fire engine: The ladder truck (hook and ladder) mounts a ladder that may be capable of rapid extension to 150 feet, often with a large-capacity nozzle built into the top section. The older type of overlength ladder truck is equipped with steerable rear wheels for negotiating city streets.…

vein: Ladder veins are short, rather regularly spaced, roughly parallel fractures that traverse dikes (tabular bodies of igneous rocks) from wall to wall. Their width is restricted to the width of the dike, but they may extend great distances along it. Ladder veins are not as…

Daughters of Bilitis: …published the first issue of The Ladder, edited by Lyon, initially under the pen name Ann Ferguson. The Ladder is usually regarded as the first lesbian serial in America, although a short-lived publication titled Vice Versa had existed in the late 1940s. The Ladder ceased publication in 1972, following the…

ladder-back chair, chair with a tall back constructed of horizontal slats or spindles between two uprights. The type is utilitarian and often rustic; the seat is often of cane or rush. Appearing in the Middle Ages, ladder-back chairs had become widespread in England by the 17th century and were in

Anaïs Nin: …continuous novel, which consists of Ladders to Fire (1946), Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), and Solar Barque (1958).

Anatolia: The Anatolian Greeks in the Achaemenian period: …the decisive sea battle at Lade in 495 bce. In the following year Miletus, the heart of the insurrection, was taken and destroyed. In the last administrative division of satrapies under Darius I, Karka (Caria) was added; apparently it had been brought under stronger control on account of its support…

Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), U.S. spacecraft designed to study the thin lunar atmosphere and the amount of dust in it before it is altered by human activity on the Moon. LADEE, launched on September 6, 2013, was the first spacecraft based on the Modular Common Spacecraft

Johannes Gutenberg was a German craftsman and inventor who originated a method of printing from movable type. Elements of his invention are thought to have included a metal alloy that could melt readily and cool quickly to form durable reusable type, an oil-based ink that could be made sufficiently

molecular gastronomy: Critics of molecular gastronomy: Nico Ladenis, the British chef who gave back his three Michelin stars when he decided to concentrate on “simpler food,” said in 2004 that Blumenthal “debases himself by cooking [his egg-and-bacon ice cream].” Similarly, Germany’s most-famous restaurant critic, Wolfram Siebeck, called Blumenthal’s mustard ice “a…

Latakia, city and muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northwestern Syria. The city, capital of the governorate, is situated on the low-lying Raʿs Ziyārah promontory that projects into the Mediterranean Sea. It was known to the Phoenicians as Ramitha and to the Greeks as Leuke Akte. Its present name is a

Arcadia: One of those, the Ládhon, provides hydroelectric power at a dam and reservoir. A region of erratic rainfall, Arcadia has a few vineyards but no olive trees. There are patches of oak forest, but the eastern reaches are drier and less verdant.

Alpheus River: The hydroelectric Ládhon Dam near the village of Trópaia has created a lake 4 square miles (10 square km) in area.

Laura Dern: …female punk rock band in Ladies and Gentleman, The Fabulous Stains (1982). About this time she enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute for formal training in acting.

Charles Vidor: Rita Hayworth: Cover Girl and Gilda: Ladies in Retirement (1941) was a gothic melodrama with Ida Lupino as a maid whose devotion to her two unstable sisters (Elsa Lanchester and Edith Barrett) leads her to commit murder. In the romantic comedy New York Town (1941), Fred MacMurray played a photographer in…

Jerry Lewis: …at a girls’ school in The Ladies Man (1961). His films displayed an inventive use of locations, such as the Florida hotel in The Bellboy, and sets, such as the full-size 60-room school built for The Ladies Man. His comedy version of the Jekyll and Hyde story, The Nutty Professor…

Frank Capra: The early 1930s: Ladies of Leisure (1930) was the first of Capra’s films to star Barbara Stanwyck. In it she played a gold digger reformed by her love for a sensitive painter. When Capra adapted the 1928 Broadway hit Rain or Shine for film in 1930, he retained…

Joni Mitchell: Clouds, Blue, Big Yellow Taxi, and Woodstock: …to the mischievous euphoria of Ladies of the Canyon (1970) to Blue (1971), which was her first million-selling album. By the early 1970s Mitchell had branched out from her acoustic base to experiment with pop, rock, and jazz, notably on Court and Spark (1974), which ultimately became her best-selling album.…

Phil Karlson: Early films: The musical Ladies of the Chorus (1948) is of historical interest for featuring Marilyn Monroe in her first major role.

Clara Bow: …House Rosie (1927; now lost), Ladies of the Mob (1928; now lost), Three Week Ends (1928; now lost), Dangerous Curves (1929), and The Saturday Night Kid (1929).

Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), organization that provides professional tournament golf for women and annually holds the LPGA Championship tournament. Several professional tournaments for women were staged during the 1920s and ’30s; important players from this era include Glenna

Women’s British Open, golf tournament conducted annually that is recognized by the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) as one of the four major tournaments in women’s golf. The event is open to all qualified amateur and professional female golfers and is held at a variety of golf courses

Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart: Au Bonheur des Dames (1883; Ladies’ Delight) depicts the mechanisms of a new economic entity, the department store, and its impact on smaller merchants. The sweeping descriptions of crowds and dry-goods displays justify Zola’s characterization of the novel as “a poem of modern activity.”

kidney vetch, (Anthyllis vulneraria), perennial herb of the pea family (Fabaceae), found in meadows, alpine pastures, and dry places of Europe and northern Africa. It was formerly used as a remedy for kidney disorders but is now frequently cultivated in rock gardens. Kidney vetch is a low hairy

Ladies’ Home Journal, American monthly magazine, one of the longest-running in the country and long the trendsetter among women’s magazines. It was founded in 1883 as a women’s supplement to the Tribune and Farmer (1879–85) of Cyrus H.K. Curtis and was edited by his wife, Louisa Knapp. The Journal

history of publishing: Beginnings in the 17th century: …magazine specifically for women, the Ladies’ Mercury. Finally, another note, taken up time and again later, was struck by The London Spy (1698–1700), issued by a tavern keeper, Ned Ward, and containing a running narrative of the sights and sounds of London.

pussy-toes: The plantain-leaved pussy-toes (A. plantaginifolia), also called ladies’ tobacco, has longer and broader basal leaves.

ladies’ tresses, (genus Spiranthes), genus of about 45 species of terrestrial orchids (family Orchidaceae), found in woods and grasslands throughout most of the world. Ladies’ tresses have a fleshy root system, and most species have narrow basal leaves. Species of Spiranthes vary greatly in size

Denizli, city, southwestern Turkey. It lies near a tributary of the Menderes River. Set among the gardens at the foot of Mount Gökbel (7,572 feet [2,308 metres]), Denizli inherited the economic position of ancient Laodicea ad Lycum, 4 miles (6 km) away, when that town was deserted during wars

Ladik carpet, handwoven floor covering usually in a prayer design and made in or near Lâdik, a town in the Konya Plain of south-central Turkey. Ladik prayer rugs have either a high, stepped arch design or a triple arch with a dominating central portion. In a separate panel above or below the

Ladinian Stage: …name is derived from the Ladini people of the Dolomites in northern Italy. The stratotypes for the Ladinian are the Buchenstein and Wengen beds of the Dolomites. The Ladinian is subdivided into two substages, which in ascending order are the Fassanian and Longobardian. Ladinian marine strata are correlated worldwide by…

Rhaetian dialects: …Italy, some 30,000 persons speak Ladin (not to be confused with Ladino). Some Italian scholars have claimed that it is really an Italian (Veneto-Lombard) dialect. The other main language spoken in this now semiautonomous region, much of which was Austrian until 1919, is German, a non-Romance language. Although sometimes said…

bill of lading, document executed by a carrier, such as a railroad or shipping line, acknowledging receipt of goods and embodying an agreement to transport the goods to a stated destination. Bills of lading are closely related to warehouse receipts, which contain an agreement for storage rather

Ladinian Stage: …name is derived from the Ladini people of the Dolomites in northern Italy. The stratotypes for the Ladinian are the Buchenstein and Wengen beds of the Dolomites. The Ladinian is subdivided into two substages, which in ascending order are the Fassanian and Longobardian. Ladinian marine strata are correlated worldwide by…

Ladinian Stage, upper of two divisions of the Middle Triassic Series, representing those rocks deposited worldwide during Ladinian time (242 million to 235 million years ago) in the Triassic Period. The stage name is derived from the Ladini people of the Dolomites in northern Italy. The stratotypes

ladino, Westernized Central American person of predominantly mixed Spanish and indigenous descent. In that sense, ladino is synonymous with mestizo. The word ladino is Spanish (meaning “Latin”), and the ladinos of Central America are not to be confused with those Sephardic Jews who speak the Ladino

Ladino language, Romance language spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey. Ladino is very nearly extinct in many of these areas. A very archaic form of Castilian Spanish mixed somewhat with Hebrew elements (as well as Aramaic, Arabic, Turkish,

Duro Ladipo was a Nigerian dramatist whose innovative folk operas incorporating ritual poetry and traditional rhythms performed on indigenous instruments were based on Yoruba history. As a teacher in a church school at Oshogbo in 1960, Ladipo scandalized church members by including bata drums in

Denizli, city, southwestern Turkey. It lies near a tributary of the Menderes River. Set among the gardens at the foot of Mount Gökbel (7,572 feet [2,308 metres]), Denizli inherited the economic position of ancient Laodicea ad Lycum, 4 miles (6 km) away, when that town was deserted during wars

Ladislas was the king of Naples (from 1386), claimant to the throne of Hungary (from 1390), and prince of Taranto (from 1406). He became a skilled political and military leader, taking advantage of power struggles on the Italian peninsula to greatly expand his kingdom and his power. Succeeding his

Ladislas I ; canonized 1192; feast day June 27) was the king of Hungary who greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom and consolidated it internally; no other Hungarian king was so generally beloved by the people. The son of Béla I of Hungary and the Polish princess Rycheza (Ryksa), Ladislas

Hungary: The early kings: …by two of his uncles, Ladislas II (1162–63) and Stephen IV (1163–65). Happily, the death of Stephen IV exhausted the supply of uncles, and Stephen III’s brother, Béla III (1173–96), had no domestic rivals to the throne. However, the short reign of Béla’s elder son, Emeric (1196–1204), was spent largely…

Ladislas IV was the king of Hungary who, by his support of the German king Rudolf I at the Battle of Dürnkrut, helped to establish the future power of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. The son of Stephen V, Ladislas IV became king of Hungary on his father’s death in 1272. His minority (until 1277)

Ladislas V was a boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary. Ladislas was the posthumous only son of the Habsburg German king Albert II, who had also been king of Hungary and Bohemia.

Ladislas IV was the king of Hungary who, by his support of the German king Rudolf I at the Battle of Dürnkrut, helped to establish the future power of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. The son of Stephen V, Ladislas IV became king of Hungary on his father’s death in 1272. His minority (until 1277)

Ladislas IV was the king of Hungary who, by his support of the German king Rudolf I at the Battle of Dürnkrut, helped to establish the future power of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria. The son of Stephen V, Ladislas IV became king of Hungary on his father’s death in 1272. His minority (until 1277)

Ladislas V was a boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary. Ladislas was the posthumous only son of the Habsburg German king Albert II, who had also been king of Hungary and Bohemia.

Ladislas I ; canonized 1192; feast day June 27) was the king of Hungary who greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom and consolidated it internally; no other Hungarian king was so generally beloved by the people. The son of Béla I of Hungary and the Polish princess Rycheza (Ryksa), Ladislas

Ladislas V was a boy king of Hungary and of Bohemia (from 1453), who was caught up in the feud between his guardian Ulrich, count of Cilli, and the Hunyadi family of Hungary. Ladislas was the posthumous only son of the Habsburg German king Albert II, who had also been king of Hungary and Bohemia.

Will Ladislaw, fictional character, a young headstrong idealist in who is one of the protagonists of the novel Middlemarch (1871–72) by George Eliot. Ladislaw is set in stark contrast to Edward Casaubon, his middle-aged and pedantic cousin, both of whom are attracted to Dorothea

steel: The process: …converter by a special iron-charging ladle; this ladle receives the iron at a transfer station from transport ladles, which bring the iron from the blast furnace. Many plants lower the sulfur content of the iron just before it is charged into the converter by injecting a lime-magnesium mixture or calcium…

steel: Controlling temperature: …can be achieved in a ladle furnace (LF). This is a small electric-arc furnace with an 8- to 25-megavolt-ampere transformer, three electrodes for arc heating, and the ladle acting as the furnace shell—as shown in A in the figure. Argon or electromagnetic stirring is applied for better heat transfer. Most…

Lado Enclave, region in central Africa, bordering on Lake Albert and situated on the west bank of the Upper Nile, that was administered by the Congo Free State in 1894–1909 and was incorporated thereafter into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Europeans first visited the northern part of the region in

Lake Ladoga, largest lake in Europe, located in northwestern Russia about 25 miles (40 km) east of St. Petersburg. It is 6,700 square miles (17,600 square km) in area—exclusive of islands—and 136 miles (219 km) long, with an average width of 51 miles (82 km) and an average depth of 167 feet (51

Lake Ladoga, largest lake in Europe, located in northwestern Russia about 25 miles (40 km) east of St. Petersburg. It is 6,700 square miles (17,600 square km) in area—exclusive of islands—and 136 miles (219 km) long, with an average width of 51 miles (82 km) and an average depth of 167 feet (51

Lake Ladoga, largest lake in Europe, located in northwestern Russia about 25 miles (40 km) east of St. Petersburg. It is 6,700 square miles (17,600 square km) in area—exclusive of islands—and 136 miles (219 km) long, with an average width of 51 miles (82 km) and an average depth of 167 feet (51

Vittorio De Sica: …Italy; Ladri di biciclette (1948; The Bicycle Thief), an Oscar winner for best foreign film; Miracolo a Milano (1951; Miracle in Milan), a comic parable about the clash of rich and poor in Milan; and Umberto D. (1952), a tragedy about a lonely pensioner, his dog, and a young maid…

Mariana Islands, island arc, a series of volcanic and uplifted coral formations in the western Pacific Ocean, about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) east of the Philippines. They are the highest slopes of a massive undersea mountain range, rising some 6 miles (9.5 km) from the Marianas Trench in the ocean

Lionel Richie: …he wrote and produced “Lady” in 1980, and pop-soul singer Diana Ross, with whom he recorded “Endless Love” in 1981. Such musical excursions accelerated Richie’s rapid rise in popularity and ultimately precipitated his split from the Commodores. Release of the album Lionel Richie in 1982 marked the start of…

lady, in the British Isles, a general title for any peeress below the rank of duchess and also for the wife of a baronet or of a knight. Before the Hanoverian succession, when the use of “princess” became settled practice, royal daughters were styled Lady Forename or the Lady Forename. “Lady” is

pheasant: …ruffed pheasants: Lady Amherst’s (Chrysolophus amherstiae) and the golden pheasant (C. pictus).

Lady and the Tramp, American animated musical film, released in 1955, that, with its affecting love story featuring dogs, became one of Walt Disney’s most endearing movies. A sweet-natured celebration of love—even by Disney standards—the story concerns the romance between Lady, an upper-class

F. Murray Abraham: His later films included Lady and the Tramp (2019) and The Magic Flute (2022).

tapestry: 15th century: …Hunt of the Unicorn or The Lady and the Unicorn. The origin of millefleurs tapestries is disputed, but it is thought that they were woven in the Flemish workshops of Brussels and Bruges and by itinerant weavers in the Loire Valley of France.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: …was an English novelist whose Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) was the most successful of the sensation novels of the 1860s.

Busby Berkeley: Later films: …three films: Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Lady Be Good (1941), and Born to Sing (1942). For Me and My Gal (1942) was all his, with Gene Kelly and Garland as 1915 vaudeville performers. It was a hit, but there was friction between Berkeley and Garland. That tension and going over budget…

Timothée Chalamet: Breakthrough in Call Me by Your Name and other films from the late 2010s: …of films quickly followed, including Lady Bird, Hostiles, and Hot Summer Nights (all 2017). Chalamet then appeared opposite Steve Carell in Beautiful Boy (2018), a drama based on a pair of memoirs by a father and son about drug addiction.

Lady Bird Johnson: …Wildflower Research Center (now the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center). Although she occasionally made political appearances for her son-in-law, Virginia governor (and later senator) Charles Robb, she dedicated most of her time to the family business and her grandchildren.

ice hockey: The National Hockey League: …the top point scorer; the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, for the player best combining clean play with a high degree of skill; the Conn Smythe Trophy, for the play-offs’ outstanding performer; the Frank J. Selke Trophy, for the best defensive forward; the Jack Adams Award, for the coach of the…

Lady chapel, chapel attached to a church and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. As the development of the chevet, or radiating system of apse chapels, progressed during the 12th and 13th centuries, custom began to dictate that the chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin be given the most important

Lady Chatterley’s Lover, novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in a limited English-language edition in Florence (1928) and in Paris (1929). It was first published in England in an expurgated version in 1932. The full text was published only in 1959 in New York City and in 1960 in London, when it was

Kind Hearts and Coronets: …from Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”: “Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.”

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s. Eleanora (her preferred spelling) Harris was the daughter of Clarence Holiday, a professional musician who for a time played guitar with the Fletcher Henderson band. She and her mother used her maternal

Audra McDonald: …starred in the Broadway play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill and won a Tony Award (2014) for her portrayal of jazz singer Billie Holiday in that production, which tells of the singer’s final months of performance before her death in 1959. McDonald was the first person to win…

Diana, princess of Wales was the princess of Wales, former consort (1981–96) of Charles, prince of Wales (later Charles III); mother of the heir apparent to the British throne, Prince William; and one of the foremost celebrities of her day. (Read Britannica’s interview with Tina Brown about

Hope Theatre: …Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, performed by Lady Elizabeth’s Men in the fall of 1614. Although the agreement with this troupe stipulated that bearbaiting would occupy the Hope only once every two weeks, that sport proved to be more profitable than the plays, and disputes soon developed over priorities, provoking players to…

Preston Sturges: Films of the early 1940s: The Lady Eve (1941) was Sturges’s first true “A” production, and he was equal to the task, creating a tart romantic-comedy classic that starred Barbara Stanwyck as a con artist who first fleeces and then falls for a naive herpetologist (Henry Fonda).

lady fern, (Athyrium filix-femina), a large, feathery fern (family Athyriaceae) widely cultivated for ornamentation. Lady ferns occur in moist semi-shaded areas in the temperate zones of the world. There are numerous cultivars, and the taxonomy is sometimes divided into three species: common lady

Frank Capra: The early 1930s: …Capra’s next film, the sentimental Lady for a Day (1933), was. Capra both produced and directed Riskin’s adaptation of Damon Runyon’s short story “Madame La Gimp.” It concerned a decrepit peddler, Apple Annie (May Robson), who enlists a sympathetic gangster (Warren William) to transform her into a society matron so…

Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey: …works, he considered his sculpture Lady Frederica Stanhope at Chevening Church (1824) to be the best.

The Lady from the Sea, play in five acts by Henrik Ibsen, published in Norwegian as Fruen fra havet in 1888 and first performed in early 1889. It was the first of several mystical psychological dramas by Ibsen. The play traces the increasing distraction of Ellida Wangel, the second wife of Dr.

Lady Gaga is an American singer-songwriter and performance artist, known for her flamboyant costumes, provocative lyrics, and strong vocal talents, who achieved enormous popular success with songs such as “Just Dance,” “Bad Romance,” and “Born This Way.” Germanotta was born into an Italian American

Sidney Lanfield: Later films: …where his first assignment was The Lady Has Plans (1942), a spy farce starring Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland.

Olivia de Havilland: …Light in the Piazza (1962), Lady in a Cage (1964), and Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). She also appeared in a number of television plays.

Gordon Douglas: Later films: …Rome (1967) and its sequel Lady in Cement (1968) and (arguably the best of the trio) The Detective (1968), which featured the notable cast of Robert Duvall, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, and Jack Klugman.

Charles Vidor: Rita Hayworth: Cover Girl and Gilda: In 1940 Vidor made The Lady in Question, the first of several films to star Rita Hayworth. It was one of the actress’s early showcases; she starred as an accused murderer who, after being acquitted, moves in with the family of one of the jurors. Ladies in Retirement (1941)…

Mitchell Leisen: Films of the 1940s of Mitchell Leisen: Leisen next took on Lady in the Dark (1944), an ambitious but flawed attempt to adapt the inventive Broadway musical of the same by Moss Hart, Kurt Weill, and Ira Gershwin to the big screen. Its depiction of a character undergoing psychoanalysis and its meditation on women in the…

Kurt Weill: …followed by the musical play Lady in the Dark (1941; libretto and lyrics by Moss Hart and Ira Gershwin), the musical comedy One Touch of Venus (1943; with S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash), the musical version of Elmer Rice’s Street Scene (1947), and the

film: Shooting angle and point of view: …by the actor Robert Montgomery, Lady in the Lake, in which the camera actually plays the main character. The entire film is seen from the camera/character’s point of view so that the audience sees only what the camera/character sees. The movie is an interesting experiment in the use of subjective…

Alan Bennett: …the stage in 1999 and film in 2015. A best-selling collection of his diaries and reminiscences, titled Writing Home, appeared in 1994. In the memoir Untold Stories (2005), he looked back affectionately at his parents, poignantly reflected on his mother’s descent into senility and her death in a nursing home,…

M. Night Shyamalan: Shyamalan’s subsequent films, Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010), and After Earth (2013), were widely panned by critics. However, he was able to reestablish his reputation for good storytelling and compelling character development in The Visit (2015) and Split

Helena Bonham Carter: …title role of his film Lady Jane (1986). Around the same time, she was cast in A Room with a View (1985) as Edwardian heroine Lucy Honeychurch, a young socialite who is conflicted by her feelings for two men. The film was widely praised by critics and was nominated for…

Miss Julie, full-length drama in one act by August Strindberg, published in Swedish as Fröken Julie in 1888 and performed in 1889. It was also translated into English as Countess Julie (1912) and Lady Julie (1950). The play substitutes such interludes as a peasant dance and a pantomime for the

Roy Del Ruth: Early films: …perhaps best of the lot, Lady Killer, with Cagney in one of his finest comic roles as a gangster on the lam who draws on his experience as a movie theatre usher to become a Hollywood star. After making the drama Upper World (1934), his first under the Production Code,…

CeeLo Green: …of his lushly orchestrated album The Lady Killer (2010) and earned four Grammy nominations; it won for best urban/alternative performance. In 2012 his sultry single “Fool for You” won Grammy Awards for best R&B song and best traditional R&B performance. Heart Blanche (2015), however, was uneven and received mixed reviews.

Sophia Loren: …1958), and Paul Newman (Lady L, 1965). Such exposure was undoubtedly instrumental in helping her win an Academy Award for best actress in De Sica’s La ciociara (1960; Two Women), in which she delivered a powerful performance as the courageous mother of a teenage girl during World War II.

Sylvia Plath: …the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the novel The Bell Jar, starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to her personal experiences and, by extension, the situation of women in mid-20th-century America.

Lady Lever Art Gallery, art museum in Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, part of the National Museums Liverpool. It is known for its unrivaled collection of Wedgwood ware and paintings by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers. The museum was a gift to the public from Lever

Lady Lever Art Gallery, art museum in Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, part of the National Museums Liverpool. It is known for its unrivaled collection of Wedgwood ware and paintings by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers. The museum was a gift to the public from Lever

lupine: Major species: diffusus) and lady lupine (L. villosus) are distributed throughout the southern United States. Bigleaf lupine (L. polyphyllus), from the Pacific Northwest, is an invasive species in parts of Europe and New Zealand, where its ornamental Russell hybrids have escaped cultivation.

Dmitri Shostakovich: Early life and works: … (composed 1930–32; revised and retitled Katerina Izmaylova), marked a stylistic retreat. Yet even this more accessible musical language was too radical for the Soviet authorities.