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Lillehammer (Norway)
town, southeastern Norway, lying where the Lågen (river) flows into Lake Mjøsa (the largest lake in Norway) in the southern end of Gudbrands Valley. Lillehammer was chartered in 1827. Industries include textiles, lumber, and paper and food processing. A gateway to picturesq...
Lillehammer 1994 Olympic Winter Games
athletic festival held in Lillehammer, Nor., that took place Feb. 12–27, 1994. The Lillehammer Games were the 17th occurrence of the Winter Olympic Games....
Lillehei, Clarence Walton (American surgeon)
American surgeon who in 1952 performed the first successful open-heart operation; he also helped develop the first wearable pacemaker and artificial heart valves (b. Oct. 23, 1918, Minneapolis, Minn.—d. July 5, 1999, St. Paul, Minn.)....
Lillelord (work by Borgen)
Borgen was born into a bourgeois family, but, though he was politically inactive, he himself was often considered a member of the radical left. His principal work was a novel trilogy: Lillelord (1955), De mørke kilder (1956; “The Dark Springs”), and Vi har ham nå (1957; “Now We Have Him”), all three translated into......
Lilli burlero (ballad by Wharton)
17th-century English political song that played a part in driving James II from the throne in 1688. Written in 1687 by Thomas (afterward Marquess of) Wharton, the verses were intended to discredit the administration in Ireland of Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell. Among the many verses extremely popular t...
“Lilli Marlene” (popular song)
German song popular during World War II among both German and Allied soldiers. Hans Leip (1893–1983) began writing the lyrics in 1914 or 1915, reputedly while standing guard duty one night under a lamppost (“Vor der Kaserne vor dem grossen Tor stand eine Laterne”; “Underneath the lantern by...
“Lillibullero” (ballad by Wharton)
17th-century English political song that played a part in driving James II from the throne in 1688. Written in 1687 by Thomas (afterward Marquess of) Wharton, the verses were intended to discredit the administration in Ireland of Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell. Among the many verses extremely popular t...
Lillie, Bea (actress and comedienne)
sophisticated-comedy star of British and American revues, perhaps the foremost theatrical comedienne of the 20th century....
Lillie, Beatrice (actress and comedienne)
sophisticated-comedy star of British and American revues, perhaps the foremost theatrical comedienne of the 20th century....
Lillie, Beatrice Gladys (actress and comedienne)
sophisticated-comedy star of British and American revues, perhaps the foremost theatrical comedienne of the 20th century....
Lillie, Frank Rattray (American zoologist)
American zoologist and embryologist, known for his discoveries concerning the fertilization of the egg (ovum) and the role of hormones in sex determination....
Lillo, George (English dramatist)
English dramatist of pioneer importance in whose domestic tragedy The London Merchant: or, the History of George Barnwell (1731) members of the middle class replaced the customary aristocratic or royal heroes. The play greatly influenced the ris...
Lillooet (people)
On the fringes of the Plateau culture area, however, conditions were different. The westernmost Salish groups, such as the Lillooet and western Shuswap, traded with the Northwest Coast Indians and adopted some of their customs. The Lillooet, for instance, had a well-organized clan system similar to those used by Coast Salish peoples, and the western Shuswap had both clans and castes of nobles,......
Lilly, Bob (American football player)
American gridiron football player who is considered one of the greatest defensive linemen in National Football League (NFL) history. As the anchor of the Dallas Cowboys’ “Doomsday Defense,” he helped the team win its first Super Bowl title (1972)....
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (United States [2009])
In the president’s first month in office, Democrats pushed three major bills through Congress with minimal or no Republican support. The first, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, overturned a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision and extended the time frame in which pay discrimination plaintiffs are able to file a complaint. The second bill was a reauthorization and expansion of the State Childre...
Lilly Library (library, Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
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Lilly, Robert Lewis (American football player)
American gridiron football player who is considered one of the greatest defensive linemen in National Football League (NFL) history. As the anchor of the Dallas Cowboys’ “Doomsday Defense,” he helped the team win its first Super Bowl title (1972)....
Lilly, Ruth (American philanthropist)
Aug. 2, 1915Indianapolis, Ind.Dec. 30, 2009IndianapolisAmerican philanthropist who donated an estimated $800 million to various institutions, most of them in her hometown, but in 2002 the last surviving great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly endowed the Chicago-based Poetry...
Lilongwe (Malawi)
city, capital (since 1975) of Malawi. Lilongwe, which was named for a nearby river, is located on the inland plains and is the one of the largest cities in the country. It became a colonial district headquarters in 1904. The emergence in the 1920s of a major tobacco industry in the surrounding areas, along with its location ...
Lilongwe Plain (plateau, Malaŵi)
largest continuous tableland in Malaŵi. Its area of 9,000 square miles (23,310 square km) is bordered by the Chimaliro Hills and Viphya Mountains on the north, the Great Rift Valley on the east, the Dwangwa River on the west, and the Kirk and D...
lily (plant)
the common name applied to herbaceous flowering plants belonging to the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae. The genus contains between 80 and 100 species, native to the temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Lilies are prized as ornamental plants, and they have been extensively hybridized....
Lily: A Ladies Journal Devoted to Temperance and Literature, The (American newspaper)
...by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in 1848. In January of the following year, however, she began a newspaper for women—probably the first to be edited entirely by a woman—The Lily: A Ladies Journal Devoted to Temperance and Literature and opened its pages to women’s rights advocates as well as temperance reformers....
lily family (plant family)
the lily family of the flowering plant order Liliales, with 16 genera and 635 species of herbs and shrubs, native primarily to temperate and subtropical regions. Members of the family usually have six-segmented flowers and three-chambered capsular fruits; occasionally the fruits are berries. The leaves usually have parallel v...
lily iron (device)
The hand-thrown harpoon has two sets of sharp barbs and is made in two parts, the lily iron, about 5 inches (13 centimetres) long, which contains the barbs, and a shaft about 18 in. long. The gun-projected harpoon explodes when it has struck the whale, expanding the barbs and killing the animal instantly....
“Lily of the Mohawks” (Mohawk Christian)
first North American Indian proposed for canonization in the Roman Catholic church....
lily of the valley (plant)
(Convallaria majalis), fragrant perennial herb and only species of the genus Convallaria of the family Ruscaceae, native to Eurasia and eastern North America. Lily of the valley has nodding, white, bell-shaped flowers that are borne in a ...
lily order (plant order)
the lily order of monocotyledonous flowering plants, containing 11 families, 67 genera, and 1,558 species of largely perennial herbs and climbers. Members of this order are important as sources of food, in the production of drugs and chemicals, and especially as ornamental plants....
Lily, William (English scholar)
English Renaissance scholar and classical grammarian, a pioneer of Greek learning in England and one of the authors of an extremely popular Latin grammar that, with corrections and revisions, was used as late as the 19th century....
lily-pad ornament (decorative art)
...blobs of glass, variously fashioned, and “threads” of molten glass drawn around and around the vessel. Another technique, with no European ancestry and peculiar to South Jersey, was the “lily pad” ornament, in which an extra coating of molten glass was given to the bottom of the vessel and worked with a tool into a series of points up its sides, giving an effect that...
lily-trotter (bird family)
any of several species of water birds belonging to the family Jacanidae of the order Charadriiformes. Jacanas are uniquely equipped with long straight claws for walking on floating vegetation. Like certain plovers, some jacanas have wing spurs....
Lilybaeum (Italy)
town, western Sicily, Italy. It is situated on the Boeo Cape, also called Lilibeo, south of Trapani. It originated as Lilybaeum, which was founded by the Carthaginians in 397–396 bc after the destruction of the offshore island of Motya (modern San Pantaleo) by Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse. Serving as the Carthaginians’ principal ...
Lilye, William (English scholar)
English Renaissance scholar and classical grammarian, a pioneer of Greek learning in England and one of the authors of an extremely popular Latin grammar that, with corrections and revisions, was used as late as the 19th century....
Lily’s Grammar (work by Lily)
Lily’s Grammar, as the work came to be known, was first published around 1540 and was actually a combined version of two shorter Latin syntaxes that Lily had written some years before. Henry VIII and his successor, Edward VI, ordered the book to be used in all English grammar schools, whereupon it became known as the “King’s Grammar.” Lily’s Grammar...
LIM (mechanical device)
...were the use of electromagnetic waves to propel the coaster into launch, bypassing the need for chain-driven lift hills and gravity drops. These often did not follow continuous-circuit tracks. The linear induction motor (LIM) used high-powered magnets to launch coasters like a slingshot, enabling them, for example, to reach speeds of 70 miles (112.5 km) per hour in under four seconds. A......
Lim, Alfredo (Philippine politician)
Philippine politician who rose from poverty to become the most heavily decorated police officer in Manila’s history, the mayor of Manila (1992–98, 2007– ), and a senator (2004–07) in the Philippine government....
Lim Fjord (fjord, Jutland, Denmark)
In northern Jutland, where the long Lim Fjord separates the northern tip (Vendsyssel-Thy) from the rest of the peninsula, there are numerous flat areas of sand and gravel, some of which became stagnant bogs. Burials and ritual deposits interred in these bogs in antiquity—especially during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age—have been recovered by archaeologists. In more recent centuries....
Lim Goh Tong (Chinese-born Malaysian entrepreneur)
April 16, 1917Anxi, Fujian province, ChinaOct. 23, 2007Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malay.Chinese-born Malaysian entrepreneur who built the highly successful Genting Highlands casino and resort a short distance from Kuala Lumpur and diversified his holdings into a worldwide empire worth more than...
Lima (Ohio, United States)
city, seat (1831) of Allen county, northwestern Ohio, U.S. The city is situated on the Ottawa River, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Columbus. Laid out in 1831, its name (from Lima, Peru) was chosen by being drawn from a hat. Oil was discovered nearby in 1885, and by the turn of the...
Lima (Peru)
city, capital of Peru. It is the country’s commercial and industrial centre. Central Lima is located at an elevation of 512 feet (156 metres) on the south bank of the Rímac River, about 8 miles (13 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean port of Callao, and has an area of 27 squa...
Lima, Almeida (Portuguese physician)
The first such technique was developed by a Portuguese neurologist, António Egas Moniz, and was first performed by his colleague, Almeida Lima, in 1935. The procedure, called lobotomy or prefrontal leukotomy, was based on experimental studies demonstrating that certain mental symptoms induced in chimpanzees could be modified by cutting brain fibres. Moniz’s original procedure consist...
Lima, Attilio Corrêa (architect)
The Seaplane Station (1938), by Attilio Corrêa Lima, was one of the first radically modern buildings built in Rio. An elegant concrete spiral staircase connects the ticketing and luggage hall with the restaurant and viewing terrace on the second floor. The reinforced concrete structure and the side walls of the building are faced with travertine, which is in artful contrast to the large......
Lima Barreto, Afonso Henriques de (Brazilian author)
Brazilian novelist, journalist, short-story writer, and an aggressive social critic, who re-created in caricatural fashion the city and society of Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the century....
lima bean (Phaseolus limensis)
any of a variety of legumes of the species Phaseolus limensis widely cultivated for their edible seeds. See bean....
Lima, Declaration of (history of the Americas)
...promoted pan-American unity on the basis of nonintervention, condemnation of aggression, no forcible collection of debts, equality of states, respect for treaties, and continental solidarity. The Declaration of Lima (1938) provided for pan-American consultation in case of a threat to the “peace, security, or territorial integrity” of any state....
Lima, Dom Rodrigo de (Portuguese traveler)
...to Portugal. He reached Afonso de Albuquerque at Goa in 1512 and was in Portugal in 1514. It was then decided to send a Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia. The first ambassador died, and his successor, Dom Rodrigo de Lima, and his party left from India in 1517 and finally reached the emperor’s camp in December 1520. They found Pêro old but robust, and he served them as guide and inte...
Lima fundada; o, conquista del Perú (work by Peralta Barnuevo)
Epic poetry was not often attempted in Spanish during the first half of the 18th century. Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo’s Lima fundada; o, conquista del Perú (1732; “Lima Founded; or, Conquest of Peru”) illustrates the promise and the pitfalls of the genre. While Peralta’s occasional poetry often confirms the staying power of Góngo...
Lima, Jorge de (Brazilian author)
Brazilian poet and novelist who became one of the foremost representatives of regionalist poetry in Brazil in the 1920s....
Lima Locomotive Works (American company)
...Mich., when he devised his locomotive. The first Shay was built at Cadillac, Mich., about 1877; the last, at Lima, Ohio, in 1945. Beginning with Shay contracts, the Lima Machine Works (afterward Lima Locomotive Works) eventually became one of the world’s most important constructors of conventional steam locomotives....
Lima Machine Works (American company)
...Mich., when he devised his locomotive. The first Shay was built at Cadillac, Mich., about 1877; the last, at Lima, Ohio, in 1945. Beginning with Shay contracts, the Lima Machine Works (afterward Lima Locomotive Works) eventually became one of the world’s most important constructors of conventional steam locomotives....
Lima, Manuel dos Santos (Angolan author)
Angolan poet, dramatist, and novelist whose writing is rooted in the struggle for liberation of Angola from Portuguese colonialism....
Lima, Vanderlei (Brazilian athlete)
...Yelena Isinbayeva, and rowers Matthew Pinsent of Great Britain and Elisabeta Lipa of Romania. The concluding event, the men’s marathon, was won by Stefano Baldini of Italy after the leader, Brazil’s Vanderlei Lima, was assaulted by a deranged spectator about four miles from the finish line. Lima, who recovered to take the bronze, was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal for ...
Limacacea (gastropod superfamily)
...cusps; small litter or tree snails mainly in Southern Hemisphere (Endodontidae); slugs (Arionidae and Philomycidae) in the Northern Hemisphere.Superfamily LimacaceaMarginal teeth of radula with narrow, lengthened basal plates, usually unicuspid; zonitid snails with smooth shells and many sluglike species, common in wet,.....
Limacidae (gastropod family)
...exterior spikes. Undoubtedly, this difference provides a method of species recognition among these snails. Other pulmonates depend on explicit courtship patterns (such as the slugs from the family Limacidae) or structural differences in the penis (as in the land snails of the family Endodontidae) to distinguish members of their own species....
Limacodidae (insect)
any of approximately 1,000 species of insects (order Lepidoptera) that are widely distributed throughout the world but are concentrated in the tropics. These moths are named after their short, fleshy, sluglike caterpillars. In the caterpillars, suckers have replaced the typical larval prolegs, and the larvae seem to glide rather than crawl. Some larvae are brightly coloured and have ...
Limadou (Italian Jesuit missionary)
Italian Jesuit missionary who introduced Christian teaching to the Chinese empire in the 16th century. He lived there for nearly 30 years and was a pioneer in the attempt at mutual comprehension between China and the West. By adopting the language and culture of the country, he gained entrance to the interior of China, which was normally closed to foreigners....
liman (hydrology)
...is Lake Svityaz, 11 square miles (28 square km) in area, in the northwest. Small saltwater lakes occur in the Black Sea Lowland and in the Crimea. Larger saline lakes occur along the coast. Known as limans, these bodies of water form at the mouths of rivers or ephemeral streams and are blocked off by sandbars from the sea. Some artificial lakes have been formed, the largest of which are......
Liman, Arthur (American lawyer)
American lawyer (b. Nov. 5, 1932, New York, N.Y.--d. July 17, 1997, New York), served as chief counsel on many high-profile cases, including the congressional investigation of the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scheme. Unglamorous and often disheveled in appearance, Liman was considered one of the top trial lawyers of his generation. After graduating magna cum laude from ...
Liman, Mount (mountain, Indonesia)
The region contains high mountains, such as Mount Liman (8,409 feet [2,563 metres]) and Mount Kelud (5,679 feet [1,731 metres]). Teak is obtained from its forests, and its fertile plains produce rice, sugarcane, cotton, cassava, corn (maize), peanuts, coconuts, soybeans, and—from estates—coffee, cocoa, quinine, tobacco, and indigo. The area’s chief city is Kediri....
Liman von Sanders, Otto (German general)
German general largely responsible for making the Ottoman army an effective fighting force in World War I and victor over the Allies at Gallipoli....
Limanda (flatfish)
any of the flatfishes of the genus Limanda, family Pleuronectidae, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Dabs are right-eyed flatfish—i.e., the eyes are usually on the right side of the head. The dab of European waters is L. limanda, an abundant and valuable food fish. It is small, usually under 25 cm (10 inches) long, and light brown, with or without dark spo...
Limanda aspera (fish)
Other species include the yellowtail flounder, or rusty dab (L. ferruginea), a reddish brown western Atlantic fish with rust-coloured spots and a yellow tail; the yellowfin sole, or Alaska dab (L. aspera), a brownish northern Pacific flatfish; and the longhead dab (L. proboscidea), a light-spotted, brownish northern Pacific fish with yellow on the edges of its body....
Limanda ferruginea (fish)
Other species include the yellowtail flounder, or rusty dab (L. ferruginea), a reddish brown western Atlantic fish with rust-coloured spots and a yellow tail; the yellowfin sole, or Alaska dab (L. aspera), a brownish northern Pacific flatfish; and the longhead dab (L. proboscidea), a light-spotted, brownish northern Pacific fish with yellow on the edges of its body....
Limanda proboscidea (fish)
...ferruginea), a reddish brown western Atlantic fish with rust-coloured spots and a yellow tail; the yellowfin sole, or Alaska dab (L. aspera), a brownish northern Pacific flatfish; and the longhead dab (L. proboscidea), a light-spotted, brownish northern Pacific fish with yellow on the edges of its body....
Limann, Hilla (president of Ghana)
Ghanaian politician who engaged in a seesaw battle with Lieut. Jerry Rawlings for the presidency of Ghana; Limann was elected president in 1979 when he defeated Rawlings, who had seized power in a coup; in 1981, however, Rawlings staged another coup and unseated Limann. When Limann ran for president again in 1992, he lost to...
Limantour, José Yves (Mexican economist)
The founders of the group were Rosendo Pineda and Manuel Romero Rubio. In 1895 José Yves Limantour, the son of a French immigrant and finance minister since 1893, became leader of the circle. He pressed government officials to concentrate on efficiency and did much himself to improve the financial footing of the country. The learned Justo Sierra became minister of education and continued......
Limasawa (island, Philippines)
small island of historic importance near the island of Leyte, east-central Philippines. Located about 4 miles (6 km) off the southern tip of the island of Leyte just outside the mouth of Sogod Bay, Limasawa rises to about 700 feet (200 m). On this island, Ferdinand Magellan first made extended contact with Filipino natives on March 28, 1521. There also the first Roman Catholic ...
Limasol (Cyprus)
city and chief port of the Republic of Cyprus. The city lies on Akrotiri Bay, on the southern coast, southwest of Nicosia; it is the island’s second largest city and is also its chief tourist centre....
Limassol (Cyprus)
city and chief port of the Republic of Cyprus. The city lies on Akrotiri Bay, on the southern coast, southwest of Nicosia; it is the island’s second largest city and is also its chief tourist centre....
Limavady (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
town, seat, and district (established 1973), formerly in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Limavady town is on the River Roe 17 miles (27 km) east of the old city of Londonderry. Its name, meaning “the dog’s leap,” is derived from a gorge south of town over which a dog of ancient times carried a message of impending danger. Limavady dates from the Planta...
Limavady (district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
Limavady district is located south of Lough (inlet of the sea) Foyle and is bordered by the districts of Londonderry to the west, Strabane and Magherafelt to the south, and Coleraine to the east. The glacially scoured Sperrin Mountains in southern Limavady descend to rolling hills and fertile lowlands in the River Roe Valley in the centre of the district and then to the flat shores of Lough......
Limay (river, Argentina)
Dams have been constructed on the Neuquén and Limay rivers in order to exploit the hydroelectric potential of the western portion of Patagonia. These projects also have created large reservoirs that have made extensive irrigated agriculture possible in the Negro River region. Among the major crops grown are peaches, plums, almonds, apples, pears, olives, grapes, hops, dates, vegetables,......
limb (anatomy)
in medicine, removal of any part of the body. Commonly the term is restricted to mean surgical removal of a part of or an entire limb, either upper or lower extremity. The reasons for surgical amputation in general are injury, infection, tumour, diabetes, or insufficient blood supply. Persons born without a limb or limbs are said to have suffered congenital amputation. Surgical amputation may......
limb bud (anatomy)
The mesodermal masses of the limb rudiments proliferate, and, covered with thickened epidermis, form on the surface of the body conical protrusions called the limb buds, which, once formed, possess all the materials necessary for limb development. Limb buds may be transplanted into various positions on the body or on the head and there develop into clearly recognizable limbs, conforming to......
limb darkening (astronomy)
in astrophysics, gradual decrease in brightness of the disk of the Sun or of another star as observed from its centre to its edge, or limb. This phenomenon is readily apparent in photographs of the Sun. The darkening is greatest for blue light, amounting to a drop of as much as 90 percent from the Sun’s photosphere to its outer atmospheric regions. Such limb darkening occurs because the so...
limb girdle (anatomy)
...are present, fins in fish and limbs in land vertebrates. Each appendage includes not only the skeletal elements within the free portion of the limb but also the basal supporting structure, the limb girdle. This portion of the appendage lies partly or wholly within the trunk and forms a stable base for the fin or limb. Each girdle consists of ventral and dorsal masses. In lower fishes these......
limb-girdle dystrophy (pathology)
Limb-girdle dystrophy (dystrophy of the pelvic or shoulder muscles) affects both sexes. The first symptoms are manifest in the pelvic region, starting in late childhood. Muscular weakness eventually progresses to the arms and legs. Symptoms include frequent falling, difficulty in climbing, and a waddling gait....
limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (pathology)
Limb-girdle dystrophy (dystrophy of the pelvic or shoulder muscles) affects both sexes. The first symptoms are manifest in the pelvic region, starting in late childhood. Muscular weakness eventually progresses to the arms and legs. Symptoms include frequent falling, difficulty in climbing, and a waddling gait....
Limba (people)
...patrilineal descent, and farming methods. The Mende, found in the east and south, and the Temne, found in the centre and northwest, form the two largest groups. Other major groups include the Limba, Kuranko, Susu, Yalunka, and Loko in the north; the Kono and Kisi in the east; and the Sherbro in the southwest. Minor groups include the coastal Bullom, Vai, and Krim and the Fulani and......
Limbang (Malaysia)
...prime minister Abdullah Badawi revealed details of a March 2009 agreement between his country and Brunei to resolve their territorial disputes. Brunei effectively agreed to drop its claim to Limbang, an area between western and eastern Brunei that had long been in Malaysian hands. In addition, Malaysia agreed to drop its claim to two oil-rich areas in the South China Sea in favour of......
Limbaugh, Rush (American radio personality and author)
American radio personality and author known for his ultraconservative and often controversial opinions....
Limbaugh, Rush Hudson, III (American radio personality and author)
American radio personality and author known for his ultraconservative and often controversial opinions....
Limbe (Cameroon)
town and port located in southwestern Cameroon. It lies along Ambas Bay in the Gulf of Guinea, at the southern foot of Mount Cameroon, just south of Buea. Limbe is Cameroon’s second largest port, after the nearby port of Douala. It is dependent upon ...
Limbe (Malawi)
In 1956 Blantyre was united with Limbe, a town 7 miles (11 km) to the east that had been founded in 1909 and had grown around the headquarters of the Malawi (then Nyasaland) Railways. The amalgamated city is sometimes called Blantyre/Limbe. It has two cathedrals and the polytechnic and medical campuses of the University of Malawi....
limber pine (tree)
Tree form has a genetic component, because some species are able to exist in an erect form where other species cannot. An example of this is limber pine (Pinus flexilis) and bristlecone pine (P. aristata), both of which are found in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in the United States. These species form erect trees where Engelmann spruce (Picea......
limbic lobe (anatomy)
In general, the regions of the cerebral hemispheres that are closely related to the hypothalamus are those parts that together constitute the limbic lobe, first considered as a unit and given its name in 1878 by the French anatomist Paul Broca. Together with related nuclei, it is usually called the limbic system, consisting of the cingulate and parahippocampal gyri, the hippocampus, the......
limbic system (anatomy)
In general, the regions of the cerebral hemispheres that are closely related to the hypothalamus are those parts that together constitute the limbic lobe, first considered as a unit and given its name in 1878 by the French anatomist Paul Broca. Together with related nuclei, it is usually called the limbic system, consisting of the cingulate and parahippocampal gyri, the hippocampus, the......
limbo (Roman Catholic theology)
in Roman Catholic theology, the border place between heaven and hell where dwell those souls who, though not condemned to punishment, are deprived of the joy of eternal existence with God in heaven. The word is of Teutonic origin, meaning “border” or “anything joined on.” The concept of limbo probably developed in E...
Limbourg (province, Belgium)
...of the total population), who are concentrated in the five northern and northeastern provinces (West Flanders, East Flanders [West-Vlaanderen, Oost-Vlaanderen], Flemish Brabant, Antwerp, and Limburg). Just north of the boundary between Walloon Brabant (Brabant Walloon) and Flemish (Vlaams) Brabant lies the officially bilingual but majority French-speaking Brussels-Capital Region, with......
Limbourg brothers (Flemish artists)
three Dutch brothers who are the best-known of all late Gothic manuscript illuminators. Herman (b. c. 1385Nijmegen, duchy of Gelre [now in Gelderland, Netherlands]—d. February? 1416), Paul (Pol...
Limbourg, Pol de (Flemish artist)
...worked for the royal family, among whom Jean, duc de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, has achieved permanent fame as a patron. The most notable painters who enjoyed his patronage were Pol de Limburg and Pol’s two brothers. Their illuminations are frequently reminiscent of contemporary Italian painting. The largest and most sumptuous work, the Très Riches Heures d...
Limbu (people)
the second most numerous tribe of the indigenous people called Kiranti, living in Nepal on the easternmost section of the Himalayas between the Arun River and the border of Sikkim state, India. Of Mongolian stock, they number an estimated 200,000 and speak a Tibeto-Nepalese dialect of Kiranti. Limbu villages are found 2,500 to 4,000 feet (800 to 1,200 m) above ...
Limburg (province, Netherlands)
provincie, southeastern Netherlands. It is bounded on the northwest by Noord-Brabant provincie, on the north by Gelderland provincie, on the east by Germany, and on the south and southwest by the Belgian provinces of Limburg and Liège. It is drained by the Geul, Gulp, Roer, and Maas (Meuse) rivers, the latter forming part of the province’s southwestern boundary a...
Limburg (province, Belgium)
...of the total population), who are concentrated in the five northern and northeastern provinces (West Flanders, East Flanders [West-Vlaanderen, Oost-Vlaanderen], Flemish Brabant, Antwerp, and Limburg). Just north of the boundary between Walloon Brabant (Brabant Walloon) and Flemish (Vlaams) Brabant lies the officially bilingual but majority French-speaking Brussels-Capital Region, with......
Limburg (historical region, Europe)
historic region of the Low Countries that was one of many small states resulting from the division of the duchy of Lower Lorraine in the second half of the 11th century....
Limburg brothers (Flemish artists)
three Dutch brothers who are the best-known of all late Gothic manuscript illuminators. Herman (b. c. 1385Nijmegen, duchy of Gelre [now in Gelderland, Netherlands]—d. February? 1416), Paul (Pol...
Limburg, Pol de (Flemish artist)
...worked for the royal family, among whom Jean, duc de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, has achieved permanent fame as a patron. The most notable painters who enjoyed his patronage were Pol de Limburg and Pol’s two brothers. Their illuminations are frequently reminiscent of contemporary Italian painting. The largest and most sumptuous work, the Très Riches Heures d...
Limburger (cheese)
semisoft surface-ripened cow’s-milk cheese that has a rind of pungent odour and a creamy-textured body of strong flavour. Limburger originated in the Belgian province of Liège and was first sold at markets in Limbourg. By the late 20th century, most Limburger was produced in Germany and the United States....
limburgite (rock)
dark-coloured volcanic rock that resembles basalt but normally contains no feldspar. It is associated principally with nepheline-basalts and leucite-basalts; it also occurs with monchiquite, from which it is not easily distinguished. Limburgite may occur as flows, sills, or dikes and sometimes contains many cavities....
limbus (anatomy)
...of 8 mm (0.3 inch); it is transparent and is called the cornea; the remainder, the scleral segment, is opaque and has a radius of 12 mm (0.5 inch). The ring where the two areas join is called the limbus. Thus, on looking directly into the eye from in front one sees the white sclera surrounding the cornea; because the latter is transparent one sees, instead of the cornea, a ring of tissue......
limbus infantum (Roman Catholicism)
...which is the place where the Old Testament saints were thought to be confined until they were liberated by Christ in his “descent into hell,” and (2) the limbus infantum, or limbus puerorum (“children’s limbo”), which is the abode of those who have died without actual sin but whose ori...