(from the article "Courland") ...lands north of the Western Dvina, it mounted a crusade (c. 1220s) against the Curonians, who had established their own tribal kingdom by the end of the 9th century. In ...
(species Gypaetus barbatus), big eaglelike vulture of the Old World (family Accipitridae), frequently over 1 m (40 inches) long, with a wingspread of nearly 3 m (10 feet). Brown above ...
(from the article "llama") (Lama glama), South American member of the camel family, Camelidae (order Artiodactyla), closely related to the alpaca, guanaco, and vicuna, which are known collectively as lamoids. Unlike camels, lamoids do ...
county, north-central Vermont, U.S. Its topography is mountainous, with the main ridge of the Green Mountains traversing the western part of the county. The region contains some of the state's ...
U.S. humanist philosopher, author, and socialist, who was the son of the chairman of the J.P. Morgan investment bank but devoted his life to fighting for radical causes (b. May ...
American banker and financier who began his career by reorganizing corporations and went on to help establish financial stability in countries around the world.
(from the article "1956: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Albert Lamorisse for The Red BalloonMotion Picture Story: Dalton Trumbo (aka Robert Rich) for The Brave OneAdapted Screenplay: James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman for Around the world ...
(MARY LETA DOROTHY SLATON), U.S. actress (b. Dec. 10, 1914, New Orleans, La.--d. Sept. 22, 1996, Los Angeles, Calif.), was best remembered by filmgoers as the sarong-clad object of Bob ... [1 Related Articles]
Canadian politician whose service as speaker of the House of Commons, from 1966 to 1974, was the longest in Canada's history; he later was ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg and ...
a device for producing illumination, consisting originally of a vessel containing a wick soaked in combustible material, and subsequently such other light-producing instruments as gas and electric lamps. [3 Related Articles]
any member of the phylum Brachiopoda, a group of bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates. They are covered by two valves, or shells; one valve covers the dorsal, or top, side; the other ... [14 Related Articles]
city, northern Thailand, located about 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Chiang Mai. It lies on the Wang River in the forested Khun Tan Range and is an administrative and ...
(from the article "commercial fishing") The most important sea-fishing gear is the surrounding net, represented by the older lampara nets and the more modern purse seines. Both are typical gear for pelagic fish schooling in ...
division of Pennsylvanian rocks and time in the south central and southwestern U.S., especially Texas (the Pennsylvanian Period, roughly equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous, began about 318,000,000 years ago and ...
(from the article "Ouessant Island") ...of 6 square miles (15 square km). Its lighthouse, the Phare de Creac'h, marks the southern entrance to the English Channel, the northern entrance light being at Land's End, Cornwall, ...
(from the article "blackbody") ...is a small hole in a box with a blackened interior, because practically none of the radiation entering such a hole could escape again, and it would be absorbed inside. ...
largest island (area 8 square miles [21 square km]) of the Isole (islands) Pelagie (which include Linosa and Lampione islets), in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunis, 105 miles ...
On March 25, 2005, investor Edward S. Lampert saw the completion of a deal that stunned the retail industry when it was first announced in November 2004: the acquisition of ...
American government agent (b. Feb. 14, 1918, Wardner, Idaho-d. Jan. 7, 2002, Tucson, Ariz.), as a counterintelligence specialist for the FBI, supervised investigations into several major Soviet espionage cases from ...
town, northern Thailand. Lamphun is an old walled town on the Kuang River, 16 miles (26 km) south of Chiang Mai. Although located on the Bangkok-Chiang Mai railway, it lost ...
Canadian poet of the Confederation group, whose most characteristic work sensitively records the feelings evoked by scenes and incidents of northern landscapes and seasons. [2 Related Articles]
people indigenous to Lampung province on the Sunda Strait in southern Sumatra, Indonesia. They speak Lampong, a Malayo-Polynesian language that has been written in a script related to the Hindu ...
virulent satire in prose or verse that is a gratuitous and sometimes unjust and malicious attack on an individual. Although the term came into use in the 17th century from ... [2 Related Articles]
any of about 43 species of primitive, fishlike, jawless vertebrates placed with hagfishes in the class Agnatha. Lampreys belong to the family Petromyzonidae. They live in coastal and freshwaters and ... [10 Related Articles]
(from the article "atheriniform") ...that includes the guppies, mollies, swordtails, and many other aquarium fishes. In addition to the Atheriniformes, this article treats the three smaller related orders Beryciformes, Zeiformes, and Lampridiformes, the most ...
any of a group of dark gray to black intrusive igneous rocks that generally occur as dikes (tabular bodies inserted in fissures). Such rocks are characterized by a porphyritic texture ...
ancient Greek city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont, best known for its wines, and the chief seat of the worship of Priapus, a god of procreation and fertility. ... [1 Related Articles]
provinsi (province), southern Sumatra, Indonesia, bounded by the Java Sea to the east, the Sunda Strait to the south, the Indian Ocean to the west, and Sumatera ...
(from the article "Morocco") Anxieties were voiced about press freedom in Morocco after journalist Ali Lamrabet was fined and banned from practicing journalism for 10 years as a result of his comments about the ...
(from the article "Nicholas I") In 1802-03 men replaced women in Nicholas' entourage, and his regular education began. As directed by Gen. Matthew Lamsdorff, it emphasized severe discipline and formalism. The growing grand duke studied ...
(from the article "North Africa") ...was killed in 1059 in an attack on the Barghawatah tribal confederation on the Moroccan coast, the military and religious leadership of the Almoravids passed to the chief of the ...
town, port, and island in the Indian Ocean off the East African coast, 150 miles (241 km) north-northeast of Mombasa. It is administered as part of Kenya. The port lies ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Thailand") The lamwong ("circle dance") is the most popular form of dance at rural temple festivals and other celebrations. It is typically performed to mawlam ...
(from the article "Performing Arts") ...James Kudelka's The Contract (The Pied Piper) to BAM. The new director of the Canadian company was former ballerina Karen Kain; Kudelka remained as resident choreographer. Veteran ballerina Martine Lamy ...
(from the article "commercial fishing") ...and molded into small loaves with a nutlike flavour and high in protein. This food is extracted from Lake Chad in tropical Africa, and the Aztecs made a similar product. ...
(from the article "lan") administrative subdivision (county) of Sweden; see landskap.for more content related to this topiclandskapfunctionsLan Chiang
(from the article "Fuchun River") The southeastern region is drained by the Lan River. At Lanxi the Lan is formed by the junction of two rivers, the Jinhua River system, flowing from central Zhejiang to ...
(from the article "Thailand") ...Mangrai (reigned c. 1259-1317; from 1292 to 1317 in Chiang Mai), conquered the ancient Mon kingdom of Haripunjaya and built a new capital at Chiang Mai. Under Mangrai and his ...
(from the article "Thailand") The mountainous provinces located in the upper part of the northern region are often referred to collectively as Lan Na Thai, from the name for the loosely structured federation of ...
in Chinese mythology, one of the Pa Hsien, the Eight Immortals of Taoism, whose true identity is much disputed. Artists depict Lan as a young man-or girl-carrying a flute or ...
Laotian kingdom that flourished from the 14th century until it was split into two separate kingdoms, Vien Chang and Luang Prabang, in the 18th century. Conflict with its Myanmar (Burmese) ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Shensi") ...the Tsinling Mountains: the San-kuan Pass south of Pao-chi, which leads to the Chia-ling Valley and thus into Szechwan; the Kao-kuan Pass south of Sian, which leads to the Han-chung ...
(from the article "animal learning") ...that communicate a more or less complex meaning to a listener. Can apes understand or use sentences? Undoubtedly they can put together several gestures or tokens in a row. A ...
(from the article "Hainisch, Michael") ...in December 1920, when the major political parties could produce no commonly acceptable candidate. He incurred the wrath of his Anschluss cosupporters for his part in the negotiation of the ...
island, Maui county, Hawaii, U.S. Situated across the Auau Channel from Maui island, it is formed by the extinct volcano Lanaihale (Palawai; 3,366 feet [1,026 metres]). The sixth largest of ... [1 Related Articles]
lake, west-central Mindanao, Philippines. It is situated just south of Marawi, northwest of the Butig Mountains. Lake Lanao is the second largest lake in the Philippines and has an area ... [1 Related Articles]
royal burgh (town), South Lanarkshire council area, historic county of Lanarkshire, south-central Scotland, situated by the right bank of the River Clyde, southeast of the Glasgow metropolitan area. The town ...
historic county of south-central Scotland, roughly coinciding with the basin of the River Clyde. It is bounded to the south by the historic county of Dumfriesshire, to the east by ...
administrative, geographic, and historic county in northwestern England, bounded on the north by Cumberland and Westmorland (in the present administrative county of Cumbria), on the east by Yorkshire, on the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Fairbairn, Sir William, 1st Baronet") ...a millwright at Manchester, in partnership with James Lillie. In 1835 he established a shipbuilding yard at Millwall, London, where he constructed several hundred vessels. In 1844 he introduced the ...
(from the article "Lancaster") urban area and city (district), administrative and historic county of Lancashire, England, at the head of the estuary of the River Lune, 7 miles (11 km) from the Irish Sea.
county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a hilly piedmont region bounded by the Susquehanna River to the west, Conewago Creek to the northwest, and Octoraro Creek to the southeast. Impoundments ...
the most successful British heavy bomber of World War II. The Lancaster emerged from the response by A.V. Roe & Company, Ltd., to a 1936 Royal Air Force specification calling ...
city, seat of Lancaster county, northern South Carolina, U.S., near the Catawba River. It was founded in the 1750s by settlers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The architect Robert Mills designed the ...
county, northern South Carolina, U.S. It is bounded by the Catawba River and its Wateree Lake extension to the west, the Lynches River to the east, and North Carolina to ...
city, seat of Lancaster county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., and the centre of a metropolitan area comprising a number of small towns and boroughs, 71 miles (114 km) west of Philadelphia. ... [1 Related Articles]
city, seat (1800) of Fairfield county, south-central Ohio, U.S., on the Hocking River, about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Columbus. It was founded (1800) by Ebenezer Zane on land ...
(from the article "Coos") ...word meaning "crooked," a reference to the course of the Connecticut River. The city of Berlin became an important logging and pulp- and paper-milling centre by the mid-19th century. Lancaster, ...
urban area and city (district), administrative and historic county of Lancashire, England, at the head of the estuary of the River Lune, 7 miles (11 km) from the Irish Sea.
city, Los Angeles county, southwestern California, U.S. Lying in Antelope Valley at the western edge of the Mojave Desert, it is 80 miles (130 km) north of the city of ...
(from the article "Hershey, Milton Snavely") ...in 1876 he set up his own candy shop in Philadelphia, but the venture failed six years later. After an attempt to manufacture candy in New York City also ended ...
(from the article "international relations") The black revolt against white rule in southern Africa was a timely consequence of the decolonization of Angola and Mozambique and of the Lancaster House accord under which white Southern ...
western arm of Baffin Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic Ocean), in north-central Baffin region, Nunavut territory, Canada. The sound is 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles ...
(from the article "roads and highways") The first engineered and planned road in the United States was the Lancaster Turnpike, a privately constructed toll road built between 1793 and 1795. Connecting Philadelphia and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, ...
soldier and diplomatist, the most trusted adviser of King Edward III of England (reigned 1327-77). He was unquestionably the most powerful feudal lord in England at that time. [1 Related Articles]
a cadet branch of the house of Plantagenet (q.v.). In the 15th century, it provided three kings of England-Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI-and, defeated by the house of ... [3 Related Articles]
British-born educator who developed the system of mass education known as the Lancasterian method, a monitorial, or "mutual," approach in which brighter or more proficient children were used to teach ... [3 Related Articles]
merchant who commanded the first English vessel to reach the East Indies and who established the first English trading post in Southeast Asia. [2 Related Articles]
English cartoonist, stage designer, and writer, best-known for his suave cartoons that appeared from 1939 in the Daily Express (London), which gently satirized the English upper class, especially its response ...
a grandson of King Henry III of England and the main figure in the baronial opposition to King Edward II. His opposition to royal power derived more from personal ambition ... [3 Related Articles]
spear used by cavalry for mounted combat. It usually consisted of a long wooden shaft with a sharp metal point. Its employment can be traced to the ancient Assyrians and ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "dinosaur") Another major historic site was the Lance Creek area of northeastern Wyoming, where J.B. Hatcher discovered and collected dozens of Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur remains for Marsh and for Yale ...
division of rocks in the western United States dating to the end of the Cretaceous Period approximately 66 million years ago and named for exposures studied near Lance Creek, Niobrara ...
U.S.-made short-range ballistic missile, adopted by the U.S. Army in 1972 and subsequently by the armies of West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Israel. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Carter, Jimmy") Two scandals also damaged Carter's credibility. In summer 1977 Bert Lance, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and one of Carter's closest friends, was accused of financial ...
(from the article "Streptococcus") Streptococci generally are classified by the type of carbohydrate contained in the cell wall, a system called the Lancefield classification.
one of the greatest knights in Arthurian romance; he was the lover of Arthur's queen, Guinevere, and was the father of the pure knight Sir Galahad. [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "canon law") ...little that was new legislation. The 2,414 canons were divided into five books that no longer followed the system of the collections of decretals but did follow that of the ...
(from the article "puffbird") The smallest species is the lanceolated monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata) from deep forests of northern South America. This 14-cm species derives its name from its quiet habits and modest brown plumage.
(from the article "tactics") ...1690 and 1740. Heavy cavalry would be held in reserve, ready to strike when a gap was created or a flank presented itself. During the second half of the 18th ...
(from the article "quadrille") ...each other by the right hand, and then each gave her left hand to the opposite man, who turned her into place beside himself. The quadrille was frequently danced to ...
either of two species of widely distributed, deepwater marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus (family Alepisauridae). Lancet fish are elongated and slender, with a long, very tall dorsal fin and ... [1 Related Articles]
narrow, high window capped by a lancet, or acute, arch. The lancet arch is a variety of pointed arch in which each of the arcs, or curves, of the arch ...
British medical journal established in 1823. The journal's founder and first editor was Thomas Wakley, considered at the time to be a radical reformer. Wakley stated the intent of the ... [3 Related Articles]
tough, heavy, elastic, straight-grained wood obtained from several different trees of the custard-apple family (Annonaceae). True lancewood, Oxandra lanceolata, of the West Indies and Guianas, furnishes most of the lancewood ...
(from the article "puppetry") ...by the Russian puppeteer Sergey Obraztsov with a performance of charm and wit that was quite different from those of the great rod-puppet theatre that he founded. In England the ...
(from the article "Prandtl, Ludwig") ...work by a British physicist, Frederick W. Lanchester, but was carried out independently, elucidated the process of airflow over airplane wings of finite span. That body of work is known ...
Italian archaeologist, topographer, and authority on ancient Rome who discovered many antiquities at Rome, Tivoli, and Ostia. He published a 1:1,000-scale map of classical, medieval, and modern Rome in Forma ...
town, Abruzzi regione, south-central Italy. An archbishopric and agricultural centre, it has textile, machinery, and furniture manufactures. It originated as the Roman Anxanum. The town's Cistercian-Gothic church of Santa Maria ...
(from the article "gastropod") ...terrestrial; 2 families.Small to large, spiral-shelled snails of ponds, lakes, and rivers; 1 limpet group (Lancidae) and larger typical group (Lymnaeidae).Limpets (Ancylidae), ramshorns (Planorbidae), and pond...
