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Lawrence
  1. a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
  2. English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
  3. United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
  4. English actress (1898-1952)
  5. English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
  6. Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
  7. Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
Louisville
  1. the largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby
Louisiana Purchase
  1. territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada
Louisiana
  1. a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
Lansing
  1. capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River
Las Vegas
  1. largest city in Nevada; located in southeastern Nevada; originally settled by Mormons but is now famous for entertainment and gambling and general excess
Liberty Island
  1. an island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands; "Congress officially changed the name from Bedloe's Island to Liberty Island in 1956"
Land Of Enchantment
  1. a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
Las Cruces
  1. a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande
Los Alamos
  1. a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced