Birkenhead: …the Mersey, in 1824 by William Laird, a pioneer in the construction of iron ships. Laird also laid out the nucleus of the town on a grid plan. In 1828 proposals were made for the conversion of Wallasey Pool into an artificial basin. The first docks were built in less…

Rembrandt: The myth of Rembrandt’s fall: …artist and writer on art Gérard de Lairesse, who met Rembrandt as a young man and was portrayed by him in 1665, confessed in 1707: “I do not want to deny that once I had a special preference for his manner; but at that time I had hardly begun to…

François Villon: Life: …himself entitled Le Lais (The Legacy). It takes the form of a list of “bequests,” ironically conceived, made to friends and acquaintances before leaving them and the city. To his barber he leaves the clippings from his hair; to three well-known local usurers, some small change; to the clerk…

laissez-faire, policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society. The origin of the term is uncertain, but folklore suggests that it is derived from the answer Jean-Baptiste Colbert, comptroller general of finance under King Louis XIV of France, received

civil war: Economic causes of civil war: …political scientists James Fearon and David Laitin claimed that civil war is primarily a problem of weak states and that weakness is largely determined by economic development. Researchers in this tradition also linked mobilization to the role of individual incentives. Opportunities for insurgencies are greater when participants can prosper from…

Buddhism: Popular religious practices: …takes place between monks and laypersons. Like the Buddha himself, the monks embody or represent the higher levels of spiritual achievement, which they make available in various ways to the laity. The laity improve their soteriological condition by giving the monks material gifts that function as sacrificial offerings. Although the…

Oedipus: …one version of the story, Laius, king of Thebes, was warned by an oracle that his son would slay him. Accordingly, when his wife, Jocasta (Iocaste; in Homer, Epicaste), bore a son, he had the baby exposed (a form of infanticide) on Cithaeron. (Tradition has it that his name, which…

Laja River, river in Guanajuato estado (state), north-central Mexico. After rising in the Sierra Madre Occidental near San Felipe (Doctor Hernandez Alvarez), the Laja arches eastward and then southeastward through the central plateau, past the cities of Dolores Hidalgo, San Miguel de Allende,

Laja River, river in Guanajuato estado (state), north-central Mexico. After rising in the Sierra Madre Occidental near San Felipe (Doctor Hernandez Alvarez), the Laja arches eastward and then southeastward through the central plateau, past the cities of Dolores Hidalgo, San Miguel de Allende,

Lajes, city, east-central Santa Catarina estado (state), southern Brazil, lying north of the Caveiras River in the Paraná Mountains, at 3,000 feet (900 metres) above sea level. Formed as a municipality in 1800, it was settled chiefly by Germans and in 1866 was elevated to city status. Livestock

Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm: In Al-Lajnah (1981; The Committee), his best-known novel, he satirized Egyptian Pres. Anwar el-Sādāt’s policy of infitāḥ (Arabic: “opening”), which decentralized the economy and opened Egypt to foreign investment but failed to curb censorship. Because of that censorship, the novel had to be published in Lebanon.

Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights, Sunnite Muslim group opposed to the ruling Saud dynasty in Saudi Arabia. The group was founded in 1992 and consists largely of academics and lower-level Muslim clergy. It considers itself a pressure group for peaceful reform and for improving human

Arabic literature: Drama: …by censorship authorities (known as lajnat al-qirāʾah). These practical issues aside, modern Arabic drama continued to exist in a cultural milieu in which there was ongoing tension between the perceived tastes (and concomitant financial support) of elite and popular audiences and between the differing aesthetic criteria applied to productions in…

Nap Lajoie was an American professional baseball player who was one of the game’s best hitters and an outstanding fielder. Lajoie had a .338 career batting average, the second highest ever for a second baseman, with 3,242 hits, the 14th highest total in major league history. Lajoie’s formal

Nap Lajoie was an American professional baseball player who was one of the game’s best hitters and an outstanding fielder. Lajoie had a .338 career batting average, the second highest ever for a second baseman, with 3,242 hits, the 14th highest total in major league history. Lajoie’s formal

Louis II was the king of Hungary and of Bohemia from 1516, who was the last of the Jagiełło line to rule those countries and the last king to rule all of Hungary before the Turks conquered a large portion of it. The only son of Vladislas II of Hungary and Bohemia, Louis was sickly as a child but

Hungary: Higher education: …Loránd Eötvös University of Budapest, Lajos Kossuth University of Debrecen, Janus Pannonius University of Pécs, Attila József University of Szeged, the Technical University of Budapest, and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences. There were also dozens of specialized schools and colleges throughout the country. In 2000 most of these specialized…

Louis I was the king of Hungary from 1342 and of Poland from 1370, who, during much of his long reign, was involved in wars with Venice and Naples. Louis was crowned king of Hungary in succession to his father, Charles I, on July 21, 1342. In 1346 he was defeated by the Venetians at Zara (now

Olympic Games: Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., 2002: …silver in Alpine skiing; and Samppa Lajunen of Finland, who won all three Nordic combined events. The Salt Lake Games also saw bobsledder Vonetta Flowers become the first black athlete to win a Winter gold medal. Canadian hockey player Jarome Iginla then became the first black male athlete to win…

Lājvard ware, type of vase from Kāshān, Iran, mentioned in Abū al-Qāsim’s treatise on ceramics (1301). Vases were executed in simple red, white, black, and gold leaf designs on a turquoise or dark blue matte glaze. The designs were almost exclusively abstract and floral. Lājvard (Persian: “lapis

Lājvard ware, type of vase from Kāshān, Iran, mentioned in Abū al-Qāsim’s treatise on ceramics (1301). Vases were executed in simple red, white, black, and gold leaf designs on a turquoise or dark blue matte glaze. The designs were almost exclusively abstract and floral. Lājvard (Persian: “lapis

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…

Lak-Dargin languages, two related languages spoken in central Dagestan in the Caucasus—Lak and Dargin. Both are written languages. The dialects of Dargin differ considerably from one another and are considered by some scholars to be separate languages. The Lak-Dargin languages are often placed in

Lak-Dargin languages, two related languages spoken in central Dagestan in the Caucasus—Lak and Dargin. Both are written languages. The dialects of Dargin differ considerably from one another and are considered by some scholars to be separate languages. The Lak-Dargin languages are often placed in

Chad: Ethnic groups: The Laka and Mbum peoples live to the west of the Sara groups and, like the Gula and Tumak of the Goundi area, are culturally distinct from their Sara neighbours. Along the banks of the Chari and Logone rivers, and in the region between the two…

Kāshān ware, in Islamic ceramics, a style of lustreware pottery associated with Kāshān, Persia (Iran), from about the beginning of the 11th century until the mid-14th century. It was derived from motifs in earlier textiles and is especially noted for the density and delicate execution of its

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”).

Oceanic music and dance: Polynesia: …dance, which flourishes today, the lakalaka, is performed by men and women together in accompaniment to sung poetry only. Solo and small group dances performed by one, four, or eight women often follow the large group dances and are more concerned with beautiful movements than with interpretation of poetry, although…

Joseph Lakanal was an educator who reformed the French educational system during the French Revolution. At the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Lakanal was working as a teacher. In 1792 he was elected to the revolutionary legislature known as the National Convention. He voted for the

philosophy of biology: Molecular biology: …strengths—something the Hungarian-born British philosopher Imré Lakatos (1922–74) called a “rational reconstruction.”

Plateau Indian: Language: and include the Okanagan, Sinkaietk, Lake, Wenatchee, Sanpoil, Nespelim, Spokan, Kalispel, Pend d’Oreille, Coeur d’Alene, and Flathead peoples. Some early works incorrectly denote all Salishan groups as

lake, any relatively large body of slowly moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin of appreciable size. Definitions that precisely distinguish lakes, ponds, swamps, and even rivers and other bodies of nonoceanic water are not well established. It may be said, however, that rivers and

lake, any of a class of pigments composed of organic dyes that have been rendered insoluble by interaction with a compound of a metal. The interaction may involve the precipitation of a salt in which the proportions of dye to metal are fixed, or it may be a less well defined attraction between the

Lake Baikal: The Lake Baikal Coastal Protection Zone, covering the lake and its environs (a total of 34,000 square miles [88,000 square km]), was created in 1987, and the same area was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996.

sea breeze, a local wind system characterized by a flow from sea to land during the day. Sea breezes alternate with land breezes along the coastal regions of oceans or large lakes in the absence of a strong large-scale wind system during periods of strong daytime heating or nighttime cooling. Those

Lake Cargelligo, town, central New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on Lake Cargelligo, near the Lachlan River, in the fertile Riverina district. In 1817 British explorer John Oxley was the first European to visit the lake. The first settler (1842) on the site of the present town named it

Africa: Availability for human use: …Niger Basin Authority, and the Lake Chad Basin Commission.

Battle of Plattsburgh, battle during the War of 1812, fought on September 6–11, 1814, by land and naval forces of Britain and the United States. The battle resulted in an important American victory on Lake Champlain, one that likely saved New York from British invasion by way of the Hudson River

Lake Charles, city, seat (1852) of Calcasieu parish, southwestern Louisiana, U.S., on the Calcasieu River about 70 miles (113 km) west of Lafayette. Adjacent to the town of Sulphur, it is a port of entry on a 34-mile (55-km) deepwater channel (completed 1926) and is linked to the Gulf of Mexico via

Lake Chelan: …northwestern portion is included within Lake Chelan National Recreation Area (established 1968), which is part of North Cascades National Park Service Complex. The southeastern end of the lake, lying outside of federal lands, is dotted with vacation homes and is heavily visited. The national recreation area is largely within a…

sucker: The lake chubsucker (Erimyzon sucetta), for example, is a small species up to 25 cm (10 inches) long, and the bigmouth buffalo fish (Ictiobus cyprinellus), a large sucker, measures up to 90 cm in length and 33 kg (73 pounds) in weight. Suckers are bony but…

Lake City, city, seat (1832) of Columbia county, northern Florida, U.S., near Osceola National Forest, about 60 miles (100 km) west of Jacksonville. Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto passed through the area in 1539. The city occupies the site of a Seminole village ruled by a chief called Halpatter

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, rugged wilderness area in southern Alaska, U.S., on the western shore of Cook Inlet, southwest of Anchorage. It was proclaimed a national monument in 1978, and the boundaries and name were altered in 1980 when it became a national park and preserve; the

lake: Currents: The principal forces acting to initiate water movements in lakes are those due to hydraulic gradients, wind stress, and factors that cause horizontal or vertical density gradients. Lake water movement is usually classified as being turbulent.

Lac Débo, situated in central Mali on a section of the Niger River between Mopti, located 50 mi (80 km) to the south, and Timbuktu, 150 mi to the northeast. In this region the Niger is joined by many lakes, creeks, and backwaters; at high water, Lac Débo becomes part of a general

Chile: Relief: …region, La Frontera and the Lake District (38° to 42° S); and the extreme southern region, Sur (42° S to Cape Horn).

Lake District, famous scenic region and national park in the administrative county of Cumbria, England. It occupies portions of the historic counties of Cumberland, Lancashire, and Westmorland. The national park covers an area of 866 square miles (2,243 square km). It contains the principal English

Lake Dwellings, German Pfahlbauten: “pile structures,” remains of prehistoric settlements within what are today the margins of lakes in southern Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy. According to the theory advanced by the Swiss archaeologist Ferdinand Keller in the mid-19th century, the

Battle of Lake Erie, (Sept. 10, 1813), major U.S. naval victory in the War of 1812, ensuring U.S. control over Lake Erie and precluding any territorial cession in the Northwest to Great Britain in the peace settlement. On Sept. 10, 1813, Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry’s fleet of nine ships

Lake Forest, city, Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A suburb of Chicago, located 35 miles (55 km) north of downtown, it lies on Lake Michigan. Potawatomi Indians were recent inhabitants of the area when it was first settled in 1835, on a bluff overlooking the lake. It was named in 1855 by

Seremban: The Lake Gardens, a museum, and a teacher-training college are there. The museum was erected on the model of a Malay house (built without nails, like traditional Sumatran structures). In the foothills, about 25 miles (40 km) east, lies Seri Menanti, site of the palace of…

Lake Geneva, resort city, Walworth county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the northeastern shore of Lake Geneva (Geneva Lake) at its outlet, the White River, about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Milwaukee. It was settled in 1836 and was named for Geneva, New York. Gristmills and sawmills

Hawr Al-Ḥabbāniyyah, lake in Al-Anbār muḥāfaẓah (governorate), western Iraq. It is a shallow body of slightly saline water, 54 sq mi (140 sq km) in area, separated from the Euphrates River to the north by the Asibi and Zaban ridges. The lake has been used since antiquity for storing floodwater from

Lake Havasu City, city, Mohave county, western Arizona, U.S., in the Chemhuevi Valley along the Colorado River, west of the Mohave Mountains. A planned community, Lake Havasu City was founded in 1964 and promoted by the industrialist Robert P. McCulloch as the focal point of a recreational and

cisco, herringlike type of whitefish

John Guare: Lake Hollywood (2000) chronicles the lives of dissatisfied people and the futility of their idolization of celebrities, and Chaucer in Rome (2002), a sequel to The House of Blue Leaves, satirizes art, religion, and fame. A Few Stout Individuals (2003) is a colourful account of…

Sandra Bullock: …she reunited with Reeves in The Lake House, a romance about two people who fall in love by sending letters forward and backward in time.

lake: Shore erosion and coastal features: In a lake’s early stages of existence, its shore is most susceptible to changes from wave and current action. As these changes occur, there is a tendency over time to an equilibrium condition—a balance between form and processes that depends upon the nature of the materials present…

Lake Louise, unincorporated place, southwestern Alberta, Canada. It is located on the Bow River in Banff National Park, immediately northeast of the icy blue-green lake of the same name, which is renowned for its scenic beauty. Originally settled in 1884 as a Canadian Pacific Railway construction

Battle of Lake Maracaibo, also called the "Naval Battle of the Lake," (24 July 1823). Here José Prudencio Padilla led the little fleet of Simón Bolívar’s Republic of Gran Colombia to victory over Ángel Laborde y Navarro’s superior Spanish squadron. Against unequal odds, his remarkable daring and

Boulder City: …Resources Service and for the Lake Mead National Recreational Area. Inc. 1960. Pop. (2000) 14,966; (2010) 15,023.

Lake Mungo, dried-up lake and archaeological site in west-central New South Wales, Australia, located in and around Mungo National Park. Lake Mungo is one of 17 dried Pleistocene Epoch (about 2.6 million to 11,700 years go) lake beds in the Willandra Lakes region, which was designated a World

Africa: Conservation of Africa: …more than 8,000 square miles, Lake Nakuru National Park for flamingos, several montane parks, and a marine park. Uganda has several national parks. Tanzania has the famous Serengeti National Park, with its unrivaled populations of plains ungulates, and the parks of Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, Arusha, and others. Other countries with…

Lake Nyos disaster, massive release of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos in Cameroon on August 21, 1986. The disaster killed between 1,700 and 1,800 people. On August 21, 1986, a cloud of magmatic carbon dioxide gas arose from the bed of Lake Nyos, a freshwater lake located in a volcanic caldera in the

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

Battle of Lake Okeechobee, battle in Florida territory fought December 25–28, 1837, between U.S. forces under the command of Colonel Zachary Taylor and an encampment of Seminole Indians, a critical episode in the Second Seminole War (1835–42). In December 1835. Seminole warriors under the command

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.

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.

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

Lake Placid 1932 Olympic Winter Games, athletic festival held in Lake Placid, N.Y., that took place Feb. 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 attended,

Lake Placid 1980 Olympic Winter Games, athletic festival held in Lake Placid, N.Y., U.S., that took place Feb. 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: …by several bridges, notably the Pontchartrain Causeway. The causeway consists of two parallel road bridges, completed in 1956 and 1969, respectively, each of which runs for nearly 24 miles (39 km) northward across the lake from Metairie (a suburb of New Orleans) to Mandeville. The twin spans, among the longest…

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 (Lake Rudolf) 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,

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