister (1916-22) who dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I. He was raised to the peerage in the year of his death.
Lloyd Webber, Sir Andrew: English composer, whose eclectic rock-based works helped revitalize British and American musical theatre in the late 20th century.
Lloyd's of London: international insurance marketing association in London, consisting of more than 20,000 individual underwriting members who accept insurance for their own account and risk. The corporation-which provides generally high-risk, specialized marine, ...
Lloyd's Register of Shipping: world's first and largest ship-classification society, begun in 1760 as a registry for ships likely to be insured by marine insurance underwriters meeting at Lloyd's coffeehouse in London. It is ...
Lloyd, Clive: West Indian cricketer, a powerful batsman who, as captain from 1974 to 1985, was largely responsible for the West Indies' extraordinary success in Test (international) play.
Lloyd, Earl: basketball player who was the first African American to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In the spring of 1950 Lloyd, who played collegiate basketball at West Virginia State ...
Lloyd, Harold: U.S. motion-picture comedian who was the highest paid star of the 1920s and one of the cinema's most popular personalities.
Lloyd, Henry Demarest: U.S. journalist whose exposes of the abuses of industrial monopolies are classics of muckraking journalism.
Lloyd, John Henry: American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, considered one of the greatest shortstops in the game.
Lloyd, Marie: foremost English music-hall artiste of the late 19th century, who became well known in the London, or Cockney, low comedy then popular. She first appeared in 1885 at the Eagle ...
Lloyd, Selwyn: British Conservative politician who was foreign secretary during Britain's diplomatic humiliation in the Suez crisis of 1956 and later chancellor of the exchequer under Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
Lloyds TSB Group PLC: one of the largest comprehensive commercial banks in the United Kingdom, with subsidiary banks in other countries. It is also a major insurance company. It is headquartered in London.
Llull, Ramon: Catalan mystic and poet whose writings helped to develop the Romance Catalan language and widely influenced Neoplatonic mysticism throughout medieval and 17th-century Europe. He is best known in the history ...
Llwyd, Morgan: Puritan writer whose Llyfr y Tri Aderyn (1653; "The Book of the Three Birds") is considered the most important original Welsh work published during the 17th century. One of the ...
Llyr: in Celtic mythology, leader of one of two warring families of gods; according to one interpretation, the Children of Llyr were the powers of darkness, constantly in conflict with the ...
Llywarch Hen: central figure in a cycle of poems composed by a 9th-century storyteller in Powys (Wales). Set against the background of the struggle of the Welsh of the kingdom of Powys ...
Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd: prince of Gwynedd in northern Wales who struggled unsuccessfully to drive the English from Welsh territory. He was the only Welsh ruler to be officially recognized by the English as ...
Llywelyn Ap Iorwerth: Welsh prince, the most outstanding native ruler to appear in Wales before the region came under English rule in 1283.
lm: city, western Iran. The city is rural in appearance and is located near the Iraq-Iran border. A number of roads emanate from Ilam, linking it with the border towns of ...
Lo-ho: city in central Honan sheng (province), China. Lo-ho is situated on the Sha River, which flows southeastward to the Huai River at the point where it is crossed by the ...
Lo-Johansson, Ivar: Swedish writer and social critic who in more than 50 "proletarian" novels and short-story collections depicted the lives of working-class people with great compassion.
Lo-yang: city in northwestern Honan sheng (province), China. It was important in history as the capital of nine ruling dynasties and as a Buddhist centre. Lo-yang is divided into an east ...
Loa River: river, the longest in Chile, in Antofagasta and Tarapaca regions. It rises in the Andes at the base of Mino Volcano, near the Bolivian border, and flows southwest through the ...
loach: any of the small, generally elongated freshwater fishes of the family Cobitidae. More than 200 species are known; most are native to central and southern Asia, but three are found ...
loading: in communications technology, addition of inductance to an antenna or at periodic intervals to a transmission line to improve operating characteristics. Loading coils in telephone lines may be spaced as ...
Loango, Kingdom of: former African state in the basin of the Kouilou and Niari rivers (now largely in southwestern Congo [Brazzaville]). Founded by the Vili people, (Bavili), probably before 1485, it was one ...
Loasaceae: mostly tropical American plant family of about 15 genera and more than 250 species, many with painfully stinging hairs but beautiful and often bizarre flowers in red, orange, yellow, or ...
Lobachevsky, Nikolay Ivanovich: Russian mathematician and founder of non-Euclidean geometry, which he developed independently of Janos Bolyai and Carl Gauss. (Lobachevsky's first publication on this subject was in 1829, Bolyai's in 1832; Gauss ...
Lobamba: densely populated rural area, central Swaziland, southern Africa. According to traditional Swazi customs, Lobamba is the residence of the Ndlovukazi ("She Elephant"; i.e., the Queen Mother) and ...
Lobanov-Rostovsky, Aleksey Borisovich, Knyaz: (Prince) diplomat and statesman who, while serving as Russia's foreign minister (1895-96), brought northern Manchuria into Russia's sphere of influence.
Lobatse: town, southeastern Botswana. It lies on a main road and a rail line about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Gaborone, the national capital. Lobatse is the site of the ...
lobbying: any attempt by individuals or private interest groups to influence the decisions of government; in its original meaning it referred to efforts to influence the votes of legislators, generally in ...
lobed comb jelly: any of several, mostly small, marine invertebrates of the order Lobata (phylum Ctenophora). The transparent, gelatinous animals are found drifting in most oceans, especially in surface waters near the shore. ...
Lobeliaceae: the lobelia family of the bellflower order (Campanulales), containing about 25 genera and more than 750 species of flowering plants, native to both hemispheres. Some are grown for their attractive, ...
Lobengula: second and last king of the South African Ndebele (Matabele) nation. Lobengula, the son of the founder of the Ndebele kingdom, Mzilikazi, was unable to preserve the independence of his ...
Lobi: people residing in the western region of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and in the Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and speaking a Gur language of the Niger-Congo family. They are ...
lobotomy: surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas. The procedure formerly was used as a radical ...
lobster: any of numerous marine crustaceans (order Decapoda) constituting the families Homaridae (or Nephropsidae), true lobsters; Palinuridae, spiny lobsters, or sea crayfish; Scyllaridae, slipper, Spanish, or shovel lobsters; and Polychelidae, deep-sea ...
lobster pot: in commercial fishing, portable trap to capture lobster, either half-cylindrical or rectangular and constructed of laths, formerly wooden but now usually plastic. An opening permits the lobster to enter, but ...
Local Church, the: international Evangelical Christian group founded in China in the 1930s and based on the belief that a city or town should have only one church.
local colour: style of writing derived from the presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants. The name is given especially to a kind of American literature ...
Local Group: in astronomy, the group of more than 20 galaxies to which the Milky Way Galaxy belongs. About half are elliptical galaxies, with the remainder being of the spiral or irregular ...
Locarno: town, Ticino canton, southern Switzerland. It is situated at the northern end of Lago Maggiore, near the mouth of the Maggia River, west of Bellinzona. The site was settled in ...
Locarno, Pact of: (Dec. 1, 1925), series of agreements whereby Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy mutually guaranteed peace in western Europe. The treaties were initialed at Locarno, Switz., on October 16 ...
Locatelli, Pietro: Italian violinist and composer, one of the first great violinists who practiced virtuosity for virtuosity's sake, thereby extending the technical vocabulary of the violin. He is perhaps best known for ...