Leopold I
Leopold I. (164o-1705), Roman Emperor, Second Son Of The Emperor Ferdinand Iii. And His First Wife Maria Anna, Daugh Ter Of Philip Iii. Of Spain, Was Born On June 9, 1640. Leopold Was Intended For The Church, But The Death Of His Elder Brother, The German King Ferdinand Iv., In ...
Leopold I_2
Leopold I. (179o-1865), King Of The Belgians, Fourth Son Of Francis, Duke Of Saxe-coburg-saalfeld, And Uncle Of Queen Victoria Of England, Was Born At Coburg On Dec. 18, 1790. At The Age Of 18 He Entered The Military Service Of Russia, And Ac Companied The Emperor Alexander To Erfurt As ...
Leopold Ii 1747 1792
Leopold Ii. (1747-1792), Roman Emperor And Grand Duke Of Tuscany, Son Of The Empress Maria Theresa And Her Hus Band, Francis I., Was Born In Vienna On May 5, 1747. He Was A Third Son, And Was At First Educated For The Priesthood. On The Death Of His Elder Brother ...
Leopold Ii Leopold Louis
Leopold Ii. (leopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor) (1835-1909), King Of The Belgians, Son Of The Preceding, Was Born At Brussels On April 9, 1835. In 1846 He Was Created Duke Of Brabant, And Entered The Army. On Aug. 22, 1853, Leopold Mar Ried Marie Henriette (1836-1902), Daughter Of The Archduke ...
Leopold Iii 1901
Leopold Iii. (1901- ), King Of The Belgians, Was Born On Nov. 3, 1901, The Son Of Albert I. (q.v.), Whom He Succeeded On Feb. 17, 1934. He Married, On Nov. Io, 1926, Princess Astrid Of Sweden (1905-1935) ; And Of This Marriage Were Born Princess Josephine Charlotte (oct. Ii, ...
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera, The Name Used In Zoological Classification For That Order Of Insects Which Comprises The Butterflies And Moths. The Term (gr. Xeris, A Scale, And Rrep6p, A Wing) Was First Used By Linnaeus (1735) And Has Been Retained By All Naturalists After Him. Lepidoptera Are Among The Most Familiar And ...
Leprosy
Leprosy (lepra Arabum, Elephantiasis Graecorum), The Greatest Disease Of Mediaeval Christendom, Identified, On The One Hand, With A Disease Endemic From The Earliest Historical Times (15oo B.c.) In The Delta And Valley Of The Nile, And, On The Other Hand, With A Disease Now Common In Asia, Africa, South America, ...
Lerida
Lerida, The Capital Of The Spanish Province Of Lerida, On The River Segre And The Barcelona-saragossa And Lerida-tarragona Railways. Pop. (1930) 38,868. Lerida Is The Ilerda Of The Romans, And Was The Capital Of The People Whom They Called Ilerdenses (pliny) Or Ilergetes (ptolemy). By Situation The Key Of Catalonia ...
Lerwick
Lerwick, Police Burgh And Burgh Of Barony, Shetland, Scot Land, The Most Northerly Town In The British Isles. Pop. (1931) 4,221. It Is Situated On Bressay Sound, A Fine Natural Harbour On The East Coast Of The Island Calle'd Mainland, 115 M. N.e. Of Kirkwall, In Orkney, And 34o M. ...
Les Sables Dolonne
Les Sables D'olonne, A Seaport Of Western France, Capital Of An Arrondissement Of The Department Of Vendee, On An Inlet Of The Atlantic Seaboard, 23 M. S.w. Of La Roche-sur-yon By Rail. Pop. (1931) 13,258. Sables Was Founded By Basque Or Spanish Sailors And Invaded By The Normans In 817. ...
Lesbos
Lesbos, An Island In The Aegean Sea, 7-10 M. From The Coast Of Mysia, North Of The Gulf Of Smyrna, Formerly A Sanjak In The Archipelago Vilayet Of Turkey, But Annexed Since 1912 To Greece. Pop. (1920 And 1923 Estimate) 205,602. The Island Is Roughly Triangular; The Three Points Are ...
Lesdiguieres
Lesdiguieres, Francois De Bonne, Duc De (1543-1626), Constable Of France, Was Born At Saint-bonnet De Champsaur, On April 1, 1543. He Was Educated At Avignon Under A Protestant Tutor, And Had Begun The Study Of Law In Paris When He Enlisted As An Archer. He Joined The Huguenot Troops In ...
Lespedeza
Lespedeza. The Genus Lespedeza Of The Family Of Legumi Nosae Is Represented By 125 Species All Natives Of Eastern Asia And Eastern North America. This Peculiar Distribution Has Given Rise To The Theory That These Forms Developed In Eastern Asia From Which Some Migrated In Past Geologic Time By Way ...
Lethe
Lethe, "oblivion," In Greek Mythology, The Daughter Of Eris (hesiod, Theog. 227). Lethe Is Also The Name Of A River (or Plain, Aristophanes, Frogs, 186) In The Infernal Regions. Orphism (see The Petilia Tablet, Kern, Orphic. Frag., 32) Distinguished A Spring Of Memory And One Of Oblivion, And Near Lebadeia, ...
Letters Patent
Letters Patent. It Is Here Proposed To Consider Only The Characteristics Of Letters Patent Generally. The Law Relating To Letters Patent For Inventions Is Dealt With Under The Heading Patents ; See Also Monopoly. Letters Patent (litterae Patentes) Are Letters Addressed By The Sovereign "to All To Whom These Presents ...
Lettish Language
Lettish Language. The Lettish Language Is Very Closely Related To Lithuanian (q.v.). Their Phonetic Systems Are The Same, Except That Lettish Has Undergone Some Changes In Which Lithuanian Has Had No Share. Lettish Has Two Systems Of Orthography; In The Older One, The Language Is Written As If It Were ...
Lettres De Cachet
Lettres De Cachet. Considered Solely As French Documents Lettres De Cachet May Be Defined As Letters Signed By The King Of France, Countersigned By One Of His Ministers, And Closed With The Royal Seal (cachet). They Contained An Order Emanating Directly From The King, And Executory By Himself. In The ...
Lettuce
Lettuce, Known Botanically As Lactuca Sativa (family Compositae), A Hardy Annual, Highly Esteemed As A Salad Plant. It Is Generally Believed To Have Arisen From The Wild Species F. Scariola Which Grows Wild In Europe, Canary Isles, Madeira, Algeria, Abyssinia And Eastern Asia, And Has Become Naturalized In The United ...
Leucite Rocks
Leucite Rocks. Igneous Rocks Bearing Leucite, Though Quantitatively Scarce Are Of Wide Distribution, And Occur In Every Quarter Of The Globe, Apparently Excepting Britain. Taken Collectively They Exhibit A Considerable Variety Of Type And Are Of Great Petrographic Importance. Their Principal Developments Are Of Tertiary Or Recent Age And Include ...
Leuthen
Leuthen, A Village Of Prussian Silesia, Io M. W. Of Breslau, Memorable As The Scene Of Frederick The Great's Victory Over The Austrians On December 5, 1757. The High Road From Breslau To Luben Crosses The Marshy Schweidnitz Water At Lissa, And Immediately Enters The Rolling Country About Neumarkt. Leuthen ...
Levellers
Levellers, An Important Political Party In England During The Period Of The Civil War And The Commonwealth. The Germ Of The Levelling Movement Must Be Sought For Among The Agitators (q.v.), Men Of Strong Republican Views. The Name Leveller First Appears In A Letter Of Nov. 1 1647: "they Have ...
Lever Brothers Limited
Lever Brothers Limited. This British Joint Stock Soap Manufacturing Company Was Founded By The Late William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (q.v.). In 1887 Lever Bought 52ac. Of Land Near Birkenhead And Founded Port Sunlight. In 1889 Manufacture Was Begun In The First Soapery, A Comparatively Small Factory; In 1928 ...
Levirate
Levirate. In Ancient Hebrew Usage When A Man Died Without Sons, His Brother Was Required To Marry The Widow And Get A Son By Her, Who Was Counted The Son Of The Dead Man And So Carried On The Line. An Analogous Custom Existed In Vedic Times For It Appears ...
Levitation
Levitation, The Raising Of A Body In The Air Without Mechanical Means. The Tradition Of The Levitation Of The Human Body Is Ancient And Wide-spread. In The Puranas Of India There Is An Exact Sanskrit Equivalent, Laghiman (from Laghu, Light, Lat. Levis), Defined As "the Preternatural Power Of Making Oneself ...
Leviticus
Leviticus, In The Bible, The Third Book Of The Pentateuch. The Name Is Derived From That Of The Septuagint Version (rox€11€]lnk6v) (sc. (3(3x1ov), Though The English Form Is Due To The Latin Rendering Leviticus (sc. Liber). As A Descriptive Title Leviticus, "the Levitical Book," Is N.ot Inappropriate To The Con ...
Lewanika
Lewanika (c. 186o-1922), Paramount Chief Of The Barotse And Subject Tribes Occupying The Greater Part Of The Upper Zam Bezi Basin, Was The 22nd Of A Long Line Of Rulers, Whose Founder Invaded The Barotse Valley About The Beginning Of The 17th Cen Tury, And According To Tradition Was The ...
Lewistown
Lewistown, A Borough Of South-central Pennsylvania, U.s.a., On The Juniata River, 6om. N.w. Of Harrisburg; The County Seat Of Mifflin County. It Is On Federal Highways 22 And 522, And Is Served By The Pennsylvania Railroad. The Population Was In 1920 (97% Native White), And Was 13,357 In 1930 By ...
Lexington
Lexington, A City In The Heart Of The "blue Grass" Region Of Kentucky, U.s.a., 75m. S. Of Cincinnati; The County Seat Of Fayette County. It Is On Federal Highways 25, 27, 6o And 68, And Is Served By The Chesapeake And Ohio, The Louisville And Nash Ville, And The Southern ...
Lexington_2
Lexington, A City Of Missouri, U.s.a., 43m. E. Of Kansas City, On The South Bank Of The Missouri River; The County Seat Of Lafayette County. It Is On Federal Highway 24 And Is Served By The Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Population Was 4,695 In 4,595 In 193o. Lexington Is In ...
Lexington_3
Lexington, A Town Of Western Virginia, U.s.a., Near The Headwaters Of The Beautiful Shenandoah Valley, I,o5oft. Above Sea Level; The County Seat Of Rockbridge County. It Is On The Lee Highway, And Is Served By The Baltimore And Ohio And The Chesa Peake And Ohio Railways. The Population Was 2,87o ...
Leyden Jar
Leyden Jar. A Device For Storing Quantities Of Static Electricity Discovered Accidentally By P. Van Musschenbroek Of The University Of Leyden In 1745, And, Independently, By Von Kleist Of Kammin In Pomerania About The Same Time. The Name Appears To Have Originated In The Writings Of The Abbe Nollet. In ...
Leyden Or Leiden
Leyden Or Leiden, A City In The Province Of South Holland, The Kingdom Of The Netherlands, On The Old Rhine, And A Junction Station 18 M. By Rail S.s.w. Of Haarlem. It Is Con Nected By Steam Tramway With Haarlem And The Hague Respec Tively, And With The Seaside Resorts ...
Lhasa
Lhasa, The Capital Of Tibet. It Lies In 29° 39' N., 91° 5' E., 11,830 Ft. Above Sea-level. Owing To The Inaccessibility Of Tibet And The Political And Religious Exclusiveness Of The Lamas, Lhasa Was Long Closed To European Travellers, All Of Whom During The Latter Half Of The 19th ...
Lhopital
L'hopital (or L'hospital), Michel De (c. I5o5— 1573), French Statesman, Was Born Near Aigueperse In Auvergne (now Puy-de-dome). His Father, Who Was Physician To The Con Stable Charles Of Bourbon, Sent Him To Study At Toulouse, Whence At The Age Of Eighteen He Was Driven, A Consequence Of The Evil ...
Lianes Or Lianas
Lianes Or Lianas, A Term Applied Originally To The Climb Ing Plants—often Of Great Size And With Massive Stems—of Tropical Forests. Schimper Extended The Term To Include All Climbing Plants Wherever Occurring; The Ivy, The Honeysuckle And The Traveller's Joy (clematis Vitalba) Of The English Hedges Would Thus All Fall ...
Libel
Libel And Slander. The Law Recognizes In Every Man The Right To Have His Reputation Unassailed By False And Defama Tory Imputations. A Defamatory Imputation Is One Which Tends To Lower A Man In The Estimation Of Right-thinking Men, Or Cause Him To Be Shunned Or Avoided, Or Expose Him ...
Liber And Libera
Liber And Libera, A Pair Of Deities Of Uncertain Origin, Worshipped In Italy. The Name Liber Is Probably Connected With The Adj., Liber, Free, Less Likely With The Root Of Libare, To Pour Drink-offering. Both Etymologies Were Current In Antiquity. Modern Authorities Differ. The Name Cannot Be A Mere Transla ...
Liberal Party
Liberal Party, In Great Britain The Lineal Successor Of The Historic Whig Party. (see Whig And Tory.) The Change Of Name Represented A Widening Of Scope, Due To The Association With The Aristocratic Whigs Of New Elements, Forces And Ideas Which Rose Into Prominence During The First Three Decades Of ...
Liberia
Liberia, A Negro Republic In West Africa, Extending Along The Coast Of Northern Guinea, Between The British Colony Of Sierra Leone On The North-west, And The French Colony Of The Ivory Coast On The South-east. It Has A Coast Line Of Some 35o M., Its Greatest Depth Is 17o M. ...
Liberius
Liberius, Pope From 352 To 366, The Successor Of Julius I., Was Consecrated According To The Catalogus Liberianus On May 22. His First Recorded Act Was, After A Synod Had Been Held At Rome, To Write To Constantius, Then In Quarters At Arles 354), Asking That A Council Might Be ...
Libertad Or La Libertad
Libertad Or La Libertad, A Coast Department Of Peru Bounded North By Lambayeque, Cajamarca And Amazonas, East By San Martin, South By Huanuco And Ancachs And West By The Pacific. Pop. (est.) 380,000; Area 10,209 Square Miles. The Western Cordillera, Parallel With The Coast, Divides It Into Two Parts, The ...
Liberty Loans
Liberty Loans, The Name Given To The Four Loans Floated By The United States Of America During The World War. A Fifth Loan, Floated After The Armistice, Was Called Officially The Victory Liberty Loan, But More Generally The Fifth Liberty Loan. Be Tween May 14, 1917, When The First Liberty ...
Liberty Party
Liberty Party, The First Political Party Organized In The United States To Oppose The Spread And Restrict The Political Power Of Slavery, And The Lineal Precursor Of The Free Soil And Repub Lican Parties. It Originated In The Old North-west. Its Organiza Tion Was Preceded There By A Long Anti-slavery ...
Loch Leven
Leven, Loch, A Lake Of Kinross-shire, Scotland. It Is 3 M. Long And 24 M. Broad, And Is Situated Near The South And East Boundaries Of The Shire, 35o Ft. Above Sea-level. The Mean Depth Is Less Than 15 Ft., With A Maximum Of 83 Ft., The Lake Being Thus ...
Lorenzo Lawrence Laurentius
Lawrence (laurentius, Lorenzo) , St., Christian Mar Tyr, Whose Name Appears In The Canon Of The Mass, And Whose Festival Is On Aug. Io. The Basilica Reared Over His Tomb At Rome Is Still Visited By Pilgrims. Deacon Of The Pope (st.) Sixtus (xystus) Ii., He Was Called Upon By ...
Louis Rene De Caradeuc
La Chalotais, Louis Rene De Caradeuc De (1701-1785), French Jurist, Was Born At Rennes, On March 6, 1701. He Was For 6o Years Procureur General At The Parlement Of Brittany. He Was An Ardent Opponent Of The Jesuits And Drew Up In 1761 For The Parlement A Memoir On The ...
Louise Charlin Perrin Labe
Labe, Louise Charlin Perrin (d. 1566), French Poet, Called La Belle Cordiere, Was Born At Lyons, Probably Be Tween 1510 And 152o, The Daughter Of A Rich Ropemaker, Named Charley Or Charlin. At The Siege Of Perpignan She Is Said To Have Fought On Horseback In The Ranks Of The ...
Louise La Valliere
La Valliere, Louise Francoise De 1710 ) , Mistress Of Louis Xiv., Born At Tours On Aug. 6, 1644, The Daughter Of An Officer, Was Brought Up At The Court Of Gaston D'orleans At Blois, With The Younger Princesses, The Step-sisters Of La Grande Mademoiselle. After Gaston's Death His Widow ...
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus 1825
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus (1825 1893), American Statesman And Judge, Was Born In Putnam County (ga.), Sept. 17, 1825. His Father, Lucius Q. C. Lamar A Judge Of The Superior Court Of Georgia, Was The Compiler Of The Laws Of Georgia From 18w To Z8zg (1821). In 1845 Young Lamar ...
Luis Ponce De 1527 1591
Leon, Luis Ponce De (1527-1591), Spanish Poet And Mystic, Was Born At Belmonte De Cuenca, Entered The University Of Salamanca At The Age Of 14, And In Joined The Augustinian Order. In 1561 He Obtained A Theological Chair At Salamanca, To Which In 1571 Was Added That Of Sacred Literature. ...
M Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier, M. (whose Family Name Is Jeanneret) (1887– ), Swiss Architect, Was Born At La Chaux De Fonds, Near Neuchatel, In 1887. He Built His First House At The Age Of 17, And Shortly Afterwards Studied For A Time Under Auguste Perret, Who, With His Brother Was A Pioneer ...
Macgregor 1808 1861 Laird
Laird, Macgregor (1808-1861), Scottish Merchant, Pioneer Of British Trade On The Niger, Was Born At Greenock In 1808, The Younger Son Of William Laird, Founder Of The Birken Head Firm Of Shipbuilders Of That Name. In 1831 Laird And Certain Liverpool Merchants Formed A Company For The Commercial De Velopment ...
Machine Made Lace
Machine-made Lace Methods Of Manufacture.—lace Was First Made By Machinery In The Latter Half Of The 18th Century, And There Rapidly Formed An Extensive Industry. The Term "lace" Is Employed In Connection With Knitted Fabric When The Plain Stitch Is Altered By The Ad Dition Of A Series Of Points ...
Marcus Antistius Labeo
Labeo, Marcus Antistius (c. 50 B.c.—a.d. 18), Roman Jurist, Was The Son Of Pacuvius Antistius Labeo, Also A Jurist. A Member Of The Plebeian Nobility, And In Easy Circum Stances, The Younger Labeo Early Entered Public Life, And Soon Rose To The Praetorship; But His Undisguised Republican Sympathies, Somewhat Brusquely ...
Margaret Lennox
Lennox, Margaret, Countess Of (1515-1578), Daughter Of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl Of Angus, And Margaret Tudor, Daughter Of Henry Vii. Of England And Widow Of James Iv. Of Scotland, Was Born At Harbottle Castle, Northumberland, On Oct. 8, 1515. On Account Of Her Nearness To The English Crown, Lady Margaret ...
Marguerite De La Sabliere
La Sabliere, Marguerite De (c. Friend And Patron Of La Fontaine, Was The Wife Of Antoine Ram Bouillet, Sieur De La Sabliere (1624-1679), A Protestant Financier Entrusted With The Administration Of The Royal Estates, Her Maiden Name Being Marguerite Hessein. She Received An Excellent Educa Tion In Latin, Mathematics, Physics ...
Marie Joseph Paul Yves
La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis De ( 1 7 5 ) Was Born At The Château Of Chavaniac In Auvergne, France, On Sept. 6, 1757. The Family Of La Fayette, To The Cadet Branch Of Which He Belonged, Received Its Name From An Estate ...
Marie Madeleine Pioche De La
La Fayette, Marie-madeleine Pioche De La Vergne, Comtesse De (1634-1692), French Novelist, Was Baptized In Paris, On March 18, 1634. Her Father, Marc Pioche De La Vergne, Commandant Of Havre, Died When She Was 16, And Her Mother Seems To Have Been More Occupied With Her Own Than Her Daughter's ...
Marie Therese Louise Of
Lamballe, Marie Therese Louise Of Savoy-carignano, Princesse De (1749-1792), Fourth Daughter Of Louis Victor Of Carignano (d. Was Born At Turin On Sept. 8, 1749. In 1767 She Was Married To The Prince De Lamballe, Son Of The Duke Of Penthievre. Her Husband Dying The Following Year, She Retired With ...
Matthew Gregory 1775 1818 Lewis
Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818), English Romance-writer And Dramatist, Often Referred To As "monk" Lewis, Was Born In London On July 9, 1775. He Was Educated For A Diplomatic Career At Westminster School And At Christ Church, Oxford, Spending Most Of His Vacations Abroad In The Study Of Modern Languages; And ...
Max Von Lade
Lade, Max Von (1879– ), German Physicist, Was Born Oct. 9, 1879, At Pfaffendorf Near Coblenz. He Attended The Universities Of Strasbourg, Gottingen And Munich, And Became An Assistant In The University Of Berlin, And Later In Munich, Being Subsequently Called To The University Of Zurich As Pro Fessor. From ...
Meriwether 1774 1809 Lewis
Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809), American Explorer, Was Born Near Charlottesville, (va.), On Aug. 18, 1774. A Militia Man In The "whisky Insurrection," Officer Under Gen. Anthony Wayne, And From 18o1 To 1803 The Private Secretary Of President Jefferson, He Became Famous As Leader Of The First American Expedition Overland To The ...
Microscope Lenses
Microscope Lenses The Manufacture And Of Microscope Lenses Involves Peculiar Difficulties, From The Smallness Of The Lenses And Their Short Radii Of Curvature. The Lens Of A Microscope Is Always Either Hemispherical Or More Than Hemi Spherical In Shape, And Often Less Than In. Diameter. When It Is Borne In ...
Mikhail Larionovich Kutusov
Kutusov, Mikhail Larionovich, Prince Of Smolensk (1745-1813), Russian Field Marshal, Was Born On Sept. 16, 1745 At St. Petersburg (leningrad), And Entered The Russian Army In 1759 Or 1760. He Saw Active Service In Poland, 1764-69, And Against The Turks, 1770-74 ; Lost An Eye In Action In The Latter ...
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich Russian Poet And Novelist, Often Styled The Poet Of The Caucasus, Was Born In Moscow On Oct. 3, 1814, Of Scottish Descent, But Belonged To A Respectable Family Of The Tula Government, And Was Brought Up In The Village Of Tarkhanui (in The Penza Govern Ment). From ...
Nathaniel Lee
Lee, Nathaniel (c. 1653-1692), English Dramatist, Son Of Dr. Richard Lee, A Presbyterian Divine, Was Born Probably In 1653. Lee Was Educated At Westminster School, And At Trinity College, Cambridge, Taking His B.a. Degree In 1668. Coming To London Under The Patronage, It Is Said, Of The Duke Of Bucking ...
Nepomucene Lemercier
Lemercier, Nepomucene French Poet And Dramatist, Was Born In Paris On April 21, 1771. His Father Had Been Intendant Successively To The Duc De Penthievre, The Comte De Toulouse And The Unfortunate Princesse De Lamballe, Who Was The Boy's Godmother. Lemercier Wrote His Tragedy Of Meleagre, Produced At The Theatre ...
Nicolas Largilliere
Largilliere, Nicolas French Painter, Was Born At Paris On Oct. 20, 1656. His Father, A Merchant, Took Him To Antwerp At The Age Of Three. He Was The Pupil Of Goubeau In Antwerp And At The Age Of 18 Went To England, Where He Was Befriended By Lely, Who Employed ...
Nikolai Semenovich 1831 1895 Leskov
Leskov, Nikolai Semenovich (1831-1895), Rus Sian Novelist, Was Born At Orel On Feb. 16, 1831, Became Estate Agent To An Englishman Who Managed The Estates Of The Counts Perovsky, And In This Way Learned To Know Russian Village Life. About 1862 He Settled In St. Petersburg, Where He Spent Most ...
Nikolaus Lenau
Lenau, Nikolaus, The Pseudonym Of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Von Strehlenau (1802-1850), Austrian Poet, Who Was Born At Csatad Near Temesvar In Hungary, On Aug. 15, 1802. In 1819 The Boy Went To The University Of Vienna ; He Subsequently Studied Hungarian Law At Pressburg And Then Spent The Best Part ...
Ninon De 1615 1705 Lenclos
Lenclos, Ninon De (1615-1705), The Daughter Of A Gentleman Of Good Position In Touraine, Was Born In Paris In November 1615. Her Long And Eventful Life Divides Into Two Periods, During The Former Of Which She Was The Typical French Woman Of The Gayest And Most Licentious Society Of The ...
Orlando Lasso Lassus
Lasso (lassus), Orlando (c. Belgian Musical Composer, Whose Real Name Was Probably Roland Delattre, Was Born At Mons In Hainault, Not Much Earlier Than 1532. He Seems To Have Visited England In 1554 And To Have Been Intro Duced To Cardinal Pole, To Whom An Adulatory Motet Appears In 1556. ...
Or Levites
Levites, Or Sons Of Levi (son Of Jacob By Leah), A Sacred Caste In Ancient Israel, The Guardians Of The Temple Service At Jerusalem. Place In Ritual.—in The Developed Hierarchical System The Ministers Of The Sanctuary Are Divided Into Distinct Grades. All Are "levites" By Descent, And Are Thus Correlated ...