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L'Opéra des Ombres L'Opéra des Ombres (French: "Opera of the Shades") is a mediæval neoclassical music group from Chile, started as a solo project by "Syahne" (Iván Aguayo) under the name of "Chanson des Morts" (French: "Song of the Dead") and later changed to "L'Opéra des Ombres".
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science The L'Oreal/UNESCO Awards for Women in Science aims to improve the position of women in science by recognizing, every year, outstanding women researchers who have contributed to scientific progress. The awards are a result of a partnership between the French cosmetics company L'Oréal and UNESCO.
L'Orfeo L'Orfeo (L'Orfeo, favola in musica) is one of the earliest works recognised as an opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi with text by Alessandro Striggio for the annual carnival of Mantua. It was first performed at the Accademia degl'Invaghiti in Mantua in February of 1607 and on February 24 at the Court Theatre in Mantua that same year, and was published in Venice in 1609.
L'Orignal, Ontario L'Orignal is a former village now part of Champlain Township in eastern Ontario. It likely took its name from its location on the Ottawa River once known as Pointe Ă  l'Orignal, where moose, "orignal" in French, crossed the river.
L'Trimm L'Trimm was a Miami Bass hip-hop duo composed of Lady Tigra and Bunny D, two teenage girls from Kendall, Florida (an area of Dade County, slightly south-west of Miami). They recorded three albums for Hot Productions: Grab It!
L'Union des Aéroports Français L'Union des Aéroports Français is a French organization which was created 1938. L'Union des Aéroports Français organizes 114 airport operators which together manage 190 French airports, both in metropolitan France and the French overseas departments and territories.
L-3 Communications L-3 Communications Corporation () is a company that supplies prime contractors with Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems and products, secure communications systems and products, avionics and ocean products, training devices and services, microwave components and telemetry, instrumentation, space and navigation products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, selected U.
L-410 The development of the L-410 started in the sixties in Let Kunovice in Kunovice, Czech Republic. It was designed for the Soviet airline "Aeroflot" who were looking for a turbine-powered replacement for the Antonov An-2 aircraft.
L-arabinose operon The L-arabinose operon of the model bacterium Escherichia coli has been a focus for research in molecular biology for over 40 years, and has been investigated extensively at the genetic, biochemical, physiological and biophysical levels.
L-BFGS L-BFGS and L-BFGS-B are a limited-memory quasi-Newton packages for large scale optimization, for Unix or Linux. The codes have been developed at the Optimization Technology Center, a joint venture of Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University.
L-commerce L-commerce is the practice of using technologies which provide location information, such as GPS, for business purposes.An example of l-commerce would be to allow cellphone users to find the nearest restaurant to their current location.
L-Day "L-Day" generally refers to April 1, 1945, the day Operation Iceberg, the amphibious Invasion of Okinawa, began. L-Day is sometimes mistaken for meaning "landing day," though it actually refers to a D-Day.
L-function The theory of L-functions has become a very substantial, and still largely conjectural, part of contemporary number theory. In it, broad generalisations of the Riemann zeta function and the L-series for a Dirichlet character are constructed, and their general properties, in most cases still out of reach of proof, are set out in a systematic way.
L-kick An L-kick is a movement in capoeira, breakdancing and other martial arts and dance forms. It is executed by throwing the body into a cartwheel motion, but rather than completing the wheel, the body flexes while supported by one hand on the ground.
L-number The L-number system is a semi-scientific classification system of catfish based on photographs of shipments of tropical catfish of the family Loricariidae published by the aquarium magazine DATZ (Die Aquarien und Terrarienzeitschrift).
L-reduction L-reduction is a transformation of optimization problems which keeps the approximability features. L-reductions in studies of approximability of optimization problems play a similar role to that of polynomial reductions in the studies of computational complexity of decision problems.
L-Ron L-Ron is the name of a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. He was initially the robot companion of Manga Khan, an intergalactic trader, and in that role was a foe of the Justice League in the early 1990's.
L-series The L-series (Linke, Simplified Chinese: 临时客车；临客) trains are temporary trains ran by railway bureaus of the People's Republic of China at times when they are thought to be necessary, such as the Chunyun period.
L-space L-space, short for library-space, is a fictional dimension described in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels. It is the ultimate portrayal of his concept that the written word has powerful magical properties on the Discworld, and that in large quantities all books warp space and time around them.
L-system An L-system or Lindenmayer system is a formal grammar (a set of rules and symbols) most famously used to model the growth processes of plant development, though able to model the morphology of a variety of organisms. L-systems can also be used to generate self-similar fractals such as iterated function systems.
L&YR Class 28 The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 28 is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive, designed by George Hughes. It is the rebuild of Aspinall's Class 27, due to the addition of a Belpaire firebox and the extension of the footplate and front sandboxes.
L(R) In set theory, L(R) (pronounced L of R) is the smallest transitive inner model of ZF containing all the ordinals and all the reals. It can be constructed in a manner analogous to the construction of L (that is, Gödel's constructible universe), by adding in all the reals at the start, and then iterating the definable powerset operation through all the ordinals.
L, R & S set (CityRail) The R Set, S Set and L Set (Originally known as S and T Sets) is the name given to the non-airconditioned stainless steel double deck suburban trains that operate on the CityRail network in Sydney. The "R," "S" and "L" set designation is dependent on the number of carriages in a set.
L. Bruce Archer Leonard Bruce Archer (22 November 1922 - 16 May 2005), British mechanical engineer and later Professor of Design Research at the Royal College of Art who championed research in design, and established design as an academic discipline.
L. Craig Martindale Loy Craig Martindale was the president of The Way International from 1982 - 2000. Martindale joined TWI in 1971, but he is currently on probation from the organization according to a ministry-wide announcement by new President Rosalie Rivenbark in 2001.
L. Heisler Ball Lewis Heisler Ball (September 21 1861 – October 18 1932) was an American physician and politician from Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, near Stanton. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.
L. Irving Handy Levin Irving Handy (December 24 1861 – February 3 1922) was an American educator, lawyer and politician, from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as U.
L. League The L. League(in Japanese: "L・リーグ", Officially "日本女子サッカーリーグ",Nihon Joshi Sakkā Rīgu, Pet name "なでしこリーグ",Nadeshiko Rīgu) is the top league for women's football (soccer) in Japan.
L. M. R. Rutten Louis Martin Robert Rutten (June 4 1884 Maastricht - February 11 1946 Utrecht) was a Dutch geologist. In the first part of the twentieth century he mapped large parts of the islands of the Dutch East Indies, Cuba, the Betic Cordilleras and the Dutch Antilles.
L. P. Davies Leslie Purnell Davies (born 20 October 1914) is a British novelist whose works typically combine elements of horror, science fiction and mystery. He has also written many short stories under several pseudonyms.
L. P. Hartley Leslie Poles Hartley (December 30, 1895 – December 13, 1972) was a British writer, known for novels and short stories. His best known work is The Go-Between, which was made into a 1971 film with a star cast, in an adaptation by Harold Pinter.
L. Patrick Gray Louis Patrick Gray III (July 18, 1916 – July 6, 2005) was acting director of the FBI from 1972-73. Gray was nominated as permanent director by Richard Nixon in 1973 but his nomination was withdrawn after he admitted to destroying documents given to him by White House counsel, John Dean.
L. Paul Bremer Lewis Paul Bremer III (born September 30 1941), known as Paul Bremer and also nicknamed Jerry Bremer, was named Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for post-war Iraq following the Iraq War of 2003, replacing Jay Garner on May 6 2003.http://www.
L. Ron Hubbard Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (13 March 1911 – 24 January 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was an American pulp fiction and science fictionBattlefield Earth home page writer and founder of Dianetics and Scientology.
L. S. Lowry Laurence Stephen Lowry (November 1 1887–February 23 1976) was an English artist born in Barratt Street, Old Trafford, Manchester. Many of his pictures depict Salford, where he lived (Pendlebury) and worked for well over thirty years.
L. S. Stavrianos Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913 - March 23, 2004) was a Greek-Canadian historian. His most influential books are considered to be A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century and The Balkans since 1453.
L. Sprague de Camp Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27 1907, New York City – November 6 2000, Plano, Texas) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. In a writing career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred novels, along with notable works of nonfiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors.
L. Wolfe Gilbert Louis Wolfe Gilbert (August 31, 1886–July 12, 1970) was a Russian-born American songwriter. Born in Odessa, Russia, he moved to the United States as a young man and soon established himself as one of the most prolific songwriters of Tin Pan Alley.
L.A. Times v. Free Republic In 1998, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post newspapers sued the "Free Republic" internet forum and its owner Jim Robinson for federal copyright infringement. The ensuing four-year long court battle is commonly referred to as "L.
L.D. Meyer Lambert Dalton "Little Dutch" Meyer (October 7 1915 - January 19 2003) was college football player and baseball manager, as well as the nephew of the famous and similarly named Texas Christian University football coach Leo "Dutch" Meyer.
L.W. Cross Middle School Cross Middle School is a middle school in the Amphitheater School District located northwest of Tucson, Arizona. Cross was founded in 1974, named in honor of former Amphitheater School District superintendent Lawrence W.
L0phtCrack L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called LC5), originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, and hybrid attacks.
L1 family The L1 family is a family of cell adhesion molecules that includes several different L1-like proteins, found in the nervous system of many animal species. They are a found on radial glial cells and, as such, are important for neural cell migration during development.
L107 L107 is a local radio station broadcasting over North Lanarkshire and parts of South Lanarkshire. It is a relative newcomer to the radio scene, having begun broadcasting in November 2005 following the collapse of short-lived station 107 The Edge, which had been known as Clan FM from the early nineties.
L118 Light Gun The L118 Light Gun is a 105 mm towed howitzer, originally produced for the British Army in the 1970s and widely exported since, including to the United States, where a modified version is known as the M119A1. The proper name for it is "Gun, 105mm, Field, L118" but it almost always just called "the Light Gun".
L2CAP L2CAP, which stands for Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol is used within the Bluetooth protocol stack. It passes packets to either the Host Controller Interface (HCI) or on a hostless system, directly to the Link Manager.
L2J L2J is an open source server emulator based on Java for MMORPG Lineage 2, which was developed by NC Soft. The emulator was first started by L2Chef but numerous other developers contributed to this project as well.
L2TPv3 Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Version 3 is a draft version of L2TP that is proposed as an alternative protocol to MPLS for encapsulation of multiprotocol Layer 2 communications traffic over IP networks. Like L2TP, L2TPv3 provides a ‘pseudo-wire’ service, but scaled to fit carrier requirements.
L3 microkernel L3 is a microkernel running on Intel's x86 computers. L3 is designed to be "very lean and features fast, message-based, synchronous IPC, simple-to-use external paging mechanisms and a security mechanism based on secure domains (tasks, clans and chiefs).
L3/35 The L3/35 was an Italian tankette that was developed along the lines of the British Carden-Loyd Mark VI and first appeared as the CV 29 (CV stod for Carro Veloce, "fast tank") later built as the CV33 in 1933, but was retrofitted as the CV35 in 1935 and renamed the L3/35 in 1938. The official Italian classification of this vehicle was as a light tank, however it this type of vehicle is classified as a tankette by Anglo-American militaries.
L6 Wombat The L6 Wombat, (Weapon Of Magnesium, Battalion, Anti-Tank) was a 120 mm calibre recoilless anti-tank rifle used by the British Army. They were used until anti-tank guided missiles such as Vigilant and MILAN took their place..
L600 The L600 was a Linux-based game console/computer which was in the process of being developed by Indrema until Indrema ceased operations in April 2001. Besides game play, it was also to be a CD player, DVD player, web browser, and TiVo-like video recorder.
L7 (machine gun) The L7 machine gun general purpose machine gun is used by the British Army. It and the related L8 are a licence-built derivative of the Belgian FN MAG (Fabrique Nationale Mitrailleuse d'Appui Generale 1958) machine gun firing the standard 7.
L7-filter L7-filter is a classifier for Linux's Netfilter subsystem that identifies packets based on application layer data. The major goal of this is to make idenification of peer to peer programs which use unpredictable ports possible.
L8R L8R (pronounced later) was a Norwegian band, most notably Norway's first boyband. The quartet consisted of teenagers Ray David (Raymond David Henriksen), Erik Kinn (Knut Eirik Kokkin), Kif Flinder (Christopher Flinder Petersen) and Chris Jensen (Christoffer Jensen).
L98A1 The L98A1 Cadet GP Rifle (GP - General Purpose) is the standard rifle for British Army, Air and Sea cadet shooting. This weapon was introduced alongside the SA80 series from 1989 onwards for cadet use, as at the time cadets were not permitted to fire semi- or fully-automatic weapons.
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (magazine) L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E was an avant garde poetry magazine edited by Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews that ran thirteen issues from 1978 to 1981. Hugely influential, it is the magazine most often referenced as the breeding ground for the group of writers who became known as the Language poets.
La (Tarzan) La is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels. She first appeared in the second Tarzan novel, The Return of Tarzan (1913), and reappeared in the fifth, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916), the ninth, Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923), and the fourteenth, Tarzan the Invincible (1930).
La 5ª Estación La 5ª Estación (often spelled as La Quinta Estación) is a spanish pop/rock band composed of three musicians from Madrid: Natalia Jiménez (lead singer and harmonica), Ángel Reyero (guitar) and Pablo Domínguez (guitar and bass). This band originated in Madrid with six members but the remaining three relocated to Mexico in 2001 after recording their first album Primera toma ("Take #1").
La 7 CartapiĂą La 7 CartapiĂą (Italian: "Cardplus", "La7" The Seventh refers to a broadcast network) is a Italian digital terrestrial television channel broadcasting 7 channels on a pay-per-view basis. It is owned by Telecom Italia, which also owns the La7 broadcast network.
La Academia La Academia (The Academy) is a Mexican reality television show shown on TV Azteca. Although the show itself isn't affiliated with the Endemol franchise, which includes the "Star Academy" shows, it does share the competition format of many of the variants of the global franchise.
La Academia USA In October 2005, Azteca America announced they would launch the first reality show with only Hispanic contestants. The auditions were done nation-wide and at the end, a total of 30 were chosen to go to Mexico where they would have to spend a week working hard and showing all of what they had inside to be chosen to the final 18.
La Aldea de San Nicolás La Aldea de San Nicolás or San Nicolás de Tolentino (in English Saint Nicholas of Tolentino) is a Canarian municipality in the western portion of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands and is the westernmost municipality in the province. The municipality is also called La Aldea de San Nicolás de Tolentino while the locals simply called La Aldea.
La Amelia La Amelia a site of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization nearby Itzan. It formed a polity, in the Late Classic (600 to 830 AD), and involved in the war between Tikal and Calakmul followed, on 650 AD by the Take over of Dos Pilas, leading to centuries of war until this region collapsed on 830 AD, being the first of the Classic sites in this area to be abandoned.
La Amistad La Amistad (Spanish: "Friendship") was a 19th-century two-masted schooner of about 120 tons' displacement. Built in the United States, La Amistad was originally named Friendship but was renamed after being purchased by a Spaniard.
La Amistad International Park The La Amistad International Park, or in Spanish , formerly the La Amistad National Park, is an international peace park in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica (Caribbean La Amistad and Pacific La Amistad Conservation Areas) and Panama, following a recommendation by UNESCO after the park's inclusion in the World Heritage Site list.
La Argentinidad al Palo La Argentinidad al Palo: Se Es, Lo Que Se Es is the seventh album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released in 2004. Released firstly in two different discs, Se Es as disc 1 and Lo Que Se Es as disc 2.
La Argentinita La Argentinita is the stage name of a famous dancer born EncarnaciĂłn LĂłpez Julvez (March 3, 1898-September 24, 1945) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among her performances was as the Butterfly in the premiere of Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca's El maleficio de la mariposa.
La belle Hélène La belle Hélène ("The Beautiful Helen" or "The Fair Helen") is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in three acts by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed at Paris's Théâtre des Variétés on December 17, 1864, starring Hortense Schneider and José Dupuis.
La bohème La bohèmeThe title, which is French (although the opera is sung in Italian) and is pronounced refers to the bohemian life the characters lead (not to the historical region in the present-day Czech Republic, Bohemia). is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger.
La buona figliuola La Cecchina, ossia La buona figliuola (Cecchina, or The Good-Natured Girl) is an opera buffa by Niccolò Piccinni, first performed at the Teatro delle Dame, Rome on 6 February, 1760. The libretto, by Carlo Goldoni, is based on Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela.
La Bamba (film) La Bamba is a 1987 movie based on the real life events that affected the lives of rock star Ritchie Valens, his half-brother Bob Morales, his girlfriend Donna Ludwig and the rest of their families. It also documents how Valens witnessed an air collision when he was young and was fearful of airplanes since then.
La Bamba (song) "La Bamba" is a traditional song created in the Mexican state of Veracruz over 300 years ago. Influenced by Spanish flamenco and Afro-Mexican beats, the song utilizes the violin, jaranas, guitar, and harp, and is sung in falsetto.
La Bambas La Bambas was an influential Sri Lankan music group, comprised of Priya Peiris, Rollinson Ferdinando, Brian Fernando and Lasla Fernando. They were one of the first Sinhala groups to utilize a box guitar, and were popular in Sri Lanka during the late '60s; their hits include "Cock-a-doodle-do" and "Nuwara Menikela".
La Barranca La Barranca has been a successful ongoing outfit for about 10 years now. Based in Mexico City, they are led by guitarist and songwriter Jose Manuel Aguilera, who previously and concurrently worked with Sangre Azteka, Jaguares, Cecilia Toussaint, Steven Brown/Nine Rain (Tuxedomoon), and more.
La Bataille de San Sebastian La Bataille de San Sebastian (English title: Guns for San Sebastian) is a 1968 spaghetti western directed by Frenchman Henri Verneuil. In a rare instance this film was actually shot in Mexico instead of substituting Spain or some similar location.
La Bayadère La Bayadère (The Temple Dancer) (Russian Баядерка - Bayaderka) is a ballet, originally staged in 4 Acts and 7 scenes with apotheosis, choreographed by the Balletmaster Marius Petipa to the music of Léon Minkus. First presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St.
La Beata de Piedrahita La Beata de Piedrahita (died 1511), was an untutored Spanish mystic of the early 16th century, whose particular visionary character links her with the much earlier Cathars of southern France and demonstrates the continuity of Catharist heretical beliefs in peasant society.
La Beguda Alta La Beguda Alta is a village split between the municipalities of Masquefa and Sant Esteve Sesrovires in Catalonia, Spain. As such, it spans the boundary between the comarques of the Anoia and the Baix Llobregat.
La Belle (ship) La Belle was one of Robert de La Salle's four ships when he explored the Gulf of Mexico with the ill-fated mission of starting a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1685. La Belle was wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay the following year, dooming La Salle's Texas colony to failure.
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad John Keats' ballad La Belle Dame Sans Merci (French: "the beautiful lady without pity") exists in two versions, with minor differences between them. The original was written by Keats in 1819, although the title is that of a fifteenth century poem by Alain Chartier.
La Belle et le Bad Boy "La Belle et le Bad Boy" (The beauty and the bad boy) is the seventh song on the album Cinquième As by the french Hip Hop artist MC Solaar and the only single released in America. This single had moderate success after being featured on the series finale of Sex and the City.
La Belle Et La Bete La Belle et la BĂŞte is a song by Babyshambles, written by Pete Doherty and Patrick Walden. Model Kate Moss (Pete's current girlfriend) sings the chorus that goes: "Is she more beautiful, is she more beautiful, is she more beautiful than me?
La Belle Ferronière La belle ferronière is the name used for two Renaissance portrait paintings. The painting thought to be of Lucrezia Crivelli and attributed to Leonardo da Vinci is sometimes known as Portrait of an Unknown Woman, and the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani by da Vinci is often called Lady with an Ermine.
La Belle Chateauneuf La Belle Châteauneuf, the name popularly given to Renée de Rieux, daughter of Jean de Rieux, seigneur de Châteauneuf, who was descended from one of the greatest families of Brittany. The dates both of her birth and death are not known.
La Bisbal Ceramic School The La Bisbal Ceramic School it's a school in Catalonia (Girona Spain), that offers diverse courses in the branch of ceramics, sculpture, draw, painting, glass, woodworking, metalworking, restoration, jewelry and others.
La Blanca La Blanca is a Pre Columbian and large site of predominately Middle Preclassic (1300-600 BC) date, located on the western Pacific coast of Guatemala, and being the most important polity on the Pacific coast of Mesoamerica until 600 BC when the dominance pass to the Ujuxte, 13 Km north. The site had the highgest Pyramid in the Pacifc Lowlands at 26 mt.
La Blue Girl Returns La Blue Girl Returns (淫獣学園 復活篇 Injuu Gakuen Fukkatsu-hen) is an anime series that continues the adventures of Miko Mido, the star of La Blue Girl. The plot begins when a race of butterfly-demons named the Mahoroba want to enslave Miko Mido and her sister to steal them the seal case that control the Shikima.
La Bluette La Bluette: One of French architect Hector Guimard's existant buildings, la Bluette is a villa built in 1899 for Prosper Grivelle, a lawyer from Paris. The house is located in Hermanville-sur-Mer, a seaside hamlet of 2,661 (at the 1999 census) in north-western France.
La Bocca della VeritĂ  La Bocca della VeritĂ  (English, The Mouth of Truth) is a famous sculpted image of a human face in Rome, Italy. The sculpture is thought to be part of an ancient Roman fountain or perhaps a "manhole" cover, portraying a river god.
La Bonne Chanson La Bonne Chanson is a collection of poems written by Paul Verlaine from the winter of 1869 to the spring of 1870. Twenty-one poems belong to this group, and are mostly likely addressed to Mathilde Mauté, his future wife.
La Bouche La Bouche is a Eurodance/Dance-pop duo formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1994, consisting of Melanie Thornton and Lane McCray. The first lead single, "Be My Lover" was top 10 in fourteen countries, #1 in Germany and #6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1996.
La Boulette La Boulette is the first single from Dans Ma Bulle, an album by Diam's released on February 21, 2006. La Boulette debuted at number one on the French music charts and stayed number one for six conscutive weeks.
La Boum 2 La Boum 2 (1982) is a sequel to La Boum (The Party) which is a 1980 French language motion picture comedy directed by Claude Pinoteau and starring Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau and Lambert Wilson. Cook da Books became famous through this film in many countries through their song "Your Eyes".
La Brea Tar Pits The La Brea Tar Pits (or Rancho La Brea Tar Pits) are a famous cluster of asphalt pits (not tar) located in Hancock Park in the urban heart of Los Angeles, California. Asphalt has seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of thousands of years, forming hundreds of sticky pools that trapped animals and plants which happened to enter.
La Bufadora La Bufadora is a marine geyser, or Blowhole located on the Punta Banda Peninsula in Baja California, Mexico. The spout of marine water (occurring every minute or so to varying degrees of height) is created when ocean waves and air are drawn into an underwater cave located in the cliffside, and the trapped air and water then explode upwards.
La canterina La canterina (The Songstress or The Diva) is a short, two act, comic opera or opera buffa by Joseph Haydn, and the first one he wrote for Prince Esterhazy. Based on the intermezzo from the third act of Niccolò Piccinni's opera L'Origille (1760), it lasts about 50 minutes.
La corne de rhinocéros La corne de rhinocéros, written and drawn by Franquin, is the sixth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The material was first serialised in Le Journal de Spirou in two parts, Spirou et la Turbotraction and the sequel La corne de rhinocéros, and finally merged into one for the release of the hardcover album in 1955.
La couleur de l'enfer (Lapinot) La couleur de l'enfer (unofficial English translation: The colour of hell) is a comic strip in the series The spiffy adventures of McConey (Les formidables aventures de Lapinot in the original French language), by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. It was first released in 2000 as volume 7 in the series.
La Cañada High School La Cañada High School is a four year comprehensive secondary school located in La Cañada Flintridge, California. It sits at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, below the Angeles National Forest, in the City of La Cañada Flintridge.

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