A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Francois-Alexandre-Frederic, Duke de ... labour, division of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Francois-Alexandre-Frederic, Duke de educator and social reformer who founded the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Metiers at ... La Rochejaquelein, Henri du Vergier, Count de (from the article "Vendee, Wars of the") ...Bourdic, and Jean-Nicolas Stofflet were joined by royalist nobles such as Charles Bonchamps, Marquis de ... La Rochelle city, Atlantic seaport and capital of Charente-Maritime departement, Poitou-Charentes region, western France, situated on an ... [4 Related Articles] La Romana city and port, southeastern Dominican Republic, on the Caribbean Sea opposite Catalina Island. Founded near ... La Rue, Bubbles (from the article "Baird, Bil and Cora") A few of their creations became classic puppet figures: Bubbles La Rue, the marionette striptease ... La Rue, Pierre de composer in the Flemish, or Netherlandish, style that dominated Renaissance music, known for his religious ... La Sal Mountains (from the article "Colorado Plateau") ...sunken deserts, picturesque buttes and mesas, and rare verdant sections of valley. Elevations range from ... La Sale, Antoine de French writer chiefly remembered for his Petit Jehan de Saintre, a romance marked by a ... [1 Related Articles] La Salle city, Montreal region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on the south shore of Ile de Montreal ... La Salle city, La Salle county, north-central Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Illinois River, about 90 ... La Salle Street (from the article "Loop, the") ...the area enclosed by the Chicago River, Michigan Avenue, and Congress Parkway. The Loop includes ... La Salle University private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is operated by the ... La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur (lord) de French explorer in North America, who led an expedition down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers ... [11 Related Articles] La Salle, Saint Jean-Baptiste de French educator and founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (sometimes called the de ... [1 Related Articles] La Scala theatre in Milan, one of the principal opera houses of the world and the leading ... [10 Related Articles] La Serena city, northern Chile, lying on a marine terrace overlooking Bahia (bay) de Coquimbo, just south ... [1 Related Articles] La Sila (from the article "Calabria") ...of the Apennine Range by the Mount Pollino massif (7,375 feet [2,248 m]), which is ... La Silla Observatory (from the article "European Southern Observatory") ESO operates at three sites in Chile-the La Silla Observatory, located about 600 km (370 ... La Spezia city, Liguria region, northern Italy. The city, a major naval base, is located at the ... La Taille, Jean de poet and dramatist who, through his plays and his influential treatise on the art of ... La Tene (French: The Shallows), archaeological site at the eastern end of Lake Neuchatel, Switz., the name ... [1 Related Articles] La Tene culture (from the article "La Tene") (French: The Shallows), archaeological site at the eastern end of Lake Neuchatel, Switz., the name ... La Tour, Charles French colonist and fur trader who served as governor of Acadia (region of the North ... La Tour, Georges de painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then ... [2 Related Articles] La Tour, Maurice-Quentin de pastelist whose animated and sharply characterized portraits made him one of the most successful and ... [1 Related Articles] La Trappe, abbey of (from the article "Cistercian") ...The most noteworthy reform, because it resulted in a split observance that endures to this ... La Tremoille Family noble family that contributed numerous generals to France. The family's name was taken from a ... La Tremoille, Claude de (from the article "La Tremoille Family") Louis III's son Claude (1566-1604) at first fought in the campaigns against the Huguenots under ... La Tremoille, Francois de (from the article "La Tremoille Family") Because Louis's son had been killed in the Italian campaign at Marignan in 1515, his ... La Tremoille, Georges de powerful lord who exercised considerable influence over Charles VII of France. [4 Related Articles] La Tremoille, Gui de (from the article "La Tremoille Family") noble family that contributed numerous generals to France. The family's name was taken from a ... La Trinite town and port on the Caribbean island of Martinique, in the West Indies. Situated on ... La Tuque city, Mauricie-Bois-Francs region, southern Quebec province, Canada, situated on the Saint-Maurice River. During the French ... La Union city, eastern El Salvador. It is located at the northern foot of Conchagua Volcano (about ... La Valliere, Louise-Francoise de La Baume le Blanc, Duchess de mistress of King Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715) from 1661 to 1667. [1 Related Articles] La Varenne, Francois-Pierre de (from the article "grande cuisine") The greatest of French chefs-Francois Pierre de la Varenne in the 17th century, Marie-Antoine Careme ... La Vauguyon, Antoine de Quelen de Caussade, duke de (from the article "Louis XVI") ...of the dauphin Louis and his consort Maria Josepha of Saxony. At first known as ... La Vega city, west-central Dominican Republic. It was founded in 1495 by Bartolomeo Colombo at the foot ... La Venta ancient Olmec settlement, located near the border of modern Tabasco and Veracruz states, on the ... [5 Related Articles] La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, et de French-Canadian soldier, fur trader, and explorer whose exploits, little honoured during his lifetime, rank him ... [6 Related Articles] La Victoria distrito (district) of the Lima-Callao metropolitan area of Peru, south of downtown ... La Ville Nouvelle (from the article "Oran") ...occupying terraces above it that were formerly divided by a ravine (now built over). The ... La Vrilliere, Phelypeaux de (from the article "Mansart, Francois") In the same period, Phelypeaux de La Vrilliere, an officer of the crown, commissioned Mansart ... La-ang, Lake (from the article "Tibet") ...Lhasa lie two large lakes, Yang-cho-yung (Yamdrok) and P'u-mo (Pomo). In western Tibet two adjoining ... Laarmans (from the article "Elsschot, Willem") ...himself to his business career and ceased writing until the 1930s. He published Kaas ("Cheese") ... Laatste Nieuws, Het daily newspaper published in Brussels. The largest daily in Belgium, it was founded in 1888 ... Laayoune town, northern Western Sahara, 8 miles (13 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, situated in ... Labadie, Jean de French theologian, a Protestant convert from Roman Catholicism who founded the Labadists, a Pietist community. Labadists (from the article "Labadie, Jean de") French theologian, a Protestant convert from Roman Catholicism who founded the Labadists, a Pietist community. Laban (from the article "Jacob") ...lands and numerous offspring that would prove to be the blessing of the entire Earth. ... Laban, Rudolf dance theorist and teacher whose studies of human motion provided the intellectual foundations for the ... [5 Related Articles] Laband, Paul (from the article "agency") ...development of this branch of the law. A particularly important distinction in the European law ... labanotation system of recording human movement, originated by the Hungarian-born dance theorist Rudolf Laban. [3 Related Articles] Labarnas I early king of the Hittite Old Kingdom in Anatolia (reigned c. 1680-c. 1650 BC). Though ... [2 Related Articles] labarum sacred military standard of the Christian Roman emperors, first used by Constantine I in the ... Labasa (from the article "Fiji") ...of Suva that experienced rapid growth in the late 20th and early 21st centuries; and ... Labashi-Marduk (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...general who undertook a campaign in 557 into the "rough" Cilician land, which may have ... Labat, Jean-Baptiste (from the article "Guadeloupe") ...in successive attempts to colonize the islands, to the authority of the French crown. It ... Labe town, west-central Guinea. Located on the Fouta Djallon plateau (at 3,445 feet [1,050 m]) near ... [1 Related Articles] Labe, Louise French poet, the daughter of a rope maker (cordier). [1 Related Articles] labeling (from the article "consumer advocacy") Labeling can be used either to inform or to deceive the consumer, and manufacturers, in ... labeling theory (from the article "criminology") In contrast, labeling theory portrays criminality as a product of society's reaction to the individual. ... labelled graph (from the article "combinatorics") A graph G is labelled when the various upsilon vertices are distinguished by such names ... labellum (from the article "mimicry") ...fly orchid, bee orchid, and spider orchid, carries the deception further, actually mimicking the insects ... Labelye, Charles (from the article "bridge") ...consider the most beautiful arch bridge in the British Isles-the Pontypridd Bridge (1750), over the ... labeo any of numerous species of African and Asian river fishes belonging to the genus Labeo ... Labeo, Marcus Antistius Roman jurist who was the greatest figure in imperial jurisprudence before the time of the ... Labeo, Pacuvius (from the article "Labeo, Marcus Antistius") Labeo came from a plebeian family of Samnite origin. His father, the jurist Pacuvius Labeo, ... Laberge, Albert (from the article "Canadian literature") ...very much in tune with the predominant agriculturalist ideology. However, Quebec authors such as Rodolphe ... Laberge, Marie (from the article "Canadian literature") ...soif (1978; The Fairies Are Thirsty) and Marchessault's La Saga des poules mouillees (1981; Laberius, Decimus Roman knight with a caustic wit who was one of the two leading writers of ... [1 Related Articles] labi (from the article "Gbaya") ...by the French colonizers. Clans were the primary identity group within which marriage, religious ceremonies, ... labia majora (from the article "reproductive system, human") The labia majora are two marked folds of skin that extend from the mons pubis ... labia minora (from the article "reproductive system, human") ...tissue and sweat glands. They correspond to the scrotum in the male and contain tissue ... labial consonant (from the article "Romance languages") ...under the same influence-e.g., tara from terram 'earth'; si 'and' from sic 'thus'; cer from ... labial palp (from the article "gastropod") ...as Strombus the eyes are elevated onto an accessory stalk. Prosobranchs have contractile (not invaginable) ... labial stop (from the article "Indo-European languages") Correspondences pointing to the voiced labial stop b are rare, leading some scholars to deny ... labial vowel harmony (from the article "Altaic languages") Labial (rounding) vowel harmony is a later development and differs in Turkic and Mongolian. In ... Labiche, Eugene-Marin comic playwright who wrote many of the most popular and amusing light comedies of the ... [1 Related Articles] Labid (from the article "Mu'allaqat, Al-") ...the Mu'allaqat present another puzzle. The list usually accepted as standard was recorded by Ibn ... Labidognatha (from the article "spider") ...respiratory organs, anterior book lungs and posterior tracheae; spinnerets at posterior end of abdomen; 4 ... Labienus, Quintus (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...when he was assassinated in 44 BC. The duty of following through on Caesar's project ... labile cell (from the article "human disease") Regeneration is the production of new cells exactly like those destroyed. Of the three categories ... lability (from the article "coordination compound") In considering the mechanisms of substitution (exchange) reactions, Canadian-born American chemist Henry Taube distinguished between ... Labinsk city and administrative centre of Labinsk rayon (sector), Krasnodar kray (region), western Russia. Labinsk lies ... labiovelar stop (from the article "Italic languages") The development of the Indo-European labiovelar stop kw is more complex. (A ... labium (from the article "insect") ...maxillae, each consisting of a bladelike lacinia, a hoodlike galea, and a segmented palp bearing ... Lablache, Luigi Italian operatic bass admired for his musicianship and acting. [1 Related Articles] Labonne, Eirik (from the article "Morocco") ...Nazis. This caused rioting in Fes and elsewhere in which some 30 or more demonstrators ... Labor and Aid Society (from the article "Gibbons, Abigail Hopper") ...Women's Prison Association, of which she became president, and with the Hopper Home, and over ... Labor Day in the United States and Canada, holiday (first Monday in September) honouring workers and recognizing ... Labor Statistics, Bureau of (from the article "transportation economics") According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 1989 the typical household spent ... laboratory (from the article "analysis") A summary, though not comprehensive, of the common laboratory measurements that can be performed to ... laboratory diagnosis (from the article "diagnosis") Laboratory tests can be valuable aids in making a diagnosis, but, as screening tools for ... Laboratory Schools of the University of Iowa elementary and secondary schools founded in Iowa City in 1916 to experiment with curriculum development ... Labori, Fernand-Gustave-Gaston French lawyer who served as defense counsel in the prosecution of Alfred Dreyfus for treason. Laborio, Pedro (from the article "Latin American art") ...sculpture. In Santafe de Bogota, which in 1717 became the capital of an independent Viceroyalty ... Laborit, Henri Marie French neurologist and discoverer of some of the earliest known tranquilizing drugs, including chlorpromazine (b. ... Labouchere, Henry Du Pre British politician, publicist, and noted wit who gained journalistic fame with his dispatches from Paris ... [1 Related Articles] Laboulaye, Edouard de (from the article "Liberty, Statue of") A French historian, Edouard de Laboulaye, made the proposal for the statue. Funds were contributed ... Laboulbeniales an order of fungi in the class Laboulbeniomycetes (phylum Ascomycota, kingdom Fungi) that includes more ... [1 Related Articles] Laboulbeniomycetes (from the article "fungus") ...in subclass Mycocaliciomycetidae; examples of genera include Mycocalicium, Chaenothecopsis, Stenocybe, and Sphinctrina.Class LaboulbeniomycetesPrimarily parasitic on ... labour (from the article "labour") in human physiology, the physical activity experienced by the mother during parturition (q.v.), or childbirth.ILLUSTRATIONsequential ... labour in economics, the general body of wage earners. It is in this sense, for example, ... [31 Related Articles] Labour and Socialist International organization in existence from 1923 until the advent of World War II that defined itself ... [1 Related Articles] labour arbitration (from the article "labour economics") Another way of regulating rates of pay is a by-product of arbitration systems set up ... Labour Code (from the article "Honduras") ...economic policies since the mid-20th century. In 1954 striking banana workers led the trade union ... Labour Code (from the article "Soviet law") Soviet law recognized three distinct categories of employees: workers for state enterprises, employees of collective ... Labour Code for Overseas Territories (from the article "labour law") ...of many states that were formerly British dependencies and remains in force subject to modifications ... labour combination (from the article "organized labour") ...the one form of organization and the emergence of the other. Examples of the trade-union ... Labour Court (from the article "Ireland") ...Wages and employment conditions are normally subject to free collective bargaining, though industrial disputes may ... labour economics study of the labour force as an element in the process of production. The labour ... [13 Related Articles] Labour Group (from the article "Russia") ...strata that wished to go beyond the October Manifesto to a full constitutional monarchy on ... labour law the varied body of law applied to such matters as employment, remuneration, conditions of work, ... [13 Related Articles] labour migration (from the article "Dependent States") American Samoa experienced labour shortages as U.S. nationals traveled to the U.S. for job opportunities ... labour movement (from the article "Coalition of Labor Union Women") organization of women trade unionists representing more than 60 American and international labour unions. Industrial ... labour pain (from the article "parturition") Early in labour, uterine contractions, or labour pains, occur at intervals of 20 to 30 ... Labour Party (from the article "Argentina") Peron campaigned for the presidency in the elections of 1946. He organized the Labour Party, ... Labour Party (from the article "Fiji") In 1987, however, the Indian-dominated National Federation Party joined in coalition with the new Labour ... Labour Party (from the article "Malta") On July 6, 2005, the Maltese parliament unanimously ratified the European Union constitution. The opposition ... Labour Party (from the article "South Africa") ...and separate school systems for Afrikaans- and English-speaking whites. The June 1924 election propelled Hertzog ... Labour Party British political party whose historic links with trade unions have led it to promote an ... [45 Related Articles] Labour Party (from the article "Norway") Compared with the national election in 2005, the local elections held in the autumn showed ... Labour Party main party of the left in the Republic of Ireland. 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