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17924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucippus | Leucippus | Leucippus (; , Leúkippos; fl. 5th century BCE) is reported in some ancient sources to have been a philosopher who was the earliest Greek to develop the theory of atomism—the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms. Leucippus often appears as the master to hi... |
17926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League%20of%20Nations | League of Nations | The League of Nations ( ), was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organization ceased operations on 20 April 1946 but many of its components were ... |
17927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20programming | Logic programming | Logic programming is a programming paradigm which is largely based on formal logic. Any program written in a logic programming language is a set of sentences in logical form, expressing facts and rules about some problem domain. Major logic programming language families include Prolog, answer set programming (ASP) and... |
17928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Tana | Lake Tana | Lake Tana (; previously Tsana) is the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile. Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately long and wide, with a maximum depth of , and an elevation of . Lake Tana is fed by the Gilgel Abay, Reb and Gumara rivers. Its su... |
17931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20Graham | Lola Graham | Lola Glenn Graham (23 September 19182 January 1992). She first came to public attention after winning a musical competition at age six by playing the piano. She attended Shelford Church of England Girls' Grammar School and passed her music examinations in December 1933. In October 1936 her piano teacher, Sheila MacFie,... |
17932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal%20display | Liquid-crystal display | A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly, instead using a backlight or reflector to produce images in color or monochrome. LCDs... |
17933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency%20%28engineering%29 | Latency (engineering) | Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Lag, as it is known in gaming circles, refers to the latency between the input to a simulation and the visual or auditory response, often occurring because of network delay in on... |
17937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20public%20transport%20authorities%20in%20London | History of public transport authorities in London | The history of public transport authorities in London details the various organisations that have been responsible for the public transport network in and around London, England - including buses, coaches, trams, trolleybuses, Docklands Light Railway, and the London Underground.
From 1933 until 2000, these bodies use... |
17939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light | Light | Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation within the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is perceived by the human eye. Visible light is usually defined as having wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nanometres (nm), corresponding to frequencies of 750-420 terahertz, between the infrared (with longer ... |
17940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid | Lipid | In biology and biochemistry, a lipid is a macro biomolecule that is soluble in nonpolar solvents. Non-polar solvents are typically hydrocarbons used to dissolve other naturally occurring hydrocarbon lipid molecules that do not (or do not easily) dissolve in water, including fatty acids, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vit... |
17944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20algebra | Lie algebra | In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced "Lee") is a vector space together with an operation called the Lie bracket, an alternating bilinear map , that satisfies the Jacobi identity. The vector space together with this operation is a non-associative algebra, meaning that the Lie bracket is not necessarily associati... |
17945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20group | Lie group | In mathematics, a Lie group (pronounced "Lee") is a group that is also a differentiable manifold. A manifold is a space that locally resembles Euclidean space, whereas groups define the abstract concept of a binary operation along with the additional properties it must have to be a group, for instance multiplication a... |
17946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Erie | Lake Erie | Lake Erie () is the fourth largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. At its deepest point Lake Erie is deep.
... |
17947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Ontario | Lake Ontario | Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is surrounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York, whose water boundaries meet in the middle of the lake.
The Canadian cities of Toronto, Kingston, Mississauga, an... |
17948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Michigan | Lake Michigan | Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the narrow Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same sur... |
17949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci | Fibonacci | Fibonacci (; also , ; – ), also known as Leonardo Bonacci, Leonardo of Pisa, or Leonardo Bigollo Pisano ('Leonardo the Traveller from Pisa'), was an Italian mathematician from the Republic of Pisa, considered to be "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages".
The name he is commonly called, Fibonacci... |
17951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Superior | Lake Superior | Lake Superior is the largest and northernmost of the Great Lakes of North America, and among freshwater lakes, it is the world's largest by surface area and the third-largest by volume. It holds 10% of the world's surface fresh water. It is shared by Ontario, Canada, to the north, and states in the United States in oth... |
17955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig | Leipzig | Leipzig (, ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. With a population of 605,407 inhabitants as of 2021 (1.1 million residents in the larger urban zone), it surpasses the Saxon capital of Dresden, and is Germany's eighth most populous city as well as the second most populous city in the... |
17956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeWire | LimeWire | LimeWire is a discontinued free software peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) client for Windows, OS X, Linux and Solaris. LimeWire uses the gnutella network as well as the BitTorrent protocol. A zero-cost version and a purchasable "enhanced" version (called LimeWire Pro) were available; LimeWire Pro could be acquired throu... |
17957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latveria | Latveria | Latveria is a fictional country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is depicted within the storylines of Marvel's comic titles as an isolated European country ruled by the fictional Supreme Lord Doctor Doom, supposedly located in the Banat region. It is surrounded by the Carpathian Mountain... |
17961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least%20common%20multiple | Least common multiple | In arithmetic and number theory, the least common multiple, lowest common multiple, or smallest common multiple of two integers a and b, usually denoted by lcm(a, b), is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both a and b. Since division of integers by zero is undefined, this definition has meaning only if... |
17962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20St.%20Laurent | Louis St. Laurent | Louis Stephen St. Laurent (Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent; February 1, 1882 – July 25, 1973) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957.
Born and raised in southeastern Quebec, St. Laurent was a leading lawyer and a ... |
17964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20literary%20cycles | List of literary cycles | A literary cycle is a group of stories focused on common figures, often (though not necessarily) based on mythical figures or loosely on historical ones. Cycles which deal with an entire country are sometimes referred to as matters. A fictional cycle is often referred to as a mythos.
Examples from folk and classical l... |
17965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Leakey | Louis Leakey | Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having establishe... |
17967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%20paradox | Liar paradox | In philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is the statement of a liar that they are lying: for instance, declaring that "I am lying". If the liar is indeed lying, then the liar is telling the truth, which means the liar just lied. In "this sentence is a lie" the parado... |
17968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louch%C3%A9bem | Louchébem | Louchébem or loucherbem () is Parisian and Lyonnaise butchers' (French boucher) slang, similar to Pig Latin and Verlan. It originated in the mid-19th century and was in common use until the 1950s.
Process
The louchébem word-creation process resembles that of largonji, verlan, and javanais, in that existing words are c... |
17970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20M.%20Lederman | Leon M. Lederman | Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. He also received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for research on quarks... |
17971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD%20%28disambiguation%29 | LCD (disambiguation) | LCD is a liquid-crystal display, an electronic device.
LCD may also refer to:
Science and technology
Lowest common denominator, a mathematical quantity
Lacida, a cryptograph
Lattice corneal dystrophy
Liquor carbonis detergens, medical coal tar
Music
LCD (music act), a performance group
Loudest Common Denominat... |
17972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20the%20Pious | Louis the Pious | Louis the Pious (16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aquitaine from 781. As the only surviving son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's d... |
17973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20crystal | Liquid crystal | Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter that has properties between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For instance, a liquid crystal may flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a crystal-like way. There are many different types of liquid-crystal phases, which can be distinguis... |
17974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20gun | Long gun | A long gun is a category of firearms with long barrels. In small arms, a long gun or longarm is generally designed to be held by both hands and braced against the shoulder, in contrast to a handgun, which can be fired being held with a single hand. In the context of cannons and mounted firearms, an artillery long gun w... |
17981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20definite%20proportions | Law of definite proportions | In chemistry, the law of definite proportions, sometimes called Proust's law, or law of constant composition states that a given
chemical compound always contains its component elements in fixed ratio (by mass) and does not depend on its source and method of preparation. For example, oxygen makes up about 8/9 of the ... |
17982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo | Limbo | In Catholic theology, Limbo (Latin limbus, edge or boundary, referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned. Medieval theologians of Western Europe described the underworld ("hell", "hades", "infernum") as divided into four dis... |
17983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethe | Lethe | In Greek mythology, Lethe (; Ancient Greek: Lḗthē; , ), also referred to as Lemosyne, was one of the five rivers of the underworld of Hades. Also known as the Ameles potamos (river of unmindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld where all those who drank from it experienced com... |
17988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Sterne | Laurence Sterne | Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768), an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric, wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family travell... |
17989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20A | Linear A | Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 to 1450 BC to write the hypothesized Minoan language. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It was succeeded by Linear B, which was used by the Mycenaeans to write an early form of Gr... |
17990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm%20Games | Lucasfilm Games | Lucasfilm Games is an American video game licensor that is part of Lucasfilm. It was founded in May 1982 by George Lucas as a video game development group alongside his film company; as part of a larger 1990 reorganization of the Lucasfilm divisions, the video game development division was grouped and rebranded as part... |
17992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio%20Hearn | Lafcadio Hearn | , born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (; ), was a Greek writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. His writings offered unprecedented insight into Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Thing... |
17994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20theory%20%28education%29 | Learning theory (education) | Learning theory describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained.
Behaviorists look at learning ... |
17995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term%20memory | Long-term memory | Long-term memory (LTM) is the stage of the Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model in which informative knowledge is held indefinitely. It is defined in contrast to short-term and working memory, which persist for only about 18 to 30 seconds. Long-term memory is commonly labelled as explicit memory (declarative), as well as ep... |
17996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Latin%20phrases | List of Latin phrases |
This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English.
To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full)
The list also is divided alphabetically into twenty pages:
List of Latin phrases (A)
List of Latin phrases (B)
List of Latin phrases (C)
... |
17997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20declension | Latin declension | Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined, or have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number and gender. Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension. There are five declensions, which are numbered ... |
17998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Latin%20words%20with%20English%20derivatives | List of Latin words with English derivatives | This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).
Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of Englis... |
17999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20phonology%20and%20orthography | Latin phonology and orthography | Latin phonology continually evolved over the centuries, making it difficult for speakers in one era to know how Latin was spoken before then. A given phoneme may be represented by different letters in different periods. This article deals primarily with modern scholarship's best reconstruction of Classical Latin's phon... |
18000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20conjugation | Latin conjugation | In terms of linguistics and grammar, conjugation has two meanings. One meaning is the creation of derived forms of a verb from basic forms, or principal parts. It may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, mood, aspect, voice, or other language-specific factors.
The second meaning of the word conjugation is a ... |
18002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa%20May%20Alcott | Louisa May Alcott | Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she g... |
18003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDS | LDS | LDS may refer to:
Organizations
LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Religion
Latter Day Saint movement (LDS movement), a collection of independent church groups
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as Mormons
Latvijas Dievturu Sadraudze, a Latvian neopagan organization
Politics
L... |
18004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LALR%20parser | LALR parser | In computer science, an LALR parser or Look-Ahead LR parser is a simplified version of a canonical LR parser, to parse a text according to a set of production rules specified by a formal grammar for a computer language. ("LR" means left-to-right, rightmost derivation.)
The LALR parser was invented by Frank DeRemer in ... |
18008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20center | Language center | In neuroscience and psychology, the term language center refers collectively to the areas of the brain which serve a particular function for speech processing and production. Language is a core system, which gives humans the capacity to solve difficult problems and provides them with a unique type of social interaction... |
18009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift%20%28force%29 | Lift (force) | A fluid flowing around an object exerts a force on it. Lift is the component of this force that is perpendicular to the oncoming flow direction. It contrasts with the drag force, which is the component of the force parallel to the flow direction. Lift conventionally acts in an upward direction in order to counter the f... |
18010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20III%20the%20Isaurian | Leo III the Isaurian | Leo III the Isaurian (; 685 – 18 June 741), also known as the Syrian, was Byzantine Emperor from 717 until his death in 741 and founder of the Isaurian dynasty. He put an end to the Twenty Years' Anarchy, a period of great instability in the Byzantine Empire between 695 and 717, marked by the rapid succession of seve... |
18011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombards | Lombards | The Lombards () or Langobards () were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774, with origins near the Elbe in northern Germany and Scania in southern Sweden before the Migration Period.
The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the History of the Lombards (written between... |
18012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit | Limit | Limit or Limits may refer to:
Arts and media
Limit (manga), a manga by Keiko Suenobu
Limit (music), a way to characterize harmony
"Limit" (song), a 2016 single by Luna Sea
"Limits" (song), 2019 song that represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Limits (collection), a collection of short stories and... |
18013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki | Loki | Loki is a god in Norse mythology. According to some sources, Loki is the son of Fárbauti (a jötunn) and Laufey (mentioned as a goddess), and the brother of Helblindi and Býleistr. Loki is married to Sigyn and they have a son, Narfi and/or Nari. By the jötunn Angrboða, Loki is the father of Hel, the wolf Fenrir, and t... |
18016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp%20%28programming%20language%29 | Lisp (programming language) | Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year. Lisp has changed since its early days, and many dialects ... |
18019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20logarithmic%20identities | List of logarithmic identities | In mathematics, many logarithmic identities exist. The following is a compilation of the notable of these, many of which are used for computational purposes.
Trivial identities
Cancelling exponentials
Logarithms and exponentials with the same base cancel each other. This is true because logarithms and exponentials ... |
18020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20city | Lost city | A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world. The locations of many lost cities have been forgotten, but some have been rediscovered and studied extensi... |
18023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Agassiz | Louis Agassiz | Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Spending his early life in Switzerland, he received a doctor of philosophy and a medical degree at Erlangen and Munich, respec... |
18024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Bai | Li Bai | Li Bai (, 701–762), also known as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (), art name Qinglian Jushi (), was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and a romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were the two most prominent figures in the flou... |
18025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longship | Longship | Longships were a type of specialised Scandinavian warships that have a long history in Scandinavia, with their existence being archaeologically proven and documented from at least the fourth century BC. Originally invented and used by the Norsemen (commonly known as the Vikings) for commerce, exploration, and warfare d... |
18026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Alamanni | Luigi Alamanni | Luigi Alamanni (sometimes spelt Alemanni) (6 March 149518 April 1556) was an Italian poet and statesman. He was regarded as a prolific and versatile poet. He was credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry.
Biography
Alamanni was born in Florence. His father was a devoted adherent of the Medici party, b... |
18028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Aleman | Louis Aleman | Louis Aleman (16 September 1450) was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and a professed member of the now-suppressed Canons Regular of Saint John Baptist. He served as the Archbishop of Arles from 1423 until his resignation in 1440 when he had resigned from the cardinalate. But he was later reinstated as a cardinal on 19... |
18030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LR%20parser | LR parser | In computer science, LR parsers are a type of bottom-up parser that analyse deterministic context-free languages in linear time. There are several variants of LR parsers: SLR parsers, LALR parsers, Canonical LR(1) parsers, Minimal LR(1) parsers, and GLR parsers. LR parsers can be generated by a parser generator from a ... |
18031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Battista%20Alberti | Leon Battista Alberti | Leon Battista Alberti (; 14 February 1406 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of Western cryptography, a claim he shares with Jo... |
18033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Nemo | Little Nemo | Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He originated in an early comic strip by McCay, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, before receiving his own spin-off series, Little Nemo in Slumberland. The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by ... |
18034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad%20%28disambiguation%29 | Leningrad (disambiguation) | Leningrad is the former name of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Leningrad may also refer to:
Places
Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg
Mu'minobod, Tajikistan (former name)
Music
Leningrad (band), Russian ska/punk band
Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) (Op. 60), a symphony by Shostakovich, su... |
18039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia | Lydia | Lydia (Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, Śfarda; Aramaic: Lydia; , Lȳdíā; ) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provinces of Uşak, Manisa and inland İzmir. The language of its population, known as Lydian, was a member of the Anatolian branch of the In... |
18040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%27s%20End | Land's End | Land's End ( or Pedn an Wlas) is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, situated within the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road. To the east of it is the English Channel, and to the west the Celtic Sea.
Land's End is the most westerl... |
18041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber%20Memorialis | Liber Memorialis | The Liber Memorialis is an ancient book in Latin featuring an extremely concise summary—a kind of index—of universal history from earliest times to the reign of Trajan. It was written by Lucius Ampelius, who was possibly a tutor or schoolmaster.
Description
The book is dedicated to a Macrinus, who may have been the em... |
18043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot%20Andrewes | Lancelot Andrewes | Lancelot Andrewes (155525 September 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, of Ely, and of Winchester and oversaw the translation of the King J... |
18046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Tarquinius%20Priscus | Lucius Tarquinius Priscus | Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, or Tarquin the Elder, was the legendary fifth king of Rome and first of its Etruscan dynasty. He reigned thirty-eight years. Tarquinius expanded Roman power through military conquest and grand architectural constructions. His wife was the prophet Tanaquil.
Not much is known about the early ... |
18047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Tarquinius%20Superbus | Lucius Tarquinius Superbus | Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (died 495 BC) was the legendary seventh and final king of Rome, reigning 25 years until the popular uprising that led to the establishment of the Roman Republic. He is commonly known as Tarquin the Proud, from his cognomen Superbus (Latin for "proud, arrogant, lofty").
Ancient accounts of th... |
18048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian%20socialism | Libertarian socialism | Libertarian socialism, also referred to as anarcho-socialism, anarchist socialism, free socialism, stateless socialism, socialist anarchism and socialist libertarianism, is an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist and libertarian political philosophy within the socialist movement which rejects the state socialist conception... |
18049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy | Livy | Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own lifetime. He was on famili... |
18051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20Day | Labour Day | Labour Day (Labor Day in the United States) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.
For most countries, L... |
18053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline | Bodyline | Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia. It was designed to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's leading batsman, Don Bradman. A bodyline delivery was one in which the cricket ball was bowled,... |
18056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws%20of%20infernal%20dynamics | Laws of infernal dynamics | The laws of infernal dynamics are an adage about the cursedness of the universe. Attributed to Science fiction author David Gerrold, the laws are as follows:
An object in motion will be moving in the wrong direction.
An object at rest will be in the wrong place.
The energy required to move an object in the correct dir... |
18057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Erdrich | Louise Erdrich | Louise Erdrich ( ; born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe an... |
18058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20literature | Latin literature | Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play was performed in Rome. Latin literature would flourish for the next six centuries. The classical era of Latin literature c... |
18060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Bloomfield | Leonard Bloomfield | Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism. His influential textbook Language, published in 1933, presented a comprehen... |
18062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather | Leather | Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffalo, pigs and hogs, and aquatic animals such as seals and alligators.
Leather can be used to make... |
18065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Parliament | Long Parliament | The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to convene on 3... |
18069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubricant | Lubricant | A lubricant is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move. It may also have the function of transmitting forces, transporting foreign particles, or heating or cooling the surfaces. The property of reducing friction is... |
18070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise%20Meitner | Lise Meitner | Elise Meitner ( , ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was a leading Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on radioactivity, she discovered the radioactive isotope protactinium-231 in 1... |
18071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama | Llama | The llama (; ) (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.
Llamas are social animals and live with others as a herd. Their wool is soft and contains only a small amount of lanolin. Llamas can learn simple tasks after a few... |
18073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%20cut | L cut | An L cut is a variant of a split edit film editing technique in which the audio from preceding scene overlaps the picture from the following scene, so that the audio cuts after the picture, and continues playing over the beginning of the next scene.
The name of the cut refers to the shape of audio and video pieces of ... |
18077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon | Lexicon | A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word lexicon derives from Greek word (), neuter of () meaning 'of or for words'.
Linguistic theories generally regard human languages as consisting of t... |
18079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20da%20Vinci | Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for his notebooks, in which he ... |
18080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse | Lacrosse | Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins in indigenous Canada as early as the 17th century. The game was extensively modified by European colonists, reducing the violence, to create its current collegiate and professio... |
18081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool | Liverpool | Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the tenth largest English district by population, and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom with a population of 2.24 million. Liverpool is also the core centre for the wider Liverpool Ci... |
18084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20jump | Long jump | The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". This event has a history in th... |
18085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%20%28given%20name%29 | Luke (given name) | Luke is a male given name, and less commonly, a surname.
The name Luke is the English form of the Latin name .
Although the name is attested in ancient inscriptions, the best known historical use of the name is in the New Testament. The Gospel of Luke was written around 70 to 90 AD (the exact years are unknown). Luk... |
18087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdaleite | Lonsdaleite | Lonsdaleite (named in honour of Kathleen Lonsdale), also called hexagonal diamond in reference to the crystal structure, is an allotrope of carbon with a hexagonal lattice, as opposed to the cubical lattice of conventional diamond. It is found in nature in meteorite debris; when meteors containing graphite strike the E... |
18088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrador%20duck | Labrador duck | The Labrador duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius) was a North American bird; it has the distinction of being the first endemic North American bird species to become extinct after the Columbian Exchange, with the last known sighting occurring in 1878 in Elmira, New York. It was already a rare duck before European settlers ... |
18089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres%20de%20cachet | Lettres de cachet | Lettres de cachet (; ) were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal. They contained orders directly from the king, often to enforce arbitrary actions and judgments that could not be appealed.
In the case of organized bodies, 'lettres de cachet’ were i... |
18090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilia%20Podkopayeva | Lilia Podkopayeva | Lilia Oleksandrivna Podkopayeva (; born August 15, 1978) is a Ukrainian former artistic gymnast. She is the 1995 world all-around champion, and the 1996 Olympic all-around and floor exercise champion. Often thought of as a complete athlete, Podkopayeva was known for combining power, style, and balletic grace.
Gymnasti... |
18091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon | Lisbon | Lisbon (; ) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the 11th-most populous urban area in ... |
18093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Group | Local Group | The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way.
It has a total diameter of roughly , and a total mass of the order of .
It consists of two collections of galaxies in a "dumbbell" shape: the Milky Way and its satellites form one lobe, and the Andromeda Galaxy and its satellites constitute the other. Th... |
18094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre | Litre | The litre (British English spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metre (m3). A cubic decimetre (or litre) occupies a volume of (see figure) and is thus equ... |
18095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguist%20%28disambiguation%29 | Linguist (disambiguation) | A linguist is a specialist in the academic study of language.
Linguist may also refer to:
A language professional such as a:
Translator
Interpreter
Colloquially, a polyglot, a person skilled in several languages
The Linguist, a bimonthly magazine of the U.K. Chartered Institute of Linguists
Maurice Linguist (bo... |
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