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Lugar
Lugar may refer to: People *Richard Lugar (1932–2019), United States senator *Robert Lugar (1773–1855), English architect and engineer Places and landmarks *Lugar (country subdivision), in Portugal and Spain *Lugar, East Ayrshire, a small village in southwest Scotland *Lugar Research Center, a laboratory in Tbilisi, Georgia Other uses *Lugar Water, a river in Scotland *''Lugar Heights'', an animated television series See also *Luger (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lugar
Richard Green Lugar (April 4, 1932 – April 28, 2019) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. Born in Indianapolis, Lugar graduated from Denison University and the University of Oxford. He served on the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners from 1964 to 1967 before he was elected to two terms as mayor of Indianapolis, serving from 1968 to 1976. During his tenure as mayor, Lugar served as the president of the National League of Cities in 1971 and gave the keynote address at the 1972 Republican National Convention. In 1974, Lugar ran his first campaign for the U.S. Senate. In the year's senate elections he lost to incumbent Democratic senator Birch Bayh. He ran again in 1976, defeating Democratic incumbent Vance Hartke. Lugar was reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006. In 2012, Lugar was defeated by Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock in the Republican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lugar
Robert Lugar (1773 – 23 June 1855), was a British architect and engineer in the Industrial Revolution. Although born in Colchester, England, Lugar carried out much of his most important work in Scotland and Wales, where he was employed by several leading industrialists to design grand houses such as Balloch Castle (1808), Cyfarthfa Castle (1824). The Rectory in Yaxham, Norfolk, which is now known as Yaxham House, was designed for Rev John Johnson (1817), with its mirror image later used for Ffrwdgrech House in Brecon (1828). He designed Denham Mount in south Buckinghamshire for Nathaniel Snell, a London merchant and partner in George Baillie and Company and Wyelands in Monmouthshire, Wales, now owned by Sanjeev Gupta. Lugar also designed Bardon Hall (1837) in Leicestershire. Lugar published a pattern book in 1815 of cottages, rural dwellings and villas. Archibald Simpson worked for Lugar in his Holburn office from 1810. He died aged 82 at his London home in Kensington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugar (country Subdivision)
Lugar is a name for a type of country subdivision in Portugal and Spain. Spain In Spain, the is one of the categories in the official gazetteer A gazetteer is a geographical index or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.Aurousseau, 61. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup, social statistics and physical features of a country, region, or con ... of population entities. In the Royal Order and Instruction of the 8 of March of 1930, issued for the elaboration of the Annual gazetteer, the is defined as the population entity designated with that title, and also having their dwellings distributed in streets and plazas. As a general rule, the term indicates the related population entity that has or has had a jurisdictional term. References Types of administrative division Portuguese words and phrases Subdivisions of Portugal {{geo-term-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugar, East Ayrshire
Lugar is a small village in East Ayrshire, southwest Scotland. Lugar is in Auchinleck Parish, Kyle District, Ayrshire. It is ENE of Cumnock, and about from Cronberry and from Gaswater. Lugar was a station on the Mauchline and Muirkirk branch of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Lugar is about SE of Kilmarnock. Lugar was once dominated by a large ironworks with several blast furnaces. Like the mining industry in nearby areas, though, the iron industry has been decimated by economic decline. The Lugar ironworks closed long ago. Lugar was built to accommodate the workers at the ironworks around 1845. They were housed in "''miners raws" (sic). On the 1860 Ordnance Survey Map the rows included ''Peesweip Row, Craigstonholm Row, Store Row, Back Row'' and ''Hollowholm Row''.(This map also shows a Curling Pond). Other maps included ''Laigh Row, Double Row'' and ''High Row''. The population grew to 753 in 1861, and 1374 in 1871. By 1881 it had 1353 people and 1891 pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugar Research Center
Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research (LRC, ka, რიჩარდ ლუგარის სახელობის საზოგადოებრივი ჯანდაცვის კვლევითი ცენტრი) is a research center (laboratory) based on the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, which was commissioned in 2011 and fully opened in August 2013. The LRC is the highest level of laboratory network in the country, representing the public health system referral library. The LRC is one of the best field of scientific biomedical and biosafety researches and preparation of students. The Center is accredited for graduate-level education, and has a BSL-3 facility. History Since the Soviet period, there have been various biological laboratories in Georgia, such as "Anti-Black Death Georgian Station", which is located in Saburtalo district of Tbilisi, and is now the " National Center for Disease Control and Public Health", si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugar Water
The Lugar Water, or River Lugar, is created by the confluence of the Bellow Water and the Glenmuir Water, just north of Lugar, both of which flow from the hills of the Southern Uplands in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Course Source to Cumnock The river flows through the small mining village of Lugar, where at Bellow Mill, William Murdoch, the inventor of gas lighting was born in 1754. A cave where he carried out a lot of his experiments can still be seen on the riverbank. The river then flows on through the town of Cumnock, under the Woodroad Viaduct, where its water was used in earlier times to power grain mills and where it is joined by Glaisnock Water. Cumnock to Ochiltree West of Cumnock the river continues its journey through Dumfries Estate, formerly owned by the Marquess of Bute. In July 2007 a consortium led by Charles III (then the Prince of Wales) succeeded in purchasing the house, contents and estate. The estate was then managed under the auspices of his Dumfries H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugar Heights
''Lugar Heights'' is an American animated comedy television series and sitcom that aired on Galavision, mun2, and MTV Tres. It is located in an urban American city, where the main characters attend Lugar Heights High School, and involves the day-to-day life of teenagers. ''Lugar Heights'' began as a series of 5-minute web shorts in 2001. These shorts were sold to Galavision. The show later become a half-hour series for mun2, before once again becoming a 5-minute series, this time for MTV Tres. Reruns were aired on BETbr>In a DVD-exclusive episode ("Chickens of Mass Destruction"), John Leguizamo John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez (; ; born July 22, 196013:04) is an American actor, comedian, and film producer. He has appeared in over 100 films, produced over 20 films and documentaries, made over 30 television appearances, and has produced ... provides the voice of Spanish Fly. Characters The central characters are four teenage Latinos: China, Roxy, Hugo, and Manos; supporting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
