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- (from the article "Belgian literature") ...They include Kristien Hemmerechts, who wrote about loss and sexual tensions in an understated manner, the more philosophical Patricia de Martelaere, and the inventive Koen Peeters. Such authors as Tom Lanoye and Stefan Hertmans made their mark in more than one genre. Lanoye was a performing poet and a passionate, ...
- Lanrezac, Charles
- French army commander during the first part of World War I who, though a capable tactician, proved unable to stop the German advance in northern France and was consequently replaced. [1 Related Articles]
- Lansbury, Angela
- British-born American character actress who achieved success and acclaim for her stage, film, and television work.
- Lansbury, George
- leader of the British Labour Party (1931-35), a Socialist and poor-law reformer who was forced to resign the party leadership because of his extreme pacifism.
- Lansdown Crescent
- (from the article "Bath") ...the city are Queen Square, built by John Wood the Elder between 1728 and 1735; the Circus, begun by Wood in 1754 and completed by his son; the Royal Crescent, 1767-75; the Guildhall, 1775; Lansdown Crescent, built by John Palmer, 1796-97; and the 1795 pavilion in Sydney Gardens, Bathwick, which ...
- Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th marquess of
- Irish nobleman and British diplomat who served as viceroy of Canada and of India, secretary for war, and foreign secretary. [3 Related Articles]
- Lansdowne, William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st marquess of
- British statesman and prime minister (July 1782 to April 1783) during the reign of George III. [4 Related Articles]
- Lansel, Peider
- Romansh leader of the revival of Rhaeto-Romance language and culture and one of its most accomplished lyric poets.
- Lansing
- capital of Michigan, U.S., located in Ingham county. The city site, on the Grand River at its junction with the Red Cedar River, was a wilderness when the state capital was moved there from Detroit (about 85 miles [140 km] southeast) in 1847. At first called Village of Michigan, in ... [3 Related Articles]
- Lansing Declaration
- (from the article "Masaryk, Tomas (Garrigue)") ...States, where he was welcomed by Czech and Slovak groups and where he negotiated the terms of Czechoslovak independence with President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State Robert Lansing. The Lansing Declaration of May 1918 expressed the sympathy of the U.S. government with the Czechoslovak freedom movement, and Czechoslovakia's liberation ...
- Lansing, Robert
- international lawyer and U.S. secretary of state (1915-20), who negotiated the Lansing-Ishii Agreement (1917) attempting to harmonize U.S.-Japanese relations toward China; he eventually broke with Pres. Woodrow Wilson over differences in approach to the League of Nations. [2 Related Articles]
- Lansing-Ishii Agreement
- (Nov. 2, 1917), attempt to reconcile conflicting U.S. and Japanese policies in China during World War I by a public exchange of notes between the U.S. secretary of state, Robert Lansing, and Viscount Ishii Kikujiro of Japan, a special envoy to Washington. Japan promised respect for China's independence and territorial ... [4 Related Articles]
- Lansky, Meyer
- one of the most powerful and richest of U.S. crime syndicate chiefs and bankers, who had major interests in gambling, especially in Florida, pre-Castro Cuba, Las Vegas, and the Bahamas. [4 Related Articles]
- Lanston, Tolbert
- (from the article "typesetting machine") ...or for producing a matrix of a page to be printed; after use it could be melted for reuse. Mergenthaler's Linotype (q.v.) machine was patented in 1884; in 1885 another American inventor, Tolbert Lanston, perfected the Monotype (q.v.), a machine in which type is cast in individual letters. Both machines ...
- Lantana
- genus of more than 150 shrubs native to tropical America and Africa and belonging to the verbena family (Verbenaceae), order Lamiales. Common lantana (L. camara; see ), growing to 3 metres (10 feet) tall, is a weed in tropical America, but elsewhere it is much used as a garden plant. ...
- Lantao Island
- island located about 6 miles (10 km) west of Hong Kong Island, part of the New Territories of Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. About 17 miles (27 km) long and 6 miles (9.5 km) wide, it has an area of 58 square miles (150 square km). Consisting ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lantau Peak
- (from the article "Hong Kong") ...From Mount Tai Mo-at 3,140 feet (957 metres) the highest peak in the territory-the series of ridges extends southwestward to Lantau Island, where the terrain rises to 3,064 feet on Lantau Peak and 2,851 feet on Sunset Peak. Extending southeastward from Mount Tai Mo, the Kowloon Peak attains an elevation ...
- Lante, Villa
- (from the article "garden and landscape design") ...view over Florence from the front and thus suggests intimate use by members of a small household. The more extensive parterre garden (an ornamental garden with paths between the beds) of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia (begun 1564) is designed neither for solitary enjoyment nor for a crowd but for ...
- lantern
- in architecture, originally an openwork timber construction placed on top of a building to admit light and allow smoke to escape. Something of this idea persists in medieval examples such as the lantern above the central octagon of Ely Cathedral (14th century). The term lantern soon came to refer to ... [1 Related Articles]
- lantern
- a case, ordinarily metal, with transparent or translucent sides, used to contain and protect a lamp. [1 Related Articles]
- Lantern Festival
- holiday celebrated in China and other Asian countries that honours deceased ancestors on the 15th day of the first month (Yuan) of the lunar calendar. The Lantern Festival aims to promote reconciliation, peace, and forgiveness. The holiday marks the first full moon of the new lunar year and the end ...
- lantern fish
- any of the numerous species of small, abundant, deep-sea fish of the family Myctophidae. Some lantern fish live in the depths to 300 metres (about 1,000 feet) by day, but at night they may approach the surface. Others live deeper and do not approach the surface. They are somewhat elongated ... [4 Related Articles]
- lantern of the dead
- small stone structure with windows in the upper part, in which lamps were placed to mark the position of a cemetery at night. Their use, which seems limited to western and central France, is probably owing to a traditional survival of primitive Celtic rather than Christian ideas.
- lanternfly
- (Lanternaria phosphorea), a large, brightly coloured South American plant hopper (order Homoptera) that lives on trees and is relatively uncommon. Its most remarkable feature is the inflated anterior prolongation of the head, which contains a pouchlike extension from the digestive tract. This structure appears to be luminous at times, a ...
- Lanterns, Feast of
- (from the article "Buddhism") The three major events of the Buddha's life-his birth, enlightenment, and entrance into final nirvana-are commemorated in all Buddhist countries but not everywhere on the same day. In Theravada countries the three events are all observed together on Vesak, the full moon day of the sixth lunar month (Vesakha), which ...
- lanthanide contraction
- in chemistry, the steady decrease in the size of the atoms and ions of the rare-earth elements with increasing atomic number from lanthanum (atomic number 57) through lutetium (atomic number 71). For each consecutive atom the nuclear charge is more positive by one unit, accompanied by a corresponding increase in ... [3 Related Articles]
- lanthanum
- (La), chemical element, rare-earth metal of transition Group IIIb of the periodic table, prototype of the lanthanoid series of elements. Lanthanum is a ductile and malleable, silvery-white metal, soft enough to be cut with a knife. The element was discovered as the oxide (lanthana) in 1839 by Carl Gustaf Mosander, ... [4 Related Articles]
- lanthanum oxide
- (from the article "lanthanum") Highly purified lanthanum oxide is an ingredient in the manufacture of low-dispersion, high-refraction glasses for lens components. The technical grade fluoride is used as core material for arc-light carbons.
- Lantian man
- fossils of hominins (members of the human lineage) found in 1963 and 1964 by Chinese archaeologists at two sites in Lantian district, Shaanxi province, China. One specimen was found at each site: a cranium (skullcap) at Gongwangling (Kung-wang-ling) and a mandible (lower jaw) at Chenjiawo (Ch'en-chia-wo). Both appear to be ...
- Lantz, Walter
- American motion-picture animator, cartoon producer, and creator of the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker. [1 Related Articles]
- lanugo
- (from the article "hair") Human beings have several different types of hairs. The first to develop is the lanugo, a layer of downy, slender hairs that begin growing in the third or fourth month of fetal life and are entirely shed either before or shortly after birth. During the first few months of infancy ...
- Lanus
- (from the article "Lanus") cabecera (county seat) and partido (county) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina, directly south of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). Much of the early settlement of Lanus, formerly called the county of Cuatro de Junio, ...
- Lanus
- cabecera (county seat) and partido (county) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina, directly south of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). Much of the early settlement of Lanus, formerly called the county of Cuatro de Junio, ...
- Lanusse, Alejandro Agustin
- Argentine general and politician (b. Aug. 28, 1918, Buenos Aires, Arg.--d. Aug. 26, 1996, Buenos Aires), as president of Argentina from 1971 to 1973, attempted to restore democracy to the country. Born into an upper-middle-class family, Lanusse graduated from military college in 1938 and joined the cavalry. In 1951 he ... [2 Related Articles]
- Lanuvinus, Lucius
- (from the article "Terence") Terence faced the hostility of jealous rivals, particularly one older playwright, Luscius Lanuvinus, who launched a series of accusations against the newcomer. The main source of contention was Terence's dramatic method. It was the custom for these Roman dramatists to draw their material from earlier Greek comedies about rich young ...
- Lanvin
- (from the article "Fashions") ...Three months later Matthew Williamson succeeded Paris couturier Christian Lacroix as the creative force behind Pucci. Alber Elbaz, the 43-year-old Israeli designer of venerable French dress label Lanvin, was regarded as fashion's most influential aesthetic force owing to his continued ability to produce coveted feminine cocktail dresses and decorative accessories ...
- Lanxide process
- (from the article "advanced ceramics") Another chemical bonding method is the Lanxide process, introduced by the Lanxide Company in the United States. In this process a molten metal is reacted with a gas to form a metal-ceramic composite at the metal-gas interface. As the composite grows at the metal-composite interface, edges remain in contact with ...
- Lany, Treaty of
- (from the article "Schober, Johann") ...government supported by the Christian Socialists and Pan-Germans. He took the initiative in reestablishing friendly relations with the successor states of the late Habsburg Empire by signing the Treaty of Lany with Czechoslovakia in December 1921. But the Pan-Germans, who viewed the treaty as a possible obstruction to Austria's ultimate ...
- Lanz, Johann Wilhelm
- (from the article "pottery") ...green was also used. Deutsche Blumen ("German flowers") were introduced, perhaps by A.F. von Lowenfinck, about 1750, and inspired similar painting elsewhere. Figures by J.W. Lanz, who also worked in porcelain here and at Frankenthal, are to be seen. Much work was done in the fashionable Rococo style, including objects, ...
- Lanza, Giovanni
- Italian statesman and political activist of the Risorgimento who was premier in 1870 when Rome became the capital of a united Italy and who helped organize the political forces of the centre-left. [3 Related Articles]
- Lanzarote
- island, Las Palmas provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), Spain. It is the easternmost of the Canary Islands, in the North Atlantic Ocean. Although it rises to only 2,198 feet (670 metres) at Penas del Chache, it is mountainous, with ...
- Lanzelet
- (from the article "Lancelot") ...legend about Guinevere's abduction, making Lancelot her rescuer and lover. It also mentioned Lancelot's upbringing by a fairy in a lake, a story that received fuller treatment in the German poem Lanzelet. These two themes were developed further in the great 13th-century Vulgate cycle, or Prose Lancelot. According to this, ...
- Lanzhou
- city, capital of Gansu sheng (province), west-central China. It is situated in the southeastern portion of the province on the upper course of the Huang He (Yellow River), where the river emerges from the mountains. Lanzhou has been a centre since early times, being at the southern ... [3 Related Articles]
- Lanzi, Loggia dei
- (from the article "Western architecture") The Renaissance began in Italy, where there was always a residue of Classical feeling in architecture. A Gothic building such as the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence was characterized by a large round arch instead of the usual Gothic pointed arch and preserved the simplicity and monumentality of Classical architecture. ...
- Lanzi, Luigi
- (from the article "Mannerism") ...in Florence and Rome and spread to northern Italy and, ultimately, to much of central and northern Europe. The term was first used around the end of the 18th century by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Lanzi to define 16th-century artists who were the followers of major Renaissance masters.
- Lanzon, El
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") This figure, which has variously been called El Lanzon, the Great Image, and the Smiling God, is thought to have been the chief object of worship in the original temple. The southern arm of the temple was subsequently twice widened by rectangular additions, into which some of the original galleries ...
- Lao
- (from the article "Laos") The Lao people, the predominant ethnic group in present-day Laos, are a branch of the Tai peoples who by the 8th century AD had established a powerful kingdom, Nanchao, in southwestern China. From Nanchao the Tai gradually penetrated southward into the Southeast Asian mainland; their migration was accelerated in the ...
- Lao Cai
- town, northwestern Vietnam, on the China-Vietnam border. It lies at the junction of the Red River (Song Hong) and the Nam Ti River about 160 miles (260 km) northwest of Hanoi. It is a market town for timber from the surrounding mountains and is strategically important because of its location ...
- Lao Issara
- Laotian political movement against French colonial control, founded in 1945. The departure of the Japanese from Laos in 1945 left the Laotian ruling elite divided over the issue of the restoration of French control. The king welcomed the French return, but Prince Phetsarath, the viceroy, and his brothers, Souvanna Phouma ... [4 Related Articles]
- Lao Khamhom
- (from the article "Thai literature") ...of speech was severely curtailed; in the later years only escapist fiction, called "stagnant water literature," survived. One writer who proved an exception during this period was Lao Khamhom (Khamsing Srinawk), whose subtle stories about country folk, first published in a collection called Fa bo kan (1959; The Politician and ...
- Lao language
- one of the Tai languages of Southeast Asia, and the official language of Laos. Lao occurs in various dialects, which differ among themselves at least as much as Lao as a group differs from the Tai dialects of northeastern Thailand. The latter are usually called Northeastern Thai, but the difference ... [2 Related Articles]
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