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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavr%20Kornilov
Lavr Kornilov
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (, ; – 13 April 1918) was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War. Kornilov was of Siberian Cossack origin. Today he is best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful endeavor i...
18100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20L.%20Zamenhof
L. L. Zamenhof
L. L. Zamenhof (15 December 185914 April 1917) was an ophthalmologist who lived for most of his life in Warsaw. He is best known as the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language. Zamenhof first developed the language in 1873 while still in school. He grew up fascinated by ...
18102
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20map
Linear map
In mathematics, and more specifically in linear algebra, a linear map (also called a linear mapping, linear transformation, vector space homomorphism, or in some contexts linear function) is a mapping between two vector spaces that preserves the operations of vector addition and scalar multiplication. The same names ...
18103
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden%20jar
Leyden jar
A Leyden jar (or Leiden jar, or archaically, sometimes Kleistian jar) is an electrical component which stores a high-voltage electric charge (from an external source) between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar. It typically consists of a glass jar with metal foil cemented to the inside and ...
18109
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon%20Wall
Lennon Wall
The Lennon Wall or John Lennon Wall is a wall in Prague, Czech Republic. Since the 1980s this once typical wall has been filled with John Lennon-inspired graffiti, lyrics from Beatles' songs, and designs relating to local and global causes. History and ongoing development Located in a small and secluded square across ...
18110
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (; ; , , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in California. With a 2020 population of 3,898,747, it is the second-largest city in the United States, following New York City. Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, Hollywood film industry ...
18111
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepus%20%28constellation%29
Lepus (constellation)
Lepus (, ) is a constellation lying just south of the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for hare. It is located below—immediately south—of Orion (the hunter), and is sometimes represented as a hare being chased by Orion or by Orion's hunting dogs. Although the hare does not represent any particular figure in Gree...
18112
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupus%20%28constellation%29
Lupus (constellation)
Lupus is a constellation of the mid-Southern Sky. Its name is Latin for wolf. Lupus was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations but was long an asterism associated with the just westerly, larger constellation Centaurus. History and m...
18113
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra
Lyra
Lyra (; Latin for lyre, from Greek λύρα) is a small constellation. It is one of the 48 listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and is one of the modern 88 constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Lyra was often represented on star maps as a vulture or an eagle carrying a lyre, and hence ...
18115
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legnica
Legnica
Legnica (Polish: ; , , , ) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda. Between 1 June 1975 and 31 December 1998 Legnica was the capital of the Legnica Voivodeship. It is currently the seat of the county and since 1992 the...
18119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20F.C.
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Domestically, the club has won nineteen League titles, seven FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and fifteen FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the...
18120
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysosome
Lysosome
A lysosome () is a membrane-bound organelle found in many animal cells. They are spherical vesicles that contain hydrolytic enzymes that can break down many kinds of biomolecules. A lysosome has a specific composition, of both its membrane proteins, and its lumenal proteins. The lumen's pH (~4.5–5.0) is optimal for th...
18121
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg%20spin
Leg spin
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the pitch. For a right-handed batsman, that is away from the leg side, and this is ...
18123
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp%20machine
Lisp machine
Lisp machines are general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software and programming language, usually via hardware support. They are an example of a high-level language computer architecture, and in a sense, they were the first commercial single-user workstations. Despite being modest in...
18125
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links%20%28web%20browser%29
Links (web browser)
Links is an open source text and graphical web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support (including tables and frames and support for multiple character sets such as UTF-8), supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling. It is intended for us...
18126
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20object
Learning object
A learning object is "a collection of content items, practice items, and assessment items that are combined based on a single learning objective". The term is credited to Wayne Hodgins, and dates from a working group in 1994 bearing the name. The concept encompassed by 'Learning Objects' is known by numerous other ter...
18129
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Labour%20parties
List of Labour parties
The name Labour (or Labor) Party, or similar, is used by political parties around the world, particularly in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. They are usually, but not exclusively, social-democratic or democratic-socialist and traditionally allied to trade unions and the labour movement. Many labour parties ar...
18130
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana (Standard French: ; ; French: La Louisiane [/lwi.zjan/]) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi t...
18131
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20International%20Airport
Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport , commonly referred to as LAX (with each of its letters pronounced individually), is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area. LAX is located in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, southwest of Downtown Los Angeles, with th...
18133
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20T%C3%A8ne%20culture
La Tène culture
The La Tène culture (; ) was a European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from about 450 BCE to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BCE), succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any definite cultural break, under considerable Mediterranean influence from the Greek...
18135
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz%20curve
Lorenz curve
In economics, the Lorenz curve is a graphical representation of the distribution of income or of wealth. It was developed by Max O. Lorenz in 1905 for representing inequality of the wealth distribution. The curve is a graph showing the proportion of overall income or wealth assumed by the bottom x% of the people, alth...
18136
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate%20programming
Literate programming
Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given an explanation of its logic in a natural language, such as English, interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable source code can be generated. The approach is used in...
18137
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic%20map
Logistic map
The logistic map is a polynomial mapping (equivalently, recurrence relation) of degree 2, often cited as an archetypal example of how complex, chaotic behaviour can arise from very simple non-linear dynamical equations. The map was popularized in a 1976 paper by the biologist Robert May, in part as a discrete-time demo...
18138
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant
Levant
The Levant () is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to a stretch of land bordering the Mediterranean in southwestern Asia, i....
18139
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League%20of%20Nations%20mandate
League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League of Nations. These were of the nature ...
18142
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudon%20Classic
Loudon Classic
The Loudon Classic, held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (formerly Bryar Motorsport Park and New Hampshire International Speedway) is the longest running motorcycle race in the United States, and is held every year on Father's Day. While it is popularly known as Laconia, the location of the race was moved from Belk...
18143
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%2C%20New%20Hampshire
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Lincoln is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the second-largest town by area in New Hampshire. The population was 1,631 at the 2020 census. The town is home to the New Hampshire Highland Games and to a portion of Franconia Notch State Park. Set in the White Mountains, large portions of the t...
18145
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20laser%20applications
List of laser applications
Many scientific, military, medical and commercial laser applications have been developed since the invention of the laser in 1958. The coherency, high monochromaticity, and ability to reach extremely high powers are all properties which allow for these specialized applications. Scientific In science, lasers are used ...
18148
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-arm%20orthodox%20spin
Left-arm orthodox spin
Left-arm orthodox spin, Left-arm off spin also known as slow left-arm orthodox spin bowling, is a type of left-arm finger spin bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left-arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch (from the bowler's perspective)...
18151
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20construction
Laser construction
A laser is constructed from three principal parts: An energy source (usually referred to as the pump or pump source), A gain medium or laser medium, and Two or more mirrors that form an optical resonator. Pump source The pump source is the part that provides energy to the laser system. Examples of pump sources inclu...
18152
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20conjunction
Logical conjunction
In logic, mathematics and linguistics, And () is the truth-functional operator of logical conjunction; the and of a set of operands is true if and only if all of its operands are true. The logical connective that represents this operator is typically written as or . is true if and only if is true and is true. An ...
18153
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20connective
Logical connective
In logic, a logical connective (also called a logical operator, sentential connective, or sentential operator) is a logical constant. They can be used to connect logical formulas. For instance in the syntax of propositional logic, the binary connective can be used to join the two atomic formulas and , rendering the c...
18154
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional%20calculus
Propositional calculus
Propositional calculus is a branch of logic. It is also called propositional logic, statement logic, sentential calculus, sentential logic, or sometimes zeroth-order logic. It deals with propositions (which can be true or false) and relations between propositions, including the construction of arguments based on them....
18155
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20evaluation
Lazy evaluation
In programming language theory, lazy evaluation, or call-by-need, is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed (non-strict evaluation) and which also avoids repeated evaluations (sharing). The benefits of lazy evaluation include: The ability to define control flow ...
18156
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuridae
Lemuridae
Lemuridae is a family of strepsirrhine primates native to Madagascar and the Comoros. They are represented by the Lemuriformes in Madagascar with one of the highest concentration of the lemurs. One of five families commonly known as lemurs. These animals were once thought to be the evolutionary predecessors of monkeys ...
18157
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent
Lucent
Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. Luce...
18158
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia
Lupercalia
Lupercalia was a pastoral festival of Ancient Rome observed annually on February 15 to purify the city, promoting health and fertility. Lupercalia was also known as dies Februatus, after the purification instruments called februa, the basis for the month named Februarius. Name The festival was originally known as Feb...
18162
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20atheists
Lists of atheists
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the lack of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. This is a compilation of the various lists of atheists with articles on Wikipedia by category. Living persons in these lists are people whose atheism is rele...
18163
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Buddhists
List of Buddhists
This is a list of notable Buddhists, encompassing all the major branches of the religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and including interdenominational and eclectic Buddhist practitioners. This list includes both formal teachers of Buddhism, and people notable in other areas who are publicly Buddhist or who have espoused Buddhi...
18166
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20agnostics
List of agnostics
Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as theologically agnostic. Also included are individuals who have expressed the view that the veracity of a god's existence is unknown or inherently unknowable. List Activists and authors Saul Alinsky (1909–1972): American community organizer and writer; Rules f...
18167
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked%20list
Linked list
In computer science, a linked list is a linear collection of data elements whose order is not given by their physical placement in memory. Instead, each element points to the next. It is a data structure consisting of a collection of nodes which together represent a sequence. In its most basic form, each node contains:...
18168
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20gate
Logic gate
A logic gate is an idealized model of computation or a physical electronic device implementing a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate, one that has for instance zero rise tim...
18171
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20search
Linear search
In computer science, a linear search or sequential search is a method for finding an element within a list. It sequentially checks each element of the list until a match is found or the whole list has been searched. A linear search runs in at worst linear time and makes at most comparisons, where is the length of th...
18172
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20mine
Land mine
A land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it. Such a device is typically detonated automatically by way of pressure when a target steps on it or drives over it, although o...
18173
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20libertarian%20political%20parties
List of libertarian political parties
Many countries and subnational political entities have libertarian parties. Although these parties may describe themselves as libertarian, they follow classical liberalism and their ideologies differ considerably, and not all of them support all elements of libertarianism. Most of these political parties are right-libe...
18175
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwa
Lwa
( ), also called loa or loi, are spirits in the African diasporic religion of Haitian Vodou. They have also been incorporated into some revivalist forms of Louisiana Voodoo. Many of the lwa derive their identities in part from deities venerated in the traditional religions of West Africa, especially those of the Fon an...
18178
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20economics
Labour economics
Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as parts of a social, institutional, or political system, labour economics is often regarded...
18179
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas
Lammas
Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, "loaf-mass"), also known as Loaf Mass Day, is a Christian holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere on 1 August. The name originates from the word "loaf" in reference to bread and "Mass" in reference to the primary Christian liturgy celebrating Ho...
18182
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmeadow%2C%20Massachusetts
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Longmeadow is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, in the United States. The population was 15,853 at the 2020 census. History Longmeadow was first settled in 1644, and officially incorporated October 17, 1783. The town was originally farmland within the limits of Springfield. It remained relatively pastoral until...
18183
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20relative%20direction
Body relative direction
Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's. The most common ones are: left and right; forward(s) and backward(s); up and down. They form three pairs of orthogonal axes. Traditions and conventions Since definitions of left and...
18184
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard
Lizard
Lizards (suborder Lacertilia) are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia; some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded gr...
18185
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20deists
List of deists
This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as Deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scriptures or prophets. They have been selected for their influence on Deis...
18187
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Leviticus
Book of Leviticus
The Book of Leviticus (, from Leuïtikón; Vayyīqrāʾ, "And He called") is the third book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses; scholars generally agree that it developed over a long period of time, reaching its present form during the Persian Period between 538–...
18188
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20Frank%20Baum
L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum (; May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 ...
18189
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Ladoga
Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga ( or , [earlier in Finnish Nevajärvi]; ; ) is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake located entirely in Europe, the second largest lake after Baikal in Russia, and the 14th largest fres...
18190
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20family
Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...
18194
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looe%20Island
Looe Island
Looe Island (, meaning Island of the Monk's Enclosure), also known as St George's Island, and historically St Michael's Island is a small island nature reserve a mile from the mainland town of Looe off Cornwall, England. According to local legend, Joseph of Arimathea landed here with the Christ Child. Some scholars, i...
18195
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
LaTeX
LaTeX ( or , often stylized as ) is a software system for document preparation. When writing, the writer uses plain text as opposed to the formatted text found in "What You See Is What You Get" word processors like Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer and Apple Pages. The writer uses markup tagging conventions to defin...
18196
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20saints
List of saints
This sortable list of Christian saints includes—where known—a surname, location, and personal attribute (or those attributes included as part of the historical name). Listed Canonized Roman Catholic saints have been through a formal institutional process resulting in their canonization. There have been thousands of c...
18198
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%20measure
Lebesgue measure
In measure theory, a branch of mathematics, the Lebesgue measure, named after French mathematician Henri Lebesgue, is the standard way of assigning a measure to subsets of n-dimensional Euclidean space. For n = 1, 2, or 3, it coincides with the standard measure of length, area, or volume. In general, it is also called ...
18201
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Champlain
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain ( ; ; Abenaki: Pitawbagw ["At Lake Champlain" (loc.):Pitawbagok] ; ) is a natural freshwater lake in North America mainly within the borders of the United States (in the states of Vermont and New York) but also across the Canada–U.S. border into the Canadian province of Quebec. The New York portion of ...
18203
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20calculus
Lambda calculus
Lambda calculus (also written as λ-calculus) is a formal system in mathematical logic for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application using variable binding and substitution. It is a universal model of computation that can be used to simulate any Turing machine. It was introduced by the mathema...
18208
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy%20compression
Lossy compression
In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data encoding methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content. These techniques are used to reduce data size for storing, handling, and transmitting content. The different versions of t...
18209
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless%20compression
Lossless compression
Lossless compression is a class of data compression that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data. By contrast, lossy compression permits reconstruction only of an approximation of the original data, though usually with greatly improved compression rates (and therefore reduced me...
18210
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Niven
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America...
18212
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20distribution
Linux distribution
A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading one of the Linux distributions, which are available for a wide variety of sys...
18213
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn, which later became a borough of New York City, the team joined the NL in 18...
18214
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Andriessen
Louis Andriessen
Louis Joseph Andriessen (; 6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although his music was initially dominated by neoclassicism and serialism, his style ...
18217
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Peltier
Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is an American Indian activist and mainstay member of the American Indian Movement who, following a controversial trial, was convicted of aiding and abetting murder and has been imprisoned since 1977. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for aiding and...
18221
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO
LambdaMOO
LambdaMOO is an online community of the variety called a MOO. It is the oldest MOO today. LambdaMOO was founded in 1990 by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC. Now hosted in the state of Washington, it is operated and administered entirely on a volunteer basis. Guests are allowed, and membership is free to anyone with an e-...
18223
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorica%20segmentata
Lorica segmentata
The lorica segmentata (), also called lorica lamminata (; see §Name), is a type of personal armour that was used by soldiers of the Roman Empire, consisting of metal strips fashioned into circular bands, fastened to internal leather straps. The lorica segmentata has come to be viewed as iconic of the Roman legions in p...
18224
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known%20Space
Known Space
Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven. It has also become a shared universe in the spin-off Man-Kzin Wars anthologies. ISFDB catalogs all works set in the fictional universe that includes Known Space under the series ...
18225
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoy%20Homer%20Jr.
LeRoy Homer Jr.
LeRoy Wilton Homer Jr. (August 27, 1965 – September 11, 2001) was the First Officer of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 37 passengers and seven crewmembers, including LeRoy. Biography Homer, ...
18227
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGB
LGB
LGB may refer to: Places La Grande Boissière, a campus of the International School of Geneva Long Beach Airport (IATA code), California, US Other uses The Larger Grain Borer (LGB), Prostephanus truncatus Laser-guided bomb Lectures on Government and Binding, a book by Noam Chomsky "Lesbian, gay, and bisexual", ...
10237729
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azizi%20Bank
Azizi Bank
Azizi Bank is one of the largest commercial banks in Afghanistan, having more than 80 branches including extension counters and 101 ATMs in Kabul and throughout the country. The bank opened on June 13, 2006, and is headquartered in Zanbaq Square, Kabul, Afghanistan. The banks caters to a wide gamut of products and ser...
18230
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Jet%C3%A9e
La Jetée
La Jetée () is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white. It won the Prix Jea...
18232
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20penguin
Little penguin
The little penguin (Eudyptula minor) is the smallest species of penguin. It grows to an average of in height and in length, though specific measurements vary by subspecies. It is found on the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand, with possible records from Chile. In Australia, they are often called fairy...
18233
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Balaton
Lake Balaton
Lake Balaton (, , , , , Slovene: Blatno jezero) is a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalised Sió is the only outflow. The m...
18234
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro%20de%20los%20Juegos
Libro de los Juegos
The Libro de los Juegos ("Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León and completed in his scriptorium in Toledo in 1283. It contains the earliest European treatise on chess as well as being the oldes...
18236
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20citrate
Lithium citrate
Lithium citrate (Li3C6H5O7) is a chemical compound of lithium and citrate that is used as a mood stabilizer in psychiatric treatment of manic states and bipolar disorder. There is extensive pharmacology of lithium, the active component of this salt. Lithia water contains various lithium salts, including the citrate. A...
18237
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20carbonate
Lithium carbonate
Lithium carbonate is an inorganic compound, the lithium salt of carbonate with the formula . This white salt is widely used in the processing of metal oxides. It is listed on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines because it can be used as a treatment for mood disorders such as bipolar disorder. U...
18238
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar%20Roving%20Vehicle
Lunar Roving Vehicle
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the term dune buggy. Built by Boeing, each LRV has a mass of without payload. It cou...
18240
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Kickapoo
Lake Kickapoo
Lake Kickapoo is a reservoir in Archer County, Texas. Created in 1947. It has a surface area of . Named after the Kickapoo tribe native to the area. One of the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System (formerly NAVSPASUR) sites is located at Lake Kickapoo (). It is the master transmitter and the most powerful continuo...
18243
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20%28disambiguation%29
Land (disambiguation)
Land is the solid surface of the Earth that is not covered by water. Land, lands, The Land or the Lands may also refer to: Entertainment and media Film Land (1987 film), a British television film by Barry Collins Land (2018 film), an international drama by Babak Jalali Land (2021 film), a drama directed by and star...
18245
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth
Labyrinth
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (, ) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the hero Theseus. Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that he could bar...
18246
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon%20%26%20Healy
Lyon & Healy
Lyon & Healy Harps, Inc. is an American musical instrument manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois and is a subsidiary of Salvi Harps. Today best known for concert harps, the company's Chicago headquarters and manufacturing facility contains a showroom and concert hall. George W. Lyon and Patrick J. Healy began the com...
18247
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20philosophy%20articles%20%28A%E2%80%93C%29
Index of philosophy articles (A–C)
',-," 'Pataphysics" theory of conservatism Mahesh sonavane 0–9 14th Dalai Lama 16 Questions on the Assassination 1649 in philosophy 1658 in philosophy 17th-century philosophy 18th-century philosophy 1919 United States anarchist bombings 1922 in philosophy 1926 in philosophy 1962 in philosophy 1972 in ...
18271
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini
Lamborghini
Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. () is an Italian brand and manufacturer of luxury sports cars and SUVs based in Sant'Agata Bolognese. The company is owned by the Volkswagen Group through its subsidiary Audi. Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian manufacturing magnate, founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. in 1963 ...
18272
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGrand%20case
LaGrand case
The LaGrand case was a legal action heard before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which concerned the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In the case, the ICJ ruled that its own temporary court orders were legally binding and that the rights contained in the convention could not be denied by the applicatio...
18273
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%201-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (later part of IBM). It was the first killer application of the IBM PC, was hugely popular in the 1980s, and significantly contributed to the success of IBM PC-compatibles. The first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, had helped launch the Apple II as one of th...
18274
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20memorials%20to%20Lyndon%20B.%20Johnson
List of memorials to Lyndon B. Johnson
This is a list of memorials to Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Buildings Lyndon B. Johnson Student Center, a complex including teaching theaters, shops, a student pool hall, and office space located at the Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas; President Johnson's college alma mater....
18278
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation%20Day%20%28Netherlands%29
Liberation Day (Netherlands)
Liberation Day () is a public holiday in the Netherlands celebrated each year on 5 May to mark the end of the occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II. It follows the Remembrance of the Dead (Dodenherdenking) on 4 May. The nation was liberated by Canadian forces, British infantry divisions, the British I Corps, ...
18279
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20pollution
Light pollution
Light pollution is the presence of unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting. In a descriptive sense, the term "light pollution" refers to the effects of any poorly implemented lighting, during the day or night. These effects can be found as an issue throughout the levels of our societies, impacting all...
18285
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange%20point
Lagrange point
In celestial mechanics, the Lagrange points (also Lagrangian points, L-points, or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the influence of two massive orbiting bodies. Mathematically, this involves the solution of the restricted three-body problem in which two bodies are very much more...
18286
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid%20dream
Lucid dream
A lucid dream is a type of dream where the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of control over the dream characters, narrative, or environment; however, this is not actually necessary for a dream to be described as lucid. Lucid dreaming has been studied a...
18288
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric
Lyric
Lyric may refer to: Lyrics, the words, often in verse form, which are sung, usually to a melody, and constitute the semantic content of a song Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view Lyric, from the Greek language, a song that is played with a lyre Lyric describes, in t...
18290
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting%20diode
Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. The color of the light (corresponding to the energy of the photons) is determined by the energy required for...
18291
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish ( ; also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; Luxembourgish: ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 600,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. As a standard form of the Moselle Franconian language, Luxembourgish has similarities with other varieties of High...
18292
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%20Kuleshov
Lev Kuleshov
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He was given the title People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969. He was intimately involved in development of the style of film making known as...
18295
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20system
Legacy system
In computing, a legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program, "of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system," yet still in use. Often referencing a system as "legacy" means that it paved the way for the standards that would follow it. This can also imply that t...