Ljubljana
Ljubljana, A Town Of Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Pop. (1931) Mostly Slovenes. It Is An Episcopal See, Founded In 1461, With A Renaissance Cathedral, Lavishly Frescoed, And Several Beau Tiful Churches. There Is A High School, A Technical School, A School Of Music, A University, A Museum, A Chamber Of Commerce, Several ...
Llantrisant
Llantrisant, A Town Of Glamorganshire, Wales, Situ Ated Where The Hill Lands Of The County Abut On To The Vale. It Is Served By The G.w.r. Though The Station Is 2 M. S. Of The Town (cross Inn Station M.). Pop. (parish, 1921) 21,946; In 1901, 10,091. The Castle Dates ...
Lloyd George As Premier
Lloyd George As Premier The New War Policy.—there Was Nothing Left For Lloyd George But To Accept The Call. He Attempted To Rally All Parties Behind Him. He Succeeded With The Conservatives And The Labour Party, And A Certain Number Of Liberals. But The Bulk Of The Liberal Ex-ministers Stood ...
Lloyds
Lloyd's. The Corporatidn Of Lloyd's, Which In March 1928 Entered Into Possession Of A Fine Building Erected For It From The Designs Of Sir Edwin Cooper, F.r.i.b.a., Upon The Site Of The East India House, Is An Ancient London Institution In Which All Forms Of Insurance, Excepting Life Insurance, Can ...
Lloyds Bank Limited
Lloyds Bank Limited, One Of The Great British Joint Stock Banking Companies Familiarly Known As The "big Five." It Was Established In Birmingham In 1865 As Lloyds Banking Co., Ltd., Amalgamating Lloyds And Company (which Began Business As Early As 1765) And Moilliet And Sons. This Was A Direct Out ...
Lloyds Register Of Shipping
Lloyd's Register Of Shipping. A Society With Head Office In London, For The Survey And Classification Of Mer Cantile Shipping And Which May Be Said To Have Set The Rec Ognized Standard For The Construction Of Vessels Throughout The World During The Last Century. In All Essentials It Is A ...
Lobbying
Lobbying, In The United States, Is The Practice By Non Members Of Influencing Members Of Legislative Bodies Either For Or Against Proposed Legislation. Such Influence May Be Exerted By Entirely Open And Desirable Methods, As Giving Testimony Before Congressional Committees Or Bringing Printed Literature To The Attention Of Congressmen, By ...
Lobelia
Lobelia, The Typical Genus Of The Tribe Lobelieae, Of The Family Campanulaceae, Named After Matthias De Lobel, A Native Of Lille, Botanist And Physician To James I. It Numbers About 220 Species, Natives Of Nearly All The Temperate And Warmer Regions Of The World, Excepting Central And Eastern Europe As ...
Lobster
Lobster, An Edible Crustacean Found On The Coasts Of The North Atlantic And Mediterranean. The Name Is Sometimes Loosely Applied To Any Of The Larger Crus Tacea Of The Macrurous Decapo Da, Especially To Such As Are Used For Food. The True Lobsters, Forming The Family Homaridae, Are Distin Guished ...
Local Option
Local Option. In Its Application To The Drink Trade, Local Option May Be Described As A Policy Of Decentralization Which Transfers The Question Of The Continuance Or Non-continu Ance Of The Common Sale Of Alcoholic Beverages From The Central Authority To The Registered Electors In Each Local Area. It Is ...
Lock
Lock. A Mechanical Device For Securely Fastening A Door Or Lid, Usually Including A Sliding Bolt Which May Be Shot By A Removable Key. The Egyptian Locksmith Was Probably The First Whose Products Have Been Preserved. One Of His Locks Was Found In The Ruins Of Nineveh, And Was Apparently ...
Lock Nut
Lock-nut. Whenever A Nut On A Bolt Or Stud Or Shaft Is Subjected To Vibration It Is Likely To Work Loose ; Therefore, In The Majority Of Prime Movers And Power-driven Machinery, Lock Nuts Are To Be Found. These Either Give A Frictional Grip Suf Ficient To Withstand Jarring Loose, ...
Lockes Works
Locke's Works Locke's Writings Have Made His Intellectual And Moral Features Familiar. Large, "round-about" Common Sense, Intellectual Strength Directed By A Virtuous Purpose, Not Subtle Or Daring Speculation, Sustained By An Idealizing Faculty, Is What We Find In Locke. Defect In Speculative Imagination Appears When He En Counters The Vast ...
Locomotion Of Animals
Locomotion Of Animals. It Is Characteristic Of Animals That They Can Move About In Search Of Food, Foothold And Mates, Or Away From Enemies And Hurtful Influences; This Locomo Tion Is Effected In A Great Variety Of Ways. Among Multicellular Animals There Are Four Chief Methods, Which, Following F. W. ...
Locomotive Coaling
Locomotive Coaling, The Three Industrial Enter Prises Which Consume Most Coal Are Railways, Gas Works And Power Stations. Of These Three, Gas-works Engineers Were The Foremost To Realize The Need Of Handling Their Coal Mechanically; Those In Power Stations Followed, And Employed Conveyors Practically From Their Inception, Basing Their Plant ...
Locomotor Ataxia
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Locri
Locri, An Ancient City Of Magna Graecia, Italy. The Original Inhabitants Were, It Has Recently Been Ascertained, Of Sicilian Race (maciver, Iron Age, 210). They Occupied The Zephyrian Promon Tory (capo Bruzzano Some 12 M. N. Of Capo Spartivento), And Though After Three Or Four Years They Moved 12 M. ...
Locust
Locust, The Name Applied To Certain Insects Belonging To The Family Acridiidae Of The Order Orthoptera (q.v.). The Idea Of A Destructive Insect Is Universally Associated With This Term, And In Its Strict Usage It Is Confined To Those Species Of Acridiidae Which At Times Greatly Increase In Numbers And ...
Lodi
Lodi, Town And Episcopal See Of Piedmont, Italy, Province Of Milan, 202 M. By Rail S.e. Of Milan, On A Hill Above The Right Bank Of The Adda, 23o Ft. Above Sea-level. Pop. (1931) 31,092 (the Town And Commune). The City Is On An Eminence Rising Very Gradually From A ...
Lodz
Lodz, A Province In The West Of Poland, Bounded On The North-east By The Province Of Warsaw, On The North-west By Poznan, And On The South By The Province Of Kielce. Area 19,034 Sq.km. ; Pop. (1931) 2,632,434. In 1921 83.1% Were Poles, 12% Jews And 4.6% Germans. The Southern ...
Loess
Loess, In Geology, A Variety Of Loam. Typical Loess Is A Soft, Porous Rock, Pale Yellowish Or Buff In Colour ; One Characteristic Property Is Its Capacity To Retain Vertical Or Even Over-hanging Walls In The Banks Of Streams. These Vertical Walls Have Been Well Described By Von Richthofen (fiihrer ...
Lofoten And Vesteraalen
Lofoten And Vesteraalen, A Group Of Islands Off The N.w. Coast Of Norway, Between 67° 3o' And 69° 20' N., And Between 12° And I6° 35' E., Forming Part Of The Amt (county) Of Nordland. The Extreme Length Of The Group From Andenaes, At The North Of Ando, To Rost, ...
Logarithms
Logarithms. By Shortening Processes Of Computation, Logarithms Have Doubled The Working Speed Of Astronomers And Engineers. The Explanation Of This Highly Practical Branch Of Mathematics Begins Most Conveniently With The Exponential Ex Pression Bi Which Represents Some Number N, So That We May Write N = Bl. In The Elementary ...
Loge
Loge, A Seaport And Market Town Of Cornwall, England, 17 M. By Sea W. Of Plymouth. Pop. (1931) 2,878. It Is Divided By The River Into East Looe And West Looe ; And Is Sheltered So Completely By The Surrounding Hills That Myrtles, Geraniums, Fuchsias And Other Delicate Plants Flourish ...
Logia
Logia, A Title Used To Describe A Collection Of The Sayings Of Jesus Christ (xo-yta 'incro0) And Therefore Generally Applied To The "sayings Of Jesus" Discovered In Egypt By B. P. Grenfell And A. S. Hunt. There Is Some Question As To Whether The Term Is Rightly Used For This ...
Logic
Logic Is The Systematic Study Of The General Conditions Of Valid Inference. There Are Other Conceptions Of The Scope Of Logic. The Principal Rival Conceptions Are Opposite Ire Character. One View Would Limit Logic To The Study Of What Is Sometimes Called Formal Logic And Sometimes Deductive Logic. This View ...
Logistic
Logistic Is Not A Special Branch Of Logic For It Is The Reali Zation Of The Ideal Of Logic, The Exhibition Of Form. The Word "logistic" Is An Old Name Revived With A New Meaning To Denote What Has Been Variously Referred To As "symbolic Logic," "algebra Of Logic," "mathematical ...
Logographi
Logographi, In Greek Xoyorypasot, Writers Of X67oc Or Compositions Of Any Sort, Especially In Prose. (i) In Attic, Pro Fessional Speech-writers. (2) In Modern Usage (since C. F. Creu Zer, D. 1858), Pre-herodotean Writers Of Chronicles, From The Doubtfully Historical Cadmus Of Miletus (q.v.) To Pherecydes (q.v.), All Make Extensive ...
Logos
Logos, A Common Term In Ancient Philosophy And Theology. It Expresses The Idea Of An Immanent Reason In The World, And, Under Various Modifications, Is Met With In Indian, Egyptian And Persian Systems Of Thought. But The Idea Was Developed Mainly In Hellenic And Hebrew Philosophy, And We May Distinguish ...
Lohengrin
Lohengrin, The Hero Of The German Version Of The Legend Of The Knight Of The Swan. The Story Is Based On Two Common Motives : The Metamorphosis Of Human Beings Into Swans, And The Curious Wife Whose Question Brings Disaster. Lohengrin's Guide (the Swan) Was Originally The Little Brother Who, ...
Loire
Loire, A Department Of Central France, Made Up In 1793 Of The Old District Of Forez And Portions Of Beaujolais And Lyonnais, All Formerly Included In The Province Of Lyonnais. Pop. (1931) 664,822. Area 1,852 Square Miles. It Is Bounded North By The Department Of Saone-et-loire, East By Those Of ...
Loire
Loire, The Longest River Of France, Rising At 4,500 Ft. In The Recent Volcanic Peak Of Gerbier De Jonc On The Central Plateau, And Flowing North And West To The Atlantic. After A Course Of 18 M. It Follows A Picturesque Channel Along The Foot Of The Basaltic Rocks Of ...
Loiret
Loiret, A Department Of Central France, Made Up Of The Three Districts Of The Ancient Province Of Orleanais—orleanais Proper, Gatinais And Dunois. It Is Bounded North By Seine-et Oise, North-east By Seine-et-marne, East By Yonne, South By Nievre And Cher, South-west And West By Loir-et-cher And North West By Eure-et-loir. ...
Lollards
Lollards, The Name Given To The English Followers Of John Wycliffe (q.v.) ; It Is Of Uncertain Origin; But The Generally Received Explanation Derives It From The Verb Lollen Or Lullen, To Sing Softly. The Word Is Much Older Than Its English Use; There Were Lollards In The Netherlands At ...
Lombards Or Langobardi
Lombards Or Langobardi, A Suevic People Who Appear To Have Inhab Ited The Lower Basin Of The Elbe And Whose Name Is Believed To Survive In The Modern Bardengau To The South Of Hamburg. They Are First Mentioned In Connection With The Year A.d. 5, When They Were Defeated By ...
Lombardy
Lombardy, A Territorial Division Of Italy, Bounded On The North By The Alps, South By Emilia, East By Venetia And West By Piedmont. It Is Divided Into Nine Provinces, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Mantua, Milan, Pavia, Sondrio And Varese, And Has An Area Of 9,386 Sq.m. Milan, The Chief City, ...
Lombok
Lombok, One Of The Lesser Sunda Islands, Dutch East Indies. It Lies Due East Of Java, With The Island Of Bali Between It And The Javanese Coast, The Lombok Strait Separating It From Bali, With Which It Forms A Residency. Lombok Has An Area Of 3,136 Sq. Miles. It Is ...
London
London.) For Details Of This Long Series Of Administrative Reforms See Further Justice Of The Peace ; Borough ; Local Govern Ment; Poor Law. The Principal Reforms Of Recent Years Refer To The Extension Of The Franchise, The Reorganization Of The Machinery Of Rating And The Considerable Extension Of The ...
London Midland And Scottish
London Midland And Scottish Railway, British Railway Company, Was Formed On Jan. 1, 1923, By Amal Gamation, Under The Railways Act Of 1921, Of The London And North Western, Midland, Lancashire And Yorkshire, Caledonian. And Glasgow And South Western And Other Railway Companies. The System Includes The Liverpool And Manchester ...
London University
London University. Sir Thomas Gresham In The 16th Century Laid Down A Noble Plan For A University In London, But For Various Reasons It Failed And The Present University May Be Said To Have Had Its Origin With The Foundation In 1827 Of The Non-sectarian University College, Which, In The ...
London To The Fire
London To The Fire Tudor London.—the Significance Of The Tudor Period In London History Lies In The Vast Changes That The Reformation Brought About In The Aspect Of The Capital, And In Its Social And Economic Life. Henry Viii. Found The City Crowded With Majestic Ecclesiastical Buildings, Fruits Of The ...
Londonderry
Londonderry, A Northern County Of Ireland In The Province Of Ulster, Bounded North By The Atlantic, West By Lough Foyle And Donegal, East By Antrim And Lough Neagh, And South By Tyrone. The Area Is 522,315 Acres, Or About 816 Sq.m. Pop. (1926) Exclusive Of Co. Bor. Is 94,54o. Old ...
Londonderry Or Derry
Londonderry Or Derry, A City, County Borough, And The Chief Town Of Co. Londonderry, Ireland, 4 M. From The Junc Tion Of The River Foyle With Lough Foyle, And 95 M. N.n.w. Of Belfast. Pop. (1926) Derry, The Original Name Of London Derry, Is Derived From Doire, The "place Of ...
Long Beach
Long Beach, A City Of Los Angeles County, California, U.s.a., On San Pedro Bay, 20 M. S. Of Los Angeles; A Recreation Resort And An Important Industrial And Commercial Centre. It Is Served By The Pacific Electric, The Southern Pacific And The Union Pacific Railways, And Has A Well Equipped ...