Search results for "Lac" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (French Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de Genève) is the second largest freshwater lake in central Europe (after Lake ...16 KB (2,589 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- [[Image:Lactose(lac).png|thumb|right|223px |Lactose]] [[Image:Glucose.png|thumb|right|223px|Glucose]] Normally, lactose in food (such as dairy ...8 KB (1,106 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- itself includes Lake Saint-Louis south of Montreal, Lac Saint-François at Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Lac Saint-Pierre east of Montreal. It surrounds ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- (1662-1663), the lake has the legend "Lac Ontario ou des Iroquois" and in smaller type "Ondiara." A French map produced in ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- his partly autobiographical poem, "Le lac" ("The Lake" ... One of the notable poems in this collection was Le Lac, which he dedicated ...30 KB (4,259 words) - 22:02, 30 April 2023
- to steal it, for the finest of reasons. Lancelot du Lac (1974) is Robert Bresson's gritty retelling. In vivid contrast, Monty Python and the Holy ...17 KB (2,819 words) - 16:11, 25 January 2023
- Geneva is located at the southwestern end of Lake Geneva (French Lac ... and is sometimes referred to as Petit lac ( small lake ). The Canton ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- communities formed near St-Francois-du-Lac and Bécancour. These settlements ... communities formed near St-Francois-du-Lac and Bécancour. Facing annihilation ...20 KB (2,915 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- *Le lac des fées (1 April 1839, Théâtre de l’Opéra, Paris) *Zanetta, ou Jouer avec le feu (18 May 1840, Opéra Comique, Paris) ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- based on a story by Dostoevsky; Lancelot du Lac (1974, Lancelot of the Lake ... *Lancelot du Lac (1974); Lancelot of the Lake *Quatre nuits d'un ...22 KB (3,559 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- appeared in Casse-Noisette (The Nutcracker) and Le Lac des Cygnes (Swan Lake) in the same year. Her partner for the latter was the young Robert Helpmann ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- resin is a brittle or flaky secretion of the female lac insect, Coccus lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand and harvested from the bark of ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- Lake Huron was generally labeled "Lac des Hurons" (Lake of the Huron Indians) on most early maps. Warfare and disease eventually reduced ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- Great Slave Lake (French: Grand lac des Esclaves) is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (behind Great Bear Lake) ...11 KB (1,706 words) - 13:20, 22 January 2023
- *Le Lac des Cygnes--December 20, 1984--After Sergueev and Bourmeister *Romeo et Juliette--October 19, 1984--Original choreography *The Tempest ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- and their settlement at nearby Pointe-du-Lac remained until about 1830, when the last 14 families, numbering about 50 persons, moved to Oka. ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- sur les romans de la Table Ronde: Lancelot du Lac, II: Le conte de la charrette," a treatise inspecting Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot, ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- forms "amber varnish" or "amber lac." As mentioned above, amber was well known for its electrostatic properties since antiquity ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 02:46, 24 July 2023
- The lake was named le lac supérieur, or "Upper Lake," in the seventeenth century by French explorers because it was located above ...18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- He moved to Villeneuve, on the shores of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) to devote himself to writing. His life was interrupted by health problems, ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
