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Luck of Eden Hall, The. A drinking-cup long The a ociation of Llûd, or "King Lud" as he has come to be called in English, with London, is apparently found ed on a certain amount of fact: one of the Welsh names for London is Caer Lud, or Lud's Fort, and if this is open frey that can hardly be supposed po ible in the case of that, as a temple on a hill hear the Severnaciated him the suspicion of having been suggested first by Geof English of Ludgate Hill. The probability is with that river in the west, so a still more ambitious temple on a hill connected him with the Thames in the east and as an aggre ive cred can hardly signalize its of the retreating faith, no site could be gue ed with more probability to have been sacred to the Celtic Zeus than the eminence on which the dome of St. Paul's now rears its magnificent form. Rhys, Celtic Heathendom, p. 129. Luddites (lud'its). A name given to the rioters who attempted to destroy machinery at Nottingham and elsewhere in England, 1811-12 and 1816: so called from a man named Lud. Luden (lö'den), He in rich. Born at Loxstedt, near Bremen, April 10, 1780: died at Jena, Germany, May 23, 1847. A German historian, profe or of history at Jena. His chief work is a "Geschichte des deutschen Volks" (1825-37: "History of the German People" to 1237). preserved at Eden Hall in Cumber land. Accord. Lüdenscheid (lü'den-shid). A town in the prov "Notes and Queries," Feb. 18, 1893, it is still in existence. It is a chalice of enameled gla , and is of 10thcentury workmanship, presumably Venetian. There is a legend that the luck of the Musgrave family depends on its preservation: "If this cup either break or fall, Farewell the luck of Eden Hall." Lucon (lü-son'). A town in the department of ince of Westphalia, Pru ia, 34 miles northeast of Cologne. Population (1890), 16,169. Lüderitzland (lü'der-its-länd). The region around Angra Pequeña, annexed by Germany 1884. It is now included in German Southwest Africa. Lüders (lü'ders), Count Alexander. Born Jan. Vendée, western France, 20 miles north of La 26, 1790: died at St. Petersburg, Feb. 13, 1874. Rochelle. Here, 1793, the French republicans defeated the Vendeans. It has a cathedral. Population (1891), commune, 6,536. Lucon. See Luzon . Lucrece (lū-krēs'). [L. Lucretia .] A poem by Shakspere, published in 1594. Lucretia (lu-kre's hiä). In Roman legend, the wife of Tarquinius Coll at in us. Her rape by Sextus Tarquinius led to the overthrow of the Tarquins and the establishment of the republic. See Sextus . Lucretia, or the Children of Night. A novel by Bulwer Lytton, published in 1846. Lucretia gens (lu-krēʻshiä jenz). A Roman patrician, and later also plebeian, clan. Its surnames were (patrician) Triciptinus, (plebeian) Gallus, Ofella, Vespillo, and Carus. Lucretius (lū-krē ́shius) (Titus Lucretius Carus). Born at Rome, probably about 96 в. с.: died Oct. 15, 55 в. с. A celebrated Roman phil osophical poet. He was the author of "De rerum na sophical poem in six books, treating of physics, of psytura" ("On the Nature of Things"), a didactic and phil och ology, and (briefly) of ethics from the Epicurean point of view. He committed suicide probably in a fit of insan ity: According to a popular but doubtle erroneous tra dition, his madne was due to a love-philter administered to him by his wife. Lucrezia Borgia. See Borgia . Lucrezia crezia Borgia (lö-krāt'sē-ä bor'jä). An opera by Donizetti, first produced at Milan in 1834. The words were adapted from Victor Hugo's play of the same name, produced at Paris in 1833. The opera was produced at the It aliens in 1840, and was at once stopped