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- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...have been expanded in size or have increased in number as a result of the economic benefits of tourism. Kenya's parks include Tsavo, one of the largest, with an area ...
- 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 Peak
- (from the article "Santa Fe") county, a scenic area of northern New Mexico, U.S. The northeastern portion is in the Sangre de Cristo range of the Southern Rocky Mountains, featuring Santa Fe Baldy and Lake ...
- 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 Placid Olympics
- (from the article "Olympic Games") The worldwide economic depression cast a shadow over the third Winter Olympics. Only 17 countries attended, represented by some 250 athletes, over half of whom were from Canada and the ...
- Lake Placid Olympics
- (from the article "Olympic Games") The 1980 Games marked the second time the small upstate New York town hosted the Winter Olympics. But, in the age of television and increasing numbers of spectators, Lake Placid ...
- Lake Plateau
- (from the article "Nile River") The basin of the present-day Nile falls naturally into seven major regions: the Lake Plateau of East Africa, the Al-Jabal (El-Jebel), the White Nile, the Blue Nile, the Atbara, the ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lake Shore Drive
- (from the article "Palmer, Potter") ...he built larger buildings than before, including the second Palmer House, a large hotel. Palmer also reclaimed the swampland north of Chicago's commercial district, developing it into the beautiful Lake ...
- Lake Shore Drive
- (from the article "Chicago") Although Chicago grew most rapidly while it rode "L" trains and streetcars, it also fell in love with the automobile. Chicago's expressway system dates to the 1920s, when Lake Shore ...
- Lake Shore Drive Apartments
- (from the article "Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig") ...them several high-rise buildings that are conceived as steel skeletons sheathed in glass curtain-wall facades. Among these major commissions are the Promontory Apartments in Chicago (1949), the Lake Shore Drive ...
- lake stratification
- (from the article "lake") ...seasons, especially when vertical mixing is greatly enhanced because of a lack of thermal structure and increased wind stirring, lakes are replenished with oxygen. In the warmer seasons, although surface ...
- lake sturgeon
- (from the article "chondrostean") ...A smaller species, the sterlet (A. ruthenus), inhabits the Black and Caspian seas. A. stellatus occurs in rivers leading to the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Caspian ...
- 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 Superior whitefish
- (from the article "whitefish") Lake whitefishes (Coregonus) are deep-bodied forms. The largest and most valuable, C. clupeaformis of the Great Lakes region, is known by such other names as Lake Superior whitefish, whiting, and ...
- Lake Superior-type banded-iron formation deposit
- (from the article "mineral deposit") ...of sedimentary rocks deposited in the shallow waters of continental shelves or in ancient sedimentary basins. These deposits are typified by the vast BIFs around Lake Superior and are called ...
- 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 Turkana remains
- (from the article "Australopithecus") Further specializations for strong chewing occur in P. aethiopicus fossils from the Omo remains, discovered in the Omo River valley in southern Ethiopia, and in remains found on the western ...
- Lake Tyers
- (from the article "Tyers, Lake") ...Beach. The lake consists of two main channels; the eastern half curves northeasterly into the interior for about 10 miles (16 km), and the western channel extends northwesterly about 5 ...
- 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, Anthony
- (from the article "international relations") Clinton's foreign policy team, led by Secretary of State Warren Christopher and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, included veterans of the Carter administration, which had emphasized human rights. They, in ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Lake, Greg
- (from the article "art rock") ...bands that fall under the most general definition of art rock. Among the musicians who contributed to numerous bands are Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson, and U.K.), Steve Howe (Yes ...
- Lake, Kirsopp
- (from the article "biblical literature") ...on; a few, however, shed significant light on earlier readings, representing otherwise not well attested texts or textual "families." In the early 20th century, the English scholar Kirsopp Lake (hence, ...
- Lake, Simon
- U.S. inventor who built the "Argonaut," the first submarine to operate extensively in the open sea. [2 Related Articles]
- lake-level fluctuation
- (from the article "East African lakes") The levels of the East African lakes are perceptibly sensitive to climatic fluctuations. Average seasonal ranges of level are small: no more than a foot on Lake Victoria, 1.3 feet ...
- Lake-Tack, Louise
- (from the article "Antigua and Barbuda") Area: 442 sq km (171 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 85,900 | Capital: Saint John's | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governors-General Sir James Carlisle and, ...
- Lakeba Island
- volcanic Pacific island in the Lau Group of Fiji, South Pacific Ocean. It is 22 square miles (57 square km) in area, rises to 720 feet (220 metres), and was ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- laker
- (from the article "Saint Lawrence River and Seaway") ...The largest commodity moved is grain, from farms on Canada's prairies and in the American Midwest, shipped through the seaway at considerable savings. Major users of the seaway are vessels ...
- Laker, Sir Freddie
- British entrepreneur (b. Aug. 6, 1922, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.-d. Feb. 9, 2006, Hollywood, Fla.), as the brash, ebullient founder and chairman of Laker Airways Ltd. (1966-82), revolutionized the airline industry ...
- 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 ...
- Lakes Region
- (from the article "Ethiopia") ...Ethiopia), the Tekeze, and the Baro rivers. All three rivers flow west to the White Nile in The Sudan. The second system is the Rift Valley internal drainage system, composed ...
- 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 as part of Rockport township, the area was not permanently settled until James Nicholson ...
- Lakhdar-Hamina, Mohammed
- (from the article "Algeria") ...the revolution-was supported by the Algerian government and was cast with numerous nonactors, including many residents of Algiers who participated in the actual events. The following year Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina directed ...
- 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. [5 Related Articles]
- Lakhous, Amara
- (from the article "Literature") ...country of emigrants to one of immigrants in an evolution that had forever altered the urban landscape. One of the areas most influenced by this change, Piazza Vittorio in Rome, ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Laki Hill
- (from the article "Jashpur Pats") ...are generally barren or covered with grasslands, and the slopes are forested with sal (Shorea), ebony, teak, and bamboo. Gash Pahar (3,241 feet [988 metres]) and Laki ...
- Lakier, Aleksandr Borisovich
- (from the article "White House") Dickens was not the only foreign visitor to be disappointed with the White House. On a trip to Washington just before the Civil War, Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier, a Russian nobleman, ...
- Lakk language
- (from the article "Caucasian languages") Lak (also spelled Lakk, with some 100,000 speakers) and Dargin (or Dargwa, with 350,000) are spoken in the central part of Dagestan. Both are written languages. The Lak language is ...
- Lakkundi
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...an increasing individuality that culminates in the distinctive style of the 12th century and later. The Kallesvara temple at Kukkanur (late 10th century) and a large Jaina temple at Lakkundi ...
- Lakoff, George
- (from the article "logic, philosophy of") ...that certain grammatical problems are closely related to logicians' concepts and theories. A near-identity of linguistics and "natural logic" has been claimed by the U.S. linguist George Lakoff. Among the ...
- lakon
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") The chief court forms are nang sbek shadow theatre, lakon female dance and dance-drama, and lakon kawl male masked pantomime. The ...
- Lakota
- (from the article "The Difference Between a Tribe and a Band") ...Sioux tribe encompassed a diverse group of linguistic and political entities; ironically, none of these ever used the ethnonym (self-name) Sioux. By the 19th century the speakers of Dakota, Lakota, ...
- Lakpa Gelu Sherpa
- (from the article "Everest, Mount") ...few could match the Sherpas: in 1999 Babu Chiri climbed the southern route from Base Camp to summit in 16 hours 56 minutes, an accomplishment surpassed by two Sherpas in ...
- Lakschin, Roman
- (from the article "Dominica") ...important landmark case against Switzerland before the International Court of Justice. Dominica, which had instituted proceedings before the ICJ in April, regarded Switzerland's refusal to recognize Roman Lakschin as Dominica's ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Lakshmi Bai
- (from the article "India") The next phase was the central Indian campaign of Sir Hugh Rose. He first defeated the Gwalior contingent and then, when the rebels Tantia Topi and Rani Lakshmi Bai of ...
- Lakshmi Planum
- (from the article "Venus") ...is roughly the size of Australia, while Aphrodite is comparable in area to South America. Ishtar possesses the most spectacular topography on Venus. Much of its interior is a high ...
- Laksmana
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...and at several other sites in the Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh, notably Chandpur and Dudhai. All of the distinctive characteristics of the fully developed style can be seen in ...
- Laksmana era
- (from the article "chronology") ...founded by Harsa (Harsavardhana), long preserved also in Nepal; the western Calukya era (AD 1075), founded by Vikramaditya VI and fallen into disuse after 1162; the Laksmana era (AD 1119), ...
- Laksmanasena
- (from the article "Sena Dynasty") ...Palas, was reestablished, and the Bengali system of hypergamy, the socially upward marriage of women, was reputedly founded by the Sena king Vallalasena. The last important Sena king, Laksmanasena (c. ...
- 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. ... [7 Related Articles]
- Laksmikarna
- (from the article "India") The Kalacuris of Tripuri (near Jabalpur) also began as feudatories of the Rashtrakutas, becoming a power in central India in the 11th century during the reigns of Gangeyadeva and his ...
- Lakwena, Alice
- Ugandan priestess and rebel leader was a member of the Acholi ethnolinguistic group and a self-proclaimed mystic who founded the cultlike Holy Spirit Movement (HSM), or Holy Spirit Mobile ...
- Lal, Devi
- Indian politician (b. Sept. 25, 1914, Chautala, Punjab [now in Haryana state], India-d. April 6, 2001, New Delhi, India), served (1989-91) as India's deputy prime minister under two prime ministers. ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lalande, Jerome
- French astronomer whose tables of the planetary positions were considered the best available until the end of the 18th century.
- LaLanne, Jack
- (from the article "physical culture") The physical awakening that was taking place in California by the 1960s was not limited to movie stars or gifted athletes. In the San Francisco Bay area Jack LaLanne, inspired ...
- Lalibela
- (from the article "Ethiopia") ...not descended from the union of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba), but it was in the religious plane that the Zagwe nonetheless distinguished themselves. At the Zagwe capital of ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Laliberte, Guy
- Glitzy Las Vegas productions featuring elaborate costumes and high-stepping showgirls gave way in recent years to a new sensation-the circus. More specifically, Cirque du Soleil, the brainchild of French Canadian ...
- Lalic, Ivan V.
- Serb poet who considered himself steeped in the Mediterranean tradition rather than belonging to a specific ethnic group; he imbued his poems with the importance of memories, both personal and ...
- 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. [5 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Lalla Khedidja
- (from the article "Tell Atlas") ...Tunisia, many rugged rocks rise dramatically above the general level. In Algeria there are five chief ranges, the highest being the Great Kabylie, which reaches a height of 7,572 feet ...
- Lallans
- (from the article "Scots language") the historic language of the people of Lowland Scotland, and one closely related to English. The word Lallans, which was originated by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, is usually used ...
- Lallement, Pierre
- (from the article "bicycle") ...was built in Paris during the early 1860s, but there is no conclusive evidence proving who conceived the idea of applying pedals to the front wheel or who actually did ...
- 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). [2 Related Articles]
- Lalo, Edouard
- French composer, best known for his Symphonie espagnole and notable for the clarity of his orchestration.
- Lalonde, Michele
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...Perhaps the most influential collection was Miron's L'Homme rapaille (1970; Embers and Earth: Selected Poems), a poetic record of the search for a Quebec identity. Michele Lalonde's ironic
- Lalor, James Fintan
- (from the article "Irish literature") ...the Easter Rising in 1916, praised the Jail Journal as "the last Gospel of the New Testament of Irish nationality, as Wolfe Tone's Autobiography is the first." ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Laloux, Victor
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...Sorbonne, Paris; 1885-1901), both of whom were influential teachers at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. A high point was reached with the Paris Exposition of 1889, for which Henri Deglane and ...
- Lam Vien, Cao Nguyen
- (from the article "Da Lat") municipality, southern Vietnam, northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). On a lake on the Lam Vien Plateau at 4,920 feet (1,500 m) above sea level, it sits among ...
- Lam, Wilfredo
- (from the article "Latin American art") Surrealism also allowed many Latin American artists to explore their individual ancestry. Cuban artist Wifredo Lam joined Breton and his Surrealist circle in 1940, after they went into self-exile in ...
- lam-'bras
- (from the article "Sa-skya-pa") ...Tantric work Hevajra Tantra, which remains one of the basic texts of the order. He also transmitted into Tibet from India the teachings of the
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Lama Marsh
- (from the article "Benin") ...region extends the barre country-the word being a French adaptation of the Portuguese word barro ("clay"). A fertile plateau, the barre region contains the Lama Marsh, a vast swampy area ...
- Lamaitre, Georges
- (from the article "atomism") In 1927 the Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaitre formulated the hypothesis that the present high degree of differentiation of matter in space and the complexity of forms displayed by the various ...
- Lamanite
- (from the article "Mormon") ...led by the prophet Lehi, who migrated from Jerusalem to America about 600 BCE. There they multiplied and split into two groups: the virtuous Nephites, who prospered for a time, ...
- Lamantia, Philip
- (from the article "anarchism") Sicilian-American Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia belonged to an Italian-language anarchist group in San Francisco in the 1940s and later became a leading member of the Beat movement. Kenneth Rexroth, mentor ...
- 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
- pioneer French biologist who is best known for his idea that acquired characters are inheritable, an idea known as Lamarckism, which is controverted by modern genetics and evolutionary theory. [14 Related Articles]
- Lamarckism
- (from the article "zoology") ...species of Linnaeus. But they argued that some idealized perfecting principle, expressed through the habits of an organism, was the basis of variation. The contrast between the romanticism of Lamarck ...
- Lamari, Mohamed
- (from the article "Algeria") Army Gen. Mohamed Lamari remained faithful to his 2003 promise to distance the army from the political scene and retired in August 2004. Lamari had reportedly opposed Bouteflika's ambitions for ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
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