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Camargo
French ballerina noted for her technical innovations. She made her Paris Opera debut in 1726, going on to dance in 78 ballets and operas before her retirement in 1751. Admired for her speed and agility, she executed jumping steps previously performed only by male dancers, shortening her skirts and removing the heels from her slippers to do so. Her name was adopted in 1930 by a British ballet group, the Camargo Society.


Camargue
Marshy island in the delta of the Rhone River, S France. Occupying an area of 300 sq mi (780 sq km), it is sparsely populated (about 10,000). The region was once entirely wild, with free-roaming herds of cattle and wild horses; such herds still can be found in the regional park. Vineyards, forage crops, and grains began to be planted in the late 19th cent.; rice growing developed after 1945. A nature reserve at the Vaccar\u00e8 s Lagoon protects waterbirds such as flamingos and egrets.


Lamar
U.S. politician. Born in Louisville, Ga., he moved to Texas, where he became involved in the independence struggle against Mexico. As a cavalry commander, he helped win the Battle of San Jacinto (1836) and was appointed secretary of war in the provisional Texas government. He was elected vice president of the Republic of Texas under S. Houston, whom he succeeded as president (1838-41). He initially opposed annexation to the U.S., but after 1844 advocated statehood to ensure the continuation of slavery.


Lamarck
French biologist. He is credited with the first use of the word biology (1802). He was one of the originators of the modern concept of the museum collection, an array of objects whose arrangement constitutes a classification under institutional sponsorship, maintained and kept up to date by knowledgeable specialists. He seems to have been the first to relate fossils to the living organisms to which they corresponded most closely. His notion that acquired traits could be inherited (called Lamarckism) was discredited after the 1930s by most geneticists except in the Soviet Union, where it dominated Russian genetics until the 1960s (see T. Lysenko). See also C. Darwin, Darwinism.


Lazarus
In the Gospel of John the Apostle, the man whom Jesus raised from the dead. When Jesus visited Bethany, near Jerusalem, Lazarus' sister Mary lamented that if only Jesus had been there four days earlier, surely he could have prevented her brother from dying. Jesus went to the cave where Lazarus was entombed and commanded him to "come forth," and he did. The miracle inspired many Jews to accept Jesus as the messiah.


Ramanuja
Indian theologian and philosopher, the most influential thinker of devotional Hinduism. After a long pilgrimage through India, he founded centers to spread devotion to Vishnu and Lakshmi. He provided an intellectual basis for the practice of bhakti in major commentaries on the Vedas, the Brahma-sutras, and the ...

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