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Lonsdale Belt: British boxing award originated in 1909 by Lord Lonsdale, president of the National Sporting Club. The first belt went to a lightweight, Freddie Welsh. A belt was originally given to ...
Lonsdale, Dame Kathleen: nee Yardley British crystallographer who developed several X-ray techniques for the study of crystal structure. She was the first woman to be elected (1945) to the Royal Society of London.
Lonsdale, Frederick Leonard: British playwright and librettist whose lightweight comedies of manners have survived because of their tight construction and epigrammatic wit.
Lonsdale, Gordon Arnold: spy for the U.S.S.R. who in March 1961 was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a British court.
Lonsdale, William: English geologist and paleontologist whose studies of fossil corals suggested the existence of an intermediate system of rocks, the Devonian System, between the Carboniferous System (286 to 360 million years ...
loo: gambling card game often mentioned in English literature. The name derives from the French lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song. Popularity of the game faded ...
Looe: town ("parish"), Caradon district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. It is divided into East and West Looe by the River Looe, which forms the harbour on the English ...
Lookout Mountain: narrow southwestern ridge of the Cumberland Plateau and a segment of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S., extending south-southwestward for 75 miles (120 km), from Moccasin Bend, Tenn., on the Tennessee River ...
Lookout Mountain, Battle of: in the American Civil War, one of the battles that ended the Confederate siege of Union troops at Chattanooga, Tenn. See Chattanooga, Battle of.
loom: machine for weaving cloth. The earliest looms date from the 5th millennium BC and consisted of bars or beams fixed in place to form a frame to hold a number ...
loon: (Gavia), any of four species of diving birds constituting the family Gaviidae (order Gaviiformes). These birds were formerly included, along with the grebes, to which they bear a superficial resemblance, ...
loop of Henle: long, U-shaped portion of the tubule that conducts urine within each nephron (q.v.) of the kidney of reptiles, birds, and mammals. The principal function of the loop of Henle appears ...
Loop, the: 35-block area of downtown Chicago, Illinois, U.S. The name probably derives from a cable-car line that circled the city's central business district in the 1880s, though the term's use became ...
Loos, Adolf: Austrian architect whose planning of private residences strongly influenced European Modernist architects after World War I. Frank Lloyd Wright credited Loos with doing for European architecture what Wright was doing ...
Loos, Anita: American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter celebrated for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which became the basis of a popular play, two musicals, and two films. By the time of her ...
loosestrife: any of the ornamental plants of the family Lythraceae, especially the genera Lythrum and Decodon, and two genera of the family Primulaceae, Lysimachia and Steironema.
Looy, Jacobus van: Dutch author and painter who personified the close association between art and literature in the late 19th century.
Lop Buri: town, south-central Thailand, north of Bangkok. Lop Buri is a rice-collecting centre situated on the Lop Buri River and on the country's main north-south highway and railway. Founded as Lavo ...
Lop Nor: former saline lake in northwestern China that is now a salt-encrusted lake bed. It lies within the Tarim depression of the eastern Takla Makan Desert, in the Uighur Autonomous Region ...
Lopes, Baltasar: African poet, novelist, and short-story writer, who was instrumental in the shaping of modern Cape Verdean literature.
Lopes, Fernao: Portuguese historian, the first and greatest of the Portuguese royal chroniclers and the most accomplished writer of 15th-century Portuguese prose. He occupies a special place in medieval historiography because he ...
Lopes, Manuel: African poet and novelist who portrayed the struggle of his people to live in a land besieged by drought, famine, and unemployment.
Lopez de Ayala, Pedro: Spanish poet and court chronicler who observed firsthand the happenings of his time and, unlike earlier chroniclers, recorded them objectively. His Cronicas (standard ed., 1779-80) are marked by this personal ...
Lopez Mateos, Adolfo: Mexican president (1958-64) who expanded industrial development and agrarian reform.
Lopez Michelsen, Alfonso: president of Colombia, 1974-78.
Lopez Portillo, Jose: Mexican lawyer, economist, and writer, who was president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
Lopez Rega, Jose: Argentine politician and political confidante who was virtual prime minister during the regime of President Isabel Martinez de Peron.
Lopez Velarde, Ramon: postmodernist Mexican poet who incorporated French Symbolist techniques into the treatment of purely Mexican themes.
Lopez y Fuentes, Gregorio: novelist who was one of the most important chroniclers of the Mexican Revolution and its effects.
Lopez, Barry: American writer best known for his books on natural history and the environment. In such works as Of Wolves and Men (1978) and Arctic Dreams: Imagination and ...
Lopez, Carlos Antonio: second dictator of Paraguay, who ended his country's isolation, sought to modernize Paraguay, and became deeply involved in international disputes.
Lopez, Francisco Solano: dictator of Paraguay responsible for the Paraguayan War (also known as the War of the Triple Alliance), in which Paraguay was practically destroyed by Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
lophophorate: any of several invertebrate animals that possess a lophophore, a fan of ciliated tentacles around the mouth. Currents of water carrying food particles toward the mouth are drawn by movements ...
lophophore hypothesis: viewpoint that conodonts, small toothlike structures found as fossils in marine rocks over a long span of geologic time, are actually parts of and supports for a lophophore organ used ...
Lophophyllum: extinct genus of solitary marine corals found as fossils especially characteristic of the Late Carboniferous epoch (between 320 million and 286 million years ago) in North America. Lophophyllum, included in ...
Lophospira: genus of extinct gastropods (snails) found as fossils in marine rocks of Ordovician to Devonian age (505 million to 360 million years old). The shell consists of a series of ...
lopolith: igneous intrusion associated with a structural basin, with contacts that are parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rocks. In an ideal example, the enclosing sediments above and below the ...
loquat: (Eriobotrya japonica), subtropical tree of the rose family (Rosaceae), related to the apple and other well-known fruit trees of the temperate zone. Ornamental in appearance and rarely more than 10 ...
Lorain: city, Lorain county, northern Ohio, U.S., 26 mi (42 km) west of Cleveland, on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Black River, adjacent to Elyria (south). Moravian missionaries camped ...
Lorain, John: U.S. farmer, merchant, agricultural writer, and the first person to create a hybrid by combining two types of corn. His experiments anticipated the methods employed in the century following his ...
Loralai: town, northeastern Balochistan province, Pakistan. The town lies just north of the Loralai River, at 4,700 feet (1,430 metres) above sea level. Founded in 1886, it is connected by road ...
loran: land-based system of radio navigation, first developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during World War II for military ships and aircraft located within 600 miles (about 970 km) of ...
Lorant, Stefan: Hungarian-born American editor, author, and pioneer in photojournalism who is also well known for his pictorial histories of American presidents.
Loranthaceae: one of the mistletoe families of the sandalwood order (Santalales), having approximately 65 genera and about 850 species of parasitic flowering trees or shrubs. Some authorities also consider the 11 ...
Loras College: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. Affiliated with the Roman Catholic church, the college is a liberal arts institution that offers undergraduate study in business, communications, ...
Lorca: town, Murcia province and autonomous community (region), southeastern Spain. It is situated along the Guadalentin River in a semiarid and steppelike area that is surrounded by rugged mountains. The town, ...
lord: in the British Isles, a general title for a prince or sovereign or for a feudal superior (especially a feudal tenant who holds directly from the king, i.e., a baron). ...
Lord Chamberlain's Men: a theatrical company with which Shakespeare was intimately connected for most of his professional career as a dramatist. It was the most important company of players in Elizabethan and Jacobean ...
lord chancellor: British officer of state who is custodian of the great seal and a cabinet minister. The lord chancellor traditionally served as head of the judiciary and speaker of the House ...
lord chief justice: in England and Wales, the head of the Queen's (or King's) Bench Division of the High Court of Justice and next in rank to the lord chancellor. Appointed by the ...
Lord Dunmore's War: (1774), Virginia-led attack on the Shawnee Indians of Kentucky, removing the last obstacle to colonial conquest of that area. During the early 1770s the Shawnee watched with growing distress the ...
lord high steward: an honorific office that came to England with the Norman ducal household. From 1153 it was held by the earls of Leicester and then of Lancaster until it came into ...
Lord Howe Island: island dependency of New South Wales, Australia, situated in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, 436 miles (702 km) northeast of Sydney. Volcanic in origin, it has an area of 7 square ...
lord steward: in England, an official of the royal household, whose duties were originally domestic and who was known as the "chief steward" of the household. The office was of considerable political ...
Lord Strange's Men: prominent Elizabethan acting company. A household troupe of Lord Strange, they toured the provinces before appearing at court in 1582. From 1588 to 1594 they were associated with the Admiral's ...
Lord's Cricket Ground: headquarters and home ground of the Marylebone Cricket Club, long the world's foremost cricket organization, and the scene of Test Matches between England and visiting national teams and of matches ...
Lord's Prayer: (Latin: "Our Father"), prayer taught by Jesus to his disciples, and the principal prayer used by all Christians in common worship. It appears in two forms in the New Testament, ...
Lorde, Audre: African American poet, essayist, and autobiographer known for her passionate writings on lesbian feminism and racial issues.
Lords, House of: the upper chamber of Great Britain's bicameral legislature. Originating in the 11th century, when the Anglo-Saxon kings consulted witans (councils) composed of religious leaders and the monarch's ministers, it emerged ...
Loredan, Pietro: Venetian nobleman and admiral who became one of the city's popular heroes. His naval achievements ensured Venice's supremacy over its trading rivals in the Mediterranean and made it the dominant ...
Lorelei: large rock on the bank of the Rhine River near Sankt Goarshausen, Ger. The rock produces an echo and is associated with the legend of a beautiful maiden who threw ...
Loren, Sophia: Italian film actress who rose above her poverty-stricken origins in postwar Naples to become universally recognized as one of Italy's most beautiful women and its most famous movie star.
Lorena: city, southeastern Sao Paulo estado ("state"), Brazil. It lies along the Paraiba do Sul River, at 1,719 feet (524 m) above sea level. Formerly known as Porto de Guaipacare and ...
Lorengau: town, northeastern Manus Island, in the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea. It lies on Seeadler Harbour. Captured by the Japanese in 1942, the settlement was retaken by Allied forces in ...
Lorentz transformations: set of equations in relativity physics that relate the space and time coordinates of two systems moving at a constant velocity relative to each other. Required to describe high-speed phenomena ...
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon: Dutch physicist and joint winner (with Pieter Zeeman) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1902 for his theory of electromagnetic radiation, which, confirmed by findings of Zeeman, gave rise ...
Lorentz, Pare: American filmmaker whose government-sponsored documentaries focused attention on the waste of human and natural resources in the United States in the 1930s.
Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction: in relativity physics, the shortening of an object along the direction of its motion relative to an observer. Dimensions in other directions are not contracted. The concept of the contraction ...
Lorenz, Konrad: Austrian zoologist, founder of modern ethology, the study of animal behaviour by means of comparative zoological methods. His ideas contributed to an understanding of how behavioral patterns may be traced ...
Lorenzetti, Ambrogio: younger brother of Pietro Lorenzetti, who ranks in importance with the greatest of the Italian Sienese painters, Duccio and Simone Martini. Only six documented works of Ambrogio, apparently covering a ...
Lorenzetti, Pietro: Italian Gothic painter of the Sienese school who with his brother Ambrogio was the principal exponent of Sienese secular art in the years before the Black Death. Little is known ...
Lorenzo Monaco: Italian painter in the International Gothic style whose work combined the rhythmic, graceful flow of line and decorative feeling of the Sienese school with the Florentine traditions of the followers ...
Lorestan: , geographic and historic region, western Iran. Its name means Land of the Lurs and it extends from the Iraqi frontier and Kermanshah and separates the Khuzestan lowland from interior ...
Loreto: department (formed 1866) of eastern Peru, bounded by Colombia (northeast), Ecuador (northwest), and Brazil (east). Largest of Peru's departments, it occupies 134,432 sq mi (348,177 sq km), more than one-fourth ...
Loreto: town and episcopal see, Ancona province, Marche region, central Italy, on the Musone River just south of Ancona and near the Adriatic coast. It is a noted pilgrimage resort famous ...
lorica: a tubular, conical, or vaselike structure secreted by some protozoans (e.g., Stentor) and many rotifers. Many species incorporate sand grains and other particles into the lorica for reinforcement. The loose-fitting ...