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fadd6ba312a6448e0cfe1091ed9d6523 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Ottoline-Violet-Anne-Morrell | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Lady Ottoline Morrell
Lady Ottoline Morrell, née Cavendish-bentinck, (born June 16, 1873, London—died April 21, 1938, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Eng.), hostess and patron of the arts who brought together some of the most important writers and artists of her day. A woman of marked individuality and discernment, she was of... |
78047151d35de850dffd07efc36231da | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Penelope-Rich | Lady Penelope Rich | Lady Penelope Rich
Lady Penelope Rich, née Penelope Devereux, (born 1562?—died 1607), English noblewoman who was the “Stella” of Sir Philip Sidney’s love poems Astrophel and Stella (1591).
She was the daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. From an early age she was expected to be a likely wife for Sidney, bu... |
6197ddad1c89a0e7f3ce4c180141caeb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/LaFayette-Curry-Baker | LaFayette Curry Baker | LaFayette Curry Baker
LaFayette Curry Baker, (born Oct. 13, 1826, Stafford, N.Y., U.S.—died July 3, 1868, Philadelphia, Pa.), chief of the U.S. Federal Detective Police during the American Civil War and director of Union intelligence and counterintelligence operations.
In 1848 Baker left his home in Michigan, where t... |
25015ba3c36df2d98790c5b97c6adc94 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laimdota-Straujuma | Laimdota Straujuma | Laimdota Straujuma
A new government headed by Laimdota Straujuma, who had served as minister of agriculture in the Dombrovskis administration, was endorsed by a parliamentary vote of confidence later that month.
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61a3f1b276d1a8b0de377c3f3a0b9ba6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lakshmi-Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal | Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal, in full Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, (born June 15, 1950, Sadulpur, Rajasthan, India), Indian businessman who was CEO (2006– ) of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company.
In the 1960s Mittal’s family moved to Calcutta (Kolkata), where his father operated a steel mill. Mittal wo... |
506259afb6905178d1b8d79a4889d66c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lamar-Alexander | Lamar Alexander | Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander, (born July 3, 1940, Maryville, Tennessee, U.S.), American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2002 and began representing Tennessee the following year. He previously served as governor of the state (1979–87).
A seventh-generation Tennessean, Alexander was b... |
d5c3287a19381b61eb0188bfb0a8abbd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lamar-Hunt | Lamar Hunt | Lamar Hunt
The Texans were owned by Lamar Hunt, who—after having been rebuked in his earlier attempt to purchase the NFL’s Chicago Cardinals—initiated the founding of the AFL by organizing other prospective NFL owners who had been turned down by the established league. Hunt hired Hank Stram to serve as the Texans’…
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0f89ff838cf1c688f65b5b7e4da05493 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lambert-of-Hersfeld | Lambert Of Hersfeld | Lambert Of Hersfeld
Lambert Of Hersfeld, (born 1025—died c. 1088), chronicler who assembled a valuable source for the history of 11th-century Germany.
Educated in Bamberg, Lambert joined the Benedictine convent of Hersfeld in March 1058 and was ordained the following fall, traveling to the Holy Land the same year. He... |
33da410734b56691e3512d3ab42da7c2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lamberto-Dini | Lamberto Dini | Lamberto Dini
…head the government, this time Lamberto Dini, the former chief executive of the Bank of Italy and previously Berlusconi’s treasury minister. In January 1995 Dini formed a government of nonpolitical “technocrats,” supported by the Northern League and by the left-wing parties in parliament (the losers in t... |
146592ca4e488a3ce423381553a0da2a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lamine-Gueye | Lamine Guèye | Lamine Guèye
Lamine Guèye, (born 1891, Médine, French Sudan—died June 10, 1968, Dakar, Senegal), one of the most important Senegalese politicians before that country gained independence.
As early as World War I, Guèye made radical demands for genuine assimilation of Africans into French culture and institutions. In t... |
f9fc1d3c5e7f1182dc287be3e3f56cfa | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lance-Mackey | Lance Mackey | Lance Mackey
Lance Mackey, (born 1970, Alaska, U.S.), American sled-dog racer who was the first person to win four consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races (2007–10).
Mackey, the son of champion musher Dick Mackey, grew up in Alaska, where he was exposed to dogsled racing from an early age. When he was a toddler, his... |
b9ae1b9dd9c90f6e1064760394736842 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lancelot-Brown | Lancelot Brown | Lancelot Brown
Lancelot Brown, byname Capability Brown, (baptized Aug. 30, 1716, Kirkharle, Northumberland, Eng.—died Feb. 6, 1783, London), the foremost English master of garden design, whose works were characterized by their natural, unplanned appearance.
Brown was born in Kirkharle, in northern England, likely in 1... |
b60df6fa6182335fb76304f5e42ecdec | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lancelot-Thomas-Hogben | Lancelot Thomas Hogben | Lancelot Thomas Hogben
Lancelot Thomas Hogben, (born December 9, 1895, Portsmouth, England—died August 22, 1975), English zoologist, geneticist, medical statistician, and linguist, known especially for his many contributions to the study of social biology.
Hogben’s birth was premature by two months, an event that conv... |
12ce396ee7941626c17f346a8ab43c81 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lanfranc | Lanfranc | Lanfranc
Lanfranc, (born c. 1005, Pavia, Lombardy—died May 28, 1089, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.), Italian Benedictine who, as archbishop of Canterbury (1070–89) and trusted counsellor of William the Conqueror, was largely responsible for the excellent church–state relations of William’s reign after the Norman Conquest o... |
6ea56627fecb508264b40e18cf0c3a6a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laozi | Laozi | Laozi
Laozi, (Chinese: “Master Lao” or “Old Master”) original name (Wade-Giles) Li Er, deified as Lao Jun, Tai Shang Lao-Jun, or Tai Shang Xuanyuan Huangdi, also called Lao Dun or Lao Dan, (flourished 6th century bce, China), the first philosopher of Chinese Daoism and the alleged author of the Daodejing, a primary D... |
a6b319d27be82aad16455981b22994f4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larisa-Semyonovna-Latynina | Larisa Semyonovna Latynina | Larisa Semyonovna Latynina
Larisa Semyonovna Latynina, (born December 27, 1934, Kherson, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.), Soviet gymnast who was the first woman athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals and was one of the most decorated competitors in the history of the Games.
At the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia, Latynina, who... |
35c221128cc4d8b5a0227fdf97334851 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Adler | Larry Adler | Larry Adler
Larry Adler, byname of Lawrence Cecil Adler, (born February 10, 1914, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died August 7, 2001, London, England), American harmonica player generally considered to be responsible for the elevation of the mouth organ to concert status in the world of classical music.
Adler’s family was ... |
eb44ce8ce0e359b1912c8a33d8bd424b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Csonka | Larry Csonka | Larry Csonka
Larry Csonka, byname of Lawrence Richard Csonka, (born Dec. 25, 1946, Stow, Ohio, U.S.), American gridiron football player who won two Super Bowls (1973, 1974) playing for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL) and was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl VIII.
Csonka was an All-Amer... |
70daa8fc3a78390b70db4564d1a7d8a3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Fine | Larry Fine | Larry Fine
May 4, 1975, Los Angeles), Larry Fine (original name Louis Feinberg; b. October 5, 1902, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—d. January 24, 1975, Woodland Hills, California), Curly Howard (original name Jerome Horwitz; b. October 22, 1903, New York City—d. January 18, 1952, San Gabriel, California), Joe Besser (b. Au... |
c7ca5282b8d699b52d69815660796629 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-McMurtry | Larry McMurtry | Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry, in full Larry Jeff McMurtry, (born June 3, 1936, Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.), prolific American writer noted for his novels set on the frontier, in contemporary small towns, and in increasingly urbanized and industrial areas of Texas.
McMurtry was educated at North Texas State College (n... |
54a2b9440e7bca33a61e8d680c7d57ef | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Wall | Larry Wall | Larry Wall
…1987 American programmer and linguist Larry Wall first released Perl 1.0 for computers running the UNIX operating system. This first version was an intuitive, easily coded language for scanning, extracting, and printing information from text files; in addition, Perl could handle many system management tasks... |
2778123ab2703f7e53a1e812ff5a3392 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lars-Johan-Wictor-Gyllensten | Lars Gyllensten | Lars Gyllensten
Lars Gyllensten, in full Lars Johan Wictor Gyllensten, (born Nov. 12, 1921, Stockholm, Swed.—died May 25, 2006, Solna), Swedish intellectual, professor of histology, poet, and prolific philosophical novelist.
Gyllensten was reared and educated in Stockholm. He earned a medical degree (1953) at Karolins... |
cc715d499d44c6714ce929727a154671 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lars-Onsager | Lars Onsager | Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager, (born Nov. 27, 1903, Kristiania [now Oslo], Nor.—died Oct. 5, 1976, Coral Gables, Fla., U.S.), Norwegian-born American chemist whose development of a general theory of irreversible chemical processes gained him the 1968 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
His early work in statistical mechanics attr... |
e15844f16a4033315d324d5db90aa8b1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lars-Porsena | Lars Porsena | Lars Porsena
…conquest by the Etruscan king Lars Porsena. According to the legend, Mucius volunteered to assassinate Porsena, who was besieging Rome, but killed his victim’s attendant by mistake. Brought before the Etruscan royal tribunal, he declared that he was one of 300 noble youths who had sworn to take the king’s... |
d60101b146d584ee0b14d45dcf18bc90 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lars-Sonck | Lars Sonck | Lars Sonck
…the Helsinki railway station, and Lars Sonck, whose churches in Helsinki and Tampere are particularly notable. Finnish women were also early innovators as architects, including Wiwi Lönn and Signe Hornborg, the latter one of the first formally trained female architects in the world.
In Finland, Lars Sonck w... |
68be448b99b0ef60a8ff1e4d38d92b20 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lars-Wivallius | Lars Wivallius | Lars Wivallius
Lars Wivallius, (born 1605, Wivalla, Sweden—died April 6, 1669, Stockholm), Swedish poet and adventurer, whose lyrics show a feeling for the beauties of nature new to Swedish poetry in his time.
Wivallius studied at Uppsala and in 1625 left Sweden to travel in Germany, France, Italy, and England. Freque... |
44fa9cd2d07e91750b7662414f858a93 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lascelles-Abercrombie | Lascelles Abercrombie | Lascelles Abercrombie
Lascelles Abercrombie, (born Jan. 9, 1881, Ashton upon Mersey, Cheshire, Eng.—died Oct. 27, 1938, London), poet and critic who was associated with Georgian poetry.
He was educated at Malvern College, Worcestershire, and Owens College, Manchester, after which he became a journalist and began to w... |
a41a059a66a5179f2fcf240462a0e872 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lasgush-Poradeci | Lasgush Poradeci | Lasgush Poradeci
…Albanian literature is the poet Lasgush Poradeci (pseudonym of Llazar Gusho, of which Lasgush is a contraction). Breaking with tradition and conventions, he introduced a new genre with his lyrical poetry, which is tinged with mystical overtones. Writers in post-World War II Albania laboured under stat... |
6699741cd04fd472bea1fab5c090c1c6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laszlo-Bardossy | László Bárdossy | László Bárdossy
László Bárdossy, (born Dec. 10, 1890, Szombathely, Hung.—died Jan. 10, 1946, Budapest), Hungarian politician who played a key role in bringing his country into World War II as an ally of Germany.
After completing his legal studies in 1913, Bárdossy entered the Hungarian civil service. In 1924 he became... |
c57e58919efb0f1ad77b48752d05c9ce | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laszlo-Moholy-Nagy | László Moholy-Nagy | László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy, (born July 20, 1895, Bácsborsód, Hungary—died November 24, 1946, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), Hungarian-born American painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, theorist, and art teacher, whose vision of a nonrepresentational art consisting of pure visual fundamentals—colour, textur... |
80ca6e0a33bb28104ec41486d0b38fe5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laura-de-Force-Gordon | Laura de Force Gordon | Laura de Force Gordon
Laura de Force Gordon, née Laura de Force, (born Aug. 17, 1838, North East, Pa., U.S.—died April 5, 1907, Lodi, Calif.), American lawyer, editor, and reformer, one of the first women in the American West to speak and campaign for women’s rights, who also pioneered in professions normally reserve... |
bd463e2394430f2400cf2d4239df273e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laura-Gilpin | Laura Gilpin | Laura Gilpin
Laura Gilpin, (born April 22, 1891, Colorado Springs, Colo., U.S.—died Nov. 30, 1979, Santa Fe, N.M.), American photographer noted for her images of the landscape and native peoples of the American Southwest.
On the advice of photographer Gertrude Käsebier, Gilpin went to New York City in 1916 to study a... |
2873715de841b3f51195857706d90058 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurence-E-Myers | Laurence E. Myers | Laurence E. Myers
Laurence E. Myers, byname Lon Myers, (born Feb. 16, 1858, Richmond, Va., U.S.—died Feb. 15, 1899), American all-around runner who set records in every race from the 50-yard dash to the mile run. He competed for the Manhattan Athletic Club.
In 1880 Myers was Amateur Athletic Union champion in the 100... |
925ca9568246689ddf8a59031fd633b8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurence-Minot | Laurence Minot | Laurence Minot
Laurence Minot, (flourished 1333–52), English author of 11 battle songs, preserved in an early 15th-century manuscript, first published by the antiquarian Joseph Ritson in 1795 as Poems on Interesting Events in the Reign of King Edward III. Minot’s poems were evidently written contemporaneously with th... |
c5b8c7e882070ad4ffdfc8c7f0d97e53 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurence-Sheriff | Laurence Sheriff | Laurence Sheriff
…for boys in 1567 by Laurence Sheriff, a local resident, and was endowed with sundry estates, including Sheriff’s own house. The school flourished under the headship of Thomas Arnold between 1828 and 1842 and became, under his rule, a model of the British public school for following generations. It was... |
e5cee58a47d8069c2024354b07ba63c2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurence-Sterne/Works | Works. | Works.
Sterne’s Tristram Shandy was published in nine slim volumes (released in five installments) from 1759 to 1767. In it the narrator, Tristram, sets out to do the impossible—to tell the story of his life. He begins with the story of his conception—an innocent remark of his mother upsetting his father’s concentratio... |
4f3b2623cd6dfb22fdd33812aa36cc42 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurens-Hammond | Laurens Hammond | Laurens Hammond
Laurens Hammond, (born Jan. 11, 1895, Evanston, Ill., U.S.—died July 1, 1973, Cornwall, Conn.), American businessman and inventor of the electronic keyboard instrument known as the Hammond organ.
Hammond’s early education took place in Europe, where the family had moved in 1898. Returning to the Unite... |
f9f3630763fb4bf30f511fd4ed61a807 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurens-Jan-van-der-Post | Sir Laurens Jan van der Post | Sir Laurens Jan van der Post
…collaboration with Laurens Van Der Post and the iconoclastic poet Roy Campbell, he founded a magazine called Voorslag (“Whiplash”) with which he intended to excoriate South African racist society. Public outrage silenced the journal, and Plomer and Campbell left the country.
Laurens van de... |
539a07c5a3445ddba9dec11933abe746 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lautaro-Mapuche-leader | Lautaro | Lautaro
Lautaro, (born before 1535—died April 29, 1557, Mataquito, Chile), Mapuche Indian who led the native uprising against the Spanish conquerors in south-central Chile from 1553 to 1557.
Lautaro was probably born in northern Chile; according to tradition, during his boyhood he was captured by the Spanish and force... |
b380621b09ddd56428e2e1d8b5da6955 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/LaVerne-Andrews | LaVerne Andrews | LaVerne Andrews
The sisters were LaVerne Sofia Andrews (b. July 6, 1911, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.—d. May 8, 1967, Brentwood, California), Maxene Angelyn Andrews (b. January 3, 1916, Minneapolis—d. October 21, 1995, Boston, Massachusetts), and Patricia Marie (“Patty”) Andrews (b. February 16, 1918, Minneapolis—d. Ja... |
3f4c0914991d15e38f8f8fe2df1c4f98 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lawamon | Lawamon | Lawamon
Lawamon, also spelled Layamon or Laghamon, (flourished 12th century), early Middle English poet, author of the romance-chronicle the Brut (c. 1200), one of the most notable English poems of the 12th century. It is the first work in English to treat of the “matter of Britain”—i.e., the legends surrounding Arthu... |
d18ae9794af56719855dfbd6309b6a11 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lawan-Babuje | Lawan Babuje | Lawan Babuje
About 1825, however, Lawan Babuje, the Bade mai (“ruler”), found the tribute too high, organized a pan-Bade federation, built the walled town of Gorgoram (27 miles southwest of Gashua) as his capital, and declared Bedde’s independence from both the Fulani and the Kanuri. Mai Alhaji, his son and…
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03ea745623c32edb99db35b0933b634d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in full Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti, (born March 24, 1919, Yonkers, New York, U.S.—died February 22, 2021, San Francisco, California), American poet, one of the founders of the Beat movement in San Francisco in the mid-1950s. His City Lights bookshop was an early gatheri... |
71bc6801d98b5a9c2e667cede0b69fd8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lawrence-Tibbett | Lawrence Tibbett | Lawrence Tibbett
Lawrence Tibbett, Tibbett originally spelled Tibbet, (born Nov. 16, 1896, Bakersfield, Calif., U.S.—died July 15, 1960, New York City), American baritone renowned for his success in both opera and motion pictures.
Tibbett began his performing career as an actor and church singer in Los Angeles, wher... |
0371a61c463e9faa668f9abe7bb9bedf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lawrence-Weiner | Lawrence Weiner | Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner, (born February 10, 1942, Bronx, New York, U.S.), American conceptual artist best known for his text-based installations and radical definitions of art. He is considered a central figure in the foundation of the conceptual art movement of the 1960s.
Weiner grew up in the South Bronx and... |
11f47205549b2adb6f4894979959e600 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lazar-Moiseyevich-Kaganovich | Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich | Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, (born November 10 [November 22, New Style], 1893, Kabany, near Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died July 25, 1991, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet Communist Party leader and supporter of Joseph Stalin.
As a young Jewish shoemaker, Kaganovich became involved in... |
0122a7e6a2b613a597d4f1daacacbbc6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lazarus | Lazarus | Lazarus
Lazarus is also the name given by the Gospel According to Luke (16:19–31) to the beggar in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. It is the only proper name attached to a character in the parables of Jesus.
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fe7c4b2f2f76674adbff05f8e2621f36 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Duan | Le Duan | Le Duan
Le Duan, also called Le Dung, (born April 7, 1908, Quang Tri province [now Binh Tri Thien province], Vietnam—died July 10, 1986, Hanoi), Vietnamese communist politician.
Le Duan was a founding member of the Indochina Communist Party in 1930. Twice imprisoned by the French, he joined the Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh... |
54c41d9106f759042ef6876bf3a0d670 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leandro-Bassano | Leandro Bassano | Leandro Bassano
…Francesco the Younger (1549–92) and Leandro (1557–1622) were important in the continuity of the workshop; many Bassano paintings are the product of a family collaboration. Francesco the Younger had a predilection for the rural scenes begun by his father, and he developed this aspect of the workshop. He... |
e9d7c8ed65a4e57454f6b43595d4c36c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lebna-Denegel | Lebna Denegel | Lebna Denegel
In 1528 Emperor Lebna Denegel was defeated at the battle of Shimbra Kure, and the Muslims pushed northward into the central highlands, destroying settlements, churches, and monasteries. In 1541 the Portuguese, whose interests in the Red Sea were imperiled by Muslim power, sent 400 musketeers to train the…... |
7190056dafc2e7cda947ad0f24404443 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Konitz | Lee Konitz | Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz, (born October 13, 1927, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died April 15, 2020, New York, New York), American jazz musician, a leading figure in cool jazz and one of the most distinctive alto saxophonists.
Konitz attended Roosevelt University in Chicago and played alto saxophone in the Claude Thornhill ban... |
55e489e406b84f1d4e20b767e9522ce7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Krasner | Lee Krasner | Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner, original name Lenore Krassner, (born October 27, 1908, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died June 19, 1984, New York City), American painter recognized for her unique contribution to Abstract Expressionism.
Krasner was the sixth of seven children of Jewish emigrants from Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine). ... |
827328f00f7db831ad3421f36040b774 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Scratch-Perry | Lee “Scratch” Perry | Lee “Scratch” Perry
Lee “Scratch” Perry, byname of Rainford Hugh Perry, (born March 28, 1936, Kendal, Jamaica), Jamaican producer, songwriter, singer, and disc jockey who helped reshape reggae music. He was among the first Jamaican producer-musicians to use the studio as an instrument, and he pioneered the reggae inst... |
99eed1966d55c03d2b66bb5284ba5d21 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Shubert | Lee Shubert | Lee Shubert
…oldest of the brothers was Lee (originally Levi) Shubert (b. March 15, 1875, Russia—d. Dec. 25, 1953, New York, N.Y., U.S.). Sam S. Shubert (b. 1879, Russia—d. May 12, 1905, Harrisburg, Pa., U.S.) was the middle brother, and Jacob J. (or Jake) Shubert (b. Aug. 15, 1880, Russia—d. Dec. 26,…
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8809a3b0293976477389289a83925b24 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Teng-hui | Lee Teng-hui | Lee Teng-hui
Lee Teng-hui, (born January 15, 1923, near Tan-shui, Taiwan—died July 30, 2020, Taipei), first Taiwan-born president of the Republic of China (Taiwan; 1988–2000).
Lee attended Kyōto University in Japan and National Taiwan University (B.A., 1948) and studied agricultural economics in the United States at I... |
ee9d6691b83e8349ad7f7189496028cd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lei-Jun | Lei Jun | Lei Jun
Lei Jun, (born December 16, 1969, Xiantao, Hubei province, China), Chinese business executive who was a cofounder (2010) of electronics maker Xiaomi Corp.; he also served as chairman and CEO.
Lei attended Wuhan University, from which he graduated (1991) with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. In 1992 he ... |
c01e80a27b6cc670193fb41d599c693c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leiber-and-Stoller | Leiber and Stoller | Leiber and Stoller
Leiber and Stoller, American songwriters and record producers. Jerry Leiber (in full Jerome Leiber; b. April 25, 1933, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—d. August 22, 2011, Los Angeles, California) and Mike Stoller (in full Michael Stoller; b. March 13, 1933, Belle Harbor, New York, U.S.), working primarily... |
e5820f1a53a5315e5050b3c04163e5d5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leif-Ove-Andsnes | Leif Ove Andsnes | Leif Ove Andsnes
Leif Ove Andsnes, (born April 7, 1970, Karmøy, Nor.), Norwegian musician who drew international notice beginning in the 1990s for his lyric approach to music and his varied piano repertoire.
Andsnes was the son of music teachers. Though he studied piano, as a child he was more interested in playing in... |
189476fa0c0eadd6079c2b475930df29 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leigh-Matthews | Leigh Matthews | Leigh Matthews
Leigh Matthews, (born March 1, 1952, Frankston, Vic., Austl.), Australian rules football player who was one of the sport’s most formidable figures and was voted the Player of the Century in a 1999 Herald-Sun poll in Australia.
A tenacious forward, “Lethal” Leigh Matthews was legendary for his robust pla... |
b5d79a76f2109e5e7396a7e805098f9e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Len-Deighton | Len Deighton | Len Deighton
Len Deighton, (born Feb. 18, 1929, Marylebone, London, Eng.), English author, journalist, film producer, and a leading writer of spy stories, his best-known being his first, The Ipcress File (1962), an account of deception and betrayal in an espionage agency.
Deighton was educated at the Royal College of ... |
d3a8dd591b4149fb246ff7bf7918539a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leni-Riefenstahl | Leni Riefenstahl | Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl, original name Berta Helene Amalie Riefenstahl, (born August 22, 1902, Berlin, Germany—died September 8, 2003, Pöcking), German motion-picture director, actress, producer, and photographer who is best known for her documentary films of the 1930s dramatizing the power and pageantry of ... |
16526ee885da382c3fe77f3a243570fd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lennart-Carleson | Lennart Carleson | Lennart Carleson
Lennart Carleson, (born March 18, 1928, Stockholm, Swed.), Swedish mathematician and winner of the 2006 Abel Prize “for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems.” These include his work with Swedish mathematician Michael Benedicks in 1991, ... |
1a26386f3ad2cb0a71af246d2e6ab46d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lennart-Meri | Lennart Meri | Lennart Meri
Lennart Meri, (born March 29, 1929, Tallinn, Estonia—died March 14, 2006, Tallinn), Estonian scholar and political leader, who was president of Estonia from 1992 to 2001.
His father, Georg Meri, was a man of letters who served newly independent Estonia as a diplomat between World Wars I and II, and conseq... |
369270587ea9584f2065cffc834a672a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lenny-Henry | Lenny Henry | Lenny Henry
Lenny Henry, byname of Sir Lenworth George Henry, (born August 29, 1958, Dudley, West Midlands, England), British comedian, actor, and writer who was one of Britain’s best known and most highly respected comic actors, especially noted for his range of characters. He later added serious acting roles to his ... |
ac278ac591086b4599c4161d4714a1e9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Africanus | Leo Africanus | Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus, Italian Giovanni Leone, original Arabic al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Wazzān al-Zayyātī or al-Fāsī, (born c. 1485, Granada, Kingdom of Granada [Spain]—died c. 1554, Tunis [now in Tunisia]), traveler whose writings remained for some 400 years one of Europe’s principal sources of information abou... |
329aedb4fa08a845593d265ba4182ed8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Baeck | Leo Baeck | Leo Baeck
Leo Baeck, (born May 23, 1873, Lissa, Posen, Prussia [now Leszno, Poland]—died November 2, 1956, London, England), Reform rabbi and theologian, the spiritual leader of German Jewry during the Nazi period, and the leading liberal Jewish religious thinker of his time. His magnum opus, The Essence of Judaism, a... |
c0041a2357317fafe98c1ff8cc654c8b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Castelli | Leo Castelli | Leo Castelli
Leo Castelli, original name Leo Krauss, Krauss also spelled Krausz, (born 1907, Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire [now in Italy]—died August 21, 1999, New York, New York, U.S.), art dealer of Hungarian and Italian descent whose promotion of American painters helped contemporary American art gain acceptance... |
0355e3f9892984242c439cc5c835652c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Durocher | Leo Durocher | Leo Durocher
Leo Durocher, in full Leo Ernest Durocher, (born July 27, 1905, West Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1991, Palm Springs, California), American professional baseball player and manager.
Durocher played minor-league baseball for three years before joining the New York Yankees in 1928. He wa... |
ed15cc5984a43c7fb37621079735f929 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-II-Roman-emperor | Leo II | Leo II
Leo II, (died Nov. 10, 474), Roman emperor of the East, grandson of Leo I, and son of Zeno. His grandfather, growing ill, felt compelled to name a successor but, deciding that his son-in-law Zeno, an Isaurian, was unpopular, made his grandson co-emperor, as Caesar and then Augustus, at the young age of five (or... |
0b077400d4148e615aa3b7d18a3c0736 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-II-the-Great | Leo II the Great | Leo II the Great
King Leo II of Armenia joined the Crusaders at Cyprus and Acre. Desirous of a royal crown, he approached both pope and emperor, and in 1198, with papal approval, royal insignia were bestowed by Archbishop Conrad of Mainz, in the name of Henry VI. At the…
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e5c6fbabea2761826db6defd7c4496d3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-III/Legal-and-other-accomplishments | Legal and other accomplishments. | Legal and other accomplishments.
One of Leo’s most important acts was the promulgation, in 726, of the Ecloga, a law code of modest length, which represented a revision of Roman legal practices as embodied in the 6th-century Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) of Emperor Justinian I. Consciously attempting to revi... |
764d739e884006011d9423cb0bf56705 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-IV | Leo IV | Leo IV
Leo IV, byname Leo The Khazar, (born Jan. 25, 749—died Sept. 8, 780), Byzantine emperor whose reign marked a transition between the period of Iconoclasm and the restoration of the icons.
Leo became Byzantine emperor in 775 at the death of his father, Constantine V. The following year, at the request of the arm... |
34cea01f0fdbc2b10e7f69c72922ba00 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Postman | Leo Postman | Leo Postman
Allport and Leo Postman offered the generalization that rumour intensity is high when both the interest in an event and its ambiguity are great. The U.S. sociologist Tamotsu Shibutani agreed, contending that rumour abounds when the demand for news is greater than is the supply provided through…
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42cf6ba40622ace06634777f3415c616 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Sowerby | Leo Sowerby | Leo Sowerby
Leo Sowerby, (born May 1, 1895, Grand Rapids, Mich., U.S.—died July 7, 1968, Port Clinton, Ohio), composer, organist, and teacher, whose organ and choral works provide a transition between 19th- and 20th-century American church-music styles.
Sowerby studied in Chicago and in Rome as the first American wi... |
189526a42fc54c4338a443273a13e759 | https://www.reuters.com/article/eurozone-banks-italy-badloans-idUSI6N19S00D | Gross bad loans at Italian banks 200 bln euros in May - BoI | Gross bad loans at Italian banks 200 bln euros in May - BoI
By Reuters Staff1 Min Read
MILAN, July 12 (Reuters) - Italian banks in May held 200 billion euros ($222 billion) in loans to borrowers deemed insolvent, slightly up from the previous month, data showed on Monday, as lenders continue to suffer from the fallout ... |
96b8047736efce9aaa9e0b9c4557917d | https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-cambridge-analytica-election-idINKBN1H31CO | Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters | Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
LONDON (Reuters) - A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of t... |
104ce1cc9dd9aeab8e92ffb2c25232d7 | https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-cambridge-analytica-ftc/us-ftc-investigating-facebooks-privacy-practices-idUSW1N1Q504R | U.S. FTC investigating Facebook's privacy practices | U.S. FTC investigating Facebook's privacy practices
By Reuters Staff1 Min Read
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday it is conducting an open investigation of Facebook Inc’s privacy practices following the disclosure that 50 million users’ data got into the hands of political... |
fc35c6fd534b015ef4d6538ee8afbbce | https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-cryptocurrency-ebay/ebay-exits-facebooks-cryptocurrency-libra-idUSL3N26W3MW | EBay exits Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra | EBay exits Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra
By Reuters Staff1 Min Read
Oct 11 (Reuters) - EBay Inc said on Friday it would exit Facebook Inc’s planned cryptocurrency Libra, joining Paypal.
“We highly respect the vision of the Libra Association; however, eBay has made the decision to not move forward as a founding member... |
ac9e037b6fefb189ee0c209e21fda3e2 | https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-germany-idUKL8N2E04ZY | Top German court reimposes data curbs on Facebook | Top German court reimposes data curbs on Facebook
By Ursula Knapp3 Min Read
KARLSRUHE, Germany, June 23 (Reuters) - Facebook must comply with an order by Germany’s antitrust watchdog to curb data collection from users, a top German court ruled on Tuesday, in a setback for the U.S. social network company.
The Federal Co... |
34d8ccb6eced269b0c5142ebb4df5622 | https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-instagram-idINKCN1NZ133 | Instagram's new feature allows users to share stories with smaller group | Instagram's new feature allows users to share stories with smaller group
By Paresh Dave, Laharee Chatterjee2 Min Read
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(Reuters) - Facebook Inc’s Instagram said on Friday it launched a new feature dubbed “Close Friends” allowing users to share their stories with a smaller group of people.
The new ... |
41b596c6846f75fe767b38a33faedb1d | https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-politics-washington-idINKCN21X073 | Washington AG sues Facebook over political ads | Washington AG sues Facebook over political ads
By Katie Paul3 Min Read
FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Washington state’s attorney general filed a second lawsuit against Fa... |
4f698bbdabc374452ec388e3e08c8955 | https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-propaganda-mueller/facebook-gives-election-ad-data-to-u-s-special-counsel-source-idUSL2N1LO01N | Facebook gives election ad data to U.S. special counsel -source | Facebook gives election ad data to U.S. special counsel -source
By Reuters Staff1 Min Read
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has turned over information about U.S. election ads it believes were bought by Russians to Robert Mueller, the special counsel in charge of investigating alleged Russian interference... |
2dcea1024d02aa1fbf1c78937cdd8b84 | https://www.reuters.com/article/factbox-commodities-blockchain-idINKBN18I14O?edition-redirect=in | FACTBOX - Who's doing what with blockchain in commodities | FACTBOX - Who's doing what with blockchain in commodities
By Reuters Staff4 Min Read
(Reuters) - Many commodity groups, banks and technology companies are seeking to modernise the commodity sector and scrap millions of paper documents through using blockchain, the technology first developed for the crypto-currency bitc... |
5a4eef4f1a432fd9969e71e96511253a | https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-capitol-giuliani-idUSL2N2L31S2 | Fact Check-Photo of Rudy Giuliani and Jake Angeli is not proof that the storming of the capitol was staged | Fact Check-Photo of Rudy Giuliani and Jake Angeli is not proof that the storming of the capitol was staged
By Reuters Fact Check7 Min Read
Social media users have been sharing a photograph of former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and protester Jake Angeli and claiming that this shows they knew each other... |
1acee51e40fbfac710f54bcf2f2da1d0 | https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-belgium/fact-check-video-does-not-show-the-belgian-health-minister-faking-his-covid-19-jab-idUSL1N2M03AU | Fact Check-Video does not show the Belgian health minister faking his COVID-19 jab | Fact Check-Video does not show the Belgian health minister faking his COVID-19 jab
By Reuters Fact Check4 Min Read
Social media users have falsely claimed a video shows Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke pretending to receive the coronavirus vaccine to “encourage compliance”. While the clip does show a Flemish... |
a5b14143bacb8f82c7428b3c29063121 | https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-epstein-bones/fact-check-no-evidence-that-childrens-bones-were-found-on-epsteins-island-idUSL1N2LZ1RK | Fact Check-No evidence that children’s bones were found on Epstein’s island | Fact Check-No evidence that children’s bones were found on Epstein’s island
By Reuters Fact Check4 Min Read
Social media users shared posts saying that children’s bones were found on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St. James Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. There is, however, no evidence to support this claim.
... |
24ad34410a4a5dd81fd1ebd63af4b791 | https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-johnson-aborted/fact-check-johnson-johnsons-covid-19-vaccine-does-not-contain-aborted-fetal-cells-idUSL1N2LU1T9 | Fact Check-Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine does not contain aborted fetal cells | Fact Check-Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine does not contain aborted fetal cells
By Reuters Fact Check6 Min Read
Social media users have been sharing posts online that claim the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson contains aborted fetal DNA as an ingredient. This claim is false. While the vaccine used la... |
eb03a8001fc3b628a86a47538da84301 | https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-psaki-suez-canal/fact-check-white-house-press-secretarys-firm-not-tied-to-suez-canal-blocking-ship-idUSL1N2LZ23J | Fact Check-White House Press Secretary’s firm not tied to Suez Canal-blocking ship | Fact Check-White House Press Secretary’s firm not tied to Suez Canal-blocking ship
By Reuters Fact Check5 Min Read
Nearly four years before becoming White House Press Secretary under President Joe Biden, long-time Democratic operative Jen Psaki opened a consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Now social media users are usi... |
0e82246538206f88e1595f7bc5dca4eb | https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-purell-toxic/fact-check-purell-does-not-contain-toxic-ingredients-according-to-fda-idUSL1N2M01BB | Fact Check-Purell does not contain toxic ingredients, according to FDA | Fact Check-Purell does not contain toxic ingredients, according to FDA
By Reuters Fact Check3 Min Read
Social media users have been sharing an image of a Purell hand sanitizer on a metal stand that has been damaged at the base. Users are claiming that this is caused by the toxic ingredients in Purell. There is, however... |
91064c370dce3d9598c81325c111da58 | https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-suezcanal-nuclear/fact-check-evergivenis-not-loaded-with-nuclear-weapons-it-is-not-a-ship-specialised-for-such-transportation-and-doing-so-would-be-in-breach-of-an-internationaltreaty-idUSL1N2LZ143 | Fact Check-Ever Given is not loaded with nuclear weapons – it is not a ship specialised for such transportation, and doing so would be in breach of an international treaty | Fact Check-Ever Given is not loaded with nuclear weapons – it is not a ship specialised for such transportation, and doing so would be in breach of an international treaty
By Reuters Fact Check4 Min Read
A social media post has falsely claimed the Ever Given ship that blocked the Suez Canal is carrying nuclear weapons.... |
d75c60fba97e917e25b59cb504562362 | https://www.reuters.com/article/far-ma-remus-horizon-idUKL4N2IX1DX | UPDATE 1-Australia's Far gets $159.2 mln buyout offer from Remus Horizons | UPDATE 1-Australia's Far gets $159.2 mln buyout offer from Remus Horizons
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
(Adds details on the offer, background)
Dec 17 (Reuters) - Oil and gas explorer Far Ltd said on Thursday it received a A$209.6 million ($159.15 mln) all-cash takeover proposal from private investment firm Remus Horizons... |
d01c91e27f19af0bcf5e5588c0208d09 | https://www.reuters.com/article/fashion-milan/prada-reworks-winter-classics-at-milan-fashion-week-idUSL8N2KV4BE | Prada reworks winter classics at Milan Fashion Week | Prada reworks winter classics at Milan Fashion Week
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian fashion house Prada reworked wardrobe classics for its fall line at Milan Fashion Week on Thursday, with designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons saying they were inspired by the idea of change and transformation.
In ... |
54f5bfbbe0f106eeda547619540a7cba | https://www.reuters.com/article/fashion-new-york-idUSL2N1PY027 | New York fashion show to highlight #MeToo movement | New York fashion show to highlight #MeToo movement
By Peter Szekely3 Min Read
NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Inspired by a social media campaign aimed at exposing widespread sexual assault and harassment in U.S. life, a fashion show on Friday will have a #MeToo theme and feature models who share their stories on the runwa... |
dd260d546411c3a80d12553e1da44fe1 | https://www.reuters.com/article/faurecia-results-idINW8N1DX020 | Faurecia sales rise 7.3 pct on strong Asia performance | Faurecia sales rise 7.3 pct on strong Asia performance
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - French auto parts maker Faurecia said on Thursday quarterly sales rose 7.3 percent as the maker of car seats, exhausts and interiors harnessed strong Asian demand and weathered a North American production slowdow... |
c3b218dff066be7caa2aab66950033ee | https://www.reuters.com/article/fbc-arizonastate-southerncalifornia-reca-idUSMTZEAA5YCN8PY20141005 | Arizona State 38, USC 34 | Arizona State 38, USC 34
By 3 Min Read
(Updated: CORRECTING: Arizona State’s rushing yards in Game Notebook.)
No. 24 Arizona State 38, No. 20 USC 34: Mike Bercovici threw for 510 yards and five touchdowns, including a 46-yard score to Jaelen Strong as time expired, as the visiting Sun Devils scored 21 points in the fin... |
4823b174c721d6cf04363c18539690c5 | https://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUKISL398919?edition-redirect=uk | India starts marathon vote, weak coalition seen | India starts marathon vote, weak coalition seen
By 5 Min Read
* Over 140 million people eligible to vote in first stage
* Election comes at time of economic slowdown
* No party likely to dominate; weak coalitions likely
* Maoist rebels kill five poll officials, 11 police
By Krittivas Mukherjee
VARANASI, India, April 16... |
aea9671767d5f01fef06cf82965977ee | https://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUKLN940022?edition-redirect=uk | Suicide bomber kills 28 in Baghdad-police | Suicide bomber kills 28 in Baghdad-police
By Reuters Staff2 Min Read
(Updates toll)
BAGHDAD, April 23 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber wearing a vest stuffed with explosives blew himself up in a group of police distributing relief supplies in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 28 people and wounding 50, Iraqi police sai... |
8fffebc0f80ab102c1dd0ff34398bebe | https://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSCOL391456 | SCENARIOS-The end of Sri Lanka's quarter-century war | SCENARIOS-The end of Sri Lanka's quarter-century war
By C. Bryson Hull3 Min Read
COLOMBO, May 16 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops seized the entire coastline of the Indian Ocean island for the first time since civil war with the Tamil Tiger separatists erupted in 1983, signalling a rapidly approaching conventional victory... |
123b660a8d696a5522110724c588d53b | https://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL5224983 | Kurdish rebel supporters seek a way back to Turkey | Kurdish rebel supporters seek a way back to Turkey
By Tim Cocks, Shamal Aqrawi5 Min Read
* Kurdish PKK supporters want a peace deal with Turkey
* Refugees say ready to go home if rights respected
MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP, Iraq, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Turkey brands them terrorists, but supporters of the rebel Kurdistan Workers... |
fff18291a0af96eb9caf0ce30e735b3a | https://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL9196207 | Peace with Israel possible, says Syria's Assad | Peace with Israel possible, says Syria's Assad
By Reuters Staff3 Min Read
DUBAI, March 9 (Reuters) - Syria President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Monday that a peace deal with Israel was possible but that normal relations would only be possible if Israel ended its conflict with the Palestinians.
"T... |
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