The LATVIAN DRAMA THEATRE him. A.Upita, see. National theatre of Latvia.

The LATVIAN UNIVERSITY, Riga, is based in 1919. Plots staff on physical, mathematical, chemical, biological, geographycal, historical, philosophical, philological, economic, legal, pedagogical and other trades. In 1991 ok. 13 thousand students.

The LATVIAN ART THEATRE him. J.Rajnisa, see. Latvian theatre Dajles.

LATGALE (Latgale) (Latgalija), 1) ancient historical region in eastern Latvia, inhabited latgalami. In 10-13 centuries rannefeodalnye principalities: Ersika, Koknese, Talava. In 13 century it is seized by german knights, the part of Livonia has become to call Vidzeme. 2) With nach. 17 century the title of a southeast part of this terrain to the south r. Ajviekste; a part of duchy Zadvinskogo, in 1629 stayed behind Speech Pospolitoj (Infljanty polsk.), in 1772-1917 in Russian empire (Dvinskaja prov., then a western part Vitebsk lips.), with 1918 in structure of Latvia.

LATGALY, drevnelatyshskaja a nationality in eastern part of the modern Latvia. The authority latgalov was distributed to terrain livov and zemgalov. Gave the ethnic title to all Latvian people.

LATGALSKAJA the HIGH GROUND (Latgales augstiene), in a southeast of Latvia. An altitude up to 289 m. A hilly - morainal relief; it is a lot of lakes.

LATEX, milky juice of cautchouc plants. Represents an aqueous dispersion of globules of the plant rubber, keeping also proteins, salt, etc. The Greatest industrial value has a latex of a hevea from which secrete rubber natural.

LATEX PAINTS, the same, that emulsion paints.

LATEXES SYNTHETIC, aqueous dispersions of synthetic polymers, primarily rubbers. Will be derivated at a polymerization of the conforming monomers in an aqueous medium or at emulsification this medium solutions of polymers in organic solvents (latexes synthetic the last type call synthetic). Foam rubbers, fining agents, paints, for dressing textiles, furnish of a paper, protection of soil against erosion and much other are applied to manufacturing different items. A volume of production ok. 10 % from extension of synthetic rubbers.

LATENT IMAGE (from an armour. latens - latent and... fikatsija), intensifying of the latent (latent) photographic plotting by machining already exposed photographic material (more often a padding weak flare).

LATENSKAJA CROP (in archeology), the Iron Age in Zap. And Compare. To Europe (5 century up to n. e. - 1 century n. e.). Residues of settlements, gorodishcha, burials, klady. Carriers primarily kelty. An economy: agriculture, cattle breeding, handcrafts.

LATENT CRIME (from an armour. latens, a stem. The item latentis - latent), in criminology a part of criminality which does not receive reflectance in the criminal statistics and does not become a subject of the criminal trial. Latent crime is connected to absence of the report on committing a crime, with that, that available reports are not registered by the conforming organs, etc.

LATENT IMAGE, the same, that the latent photographic plotting.

LATENT PERIOD (eclipse period), 1) in physiology - time from the moment of influence of any stimulus on an organism before occurrence of response. Definition latentogo the season matters in psychology (including engineering). 2) the Latent period of pregnancy - a time delay of development of an oosperm for lines of mammals (a sable, a badger, a roe deer, etc.). 3) In medicine - the season of latent passing of disease. LATERAL (an armour. lateralis - lateral, from latus - a side), located sideways, remote from a middle longitudinal plane of a body. Compare. Medial.

LATERAN AGREEMENTS, between the italian state and Vatican, are signed on February, 11 1929 (act in edition 1984). Will consist of the agreement, the financial convention, the concordat. Have put an end to " the Roman problem ". The agreement has recognized education in terrain of Rome of a sovereign state Vatican; the financial convention has settled financial attitudes of the parties; the concordat has defined rights and privileges of a latin church in Italy.

LATERITIZATION, process of a steep and long-lived weathering of silica-alumina rocks in conditions of the wet tropical and a subtropical climate. As a result of a lateritization it is born over 90 % SiO2, Na, K, Ca, Mg and will be derivated krasnotsvetnye ferruterous or zhelezisto-alumina eljuvialnye educations - laterites (from an armour. later - a brick), enriched with oxyhydroxides of aluminium, gland and a titanium.

LATIMER (Latimer) Hju (1485?-1555), the figure English Reformatsii (at Genrihe VIII and Edward VI). After restoration of a catholicism at Maria Tjudor it incinerated as the heretic.

LATIMERIJA, a fish of order tselakantoobraznyh groups kisteperyh. "Living fossil", probably, most ancient of all kinds nowadays dwelling on the Earth. The length up to 1,8 m, weighs up to 95 kg. Viviparous. It is very rare, for the first time it is found in Indian ok. For a shore of republic Juzhnoafrikanskoj (for East London), and then in 1952 for islands Komorskih where it has been trapped still ok later. 100 individuals; in 1992 latimeriju have caught also for a shore of Mozambique. Islands Komorskie have declared latimeriju state property.

LATINAS (an armour. Latinus), in the Grecian mythology son Odisseja (or the Telemove). In Roman mythology tsar Lavrenta, the son of the Faun; his name is connected to an origin of the title of nation latinjan. It was honored in Other. Rome as Jove Latiaris; the sanctuary was on Albanskoj to a mountain.