In Culture
- Together with λ Sco (Shaula), Lesath is listed in MUL.APIN as dSharur4 u dShargaz, meaning "Sharur and Shargaz".. In Coptic, they were called Minamref
- The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria named it as Karik Karik (together with λ Sco), "the Falcons"
- USS Lesuth (AK-125) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the star.
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)