renal system: Arteries and arterioles: …artery, mentioned earlier, divide into lobar arteries, each of which enters the kidney substance through or near a renal papilla. Each lobar artery gives off two or three branches, called interlobar arteries, which run outward between adjacent renal pyramids. When these reach the boundary between the cortex and the medulla…

Oswald Avery: …studying the bacterium responsible for lobar pneumonia, Streptococcus pneumoniae, called the pneumococcus. Avery and colleagues isolated a substance in the blood and urine of infected persons that was produced by this bacterium. They identified the substance as a complex carbohydrate called a polysaccharide, which makes up the capsular envelope of…

tree lungwort, (Lobaria pulmonaria), a lichen that, because of its physical resemblance to the lungs, was once used to treat tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other lung diseases. Its elongated, forked thallus (12 to 18 centimetres), loosely attached at one end, is dark green when wet and greenish brown

lobed comb jelly, any of several gelatinous, transparent marine invertebrates of the order Lobata (phylum Ctenophora). The animals are found in most oceans, especially in surface waters near the shore. Through the coordination of beating many rows of fused cilia, they are able to weakly propel

river: Classification of deltas: The other, called lobate, is exemplified by the older Holocene deltas of the Mississippi River system. Both of these high-constructive types have a large sediment supply relative to the marine processes that tend to disperse sediment along the shoreline. Normally, elongate deltas have a higher mud content than…

Mercury: Scarps: …have been its hundreds of lobate scarps. These cliffs vary from tens to over a thousand kilometres in length and from about 100 metres (330 feet) to 3 km (2 miles) in altitude. Viewed from above, they have curved or scalloped edges, hence the term lobate. It is clear that…

Native American music: Participation in art music: …was the late 16th-century composer Diego Lobato, an Inca who in 1574 became chapelmaster at the Quito Cathedral (now in Ecuador); he wrote motets (i.e., choral settings of sacred texts) and other works, but his scores have not survived. Two hymns with Nahuatl texts written in Mexico during the 1500s…

José Bento Monteiro Lobato was a writer and publisher, forerunner of the Modernist movement in Brazilian literature. Originally a lawyer and coffee planter in the interior of São Paulo state, Monteiro Lobato wrote an unpretentious letter to a São Paulo newspaper, describing the droughts and

Lobatse, town, southeastern Botswana. It lies on a main road and a rail line about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Gaborone, the national capital. Lobatse is the site of the Botswana Meat Commission, which operates one of the largest meat processing plants in Africa. In addition, the town has a

Lobatse, town, southeastern Botswana. It lies on a main road and a rail line about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Gaborone, the national capital. Lobatse is the site of the Botswana Meat Commission, which operates one of the largest meat processing plants in Africa. In addition, the town has a

Vienna: Layout and architecture: The Lobau, a wooded section along the river, has, like the Vienna Woods, long been a protected greenbelt area. Since the 1970s the open spaces on the far side of the Danube have been exploited for apartment buildings and factories.

Battle of Waterloo: The first hours of battle: …path, and a corps under Georges Mouton, count de Lobau, was placed behind them. By 1:30 pm those arrangements had been completed. The battery near La Belle Alliance opened fire, and 18,000 infantry under Ney and Drouet advanced on the allied centre a half hour later. No cavalry accompanied the…

Kenneth Lonergan: Lobby Hero, centring on a security guard for an apartment building, debuted in 2001. All three of these plays were later staged on Broadway—This Is Our Youth in 2014–15, Lobby Hero in 2018, and The Waverly Gallery in 2018–19—and all were nominated for Tony Awards…

lobbying, any attempt by individuals or private interest groups to influence the decisions of government; in its original meaning it referred to efforts to influence the votes of legislators, generally in the lobby outside the legislative chamber. Lobbying in some form is inevitable in any

human respiratory system: Gross anatomy: …and is composed of three lobes, a superior, middle, and inferior lobe, separated from each other by a deep horizontal and an oblique fissure. The left lung, smaller in volume because of the asymmetrical position of the heart, has only two lobes separated by an oblique fissure. In the thorax,…

pump: Positive displacement pumps.: Lobe pumps resemble external gear pumps, but have rotors with two, three, or four lobes in place of gears; the two rotors are both driven. Lobe pumps have a more pulsating output than external gear pumps and are less subject to wear. Lobe-type compressors are…

vertebrate: Annotated classification: Subclass Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes) Usually possess a choana; paired fins with a fleshy base over a bony skeleton; persisting notochord; 2 dorsal fins; nares are internal. Class Amphibia Cold-blooded; respire by lungs, gills, skin, or mouth lining; larval stage in water or in egg; skin is…

classical scholarship: The new German humanism: …had many distinguished pupils, including C.A. Lobeck (1781–1860), a grammarian of great learning and acuteness, who in his famous book Aglaophamus (1829) refuted the seductive but dubious theory of the Heidelberg professor G.F. Creuzer that the mythology of Homer and Hesiod contained symbolic elements of an ancient Oriental revelation from…

lobed comb jelly, any of several gelatinous, transparent marine invertebrates of the order Lobata (phylum Ctenophora). The animals are found in most oceans, especially in surface waters near the shore. Through the coordination of beating many rows of fused cilia, they are able to weakly propel

Lovedu, a Bantu-speaking people of Northern province, S.Af. Their immediate neighbours include the Venda and the Tsonga. Agriculture is their major economic activity, with corn (maize), millet, squash, and peanuts (groundnuts) cultivated by hoe. Animal husbandry is a secondary means of food

bichir, (genus Polypterus), any of about 10 species of air-breathing tropical fishes of the genus Polypterus native to freshwater river and lake systems in western and central Africa. Bichirs are classified in the family Polypteridae, order Polypteriformes. These fishes are elongated in form with

Matthias de L’Obel was a Flemish-born physician and botanist whose Stirpium adversaria nova (1570; written in collaboration with Pierre Pena) was a milestone in modern botany. It argued that botany and medicine must be based on thorough, exact observation. L’Obel studied at the University of

encyclopaedia: The modern encyclopaedia: Meanwhile, Renatus Gotthelf Löbel was planning to compile an encyclopaedia that could supersede Hübner. It was Sinold von Schütz who, in the fourth edition of Hübner, had introduced the word Conversations-Lexikon into the title, and it was Löbel who decided to give it pride of place…

lobelia, (genus Lobelia), genus of more than 400 species of flowering plants in the bellflower family (Campanulaceae) native to nearly all the temperate and warmer regions of the world, except central and eastern Europe and western Asia. A number are cultivated as garden ornamentals for their

lobelia, (genus Lobelia), genus of more than 400 species of flowering plants in the bellflower family (Campanulaceae) native to nearly all the temperate and warmer regions of the world, except central and eastern Europe and western Asia. A number are cultivated as garden ornamentals for their

cardinal flower, (Lobelia cardinalis), perennial flowering plant of the genus Lobelia (family Campanulaceae) native to North and Central America. The plant bears spikes of scarlet, white, or pink lipped flowers on leafy stems up to 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall. Cardinal flowers are cultivated as

lobelia: Major species: …tropical or warm temperate areas, water lobelia (L. dortmanna) occurs throughout the north temperate zone. Similarly, acrid lobelia (L. urens) is found locally in damp pastures in England and western Europe.

lobelia: Major species: …dwarf blue trailing lobelia (L. erinus) from South Africa, which, with its numerous varieties, forms a familiar bedding plant, much used for edging. The unusual L. tupa, a Chilean perennial 1.8 to 2.4 metres (6 to 8 feet) high, has reddish or scarlet flowers. Slender lobelia (L. tenuior), with…

lobelia: Major species: Southern lobelia (L. georgiana), from North America, as well as great blue lobelia (L. siphilitica) and its hybrids, also have blue flowers. Various lobelia hybrids constitute a fine group of fairly hardy and showy garden plants.

Indian tobacco, (species Lobelia inflata), annual plant of the family Campanulaceae, native to open woodlands of North America. It was once considered a medicinal plant because of the emetic alkaloid present in the plant parts, especially the roots, but is now regarded as poisonous. The Indian

cardinal flower: …siphilitica) is sometimes called the blue cardinal and has blue or whitish flowers.

lobelia: Major species: Slender lobelia (L. tenuior), with blue flowers, is Australian and grown in the greenhouse. Southern lobelia (L. georgiana), from North America, as well as great blue lobelia (L. siphilitica) and its hybrids, also have blue flowers. Various lobelia hybrids constitute a fine group of fairly hardy and…

lobelia: Major species: The unusual L. tupa, a Chilean perennial 1.8 to 2.4 metres (6 to 8 feet) high, has reddish or scarlet flowers. Slender lobelia (L. tenuior), with blue flowers, is Australian and grown in the greenhouse. Southern lobelia (L. georgiana), from North America, as well as great blue…

lobelia: Major species: Similarly, acrid lobelia (L. urens) is found locally in damp pastures in England and western Europe.

lobelia: Major species: …a volatile liquid alkaloid named lobeline. Lobeline is pungent, with a tobacco-like odour, and is very dangerous if swallowed. Fatal cases of poisoning are not uncommon, even if only a few leaves or capsules and their seeds are ingested. Milder manifestations include vomiting, nausea, coma, or convulsions.

Campanulaceae: …included as a subfamily (Lobelioideae) of Campanulaceae. This group includes most of the woody members of the family, as well as many herbs. Most lobelioids produce whitish latex in the stems and leaves, and the flowers are generally strongly monosymmetric (with a single plane of symmetry down the middle…

Matthias de L’Obel was a Flemish-born physician and botanist whose Stirpium adversaria nova (1570; written in collaboration with Pierre Pena) was a milestone in modern botany. It argued that botany and medicine must be based on thorough, exact observation. L’Obel studied at the University of

Lobengula was the second and last king (1870–94) of the Southern African Ndebele (Matabele) nation. Lobengula, the son of the founder of the Ndebele kingdom, Mzilikazi, was unable to prevent his kingdom from being destroyed by the British in 1893. After Mzilikazi died in September 1868, the

piranha: The lobetoothed piranha (P. denticulata), which is found primarily in the basin of the Orinoco River and the tributaries of the lower Amazon, and the San Francisco piranha (P. piraya), a species native to the San Francisco River in Brazil, are also dangerous to humans. Most…

cantata: …the so-called symphony-cantata Lobgesang (1840; Hymn of Praise), whereas the 20th-century English composer Benjamin Britten gave the title Spring Symphony (1949) to a work that is actually a cantata.

Lobi, people residing in the western region of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and in the Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and speaking a Gur language of the Niger-Congo family. They are farmers and hunters, growing millet and sorghum as staples. Traditionally, the Lobi governed themselves through

phalarope: …phalarope in Britain, and the northern phalarope (P. lobatus), called red-necked phalarope in Britain. Both species winter on tropical oceans, where they are known as sea snipe. Wilson’s phalarope (P. tricolor) breeds primarily in interior western North America and migrates chiefly to the Argentine pampas.

Lobito, port city, western Angola, on the Atlantic coast just north of the Catumbela estuary. Its bay, one of Africa’s finest natural harbours, is protected by a 3-mile- (5-km-) long sandspit. The city, built on the sandspit and reclaimed land, was founded in 1843 by order of Maria II of Portugal,

lapwing: The red-wattled lapwing, Vanellus (sometimes Lobivanellus) indicus, and the yellow-wattled lapwing (V. malabaricus), of southern Asia, have wattles on the face. Others are the gray-headed lapwing (Microsarcops cinereus), of eastern Asia, and the long-toed lapwing (Hemiparra crassirostris), of Africa.

history of Europe: The crisis in the Habsburg lands: As a Bohemian noblewoman, Polyxena Lobkovic, perceptively observed from the vantage point of Prague: “Things are now swiftly coming to the pass where either the papists will settle their score with the Protestants, or the Protestants with the papists.”

Wenzel Eusebius, Fürst von Lobkowitz was a statesman who served as chief minister of the Aulic Council (Reichshofrat) under the Habsburg emperor Leopold I. During the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) he fought first in Bohemia and Silesia under Albrecht von Wallenstein and later in the Rhineland and

gordonia: …East Asia and includes the loblolly bay and other trees with yellow-centred, white, camellia-like blooms. The loblolly bay, or tan bay (G. lasianthus), native to southeastern North America, reaches about 19 metres (60 feet). It has ascending branches, an oval form, evergreen leaves, and long-stalked, fragrant flowers in late summer.…

KieranTimberlake: …construction; one example is the Loblolly House (2006), Taylors Island, Maryland. Cellophane House (2008), a five-story fabricated dwelling commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, highlighted the firm’s ongoing research into on-site assembly, disassembly, the life span of materials, and the development of energy-gathering “skin.” Later projects…

rosin: palustris, and the loblolly pine, P. taeda, of the southern Atlantic and eastern Gulf states.

Bohemian glass: …century but was revived by Ludwig Lobmeyr, a Viennese industrialist who founded a glass-designing studio at Kamenický Šenov (Steinschönau).

Manuel Zelaya: …the country’s history—Zelaya narrowly defeated Porfirio Lobo Sosa of the National Party of Honduras (Partido Nacional de Honduras; PN). Zelaya’s administration focused on fighting crime, particularly the ongoing illicit drug trade in the country, but during his term crime remained an intractable problem. In May 2007, in response to media…

Francisco Rodrigues Lobo was a pastoral poet, known as the Portuguese Theocritus, after the ancient Greek originator of that poetic genre. Rodrigues Lobo received a degree in law at Coimbra and then entered the service of the Duke of Braganza. His first book of poems, Romances (1596), written in

Manuel Zelaya: …the country’s history—Zelaya narrowly defeated Porfirio Lobo Sosa of the National Party of Honduras (Partido Nacional de Honduras; PN). Zelaya’s administration focused on fighting crime, particularly the ongoing illicit drug trade in the country, but during his term crime remained an intractable problem. In May 2007, in response to media…

Rebecca Lobo is an American basketball player who became one of the original stars of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Lobo was part of a close-knit, basketball-oriented family. Her sister, Rachel, was a basketball coach at Salem (Massachusetts) State College, and her brother,

Rebecca Lobo is an American basketball player who became one of the original stars of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Lobo was part of a close-knit, basketball-oriented family. Her sister, Rachel, was a basketball coach at Salem (Massachusetts) State College, and her brother,

mollusk: Evolution and paleontology: …branches called subclades: the supraclass Loboconcha (or Diasoma), including the suspension-feeding bivalves, and the infaunal scaphopods, sharing a common ancestor in the fossil class Rostroconchia. These groups have a mantle with the shell enlarged in width to envelop the soft body as well as an anterior elongated foot to live…

crabeater seal, (species Lobodon carcinophagus), southern seal of the family Phocidae found among drifting ice packs around the Antarctic continent. A slender animal measuring about 2–2.5 m (6.6–8.2 feet) long and up to about 225 kg (500 pounds) in weight, the crabeater seal feeds on krill

Mpondo: …wives through the payment of lobola (bridewealth). Political structure consisted of a number of subsidiary chiefdoms subordinated in varying degrees to a central chieftaincy under a royal lineage.

bird-of-paradise: …mocha-breasted, bird-of-paradise (Cnemophilus macgregorii); the wattle-billed, or golden-silky, bird-of-paradise (Loboparadisea sericea); and Loria’s, or Lady Macgregor’s, bird-of-paradise (Loria loriae)—three species formerly classified as bowerbirds.

lobopod, collective name for two phyla of animals: Onychophora and Tardigrada. Phyla Onychophora and Tardigrada have long been considered separate from their close arthropod relatives. Both groups have similar paired locomotory appendages, called lobopodia (or lobopods); a body cavity (hemocoel); a

protist: Pseudopodia: Lobopodia may be flattened or cylindrical (tubular). Amoeba proteus is probably the best-known protist possessing lobopodia. Although the precise mechanisms of amoeboid movement are unresolved, there is general agreement that contraction of the outer, nongranular layer of cytoplasm (the ectoplasm) causes the forward flow of…

protist: Pseudopodia: Lobopodia may be flattened or cylindrical (tubular). Amoeba proteus is probably the best-known protist possessing lobopodia. Although the precise mechanisms of amoeboid movement are unresolved, there is general agreement that contraction of the outer, nongranular layer of cytoplasm (the ectoplasm) causes the forward flow of…

T Bone Burnett: …critically acclaimed major-label debut from Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?, and soon after he worked with Elvis Costello, whose King of America (1986) and Spike (1989) feature Burnett as both producer and performer. While these and other projects helped to establish Burnett professionally, his work on The Turning…

tripletail: …family contains two genera (Lobotes and Datnioides), with members of the first genus found in tropical or warm temperate marine waters and those of the second found in brackish or freshwater environments. The name tripletail refers specifically to Lobotes surinamensis, the largest species in the family, which reaches a…

tripletail: …name tripletail refers specifically to Lobotes surinamensis, the largest species in the family, which reaches a length of 1 m (3 feet) and is found worldwide.

tripletail, any of four species of fishes constituting the family Lobotidae (order Perciformes). The family contains two genera (Lobotes and Datnioides), with members of the first genus found in tropical or warm temperate marine waters and those of the second found in brackish or freshwater

lobotomy, surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas. The procedure was formerly used as a radical therapeutic measure to help grossly disturbed patients with schizophrenia, manic depression and mania (bipolar disorder), and

lobster, any of numerous marine crustaceans (phylum Arthropoda, order Decapoda) constituting the families Homaridae (or Nephropsidae), true lobsters; Palinuridae, spiny lobsters, or sea crayfish; Scyllaridae, slipper, Spanish, or shovel lobsters; and Polychelidae, deep-sea lobsters. All are marine

lobster pot, in commercial fishing, portable trap to capture lobster, either half-cylindrical or rectangular and constructed of laths, formerly wooden but now usually plastic. An opening permits the lobster to enter, but not to escape, through a tunnel of netting. Pots are usually constructed with

Olivia Colman: Films: The Lobster, The Favourite, and The Lost Daughter: …Yorgos Lanthimos’s acclaimed surrealist film The Lobster, playing the manager of a hotel where single people must find a spouse within 45 days or be turned into an animal. The Lobster won the Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival, and Colman received another BIFA award, this one for best…

Mount Everest: Drainage and climate: …Khumbu Glacier melts into the Lobujya (Lobuche) River of Nepal, which flows southward as the Imja River to its confluence with the Dudh Kosi River. In Tibet the Rong River originates from the Pumori and Rongbuk glaciers and the Kama River from the Kangshung Glacier: both flow into the Arun…

Mount Everest: Drainage and climate: …Khumbu Glacier melts into the Lobujya (Lobuche) River of Nepal, which flows southward as the Imja River to its confluence with the Dudh Kosi River. In Tibet the Rong River originates from the Pumori and Rongbuk glaciers and the Kama River from the Kangshung Glacier: both flow into the Arun…

breast cancer: Types of breast cancer: …these tissues are known as lobular carcinomas and ductal carcinomas. Because these tissues are glandular, both cancers are referred to as adenocarcinomas. The most common type of tumor, infiltrating ductal carcinoma, is a single hard barely movable lump. This type of tumor accounts for about 70 percent of all cases.…

sweet alyssum, (Lobularia maritima), annual or short-lived perennial herb of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It is native to the Mediterranean region. Sweet alyssum is widely grown as a border ornamental for its fragrant clusters of small flowers. Sweet alyssum has white four-petaled flowers;

human ear: Outer ear: The lobule, the fleshy lower part of the auricle, is the only area of the outer ear that contains no cartilage. The auricle also has several small rudimentary muscles, which fasten it to the skull and scalp. In most individuals these muscles do not function, although…

human respiratory system: Pulmonary segments: …subdivided into smaller units, the pulmonary segments. There are 10 segments in the right lung and, depending on the classification, eight to 10 segments in the left lung. Unlike the lobes, the pulmonary segments are not delimited from each other by fissures but by thin membranes of connective tissue containing…

Latin American dance: Puerto Rico: …the common man), and the loca (men dressed as women who traditionally swept filth from the streets).

Council of Europe: The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe is a consultative body that represents local and regional (subnational) governments within the council. The Secretariat, with a staff of about 1,000, serves the other three main organizations within the council.

anesthetic: Local anesthetics: Local anesthetics provide restricted anesthesia because they are administered to the peripheral sensory nerves innervating a region, usually by injection. Thus, local anesthetics are useful in minor surgical procedures, such as the extraction of teeth. The first known and generally used local anesthetic…

local area network (LAN), any communication network for connecting computers within a building or small group of buildings. A LAN may be configured as (1) a bus, a main channel to which nodes or secondary channels are connected in a branching structure, (2) a ring, in which each computer is

armistice: …hostilities—called a local armistice or truce—established for a variety of specific purposes, such as collecting the dead. Or it may involve a general armistice (i.e., a total cessation of all hostilities) such as the French armistice agreement of 1940. Although a total cessation may appear to be tantamount to a…

the Local Church, international Evangelical Christian group founded in China in the 1930s and based on the belief that a city or town should have only one church. The Local Church grew out of the ministry of Watchman Nee (1903–72), a Chinese Christian who had been strongly influenced by the

local colour, style of writing derived from the presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants. Although the term local colour can be applied to any type of writing, it is used almost exclusively to describe a kind of American literature that in its

pirate radio: From piracy to microbroadcasting: …licensed radio station, and the Local Community Radio Act, passed by Congress in 2010, made it easier for noncommercial LPFM broadcasters to obtain FCC licenses.

cultural globalization: The persistence of local culture: The term local culture is commonly used to characterize the experience of everyday life in specific, identifiable localities. It reflects ordinary people’s feelings of appropriateness, comfort, and correctness—attributes that define personal preferences and changing tastes. Given the strength of local cultures, it is difficult to argue that…

Audrey Thomas: …Company in the 1800s; and Local Customs (2014), which was inspired by the mysterious death of Letty Landon, a writer who died in 1838 shortly after marrying and traveling to Africa.

Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language: Definitions: …languages should be distinguished from local dialects. Every language has its local spoken forms, but not every group in the world has created a standard language. In order to make one, someone must choose which one or more of the local dialects will serve as a basis and which words…

animal social behaviour: Social interactions involving movement: The benefits of forming dispersal swarms, flocks, and coalitions are considered similar to the advantages of living in aggregations as both exploit the potential benefits of living in groups. Moving about in groups can provide additional advantages, such as the reduction in turbulence and energy savings accrued by geese…

therapeutics: Local drug therapy: Local anesthetics produce loss of sensation and make it possible for many surgical procedures to be performed without a general anesthetic. Barring any complications, the need for the patient to remain overnight in the hospital is obviated. Local anesthetics are also used…

employee training: …Wales and also of 22 Local Enterprise Companies in Scotland. These independent companies, operated by private business leaders, manage a variety of job-training programs on behalf of the British government.

therapeutics: Reconstructive surgery: This can be a local flap, in which tissue is freed and rotated from an adjacent area to cover the defect, or a free flap, in which tissue from another area of the body is used. An example of a local flap is the rotation of adjacent tissue (skin…

unified field theory: …to invoke the concept of local gauge invariance, which postulates symmetries of the basic field equations at each point in space and time (see gauge theory). Both electromagnetism and general relativity already involved such symmetries, but the important step was the discovery that a gauge-invariant quantum field theory of the…

local government, authority to determine and execute measures within a restricted area inside and smaller than a whole state. Some degree of local government characterizes every country in the world, although the degree is extremely significant. The variant, local self-government, is important for

Wales: Union with England: …of local government by the Local Government Act of 1888, the county councils were established.

Northern Territory: Administrative framework: …in small communities by the Local Government Act of 1985; by the beginning of the 21st century, the territory had more than 60 officially recognized “local governing bodies,” including municipal and community councils, incorporated associations, and one special-purpose town. Some of the programs and facilities administered by local governments include…

borough: …abolished in a reorganization of local government in 1974. Further reorganization in the 1990s established 36 English metropolitan borough councils and 33 London borough councils. Borough county councils also were created in Wales.

France: The Consulate: The Local Government Act of February 1800 eliminated elections for local office entirely and organized local administration from the top down. To run each département, the Consulate appointed a prefect, reminiscent of the old royal intendants, who was assisted by subprefects on the level of the…

The Gambia: Local government: The Gambia is organized into Local Government Areas (LGA), each of which either is coterminous with a long-standing administrative unit known as a division or corresponds with roughly half of a division. The city of Banjul and the Kanifing Municipality each form a separate LGA. Most decision making is done…

Local Group, in astronomy, the group of more than 20 galaxies to which the Milky Way Galaxy belongs. About half are elliptical galaxies, with the remainder being of the spiral or irregular type. As in other clusters of galaxies, members are probably kept from separating by their mutual

Guy Butler: … (1977), Bursting World (1983), and A Local Habitation (1991).