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Auld Lang Syne
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kd lang
K.D. Lang Singer, songwriter For the Record Read more |
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Pearl Lang
Pearl Lang 1922-, American dancer and choreographer, b. Chicago. Lang was a soloist with Martha Graham's company (1942-52) before forming her own company in 1952. As a dancer and choreographer she was noted for her range of dramatic expression in such works as Rites (1953) and Falls the Shadow... Read more |
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Cosmo Gordon Lang
Cosmo Gordon Lang 1864-1945, English churchman, archbishop of York (1908-28), archbishop of Canterbury (1928-42), b. Aberdeen, Scotland. From 1901 to 1908, while suffragan bishop of Stepney, London, and canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, he attempted to improve slum conditions and attracted wide... Read more |
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John Thomas Lang
John Thomas Lang Jack Lang (1876-1975) was an Australian politician and premier of New South Wales. His career was among the stormiest in Australian political history, and his defiance of Labor prime minister James Henry Scullin contributed to the latter's defeat in 1931 and the decline of the... Read more |
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Langton
Langton, a fairly common name, usually ‘long farmstead or estate’, OE lang + tūn; examples include: Langton, Church & Langton, East Leics. Lang(e)tone 1086 (DB), Chirch Langeton 1316, Estlangeton 1327. Langton, Great N. Yorks. Langeton 1086 (DB), Great Langeton 1223. Langton... Read more |
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furlong
furlong an eighth of a mile, 220 yards. Recorded from Old English (in form furlang), the word comes from furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’. The word originally denoted the length of a furrow in a common field (formally regarded as a square of ten acres). It was also used as... Read more |
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Longton
Longton, Longtown, ‘long farmstead or estate’, OE lang + tūn: Longton Lancs. Langetuna c.1155. Longton Stoke. Longeton 1212. Longtown Cumbria. Longeton 1267. Longtown Herefs. Longa villa 1540, earlier Ewias 1086 (DB), Ewyas Lascy 13th cent. (manorial affix from Roger de Laci,... Read more |
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Friedrich Albert Lange
Friedrich Albert Lange , 1828-75, German neo-Kantian philosopher. He accepted the materialistic method of investigating phenomena but rejected its concept of nature. In his Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart (1866; tr. A History of Materialism, 3d ed.... Read more |
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Jonny Lang
JONNY LANG Born: Jonathon Langseth; Fargo, North Dakota, 29 January 1981 Genre: Blues, Rock Best-selling album since 1990: Lie to Me (1996) Hit songs since 1990: "Lie to Me" Jonny Lang's sudden emergence onto the blues scene in 1995 was a deviation from the seasoned path customarily blazed... Read more |
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