Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell was an English politician, supporter of King Richard III in the dynastic struggles of the 1480s; he led the first rebellion against Richard’s enemy and successor Henry VII and took part in the later rising of the impostor Lambert Simnel (q.v.). A son of John, 8th

Jim Lovell is a U.S. astronaut of the Gemini and Apollo space programs, and was the commander of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 flight to the Moon in 1970. Lovell, a graduate (1952) of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, became a test pilot. He was serving as a flight instructor and

Jim Lovell is a U.S. astronaut of the Gemini and Apollo space programs, and was the commander of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 flight to the Moon in 1970. Lovell, a graduate (1952) of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, became a test pilot. He was serving as a flight instructor and

Patience Wright was an American sculptor of wax figures who achieved fame in the American colonies and England. Patience Lovell was born into a prosperous Quaker farm family. In 1748 she married Joseph Wright. Little is known of her life from then until 1769, when she was left a widow with five

Sir Bernard Lovell was an English radio astronomer, founder and director (1951–81) of England’s Jodrell Bank Experimental Station (now Jodrell Bank Observatory). Lovell attended the University of Bristol, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1936. After a year as an assistant lecturer in physics at

Sir Bernard Lovell was an English radio astronomer, founder and director (1951–81) of England’s Jodrell Bank Experimental Station (now Jodrell Bank Observatory). Lovell attended the University of Bristol, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1936. After a year as an assistant lecturer in physics at

Jack Lovelock was a New Zealand athlete famous for an unexpected victory in the 1,500-metre (metric-mile) race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The world record he set on that occasion—3 min 47.8 sec—endured until 1941. After studying at the University of Otago, N.Z., Lovelock went to Oxford

James Lovelock was an English chemist, medical doctor, scientific instrument developer, and author best known for the creation and promulgation of the Gaia hypothesis, an idea rooted in the notion that all life on Earth is part of an entity that regulates Earth’s surficial and atmospheric

James Lovelock was an English chemist, medical doctor, scientific instrument developer, and author best known for the creation and promulgation of the Gaia hypothesis, an idea rooted in the notion that all life on Earth is part of an entity that regulates Earth’s surficial and atmospheric

Jack Lovelock was a New Zealand athlete famous for an unexpected victory in the 1,500-metre (metric-mile) race at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The world record he set on that occasion—3 min 47.8 sec—endured until 1941. After studying at the University of Otago, N.Z., Lovelock went to Oxford

Peter Jackson: …the classic 1933 film, and The Lovely Bones (2009), an adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel about a murdered girl who observes her family and killer from the afterlife. He then returned to the enchanting world of Tolkien with a series based on The Hobbit, the author’s predecessor to The Lord…

Saoirse Ronan: … (2009), the film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel about a murdered girl who watches her family and killer from the afterlife; Ronan earned a BAFTA nomination for best actress. After a supporting role in the escape drama The Way Back (2010), she won widespread praise for her riveting portrayal…

Tennessee Williams: …about down-and-outs in New Orleans; A Lovely Sunday for Crève Coeur (1978–79), about a fading belle in St. Louis during the Great Depression; and Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980), centring on Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, and on the people they knew.

Peggy Lee: Vocal career of the 1950s and ’60s: …Rodgers and Moss Hart’s “Lover” (1952), with an audacious mambo-style arrangement by Gordon Jenkins, and “Fever” (1958), featuring one of her most seductive vocal performances and a musical backing of only drums, bass, and finger snaps. “Fever” garnered Lee her first Grammy Award nominations, for record of the year…

Taylor Swift: Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and controversies: …Swift released her seventh album, Lover, which she described as “a love letter to love itself.” That year she also appeared in the musical Cats, a film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hugely successful stage production. Miss Americana (2020) is a documentary about her life and career. With little advance…

Delbert Mann: Feature films: …with the Doris Day vehicles Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch of Mink (1962); the former costarred Rock Hudson, and the latter featured Cary Grant. Both films are notable examples of early 1960s romantic comedies. Hudson also starred in the aviation film A Gathering of Eagles (1963), and Glenn…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Early years (1749–69): The Lover’s Caprice), begun in 1767. He fell in love with the daughter of an innkeeper, Käthchen Schönkopf, but she preferred someone more solid, a lawyer who eventually became deputy burgomaster of Leipzig. Goethe took revenge by starting his first mature play, Die Mitschuldigen (1787;…

French literature: Biography and related arts: …Fragments d’un discours amoureux (1977; A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments), criticism and self-analysis became fiction and writing became an erotic act.

number symbolism: 5: …the pentagram is called a lover’s knot because of this association with the goddess of love. In Manichaeism 5 has a central position: the first man had five sons; there are five elements of light (ether, wind, water, light, and fire) and a further five of darkness. The body has…

John Ford: …plays are: The Broken Heart; The Lover’s Melancholy (1628); ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Perkin Warbeck; The Queen; The Fancies, Chaste and Noble; Love’s Sacrifice; and The Lady’s Trial (1638). There are a few contemporary references to Ford, but nothing is known of his personal life, and there is no…

The Husband’s Message, Old English lyric preserved in the Exeter Book, one of the few surviving love lyrics from the Anglo-Saxon period. It is remarkable for its ingenious form and for its emotive power. The speaker is a wooden staff on which a message from an exiled husband to his wife has been

reggae: “Lover’s rock,” a style of reggae that celebrated erotic love, became popular through the works of artists such as Dennis Brown, Gregory Issacs, and Britain’s Maxi Priest.

Samuel Lover was an Anglo-Irish novelist, songwriter, and painter. Privately educated, Lover fled his father’s stockbroking office and became a successful painter, largely of portraits. He also wrote songs, notably “Rory O’More” (1826), which he also developed as a novel (1837) and a play (1837).

Sir Richard Steele: Mature life and works.: …his most distinguished work, and The Lover comprises 40 of his most attractive essays. Other, short-lived, periodicals, such as The Reader, Town-Talk, and The Plebeian, contain matter of considerable political importance. Steele became, indeed, the chief journalist of the Whigs in opposition (1710–14), his writings being marked by an unusual…

Pixies: ), and David Lovering (b. December 6, 1961, Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S.).

Ruth Orkin: …also collaborated on the film Lovers and Lollipops (1956). After that film Orkin began to concentrate once more on still photography.

Pablo Picasso: Discovery of Paris: …in the French capital (Lovers in the Street [1900]). In Moulin de la Galette (1900) he paid tribute to French artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the Swiss Théophile Alexandre Steinlen as well as his Catalan compatriot Ramon Casas.

Anouk Aimée: …Les Amants de Vérone (1949; The Lovers of Verona), a role written especially for her by Jacques Prévert (who also provided the name Aimée that she soon adopted as a surname), she won acclaim for her performances in Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960; “The Sweet Life”) and Otto e mezzo…

Leo Pinsker: …a newly formed Zionist group, Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (“Love of Zion”), made him one of its leaders. In 1884 he convened the Kattowitz (Katowice, Pol.) Conference, which established a permanent committee with headquarters in Odessa. Although Ḥibbat Ẕiyyon (later Ḥovevei Ẕiyyon [“Lovers of Zion”]) was crippled by lack of funds, it…

Sade: …to produce the critically acclaimed Lovers Rock (2000), which earned a Grammy for best pop vocal album.

Joan Armatrading: …included Square the Circle (1992), Lovers Speak (2003), the Grammy Award-nominated Into the Blues (2007), Starlight (2013), Not Too Far Away (2018), and Consequences (2021), all of which she produced herself. Armatrading also wrote the music for Phyllida Lloyd’s all-women production of Shakespeare

Louis Malle: His second, Les Amants (1958; The Lovers), was a commercial success and established Malle and its star, Jeanne Moreau, in the film industry. The film’s lyrical love scenes, tracked with exquisite timing, exhibit Malle’s typically bold and uninhibited treatment of sensual themes. Social alienation and isolation was the subject of…

Albert Goldbarth: … (2001), Everyday People (2012), and The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale (2017). Goldbarth also wrote essays, including those collected in Great Topics of the World (1996) and Many Circles (2001), and the novel Pieces of Payne (2003).

Miloš Forman: …and Lásky jedné plavovlásky (1965; Loves of a Blonde), had great success both domestically and internationally—the latter received an Academy Award nomination for best foreign-language film—and Forman was hailed as a major talent of the Czech New Wave. His early films were characterized by their examination of working-class life and…

Jean de La Fontaine: Miscellaneous writings and the Contes: …is the leisurely narrative of Les Amours de Psiché et de Cupidon (1669; The Loves of Cupid and Psyche), notable for the lucid elegance of its prose, its skillful blend of delicate feeling and witty banter, and some sly studies of feminine psychology.

John Weaver: In his outstanding serious work The Loves of Mars and Venus (1717) he combined an interest in classical literature with the drama that characterized Italian pantomime and English theatre. The story was told through gesture and movement without spoken or sung explanation. Because of the experimental nature of the ballet,…

tapestry: 17th and 18th centuries: Boucher’s Loves of the Gods were also alentours and enjoyed a great success and popularity, especially among the English nobility. The Story of Don Quixote was designed by Coypel and woven nine times between 1714 and 1794.

Ovid: Works of Ovid: …first poems, the Amores (The Loves), were published at intervals, beginning about 20 bce, in five books. They form a series of short poems depicting the various phases of a love affair with a woman called Corinna. Their keynote is not passion but the witty and rhetorical exploitation of…

Hank Williams: …with the release of “Lovesick Blues,” an old show tune that Williams parlayed into a chart-topping hit, an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, and international fame. More than half of the 66 recordings he would make under his own name (he also released a string…

Mumford & Sons: ), Ben Lovett (b. September 30, 1986, London, England), Winston Marshall (b. December 20, 1987, London, England), and Ted Dwane (b. August 15, 1984, London, England).

Lyle Lovett is an American singer and songwriter whose witty lyrics and use of diverse musical genres provide a unique take on country music. Lovett spent his early years listening primarily to country music and the blues, and he was inspired by Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Nat King Cole, and Ray

Lyle Lovett is an American singer and songwriter whose witty lyrics and use of diverse musical genres provide a unique take on country music. Lovett spent his early years listening primarily to country music and the blues, and he was inspired by Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Nat King Cole, and Ray

Amadeus Quartet: …the introduction in 1946 of Martin Lovett, a British cellist, to the group, the Brainin Quartet was formed.

William Lovett was a Chartist leader in England, the person mainly responsible for drafting the People’s Charter of 1838, demanding electoral reform. A cabinetmaker in London after 1821, he was self-educated in economics and politics and a follower of the utopian socialist Robert Owen. In 1829 he

the Lovin’ Spoonful, American folk rock band with a string of hits in the mid 1960s. The original members were John Sebastian (b. March 17, 1944, New York, New York, U.S.), Zal Yanovsky (b. December 19, 1944, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—d. December 13, 2002, Kingston, Ontario), Steve Boone (b.

Romanian literature: The 20th century: …up by the literary critic Eugen Lovinescu and the poet Nicolae Davidescu, whose epic Cântecul omului (1928–37; “The Song of Man”) aimed at re-creating world history.

Romanian literature: After World War II: …and the intellectual but didactic Horia Lovinescu.

Irvin Kershner: From B-24s to Laura Mars: Kershner’s Loving (1970) is a scathing and often hilarious portrait of adultery in the suburbs, starring George Segal and Eva Marie Saint. Up the Sandbox (1972), from Anne Roiphe’s novel, was a protofeminist comedy featuring Barbra Streisand. Although the movie received mixed reviews, it features one…

Françoise Mallet-Joris: …Le Rempart des béguines (1951; The Illusionist, also published as Into the Labyrinth and The Loving and the Daring), the story of an affair between a girl and her father’s mistress, described with clinical detachment in a sober, classical prose. A sequel, La Chambre rouge (1953; The Red Room), and…

loving cup, large, two-handled cup, often made of silver, that may take many forms. In the past, at weddings, banquets, or meetings, a loving cup might be shared by a number of persons for ceremonial drinking, symbolizing friendship and unity. Loving cups are often given as trophies to winners of

Diane Johnson: In Loving Hands at Home (1968) a woman leaves her Mormon husband and his family, with whom she feels no spiritual kinship, but fails to succeed on her own in the wider world. Burning (1971) satirizes the southern California way of life. The Shadow Knows (1974)…

Javier Bardem: …costarred with Cruz in both Loving Pablo (2017), about the relationship between Pablo Escobar and journalist Virginia Vallejo, and Asghar Farhadi’s family drama Todos lo saben (2018; Everybody Knows).

Colin MacInnes: Later life and work: …Play (1970); the book-length essay Loving Them Both: A Study of Bisexuality and Bisexuals (1973); and Out of the Garden: A Novel (1974), his final novel. In the mid-1960s he acted for a time as the press officer of a Black organization called Defence, and he was a supporter of…

Loving v. Virginia, legal case, decided on June 12, 1967, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case arose after Richard

Loving v. Virginia: …Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a woman of mixed African American and Native American ancestry, traveled from their residences in Central Point, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., to be married on June 2, 1958. Having returned to Central Point, they lived in the home of Mildred’s parents while Richard,…

Sut Lovingood, fictional character, the lively, uneducated protagonist of Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a “Natural Born Durn’d Fool” (1867), a collection of bawdy backwoods tales by American humorist George Washington Harris. Sut, a shiftless, self-deprecating frontiersman, narrates the tales in

Lovington, city, seat (1917) of Lea county, southeastern New Mexico, U.S. Bordered on the east and south by Texas, the county lies on a sandy, grassy plain long favoured by cattle ranchers. Surveyors working for Texas cattleman James B. Love laid out a townsite in 1907, and Love opened a general

cyclone, any large system of winds that circulates about a centre of low atmospheric pressure in a counterclockwise direction north of the Equator and in a clockwise direction to the south. Cyclonic winds move across nearly all regions of the Earth except the equatorial belt and are generally

launch on warning (LOW), military strategy that allows high-level commanders to launch a retaliatory nuclear-weapons strike against an opponent as soon as satellites and other warning sensors detect an incoming enemy missile. Though the United States had considered the possibility of adopting LOW

David Bowie: …for the avant-garde austerities of Low, a collaboration with Brian Eno, the most eggheaded of the several musical helpmates that Bowie always knew how to put to good use, including guitarists Mick Ronson and Carlos Alomar and ace nouveau-funk producer Nile Rodgers for “Let’s Dance” (1983), when he needed a…

Germany: Languages of Germany: …southwest is subdivided into Swabian, Low Alemannic, and High Alemannic. Swabian, the most widespread and still-ascending form, is spoken to the west and south of Stuttgart and as far east as Augsburg. Low Alemannic is spoken in Baden-Württemberg and Alsace, and High Alemannic is the dialect of German-speaking Switzerland. The…

polar ecosystem: …can be divided into the Low Arctic and High Arctic, according to various environmental and biological characteristics. Tundras are most common in the Low Arctic, and polar barrens are dominant in the High Arctic.

hypotension, condition in which the blood pressure is abnormally low, either because of reduced blood volume or because of increased blood-vessel capacity. Though not in itself an indication of ill health, it often accompanies disease. Extensive bleeding is an obvious cause of reduced blood volume

nutritional disease: Sodium: Symptoms of hyponatremia, or low blood sodium, include muscle cramps, nausea, dizziness, weakness, and eventually shock and coma. After prolonged high-intensity exertion in the heat, sodium balance can be restored by drinking beverages containing sodium and glucose (so-called sports drinks) and by eating salted food. Drinking a…

the Kinks: …the United States such as Low Budget (1979). “Come Dancing” (1983), inspired by Davies family history, was a hit in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Thereafter, despite the departure of all the original members except the Davies brothers, the Kinks continued to record and perform until they…

dieting, regulating one’s food intake for the purpose of improving one’s physical condition, especially for the purpose of reducing obesity, or what is conceived to be excess body fat. Dieting plans are based on the reduction of any of the macronutrients (fats, carbohydrates, and proteins) that

Anglican Evangelical: …also been referred to as low churchmen because they give a “low” place to the importance of the episcopal form of church government, the sacraments, and liturgical worship. The term Low Church was used by about the end of the 17th century, although this emphasis within Anglicanism was evident since…

low comedy, dramatic or literary entertainment with no underlying purpose except to provoke laughter by boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery, and other riotous activity. Used either alone or added as comic relief to more serious forms, low comedy has origins in

Low Countries, coastal region of northwestern Europe, consisting of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. These are together known as the Benelux countries, from the initial letters of their names. The Low Countries are bordered by Germany to the east and France to the south. In 1947 the three

history of the Low Countries, history of the Low Countries from prehistoric times to 1579. For historical purposes, the name Low Countries is generally understood to include the territory of what are today the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg as well as parts of northern France. However,

Steve Earle: Earle’s later recordings included The Low Country (2013); the Texas blues album Terraplane (2015); the country-leaning So You Wannabe an Outlaw (2017); Guy (2019), a tribute record to Guy Clark; and Ghosts of West Virginia (2020), which features songs he wrote for the Off-Broadway play Coal Country, about a

cristobalite: Cristobalite has two modifications: low-cristobalite, which occurs naturally up to 268° C (514° F) but is not stable; and high-cristobalite, which occurs above 268° C but is only stable above 1,470° C. Natural low-cristobalite usually occurs in sub-microcrystalline masses (see opal) or fibrous to columnar spherulites (see lussatite) in…

low Earth orbit (LEO), region of space where satellites orbit closest to Earth’s surface. There is no official definition of this region, but it is usually considered to be between 160 and 1,600 km (about 100 and 1,000 miles) above Earth. Satellites do not orbit below 160 km because they are

commodity trade: Operation of the market: …referred to technically as “low elasticity of supply,” meaning that the amount of a commodity that producers supply to the market is not much affected by the price at which they are able to sell the commodity. If supply could be adjusted relatively quickly to changes in demand, speculation…

explosive: Types of chemical explosives: …explosives and (2) deflagrating, or low, explosives. Detonating explosives, such as TNT and dynamite, are characterized by extremely rapid decomposition and development of high pressure, whereas deflagrating explosives, such as black and smokeless powders, involve merely fast burning and produce relatively low pressures. Under certain conditions, such as the use…

German language: …either the High German or Low German dialectal groups. The main difference between High and Low German is in the sound system, especially in the consonants. High German, the language of the southern highlands of Germany, is the official written language.

pregnancy: Ectopic pregnancy: …uterine cavity, it is a low implantation. When a low implantation occurs, the placenta grows over the cervical opening, in a formation called a placenta praevia. This causes the woman to bleed, often profusely, through the vagina, because the placenta tears as the cervix begins to open during the latter…

the Smiths: His subsequent albums, including Low in High School (2017) and I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (2020), however, were less well received. Despite Morrissey’s aesthetic fluctuations in the decades following the demise of the Smiths, the cult of this true pop original endured.

biblical literature: Non-European versions: …1829 and into Hawaiian and Low Malay in 1835. By 1854 the whole Bible had appeared in all but the last of these languages as well as in Rarotonga (1851).

myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), condition characterized by persistent debilitating fatigue that has no identifiable cause. ME/CFS is a remarkably complex illness and remains incompletely understood. These factors complicate its accurate diagnosis and have raised

bird flu: Subtypes of bird flu virus: …pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI). With few exceptions (e.g., H5N1, H7N9), most H5, H7, and H9 subtypes are LPAI viruses. LPAI viruses can still cause mild to moderate disease, however. For example, infection with H7N2, H7N3, H7N7, or H9N2 can produce mild to moderate symptoms…

Orinoco River: Physiography of the Orinoco Llanos: The Low Plains (Llanos Bajos) are defined by two rivers, the Apure in the north and the Meta in the south. The lowest portion of the Llanos is an area that lies to the west of the lower Orinoco valley; this area is converted annually into an inland…

cyclone, any large system of winds that circulates about a centre of low atmospheric pressure in a counterclockwise direction north of the Equator and in a clockwise direction to the south. Cyclonic winds move across nearly all regions of the Earth except the equatorial belt and are generally

silica mineral: High quartz (β-quartz): …transition to ordinary quartz (low quartz) on cooling, and all ordinary quartz, when heated above the transition temperature, is transformed into high quartz. The transformation involves displacement of the linkage between the tetrahedrons; no bonds are broken.

bas-relief, in sculpture, any work where the projection from a supporting background is shallow. Bas-relief contrasts with high relief (alto-relievo), another type of relief sculpture in which projections are deep and may in parts be completely disengaged from the ground, thus approximating

Steve Winwood: …Barleycorn Must Die (1970) and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971). During the seven years Traffic played together, Winwood briefly quit the group to play with Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, and Ric Grech in Blind Faith; the members of both bands changed frequently.

Carpathian Mountains: Physiography of the Carpathian Mountains: …Spiš basins, run the parallel Lower Tatras, similar in geologic structure but lower (Ďumbier Peak, 6,703 feet) and with a less conspicuous glacial relief. Along the boundary line between the Outer and the Central Western Carpathians extends a narrow strip of klippen (limestone) rocks, which, north of the Tatras, has…

tidal power: Types: …differences between high tides and low tides by using a “barrage,” or type of dam, to block receding water during ebb periods. At low tide, water behind the barrage is released, and the water passes through a turbine that generates electricity.

Bliss Carman: …20 volumes of verse, including Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893); three series of Songs from Vagabondia (1894, 1896, 1901), written in collaboration with Richard Hovey, a poet whom he had met at Harvard; and Sappho (1904), improvisations based on the Greek fragments of Sappho. He also wrote several prose…

tridymite: …three modifications: high-tridymite, middle-tridymite, and low-tridymite. Tridymite forms thin hexagonal plates that are generally twinned, often in groups of three; its name alludes to this habit. It commonly occurs in igneous rocks, more abundantly than cristobalite, as in the trachytes of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; northern Italy; and in the Massif Central,…

asthenosphere, zone of Earth’s mantle lying beneath the lithosphere and believed to be much hotter and more fluid than the lithosphere. The asthenosphere extends from about 100 km (60 miles) to about 700 km (450 miles) below Earth’s surface. Heat from deep within Earth is thought to keep the

eye disease: Optical aids: …special lens systems known as low-vision aids. These devices provide a magnified image but reduce the visual field. Their main value is to enable a person to read normal print that would otherwise be difficult to read. They can be of use for distance, particularly when viewing conditions are relatively…

Tai languages: Phonological characteristics: …follows: level (using no diacritic), low (using a grave accent), falling (using a circumflex), high (using an acute accent), and rising (using a wedge, or haček); for example, maa (with no diacritic) ‘to come,’ màak (with a grave accent) ‘areca nut,’ mâak (with a circumflex) ‘much,’ máa (with an acute…

tidal power: Types: …differences between high tides and low tides by using a “barrage,” or type of dam, to block receding water during ebb periods. At low tide, water behind the barrage is released, and the water passes through a turbine that generates electricity.

wing: Placed below the fuselage, low wings reduce the height of the undercarriage and simplify engine maintenance.

George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer and manager who made major contributions to the U.S. program of human spaceflight. Throughout his career, Low was noted for his attention to detail, his commitment to technical excellence, and his leadership. Low’s family emigrated to the

George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer and manager who made major contributions to the U.S. program of human spaceflight. Throughout his career, Low was noted for his attention to detail, his commitment to technical excellence, and his leadership. Low’s family emigrated to the

George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer and manager who made major contributions to the U.S. program of human spaceflight. Throughout his career, Low was noted for his attention to detail, his commitment to technical excellence, and his leadership. Low’s family emigrated to the

Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Juliette Gordon was born into a prominent Georgia family. She was educated at private schools in Virginia and New York City and for some years thereafter traveled widely. She married William M. Low, a fellow

Penelope Lively is a British writer of well-plotted novels and short stories that stress the significance of memory and historical continuity. After spending her childhood in Egypt, Lively was sent to London at the age of 12 when her parents were divorced. She graduated from St. Anne’s College,