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Loos (other)
Loos may refer to: Places * Loos, Nord, France * Loos-en-Gohelle, France * Loos, British Columbia, Canada People * Loos (surname) Events * Battle of Loos, 1915 battle on the Western Front of World War I See also * Loo (other) * Los (other) * Lose (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loos, Nord
Loos () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France (Hauts-de-France). It is located in the European Metropolis of Lille, and is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its southwest side. In 2018, Loos had a population of 22,426. The commune has a land area of . The town hall of Loos, with its large belfry, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005 in recognition of its historical importance to municipal power in Europe. Population Heraldry Town twinning Loos is twinned with Geseke, Germany. See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loos-en-Gohelle
Loos-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A former coal mining town, three miles northwest of the centre of Lens, at the junction of the D943 and the A21 autoroute. Its nearest neighbours are Lens to the south, Grenay to the west, Hulluch to the northeast and Bénifontaine to the east. The two largest (184 m & 182 m) spoil heaps in Europe are found here. History The place was first documented in 1071, as "Lohes". The name has changed considerably over the years: Lothae, Lo, Lohes, Loes, Loez and Loos. It was not until 1791 that the name of "Loos" was officially sanctioned. According to some, the name comes from the Germanic "Lôh" and Dutch "Loo" which mean "wood", but there is no archaeological evidence of what could have been a forest. According to others, the name derives from the Germanic "Laupo" which means marshy meadows, which, given the topography of the town, tends to support th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loos, British Columbia
Loos is a locality on the Canadian National Railway west of McBride, British Columbia, immediately next to Crescent Spur and the confluence of the Morkill River with the Fraser River. Loos Post Office opened 30 March 1916, named in recognition of the Battle of Loos of World War I. The first postmaster was Mrs. A Martin. The post office closed 11 July 1951, after most of the residents had moved to Crescent Spur. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station here was renamed from "Crescent Island" to Loos later in 1916. The community experienced flooding in 1936. Via Rail's Jasper – Prince Rupert train calls at the Loos railway station. The original settlers were Ole Olson Leboe, originally of Vagland, Norway, and his wife Anna Maria. Around 1917 their sons built the Leboe Lumber Company sawmill here on the banks of the Fraser River The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loos (surname)
Loos is a Dutch and Low German surname. It can be of toponymic, patronymic or descriptive origin. In the Low Countries, ''Lo''/''Loos'' was a short form of Lodewijk (akin to Louisbr>People with this surname include: Art * Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect * Anita Loos (1888–1981), American screen writer and author * Anna Loos (born 1970), German actress and singer * Charles Loos (born 1951), Belgian jazz pianist and composer * Friedrich Loos (1797–1890), Austrian painter, etcher and lithographer * Lina Loos (1882–1950), Austrian actress and writer * Mary Loos (1910–2004), American actress * Theodor Loos (1883–1954), German actor Sports * Dave Loos (born 1947), American basketball coach and athletic director * Eddie Loos (1893–1950), American golfer * Georg Loos (1943–2016), German racing driver * Josef Loos (1888–1955), Czech ice hockey player * Ludo Loos (1955–2019), Belgian road bicycle racer * Michelle Loos, New Zealand footballer * Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Loos
The Battle of Loos took place from 1915 in France on the Western Front, during the First World War. It was the biggest British attack of 1915, the first time that the British used poison gas and the first mass engagement of New Army units. The French and British tried to break through the German defences in Artois and Champagne and restore a war of movement. Despite improved methods, more ammunition and better equipment, the Franco-British attacks were largely contained by the Germans, except for local losses of ground. The British gas attack failed to neutralize the defenders and the artillery bombardment was too short to destroy the barbed wire or machine gun nests. German tactical defensive proficiency was still dramatically superior to the British offensive planning and doctrine, resulting in a British defeat. Background Strategic developments The battle was the British part of the Third Battle of Artois, an Anglo-French offensive (known to the Germans as the (Autumn Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loo (other)
Loo or LOO may refer to: Places * Loo Microdistrict, a historic district of Sochi, Russia * Loo, Estonia, a small borough in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County, Estonia * Loo village, Estonia, a village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County, Estonia * Looe, a town in Cornwall, United Kingdom * Loo, Duiven, a village in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands * Loo (Overijssel), a village in the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands * Loo (Bernheze), a village in the municipality of Berheze in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands * Loo (Bergeijk), a village in the municipality of Bergeijk in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands * Loo (Uden), a village in the municipality of Uden in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands * Waterloo, Ontario, shortened as 'Loo or "The 'Loo" * Lu (state), birthplace of Confucius (transliteration as used e.g. in translations by James Legge) Buildings * Het Loo Palace, palace in the Netherlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los (other)
LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance * Line-of-sight (other) * LineageOS, a free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers * Loss of signal ** Fading **End of pass (spaceflight) * Loss of significance, undesirable effect in calculations using floating-point arithmetic Medicine and biology * Lipooligosaccharide, a bacterial lipopolysaccharide with a low-molecular-weight * Lower oesophageal sphincter Arts and entertainment * ''The Land of Stories'', a series of children's novels by Chris Colfer * Los, or the Crimson King, a character in Stephen King's novels * Los (band), a British indie rock band from 2008 to 2011 * Los (Blake), a character in William Blake's poetry * Los (rapper) (born 1982), stage name of American rapper Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
