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- U.S. leader of the Progressive Movement, who as governor of Wisconsin (1901-06) and U.S. senator (1906-25) was noted for his support of reform legislation. He was the unsuccessful presidential candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action (i.e., the Progressive ... [3 Related Articles]
- La Follette, Robert M., Jr.
- (from the article "La Follette, Robert M") Both of La Follette's sons carried on his work after his death. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1895-1953), was elected in 1925 to fill his father's unexpired term in the Senate and was reelected three times thereafter, serving until 1947. ...
- La Fontaine
- also called Mlle De Lafontaine French ballerina and the first woman professional ballet dancer.
- La Fontaine, Jean de
- poet whose Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature. [7 Related Articles]
- La Fosse, Charles de
- painter whose decorative historical and allegorical murals, while continuing a variant of the stately French Baroque manner of the 17th century, began to develop a lighter, more brightly coloured style that presaged the Rococo painting of the 18th century.
- La Fresnaye, Roger de
- French painter who synthesized lyrical colour with the geometric simplifications of Cubism.
- La Frontera
- (from the article "Chile") ...these are Norte Grande (extending to 27° S); the north-central region, Norte Chico (27° to 33° S); the central region, Zona Central (33° to 38° S); the south-central region, La Frontera and the Lake District (38° to 42° S); and ...
- La Galaisiere, Legentil de
- (from the article "Trifid Nebula") (catalog numbers NGC 6514 and M 20), bright, diffuse nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, lying several thousand light-years from the Earth. It was discovered by the French astronomer Legentil de La Galaisiere before 1750 and named by the English astronomer ...
- La Galissonniere, Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de
- mariner and commandant general of New France. [1 Related Articles]
- La Gomera
- island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Spain, in the North Atlantic Ocean. The island is circular in shape. Its coasts, especially on the west, ... [1 Related Articles]
- La Goulette
- town located in northern Tunisia and an outport for Tunis. Situated on a sandbar between Lake Tunis and the Gulf of Tunis, La Goulette (its Arabic name, Halq al-Wadi, means "river's throat") is linked to the capital by a canal ...
- La Grande
- city, seat (1905) of Union county, northeastern Oregon, U.S., between the Blue Mountains (west) and Wallowa Mountains (east), on the Grande Ronde River. The region was once roamed by Umatilla Indians. The city was founded in 1864 as a way ...
- La Grande River
- river in Nord-du-Quebec region, north-central Quebec province, Canada. Rising from Nichicun Lake in the Otish Mountains of central Quebec, it descends 1,737 feet (529 m) in its westward journey to James Bay, which forms part of Hudson Bay. For most ...
- La Gruyere
- region and southernmost district of Fribourg canton, western Switzerland. La Gruyere lies along the middle reach of La Sarine (Saane) River, on the edge of the Vaudois uplands and the Bernese Oberland (highland), south of Fribourg. The name is derived ...
- La Guaira
- city, northern Distrito Federal (Federal District), northern Venezuela. One of the country's leading seaports, La Guaira lies in the narrow, arid coastal zone along the Caribbean at the foot of the central highlands. Although the city dates to 1577, extremely ... [1 Related Articles]
- La Guardia Airport
- (from the article "airport") ...of heavy monoplanes for transport, such as the Douglas DC-3, during the late 1930s that extensive takeoff and landing distances were needed. Even then, the prewar airfields at New York City (La Guardia), London (Croydon), Paris (Le Bourget), and Berlin ...
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- American politician and lawyer who served three terms (1933-45) as mayor of New York City. [2 Related Articles]
- La Guma, Alex
- black novelist of South Africa in the 1960s whose characteristically brief works (e.g., A Walk in the Night [1962], The Stone-Country [1965], and In the Fog of the Season's End [1972]) gain power through his superb eye for detail, allowing ... [3 Related Articles]
- La Habra
- city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. The city lies just north of Fullerton and southeast of Los Angeles. Its name derives from the Spanish abra ("pass"), with reference to an opening in the nearby Puente Hills. A ...
- La Harpe, Bernard de
- (from the article "Little Rock") city, capital of Arkansas, U.S. It is the seat of Pulaski county, on the Arkansas River in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains in the central part of the state. In 1722 Bernard de la Harpe, a French explorer, saw ...
- 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). [1 Related Articles]
- 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 Jaunaye, Convention of
- (from the article "Vendee, Wars of the") ...(May) and the rise to power of the moderate Thermidorian faction in Paris (July), a more conciliatory policy was adopted. In December the government announced an amnesty, and on Feb. 17, 1795, the Convention of La Jaunaye granted the Vendee ...
- La Jolla Canyon
- (from the article "Scripps Canyon") ...to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for which it was named. The canyon's shallow tributary valleys head very close to shore in water only 40 feet (12 m) deep. The valley joins a larger canyon, La Jolla Canyon, at an axial ...
- La Joya
- (from the article "Spain") ...of the former rulers, new adventurers came onto the scene. Their traces can be seen in rich tombs around Carmona at cemeteries such as El Acebuchal, Setefilla, and in Huelva at the cemetery of La Joya. Princely wealth from La ...
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 colony of Gibraltar. The name is ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- La Macarena Mountains
- (from the article "Colombia") ...and buttes with rapids in the streams. This slightly higher ground forms the watershed between the Amazon and Orinoco systems. Some 60 miles (100 km) south of Villavicencio the elongated, forested La Macarena Mountains rise 8,000 feet (2,500 metres) from ...
- La Mancha
- barren 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- La Marche, Olivier de
- Burgundian chronicler and poet who, as historian of the ducal court, was an eloquent spokesman of the chivalrous tradition. [1 Related Articles]
- La Marfee, battle of
- (from the article "Soissons, Louis de Bourbon, Count de") ...other malcontents joined him; and in 1641 he published a manifesto against Richelieu and invaded France with a Habsburg army. He defeated the Marshal de Chatillon (Gaspard III de Coligny) at La Marfee on July 6, 1641, but was killed ...
- La Marmora, Alfonso Ferrero
- Italian general and statesman who, while in the service of Sardinia-Piedmont, played an important role in the Risorgimento. [1 Related Articles]
- La Marmora, Mount
- (from the article "Sardinia") The island's relief is dominated by mountains of granite and schist. The highest point is Mount La Marmora (6,017 feet [1,834 m]) in the Gennargentu Massif. The climate is subtropical and Mediterranean. Precipitation ranges from 24 inches (600 mm) on ...
- 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 ...
- La Mesnardiere, Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de
- (from the article "French literature") ...(1647) records polite usage of the time. In the field of literary theory the same rational approach produced the Poetique (1639; "Treatise on Poetry") of Hippolyte-Jules Pilet de La Mesnardiere and the Abbe d'Aubignac's
- 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. [3 Related Articles]
- 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 Mothe-Fenelon, Francois de
- (from the article "French literature") ...Discourse on Universal History); but he also exerted a considerable moral influence in his sermons and funeral orations, which took the art of pulpit oratory to a new high level. Francois de La Mothe-Fenelon was a much less orthodox churchman, ...
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- La Motte, comtesse de
- (from the article "Affair of the Diamond Necklace") scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 that discredited the French monarchy on the eve of the French Revolution. It began as an intrigue on the part of an adventuress, the comtesse (countess) de La Motte, to procure, ...
- La Nina
- (from the article "atmosphere") ...from the Equator such that the deeper, colder waters move to the surface. In the central and eastern Pacific Ocean near the Equator, when this upwelling is stronger than average, the event is called La Nina. When the trade winds ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- La Pampa, University of
- (from the article "Santa Rosa") ...Founded in 1892, the city developed as an agricultural centre processing grain (wheat) and cattle from the eastern part of the province. It has a regional museum of art and natural history; the University of La Pampa was founded there ...
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