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Kuwaiti oil fires
The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17448 |
Kimberly Beck
Kimberly Beck (born January 9, 1956) is a former American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Trish Jarvis in Joseph Zito's "" (1984). Her other film roles include Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" (1964), Luc Besson's "The Big Blue" (1988), George T. Miller's "Frozen Assets" (1992), and Rolan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17449 |
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (; born April 30, 1982) is an American-German actress. Dunst made her film debut in Woody Allen's "New York Stories" (1989), followed by Brian De Palma's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1990). At age twelve, she gained widespread recognition for her performance as Claudia in the 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17450 |
Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick FIET, FCGI, (born 9 February 1954) is a British engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done research concerning robotics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17453 |
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city had an estimated population of 495,327 in 2019, making it the 38th most-populous city in the United States. It is the most populated municipality and historic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17454 |
Kocher–Debre–Semelaigne syndrome
The Kocher–Debré–Semelaigne syndrome is hypothyroidism in infancy or childhood characterised by lower extremity or generalized muscular hypertrophy, myxoedema, short stature and cretinism. The absence of painful spasms and pseudomyotonia differentiates this syndrome from its adult form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17455 |
Koi
Koi is an informal group name of the colored variants of "C. rubrofuscus". Several varieties are recognized by the Japanese. Koi varieties are distinguished by coloration, patterning, and scalation. Some of the major colors are white, black, red, orange, yellow, blue, and cream. The most popular category of koi is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17459 |
Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17461 |
Karen Kain
Karen Alexandria Kain (born March 28, 1951) is a Canadian former ballet dancer, and the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada.
Kain's mother enrolled her daughter in ballet training because she believed it would improve her postural alignment, poise, and discipline. The family moved from Ancas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17466 |
Keiretsu
A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. In the legal sense, it is a type of informal business group that are loosely organized alliances within the social world of Japan's business community. The "keiretsu" maintained dominance over the Japanese economy for the seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17467 |
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (; 6 April 1904 – 9 March 1988) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became Chancellor he served as Minister President of Baden-Württemberg from 1958 to 1966 and as President of the Federa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17470 |
Lynx
A lynx (; plural lynx or lynxes) is any of the four species (Canada lynx, Iberian lynx, Eurasian lynx, bobcat) within the medium-sized wild cat genus "Lynx". The name "lynx" originated in Middle English via Latin from the Greek word λύγξ, derived from the Indo-European root "leuk-" ('light, brightness') in refere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17479 |
Leisure
Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. Situationist International proposes that leisure does not evolve from free time,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17503 |
Leslie Caron
Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (; born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress and dancer who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003. Her autobiography, "Thank Heaven", was published in 2010 in the UK and US, and in 2011 in a French version. Veteran documentarian Larry Weinstein's "Leslie Caron: The R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17505 |
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; , ), officially known as the Republic of Latvia (, ), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Since its independence, Latvia has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17514 |
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; ; ; ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital, Luxembourg City, is one of the four official capitals of the European Union (together with Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17515 |
Location parameter
In statistics, a location parameter of a probability distribution is a scalar- or vector-valued parameter formula_1, which determines the "location" or shift of the distribution. In the literature of location parameter estimation, the probability distributions with such parameter are found to be for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17516 |
Larry Wall
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is an American computer programmer and author. He created the Perl programming language.
Wall grew up in Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17519 |
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 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18562 |
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 in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18564 |
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 call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18566 |
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 symbo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18567 |
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 pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18569 |
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 Thin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18571 |
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 s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18572 |
Leto
In Greek mythology, Leto (; "Lētṓ"; Λατώ, "Lātṓ" in Doric Greek) is the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, the sister of Asteria. She is the mother of Apollo and Artemis.
The island of Kos is claimed to be her birthplace. However, Diodorus, in 2.47 states clearly that Leto was born in Hyperborea and not in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18574 |
La Malinche
Marina or Malintzin (c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche , was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a key role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés. She was one of 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18576 |
Limited-stop
In public transit, particularly tram or train transportation, a limited-stop (or sometimes referred to as semi-fast service) service is a service 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 norm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18578 |
Limburg (Netherlands)
Limburg (, ; Dutch and Limburgish: "(Nederlands-)Limburg") is the southernmost of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands. The province is in the southeastern part of the country, stretched out from the north, where it touches the province of Gelderland. Its northern part has the province of North Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18582 |
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. The nature of metal–ligand bonding can range from covalent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18589 |
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 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18591 |
Lascaux
Lascaux (, "Lascaux Cave"; , ) is the setting of a complex 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 and contemp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18594 |
Lex Luthor
Alexander Joseph Luthor () is a fictional supervillain appearing in publications by the publisher DC Comics. The character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Lex Luthor originally appeared in "Action Comics" No. 23 (cover dated: April 1940). He has since endured as the archenemy of Superman.
Orig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18595 |
Lute
A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. More specifically, the term "lute" can refer to an instrument from the family of European lutes. The term also refers generall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18596 |
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 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18597 |
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 greate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18602 |
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 w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18603 |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (, , also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organisation 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 S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18606 |
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 formula_1 (often time) to a function of a complex variable formula_2 (complex frequency). The transform has many applications in science and en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18610 |
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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18612 |
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,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 |
Left Behind
Left Behind is a series of 16 bestselling religious novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: the pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological interpretation of the Biblical apocalypse. The primary conflict of the series is the members of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18615 |
Lausanne
Lausanne (, also , , ; ; ; ) is the capital city and biggest town of the canton of Vaud in Romandy, Switzerland. A municipality, it is situated on the shores of Lake Léman (). It faces the French town of , with the Jura Mountains to its north-west. Lausanne is located northeast of Geneva.
The municipality La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18623 |
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, hospi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18624 |
Ludwig Von Drake
Professor Ludwig Von Drake is one of Walt Disney's cartoon and comic book characters. He was first introduced on September 24, 1961, 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18625 |
Los Altos, California
Los Altos () is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in northern Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Los Altos means "the heights" in Spanish. The population was 28,976 according to the 2010 census.
Most of the city's growth occurred between 1950 and 1980. Originally an agricultu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18627 |
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 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18628 |
Liqueur
A liqueur (; ; ) is an alcoholic drink composed of distilled spirits 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 mingle.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18629 |
Lilith
Lilith (; "Lîlîṯ") is a figure in Jewish mythology, developed earliest in the Babylonian Talmud (3rd to 5th century AD). From AD 700–1000 onwards Lilith appears as Adam's first wife, created at the same time (Rosh Hashanah) and from the same clay as Adam—compare . The figure of Lilith may relate in part to a hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18630 |
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 "q" moving with a velocity v in an electric field E and a magnetic field B experiences a force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18631 |
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 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18634 |
List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type
This list of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type contains all CPUs used by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh computers. It is grouped by processor family, processor model, and then chronologically by Macintosh models.
The Motorola 68000 was the first Apple Macintosh processo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18640 |
Lemmy
Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy, was an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best remembered as the founder, lead singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead.
Lemmy's music was one of the foundations of the heavy metal genre. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18642 |
Lactose
Lactose is a disaccharide. It 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-solu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18643 |
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 afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18644 |
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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18645 |
Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/keyboardist Joe Hahn and drummer Rob Bourdon, all of whom are founding members. Vocalists Mark Wakefield and C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18646 |
Flipper (cricket)
The flipper is the name of 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18650 |
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 elevati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18653 |
Labour law
Labour law (also known as labor law or employment law) mediates 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 work a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18657 |
Louis Riel
Louis David 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 of the Canadian Prairies. He led two rebellions against the government of Canada and its first post-Confederation prime minister, John A. Mac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18664 |
Listerine
Listerine is an American brand of antiseptic mouthwash product. It 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. Loui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18665 |
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, but simpler. The game and its variations are popular in many c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18666 |
Life expectancy
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average (see below) time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age, and other demographic factors including gender. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth (LEB), which can be defined in two ways. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18669 |
Liquid crystal
Liquid crystals (LCs) are a state of matter which has properties between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For instance, a liquid crystal may flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a crystal-like way. There are many different types of liquid-crystal phases, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17973 |
Law of definite proportions
In chemistry, the law of definite proportion, sometimes called Proust's law, or law of constant composition states that a given
chemical compound always contain its component elements in fixed ratio (by mass) and does not depend on its source and method of preparation. For example, oxygen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17981 |
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" and "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy", and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17988 |
Linear A
Linear A is a writing system used by the Minoans (Cretans) from 1800 to 1450 BC to write the hypothesized Minoan language. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It was discovered by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans. It was succeeded by Linear B, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17989 |
LucasArts
LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC, doing business as Lucasfilm Games, is an American licensor. Until 2013, it was also a video game developer and publisher. LucasArts is best known for its graphic adventure games, as well as games based on the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises. Its headquarters a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17990 |
Lafcadio Hearn
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (; ; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), also known by the Japanese name , was a Greek-Irish writer who later became a naturalized Japanese citizen. He is best remembered for his books about Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as "". In t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17992 |
Learning theory (education)
Learning Theory describes how students absorb, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained.
Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17994 |
Long-term memory
Long-term memory (LTM) is the stage of the Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model where informative knowledge is held indefinitely. It is defined in contrast to short-term and working memory, which persist for only about 18 to 30 seconds. Long-term memory is commonly labelled as explicit memory (declarative),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17995 |
Latin declension
Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined, or have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number and gender. Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension. There are five declensions, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17997 |
Latin phonology and orthography
Latin phonology continually evolved over the centuries, making it difficult for speakers in one era to know how Latin was spoken in prior eras. A given phoneme may be represented by different letters in different periods. This article deals primarily with modern scholarship's best recon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17999 |
Latin conjugation
Conjugation has two meanings. One meaning is the creation of derived forms of a verb from basic forms, or principal parts. It may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, mood, aspect, voice, or other language-specific factors.
The second meaning of the word conjugation is a group of verbs whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18000 |
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women" (1868) and its sequels "Little Men" (1871) and "Jo's Boys" (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18002 |
LALR parser
In computer science, an LALR parser or Look-Ahead LR parser is a simplified version of a canonical LR parser, to parse (separate and analyze) a text according to a set of production rules specified by a formal grammar for a computer language. ("LR" means left-to-right, rightmost derivation.)
The LALR pars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18004 |
Language center
The term language center (or more accurately centers, e.g. Broca's area and Wernicke's area) refers to the areas of the brain which serve a particular function for speech processing and production. Language is a core system, which gives humans the capacity to solve difficult problems and provides them ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18008 |
Lift (force)
A fluid flowing around the surface of an object exerts a force on it. Lift is the component of this force that is perpendicular to the oncoming flow direction. It contrasts with the drag force, which is the component of the force parallel to the flow direction. Lift conventionally acts in an upward direct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18009 |
Leo III the Isaurian
Leo III the Isaurian, also known as the Syrian (; 685 – 18 June 741), was the Byzantine emperor from 717 until his death in 741 and founder of the Isaurian dynasty. He put an end to the Twenty Years' Anarchy, a period of great instability in the Byzantine Empire between 695 and 717, marked by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18010 |
Lombards
The Lombards () or Langobards () were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774.
The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the "History of the Lombards" (written between 787 and 796) that the Lombards descended from a small tribe called the Winnili, who dwelt in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18011 |
Loki
Loki (, Modern , often Anglicized as ) is a god in Norse mythology. Loki is in some sources the son of Fárbauti and Laufey, and the brother of Helblindi and Býleistr. By the jötunn Angrboða, Loki is the father of Hel, the wolf Fenrir, and the world serpent Jörmungandr. By his wife Sigyn, Loki is the father of Nar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18013 |
Lisp (programming language)
Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. Only Fortran is older, by one year. Lisp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18016 |
List of logarithmic identities
In mathematics, there are many logarithmic identities.
Logarithms and exponentials with the same base cancel each other. This is true because logarithms and exponentials are inverse operations (just like multiplication and division or addition and subtraction).
Both of the above are de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18019 |
Lost city
A lost city is a settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world. The locations of many lost cities have been forgotten, but some have been rediscovered and studied ext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18020 |
Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (; ; May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history. Agassiz grew up in Switzerland. He received doctor of philosophy and medical degrees at Erlangen and Munich, respectively. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18023 |
Li Bai
Li Bai ("Chinese:" 李白, pinyin: "Lǐbái", 701–762), also known as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (太白), was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and a romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were the two most prominent figures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18024 |
Longship
Longships were a type of specialised Viking warships that have a long history in Scandinavia, with their existence being archaeologically proven and documented from at least the fourth century BC. Originally invented and used by the Norsemen (commonly known as the Vikings) for commerce, exploration, and warfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18025 |
Luigi Alamanni
Luigi Alamanni (sometimes spelt Alemanni) (6 March 149518 April 1556) was an Italian poet and statesman. He was regarded as a prolific and versatile poet. He was credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry.
Alamanni was born in Florence. His father was a devoted adherent of the Medici par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18026 |
LR parser
In computer science, LR parsers are a type of bottom-up parser that analyses deterministic context-free languages in linear time. There are several variants of LR parsers: SLR parsers, LALR parsers, Canonical LR(1) parsers, Minimal LR(1) parsers, GLR parsers. LR parsers can be generated by a parser generator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18030 |
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (; February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Although he is often characterized exclusively as an architect, as James Beck has o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18031 |
Little Nemo
Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He originated in an early comic strip by McCay, "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend", before receiving his own spin-off series, Little Nemo in Slumberland. The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18033 |
Lydia
Lydia (Assyrian: "Luddu"; , "Lȳdíā"; ) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provinces of Uşak, Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian. Its capital was Sardis.
The Kingdom of Lydia existed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18039 |
Land's End
Land's End ( or "Pedn an Wlas") is a headland and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, situated within the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road. To the east of it is the English Channel, and to the west the Celtic Sea.
Land's End is the most wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18040 |
Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes (155525 September 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, of Ely, and of Winchester and oversaw the transl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18043 |
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, or Tarquin the Elder, was the legendary fifth king of Rome from 616 to 579 BC. His wife was Tanaquil.
According to Livy, Tarquin came from Etruria. Livy claims that his original Etruscan name was "Lucumo", but since lucumo (Etruscan "Lauchume") is the Etruscan word... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18046 |
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (died 495 BC) was the legendary seventh and final king of Rome, reigning from 535 BC until the popular uprising in 509 BC that led to the establishment of the Roman Republic. He is commonly known as Tarquin the Proud, from his cognomen "Superbus" (Latin for "proud,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18047 |
Libertarian socialism
Libertarian socialism, also referred to as anarcho-socialism, anarchist socialism, free socialism, stateless socialism, socialist anarchism and socialist libertarianism, is a set of anti-authoritarian, anti-statist and libertarian political philosophies within the socialist movement which rejects... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18048 |
Livy
Titus Livius ( , ; 64/59 BC – AD 12/17), known as Livy ( ) in English, was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled "", covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional foundation in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own lifetim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18049 |
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 – February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve. He was the father of the neo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13647 |
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