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Kirby's Avalanche | Version differences | characters to appeal to Western audiences.
As a game released later in the SNES's life cycle, this game has bright colors and advanced graphics for its time. The sound consists of remixed tracks from Kirby's Adventure and Kirby's Dream Course, with only one original track from the Puyo Puyo game itself (the panic music... |
Julius Berger (cellist) | Career | Julius Berger (cellist) Career Born in Augsburg, Berger studied at the Musikhochschule München with Walter Reichardt and Fritz Kiskalt, then at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Antonio Janigro, before becoming his assistant from 1979 to 1982. He studied further at the University of Cincinnati with Zara Nelsova, and in a ... |
Lenny Breau | Technique and guitars | point where I transcend the instrument. A lot of the stuff I play on the seven-string guitar is supposed to be technically impossible, but I spent over twenty years figuring it out. I play the guitar like a piano, there's always two things going on at once. I'm thinking melody, but I'm also thinking of a background. I ... |
Hurts | 2005–2008: Beginnings & 2009–2012: Happiness | on the band's future. They recorded a mournful ballad called "Unspoken" together and they immediately realised that this was the sound that they wanted to develop as a duo. After informing the rest of the band that it was finished, they went on a short break to Verona in Italy, where they claim they discovered a musica... |
L. W. Boynton | Later life and death | as a lawyer first in New York state starting in 1905 even though he had already passed the New York Bar exam in 1900, then in Florida for four years starting in 1926, and finally in North Carolina starting in 1929. Boynton died on June 19, 1937, at the home of his parents in Whitney Point, New York. He was buried back ... |
Luttre | From the Roman times till the Belgian independence | It also meant that people from the neighbouring villages were coming to Luttre for alcohol, wine or beer. We can also imagine a number of inns and pubs for travellers as the Roman highway was quite near.
The area suffered a lot because of continuous wars throughout the centuries. Nevertheless, a traveller in 1615 going... |
Lorraine O'Grady | "Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity" (essay) | more to the other than to the self" O’Grady discusses the struggle in depicting race, identity and proper representation as a Black female artist, drawing examples from her own artwork: the politics of skin color, hair texture and facial features. In privileging a facial feature that looks a particular way over another... |
Kia Stevens | Return to TNA (2015–2016) | lost to Jessie Godderz.
On January 5, 2016, during Impact Wrestling's debut on Pop, Kong allied with The Dollhouse (Jade, Marti Bell and Rebel) and became their new leader after she attacked The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) and Gail Kim, once again turning heel in the process. On February 5, TNA anno... |
Kristina Schröder | Political career | committee investigating the involvement of German intelligence services in the Iraq War.
On November 30, 2009, Schröder was appointed Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the cabinet of Angela Merkel. During her time in office, the government approved a bill to provide parents of 1- ... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | President of the Convention | in creating procedures for their enforcement, and the frantic pace of unfolding political events left them behind.
Opponents of the Jacobins saw the Ventôse Decrees as a cynical ploy to appeal to the militant extreme left. Sincere or not, Saint-Just made impassioned arguments for them. One week after their adoption, he... |
Mai Shiranui | Fighting games | Andy the error of his ways. In The King of Fighters '99, the teams were expanded to four members, and so Mai goes to the Fatal Fury Team composed of Terry, Andy and Joe, being finally able to join the tournament in the same team as Andy. In the following tournament in The King of Fighters 2000, however, Mai is asked to... |
Lightning | Cloud to cloud (CC) and intra-cloud (IC) & Lightning strike | be observed at great distances at night as so-called "sheet lightning". In such instances, the observer may see only a flash of light without hearing any thunder.
Another term used for cloud–cloud or cloud–cloud–ground lightning is "Anvil Crawler", due to the habit of charge, typically originating beneath or within ... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Early revolutionary career | lieutenant-colonel. At local meetings he moved attendees with his patriotic zeal and flair: in one much-repeated story, Saint-Just brought the town council to tears by thrusting his hand into the flame of a burning anti-revolutionary pamphlet, swearing his devotion to the Republic. He had powerful allies when he sought... |
M. Velu Kumar | Career | the United National Front for Good Governance's candidates in Kandy District at the 2015 parliamentary election. He was elected and entered Parliament. |
Lauren Carpenter | Relationship with Brad Willis | not even tell her father as he had become fond of Beth, while they were lodging together. When Lauren missed her period, she became worried that she was pregnant with Brad's child. She hid her fear, but Lou discovered her secret when he spotted a pregnancy test in the cupboard. Lauren confessed the truth to Lou, who wa... |
Kia Stevens | Return to the independent circuit and Japan (2012–2016) | Amy Lee in consecutive matches.
On April 6, 2013, Kong returned to Shimmer at the Volume 53 internet pay-per-view, defeating Mia Yim in the opening match. The Amazing Kong returned to Shine event on July 12, 2013 in a losing effort to Ivelisse in a four way to qualify for Shine Championship tournament among the partici... |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | New Zealand & Norway & Philippines | Eats was later launched in New Zealand that year. Norway Uber began operations in Norway in 2014.
According to the Norwegian Professional Transport Act, a taxi license is required to charge for passenger transport "addressed to general public on public space" In 2015, an Uber driver was acquitted because the court foun... |
Lake Shetek State Park | Lake Shetek Massacre | pacifist Lakota and eventually reunited with their families.
Two months after the attack a military burial detail interred the victims in a temporary mass grave near the slough. A year later the remains were reburied closer to the lake, where they still lie. White settlers largely abandoned the war zone for the next ... |
Little Man, What Now? (novel) | Plot synopsis | into Pinneberg's former colleague's summer house 40 km east of Berlin. Although Pinneberg has been unemployed for 14 months, his wife forbids him to steal coal. Instead, she darns socks and does dressmaking for local families to earn a bit. One of Pinneberg's journeys to Berlin ends in a fiasco, as Pinneberg, with h... |
Mai Shiranui | Guest and cameo appearances | Korean MMORPG Black Desert Online to promote it in Japan. In 2016, Mai was licensed as a bonus hero to at that time most popular video game in the world: a MOBA Wangzhe Rongyao, where she is a Mage class character additionally starring in its official tie-in webcomic. She was further included in collaboration events in... |
Lisson Grove | Arts and antiques | Nicholas Logsdail, championed the new British sculptors of the 1980s and continues to show new and established artists, with expanded premises further along Bell Street. Mark Jason Gallery at No 1 Bell Street specialises in promoting contemporary British and international artists. At No 17, Bell Street Vintage Wireless... |
Lapland New Forest | Venue | to the event were reduced to tears, especially when Santa was caught smoking. Violence began flaring up between visitors and workers, including an elf who was slapped and yelled at by a mother who complained about the event, two fathers brawling in the Gingerbread house, Santa being punched in the face by a father who ... |
Jedi Search | Summary | Kyp Durron seek for an escape.
Simultaneously, Luke Skywalker embarks on his search for talented Force-sensitives whom he can mold into Jedi within his new Jedi Praxeum. Lando Calrissian, along with C-3PO and R2-D2, aid Luke with this search. In order to do so, he uses a device that supposedly can detect one's affinity... |
Madhavan Swaminathan | Education & Career | Madhavan Swaminathan Education He received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli), India in 1985 and Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctorate of Philosophy (P... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Last days & Thermidor | to be redeemable, or at least useful, until he delivered his uncompromising public defence of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794). Thermidor On the dais, Saint-Just declared the absolute necessity of current law, and conspiring deputies buzzed angrily as he spoke. Finally, several of them physically shoved him aw... |
Lesotho women's national under-17 football team | Background and development | in the society that occasionally allows for female specific human rights abuses. When quality female football players are developed, they tend to leave for greater opportunities abroad. Continent wide, funding is also an issue, with most development money coming from FIFA, not the national football association. Future... |
Lorraine O'Grady | Pop culture references | "Marrow" from the Hopelessness album. |
Liberty Colored High School | History | Liberty Colored High School History The first school for African-American students in the Liberty area began in 1899 at the New Hope Baptist Church. A year later, a wooden school was built next to the church. Around 1922, a three-teacher Rosenwald school was built on the site of the current building through funding fro... |
MG XPower SV | History & Variants | stopped due to lack of sales. Most were sold to private owners, with the final ones being sold to customers in the beginning of 2008.
Most were sold in Europe and Asia, with only one model sold in America, a supercharged XP model. Variants The base MG XPower SV was powered by a 4.6 L Ford Modular V8 which produced 320... |
Lilo Rasch-Naegele | Life | Lilo Rasch-Naegele Life Liselotte Margarete Naegele was the daughter of Karl Alfons Naegele, a painter from Stuttgart who worked in a studio on Marienstrasse. By the time her father died in 1927, twelve-year-old Liselotte was drawing advertisements for the display windows of neighbouring shops.
From 1922 to 1930 Naegel... |
MS Island Escape | History | Gala.
In February 2016, Ocean Gala was offered as a floating accommodation facility through the website Floating Accommodations, managed by US Shipmanagers, a Florida company and it was announced that the Swedish Migration Agency have signed a contract to use the Ocean Gala as an asylum hotel for 1790 asylum seekers. I... |
Maëlle Guilbaud | Career | Guilbaud became a trainer at the School of Sablais Water Sports. Her first professional event was the PWA World Cup held in Ulsan, Korea that same year. She won the bronze medal in the IFCA Slalom World Championships held off the coast of the island of Brač in Croatia and she finished the year ranked 3rd in France and ... |
MS Saga: A New Dawn | Dark Alliance | an old mining complex in Africa, he has led several attacks against surrounding cities, including the trading hub El Dar Samnia. There is no foe his Xamel has not bested.
Kowloon - Also known as 'Mr. K'. Kowloon is an arms dealer and a general in the Dark Alliance. He's infamous in Tohai as a mafia-like businessman who... |
Magwayen Creative Scholars' Guild | The Dramatics Ensemble & Performing Arts Group | darker dramas Casa Ligaya and Trajedia La Vida.
On September 20, 2007, Magwayen staged its boldest and most daring play to date, X (Eks) at the Tangahalang Manileño of the PLM. The said stage production is composed of ten short plays, a conglomeration of different artistic visions of various award-winning and talented ... |
Ludwik de Laveaux (officer) | null | the cemetery of South Ealing. |
International School of Port of Spain | Finances | Kdg.-grade 5: $19,166; grades 6-8: $19,510; and grade 9-12: $19,858. (All fees are quoted in US dollars.) |
Longwood University | Tuition and fees & Campus | W. Taylor Reveley IV called "unsustainable." In 2015, the Longwood Board of Visitors again approved a tuition and fee increase below 3 percent. Tuition and fees for the 2014-15 academic year was $11,580 for in-state students and $23,350 for out-of-state students. Campus Longwood's main campus comprises approximately 15... |
Longwood University | Student life & Greek life & Secret societies | the centerpiece of the path, the nearly half-mile long High Bridge is just four miles from campus and easily accessible by bicycle or foot. The Appomattox River, a popular canoeing destination, also runs a short walk from campus. The Appalachian Trail is a short drive west, and there are several golf courses nearby. Gr... |
Kingston Granites | History | Kingston Granites History The Kingston Granites Rugby Football club began play in 1898 as a member of the then three team Quebec Rugby Football Union. After all three teams were tied with 2-2 records, the Granites were given the bye while Ottawa College defeated the Montreal Football Club in a playoff game. Before the ... |
Longitudinal Study of Young People in England | History | Longitudinal Study of Young People in England History The study combines data from a wide range of different sources such as the National Pupil Database (NPD) or the 2001 Census. So far, six waves of the study have been conducted, the sixth edition being released in August 2009. The first four waves of the study were u... |
Josef and Ctirad Mašín | Through the curtain | (1939–2006), a true crime author and former member of the Volkspolizei states that according to the final report there were only 5,000 policemen involved in the manhunt, plus troops of the Secret Service plus troops of the Red Army. Their number does not appear in the police files. Barbara Mašín assumes that the number... |
Jēran | Anglo-Saxon runes & Younger Futhark | its epigraphical variant ᛡ, and its manuscript variant ᛄ (which does appear once epigraphically, on the Brandon Pin). Manuscripts also record an ior rune with the shape of ᛡ, but its authenticity is questionable. Younger Futhark During the 7th and 8th centuries, the initial j in *jara was lost in Old Norse, which also ... |
MG XPower SV | XPower WR | between £75,000 and £90,000, the new model had a supercharged engine rated at 540 bhp (403 kW; 547 PS), and seven cars were said to have already been sold. Riley's use of the "MG" trademark resulted in a legal dispute with Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation, which had also acquired assets of the defunct MG Rover Gr... |
MHD (rapper) | Legal issues | the owner of a car that was used by suspects. He was put on custody by French police on 15 January 2019; two days later, he was indicted and charged with voluntary manslaughter. Following his arrest, some of his scheduled concerts were postponed indefinitely, while several fellow rappers, including Naza and Black M, vo... |
Joseph M. X. de Sévin | 1915 & 1916–1917 | 1915, de Sévin reported to Pau for pilot's training. On 19 October 1915, he was awarded Pilot's Brevet No. 1804. On 11 November, he was assigned to Escadrille N12 to pilot both single-seat and two-seat Nieuports. He was confirmed in his commission on 27 December 1915. 1916–1917 He would not score his first aerial victo... |
Lesional demyelinations of the central nervous system | Immune mediated attack | T cells recognize myelin as foreign and attack it, explaining why these cells are also called "autoreactive lymphocytes". Demyelination, further inflammation and axonal transection are the result.
The attack of myelin starts inflammatory processes, which triggers other immune cells and the release of soluble factors li... |
Love of Life | Broadcast history | other soaps. For example, in Indianapolis, then-CBS affiliate WISH-TV aired Love of Life at 3:30 (Eastern) while airing One Day at a Time reruns at 4:00. Many West Coast stations, such as KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles, did this, as well, keeping Love of Life in tandem with the other soaps by airing it at 2:30 Pac... |
Lubin Manufacturing Company | History & Decline | billed as “Babe Hardy.” He was most often cast as “the heavy” or the villain and had roles in comedy shorts, appearing in some 50 short one-reeler films at Lubin by 1915. Decline However, the company's downfall came even faster than its meteoric rise. Lubin was not as adroit as its competitors in shifting to quality fe... |
Krušik Valjevo | Involvement with Yemeni war & Incidents | The news of his arrest had not been made public until an early October edition of NIN reported he had been taken into custody. He was released from jail and placed under house arrest on October 14. Incidents On 13 December 2013, three employees were hurt during testing of the engine and initial filling of the anti-bump... |
MA-31 | MA-31 history | missile - the actual threat the drone was intended to simulate - as an interim solution pending the development of an all-new design. In 1995, a contract was awarded to McDonnell Douglas for evaluation of the Kh-31 in the Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target role.
An initial small batch of missiles were acquired, being deliv... |
Madhavan Swaminathan | Career | is the author of more than 450 refereed technical publications, holds 29 patents, also primary author and co-editor of three books (Power Integrity Modeling and Design for Semiconductors and Systems, Prentice Hall, 2007; Introduction to System on Package, McGraw Hill, 2008; and Design and Modeling for 3D ICs and Interp... |
Lubin Manufacturing Company | History | William Duncan and Selig Polyscope Company took over the Prescott facility.
Some of the pioneer actors who worked for Lubin included Romaine Fielding, Harry Myers, Florence Hackett, Alan Hale, Arthur V. Johnson, Lottie Briscoe, Florence Lawrence, Ethel Clayton, Gladys Brockwell, Edwin Carewe, Ormi Hawley, Rosemary Theb... |
Lobophyllia corymbosa | Status | is, however, subject to the reef degradation that threatens all corals, although it seems to be more resilient than many other species. It is collected for use in reef aquaria and in 2005, Indonesia, the chief exporter, had a quota of 12,800 live pieces. |
Lockheed Senior Prom | Design and development | Lockheed Senior Prom Design and development Following the success of the test programme for the Lockheed Have Blue stealth technology demonstrator aircraft, the United States Air Force awarded a contract to the Lockheed Advanced Development Projects division—the "Skunk Works"—for the development of an unmanned aerial v... |
Mai Shiranui | Other media, promotion and merchandise & Cultural impact | special edition of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy and small items related to the game, and a Neo Geo joystick controller for PlayStation consoles decorated with Mai-related imagery. Cultural impact Mai Shiranui (and other KOF characters) became especially popular among the young people in Hong Kong during the late 1990s... |
MS Saga: A New Dawn | Heroes & Dark Alliance | History in Turn A Gundam), and the one who establish the Unicorns. Through was half-retired, she has a great influence in the Unicorns, and has the right to use Unicorns' power in emergency.
Her house has stocked quite a number of mobile suits, parts and blueprints, including a Zaku, Qubeley, and even ZZ Gundam. Dark A... |
Mai Shiranui | Critical reception and popularity | of video games. Chilean publication CerUno ranked Mai as the sixth-most memorable heroine in their 2008 top-ten listing, In 2010, China's Mop.com included Mai on their list of ten strongest women in video games while Vietnamese website XãLuận.com included her among the five most famous heroines in gaming, and the Spani... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Organt | had shown a fascination with literature, and he wrote works of his own including a one-act play Arlequin Diogène. During his stay at the reformatory, he used his time to begin writing a lengthy poem. He published it anonymously more than two years later, in May 1789, at the very outbreak of the Revolution. The 21-year-... |
Knockout rat | Early methods & Zinc-finger and TALE nuclease technology | extensive breeding. ENU and cloning methods are simply inefficient for creating and mapping gene knockouts in rats for the creation of new models of human disease. Through 2007, the largest rat ENU mutagenesis project to date run by the Medical College of Wisconsin was able to produce only 9 knockout rat lines in a per... |
Magdalena Solís | Arrest and sentencing | were initially skeptical of the cult claims, but became suspicious following the disappearances of Guerrero and Martinez. On May 31, 1963, policemen and soldiers from Ciudad Victoria were deployed to Yerba Buena. Magdalena and Eleazar Solís were arrested on a farm in the town, in possession of a considerable amount of ... |
Lauren Carpenter | Matt's death and marriage to Brad | later views drone footage of Brad and Lauren kissing, which leads to a big confrontation in Lauren's backyard. The scenes formed the show's first three-hander episode. Gamblin stated that Brad wanted to be with Lauren, as he was no longer happy in his marriage. He added, "Oh, man, it's gonna be hard! Brad moves across ... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Arrest of the Dantonists & Last days | Robespierre during the events of Thermidor.
As the deliverer of Committee reports, Saint-Just served as the public face of the Terror, and later writers dubbed him the "Angel of Death". After the events of Germinal, Saint-Just intensified his control over the state-security apparatus. He created a new bureau of "genera... |
Lisp reader | Read table & Read macros | each character. Read macros Unlike most programming languages, Lisp supports parse-time execution of programs, called "read macros" or "reader macros". These are used to extend the syntax either in universal or program-specific ways. For example, the quoted form (quote x) operator can be abbreviated as 'x. The ' operat... |
Lindsay Barrett | Journalism and non-fiction | and was the co-founder, with Tom Kamara, of the Liberian newspaper The New Democrat. He was a correspondent throughout Africa for the news magazine West Africa for more than three decades, as well as working as a photo-journalist for a variety of publications. He has maintained weekly columns in several Nigerian newspa... |
Le pauvre matelot | Act 1 | were the sailor to return and find his wife married to his friend. The father-in-law disagrees with his daughter's views, as she would take the sailor back whether he returns poor or rich.
The friend returns to his shop, and after he leaves, the father-in-law states he thinks the friend and the wife would make a good c... |
London Wall | Roman wall | construction projects in Roman Britain. The completed wall, which had gateways, towers and defensive ditches, was built from Kentish ragstone, which was brought by barge from quarries near Maidstone. It was 2 mi (3.2 km) long enclosing an area of about 330 acres (130 ha). It was 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) to 3 m (9.8 ft) wide a... |
Lycée Jean-Zay | Postwar to present & Location and architecture | the school has also hosted an art exhibition. There is also a teacher-led culture and design workshop and a cinema club which participates in national and regional projects and competitions. Location and architecture Overlooking the town of Thiers, between the mountainous terrain of the Livradois (fr) and the Limagne p... |
MS Saga: A New Dawn | Heroes | destroy the Black Zaku to avenge his friends and benefactor. He always looks to the future and has a bright outlook, but this sometimes causes him to take action without thinking, which can get him into all kinds of trouble. His strong sense of justice means that he won't just leave people behind when they're in troubl... |
Lobophyllia corymbosa | Biology & Status | took place. This experiment showed that the polyps were not only able to recognise clones (even when they had been experimentally separated from them for years) but were also prepared to "help" them when they needed assistance. It is not clear if the transport of nutrients between the polyps is made by the transfer of ... |
Libbey High School | Fate of Libbey | Libbey High School Fate of Libbey Libbey High School had been rumored to be potentially closing since the 1980s, but was recommended to stay open by the school district each time the issue was brought up. In 1991, TPS decided to close two high schools that were to be chosen from a list of Libbey, DeVilbiss and Macomber... |
Mai Shiranui | Cultural impact | and other fan productions, as well as in unofficial Japanese adult films.
Mai Shiranui's character notably pioneered the concept of breast physics in video games. Kotaku's Patricia Hernandez wrote "one of Fatal Fury 2's biggest contributions to the medium was that it was the first game to introduce a character with bre... |
Lycée Jean-Zay | Postwar to present | of local industry, but also to the evolution of society, and in 1968 welcomed its first female students. The school was completely refurbished by the Regional Council between 1992 and 2000, and in 2013 the Regional Council had the building's woodwork renovated.
Since 2010, in partnership with the Regional Council, the ... |
Luis A. Berdiel Rivera | Early years and studies & Political career | Luis A. Berdiel Rivera Early years and studies Berdiel Rivera was born in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico on October 8, 1962. His parents were Miguel Berdiel and Paulina Rivera. He graduated from high school in 1981, with a certificate in vocational education in automobile repair and painting. He then received a Bachelor's degre... |
Henry Wyatt (courtier) | Allington Castle & Death | him there in 1527 to meet Wolsey on his return from the continent. Wyatt remained on good terms with Sir Thomas Boleyn, who resided at Hever Castle. The proximity (about 20 miles) accounts for the meeting in a family setting of Sir Henry's poet son Thomas, and Sir Thomas's daughter Anne, the future queen, and the poetr... |
Lao rebellion (1826–1828) | Aftermath | than 30 years later found only ruins in a jungle to show where the city had once been. The remaining Lao kingdoms of Champasak and Luang Prabang understandably came under stricter control and arms limitations, while the Khorat Plateau was formally annexed by Siam. Regional rivals Siam and Vietnam would come into increa... |
Lucia Joyce | Mental illness and later life & Legacy | James Joyce's Ulysses and other readings related to his life and works are read at Lucia Anna Joyce's Graveside. In 2018 on Bloomsday, "Letters to Lucia" a play written by Richard Rose and James Vollmar in which characters from Lucia's life, including Samuel Beckett, Kathleen Neel, Nora Barnacle/Joyce and Joyce himself... |
LanSchool | Technology & History | LanSchool Technology LanSchool products use a proprietary remote desktop protocol that communicates over a local area network via TCP and UDP. A console application is installed on the teacher's computer, which communicates peer-to-peer with a software agent running on the pupils' computers. The software is available ... |
Los Olivos, California | History | Parker and his wine were featured on the NBC daytime drama, Santa Barbara ( first episode of Season Two ) of James May and Oz Clarke's Big Wine Adventure. Episodes of The Bachelor were also filmed in Los Olivos.
In May 1986, Los Olivos was used as the location setting for the fictional town of "Mayberry" in the made-fo... |
Love of Life | Broadcast history | CBS had assumed production from the original packager, AHP, as it had with The Secret Storm.
CBS canceled its in-house soaps Love is a Many Splendored Thing and Where the Heart Is in 1973, and The Secret Storm in early 1974. Love of Life managed to escape cancellation due to a brief rise in the ratings in the mid-1970s... |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Thermidor | a few steps, then mounted again, to continue his discourse proudly... Motionless, unmoved, he seemed to defy everyone with his calm."
Saint-Just saved his dignity at the lectern but not his life. Rising in his support, Robespierre sputtered and lost his voice; his brother Augustin, Philippe Lebas, and other key allies ... |
Lucia Joyce | Legacy | of fiction fraudulently posing as biography."
Lucia Joyce is the protagonist of the "Round the Bend" chapter of Alan Moore's 2016 novel Jerusalem. Set at the Northampton clinic where she spent her final years, the chapter is written in the style of her father's Finnegans Wake. |
Litchfield, Quebec | History | Litchfield, Quebec History Litchfield Township, spelled "Licthfield" on the Gale and Duberger map of 1795, was officially created in 1834. It was probably named after Lichfield, an English town in Staffordshire, north of Birmingham. On November 20, 1846, the township was incorporated with Alfred Lancaster as its first ... |
Longwood University | Secret societies & Joan of Arc | considered bad luck to step on the CHI symbol.
Princeps was founded on seven principles of leadership and also keeps member identities secret until a revealing their senior year. The organization honors academically successful students each year by posting their symbol—a seven-pointed crown—on the residence hall doors ... |
Liu Yijun (guitarist) | 1996-2001: Solo career | Liu remained active as a guitar teacher. His first solo album, 1997's Walking in the Fog (Chinese: 雾中行集; pinyin: Wù Zhōng Xíng Jí), featured appearances from several of his students. The title track and "Dance" (舞) were featured on the compilation China Fire III, released in 1998. Liu released his second solo album, Re... |
Knockout rat | piggyBac (PB) DNA transposons & Sleeping beauty (SB) transposons | Beauty. Sleeping beauty (SB) transposons The sleeping beauty (SB) transposon is a derivative of the Tc1/mariner superfamily of DNA transposons prevalent among both vertebrate and invertebrate genomes. However, endogenous DNA transposons from this family are completely inactive in vertebrate genomes. An active Tc1/marin... |
Lloyd Church Lake | null | Lloyd Church Lake Lloyd Church Lake is a reservoir located south of the city of Wilburton, Oklahoma on a tributary of the Fourche Maline river. The lake is supported by an earthen dam and was constructed in 1964.
The lake has a normal capacity of 3,025 acre feet (3,731,000 m³), covers 154 acres (0.62 km²), surrounded b... |
Lake Shetek State Park | Geology | on the Altamont Moraine, a terminal moraine marking the farthest extent of an ice lobe during the Wisconsin glaciation. This most-recent glaciation deposited a very thick blanket of till over the area. A well just outside the park was drilled through 375 feet (114 m) of till without reaching bedrock.
Lake Shetek bega... |
Liston (square) | Rovigo & Verona & Ferrara | boundaries of the Church of Santa Giustina, demolished in 1809. Verona In Verona the liston is the wide sidewalk that borders the Piazza Bra on the west side, curving around the Arena. The piazza is a popular place for both tourists and local people to promenade. The liston is now used for outdoor seating by the many c... |
Koen Pijpers | null | Koen Pijpers Koen Pijpers ([ˈkun ˈpɛi̯pɛrs]; born on May 30, 1969 in Maassluis) is a Dutch retired field hockey player who represented the Dutch national team. |
Kiriwina | History | Kiriwina History Operation Chronicle was the name given to the landing of Allied forces on Kiriwina and Woodlark Island on June 30, 1943, during World War II. Following the landing U.S. Army Engineers supervised construction of Kiriwina Airfield, including a 2,000 metre (6,000 ft) coral-surfaced runway. "In September 1... |
Luttre | From the Belgian independence until today & The canal | (from 1965 until 1977), Luttre joined Pont-à-Celles in 1977 with 5 other villages (Buzet, Liberchies, Obaix, Thimeon, Viesville) to form the municipality of Pont-à-Celles as it is known today The canal The canal which crosses Luttre was built in the 19th century. However, as early as during the 15th century, the magist... |
Love's So Tough | Background | Love's So Tough Background In the spring of 1977 Joe Grushecky's brother Jon sent him a full page ad from Billboard magazine about the release of a Ronnie Spector record on Cleveland International Records. The band was known at that time as the Brick Alley Band, and they sent a demo tape to Steve Popovich at Cleveland... |
Lonnie Liston Smith | Early career (1963–73) | Dutchman, 1969).
Having already guested on Gato Barbieri's 1969 album The Third World (Philips, 1969), Smith joined Barbieri's band from 1971 to 1973. Barbieri had by then begun to temper his free jazz excursions of the 1960s with softer Afro-Cuban and South American textures in his music, which would influence Smith's... |
Little Lillooet Lake | null | Little Lillooet Lake Little Lillooet Lake, historically also Tenas Lake is a lake in the Lower Lillooet Country located to the south of Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada, turning off highway 99 on the FSR to 33 km. along the course of the Lillooet River, which continues southwards beyond it to Harrison Lake. Still fo... |
Lexie Carver | Character history | becomes Kayla Johnson's part-time private nurse and 'personal medical adviser'.
Lexie is once kidnapped by her cousin André DiMera because she claims she witnessed her half-brother EJ DiMera shooting John Black. Tek Kramer is the real witness of the crime, but they cover it up because Lexie did not want her husband to ... |
Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum | History | named after charter member Buzz Sutch who was also instrumental in the early years of the museum.
By 1965, the railroad had many sidings and longer eastern loops for both the 7.5" and 4.75" gauges with some short bridges. It was also around this same time that famed charter member Walt Disney shortly before passing do... |
Lou Barletta | Immigration ordinance, lawsuit and financial distress & 2002 | than one tenth of the annual revenue of the town for 2017), and the town, which was already in debt to the tune of $6 million, had to take additional loans to pay the fees. In 2017, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development declared that the town of Hazleton was financially distressed. 2002 In 2... |
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center | Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station | research stations across the state at which the research necessary for agricultural enterprises to be profitable in the unique environments of each area is conducted. The research stations and locations are: Aquaculture, Botanic Gardens at Burden and Central, all in Baton Rouge; Calhoun in Calhoun; Coastal Area in Port... |
Lilaea (Phocis) | Archaeology | the temple of Cephissus lay, as well as the early Byzantine remains of a basilica dedicated to St. Christopher. Another Byzantine church, dated to the 10th-11th century was dedicated to St. Eleoussa. The fortification of the city is evident on the hill "Pyrgos" or "Palaeokastro". During the Frankish period the site was... |
Loto-Québec | Loto-Québec's mission & History | Loto-Québec Loto-Québec's mission Loto-Québec is a Quebec government corporation whose mandate is to operate games of chance in the province in an orderly and measured way. It was created in 1969 to implement a public lottery. Since that time, Loto-Québec’s shareholder–the Government of Quebec, has given the corporatio... |
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