Lana

Lana may refer to:

Geography

See also

Lana, South Tyrol

Lana is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy. It is situated in the Etschtal (Etsch Valley) between Bolzano and Merano and at the entrance to the Ultental. The population rose to 11,206 in 2010.

It is one of the three municipalities of South Tyrol whose name remained unchanged by the early 20th-century renaming programme which aimed at replacing mostly German place names with Italianised versions, the other two being Gais and Plaus.

History

Coat-of-arms

The emblem represents a Teutonic cross of sable, on argent, and a gules rampant lion on it. The lion is the arms of the Counts of Brandis who played a role in the development of the village. The emblem was adopted in 1967.

Society

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 91.84% of Lana's population speak German, 7.90% Italian, and 0.26% Ladin as first language.

Demographic evolution

Culture

Notable people

Economy

Tourism

Lana is a village which is divided into three parts: Oberlana, Mitterlana and Niederlana. It is a popular tourist spot offering sports such as tennis, football, golf, minigolf and ice-skating among others. During summer, locals and tourists alike enjoy swimming, hiking and cycling because there are a lot of good cycle paths.

Lana (chimpanzee)

Lana (born on October 7, 1970) is a female chimpanzee, the first to be used in language research using lexigrams. She was born at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University, and the project she was allocated to when 1 year old, the LANguage Analogue project led by Duane Rumbaugh, was named after her with the acronym LANA because the project team felt that her identity was well worth preserving (Rumbaugh, 1977, p. XXI).

LANA project

The researchers stated Lana showed that she could discriminate between lexigrams, sequence words grammatically and make novel utterances, demonstrating language learning.

The first LANA project (1971) officially had two Principal Investigators, Rumbaugh and Ernst von Glasersfeld (cf. NIH grants HD-06016 and RR-00165). Ernst von Glasersfeld developed the language that Lana learned to use: he coined the term "lexigram", created the first 120 of them and designed the grammar that regulated their combination. This artificial language was called Yerkish, in honor of Robert M. Yerkes, the founder of the laboratory within which the LANA project was conceived and conducted.

Holloway

A hollow way is literally a sunken lane. Holloway may refer to:

People

Place names

Holloway (surname)

Holloway is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

HM Prison Holloway

HM Prison Holloway (sometimes known as Holloway Castle) is a closed category prison for adult women and young offenders, located in the Holloway area of the London Borough of Islington, in London, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced on 25 November 2015 that HMP Holloway will close due to its age and the fact it is unsuited to the needs of a modern prison.

Holloway was once used to imprison suffragettes, who were British women who demanded equal rights to men. Suffragettes who were imprisoned in Holloway include Constance Markeivicz, Charlotte Despard, Mary Richardson, Dora Montefiore, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, and Ethel Smyth.

The prison became infamous in early 2016 after the suspiscious death of inmate Sarah Reed, who happened to have been the victim of police brutality prior to imprisonment. Reed's family claim that the prison has forbid them from examining the body.

The prison now