Lesueur
EUSTACHE (luh-sur'), a French painter; born in 1617. He married in 1644, and was compelled for a living to execute vignettes and frontispieces for books. His great work was the series of paintings which he executed for the Carthusian monastery in Paris in 1645-1648, delineating in 22 pictures the principal scenes in the life of St. Bruno. In 1650 he painted for the corporation of goldsmiths the "Preaching of the Apostle Paul at Ephesus ." All of these are large paintings, and are now in the Louvre. He died in 1655.
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Lethbridge
a city in Alberta, Canada, situated on the Canadian Pacific railroad about 700 miles southwest of Winnipeg. The chief industries located in the city are the iron foundries and machine shops. Coal is found nearby, there being five large mines employing about 2000 persons and producing 4000 tons daily. Population, about 15,000.
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Letters
Frequency of. Printers find that they use certain letters more frequently than others. The letter "e" is called for oftenest. For every thousand "e's" only twenty-two "z's" are needed. The following is the entire table: A 728 B 120 C 280 D 392 E 1000 F 236 G 168 H 540 I 704 J 55 K 88 L 360 M 272 N 670 O 672 P 168 Q 50 R 528 S 680 T 770 U 296 V 158 W 190 X 46 Y 184 Z 22 The letter "s" is used more frequently than any other as an initial. Twenty-three initial "y's" are needed to four "x's." The following table gives the relative frequency of initial letters: A 574 B 463 C 937 D 505 E 340 F 388 G 266 H 308 I 377 J 69 K 47 L 298 M 430 N 153 O 206 P 804 Q 58 R 291 S 1194 T 571 U 228 V 172 W 282 X 4 Y 23 Z 18 Henrik Ibsen. European literature Bjornstjerne Bjornson. European literature Torquato Tasso. Literature Letters Francesco Petrarch. Literature Letters Dante. Literature Letters Ludovico Ariosto. Literature Letters
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Letts
a branch of the Lithuanian won ther race, who in manners, customs, and mode of living Great, wit do not differ much from the trians und Lithuanians proper. They live in South at the hea Livonia, Pskov, Courland, and Vitebsk, and in the N. of the recono Kovno in Russia. There Silesia by are also colonies of them in Prussia, Brazil, and the United States. Early converted to LEUTAT Christianity by the Teutonic Knights, they are now mostly Lutherans, though some 50,000 have been won over to the Greek Church. In Russia they are principally engaged in agriculture and have made great progress intellectually and socially. They have a literature comprising now (1920) over 2,500 works and support 10 periodicals. Large numbers fought with the Bolshe viks in the revolution of 1917, and represented in the army of the Soviet Republic. After the den The De peace of Versailles in 1919 the on Letts established an inde- Visited pendent State of Latvia. e was e Government
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Lettuce
let'tis, a garden herb closely related to the dandelion. The name lettuce is without doubt related to a Latin noun meaning milk, and has reference to the milky juice of the plant. The native land of the lettuce is not known certainly, but lettuce salad is said to have been served at the tables of Persian kings as early as 400 B. C. The valuable part of the plant is a rosette of root leaves much used as a salad. Lettuce requires cool weather. That grown in early spring is much more tender than summer lettuce. Much of the lettuce in market is grown in hotbeds and glass houses. Lettuce is a quick growing annual. Under favorable circumstances, it may be had ready for the market in sixty days from the seed. As in the case of cabbage, there are numerous varieties, some forming heads much earlier than others. The plant is an annual. The leaves are no sooner ready for the table than a seed stalk pushes up from the center of the rosette. About thirty plants produce a pound of seed. American gardeners depend almost entirely upon California for lettuce seed. The state produces a quarter of a million pounds annually. An ounce of seed should produce about 5,000 plants. See Vegetables
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Leucippus
A celebrated philosopher of Abdera , about 428 years before Christ. He was a disciple of Zeno. His life was written by Diogenes . There were several others of the same name. 2026 Editor's Note: While this text identifies Leucippus as a disciple of Zeno, he is most significantly recognized as the founder of atomism, a philosophy he developed alongside his student Democritus. He proposed that the universe consists of indivisible particles called atoms moving through a void, a theory developed in opposition to the Eleatic belief that the void could not exist. Although he is credited with works such as The Great World System, all of his original writings have been lost to history except for a single surviving sentence. (Ed: BR 2026-06-01)
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Leucocytes
the name given by ainting ent Robin to the lymph corpuscles, or lymphoid Empire Tal cells in the serous membranes Caircases of the body, and occasionally in the Malpighian led in Wa cells. 368.
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Leukas
LEUCADIA, or SANTA nfined t MAURA, one of the Ionian Islands, lies close to the sovereign, W. coast of Greece; about 660 B. nk; especi C. the Corinthians cut through the peninsula the sovere that joined it to the maingan embs land. It is 20 miles long by 8 wide, d of a mag with an area of 110 square miles. The ssissippi, t backbone of the island is a ridge of white Po. limestone; hence the name (leukos,
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Leuthen
a village of of Breslau, er Eilesia, 10 miles W. celebrated for the prated for the victory won there, 1757, by Frederick the victory by Frederick the Great, with 34,000 men, over the Austrians 00 men, over the Ausunder Prince Charles of Lorraine at the Charles of Lorraine head of 90,000. The result was 10,000. The result was the reconquest of the greater part of Silesia by the the greater part of Prussians. russians.
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