partido (political subdivision) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, Argentina, directly southwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires province. The present-day partido was part of the Pago (country district) de las Conchas ...
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.
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.
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 ...
town, northern Tenerife island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), Spain, just southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife city. The town is a health resort with its port, ...
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 ...
island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Canary Islands, Spain. Located in the North Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa, it has an area of 281 ...
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 ...
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 ...
city, capital of the estado ("state") of Baja California Sur, northwestern Mexico. Only 33 feet (10 m) above sea level on the La Paz Bay of the Gulf of California, the city has a hot, dry climate. The bay was ...
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, ...
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 ...
city, northwestern Michoacan estado ("state"), west-central Mexico. On the Lerma River, which forms the Michoacan-Guanajuato border, it is 314 miles (505 km) west-northwest of Mexico City and 119 miles (192 km) northwest of Morelia, the state capital. During the colonial ...
city, capital of Buenos Aires provincia (province), 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, ...
river in east-central Puerto Rico, rising on the western slope of Mount Santa (2,963 feet [903 m]), a peak of the Sierra de Cayey. Part of the stream is impounded by Lake Carite; the reservoir's outlet diverts waters for a ...
comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) and historical region of Spain coextensive with the north-central Spanish province of La Rioja (until 1980 called Logrono). As Logrono, the province was first organized in 1833. The autonomous community was established by ...
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 ...
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 ...
nee Gutermann 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
town, Atlantic seaport and capital of Charente-Maritime departement, Poitou-Charentes region, western France, situated on an inlet opposite Re Island. The town, which has straight, regular streets, a large park, and shady promenades on the sites of its old fortifications, grew ...
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 ...
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.
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. Settlement of the site began in 1668, when Robert Cavelier, Sieur ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
French philanthropist, educator, and founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, the first Roman Catholic congregation of male nonclerics devoted solely to schools, learning, and teaching.
capital of Coquimbo region, northern Chile, lying on a marine terrace overlooking Bahia (bay) de Coquimbo, just south of the Rio Elqui and east of Coquimbo city. Founded c. 1543 on the river's northern bank, it was named after the ...
capital of La Spezia province, Liguria region, northern Italy. The city, a major naval base, is located at the head of the Golfo della Spezia, southeast of Genoa. The site was inhabited in Roman times, but little is known of ...
poet and dramatist who, through his plays and his influential treatise on the art of tragedy, helped to effect the transition from native French drama to classical tragedy.
(French: The Shallows), archaeological site at the eastern end of Lake Neuchatel, Switz., the name of which has been extended to distinguish the Late Iron Age culture of European Celts. La Tene culture originated in the mid-5th century BC, when ...
painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then forgotten until well into the 20th century, when the identification of many formerly misattributed works established his modern reputation as a giant of French painting.
noble family that contributed numerous generals to France. The family's name was taken from a village in Poitou (modern La Trimouille). A Pierre de La Tremoille is recorded as early as the 11th century, but the family's ascendance dates from ...
town, Mauricie-Bois-Francs region, southern Quebec province, Canada, situated on the Saint-Maurice River. During the French regime, the site was occupied by a trading post of the Company of New France. The original lumbering settlement of 1908 was named for a ...
city, eastern El Salvador. It is located at the northern foot of Conchagua Volcano (about 4,100 feet [1,250 m]), on La Union Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Fonseca. The city's economic activity centres on a tortoiseshell industry, beach-resort ...
