Lake Oswego, city, Clackamas county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Willamette River (and its western extension, 405-acre [164-hectare] Oswego Lake), just south of Portland. Ruins of the Willamette Iron Company’s Oswego blast furnace (1867–93) recall the city’s early iron industry based on Iron

Santa Fe: …featuring Santa Fe Baldy and Lake Peak, both more than 12,000 feet (3,650 metres) in elevation. At the mountains’ southern end is Glorieta Mesa, an area of hilly, grassy plains in the Basin and Range Province, with a landscape marked by colourful hills, mesas, and isolated mountains. The Rio Grande,…

Southwest National Park, national park in southwestern Tasmania, Australia, covering more than 2,350 square miles (6,080 square km). Together with the adjacent Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park (established in 1981), Southwest forms the core of the Tasmanian Wilderness, a World Heritage

Lake Peipus: …“Battle on the Ice” (Ledovoye Poboishche). His victory (April 5) forced the grand master of the Knights to relinquish all claims to the Russian lands that he had conquered and substantially reduced the Teutonic threat to northwestern Russia.

David E. Kelley: …included Mystery, Alaska (1999) and Lake Placid (1999).

Lake Placid, village in North Elba town (township), Essex county, northeastern New York, U.S. It lies on Mirror Lake and Lake Placid, at the foot of Whiteface Mountain (4,867 feet [1,483 metres]), in the Adirondack Mountains. The site was settled in 1800 but was abandoned after crop failures.

Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Winter Games, athletic festival held in Lake Placid, New York, that took place February 4–15, 1932. The Lake Placid Games were the third occurrence of the Winter Olympic Games. Worldwide economic depression cast a shadow over the third Winter Olympics. Only 17 countries

Lake Placid 1980 Olympic Winter Games, athletic festival held in Lake Placid, New York, U.S., that took place February 13–24, 1980. The Lake Placid Games were the 13th occurrence of the Winter Olympic Games. The 1980 Games marked the second time the small upstate New York town had hosted the Winter

Nile River: Physiography of Nile River: …into seven major regions: the Lake Plateau of East Africa, the Al-Jabal (El-Jebel), the White Nile, the Blue Nile, the Atbara, the Nile north of Khartoum in Sudan and Egypt, and the Nile delta.

Lake poet, any of the English poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the English Lake District of Cumberland and Westmorland (now Cumbria) at the beginning of the 19th century. They were first described derogatorily as the “Lake school” by Francis

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, pair of toll bridges over Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana that are jointly recognized as the world’s longest continuous bridge over water. The causeway extends 38.42 kilometers (23.87 miles) from its southern terminus in the city of Metairie, Louisiana, to

Sir Richard Burton: Exploration in Arabia: His Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860) attacked Speke’s claims and exacerbated their by then public feud.

Thomas De Quincey: …other autobiographical writings, the so-called Lake Reminiscences (first printed in Tait’s Magazine, 1834–40), which deeply offended Wordsworth and the other Lake poets, remains of great interest, although it is highly subjective, not without malice, and unreliable in matters of detail. As a literary critic De Quincey is best known for…

Niagara Escarpment, ridge in North America that extends (with breaks) for more than 650 miles (1,050 km) from southeastern Wisconsin north to the Door Peninsula in the eastern part of the state, through the Manitoulin Islands of Ontario in northern Lake Huron, southward across the Bruce Peninsula,

Atlantic salmon: …ouananiche) of rivers and the sebago, or lake, salmon (S. salar sebago) are smaller, landlocked forms of Atlantic salmon, also prized for sport. The Atlantic salmon has also been successfully introduced into the Great Lakes of the United States. (See also salmon.)

Potter Palmer: …developing it into the beautiful Lake Shore Drive area.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Mies in America: …Apartments in Chicago (1949), the Lake Shore Drive Apartments (1949–51) in that city, and the Seagram Building (1956–58) in New York City, a skyscraper office building with a glass, bronze, and marble exterior that Mies designed with Philip Johnson. These buildings exemplify Mies’s famous principle that “less is more” and…

Lake Scutari, largest lake in the Balkans, on the frontier between Montenegro and Albania. Its area is 150 square miles (390 square km), but it reaches 205 square miles (530 square km) at its seasonal high water. The lake was formerly an arm of the Adriatic Sea. On its west and northwest are steep

lake: Salinity, nutrients, and oxygen: In the warmer seasons, although surface waters may remain more or less saturated and even supersaturated, the concentrations are lower. Beneath the surface, oxygen consumption through biological decay may cause serious depletion. Oxygen depletion also occurs near the bottom because of processes at the mud-water interface, many of which are…

chondrostean: Distribution: The lake sturgeon of North America (A. fulvescens) occurs in the Mississippi River valley, in Lake Huron, and northward into Canada. The white, Oregon, or Sacramento sturgeon (A. transmontanus) inhabits the waters of the Pacific coast of North America from California to

Lake Superior Provincial Park, park, central Ontario, Canada, on the eastern shore of Lake Superior. Established in 1944 to preserve the rugged shoreline and surrounding region of pink granitic hills, it has an area of 595 square miles (1,540 square km). Among the park’s attractions are the Agawa

whitefish: …by such other names as Lake Superior whitefish, whiting, and shad. It averages about 2 kg (4.5 pounds) in weight.

mineral deposit: Iron deposits: …Lake Superior and are called Lake Superior-type deposits. Their individual sediment layers can be as thin as 0.5 millimetre (0.02 inch) or as thick as 2.5 centimetres (1 inch), but the alternation of a siliceous band and an iron mineral band is invariable. Several points about Lake Superior-type deposits are…

mineral deposit: Iron deposits: …Lake Superior and are called Lake Superior-type deposits. Their individual sediment layers can be as thin as 0.5 millimetre (0.02 inch) or as thick as 2.5 centimetres (1 inch), but the alternation of a siliceous band and an iron mineral band is invariable. Several points about Lake Superior-type deposits are…

Asia: Lakes of Asia: …furthermore, encircled by lava, and Lake Telets was gouged out by ancient glaciation. A number of lakes were formed as the result of landslides (Lake Sarez in the Pamirs), karst processes (the lakes of the western Taurus, in Turkey), or the formation of lava dams (Lake Jingpo in northeastern China…

lake trout, (Salvelinus namaycush), large, voracious char, family Salmonidae, widely distributed from northern Canada and Alaska, U.S., south to New England and the Great Lakes basin. It is usually found in deep, cool lakes. The fish are greenish gray and covered with pale spots. In spring, lake

Lake Turkana remains, collection of hominin fossils found along the shores of Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya. The Koobi Fora site on the lake’s eastern shore, excavated by the Leakey family and others, has proved to be the richest trove of hominin remains anywhere in the world, yielding fossils

Lake Tyers: Lake Tyers opens into the Tasman Sea to the south. The lake was named for Charles James Tyers, a surveyor who was appointed commissioner of crown lands in 1842. The nearby township of Lake Tyers, together with 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares), was an Aboriginal reserve…

Marburgvirus: One species has been described, Marburg marburgvirus (formerly Lake Victoria marburgvirus), which is represented by two viruses, Ravn virus (RAVV) and Marburg virus (MARV). In humans, marburgviruses are responsible for Marburg virus disease (MVD), a zoonotic disease that is characterized by high fever, malaise,

Võrtsjärv, lake (järv) in south-central Estonia, with an area of about 110 square miles (280 square km). Võrtsjärv forms part of the 124-mile (200-km) course of the Ema River (German: Embach), which enters the lake from the south and drains it toward the north and east into Lake Peipus on the

Lake Wales, city, Polk county, central Florida, U.S., 55 miles (90 km) east of Tampa. The site was surveyed in 1879 by Sidney Wailes, and the lake (originally called Watts) was renamed for him. The town was founded in 1911, and its name had been changed to Wales by the time a post office was

Lake Washington Ship Canal, waterway, Seattle, Washington, U.S., 8 miles (13 km) long, with a minimum depth of 28.5 feet (8.7 metres), connecting Shilshole Bay (Puget Sound) with Lake Washington, passing through Lake Union, Portage Bay, and Union Bay. The canal was constructed between 1901 and 1911

protacanthopterygian: Ecology: …of the Northern Hemisphere, several whitefish species (Coregonus) are comparable, ecologically, to the herrings in the ocean. Such whitefishes, which are often called freshwater herrings, cruise the open water of lakes, filtering out minute organisms by straining the water through a fine mesh of gill rakers—minute bony elements attached to…

Reno, city, seat (1871) of Washoe county, western Nevada, U.S. Although it is one of Nevada’s largest cities, its traditional nickname is “The Biggest Little City in the World.” The city lies on the Truckee River, near the California border and the Sierra Nevada foothills, amid magnificent and

Dayton Accords: The road toward peace: …Clinton sent National Security Adviser Anthony Lake and Undersecretary of State Peter Tarnoff to Europe to present a framework for peace. The United States also made a key shift in policy to conduct air strikes against the Serbs if they continued to threaten the Bosnian safe areas or refused to…

Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake was a British general, most prominent for his role in suppressing the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and for his campaigns in India from 1801 to 1806 against Daulat Rāo Sindhia of Gwalior and Jaswant Rāo Holkar, leaders of the Marāthā confederacy. Lake served in the Seven

Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake was a British general, most prominent for his role in suppressing the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and for his campaigns in India from 1801 to 1806 against Daulat Rāo Sindhia of Gwalior and Jaswant Rāo Holkar, leaders of the Marāthā confederacy. Lake served in the Seven

art rock: …Steve Howe (Yes and Asia), Greg Lake (King Crimson and ELP), and John Wetton (King Crimson, U.K., and Asia). Some of the experimental rock by such American and British artists as Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, and Frank Zappa is also often categorized as art rock.

art rock: …Steve Howe (Yes and Asia), Greg Lake (King Crimson and ELP), and John Wetton (King Crimson, U.K., and Asia). Some of the experimental rock by such American and British artists as Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, and Frank Zappa is also often categorized as art rock.

Ruben Gallego: 2024 Senate campaign: …and Gallego faced MAGA Republican Kari Lake in the election for the open seat. Among Gallego’s reasons for running for Senate included his desire to influence his core issues of veterans’ and military affairs, tribal issues, reproductive health care access, housing affordability, and Arizona’s water supply. He narrowly beat Lake…

biblical literature: Minuscules: …20th century, the English scholar Kirsopp Lake (hence, Lake group) discovered a textual family of manuscripts known as Family 1:1, 118, 131, and 209 (from the 12th to 14th centuries) that have a text type similar to that of Θ, a 3rd–4th-century Caesarean type. At the end of the 19th…

John Waters: Breakthrough: Hairspray: Starring newcomer Ricki Lake as Tracy Turnblad, a chubby and chipper high-school student who aspires to become a dancer on a local TV show, the movie draws upon teen dance shows of the era such as the Philadelphia-based American Bandstand and Baltimore’s The Buddy Deane Show. Hairspray…

Simon Lake was a U.S. inventor who built the “Argonaut,” the first submarine to operate extensively in the open sea. Lake’s first experimental submarine, the “Argonaut, Jr.,” built in 1894, had a wooden hull and was about 14 feet (4 metres) long. It travelled the sea bottom on wheels turned by

George Moore: …and a short poetic novel, The Lake (1905). The real fruits of his life in Ireland, however, came with the trilogy Hail and Farewell (Ave, 1911; Salve, 1912; Vale, 1914). Discursive, affectionate, and satirical by turns, it reads like a sustained monologue that is both a carefully studied piece of…

Alan Ladd: …was frequently cast opposite actress Veronica Lake, whose icy detachment complemented Ladd’s cynicism, and the two became a leading screen couple of the 1940s. Ladd himself was consistently voted one of the top 10 box office personalities in the United States during this period.

East African lakes: Geology, climate, and hydrology: The levels of the East African lakes are perceptibly sensitive to climatic fluctuations. Average seasonal ranges of level are small: no more than 1 foot (0.3 meter) on Lake Victoria, 1.3 feet (0.4 km) on Lake Albert, and 3 to 4 feet (0.9 to 1.2 meters)…

Lakeba Island, volcanic Pacific island in the Lau Group of Fiji, South Pacific Ocean. It is 22 square miles (57 square km) in area, rises to 720 feet (220 metres), and was the site, in 1835, of Fiji’s first Wesleyan missionary settlement (1835). The Lakemba Passage separates Lakeba from the islets

Thunder Bay, city, seat of Thunder Bay district, west-central Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior’s Thunder Bay, at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River. Probably first occupied by French fur traders as early as 1678, its site was permanently settled only after the birth of the towns Port Arthur and

Lakehurst, borough (town), Ocean county, eastern New Jersey, U.S., 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the community of Toms River. It is surrounded by fish and wildlife management areas, and small Lake Horican lies within its boundaries. Originally known as Manchester, Lakehurst became a separate

Lakeland, city, Polk county, central Florida, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Tampa and some 10 miles (16 km) west of Winter Haven. It was founded in 1883 by Kentucky businessman Abraham Munn, who purchased a large plot of land near the newly built railroad. The community was named for

Lakeland terrier, breed of dog originally used to hunt and kill foxes in the Lake District of England. Formerly known as the Patterdale terrier, the Lakeland terrier was bred for gameness when in pursuit of foxes and otters. Somewhat like a small Airedale terrier in appearance, it stands about 13

Lakeba Island, volcanic Pacific island in the Lau Group of Fiji, South Pacific Ocean. It is 22 square miles (57 square km) in area, rises to 720 feet (220 metres), and was the site, in 1835, of Fiji’s first Wesleyan missionary settlement (1835). The Lakemba Passage separates Lakeba from the islets

St. Lawrence River: The economy: …seaway are vessels known as lakers, which are designed to the maximum limits of the seaway locks in order to facilitate two-way trade. A laker can pick up grain in the western Great Lakes, destined for world markets, and return with Canadian iron ore, loaded in the lower St. Lawrence.…

Lakes Entrance, port city, at the entrance of a channel cut in 1889 to the Gippsland Lakes in southeastern Victoria, Australia. It is a resort centre for the lakes region embracing the Lakes National Park and the Ninety Mile Beach and is linked to Melbourne, 165 miles (266 km) to the west, by both

Ethiopia: Drainage: …of the Awash River, the Lakes Region, and the Omo River. The Awash flows northeast to the Denakil Plain before it dissipates into a series of swamps and Lake Abe at the border with Djibouti. The Lakes Region is a self-contained drainage basin, and the Omo flows south into Lake…

Winter Park, city, Orange county, central Florida, U.S., just north of Orlando. The city was founded as Lakeview in 1858, and the name was changed to Osceola in 1870. In 1881 Loring A. Chase and Oliver E. Chapman purchased 600 acres (240 hectares) of land on the site and laid out a town that they

Lakeview, town, seat (1876) of Lake county, southern Oregon, U.S., north of Goose Lake. It was founded in 1876 along Antelope Creek, on a former cattle ranch that contained several alkali lakes. Earlier settlement had been discouraged by Indian attacks that subsided in 1871 with the establishment

Lakewood, city, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on Lake Erie, just west of Cleveland. Surveyed in 1806 as part of Rockport township, the area was not permanently settled until James Nicholson arrived from Connecticut in 1818; several dozen settlers were there by the following year and

Lakewood, township, Ocean county, eastern New Jersey, U.S., on the South Branch Metedeconk River, in a pine forest and lake region. The township includes the communities of Lakewood, Leisure Village, and Leisure Village East. Settled by the Dutch and English in 1814, the township was known

Denver: Cherry Hills Village, Englewood, Lakewood, Littleton, Northglenn, Thornton, Westminster, and Wheat Ridge; Golden, about 12 miles (19 km) west of Denver, and Boulder, about 25 miles (40 km) northwest, are also part of the metropolitan region. Greater Denver is at the centre of a string of urban areas

Joel Osteen: …parents founded the nondenominational charismatic Lakewood Church in Houston in 1959. His father, John Osteen, was pastor and over the years had built a regional following. In 1981 Osteen left Oral Roberts University after less than one year of study to help his father develop Lakewood’s growing national television ministry,…

Algeria: The arts: The following year Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina directed Rīḥ al-Awras (1966; The Winds of the Aures), the first work by an Algerian to win international acclaim. His Chronique des annees de braise (1975; Chronicle of the Year of Embers), another gritty tale of the revolution, was awarded the Palme d’Or…

Mizo: …entire Mizo community), Pawi (Lai), Lakher (Mara), and Hmar. In the early 21st century the Mizo numbered about one million.

Lakhimpur, city, Uttar Pradesh, northern India. It is situated about 13 miles (21 km) east of the Sarda River and is just northwest of Kheri town. Lakhimpur is a regional transportation hub, with road and rail connections to Lucknow (south) and other cities. Pop. (2001) 121,486; (2011)

Lakhmid dynasty, pre-Islamic tribal dynasty that aided Sasanian Iran in its struggle with the Byzantine Empire and fostered early Arabic poetry. Centred at the Christian city of Al-Ḥīrah, near present-day Kūfah in southern Iraq, the Lakhmid kingdom originated in the late 3rd century ce and

Lampang, city, northern Thailand, located about 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Chiang Mai. It lies on the Wang River in the forested Khun Tan Range and is an administrative and commercial centre for the surrounding region. Once the seat of an independent principality, Lampang retains the old walled

Laki, volcanic fissure and mountain in southern Iceland, just southwest of Vatna Glacier (Vatnajokull), the island’s largest ice field. Mount Laki was the only conspicuous topographic feature in the path of the developing fissure eruption that is now known as Lakagígar (English: “Laki Craters”).

Jashpur Pats: … (3,241 feet [988 meters]) and Laki Hill (3,323 feet [1,013 meters]) are two of the higher peaks in the Jashpur Pats. The Maini, Ib, Mand, and Kuskal rivers have cut narrow, rock-strewn valleys.

White House: The White House in the 19th century: …just before the Civil War, Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier, a Russian nobleman, wrote that “the home of the president…is barely visible behind the trees.” The White House, he said, was “sufficient for a private family and not at all conforming to the expectations of a European.” Subsequent changes to the building…

Caucasian languages: The Lak-Dargin languages: Lak (also spelled Lakk, with some 100,000 speakers) and Dargin (or Dargwa, with 350,000) are spoken in the central part of Dagestan. Both are written languages. The Lak language is quite homogeneous with regard to its dialects; Dargin, however, possesses several diversified dialects—sometimes considered as…

South Asian arts: Medieval temple architecture: South Indian style of Karnataka: …a large Jaina temple at Lakkundi (c. 1050–1100) clearly demonstrate the transition. The superstructures, though basically of the South Indian type, have offsets and recesses that tend to emphasize a vertical, upward movement. The Lakkundi temple is also the first to be built of chloritic schist, which is the favoured…

opera: Later opera in France: …“Bell Song” from Léo Delibes’s Lakmé (1883). Although Camille Saint-Saëns composed numerous operas, the only work by him to remain in the repertoire is the highly melodic Samson et Dalila (1877). Many of the operas of Jules Massenet, including Manon (1884) and Werther (1892; libretto derived from

philosophy of logic: Linguistics: linguist George Lakoff. Among the many conflicting and controversial developments in this area, special mention may perhaps be made of attempts by Jerrold J. Katz, a U.S. grammarian-philosopher, and others to give a linguistic characterization of such fundamental logical notions as analyticity; the sketch by Montague…

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Scott Brown attended the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture before going to the United States with her husband, the architect Robert Scott Brown (who was killed in an auto accident in 1959), to study with Kahn…

Southeast Asian arts: Court styles: …are nang sbek shadow theatre, lakon female dance and dance-drama, and lakon kawl male masked pantomime. The puppets of nang sbek stand four to five feet in height, have no movable arms, and are manipulated from beneath by two fixed handles or sticks. The standing puppeteer either sways the puppet…

Laconia, perifereiakí enótita (regional unit) and historic region in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos) periféreia (region), southern Greece. The present regional unit of Laconia corresponds closely to the ancient province, which was bounded by Arcadia and Argolís

Gulf of Laconia, large, deep gulf on the southern Ionian Sea (Modern Greek: Ióvio Pélagos) embraced by the two southernmost peninsulas of the Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos), Greece, 35 miles (56 km) north-south and 30 miles (48 km) wide. Cape Maléa, which divides the Gulf of Laconia from the Aegean

Gulf of Laconia, large, deep gulf on the southern Ionian Sea (Modern Greek: Ióvio Pélagos) embraced by the two southernmost peninsulas of the Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos), Greece, 35 miles (56 km) north-south and 30 miles (48 km) wide. Cape Maléa, which divides the Gulf of Laconia from the Aegean

Gulf of Laconia, large, deep gulf on the southern Ionian Sea (Modern Greek: Ióvio Pélagos) embraced by the two southernmost peninsulas of the Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos), Greece, 35 miles (56 km) north-south and 30 miles (48 km) wide. Cape Maléa, which divides the Gulf of Laconia from the Aegean

The Difference Between a Tribe and a Band: …century the speakers of Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota (dialects of a single language within the inappropriately named Siouan language family) were referred to as “bands” because (from the perspective of colonial administrators) they were clearly subdivisions of the larger “Sioux tribe.” From a scholarly perspective, however, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota…

Black Hills: …and sacred territory of the Western Sioux Indians. At least portions of the region were also sacred to other Native American peoples—including the Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho—and the area had also been inhabited by the Crow. Rights to the region were guaranteed to Sioux and Arapaho by the Second Treaty…

Mary Crow Dog: …best known for her book Lakota Woman (1990), which earned an American Book Award in 1991 and was adapted for film as Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee in 1994.

Mount Everest: Extraordinary feats: …Sherpas in 2003—Pemba Dorje and Lakpa Gelu, with Lakpa summiting in just 10 hours 56 minutes. Not to be outdone, Pemba returned the next year and reached the top in 8 hours 10 minutes. Perhaps as remarkable were the achievements of Apa Sherpa. In 2000 he reached the summit for…

Lakshadweep, union territory of India. It is a group of some three dozen islands scattered over some 30,000 square miles (78,000 square km) of the Arabian Sea off the southwestern coast of India. The principal islands in the territory are Minicoy and those in the Amindivi group. The easternmost

Rama: Rama in the arts: …Sita, his favorite half brother, Lakshmana, and Hanuman. In painting, he is depicted dark blue in color (indicating his affinity with Vishnu), with princely adornments and the kirita-makuta (tall conical cap) on his head indicating his royal status. Rama’s exploits were depicted with great sympathy by the Rajasthani and Pahari…

South Asian arts: Medieval temple architecture: North Indian style of central India: …can be seen in the Lakṣmaṇa temple at Khajurāho (dated 941), which is a pañcāyatana placed on a tall terrace enclosed by walls. The sanctum has an ambulatory and, facing it, a series of halls, including the gūḍhamaṇḍapa, a porch, and a small intermediate hall. Both the ambulatory and the…

Sena dynasty: The last Sena king, Lakshmanasena (reigned c. 1178– c. 1205), became a great patron of literature; the poets Jayadeva and Dhoyi wrote at his court at Nadia. Lakshmanasena was expelled from Nadia in 1202 by the Turkish chief Muḥammad Bakhtyār Khaljī and died about three years later. Sena kings…

Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth, good fortune, beauty, and abundance. The wife of Vishnu, she is said to have taken different forms in order to be with him in each of his incarnations. Along with the goddesses Parvati and Saraswati, Lakshmi forms the divine trinity known as the Tridevi (tri,

Lakshmi Bai was the rani (queen) of Jhansi (now in Uttar Pradesh, India) and a leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857–58. Manikarnika Tambe was born in Kashi (now Varanasi) in about 1827 or 1828 (the year of her birth is disputed, and some historians believe it was later than 1828, which is the

Venus: Surface features: …is a high plateau, called Lakshmi Planum, that resembles in configuration the Plateau of Tibet on Earth. Lakshmi is bounded by mountains on most sides, the largest range being the enormous Maxwell Montes on the east. These mountains soar about 11 km (7 miles) above the mean radius of Venus.…

Diwali: Festivities: On the third day, Lakshmi Puja, families seek blessings from Lakshmi to ensure their prosperity; light diyas, candles, and fireworks; and visit temples. It is the main day of the Diwali festival and occurs on the new moon day. The fourth day, known as Govardhan Puja, Balipratipada, or Annakut,…

Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-American fashion model, television personality, and author best known for her role as the host of the cooking competition show Top Chef (2006–23) and of the food and travel series Taste the Nation (2020– ). Born in Chennai, India, Lakshmi moved to New York City in 1974,

Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-American fashion model, television personality, and author best known for her role as the host of the cooking competition show Top Chef (2006–23) and of the food and travel series Taste the Nation (2020– ). Born in Chennai, India, Lakshmi moved to New York City in 1974,

chronology: Reckonings dated from a historical event: …into disuse after 1162; the Lakṣmaṇa era (ad 1119), wrongly said to have been founded by the king Lakṣmaṇasena of Bengal and still used throughout Bengal in the 16th century and preserved until modern times in Mithilā; the Rājyabhīṣekasaka or Marāthā era (1674), founded by Śivājī but ephemeral.

South Asian arts: Medieval temple architecture: North Indian style of central India: …can be seen in the Lakṣmaṇa temple at Khajurāho (dated 941), which is a pañcāyatana placed on a tall terrace enclosed by walls. The sanctum has an ambulatory and, facing it, a series of halls, including the gūḍhamaṇḍapa, a porch, and a small intermediate hall. Both the ambulatory and the…

Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth, good fortune, beauty, and abundance. The wife of Vishnu, she is said to have taken different forms in order to be with him in each of his incarnations. Along with the goddesses Parvati and Saraswati, Lakshmi forms the divine trinity known as the Tridevi (tri,

India: The Rajputs of India: …of Gangeyadeva and his son Lakshmikarna, when attempts were made to conquer territories as far afield as Utkala, Bihar, and the Ganges–Yamuna Doab. There they came into conflict with the Turkish governor of the Punjab, who briefly had extended his territory as far as Varanasi. To the west there were…

avadavat, (species Amandava, or Estrilda, amandava), plump, 8-centimetre- (3-inch-) long bird of the waxbill (q.v.) group (order Passeriformes), a popular cage bird. The avadavat is abundant in marshes and meadows of southern Asia (introduced in Hawaii). The male, in breeding plumage, is bright red

Lalla Ded was a Hindu poet-saint from Kashmir, who defied social convention in her search for God. Legend tells of the harsh treatment Lalla Ded received from her husband and mother-in-law and extols her patience and forbearance. Twelve years after being wed, she left her home in order to dedicate

Red Fort, Mughal fort in Old Delhi, India. It was built by Shah Jahān in the mid-17th century and remains a major tourist attraction. The fort was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007. The fort’s massive red sandstone walls, which stand 75 feet (23 meters) high, enclose a complex of