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

Latewood, Cyprian

Leghorn strawhats
42;

Lieutenants of Industry Scholarship Program
100;

light
59; "corner light" 61; 62;

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

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; Wikipedia entry

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; Wikipedia entry

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

Lutine
122;