LESSING (Lessing) Doris Mej (r. 1919), the English writer. The anticolonial publicism, stories and novels " the Grass sing " (1950), " March the Quest " (1952), " Decent spoilage " (1954.) Roman " the Golden diary " (1962) has revealed the philosophical finding actions which have caused social its pessimism of " a space series " Kanopus in Argos " (1979-82).

LESSIROVKA (from a nem. Lasierung), the thin diaphanous or translucent layers of the paints superimposed on the dried out layer of lubricated painting for enrichment of colour.

LOESSIAL PLATEAU, in China, in mid-range a bass. r. Huang He. Ok. 430 thousand êì2. Prevail it hilly - uvalistye plains an altitude of 1200-1500 m, folded loesses power of 100-250 m. Are hardly dismembered (5-6 kms of gullies on 1 êì2 at depth of gullies 100-150 ì). The rivers with a plenty of silts. Downslopes routinely terrasirovany also cultivated. The main - Sian, Taiyuan.

LEICESTER (Leicester) city in the Great Britain, in England. An administrative centre of county Leicestershire. 278 thousand inhabitants (1988). Knitted, a footwear industry, a machine industry. University. Has developed at-sight the Celtic and Roman settlements.

LEICESTER (Lester) Richard (r. 1932), the American producer, the composer. Has written music and words to the first English telemusical " All for Perry ", directed on a wireless " Idiotic shows " with Peter Sellersom. In 1964 has delivered with group " Áèòëç " film " Evening of refractory day " in absurdistskoj to the manner which has anticipated an aesthetics of video clips; in 1967 - imagination on the subject of the nuclear apocalypse " As I have scored war ". Other films: "Superman - 2" (1980), "Superman - 3" (1983), " Recurring of three musketeers " (1989), etc.

LADDER of the ENTITIES, widespread among naturalists and philosophers of 18 century submission about a hierarchic arrangement of bodies of a nature from simple inorganic (minerals) up to slozhnejshih alive entities. The idea of a ladder of entities goes back to Aristotelju.

LESHA, in the ancient greek architecture - the building for collections, interviews, "club".

LESMJAN (Lesmian) Boleslav (1879-1937), the Polish poet. Collections of lyrical verses " the Garden at the crossroads " (1912), "Meadow" (1920), " Wood particular act " (it is published 1938).

LESJUER (Lesjuer) (Lesueur) Jean Fransua (1760-1837), the French composer, the musical writer. Opera " Cave " (1793) - a bright sample of " opera of salvage ". The professor of the Parisian conservatory (with 1795).

FLYING POMPONY (an armour. Laetus Pomponius) (1428-97), the italian humanist. In 1465 has based in Rome a circle of humanists - t. n. Roman academy where the ancient philosophy was studied, the medieval scholasticism, a latin church were criticized.

SUMMERS, in the Grecian mythology the river of oblivion in a underground kingdom. Showers died, having tried water from Lety, overlooked about the mortal life. "To sink into oblivion" - to be forgot, completely to vanish.

SUMMERS, news agency of Latvia. Conducts a history from the Latvian telegraphic agency, founded in 1920 in Riga. It is reorganized in 1940. In 1973-91 called Latinform.

LETHAL (from an armour. letalis - fatal), the mutant condition of a gene presenting an organism death.

LETHALITY (mortality), parameter of medical statistics: attitude of figure died from any disease, a wound, etc. to figure had been ill with this disease (injured) for fixed period.

LETHARGY (grech. lethargia, from lethe oblivion and argia - inactivity), imaginary mors - a condition of ainesia similar to dream, with absence of reactions to irritations, a sharp depressing of all attributes of life which at careful examination can be revealed. Lasts routinely from several hours about several day.

FLIGHT VEHICLE, the device for atmospheric flights or space. Distinguish flight vehicles lighter-than-air (air balloons), it is heavier than air (see. Aircraft) and space flight vehicles.

VOLANT BIRDS, the same, that carinate birds.

VOLANT PANGOLINS (pterozavry), order extinct kowtowing. Lived in jure and to a chalk on all mainlands. Anteriors were bridged to sides of a body dermal membranes - side panels. The dimensions from small-sized up to very large (pteranodon). A wing - span from 7-8 sm up to 15 m. Were capable to a powered flight. Ok. 110 kinds (ok. 35 stems).

TAP HOLE, aperture in some metallurgical furnaces for extension of molten metal, a regulus or slag. After each extension a tap hole close up a refractory body or occlude a metal fuse.