Laurium
a village of Michigan, formerly known as Calumet. It is on the Mineral Range and the Copper Range railroads. It is the center of one of the largest and richest copper producing districts in the United States. Pop.. (1910) 8,537; (1920) 6,696.
LAUSANNE (lō-zän'), capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud, on the S. slope of the Jura Mountains, close to the N. shore of the Lake of Geneva, on which the village of Ouchy (where Byron wrote "The Prisoner of Chillon") forms its harbor. Here Gibbon resided and wrote the greater part of the "Decline and Fall." John Kemble, the actor, died and was buried here. Pop. (1918) 74,000.