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Lost Generation. Gertrude Stein’s term for US writers influenced by WWI. Fitzgerald. Hemingway.
Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. 722BC. Deported when Assyria invaded.
Lot. His wife was turned to stone. Sodom.
Lothair. 835-69. King of Lotharingia, 855. Disputes with Pope over annulment of his marriage.
Lotus Eaters. African peoples of Odyssey who were forgetful and idle.
Louis I. 778-840. Charlemagne’s son. Last Emperor of unified Carolingian Empire 814~. Twice deposed and restored.
Louis II. The Stammerer. 846-79. W Frankish King 877-.
Louis III. 863-82. French King 879-. Withstood Norse invasion.
Louis XII. Father of the People. 1462-1515. French King 1498-. Italian Wars.
Louis XIII. The Just. 1601-43. French King 1610-. With Richelieu, extended monarchs power. Absolutism.
Louis-Philippe. 1773-1850. French King 1830-48. 1790 Jacobin liberal who became absolutist monarch. Supported by bourgeoisie, defeated by workers in Revolt.
Louvois, Marquis de. 1639-91. Louis XIV War Minister. Reformed army. Enforced Nantes revocation. Supervised construction of Invalides, Vendôme.
Louvre. 1204 fortress. Charles V library. 1527 new palace by Lescot. 1793 converted to museum. Venus de Milo. Mona Lisa.
Love Generation. 1960-9. Term applied to hippies who rejected past values for instant pleasures of drugs and music.
Low, David. 1891-1963. British caricaturist. Colonel Blimp.
Low Countries. Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands.
Lowell, Percival. 1855-1916. US astronomer. Predicted Pluto 1905 (erroneously). PL of Pluto name after him. Studied Mars’ “canals” 1906. Schiaparelli.
Lower Canada. 1791-1841. 1841 «Province of Canada. 1867 = Quebec.
Loyola, St. Ignatius. 1491-1556. Spanish soldier, founder of ascetic Jesuit Order, army of God working directly for the Pope. Spiritual Exercises 1548.
Luckner, Felix. 1886-1966. German naval officer. Attacked commercial vessels in WWII.
Lucretius. 99-55BC. Roman poet: De rerum natura, advocating moral truth without religious belief.
Luddites. 1811-16. Workers who destroyed machines to stop the Industrial Revolution. Led by mythical Ned Ludd.
Ludlow, Battle. 1459. War of Roses. York, Warwick routed by Lancastrians.
Lukács, György. 1885-1971. Hungarian Marxist writer: History of Class Conscioussness 1923.