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- city, capital of Angola. Located on the Atlantic coast of northern Angola, it is the country's largest city and one of its busiest seaports. Founded in 1576 by Paulo Dias de Novais and initially settled by the Portuguese, Luanda became the administrative centre of the Portuguese colony of Angola in ... [7 Related Articles]
- Luanda Railway
- (from the article "Angola") ...Democratic Republic of the Congo, on which the railway's profitability depended; but, after the start of the civil war, it did not function east of Huambo and often was completely out of use. The Luanda Railway, which was nationalized in 1918, depended on coffee and cotton for its traffic. The ...
- Luang Lake
- coastal lake or lagoon (thale), southern Thailand, on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula. The lake, 50 miles (80 km) long and up to 15 miles (24 km) wide, is dotted with islands. It is a fertile fishing ground and is connected to the Gulf of Thailand at Songkhla ...
- Luang Prabang, kingdom of
- (from the article "Siribunyasan") ...to the throne subsequently rebelled against him and tried to set up a new state, and he called in Burmese assistance against them (c. 1763). In 1764, when the Burmese attacked his rival Luang Prabang, Vientiane troops assisted the Burmese.conquest by Nanthasen
- Luangwa National Park
- park, northeastern Zambia, southern Africa. Divided into two separate parks, one north and one south, the Luangwa National Park covers an area of 6,000 square miles (15,540 square km) and lies at an elevation varying from about 1,600 to 3,600 feet (500 to 1,100 m).
- Luangwa River
- river rising on the Malawi-Zambia border, southern Africa. From its source near Isoka, Zambia, it flows 500 miles (800 km) south-southwest, skirting the Muchinga Mountains to join the Zambezi River between Luangwa (formerly Feira), Zambia, and Zumbo, Mozambique. The river valley is the site of several game parks. Along its ... [3 Related Articles]
- Luanshya
- municipality, central Zambia, southern Africa. Known as "the garden town of the copper belt," Luanshya is the service centre for the adjacent Roan Antelope mine. The terminus of a rail branch from Ndola (21 miles [34 km] northeast), Luanshya is also connected by road to other copper-belt towns and has ...
- Luapula River
- river in south-central Africa, rising in the Bangweulu Swamps (one of the world's largest wetlands) lying east of Lake Bangweulu in eastern Zambia. For most of its 350-mile (560-kilometre) course the river forms part of the boundary between Zambia and Congo (Kinshasa). The Luapula slopes gently through most of its ... [1 Related Articles]
- luau
- a modern Hawaiian banquet. Luau originally denoted only the leaves of the taro plant, which are eaten as a vegetable; it came to refer to the dishes prepared with the leaves and then to the feasts at which the dishes were eaten. The term designates the modern, informal feast, as ... [1 Related Articles]
- Luba
- a Bantu-speaking cluster of peoples of south-central Congo (Kinshasa). Numbering about 5,594,000 in the late 20th century, they inhabit a wide area extending throughout much of southern Congo. The name Luba applies to a variety of peoples who, though of different origins, speak closely related languages, exhibit many common cultural ... [4 Related Articles]
- Luba
- (from the article "Equatorial Guinea") ...and the government house. Farther inland, the African districts were inhabited mostly by Nigerian and other workers who first chose not to return to the mainland. Another town of some importance is Luba, on the southwest coast, linked with the capital by a good paved road that runs through a ...
- Luba-Bambo
- (from the article "Luba") ...which flourished from approximately the late 15th through the late 19th centuries. (See Luba-Lunda states.) Three main subdivisions may be recognized: the Luba-Shankaji of Katanga, the Luba-Bambo of Kasai, and the Luba-Hemba of northern Katanga and southern Kivu. All are historically, linguistically, and culturally linked with other Congo peoples. The ...
- Luba-Hemba
- (from the article "Luba") ...approximately the late 15th through the late 19th centuries. (See Luba-Lunda states.) Three main subdivisions may be recognized: the Luba-Shankaji of Katanga, the Luba-Bambo of Kasai, and the Luba-Hemba of northern Katanga and southern Kivu. All are historically, linguistically, and culturally linked with other Congo peoples. The Shankaji branch is ...
- Luba-Lunda states
- a complex of states that flourished in Central Africa (in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) from the late 15th to the late 19th century. The Luba state was situated east of the Kasai River around the headwaters of the Lualaba River, and the Lunda state east of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Luba-Shankaji
- (from the article "Luba") ...past members of the Luba empires, which flourished from approximately the late 15th through the late 19th centuries. (See Luba-Lunda states.) Three main subdivisions may be recognized: the Luba-Shankaji of Katanga, the Luba-Bambo of Kasai, and the Luba-Hemba of northern Katanga and southern Kivu. All are historically, linguistically, and culturally ...
- Lubaantun
- (from the article "Maya Mountains") ...which extends seaward perpendicularly from the main divide. The mountains take their name from the Maya people, who retreated into the mountains before the Spaniards, leaving great centres, such as Lubaantun on the mountains' southeastern periphery, deserted behind them.
- Lubalin, Herb
- (from the article "graphic design") ...for photographic typesetting, the widespread use of phototype systems set off a spate of new designs and reissues of long-unavailable typefaces, such as decorative Victorian wood types. American Herb Lubalin is notable among the designers who embraced the new flexibility phototype made possible for designers. Type could be set in ...
- Lubanga Dyilo, Thomas
- (from the article "Law") ...into allegations of human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In what seemed likely to become the first case to reach trial at the ICC, Union of Congolese Patriots leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was surrendered to the court by Congolese authorities in March and was indicted ...
- Lubango
- city, southwestern Angola, about 100 miles (160 km) east of Namibe (formerly Mocamedes), to which it is linked by rail. The city was originally established in 1885 as a settlement for colonists from the Madeira Islands. It lies at an elevation of 5,774 feet (1,760 metres) in a valley of ...
- Lubbe, Marinus van der
- (from the article "Reichstag fire") ...president and Hitler's chief minister, who was then to conduct an official investigation, which would fix responsibility for the fire on the communists. The supposed arsonist was a Dutchman, Marinus van der Lubbe, whom some have claimed was brought to the scene of the crime by Nazi agents. Others have ...
- lubber grasshopper
- (from the article "short-horned grasshopper") The family Acrididae is divided into three subfamilies. The spur-throated grasshoppers, subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae, include some of the most destructive species. In North America the eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera) is 5-7 cm long and has large red wings bordered in black. The western lubber grasshopper (Brachystola magna), also called the ...
- lubber's line
- (from the article "navigation") ...mounted in gimbals. A flexible diaphragm or bellows attached to the bowl accommodates the change in volume of the liquid caused by temperature changes. The ship's heading is read with the aid of the lubber's line, which is oriented toward the forward part of the compass to indicate the direction ...
- Lubbock
- city, seat (1891) of Lubbock county, northwestern Texas, U.S., some 120 miles (190 km) south of Amarillo; it is the commercial hub of the South Plains. Formed in 1890 from Old Lubbock and Monterey and named for Colonel Tom S. Lubbock, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, it ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
- banker, influential Liberal-Unionist politician, and naturalist who successfully promoted about a dozen measures of some importance in Parliament but was perhaps best known for his books on archaeology and entomology. [4 Related Articles]
- Lubchenco, Jane
- "Think globally and act locally" was a popular catchphrase that gained currency during the environmental movement of the late 20th century. American marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco was among the few who were in the position to both think and act globally. From the vantage point of the many national and ...
- Lubec
- town, Washington county, eastern Maine, U.S. It lies along the Atlantic coast just south of Eastport. The town includes the communities of Lubec, North Lubec, South Lubec, and West Lubec. Settled about 1780, it was part of Eastport until separately incorporated in 1811. It was named for Lubeck, Germany. Lubec ...
- Lubeck
- city and major seaport, Schleswig-Holstein Land (state), northern Germany. It is located on the Trave and Wakenitz rivers, about 9 miles (14 km) from the Baltic Sea. In the Middle Ages it was one of the main commercial centres of northern Europe and the chief city of ... [8 Related Articles]
- Lubeck, Battle of
- (from the article "French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars") ...a French threat to invade England. In 1805 a Third Coalition formed with Britain, Russia, and Austria. Napoleon won major victories at Ulm and Austerlitz in 1805 and at Jena, Auerstadt, and Lubeck over the new coalition member Prussia in 1806. The resulting Treaty of Tilsit, in which Prussia was ...
- Lubeck, laws of
- (from the article "Hanseatic League") ...common action against robbers and pirates. From the mid-13th century this cooperation became much more extensive and regularized, and by 1265 all the north German towns having the "law of Lubeck" had agreed on common legislation for the defense of merchants and their goods. In the 1270s a Lubeck-Hamburg association ...
- Lubeck, Peace of
- (from the article "Thirty Years' War") ...struggle. In 1625 King Christian IV of Denmark saw an opportunity to gain valuable territory in Germany to balance his earlier loss of Baltic provinces to Sweden. Christian's defeat and the Peace of Lubeck in 1629 finished Denmark as a European power, but Sweden's Gustav II Adolf, having ended a ...
- Lubecki, Ksawery Drucki
- Polish statesman who restored the finances of the remnant of Poland that was constituted as the "Congress Kingdom" under the tsar of Russia after the Napoleonic Wars. [1 Related Articles]
- Lubelskie
- wojewodztwo (province), eastern Poland. It is bordered by the provinces of Mazowieckie to the northwest, Podlaskie to the north, Podkarpackie to the south, and Swietokrzyskie to the west, as well as by the countries of Belarus and Ukraine to the east. It was created in 1999 when ...
- Lubich, Chiara
- Italian Roman Catholic lay leader founded (1943) the Focolare Movement, a lay organization dedicated to peace, spiritual renewal, and ecumenical dialogue. Lubich, who trained as a teacher, felt a religious calling and changed her name to Chiara in honour of St. Clare of Assisi but rejected joining a convent. She ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lubin, David
- Polish-born American merchant and agricultural reformer whose activities led to the founding (1905) of the International Institute of Agriculture as a world clearinghouse for data on crops, prices, and trade to protect the common interests of farmers of all nations.
- Lubitsch, Ernst
- German-American motion-picture director who was best known for sophisticated comedies of manners. [3 Related Articles]
- Lubke, Heinrich
- politician who served as president of the German Federal Republic (1959-69). [1 Related Articles]
- Lublin
- city, capital of Lubelskie wojewodztwo (province), eastern Poland, on the Bystrzyca River. [2 Related Articles]
- Lublin Committee
- (from the article "Poland") ...when, in March 1945, he had 16 leaders of the underground arrested and tried in Moscow. Their elimination was linked to the process of building a communist-dominated Polish state. In July 1944 a Polish Committee of National Liberation was set up in Moscow ("officially" in Chelm), issued its Lublin Manifesto ...
- Lublin Uplands
- (from the article "Poland") ...basin, with an average height of 650 to 1,000 feet (198 to 305 metres). East of the Swietokrzyskie Mountains, the uplands are cut by the valley of the Vistula, beyond which lie the Lublin (Lubelska) Uplands. In the south occur patches of loess on which fertile brown- and black-earth soils ...
- Lublin, Union of
- (1569), pact between Poland and Lithuania that united the two countries into a single state. After 1385 (in the Union of Krewo) the two countries had been under the same sovereign. But Sigismund II Augustus had no heirs; and the Poles, fearing that when he died the personal union between ... [11 Related Articles]
- Lubny
- city and port, east-central Ukraine, on the Sula River. Lubny was established in the late 10th century as a fortified Rus town. It was destroyed by the Mongols in 1239 and was not rebuilt until the 16th century. From the mid-17th century to 1781, it was a regimental centre in ...
- Lubomirski, Jerzy
- (from the article "Poland") ...ever suspicious of anything that could smack of absolutism, was naturally opposed. The royal plans were defeated by a rokosz in 1665-66 led by Marshal Jerzy Lubomirski. Two years later the frustrated John Casimir abdicated and settled in France, having prophetically warned the Sejm that Poland would ...
- Lubonja, Fatos
- (from the article "Albania") ...agreed with Berisha's Democratic Party on August 31 to make a number of important electoral changes as well as to add four opposition members to the National Council of Radio and Television (KKRT). Fatos Lubonja, a writer and newly appointed head of the KKRT, resigned in protest. He argued that ...
- lubricating oil
- (from the article "petroleum refining") At one time the suitability of petroleum fractions for use as lubricants depended entirely on the crude oils from which they were derived. Those from Pennsylvania crude, which were largely paraffinic in nature, were recognized as having superior properties. But, with the advent of solvent extraction and hydrocracking, the choice ...
- lubrication
- introduction of any of various substances between sliding surfaces to reduce wear and friction. Nature has been applying lubrication since the evolution of synovial fluid, which lubricates the joints and bursas of vertebrate animals. Prehistoric people used mud and reeds to lubricate sledges for dragging game or timbers and rocks ... [4 Related Articles]
- Lubumbashi
- second largest city in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The main industrial centre of the mining district of southeastern Congo, it lies 110 miles (180 km) northwest of Ndola, Zambia. Lubumbashi is the name of a small local river. The town was established by Belgian colonists in 1910 as a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lubuskie
- wojewodztwo (province), west-central Poland. One of the smallest and least-populous Polish provinces, it is bordered by the provinces of Zachodniopomorskie to the north, Wielkopolskie to the east, and Dolnoslaskie to the south and by Germany to the west. It was formed in 1999 when the 49 provinces ...
- luc-bat
- (from the article "Vietnamese literature") ...indigenous habits of belief. The choice of writing in Han-Viet (Chinese-Vietnamese) or in Chu Nom gave individual authors a wide range of formal and thematic possibilities, including the luc-bat ("six-eight," referring to a basic couplet of six syllables in the first line and eight in the second) prosody of the ...
- Luca de Tena y Alvarez-Ossorio, Torcuato
- (from the article "ABC") tabloid daily newspaper published in Madrid and long regarded as one of Spain's leading papers. It was founded as a weekly in 1903 by journalist Torcuato Luca de Tena y Alvarez-Ossorio, who later (1929) was made the marques de Luca de Tena by King Alfonso XIII in recognition of his ...
- Lucala River
- (from the article "Cuanza River") ...shallowness in the dry season and because of a shifting sandbar at its mouth; moreover, much of the river's basin is served by the Luanda-Malanje railway. A right-bank tributary of the Cuanza, the Lucala, is also navigable and is noted for a 330-foot (100-metre) waterfall along its course. Cambambe Dam ...
- Lucan
- Roman poet and republican patriot whose historical epic, the Bellum civile, better known as the Pharsalia because of its vivid account of that battle, is remarkable as the single major Latin epic poem that eschewed the intervention of the gods. [2 Related Articles]
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