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7d9cbb54560cb41435ac7620739fab58 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Koguryo-tomb-murals | Koguryŏ tomb murals | Koguryŏ tomb murals
Koguryŏ tomb murals, group of wall paintings that typify the painting style prevalent in the Koguryŏ kingdom (37 bce– 668 ce) of the Three Kingdoms period. The Koguryŏ were a horse-riding northern people, and their art was powered by the forceful spirit of a hunter-warrior tribe. Their fresco paint... |
db43147d1727d1703f7f4d517c377ebd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kok-Turki-alphabet | Kök Turki alphabet | Kök Turki alphabet
Kök Turki alphabet, writing system used by Turkic-speaking peoples in Central Asia from the 6th to the 8th century ad. It is sometimes called Kök Turki runes because of the resemblance of its letter forms to those of the (Germanic) runic alphabet. The script occurred in two forms, monumental and cu... |
ad7dca250dc734ef97d1259653a831b0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Koljada | Koljada | Koljada
…in the case of the Koljada (Latin Kalendae)—the annual visit made by the spirits of the dead, under the disguise of beggars, to all the houses in the village. It is possible that the bones of the disinterred were kept for a long period inside the dwellings, as is still…
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fbe92437837ecd797c534fd8448c3527 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Komsomolskaya-Pravda | Komsomolskaya Pravda | Komsomolskaya Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda, (Russian: “Young Communist League Truth”) morning daily newspaper published in Moscow that was the official voice of the Central Council of the Komsomol, or communist youth league, for young people aged 14 to 28. Komsomolskaya Pravda was founded in 1925 and historically had i... |
ba6524cac3a345f883426065bb4f33b7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kongo-language | Kongo language | Kongo language
Kongo language, Kongo also called Kikongo and also spelled Congo, a Bantu language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Kongo is related to Swahili, Shona, and Bembe, among others. Kikongo is the name used by its speakers. There are many dialects of Kongo; San Salvador Kongo, sp... |
ba93705d84916f09f5135d02977bca85 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Konig-Rother | König Rother | König Rother
König Rother, English King Rother, medieval German romance (c. 1160) that is the earliest record of the type of popular entertainment literature circulated by wandering minstrels. It combines elements from German heroic literature (without the grimness of the older tales) with Orientalisms derived from th... |
146c260c9589a41c0b7617ae9e05b8e3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kornilov-affair | Kornilov affair | Kornilov affair
The most effective spokesman for the new right was Gen. Lavr Kornilov, an officer of humble origin. He was the son of poor Cossack parents, basically apolitical but certainly no admirer of Nicholas II. Impressed by Kornilov’s military record and his personal qualities,…
…government was Kerensky’s confli... |
af2055ab309f647cb9fec4d5799ef8e2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Korravai | Korravai | Korravai
…mother, the fierce war goddess Korravai, with Durga. Varunan, a sea god who had adopted the name of an old Vedic god but otherwise had few Vedic features, and Mayon, a black god who was a rural divinity with many of the characteristics of Krishna in his pastoral aspect, also…
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a57eaeabbb53a7c5ba124f54331a31db | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kosher | Kosher | Kosher
Kosher, Yiddish Kosher, Hebrew Kāshēr, (“fit,” or “proper”), in Judaism, the fitness of an object for ritual purposes. Though generally applied to foods that meet the requirements of the dietary laws (kashruth), kosher is also used to describe, for instance, such objects as a Torah scroll, water for ritual bat... |
58108c0cb534c600531aa2d0cae6851d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kota-South-Asian-people | Kota | Kota
Kota, one of the indigenous, Dravidian-speaking peoples of the Nīlgiri Hills in the south of India. They lived in seven villages totalling about 2,300 inhabitants during the 1970s; these were interspersed among settlements of the other Nīlgiri peoples, Baḍaga and Toda. A village has two or three streets, each in... |
6ba48091e10de5414aa3a53f7d2d0f41 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Krapps-Last-Tape | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp’s Last Tape, one-act monodrama by Samuel Beckett, written in English, produced in 1958, and published in 1959. Krapp sits at a cluttered desk and listens to tape recordings he made decades earlier when he was in the prime of life, leaving only occasionally to imbibe liquor offstage. To Krapp, t... |
5ec2794fedcb990c90e7cba4fee2bc8c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kremsier-constitution | Kremsier constitution | Kremsier constitution
…Austrian constitutional convention assembled at Kremsier. The Kremsier assembly had drawn up a constitution that would have granted Austria’s many nationalities far-reaching autonomy. The constitution sponsored by Schwarzenberg and introduced by decree on March 4, 1849, however, transformed the H... |
4952ce48afc30405c07fa522af7549f3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/krepis | Krepis | Krepis
…a peripheral stone ring, or krepis. Some tholoi were built on the surface of the land, but most were built in a deep pit excavated into the slope of a hillside. The stones that were overlapped in rings to form the vault in the corbeled system were laid with a…
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3e827d9ebf1e582eefc2a8f5a6da6c70 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kreuzzeitung | Kreuzzeitung | Kreuzzeitung
The founding of the Kreuzzeitung gave him a platform from which to expound his conservative views. A strong Christian, Ludwig advocated freedom of the church from state interference and the formation of Protestants and Catholics into one conservative political bloc. He influenced practical politics chiefly... |
ed85763252cda53ba855c6cf894ced00 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Krik-Krak | Krik? Krak! | Krik? Krak!
The following year Krik? Krak!, a collection of short stories, was published. The collection, which took its title from a call-and-response phrase common in Haitian storytelling, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), used as its title the Haitian…
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1cb0999d4b3ce79566361e88b30099b2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kristall | Kristall | Kristall
…equipment and a large airlock; Kristall (1990), a materials-sciences laboratory; and Spektr (1995) and Priroda (1996), two science modules containing remote-sensing instruments for ecological and environmental studies of Earth. With the exception of its first occupants, Mir’s cosmonaut crews traveled between ... |
7f503b0060bf7935d79b64b68d46e020 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Krupp-AG | Krupp AG | Krupp AG
Krupp AG, also known as Fried. Krupp, former German corporation that was one of the world’s principal steelmakers and arms manufacturers until the end of World War II. For the rest of the 20th century it was an important manufacturer of industrial machinery and materials. It became a limited-liability company... |
76bdce4475c380be3129c87eb48bb4a9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Krypteia | Krypteia | Krypteia
…the Spartan secret police, the Krypteia, to patrol the Laconian countryside and put to death any supposedly dangerous helots. Sparta’s conservative foreign policy is often attributed to the fear of revolts by the helots. During wartime helots attended their masters on campaign and served as light-armed troops... |
6c505a38cc0fc48b74507749a6b8f10c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kryz-language | Kryz language | Kryz language
…11,000); Archi (fewer than 1,000); Kryz (about 6,000); Budukh (about 2,000); Khinalug (about 1,500); and Udi (about 3,700). The majority of Lezgi languages are spoken in southern Dagestan, but some of them (Kryz, Budukh, Khinalug, Udi) are spoken chiefly in Azerbaijan; and one village of Udi speakers is ... |
fb10d69c19501f3b4427a278a8cce77f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kuala | Kuala | Kuala
Kuala, also called kua, in Finno-Ugric religion, a small, windowless, and floorless log shrine erected by the Udmurt people for the worship of their family ancestors.
The term kuala is etymologically related to similar words in other Finno-Ugric languages, such as kola (Zyryan), kota (Finnish), and koda (Estoni... |
a1a6b34fd3f43841e66d3399dabaa545 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kubla-Khan | Kubla Khan | Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan, in full Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream, poetic fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816. According to Coleridge, he composed the 54-line work while under the influence of laudanum, a form of opium. Coleridge believed that several hundred lines of the poem had come to him in a ... |
8231d6bd72dee5bf687df83cd69a9c35 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kulturphilosophie | Kulturphilosophie | Kulturphilosophie
…was moved to write his Kulturphilosophie (1923; “Philosophy of Civilization”), in which he set forth his personal philosophy of “reverence for life,” an ethical principle involving all living things, which he believed essential to the survival of civilization.
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1e56d06d5e5d03317a924eec6aed3d55 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kumarasambhava | Kumarasambhava | Kumarasambhava
Kumarasambhava, (Sanskrit: “Birth of Kumara”) epic poem by Kalidasa written in the 5th century ce. The work describes the courting of the ascetic Shiva, who is meditating in the mountains, by Parvati, the daughter of the Himalayas; the conflagration of Kama (the god of desire)—after his arrow struck Shi... |
8d3ddfe93b35666b165a34e5a4bc7488 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kumbet-Camii | Kümbet Camii | Kümbet Camii
Kars’s historical buildings include Kümbet Camii (“Church of the Apostles”), an Armenian church that was converted into a mosque; a bath dating from the Ottoman period; and an old citadel overhanging the river that was once a strong military post (probably late 16th century). The region around Kars was…
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1768cb6315731ff78f85d88e10f49792 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kundalini | Kuṇḍalinī | Kuṇḍalinī
Kuṇḍalinī, in some Tantric (esoteric) forms of Yoga, the cosmic energy that is believed to lie within everyone, pictured as a coiled serpent lying at the base of the spine. In the practice of Laya Yoga (“Union of Mergence”), the adept is instructed to awaken the kuṇḍalinī, also identified with the deity Sha... |
f4467c9bb6c2caedd9e822e383dbf18d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kung | !Kung | !Kung
…but groups such as the !Kung build light-framed shelters of sticks and saplings covered with grass. Other hunter-gatherers, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, live in dry savanna territory, which contains a wide range of game animals. Their domed dwellings of tied branches are given a thick thatch in winter.…
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f79a0d08cd36fffc5a09dfea256bbb8f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kuro-Current | Kuro Current | Kuro Current
This flow, known as the Kuro Current, moves north as far as Japan, then east as the North Pacific Current (West Wind Drift), part of which then turns south as the California Current, which joins the equatorial countercurrent to form the Pacific North Equatorial Current.
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04e42c26cacb23ed6d5a8dc044cdbcb0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kurodo-dokoro | Kurōdo-dokoro | Kurōdo-dokoro
Kurōdo-dokoro, Japanese bureau of archivists originally established for the transmission and receipt of documents for the emperor. Initiated by the emperor Saga in 810, the Kurōdo-dokoro soon became the major organ for conveying memorials to the emperor and issuing imperial decrees. During the Heian peri... |
29e21dfdb602f20aacfec3466541941b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kuru-Pancala | Kuru-Pancala | Kuru-Pancala
…the greatest respect, was the Kuru-Pancala, which incorporated the two families of Kuru and Puru (and the earlier Bharatas) and of which the Pancala was a confederation of lesser-known tribes. They occupied the upper Ganges–Yamuna Doab and the Kurukshetra region. In the north the Kamboja, Gandhara, and Ma... |
4ec7975f376b012b1537dbc6bb258a49 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kwangmyongsong | Kwangmyŏngsŏng | Kwangmyŏngsŏng
Kwangmyŏngsŏng, (Korean: “Bright Star”) any of a North Korean series of satellites. The first successful satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng 3, entered orbit on December 12, 2012. It was launched from Sŏhae in North P’yŏngan province by an Unha-3 (Korean: “Galaxy-3”) launch vehicle, which was a version of the Unh... |
a2e0430806eb0ecf3f04f822120c02e1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kwena | Kwena | Kwena
…the east and even the Kwena and Hurutshe in the west were strong enough to avoid being conscripted as labour and thus limited the labour supply.
…of southern Sotho people, the Kwena and the Tlokwa. The Orange Free State’s government settled these peoples at Witsieshoek and in the surrounding area in the 1870s by... |
30ba6a77ef8e5470e2cef62f5400dc5a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kyodo-Tsushinsha | Kyōdō Tsūshinsha | Kyōdō Tsūshinsha
Kyōdō Tsūshinsha, (Japanese: “Cooperative News Agency”) national nonprofit news agency founded in November 1945 to replace the pre-World War II Dōmei Tsūshinsha (“Federated News Agency”), which had served as the official news service of the Japanese government since 1936. Despite competition from the ... |
ac296da6b8a513166d84706725adbda7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kyoto-University | Kyōto University | Kyōto University
Kyōto University, Japanese Kyōto Daigaku, coeducational state institution of higher education in Kyōto, Japan. It was founded in 1897 under the provisions of an 1872 Japanese law that established a system of imperial universities admitting small numbers of carefully selected students to be trained as ... |
b37d224e9f3696b338ed4e7ed1087e8c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kyrie-religion | Kyrie | Kyrie
Kyrie, the vocative case of the Greek word kyrios (“lord”). The word Kyrie is used in the Septuagint, the earliest Greek translation of the Old Testament, to translate the Hebrew word Yahweh. In the New Testament, Kyrie is the title given to Christ, as in Philippians 2:11. As part of the Greek formula Kyrie ele... |
2e07858d683419b7e2b4ae5c3c5b14a3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Bagarre | La Bagarre | La Bagarre
…orchestral works Half-Time (1924) and La Bagarre (1927) were inspired by contemporary events, respectively a Czech-French football (soccer) game and the crowds that met Charles Lindbergh’s plane as it ended its transatlantic flight. Of his later works, the Concerto grosso for chamber orchestra (1941) uses ... |
8d9d33232614662cc6a12c43dcec77c9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Barraca | La Barraca | La Barraca
…a traveling student theatre group, La Barraca (the name of makeshift wooden stalls housing puppet shows and popular fairs in Spain), sponsored by the country’s progressive new Republican government.
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d4866164a49ce548d0c6075181b3fe43 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Boheme-opera-by-Puccini/Act-II | Act II | Act II
A few minutes later, in the Latin Quarter.
Vendors hawk their holiday wares in the busy Latin Quarter. Schaunard tries out a horn; Colline gets his coat mended and buys a rare book; Rodolfo buys Mimì a pink bonnet; and Marcello flirts with the girls. Everyone meets at Café Momus, where Rodolfo introduces Mimì to... |
03f95e4b110a8fefba6eb31452be7288 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Boheme-opera-by-Puccini/Act-IV | Act IV | Act IV
Several months later in the garret.
Marcello and Rodolfo are working but are also tormenting each other with remarks about Musetta and Mimì and pretending to be unaffected. Finally, neither can stand it any longer. Marcello furtively removes a ribbon from his pocket and kisses it; Rodolfo does the same with the ... |
4aae9e3d18c554cd7c33537e6f1d5e3c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-caduta-de-giganti | La caduta de’ giganti | La caduta de’ giganti
…a performance of Gluck’s opera La caduta de’ giganti on Jan. 17, 1746; the libretto, by A.F. Vanneschi, glorified the hero of the day, the Duke of Cumberland, after his victory at Culloden over the forces of Prince Charles Edward, the Stuart claimant to the British throne. This work, as…
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b029a7602274102d27c01b391b32728b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-capanna-indiana | La capanna indiana | La capanna indiana
…moved to Rome and published La capanna indiana (1951; revised and enlarged, 1955, 1973; “The Indian Hut”), which discusses his struggle for peace and privacy in a turbulent world. The work earned Bertolucci the Premio Viareggio, one of Italy’s most prestigious literary awards, in 1951. La camera da ... |
763e33dd1fd6aea8246f65fbb3183931 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Chute-dun-ange | La Chute d’un ange | La Chute d’un ange
…poem under the appropriate title La Chute d’un ange (“The Fall of an Angel”). In 1832–33 he travelled to Lebanon, Syria, and the Holy Land. He had by then definitively lost the Catholic faith he had tried to recover in 1820; a further blow was the death in Beirut, on…
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0fbc96d57f510ba51ef3907f5e6ce295 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Compagnie-des-Quinze | La Compagnie des Quinze | La Compagnie des Quinze
…an outgrowth of that company, La Compagnie des Quinze, which reopened the Vieux-Colombier with André Obey’s Noé (“Noah”) in 1931 and went on to produce several other highly acclaimed productions that eventually toured England.
nephew, Michel Saint-Denis, formed the Compagnie des Quinze in 1930 ... |
5f792ba08f47337c424f60f56648788b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Croqueuse-de-diamants | La Croqueuse de diamants | La Croqueuse de diamants
…circus performers; the imaginative creation La Croqueuse de diamants (1950; “The Diamond Cruncher”), whose heroine eats the gems her associates steal; and L’Oeuf à la coque (1949; “The Soft-Boiled Egg”), in which the leading female dancer hatches from an egg in hell. Carmen (1949) was one of P... |
2eb51cd8a873c36a6e2a712622f3febb | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Flute-a-Siebel | La Flute à Siebel | La Flute à Siebel
…one important collection of verse, La Flute à Siebel (1887; “The Flute of Siebel”), made up of deft and clever little poems in the Parnassian style. Yet his poetry was closest in feeling to that of Heinrich Heine, Jules Laforgue, and Paul Verlaine.
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e2f1a2eb89fe9844ea80989c46e9d2f0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Geometrie | La Géométrie | La Géométrie
Descartes’s La Géométrie appeared in 1637 as an appendix to his famous Discourse on Method, the treatise that presented the foundation of his philosophical system. Although supposedly an example from mathematics of his rational method, La Géométrie was a technical treatise understandable independently of p... |
193a09be36a65220fb8fcedb1df38380 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Guardia-Airport | La Guardia Airport | La Guardia Airport
…at New York City (La Guardia), London (Croydon), Paris (Le Bourget), and Berlin (Tempelhof) were laid out on sites close to the city centres. Because even transport aircraft of the period were relatively light, paved runways were a rarity. Croydon, Tempelhof, and Le Bourget, for example, all operate... |
41f6828d49f9dffa9982c59b2d6e1fb6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Langue-des-calculs | La Langue des calculs | La Langue des calculs
…works La Logique (1780) and La Langue des calculs (1798; “The Language of Calculation”), Condillac emphasized the importance of language in logical reasoning, stressing the need for a scientifically designed language and for mathematical calculation as its basis. His economic views, which were pr... |
8ed6990ae4072ba78b8dc215ae2f5df4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Legende-dun-peuple | La Légende d’un peuple | La Légende d’un peuple
…liberal nationalism, Fréchette then wrote La Légende d’un peuple (1887; “The Story of a People”), his famous cycle of poems that was an epic chronicle of Canadian history. Other works include Poésies choisies (1908; “Selected Poems”); the prose stories in Originaux et détraqués (1892; “Eccentric... |
9ba7eb5d11dc26f3e9bdaff8180a02a0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Modalite-du-jugement | La Modalité du jugement | La Modalité du jugement
…his widely acclaimed doctoral thesis, La Modalité du jugement (1897; Sorbonne), Brunschvicg set down his fundamental assertion that knowledge creates the only world we know. He maintained that there can be no philosophy beyond judgment, for judgment is the first activity of the mind and synthes... |
09cd5019810c3d550a7e353f7cf37783 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Nacion | La Nación | La Nación
…critic in Buenos Aires for La Nación, and then he was editor in chief (1962–69) of the magazine Primera Plana. From 1969 to 1970 he served as a reporter in Paris, and from 1970 to 1972 he was the director of the magazine Panorama. For three years (1972–75) Martínez was…
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105bc9d8376bcda540d20bde7c8469bb | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Plainte-au-loin-du-faune | La Plainte au loin du faune | La Plainte au loin du faune
…admirer Claude Debussy, the evocative La Plainte au loin du faune (1920), and a song setting, the charming “Sonnet de Ronsard” (1924). A few weeks before his death, he destroyed several of his musical manuscripts. Dukas collaborated with the Paris publishing firm of Durand in preparing mode... |
d4f458a19d2516db5f835fda8e266d71 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Pleiade-French-literary-series | La Pléiade | La Pléiade
…firm also published the well-known La Pléiade series of French literary classics (acquired 1933) as well as the Série Noire, a series of some 2,000 thrillers, detective novels, and spy stories.
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7cc43cb9cbee193821f2ce484dfc1ce8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Rencontre-imprevue | La Rencontre imprévue | La Rencontre imprévue
In La Rencontre imprévue, first performed in Vienna on Jan. 7, 1764, no vaudeville elements remain at all, with the result that the work is a perfect example of opéra comique. Gluck gave the scores of Le Cadi dupé and La Rencontre imprévue particular charm by…
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3ec3d6b68c819b9176b64721238543f1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Revue-Blanche | La Revue Blanche | La Revue Blanche
…it inspired its own periodical, La Revue Blanche, and Le Théâtre de l’Oeuvre (both founded in Paris in 1891). There were exhibitions twice a year at a Paris gallery, Le Barc de Boutteville, from 1891 to 1897.
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d3b6c953c5b19ebbeef8343fb5077bc0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Salle-University | La Salle University | La Salle University
La Salle University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is operated by the Christian Brothers, a teaching order of the Roman Catholic church. It comprises schools of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, and Nursing, offering a range o... |
b91a20371e12675a490d23f5e4c30ef3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-serva-padrona | La serva padrona | La serva padrona
…Pozzuoli), Italian composer whose intermezzo La serva padrona (“The Maid Turned Mistress”) was one of the most celebrated stage works of the 18th century.
…as La serva padrona (1733; The Maid Mistress), by the Neapolitan composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. From the early, tentative efforts of severa... |
795028728ef2e3b87c98f3ada6033ff4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-strada-film-by-Fellini | La strada | La strada
With La strada (1954; “The Road”), Fellini returned to the world of showmen. It starred Anthony Quinn as Zampanò, a brutish but phoney itinerant "strong man," and Masina as the waif who loves him. The film was shot on desolate locations between Viterbo and Abruzzi, mean…
>film of the same name by Federico Fel... |
5aa5b1348271e53e1fe75ddebb911c97 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-strada-film-score-by-Rota | La strada | La strada
La strada, (Italian: “The Street” or “The Road”) film score by Italian composer Nino Rota for the 1954 film of the same name by Federico Fellini. Rota’s music was one of the relatively rare European film scores to attract wide attention in the United States as well.
Many European composers of Rota’s generati... |
c7dbb0131256f34a07087045b3d5e0c0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-sucesion-presidencial-en-1910 | La sucesión presidencial en 1910 | La sucesión presidencial en 1910
…immensely successful book by Madero, La sucesión presidencial en 1910 (1908; “The Presidential Succession in 1910”), in which he called for honest elections, mass participation in the political process, and no reelection to the office of president. The political scene became even more ... |
11c1c24ad185c14c143b04af1247b0a5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Victoria-de-Junin-Canto-a-Bolivar | La Victoria de Junín: Canto a Bolívar | La Victoria de Junín: Canto a Bolívar
…which he is best remembered, La victoria de Junín: Canto a Bolívar (1825; “The Victory at Junín: Song to Bolívar”), commemorates the decisive battle won there by the forces of the liberator Simón Bolívar against the Spanish armies. Neoclassical in form, yet Romantic in inspiration... |
5f59667e100f8996d0b26a2dafffa29b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Vie-de-Marianne | La Vie de Marianne | La Vie de Marianne
La Vie de Marianne (1731–41), which preceded Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740), anticipates the novel of sensibility in its glorification of a woman’s feelings and intuition. Le Paysan parvenu (1734–35; “The Fortunate Peasant”) is the story of a handsome opportunistic young peasant who uses his attra... |
d1f547c8f2e592381e420ce6397b3170 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Vie-en-rose-film-by-Dahan | La Vie en rose | La Vie en rose
…Môme (2007; also released as La Vie en rose) propelled her to international fame.
…Môme (2007; also released as La Vie en rose) he portrayed the nightclub impresario who discovered Edith Piaf. He later appeared as a crime boss in the true-life gangster movie L’Instinct de mort (2008; Mesrine: Killer Ins... |
37a69f9da714fa0b3a5274ad838b24ae | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Violencia | La Violencia | La Violencia
Liberal hegemony continued through the 1930s and the World War II era, and Alfonso López Pumarejo was reelected in 1942; however, wartime conditions were not favourable to social change. In the elections of 1946, two Liberal candidates, Gabriel Turbay…
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60b21e6d44052067a76d4c9b5a1892ba | https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-Vita-nuova | La vita nuova | La vita nuova
La vita nuova, (Italian: “The New Life”) work written about 1293 by Dante regarding his feelings for Beatrice, who comes to represent for Dante the ideal woman. La vita nuova describes Dante’s first sight of Beatrice when both are nine years of age, her salutation when they are 18, Dante’s expedients to ... |
afd56444b4acbf03a6dd73479dfa819b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Labhani | Labhani | Labhani
…Banjari or Vanjari (also called Labhani), originally from Rajasthan and related to the Roma (Gypsies) of Europe, roams over large areas of central India and the Deccan, largely as agricultural labourers and construction workers. Many tribal peoples practice similar occupations seasonally. Shepherds, largely of... |
ead5f7a172006c76f72d59fc4e11422b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/labour-economics/Pay-incentives | Pay incentives | Pay incentives
By contrast, there are a great variety of devices that use pay as a positive motivator. The most common method of payment is according to the duration of time worked—by hour, week, month, or year. But additional merit payments may be added on at the discretion of management as rewards for good performanc... |
64db0ce2bd4cfbb494afa10a1f7d48ad | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lacerba | Lacerba | Lacerba
…he founded another Florentine periodical, Lacerba (1913), to further its aims. In 1921 Papini was reconverted to the Roman Catholicism in which he had been reared. A number of religious works followed, notably Storia di Cristo (1921; The Story of Christ), a vivid and realistic re-creation of the life of…
(1904... |
16130b122fb6610d543dc6efc2951f62 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/LAction-essai-dune-critique-de-la-vie-et-dune-science-de-la-pratique | L’Action essai d’une critique de la vie et d’une science de la pratique | L’Action essai d’une critique de la vie et d’une science de la pratique
…first formulated his philosophy in L’Action: essai d’une critique de la vie et d’une science de la pratique (1893; Action: Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice). Blondel was influenced by the theory that belief is a matter of will... |
8a6988af559e1e68c9e5c3bc63e70b7b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/LAction-francaise | L’Action française | L’Action française
Action Française was also the name of a daily newspaper (published from March 21, 1908, to Aug. 24, 1944) that expressed the group’s ideas.
…he and Charles Maurras refashioned L’Action française into a daily paper of avowedly reactionary, nationalist, and royalist opinion. Daudet had published an ant... |
ccf36bb4c4a44e34aee9ac37d2cddc55 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lad-serca | Ład serca | Ład serca
…was followed by the novel Ład serca (1938; “Heart’s Harmony”), in which Andrzejewski tried to find in Roman Catholic teachings solutions to the problems of contemporary life. During the German occupation of World War II, he participated in the Polish underground.
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6c50751a87ce5a9d529c541caaf075f3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/lady | Lady | Lady
Lady, in the British Isles, a general title for any peeress below the rank of duchess and also for the wife of a baronet or of a knight. Before the Hanoverian succession, when the use of “princess” became settled practice, royal daughters were styled Lady Forename or the Lady Forename. “Lady” is ordinarily used a... |
97ce576336610124e444892825d521ac | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lady-Anne | Lady Anne | Lady Anne
He woos and marries Lady Anne, whose husband (Edward, prince of Wales) and father-in-law he has murdered, and then arranges for Anne’s death as well once she is no longer useful to him. He displays his animosity toward King Edward’s wife and then widow, Queen Elizabeth, by arranging for…
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4821e72da4293a6dfb290a076e1d0a9d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lady-Chatterleys-Lover | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in a limited English-language edition in Florence (1928) and in Paris (1929). It was first published in England in an expurgated version in 1932. The full text was published only in 1959 in New York City and in 1960 in London, when it ... |
3d144f81a014c34294aedd5f4d1b708b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lady-for-a-Day | Lady for a Day | Lady for a Day
…Capra’s next film, the sentimental Lady for a Day (1933), was. Capra both produced and directed Riskin’s adaptation of Damon Runyon’s short story “Madame La Gimp.” It concerned a decrepit peddler, Apple Annie (May Robson), who enlists a sympathetic gangster (Warren William) to transform her into a socie... |
1a9391ab7ccb1bf2939f352e0b71f80b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lady-Sings-the-Blues-film-by-Furie | Lady Sings the Blues | Lady Sings the Blues
…and began producing films, including Lady Sings the Blues (1972), featuring Ross in her film debut as Billie Holiday. By the mid-1980s the company boasted annual revenues in excess of \$100 million, and Motown acts had recorded more than 50 number one hits on the Billboard pop singles chart. Facin... |
97ffcb4f8470e573f609c3003a8791a9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Laestrygones | Laestrygones | Laestrygones
Laestrygones, also spelled Laestrygonians or Lestrygonians, fictional race of cannibalistic giants described in Book 10 of Homer’s Odyssey. When Odysseus and his men land on the island native to the Laestrygones, the giants pelt Odysseus’s ships with boulders, sinking all but Odysseus’s own ship.
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de0e5ba37b358a8f9402deaa851c4b4d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lafayette-College | Lafayette College | Lafayette College
Lafayette College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The college is dedicated solely to undergraduate education and awards bachelor’s degrees in arts, sciences, and engineering. Students can choo... |
7af214fed725ec4586e9e741653c4a66 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Laffer-curve | Laffer curve | Laffer curve
Laffer drew the famous Laffer curve, which showed that, starting from a zero tax rate, increases in tax rates will increase the government’s tax revenue but that, at some point, when the rates become high enough, further increases in tax rates will decrease revenue. This occurs because higher tax…
…among o... |
8d918e7682f6d8aaef8362125a49020d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Laguna-people | Laguna | Laguna
Acoma, and Laguna. As farmers, Ancestral Pueblo peoples and their nomadic neighbours were often mutually hostile; this is the source of the term Anasazi, a Navajo word meaning “ancestors of the enemy,” which once served as the customary scientific name for this group.
Acoma, and Laguna villages, all in western N... |
bd6e92f5abfa997df568ac0a0c347af6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lai-de-lombre | Lai de l’ombre | Lai de l’ombre
…defends her reputation; and the Lai de l’ombre, about a knight who presses a ring on his lady and, when she refuses it, throws it to her reflection in a well—a gesture that persuades her to accept him. Renart’s authorship of the first two works, which had each survived only…
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d64d5580f4e71be10915f5afd4323a39 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/LAllegro-poem-by-Milton | L'Allegro | L'Allegro
L’Allegro, early lyric poem by John Milton, written in 1631 and published in his Poems (1645). It was written in rhymed octosyllabics. A contrasting companion piece to his “Il Penseroso,” “L’Allegro” invokes the goddess Mirth, with whom the poet wants to live, first in pastoral simplicity and then amid the “... |
0ab393f2b50e03d30518c39c6a97db11 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lamante-fedele | L’amante fedele | L’amante fedele
His L’amante fedele (1953; “The Faithful Lover”), a collection of surrealistic stories, won Italy’s highest literary award, the Strega Prize.
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426a2aa56d59a906c726bfdd8c2a50ef | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lana-Sisters | Lana Sisters | Lana Sisters
…girl group known as the Lana Sisters. Reinventing herself as Dusty Springfield, she then joined her brother Dion (stage name Tom Springfield) in the British country-music trio the Springfields, who achieved moderate success in the early 1960s.
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490487aa94bfa71c52126b74035ac0b1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lancelot-by-Chretien-de-Troyes | Lancelot | Lancelot
…charette, she was rescued by Lancelot (a character whom Chrétien had earlier named as one of Arthur’s knights) from the land of Gorre, to which she had been taken by Meleagant (a version of the story that was incorporated in the 13th-century prose Vulgate cycle). Chrétien presented her as one…
…happy life wit... |
be82df37792f3c5fe5c321a8c5b48df6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lancome | Lancôme | Lancôme
…acquiring the luxury beauty brand Lancôme, the American cosmetics company Helena Rubinstein, and the American fashion retailer Ralph Lauren, among others, growing her wealth and making her one of the richest women in the world. In 1987 she and her family established the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, a chari... |
722c5f4951f52f74a5c2d709d8c5f5be | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Land-Apportionment-Act | Land Apportionment Act | Land Apportionment Act
The crucial legislation was the Land Apportionment Act of 1930, which barred African landownership outside the reserves, except in a special freehold purchase area set aside for “progressive farmers.” The best land was allocated to whites; less than one-third went to Africans, while about one-fif... |
61b8ee43fa5066637bb6e6630939d620 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Land-League | Land League | Land League
Land League, Irish agrarian organization that worked for the reform of the country’s landlord system under British rule. The league was founded in October 1879 by Michael Davitt, the son of an evicted tenant farmer and a member of the Fenian (Irish Republican) Brotherhood. Davitt asked Charles Stewart Par... |
9f9c3832326024c59e6581773a437713 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/land-reform/Mexico | Mexico | Mexico
The Mexican reform of 1915 followed a revolution and dealt mainly with lands of Indian villages that had been illegally absorbed by neighbouring haciendas (plantations). Legally there was no serfdom; but the Indian wage workers, or peons, were reduced to virtual serfdom through indebtedness. Thus, the landlords ... |
3767ed890a05263c0f0517843af83c45 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/land-use | Land use | Land use
…the largest issues in global land use. Estimates of deforestation traditionally are based on the area of forest cleared for human use, including removal of the trees for wood products and for croplands and grazing lands. In the practice of clear-cutting, all the trees are removed from the land, which…
There a... |
74d3426b8bc987924e3deb6646e64874 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/land-warfare | Land warfare | Land warfare
…article discusses the tactics of land warfare. For treatment of tactics on sea, see naval warfare, and for tactics in air combat, see air warfare.
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9f0e4da79c830f319293b52094d089ba | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Land-Without-Evil | Land-Without-Evil | Land-Without-Evil
…trek, in search of the Land-Without-Evil, which was believed to be somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. In 1910, another Apapocuva group attempted to reach the Land-Without-Evil by dancing feverishly for days, in the hope of becoming light enough to fly over the Atlantic Ocean. The present wide dispers... |
ea8a06435fee2635525752684464e943 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/landlord | Landlord and tenant | Landlord and tenant
Landlord and tenant, also called Lessor And Lessee, the parties to the leasing of real estate, whose relationship is bound by contract. The landlord, or lessor, as owner or possessor of a property—whether corporeal, such as lands or buildings, or incorporeal, such as rights of common or of way—agre... |
0467123d65d3693c90c60b7c3e81b103 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Landsgemeinden | Landsgemeinden | Landsgemeinden
…their ancient democratic assemblies (Landsgemeinden), in which all citizens of full age meet annually for the purpose of legislation, taxation, and the election of an annual administrative council and of the members of the cantonal supreme court. In the remaining cantons the legislature (Kantonsrat, Gro... |
a3db72e6c935fc0d9f8b339308d7f04f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/landskap | Landskap | Landskap
Landskap, traditional subdivision (province) of Sweden. The 25 landskap (provinces) developed during the pre-Viking and Viking eras and were independent political units with their own laws, judges, and councils. The division was based on geographical and cultural characteristics with which many people continu... |
3cbfccb4db86a9e477d9a3443f20f950 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/language-acquisition | Language acquisition | Language acquisition
In regard to the production of speech sounds, all typical humans are physiologically alike. It has been shown repeatedly that children learn the language of those who bring them up from infancy. These are often the biological parents, but one’s first language is…
The ability to speak was regarded b... |
001f67a1bf82afea294eb7fbf3f32020 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Language-by-Bloomfield | Language | Language
…version with the new title Language; this book dominated the field for the next 30 years. In it Bloomfield explicitly adopted a behaviouristic approach to the study of language, eschewing in the name of scientific objectivity all reference to mental or conceptual categories. Of particular consequence was his ... |
e9b2548424bf3574c74d0c277abed578 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/language-game | Language game | Language game
…of language in the various language games developed within different human activities and forms of life; and it was suggested that religious belief has its own autonomous validity, not subject to verificationist or scientific or other extraneous criteria. Statements about God and eternal life do not make... |
05657b04065955bcaa95cd109e6ed054 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Language-in-Action | Language in Action | Language in Action
His first book, Language in Action (1941), was a popular treatment of the semantic theories of Alfred Korzybski and was followed by years of teaching, writing, and lecturing in that field.
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3002e267510419e75a5edf724a5ab8c9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/language-isolate | Language isolate | Language isolate
…some 10 language families (including language isolates) that are native to Mesoamerica. The term “Mesoamerica” refers to a culture area originally defined by a number of culture traits shared among the pre-Columbian cultures of the geographical region that extends from the Pánuco River in northern Mex... |
34a1519788e4e2e0da6cc25746400a80 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Language-Truth-and-Logic | Language, Truth, and Logic | Language, Truth, and Logic
Having secured a fellowship at the college of Christ Church, Ayer spent part of 1933 in Vienna, where he attended meetings of the Vienna Circle, a group of mostly German and Austrian philosophers and scientists who were just then beginning to…
Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and deve... |
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