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location theory: in economics and geography, theory concerned with the geographic location of economic activity; it has become an integral part of economic geography, regional science, and spatial economics. Location theory addresses ...
Loch, Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron: British soldier and administrator who served as high commissioner in South Africa and governor of Cape Colony from 1889 to 1895, a period of mounting tension between the British and ...
Loches: town, Indre-et-Loire departement, Centre region, west central France, southeast of Tours, on the left bank of the Indre River. The town is dominated by the medieval citadel, which is surrounded ...
Lochgilphead: burgh (town) and holiday resort, Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Argyllshire, Scotland, situated at the head of Loch Gilp (a marine inlet of Loch Fyne) by the ...
Lochmaben: royal burgh (town), Dumfries and Galloway council area, historic county of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, situated near several small lochs in Annandale valley. Robert the Bruce, who ruled Scotland as Robert I ...
Lochnagar: scenic mountain of coarse red granite, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, south of the River Dee in the Grampian Mountains. The mountain ridge, popularized in the 19th century by Lord Byron's poem "Lachin ...
Lochner, Stefan: late Gothic painter, considered to be the greatest representative of the school of Cologne. He is known primarily for his highly mystical religious paintings.
lock: enclosure or basin located in the course of a canal or a river (or in the vicinity of a dock) with gates at each end, within which the water level ...
lock: mechanical device for securing a door or receptacle so that it cannot be opened except by a key or by a series of manipulations that can be carried out only ...
Lock Haven: city, seat (1839) of Clinton county, north-central Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies along the West Branch Susquehanna River (a major tributary of the Susquehanna), on the southern slope of Bald Eagle ...
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania: public coeducational institution of higher learning in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is part of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education and comprises colleges of Arts and Sciences, and Education ...
Locke, Alain: American educator, writer, and philosopher, best remembered as the leader and chief interpreter of the Harlem Renaissance (q.v.).
Locke, Bobby: South African golfer who won the British Open four times.
Locke, John: English philosopher who was an initiator of the Enlightenment in England and France, an inspirer of the U.S. Constitution, and the author of, among other works, An Essay Concerning Human ...
Locke, Matthew: leading English composer for the stage in the period before Henry Purcell.
Lockhart, John Gibson: Scottish critic, novelist, and biographer, best remembered for his Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837-38; enlarged 1839), one of the great biographies in English.
Lockheed Martin Corporation: major American diversified company with core business concentrations in aerospace products-including aircraft, space launchers, satellites, and defense systems-and other advanced-technology systems and services. About half of the company's annual sales ...
lockout: the tactic of withholding employment, typically used by employers to hinder union organization or to gain leverage in labour disputes. It is often accomplished by literally locking employees out of ...
Lockport: city, seat (1822) of Niagara county, western New York, U.S. It lies 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Buffalo. It was founded in 1821 and grew around the series of ...
Lockwood, Belva Ann: American feminist and lawyer who was the first woman admitted to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Lockwood, Margaret: British actress noted for her versatility and craftsmanship, who became Britain's most popular leading lady in the late 1940s.
Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman: British astronomer who in 1868 discovered in the Sun's atmosphere a previously unknown element that he named helium.
Locmariaquer: village and seaside resort, on the coast of the Gulf of Morbihan, Morbihan departement, Bretagne region, western France, south of Auray. It is famous for its megalithic monuments, notably the ...
Locofoco Party: in U.S. history, radical wing of the Democratic Party, organized in New York City in 1835. Made up primarily of workingmen and reformers, the Locofocos were opposed to state banks, ...
locomotion: in ethology, any of a variety of movements among animals that results in progression from one place to another.
locomotive: any of various self-propelled vehicles used for hauling railroad cars on tracks.
locoweed: any of several species of poisonous plants of the genera Astragalus and Oxytropis, in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to the prairies of north central and western North America. Locoweeds ...
Locri Epizephyrii: ancient city on the eastern side of the "toe" of Italy, founded by Greeks c. 680 BC; the inhabitants used the name of Locri Epizephyrii to distinguish themselves from the ...
locust: in botany, any tree of the genus Robinia within the pea family (Fabaceae). About 20 species are known, all occurring in eastern North America and Mexico. The best known is ...
locust: species of short-horned grasshopper (orthopteran family Acrididae) that often increases greatly in number and migrates long distances in destructive swarms. In Europe the word locust connotes large size; smaller acridids ...
locust bird: any of various African birds that eat grasshoppers and locusts, especially the black-winged pratincole (see pratincole). In India the rose-coloured starling is called locust bird.
Loczy, Lajos: Hungarian geologist who first scientifically described the mountains bordering the Tibetan Plateau that connect the Kunlun Mountains with the north-south-oriented belt of mountains and gorges in central China.
Lod: city, central Israel, on the Plain of Sharon southeast of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Of ancient origin, it is mentioned several times in the Bible: in a New Testament account (Acts 9:32), ...
Loddon River: river, central Victoria, Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Melbourne and flowing northwest and north for more than 200 miles (320 km), past Kerang, ...
lode: in mining, ore body disseminated within definite boundaries in unwanted rock. See vein.
loden coat: jacket of Tyrolean origin, made of loden cloth, which was first handwoven by peasants living in Loderers, Austria, in the 16th century. The material comes from the coarse, oily wool ...
lodge: originally an insubstantial house or dwelling, erected as a seasonal habitation or for some temporary occupational purpose, such as woodcutting. In this sense the word is currently used to describe ...
Lodge, David: English novelist, literary critic, and editor known chiefly for his satiric novels about academic life.
Lodge, Henry Cabot: Republican U.S. senator for more than 31 years (1893-1924); he led the successful congressional opposition to his country's participation in the League of Nations following World War I.
Lodge, Henry Cabot: U.S. senator and diplomat who ran unsuccessfully for the vice presidency of the United States in 1960.
Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph: British physicist who perfected the coherer, a radio-wave detector and the heart of the early radiotelegraph receiver.
Lodge, Thomas: English poet, dramatist, and prose writer whose innovative versatility typified the Elizabethan age. He is best remembered for the prose romance Rosalynde, the source of William Shakespeare's As You Like ...
Lodi: city, San Joaquin county, central California, U.S. Lodi lies along the Mokelumne River at the junction of the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys just northeast of Stockton, on the edge ...
Lodi: town, capital of Lodi provincia, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy. It lies on the right bank of the Adda River, southeast of Milan. The original settlement (5th century BC) on ...
Lodi Dynasty: (1451-1526), last ruling family of the Delhi sultanate of India. This dynasty was of Afghan origin.
Lodi, Battle of: (May 10, 1796), small but dramatic engagement in Napoleon Bonaparte's first Italian campaign, in which he earned the confidence and loyalty of his men, who nicknamed him "The Little Corporal" ...
Lodi, Peace of: (April 9, 1454), treaty between Venice and Milan ending the war of succession to the Milanese duchy in favour of Francesco Sforza. It marked the beginning of a 40-year period ...
Lodz: city, capital of Lodzkie wojewodztwo (province), central Poland. It lies on the northwestern edge of the Lodz Highlands, on the watershed of the Vistula and Oder rivers, ...
Lodzkie: wojewodztwo (province), central Poland. It is bordered by six provinces: Kujawsko-Pomorskie to the north, Mazowieckie to the east, Swietokrzyskie to the southeast, Slaskie to the south, Opolskie ...
Loeb, Jacques: German-born American biologist noted chiefly for his experimental work on artificial parthenogenesis (reproduction without fertilization).
Loeffler, Charles Martin: American composer whose works are distinguished by a poetic lyricism in an Impressionist style.
loellingite: an iron arsenide mineral (FeAs₂) that usually occurs with iron and copper sulfides in hydrothermal vein deposits. It typically occurs with impurities of cobalt, nickel, and arsenic-as at the Andreas-Berg, ...
loess: an unstratified, geologically recent deposit of silty or loamy material that is usually buff or yellowish brown in colour and is chiefly deposited by the wind. Loess is a sedimentary ...
Loess Plateau: highland area in north-central China, covering much of Shansi, north Honan, Shensi, and east Kansu provinces and the middle part of the Huang Ho (Yellow River) basin. Averaging 3,300 feet ...
Loesser, Frank: American composer, librettist, and lyricist, who achieved major success writing for Broadway musicals, culminating in the 1962 Pulitzer Prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Loew, Marcus: American motion-picture executive and pioneer motion-picture theatre owner whose consolidation and expansion of his business interests helped establish Hollywood as the centre of the film industry.
Loewe, Carl: German composer and singer who is best-known for his songs, particularly his dramatic ballads.
Loewe, Frederick: German-born American composer and collaborator with Alan Jay Lerner on a series of hit musical plays, including the phenomenally successful My Fair Lady (1956; filmed 1964).
Loewi, Otto: German-born American physician and pharmacologist who, with Sir Henry Dale, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for their discoveries relating to the chemical transmission of nerve ...
Loewy, Raymond: French-born American industrial designer who, through his accomplishments in product design beginning in the 1930s, helped to establish industrial design as a profession.
Loffler, Friedrich August Johannes: German bacteriologist who, with Edwin Klebs, in 1884 discovered the organism that causes diphtheria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, commonly known as the Klebs-Loffler bacillus. Simultaneously with Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin, he ...
Lofoten: island group, in the Norwegian Sea, northern Norway. Lying off the mainland entirely within the Arctic Circle, the group comprises the southern end of the Lofoten-Vesteralen archipelago and includes five ...
loft: in architecture, upper space within a building, or a large undivided space in a building used principally for storage in business or industry. In churches the rood loft is a ...
Lofthuus, Christian Jensen: leader of a reform movement who sought redress for the grievances of Norway's peasantry from the absolutist Danish-Norwegian court. His imprisonment and death made him a martyr for Norwegian agrarian ...
Lofting, Hugh: English-born American author of a series of children's classics about Dr. Dolittle, a chubby, gentle, eccentric physician to animals, who learns the language of animals from his parrot, Polynesia, so ...
log: instrument for measuring the speed of a ship through water. The first practical log, developed about 1600, consisted of a pie-shaped log chip with a lead weight on its curved ...
log cabin: small house built of logs notched at the ends and laid one upon another with the spaces filled with plaster, moss, mortar, mud, or dried manure. Log cabins are found ...
Logan: city, seat (1859) of Cache county, northern Utah, U.S. It lies along the Logan River (named for Ephraim Logan, a trapper), in the Cache Valley, 35 miles (56 km) north-northeast ...
Logan: city, seat (1826) of Logan county, southwestern West Virginia, U.S. It lies along the Guyandotte River, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Charleston, near the Kentucky border. Laid out ...
Logan, James: British-American colonial statesman and merchant who was also prominent in British-colonial intellectual life.
Logan, James: prominent Indian leader, whose initial excellent relations with white settlers in Pennsylvania and the Ohio Territory deteriorated into a vendetta after the slaughter of his family in 1774.
Logan, John A: U.S. congressman, Union general during the American Civil War (1861-65), and originator of Memorial Day.
Logan, Joshua: American stage and motion-picture director, producer, and writer.
Logan, Mount: mountain, highest point (19,524 feet [5,951 m]) in Canada and second in North America only to Mount McKinley. Located in the St. Elias Mountains of southwestern Yukon Territory, the peak ...
Logan, Sir William Edmond: one of the foremost Canadian geologists of the 19th century.
loganberry: (Rubus loganobaccus), bramble fruit of the family Rosaceae that originated in the United States, at Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1881. Raised from seed, it is thought to be a hybrid ...