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- (from the article "Lynchburg") ...owned the original town site. During the American Revolution, John's patriot brother, Charles, set up an irregular court and imposed savage penalties on Tories, giving rise to the expressions "lynch law" and lynching.
- Lynch, Benito
- Argentine novelist and short-story writer whose tales of Argentine country life examined in a simple and direct style the psychology of ordinary persons at everyday activities. Lynch thus brought a new realism to the tradition of the gaucho novel, a genre that portrays the people of the South American grasslands.
- Lynch, Charles
- (from the article "lynching") ...and corporal mutilation. The term lynch law refers to a self-constituted court that imposes sentence on a person without due process of law. Both terms are derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736-96), a Virginia planter and justice of the peace who, during the American Revolution, headed an irregular ...
- Lynch, Charles Birchell
- Canadian journalist and author (b. Dec. 3, 1919, Cambridge, Mass.--d. July 21, 1994, Ottawa, Ont.), was a gifted storyteller who attracted a wide and loyal readership as the longtime (1958-84) Ottawa syndicated columnist for Southam News Services. Lynch's folksy approach endeared him to English-speaking readers throughout much of the country. ...
- Lynch, Edmund C.
- (from the article "Merrill, Charles E.") ...in 1911. He organized a bond department there, joined Eastman Dillon & Co. for one year, and in 1914 began his own investment-banking firm of Merrill, Lynch & Company, in partnership with Edmund C. Lynch. Merrill served as its director until his death.
- Lynch, Jack
- Irish politician who was prime minister of Ireland from 1966 to 1973 and from 1977 to 1979. [3 Related Articles]
- Lynch, John R
- black politician after the American Civil War who served in the Mississippi state legislature and U.S. House of Representatives and was prominent in Republican Party affairs of the 1870s and '80s.
- Lynchburg
- city, administratively independent of, but located in, Campbell and Bedford counties, south-central Virginia, U.S. It is situated on the James River, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The city grew from a ferry landing settled in 1757 by Quakers; it was named for John Lynch, the ferry operator ...
- lynching
- a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation. The term lynch law refers to a self-constituted court that imposes sentence on a person without due process of law. Both terms are ... [6 Related Articles]
- Lynd, Helen
- (from the article "Lynd, Robert; and Lynd, Helen") ...Research Council (1927-31), and taught sociology at Columbia University (from 1931). He also was the sole author of Knowledge for What? (1939). On September 3, 1921, he and Helen Merrell were married. Helen Lynd taught at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York) from 1929 to 1964, and her independent writings ...
- Lynd, Robert
- (from the article "Lynd, Robert; and Lynd, Helen") Robert Lynd edited the trade magazine Publishers Weekly (1914-18) and later worked for book-publishing firms in New York City. He directed a sociological study of small cities for the Institute of Social and Religious Research (1923-26), served as an official of the Social Science Research Council (1927-31), ...
- Lynd, Robert; and Lynd, Helen
- husband-and-wife team of American sociologists who collaborated on the Middletown books, which became classics of sociological literature as well as popular successes. The Lynds are said to have been the first to apply the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city.
- Lyndanisse, Battle of
- (from the article "Denmark, flag of") According to tradition, the Danish flag fell from heaven on June 15, 1219, during the Battle of Lyndanisse (near modern Tallinn, Estonia) as a sign from God of his support for King Valdemar II against the pagan Estonians. Contemporary references to this flag date from a century later, and evidence ...
- Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
- (from the article "Houston") ...and petrochemical industries to Houston, and chemicals remained important after the war ended. Land annexed in 1948 nearly tripled the city's area. In 1961 the Manned Spacecraft Center (renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973), the command post for flights by U.S. astronauts, was opened near Clear Lake, ...
- Lyndsay, Sir David
- Scottish poet of the pre-Reformation period who satirized the corruption of the Roman Catholic church and contemporary government. He was one of the company of gifted courtly poets (makaris) who flourished in the golden age of Scottish literature. His didactic writings in colloquial Scots were characterized by a ribald buffoonery ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lynen, Feodor
- German biochemist who, for his research on the metabolism of cholesterol and fatty acids, was a corecipient (with Konrad Bloch) of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. [1 Related Articles]
- Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association
- (from the article "Native American religions") ...exploitation. This has been especially problematic when it occurs on public lands, as in the cases of Devils Tower in Wyoming, Mount Shasta in California, and Mount Graham in Arizona. In the case of LyngNorthwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the disturbance of the ...
- Lyngbirk, Jytte
- (from the article "children's literature") As compared with other Scandinavian countries, post-World War II developments lagged. Picture books exhibited much more originality than did teenage literature. Jytte Lyngbirk's girls' novels, notably the love story "Two Days in November," however, are well reputed, as are the realistic fictions, laid against an industrial background, of Tove Ditlevsen. ...
- Lyngby tools
- (from the article "hand tool") ...giving a small ax with a haft of about eight inches (20 centimetres). By sharpening the tine the other way, a tiny adz was created. Some of these small bone implements have survived as the Lyngby tools, named from a Danish site of perhaps 8000 BC.
- Lynn
- city, Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on Nahant Bay and Lynn Harbor (inlets of Massachusetts Bay), just northeast of Boston. Settled in 1629 as Saugus, it was incorporated as a town in 1629 and renamed in 1637 for Lynn Regis, England. Tanning and shoemaking were early colonial activities, ...
- Lynn Canal
- narrow scenic passage, 3 to 12 miles (5 to 19 km) wide, in the eastern North Pacific Ocean, southeastern Alaska, U.S. It lies within the Alexander Archipelago and extends north from Chatham Strait for 60 miles (100 km). It is the northernmost fjord to penetrate the Coast Mountains, which rise ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lynn Canal-Chatham Strait trough
- (from the article "Alaskan mountains") Along the north-south axis of this fjord is the trace of a great, inactive fault system known as the Lynn Canal-Chatham Strait trough. This fault zone bounds the St. Elias Mountains on the northwest and west and continues to the north and west along the north side of the Alaska ...
- lynnhaven
- (from the article "lynnhaven") edible variety of oyster (q.v.).characteristicsoysterOysters are shucked and eaten raw, cooked, or sm
- Lynton and Lynmouth
- town ("parish"), North Devon district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England. Lynmouth lies at the mouth of the East Lyn and West Lyn rivers, and Lynton stands on the cliff 500 feet (150 metres) above. Lynmouth's small harbour on the Bristol Channel, with its Rhenish tower, was reconstructed after ...
- Lynton and Lynmouth
- town ("parish"), North Devon district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England. Lynmouth lies at the mouth of the East Lyn and West Lyn rivers, and Lynton stands on the cliff 500 feet (150 metres) above. Lynmouth's small harbour on the Bristol Channel, with its Rhenish tower, was reconstructed after ...
- lynx
- short-tailed cats (family Felidae), found in the forests of Europe, Asia, and northern North America. [3 Related Articles]
- lynx spider
- any of several groups of active spiders (order Araneida) that do not build a nest or web but capture their prey by pouncing upon them. Lynx spiders are distributed worldwide and in North America are most common in southern regions. The eyes are arranged in a hexagon, and the abdomen ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lynx, Academy of the
- (from the article "biology") ...freedom of expression, which, together with the stimulus of exchanging ideas, contributed greatly to the development of scientific thought. One of the earliest of these organizations was the Italian Academy of the Lynx, founded in Rome around 1603. Galileo Galilei made a microscope for the society; another of its members, ...
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- American rock band that rose to prominence during the Southern rock boom of the 1970s on the strength of its triple-guitar attack and gritty, working-class attitude. The principal members were Ronnie Van Zant (b. Jan. 15, 1949, Jacksonville, Fla., U.S., -d. Oct. 20, 1977, Gillsburg, Miss., ), Gary Rossington (b. ...
- Lyon
- capital of both the Rhone departement and the Rhone-Alpes region, east-central France, set on a hilly site at the confluence of the Rhone and Saone rivers. A Roman military colony called Lugdunum was founded there in 43 BC, and it subsequently became the capital of the Gauls. ... [13 Related Articles]
- Lyon
- county, west-central Nevada, U.S., southeast of Reno and east and southeast of Carson City. It is a region of arid hills, mountains, and valleys, with part of Toiyabe National Forest in the south, on the California border. The county seat is Yerington, the trading centre of the Mason Valley, which ...
- Lyon faience
- tin-glazed earthenware produced at Lyon, from the 16th century to 1770. Originally made by Italian potters, 16th-century Lyon faience remained close to its Italian prototype, the so-called istoriato Urbino maiolica, the subjects of which are either historical, mythological, or biblical. Such, for instance, is a large, circular dish (British Museum) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lyon, Corneille de
- highly reputed portrait painter of 16th-century France, few of whose works have survived.
- Lyon, Council of
- (from the article "Lyon, councils of") The second Council of Lyon was convened by Pope Gregory X in 1274 after Michael VIII Palaeologus, the Byzantine emperor, gave assurances that the Orthodox Church was prepared to reunite with Rome. By acknowledging the supremacy of the pope, Michael hoped to gain financial support for his wars of conquest. ...
- Lyon, councils of
- 13th and 14th ecumenical councils of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1245 Pope Innocent IV fled to Lyon from the besieged city of Rome. Having convened a general council attended by only about 150 bishops, the Pope renewed the church's excommunication of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II and declared ... [3 Related Articles]
- Lyon, George Frances
- (from the article "Sahara") ...in the major waterways of interior Africa, began in earnest in the 19th century. Attempts to determine the course of the Niger River took the British explorers Joseph Ritchie and George Francis Lyon to the Fezzan area in 1819, and in 1822 the British explorers Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, and ...
- Lyon, Jane
- (from the article "Nicholas I") The future emperor's first guardian and instructor was a Scottish nurse, Jane Lyon, who was appointed by Catherine II to care for the infant and who stayed with Nicholas constantly during the first seven years of his life. From Lyon the young grand duke learned even such things as the ...
- Lyon, John
- (from the article "Harrow School") Its founder, John Lyon (d. 1592), was a yeoman of neighbouring Preston who yearly set aside resources for the education of poor children of Harrow. The school's charter was granted by Elizabeth I in 1571, and its statutes were promulgated by Lyon in 1590, but it was not until 1615 ...
- Lyon, Mary
- American pioneer in the field of higher education for women and founder and first principal of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, the forerunner of Mount Holyoke College. [2 Related Articles]
- Lyon, Mary
- (from the article "genetic disease, human") ...body, a small structure found at the rim of the nucleus in female somatic cells between divisions (see photograph). The discovery of X inactivation is generally attributed to British geneticist Mary Lyon, and it is therefore often called "lyonization."
- Lyon, Nathaniel
- (from the article "American Civil War") ...the Union orbit. Commanders there-especially on the Federal side-had greater autonomy than those in Virginia. Affairs began inauspiciously for the Federals in Missouri when Union General Nathaniel Lyon's 5,000 troops were defeated at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, by a Confederate force of more than 10,000 under Sterling Price ...
- Lyonia
- genus of about 35 species of shrubs, of the heath family (Ericaceae), notable for its attractive white or pinkish flowers and dense foliage. All occur in North America, the Caribbean, and Asia. The leaves are alternate, have short stalks, and are smooth-edged or finely toothed; they may be deciduous or ...
- lyonium ion
- (from the article "acid-base reaction") ...definition. It is sometimes convenient to have general terms for the cation and anion derived from the solvent molecule by the addition and removal of a proton, respectively. The terms lyonium and lyate ions are occasionally used in this way. In water, the lyonium and lyate ions are H3O+ and ...
- Lyonnais
- historic and cultural region encompassing the eastern French departements of Loire and Rhone and coextensive with the former province of Lyonnais.
- Lyonnesse
- mythical "lost" land supposed once to have connected Cornwall in the west of England with the Scilly Isles lying in the English Channel. The name Lyonnesse first appeared in Sir Thomas Malory's late 15th-century prose account of the rise and fall of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur, in which it ...
- Lyonnet, Pierre
- Dutch naturalist and engraver famed for his skillful dissections and illustrations of insect anatomy.
- Lyons, David
- (from the article "ethics") ...not stealing? But then what would be the difference between "act-consequentialism" and "rule-consequentialism"? In Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (1965), David Lyons argued that if the rule were formulated with sufficient precision to take into account all its causally relevant consequences, rule-utilitarianism would collapse into act-utilitarianism....
- Lyons, Joseph Aloysius
- Australian statesman who helped form the United Australia Party in 1931. As prime minister (1931-39), he saw the nation's economic recovery from the Great Depression and increased defense activity. [2 Related Articles]
- Lyons, Treaty of
- (from the article "Henry IV") Henry IV's foreign policy, without being aggressive toward Spain, was designed to diminish Spanish influence in Europe. He was able to force Savoy to sign the Treaty of Lyons (1601), thereby acquiring Bresse, Bugey, and other pieces of territory on France's eastern border. He also concluded alliances with the German ...
- Lyot filter
- (from the article "Sun")
- Lyot, Bernard
- French astronomer who invented the coronagraph (1930), an instrument which allows the observation of the solar corona when the Sun is not in eclipse. [3 Related Articles]
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