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
- the largest Swiss lakes such as Lake Geneva (Lac Leman), Lake Zürich, Lake ... of lakes); the largest lake is Lake Geneva (Lac Léman in French), at the ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- ; insect-based colors such as cochineal, kermes and lac; rust (iron oxide, Fe2O3) or iron oxide-rich earth compounds |- ! Yellow | Plant-based ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- Grand Portage Bands of Chippewa and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa actively engaged in the management and use of their ancestral lands ...20 KB (2,971 words) - 23:47, 26 February 2023
- coming especially from the regions of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and Côte-Nord, which provide 40 percent of Quebec's total provincial production ...22 KB (3,038 words) - 18:15, 31 October 2023
- fiberglass Glaser-Dirks DG-808 over the Lac de Serre Ponçon in the French Alps]] ==Terminology== A "glider" is an unpowered aircraft ...22 KB (3,495 words) - 08:00, 24 January 2023
- out in the lakeside towns of Rumonge and Nyanza-Lac. Countless atrocities were reported by eyewitnesses, and the armed Hutu insurgents proceeded ...23 KB (3,228 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- 1. Panorama of Lac-Kaï, French outpost in China. 2. Yun-nan, in the quay of Hanoi. 3. Flooded street of Hanoi. 4. Landing stage of Hanoi]] ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- of the water purification plant to Bret lake (Lac de Bret) in Switzerland.]] Water purification is the process of removing contaminants from a ...30 KB (4,619 words) - 23:17, 3 May 2023
- secretly by burning their palace which is made of lac. However, the Pandavas are warned and escape from the palace. They live in hiding for some time ...33 KB (5,198 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- is a problem. The lowest point is Lac Assal (−155 m) and the highest is Moussa Ali (2,028 m). Natural resources include geothermal power. There ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- l'étroit du Lac Érié ), meaning the strait of Lake Erie, linking Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Traveling up the Detroit River, Father Louis ...33 KB (4,747 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- West Company of Montreal, built Fort Athabasca on Lac La Biche in 1778. Roderick Mackenzie built Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca ten years later ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- he built for his parents in Corseaux on the shores of Lac Leman (1924). Maison La Roche and Maison Jeanneret (1923–24), also known as the La ...107 KB (16,223 words) - 20:24, 30 June 2023
