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- French sculptor known for his Cubist works and his later massive studies, particularly of the female figure. He also made collages, lithographs, and other works on paper. [1 Related Articles]
- Laurens, Henry
- early American statesman who served as president of the Continental Congress (1777-78).
- Laurent, Auguste
- French chemist who helped lay the foundations of organic chemistry. [2 Related Articles]
- Laurent, Francois
- Belgian administrator, legal scholar, and historian noted as the author of a monumental universal history and a series of comprehensive works on civil law.
- Laurentia
- (from the article "North America") ...thousands of feet thick accumulated. Shallow-shelf conditions were interrupted by the accretion of volcanic island arcs or continental fragments, culminating about 300 million years ago when Laurentia collided with the southern hemispheric continent of Gondwana (Gondwanaland) to form the supercontinent ...
- Laurentian Hills
- town, Renfrew county, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies along the Chalk River near its mouth on the Ottawa River, 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Ottawa. The town was formed in 2000 by the amalgamation of Chalk River and several ...
- Laurentian Iroquois
- (from the article "Northeast Indian") ...Ontario and Erie was controlled by peoples speaking Iroquoian languages, including the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Huron, Tionontati, Neutral, Wenrohronon, Erie, Susquehannock, and Laurentian Iroquois. The Tuscarora, who also spoke an Iroquoian language, lived in the coastal hills of ...
- Laurentian mixed forest
- (from the article "North America") Lying in the warm-summer region of the cool temperate zone, the Laurentian mixed forest occurs in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence, the upper Mississippi-Ohio, and the New England lowland regions. It consists mainly of deciduous hardwoods-maple, beech, oak, hickory, elm, ash, ...
- Laurentian Mountains
- mountains forming the Quebec portion of the Canadian Shield, particularly the area partially bounded by the Ottawa, St. Lawrence, and Saguenay rivers. It is one of the oldest mountain regions in the world and consists of Precambrian rocks (those more ... [1 Related Articles]
- Laurentian schism
- (from the article "Laurentius") English Lawrence antipope in 498 and from 501 to about 505/507, whose disputed papal election gave his name to the Laurentian schism, a split in the Roman Catholic church.
- Laurentian Trough
- submarine glacial trough in the eastern continental shelf of North America, the most impressive such feature on Earth. It extends from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River eastward through the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the edge of the ...
- Laurentide Ice Sheet
- principal glacial cover of North America during the Pleistocene Epoch (1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago). At its maximum extent it spread as far south as latitude 37° N and covered an area of more than 13,000,000 square km (5,000,000 square ... [6 Related Articles]
- Laurentide Scarp
- (from the article "Canada") ...the Torngat, Kaumajet, and Kiglapait mountains, lie south of Hudson Strait. Along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, the shield rim is a 2,000-foot (600-metre) escarpment, the Laurentide Scarp. The rim is almost imperceptible in southern ...
- Laurentius
- English Lawrence antipope in 498 and from 501 to about 505/507, whose disputed papal election gave his name to the Laurentian schism, a split in the Roman Catholic church. [1 Related Articles]
- Laurentius of Canterbury, Saint
- second archbishop of Canterbury, missionary who played a large part in establishing the Anglo-Saxon church.
- Lauria, Ruggiero di
- Italian admiral in the service of Aragon and Sicily who won important naval victories over the French Angevins (house of Anjou) in the war between France and Aragon over the possession of Sicily in the 1280s.
- lauric acid
- (from the article "common saturated fatty acids") ...caper, meaning "goat." Some hard cheeses (e.g., Swiss cheese) contain natural propanoic acid. The higher even-numbered saturated acids, from C12 to C18 (lauric, myristic, palmitic, and stearic), are present in the fats and oils of many animals and plants, with ...
- Lauricocha
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ..."first wave" of immigrants into the New World. Since there has been much less research in the highlands than on the coast, little is known of the highland Late Preceramic. The caves at Lauricocha at about 13,000 feet in the ...
- Lauricocha, Lake
- northernmost of a chain of glacier-fed lakes in the Andes Mountains, central Peru, about 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Lima. It lies at an elevation of 12,615 feet (3,845 m). The Maranon River, the main stream of the Amazon ...
- Laurie Island
- (from the article "South Orkney Islands") island group lying between the Scotia Sea to the north and the Weddell Sea to the south in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is composed of two large islands (Coronation and Laurie) and a number of smaller islands and rocky ...
- Laurie, Hugh
- When in 2007 it became apparent that the number of British actors filling major roles-mostly as Americans-in pilots for television series in the U.S. had grown tremendously, credit was given to Hugh Laurie for paving their way. As the brilliant ...
- Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
- the first French-Canadian prime minister of the Dominion of Canada (1896-1911), noted especially for his attempts to define the role of French Canada in the federal state and to define Canada's relations to Great Britain. He was knighted in 1897. [5 Related Articles]
- Laurin, Camille
- Canadian psychiatrist-turned-politician who was the guiding force behind Quebec's Bill 101, which required that French be the official language of the province; all business was thereafter to be conducted in French, and immigrants had to attend French schools (b. May ...
- Laurin, Lucien
- Canadian-born American horse trainer (b. Jan. 11, 1912, Joliette, Que.-d. June 26, 2000, Key Largo, Fla.), was one of horse racing's foremost trainers. During a career that spanned nearly five decades, Laurin trained a total of 36 stakes winners, including ...
- Laurisilva
- (from the article "Portugal") ...varieties. Only Madeira has much woodland, most of it the result of reforestation (e.g., of poplar, pine, and eucalyptus). Two-thirds of Madeira is a conservation area; its Laurel Forest (Laurisilva) was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999.
- Laurium
- industrial town of the nomos (department) of Attica, on the Aegean Sea, famous in antiquity for its silver mines. Its port, sheltered by Makronisos island, imports coal, loads ore, and handles coastal and insular shipping. [2 Related Articles]
- Lauriya Nandangarh
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...and concise artistry, represents the style at its best. His smooth, muscled contours, wiry sinews, rippling, flamboyant mane, and alert stance reveal the work of a superior artist. An example at Lauriya Nandangarh is interesting because the pillar and the ...
- Laurus, Metropolitan
- Czech religious leader was instrumental in reconciling the 80-year dispute between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and its parent church in Russia; the separation occurred in 1927 when Moscow Patriarch Sergey proclaimed allegiance to the Communist Party. Laurus ...
- Laurussia
- (from the article "Carboniferous Period") ...on one side of the globe. The orogenies (mountain-building events) taking place during the Devonian Period had formed the "Old Red Sandstone" continent. The principal landmass of Laurussia was made up of present-day North America, western Europe through the Urals, ...
- laurustinus
- (from the article "viburnum") ...similar but taller; the sheepberry, or nannyberry (V. lentago), with finely toothed, oval leaves; and the arrowwood (V. dentatum), with roundish to oval, coarsely toothed leaves. Laurustinus (V. tinus), a 3-metre-tall evergreen with oblong leaves, is native to the Mediterranean ...
- Lausanne
- capital of Vaud canton, western Switzerland, on the northern shore of Lake Geneva (Lac Leman); built on the southern slopes of the Jorat heights, its altitude ranges from 1,240 ft (378 m) at Ouchy, its lake port, to 2,122 ft ... [4 Related Articles]
- Lausanne Cathedral
- (from the article "stained glass") ...work of this atelier is extremely distinguished, with an elegance and purity of style and a knowledge of classical art that transcend most of its contemporaries. The rose window (1231-35) of Lausanne Cathedral in Switzerland was made by a wandering ...
- Lausanne Conference
- (June-July 1932), conference that was held to liquidate the payment of reparations by Germany to the former Allied and Associated powers of World War I. Attended by representatives of the creditor powers (Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy) and of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Lausanne Protocol
- (from the article "Lausanne Conference") ...1930, 5 percent redeemable bonds to the value of three billion Reichsmarks. The creditor governments canceled war debts as between themselves but made a "gentleman's agreement" that the Lausanne Protocol would not be ratified until they had reached a satisfactory ...
- Lausanne, Treaty of
- (from the article "Italo-Turkish War") ...coast, but the war remained at a stalemate until a successful Italian offensive in North Africa from July to October 1912. Turkey, now menaced by the Balkan states, sought peace. By the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne (also called ...
- Lausanne, Treaty of
- (1923), final treaty concluding World War I. It was signed by representatives of Turkey (successor to the Ottoman Empire) on one side and by Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) on ... [10 Related Articles]
- Lausonium
- (from the article "Lausanne") The ancient Celtic Lausonium, or Lausonna, was originally on the shore of the lake southwest of the present city. During the invasion of the Alemanni (c. 379), the inhabitants took refuge in the hills above, building a settlement on the ...
- Laut Island
- island off the southeastern coast of Borneo, Kalimantan Selatan provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. Laut Island lies in the Makassar Strait, 105 miles (169 km) east of Banjarmasin city. It is 60 miles (100 km) long north to south and 20 miles ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lautaro
- Mapuche Indian who led the native uprising against the Spanish conquerors in south-central Chile from 1553 to 1557. [3 Related Articles]
- Lautenwerck
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...were occasionally strung with gut rather than with metal wire in order to imitate the sound of a lute. Such gut-strung harpsichords, one of which was owned by J.S. Bach, were called in German Lautenwerck. The 18th-century tangent piano dispensed ...
- lauter tun
- (from the article "beer") The decoction brewer transfers the mash to a separation vessel called the lauter tun, where a shallow filter bed is formed, allowing a more rapid runoff time of about 2.5 hours. Large modern breweries use either lauter tuns or special ...
- Lauterbur, Paul
- American chemist who, with English physicist Sir Peter Mansfield, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a computerized scanning technology that produces images of internal body structures, especially those ... [2 Related Articles]
- Lautoka
- city on the northwest coast of the island of Viti Levu, Fiji, South Pacific Ocean. Situated on the dry side of the island, Lautoka (originally called Namoli) serves an important sugarcane-growing district and is Fiji's leading sugar export port. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Lautreamont, comte de
- poet, a strange and enigmatic figure in French literature, who is recognized as a major influence on the Surrealists. [1 Related Articles]
- Lauzun, Antonin-Nompar de Caumont, Count and Duke de
- French military officer who was imprisoned by King Louis XIV to prevent him from marrying the Duchesse de Montpensier (known as La Grande Mademoiselle), the wealthiest heiress in Europe. [2 Related Articles]
- Lauzun, Hotel de
- (from the article "Paris") ...rent space to householders. The church of Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile was begun the same year, 1664, but one of the finest houses, by Louis Le Vau, had been completed as early as 1640. Another, the Hotel de Lauzun, a few yards upstream ...
- Lava
- (from the article "Sthanakavasi") ...meetinghouse (sthanak) rather than at a temple, differs from the Shvetambara sect in its rejection of image worship and temple ritual. The subsect was founded in the 17th century by Lava of Surat, a member of an ...
- Lava
- (from the article "Sita") ...proved it by voluntarily undergoing an ordeal by fire. Rama, however, banished her to the forest in deference to public opinion. There she gave birth to their two children, Kusa and Lava. After they reached maturity and were acknowledged by ...
- lava
- magma (molten rock) emerging as a liquid onto the Earth's surface. The term lava is also used for the solidified rock formed by the cooling of a molten lava flow. The temperatures of molten lava range from about 700 to ... [18 Related Articles]
- Lava Beds National Monument
- region of recent lava flows and related volcanic formations, including deep chasms, cinder cones that rise to 300 ft (90 m) from the lava, and chimneys, in northern California, U.S., south of the city of Tule Lake.The main battle sites ...
- lava cave
- cave or cavity formed as a result of surface solidification of a lava flow during the last stages of its activity. A frozen crust may form over still mobile and actively flowing liquid rock as a result of surface cooling. ... [1 Related Articles]
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