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Lady Liberty (song) "Lady Liberty" is a song written by Al Jardine and Ron Altbach for the American pop band The Beach Boys. The song is simply a varied version of "Lady Lynda" with completely different lyrics celebrating the Statue Of Liberty.
Lady Literate in Arts A Lady Literate in Arts or LLA qualification was offered by St. Andrews University for more than a decade before women were allowed to graduate in the same way as men, and it became popular as a kind of external degree for women who had studied through correspondence, or by attendance at non-university classes.
Lady Louisa Conolly Lady Louisa Conolly (1743-1821), known from 1723 to 1758 as Lady Louisa Lennox, was the third of the four Lennox sisters immortalised in Stella Tillyard's book Aristocrats and the BBC television series based on it.
Lady Louise Windsor The Lady Louise Windsor (Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor; born 8 November 2003) is a member of the British Royal Family. She is the only child of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex (née Rhys-Jones).
Lady Mabel Fitzwilliam Mabel Fitzwilliam was an English politician and noblewoman. She was the grand-daughter of the 6th Earl Fitzwilliam and sister of the 7th Earl and was very active in local (South Yorkshire) politics' firstly as a West Riding County Councillor and later as a county Alderman.
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Леди Макбет Мценского уезда in Russian; Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo Uyezda in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich to a Russian libretto by Alexander Preis and the composer, inspired by and named after the famous story by Nikolai Leskov. The opera is sometimes referred to informally as Lady Macbeth when there is no confusion with Verdi's Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (story) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1865) is the most famous story of the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov. Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from women in 19th century European society, adultery, provincial life (thus drawing comparison with Flaubert's Madame Bovary) and the planning of murder by a woman, hence the title inspired by the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth from his play Macbeth.
Lady Manners School Lady Manners School is an English secondary school situated in Bakewell, a market town in the Peak District National Park. It was founded on 20th May 1636 by Grace, Lady Manners, who lived at Haddon Hall, the current home of Lord and Lady Edward Manners.
Lady Margaret School Lady Margaret School is a smaller than average Voluntary Aided Church of England secondary school in Parsons Green, Fulham, London. The school serves a population of 560 11 to 18 year old girls, of whom 107 are in the sixth form.
Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship or "chair" in the University of Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in 1502.
Lady Marie Therese Charlotte Bruce Lady Marie Therese Charlotte Bruce, later The Princess of Hornes, (1704–1736) was the daughter of Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin and Charlotte Jacqueline d' Argenteau, comtesse d'Esneux. She was married to Maximilian, Prince of Hornes (1695–1763) on 17 June 1722.
Lady Mary Butler Lady Mary Butler (1689 - January 2 1713), younger daughter 2nd Duke of Ormonde and a granddaughter of the 1st Duke of Beaufort, was born in Kilkenny Castle, Ireland. She married John, 3rd Lord Ashburnham, on October 21, 1710 and died two years later in childbirth.
Lady Mary Grey Lady Mary Grey (1545–April 20, 1578), sometimes spelled Marie, was the third and last daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon. She was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and Lady Catherine Grey.
Lady May Abel Smith Lady May Helen Emma Abel Smith (23 January 1906 - 29 May 1994) was a descendant of the British Royal Family, a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. From her birth she was known as Princess May of Teck, a title in the Kingdom of WĂĽrttemberg.
Lady Musgrave Island Lady Musgrave Island is a 14 ha coral cay in the Great Barrier Reef, with a 1192 ha surrounding reef. The island is the second island in the Great Barrier Reef chain of islands, and is most easily reached from the town of 1770, Queensland, located on approximately 5 hours north of Brisbane.
Lady of Baza The Lady of Baza (la Dama de Baza) is a famous example of Celtiberian art, an early Iberian female figure of stone with traces of painted detail, found on July 22, 1971 at Baza, in the altiplano, the high tableland in the northwest of the province of Granada. Baza is the site of the Ibero-Roman city of Basti and, in the Cerro del Santuario, one of its two necropolis, the Lady of Baza was recovered.
Lady of Elx The famous but controversial Lady of Elx (Dama d'Elx in Valencian/Catalan, Dama de Elche in Spanish) is a polychrome stone bust that was revealed as found by chance in 1897 at L'AlcĂşdia, an archaeological site that was on a private estate about 2 km, south of Elx (Spanish Elche) (Alicante, Valencia, Spain). The Lady of Elx is generally believed to be an Iberian piece of the 4th century B.
Lady of Pain The Lady of Pain is a fictional entity, the protector of the city of Sigil in the Dungeons & Dragons Planescape campaign setting. She is also known as Her Serenity, for the permanently vacant expression on her face, Her Dread Majesty, The Bladed Queen, or simply The Lady.
Lady of Rage Robin Yvette Allen, the Lady of Rage is a rapper best known for collaborations with several Death Row Records artists, including Snoop Doggy Dogg on the seminal album Doggystyle. Chubb Rock discovered Lady of Rage when she was working and living at Chung King Studios in New York.
Lady of the Forum The Lady of the Forum or Queen of the Latins is the provisional nickname given to a perfectly preserved skeleton of possibly the wife of an early Latin tribal ruler from the 10th century BC, and discovered in 2006 beneath the Forum of Caesar by a team of archeologist directed by Roberto Meneghini, head of Rome's Department of Cultural Heritage.http://www.
Lady of the Lake The Lady of the Lake is the name of several related characters who play integral parts in the Arthurian legend. These characters' roles include giving King Arthur his sword Excalibur, taking the dying king to Avalon after the Battle of Camlann, enchanting Merlin, and raising Lancelot after the death of his father.
Lady of the Night (song) "Lady of the Night" is a song by Donna Summer from the album of the same title. Released before Summer's international stardom during the disco era, it was a moderate hit in some European countries in 1974.
Lady of Yue The Lady of Yue, also known as The Maiden of the Southern Forest, was a renowned swordswoman who lived in the State of Yue during the reign of King Gou Jian of Yue (496-465 BCE). On the counsel of his advisors, Goujian contacted the Maiden of the Southern Forest, who visited him.
Lady Ottoline Morrell The Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (June 16, 1873 - April 21, 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers such as Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T S Eliot and D.
Lady Pamela Hicks The Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks, née Mountbatten (born 19 April 1929) is 457th in the line of succession to the British Throne. She is the younger daughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma by his wife, the former Edwina Ashley.
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is a fictional character of the television series Thunderbirds, as well as the 2004 live action feature film of the same name. She is International Rescue's London Agent, and resides in Creighton-Ward Mansion with her butler, Aloysius "Nosey" Parker.
Lady Quark In the DC Comics 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, Lady Quark was one of the rulers of her home world, Earth-Six where the Revolutionary War was won by England. She had the ability to alter matter on the subatomic level.
Lady Samantha "Lady Samantha" is the second solo single by British musician Elton John; it was released on January 17, 1969 in Great Britain, and some time later in the United States. The song was written by John and his collaborator Bernie Taupin, and produced by Steve Brown.
Lady Sarah Chatto The Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Chatto, née Armstrong-Jones, (born 1 May 1964) is the only daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the second daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later The Queen Mother. She is 15th in the line of succession to the British Throne and at the time of her birth was seventh.
Lady Sarah McCorquodale Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale (born 19 March, 1955) is the eldest daughter of Edward Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Frances (formerly the Honourable Frances Burke Roche). Diana, Princess of Wales was her younger sister.
Lady Sia Lia Sia is an action/adventure game for the Game Boy Advance made by RFX Interactive and published by TDK Mediactive. The game takes place in a fantasy world where you play as the princess knight Lady Sia who must defeat the T'soas, a race of anthropomorphics created by the evil warlock Onimen.
Lady Sings the Blues Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 biographical film which tells the story of jazz singer Billie Holiday. Produced by Motown Productions for Paramount Pictures, the film stars Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T.
Lady Sings the Blues (album) Lady Sings the Blues was the successful soundtrack to the Billie Holiday biopic of the same name, which starred Diana Ross in her screen debut in 1972. The album went on to be Ross' only #1 album on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart as a solo act.
Lady Sophia Topley Lady Sophia Topley (b. Sophia Louise Sydney Cavendish, March 18 1957) is the third child and second daughter of the late Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah Mitford and younger sister of the (present) 12th Duke of Devonshire.
Lady Stanley Institute for Trained Nurses The Lady Stanley Institute for Trained Nurses was the first nursing school in Ottawa, Ontario, located on Rideau Street. It was founded in 1891 by Lady Stanley, wife of Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, who was Governor General of Canada from 1888-1893.
Lady Susan Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and searches for suitable husbands for herself and her young daughter, the actual action shares its importance with Austen’s manipulation of her characters' behavior by means of their reactions to the letters that they receive.
Lady Sybil Lascelles Lady Sybil Evelyn de Vere Lascelles (née Beauclerk) (21 August 1871 – 20 September 1910), later Sybil Evelyn Lascelles, was the youngest of the three children of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans and his first wife, Lady Sybil Mary Grey (granddaughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey).
Lady Tara Thornfield Lady Tara Thornfield (née Cockburn, previously Oakwell) was a fictional character on ITV's Emmerdale from 1997-1998, 2000-2002. She was played by Anna Brecon, and her character was famous for "stirring up trouble" amongst the villagers.
Lady Tremaine Lady Tremaine (also known as the Wicked Stepmother) is a fictional character from Disney's film version of Charles Perrault's fairy tale, Cinderella. Her voice actor, Eleanor Audley, would later be the voice actress for the evil witch Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty, which was released nine years later - there can be many likenesses drawn from the art styles of Maleficent and Lady Tremaine.
Lady Victoria Hervey The Lady Victoria Frederica Isabella Hervey (born 3 October, 1976), an English socialite and "It girl", is the elder daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol and his third wife Yvonne Sutton. She is the older sister of the 8th Marquess of Bristol and of Lady Isabella Hervey, and her older half-brothers were the 7th Marquess of Bristol and Lord Nicholas Hervey, both deceased.
Lady Violet Powell Lady Violet Powell (March 13, 1912 - January 12, 2002), born Lady Violet Georgiana Pakenham, third daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford and Lady Mary Julia Child-Villiers (daughter of Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey), was a writer and critic. She married Anthony Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) on December 1, 1934, at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge.
Lady Washington The original The Lady Washington was a 90-ton trading vessel built in Massachusetts around 1750. She sailed around Cape Horn and participated in the fur and pelt trade with the coastal Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest and in tea and porcelain across the Pacific in China.
Lady Xok Lady Xok (pronounced ‘Shoke’) was a Maya Queen consort in Yaxchilian and is considered to have been one of the most powerful and prominent women in Maya civilization. She was the principal wife of King Shield Jaguar (King Itsamnah Balam) who ruled Yaxchilan from A.
Lady Xu Mu Lady Xu Mu （[a princess of the state of Wei] (衛), and the first recorded female poet in Chinese history. She was married to king [[Xu Mu of the Xu kingdom, and although her surname was Ji, she became known as Lady Xu Mu.
Lady Young Road The Lady Young Road is a major roadway linking the Eastern Main Road in Barataria to the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain. It is also an important connector between the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and uptown Port of Spain.
Lady's maid A lady's maid is a female personal attendant who waits on the lady of the house. The position is somewhat analogous to a gentleman's valet, but not as high-ranking as a lady's companion, who is a retainer rather than a servant.
Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup Handicap The Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup Handicap is a race for thoroughbred race horses run at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet each year. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.
Lady's Slipper Lady Slippers is a term used to describe the orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioidea, which includes the genera Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium and Selenipedium, distinguished by their slipper-shaped pouches (modified labellums), which function by trapping insects so that they are forced to climb up past the staminode, behind which they collect or deposit pollinia.
Ladybower Reservoir The Ladybower Reservoir is a large Y-shaped reservoir, the lowest of three in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. The River Ashop flows into the reservoir from the west; the River Derwent flows south, initially through Howden Reservoir, then Derwent Reservoir, and finally through Ladybower Reservoir.
Ladyboys (documentary) Ladyboys is a 1992 documentary film about the struggle of two teenage kathoey, or Thai male-to-female transgender persons to leave the rural countryside and become famous transvestite performers in the glamorous cabarets of Pattaya. The film was produced by Jeremy Marre and directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld.
Ladybrand Ladybrand is a small agricultural town in the Free State Province of South Africa, situated 18 km from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. Founded in 1867 following the Basotho Wars, it was named after Lady Catharine Brand, the wife of the speaker of the Cape Province legislative assembly, Sir Christoffel Brand.
Ladybugs (film) Ladybugs is a comedic movie released in 1992 starring Rodney Dangerfield as a business man who wishes to be promoted at work. During a meeting with his boss, he notices the trophy case for the company sponsored girl's team and tells his boss that he was a soccer star as a younger man to gain favor (thinking his boss had won all the trophies himself).
Ladyfest Ladyfest is a community based, not-for-profit global music and arts festival for female artists which features bands, musical groups, performance artists, authors, spoken word and visual artists, workshops, and is organized by volunteers. The origins of Ladyfest developed from the DIY ethic Riot grrrl movement from Olympia, Washington combined with inclusive feminist philosophy.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a chorus from South Africa that is noted for singing a cappella isicathamiya and mbube music. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, Graceland.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Foundation The Ladysmith Black Mambazo Foundation was set up in January 1999 by Ladysmith Black Mambazo lead singer and founder Joseph Shabalala. The foundation teaches the history of South African music styles isicathamiya and, to a lesser extent, mbube.
Ladywell School The Ladywell School, in Duke Street, Glasgow, Scotland, was a school for pupils between 12 and 16 who had learning difficulties. It was housed in the Alexander’s School building from the 1970s until the early 1990s.
Laeaeans The Laeaeans were a Paionian tribe who in the fourth century BC lived adjacent to the Agrianes, another Paionian tribe, along the upper course of the Strymon river, at the western edge of Thrace. They were not incorporated into the Odrysian state or the Paionian state, remaining an independent tribe outside the borders of those kingdoms.
Laeken indicators The Laeken indicators is a set of common european statistical indicators on poverty and social exclusion, established at the European Council of December 2001 in the Brussels suburb of Laeken, Belgium. They were developed as part of the Lisbon Strategy, of the previous year, which envisioned the coordination of european social policies at country level based on a set of common goals.
Laekrits Laekrits, not to be confused with Laertes or lakrits (Swedish for liquorice), were milk chocolate oblate spheroid-shaped candies with hard licorice candy shells. Laekrits were produced by Cloetta, now Cloetta Fazer AB.
Laelia Laelia is a small genus of eleven species from the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This is one of the most important and popular orchid genera, because of the beautiful flowers, their genetic properties and because they are fairly easy in culture.
Laelia purpurata Sophronitis purpurata is native to Brazil where it is very popular among orchid growers. It is an epiphyte that is found in the canopy of tall trees near coastal areas, in the Brazilian States of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and SĂŁo Paulo.
Laeliinae Laeliinae is a Neotropical subtribe including 40 orchid genera, such as Brassavola, Laelia, Sophronitis, and Cattleya. The genus Epidendrum is the largest within this subtribe, containing around 1,500 species.
Laemanctus longipes Laemanctus longipes,or the Eastern Casquehead Iguana, is a magnificent long and thin shaped lizard from Central America, especially Mexico. It can reach the size of 70 centimeters, of which two thirds are made up by a thin tail.
Laenas Laenas, the name of a plebeian family in ancient Rome, notorious for cruelty and arrogance. The name is said by Cicero to be derived from laena, the sacerdotal cloak carried by Marcus Popillius Laenas (consul 359 BC) when he went to the Forum to quell a popular rising.
Laestadian Lutheran Church Laestadian Lutheran Church was organized on June 9, 1973 under the name Association of American Laestadian Congregations (AALC). The association changed its name in 1994 in order to better convey its spiritual heritage.
Laestadianism in America The Laestadian church arrived in North America with Nordic (especially Finnish) immigrants in the latter half of the 19th century, many of whom arrived to work in the copper mines of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Some of these new immigrants found themselves in conflict with older, established immigrants from the same countries, being generally poorer and less established, and hewing to the new, fundamentalist teachings of Lars Levi Laestadius.
Laetare Sunday Laetare Sunday, so called from the incipit of the Introit at Mass, "Laetare Jerusalem" ("O be joyful, Jerusalem"), is a name formerly often used, and less commonly used today, to denote the fourth Sunday of the season of Lent in the Christian liturgical calendar. This Sunday is also known as Mothering Sunday, Mid-Lent Sunday (in French mi-carĂŞme), and Rose Sunday, because the golden rose sent by the popes to Catholic sovereigns, used to be blessed at this time.
Laeti Laeti, the Latin plural of Laetus, derived from Germanic languages, designates members of certain barbarian tribes which had agreements with the Roman empire providing for their livelihood - removing the main motive for plundering or uncontrollable attempt of invasion - and a number of soldiers recruiting from their ranks as auxiliary units to help keep their less friendly 'brothers' away.
Laetitia Hubert Laetitia Hubert (born June 23, 1974 in Paris, France) is a French figure skater. She won the French national ladies' singles title several times, and competed in four Winter Olympic Games (1992, 1994, 1998, and 2002).
Laevisuchus Laevisuchus (LEE-vi-SOOK-us - meaning "Light/Lucky/Left Crocodile") is a nomen dubium. Its remains were discovered in Maastrichtian (late-Cretaceous) deposits in the Lameta Formation in India and described by paleontologists Friedrich von Huene and Matley in 1933.
Lafarge Lafarge (, ) is a French industrial company specializing in five major products: Cement, construction aggregates, concrete, gypsum wallboard, and roofing tile. It is the largest cement manufacturing company in the world.
Lafayette Artillery Company The Lafayette Artillery Company was founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1804 as the Artillery Company of the 22nd Regiment. It was part of the State of New Hampshire's artillery system, a forerunner to the National Guard.
Lafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line) Lafayette Avenue is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located at Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn. It is served by the train at all times except late nights, when the train assumes service.
Lafayette Blue Springs State Park Lafayette Blue Springs State Park is a Florida State Park, located on the west side of the Suwannee River, seven miles northwest of Mayo, off US 27. It contains one of the state's 33 first magnitude springs, with a daily discharge of up to 168 million gallons.
Lafayette Blues "Lafayette Blues" is a single by The White Stripes. It features one song ("Sugar Never Tasted So Good") that would later be included on The White Stripes as well as another song ("Lafayette Blues").
Lafayette Building The Lafayette Building is an unused high-rise office building located at 144 West Lafayette Boulevard in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was built in 1923 and occupies a triangular lot, bordered by Michigan Avenue, West Lafayette Boulevard, and Shelby Street.
Lafayette Bunnell Lafayette Houghton Bunnell (1824-1903), a explorer of Yosemite Valley, was born in Rochester, New York. In 1851, Bunnell was a member of the Mariposa Battalion that became the non-indigenous discoverers of the Yosemite Valley.
Lafayette C. Baker Lafayette C. Baker (October 13, 1826 – July 3, 1868) was a United States investigator and spy, serving particularly in the Union Army, during the American Civil War and under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
Lafayette Central Catholic Jr/Sr High School Lafayette Central Catholic Jr/Sr High School is a Roman Catholic high school in Lafayette, Indiana. The school was founded in 1956 under the direction and guidance of Bishop John George Bennett of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana.
Lafayette hillside memorial The Lafayette hillside memorial is a collection of crosses on private property owned by 81 year old Louise Clark and her husband in Lafayette, California, intended to serve as a memorial for soldiers killed in the Iraq War, which raised controversy in November 2006. First erected in late 2003 by Jeffrey Heaton and Louise Clark, the 15 crosses were quickly removed by vandals.
Lafayette High School (Buffalo) Lafayette High School is the oldest public school in Buffalo that remains in its original building; a stone, brick and terra-cotta structure in the French Renaissance Revival style, by architects August Eisenwein and James A. Johnson.
Lafayette High School (Wildwood) Lafayette High School (Commonly referred to as LHS) is a Rockwood School District secondary school in Wildwood, Missouri. Lafayette High School is the only high school in Missouri to earn top 10 recognition in all five areas of the MAP test and has 23 National Merit Recognized students for the 2005-2006 school year.
Lafayette Oaks Lafayette Oaks is a subdivision in Tallahassee, Florida about 7 miles northeast of downtown. It is one of a number of housing subdivisions built on the Lafayette Land Grant, land granted to the Marquis de Lafayette for his service in the American Revolution.
Lafayette Park, Los Angeles, California Lafayette Park is a public park within the Westlake district of Los Angeles. Lafayette Park is fenced off and closed at night avoiding much of the negative reputation that its affects its immediate neighbor MacArthur Park.
Lafayette Pavillion Apartments The Lafayette Pavillion Apartments is the name of a high-rise residential apartment building in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is located at 1 Lafayette Plaisance, near Gratiot Avenue and I-375, and is also close to Chene Park.
Lafayette River The Lafayette River is a short tidal estuary which empties into the Elizabeth River just south of Sewell's Point near its mouth at Hampton Roads, which in turn empties into the southern end of Chesapeake Bay in southeast Virginia in the United States. It is entirely located in the City of Norfolk.
Lafayette Swamp Cats Lafayette Swamp Cats were an American soccer team, founded in 2000. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2004, when the team left the league and the franchise was terminated.
Lafayette Theatre (Suffern) The Lafayette Theatre is a nationally acclaimed, 1923 movie palace located in downtown Suffern, New York. Its primary function is first run movies, but it also houses special events, the most popular are its Big Screen Classics classic film shows.
Lafcadio Hearn Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo ([after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan]. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese [[legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
Laff Records Laff Records was a small independent record label specializing in comedy and party records originating on the West Coast of the United States. Amongst their artists were Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, LaWanda Page, George Carlin, black ventriloquist duo Richard And Willie, Kip Adotta, Belle Barth, Rex Benson, and Skillet & Leroy.
Laff-a-Lympics Laff-a-Lympics was the co-headlining segment, with Scooby-Doo, of the package Saturday morning cartoon series Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show was a spoof of the Olympics and the ABC television series Battle of the Network Stars.
Laffer curve The Laffer curve is used to illustrate the concept of Taxable income elasticity, the idea that government can maximize tax revenue by setting tax rates at an optimum point. The curve, developed by Arthur Laffer, is primarily used by advocates who want government to reduce tax rates (such as those on capital gains) whenever it appears to exceed this "optimum" level.
Laffly S15 The Laffly S15T was a light artillery tractor of the French forces during World War II. It was used to tow light artillery pieces such as modernized variants of the 75 mm mle 1897 field gun and 105 mm mle 1935B howitzer.
Laffy Taffy (song) "Laffy Taffy" is a song by the Atlanta based hip-hop group D4L, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2006. The song's success on the charts was largely due to its enormous online sales.
Lafora disease Lafora disease is a hereditary disease characterised by the presence of inclusion bodies, known as Lafora bodies, within the cells of neurons, heart, liver, muscle, and skin. The patients develop the first symptoms mainly during adolescence.
Laforet Department Store and Museum is a department store and museum located in the Harajuku commercial and entertainment district of the Shibuya neighborhood, in Tokyo, Japan, on one of Harajuku's most famous intersections.
Laforey class destroyer (1913) The Laforey or L class was a class of 22 torpedo boat destroyers of the Royal Navy, twenty of which were built under the Naval Programme of 1912 - 1913 and a further two under the War Emergency Programme of 1914. As such they were the last pre-war British destroyer design.
Laforge-1 generating station Laforge-1 is a hydroelectric generating station on the Laforge River, a tributary of the La Grande River, and is part of Hydro-Québec's James Bay Project. The station can generate 878 MW and was commissioned in 1993-1994.
Laforge-2 generating station Laforge-2 is a hydroelectric generating station on the Laforge River, a tributary of the La Grande River, and is part of Hydro-Québec's James Bay Project. The station can generate 319 MW and was commissioned in 1996.
LaFayette Radio Lafayette Radio was a radio manufacturer and retailer based in Syosset, New York. The company sold radio sets, amateur radio equipment, citizen's band (CB) radios, and other communications equipment, as well as electronic components and even tools, through retail outlets as well as by mail-order.

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