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Lugano (Switzerland)
largest town in Ticino canton, southern Switzerland. It lies along Lake Lugano, northwest of Como, Italy; to the south is Mount San Salvatore (2,992 feet [912 metres]), and to the east is Mount Brè (3,035 feet [925 metres]). First mentioned in the 6th century, it was occupied in 1499 by the F...
Lugano, Lago di (lake, Europe)
lake between Lakes Maggiore and Como with an area of 19 square miles (49 square km), of which the middle 12 square miles (31 square km) are in Ticino canton (Switzerland) and the northeastern and southwestern ends in the Lombardy regione (Italy). It lies at 889 feet (271 m) above sea level, among the outer spur...
Lugano, Lake (lake, Europe)
lake between Lakes Maggiore and Como with an area of 19 square miles (49 square km), of which the middle 12 square miles (31 square km) are in Ticino canton (Switzerland) and the northeastern and southwestern ends in the Lombardy regione (Italy). It lies at 889 feet (271 m) above sea level, among the outer spur...
Lugansk (Ukraine)
city, eastern Ukraine. It lies along the Luhan (Lugan) River at the latter’s confluence with the Vilkhivka (Olkhovaya) River. The city dates from 1795, when a state iron foundry was established there to supply ordnance to the Black Sea fleet. Luhansk grew with the development of the Donets Coal Basin in the 1890s. The major branch of industry has been heavy engineering, d...
Luganville (Vanuatu)
Hog Harbour, on the northeast coast, is the site of the former British district administration. The former French administrative centre was on the south coast near Luganville, the second largest town of Vanuatu, which has a deepwater port and an airport. Luganville was an important Allied military base during World War II. Exports include copra, coffee, cacao, canned meat, and tuna. Tourism......
“lugar sin límites, El” (work by Donoso)
...all sectors of society. Donoso’s second and third novels, Este domingo (1966; This Sunday) and El lugar sin límites (1966; “The Place Without Limits”; Hell Has No Limits), depict characters barely able to subsist in an atmosphere of desolation and anguish. El obsceno pajaro de la noche (1970; The Obscene Bird of Night), regar...
Lugard, F. D. (British colonial administrator)
administrator who played a major part in Britain’s colonial history between 1888 and 1945, serving in East Africa, West Africa, and Hong Kong. His name is especially associated with Nigeria, where he served as high commissioner...
Lugard Hall (government building, Kaduna, Nigeria)
...word for “crocodiles”) replaced Zungeru, 100 miles (160 km) west-southwest, as the capital of the Northern Provinces; it also served as capital of the Northern Region from 1954 to 1967. Lugard Hall, the legislative assembly building constructed in simplified Islāmic style, stands at the head of the main street. The assassination in Kaduna of Sir Ahmadu Bello, ......
Lugaro, Emilio (Italian biologist)
any of several types of cell that function primarily to support neurons. The term neuroglia means “nerve glue.” In 1907 Italian biologist Emilio Lugaro suggested that neuroglial cells exchange substances with the extracellular fluid and in this way exert control on the neuronal environment. It has since been shown that glucose, amino acids, and ions—all of......
Lugbara (people)
people living mainly in northwestern Uganda and the adjoining area of Congo (Kinshasa). They speak a Central Sudanic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family....
Lugbara language
...of Songhai or northern varieties of Nubian—border on nontonal languages and are themselves only marginally tonal. On the other hand, languages in central Africa, such as the western dialect of Lugbara (a Central Sudanic language spoken in the border area of Congo [Kinshasa] and Uganda and bordering on highly tonal Niger-Congo languages), sometimes distinguish between as many as four tona...
Lugdunensis (Roman province, Europe)
a province of the Roman Empire, one of the “Three Gauls” called the Gallia Comata. It extended from the capital of Lugdunum (modern Lyon) northwest to all the land between the Seine and the Loire rivers to Brittany and the Atlantic Ocean. ...
Lugdunum (France)
capital of both the Rhône département and the Rhône-Alpes région, east-central France, set on a hilly site at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers. A Roman military colony called Lugdunum was founded there in 43 bc, and it subsequently became the capital of the Gauls. Lyon r...
luge (sport)
capital of both the Rhône département and the Rhône-Alpes région, east-central France, set on a hilly site at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers. A Roman military colony called Lugdunum was founded there in 43 bc, and it subsequently became the capital of the Gauls. Lyon r...
luge, street (sport)
Thanks in large part to the annual winter and summer ESPN X Games, which drew 219,900 spectators, such relatively new sports as wakeboarding, aggressive in-line skating, and street luge continued to experience a meteoric rise in participation and exposure that served to further legitimize them. By comparison with these domains of dyed hair, tattoos, and body piercings, sports such as mountain......
luge tobogganing (sledding sport)
form of small-sled racing. Luge sledding is distinctive from bob and skeleton sledding in that the sled is ridden in a supine position (lying on the back) and steered by subtle leg and shoulder movements. The sport takes its name from the French word for “sled.”...
lugeing (sledding sport)
form of small-sled racing. Luge sledding is distinctive from bob and skeleton sledding in that the sled is ridden in a supine position (lying on the back) and steered by subtle leg and shoulder movements. The sport takes its name from the French word for “sled.”...
lugeing, street (sport)
Thanks in large part to the annual winter and summer ESPN X Games, which drew 219,900 spectators, such relatively new sports as wakeboarding, aggressive in-line skating, and street luge continued to experience a meteoric rise in participation and exposure that served to further legitimize them. By comparison with these domains of dyed hair, tattoos, and body piercings, sports such as mountain......
Lugeon, Maurice (Swiss geologist)
Swiss geologist who provided the first comprehensive interpretation of the Alps as a whole....
Luger, Georg (German gun designer)
Borchardt’s toggle and spring mechanisms were improved by a German, Georg Luger, who came up with the 7.65-millimetre (later 9-millimetre) Parabellum pistol. This was adopted by the German army in 1908....
Luger pistol (weapon)
semiautomatic German hand weapon first manufactured in 1900 for both military and commercial use. It was made in 7.65- and 9-millimetre calibres and had a toggle-joint breech mechanism. On recoil after firing, the mechanism opened to receive a new cartridge from an eight-round, removable box magazine in its grip....
Lugert Dam (dam, Oklahoma, United States)
...project, completed in 1948) restored the region’s basic agricultural economy (cotton, cattle, and wheat). Altus Reservoir, the project’s chief unit, impounded on the North Fork of the Red River by Lugert Dam, lies within Quartz Mountain State Park, 18 miles (29 km) north. Oil fields lie to the northwest. The city is the site of Western Oklahoma State College (1926) and Altus Air F...
Luggarus (Switzerland)
town, Ticino canton, southern Switzerland. It is situated at the northern end of Lago Maggiore, near the mouth of the Maggia River, west of Bellinzona. The site was settled in prehistoric times, and the town was first mentioned in 789. A possession of the dukes of Milan from 1342, it was taken by the Swiss...
Lugh (Celtic deity)
(Celtic: “Lynx,” or “Light”?), in ancient Celtic religion, one of the major gods. He is one of the deities whom Julius Caesar identified with the Roman god Mercury (Greek: Hermes). His cult was widespread throughout the early Celtic world, and his name occurs as an element in many continental Eur...
Lughnasadh (Celtic religious festival)
Celtic religious festival celebrated August 1 as the feast of the marriage of the god Lugus; this was also the day of the harvest fair....
Lugnaquillia Mountain (mountain, Ireland)
highest peak (3,039 feet [926 metres]) in the central mountain range of the Wicklow Mountains in County Wicklow, Ireland. The range’s summits are mainly granite hills, but Lugnaquillia is capped with very hard mica-schist rocks. The slopes are mainly bog-covered m...
Lugnasad (Celtic religious festival)
Celtic religious festival celebrated August 1 as the feast of the marriage of the god Lugus; this was also the day of the harvest fair....
Lugné-Poë, Aurélien (French actor and theatrical producer)
French actor and theatrical producer who introduced the works of several great contemporary playwrights, particularly Maurice Maeterlinck and Paul Claudel....
Lugné-Poë, Aurélien-François-Marie (French actor and theatrical producer)
French actor and theatrical producer who introduced the works of several great contemporary playwrights, particularly Maurice Maeterlinck and Paul Claudel....
Lugo (province, Spain)
provincia (province) in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain, bordering the Bay of Biscay to the north. It was formed in 1833. Its 60-mile- (100-km-) long coastline, ...
Lugo (Spain)
city, capital of Lugo provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. It lies on the Miño River, southeast of A Coruña. Lugo originated as the Roman ...
Lugo (Italy)
town, Emilia-Romagna regione, northern Italy, just west of Ravenna. The arcaded marketplace, called the Pavaglione, and a 14th-century castle converted into the town hall are notable. The town was the scene of heavy fighting in World War II. An ...
Lugo, Fernando (president of Paraguay)
former Roman Catholic bishop who became president of Paraguay (2008– ). His inauguration ended the conservative Colorado Party’s 62-year hold on power....
Lugo Méndez, Fernando Armindo (president of Paraguay)
former Roman Catholic bishop who became president of Paraguay (2008– ). His inauguration ended the conservative Colorado Party’s 62-year hold on power....
Lugoj (Romania)
city, Timiș județ (county), western Romania, on the banks of the Timiș River, 33 miles (53 km) east-southeast of Timișoara and almost 220 miles (350 km) northwest of Bucharest. The town grew up on the site of a Roman fortified camp, which in turn was built near a Dacian fortress of the 1st century bc. German influence on the settl...
Lugol’s solution (antiseptic)
antiseptic introduced into medicine in 1829 by the French physician Jean Lugol. An effective bactericide and fungicide, Lugol’s solution is a transparent brown liquid prepared by dissolving, first, 10 parts of potassium iodide, then 5 parts of iodine, in 85 parts of water. It is less irritating than iodine tincture (a solution in alcoh...
Lugones, Leopoldo (Argentine poet)
Argentine poet, literary and social critic, and cultural ambassador, considered by many the outstanding figure of his age in the cultural life of Argentina. He was a strong influence on the younger generation of writers that included the prominent short-story writer and novelist Jorge Luis Borges. His influence in public life...
Lugos (Romania)
city, Timiș județ (county), western Romania, on the banks of the Timiș River, 33 miles (53 km) east-southeast of Timișoara and almost 220 miles (350 km) northwest of Bucharest. The town grew up on the site of a Roman fortified camp, which in turn was built near a Dacian fortress of the 1st century bc. German influence on the settl...
Lugosi, Bela (Hungarian-American actor)
Hungarian-born motion picture actor famous for his sinister portrayal of the elegantly mannered vampire, Count Dracula....
Lugoues (Celtic deity)
(Celtic: “Lynx,” or “Light”?), in ancient Celtic religion, one of the major gods. He is one of the deities whom Julius Caesar identified with the Roman god Mercury (Greek: Hermes). His cult was widespread throughout the early Celtic world, and his name occurs as an element in many continental Eur...
Lugouibus (Celtic deity)
(Celtic: “Lynx,” or “Light”?), in ancient Celtic religion, one of the major gods. He is one of the deities whom Julius Caesar identified with the Roman god Mercury (Greek: Hermes). His cult was widespread throughout the early Celtic world, and his name occurs as an element in many continental Eur...
Lugoves (Celtic deity)
(Celtic: “Lynx,” or “Light”?), in ancient Celtic religion, one of the major gods. He is one of the deities whom Julius Caesar identified with the Roman god Mercury (Greek: Hermes). His cult was widespread throughout the early Celtic world, and his name occurs as an element in many continental Eur...
Lugrís, Urbano (Spanish painter)
...author Camilo José Cela (1916–2002), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; painter Luis Seoane (1910–79), who promoted Galician culture while in exile in Argentina; and Urbano Lugrís (1902–73), a Surrealist painter who used the sea as a constant feature in his work....
Lugudunensis (Roman province, Europe)
a province of the Roman Empire, one of the “Three Gauls” called the Gallia Comata. It extended from the capital of Lugdunum (modern Lyon) northwest to all the land between the Seine and the Loire rivers to Brittany and the Atlantic Ocean. ...
Luguei (Celtic deity)
(Celtic: “Lynx,” or “Light”?), in ancient Celtic religion, one of the major gods. He is one of the deities whom Julius Caesar identified with the Roman god Mercury (Greek: Hermes). His cult was widespread throughout the early Celtic world, and his name occurs as an element in many continental Eur...
Luguru (people)
a Bantu-speaking people of the hills, Uluguru Mountains, and coastal plains of east-central Tanzania. The Luguru are reluctant to leave the mountain homeland that they have occupied for at least 300 years, despite the relatively serious population pressure in their area and the employment opportunities in the city and on est...
Lugus (Celtic deity)
(Celtic: “Lynx,” or “Light”?), in ancient Celtic religion, one of the major gods. He is one of the deities whom Julius Caesar identified with the Roman god Mercury (Greek: Hermes). His cult was widespread throughout the early Celtic world, and his name occurs as an element in many continental Eur...
Luguvallium (England, United Kingdom)
urban area and city (district), administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Cumberland, England, on the Scottish border....
lugworm (polychaete genus)
(genus Arenicola), any of several marine worms (class Polychaeta, phylum Annelida) that burrow deep into the sandy sea bottom or intertidal areas and are often quite large. Fishermen use them as bait. Adult lugworms of the coast of Europe (e.g., A. marina) attain lengths of about 23 cm (9 inches). The lugworm ...
Luhaiyah, Al- (Yemen)
town, western Yemen, on the Red Sea coast. Situated on the coastal plain known as the Tihāmah, it is one of the country’s minor ports. It was founded in the mid-15th century, and tradition connects its origin with a local holy man, Sheikh Salei, around whos...
Luhan, Mabel Dodge (American biographer)
American writer whose candid autobiographical volumes contain much information about well-known Americans of her era....
Luhan, Mabel Ganson Dodge (American biographer)
American writer whose candid autobiographical volumes contain much information about well-known Americans of her era....
Luhansk (Ukraine)
city, eastern Ukraine. It lies along the Luhan (Lugan) River at the latter’s confluence with the Vilkhivka (Olkhovaya) River. The city dates from 1795, when a state iron foundry was established there to supply ordnance to the Black Sea fleet. Luhansk grew with the development of the Donets Coal Basin in the 1890s. The major branch of industry has been heavy engineering, d...
Luḥayyah, Al- (Yemen)
town, western Yemen, on the Red Sea coast. Situated on the coastal plain known as the Tihāmah, it is one of the country’s minor ports. It was founded in the mid-15th century, and tradition connects its origin with a local holy man, Sheikh Salei, around whos...
Luhit River (river, India)
...Assam, speaking dialects of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic family. Numbering about 35,000 in the late 20th century, the Mishmi live along the valleys of the Dibang (where they are known as Midu) and Luhit rivers. Those of the Luhit Valley are divided into two groups, the Miju on the upper Luhit and the Digaru on that river’s lower reaches....
Luhn, H. P. (American computer scientist)
A new use of the term thesaurus, now widespread, dates from the early 1950s in the work of H.P. Luhn, at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), who was searching for a computer process that could create a list of authorized terms for the indexing of scientific literature. The list was to include a structure of cross-references between families of notions, in the manner of......
Lühou (empress of Han dynasty)
the first woman ruler of China, wife of Gaozu, the first emperor (reigned 206–195 bc) of the Han dynasty (206 bc–ad 220)....
Luhya (people)
ethnolinguistic cluster of several acephalous, closely related Bantu-speaking peoples including the Bukusu, Tadjoni, Wanga, Marama, Tsotso, Tiriki, Nyala, Kabras, Hayo, Marachi, Holo, Maragoli, Dakho, Isukha, Kisa, Nyole, and Samia of Western Province, western Kenya. The term Luhya, which is short for Abaluhya (loosely, “those of the same hearth”), was first suggested by a local Afri...
Lui-pa (Indian religious leader)
first human guru, or spiritual teacher, of the Natha, a popular Indian religious movement combining elements of Shaivism, Buddhism, and Hatha Yoga, a form of yoga that stresses breath control and physical postures....
Luichow Peninsula (peninsula, China)
peninsula, some 75 miles (120 km) from north to south and 30 miles (48 km) east to west, jutting out southward from the coast of Guangdong province, extreme southern China, and separated from the island province of Hainan by the 10-mile- (16-km-) wide Hainan Strait (Qiongzhou Haixia). The peninsula is curved; together with two large islands ...
Luidia (echinoderm genus)
...coasts. A number of sea star genera distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere have longer, more pointed, spine-fringed arms; among these genera are Astropecten, Psilaster, and Luidia. The largest West Indies sea star, Oreaster reticulatus, is sometimes 50 cm (20 inches) across. Members of the chiefly Indo-Pacific genus Linckia can grow a new individual......
Luigi di Taranto (king of Naples)
count of Provence (1347–62), as well as prince of Taranto and Achaia, who by his marriage to Queen Joan I of Naples (1343–82) became king of Naples after a struggle with King Louis I of Hungary....
Luigi I (ruler of Mantua)
The dynasty’s known history begins with the 14th century, when Luigi I (also called Ludovico; 1267–1360), after fierce struggles, supplanted his brother-in-law Rinaldo (nicknamed Passerino) Bonacolsi as lord of Mantua in August 1328, with the title of captain general and afterward of vicar-general of the empire, adding the designation of count of Mirandola and Concordia. In July 1335...
Luik (province, Belgium)
...Reichskirche), in which the spiritual and secular principalities played an important part. The most important ecclesiastical principalities in the Low Countries were the bishoprics of Liège, Utrecht, and, to a lesser degree, Cambrai, which, though within the Holy Roman Empire, belonged to the French church province of Rheims. The secular powers enjoyed by these bishops were......
Luik (Belgium)
city, Walloon Region, eastern Belgium, on the Meuse River at its confluence with the Ourthe. (The grave accent in Liège was officially approved over the acute in 1946.) The site was inhabited in prehistoric times and was known...
Luiken, Johannes (Dutch poet)
Dutch lithographer and poet whose work ranges from hedonistic love songs to introspective religious poetry....
Luimneach (county, Ireland)
county, southwestern Ireland, in the province of Munster. Its northern boundary, with County Clare, is the River Shannon and its estuary. The River Maigue bisects the county and flows north into the Shannon. On the west the boundary with County Kerry runs through plateaus 1,000–2,000 feet high (30...
Luimneach (Ireland)
county borough, port, and chief town of County Limerick, west-central Ireland, occupying both banks and King’s Island of the River Shannon at the head of its estuary....
Luini, Bernardino (Italian painter)
Renaissance painter of Lombardy, best known for his mythological and religious frescoes....
Luis (king of Portugal)
king of Portugal whose reign (1861–89), in contrast to the first half of the century, saw the smooth operation of the constitutional system, the completion of the railway network, the adoption of economic and political reforms, and the modernization of many aspects of Portuguese life....
Luis (king of Spain)
king of Spain in 1724, son of Philip V....
Luis Alves craton (geology)
...plutonic (intrusive), metavolcanic (metamorphosed extrusive igneous rocks), and metasedimentary rocks. Rocks of Archean age (2.5 to 4 billion years old) are known in the Amazonia, Luis Alves, and São Francisco cratons, although precisely dated rock samples are scarce. Ages older than 3 billion years have been reported in the Imataca Complex of Venezuela and in the Xing...
Luís Carneiro (island, Cape Verde)
...Sal, and Boa Vista, together with the islets of Raso and Branco. The Sotavento Islands include Maio, São Tiago (Santiago), Fogo, and Brava and the three islets called the Rombos—Grande, Luís Carneiro, and Cima....
Luís, Maria Agustina Bessa (Portuguese author)
...It was a lively narrative, full of youthful zest for life. The Camões Prize, the highest to be awarded in the Portuguese language for an author with a full body of published work, went to Agustina Bessa Luís, a prolific novelist and a subtle chronicler of family life....
Luís Pereira de Sousa, Washington (president of Brazil)
president of Brazil (1926–30) who was unable to strengthen his country’s debilitated economy on the eve of the Great Depression....
Luís, Washington (president of Brazil)
president of Brazil (1926–30) who was unable to strengthen his country’s debilitated economy on the eve of the Great Depression....
Luisa Fernanda (work by Torroba)
...Italian opera tradition or used as transit bases for the latest North American stage musical on its theatrical circumnavigation. Certain examples of the Spanish zarzuela, such as Moreno Torroba’s Luisa Fernanda (1932), have achieved popular success in Latin American countries, where local contributions to the genre have notably been made by Juan Bautista Massa in Argentina, Andr...
Luisa Fernanda (sister of Isabella II)
...and the House of Orléans—conversely gravitated together. One result was the crisis of the “ Spanish Marriages” in the 1840s. While both Queen Isabella and her sister Luisa remained unmarried, the Spanish succession was an open prospect of great interest to governments concerned with maintaining the balance of power in Europe. If both sisters had married princes......
Luise (work by Voss)
...1802. As a lyricist he wrote mainly songs, odes, elegies, and pastoral idylls in the style of the ancients and of the German Neoclassical poet Friedrich Klopstock. Voss’s idyll Luise (1795), which portrays with naturalistic ease the life of a country pastor’s family, inspired Goethe to write Hermann und Dorothea....
Luiseño (people)
North American Indians who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language and inhabited a region extending from what is now Los Angeles to San Diego, Calif., U.S. Some of the group were named Luiseño after the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia; others were called J...
Luisetti, Angelo Enrico (American basketball player)
American collegiate basketball player who revolutionized the sport by introducing the one-handed shot....
Luisetti, Hank (American basketball player)
American collegiate basketball player who revolutionized the sport by introducing the one-handed shot....
Luish language
one of several ancient extinct Anatolian languages. The language is preserved in two closely related but distinct forms, one using cuneiform script and the other using hieroglyphic writing....
Luisian Stage (geology)
major division of Miocene rocks and time in the Pacific Coast region of North America (the Miocene Epoch began about 26,000,000 years ago and lasted about 19,000,000 years). The Luisian Stage, which precedes the Mohnian Stage and follows the ...
Luite (ancient Anatolian people)
member of an extinct people of ancient Anatolia. The Luwians were related to the Hittites and were the dominant group in the Late Hittite culture. Their language is known from cuneiform texts found at the Hittite capital, Boğazköy. (See Luwian language.)...
Luitpold (prince regent of Bavaria)
prince regent of Bavaria from 1886 to 1912, in whose reign Bavaria prospered under a liberal government and Munich became a cultural centre of Europe....
Luitpoldinger (German history)
...Magyars. In Franconia the Konradings rose to prominence over this largely Frankish region with the assistance of Arnulf but became largely independent during the minority of his son. Similarly, the Luitpoldings, originally named as Carolingian commanders, became dukes of Bavaria. Thuringia fell increasingly under the protection and lordship of the Liudolfings. In Swabia (Alemannia) several......
Lujack, Larry (American disc jockey)
“I’m just plain fantastic—the best damn rock-and-roll DJ of our time or any other time!” wrote Larry Lujack, a Chicago radio kingpin in the 1960s and ’70s, in his autobiography, Super Jock (1975). Lujack had the ratings to back up his braggadocio. Sweeping in from Seattle (with a brief, unhappy stop in Boston) in 1967, he bounced between Chicago’s d...
Luján (Argentina)
city and national pilgrimage site on the Luján River, in the Pampa of northern Buenos Aires provincia (province), eastern Argentina. The city was named for the conquistador Pedro Luján, who died there (1536) in a battle with Indians....
Luján, Micaela de (Spanish actress)
...in 1595, and in 1598 he went to the home of the marqués de Sarriá, with whom he remained until 1600. Sometime around 1595 he also met the illiterate and singularly beautiful actress Micaela de Luján, who was to be for nearly 20 years the poet’s most peaceful love; she was the “Camila Lucinda” of numerous magnificent verses composed for her by Vega. He t...
Lujo virus
...in 1595, and in 1598 he went to the home of the marqués de Sarriá, with whom he remained until 1600. Sometime around 1595 he also met the illiterate and singularly beautiful actress Micaela de Luján, who was to be for nearly 20 years the poet’s most peaceful love; she was the “Camila Lucinda” of numerous magnificent verses composed for her by Vega. He t...
LUJV
...in 1595, and in 1598 he went to the home of the marqués de Sarriá, with whom he remained until 1600. Sometime around 1595 he also met the illiterate and singularly beautiful actress Micaela de Luján, who was to be for nearly 20 years the poet’s most peaceful love; she was the “Camila Lucinda” of numerous magnificent verses composed for her by Vega. He t...
Luka (people)
...In Egyptian, Hittite, and Ugaritic records of the 14th and 13th centuries bc, the Lycians are described as wedged between the Hittites on the north and the Achaean Greeks on the coast. Known as Luka, they participated in the Sea Peoples’ attempt to invade Egypt in the late 13th century. Nothing more is known of the Lycians until the 8th century bc, when they r...
Luka and the Fire of Life (novel by Rushdie)
Sir Salman Rushdie returned to children’s writing after a 20-year hiatus with Luka and the Fire of Life, written for his son. It embellished a traditional quest structure with details from video games, puns, rhymes, and exuberant nonsense, telling the tale of a boy’s mission to the World of Magic in search of the fire of life to rouse his unwaking father. The 2010 Carnegie Med...
Lukács, György (Hungarian philosopher)
Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who influenced the mainstream of European communist thought during the first half of the 20th century. His major contributions include the formulation of a Marxist system of aesthetics that opposed political control of artists and defended ...
Lukács, Pál (Hungarian-American actor)
Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who influenced the mainstream of European communist thought during the first half of the 20th century. His major contributions include the formulation of a Marxist system of aesthetics that opposed political control of artists and defended ......
Lukanov, Andrey (prime minister of Bulgaria)
Bulgarian politician (b. Sept. 26, 1938, Moscow, U.S.S.R.--d. Oct. 2, 1996, Sofia, Bulg.), was prime minister (1990) during the first stage of Bulgaria’s transition from communism to democracy and later became a powerful critic of the government. Educated in the Sov...
Lukas, D. Wayne (American horse trainer)
American Thoroughbred and quarter horse trainer whose horses captured numerous races and amassed record earnings....
Lukas, Darrell Wayne (American horse trainer)
American Thoroughbred and quarter horse trainer whose horses captured numerous races and amassed record earnings....
Lukas, Jay Anthony (American journalist)
American journalist and author (b. April 25, 1933, New York, N.Y.--d. June 5, 1997, New York), wrote meticulous examinations of the societal and racial fissures in the U.S. He was known and highly regarded for his tenacity, perfectionism, and painstaking research and won a number of the country’s top literature and journalism awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. Lukas was educated at ...