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Lake Erie, Battle of: (Sept. 10, 1813), major U.S. naval victory in the War of 1812, ensuring U.S. control over Lake Erie and precluding any territorial cession in the Northwest to Great Britain in ...
Lake Forest: city, Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A suburb of Chicago, located 35 miles (55 km) north of downtown, it lies on Lake Michigan. Potawatomi Indians were recent inhabitants of the ...
Lake Geneva: resort city, Walworth county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the northeastern shore of Lake Geneva (Geneva Lake) at its outlet, the White River, about 45 miles (70 km) southwest ...
Lake Havasu City: city, Mohave county, western Arizona, U.S., in the Chemhuevi Valley along the Colorado River, west of the Mohave Mountains. A planned community, Lake Havasu City was founded in 1964 and ...
lake herring: any of several whitefish (q.v.) species.
Lake Louise: unincorporated place, southwestern Alberta, Canada, on the Bow River, in Banff National Park, immediately northeast of the icy, blue-green lake of the same name, which is a renowned beauty spot. ...
Lake Nicaragua shark: species of shark in the family Carcharhinidae. See carcharhinid.
Lake Oswego: city, Clackamas county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Willamette River (and its western extension, 405-acre [164-hectare] Oswego Lake), just south of Portland. Ruins of the Willamette Iron Company's Oswego blast ...
Lake Placid: village in North Elba town (township), Essex county, northeastern New York, U.S. It lies on Mirror Lake and Lake Placid, at the foot of Whiteface Mountain (4,867 feet [1,483 metres]), ...
Lake poet: any of the English poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the English Lake District of Cumberland and Westmorland (now Cumbria) at the beginning of ...
Lake Superior Provincial Park: park, central Ontario, Canada, on the eastern shore of Lake Superior. Established in 1944 to preserve the rugged shoreline and surrounding region of pink granitic hills, it has an area ...
lake trout: (Salvelinus namaycush), large, voracious char, family Salmonidae, widely distributed from northern Canada and Alaska, U.S., south to New England and the Great Lakes basin. It is usually found in deep, ...
Lake Wales: city, Polk county, central Florida, U.S., 55 miles (90 km) east of Tampa. The site was surveyed in 1879 by Sidney Wailes, and the lake (originally called Watts) was renamed ...
Lake Washington Ship Canal: waterway, Seattle, Washington, U.S., 8 miles (13 km) long, with a minimum depth of 28.5 feet (8.7 metres), connecting Shilshole Bay (Puget Sound) with Lake Washington, passing through Lake Union, ...
Lake, Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount: British general, most prominent for his role in suppressing the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and for his campaigns in India from 1801 to 1806 against Daulat Rao Sindhia of Gwalior ...
Lake, Simon: U.S. inventor who built the "Argonaut," the first submarine to operate extensively in the open sea.
Lakehurst: borough (town), Ocean county, eastern New Jersey, U.S., 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the community of Toms River. It is surrounded by fish and wildlife management areas, and small ...
Lakeland: city, Polk county, central Florida, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Tampa and some 10 miles (16 km) west of Winter Haven. It was founded in 1883 by ...
Lakeland terrier: breed of dog originally used to hunt and kill foxes in the Lake District of England. Formerly known as the Patterdale terrier, the Lakeland terrier was bred for gameness when ...
Lakes Entrance: port city, at the entrance of a channel cut in 1889 to the Gippsland Lakes in southeastern Victoria, Australia. It is a resort centre for the lakes region embracing the ...
Lakeview: town, seat (1876) of Lake county, southern Oregon, U.S., north of Goose Lake. It was founded in 1876 along Antelope Creek, on a former cattle ranch that contained several alkali ...
Lakewood: township, Ocean county, eastern New Jersey, U.S., on the South Branch Metedeconk River, in a pine forest and lake region. The township includes the communities of Lakewood, Leisure Village, and ...
Lakewood: city, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on Lake Erie, just west of Cleveland. Surveyed in 1806, it was known as Rockport (1819) and East Rockport (1871) until renamed in 1889 ...
Lakhimpur: city, north-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, on the North-Eastern Railway. It is just northwest of Kheri town, with which it is almost contiguous. The surrounding region is known for ...
Lakhmid Dynasty: pre-Islamic Bedouin tribal dynasty that aided Sasanian Iran in its struggle with the Byzantine Empire and fostered early Arabic poetry.
Laki: volcanic fissure and mountain in southern Iceland, just southwest of Vatna Glacier (Vatnajokull), the island's largest ice field. Mount Laki was the only conspicuous topographic feature in the path of ...
Lakshadweep: union territory of India. It is a group of some two dozen islands with a total land area of 12 square miles (32 square kilometres) scattered over 30,000 square miles ...
Laksmi: Hindu goddess of wealth and good fortune. The wife of Vishnu, she is said to have taken different forms in order to be with him in each of his incarnations. ...
Lala: a people of eastern Nigeria. The Lala belong to a small cluster of linguistically related peoples in geographic proximity, the Ga-Anda, Yungur, Handa, and Mboi living north of the Benue ...
Lalande, Jerome: French astronomer whose tables of the planetary positions were considered the best available until the end of the 18th century.
Lalibela: religious and pilgrimage centre, north-central Ethiopia. Roha, capital of the Zague dynasty for about 300 years, was renamed for its most distinguished monarch, Lalibela (late 12th-early 13th century), who according ...
Lalique, Rene: French jeweler during the early 20th century, whose designs in jewelry and glass contributed significantly to the Art Nouveau movement at the turn of the century.
Lalitavistara: legendary life of the Gautama Buddha, written in a combination of Sanskrit and a vernacular. The text apparently is a recasting, in the Mahayana ("Greater Vehicle") tradition, of a work ...
Lalitpur: town, central Nepal, in the Kathmandu Valley near the Baghmati River, about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Kathmandu. According to Nepalese chronicles, Lalitpur was founded by King Varadeva in ...
Lalitpur: town, southwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, situated 56 miles (90 km) south of Jhansi town. According to legend it was founded by a southern Indian king who named it ...
Lally, Thomas-Arthur, comte de: (count of) French general who was executed for capitulating to the British in India during the Seven Years' War (1756-63).
Lalo, Edouard: French composer, best known for his Symphonie espagnole and notable for the clarity of his orchestration.
Lalor, Mother Teresa: Irish-born American religious leader who helped found and became superior of the first order of Visitation nuns in the United States.
Lalor, Peter: Irish-born Australian leader of the 1854 gold miners' uprising at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, the most celebrated rebellion in Australian history; subsequently he became a politician.
lama: in Tibetan Buddhism, a spiritual leader. Originally used to translate "guru" (Sanskrit: "venerable one") and thus applicable only to heads of monasteries or great teachers, the term is now extended ...
Lamar: city, seat of Barton county, southwest Missouri, U.S. It lies on a branch of the Spring River, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Independence. Founded in 1856 and named ...
Lamar University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Beaumont, Texas, U.S. It is a member of the Texas State University System, as are its former branch campuses: Lamar Institute of Technology, ...
Lamar, Joseph Rucker: associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1911-16).
Lamar, Lucius Q.C.: American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861-65) and later became an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte: second president of the Republic of Texas.
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de: pioneer French biologist who is best known for his idea that acquired traits are inheritable, an idea known as Lamarckism, which is controverted by Darwinian theory.
Lamarr, Hedy: glamorous Austrian film star who was often typecast as a provocative femme fatale. Years after her screen career ended, she achieved recognition as a noted inventor of a radio communications ...
Lamartine, Alphonse de: French poet and statesman whose lyrics in Meditations poetiques (1820) established him as one of the key figures in the Romantic movement in French literature.
Lamashtu: in Mesopotamian religion, the most terrible of all female demons, daughter of the sky god Anu (Sumerian: An). A wicked female who slew children and drank the blood of men ...
Lamaze: method of childbirth that involves psychological and physical preparation by the mother for the purpose of suppressing pain and facilitating delivery without drugs.
lamb: live sheep before the age of one year, and the flesh of such animals. Mutton refers to the flesh of the mature ram or ewe at least one year old; ...
lamb's quarters: (species Chenopodium album), an annual weed of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae) of wide distribution in Asia, Europe, and North America. It can grow up to 3 m (about 10 feet) ...
Lamb, Charles: English essayist and critic, best-known for his series of miscellaneous "Essays of Elia," but also among the greatest of English letter writers, and a perceptive literary critic.
Lamb, Sydney M: American linguist and originator of stratificational grammar, an outgrowth of glossematics theory. (Glossematics theory is based on glossemes, the smallest meaningful units of a language.)
Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr.: American physicist and corecipient, with Polykarp Kusch, of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Physics for experimental work that spurred refinements in the quantum theories of electromagnetic phenomena.
Lamba: a Bantu-speaking people living in the Keran River valley and Togo Mountains of northeastern Togo and adjacent areas of Benin. The Lamba, like the neighbouring and related Kabre, claim descent ...
Lamballe, Marie-Therese-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, Princess de: the intimate companion of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France; she was murdered by a crowd during the French Revolution for her alleged participation in the queen's counterrevolutionary intrigues.
Lambarn: city, west-central Gabon, located on an island in the Ogooue River at a point where the river is over half a mile wide. It is a trading and lumbering centre ...
Lambayeque: departamento (formed 1874) of northern Peru. It consists of an arid desert coastal plain that climbs gently eastward from the Pacific Ocean to the Andes Mountains. Vast irrigation projects have ...
Lambeau, Curly: American gridiron football coach who had one of the longest and most distinguished careers in the history of the game. A founder of the Green Bay Packers in 1919, he ...
Lambeosaurus: duck-billed dinosaur (hadrosaur) notable for the hatchet-shaped hollow bony crest on top of its skull. Fossils of this herbivore date to the Late Cretaceous Period (99 million to 65 million ...
Lambermont, August, Baron: Belgian statesman who in 1863 helped free Belgium's maritime commerce by negotiating a settlement of the Schelde Question-the dispute over Dutch control of the maritime commerce of Antwerp, Belgium's main ...
lambert: unit of luminance (brightness) in the centimetre-gram-second system of physical measurement. (See the International System of Units.) It is defined as the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that radiates ...
Lambert conformal projection: conic projection for making maps and charts in which a cone is, in effect, placed over the Earth with its apex aligned with one of the geographic poles. The cone ...
Lambert Of Hersfeld: chronicler who assembled a valuable source for the history of 11th-century Germany.
Lambert Of Spoleto: duke of Spoleto, king of Italy, and Holy Roman emperor (892-898) during the turbulent late Carolingian Age. He was one of many claimants to the imperial title.
Lambert, Constant: English composer, conductor, and critic who played a leading part in establishing the ballet as an art form in England.
Lambert, Francois: Protestant convert from Roman Catholicism and leading reformer in Hesse.
Lambert, Gerard Barnes: American merchandiser and advertiser who marketed his father's invention of Listerine mouthwash by making bad breath a social disgrace.
Lambert, Johann Heinrich: Swiss German mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher who provided the first rigorous proof that pi (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter) is irrational, meaning that it cannot ...
Lambert, John: a leading Parliamentary general during the English Civil Wars and the principal architect of the Protectorate, the form of republican government existing in England from 1653 to 1659.
Lambert, Piggy: U.S. collegiate basketball coach who pioneered the fast break, an offensive drive down the court at all-out speed.
Lambessa: an Algerian village notable for its Roman ruins; it is located in the Batna departement, 80 miles (128 km) south-southwest of Constantine by road.
Lambeth: inner borough of London, part of the historic county of Surrey, extending southward from the River Thames. It includes the districts of (roughly north to south) Lambeth, Vauxhall, Kennington, South ...
Lambeth Conference: any of the periodic gatherings of bishops of the Anglican Communion held initially (1867-1968) at Lambeth Palace (the London house of the archbishop of Canterbury) and, since 1978, at Canterbury, ...
Lambeth Palace: , official London residence of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury and until 1978 the site of the Lambeth Conference, an episcopal assembly that is called about once every 10 years ...