Difference between revisions of "L"

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labor unions
43; 50; Western Federation of Miners, 92; 98;

La Foam, Happy Jack
477; local pharmicist in Wall o' Death; 485;

Lafrisée, Pléiade
537; sphinxe Khnopffiene in Kursaal in Ostend; with Woevre, 560; Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (1858-1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter. A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human (or bird) and the body of a cat; A sphinxe Khnopffiene would then be someone cat-like in the style of Khnopff Wikipedia entry;

The Caress, Khnopff's most famous painting

Lambert, Joe
283; shot by Hair-Trigger Bob

Laplacian
239; bar in Cambridge;

Lard Scandal of the '80s, the great
406; there actually was a lard scandal during the Taft Administration, in 1912;

lateener
250; a ship rigged with a lateen which is a triangular sail, suspended by a long yard at an angle of 45° to the mast.

Latewood, Cyprian
489; "embryo Apostlet", a sod (short for "sodomite", i.e., gay man) at Cambridge

"laying on tells"
218; God, in poker game; "tells" are gestures or words by a player that give away the value of his/her hand;

Lee, Tom
339; his "tong, the On Leong"

Leghorn strawhats
42;

Leonard and Lyle
441; "oil prospectors" in Sandman Saloon

Leopold
528; King of the Belgians; 543;

Levi
473; Hope Kindred's husband

Levi, Eliphaz (1810-1875)
232; or Eliphas; pseudonym of French occultist and magician Alphonse Louis Constant. Levi incorporated the Tarot cards into his magical system, and as a result the Tarot has been an important part of the paraphernalia of Western magicians. He had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later Aleister Crowley (who believed himself to be the reincarnation of Levi), and it was largely through this impact that Lévi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magic; Wikipedia entry

Lieutenants of Industry Scholarship Program
100;

light
59; "corner light" 61; 62; electric v. gas in London, 232; 431; 437-38; and film, 451; its future, in California, 456;

lightning
72; sentient ball lightning, 72;

lines of force
55; 122;

Little Egypt
26; at the Chicago World's Fair; 29; Little Egypt was the stage name for two popular exotic dancers, Ashea Wabe who danced at the Seeley banquet at the 1893 World's Fair and Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, also performing under the stage name Fatima, appeared at the "Street in Cairo" exhibition on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893; Wikipedia entry; And then there was that song by The Coasters...

Little Hellkite
76; mine in Colorado

Little Nemo
352; Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905—April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911—1913; respectively; Wikipedia entry

Loafsley, "Plug"
397; "street-Arab" who delivers note to Chums of Chance

Lobatchevskian
453; function worked up by Vectorists and Quaternionists; named for the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский) (December 1, 1792–February 24, 1856 (N.S.); November 20, 1792–February 12, 1856 (O.S.)) who developed non-Euclidean geometry; [1]

Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940)
58; Born at Penkhull near Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Adams' Grammar School, Sir Oliver Lodge was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph; 228; Wikipedia entry

Lois
468; little girl in Mayva's ice-cream parlor, Cone Amor

Lollipop Lounge
398; personal headquarters of Plug - a "child bordello"

Lombroso, Dr. Cesare (1835-1909)
172; Born in Verona, Italy, Dr. Lombroso, using concepts drawn from Physiognomy, early Eugenics, Psychiatry and Social Darwinism, devised the theory that criminality was inherited, and that the born criminal could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic; 252; Wikipedia entry

Longfellow
536;

Lorelei
493; blond at Cambridge

Lost City
435;

Louis XV
544;

Lowry, Nellie
60; Blinky Morgan's "lady friend"

Lübeck
520; in German

Lucia
246; waitress in Osteria in San Polo;

Luigi
446;

Lupita's
286; in Telluride, "where the menudo can't be beat"

Lutine
122;