Lucerne: City of Switzerland, in the canton of the same name. Jews were living there as early as the middle of the thirteenth century. The earliest records of the town contain regulations for the sale of the flesh of animals slaughtered ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [90%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
Lucerne: Lucerne (/luːˈsɜːrn/ loo-SURN, French: [lysɛʁn] (listen); High Alemannic: Lozärn) or Luzern (Swiss Standard German: [luˈtsɛrn] (listen)) is a city in central Switzerland , in the German-speaking portion of the country. Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne ... (Place) [90%] 2023-09-19 [Cantonal capitals of Switzerland]
Lucerne (shipwreck): 46°43.389′N 90°46.035′W / 46.723150°N 90.767250°W / 46.723150; -90.767250 Lucerne was a commercial schooner. In November 1886, she sank due to bad weather in Lake Superior, off Long Island in Chequamegon ... (Shipwreck) [90%] 2023-12-27 [1873 ships] [Maritime incidents in November 1886]...
Lucerne: Lucerne, Purple Medick or Alfalfa, known botanically as Medicago sativa, a plant of the natural order Leguminosae. In England it is still commonly called “lucerne,” but in America “alfalfa,” an Arabic term (“the best fodder”), which, owing to its increasing ... [90%] 2022-09-02
Lucerne: Lucerne or alfalfa is an annual plant of the pea family. It has small clover-like leaves and purple flowers. [90%] 2023-09-15 [Botany]
Lucerne, Lake Of: Lucerne, Lake Of, the name usually given by foreigners to the principal lake of Central Switzerland. In French it is called the Lac des Quatre Cantons, and in German the Vierwaldstättersee, this term being often wrongly translated “Lake of the ... [88%] 2022-09-02
University of Lucerne: The University of Lucerne (UNILU; German: Universität Luzern) is a public university with a campus in Lucerne, Switzerland . 1,460 undergraduates and 1,258 postgraduate students attend the university, which makes it Switzerland's smallest university. (Organization) [88%] 2023-11-30 [Universities in Switzerland]
The Rape of Lucrece: The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton ... (Poem by William Shakespeare) [81%] 2024-08-23 [Poetry by William Shakespeare] [Narrative poems]...
Subdivisions of the canton of Bern: On 1 January 2010, the 26 districts (German: Amtsbezirke, French: districts) were combined into 10 new precincts (German: Verwaltungskreise, French: arrondissement administratif): They are grouped into five regions (German: Verwaltungsregionen). The existence of the 26 districts remains through the laws ... [78%] 2024-04-06 [Subdivisions of the canton of Bern] [Geography of the canton of Bern]...
Lucerna (gastropod): Lucerna is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lucerninae of the family Pleurodontidae. Species within the genus Lucerna include. (Biology) [77%] 2023-09-19 [Pleurodontidae] [Gastropod genera]...
Lucarne: In general architecture a lucarne is a dormer window. The term is borrowed from French: lucarne, which refers to a dormer window, usually one set into the middle of a roof although it can also apply to a façade lucarne ... (Engineering) [77%] 2023-12-13 [Architectural elements]
Lucarne: Lucarne, a French architectural term for a garret window, also for the lights or small windows in spires. [77%] 2022-09-02
Lucerna: El término Lucerna puede referirse a. [77%] 2023-10-27
Luverne (automobile): Luverne was the marque of the Luverne Automobile Company, which produced automobiles from 1904 to 1917 in Luverne, Minnesota. Carriage makers Fenton and Edward Leicher, began in 1904 to build automobiles to order, in their coach-building factory. (Automobile) [77%] 2023-10-17 [1900s cars] [1910s cars]...
Luverne: Luverne oder Lu Verne steht für: Orte in den Vereinigten Staaten. [77%] 2023-10-17
Canyon of the Fools: Canyon of the Fools is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Val Paul and starring Harry Carey that was released by Film Booking Offices of America (F.B.O.). As described in a film magazine, Robert McCarthy (Carey ... (1923 film) [77%] 2023-09-04 [1923 films] [1923 Western (genre) films]...
Canon of the Netherlands: The Canon of the Netherlands (Dutch: Canon van Nederland; also known as the Canon of Dutch History) is a list of fifty topics that aims to provide a chronological summary of Dutch history to be taught in primary schools and ... (Committee recommendation for education on Dutch history) [76%] 2024-01-07 [Dutch history timelines] [Historiography of the Netherlands]...