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Luba
Cluster of some 5.6 million Bantu-speaking peoples who share a common political history surrounding the Luba-Lunda states.
Luba-Lunda states
Complex of states that flourished in Central Africa in the 16th–19th centuries.
Lubbock
City (pop., 2000: 199,564), northwestern Texas, U.S.
Lübeck
City (population 2002 est.: 213,486), northern Germany.
Lubitsch, Ernst
German-U.S. film director.
Lublin
City (pop., 2000 est.: 355,803), eastern Poland, situated on the Bystrzyca River.
lubrication
Introduction of any of various substances between sliding surfaces to reduce wear and friction.
Lubumbashi
City (pop., 1994 est.: 851,381), Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Lucas (Huyghszoon) van Leyden
Netherlandish painter and engraver.
Lucas, George
Film director and producer.
Lucas, Robert E., Jr.
U.S. economist.
Luce, Clare Boothe
U.S. politician, dramatist, and socialite.
Luce, Henry R(obinson)
U.S. magazine publisher.
Lucerne
City (pop., 2000: 59,496), central Switzerland.
Lucerne, Lake
Lake, central Switzerland.
Lucian
Ancient Greek rhetorician, pamphleteer, and satirist.
Luciano, Lucky
Italian-born U.S. gangster.
Lucifer
In classical mythology, the morning star (the planet Venus at dawn), personified as a male figure.
Lucite
Trademark names of the organic compound polymethyl methacrylate, a synthetic polymer of methyl methacrylate.
Lucknow
City (pop., 2001 prelim.: 2,207,340), capital of Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, on the Gomati River southeast of Delhi.
Lucretius
Latin poet and philosopher.
Lucullus, Lucius Licinius
Roman general who served as consul in 74 BC.
Lucy
Nickname for a remarkably complete (40% intact) hominin skeleton found by Donald Johanson at Hadar, Eth., in 1974 and dated to 3.2 million years ago.
lud
Among the Votyak and Zyryan peoples of Russia, a sacred grove, usually consisting of fir trees, where sacrifices were performed.
Luddite
Member of organized groups of early 19th-century English craftsmen who surreptitiously destroyed the textile machinery that was replacing them.
Ludendorff, Erich
German general.
Ludlum, Robert
U.S. author of spy thrillers.
Ludwig, Carl F(riedrich) W(ilhelm)
German physician.
Lueger, Karl
Austrian politician.
Lufthansa
One of Europe's largest air-passenger, cargo, and airline-services companies.
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