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Lake Geneva: resort city, Walworth county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the northeastern shore of Lake Geneva (Geneva Lake) at its outlet, the White River, about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Milwaukee. It was settled in 1836 and was named ...
Lake Havasu City: city, Mohave county, western Arizona, U.S., in the Chemhuevi Valley along the Colorado River, west of the Mohave Mountains. A planned community, Lake Havasu City was founded in 1964 and promoted by the industrialist Robert P. McCulloch as the focal ...
lake herring: any of several whitefish (q.v.) species.
Lake Louise: unincorporated place, southwestern Alberta, Canada, on the Bow River, in Banff National Park, immediately northeast of the icy, blue-green lake of the same name, which is a renowned beauty spot. Originally settled in 1884 as a Canadian Pacific Railway construction ...
Lake Nicaragua shark: species of shark in the family Carcharhinidae. See carcharhinid.
Lake Oswego: city, Clackamas county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Willamette River (and its western extension, 405-acre [164-hectare] Oswego Lake), just south of Portland. Ruins of the Willamette Iron Company's Oswego blast furnace (1867-93) recall the city's early iron industry based on ...
Lake Placid: village in North Elba town (township), Essex county, northeastern New York, U.S. It lies on Mirror Lake and Lake Placid, at the foot of Whiteface Mountain (4,867 feet [1,483 metres]), in the Adirondack Mountains. The site was settled in 1800 ...
Lake poet: any of the English poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the English Lake District of Cumberland and Westmorland (now Cumbria) at the beginning of the 19th century. They were first described derogatorily as the ...
Lake Superior Provincial Park: park, central Ontario, Canada, on the eastern shore of Lake Superior. Established in 1944 to preserve the rugged shoreline and surrounding region of pink granitic hills, it has an area of 595 square miles (1,540 square km). Among the park's ...
lake trout: (Salvelinus namaycush), large, voracious char, family Salmonidae, widely distributed from northern Canada and Alaska, U.S., south to New England and the Great Lakes basin. It is usually found in deep, cool lakes. The fish are greenish gray and covered with ...
Lake Wales: city, Polk county, central Florida, U.S., 55 miles (90 km) east of Tampa. The site was surveyed in 1879 by Sidney Wailes, and the lake (originally called Watts) was renamed for him. The town was founded in 1911, and its ...
Lake Washington Ship Canal: waterway, Seattle, Washington, U.S., 8 miles (13 km) long, with a minimum depth of 28.5 feet (8.7 metres), connecting Shilshole Bay (Puget Sound) with Lake Washington, passing through Lake Union, Portage Bay, and Union Bay. The canal was constructed between ...
Lake, Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount: British general, most prominent for his role in suppressing the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and for his campaigns in India from 1801 to 1806 against Daulat Rao Sindhia of Gwalior and Jaswant Rao Holkar, leaders of the Maratha confederacy.
Lake, Simon: U.S. inventor who built the "Argonaut," the first submarine to operate extensively in the open sea.
Lakehurst: borough (town), Ocean county, eastern New Jersey, U.S., 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the community of Toms River. It is surrounded by fish and wildlife management areas, and small Lake Horican lies within its boundaries. Originally known as Manchester, ...
Lakeland: city, Polk county, central Florida, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Tampa and some 10 miles (16 km) west of Winter Haven. It was founded in 1883 by Kentucky businessman Abraham Munn, who purchased a large plot of ...
Lakeland terrier: breed of dog originally used to hunt and kill foxes in the Lake District of England. Formerly known as the Patterdale terrier, the Lakeland terrier was bred for gameness when in pursuit of foxes and otters. Somewhat like a small ...
Lakes Entrance: port city, at the entrance of a channel cut in 1889 to the Gippsland Lakes in southeastern Victoria, Australia. It is a resort centre for the lakes region embracing the Lakes National Park and the Ninety Mile Beach and is ...
Lakeview: town, seat (1876) of Lake county, southern Oregon, U.S., north of Goose Lake. It was founded in 1876 along Antelope Creek, on a former cattle ranch that contained several alkali lakes. Earlier settlement had been discouraged by Indian attacks that ...
Lakewood: city, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on Lake Erie, just west of Cleveland. Surveyed in 1806, it was known as Rockport (1819) and East Rockport (1871) until renamed in 1889 for its wooded lakeshore. It is mainly residential with some ...
Lakewood: township, Ocean county, eastern New Jersey, U.S., on the South Branch Metedeconk River, in a pine forest and lake region. The township includes the communities of Lakewood, Leisure Village, and Leisure Village East. Settled by the Dutch and English in ...
Lakhimpur: city, north-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, on the North-Eastern Railway. It is just northwest of Kheri town, with which it is almost contiguous. The surrounding region is known for its extensive tea gardens; rice, jute, and other crops are ...
Lakhmid Dynasty: pre-Islamic Bedouin tribal dynasty that aided Sasanian Iran in its struggle with the Byzantine Empire and fostered early Arabic poetry.
Laki: volcanic fissure and mountain in southern Iceland, just southwest of Vatna Glacier (Vatnajokull), the island's largest ice field. Mount Laki was the only conspicuous topographic feature in the path of the developing fissure eruption that is now known as Lakagigar ...
Lakshadweep: union territory of India. It is a group of some two dozen islands with a total land area of 12 square miles (32 square kilometres) scattered over 30,000 square miles of the Arabian Sea. The easternmost island lies about 185 ...
Laksmi: Hindu goddess of wealth and good fortune. The wife of Vishnu, she is said to have taken different forms in order to be with him in each of his incarnations. Thus when he was the dwarf Vamana, she appeared from ...
Lala: a people of eastern Nigeria. The Lala belong to a small cluster of linguistically related peoples in geographic proximity, the Ga-Anda, Yungur, Handa, and Mboi living north of the Benue River.
Lalande, Jerome: French astronomer whose tables of the planetary positions were considered the best available until the end of the 18th century.
Lalibela: religious and pilgrimage centre, north-central Ethiopia. Roha, capital of the Zague dynasty for about 300 years, was renamed for its most distinguished monarch, Lalibela (late 12th-early 13th century), who according to tradition built the 11 monolithic churches for which the ...
Lalique, Rene: French jeweler during the early 20th century, whose designs in jewelry and glass contributed significantly to the Art Nouveau movement at the turn of the century.
Lalitavistara: legendary life of the Gautama Buddha, written in a combination of Sanskrit and a vernacular. The text apparently is a recasting, in the Mahayana ("Greater Vehicle") tradition, of a work from the Sarvastivada school. Like the Mahavastu ...
Lalitpur: town, central Nepal, in the Kathmandu Valley near the Baghmati River, about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Kathmandu. According to Nepalese chronicles, Lalitpur was founded by King Varadeva in AD 299. Some scholars believe that it was the capital ...
Lalitpur: town, southwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, situated 56 miles (90 km) south of Jhansi town. According to legend it was founded by a southern Indian king who named it after his wife, Lalita. It is built on raised river ...
Lally, Thomas-Arthur, comte de: (count of) French general who was executed for capitulating to the British in India during the Seven Years' War (1756-63).
Lalo, Edouard: French composer, best known for his Symphonie espagnole and notable for the clarity of his orchestration.
Lalor, Mother Teresa: Irish-born American religious leader who helped found and became superior of the first order of Visitation nuns in the United States.
Lalor, Peter: Irish-born Australian leader of the 1854 gold miners' uprising at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, the most celebrated rebellion in Australian history; subsequently he became a politician.
lama: in Tibetan Buddhism, a spiritual leader. Originally used to translate "guru" (Sanskrit: "venerable one") and thus applicable only to heads of monasteries or great teachers, the term is now extended out of courtesy to any respected monk or priest. The ...
Lamar: city, seat of Barton county, southwest Missouri, U.S. It lies on a branch of the Spring River, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Independence. Founded in 1856 and named for Mirabeau B. Lamar, president of the Texas Republic (1838-41), ...
Lamar University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Beaumont, Texas, U.S. It is a member of the Texas State University System, as are its former branch campuses: Lamar Institute of Technology, Lamar State College at Orange, and Lamar State College at ...
Lamar, Joseph Rucker: associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1911-16).
Lamar, Lucius Q.C.: American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861-65) and later became an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte: second president of the Republic of Texas.
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de: pioneer French biologist who is best known for his idea that acquired traits are inheritable, an idea known as Lamarckism, which is controverted by Darwinian theory.
Lamarr, Hedy: glamorous Austrian film star who was often typecast as a provocative femme fatale. Years after her screen career ended, she achieved recognition as a noted inventor of a radio communications device.
Lamartine, Alphonse de: French poet and statesman whose lyrics in Meditations poetiques (1820) established him as one of the key figures in the Romantic movement in French literature.
Lamashtu: in Mesopotamian religion, the most terrible of all female demons, daughter of the sky god Anu (Sumerian: An). A wicked female who slew children and drank the blood of men and ate their flesh, she had seven names and was ...
Lamaze: method of childbirth that involves psychological and physical preparation by the mother for the purpose of suppressing pain and facilitating delivery without drugs.
lamb: live sheep before the age of one year, and the flesh of such animals. Mutton refers to the flesh of the mature ram or ewe at least one year old; the meat of sheep between 12 and 20 months old ...
lamb's quarters: (species Chenopodium album), an annual weed of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae) of wide distribution in Asia, Europe, and North America. It can grow up to 3 m (about 10 feet) but is usually seen as a smaller plant. The blue-green ...
Lamb, Charles: English essayist and critic, best-known for his series of miscellaneous "Essays of Elia," but also among the greatest of English letter writers, and a perceptive literary critic.