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.
a name by which the city of Paris was often anciently referred to: the word means "mud hovels." The Romans named the collection of huts they found here Lutetia Parisiorum, "the mud-town of the Parisii"; the first name being dropped left the present title, Paris. Also Asteroid 21, discovered by Goldschmidt at Paris, Nov. 15, 1852.
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THE. A union of the young people of the Lutheran churches, founded at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1895. Its creed is that of the Lutheran church, viz. the Augsburg Confession, and it will receive any society that subscribes to that basis. It holds its conventions every other year and has an executive committee and corresponding secretary. It publishes "The Luther League Review" monthly in New York. The Luther League has a membership in the United States of about 50,000 and is organized in 19 States. The Luther Leagues of Canada and Porto Rico are members of the League in the United States.
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a market-town of Bedfordshire, England, on the little Lea, among the Chiltern Hills, 31 miles N. N. W. of London; is the chief seat in England of the straw-plait (for hats, bonnets, etc.), an industry dating from the reign of James I., and employing 20,000 persons here and in the neighborhood; has St. Mary's Church, Plait-hall (1869), a town-hall, corn exchange, people's park, etc. Pop. about 45,000. LÜTZEN (lüt'sen), a small town in the Prussian province of Saxony, famous for two great battles fought in its vicinity. The first a brilliant victory of the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War, took place Nov. 6, 1632. The battle on May 2, 1813, was fought somewhat farther to the S., at the village of Grossgörschen. It was the first great conflict of the united Russian and Prussian army with the army of Napoleon in that decisive campaign; and the French were left in possession of the field.
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. See Gustavus Adolphus
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Russia, a strongly fortified town on the Styr river, fifty miles W. of Rovno and 120 miles S. W. of Lublin. This fortress, together with Dubno and Rovno, formed a very powerful triangle of permanent fortifications erected by Russia in recent years. Lutzk was taken by the Germans on Aug. 30, 1915, after only three days of fighting, the stronghold having been previously abandoned by the Russians for strategic reasons. Twenty-three days later it was recaptured by the Russians. Four days later the Russians were again forced to withdraw. On June 8 it was again taken by the Russians, under General Brusiloff, during his famous Galician drive, together with over 11,000 prisoners and much war material. Henceforth the fortress remained in Russian hands until the termination of hostilities on the eastern front. The town is the center of an agricultural grain-raising region, with a population, before the war, of about 32,000.
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COUNT KARL, German Chargé d'Affaires at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1917, during the Great War. In the summer of that year, he sent secret dispatches to Berlin through the Swedish legation via Stockholm, which were made public by Secretary Lansing of the United States Department of State. These dispatches urged that certain Argentine ships should be "spurlos versenkt"-destroyed without a trace. The publication of the documents resulted in the dismissal of Count Luxburg from Argentina, and the virtual entrance of Argentina into the war. Luxburg was also Minister to Uruguay, and on his dismissal from Argentina, he asked for a passport to Montevideo instead of to Berlin.
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famous for its architecture, art galleries, and gardens. The building was begun in 1616 and completed in 1620 by Salomon de Brosse for Marie de Medici. In 1835-41 the main body of the structure was doubled in size and a magnificent hall was built for the House of Peers, later occupied by the Prefecture of the Seine and since by the Senate. Always a royal or public picture gallery, the paintings are mostly by French French artists, American painters being next. The main structure fronts on a Court of Honor measuring 300 by 360 feet inclosed on sides and front by low wings. The gar dens, among the most noted in France, are the only Renaissance gardens in Paris. Originally laid out by De Brosse, they were nearly stripped in the Revolution, but restored in 1801.
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a village in Egypt on the banks of the Nile, standing now on the site of the ancient city of Thebes. The great court erected by Rameses II. is perhaps the greatest building in this section of Egypt. LUZERN. See LUCERNE.
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a town in Luzerne co., Pennsylvania, near the Susquehanna river, a little north of Wilkes-Barre. It is near the center of the coal region, and in addition to coal mines possesses a foundry, drill factories, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,426; (1920) 5,998.
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wood-rush; a genus of Juncaceæ (rushes). It has soft, plane, generally hairy leaves, a glumaceous perianth of six leaves, and a one-celled, three-valved capsule with three seeds. About 40 are known, all from temperate or cold climates.
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LUIGI, Italian statesman, born in 1841, in Venice, of Jewish parents. In 1867 he became professor of political economy and constitutional law at Padua University. In 1870 he entered politics by being elected to the Chamber of Deputies, after which he soon rose to prominence. He was Minister of Finance 1891-1892 and 1896-1898, and for a short period in 1910 he was Premier. He is an extreme Liberal, almost a radical, in his politics and is noted for his interest in all working-class movements.
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PRINCE GEORGE E., Russian social reformer, one of the prominent figures in the final revolution PRINCE GEORGE E. LVOFF which brought about the downfall of the Imperial Government in 1917; became interested in social reform at an early age, working through the zemstvos, those community councils within which the Imperial Government limited all the local autonomy it allowed to communities. Prince Lvoff was one of the delegation which, representing the national federation of zemstvos, presented a petition to Nicholas II., in 1905, for an extension of civic rights. He was a member of the first Duma, and identified himself with the Constitutional Democrats, standing for an extension of the democratic principle in Russia's political organization. In March, 1917, when the Czar was overthrown and the problem of organizing a provisional government presented itself, Prince Lvoff was found to be the only personality on whom both conservatives and radicals could agree as suitable to head the Cabinet. He was, accordingly, nominated Premier, and was one of the few who remained in the Cabinet during the many changes of the Kerensky régime. After the rise into power of the Bolsheviki, under Lenine and Trotzky, Prince Lvoff was compelled to flee abroad. LWOW. See LEMBERG.
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