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Los Mochis ... Louboutin, Christian

Los Mochis city, northwestern Sinaloa estado (state), northwestern Mexico. It lies on the coastal plain, inland from Topolobampo Bay on the Gulf of California. The creation of the Fuerte River irrigation district in the 1950s led to the growth of Los Mochis as an agricultural (corn [maize], cotton, sugarcane, tomatoes, rice, and ... Los Pijiguaos bauxite deposit and associated mining development, on the Pijiguaos Plateau, in western Bolivar state, Venezuela. Discovered in 1974, this large, high-quality, laterite-type deposit underlies some 2,000 square miles (5,000 square km) and is located approximately 25 miles (40 km) east of the Orinoco River, which is an economical source of ... Los Teques city, capital of Miranda estado (state), north-central Venezuela. It occupies a strategic pass in the northern coastal range, just southwest of Caracas. Named after local Indians, the city was the birthplace of their chief, Guaicaipuro (died c. 1560), known for his staunch resistance to the Spanish conquistadors who searched for ... Loschmidt, Joseph German chemist who made advances in the study of aromatic hydrocarbons. Losey, Joseph American motion-picture director, whose highly personal style was often manifested in films centring on intense and sometimes violent human relationships. Loskop Dam Nature Reserve nature preserve in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, on the Olifants River, north of Middelburg. The reserve has an area of 57 square miles (148 square km) and lies around a dam on the Olifants River in a scenic valley that has been restocked with animals once indigenous to the area. ... Lossiemouth North Sea fishing port and holiday resort, Moray council area and historic county, Scotland. The town developed from several old fishing villages including Seatown, Branderburgh-built around a new harbour (1830) and now Lossiemouth's business centre-and the later settlement of Stotfield. Lossiemouth was Elgin's port in the 15th century but declined ... Lossky, Nikolay Onufriyevich Russian intuitionist philosopher who studied the nature of cognition, causation, and morals. His philosophy was a compound of many influences, especially Leibnizian monadology and Bergsonian intuitionism. Lost American television drama that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network. The show, which ran from 2004 to 2010, was one of ABC's most successful series, enjoying top-20 Nielsen rankings and winning a number of Emmy Awards, including best drama series (2005). Lost Colony early English settlement on Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina, U.S.), that mysteriously disappeared between the time of its founding (1587) and the return of the expedition's leader (1590). In hopes of securing permanent trading posts for England, Sir Walter Raleigh had initiated explorations of the islands off present-day North ... Lost Generation in general, the post-World War I generation, but specifically a group of U.S. writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term stems from a remark made by Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway, "You are all a lost generation." Hemingway used ... Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The novel by Heinrich Boll, published in 1974 in the German weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel as Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum. The novel condemned as irresponsible the coverage of the trial of the Baader-Meinhof group, a German terrorist organization, by the German tabloid newspaper Bild-Zeitung and rebuked official German government ... Lost Horizon novel by James Hilton, published in 1933. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet. Lost Horizon American fantasy film, released in 1937, that was directed by Frank Capra and based on James Hilton's 1933 novel of the same name. The fictional land of Shangri-La, where the film is set, became a common reference for an earthly paradise. Lost Lady, A novel by Willa Cather, published in 1923, depicting the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the aridity of small-town life. lost-wax process method of metal casting in which a molten metal is poured into a mold that has been created by means of a wax model. Once the mold is made, the wax model is melted and drained away. A hollow core can be effected by the introduction of a heat-proof core ... Lostwithiel town ("parish"), Cornwall unitary authority, England, built on a medieval grid plan by the River Fowey, spanned there at the lowest bridge point by a 14th-century bridge. The town developed near Restormel Castle, which dates from about 1100. It is the best-preserved British castle of its period. Much of it, ... Lot River river, rising in the Cevennes mountains, near Mont Lozere, in Lozere departement, southern France, flowing about 300 mi (480 km) generally west to join the Garonne River near Aiguillon, draining a basin of about 4,400 sq mi (11,400 sq km). In its sinuous course, the Lot crosses the Causses (limestone ... Lot's wife biblical character, a disobedient woman who was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back to see the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as she and her family were fleeing. Her story is seen as an example of what happens to those who choose a worldly life over salvation. ... Lot, Ferdinand French historian of the early Middle Ages and the later Roman Empire. He is best known for his important monographs on the transition from Roman to medieval civilization. Lota major coal-mining centre, southern Chile, on the Golfo (gulf) de Arauco. Although Lota was founded in 1662, sustained development did not begin until 1852, when the industrialist Matias Cousino started a coal-mining enterprise. Completion of a railway from Concepcion, 20 mi (32 km) north, in 1888 stimulated growth. Other industries ... Lotf 'Ali Khan Zand last ruler of the Zand dynasty of Iran, who was defeated in the civil war of 1779-94. With the death of Lotf 'Ali Khan's grandfather, Karim Khan Zand, a 15-year civil war ensued between his descendants and Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar. Although the Zand forces were weakened by internal dissensions ... Lothagam site of paleoanthropological excavations in northern Kenya southwest of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), best known for a piece of jaw found there in 1967 that appears to be one of the oldest known fossils of a hominin (member of the human lineage). The fossil is too fragmentary to be identified ... Lothar Carolingian king of France from 954 to 986, the eldest son of Louis IV. He was elected king without opposition after his father's death but was dominated first by Hugh the Great and then, from 956 to 965, by his uncle, Bruno, archbishop of Cologne, whose support was invaluable but ... Lothar king of Italy in the chaotic post-Carolingian period. He was named after his great-grandfather Lothar II and ruled as co-king with his father, Hugh of Provence, from 931 until Hugh's exile and death in 947. Lothar remained in Italy when his father, harassed by the powerful Lombard Berengar II of ... Lothar (II) Frankish king of the area known as Lotharingia whose attempts to have his marriage dissolved so that he could marry his mistress caused much controversy and led to a bitter struggle between himself and Pope Nicholas I. Lothar I Frankish emperor, whose attempt to gain sole rule over the Frankish territories was checked by his brothers. Lothar II (or III) German king (1125-37) and Holy Roman emperor (1133-37). He is reckoned as Lothar III by those who count not only Lothar I but also his son Lothar in their numeration of German kings. Lothar II's election as king in 1125 represented a triumph for the principle of elective monarchy over ... Lothario fictional character, an unfeeling rake and libertine whose chief interest is seducing women. He appeared in The Fair Penitent (1703), a tragedy in blank verse by Nicholas Rowe. Writer Samuel Richardson used "haughty, gallant, gay Lothario" as the model for the profligate Robert Lovelace in his epistolary novel Clarissa (1747-48). Lothian a primitive province of Scotland lying between the Rivers Tweed and Forth. The name, of Welsh origin but uncertain meaning, is retained in the names of the modern Scottish council areas of East and West Lothian and Midlothian and the historic region of Lothian. Occupied in the 3rd and 4th ... Loti, Pierre novelist whose exoticism made him popular in his time and whose themes anticipated some of the central preoccupations of French literature between World Wars. Lotichius Secundus, Petrus one of Germany's outstanding neo-Latin Renaissance poets. Lotos-Eaters, The poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in the collection Poems (1832; dated 1833). The poem is based on an episode in Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Lotschen Pass glacier pass (8,825 feet [2,690 metres]) in the Bernese Alps, southern Switzerland, leading from Kandersteg in southern Bern canton (north) to the Lotschental (Lotschen Valley) in Valais canton (south). First mentioned in 1352, the pass was probably crossed earlier by the people of the Valais, who colonized various parts of ... Lott, Ronnie American gridiron football player who earned first-team All-Pro honours at all three defensive backfield positions during his standout 14-year National Football League (NFL) career. The preternaturally tough Lott is regarded as one of the hardest hitters in NFL history. Lott, Trent American Republican politician who represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives (1973-89) and in the U.S. Senate (1989-2007). lottery procedure for distributing something (usually money or prizes) among a group of people by lot or by chance. The type of lottery considered here is a form of gambling in which many people purchase chances, called lottery tickets, and the winning tickets are drawn from a pool composed of all ... Lottery, The short story by Shirley Jackson, published in The New Yorker in June 1948 and included the following year in her collection The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris. Much anthologized, the story is a powerful allegory of barbarism and social sacrifice. Lotto carpet pile floor covering handwoven in Turkey, so called because carpets of this design appear in several of the works of the 16th-century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto. They are characterized by a lacy arabesque repeated field pattern, usually in yellow upon a red ground. This pattern was a 16th- and 17th-century ... Lotto, Lorenzo late Renaissance Italian painter known for his perceptive portraits and mystical paintings of religious subjects. He represents one of the best examples of the fruitful relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian (Marche) schools. lotus any of several different plants. The lotus of the Greeks was the species Ziziphus lotus of the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae), a bush native to southern Europe. It has large fruits containing a mealy substance that can be used for making bread and fermented drinks. In ancient times the fruits were ... Lotus Sutra ("Lotus of the Good Law [or True Doctrine] Sutra"), one of the earlier Mahayana Buddhist texts venerated as the quintessence of truth by the Japanese Tendai (Chinese T'ien-t'ai) and Nichiren sects. The Lotus Sutra is regarded by many others as a religious classic of great beauty and power and one ... Lotus Temple Baha'i Faith house of worship, or mashriq al-adhkar (Arabic; a place where the uttering of the name of God arises at dawn), in New Delhi. In the early 21st century it was one of only seven mashriqs in the world. Lotus-Eater in Greek mythology, one of a tribe encountered by the Greek hero Odysseus during his return from Troy, after a north wind had driven him and his men from Cape Malea (Homer, Odyssey, Book IX). The local inhabitants, whose distinctive practice is indicated by their name, invited Odysseus' scouts to ... Lotuxo people of South Sudan, living near Torit, who speak an Eastern Sudanic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family. They grow millet, corn (maize), peanuts (groundnuts), and tobacco and raise herds of cattle. The Lotuxo live in large, fortified villages, often with several hundred huts and divided into quarters. They lack ... Lotze, Rudolf Hermann German philosopher who bridged the gap between classical German philosophy and 20th-century idealism and founded Theistic Idealism. Louang Namtha town, northwestern Laos. The town is situated about 10 miles (16 km) south of the Chinese border and about 50 miles (80 km) east of the border with (Myanmar) Burma, in the upper Tha River valley. It is linked to eastern Myanmar and Louangphrabang (95 miles [153 km] southeast) by ... Louangphrabang town, northern Laos. A port on the Mekong River, Louangphrabang lies 130 miles (210 km) north-northwest of Vientiane, the national capital. Loubet, Emile statesman and seventh president of the French Third Republic, who contributed to the break between the French government and the Vatican (1905) and to improved relations with Great Britain. Loubomo commune (town), southern Congo (Brazzaville), and an important transport centre for western Congo (Kinshasa) and southern Gabon. It lies 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Pointe-Noire (the Atlantic coastal terminus of the railway and highway network of Congo [Brazzaville]), near the junction of the main Brazzaville-Pointe-Noire railway with a branch ... Louboutin, Christian French shoe designer whose creations-identifiable by their brilliant red soles-were sold in exclusive upscale boutiques in major cities worldwide.