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17775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Lebanon | Politics of Lebanon | Lebanon is a parliamentary democratic republic within the overall framework of confessionalism, a form of consociationalism in which the highest offices are proportionately reserved for representatives from certain religious communities. The constitution of Lebanon grants the people the right to change their government... |
17776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Lebanon | Economy of Lebanon | The economy of Lebanon has been experiencing, as of late 2019, a large-scale, multi-dimensional crisis, including a banking collapse, a liquidity crisis and a sovereign default. It used to be classified as a developing, upper-middle income economy. The nominal GDP was estimated at $19 billion in 2020, with a per capita... |
17777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Lebanon | Telecommunications in Lebanon | Telecommunications have long played an essential role in Lebanon, a small country with an expansive diaspora, a vivid media landscape, and an economy geared toward trade and banking. The sector's history has nonetheless been chaotic, marked by conflict but also, and perhaps most importantly, a deeply rooted legacy of s... |
17778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Lebanon | Transport in Lebanon | Transportation in Lebanon varies greatly in quality from the ultramodern Beirut International Airport to poor road conditions in many parts of the country. The Lebanese civil war between 1975 and 1990 and the 2006 Lebanon War with Israel severely damaged the country's infrastructure.
Roads
Lebanon has over 8,000 km of... |
17779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese%20Armed%20Forces | Lebanese Armed Forces | The Lebanese Armed Forces ([LAF] Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya) or Forces Armées Libanaises (FAL) in French, also known as the Lebanese Army (Arabic: الجيش اللبناني Al-Jaish al-Lubnani or Armée libanaise in French), is the military of the Lebanese Republic. It consists of three b... |
17780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Lebanon | Foreign relations of Lebanon | The foreign policy of Lebanon reflects its geographic location, the composition of its population, and its reliance on commerce and trade. Until 2005, Lebanon's foreign policy had been heavily influenced by Syria. The framework for relations was first codified in May 1991, when Lebanon and Syria signed a treaty of mut... |
17781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho | Lesotho | Lesotho ( , ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho (), is an enclaved country surrounded entirely by South Africa. It is a mountainous country situated in the Maloti Mountains, and contains the highest mountains in Southern Africa. Lesotho has an area of just over and has a population of about million. Its capital and ... |
17782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lesotho | History of Lesotho | The history of people living in the area now known as Lesotho () goes back as many as 400 years. The present Lesotho (then called Basutoland) emerged as a single polity under paramount chief Moshoeshoe I in 1822. Under Moshoeshoe I, Basutoland joined other tribes in their struggle against the Lifaqane associated with t... |
17783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Lesotho | Geography of Lesotho | Lesotho is a mountainous, landlocked country located in Southern Africa. It is an enclave, surrounded by South Africa. The total length of the country's borders is . Lesotho covers an area of around , of which a negligible percentage is covered with water.
The most popular geographic fact about Lesotho, apart from its... |
17784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Lesotho | Demographics of Lesotho | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Lesotho, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The Demographics of Lesotho describe the condition and overview of Lesotho's people... |
17785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Lesotho | Politics of Lesotho | Politics of Lesotho takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Lesotho is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the t... |
17786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Lesotho | Economy of Lesotho | The economy of Lesotho is based on agriculture, livestock, manufacturing, mining, and depends heavily on inflows of workers’ remittances and receipts from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Lesotho is geographically surrounded by South Africa and is economically integrated with it as well. The majority of house... |
17787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Lesotho | Telecommunications in Lesotho | Telecommunications in Lesotho include radio, television, print and online newspapers, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Radio
Radio stations: 2 state-owned radio stations; government controls most private broadcast media; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2008).
Radio ... |
17788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Lesotho | Transport in Lesotho | This article concerns systems of transport in Lesotho. As a landlocked country, Lesotho has no seaports or harbours, but does have road, air transport, and limited rail infrastructure.
Roads
Prior to Lesotho's independence in 1966, the only paved road in the country was the Kingsway in the capital, Maseru, between t... |
17790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Lesotho | Foreign relations of Lesotho | Lesotho's geographic location makes it extremely vulnerable to political and economic developments in South Africa. Its capital is the small city of Maseru. It is a member of many regional economic organizations including the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). L... |
17791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia | Liberia | Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5 million and covers an area of . English is the officia... |
17792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Liberia | History of Liberia | Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by free people of color from the United States. The emigration of African Americans, both free and recently emancipated, was funded and organized by the American Colonization Society (ACS). The mortality rate of these settlers was the highest in accurately recorded human hist... |
17793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Liberia | Geography of Liberia | Liberia is a sub-Saharan nation in West Africa located at 6 °N, 9 °W. It borders the north Atlantic Ocean to the southwest ( of coastline) and three other African nations on the other three sides, Sierra Leone to the northwest, Guinea to the northeast and Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) to the east.
In total, Liberia comp... |
17794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Liberia | Demographics of Liberia | As of 2006, Liberia has the highest population growth rate in the world (4.50% per annum). 43.5% of Liberians were below the age of 15 in 2010. With recent civil wars being fought along ethnic lines, Liberia is a multiethnic and multicultural country.
Population
According to , Liberia's total population was in . Thi... |
17795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Liberia | Politics of Liberia | The Politics of Liberia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic modeled on the government of the United States, whereby the President is the head of state and head of government; unlike the United States, however, Liberia is a unitary state as opposed to a federation and has a pl... |
17796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Liberia | Economy of Liberia | The economy of Liberia is extremely underdeveloped, largely due to the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996). Liberia itself is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.
Until 1979, Liberia's economy was among the more developed and fastest-growing in Sub-Saharan Africa, but after the 1980 coup d'é... |
17797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Liberia | Mass media in Liberia | Mass media in Liberia include the press, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Much of Liberia's communications infrastructure was destroyed or plundered during the two civil wars (1989-1996 and 1999-2003). With low rates of adult literacy and high poverty rates, television and newspaper us... |
17798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Liberia | Transport in Liberia | Transport in Liberia consist of 429 km of railways, 10,600 km of highways (657 km paved), seaports, 29 airports (2 paved) and 4 km of pipeline for oil transportation. Busses and taxis are the main forms of ground transportation in and around Monrovia. Charter boats can also be available.
Railways
Historically, thre... |
17799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20Liberia | Armed Forces of Liberia | The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are the armed forces of the Republic of Liberia. Tracing its origins to a militia that was formed by the first black colonists in what is now Liberia, it was founded as the Liberian Frontier Force in 1908, and retitled in 1956. For almost all of its history, the AFL has received consid... |
17800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Liberia | Foreign relations of Liberia | Liberian foreign relations were traditionally stable and cordial throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries. During the 1990s, Charles Taylor's presidency and the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars underscored Liberian relations with the Western world, the People's Republic of China, and its neighboring countries... |
17802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Libya | Geography of Libya | Libya is fourth in size among the countries of Africa and sixteenth among the countries of the world. It is on the Mediterranean between Egypt and Tunisia, with Niger and Chad to the south and Sudan to the southeast. Although the oil discoveries of the 1960s have brought immense wealth, at the time of its independence ... |
17803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Libya | Demographics of Libya | This article is about Libyans (ليبيون) and their population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, and religious affiliations, as well as other aspects of the Libyan population. No complete population or vital statistics registration exists in Libya. Of the over 6,000,000 Libyans ... |
17804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Libya | Politics of Libya | The politics of Libya is in an uncertain state due to the collapse of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 2011 and a recent civil war between the House of Representatives in Tobruk and its supporters, the New General National Congress in Tripoli and its supporters, and various jihadists and tribal elements controlling parts ... |
17805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Libya | Economy of Libya | The economy of Libya depends primarily on revenues from the petroleum sector, which represents over 95% of export earnings and 60% of GDP. These oil revenues and a small population have given Libya one of the highest nominal per capita GDP in Africa.
After 2000, Libya recorded favourable growth rates with an estimated... |
17806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20media%20in%20Libya | Mass media in Libya | Mass media in Libya describes the overall environment for the radio, television, telephone, Internet, and newspaper markets in Libya.
The control of the media by Colonel Gaddafi's regime came to an end after the fall of Tripoli in August 2011, resulting in a mushrooming of new media outlets. Journalists are still expe... |
17807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Libya | Transport in Libya |
Railways
Libya has had no railway in operation since 1965, all previous narrow gauge lines having been dismantled. Plans for a new network have been under development for some time (earthworks were begun between Sirte and Ras Ajdir, Tunisia border, in 2001-5), and in 2008 and 2009 various contracts were placed and c... |
17808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20the%20Libyan%20Arab%20Jamahiriya | Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | The Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya consisted of the Libyan Army, Libyan Air Force and the Libyan Navy and other services including the People's Militia. In November 2010, before the First Civil War of 2011, the total number of Libyan personnel was estimated at 760,000 though that war wore the military's num... |
17809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Libya%20under%20Muammar%20Gaddafi | Foreign relations of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi | The foreign relations of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi (1969–2011) underwent much fluctuation and change. They were marked by severe tension with the West (especially the United States, although relations were normalised in the early 21st century prior to the First Libyan Civil War in 2011) and by other national policies... |
17810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein ( ; ), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (), is a German-speaking microstate located in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. Liechtenstein is a constitutional monarchy headed by the Prince of Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein is bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and Austria to the ... |
17812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Liechtenstein | Geography of Liechtenstein | The principality of Liechtenstein encompasses most of the eastern half of the Rhine Valley, wedged between Austria and Switzerland. The majority of the country's population is found in the western half along the Rhine River. Along with Uzbekistan, Liechtenstein is one of only two doubly landlocked countries in the wor... |
17813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Liechtenstein | Demographics of Liechtenstein | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Liechtenstein, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Liechtenstein is the fourth smallest country of Europe, after the Vatican Cit... |
17814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Liechtenstein | Politics of Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein is a principality governed under a constitutional monarchy. It has a form of mixed constitution in which political power is shared by the monarch and a democratically elected parliament. There is a two-party system (though there are two minor parties as well) and a form of representative democracy in whic... |
17815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Liechtenstein | Economy of Liechtenstein | The economy of Liechtenstein is based on industry, with a small but significant agricultural sector, and services (especially generally services, including tourism and information technology). The country participates in a customs union with Switzerland and uses the Swiss franc as its national currency. It imports more... |
17816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Liechtenstein | Telecommunications in Liechtenstein | This article concerns the systems of communications in Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein possesses a number of modern communications systems, some of which are shared with the neighbouring country of Switzerland. The country code and top-level domain for Liechtenstein is .li.
Telephone and internet
Liechtenstein's automa... |
17819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Liechtenstein | Foreign relations of Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein's foreign economic policy has been dominated by its customs union with Switzerland (and with Austria-Hungary until World War I). This union also led to its independent membership in the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 1991. Unlike Switzerland however (where citizens rejected membership in a refe... |
17820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lithuania | History of Lithuania | The history of Lithuania dates back to settlements founded many thousands of years ago, but the first written record of the name for the country dates back to 1009 AD. Lithuanians, one of the Baltic peoples, later conquered neighboring lands and established the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 13th century (and also a s... |
17821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Lithuania | Geography of Lithuania | Lithuania is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. The most populous of the Baltic states, Lithuania has of coastline consisting of the continental coast and the "Curonian Spit" coast. Lithuania's major warm-water port of Klaipėda (Memel) lies at the narrow mouth of Curonian Lagoon, a shallow lagoon extending sou... |
17822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Lithuania | Demographics of Lithuania | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Lithuania, including population density, ethnicity, level of education, health, economic status, and religious affiliations.
Prehistory
The earliest evidence of inhabitants in present-day Lithuania dates back to 10,000 BC. Between 3000 and 2000 BC, th... |
17823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Lithuania | Politics of Lithuania | Politics of Lithuania takes place in a framework of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Lithuania is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Lithuania is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.
Executive power is exercised by the President and the G... |
17825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Lithuania | Telecommunications in Lithuania | This article provides an overview of telecommunications in Lithuania, including radio, television, telephones, and the Internet.
The Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania (RRT) is Lithuania's independent communications-industry regulator. It was established under the Law on Telecommunication... |
17826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Lithuania | Transport in Lithuania | Transport in Lithuania relies mainly on road and rail networks.
Lithuanian road system
(2018):
total:
paved:
unpaved:
Highways
Controlled-access highways sections
There are two categories of controlled-access highways in Lithuania: expressways (Lithuanian: greitkeliai) with maximum speed 120 km/h and motorways ... |
17827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20Armed%20Forces | Lithuanian Armed Forces | The Lithuanian Armed Forces () is the military of Lithuania, acting as the principal deterrent against any security threat to the nation. It currently consists of 20,565 active personnel. Conscription was ended in September 2008 but reintroduced in 2015 due to concerns about the geopolitical environment in light of the... |
17828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Lithuania | Foreign relations of Lithuania | Lithuania is a country on the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, a member of the United Nations Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the World Trade Organisation. Currently, Lithuania maintains diplomatic relations with 18... |
17830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Luxembourg | History of Luxembourg | The history of Luxembourg consists of the history of the country of Luxembourg and its geographical area.
Although its recorded history can be traced back to Roman times, the history of Luxembourg proper is considered to begin in 963. Over the following five centuries, the powerful House of Luxembourg emerged, but its... |
17831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Luxembourg | Geography of Luxembourg | Luxembourg is a small country located in the Low Countries, part of North-West Europe It borders Belgium for to the west and north, France () to the south, and Germany () to the east. Luxembourg is landlocked, separated from the North Sea by Belgium.
The topography of the country is divided very clearly between the... |
17832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Luxembourg | Demographics of Luxembourg | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Luxembourg, including population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The following is an overview of the demographics of Luxembourg. Demographic topics include ... |
17833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Luxembourg | Politics of Luxembourg | The politics of Luxembourg takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Luxembourg is the head of government, and the multi-party system. Executive power is under the constitution of 1868, as amended, exercised by the government, by the Grand Duke and t... |
17834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Luxembourg | Economy of Luxembourg | The economy of Luxembourg is largely dependent on the banking, steel, and industrial sectors. Luxembourgers enjoy the highest per capita gross domestic product in the world (CIA 2018 est.).
Although Luxembourg in tourist literature is aptly called the "Green Heart of Europe", its pastoral land coexists with a highly i... |
17835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Luxembourg | Telecommunications in Luxembourg | Luxembourg is known for opening local television and radio stations in other countries. RTL Group is operated in many countries. Luxembourg is the home of the world's biggest satellite company, SES, located in Betzdorf.
Statistics
Telephones - main lines in use: 314,700 (1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 215,741... |
17836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Luxembourg | Transport in Luxembourg | Transport in Luxembourg is ensured principally by road, rail and air. There are also services along the river Moselle which forms the border with Germany. The road network has been significantly modernised in recent years with motorways to adjacent countries. The advent of the high-speed TGV link to Paris has led to re... |
17837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg%20Armed%20Forces | Luxembourg Armed Forces | The Luxembourg Armed Forces (; ) are the national military force of Luxembourg. The army has been a fully volunteer military since 1967. As of December 2018, it has 939 personnel.
The army is under civilian control, with the grand duke as commander-in-chief. The minister for defence, currently François Bausch, oversee... |
17838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Luxembourg | Foreign relations of Luxembourg | The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has long been a prominent supporter of European political and economic integration. In 1921, Luxembourg and Belgium formed the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU) to create an inter-exchangeable currency and a common customs regime. Post-war, Luxembourg became a founding member state ... |
17839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Underground | London Underground | The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world'... |
17841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20technical%20system | Large technical system | A large technical system (LTS) is a system or network of enormous proportions or complexity. The study of LTSs is a subdiscipline of history of science and technology.
The book Rescuing Prometheus by Thomas P. Hughes documents the development of four such systems, including the Boston central artery tunnel and the In... |
17843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund%20University | Lund University | Lund University () is a public research university in Sweden and one of northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden. It traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark i... |
17844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Peter%20Wimsey | Lord Peter Wimsey | Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detectiv... |
17845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter%20%28message%29 | Letter (message) | A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by large numbers of people, such as newspapers and placards, although even these may include material in the form of an "open lette... |
17846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian | Lesbian | A lesbian is a homosexual woman. The word lesbian is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same-sex attraction.
The concept of "lesbian" to differentiate women wit... |
17851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda | Lambda | Lambda (; uppercase , lowercase ; , lám(b)da) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the sound /l/. In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoenician Lamed . Lambda gave rise to the Latin L and the Cyrillic El (Л). The ancient grammarians and dramatists giv... |
17852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lore | Lore | Lore may refer to:
Folklore, acquired knowledge or traditional beliefs
Oral lore or oral tradition, orally conveyed cultural knowledge and traditions
Places
Loré, former French commune
Loré (East Timor), a city and subdistrict in Lautém District
Lore City, Ohio
Arts and media
Lore (Star Trek), a fictional andr... |
17856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamiaceae | Lamiaceae | The Lamiaceae ( )
or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint or deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mint, rosemary, sage, savory, marjoram, oregano, hyssop, thyme, lavender, and perilla, as well as other ... |
17859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide%20shot | Wide shot | In photography, filmmaking and video production, a wide shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or long shot) is a shot that typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings. These are typically shot now using wide-angle lenses (an approximate... |
17860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm | Logarithm | In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation. That means the logarithm of a given number is the exponent to which another fixed number, the base , must be raised, to produce that number . In the simplest case, the logarithm counts the number of occurrences of the same factor in repeated mult... |
17862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20Ron%20Hubbard | L. Ron Hubbard | Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy stories who founded the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established a series of organizations to promote Dianetics. In 1952, Hubbard lost... |
17864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite | Luddite | The Luddites were a secret oath-based organisation of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery. The group are believed to have taken their name from Ned Ludd, a weaver from Anstey, near Leicester. They protested against manufacturers who used machines in what they... |
17865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism | Anarcho-communism | Anarcho-communism, also known as anarchist communism, (or, colloquially, ancom) is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour, social hierarchies and private property. It retains respect for personal property along with collectively-owned i... |
17867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London | London | London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as Londin... |
17869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag%C3%A2ri%20Hasan%20%C3%87elebi | Lagâri Hasan Çelebi | Lagâri Hasan Çelebi was an Ottoman aviator who, according to the account written by traveller Evliya Çelebi, made a successful crewed rocket flight.
Account
Evliya Çelebi reported that in 1633, Lagari Hasan Çelebi launched in a 7-winged rocket using 50 okka (140 lbs) of gunpowder from Sarayburnu, the point below Topka... |
17871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterboxing%20%28filming%29 | Letterboxing (filming) | Letterboxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio. The resulting videographic image has mattes (black bars) above and below it; these mattes are part of each frame of the video signal. LBX and LTBX are ... |
17872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln | Lincoln | Lincoln most commonly refers to:
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States
Lincoln, England, the county town of Lincolnshire, UK
Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S.
Lincoln (name), a surname and given name
Lincoln Motor Company, a Ford brand
Lincoln may also refer to:... |
17874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligament | Ligament | A ligament is the fibrous connective tissue that connects bones to other bones. It is also known as articular ligament, articular larua, fibrous ligament, or true ligament. Other ligaments in the body include the:
Peritoneal ligament: a fold of peritoneum or other membranes.
Fetal remnant ligament: the remnants of a... |
17877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch%20Ness%20Monster | Loch Ness Monster | The Loch Ness Monster (), affectionately known as Nessie, is a creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water. Popular interest and belief in the creature has varied since it was... |
17878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20science | Laser science | Laser science or laser physics is a branch of optics that describes the theory and practice of lasers.
Laser science is principally concerned with quantum electronics, laser construction, optical cavity design, the physics of producing a population inversion in laser media, and the temporal evolution of the light fiel... |
17880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%2C%20England | Lincoln, England | Lincoln () is a cathedral city, non-metropolitan district, and the county town of Lincolnshire, England. The Lincoln district had a 2012 population of 94,600. The 2011 census gave the urban area of Lincoln, including North Hykeham and Waddington, a population of 115,000. Roman Lindum Colonia developed from an Iron Age ... |
17885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe | Luftwaffe | {{Infobox military unit
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| caption = Emblem of the Luftwaffe (variant)
| dates = 1933–1946
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| allegiance = Adolf Hitler
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17886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafora%20disease | Lafora disease | Lafora disease is a rare, adult-onset and autosomal recessive genetic disorder which results in myoclonus epilepsy and usually results in death several years after the onset of symptoms. The disease is characterized by the accumulation of inclusion bodies, known as Lafora bodies, within the cytoplasm of the cells in th... |
17887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassa%20fever | Lassa fever | Lassa fever, also known as Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF), is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus. Many of those infected by the virus do not develop symptoms. When symptoms occur they typically include fever, weakness, headaches, vomiting, and muscle pains. Less commonly there may be bleeding fr... |
17888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Trotsky | Leon Trotsky | Lev Davidovich Bronstein ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky (), was a Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism which has become known as Trotskyism.
Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (now B... |
17891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20%28disambiguation%29 | Latin (disambiguation) | Latin is an Italic language, originally spoken in ancient Rome and its empire.
Latin may also refer to:
People
Latins, the Italic or Romance peoples collectively across various historical periods
Latins (Italic tribe), an ancient Italic tribe that inhabited central Italy from about 1000 to 300 BC
Latins (Middle A... |
17892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20desk | Reference desk | The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple kinds of information from multiple sources.
Purpose and usage
Library users can ... |
17895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap%20year | Leap year | A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical year or seasonal year. Because astronomical events and seasons do not repeat in a wh... |
17897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Mies%20van%20der%20Rohe | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.
... |
17898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laundering | Laundering | Laundering may refer to:
Money laundering, disguising the origin of illegally gained wealth
Doing laundry, or washing clothes
Child laundering, the illegal acquisition of children through monetary transactions, etc.
Policy laundering, disguising the origin of legislation
See also
List of laundry articles |
17900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Corbusier | Le Corbusier | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ; roughly, "the crow-like one"), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen i... |
17901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico%20Ariosto | Ludovico Ariosto | Ludovico Ariosto (; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens ... |
17902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard%20Euler | Leonhard Euler | Leonhard Euler ( ; ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex anal... |
17904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20model | Linear model | In statistics, the term linear model is used in different ways according to the context. The most common occurrence is in connection with regression models and the term is often taken as synonymous with linear regression model. However, the term is also used in time series analysis with a different meaning. In each ca... |
17905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood%20principle | Likelihood principle | In statistics, the likelihood principle is the proposition that, given a statistical model, all the evidence in a sample relevant to model parameters is contained in the likelihood function.
A likelihood function arises from a probability density function considered as a function of its distributional parameterization... |
17909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led%20Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. With a heavy, guitar-driven sound, they are cited as one of the progenitors of hard rock and heavy metal, although their sty... |
17911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Dunsany | Lord Dunsany | Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957, usually Lord Dunsany) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. Over 90 volumes of fiction, essays, poems and plays appeared in his lifetime. Material has continued to appear. He gained a name in the 1910s as a great writer of th... |
17914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20van%20Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven (, ; baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the R... |
17915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lleyton%20Hewitt | Lleyton Hewitt | Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world No. 1. He is the most recent Australian to win a men's singles Grand Slam title.
In November 2001 Hewitt became the youngest male in the ATP era to be ranked world No. 1 in singles at the age of . He won 30 singl... |
17917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20von%20Trier | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter with a prolific and controversial career spanning more than four decades. His work is known for its genre and technical innovation, confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues, and his treatment of su... |
17920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20Python%27s%20Life%20of%20Brian | Monty Python's Life of Brian | Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin). It was directed by Jones. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a ... |
17922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan | Loglan | Loglan is a constructed language originally designed for linguistic research, particularly for investigating the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. The language was developed beginning in 1955 by Dr. James Cooke Brown with the goal of making a language so different from natural languages that people learning it would think in a d... |
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