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Lasca (also called Laska or Laskers) is a draughts (or checkers) variant, invented by the second World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941).
Lasca of the Rio Grande is a 1931 American pre-Code film based on the poem "Lasca" by Frank Desprez. Plot. Rio Grande dance hall girl Lasca becomes involved in a love ...
Lasca is a draughts (or checkers) variant. Lasca may also refer to: Lasca, a 1919 American silent Western; Lasca, an 1882 poem by Frank Desprez; Francesco Lasca (born 1988), Italian road bicycle racer; Lasca, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Marengo County; Lasca, Texas, a ghost town in Hudspeth County
Lasca is a 1919 American silent Western film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Frank Mayo, Edith Roberts and Arthur Jasmine. [1] It is based on the 1882 poem Lasca by Frank Desprez . Cast
Desprez' best-known work, however, is a poem, Lasca, about a Mexican girl and her cowboy sweetheart caught in a cattle stampede "in Texas down by the Rio Grande."The ballad-like poem, first published in a London magazine in 1882, has often been reprinted, usually with deletions and changes, and recited in many parts of the English-speaking world.
The shovel of Anton Francesco Grazzini (il Lasca) at the Accademia della Crusca. Antonio Francesco Grazzini or Antonfrancisco Grazzini (March 22, 1503 – February 18, 1584) was an Italian author. [1]
In 1912 she was bought by the German Walther von Brüning. Her new home port became Kiel and she was renamed Lasca II. She was confiscated by the British navy during the First World War. In 1919 the yacht was acquired by Lord John Espen, who rechristened her Shenandoah. Two years later it was bought by Godfrey H. Williams and refitted with engines.
Three lascar crew of the P&O liner RMS Viceroy of India. A lascar was a sailor or militiaman from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Arab world, British Somaliland or other lands east of the Cape of Good Hope who was employed on European ships from the 16th century until the mid-20th century.