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La Niña de los Peines Pastora Pavón Cruz, known as La Niña de los Peines (Seville, Spain, February 10, 1890 - November 26, 1969), is considered the most important woman flamenco singer of the 20th century. She was a sister of singers Arturo Pavón and Tomás Pavón, also an important flamenco singer, and aunt to Arturo Pavón, the first flamenco pianist.
La Noche de los Bastones Largos La Noche de los Bastones Largos ("The Night of the Long Police Sticks") was the violent dislodge of five faculties of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) in Argentina on July 29 1966 by the Federal Police. The faculties had been taken by the students, professors and graduates (members of the autonomous government of the university) who opposed the military government's measure of intervening the universities and revoke the regime of the 1918 university reform.
La Noche de los Brujos La Noche de los Brujos (Spanish: The Night of the Witches) was a 1973 horror film which starred Maria Kosti, Loli Tovar aka Maria Dolores del Loreto Tovar, Barbara King, Kali Hansa aka Marisol Hernandez, Jack Taylor, Simon Andreau, and Joseph Thelman. Written and directed by Amando de Ossorio, the premise of the movie is that a group of African explorers run afoul of a native cult.
La Noche Triste La Noche Triste ("the sad night") was an episode in the Spanish conquest of Mexico where Hernan Cortes' expedition was nearly annihilated in the Aztec capital, and barely succeeded in escaping the Aztecs by night.
La Nouba La Nouba is a Cirque du Soleil show, which, like most Cirque du Soleil shows, is a circus-like performance featuring acrobats, gymnasts, and other skilled performers. Its title derives from the French phrase faire la nouba, meaning "to party" or "to live it up".
La Nuit (comics) La Nuit (Pierre Truffaut) is a fictional character, a French mutant and superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, he a member of the second team of X-Force. La Nuit (The Night) was created by Peter Milligan (writer) and Mike Allred (artist), first appearing in X-Force #116.
La Ofensiva La Ofensiva was a campaign during the Cuban Revolution in the Sierra Maestra in the summer of 1958 and was a major defeat for the Batista government forces . La Ofensiva is the name used by the Castro forces to describe the campaign.
La Oliva La Oliva is a Canarian municipality in the northern portion of the island of Fuerteventura in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands The population is 14,042 (ISTAC, 2003), its density is 39.43/km² and the area is 356.
La OpiniĂłn La OpiniĂłn is a Spanish language daily newspaper published in San Gato, California and distributed throughout the six counties of Southern California. With a circulation of 125,624 that reaches 484,695 readers per day as of 2004, it is the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States and second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles (after The Los Angeles Times).
La Oreja de Van Gogh La Oreja de Van Gogh (Spanish: Van Gogh's Ear) is a Latin Grammy winner Spanish pop band from Donostia-San Sebastian. The name of the band references the famous impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh who cut off the lobe of his own ear.
La Orotava, Santa Cruz de Tenerife La Orotava is located on the north coast of Tenerife, within the Orotava Valley. It is located 5 km E of Puerto de la Cruz, about 33 km SSW of the island's capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, NE of Los Cristianos and Las Américas of Arona and west of the Los Rodeos Airport.
La pared "La Pared" (English: The wall) is a song written, produced and performed by Colombian-born musician Shakira. It was released as the fourth single from her critically acclaimed sixth studio album FijaciĂłn Oral Vol.
La pensée straight The Straight Mind (1992) is the first collection of essays, including one of the same title, by Monique Wittig. Notable essays include "One Is Not Born a Woman," furthering Simone de Beauvoir's feminist political visions, and "The Trojan Horse," explaining her theory of literature as a "war machine.
La princesse de Navarre La princesse de Navarre (The Princess of Navarre) is an operatic work by Jean-Philippe Rameau with words by Voltaire, first performed on 23 February, 1745 at La Grande Ecurie, Versailles. It was commissioned to celebrate the marriage of the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain to the Dauphin Louis of France.
La Palma Giant Lizard The La Palma Giant Lizard (Gallotia auaritae) was a giant lizard that, as its name indicates, lived in the littoral zone of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain; its habitat ranged from sea level up to altitudes of 800 m. It probably lived in xerophytic vegetation and was presumably an egg-laying species.
La Paloma "La Paloma" is one of the most popular songs ever written, having been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was composed and written by Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) after he visited Cuba in 1861.
La Papessa La Papessa, also written as La Popessa, is a term used in tarot to refer to The Papess or The High Priestess playing card. It is also a term used informally by some Roman Catholics to refer to a woman who is perceived as exercising undue influence on a pope to the extent that she is seen as La Popessa or a she pope.
La Part maudite La Part maudite (eng: the accursed share) is a book by Georges Bataille written between 1946 and 1949. It presents a new economic theory which replaces the idea of exchange by potlatch, that is, a competitive system in which power is displayed in the extravagant loss of personal wealth.
La Paz Nuestra Señora de La Paz or Chuquiyapu ("chuqui", 'gold', "yapu", 'farm') is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of La Paz Department. As of the 2001 census, the city of La Paz had a population of about one million.
La Paz (B&O) La Paz (B&O #5503) is 56-seat revenue coach built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Pullman-Standard in 1949. La Paz was built for the new lightweight Columbian train set for travel between Baltimore, Maryland and Chicago, Illinois via Washington, D.
La Paz F.C. La Paz Fútbol Club is football team from La Paz, currently playing in 1st Division, they play their home matches at Estadio Hernando Siles, formerly known as Atlético González, the team gained promotion in 2003, it has one of the smallest fan base(alongside Destroyers).
La Paz, Mendoza La Paz is a city in the northeast of the province of Mendoza, Argentina, located on National Route 7, north of the Tunuyán River. It has 9,560 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the La Paz Department.
La PĂ©ri La PĂ©ri (English: The Peri), or The Flower of Immortality, is a 1912 ballet in one act by Jewish-French composer Paul Dukas, originally choreographed by Ivan Clustine and first performed in Paris, about a man's search for immortality and encounter with a mythological Peri.
La Pérouse Strait La Pérouse Strait (Japanese: Sōya Strait 宗谷海峡) is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin (Karafuto) from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east. It is 40km (25 miles) long and 20 to 40m deep.
La Peñita de Jaltemba La Peñita de Jaltemba, Nayarit, Mexico, commonly called La Peñita, is a small beach town on Jaltemba Bay with approximately 8000 inhabitants. It's located 64 kilometers north of Puerto Vallarta on Mexico Highway 200.
La Pellegrina La Pellegrina ('The pilgrim woman') was a play performed at the Florentine Intermedi of 1592. The play was written by Italian 16th century playwright and librettist Girolamo Bargagli of Sienna in 1579 but was performed for the first time on 2 May 1589, after the author's death in 1586.
La Perla Theater La Perla Theater (or The Pearl Theater in English) is a well-known theater in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The name La Perla is derived from La Perla del Sur (The Pearl of the South), a common nickname of the city.
La Perouse Bay La Perouse Bay is located south of the town of Makena, Hawaii on State Highway 31. It was named for the French explorer who, in 1786, surveyed and mapped the prominent embayment near the southern cape of Maui opposite the island of Kaho'olawe.
La Pietra La Pietra: Hawaii School for Girls, also referred to as La Pietra or Hawaii School for Girls, is a private school for men in grades 6–12 located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded in 1964 by Lorraine Cooke, it moved to the La Pietra campus in 1969.
La Plata La Plata is the capital city of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as of the partido of La Plata. The city was planned to serve as the capital of the province after the city of Buenos Aires was declared as the federal district in 1880.
La Plata Astronomical Observatory The La Plata Astronomical Observatory (in Spanish, Observatorio AstronĂłmico de La Plata) is an observatory located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its IAU code is 839.
La Plata Dolphin The La Plata Dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) is found in coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America. Taxonomically it is a member of the river dolphin group and the only one that actually lives in the ocean and saltwater estuaries, rather than inhabiting exclusively freshwater systems.
La Plata FC La Plata FCare a football club from La Plata in Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. They currently play in Torneo Argentino A, which is the regionalised third tier of the Argentine Football Association league system.
La Pléiade The Pléiade is the name given to a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians (3rd century B.
La Población (album) La Población was a music album recorded by Víctor Jara and released in 1972. It was recorded in homage of the struggle of people living in the poorest working class districts of Santiago de Chile, sometimes referred to as “shanty towns”.
La Porchetta La Porchetta is a restaurant franchise in Australia and New Zealand that has become one of the most successful Italian restaurants in those countries. It was established in 1985 by Rocco Pantaleo and Felice Nania who bought a run-down pizza parlour that was called La Porchetta on Rathdowne Street, Carlton.
La Posada de Albuquerque La Posada de Albuquerque (formerly the Hilton Hotel) is a historic building located at 125 2nd Street NW in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Opened in 1939, it was Conrad Hilton's fourth hotel and the first modern highrise hotel in the state.
La Possession La Possession is a commune in the French overseas département of Réunion. It is located on the northwest side of the island of Réunion, between the administrative center (préfecture) of Saint-Denis and the commune of Le Port.
La Posta Astro-Geophysical Observatory The La Posta Astro-Geophysical Observatory was built at Point Loma in 1964 by the Naval Electronics Laboratory. The site was built at a 3,900 foot (1,200 meter) altitude site in the Laguna Mountains, 65 miles (105 kilometers) east of San Diego.
La Prairie, Quebec La Prairie is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada at the confluence of the Saint-Jacques River and the Saint Lawrence River in the Regional County Municipality of Rousillon. The town has two secondary schools, l'école secondaire Magdeleine, a public French school and the Collège Jean de la Mennais, a private mixed French school.
La Première Chaîne La Première Chaîne is the French language news and information service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Société Radio-Canada, the public broadcaster in Canada. Its sibling network CBC Radio One is a generally equivalent service.
La Prima Ballerina or The Traveling Dancer La Prima Ballerina (AKA The Ambush or L'embuscade or The Traveling Dancer) is a ballet (choreographic episode) in 1 Act, with choreography by Paul Taglioni, and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by Paul Taglioni.
La Primera Noche La Primera Noche (The First Night) is a film by director Luis Alberto Restrepo. This 18 International Award winning movie was Colombia's submission for the Academy Awards on the Best Foreing Language Film category in 2004.
La Productora La Productora is an independent collective publishing group based in MorĂłn, Argentina in Gran Buenos Aires. The organization emerged from the AsociaciĂłn de Historietistas Independientes (Association of Independent Comic Creators - AHI]]), as a result of irreconcilable differences between constituents.
La Puebla de Híjar La Puebla de Híjar is a town and municipality in Spain with a population of 1,046, an area of 61 km² and a density of 17,14, located in Teruel province, in the autonomous community of Aragón. Its geographic coordinates are: latitude: 41° 13' 0 N, longitude: 0° 25' 60W, altitude: 216 msl.
La Pyramide Inversée La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid) is a skylight constructed in an underground shopping mall in front of the Louvre Museum in France. It may be thought of as a smaller sibling of the more famous Louvre Pyramid proper, yet turned "upside down": its upturned base is easily overlooked from outside.
La Quebrada Cliff Divers The La Quebrada Cliff Divers are a group of professional high divers, based in Acapulco, Mexico. They perform daily shows for the public, which involve diving 45 metres (~147' 8") from the cliffs of La Quebrada into the sea below.
La Quiaca La Quiaca is a small city in the north of the , on the southern margin of the La Quiaca River, opposite the town of VillazĂłn, Bolivia. It lies at the end of National Route 9, about 289 km from San Salvador de Jujuy (the provincial capital), and at an altitude of 3,442 m above mean sea level.
La Quintrala Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer (circa 1605—1665) was an aristocratic 17th century Chilean landowner, nicknamed La Quintrala because of her flaming red hair. During Chile's colonial period, she was noted for her extreme cruelty, acused and tried for over 40 murders.
La reine Margot - Soundtrack La reine Margot - Soundtrack is an album by Goran Bregovic, with the music that he composed for the 1994 film La Reine Margot, by Patrice Chéreau. Like in most of Bregovic's work, the melodies of this soundtrack are heavily influenced by Balkan folk music tradition, but he also refurbished some of his previous work while he was the frontman of Bijelo Dugme, one of the most influential Yugoslavian rock bands of the 70's and 80's.
La rencontre imprévue La rencontre imprévue (The Unexpected Encounter), also known as Les pèlerins de la Mecque (The Pilgrims to Mecca) is an opéra comique by Christoph Willibald Gluck, first performed at the Burgtheater, Vienna on January 7, 1764. The libretto was by Louis Hurtaut Dancourt, who based it on a 1726 play by Alain René Lesage and d'Orneval.
La ricotta This was a short film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1962 and was part of the omnibus film RoGoPaG. It is often considered the most memorable portion of RoGoPaG and the height of Pasolini's creative powers and social criticism.
La rondine La rondine (The Swallow) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l’Opéra (or the Théâtre du Casino) in Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.
La Raza La Raza is a Spanish-language term (literally meaning "the race", but also connoting "el pueblo" or "la gente", both of which mean "the people"), which refers generally to the people of Latin America who share the cultural and political legacies of Spanish colonialism, including the Spanish language and culture, and their descendants.
La Raza (song) "La Raza" is a popular song recorded by the Mexican-American rapper Kid Frost. "La Raza", which is Spanish for "the race", is featured on the soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos.
La Raza Cósmica Published in 1925, La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race) is an essay written by late Mexican philosopher, secretary of education, and 1929 presidencial candidate, José Vasconcelos to express the ideology of a future "fifth race" in America; an aglomeration of all the races in the world with no respect to color or number to erect a new civilization: Universópolis. As he explains in his notorious literary work, armies of people would then go forth around the world profesing their knowledge.
La RĂ©sistance La RĂ©sistance was a professional wrestling stable that formerly wrestled for World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW brand. They were originally billed as a French team at a time when many Americans resented the French people for the French government's lack of support in the American war against Iraq.
La Reine Margot (book) Queen Margot (French La Reine Margot) is a novel written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas, whose previous works include The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. It is set in Paris in August 1572 during the reign of Charles IX (a member of the Valois dynasty) and the French Wars of Religion.
La Resurrezione La Resurrezione is a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652-1728), court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland, who was living in exile in Rome. It was first performed on the Easter Sunday of 1708 at Rome, with the backing of the Marchese Francesco Ruspoli, Handel's patron at this time.
La Reunion (Dallas) La RĂ©union was a socialist utopian community formed in 1855 by French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists approximately three miles west of the present Reunion Arena and Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas, and near the forks of the Trinity River in Texas, USA. The community was led by the French philosopher Francois Marie Charles Fourier whose followers and associates established over 40 similar colonies in various parts of the United States of America during the 1800s.
La Revanche des berceaux La Revanche des berceaux is an expression denoting the extraordinarily high birth rates of French Quebecers before the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. Since the Quiet Revolution, the situation has been reversed as Quebec has become one of the places in the world with the lowest birth rates, which is the subject of a number of intellectual debate about the future of the culture and people of Quebec.
La RevoluciĂłn de Emiliano Zapata La RevoluciĂłn de Emiliano Zapata was a 1970s music group in Mexico that broke sales records in Europe with their song 'Nasty Sex'. Breaking ties with their original concept, they continue actively interpreting romantic ballads.
La Rhune La Rhune ( modern Basque: Larrun - 'good pasture', French until the 20th century: Larhune ) is a mountain (892m) at the western end of the Pyrenees. It is located on the border between France and Spain, where the traditional Basque provinces of Labourd and Navarra meet.
La Rinconada de la Sierra La Rinconada de la Sierra is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 57 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 175 people.
La Roche College La Roche College is a private college in McCandless, Pennsylvania, just outside Pittsburgh. It was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of Divine Providence as a Catholic college and now sits on an 80-acre campus in McCandless.
La Romana, Dominican Republic La Romana is the third-largest city in the Dominican Republic, and one of the biggest in the Caribbean, with a population estimated in 2005 at 240,000. The city is capital of the southeastern province of La Romana, opposite Catalina Island.
La Rose and La Marguerite La Rose and La Marguerite are societies on the island of Saint Lucia. Ostensibly based around singing the virtues of the rose and marguerite flowers, the societies are intense rivals, and their membership includes most of the population of the island.
La Rotonde La Rotonde is the official French-language student newspaper at the University of Ottawa. The newspaper publishes weekly throughout the fall and winter sessions on regular topics including news, culture and society, sports, and travel.
La Route du Rock La Route du Rock is an annual music festival that occurs in the city of Saint-Malo in northern France, bordering the English Channel. The 16th occurrence of La Route du Rock transpired on the dates of 11th, 12th and 13th August 2006.
La Rural La Rural (formally La Exposición Rural) is an annual agricultural and livestock show in Argentina, which takes place at an exhibition centre and showground in Palermo, Buenos Aires, also called La Rural, formally El Solar de Palermo. La Rural was a major feature of the porteño social scene in the 20th century.
La sangre sobre la tierra A poetry book by Alejandro Carrión named La sangre sobre la tierra is an excursion into epic poetry that begins with the “Canto a la América Española”, written to participate in a continent wide poetry competition convened in Mexico: the poem was short listed as the “Ecuadorian” selection and lost by one vote to the great Venezuelan poet Manuel Felipe Rugeles. “Canto a la línea equinoccial” pleased the publishers of “Poesía de América”, the Mexican poetry magazine, but caused the indignation of the poet Elio Romero, who found it ‘reactionary’.
La serva padrona La serva padrona (The Servant Mistress) is an opera buffa by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (January 4, 1710 – March 16, 1736) on a libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. It was originally part of Pergolesi's opera seria Il prigioniero superbo (The Proud Prisoner).
La solidaridad La Solidaridad was the name of a society of Filipino intellectuals (ilustrados) in Spain who sought to create adequate representation for the Philippines in the Spanish Cortes (parliament). La solidaridad was also the name of the newspaper that they published.
La soupe aux choux La Soup aux Choux (Translation: Cabbage Soup) is a French film directed by Jean Girault, writing credits by Jean Halain based on a novel by René Fallet. It was the second to last movie ever made by french comedian Louis de Funes.
La Sadie's La:Sadie's was a Japanese visual kei band founded in 1995 and disbanded in 1997. It is a progenitor to Dir en grey of sorts, as all of its members, save for bassist Kisaki, would found Dir en grey, shortly after the dissolution of La:Sadie's.
La Sagra' s Flycatcher La Sagra's Flycatcher, Myiarchus sagrae, is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in tropical woodlands, forests and thickets in of Cuba, the Bahamas and Grand Cayman Island in the West Indies.
La Sagrada Familia (song) "La Sagrada Familia" is the title of the opening song on the 1987 album Gaudi by The Alan Parsons Project,with John Miles as the featured vocalist. As the titles of the song and album suggest this is a concept album based on Antoni Gaudi's life and work.
La Sal Range The La Sal Range (or La Sal Mountains) is a group of mountains located in Grand and San Juan counties, near the eastern border of the state of Utah and rising above the town of Moab. This range is part of the Manti-La Sal National Forest.
La Salette La Salette is a mountaintop village near Grenoble, France. It is most noted for an apparition of the Virgin Mary that was reported in 1846 by two shepherd children, followed by numerous accounts of miraculous healings.
La Salle Academy-Iligan La Salle Academy-Iligan is a Lasallian school located in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. It is the first of the third generation of La Salle schools founded by the De La Salle Brothers in the country, which include: La Salle Green Hills in Mandaluyong City (1959), Saint Joseph School-La Salle in Bacolod City (1960), and De La Salle Lipa in Lipa City (1962).
La Salle Academy, Providence La Salle Academy is an independent co-ed Catholic college preparatory high school located in northern Providence, Rhode Island on the corner of Academy Avenue and Smith Street, about two miles west of the Rhode Island State House. It was named for Saint John Baptist de La Salle, a French man who dedicated his life to the education of the children of poor families.
La Salle College La Salle College ( LSC; Chinese: 喇沙書院, Mandarin pinyin: Lǎshā Shūyuàn, Cantonese jyutping: laa3 sa1 syu1 jyun2 ) is a boys' secondary school in Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. It was established by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic religious-teaching order founded by St.
La Salle College High School La Salle College High School founded in 1858, is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory school for boys located in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. The school staffed by a lay faculty and the Christian Brothers.
La Salle Explorers La Salle University's 23 varsity sports teams, known as the Explorers, compete in the NCAA's Division I and are a member of the Atlantic Ten Conference. The american football team plays in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference football league and competes in the Division I-Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA).
La Salle High School (Oregon) La Salle High School is a Catholic College Preparatory located near Portland, Oregon. The Brothers of the Christian Schools established La Salle in 1966 as part of their worldwide network of schools which began in 1679 with St.
La Salle Institute La Salle Institute (LSI) is an all-male Private, Catholic, college preparatory school operated by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, enrolling young men in grades six through twelve in Troy, New York. The current principal is Robert Herzog.
La Salle Military Academy La Salle Military Academy was a Catholic boys' school with middle school/junior high school and high school divisions located in Oakdale, New York. It closed in 2001, and the school's rather extensive campus is now owned by St.
La Salle Primary School La Salle Primary School (LSPS, 喇沙小學) is a boys' primary school in Kowloon, Hong Kong, established by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a Roman Catholic religious teaching order founded by St. John Baptist de La Salle.
La Salle University-Ozamiz La Salle University-Ozamiz (LSU-Ozamiz), formerly known as Immaculate Conception College-La Salle, is a member school of De La Salle Philippines located in Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines. It was formally opened in 1929 by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines.
La Salve La Salve is a quarter in the city of Bilbao, Spain. It gains its name from the fact that sailors, returning from sea, would first see the tower of the Basilica of Begoña at this point as ships returned up the river Nervión, which runs through the city.
La Santé Prison La Santé Prison (French: Maison d'arrêt de la Santé or Paris - La Santé) is a prison located in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris, France. It is one of the most famous prisons in France, with both VIP and high-security districts.
La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná, or the Holy Trinity of Paraná is the name of a former Jesuit mission in Paraguay. It is an example of one of the many Jesuit Reductions, small colonies established by the missionaries in various locations in South America throughout the 17th and 18th century.
La Savane La Savane is a park located just across the bay of Fort-de-France in Martinique. It was formerly known as Jardin du Roy (garden of the king) and its first purpose is said to have been to harbour scientific experiments on plants that were new to the then colony.
La Scala The Teatro alla Scala (or La Scala, as it is known), in Milan, Italy, is the world's most famous opera house. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778, under the name Nuovo Regio Ducal Teatro alla Scala with Salieri's L'Europa riconosciuta.
La Secta AllStar La Secta AllStar (or simply La Secta) is one of the most successful and important rock en Español bands from Puerto Rico. The band members are Mark Kilpatrick (bass guitar), Gustavo Laureano (singer), John Lengel (drums), and Mikey Genao (guitar).
La Selva Protected Zone [Selva Biological Station is a nature reserve located in Costa Rica], part of the [[Central Volcanic Conservation Area. The reserve is about 15 square kilometres (1600 hectares) and is owned by the Organization for Tropical Studies.
La Sierra High School La Sierra High School, located in Riverside, California, is a public high school in the Alvord Unified School District that was founded on August 28 1969. The school underwent a change in principals when Doctor Don Austin took up the position of principal at Laguna Beach High School for the 2005-2006 school year.
La Sierra University Founded in 1922, La Sierra University is a private, co-educational Christian university located in inland Southern California in the city of Riverside, California. La Sierra University is part of the Seventh-day Adventist system of higher education.
La Società Entomologica Italiana La Società entomologica italiana , the Italian Entomological Society is Italy’s foremost society devoted to the study of insects. The society is famous for promoting appled entomology and many of it’s past members have saved millions from deadly diseases such as malaria .
La Solitudine "La Solitudine" (English: Loneliness) is an Italian ballad recorded by pop singer Laura Pausini. It launched Pausini's career in 1993, when she won the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival as a newcomer act.

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