Landes, or Lanas in Gascon, means moorland or heath. Landes and Lanas come from the Latin plānus meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore...
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Christopher Landes (born September 18, 1972) is an American actor of television and film. Michael Christopher Landes was born to Patricia and Bernard Landes on...
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The Landes forest (pronounced [lɑ̃d]; La forêt des Landes in French) in the Landes de Gascogne (las Lanas de Gasconha in the Gascon language), in the historic...
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Labastide-d'Armagnac Landes forest, the largest maritime-pine forest in Europe Cantons of the Landes department Communes of the Landes department Arrondissements...
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moorland (landes). Both sheep and cattle grazed here, but an epizootic in 1775 destroyed the cows and only sheep remained. The popular image of the Landes was...
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and the American Philosophical Society. His son Richard Landes is a historian and author. Landes, David S. (2007). Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of...
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commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France, sub-prefecture of the Landes department. It is known as a spa destination, specialising in mud treatment...
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Worcester, Massachusetts, she married geologist Henry Landes on January 2, 1894. Knight and Landes had met as students at Indiana University. The couple...
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time in Philadelphia, Landes served on the board of governors at Gratz College. Born in 1929 in Revere, Massachusetts, Landes served in the United States...
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Germany (redirect from Land der Dichter und Denker)
peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands'), is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from...
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