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Linda Ellerbee Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith in Bryan, Texas, USA, August 15, 1944) is a journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight, which was recognized by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program ever."
Linda Evans Linda Evans (born Linda Evanstad on November 18, 1942, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. At 21, she arose to fame as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter and Lee Majors's sister, Audra Barkley, on the 1960s western, The Big Valley (1965-1969) and later as John Forsythe's younger compassionate wife, Krystle Carrington on the 1980s prime-time television soap, Dynasty (1981-1989).
Linda Fabiani Linda Fabiani (born December 14 1956, Glasgow) is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent Central Scotland at the 1999 election.
Linda Fairstein Linda Fairstein (born 1947) was head of the sex crime unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002 and prosecuted several highly publicized cases. She is also a best-selling author of a series of crime novels.
Linda Fiorentino Linda Fiorentino (born Clorinda Fiorentino on March 9, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress noted for her dark beauty and husky voice. She is known for her roles in films such as Dogma, Vision Quest, Men in Black, and The Last Seduction, perhaps her signature role, where she plays femme fatale Bridget, almost the textbook example of a murderous seductress in a modern film noir.
Linda Fite Linda Fite is an American writer and editor who created the Marvel Comics series The Cat, and who while serving as an assistant to Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, helped bring fledgling artist Barry Windsor-Smith to the company.
Linda Fuller Linda Fuller, with her husband, Millard, founded Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI). They launched the ecumenical Christian housing ministry in 1976, after pioneering a low-cost housing program in rural southwest (1968 - 1972) followed by three years of similar work in the African country of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo(1973 - 1976).
Linda Gibboney Linda Gibboney (born March 7, 1951) is an American actress, best known for her roles on soap operas, including, but not limited to, "Sybil Thorne" on All My Children (1979-1981), "Gina Blake Demott" on Santa Barbara (1984-1985), and "Jessica Gardner" on Generations (1989-1991).
Linda Good Linda Good is a songwriter, producer, keyboardist, singer and tv/film composer. Co-founder of the alternative pop band, The Twigs (with her twin sister Laura Good) she has written and co-produced three albums with her band:
Linda Gottfredson Linda Susanne Gottfredson (born 24 June 1947) is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society. Gottfredson's work has been influential in shaping U.
Linda Gradstein Linda Gradstein has been the Israel correspondent for NPR since 1990. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I.
Linda Gray Linda Ann Gray (born September 12, 1940 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress, best known for her role as Larry Hagman's long-suffering wife, Sue Ellen Ewing on the television soap opera Dallas as a recurring character in the series first season in the spring of 1978, and as a regular cast member from 1978 to 1989. She returned to the role in the series finale in 1991 and again in the reunion films "J.
Linda Green Linda Green was a British television comedy-drama series that lasted for two seasons, screened in 2001 and 2002. The twenty half-hour episodes (ten in each season) were broadcast on BBC One and produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company.
Linda Greenhouse Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times covering the United States Supreme Court. She has covered this beat since 1978, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered Congress.
Linda Gregerson Linda Gregerson (born August 5, 1950)is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan . Her books of poetry include Waterborne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996) and Fire in the Conservatory (1982).
Linda Ham Linda Ham was the program integration manager in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle Program Office. In this position, she chaired the mission management team for the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107 that ended with the catastrophic destruction of Columbia upon its planned reentry into the earth's atmosphere.
Linda Harrison Linda Harrison (born 24 July 1945) is an American model and actress born in Berlin, Maryland. She is best known for her role as Charlton Heston's attractive female mate Nova in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, and its 1970 sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
Linda Hartley Clark Linda Hartley Clark (born 1966) is an Australian actress who played Kerry Bishop on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1989 - 1990. She also did a guest stint in 2005 playing Gabby Walker who in the storyline was recognised by Harold as Kerry's lookalike.
Linda Hayden Linda Hayden, born 19 January 1953 in Stanmore, Middlesex, is an English film and television actress, best-known for her roles in Hammer horror productions and various British sexploitation films from the 1970s.
Linda Haynes Linda Haynes (born 24 september, 1955) was a blonde-haired American actress who appeared in several films in the 1970s before retiring from the business. She is best known for her roles in Rolling Thunder, The Drowning Pool and Brubaker.
Linda Hirshman Linda Redlick Hirshman (born April 26, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a lawyer, feminist, and the author of The Woman's Guide to Law School and Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex. She is a retired Distinguished professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Brandeis University.
Linda Hutcheon Linda Hutcheon is University Professor in the Department of English and of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she has taught since 1988. She specializes in theories of postmodernism.
Linda Chavez Linda Chavez (born June 17, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a prominent Hispanic-American conservative author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is of mixed Mexican American (father) and Anglo American (mother) parentage.
Linda Chavez-Thompson Linda Chavez-Thompson (born August 3, 1944, in Lubbock, Texas) is a Hispanic-American trade union leader. She is the executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO, a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and a member of the board of trustees of United Way of America.
Linda Christian Linda Christian (born Blanca Rosa Welter on November 13, 1924 (some sources cite 1923) in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) was a Hollywood movie actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She is also noted for being the first James Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 TV adaptation of the Bond novel Casino Royale.
Linda Kaye Henning Linda Kaye Henning (born September 16, 1944, in Los Angeles) is an American actress who starred on the 1960's sitcom Petticoat Junction. TV Producer Paul Henning, the creator-writer-producer of such CBS TV series as The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, is her father.
Linda Kohanov Linda Kohanov is a leading authority in an emerging field known as Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (closely related to therapeutic horseback riding). She is the author of two groundbreaking books; The Tao of Equus, and Riding Between The Worlds.
Linda Larkin Linda Larkin , March 20, 1970, in Los Angeles, California), cinema and television actress, best known for providing the voice of Princess Jasmine in the movie Aladdin and various Aladdin sequels and spin-offs, as well as in the Kingdom Hearts video game series.
Linda Lavarch Linda Denise Lavarch (born 27 November 1958) is an Australian Labor Party politician and solicitor. She represents the electorate of Kurwongbah, in Brisbane's northern suburbs, in the Queensland state parliament.
Linda Lavin Linda Lavin (born October 15, 1937 in Portland, Maine) is an American singer and Tony Award and Golden Globe Award-winning stage, film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the title character in the US sitcom Alice.
Linda Lee (Import Models) Linda Lee is a Vietnamese-American model, more widely known for her prolific work in the Import Modeling scene. Born on July 8 1980 in San Francisco, California to John and Angie Lee to a family of five, Linda has an older and younger brother.
Linda Linda Linda Linda Linda Linda (ăŞăłă€ ăŞăłă€ ăŞăłă€) is a 2005 Japanese film. It was directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, containing new music for the film composed by The Smashing Pumpkins' James Iha as well as older hits (and covers thereof) by Japanese punk band The Blue Hearts.
Linda MacDonald Glenn Linda MacDonald Glenn is an American bioethicist, healthcare educator, lecturer, consultant, and attorney-at-law. Her academic research enompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of emerging technologies and 'evolving notions of personhood' (a phrase she coined)
Linda Mack Schloff Linda Mack Schloff is a historian, an author and the director of collections, exhibits and publications at the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest. Hymie Berman, she co-authored Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855 (1996), and Jews in Minnesota (2002), both on Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Linda MartĂn Alcoff Linda MartĂn Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy, Women's Studies and Political Science and currently the Director of Women's Studies at Syracuse University. She was recognized as the distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2005 by SPEP and APA and is listed on Hispanic Business's 2006 "100 Most Influentials.
Linda McAvan Linda McAvan (born 12th January 1962, Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for Yorkshire and the Humber. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 1998, and was first elected in a by-election following the resignation of Norman West.
Linda McCartney Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. Although best known for her marriage to Sir Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, she was later the author of several vegetarian cookbooks, a business entrepreneur, and professional photographer whose book Linda McCartney's Sixties contains many of her seminal rock-artist photographs from that era.
Linda McIntosh Linda McIntosh (nee Laughlin);(born December 14, 1943) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1990 to 1999, and a cabinet minister for most of this period.
Linda McKnight Linda McKnight is a double bassist particularly renown for her teaching. She currently is part of the music faculties at Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University, New York University, Columbia Teachers College, and Montclair State University.
Linda Morand Linda Morand was a very successful fashion model, cover-girl and haute couture mannequin during the 1960s and 1970s. Known as â€Superchick” Linda Morand was a modern fashion pioneer, a beacon of revolutionary style, avant-garde beauty trends and a major face in the Mod Sixties.
Linda Morgan Linda Morgan (born 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico), now known as Linda Hardberger, became known as the "miracle girl" following the collision of two large passenger ships in the North Atlantic Ocean on the foggy night of July 25,1956.
Linda Nagata Linda Nagata (1960-) is an American science fiction author who won the Nebula award for best novella in 2000 (for "Goddesses"). She frequently writes about nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.
Linda Nager Brandt Linda Nager Brandt was born in Detroit, Michigan, where she discovered her musical gift at the age of three, when she began playing piano by ear. She studied throughout her childhood, continued her training at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and completed her Bachelor of Music and Master of Science degrees at the Juilliard School in New York City.
Linda Nochlin Professor and art historian Linda Nochlin is a leader in feminist art history studies. In 1971, the magazine ArtNews published an essay whose title posed a question that would spearhead an entirely new branch of art history.
Linda Perhacs Obscure psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs released her only album Parallelograms in 1970 to scant notice or sales. Perhacs' album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and grew in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement.
Linda Perry Linda Perry, born April 15, 1965 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to a Portuguese father and Brazilian motherPortuguese father and Brazilian mother, is an American] [[rock and roll|rock musician, songwriter, and record producer. Once best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, Perry has founded two record labels and has become a major songwriter and producer responsible for hit songs by a number of chiefly female singers, such as Gwen Stefani, Pink (who had a #1 hit with "Get the Party Started", co-written with Perry), and Christina Aguilera (who had a #1 hit with Perry's song "Beautiful").
Linda Purl Linda Purl is an actor and singer, born September 2, 1955 in Greenwich, Connecticut and raised in Japan, becoming the only foreigner to train at the Toho Geino Academy. While at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo, Purl performed in several plays, gaining the role of Louis in The King and I, Bet in Oliver!
Linda Regan Linda Regan is a former Hollywood movie actress who co-hosts the KSHA Radio Morning Show with Don Burton every weekday morning from 6am to 9am. She also hosted the KRVU My 21 local music talent competition So You Want To Be A Star, that station's version of American Idol in 2005.
Linda Ronstadt Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15 1946) is a Grammy-winning, multi-platinum American singer most closely associated with the folk rock and country rock genres prevalent in the 1970s. Though an occasional songwriter herself, she is better known as an interpreter of other songwriters' works.
Linda Rosing Linda Rosing (born January 21, 1974 in Västerås, Sweden) is a model, she was a participant in the 2003 edition of Big Brother in Sweden. In the Big Brother house, she and another participant, Micke, became involved in a relationship which was followed closely by the producersDuring the show, she had sex on live TV, making her an instant tabloid celebrity.
Linda Salzman Sagan Linda Salzman Sagan (born July 16, 1940) is an artist and writer, famed for creating the artwork for the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft and for coproducing the Voyager Golden Record. She co-authored the book Murmurs of Earth with her ex-husband, astronomer Carl Sagan, whom she married on April 6, 1968; the marriage lasted until their divorce in 1981.
Linda Sánchez Linda T. Sánchez (born January 28 1969 in Orange, California), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 39th District of California (map).
Linda Schuyler Linda Schuyler, CM (born Linda Bawcutt on 1948 in London, England) is a Canadian television producer involved in the creation of the Degrassi series and Instant Star series of teen programs. Schuyler got her ideas for Degrassi from her former career as a teacher.
Linda Smith (comedian) Linda Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was an English stand-up comic and comedy writer. She was born in Erith, south-east London, but had no particular fondness for her home town, once joking, "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham.
Linda Smith (politician) Linda Smith (born July 26 1950 in La Junta, Colorado) is a member of the Republican Party who represented Washington's Third Congressional District from 1995 to 1999 in the United States House of Representatives.
Linda Stender Linda Stender (born July 25, 1951) is an American Democratic Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, where she represents the 22nd legislative district. She serves in the Assembly as the Vice Chairwoman of the Transportation and Public Works Committee and as a member of the Tourism and Gaming Committee and the Health and Senior Services Committee.
Linda Stephens Linda Stephens (born 1950) is an American attorney and jurist who was appointed in early 2006 to the North Carolina Court of Appeals by Governor Mike Easley. She then lost her seat in a close November 2006 election to state district court judge Donna Stroud.
Linda Strawberry Linda Strawberry (real name Linda Michelle Rowberry) is the nom de plume of a Los Angeles singer best known as the keyboardist from Billy Corgan's solo tour in 2005. She signed to Chrysalis Records with a publishing development deal, but announced in her blog in October 2006 that she has since been dropped by the label.
Linda Thompson (attorney) Linda Thompson is an American attorney, filmmaker, and the founder of the American Justice Federation. She was an Indianapolis, Indiana lawyer who quit in 1993 to start her American Justice Federation, according to Snopes.
Linda Tripp Linda Tripp (born Linda Rose Carotenuto on November 24, 1949 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American woman who was a central figure in the Lewinsky scandal of 1998 and 1999 that led to the impeachment and subsequent acquittal of U.S.
Linda Tuero Linda Tuero (born October 21, 1950) was an American amateur and professional tennis star. She reached the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1971, won singles titles at the Italian Open in 1972, and at Cincinnati in 1968.
Linda Ty Casper Linda Ty Casper is a Filipino writer who has published over 15 books including the historical novel "DreamEden" and the political novels "Awaiting Trespass", "Wings of Stone", "A Small Party in a Garden", and "Fortress in the Plaza." She has also published three collections of short stories which present a cross-section of Filipino society.
Linda Ulvaeus Linda Ulvaeus (born February 23 1973 in Vallentuna, Sweden) is the elder child of Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog (members of the Swedish pop-group ABBA.) Linda had wanted to be an actress, but her artistic début was a musical one, when she recorded an album Nu tändas tusen juleljus with her mother in 1980 at age 7.
Linda Vista Hospital Linda Vista Hospital is a former hospital in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, California, USA. Originally the Santa Fe Railroad Hospital, the hospital was constructed for railroad employees in 1938.
Linda Wallem Linda Wallem began her career at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is best known for her work as the voice of Doctor Paula Hutchison from the Nickelodeon animated television series, Rocko's Modern Life.
Linda Watson Linda Watson (born September 15, 1955) is a former field hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the golden medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Because of the boycott of the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the Women's Field Hockey Tournament: the hosting USSR team.
Linda Wong Linda Wong (born September 13, 1951 in Hawaii - died December 17, 1987 in Petaluma, California of an accidental drug overdose) is a former pornographic actress and one of the first Asians to become a star in the adult film industry. In 1998 Wong was added to XRCO Hall of Fame.
Lindale, New Zealand Lindale is a locality just north of the Paraparaumu town centre in New Zealand's Kapiti Coast district. Originally involving just a Tourist and Agricultural Centre, gaining a reputation for cheese and more recently olives, it has since acquired a university campus and a convention centre.
Lindane Lindane is an insecticide, also known as gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) and benzene hexachloride (BHC). It has an LD50 of 88 mg/kg, is suspected of being a carcinogen and is banned in: the United States, the state of California and in 52 countries.
Lindau (district) Lindau is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the district of Unterallgäu, Austria (federal state of Vorarlberg), Lake Constance and the state of Baden-Württemberg (districts of Bodensee and Ravensburg).
Lindauer (wine) Lindauer is a brand of bottle-fermented sparkling wine made by Montana Wines (now part of Pernod Ricard NZ) in New Zealand. Lindauer has won recognition internationally, and is New Zealand's most exported wine.
Lindberg (band) Lindberg is a prolific Japanese pop rock band that released many albums (35 singles, 15 albums, and 12 best-of and singles collections) and videos (including movies and making-of featurettes) over its 15-year career.
Lindbergh Operation The Lindbergh Operation, was named after American aviator Charles Lindbergh, because he was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. The Lindbergh operation had nothing to do with planes but was the first transatlantic telesurgery.
Lindblad equation In quantum mechanics, the Lindblad equation or master equation in the Lindblad form is the most general type of master equation allowed by quantum mechanics to describe non-unitary (dissipative) evolution of the density matrix rho (such as ensuring normalisation and hermiticity of rho). It reads:
Linde AG Linde AG () is the registered company name of the global industrial gases company now known as The Linde Group. Linde AG shares are traded on all the German stock exchanges and also in ZĂĽrich with the symbol LIN, and the Linde share price is included in the DAX 30 index.
Lindelöf space In mathematics, a Lindelöf space is a topological space in which every open cover has a countable subcover. A Lindelöf space is a weakening of the more commonly used notion of compactness, which requires that the subcover be finite.
Lindelöf's theorem In mathematics, Lindelöf's theorem is a result in complex analysis named after the Finnish mathematician Ernst Leonard Lindelöf. It states that a holomorphic function on a half-strip in the complex plane that is bounded on the boundary of the strip and does not grow "too fast" in the unbounded direction of the strip must remain bounded on the whole strip.
Lindell Cooley Lindell Cooley is a worship artist who led worship at the Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida during the Brownsville revival. Lindell left Brownsville in 2003 to start a church plant in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lindeman Lindeman is the name of a large family of fictional characters, all played by Swedish comedian Hans Alfredson, portrayed by improvised monologues. Every day, the interviewer, Lasse O'MĂĄnsson or Tage Danielsson, would talk about a topic from today's newspaper and introduce a Lindeman with a relevant occupation.
Linden Grove Cemetery Linden Grove Cemetery is located along Holman Street, between 13th and 15th streets in Covington, Kentucky. It is the second public Cemetery of Covington, the first city's first public burial ground being Craig Street Cemetery, which dates to 1815.
Linden Hills, Minneapolis Linden Hills is the name of a neighborhood in the Calhoun-Isles community of Minneapolis. It is bordered to the north by Lake Calhoun, to the east by Lake Harriet, to the south by West 47th Street, and to the west by France avenue.
Linden woods Linden Woods is a fully serviced residential development in the south-west quadrant of the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It's 900 acres are bordered by Wilkes Avenue, Waverley Street, Kenaston Boulevard, and McGillivray Boulevard.
Linden, Columbus, Ohio Linden is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of Columbus, Ohio. It extends south to north from about 8th Avenue to Cooke and Ferris Roads and west to east from about 4th Street/Indianola Avenue to Joyce Avenue/Westerville Road.
Linden, Guyana Linden is the second-largest city in Guyana, and capital of the Upper Demerara-Berbice region, located at , altitude 48 metres (160 feet). It was declared a town in 1970, and includes the communities of MacKenzie and Wismar.
Linden, New Jersey Linden is a city in southeastern Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area, being about 13 miles southwest of Manhattan, and bordering Staten Island, a borough of New York City.
Linden, Virginia Linden, Virginia is an unincorporated area of Warren and Fauquier Counties in Virginia. It is one of the fastest-growing areas of Warren County due to being closer to Washington, DC than other parts of the county and its proximity to Interstate 66.
Lindenholzhausen Lindenholzhausen (in local dialect "Hollese") is a district of the town Limburg an der Lahn, and has been since 1972. Other districts in Limburg are Ahlbach, Blumenrod, Dietkirchen, Eschhofen, Linter, Offheim and Staffel.
Lindenwold High School Lindenwold High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Lindenwold, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Lindenwold Public Schools.
Lindenwood, Queens This section of Howard Beach, Queens, New York was developed in the 1950s and 1960s and sits on landfilled land. It is primarily made up of seven-story, orange or red-brick apartment buildings, constructed in the early to mid-1960s, smaller co-op "garden-apartments" (4-unit red-brick buildings) constructed in the 1950s, and seen from the Belt Parkway, and two family homes (some attached) built in the 1960s.
Linder hypothesis The Linder hypothesis was proposed by economist Staffan Burenstam Linder in 1961 as a possible resolution to the Leontief paradox, which questioned the empirical validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory (H-O). H-O predicts that patterns of international trade will be determined by the relative factor-endowments of different nations.
Linder Sterling Linder Sterling is a visual artist, performance artist and musician from Manchester, England who also uses the single name "Linder". Born Linda Mulvey in Liverpool in 1954, she spent her adolescence and most of her adult life in Manchester.
Lindera Lindera is a genus of about 80-100 species of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae, mostly native to eastern Asia but with three species in eastern North America. The species are shrubs and small trees; common names include Spicebush and Benjamin Bush.
Lindera benzoin Lindera benzoin (Common Spicebush, Northern Spicebush or Benjamin Bush) is a flowering plant in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America, ranging from Maine to Ontario in the north, and to Kansas, Texas and northern Florida in the south.
Linderhof Linderhof Palace (German: Schloss Linderhof) is a castle in Germany, near Oberammergau in southwest Bavaria near Ettal Abbey. It is the smallest of the three castles built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria but the only one of which he lived to see completion.
Lindes and Ramsberg Mountain District Lindes and Ramsberg Mountain District, or Lindes and Ramsbergs bergslag, was a district divided between Närke and Västmanland in Sweden. The mountain district (bergslag) was the equivalent of a hundred (hundrade) within Bergslagen.
Lindesfarne Dewclaw Lindesfarne Dewclaw is one of the main characters in Kevin and Kell, by Bill Holbrook. She was adopted by Kevin Dewclaw and his first wife Angelique, and after their divorce, lives with her foster father, her stepmother Kell Dewclaw, her stepbrother Rudy Dewclaw, and Kevin and Kell’s daughter Coney Dewclaw
Lindfield, West Sussex Lindfield is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The parish lies to the north-east of Haywards Heath, of which the village is a part of the built-up area: it stands at the upper reaches of the River Ouse.
Lindholm Høje Lindholm Høje (trans: the rise of Lindholm) is a major Viking burial site and former settlement situated to the north of and overlooking the city of Aalborg. The first major excavation of 700 graves began in 1952, although earlier excavations, such as that in 1889, had been conducted.
Lindholme (HM Prison) Lindholme Prison is a category C medium security prison on Lindholme Moor in South Yorkshire, England on the A614 Bawtry Road. Formerly an RAF Station built in 1942 to house and operate bombers, it became a V bomber base with Avro Vulcan bombers and the RAF Navigation School.
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