Larksville
a borough of Pennsylvania , in Luzerne co.
Susquehanna River, and is the center of It is on the an important coal mining district. Pop. (1910) 9,288; (1920) 9,438.
LARNAKA (ancient Citium), the chief port of Cyprus. Ev not the Chittim of the Old Testament, it Even if Citium be is certain that the King of Citium paid tribute to the Assyrian Sargon in 707 B. C., as appears from a cuneiform in- Larnaka in 1846, and now in the museum at Berlin. Carobs, or locust beans, cotton, LARVA and "History of England for Schools" (1900); "Library of American History" (1902); "Books, Culture and Character" (1906). Died 1913. kō'), FRANÇOIS DUKE DE, PRINCE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (rōsh-fö- DE MARSILLAC, a French courtier XIV.; born in Paris, France, Sept. 15, and man of letters in the reign of Louis 1613. He acted a conspicuous part in the civil war of the Fronde, but he is as the writer of "Reflections and Maxims." Its distinctive characteristic is that hard, worldly wisdom which finds selfishness at the bottom of everything.
He also wrote "Memoirs of the Regency of Anne of Austria." He died in Paris, March 17, 1680. port of France, on an islet of the Bay of LA ROCHELLE (lä-rō-shel'), a sea- Biscay, formed by the islands Ré and Oleron. The inner harbor has two basins, in which ships of any size may . The public buildings most worthy of notice are the arsenal, the palace, and the great clock tower, remnant of ace, the town hall, the cathedral, the ancient fortifications. Pop. about 36,000. By the marriage of Eleanor of Guienne with Henry Plantagenet, afterward Henry II. , May 18, 1152, this town was captured by Louis VIII. in 1224. In came into the hands of the English, and recovered by Bertrand du Guesclin in 1372. The Huguenots held it from 1557 1360 it was ceded to England , but was to Oct. 28, 1628, when it surrendered to 1372. The Huguenots held it from 1557 Louis XIII.
They had sustained a siege from December, 1572 to 1573, when peace Vauban in the reign of Louis XIV. An was made. It was again fortified by to destroy the French fleet here was unattempt made by the English, in 1809, successful.
French lexicographer; born in Toucy,