- Lucius (fictional character)
Titus Andronicus: …Saturninus, at which Titus’s son Lucius responds by delivering Saturninus a fatal blow. Aaron the Moor is to be executed as well for his villainies. The blood-filled stage is presided over finally by Lucius and Titus’s brother, Marcus, as the sole survivors of Titus’s much-wronged family.
- Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (Roman emperor)
Commodus was a Roman emperor from 177 to 192 (sole emperor after 180). His brutal misrule precipitated civil strife that ended 84 years of stability and prosperity within the empire. In 177 Lucius was made coruler and heir to his father, the emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned 161–180). Lucius joined
- Lucius Aurelius Verus (Roman emperor)
Lucius Verus was a Roman emperor who jointly (161–169) ruled with Marcus Aurelius. Though he enjoyed equal constitutional status and powers, he did not have equal authority, nor did he seem capable of bearing his share of the responsibilities. Lucius was the son of a senator, Lucius Ceionius
- Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (Christian apologist)
Lactantius was a Christian apologist and one of the most reprinted of the Latin Church Fathers, whose Divinae institutiones (“Divine Precepts”), a classically styled philosophical refutation of early-4th-century anti-Christian tracts, was the first systematic Latin account of the Christian attitude
- Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius (Christian apologist)
Lactantius was a Christian apologist and one of the most reprinted of the Latin Church Fathers, whose Divinae institutiones (“Divine Precepts”), a classically styled philosophical refutation of early-4th-century anti-Christian tracts, was the first systematic Latin account of the Christian attitude
- Lucius Ceionius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (Roman emperor)
Lucius Verus was a Roman emperor who jointly (161–169) ruled with Marcus Aurelius. Though he enjoyed equal constitutional status and powers, he did not have equal authority, nor did he seem capable of bearing his share of the responsibilities. Lucius was the son of a senator, Lucius Ceionius
- Lucius Ceionius Commodus (Roman emperor)
Lucius Verus was a Roman emperor who jointly (161–169) ruled with Marcus Aurelius. Though he enjoyed equal constitutional status and powers, he did not have equal authority, nor did he seem capable of bearing his share of the responsibilities. Lucius was the son of a senator, Lucius Ceionius
- Lucius Cornelius Balbus Major (Roman consul)
Lucius Cornelius Balbus was a wealthy naturalized Roman, important in Roman politics in the last years of the republic. In 72 bc Pompey the Great conferred Roman citizenship on Balbus and his family for his services against the rebel Quintus Sertorius in Spain. Balbus became friends with several
- Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (Roman emperor)
Nero was the fifth Roman emperor (54–68 ce), stepson and heir of the emperor Claudius. He became infamous for his personal debaucheries and extravagances and, on doubtful evidence, for his burning of Rome and persecutions of Christians. Nero’s father, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, died about 40 ce,
- Lucius I, St. (pope)
St. Lucius I ; feast day March 4) was the pope from June 253 to March 254. Lucius is honoured in Denmark as the patron saint of Copenhagen. He succeeded St. Cornelius on June 25, 253. He was exiled to Civitavecchia, Italy, by the Roman emperor Gallus but later was allowed to return to Rome by
- Lucius II (pope)
Lucius II was the pope from 1144 to 1145. He was made cardinal by Pope Callixtus II in 1123 and papal chancellor by Pope Innocent II, whom he aided against the antipope Anacletus II. He was elected to succeed Celestine II on March 12, 1144. When King Roger II of Sicily invaded papal lands and
- Lucius III (pope)
Lucius III was the pope from 1181 to 1185. A Cistercian monk whom Pope Innocent II had made cardinal in 1141, Lucius was bishop of Ostia (consecrated 1159) and papal counsellor when elected on Sept. 1, 1181, to succeed Alexander III. As pope, Lucius was forced to leave Rome because the Romans had
- Lucius J. Kellam, Jr. Bridge-Tunnel (bridge, Virginia, United States)
Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, complex of trestles, artificial islands, tunnels, and bridges that runs across the entrance to Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, providing a vehicular roadway between the Norfolk–Hampton Roads area (southwest) and Cape Charles at the tip of the Delmarva Peninsula
- Lucius Junius Brutus (work by Lee)
Nathaniel Lee: Lucius Junius Brutus (1680) was prohibited for antimonarchical sentiments. Lee collaborated with John Dryden in Oedipus (1678) and The Duke of Guise (1682). Beginning in 1684, he was confined to Bedlam for five years..
- Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax (Roman emperor)
Septimius Severus was a Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He founded a personal dynasty and converted the government into a military monarchy. His reign marks a critical stage in the development of the absolute despotism that characterized the later Roman Empire. The son of an equestrian from the
- Lucius Sergius Catilina (Roman politician)
Catiline was an aristocrat in the late Roman Republic who turned demagogue and made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the republic while Cicero was a consul (63). Catiline served under Pompey’s father in the Social War of 89 and acquired an unsavoury reputation as a zealous participant in
- Luck (television drama [2011–2012])
Dustin Hoffman: …gambler on the HBO series Luck (2011–12), a drama set in the world of professional horse racing. He returned to the big screen as a restaurant owner in Chef (2014) and then appeared in the television adaptation Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot (2015), based on a children’s book about a bachelor…
- Łuck (Ukraine)
Lutsk, city, northwestern Ukraine, on a defensive site at a bend in the Styr River. It was a tribal settlement, perhaps of the Luchanians, as early as the 10th century. The first known record of the settlement dates to 1085. Lutsk later became a part of the principality of Galicia-Volhynia and
- luck egalitarianism (political theory)
equal opportunity: Luck egalitarianism: The ideal of equal opportunity does not necessarily lead to equality of outcome, since its aim is consistent with allowing people’s life prospects to be influenced by their values and choices. From that standpoint, the underlying motivation of the ideal of equal opportunity,…
- Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last Century, The (historical novel by Thackeray)
Barry Lyndon, historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last Century. The book was published in two volumes in 1852–53, and it was revised (“with admissions”) as The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. in
- Luck of Ginger Coffey, The (novel by Moore)
The Luck of Ginger Coffey, novel by Brian Moore, published in 1960. The story concerns an Irish-born Canadian immigrant whose self-deluded irresponsible behaviour nearly breaks up his
- Luck of Ginger Coffey, The (film by Kershner [1964])
Irvin Kershner: From B-24s to Laura Mars: …set during World War II; The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) was a low-budget drama featuring real-life married couple Robert Shaw and Mary Ure as husband and wife; and A Fine Madness (1966) featured Sean Connery as an irreverent poet whose outbursts of violence earn him a lobotomy. In 1967…
- Luck of Roaring Camp, The (short story by Harte)
The Luck of Roaring Camp, short story by Bret Harte, published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly, which Harte edited. “The Luck” is a baby boy born to Cherokee Sal, a fallen woman who dies in childbirth at Roaring Camp, a California gold rush settlement. The men of the camp decide to raise the child
- Luck of the Draw (album by Raitt)
Bonnie Raitt: …later in 1990 and then Luck of the Draw (1991) and Longing in Their Hearts (1994), both of which received Grammy Awards. In 1995 Raitt released the double-disc live set Road Tested. Her later studio albums include Fundamental (1998), Souls Alike (2005), Grammy-winning Slipstream (2012), and Dig in Deep
- Luck of the Irish, The (film by Koster [1948])
Henry Koster: Films of the 1940s: …the studio was the fantasy The Luck of the Irish (1948), in which a reporter (Tyrone Power) encounters a leprechaun (Cecil Kellaway). The sentimental comedy Come to the Stable (1949), adapted from a Clare Boothe Luce story, cast Young and Celeste Holm as transplanted French nuns trying to raise money…
- Luck, Andrew (American football player)
Indianapolis Colts: …NFL draft (spent on quarterback Andrew Luck), and the team released Manning during the offseason to avoid paying him a sizable contract bonus and to begin rebuilding around a younger core of players. Luck then led the Colts to a surprising 11–5 season that culminated in a first-round playoff loss…
- Luck, Seven Gods of (Japanese deities)
Shichi-fuku-jin, (Japanese: “Seven Gods of Luck”), group of seven popular Japanese deities, all of whom are associated with good fortune and happiness. The seven are drawn from various sources but have been grouped together from at least the 16th century. They are Bishamon, Daikoku, Ebisu,
- Luckman, Sid (American football player)
Sid Luckman was a quarterback in American professional gridiron football who, during his 12 seasons (1939–50) in the National Football League (NFL), directed with exceptional success the revolutionary T formation offense of the Chicago Bears. The forward-passing feats of Luckman and of his greatest
- Luckman, Sidney (American football player)
Sid Luckman was a quarterback in American professional gridiron football who, during his 12 seasons (1939–50) in the National Football League (NFL), directed with exceptional success the revolutionary T formation offense of the Chicago Bears. The forward-passing feats of Luckman and of his greatest
- Luckmann, Thomas (American sociologist)
sacred: Critical problems: For example, Thomas Luckmann, a German-American sociologist, described the sacred in modern society as that “strata of significance to which everyday life is ultimately referred”; and this definition includes such themes as “the autonomous individual” and “the mobility ethos.”
- Lucknow (India)
Lucknow, city, capital of Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is located roughly in the centre of the state, on the Gomati River about 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Kanpur. Lucknow became important in 1528, when it was captured by Bābur, the first Mughal ruler of India. Under Akbar, his
- Lucknow Pact (India [1916])
Lucknow Pact, (December 1916), agreement made by the Indian National Congress headed by Maratha leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the All-India Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah; it was adopted by the Congress at its Lucknow session on December 29 and by the league on Dec. 31, 1916. The meeting
- Lucknow, Siege of (British-Indian history [1857])
Siege of Lucknow, sustained assault on the British “Residency,” or governmental headquarters, from May 25 to November 27, 1857, in India’s northern city of Lucknow. It was carried out by sepoys (Indian soldiers in service to the British East India Company) who were driving the rebellion of 1857,
- Lucknow, University of (university, Lucknow, India)
Lucknow: …Lucknow’s educational institutions are the University of Lucknow (founded 1921), a music academy, an institute of Muslim theology, the Central Drug Research Institute (1951), an arts-and-crafts college, and a state museum. The city also has a botanical garden and a national zoological garden. Pop. (2001) 2,185,927; (2011) 2,817,105.
- lucky (game of chance)
bingo, game of chance using cards on which there is a grid of numbers, a row of which constitute a win when they have been chosen at random. Bingo is one of the most popular forms of low-priced gambling in the world. To play bingo, which is a form of lottery, each player purchases one or more cards
- lucky bamboo (plant)
Dracaena: Major species: Lucky bamboo (Dracaena braunii) and corn plant (D. fragrans), frequently with yellow leaf edges or white stripes, are common houseplants. Snake plant, or mother-in-law’s-tongue (D. trifasciata, formerly Sansevieria trifasciata), is another popular houseplant, known for its attractive upright foliage.
- Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir (memoir by Friedman)
Bruce Jay Friedman: Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir was published in 2011.
- Lucky Guy (play by Ephron)
Nora Ephron: Lucky Guy, which centres on the gritty life of New York Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, premiered on Broadway a year after Ephron’s death. That play, along with many of her newspaper columns, blog posts, speeches, and other works, was published in the collection The…
- Lucky Jim (novel by Amis)
Lucky Jim, best-selling novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954. The novel features the antihero Jim Dixon, a junior faculty member at a provincial university who despises the pretensions of academic life. Dixon epitomizes a newly important social group risen from lower-middle-class and
- Lucky Lady (film by Donen [1975])
Stanley Donen: Later films: …to the United States for Lucky Lady (1975), a big-budget romantic adventure set during Prohibition with Burt Reynolds, Gene Hackman, and Liza Minnelli as scheming rumrunners. It failed dramatically at the box office. In Movie Movie (1978) Donen and a cast that included George C. Scott, Eli Wallach, and Art…
- Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope, A (memoir by Brokaw [2015])
Tom Brokaw: …the American Heartland (2002) and A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope (2015) documented, respectively, his childhood and his battle with cancer.
- Lucky Louie (American television series)
Louis C.K.: created, cowrote, and starred in Lucky Louie, a television series on the HBO cable channel that recalled working-class sitcoms of the past, such as The Honeymooners and All in the Family. Lucky Louie met with mixed reviews from critics and lasted just one season before being cancelled.
- Lucky Old Sun (album by Chesney)
Kenny Chesney: …a Real Good Tan (2003), Lucky Old Sun (2008), and Hemingway’s Whiskey (2010)—were evocative of life in the tropics. Between 2000 and 2010, 10 of his albums reached the top spot on Billboard’s country albums chart. Indeed, by the second decade of the 21st century, Chesney had become one of…
- Lucky One, The (novel by Sparks)
Nicholas Sparks: …Last Song (2009; film 2010), The Lucky One (2008; film 2012), The Best of Me (2011; film 2014), and The Longest Ride (2013; film 2015). In 2015 he released the novel See Me, about a pair of lovers with troubled pasts. Later works include Two by Two (2016), Every Breath…
- Lucky Ones, The (film by Burger [2008])
Tim Robbins: …Fire (2006), the war comedy The Lucky Ones (2008), the superhero movie Green Lantern (2011), the romance mystery Marjorie Prime (2017), and the legal thriller Dark Waters (2019). His television credits from this period include the HBO series The Brink (2015), a comedy in which he
- Lucky Per (novel by Pontoppidan)
Henrik Pontoppidan: …work, the novel Lykke-Per (1898–1904; Lucky Per, originally published in eight volumes), in which the chief character bears some resemblance to Pontoppidan himself. He is a clergyman’s son who rebels against the puritanical atmosphere of his home and seeks his fortune in the capital as an engineer. The novel’s theme…
- Lucky Strike (cigarette)
American Tobacco Company: …its most popular cigarette brand, Lucky Strike, and in 1939 it introduced one of the first king-size cigarettes, Pall Mall (an old name reapplied to a new cigarette). The sales of these two brands made American Tobacco the most successful cigarette manufacturer of the 1940s. The company failed to establish…
- Lucky Town (album by Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen: On his own: …and including Human Touch and Lucky Town (released simultaneously in 1992). The songs on those albums are intensely personal reflections on intimate relationships. In general, they have not been as popular.
- Lucky Wreck (poetry by Limón)
Ada Limón: Early life and marketing career: …A Story in Verse (2005), Lucky Wreck (2006), and Sharks in the Rivers (2010).
- Lucomo (king of Rome [616-578 bc])
Tarquin was traditionally the fifth king of Rome, accepted by some scholars as a historical figure and usually said to have reigned from 616 to 578. His father was a Greek who went to live in Tarquinii, in Etruria, from which Lucumo moved to Rome on the advice of his wife, the prophet Tanaquil.
- Luçon (bishopric, France)
Cardinal Richelieu: Heritage, birth, and youth: …benefice of the bishopric of Luçon near La Rochelle, which had been granted by Henry III to the Richelieus under the Concordat of 1516. Unrest of the cathedral chapter threatened a revocation of the grant, and it became necessary for a member of the family to be consecrated bishop as…
- Lucretia (ancient Roman heroine)
Lucretia, legendary heroine of ancient Rome. According to tradition, she was the beautiful and virtuous wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus. Her tragedy began when she was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the tyrannical Etruscan king of Rome. After
- Lucretius (Latin poet and philosopher)
Lucretius was a Latin poet and philosopher known for his single, long poem, De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things). The poem is the fullest extant statement of the physical theory of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. It also alludes to his ethical and logical doctrines. Apart from Lucretius’s poem
- Lucrezia del Fede (wife of Andrea del Sarto)
Andrea del Sarto: …1517 or 1518 Sarto married Lucrezia del Fede, a widow whom he had, according to her testimony, used as a model for several years; she brought him property and a useful dowry. In 1518 he was summoned by the king of France, Francis I, to Fontainebleau, where he was preceded…
- Lucubratio Ebria (work by Butler)
Samuel Butler: …the Machines” (1863) and “Lucubratio Ebria” (1865)—were later worked up in Erewhon. Both show him already grappling with the central problem of his later thought: the relationship between mechanism and life. In the former he tries out the consequences of regarding machines as living organisms competing with man in…
- Lucullus, Lucius Licinius (Roman general)
Lucius Licinius Lucullus was a Roman general who fought Mithradates VI Eupator of Pontus from 74 to 66 bc. He served in the Social War (91–87) under Lucius Cornelius Sulla. As quaestor in 88, he was the only one of Sulla’s officers to take part in his march on Rome. He was Sulla’s proquaestor in
- Lucumí language (language)
Cuba: Languages of Cuba: …the Santería religion also speak Lucumí, a “secret” Yoruboid language of the Niger-Congo family.
- Lucus Augusti (Spain)
Lugo, city, capital of Lugo provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. It lies on the Miño River, southeast of A Coruña. Lugo originated as the Roman Lucus Augusti, and its Roman walls, which were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in
- Lucy (novel by Kincaid)
Jamaica Kincaid: Annie John (1984) and Lucy (1990) were novels but were autobiographical in nature, as were most of Kincaid’s subsequent works, with an emphasis on mother-daughter relationships. A Small Place (1988), a three-part essay, continued her depiction of Antigua and her rage at its despoliation. Kincaid’s treatment of the themes…
- Lucy (film by Besson [2014])
Morgan Freeman: … and a psychology professor in Lucy. Freeman also appeared in the comedies Ted 2 (2015), Going in Style (2017), a remake of the 1979 film about retirees who plan a bank heist, and Just Getting Started (2017), in which two rivals at a retirement community team up to save the…
- Lucy (spacecraft)
Lucy, U.S. spacecraft that will be the first to visit the Trojan asteroids, which orbit the Sun with Jupiter but ahead of and behind the planet at the Lagrange points. It will fly by three asteroids in the main asteroid belt and eight asteroids in the Trojan swarms. Lucy was launched on October 16,
- Lucy (chimpanzee)
animal learning: Language learning: A chimpanzee called Lucy was accustomed to instructing her trainer, Roger Fouts, by gesturing “Roger tickle Lucy.” One day, instead of complying with this request, Fouts signed back “No, Lucy tickle Roger.” Although at first nonplussed, after several similar exchanges Lucy eventually did as asked. A simple instance…
- Lucy (fossil hominin)
Lucy, nickname for a remarkably complete (40 percent intact) hominin skeleton found by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson at at the fossil site Hadar in Ethiopia on Nov. 24, 1974, and dated to 3.2 million years ago. (The nickname stems from the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky With
- Lucy by the Sea (novel by Strout)
Elizabeth Strout: Lucy Barton novels: Lucy by the Sea (2022) takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic as Lucy and her first husband flee New York City for Crosby, Maine. Amid the isolation and turmoil, they rekindle their relationship, and Lucy draws parallels between the lockdown and her own childhood. Characters…
- Lucy Gayheart (novel by Cather)
Willa Cather: …the much-anthologized “Paul’s Case,” and Lucy Gayheart (1935), Cather reflected the other side of her experience—the struggle of a talent to emerge from the constricting life of the prairies and the stifling effects of small-town life.
- Lucy in the Sky (film by Hawley [2019])
Ellen Burstyn: Burstyn’s later credits included Lucy in the Sky (2019), Pieces of a Woman (2020), and Queen Bees (2021).
- Lucy Show, The (American television show)
I Love Lucy: …star of another situation comedy, The Lucy Show, which aired from 1962 to 1968.
- Lucy van Pelt (comic strip character)
Peanuts: …most emphatically, with a “Drat!” Lucy van Pelt, his frequent tormentor and the big sister to his blanket-toting friend Linus, offered psychiatric advice and presented a steely exterior, but she could not resist observing that “happiness is a warm puppy.” Snoopy, Charlie Brown’s beagle, made pithy observations and spent his…
- Lucy, Richard de (English justiciar)
Richard de Lucy was the chief justiciar (judiciary officer) of England under King Henry II (reigned 1154–89). He was involved in the king’s struggle against the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, and he virtually controlled the country during Henry’s protracted absences resulting from family
- Lucy, Sir Thomas (English squire)
Sir Thomas Lucy was an English squire whom William Shakespeare may possibly have caricatured as Justice Shallow in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor. At 16 Lucy married an heiress, Joyce Acton, daughter of Thomas Acton of Sutton, Worcestershire, and rebuilt Charlecote, the family
- Lucy, St (Italian martyr)
St. Lucy ; feast day December 13) was a virgin and martyr who was one of the earliest Christian saints to achieve popularity, having a widespread following before the 5th century. She is the patron saint of the city of Syracuse (Sicily) and of virgins. Because of various traditions associating her
- Lucybelle Crater series (photographs by Meatyard)
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: …his life working on the Lucybelle Crater series, photographs taken outdoors of his wife wearing a mask of an old hag and accompanied by one of their friends or relatives wearing an old man mask. All the individuals in the photographs are called Lucybelle Crater (Meatyard wrote captions for each…
- lud (religious shrine)
lud, among the Votyaks and Zyryans, a sacred grove where sacrifices were performed. The lud, surrounded by a high board or log fence, generally consisted of a grove of fir trees, a place for a fire, and tables for the sacrificial meal. People were forbidden to break even a branch from the trees
- Lüda (China)
Dalian, city and port, southern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. It consists of the formerly independent cities of Dalian and Lüshun, which were amalgamated (as Lüda) in 1950; in 1981 the name Dalian was restored, and Lüshun became a district of the city. Situated at the southern tip
- Ludacris (American rapper and actor)
Ludacris is an American rapper and actor who exemplified the Dirty South school of hip-hop, an exuberant profanity-laden musical style popularized by artists in the southern United States. Ludacris’s magnetic larger-than-life rapping persona propelled him to stardom. Though born in Illinois, Chris
- Ludd (English rebel)
Luddite, member of the organized bands of 19th-century English handicraftsmen who rioted for the destruction of the textile machinery that was displacing them. The movement began in the vicinity of Nottingham toward the end of 1811 and in the next year spread to Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire,
- Ludd, Harry (American anarchist, political philosopher, trade-union organizer, and educator)
Murray Bookchin was an American anarchist, political philosopher, trade-union organizer, and educator best known for his organizing activities on behalf of labour unions and his vehement critiques of capitalism, globalization, and humanity’s treatment of the environment. Bookchin was the son of
- Ludden, Allen (American television personality)
Betty White: The latter was hosted by Allen Ludden. White and Ludden married in 1963 and were together until his death in 1981.
- luddi (Pakistani folk dance)
South Asian arts: Folk dance: In the luddi, women click their fingers and clap their hands, moving in a circle by jumps and half-turns and accelerating their rhythm by stamping their feet.
- Luddite (English rebel)
Luddite, member of the organized bands of 19th-century English handicraftsmen who rioted for the destruction of the textile machinery that was displacing them. The movement began in the vicinity of Nottingham toward the end of 1811 and in the next year spread to Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire,
- Ludendorff, Erich (German general)
Erich Ludendorff was a Prussian general who was mainly responsible for Germany’s military policy and strategy in the latter years of World War I. After the war he became a leader of reactionary political movements, for a while joining the Nazi Party and subsequently taking an independent,
- Lüdenscheid (Germany)
Lüdenscheid, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), west-central Germany. It is situated in the hilly, wooded Sauerland region between the Lenne and Volme rivers, southeast of Essen. A Frankish settlement in the 9th century and chartered in 1278, it became a centre of the iron industry during
- Lüderitz (Namibia)
Lüderitz, town on the Atlantic coast of Namibia (formerly South West Africa). The Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias stopped there in 1487 and named the bay Angra Pequena. Long neglected, it became the first German settlement in South West Africa when a Hamburg merchant, Franz Adolf Lüderitz,
- Lüderitz, Franz Adolf (German merchant)
German South West Africa: In 1883 Franz Adolf Lüderitz, a merchant from Bremen, Germany, established a trading post in southwest Africa at Angra Pequena, which he renamed Lüderitzbucht. He also acquired the adjacent coastal area, which he named Lüderitzland. These areas were constituted the first German colony under German protection on…
- ludes (drug)
methaqualone, sedative-hypnotic drug that was historically used in the treatment of insomnia and anxiety and that became widely known as a recreational drug with a dangerously high potential for addiction. Today, in most countries worldwide, methaqualone has no accepted medical use and is illegal
- Ludford Bridge, battle of (England [1459])
Wars of the Roses: Competing claims to the throne and the beginning of civil war: …scattered after a skirmish at Ludford Bridge (October 12). York fled to Ireland, and the Lancastrians, in a packed parliament at Coventry (November 1459), obtained a judicial condemnation of their opponents and executed those on whom they could lay hands.
- Ludfordian Stage (geology and stratigraphy)
Ludfordian Stage, second of two stages of the Ludlow Series, made up of all rocks deposited during the Ludfordian Age (425.6 million to 423 million years ago) of the Silurian Period. In 1980 the International Commission on Stratigraphy established the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)
- Ludhiana (India)
Ludhiana, city, central Punjab state, northwestern India. The city stands on the former bank of the Sutlej River, 8 miles (13 km) south of its present course and about 170 miles (270 km) northwest of Delhi. The city was founded in 1480 by members of Delhi’s ruling Lodī dynasty, from which its name
- ludi publici (ancient Roman games)
ludi publici, (Latin: “public games”), ancient Roman spectacles, primarily consisting of chariot races and various kinds of theatrical performances, usually held at regular intervals in honour of some god; they are distinct from the gladiatorial contests (associated with funeral rites). A special
- Ludi Saeculares (ancient Roman games)
Secular Games, celebrations held in ancient Rome to mark the commencement of a new saeculum, or generation. The games originated with the Etruscans, who, at the end of a mean period of 100 years (as representing the longest human life in a generation), presented the underworld deities with an
- ludi scaenici (ancient Roman drama)
ludi scaenici, (Latin: “stage games”), in ancient Rome, theatrical performances associated with the celebration of public games (ludi publici), in which Greek dramatic forms were first used by the Romans. Although originally performed at the Ludi Romani (for which Livius Andronicus wrote the first
- Ludic language
Uralic languages: Smaller Baltic-Finnic groups: …Baltic-Finnic group, composed of the Ludic dialects, is found between Veps and Karelian and is generally considered a blend of the two major groups rather than a separate language; the dialects are more closely akin to Karelian. The Ingrians and the Votes live on the southern Gulf of Finland in…
- Ludichris (American rapper and actor)
Ludacris is an American rapper and actor who exemplified the Dirty South school of hip-hop, an exuberant profanity-laden musical style popularized by artists in the southern United States. Ludacris’s magnetic larger-than-life rapping persona propelled him to stardom. Though born in Illinois, Chris
- Ludigo, Saint Adolphus Mukasa (Ugandan saint)
Martyrs of Uganda: Mugagga, Mukasa Kiriwawanvu, Adolphus Mukasa Ludigo, Gyavira, and Kizito. The soldiers and officials Bruno Serunkuma, James Buzabaliawo, and Luke Banabakintu were martyred with them.
- Luding-Rothenburger, Christa (East German speed skater and cyclist)
Christa Luding-Rothenburger is a former speed skater and cyclist from East Germany who made history as the only person to win Summer and Winter Olympic medals in the same year (1988). At the Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she won the gold medal in the 1,000-meter speed-skating event; she
- Ludington (Michigan, United States)
Ludington, city, seat (1874) of Mason county, western Michigan, U.S. It is on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Pere Marquette River, about 60 miles (100 km) north of Muskegon. Settled in the 1840s, it was originally named Marquette for Jacques Marquette, the Jesuit explorer who died there in 1675
- Ludington Building (building, Chicago, Illinois, United States)
William Le Baron Jenney: …aspect of the design; the Ludington Building (1891); the Fair Store (1891–92; later remodelled as the Loop store of Montgomery Ward); and the second Leiter Building (1889–90), which became Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s Loop store.
- Ludington, Sybil (American Revolutionary War heroine)
Sybil Ludington was an American Revolutionary War heroine, remembered for her valiant role in defense against British attack. Ludington was the daughter of Henry Ludington, a New York militia officer and later an aide to Gen. George Washington. According to accounts generally attributed to the
- Ludisia discolor (plant)
jewel orchid: sikkimensis, Dossinia marmorata, Ludisia discolor, and Macodes petola are found in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and feature spikes of small white flowers. These species have wide green or brownish green leaves with red or gold veins borne near the base of the plant.
- Lüdke, Bruno (German serial killer)
Bruno Lüdke was a German serial killer who may have murdered more than 80 people. Although he is commonly regarded as continental Europe’s deadliest serial killer, some criminologists have questioned the scale of his activity, maintaining that many of his confessions were coerced by police. Lüdke