In this piece of writing, I would explain why the present is just the result of a series of movement do it in the past. Since the Gilded Age let to the Depression, and this one let us to the Decade that roared, and as you can visualize the ...

The labu Sayong (water calabash) is a Malay earthenware container. It takes its shape from the gourd or starfruit and is used as a water container. The clay used for Malay pottery is a terra-cotta clay found by streams, riverbanks, and pad...

Labyrinth is a 1986 film about a young girl named Sarah who, angry with being forced to babysit her little brother, Toby, wishes for the goblins to take him away. To her surprise, the goblins do, and the Goblin King, Jareth, arrives to mak...

The Lac operon is an organized region of the genome that is present in the bacterium Escherchia coli. It is devoted to the metabolism of the sugar lactose (from which the lac designation arises). The lac operon is important in the history ...

French obstetrician Marie Louise LaChapelle (1769-1821) introduced many innovations to the management of childbirth, especially in the cases of difficult labor. She attended thousands of births and produced a massive three-volume book desc...

Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), British officer and governor of New South Wales, sought to improve the status of emancipists and undertook a major public works program. Lachlan Macquarie, born on January 31, 1762, came from a poor Scottish ...

Wares made of wood, porcelain, or metal to which lacquer has been applied are known as lacquerware. Lacquer is the sap or resin of the lacquer (rhus verniciflua) or varnish tree. The tree is native to central and southern China and possibl...

Popular in Canada and the eastern United States, lacrosse is a difficult, fast-moving game adopted from the Canadian Indians. It is widely considered the most brutal organized sport in existence; much of the game is based on the saying, "T...

Lactic acid is a naturally occurring hydroxy-carboxylic acid. It occurs in many acidic fermentation products, e.g., silage, sour milk, sauerkraut, and pickles, and also has numerous commercial uses such as in drug preparation, acidificatio...

Lactobacillus is the name given to a group of Gram-negative bacteria that do not form spores but derive energy from the conversion of the sugar glucose into another sugar known as lactose. The name of the genus derives from the distinctive...

The name Ed Lacy was the most successful pseudonym of writer Len Zinberg; his other pen name was Steve April, which he used for one book. Zinberg began his career as an aspiring writer of serious fiction and wrote at first under his own na...

(2001 est. pop. 118,000). Ladakh, formerly called Middle Tibet, is a mountainous district of Jammu and Kashmir that forms the northernmost area of the Indian Republic. It covers 82,665 square kilometers of very high and rugged country, and...

Ladder 49 is a 2004 film which follows the life of fictional Baltimore City Firefighter Jack Morrison from his first day at the firehouse to the most challenging highrise fire of his career. Directed by Jay Russell . Written by Lewis Colic...

Ladies of the Canyon, Joni Mitchell's third album, is not aimed at fairly literate ex-folkies who will take anyone's fairly literate word for anything. It is aimed at the world…. [Her] voice is narrating twelve stories of different kinds,...

When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame, And all the weary world to sleep are gane....

The following essay discussed Lady Anne Blunt and her husband, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt, née Annabella Isabella Noel, later fifteenth Baroness Wentworth, were each descended from one of the fami...

The English writer Lady Antonia Fraser (born 1932), was a popular biographer, historian, and mystery novelist. Lady Antonia Fraser was born on August 27, 1932, in London, England. She was the daughter of the seventh Earl of Longford, Franc...

SOURCE: “Detective in the House: Subversion and Containment in Lady Audley's Secret,” in Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism, Rutgers University Press, 1992, pp. 45-70. In the following essay, Cvetkovich...

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor....