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London School of Economics and Political Science: institution of higher learning in the City of Westminster, London, England. It is one of the world's leading institutions devoted to the social sciences. A pioneer institution in the study ...
London Stock Exchange: a London marketplace for securities. It lies in the vicinity of the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange, in the heart of the City of London. The market was ...
London Zoo: zoo in the northern part of Regent's Park, in the City of Westminster, London. It has one of the most comprehensive animal collections in the world and the largest zoological ...
London, Artur: Czechoslovak Communist official who wrote a powerful autobiographical account of his own political trial.
London, City of: municipal corporation and borough, London. Sometimes called the "Square Mile," it is one of the 33 boroughs that make up Greater London.
London, Fritz Wolfgang: German-American physicist who, with Walter Heitler, devised (1927) the first quantum mechanical treatment of the hydrogen molecule.
London, Jack: American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. He is one of the most extensively translated of American authors.
London, Tower of: royal fortress and London landmark. Its buildings and grounds served historically as a royal palace, a political prison, a place of execution, an arsenal, a royal mint, a menagerie, and ...
London, University of: a federation of 20 British institutions of higher learning, located primarily in London: 19 virtually autonomous colleges and the central academic institutes. It also examines and grants degrees to students ...
Londonderry: city and the larger district that encompasses it, formerly in the even larger County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The old city and adjacent urban and rural areas were administratively merged in ...
Londonderry: former (until 1973) county, Northern Ireland. It was bounded by the Atlantic Ocean (north), the River Bann (east), former County Tyrone (south), and the River Foyle (west). It had an ...
Londrina: city, northern Parana state, southeastern Brazil. Founded in 1930 by a small group of Japanese and German settlers, it rapidly became the commercial, political, and cultural centre of the state's ...
Lone Ranger: renegade lawman in the American West, a fictional character of American radio and television programs, books, films, and comics.
Long Beach: first nuclear-powered surface warship, launched by the U.S. Navy in 1959. Displacing 14,000 tons, the Long Beach was classed as a cruiser but had a substantially larger below-deck space than ...
Long Beach: city, port, Los Angeles county, California, U.S. Long Beach lies on San Pedro Bay, 22 miles (35 km) south of Los Angeles, and surrounds the independent city of Signal Hill. ...
Long Beach: island and township in Ocean county, eastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies in the Atlantic Ocean 4-6 miles (6-10 km) offshore and shelters Little Egg Harbor and the southern portion ...
Long Branch: city, Monmouth county, eastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies along the Atlantic Ocean, 50 miles (80 km) south of New York City. Settled in 1668 on land purchased from the ...
Long Island: island in the Atlantic Ocean that comprises the southeasternmost part of New York state, U.S. The island lies roughly parallel to the southern shore of Connecticut, from which it is ...
Long Island Rail Road Company: American railroad on Long Island, N.Y., and one of the few in the world still operating under its original name. Incorporated in 1834, it opened its main line to Greenport, ...
Long Island Sound: semienclosed arm of the North Atlantic Ocean, lying between the New York-Connecticut (U.S.) shore to the north and Long Island to the south. Covering 1,180 square miles (3,056 square km), ...
Long Island, Battle of: (August 27, 1776), in the American Revolution, successful British action in Brooklyn, New York, against the American Continental Army. The battle initiated the British campaign of 1776 to seize control ...
long jump: sport in athletics (track-and-field) consisting of a horizontal jump for distance. It was formerly performed from both standing and running starts, as separate events, but the standing long jump is ...
Long March: (1934-35), the 6,000-mile (10,000-kilometre) historic trek of the Chinese Communists, which resulted in the relocation of the Communist revolutionary base from Southeast China to Northwest China and in the emergence ...
long metre: in poetry, a quatrain in iambic tetrameter with the second and fourth lines rhyming and often the first and third lines rhyming. An example is the following stanza from the ...
Long Parliament: session of the English Parliament summoned in November 1640 by King Charles I; it has been so named to distinguish it from the Short Parliament of April-May 1640. The duration ...
Long Point: peninsula in Lake Erie, Norfolk county, southern Ontario, Canada. It lies about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Port Colborne, which is the Lake Erie terminus of the Welland Canal. ...
Long Range Mountains: highest range on the island of Newfoundland, Canada, extending about 250 miles (400 km) northward from Cape Ray along the western shore. The mountains have an average elevation of nearly ...
Long Xuyen: city, southern Vietnam. It is located on the west bank of the Hau Giang (Bassac) River, a channel of the Mekong. Fishing, the breeding of fish, and rice and fruit ...
Long, Crawford Williamson: American physician traditionally considered the first to have used ether as an anesthetic in surgery.
Long, Huey: flamboyant and demagogic governor of Louisiana and U.S. senator whose social reforms and radical welfare proposals were ultimately overshadowed by the unprecedented executive dictatorship that he perpetrated to ensure control ...
long-distance running: in athletics (track and field), races ranging from 3,000 metres through 10,000, 20,000, and 30,000 metres and up to the marathon, which is 42,195 metres (26 miles 385 yards). It ...
long-eared bat: any of 19 species of small, usually colony-dwelling vesper bats (family Vespertilionidae). Long-eared bats are found in both the Old World and the New World (Plecotus) and in Australia (Nyctophilus). ...
long-eared owl: (Asio otus), nocturnal bird of prey of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes). Common to woodlands of northern Europe and America, it is recognized by its long ear tufts. Long-eared owls ...
long-horned beetle: any member of the approximately 25,000 species of the insect family Cerambycidae (order Coleoptera). These beetles occur throughout the world but are most numerous in the tropics. They range in ...
long-horned grasshopper: any member of the cricket-like orthopteran insect family Tettigoniidae (about 3,000 species), distinguished from the true cricket (family Gryllidae) by hearing organs located on the front legs, hair-like antennae as ...
long-legged fly: any insect of the family Dolichopodidae (order Diptera). These tiny, metallic blue or green flies prey on smaller insects and are found around damp, marshy places.
long-period variable star: any intrinsically variable star whose light fluctuations are fairly regular and require many months or several years to complete one cycle. They are, without exception, red giant and supergiant stars. ...
Longair, Malcolm Sim: Scots astronomer, noted for his scholarship and teaching, who in 1980 was named astronomer royal for Scotland.
longan: (Euphoria longana), tropical fruit tree, of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), native to Asia and introduced into other warm regions of the world. The tree grows to 9-12 m (30-40 feet). ...
longbow: bow commonly 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and the predominant missile weapon of the English in the Hundred Years' War and on into the 16th century. It was probably of ...
longcase clock: tall pendulum clock enclosed in a wooden case that stands upon the floor and is typically from 6 to 7.5 feet (1.8 to 2.3 m) in height. The first longcase ...
Longchamp, William: ecclesiastical statesman who governed England in 1190-91, while King Richard I (reigned 1189-99) was away from the kingdom during the Third Crusade.
Longden, Johnny: English-born American jockey who, in a career of 40 years (1927-66), established a world record in Thoroughbred racing with 6,032 victories (some sources give 6,026). This mark was surpassed in ...
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: the most popular American poet in the 19th century.
Longfellow-Evangeline State Commemorative Area: historic site just north of St. Martinville, southern Louisiana, U.S. The site lies on Bayou Teche, about 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Lafayette. Established in 1934, it occupies an ...
Longfield, Mountifort: Irish judge, economist, and the first professor of political economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
Longford: county in the province of Leinster, north-central Ireland. It is bounded by Counties Leitrim (northwest), Cavan (northeast), Westmeath (southeast), and Roscommon (west). The main features of drainage are the valleys ...
Longford, Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham, 6th earl of: Baron Longford, Baron Silchester Of Silchester theatre patron and playwright who is best-remembered as the director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
longhair: breed of domestic cat noted for its long, soft, flowing coat. Long-haired cats were originally known as Persians, or Angoras. These names were later discarded in favour of the name ...
Longhena, Baldassare: major Venetian architect of the 17th century.
Longhi, Alessandro: painter, etcher, and biographer of Venetian artists, the most important Venetian portrait painter of his day.
Longhi, Pietro: painter of the Rococo period known for his small scenes of Venetian social and domestic life.
longhouse: traditional dwelling of the Iroquois Indians of the northeastern United States, particularly northern New York, until the 19th century, when they abandoned it as a residence. The term has also ...
Longinus: name sometimes assigned to the author of On the Sublime (Greek Peri Hypsous), one of the great, seminal works of literary criticism. The earliest surviving manuscript, from the 10th century, ...
longitudinal wave: wave consisting of a periodic disturbance or vibration that takes place in the same direction as the advance of the wave. A coiled spring that is compressed at one end ...
Longmen caves: series of Chinese cave temples carved into the rock of a high river bank south of the city of Luoyang, in Henan province.
Longmont: city, Boulder and Weld counties, northern Colorado, U.S., on the St. Vrain River between the South Platte River and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, at an elevation of 5,000 ...
Longmyndian: major division of Late Precambrian rocks and time in the southern Shropshire region of England (the Precambrian began about 3.8 billion years ago when the Earth's crust formed and ended ...
Longomontanus, Christian: Danish astronomer and astrologer who is best known for his association with, and published support for, Tycho Brahe. Longomontanus used Tycho's data to compile the Astronomia danica (1622), an exposition ...
Longquan ware: celadon stoneware produced in kilns in the town of Longquan (province of Zhejiang), China, from the Song to the mid-Qing dynasties (roughly from the 11th to the 18th century).
Longs Peak: mountain peak in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, Boulder county, north-central Colorado, U.S. It is the highest peak (14,255 feet [4,345 metres]) in Rocky Mountain National Park and ...
longship: type of sail-and-oar vessel that predominated in northern European waters for more than 1,500 years and played an important role in history. Ranging from 45 to 75 feet (14 to ...
Longstreet, James: Confederate officer during the American Civil War. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1842), he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded ...
Longton Hall porcelain: a soft-paste English porcelain produced for only about 10 years (1749-60). It is both heavy and translucent but has many faults both in potting and glazing. Its typical colours are ...
Longueuil: city, Monteregie region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on the St. Lawrence River, opposite Montreal city. The city was founded in 1657 by Charles Le Moyne. Reached by the Montreal and ...
Longueville, Anne-Genevieve de Bourbon-Conde, Duchess de: French princess remembered for her beauty and amours, her influence during the civil wars of the Fronde, and her final conversion to Jansenism.
Longueville, Henri II d'Orleans, Duke de, Duke De Coulommiers: noted rebel in the French civil wars of the Fronde, whose second wife was the celebrated Anne-Genevieve de Bourbon-Conde, Duchess de Longueville (q.v.).
Longus: Greek writer, author of Daphnis and Chloe, the first pastoral prose romance (see pastoral literature) and one of the most popular of the Greek erotic romances.
Longview: city, Cowlitz county, southwestern Washington, U.S., at the confluence of the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers, 50 miles (80 km) north of Portland, Oregon. A planned community, it was founded in ...
Longview: city, seat (1871) of Gregg county and partly in Harrison county, eastern Texas, U.S. It is situated near the Sabine River, 65 miles (105 km) west of Shreveport, Louisiana, and ...
Longwell, Chester R.: American geologist, known for his studies of the western United States.
Longwood Gardens: botanical gardens in Kennett Square, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. The gardens are operated by Longwood Gardens, Inc., a private foundation, which, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and ...
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt: American socialite, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, who was known for her wit and her political influence.
Longwy: town, Meurthe-et-Moselle departement, Lorraine region, northeastern France, on the Chiers River, near the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg. A part of the former Duchy of Bar, Longwy was annexed by ...
Lonnrot, Elias: folklorist and philologist who created the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala (1835, enlarged 1849), from short ballads and lyric poems collected from oral tradition. He also published Kanteletar (1840-41; "Old ...
Lons-le-Saunier: town, capital of Jura departement, Franche-Comte region, eastern France, south-southeast of Dijon. Located at 846 feet (258 m) above sea level in the valley of the Solvan, it is surrounded ...