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18297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamentations%20%28disambiguation%29 | Lamentations (disambiguation) | The Book of Lamentations is part of the Old Testament or Pentateuch.
Lamentations may also refer to:
Lamentations (Solstice album), a 1994 album by British band Solstice
Lamentations (Ngaiire album), a 2014 album by Australian artist Ngaiire
Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003), a live DVD by the band... |
18298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar%20eclipse | Lunar eclipse | A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned (in syzygy) with Earth between the other two, and only on the night of a full moon. The type and length of a lunar eclipse depend on the Moon's proximity to either no... |
18303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber%20Pontificalis | Liber Pontificalis | The Liber Pontificalis (Latin for 'pontifical book' or Book of the Popes) is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The original publication of the Liber Pontificalis stopped with Pope Adrian II (867–872) or Pope Stephen V (885–891), but it was later supplemented in a different style un... |
18306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20alphabet | Latin alphabet | The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language and its extensions used to write modern languages.
Etymology
The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets... |
18307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugh | Lugh | Lugh or Lug (; ) is one of the most prominent gods in Irish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, Lugh is portrayed as a warrior, a king, a master craftsman and a savior. He is associated with skill and mastery in multiple disciplines, including the arts. He is also associated with oaths, truth and the law, and... |
18308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanide | Lanthanide | The lanthanide () or lanthanoid () series of chemical elements comprises the 15 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers 57–71, from lanthanum through lutetium. These elements, along with the chemically similar elements scandium and yttrium, are often collectively known as the rare-earth elements or rare-earth me... |
18309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer | Lucifer | Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. The entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage where the Ancient Greek figure's name was historically used (Isaiah 14:12)... |
18310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20phage | Lambda phage | Enterobacteria phage λ (lambda phage, coliphage λ, officially Escherichia virus Lambda) is a bacterial virus, or bacteriophage, that infects the bacterial species Escherichia coli (E. coli). It was discovered by Esther Lederberg in 1950. The wild type of this virus has a temperate life cycle that allows it to either r... |
18313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Armstrong | Louis Armstrong | Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He is among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and different eras in the history of jazz.
Armstrong was born and raised in New Orleans. Coming to ... |
18315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Island | Long Island | Long Island is a heavily urbanized and densely populated island in the southeastern geographical area of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. It begins at New York Harbor approximately east of Manhattan Island and extends eastward over into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four ... |
18317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Peninsula%20of%20Michigan | Lower Peninsula of Michigan | The Lower Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Lower Michigan – is the southern and less elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; the other being the Upper Peninsula, which is separated by the Straits of Mackinac. It is surrounded by water on all sides except its southern border, w... |
18318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Toba | Lake Toba | Lake Toba () (Toba Batak: ᯖᯀᯬ ᯖᯬᯅ) is a large natural lake in North Sumatra, Indonesia, occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is located in the middle of the northern part of the island of Sumatra, with a surface elevation of about , the lake stretches from to . The lake is about long, wide, and up to d... |
18320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens | Lens | A lens is a transmissive optical device which focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent material, while a compound lens consists of several simple lenses (elements), usually arranged along a common axis. Lenses are made from materials such as glass... |
18322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamorna%20Birch | Lamorna Birch | Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch, RA, RWS (7 June 1869 – 7 January 1955) was an English artist in oils and watercolours. At the suggestion of fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, Birch adopted the soubriquet "Lamorna" to distinguish himself from Lionel Birch, an artist who was also working in the area at that time.
Biography
La... |
18323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDP | LDP | LDP may mean:
Politics
Liberal Democratic Party (disambiguation), a list of liberal democratic parties
Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, a political party in the Philippines
Lebanese Democratic Party, a political party in Lebanon
League for Democracy Party, a political party in Cambodia
Liberal Democratic Party of Ger... |
18325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour | Labour | Labour or labor may refer to:
Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
Labour (human activity), or work
Manual labour, physical work
Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
Organized labour and the labour movement, consisting principally of labour unions
Literature
Labor (journal), ... |
18327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20of%20Congress%20Classification | Library of Congress Classification | The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries.
LCC should not be confused with LC... |
18328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20classification | Library classification | A library classification is a system of knowledge organization by which library resources are arranged and ordered systematically. Library classifications are a notational system that represents the order of topics in the classification and allows items to be stored in that order. Library classification systems group r... |
18329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus | Lexus | is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automaker Toyota. The Lexus brand is marketed in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide and is Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. It has ranked among the 10 largest Japanese global brands in market value. Lexus is headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Opera... |
18330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20status%20of%20transgender%20people | Legal status of transgender people | A person may be considered to be a transgender person if their gender identity is inconsistent or not culturally associated with the sex they were assigned at birth, and consequently also with the gender role and social status that is typically associated with that sex. They may have, or may intend to establish, a new ... |
18331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligase | Ligase | In biochemistry, a ligase is an enzyme that can catalyze the joining (ligation) of two large molecules by forming a new chemical bond. This is typically via hydrolysis of a small pendant chemical group on one of the larger molecules or the enzyme catalyzing the linking together of two compounds, e.g., enzymes that cata... |
18334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo%20%28programming%20language%29 | Logo (programming language) | Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. Logo is not an acronym: the name was coined by Feurzeig while he was at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, and derives from the Greek logos, meaning word or thought.
A general-purpose language, Logo is widely k... |
18337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20rites | Last rites | In Catholicism, the last rites, also known as the Commendation of the Dying, are the last prayers and ministrations given to an individual of the faith, when possible, shortly before death. They may be administered to those awaiting execution, mortally injured, or terminally ill. Last rites cannot be performed on someo... |
18338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamorna | Lamorna | Lamorna () is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately south of Penzance. Lamorna became popular with the artists of the Newlyn School, including Alfred Munnings, Laura Knight and Harold Knight, and is also known for former residents Derek and Jean Tangye w... |
18339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20multiple%20proportions | Law of multiple proportions | In chemistry, the law of multiple proportions states that if two elements form more than one compound, then the ratios of the masses of the second element which combine with a fixed mass of the first element will always be ratios of small whole numbers. This law is sometimes called Dalton's Law, named after John Dalton... |
18340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20averages | Law of averages | The law of averages is the commonly held belief that a particular outcome or event will, over certain periods of time, occur at a frequency that is similar to its probability. Depending on context or application it can be considered a valid common-sense observation or a misunderstanding of probability. This notion can ... |
18341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20linguistics | Outline of linguistics | The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to linguistics:
Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics can be theoretical or applied.
Branches of linguistics
Subfields of linguistics
Theoretical linguistics - t... |
18342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20law | Outline of law | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to law:
Law (article link) is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which a society is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities. Law is also the field that concerns the creation and administration of laws, and includes any and a... |
18345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20literature | Outline of literature | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to literature (prose, written or oral, including fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry). See also the Outline of poetry.
What type of thing is literature?
Literature can be described as all of the following:
Communication – activity of conve... |
18352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AvtoVAZ | AvtoVAZ | AvtoVAZ () is a Russian automobile manufacturing company founded in 1966. It was formerly named as VAZ (), an acronym for Volga Automotive Plant in Russian (). AvtoVAZ is best known for its flagship series of Lada vehicles. In the Soviet Union, its products used various names, including Zhiguli, Oka, and Sputnik, which... |
18353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundy | Lundy | Lundy is an English island in the Bristol Channel. It forms part of the district of Torridge in the county of Devon.
About long and wide, Lundy has had a long and turbulent history, frequently changing hands between the British crown and various usurpers. In the 1920s, one self-proclaimed king, Martin Harman, tried ... |
18356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindow%20Man | Lindow Man | Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England. The remains were found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat cutters. Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the mos... |
18360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombok | Lombok | Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east. It is roughly circular, with a "tail" (Sekotong Peninsula) to the southwest, about ... |
18362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego | Lego | Lego ( , ; stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. , Lego was the largest toy company in the world. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks accompanying ... |
18364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlai%20people | Hlai people | The Hlai, also known as Li or Lizu, are a Kra–Dai-speaking ethnic group, one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. The vast majority live off the southern coast of China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group. Divided into the five branches of the Q... |
18365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminance | Luminance | Luminance is a photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction. It describes the amount of light that passes through, is emitted from, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
Brightness is the term for the subjective impression... |
18366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycos | Lycos | Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Kakao.
Etymology
The word "Lycos... |
18367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luton%20Town%20F.C. | Luton Town F.C. | Luton Town Football Club () is a professional association football club based in the town of Luton, Bedfordshire, England, that competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1885, it is nicknamed 'the Hatters' and affiliated to the Bedfordshire County Football Associati... |
18369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar%20calendar | Lunar calendar | A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based only directly on the solar year. The most commonly used calendar, the Gregorian calendar, is a solar calendar system that originally evolved out of a... |
18372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Lykaion | Mount Lykaion | Mount Lykaion (, Lýkaion Óros; ) is a mountain in Arcadia, Greece. Lykaion has two peaks: Stefani to the north and St. Ilias (, Agios Īlías) to the south where the altar of Zeus is located.
The northern peak is higher, 1,421 m, than the southern, 1,382 m (). Mount Lykaion was sacred to Zeus Lykaios, who was said to ha... |
18374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Eyre | Lake Eyre | Lake Eyre ( ), officially known as Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, is an endorheic lake in east-central Far North South Australia, some north of Adelaide. The shallow lake is the depocentre of the vast endorheic Lake Eyre basin, and contains the lowest natural point in Australia at approximately below sea level (AHD), and on... |
18375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locksmithing | Locksmithing | Locksmithing is the science and art of making and defeating locks. Locksmithing is a traditional trade and in many countries requires completion of an apprenticeship. The level of formal education legally required varies from country to country from none at all, to a simple training certificate awarded by an employer, ... |
18376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C | Loran-C | Loran-C is a hyperbolic radio navigation system that allows a receiver to determine its position by listening to low frequency radio signals transmitted by fixed land-based radio beacons. Loran-C combined two different techniques to provide a signal that was both long-range and highly accurate, features that were forme... |
18377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic | Lunatic | Lunatic is an antiquated term referring to a person who is seen as mentally ill, dangerous, foolish, or crazy—conditions once attributed to "lunacy". The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck".
History
The term "lunatic" derives from the Latin word lunaticus, which originally referred mainl... |
18379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20timecode | Linear timecode | Linear (or Longitudinal) Timecode (LTC) is an encoding of SMPTE timecode data in an audio signal, as defined in SMPTE 12M specification. The audio signal is commonly recorded on a VTR track or other storage media. The bits are encoded using the biphase mark code (also known as FM): a 0 bit has a single transition at ... |
18381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20William%20Strutt%2C%203rd%20Baron%20Rayleigh | John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a British mathematician who made extensive contributions to science. He spent all of his academic career at the University of Cambridge. Among many honors, he received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densi... |
18382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar%20calendar | Lunisolar calendar | A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, combining lunar calendars and solar calendars. The date of Lunisolar calendars therefore indicates both the Moon phase and the time of the solar year, that is the position of the Sun in the Earth's sky. If the sidereal year (such as in a sidereal solar calendar) is u... |
18383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids | Leonids | The Leonids ( ) are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle, which are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about every 33 years. The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky... |
18384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labarum | Labarum | The labarum () was a vexillum (military standard) that displayed the "Chi-Rho" symbol ☧, a christogram formed from the first two Greek letters of the word "Christ" (, or Χριστός) — Chi (χ) and Rho (ρ). It was first used by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
Ancient sources draw an unambiguous distinction between... |
18385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactantius | Lactantius | Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) was an early Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, and a tutor to his son Crispus. His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Insti... |
18386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia | Laconia | Laconia or Lakonia (, , ) is a historical and administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its administrative capital is Sparta. The word laconic—to speak in a blunt, concise way—is derived from the name of this region, a reference to the ancient Spartans who were renow... |
18387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanista | Lanista | Lanista is a genus of African bush-crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the subfamily Conocephalinae.
Species
Lanista affinis Bolívar, 1906
Lanista annulicornis (Walker, 1869)
Lanista crassicollis Bolívar, 1906
Lanista varelai Bolívar, 1906
References
Tettigoniidae
Orthoptera genera |
18388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n | Laocoön | Laocoön (; , , gen.: Λαοκόοντος), the son of Acoetes, is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology and the Epic Cycle.<ref>"Laocoon, son of Acoetes, brother of Anchises, and priest of Apollo…" (Hyginus, Fabula 135.</ref> He was a Trojan priest who was attacked, with his two sons, by giant serpents sent by the gods. The st... |
18389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburg%20an%20der%20Lahn | Limburg an der Lahn | Limburg an der Lahn (officially abbreviated Limburg a. d. Lahn) is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Limburg lies in western Hessen between the Taunus and the Westerwald on the river Lahn.
The town lies roughly centrally in a basin within the Rhenish Slate Mountains which is... |
18390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy%20Beria | Lavrentiy Beria | Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; , ; – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to ... |
18391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonel%20Feininger | Lyonel Feininger | Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art. He started his career as a cartooni... |
18393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life | Life | Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (they have died) or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate. Various forms of lif... |
18398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Espero | La Espero | "La Espero" () is a poem written by Polish-Jewish doctor L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917), the initiator of the Esperanto language. The song is often used as the (unofficial) anthem of Esperanto, and is now usually sung to a triumphal march composed by Félicien Menu de Ménil in 1909 (although there is an earlier, less martia... |
18400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie | Loonie | The loonie (), formally the Canadian one-dollar coin, is a gold-coloured Canadian coin that was introduced in 1987 and is produced by the Royal Canadian Mint at its facility in Winnipeg. The most prevalent versions of the coin show a common loon, a bird found throughout Canada, on the reverse and Queen Elizabeth II, th... |
18401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar%20flow | Laminar flow | In fluid dynamics, laminar flow is characterized by fluid particles following smooth paths in layers, with each layer moving smoothly past the adjacent layers with little or no mixing. At low velocities, the fluid tends to flow without lateral mixing, and adjacent layers slide past one another like playing cards. There... |
18402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda | Luanda | Luanda () is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area i... |
18403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20positivism | Logical positivism | Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, was a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was the verification principle (also known as the verifiability criterion of meaning). This theory of knowledge asserted that only statements verifia... |
18404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz%20transformation | Lorentz transformation | In physics, the Lorentz transformations are a six-parameter family of linear transformations from a coordinate frame in spacetime to another frame that moves at a constant velocity relative to the former. The respective inverse transformation is then parameterized by the negative of this velocity. The transformations a... |
18406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous%20aether | Luminiferous aether | Luminiferous aether or ether ("luminiferous", meaning "light-bearing") was the postulated medium for the propagation of light. It was invoked to explain the ability of the apparently wave-based light to propagate through empty space (a vacuum), something that waves should not be able to do. The assumption of a spatial ... |
18408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME | LAME | LAME is a software encoder that converts a digitized WAV audio file into the MP3 audio coding file format. LAME is a free software project that was first released in 1998, and has incorporated many improvements since then, including an improved psychoacoustic model. The LAME encoder outperforms early encoders like L3e... |
18414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek%20Miller | Leszek Miller | {ban{Premier rencista 3 zł{Short description|Polish politician}}
Leszek Cezary Miller (Polish pronunciation: ; born 3 July 1946) is a Polish politician. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
From 1989 to 1990 was a member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party. From... |
18420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis%20%28linear%20algebra%29 | Basis (linear algebra) | In mathematics, a set of vectors in a vector space is called a basis if every element of may be written in a unique way as a finite linear combination of elements of . The coefficients of this linear combination are referred to as components or coordinates of the vector with respect to . The elements of a basis are ... |
18422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20algebra | Linear algebra | Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as:
linear maps such as:
and their representations in vector spaces and through matrices.
Linear algebra is central to almost all areas of mathematics. For instance, linear algebra is fundamental in modern presentations of geometry, includ... |
18423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labia%20majora | Labia majora | The labia majora (singular: labium majus) are two prominent longitudinal cutaneous folds that extend downward and backward from the mons pubis to the perineum. Together with the labia minora they form the labia of the vulva.
The labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.
Etymology
Labia majora is the Latin plur... |
18424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labia%20minora | Labia minora | The labia minora (Latin for smaller lips, singular: labium minus "smaller lip"), also known as the inner labia, inner lips, vaginal lips or nymphae, are two flaps of skin on either side of the human vaginal opening in the vulva, situated between the labia majora (Latin for larger lips; also called outer labia, or outer... |
18425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold%20von%20Sacher-Masoch | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Masoch did not ... |
18426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography | Lithography | Lithography () is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author and actor Alois Senefelder and was initially used mostly for musical scores and maps. ... |
18430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20management | Library management | Library management is a sub-discipline of institutional management that focuses on specific issues faced by libraries and library management professionals. Library management encompasses normal managerial tasks, as well as intellectual freedom and fundraising responsibilities. Issues faced in library management frequen... |
18432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20longbow | English longbow | The English longbow was a powerful medieval type of longbow (a tall bow for archery) about long used by the English for hunting and as a weapon in warfare. English use of longbows was effective against the French during the Hundred Years' War, particularly at the start of the war in the battles of Sluys (1340), Crécy ... |
18433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Marvin | Lee Marvin | Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor.
Known for his distinctive voice and premature white hair, Marvin initially appeared in supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters. A prominent television role was that of Detective Lieutenant Fran... |
18434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20Belly | Lead Belly | Huddie William Ledbetter (; January 23, 1888 – December 6, 1949), better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer, musician, and songwriter notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In The Pi... |
18435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Saxony | Lower Saxony | Lower Saxony ( ; ; ) is a German state (Land) situated in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (7.9 million) among the 16 Länder federated as the Federal Republic of Germany. In rural areas, Northern Low Saxon and Saterland Frisian are still spoken, ... |
18439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTJ%20Bukem | LTJ Bukem | Daniel Williamson (born 20 September 1967), better known as LTJ Bukem (), is a British drum and bass musician, producer and DJ. He and his record label Good Looking are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music.
Life and career
Bukem was trained as a classical pianist and discovered jazz ... |
18443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay%20Anderson | Lindsay Anderson | Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if...., which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 a... |
18444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch | Loch | Loch () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch.
In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spelling lough is commonly found in place names; in Lowland Scots and Scottish English, the s... |
18446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Marks | Leo Marks | Leopold Samuel Marks, (24 September 1920 – 15 January 2001) was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer. During the Second World War he headed the codes office supporting resistance agents in occupied Europe for the secret Special Operations Executive organisation. After the war, Marks became a playwright a... |
18448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonia | Livonia | Livonia (, , , German and Scandinavian languages: , archaic German: Liefland, , Latvian and , , archaic English: Livland, Liwlandia; ) is a historical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the Livonians, who lived on the shores of present-day Latvia.
By the end of the 13th century, the name... |
18450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung%20cancer | Lung cancer | Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malignant cells that originate as epithelial cells, or from tissues composed of epithelia... |
18452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20office-holders | Lists of office-holders | These are lists of incumbents (individuals holding offices or positions), including heads of states or of subnational entities.
A historical discipline, archontology, focuses on the study of past and current office holders.
Incumbents may also be found in the countries' articles (main article and "Politics of") and t... |
18453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal%20Party%20of%20Australia | Liberal Party of Australia | The Liberal Party of Australia is a major centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party. It was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party.
The Liberal Party is the largest and dominant party in the ... |
18454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne | Lindisfarne | Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic Christianity under Saints Aidan of Lindisfarne, Cuthbert, Ead... |
18456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy | Literacy | Literacy is popularly understood as an ability to read and write in at least one method of writing, an understanding reflected by mainstream dictionaries. In this view, illiteracy would be considered to be the inability to read and write.
Some researchers suggest that the history of interest in the concept of “literac... |
18457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop%20unbundling | Local-loop unbundling | Local loop unbundling (LLU or LLUB) is the regulatory process of allowing multiple telecommunications operators to use connections from the telephone exchange to the customer's premises. The physical wire connection between the local exchange and the customer is known as a "local loop", and is owned by the incumbent lo... |
18459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda | Leda | Leda may refer to:
Mythology
Leda (mythology), queen of Sparta and mother of Helen of Troy in Greek mythology
Places
Leda, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
Leda makeshift settlement, Bangladesh, a refugee camp for Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar
Leda, Burkina Faso, a town... |
18460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysithea%20%28moon%29 | Lysithea (moon) | Lysithea is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson in 1938 at Mount Wilson Observatory and is named after the mythological Lysithea, daughter of Oceanus and one of Zeus' lovers.
Lysithea did not receive its present name until 1975; before then, it was simply known as . I... |
18461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda%20and%20the%20Swan | Leda and the Swan | Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the K... |
18463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%20Clubs%20International | Lions Clubs International | The International Association of Lions Clubs, more commonly known as Lions Clubs International, is an international non-political service organization established originally in 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, by Melvin Jones. It is now headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. , it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 ... |
18465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches%20%28equity%29 | Laches (equity) | In common law legal systems, laches ( "latches", }; Law French: remissness, dilatoriness, from Old French laschesse) is a lack of diligence and activity in making a legal claim, or moving forward with legal enforcement of a right, particularly in regard to equity. This means that it is an unreasonable delay that can b... |
18467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion | Legion | Legion may refer to:
Military
Roman legion, the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army
Spanish Legion, an elite military unit within the Spanish Army
Legion of the United States, a reorganization of the United States Army from 1792 to 1796
French Foreign Legion, a part of the French Army, created for forei... |
18470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%20Abbott | Lyman Abbott | Lyman J. Abbott (December 18, 1835 – October 22, 1922) was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author.
Biography
Early years
Lyman J. Abbott was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts on December 18, 1835, the son of the prolific author, educator and historian Jacob Abbott. Lyman Abbott grew up in Farming... |
18472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap%20second | Leap second | A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks) and imprecise observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown... |
18473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Pacioli | Luca Pacioli | Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; 1447 – 19 June 1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting. He is referred to as "The Father of Accounting and Bookkeeping" in Europe and he was th... |
18474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Mainland | Lower Mainland | The Lower Mainland is a geographic and cultural region of the mainland coast of British Columbia that generally comprises the regional districts of Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley. Home to approximately 3.05million people as of the 2021 Canadian census, the Lower Mainland contains sixteen of the province's 30 most po... |
18475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Afranius%20%28poet%29 | Lucius Afranius (poet) | Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet, who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC.
Life
Afranius' comedies described Roman scenes and manners (the genre called comoediae togatae) and the subjects were mostly taken from the life of the lower classes (comoediae tabernariae). They were considered by some ... |
18476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Post%20Office%20Railway | London Post Office Railway | The Post Office Railway, is a narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company, it opened in 1927 and operated for 76 years... |
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