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La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar de ... La Scala

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar de Swiss political leader and Vaudois patriot, tutor and confidant to Tsar Alexander I of Russia and a central figure in the creation of the Helvetic Republic (1798). La Harpe, Jean-Francois de critic and unsuccessful playwright who wrote severe and provocative criticisms and histories of French literature. La Hire, Laurent de French Baroque classical painter whose best work is marked by gravity, simplicity, and dignity. La Junta city, seat (1889) of Otero county, southeastern Colorado, U.S. It lies along the Arkansas River at the northern edge of the Comanche National Grassland, at an elevation of 4,052 feet (1,235 metres). Founded in 1875, it was first called Otero, after a Spanish settler; its present name is Spanish for ... La Libertad city and port, southwestern El Salvador. Its open roadstead port as well as its location south of San Salvador encouraged La Libertad's development in the 19th century as a shipping outlet for "balsam of Peru"-a variety of balsam yielded from El Salvador's coastal forests. During the early 20th century La ... La Linea city, Cadiz provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. It lies along the Bay of Gibraltar, between San Roque and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The name is derived from the linea ("line"), or boundary, dividing Spanish territory from the district of Gibraltar. The ... La Louviere town, Hainaut province, southwestern Belgium, on the Central Canal, about 11 miles (17 km) east of Mons. It has been a centre of coal mining since the 14th century. La Louviere is also a major centre of steel manufacturing and produces sheet metal, furniture, and ceramics. Nearby is the park ... La MaMa nonprofit institution founded in New York City in 1961 that is a leader in avant-garde and Off-Off-Broadway theatre and the presentation of work by international theatre groups. It provides residence, rehearsal space, theatres, office space, and an archive of Off-Off-Broadway theatre. La Mancha arid but largely fertile elevated plateau (2,000 feet [610 metres]) formed over limestone in central Spain, stretching between the Toledo Mountains and the western spurs of the Cuenca hills and bounded by the La Alcarria region to the north and the Sierra Morena to the south. It includes portions of ... La Marche, Olivier de Burgundian chronicler and poet who, as historian of the ducal court, was an eloquent spokesman of the chivalrous tradition. La Marmora, Alfonso Ferrero Italian general and statesman who, while in the service of Sardinia-Piedmont, played an important role in the Risorgimento. La Matanza partido (county) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina, directly southwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). The present-day county was part of the pago (country district) of Las Conchas during the 17th and early 18th centuries. In 1730 the country district of Las Conchas ... La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de French physician and philosopher whose Materialistic interpretation of psychic phenomena laid the groundwork for future developments of behaviourism and played an important part in the history of modern Materialism. La Mothe Le Vayer, Francois de independent French thinker and writer who developed a philosophy of Skepticism more radical than that of Michel de Montaigne but less absolute than that of Pierre Bayle. La Motta, Jake American boxer and world middleweight boxing champion (1949-51) whose stamina and fierceness in the ring earned him the nickname "the Bronx Bull." Lacking finesse, he often allowed himself to take a severe beating before ferociously turning on his foe. His opponents failed to knock him down in 106 professional fights. La Nina cyclic counterpart to El Nino, consisting of a cooling of surface waters of the Pacific Ocean along the western coast of South America. While its local effects on weather and climate are generally the opposite of those associated with El Nino, its global effects can be more complex. La Nina ... La Noue, Francois de Huguenot captain in the French Wars of Religion (1562-98), known for his exploits as a soldier and for his military and historical writings. La Orotava town, northern Tenerife island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), Spain, just southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife city. The town is a health resort with its port, Puerto de la Cruz, on the coast immediately to the northwest. La Orotava is ... La Oroya city, central Peru. It is situated at the junction of the Mantaro and Yauli rivers on a central plateau of the Andes Mountains, at an elevation of 12,195 feet (3,717 metres). The city, located in a rich mining region based on the Cerro de Pasco, Morococha, and Casapalca mines, is ... La Palma town, eastern Panama, on the estuary of the Tuira River near the Gulf of San Miguel. It is the principal trading centre for the large sparsely populated region that surrounds it. Plantains, corn (maize), and rice are cultivated, and livestock is raised; there is also some sawmilling. The town is ... La Palma island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of the Canary Islands of Spain, in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the northwestern coast of Africa. Its central geographic feature is La Caldera de Taburiente, a large volcanic caldera (6 miles [10 km] in diameter) that ... La Pampa provincia (province), central Argentina. It lies immediately west of Buenos Aires province and straddles drier sections of the Pampa (northeast) and semiarid sections of the Patagonian Desert (southwest). Its western and southern parts consist of low-lying tablelands (with a broad depression in the central west) occasionally broken by hillocks, saline ... La Paz city, administrative capital of Bolivia, west-central Bolivia, situated some 42 miles (68 km) southeast of Lake Titicaca. La Paz, which lies between 10,650 and 13,250 feet (3,250 and 4,100 metres) above sea level, is the world's highest national capital. Visitors, upon arrival, find exertion difficult because of the rarefied atmosphere ... La Paz town, southwestern Honduras, at an elevation of 2,461 feet (750 m) above sea level in the Comayagua River valley, on the eastern flanks of the Cordillera de Montecillos. It was founded in 1792 and has been called La Paz since 1861. The city serves as a commercial centre for the ... La Paz city, capital of Baja California Sur estado (state), northwestern Mexico. It lies about 40 feet (12 metres) above sea level on sheltered La Paz Bay of the Gulf of California (also called Sea of Cortez) and has a hot dry climate. Spaniards charted the bay in 1533, but a Jesuit ... La Perouse Strait international waterway between the islands of Sakhalin (Russia) and Hokkaido (Japan). The strait, named after the French explorer Jean-Francois de Galaup, Count de La Perouse, separates the Sea of Okhotsk from the Sea of Japan. It is 27 miles (43 km) wide at its narrowest part, between Cape Krilon (Sakhalin) ... La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de French naval officer and navigator who is known for the wide-ranging explorations in the Pacific Ocean that he conducted in the second half of the 1780s. La Perouse Strait, in the northwestern Pacific, is named for him. La Piedad Cavadas city, northwestern Michoacan estado (state), west-central Mexico. Situated on the Lerma River, which forms the border between Michoacan and Guanajuato states, the city is 314 miles (505 km) west-northwest of Mexico City and 119 miles (192 km) northwest of Morelia, the state capital. During the colonial era it was known ... La Plata city, capital of Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina, 6 miles (9 km) inland from the southern shore of the Rio de la Plata estuary. The site was selected in 1882 by the provincial governor of Buenos Aires, Dardo Rocha, as the new provincial seat, a move made necessary when ... La Plata River river in east-central Puerto Rico, rising on the western slope of Mount Santa (2,963 feet [903 metres]), a peak of the Sierra de Cayey. Part of the stream is impounded by Lake Carite; the reservoir's outlet diverts waters for a series of hydroelectric stations on the Guamani River in the ... La Revelliere-Lepeaux, Louis-Marie de member of the French Revolutionary regime known as the Directory. La Rioja provincia (province), northwestern Argentina, extending southeastward from Chile. The province's southeastern half is an arid to semiarid plain, while the northwestern section is crossed north to south by alternating mountain ranges and semiarid valleys associated with the Andean cordillera. Saline marshes and lakes of the southeast are formed by intermittent ... La Rioja comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) and historical region of Spain coextensive with the north-central Spanish provincia (province) of La Rioja (until 1980 called Logrono). La Rioja is bordered by the autonomous communities of the Basque Country to the north, Navarra to the northeast, and Castile-Leon to the south and west. La ... La Rioja city, capital of La Rioja provincia (province), northwestern Argentina, on La Rioja River at the foot of the Velasco Mountains. Founded in 1591 by explorers for gold and silver, it long remained a small commercial and administrative centre close to intermittently worked deposits of copper, silver, and lead ores in ... La Rive, Auguste-Arthur de Swiss physicist who was one of the founders of the electrochemical theory of batteries. La Roche, Sophie von German writer whose first and most important work, Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim (1771; History of Lady Sophia Sternheim), was the first German novel written by a woman and is considered to be among the best works from the period in which English novels, particularly those of Samuel Richardson, had ... La Roche-sur-Yon town, capital of Vendee departement, Pays de la Loire region, western France, south of Nantes. The Vendee region had been pacified at the time of the French Revolution but still remained disaffected after the counterrevolutionary insurrection of 1793; Napoleon in 1804 established a military and administrative town in the centre ... La Rochefoucauld Family one of France's noblest families, traceable in Angoumois to the year 1019. Ducal titles belonging to it are: duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld (1622); duke de La Roche-Guyon (1679); duke d'Anville (1732); duke d'Estissac; duke de Liancourt (1747); duke de Doudeauville (1780); duke (duca) di Bisaccia (Neapolitan title; 1851); and ... La Rochefoucauld, Francois VI, duke (duc) de French classical author who had been one of the most active rebels of the Fronde before he became the leading exponent of the maxime, a French literary form of epigram that expresses a harsh or paradoxical truth with brevity. La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Francois-Alexandre-Frederic, Duke de educator and social reformer who founded the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Metiers at Chalons and whose model farm at Liancourt contributed to the development of French agriculture. La Rochelle city, Atlantic seaport and capital of Charente-Maritime departement, Poitou-Charentes region, western France, situated on an inlet opposite Re Island. The city, which has straight, regular streets, a large park, and shady promenades on the sites of its old fortifications, grew considerably after 1946, especially to the west. The old commercial ... La Romana city and port, southeastern Dominican Republic, on the Caribbean Sea opposite Catalina Island. Founded near the end of the 19th century, La Romana grew rapidly after the establishment of a large sugar mill in 1911. In addition to sugarcane, the surrounding region produces coffee, tobacco, beeswax, cattle, and hides. The ... La Rue, Pierre de composer in the Flemish, or Netherlandish, style that dominated Renaissance music, known for his religious music. La Russa, Tony American professional baseball manager who led his teams to three World Series titles (1989, 2006, and 2011) and accumulated the third most managerial wins (2,728) in major league history. La Sale, Antoine de French writer chiefly remembered for his Petit Jehan de Saintre, a romance marked by a great gift for the observation of court manners and a keen sense of comic situation and dialogue. La Salle former city, Montreal region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on the south shore of Ile de Montreal (Montreal Island), at the head of the Lachine Rapids of the St. Lawrence River. Until 2002 it was a suburb of Montreal city, at which time it was incorporated into Montreal as a borough ... La Salle city, La Salle county, north-central Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Illinois River, about 90 miles (150 km) southwest of Chicago. With Peru (adjacent to the west) and Oglesby (southeast), La Salle forms a tri-city unit. The city was named for the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur (lord) de La ... La Salle University private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is operated by the Christian Brothers, a teaching order of the Roman Catholic church. It comprises schools of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, and Nursing, offering a range of bachelor's and master's degree programs in nursing, education, business, computer ... La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur (lord) de French explorer in North America, who led an expedition down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and claimed all the region watered by the Mississippi and its tributaries for Louis XIV of France, naming the region "Louisiana." A few years later, in a luckless expedition seeking the mouth of the Mississippi, ... La Salle, Saint Jean-Baptiste de French educator and founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (sometimes called the de La Salle Brothers), the first Roman Catholic congregation of male nonclerics devoted solely to schools, learning, and teaching. La Scala theatre in Milan, one of the principal opera houses of the world and the leading Italian house.