Lucerne
. See Alfalfa
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Lucerne, Lucerne, Luchu.
Lucerne
LAKE OF, called also VIERWALDSTÄTTERSEE ("Lake of the Four Forest Cantons" - Uri, Unterwalden, Schwyz, and Lucerne), one of the most beautiful sheets of water in Europe. In shape it resembles roughly a cross with a crumpled stem; its shores are mostly steep and rocky. Length from Lucerne to Flüelen, 23 miles; average breadth, about 1½ miles; area, 44 square miles. The chief places on its banks are Lucerne, Küssnacht, and Alpnach at the N. W., and Flüelen near its S. W. extremity. It forms part of the St. Gothard route, and is navigated by steamboats, but is liable to sudden and violent storms. See TELL, WILLIAM.
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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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Ludlow (EDMUND an English republican)
EDMUND, an English republican; born in Maiden Bradley, Wiltpublica shire, Engl England, in 1617. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford; and at the outbreak of the Civil War was a student in the Temple. He volunteered in Essex's lifeguards, saw service under Waller and Fairfax, was returned in his father's place to Parliament for Wiltshire in 1645, sat among the king's judges, and had a place in the council of state of the commonwealth. In 1651 he was sent to Ireland as lieutenant-general of horse. He refused to recognize Cromwell's protectorate, and till his death took no further part in public affairs. Returned to Parliament for Hindon in 1659, he urged the restoration of the Rump, held command again for a few months in Ireland, and was nominated by Lambert to the committee of safety. Four months after the Restoration he fled to France for safety, making his way to Vevay, Switzerland, where he lived in security. After the Revolution he returned to England, but, threatened with arrest, he returned to Vevay, and died there in 1692.
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Ludlow (Market-town and municipal)
a market-town and municipal borough of Shropshire, England, at the Corve's influx to the Teme, 28 miles S. of Shrewsbury. It is a very old and interesting place, with two noble monuments of antiquity: First, the massive Norman keep, 110 feet high, of the castle, where Prince Arthur wedded Catharine of Aragon, and died less than five months afterward; where, in the banqueting-hall, Milton produced his "Comus," and where Butler wrote "Hucaptured by King the Lancastrians, and the Roundheads, it was finally dismantled in 1689. Secondly, the cruciform collegiate church (restored in 1863). Perpendicular in style, with a tower 130 feet high. The grammar school, founded in 1,282, and refounded in 1552 1552, is almost the oldest in Great Britain; and one of seven gates still remains. Pop. about 6,000.
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