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18,331 | # Ligase
In biochemistry, a **ligase** is an enzyme that can catalyze the joining (ligation) of two molecules by forming a new chemical bond. This is typically via hydrolysis of a small pendant chemical group on one of the molecules, typically resulting in the formation of new C-O, C-S, or C-N bonds. For example, DNA ... | 379 | Ligase | 0 |
18,337 | # Last rites
The **last rites**, also known as the **Commendation of the Dying**, are the last prayers and ministrations given to an individual of Christian faith, when possible, shortly before death. The Commendation of the Dying is practiced in liturgical Christian denominations, such as the Roman Catholic Church an... | 542 | Last rites | 0 |
18,337 | # Last rites
## Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches {#orthodox_and_eastern_catholic_churches}
In the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite, the last rites consist of the Sacred Mysteries (sacraments) of Confession and the reception of Holy Communion.
Following... | 383 | Last rites | 1 |
18,337 | # Last rites
## Lutheran Churches {#lutheran_churches}
In the Lutheran Churches, last rites are formally known as the Commendation of the Dying, in which the priest \"opens in the name of the triune God, includes a prayer, a reading from one of the psalms, a litany of prayer for the one who is dying, \[and\] recites ... | 126 | Last rites | 2 |
18,338 | # Lamorna
**Lamorna** (*Nansmornow*) is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately 4 mile 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 ... | 527 | Lamorna | 0 |
18,338 | # Lamorna
## Quarries
Waste tips on the eastern side of the cove are a reminder of the granite quarries first opened by John Freeman, on St Aubyn land, in 1849 and continued working until 1911. Famous buildings and constructions include Admiralty Pier at Dover, London County Council offices, the Thames Embankment and... | 351 | Lamorna | 1 |
18,338 | # Lamorna
## Newlyn School of Art and the Lamorna Colony {#newlyn_school_of_art_and_the_lamorna_colony}
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Lamorna became popular with artists of the Newlyn School. It is particularly associated with the artist S J \"Lamorna\" Birch who lived there from 1908. The colony included... | 379 | Lamorna | 2 |
18,340 | # 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 probab... | 748 | Law of averages | 0 |
18,345 | # Outline of literature
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to literature:
**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? {#what_type_of_thing_is_literature}
... | 403 | Outline of literature | 0 |
18,356 | # 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 ... | 813 | Lindow Man | 0 |
18,356 | # Lindow Man
## Discovery
A year later, a further discovery was made at Lindow Moss, just 820 ft southwest of the Lindow Woman. On 1 August 1984, Andy Mould, who had been involved in the discovery of Lindow Woman, took what he thought was a piece of wood off the elevator of the peat-shredding machine. He threw the ob... | 606 | Lindow Man | 1 |
18,356 | # Lindow Man
## Remains and investigation {#remains_and_investigation}
Lindow Man marked the first discovery in Britain of a well-preserved bog body; its condition was comparable to that of Grauballe Man and Tollund Man from Denmark. Before Lindow Man was found, it was estimated that 41 bog bodies had been found in E... | 880 | Lindow Man | 2 |
18,356 | # Lindow Man
## Remains and investigation {#remains_and_investigation}
### Cause of death {#cause_of_death}
As the peat was cleaned off the body in the laboratory, it became clear that Lindow Man had suffered a violent death. The injuries included a V-shaped, 3.5 cm cut on top of his head; a possible laceration at th... | 398 | Lindow Man | 3 |
18,356 | # Lindow Man
## Hypothesis
Archaeologist Don Brothwell considered that many of the older bodies need re-examining with modern techniques, such as those used in the analysis of Lindow Man. The study of bog bodies, including those found in Lindow Moss, has contributed to a wider understanding of well-preserved human re... | 668 | Lindow Man | 4 |
18,356 | # Lindow Man
## Conservation
Environment and situation are the crucial factors that determine how corpses decay. For instance, corpses will decay differently depending on the weather, the way they are buried, and the medium in which they are buried. Peat slows the decay of corpses. It was feared that, once Lindow Man... | 342 | Lindow Man | 5 |
18,365 | # 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.
The procedure for conversion from sp... | 768 | Luminance | 0 |
18,365 | # Luminance
## Relation to illuminance {#relation_to_illuminance}
thumb\|upright=1.5\|Comparison of photometric and radiometric quantities The luminance of a reflecting surface is related to the illuminance it receives: $\int_{\Omega_\Sigma} L_\text{v} \mathrm{d}\Omega_\Sigma \cos \theta_\Sigma = M_\text{v} = E_\text... | 134 | Luminance | 1 |
18,369 | # Lunar calendar
thumb\|upright 1.5\|Lunar calendar year 2025 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 on the solar year, and lunisolar calendars, whose lunar months are brought into a... | 666 | Lunar calendar | 0 |
18,377 | # Lunatic
Looney}} \|A suffragist postcard depicting a lunatic, symbolized by a moon\]\] ***Lunatic*** is a 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\".
## H... | 484 | Lunatic | 0 |
18,379 | # 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 ... | 499 | Linear timecode | 0 |
18,379 | # Linear timecode
## Longitudinal timecode data format {#longitudinal_timecode_data_format}
thumb\|upright=4\|Linear timecode waveform as displayed in Audacity with 80 bit data frame highlighted
The basic format is an 80-bit code that gives the time of day to the second, and the frame number within the second. Value... | 925 | Linear timecode | 1 |
18,382 | # Lunisolar calendar
A **lunisolar calendar** is a calendar in many cultures, that combines monthly lunar cycles with the solar year. As with all calendars which divide the year into months, there is an additional requirement that the year have a whole number of months (Moon cycles). The majority of years have twelve ... | 613 | Lunisolar calendar | 0 |
18,382 | # Lunisolar calendar
## Reconciling lunar and solar cycles {#reconciling_lunar_and_solar_cycles}
### Determining leap months {#determining_leap_months}
A tropical year is approximately 365.2422 days long and a synodic month is approximately 29.5306 days long, so a tropical year is approximately `{{nowrap|365.2422 / ... | 468 | Lunisolar calendar | 1 |
18,382 | # Lunisolar calendar
## List of lunisolar calendars {#list_of_lunisolar_calendars}
The following is a list of lunisolar calendars sorted by family | 20 | Lunisolar calendar | 2 |
18,384 | # Labarum
The **labarum** (*λάβαρον* or λάβουρον) was a *vexillum* (military standard) that displayed the \"Chi-Rho\" symbol ☧, a christogram formed from the first two Greek letters of the word \"Christ\" (*ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ*, or Χριστός) -- *Chi* (χ) and *Rho* (ρ). It was first used by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
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18,384 | # Labarum
## Vision of Constantine {#vision_of_constantine}
On the evening of October 27, 312 AD, with his army preparing for the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, the emperor Constantine I claimed to have had a vision which led him to believe he was fighting under the protection of the Christian God.
Lactantius states ... | 740 | Labarum | 1 |
18,384 | # Labarum
## Iconographic career under Constantine {#iconographic_career_under_constantine}
The labarum does not appear on any of several standards depicted on the Arch of Constantine, which was erected just three years after the battle. If Eusebius\' oath-confirmed account of Constantine\'s vision and the role it pl... | 472 | Labarum | 2 |
18,384 | # Labarum
## Later usage {#later_usage}
A later Byzantine manuscript indicates that a jewelled labarum standard believed to have been that of Constantine was preserved for centuries, as an object of great veneration, in the imperial treasury at Constantinople. The labarum, with minor variations in its form, was widel... | 166 | Labarum | 3 |
18,386 | # Laconia
**Laconia** or **Lakonia** (*Λακωνία*, *Lakonía*, `{{IPA|el|lakoˈni.a|}}`{=mediawiki}) 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 fr... | 762 | Laconia | 0 |
18,386 | # Laconia
## History
### Ancient
Evidence of Neolithic settlement in southern Laconia has been found during excavations of the Alepotrypa cave site. Significant archaeological recovery exists at the Vaphio-tomb site in Laconia. Found there is advanced Bronze Age art as well as evidence of cultural associations with ... | 436 | Laconia | 1 |
18,386 | # Laconia
## Municipalities
The regional unit, Laconia, is subdivided into five municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox):
- East Mani (*Anatoliki Mani*, 2)
- Elafonisos (3)
- Eurotas (4)
- Monemvasia (5)
- Sparta (1)
### Prefecture
As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government refor... | 414 | Laconia | 2 |
18,387 | # Lanista
***Lanista*** is a genus of African bush-crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the subfamily Conocephalinae | 15 | Lanista | 0 |
18,388 | # Laocoön
**Laocoön** (`{{IPAc-en|l|eɪ|ˈ|ɒ|k|oʊ|ˌ|ɒ|n|,_|-|k|ə|ˌ|w|ɒ|n}}`{=mediawiki}; *Lāokóōn*, `{{IPA|grc|laːokóɔːn|IPA}}`{=mediawiki}, gen.: *Λᾱοκόωντος*) is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology and the Epic Cycle.
Laocoön is a Trojan priest. He and his two young sons are attacked by giant serpents sent by the g... | 887 | Laocoön | 0 |
18,388 | # Laocoön
## Later depictions {#later_depictions}
The death of Laocoön was famously depicted in a much-admired marble *Laocoön and His Sons*, attributed by Pliny the Elder to the Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, which stands in the Vatican Museums, Rome. Copies have been executed by various ar... | 471 | Laocoön | 1 |
18,403 | # Logical positivism
**Logical positivism**, also known as **logical empiricism** or **neo-positivism**, was a philosophical movement, in the empiricist tradition, that sought to formulate a scientific philosophy in which philosophical discourse would be, in the perception of its proponents, as authoritative and meani... | 508 | Logical positivism | 0 |
18,403 | # Logical positivism
## History
### Vienna and Berlin Circles {#vienna_and_berlin_circles}
The Vienna Circle was led principally by Moritz Schlick, congregating around the University of Vienna and at the Café Central. A manifesto written by Otto Neurath, Hans Hahn and Rudolf Carnap in 1929 summarised the Vienna Circ... | 594 | Logical positivism | 1 |
18,403 | # Logical positivism
## Principles
### Verification and Confirmation {#verification_and_confirmation}
#### Verifiability Criterion of Meaning {#verifiability_criterion_of_meaning}
According to the verifiability criterion of meaning, a statement is *cognitively meaningful* only if it is either verifiable by empirica... | 1,065 | Logical positivism | 2 |
18,403 | # Logical positivism
## Principles
### Logicism
By reducing mathematics to logic, Bertrand Russell sought to convert the mathematical formulas of physics to symbolic logic. Gottlob Frege began this program of logicism, continuing it with Russell, but eventually lost interest. Russell then continued it with Alfred Nor... | 149 | Logical positivism | 3 |
18,403 | # Logical positivism
## Philosophy of science {#philosophy_of_science}
The logical positivist movement shed much of its revolutionary zeal following the defeat of Nazism and the decline of rival philosophies that sought radical reform, notably Marburg neo-Kantianism, Husserlian phenomenology and Heidegger\'s existent... | 522 | Logical positivism | 4 |
18,403 | # Logical positivism
## Criticism
In the post-war period, key tenets of logical positivism, including the verifiability criterion, analytic-synthetic distinction and observation-theory distinction, drew escalated criticism. This would become sustained from various directions by the 1950s, so that, even among fractiou... | 1,017 | Logical positivism | 5 |
18,403 | # Logical positivism
## Decline and legacy {#decline_and_legacy}
In 1967, John Passmore wrote, \"Logical positivism is dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes\". His opinions concurred with widespread sentiment in academic circles that the movement had run its course by the late 1960s. Logical posit... | 266 | Logical positivism | 6 |
18,408 | # LAME
**LAME** is a software encoder that converts digital audio into the MP3 audio coding 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 L3enc and p... | 579 | LAME | 0 |
18,420 | # Basis (linear algebra)
Basis}}
In mathematics, a set `{{mvar|B}}`{=mediawiki} of elements of a vector space `{{math|''V''}}`{=mediawiki} is called a **basis** (`{{plural form}}`{=mediawiki}: **bases**) if every element of `{{math|''V''}}`{=mediawiki} can be written in a unique way as a finite linear combination of ... | 464 | Basis (linear algebra) | 0 |
18,420 | # Basis (linear algebra)
## Examples
The set `{{math|'''R'''<sup>2</sup>}}`{=mediawiki} of the ordered pairs of real numbers is a vector space under the operations of component-wise addition $(a, b) + (c, d) = (a + c, b+d)$ and scalar multiplication $\lambda (a,b) = (\lambda a, \lambda b),$ where $\lambda$ is any rea... | 299 | Basis (linear algebra) | 1 |
18,420 | # Basis (linear algebra)
## Properties
Many properties of finite bases result from the Steinitz exchange lemma, which states that, for any vector space `{{mvar|V}}`{=mediawiki}, given a finite spanning set `{{mvar|S}}`{=mediawiki} and a linearly independent set `{{mvar|L}}`{=mediawiki} of `{{mvar|n}}`{=mediawiki} ele... | 306 | Basis (linear algebra) | 2 |
18,420 | # Basis (linear algebra)
## Coordinates `{{anchor|Ordered bases and coordinates}}`{=mediawiki}
Let `{{mvar|V}}`{=mediawiki} be a vector space of finite dimension `{{mvar|n}}`{=mediawiki} over a field `{{mvar|F}}`{=mediawiki}, and $B = \{\mathbf b_1, \ldots, \mathbf b_n\}$ be a basis of `{{mvar|V}}`{=mediawiki}. By de... | 427 | Basis (linear algebra) | 3 |
18,420 | # Basis (linear algebra)
## Change of basis {#change_of_basis}
Let `{{math|''V''}}`{=mediawiki} be a vector space of dimension `{{mvar|n}}`{=mediawiki} over a field `{{math|''F''}}`{=mediawiki}. Given two (ordered) bases $B_\text{old} = (\mathbf v_1, \ldots, \mathbf v_n)$ and $B_\text{new} = (\mathbf w_1, \ldots, \ma... | 363 | Basis (linear algebra) | 4 |
18,420 | # Basis (linear algebra)
## Related notions {#related_notions}
### Free module {#free_module}
If one replaces the field occurring in the definition of a vector space by a ring, one gets the definition of a module. For modules, linear independence and spanning sets are defined exactly as for vector spaces, although \... | 868 | Basis (linear algebra) | 5 |
18,420 | # Basis (linear algebra)
## Related notions {#related_notions}
### Random basis {#random_basis}
For a probability distribution in `{{math|'''R'''<sup>''n''</sup>}}`{=mediawiki} with a probability density function, such as the equidistribution in an *n*-dimensional ball with respect to Lebesgue measure, it can be show... | 419 | Basis (linear algebra) | 6 |
18,420 | # Basis (linear algebra)
## Proof that every vector space has a basis {#proof_that_every_vector_space_has_a_basis}
Let `{{math|'''V'''}}`{=mediawiki} be any vector space over some field `{{math|'''F'''}}`{=mediawiki}. Let `{{math|'''X'''}}`{=mediawiki} be the set of all linearly independent subsets of `{{math|'''V'''... | 403 | Basis (linear algebra) | 7 |
18,444 | # Loch
***Loch*** (`{{IPAc-en|l|ɒ|x}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|LOKH}}`{=mediawiki}) is a word meaning \"lake\" or \"sea inlet\" in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, subsequently borrowed into English. In Irish contexts, it often appears in the anglicized form \"**lough**\". A small loch is sometimes called a **lochan**. Lochs... | 469 | Loch | 0 |
18,448 | # Livonia
**Livonia**, known in earlier records as **Livland**, 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 was extended to most of present-day Estonia and Latvia, which the Liv... | 682 | Livonia | 0 |
18,448 | # Livonia
## History
### Internal conflicts in Livonia (1229--1236) {#internal_conflicts_in_livonia_12291236}
The January 1229 death of Albert of Riga caused a diocesan feud in the Archbishopric of Riga, as two rival candidates were elected. Pope Gregory IX, through cardinal Otto of Tonengo, tasked Baldwin of Alna as... | 664 | Livonia | 1 |
18,448 | # Livonia
## History
### Livonian War (1558--1583) {#livonian_war_15581583}
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor once again asked for help of Gustav I of Sweden, and the Kingdom of Poland also began direct negotiations with Gustav, but nothing resulted because on 29 September 1560, Gustav I Vasa died. The chances for succ... | 1,562 | Livonia | 2 |
18,448 | # Livonia
## History
### Kingdom of Livonia (1570--1578) {#kingdom_of_livonia_15701578}
The armies of Ivan the Terrible were initially successful, taking Polotsk (1563) and Parnawa (1575) and overrunning much of Grand Duchy of Lithuania up to some 250 km proximity of Vilnius. Eventually, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ... | 711 | Livonia | 3 |
18,448 | # Livonia
## Gallery
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18,460 | # Lysithea (moon)
**Lysithea** `{{IPAc-en|l|aɪ|ˈ|s|ɪ|θ|i|ə}}`{=mediawiki} 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 it... | 123 | Lysithea (moon) | 0 |
18,461 | # 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 Leda, a Spartan queen. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, childre... | 641 | Leda and the Swan | 0 |
18,461 | # Leda and the Swan
## In painting {#in_painting}
A fresco depicting the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan was unearthed at the Pompeii archeological site.
Leonardo da Vinci began making studies in 1504 for a painting, apparently never executed, of Leda seated on the ground with her children. In 1508, he painted a dif... | 523 | Leda and the Swan | 1 |
18,461 | # Leda and the Swan
## In modern and contemporary art {#in_modern_and_contemporary_art}
Cy Twombly executed an abstract version of *Leda and the Swan* in 1962. It was purchased by Larry Gagosian for \$52.9 million at Christie\'s May 2017 Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
Avant-garde filmmaker Kurt Kren alo... | 287 | Leda and the Swan | 2 |
18,461 | # Leda and the Swan
## In poetry {#in_poetry}
Ronsard wrote a poem on *La Défloration de Lède*, perhaps inspired by the Michelangelo, which he may well have known. He imagines the beak going into Leda\'s mouth.
\"Leda and the Swan\" is a sonnet by William Butler Yeats composed in 1923 and first published in the *Dia... | 650 | Leda and the Swan | 3 |
18,461 | # Leda and the Swan
## In fashion {#in_fashion}
In 1935, German-born movie star Marlene Dietrich wore a dramatically designed Leda costume to a Hollywood costume party. Designed by the acclaimed costume designer Travis Banton, a longtime Dietrich collaborator, the white tulle and feather dress featured a thigh-slit, ... | 393 | Leda and the Swan | 4 |
18,461 | # Leda and the Swan
## In modern media {#in_modern_media}
A version of the Leda and the Swan story is the foundation myth in the Canadian futuristic thriller television series *Orphan Black* which aired over 5 seasons from 2013 to 2017. A corporation uses genetic engineering to create a series of female clones (Leda)... | 492 | Leda and the Swan | 5 |
18,465 | # Laches (equity)
In common-law legal systems, **laches** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|æ|tʃ|ɪ|z}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell | LAT | chiz}}`{=mediawiki}, `{{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|eɪ|-}}`{=mediawiki}; Law French: *remissness*, *dilatoriness*, from *laschesse*) is a lack of diligence and activity in making a legal claim, or moving forward with l... | 531 | Laches (equity) | 0 |
18,465 | # Laches (equity)
## Components
A claim of laches requires the following components:
1. a delay in bringing the action,
2. a delay that is unreasonable and
3. that prejudices the defendant.
### Delay
The period of delay begins when the plaintiff knew, or reasonably ought to have known, that the cause of action ... | 321 | Laches (equity) | 1 |
18,465 | # Laches (equity)
## Procedure
A defense lawyer raising the defense of *laches* against a motion for injunctive relief (a form of equitable relief) might argue that the plaintiff comes \"waltzing in at the eleventh hour\" when it is now too late to grant the relief sought, at least not without causing great harm that... | 436 | Laches (equity) | 2 |
18,465 | # Laches (equity)
## Examples
In the Virginia Republican primary for the 2012 US presidential election, several candidates did not appear on the ballot because they failed to obtain sufficient petition signatures. Four of the unsuccessful candidates---Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum---sued,... | 474 | Laches (equity) | 3 |
18,470 | # Lyman Abbott
**Lyman J. Abbott** (December 18, 1835 -- October 22, 1922) was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author.
## Biography
### Early years {#early_years}
Abbott was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, on December 18, 1835, the son of the prolific author, educator and historian Jacob Abbot... | 558 | Lyman Abbott | 0 |
18,470 | # Lyman Abbott
## Biography
### Death and legacy {#death_and_legacy}
Lyman Abbott died on October 22, 1922, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery at New Windsor, New York.
The editors of *The Outlook* kept their normal routine, publishing without \"departure from the normal course of publication\" since that was what ... | 524 | Lyman Abbott | 1 |
18,475 | # 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 tabern... | 332 | Lucius Afranius (poet) | 0 |
18,476 | # London Post Office Railway
The **Post Office Railway**, known since 1987 as **Mail Rail**, is a `{{RailGauge|2ft|lk=on}}`{=mediawiki} 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 be... | 996 | London Post Office Railway | 0 |
18,476 | # London Post Office Railway
## Rolling stock {#rolling_stock}
### Electric locomotives {#electric_locomotives}
- Original 1926 electric locomotives
### Electric units {#electric_units}
- 1927 Stock --- Original stock
- 1930 & 1936 Stock --- Replacement stock for 1927 Stock
- 1962 Stock --- Prototype stock
... | 61 | London Post Office Railway | 1 |
18,476 | # London Post Office Railway
## In fiction {#in_fiction}
- The railway features in the novel *The Horn of Mortal Danger* by Lawrence Leonard in which there is a connecting tunnel to a secret railway to the North London network. The only other known connection is in the disused tunnel between Highgate and the disuse... | 417 | London Post Office Railway | 2 |
18,491 | # 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 ... | 847 | Lead and follow | 0 |
18,491 | # Lead and follow
## Communication
### Weight transfer {#weight_transfer}
For partner dancers, using weight transfers is a way for a leader to communicate a \'lead\' for a dance step to a follower.
In another example, for a leader to have their follower walk forwards while connected, the leader begins by taking his ... | 285 | Lead and follow | 1 |
18,491 | # Lead and follow
## Lead
### Methods to lead {#methods_to_lead}
- Body lead
- Arm lead
#### Body lead vs. arm lead {#body_lead_vs._arm_lead}
A body lead occurs where the leader initiates a lead by moving their body, which moves their arm(s), and thus transmits a lead to the follower. \'Body lead\' means much ... | 379 | Lead and follow | 2 |
18,491 | # Lead and follow
## Follow
### Types of follow {#types_of_follow}
- Active follow
- Passive follow
### Techniques of following {#techniques_of_following}
### Backleading
Backleading is when a follower is executing steps without waiting for, or contrary to the lead\'s lead. Both are considered bad dancing hab... | 272 | Lead and follow | 3 |
18,495 | # Lightworks
**Lightworks** is a freemium 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 1998. The development of an open-source version was announced on April 11, 2010. However, no sourc... | 1,149 | Lightworks | 0 |
18,497 | # Lost Generation
The **Lost Generation** was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to matur... | 522 | Lost Generation | 0 |
18,497 | # Lost Generation
## Characteristics
### As children and adolescents {#as_children_and_adolescents}
#### Family life and upbringing {#family_life_and_upbringing}
When the Lost Generation was growing up, the ideal family arrangement was generally seen as the man of the house being the breadwinner and primary authori... | 1,000 | Lost Generation | 1 |
18,497 | # Lost Generation
## Characteristics
### As young adults {#as_young_adults}
#### Military service in the First World War {#military_service_in_the_first_world_war}
The Lost Generation is best known as being the cohort that primarily fought in World War I. More than 70 million people were mobilized during the First W... | 1,045 | Lost Generation | 2 |
18,497 | # Lost Generation
## Characteristics
### In midlife {#in_midlife}
#### 1930s
##### Politics and economics {#politics_and_economics}
This more optimistic period was short-lived, however, as 1929 saw the beginning of the Great Depression, which would continue throughout the 1930s and become the longest and most sever... | 583 | Lost Generation | 3 |
18,497 | # Lost Generation
## In literature {#in_literature}
thumb\|right\|upright=0.9\|Gertrude Stein with Ernest Hemingway\'s son Jack in 1924. Stein is credited with bringing the term \"Lost Generation\" into use.
In his memoir *A Moveable Feast* (1964), published after Hemingway\'s and Stein\'s deaths, Ernest Hemingway w... | 442 | Lost Generation | 4 |
18,529 | # Lynx (web browser)
**Lynx** is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. `{{As of|2025}}`{=mediawiki}, 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 Co... | 756 | Lynx (web browser) | 0 |
18,529 | # Lynx (web browser)
## Features
### Web design and robots {#web_design_and_robots}
Since Lynx will take keystrokes from a text file, it is still very useful for automated data entry, web page navigation, and web scraping. Consequently, Lynx is used in some web crawlers. Web designers may use Lynx to determine the wa... | 252 | Lynx (web browser) | 1 |
18,530 | # 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 oper... | 54 | Lynx (programming language) | 0 |
18,534 | # Lake Abitibi
**Lake Abitibi** (*Lac Abitibi*, *Aabitibiiwi-zaaga'igan*) 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 two lakes. Its total area is 931 km2, and net area... | 263 | Lake Abitibi | 0 |
18,534 | # Lake Abitibi
## History
Artifacts dating to the Late Archaic period have been found at Lake Abitibi.
Application of *Abitibi* to describe the lake and the people living in the area around it was first noted in The Jesuit Relations in 1640. One of the first Europeans in this area was Pierre de Troyes, who built a p... | 450 | Lake Abitibi | 1 |
18,542 | # 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 t... | 307 | Length | 0 |
18,542 | # Length
## Use in mathematics {#use_in_mathematics}
### Euclidean geometry {#euclidean_geometry}
In Euclidean geometry, length is measured along straight lines unless otherwise specified and refers to segments on them. Pythagoras\'s theorem relating the length of the sides of a right triangle is one of many applica... | 654 | Length | 1 |
18,544 | # 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... | 598 | Left-arm unorthodox spin | 0 |
18,544 | # Left-arm unorthodox spin
## Historical use of the term \'chinaman\' {#historical_use_of_the_term_chinaman}
Historically the term \"chinaman\" was sometimes used to describe the googly delivery or other unusual deliveries, whether bowled by right or left-arm bowlers. The left-arm wrist spinner\'s delivery that is th... | 314 | Left-arm unorthodox spin | 1 |
18,546 | # Lists of newspapers
| 4 | Lists of newspapers | 0 |
18,552 | # Larousse Gastronomique
****Larousse Gastronomique**** (`{{IPA|fr|laʁus ɡastʁɔnɔmik}}`{=mediawiki}) is an encyclopedia of gastronomy first published by Éditions Larousse in Paris in 1938. The majority of the book is about French cuisine, and contains recipes for French dishes and cooking techniques. The first edition... | 206 | Larousse Gastronomique | 0 |
18,557 | # 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. ... | 358 | Laurence of Canterbury | 0 |
18,557 | # Laurence of Canterbury
## Archbishop
Laurence succeeded Augustine to the see of Canterbury in about 604, and ruled until his death on 2 February 619. To secure the succession, Augustine had consecrated Laurence before he died, even though that was prohibited by canon law. Augustine was afraid though that if someone... | 300 | Laurence of Canterbury | 1 |
18,557 | # Laurence of Canterbury
## Pagan reaction {#pagan_reaction}
Æthelberht died in 616, during Laurence\'s tenure; his son Eadbald abandoned Christianity in favour of Anglo-Saxon paganism, forcing many of the Gregorian missionaries to flee the pagan backlash that followed Æthelberht\'s death. Among them in Gaul were Mel... | 676 | Laurence of Canterbury | 2 |
18,560 | # 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 was reprinted in Tolkien\'s book *Tree and Leaf*, and in several later collections. Contrary to Tolkien\'s claim that he despised allegory in any form, the sto... | 638 | Leaf by Niggle | 0 |
18,560 | # Leaf by Niggle
## Analysis
### Allegory
Tolkien made the general statement \"I dislike allegory\" in one of his letters, but in specific references to \"Leaf by Niggle\", he wrote that \"It is not really or properly an \'allegory\' so much as \'mythical\'\", and \"I tried to show allegorically how `{{bracket|[[sub... | 1,183 | Leaf by Niggle | 1 |
18,560 | # Leaf by Niggle
## Analysis
### Visual imagery {#visual_imagery}
Jeffrey MacLeod and Anna Smol write in *Mythlore* that while Tolkien defines sub-creation \"in linguistic terms\", he often links such verbal creation to visual images. For instance, in his poem \"Mythopoeia\", he mentions \"script and limning packed o... | 109 | Leaf by Niggle | 2 |
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