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Leo I, St. 400-461. Pope 440-. Opposed Nestorianism, Manichaeism and other heresies.
Leo III, St. -816. Pope 795-. Crowned Charlemagne recreating Western Roman Empire.
Leo IX, St. 1002-54. Pope 1049-. Excommunicated Cerularius, causing East-West Schism.
Leo XIII. 1810-1903. Pope 1878-. Rerum Novarum 1891: right to private property. Ended opposition to scientific progress. Longest papal rule.
León. 910-1230. Spanish kingdom. Ruled Galicia, Asturias; Portugal to 1143. 1230 +Castile.
Leonardo da Vinci. 1452-1519. Florentine painter, writer, sculptor, scientist. Prototypical Renaissance Man. Sfumato. Laws of Flight. Adoration of Magi 1479. Last Supper 1495. Mona Lisa 1503. Parachute 1480.
Leonidas. King of Sparta. Killed resisting Persians at Thermopylae, 480BC.
Leopold I. 1790-1865. First King of Belgians 1831-. Maintained neutrality.
Lépine, Louis. 1846-1933. French administrator, prefect of police. Contest of inventors.
Le Verrier, Urbain. 1811-77. French astronomer: predicted existence of Neptune by calculation, 1845.
Leovigild. Last Visigoth King of Spain 572-86.
Lepanto, Battle. 1571. Major Christian naval victory vs Turks, saving Cyprus.
Lerner, Alan. 1918-86. Lyricist. My Fair Lady. Camelot.
Lesage, Alain. 1668-1747. French picaresque novelist. Gil Blas 1715-35.
Lese Majesty. Crime against state or its ruler. Treason.
Lessing, Doris. 1919-. Iran./Rhodesian/British novelist. The Children of Violence 1964.
Lessing, Gotthold. 1729-81. German Movement dramatist. Laokoon 1765. Minna von Barnheim 1767. Nathan the Wise 1779.
Lettres de Cachet. 16C-1789. French royal warrants for arrest. Often political. Bastille.
Levi. Old Testament 3rd son of Jacob.
Leviathan. Evil sea monster of Jewish mythology.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1908-. Belgian/French ethnologist. Theory of Symbolic Structures: Mythologiques 1964-8.
Lewis, C.S. 1898-1963. English fantasy writer, Christian apologist. Chronicles of Narnia 1950-6.
Lewis, Wyndham. 1882-1957. English satirical writer, artist. Founded Vorticism. Apes of God 1930.
Lex Talionis. Old Testament Law- An eye for an eye...
Lexington and Concord, Battle. 1775. First American Revolution battle. British march on Concord supply depot. Established guerilla warfare as colonist strategy. 273 British, 95 Americans killed. Paul Revere.