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more info Lawrence George Durrell, n.
English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990)
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more info Lawrence Peter Berra, n.
United States baseball player (born 1925)
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more info Lawrence of Arabia, n.
Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
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more info Laws, n.
the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit
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more info Lawson's cedar, n.
large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet
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more info Lawson's cypress, n.
large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet
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more info Lawton, n.
a town in southwest Oklahoma
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more info Layia, n.
genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers
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more info Layia platyglossa, n.
California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white
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more info Lazarus, n.
the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar
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the person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb; this miracle caused the enemies of Jesus to begin the plan to put him to death
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more info Lazio, n.
an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea
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more info Lazzaro Spallanzani, n.
Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799)
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more info Ld., n.
a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability
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more info Le Chatelier principle, n.
the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change
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more info Le Chatelier's law, n.
the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change
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more info Le Chatelier's principle, n.
the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change
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more info Le Chatelier-Braun principle, n.
the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change
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more info Le Corbusier, n.
French architect (born in Switzerland) (1887-1965)
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more info Le Douanier Rousseau, n.
French primitive painter (1844-1910)
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more info Le Duc Tho, n.
Vietnamese diplomat who negotiated with Henry Kissinger to end the war in Vietnam (1911-1990)
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more info Le Gallienne, n.
United States actress (born in England) (1899-1991)
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more info Le Havre, n.
a port city in northern France on the English Channel at the mouth of the Seine
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more info Le Notre, n.
French landscape gardener who designed many formal gardens including the parks of Versailles (1613-1700)
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more info LeRoi Jones, n.
United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934)
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more info Leacock, n.
Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944)
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more info Leadbelly, n.
United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949)
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more info League of Iroquois, n.
a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations)
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more info League of Nations, n.
an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed
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more info Leakey, n.
English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
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English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
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English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
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more info Leander, n.
(Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her
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