Landsthing
the upper house of the Danish Parliament. See Denmark
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Landsthing, Landsturm, Landwehr.
Landsturm
a local militia of Germany, consisting of those loca of the reserve who are too old to serve in the LANDWEHR (q. v.). The landsturm is never called on to serve out of its own district except in case of invasion. When the Russians invaded East Prussia in 1914, the Landsturm Landsturn played a leading part in driving them friving the back.
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Landwehr
a kind of German militia composed entirely of ), a kind satirely men who have served in the regular army, and who in time of peace follow their usual trades or callings, except during the time when they are called out for called out their annual training.
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Lane
FRANKLIN KNIGHT, an HIGHT American public official; born near Charnear C lottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 1854. He was publishing with Elkin brought to California in his early childhood in with and was educated at the University of partnership, California. He engaged in newspaper the business at partne in New York the ba studied law. He was admitted to the work and also bar in 1889. From no in Nov eBook 1897 to 1902 he was corporation counsel Book " ( 1894 volume 4. of San Francisco. In the " Introduction as volume latter year he was Democratic candidate for governor ley "; " Sir "Introd of the State. From 1905 to March cley"; " , 1913, he was a member of the e. Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Lane
FRANKLIN K. His letters, throwing much light on the inside history of the Wilson cabinet during the World War, were published in 1922.
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Lang (ANDREW an English au- Selkirk)
ANDREW an English au- Selkirk, March 31, 1844. at, an English au- March 31, 1844. Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrew's University, and Balliol of Pilkem, Het sity and College, Oxford. He published several with many prisoners published volumes of charming verse, also " Cus- From that time verso, also in the battles tom and Myth" (1884); "Books and 4); Book one of the most Bookmen" (1886); "Letters to Dead Letters to areas in the war Authors" (1886); "Letters on Litera- Etters on of Ypres in ture" (1889); "Old Friends" (1890); Friends" was taken by the "Life of Sir Stafford Northcote" (1890); Forthcote" Euro (1890) "How to Fail in Literature" (1890); "Es- LANGENSALZA town of the 13 miles N. by and cloth June 27, 1866, 000 Hanoverians the latter were ing reinforced capitulate two the town is a tracts many about 13,000.
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Lang, Andrew
Andrew (1844), a Scottish author. He was born at Selkirk. He received his education at St. Andrew's and at Oxford. He wrote frequently for various periodicals and has published volumes on a variety of subjects. He has made prose translations of Greek classics, and has written several works on comparative mythology and religion. Letters to Dead Authors and Letters on Literature are interesting writings. Lang has produced a number of volumes of poetry. Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, Ballads in Blue China, Rhymes a la Mode, and Ballads of Books are among them. Perhaps Lang is as well known for his fairy tales as for his more ambitious writings. He has published The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, and The Green Fairy Book.
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Lang-Son
a town in Tongking; N. structure, in which the root maintains E. of Ha-noi; near the frontier of the itself unaltered in the whole group of Chinese province of Kwang-si. It was derivatives and inflections, and each sufa center of operations in the Francofix has an unchanged form and office. Chinese war of 1884-1885. The Basque and Armenian languages are also agglutinative, with this difference,
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Langland
William, an English poet. He lived about 1330-1400. He is the author of Piers the Plowman, a poem much read by the Lollards. See Lollards
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Langside
a S. suburb of Glasgow. , after her escape from Loch Leven sions of language, denominated isolating, Here , Queen Mary's forces were totally deagglutinating and inflectional. Isolatlanguages, of which feated by the Regent Moray, May 13, example, consist entirely of monosyllabic, Chinese is 1568. A monument (1887) commemounchanging roots. The Scythian is the rates the battle. type of what is called an agglutinative
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Language
human speech; the ag- LAN gregate of those articulate sounds, called gregato words, used to express perception and thought, accepted by and current among any community; the expression of thought by articulate sounds or words; thour! the body of uttered and audible sounds the by which, in human society, thought is by whi expressed. expres Also a particular set or aggregate of articulate sounds or words peculiar to a particular race, nation, tribe, or community; as, the English language, the French language, etc.; each of these often presents local varieties, to which the name of dialects has been given. Languages are divided according to two principles: First, morphologically, according to the structure of the language and the manner in which the sounds are formed or combined; and secondly; genealogically, according to their connection SAMUEL P. LANGLEY and relationship with respect to origin. The first class consists of three subdivi-
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Langue D'Oc
the South- Laniidæ into five sub-families: Lamianæ (bush Lamians rn French dialect, or PROVENÇAL (q. v.), oc in- (tree shrikes), Thamnophilinæ ss (bus so called because the people use shrikes), Dicrurinæ (drongo shrikes), shrikes) tead of oui for "yes," as in the N. prov- Ceblepyrinæ (caterpillar catchers), and nces. Tyranninæ (tyrant shrikes). Others HENRY PETTY (1780-1863), succeeded his divide them into the first two of these subbrother as Marquis of Lansdowne in families. 1809; was a successful debater in Parlia- 1809: ment, generally
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Langue D'Oil
or connected by a community of origin.
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Langue D'Oui
the Romance in the The Romance Thus the Indo-European (called also dialect spoken in the Middle Ages its word le Ages in the Aryan, or Indo-Germanic) is composed , the N. of France and so called from It was From its word of seven great branches: The Indian Italic for yes being oil, ouil, or oui. and the oul. It was Iranian or Persian, the Greek, the , -Celtic the language of the Trouvères Fères and the the Celtic, the Slavonic or Slavo , of and the Germanic or Teutonic. Each progenitor of modern French.
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