Lucban
a town on the island of Luzon, in the province of Tayabas. The chief industry is the manufacture of straw hats and mats. Rice is also grown on the terraces of the hills. Pop. about 12,500. Vol. VI-Cyc-C
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Single-source entries: L (56)
Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Luce
STEPHEN BLEECKER, an American naval officer; born in Albany, N. Y., March 25, 1827; served on the Pacific Coast in the Mexican War; was promoted commander in 1866; captain in 1872; commodore in 1881; and rearadmiral in 1885; was retired the same year. He was naval editor of the "Standard Dictionary" and author of "Naval Songs" (1889); "Seamanship" (used as a text book at the United States Naval Academy, 1898); "Patriotic and Naval Songster"; etc. He died in 1917.
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Luchu
LIU-KIU, a chain of 55 islands, belonging to Japan. They extend in a S. W. direction from Coluet Strait toward Formosa. The total area is 941 square miles. The climate is healthful and the soil fertile. Sugar is the most important crop, but sweet potatoes, rice, barley, wheat, and beans are also produced. The principal industry is the manufacture of cotton cloth for native wear. The population is about 500,000.-
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Lucian
lu'shi-an, a Greek satirist of the second century. He was a native of Samosata, Syria. He studied law and rhetoric and traveled through many countries lecturing. His writings include poems, romances, and dialogues, as well as critical works and biographies. Many of his writings are preserved, the best known among them being Dialogues of the Dead and Dialogues of the Gods. Lucian was a freethinker. He made religion an object of ridicule, and thereby won the nickname of "The Blasphemer." A current legend, but one without foundation, was that he was torn to pieces by dogs--a just punishment, it is to be supposed, for his blasphemy.
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Lucy
Sir Thomas, a gentleman in the vicinity of Stratford who is said to have had the young Shakespeare and his boon companions up before him for poaching in his deer park. Sir Thomas is considered the model for Shakespeare's Justice Shallow in Ye Merry Wives of Windsor.
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Ludendorff
ERICH VON, German military leader, born in Prussian Poland, 1865; graduated from the Imperial Military Academy, in 1895, and 51 FIELD-MARSHAL VON LUDENDORFF was soon after attached to the General Staff, in Berlin. He rapidly won promotion through his zeal for military efficiency. In 1912 he was at the head of a department of the General Staff, with the rank of Colonel. When the war broke out, in 1914, he held the rank of Major-General and was practically head of the German military organization. It was he who recalled Hinden- LÜDENSCHEID burg from retirement and appointed him to the command of the German armies in East Prussia, after the disastrous initial defeat suffered at the hands of the Russians, shortly after hostilities broke out. From then until the final collapse of the German military organization, in 1918, Ludendorff retained his commanding position, nor was he greatly discredited in the minds of the German Imperialists by the final defeat of his armies.
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Ludenscheid
Prussia, Germany, a town in Westphalia, 33 miles N. E. of Cologne. It is of considerable importance as a manufacturing center for hardware, musical instruments, canes, and cotton goods. Pop. about 35,000. LÜDERITZ BAY, Southwest Africa, on whose shore the settlement of Angra equeña was established by a German trader, Lüderitz, in 1883. It became the center of the German Southwest African possessions, the harbor, though poor, being the best in the region. Lüderitz Bay was one of the first settlements to be lost by the Germans after the outbreak of the war, in 1914. The place was abandoned by the German forces in the second week of August, 1914, after as much of the harbor facilities as possible had been destroyed. Later this point frican was made the base of a South African army under General Sir Duncan Mackenzie in its operations against the German forces in the interior.
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Ludhiana
capital of the Ludhiana district (area, 1,375 square miles; pop. 650,000), in Punjab, India, situated 8 miles from the Sutlej, and the North Western railroad; is a thriving grain mart and has manufactures of Cashmere shawls, scarfs, cottons, turbans, furniture, and carriages. The chief feature of the place is the shrine of a Mohammedan saint which attracts a large concourse of pilgrims every year. Pop. about 50,000.
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Ludington
a city and county-seat of Mason co., Mich., on Lake Michigan and the Père Marquette and the Ludington and Northern railroads; 84 miles N. E. of Milwaukee. It is in a salt and fruit region; has an excellent lake harbor; regular passenger and steamboat connection with all important lake ports; and numerous lumber-working, salt-making, foundry and machine shop establishments. There are electric light plants, high and graded public schools, public library, street railroads; Holly system of waterworks, National banks, and newspapers. Pop. (1910) 9,132; (1920) 8,810.
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Ludwigsburg
a town of Württemberg, 8 miles N. of Stuttgart; formerly the second royal residence, and one of the principal garrison towns; has a military school and a castle, with picture gallery and splendid gardens. It grew up round a hunting castle founded in 1704 by Duke Eberhard Ludwig. It was the birthplace of D. F. Strauss, Justinus Kerner, Möricke, and Friedrich Vischner. Pop. about 25,000.
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Ludwigshafen
a town of the Bavarian Palatinate, on the Rhine, opposite Mannheim; has grown rapidly owing to its manufactures (soda, aniline dyes, wagons, machinery, bridge material, fertilizers, rs, etc.), and its trade in iron, timber, timber, coal, and agricultural products. It was granted town rights in 1859. Pop. about 85,000.
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Lufbery
RAOUL SERVAIS, American aviator; born in 1884 and spent his early years in New Haven, Conn. His mother died when he was young and he was adopted by a family at Bourges, France. At 13 he ran away and wandered in Egypt, Tripoli, and elsewhere, turning his hand to many trades. In Asia he met the aviator Marc Pompe, who trained him as assistant. Enlisted in World War under French flag, decorated with Legion of Honor, March, 1917, after bringing down 6 enemy machines. Killed in 1918 near Toul in combat with German biplane, after bringing down 16 airplanes in all.
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