id stringlengths 2 8 | url stringlengths 31 174 | title stringlengths 1 110 | text stringlengths 10 288k |
|---|---|---|---|
18477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulach | Lulach | Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin (Modern Gaelic: Lughlagh mac Gille Chomghain, known in English simply as Lulach, and nicknamed Tairbith, "the Unfortunate" and Fatuus, "the Simple-minded" or "the Foolish"; before 1033 – 17 March 1058) was King of Scots between 15 August 1057 and 17 March 1058.
Lulach was the son of Gruoch of... |
18483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicography | Lexicography | Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate but equally important academic disciplines:
Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly study of semantic, orthographic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic featur... |
18486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20enforcement | Law enforcement | Law enforcement is the activity of some members of government who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms governing that society. The term encompasses police, courts, and corrections. These three components may operate ... |
18488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libido | Libido | Libido (; colloquial: sex drive) is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity. Libido is influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors. Biologically, the sex hormones and associated neurotransmitters that act upon the nucleus accumbens (primarily testosterone and dopamine, respectively... |
18490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa | Larissa | Larissa (; , , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 144,651 according to the 2011 census. It is also capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transport hub, linked by road a... |
18491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20and%20follow | Lead and follow | In some types of partner dance, lead and follow are designations for the two dancers' roles in a dance pairing. The leader is responsible for guiding the couple and initiating transitions to different dance steps and, in improvised dances, for choosing the dance steps to perform. The leader communicates choices to the ... |
18492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexeme | Lexeme | A lexeme () is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word. For example, in English, run, runs, ran and running ... |
18494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s%20Prayer | Lord's Prayer | The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father (), is a central Christian prayer which, according to the New Testament, Jesus taught as the way to pray:
Pray then in this way ...
When you pray, say ...
Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of... |
18495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks | Lightworks | Lightworks is a non-linear editing system (NLE) for editing and mastering digital video. It was an early developer of computer-based non-linear editing systems, and has been in development since 1989 and won a 2017 EMMY Award for pioneering digital nonlinear editing. Lightworks has millions of adopters worldwide due to... |
18496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Parade | Love Parade | The Love Parade () was a popular electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region. Events scheduled for 2004 and 2005 in Berlin and for 2009 in Bochum were canceled.
... |
18497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Generation | Lost Generation | The Lost Generation was the social generational cohort that was in early adulthood during World War I. "Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented, wandering, directionless" spirit of many of the war's survivors in the early postwar period. The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatr... |
18499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing%20politics | Left-wing politics | Left-wing politics support social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition of social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced ... |
18504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles-class%20submarine | Los Angeles-class submarine | The Los Angeles class of submarines are nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) in service with the United States Navy. Also known as the 688 class (pronounced "six-eighty-eight") after the hull number of lead vessel , 62 were built from 1972 to 1996, the latter 23 to an improved 688i standard. As of 2020, 32 of t... |
18507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia | Lucretia | According to Roman tradition, Lucretia (/luːˈkriːʃə/ loo-KREE-shə, Classical Latin: [lʊˈkreːtɪ.a]; died c. 510 BC), anglicized as Lucrece, was a noblewoman in ancient Rome, whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius (Tarquin) and subsequent suicide precipitated a rebellion that overthrew the Roman monarchy and led to the transit... |
18508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20Directory%20Access%20Protocol | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP ) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Directory services play an important role in developing intranet and Internet applications... |
18521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latina | Latina | Latina or Latinas most often refers to:
Latinas, a demographic group in the United States
Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America.
Latin Americans
Latina and Latinas may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Latina (magazine), a monthly American magazine
La... |
18522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino%20%28demonym%29 | Latino (demonym) | The masculine term Latino (), along with its feminine form Latina, is a noun and adjective, often used in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, that most commonly refers to United States inhabitants who have cultural ties to Latin America.
Within the Latino community itself in the United States, there is some variation in... |
18524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20America | Latin America | Latin America is the portion of the Americas comprising countries and regions where Romance languages—languages that derived from Latin—such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French are predominantly spoken.<ref>Dressing, J. David. "Latin America" in The Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture", vol. 3, p. 390. Ne... |
18529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx%20%28web%20browser%29 | Lynx (web browser) | Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. , it is the oldest web browser still being maintained, having started in 1992.
History
Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas, and was init... |
18530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx%20%28programming%20language%29 | Lynx (programming language) | Lynx is a programming language for large distributed networks, using remote procedure calls. It was developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1984 for the Charlotte multicomputer operating system.
In 1986 at the University of Rochester Lynx was ported to the Chrysalis operating system running on a BBN Butte... |
18531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27H%C3%B4pital%27s%20rule | L'Hôpital's rule | In mathematics, more specifically calculus, L'Hôpital's rule or L'Hospital's rule (, , ), also known as Bernoulli's rule, is a theorem which provides a technique to evaluate limits of indeterminate forms. Application (or repeated application) of the rule often converts an indeterminate form to an expression that can b... |
18532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicology | Lexicology | Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elements known as phonemes, or distinguishing sounds. Lexicology examines every f... |
18534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Abitibi | Lake Abitibi | Lake Abitibi (, ) is a shallow lake in northeastern Ontario and western Quebec, Canada. The lake, which lies within the vast Clay Belt, is separated in two distinct portions by a short narrows, making it actually 2 lakes. Its total area is , and net area . The lake is shallow and studded with islands. Its shores and ... |
18538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansing%2C%20Michigan | Lansing, Michigan | Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 Census placed the city's population at 112,644, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The population of its metropolitan sta... |
18539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukemia | Leukemia | Leukemia (also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called blasts or leukemia cells. Symptoms may include bleeding and bruising, bone pain, fatigue, feve... |
18542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length | Length | Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities, length is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement a base unit for length is chosen, from which all other units are derived. In the International System of Units (SI) system the base unit for length is the metre.
Len... |
18543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Ginzberg | Louis Ginzberg | Louis Ginzberg (, Levy Gintzburg; , Levy Ginzberg; November 28, 1873 – November 11, 1953) was a Russian-born American rabbi and Talmudic scholar of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, contributing editor to numerous articles of The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), and leading figure in the Conservative movement of Judaism during the... |
18544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-arm%20unorthodox%20spin | Left-arm unorthodox spin | Left-arm unorthodox spin, also known as slow left-arm wrist-spin, is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers use wrist spin to spin the ball, and make it deviate, or 'turn' from left to right after pitching. The direction of turn is the same as that of a traditional right-handed... |
18546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20newspapers | Lists of newspapers | Below are lists of newspapers organized by continent.
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America
See also |
18549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20IX%20of%20France | Louis IX of France | Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, and the most illustrious of the Direct Capetians. He was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the death of his father Louis VIII. His mother, Blanche of Castile, ruled the kingdom a... |
18551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20B | Linear B | Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1450 BC. It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Min... |
18552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larousse%20Gastronomique | Larousse Gastronomique | Larousse Gastronomique () is an encyclopedia of gastronomy. The majority of the book is about French cuisine, and contains recipes for French dishes and cooking techniques. The first edition included few non-French dishes and ingredients; later editions include many more. The book was originally published by Éditions L... |
18553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20XIV | Louis XIV | Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in history. His was succeeded by his great-gra... |
18554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Ritter%20von%20K%C3%B6chel | Ludwig Ritter von Köchel | Ludwig Alois Friedrich Ritter von Köchel (; 14 January 1800 – 3 June 1877) was an Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist and publisher. He is best known for cataloguing the works of Mozart and originating the 'KV-numbers' by which they are known (KV for Köchel-Verzeichnis).
Life
Born in the town of Stein, L... |
18555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO%20%28computer%29 | LEO (computer) | The LEO I (Lyons Electronic Office I) was the first computer used for commercial business applications.
The prototype LEO I was modelled closely on the Cambridge EDSAC. Its construction was overseen by Oliver Standingford, Raymond Thompson and David Caminer of J. Lyons and Co. LEO I ran its first business application ... |
18557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20of%20Canterbury | Laurence of Canterbury | Laurence (died 2 February 619) was the second Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from about 604 to 619. He was a member of the Gregorian mission sent from Italy to England to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, although the date of his arrival is disputed. He was consecrated archbishop ... |
18560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf%20by%20Niggle | Leaf by Niggle | "Leaf by Niggle" is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39 and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. It can be found, most notably, in Tolkien's book titled Tree and Leaf, and in other places (including the collections The Tolkien Reader, Poems & Stories, A Tolkien Miscellany, and Tales fr... |
18562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet | Leet | Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words based on a system of suffixes and a... |
18563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lud | Lud | Lud or LUD may refer to:
Local usage details, a record of local calls made from and received by a particular phone number
Ludic language, a Finnic language spoken in Karelia
People
Lud son of Heli, a legendary British king who in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae founded London and ... |
18564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois%20Lane | Lois Lane | Lois Lane is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1 (June 1938). Lois is an award-winning journalist for the Metropolis newspaper the Daily Planet and the primary love interest of the s... |
18566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linker%20%28computing%29 | Linker (computing) | In computing, a linker or link editor is a computer system program that takes one or more object files (generated by a compiler or an assembler) and combines them into a single executable file, library file, or another "object" file.
A simpler version that writes its output directly to memory is called the loader, tho... |
18567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendre%20symbol | Legendre symbol | In number theory, the Legendre symbol is a multiplicative function with values 1, −1, 0 that is a quadratic character modulo an odd prime number p: its value at a (nonzero) quadratic residue mod p is 1 and at a non-quadratic residue (non-residue) is −1. Its value at zero is 0.
The Legendre symbol was introduced by Adr... |
18568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20algorithms | List of algorithms | The following is a list of algorithms along with one-line descriptions for each.
Automated planning
Combinatorial algorithms
General combinatorial algorithms
Brent's algorithm: finds a cycle in function value iterations using only two iterators
Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm: finds a cycle in function value itera... |
18569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia%20incident | Laconia incident | The Laconia incident was a series of events surrounding the sinking of a British troopship in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942, during World War II, and a subsequent aerial attack on German and Italian submarines involved in rescue attempts. , carrying 2,732 crew, passengers, soldiers and prisoners of war, was t... |
18571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Theremin | Leon Theremin | Leon Theremin (born Lev Sergeyevich Termen ; – 3 November 1993) was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His listening device, "The Thing", hung for s... |
18572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20prediction | Linear prediction | Linear prediction is a mathematical operation where future values of a discrete-time signal are estimated as a linear function of previous samples.
In digital signal processing, linear prediction is often called linear predictive coding (LPC) and can thus be viewed as a subset of filter theory. In system analysis, a s... |
18574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leto | Leto | In Greek mythology, Leto ( Lētṓ; Λατώ, Lātṓ in Doric Greek) is the mother of Apollo and Artemis. She is the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and the sister of Asteria.
In the Olympian scheme, Zeus is the father of her twins, Apollo and Artemis, which Leto conceived after her hidden beauty accidentally caught ... |
18576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Malinche | La Malinche | Marina or Malintzin ( 1500 – 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche , a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, became known for contributing to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521), by acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
She was one of... |
18577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitania | Lusitania | Lusitania (; ) or Hispania Lusitana was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and part of western Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a part of the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people (an Indo-Europe... |
18578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-stop | Limited-stop | In public transit, particularly bus, tram, or train transportation, a limited-stop (or sometimes referred to as semi-fast) service is a trip pattern that stops less frequently than a local service. Many limited-stop or semi-fast services are a combination of commuter rail and express train.
The term is normally used o... |
18581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburg | Limburg | Limburg or Limbourg may refer to:
Regions
Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium
Limburg (Netherlands), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands
Diocese of Limburg, Roman Catholic Diocese in Germany
Province of Limburg (1815–1839), a former province of the United Ki... |
18582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburg%20%28Netherlands%29 | Limburg (Netherlands) | Limburg () is the southernmost of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands. The province is bordered by the province of Gelderland to the north and by North Brabant to its west. Its long eastern boundary forms the international border with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. To the west is the international bord... |
18585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon | Leon | Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to:
Places
Europe
León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León
Province of León, Spain
Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again from 1296 to 1301
León (historical region), composed of the Spanish provinces León, ... |
18589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand | Ligand | In coordination chemistry, a ligand is an ion or molecule (functional group) that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex. The bonding with the metal generally involves formal donation of one or more of the ligand's electron pairs often through Lewis Bases. The nature of metal–ligand bonding can ra... |
18591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos%20language | Lincos language | Lincos (an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica) is a constructed language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal in his book Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1. It is a language designed to be understandable by any possible intelligent extraterrestrial life form, for use in... |
18594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux | Lascaux | Lascaux ( , ; , "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave. The paintings represent primarily large animals, typical local contemporary fauna that correspo... |
18595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex%20Luthor | Lex Luthor | Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor () is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Lex Luthor originally appeared in Action Comics #23 (cover dated: April 1940). He has since endured as the archnemesis of Superman.
Lex Luthor was orig... |
18596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute | Lute | A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
More specifically, the term "lute" can refer to an instrument from the family of European lutes. The term also refers ge... |
18597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Boy | Little Boy | "Little Boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II. It was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. The bomb was dropped by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Compo... |
18599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon%20War | Lebanon War | The term Lebanon War can refer to any of the following wars, fought in Lebanon:
Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
Hundred Days' War 1978 (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
1982 Lebanon War (part of the Lebanese Civil War, also known as the First Lebanon War)
Mountain War (Lebanon) 1983–1984 (part of the Lebanese Civil War)
... |
18602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester%20Bangs | Lester Bangs | Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, critic, author, and musician. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, and was known for his leading influence in rock music criticism. The music critic Jim DeRogatis called him "America's greatest rock critic".
... |
18603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Kavina | Lydia Kavina | Lydia Yevgenyevna Kavina (; born 8 September 1967) is a Russian-British theremin player.
The granddaughter of Léon Theremin's first cousin, Soviet anthropologist and primatologist Mikhail Nesturkh, Kavina was born in Moscow and began studying the instrument under the direction of Léon Theremin when she was nine years ... |
18606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation%20Tigers%20of%20Tamil%20Eelam | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (, , also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization that was based in northeastern Sri Lanka. Its aim was to secure an independent state of Tamil Eelam in the north and east in response to the state policies of successive Sri Lankan governments that were wi... |
18610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%20transform | Laplace transform | In mathematics, the Laplace transform, named after its inventor Pierre-Simon Laplace (), is an integral transform that converts a function of a real variable (often time) to a function of a complex variable (complex frequency). The transform has many applications in science and engineering because it is a tool for so... |
18612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal%20arts%20college | Liberal arts college | A liberal arts college or liberal arts institution of higher education is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences. Such colleges aim to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curricu... |
18614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20acquisition | Language acquisition | Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (in other words, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
Language acquisition involves structures, rules and representat... |
18615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20Behind | Left Behind | Left Behind is a multimedia franchise that started with a series of 16 bestselling religious novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins that dealt with Christian dispensationalist End Times: the pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological interpretation of the Biblical apocalypse. The primary conflict of the... |
18616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollardy | Lollardy | Lollardy, also known as Lollardism or the Lollard movement, was a Proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that existed from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation. It was initially led by John Wycliffe, a Roman Catholic theologian who was dismissed from the University of Oxford in 1381 fo... |
18623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lausanne | Lausanne | Lausanne (, , , ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is a hilly city, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located northeast of Geneva, its nearest lar... |
18624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty%20program | Loyalty program | A loyalty program is a marketing strategy designed to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of a business associated with the program. Today, such programs cover most types of commerce, each having varying features and rewards schemes, including in banking, entertainment, hospitality, retailing... |
18625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Von%20Drake | Ludwig Von Drake | Professor Ludwig Von Drake is a cartoon character created in 1961 by The Walt Disney Company. He was first introduced as the presenter (and singer of "The Spectrum Song") in the cartoon An Adventure in Color, part of the first episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color on NBC. According to the episode The Hunti... |
18627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Altos%2C%20California | Los Altos, California | Los Altos (; Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 28,976 according to the 2010 census.
Most of the city's growth occurred between 1950 and 1980. Originally an agricultural town with many summer cottages and apricot orchards, Los Altos... |
18628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%E2%80%93Eaton%20myasthenic%20syndrome | Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome | Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by muscle weakness of the limbs.
Around 60% of those with LEMS have an underlying malignancy, most commonly small-cell lung cancer; it is therefore regarded as a paraneoplastic syndrome (a condition that arises as a result of cancer ... |
18629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqueur | Liqueur | A liqueur (; ; ) is an alcoholic drink composed of spirits (often rectified spirit) and additional flavorings such as sugar, fruits, herbs, and spices. Often served with or after dessert, they are typically heavily sweetened and un-aged beyond a resting period during production, when necessary, for their flavors to min... |
18630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith | Lilith | Lilith (; ) is a female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology, alternatively the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. Lilith is cited as having been "banished" from the Garden of Eden for not complying and obeying Adam. She is mentioned in Biblical Hebrew in the Book of Isaiah, and in Late ... |
18631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz%20force | Lorentz force | In physics (specifically in electromagnetism) the Lorentz force (or electromagnetic force) is the combination of electric and magnetic force on a point charge due to electromagnetic fields. A particle of charge moving with a velocity in an electric field and a magnetic field experiences a force of
(in SI units). I... |
18633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%20de%27%20Medici | Lorenzo de' Medici | Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, banker, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico ) by contemporary Florentines, he was a mag... |
18634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemma%20%28mathematics%29 | Lemma (mathematics) | In mathematics, informal logic and argument mapping, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is a generally minor, proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result. For that reason, it is also known as a "helping theorem" or an "auxiliary theorem". In many cases, a lemma derives its importance from th... |
18639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrezia%20Borgia | Lucrezia Borgia | Lucrezia Borgia (; ; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was a Spanish-Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She reigned as the Governor of Spoleto, a position usually held by cardinals, in her own right.
Her family arranged several marriages for her ... |
18640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Macintosh%20models%20grouped%20by%20CPU%20type | List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type | This list of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type contains all central processing units (CPUs) used by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh computers. It is grouped by processor family, processor model, and then chronologically by Macintosh models.
Motorola 68k
Motorola 68000
The Motorola 68000 was the first Apple Macint... |
18641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Smeeton | Jonathan Smeeton | Jonathan Smeeton is a British lighting and production designer who was active in the UK from the late 1960s, and then in the US from late 1970s up to his retirement in 2018.
Smeeton started out in the UK underground scene in the late 1960s. By 1971, he had become involved with Hawkwind, using the alias Liquid Len and ... |
18642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy | Lemmy | Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy, was an English musician who was the founder, lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member.
A foundational force in the genre following the advent of the new wave of B... |
18643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose | Lactose | Lactose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of galactose and glucose subunits and has the molecular formula C12H22O11. Lactose makes up around 2–8% of milk (by weight). The name comes from (gen. ), the Latin word for milk, plus the suffix -ose used to name sugars. The compound is a white, water-soluble, non-hygrosc... |
18644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20lethal%20dose | Median lethal dose | In toxicology, the median lethal dose, LD50 (abbreviation for "lethal dose, 50%"), LC50 (lethal concentration, 50%) or LCt50 is a measure of the lethal dose of a toxin, radiation, or pathogen. The value of LD50 for a substance is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test d... |
18645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase | Lactase | Lactase is an enzyme produced by many organisms. It is located in the brush border of the small intestine of humans and other mammals. Lactase is essential to the complete digestion of whole milk; it breaks down lactose, a sugar which gives milk its sweetness. Lacking lactase, a person consuming dairy products may exp... |
18646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkin%20Park | Linkin Park | Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and drummer Rob Bourdon, all of whom are founding members. Vocalists Mark Wakefield and Ch... |
18650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipper%20%28cricket%29 | Flipper (cricket) | The flipper is a particular bowling delivery used in cricket, generally by a leg spin bowler. In essence it is a back spin ball. Squeezed out of the front of the hand with the thumb and first and second fingers, it keeps deceptively low after pitching and can accordingly be very difficult to play. The flipper is compar... |
18653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Nicaragua | Lake Nicaragua | Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada (, , or ) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin and with an area of , it is the largest lake in Central America, the 19th largest lake in the world (by area) and the tenth largest in the Americas, slightly smaller than Lake Titicaca. With an elevation of above se... |
18657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20law | Labour law | Labour laws (also known as labor laws or employment laws) are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions and the government. Collective labour law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, employer and union. Individual labour law concerns employees' rights at w... |
18664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Riel | Louis Riel | Louis Riel (; ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister, John A. Macdonald. Riel sought to defend Métis rights and iden... |
18665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listerine | Listerine | Listerine is an American brand of antiseptic mouthwash that is promoted with the slogan "Kills germs that cause bad breath", Named after Joseph Lister, who pioneered antiseptic surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland, Listerine was developed in 1879 by Joseph Lawrence, a chemist in St. Louis, Missouri.
Orig... |
18666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludo%20%28board%20game%29 | Ludo (board game) | Ludo (; ) is a strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi. The game and its variations are popular in many countries and under various nam... |
18668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus | Lotus | Lotus may refer to:
Plants
Lotus (plant), various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus
Lotus (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae
Lotus flower, a symbolically important aquatic Asian plant also known as Indian or sacred lotus
Lotus tree, a plant in Greek and Roman mythology
Places
Lotus, C... |
18669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20expectancy | Life expectancy | Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth (LEB), which can be defined in two ways. Cohort LEB is the mean length of life... |
18671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20Poland | Lesser Poland | Lesser Poland, often known by its Polish name Małopolska (), is a historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Kraków. Throughout centuries, Lesser Poland developed a separate culture featuring diverse architecture, folk costumes, dances, cuisine, traditions and a rar... |
18673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term%20Capital%20Management | Long-Term Capital Management | Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) was a highly-leveraged hedge fund which was bailed out in 1998 to the tune of $3.6 billion by a group of 14 banks, in a deal brokered and put together by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
LTCM was founded in 1994 by John Meriwether, the former vice-chairman and head of bond trading at ... |
18674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal%20arts%20education | Liberal arts education | Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic program in Western higher education. Liberal arts takes the term art in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the fine arts. Liberal arts education can refer to studies in a liberal arts degree prog... |
18678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20consonant | Lateral consonant | A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth. An example of a lateral consonant is the English L, as in Larry. Lateral consonants contrast with central consonants, in which the airstream flows through t... |
18679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20consonant | Liquid consonant | In phonetics, liquids are a class of consonants consisting of voiced lateral approximants like together with rhotics like .
Etymology
The grammarian Dionysius Thrax used the Greek word ὑγρός (hygrós, "moist") to describe the sonorant consonants () of classical Greek. Most commentators assume that this referred to th... |
18683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loya%20jirga | Loya jirga | A jirga (, "grand assembly") is a special type of jirga, or legal assembly, in Pashtunwali, the traditional code of laws of the Pashtun people. It is mainly organized for choosing a new head of state in case of sudden death, adopting a new constitution, or to settle national or regional issue such as war. It predates ... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.