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Lagos
Lagos , city (1991 pop. 12,956), Faro dist., S Portugal, in Algarve, on the Atlantic Ocean. The excellent harbor shelters much coastwise trade and an important sardine and tuna fishing fleet. Sancho I with the help of bands of Crusaders captured (1189) the city from the Moors; in 1191 it was recaptu... Read more
Lagos
Lagos , city (1991 est. pop. 1,274,000), SW Nigeria, on the Gulf of Guinea. It comprises the island of Lagos. Lagos is Nigeria's largest city, its administrative and economic center, and its chief port. Industries include railroad repair, motor vehicle assembly, food processing, and the manufacture ... Read more
Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Ricardo Lagos Escobar , 1938-, Chilean political leader. A lawyer and economist, he was an academic and served as secretary-general of the Univ. of Chile under President Allende , whom Lagos supported. After Allende's overthrow, Lagos taught abroad and was a UN economist (1978-84) in Chile. In the ... Read more
Edward Boscawen
Edward Boscawen , 1711-61, British admiral. He was a popular naval hero, famous for his decisive courage displayed against France and Spain at Portobelo (1739), Cape Finisterre (1747), and Lagos Bay (1759). He is noted also for attempts to improve health conditions in the fleet. ... Read more
Saint Charles Borromeo
Saint Charles Borromeo , 1538-84, Italian churchman, b. near Lago Maggiore. His uncle, Pius IV , summoned Charles, a student at Pavia, to Rome in 1560. In rapid order he was made cardinal-deacon, administrator of the Papal States and of the archdiocese of Milan, and papal secretary of state. Despit... Read more
Abuja
Abuja , city and federal capital territory (2006 provisional pop. 1,405,201), central Nigeria. Plans to move the capital from Lagos were approved in 1976, and a 3,000-sq mi (7,770-sq km) capital territory was created near the old town of Abuja (renamed Suleja). The site was chosen for its location... Read more
Algarve
Algarve , historic province, 1,958 sq mi (5,070 sq km), extreme S Portugal, coextensive with Faro dist. The capital is Faro , and other important cities are Silves, Portimão, and Lagos . Much fruit (almonds, citrus, grapes, olives, figs, pomegranates) is grown in the Algarve, and there is a... Read more
Lake Como
Lake Como , Ital. Lago di Como or Lario, c.56 sq mi (145 sq km), 30 mi (48 km) long and from 1/2 to 2 1/2 mi (0.8-4 km) wide, in Lombardy, N Italy. Lake Como is a natural widening of the Adda River, which feeds and drains the lake. Situated in the foothills of the Alps, the lake is one of... Read more
Lake Garda
Lake Garda , Ital. Lago di Garda or Benaco, largest lake of Italy, 143 sq mi (370 sq km), between Lombardy and Venetia, N Italy. It is c.32 mi (52 km) long, with a maximum width of c.11 mi (18 km). The northern tip, with Riva di Trento, is an Alpine resort. The Sarca River enters the lake at the... Read more
Puerto Montt
Puerto Montt , city (1992 pop. 130,730), capital of Los Lagos region, S central Chile, a port on Ancud Gulf, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. It is the southern terminus of Chile's mainland railroads and the starting point for navigation through the inland waterways and among the islands to the south.... Read more

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Lagos, Ricardo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Ricardo Lagos In 2000 Ricardo Lagos (born 1938) became the first Socialist president in Chile since...countries around the world. Early Interest in Law and Politics Lagos was born Ricardo Lagos Escobar on March 2, 1938, in Santiago...
Lagos
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities Lagos Lagos City, Lagos State, Nigeria, Africa Founded: As "Oko" (farmland), precise date unknown; later corrupted as " È k ó ." Christened Lagos, probably after lagoon, by Portuguese traders sometime after the mid...
Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ricardo Lagos Escobar , 1938-, Chilean political leader. A lawyer and...general of the Univ. of Chile under President Allende , whom Lagos supported. After Allende's overthrow, Lagos taught abroad and was a UN economist (1978-84) in Chile...
Lagos, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Lagos, battle of, 1759. In the summer of 1759 the nucleus of a French invasion...running fight developed and on 18 August four French vessels sought refuge in Lagos Bay in southern Portugal. They were attacked, two captured and two burned...
Herbert Macaulay
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...journalist, and accomplished musician. Born in Lagos, Herbert Macaulay was the son of the Reverend Thomas Babington Macaulay, prominent Lagos missionary and educator, and the maternal...early education in the mission schools of Lagos, Macaulay in 1881 became a clerk in the...
Nigeria
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...lagoons, which includes the former capital, Lagos . The Niger and Benue rivers meet in central...2042m (6699ft). Climate and Vegetation Lagos has a tropical climate, with high temperatures...the practice. In 1861, Britain seized Lagos, ostensibly to stop the trade. By 1885...
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the British colonies of Sierra Leone and Lagos. He served Liberia again in the capacities...1891 and 1894 he spent several months in Lagos and worked there in 1896-1897 as government agent for native affairs. While in Lagos he wrote regularly for the Lagos Weekly...
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Nnamdi. He attended school in Onitsha, Lagos, and Calabar. In 1921, when he discontinued...as a clerk in the Nigerian treasury in Lagos. In 1925 Azikiwe went to the United States...nationalist propaganda. In 1937 he returned to Lagos and founded the West African Pilot, which...
Olatunji, Michael Babatunde
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...an uncle and aunt in the capital city of Lagos, and went to school there. He learned...of the Sabbath even prohibited cooking. Lagos brought the musical sounds of the world...American-sponsored Baptist Academy in Lagos. Olatunji worked for two years in the...
Benedict Chuka Ewonwu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...old Federal House of Representatives in Lagos is probably his best-known public monumental...Awakening, outside the Nigerian Museum in Lagos. It is a female figure with an abstract...for the Nigerian Corporation Building in Lagos. Further Reading A short biography of...

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Lagos, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Lagos, battle of, 1693. On 17 June 1693 off Lagos in southern Portugal, Sir George Rooke , escorting a convoy of 400 vessels to the Mediterranean, was attacked by the French admiral de Tourville with a vastly superior force. One hundred English and Dutch merchantmen were lost.
Lagos rubber
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences Lagos rubber See FUNTUMIA .
Lagos Escobar, Ricardo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Lagos Escobar, Ricardo (b. 2 Mar. 1938). President of Chile, 2000–  Born in Santiago, he studied law and...
Nigeria
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...occupied southern Nigeria. The island of Lagos was a centre for the slave trade when this...British attacked and burnt the city of Lagos and ten years later bought it from King...separate protectorate (later colony) of Lagos was formed. Explorers worked their way...
Anikapulapo-Kuti, Fela
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...Abeokuta, Nigeria, 15 October 1938; died Lagos, Nigeria, 2 August 1997 Genre: World...singer in the Cool Cats high-life band in Lagos. Even then he had his own style, which...College of Music, London, he was back in Lagos, an apprentice radio producer playing...
Kongi's Harvest
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Proceedings of a Seminar on the Film Industry and Cultural Identity in Nigeria, edited by Alfred E. Opubor and Onuora E. Nwuneli, Lagos and New York, 1979. Gugler, Josef, "Wole Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest from Stage to Screen: Four Endings to Tyranny...
Enwonwu, Ben
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...the Federal Government. His public commissions include the bronze statue of Elizabeth II in front of the Federal Parliament, Lagos. Enwonwu's work unites the magical quality of traditional African art with an awareness of contemporary developments in Western...
Nigeria, Christianity in
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...establishing Churches in the Niger Delta and among the Igbo. RC work resumed in 1868 when the Society of African Missions arrived in Lagos. Among the Southern Nigerian people Christianity spread widely. After 1918 indigenous Churches stressing prophecy and healing...
Pan-Africanism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...x2013; 1891) and James Johnson (1836 – 1917) moved or, in some cases, moved back to Nigeria, primarily Lagos, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, where they were joined by returning freed people from Brazil and the Caribbean...
Westernization: Africa
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...developed strictly as a function of the requirements of the new economy, which saw the rise of the colonial cities such as Dakar, Lagos, Nairobi, and Luanda. Urbanization led to rural exodus and the displacement of large segments of the population. It is against...

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Lagos, former UWM star, finds field of dreams With Tampa Bay, he's just happy to be healthy
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/22/1999; ; 692 words ; ...old as sport itself, but coming from Manny Lagos it sounds genuine. "I just want to be on the field and contributing any way I can," Lagos said. Considering what's happened to Lagos since joining Major League Soccer, he's lucky...
LAGOS HAS GROWTH SPURT.
Magazine article from: WWD; 8/16/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...manufacturers to relax and enjoy the ride. But Steven Lagos, founder and designer of the firm that bears his...here and preparing to open his third freestanding Lagos store. The 22-year-old Lagos line, with estimated annual sales of about $62...
Miami and Lagos: A tale of twin cities
Newspaper article from: Westside Gazette; 4/2/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Miami has Islands that are mainly business districts, which house some skyscrapers. In Lagos Nigeria, there is the Lagos Island, which is a part of the big Lagos as different from the mainland. The island is also a major business district, which...
Profile: Lagos, Nigeria, is an example of what happens when a city's infrastructure crumbles from too many residents
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 6/14/2001; ; 700+ words ; 00-00-0000 Profile: Lagos, Nigeria, is an example of what happens...Nations says that by the year 2015, Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, will become...double in the next decade and a half. Lagos long has had a reputation for being overcrowded...
NIGERIA-DEVELOPMENT: LAGOS -- TWO SIDES TO THE CITY
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 5/6/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Service English News Wire 05-06-1997 LAGOS, May 5 (IPS) -- Rickety buses and unnerving...all of Nigeria's 250 ethnic groups, Lagos means different things. Several sayings...Eko by the local people, but renamed "Lagos de Curamo" by Portuguese merchants in...
POLITICS-CHILE: SOCIALIST LAGOS WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 1/18/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...IPS) -- Socialist candidate Ricardo Lagos triumphed in Chile's presidential run...Concertacion por la Democracia coalition. Lagos, 61, an attorney and economist, defeated...s president-elect, socialist Ricardo Lagos promised to lead the country guided by...
ELECTIONS-CHILE: LAGOS, MODERN-DAY HEIR TO ALLENDE'S SOCIALISM
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 12/9/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...SANTIAGO, Dec. 9 (IPS) -- Ricardo Lagos hopes to become the second Socialist president...Salvador Allende was elected in 1970. If Lagos, the front-runner in the polls, wins...with more than 71 percent of the vote. Lagos thus became the candidate of the alliance...
At last, something is happening in Lagos
Magazine article from: New African; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; The UN has predicted that Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, will...people. Babatunde Fashola, governor of Lagos State, talked to Kaye Whiteman about...aspires to proper world-city status. Lagos has a dreadful reputation. There was...
Deja Lagos Presidencia con numeros favorables.(Internacional)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 12/10/2005; 700+ words ; ...de que el Presidente chileno, Ricardo Lagos, asumi su gestin en 2000 en medio de severos...chilenos estn satisfechos con la gestin de Lagos y eso ha beneficiado a la candidatura de...de la buena gestin en materia social de Lagos. Lagos aument la cifra de empleo y subi...
ANALYSIS: THE OPTIMISM OF RICARDO LAGOS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/8/2004; 700+ words ; ...2004 Analysis: The optimism of Ricardo Lagos SANTIAGO, Chile, Jun 08, 2004 (United...decided stride, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos approaches the last stretch of his six...his stature as a respected statesman, Lagos delivered a message charged with optimism...