Lansquenet ( derived from the German Landsknecht (' servant of the land or country '), applied to a mercenary soldier ) is a card game.

Lansquenet is played by two soldiers on a stone bench under an enclosed poplar as mentioned in Kinbote's note to line 130 in Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov.

Lansquenet is played by Porthos in the Alexandre Dumas novel The Three Musketeers.

Lansquenet is played by D ' Artagnan in the Alexandre Dumas novel Twenty Years After.

Lansquenet is played by various characters in the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.

At home the day after her brother's funeral, Cora Lansquenet is brutally murdered in her sleep by repeated blows with a hatchet.

The last name chosen for Cora's husband, the much disliked painter with some claim to being French, is Lansquenet.

There were a couple of changes, Cora was married to an Italian husband whose surname is Galachio and is still alive, instead of being married to a French husband whose surname is Lansquenet and has recently died.

The title refers to the nickname given his wife by the composer, who is also a member of the National Film Board of Canada.

Russell also refers to Aristotle's ethics as " repulsive ", and calls his logic " as definitely antiquated as Ptolemaic astronomy ".

Agriculture generally speaking refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain species of ant and termite.

In human – computer interaction, computer accessibility ( also known as Accessible computing ) refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability or severity of impairment.

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

An applet typically also refers to Java applets, i. e., programs written in the Java programming language that are included in a web page.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Work Without Hope ( 1825 ), also refers to the herb, likely referencing Milton's earlier work.

Pausanias, also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese.

It may also be intended to mean the numerals used by Arabs, in which case it generally refers to the Eastern Arabic numerals.

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

It also refers to an earlier " Wilusa episode " involving hostility on the part of Ahhiyawa.

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

Cameron also points out that whether he refers to Plato or to Crantor, the statement does not support conclusions such as Otto Muck's " Crantor came to Sais and saw there in the temple of Neith the column, completely covered with hieroglyphs, on which the history of Atlantis was recorded.

Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

Irenaeus also refers to a succession of presbyters who preserve the tradition " which originates from the apostles ".

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

Alkynes are traditionally known as acetylenes, although the name acetylene also refers specifically to C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 2 </ sub >, known formally as ethyne using IUPAC nomenclature.

It is also possible that the phrase predates both of these and refers instead to Cowboy action shooting techniques.

Likewise, " architecture " refers not only to the design of safe, functional buildings, but also to elements of creation and innovation which aim at elegant solutions to construction problems, to the use of space, and to the attempt to evoke an emotional response in the builders, owners, viewers and users of the building.

The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group ( called the " Tswana " in South Africa ).

It also refers to Bornholm Regional Municipality, the municipality () which covers the entire island.

Historically, bootstrapping also refers to an early technique for computer program development on new hardware.

The first part " baio " refers to the name of the Celtic Boii tribe, which also resolved into the regional name Bohemia ( Germanic latinised boio-hemum = home of the Boier tribe ).

But, particularly in the United States and Canada, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being " African-American ".

If you are a nonresident alien and a resident of Puerto Rico, your return is also due June 15, 1962, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of your fiscal year.

Cam., also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, ( 1386 – October 20, 1439 ) was an Italian monk and theologian, who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century.

The city is also famous for the Convento de Jesus ( now known as the City Museum " Santa Joana "), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of Afonso V, St. Joana, who died in 1490.

Roman Dutch common law relies on legal principles set out in Roman law sources such as Justinian's Institutes and Digest, and also on the writing of Dutch jurists of the 15th century such as Grotius and Voet.

From the 13th to 15th centuries cannon armed Chinese ships also traveled throughout Southeast Asia.

There were also painted schemes in Basel ( the earliest dating from c. 1440 ); a series of paintings on canvas by Bernt Notke, in Lübeck ( 1463 ); the initial fragment of the original Bernt Notke painting ( accomplished at the end of the 15th century ) in the St Nicholas ' Church, Tallinn, Estonia ; the painting at the back wall of the chapel of Sv.

The official title of the 15th edition is the New Encyclopædia Britannica, although it has also been promoted as Britannica 3.

The initial 15th edition ( 1974 – 1985 ) was faulted for having reduced or eliminated coverage of children's literature, military decorations, and the French poet Joachim du Bellay ; editorial mistakes were also alleged, such as inconsistent sorting of Japanese biographies.

, also known as Homutawake or, was the 15th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

* Medieval Greek, also known as Byzantine Greek: the continuation of Koine Greek during Byzantine Greece, up to the demise of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century.

He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors, and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute ; in 1999, the American Film Institute also numbered him 15th in their Greatest Male Stars of All Time list.

A later book also claiming to have been written by Solomon was originally written in Greek during the 15th century, where it was known as the Magical Treatise of Solomon or the Little Key of the Whole Art of Hygromancy, Found by Several Craftmen and by the Holy Prophet Solomon.

The Volksbuch ( chapbook ) tradition which would flourish in the 16th century also takes its origin in the second half of the 15th century.

The political environment in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries was also volatile.

: See also Ottoman Rule ( 15th – 1912 )

Although the use of the term infantry in English dates from the 15th century ( from French Infanterie, itself from the Italian Infanteria ), the foot troops of the previous eras in history who fought with a variety of weapons before the introduction of the firearms are also referred to as infantry.

Other 15th century manuscripts, such as The Book of Fermoy also contain interesting materials, as do such later syncretic works such as Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn ( The History of Ireland ) ( ca.

In the 15th century and earlier, and also today within the fields of statistics and metaphysics, individual means " indivisible ", typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meaning " a person.

At times, Jews were also restricted in their choice of residence — in Morocco, Jews were confined to walled quarters ( mellahs ) beginning in the 15th century and increasingly since the early 19th century.

He also won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.

" Historical martial arts " in both Asia and Europe are mostly based on such records of the late medieval to early modern period ( 15th to 17th centuries ; see also Koryū ).

The imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty, the House of Zhu, who had ancestry from Jiangsu, also contributed greatly in introducing Huaiyang cuisine to Beijing when the capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing in the 15th century, because the imperial kitchen was mainly Huaiyang style.

As a satellite of Siena since the Battle of Montaperti in 1260, Montalcino was deeply involved and affected by the conflicts in which Siena became embroiled, particularly in those with the city of Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, and like many other cities in central and northern Italy, the town was also caught up in the internecine wars between the Ghibellines ( supporters of the Holy Roman Empire ) and the Guelphs ( supporters of the Papacy ).

Norn had also been a spoken language in Caithness but had probably become extinct there by the 15th century replaced by Scots.

In the 15th century in Europe, the suits of playing cards varied: typically a deck had four suits, although five suits were common and other arrangements are also known.