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Lisa I'Anson Lisa I'Anson (born 31 May 1965) is a British DJ and presenter. She presented her own radio show on BBC Radio 1 from 1994 until 1998, when she was sacked for clubbing in Ibiza, and subsequently not turning up for her radio show which was being broadcast from the island.
Lisa Jane Persky Lisa Jane Persky (born May 5 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film actress who grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. She debuted as Robert Duvall's daughter in The Great Santini and went on to act in such movies as American Pop, When Harry Met Sally...
Lisa Joyner Lisa Joyner (born December 31) is an entertainment reporter and hostess of TV Guide channel's inFANity. She has reported on celebrity news in the Los Angeles area for KTTV Fox 11 News and the local CBS affiliate's newscast.
Lisa Keith Lisa Keith is a Christian contemporary singer, probably best known for her work as a backing vocalist for other artists and lead vocalist on Herb Alpert's hit single "Making Love In The Rain". In 1993 she released her solo debut album "Walkin' in the Sun" on Perspective Records; which featured production from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Narada Michael Walden and Lisa's husband Spencer Bernard.
Lisa Kelly Lisa Kelly (Irish Laoise nĂ­ Cheallaigh) hails from Dublin, Ireland and has been singing since the age of 7. Born in to a musical family, both her parents and sisters are singers; it was here she developed her love for music, especially musicals.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (stage name "Kennedy", born September 8, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American political satirist and former MTV VJ; she was the host of MTV's now-defunct daily late-night alternative rock program "Alternative Nation" throughout much of the '90s.
Lisa Kushell Lisa Kushell (born November 23, 1971 in Los Angeles, USA) is a comedic actress best known for her roles in the 1997-98 Season of the FOX Network comedy show, MADtv and as cohost of TBS's Dinner and a Movie from 2002 to 2005.
Lisa LaCroix Most famous as an actress, Lisa LaCroix began her career as a fashion model in Toronto, Canada. After training as an actor in New York City's Circle in the Square Theatre School, she returned to Toronto, and starred in numerous Canadian and American television shows and movies.
Lisa Lane Lisa Lane (born April 25, 1938 in Philadelphia) was an American chess player. Her combination of good looks and chess playing ability made her an international celebrity, even though she never achieved the title of chess master.
Lisa Lashes Lisa Lashes (real name: Lisa Dawn Rose-Wyatt) is a leading UK hard dance DJ, playing styles including hard house, hard trance and techno. An established and popular DJ in the UK hard dance scene, Lisa Lashes was one of the pioneers of UK hard house, a genre that was developed in the UK during the 1990s and is still evolving today.
Lisa Lassek Lisa Lassek is a film producer and editor whose credits include her role as Associative Producer for the television series Firefly. She has edited episodes for the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, served as an assistant editor for Angel, and has edited various episodes of Firefly.
Lisa Leuschner Lisa Leuschner (born August 1, 1982) was a semi-finalist of American Idol (Season 3) from Watsonville, California. Lisa Leuschner appeared on the audition episodes for the second season of American Idol, but it was during the third season that she got her big break.
Lisa Leveridge Lisa Leveridge is currently the guitarist for Courtney Love’s latest band The Chelsea, but is perhaps more well known for dating Neil Strauss – author of The Game, in which she is presented as the protagonist’s ideal girlfriend. Leveridge often appeared in public venues with Strauss and even commented on the effectiveness of his ‘game’ in attracting her.
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force is a 1985 album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. It is best known for the lead tracks "I Wonder if I Take You Home", "Can You Feel the Beat" and "All Cried Out".
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam Lisa Lisa (born Lisa Velez on January 15, 1967) and her band Cult Jam were one of the original American latin freestyle groups of the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist/bassist Alex Moseley and drummer/keyboardist Mike Hughes.
Lisa Loopner Lisa Loopner was a recurring character on American sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live played by Gilda Radner. The sketch was usually set in the Loopner household, where the awkward and goofy Lisa and her mother Mrs.
Lisa Lougheed Lisa Lougheed (born 1968 in Etobicoke, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and voice actor. She is probably best known for her role as Lisa in the animated television series The Raccoons, as well as for singing the show's theme tune "Run With Us".
Lisa Lyon Lisa Lyon is a female bodybuilder from the United States. Her stats as taken on October 1980: She stands at 5'3" and weighs only 105 pounds, but she can dead-lift 225 pounds, bench-press 120 pounds, and squat 265 pounds; two and a half times her own weight.
Lisa MacLeod Lisa MacLeod is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on March 30, 2006. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, MacLeod was elected in the Nepean—Carleton electoral district.
Lisa Marie Scott Lisa Marie Scott (born February 1, 1974) is an American model and actress. She was born in Pensacola, Florida to an American serviceman (of Scottish and Swiss descent) and his Japanese wife, from the island of Okinawa.
Lisa Martin Lisa Martin (born May 12, 1960) is a retired Australian long-distance runner. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul the 28-year-old won a silver medal in marathon, only 13 seconds behind Portuguese running star Rosa Mota.
Lisa Mathison Lisa Mathison (31 January, 1985 - ) is a professional cyclist from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, specialising in cross-country mountain bike racing. She started competitive cycling at the age of 13 in 1998 and came to national and international attention in 2002 when she won the U19 cross-country World Championships in Austria.
Lisa Maxwell (musician) Lisa Anne Maxwell is an Australian rock/pop/alternative artist from Benalla, North East Victoria, Australia. To date she has released two singles ("Bad Day EP" and "Never Coming Back Here Again", 2005) and one album ("Select Vacancy", 2006).
Lisa McClelland Lisa McClelland is an 18 year old from Oakley, California who attracted significant world wide media attention after attempting to form a "Caucasion Club" at Freedom High School (Oakley,California) in September of 2003. Her case caused a media circus, and was significant because it stirred up debate about perceived double standards when it comes to racism.
Lisa McPherson Lisa McPherson (born Lisa Skonetski, February 10 1959–December 5 1995) was a Scientologist who died while in the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology. The death provoked controversy about the nature of Scientology beliefs and practices, particularly the Introspection Rundown although testimony indicates that she was never actually put onto the rundown but instead died during an attempt to "stabilize" her condition.
Lisa Michaelis Lisa Michaelis is a female actress/singer/musician/children's performer who was born in New York City and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is the founder of Laughing Pizza Productions, a children's record and video label.
Lisa Michelle Merrithew Lisa Michelle Merrithew (born May 30, 1972 in Saint John, New Brunswick) is a noted Canadian public relations consultant and political operative, and was formerly the fiancée of Peter MacKay, the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and later deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Lisa Michelson Lisa P. Michelson (March 1958—1991) was an American voice actress and the wife of Gregory Snegoff who was best known for her work on My Neighbor Totoro and was also the first English voice of the title character of Kiki's Delivery Service.
Lisa Moretti Lisa Mary Moretti (born November 26, 1961 in Torrance, California) is an American professional wrestler. She is perhaps best known for her appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Wrestling Entertainment between 1999 and 2005 under the ring name Ivory.
Lisa Mychols Lisa Mychols is a singer-songwriter currently living in or around Los Angeles, California. Her first solo album, Lost Winter's Dream1, a seasonally-themed masterpiece of 60's-inspired pop, was recorded with the help of Darian Sahanaja and Nick Walusko (later of The Wondermints) in 1991 and had a limited release in Japan that year.
Lisa Ono Lisa Ono (小野リサ, Ono Risa) is a popular Japanese bossa nova singer. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10, where her father owned Saci Perere, a Brazilian restaurant.
Lisa Opie Lisa Opie (born on 3 January 1963) is a retired English squash player, who was one of the game's leading woman players in the 1980s and early-1990s. Her biggest success was winning the British Open in 1991, and until the rise of Cassie Campion she was England's number 1 player.
Lisa Ortiz Lisa Ortiz is an American theatre and voice actress, best known for her roles in English anime adaptations. She is perhaps best known for the roles of the high-elf Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War, Lina Inverse in Slayers, and Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece.
Lisa Palfrey Lisa Palfrey is a Welsh television actress best known for playing the character of Rhiannedd Frost in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm. She has also appeared in the British Film "Maybe Baby" alongside Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson.
Lisa Peluso Lisa Peluso (born July 29, 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American soap opera actress. Her first big break came at the age of nine, when she starred in the Broadway production of Gypsy with Angela Lansbury.
Lisa Pin-Up One of a new breed of producers to emerge from the late 1990s to be female, Lisa Pin-Up is Lisa Chilcott – a hard house producer and part of the Nukleuz family. She is a part-time model and ranked number 54 in Loaded’s Hot 100 babes in 2002.
Lisa Potts Lisa Potts GM (married name Webb) is a former nursery teacher who was injured in 1996 while protecting children in her St Luke's Primary School class in Wolverhampton, West Midlands from a machete attack by a paranoid schizophrenic. Her arm was almost severed in the attack and four children were injured.
Lisa Randall Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of reality, and was the first tenured woman in the Princeton University physics department and the first tenured woman theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard University.
Lisa Rands Lisa Rands is an American rock climber famous for her bouldering achievements. The first American to rank 1st in an international bouldering World Cup, she has also climbed far in outdoor bouldering – having finished Midnight Lightning and Plain High Drifter (both considered as hard boulder problems).
Lisa Roberts Gillan Lisa Roberts Gillan (born as Lisa Roberts January 1, 1965 in Decatur, Georgia) is an American actress. She played in some films as I Love Trouble (1994), Something to Talk About (1995), Runaway Bride (1999), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Mona Lisa Smile (2003) and Raising Helen (2004).
Lisa Robin Kelly Lisa Robin Kelly (born March 5, 1970 in Southington, Connecticut) first made her debut at 21, in a 1992 episode of Married... with Children, and went on to guest-star in many popular television shows, such as Murphy Brown, The X-Files, Sisters, and Silk Stalkings.
Lisa Ruddy Lisa Ruddy (born 1967) is an actress, most notable for her work on the show You Can't Do That On Television. Lisa was featured on the show, produced by CJOH television in Ottawa, Ontario and aired in the United States on Nickelodeon, from its very beginning in 1979 until the end of the 1985 season.
Lisa Victoria Lisa Victoria (born 24 February 1973 in Treherbert) is a Welsh television actor best known for playing the character of Sheryl Hughes in the long-running Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm on S4C. Her previous career includes stage and television performances for BBC Wales, HTV and S4C, as well as the leading role of the character Kelly in the BBC Radio Wales soap Station Road.
Lisa Vogel Lisa Vogel, along with Mary Kindig and her sister, Kristie, is one of the founders of the historic Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Vogel grew up working class lesbian in rural Michigan and now acts as the sole producer of the festival.
Lisa Whelchel Lisa Whelchel (born on May 29, 1963 in Littlefield, Texas, raised for most of her childhood in Fort Worth, Texas), is an American actress best known for her role in the television series The Facts of Life as the preppy and wealthy Blair Warner.
Lisa Ysaye Tarleau Lisa Ysale Tarleau (1885-October 9, 1952), also known as Lisa Ysaye, was an early 20th century female writer whose only work was The Inn of Disenchantment. This book is a collection of short stories utilizing the same two characters - "The Lady in Blue" and "The Gentleman in Gray" - who appear in most of them.
Lisa Yuskavage Lisa Yuskavage (Born May 16, 1962 in Philadelphia) is a contemporary American figurative painter. She is a controversial painter with loaded subject matter that has been referred to as "outrageous quasi-pornographic sirens" and "anatomically impossible bimbos" as they mock the male desires of male fantasy.
Lisa's Birthday Tapes Lisa's Birthday Tapes is the tentative title given to a collection of five songs recorded around the year 2000 by Saves The Day singer and guitarist Chris Conley. The songs have surfaced from an unknown source on various message boards and are being spread through file sharing hosts.
Lisan al-Dawat Lisan al-Dawat (Arabic: لسان الدعوة) , also transcribed as Lisan ud-Dawat, is the language of the Dawoodi Bohras, it literally means "the Language of the Dawat". In essence, it means the language that is spoken by the Sahib-e-Zaman.
Lisanne de Roever Lisanne Freya de Roever (born on June 6, 1979 in Amstelveen) is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a goal keeper for Dutch club SV Kampong. She made her debut for the Netherlands national team on March 5, 2005 in a friendly match against Malaysia.
Lisanne Lejeune Elisabeth ("Lisanne") Anne Marie Lejeune (born July 28, 1963 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland) is a former Dutch field hockey defender, who won the bronze medal with the National Women's Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Lisístrata Lisístrata is a 2002 Spanish comedy film directed by Francesc Bellmunt. It is based on a comic book by the German cartoonist Ralf König, which in turn is loosely based on the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes.
Lisbon Cathedral Santa Maria Maior de Lisboa or SĂ© de Lisboa is the cathedral of Lisbon and the oldest church in the city. Since the beginning of the construction of the cathedral, in the year 1147, the building has been modified several times and survived many earthquakes.
Lisbon Harbor Control Tower Lisbon Harbour Control Tower is a 38 metre tall control tower located at the end of an artificial peninsula in Lisbon, Portugal. The building is of an ultramodern design where it tilts towards the opening to the harbour.
Lisbon Lions The Lisbon Lions is the nickname given to the Glasgow Celtic team that won the European Cup at the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon, Portugal on May 25, 1967, defeating Inter Milan 2-1. All the members of this team were born within 30 miles (48 km) of Glasgow, Scotland.
Lisbon Metropolitan Area Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Portuguese: Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, or AML) is a territorial zone that includes 18 municipalities (concelhos) in Portugal. The smaller Grande Lisboa (Greater Lisbon) area is a subregion of the NUTS II Lisbon Region by its own right.
Lisbon Recognition Convention The Lisbon Recognition Convention is an international convention for the Europe area of UNESCO. It stipulates that degrees and periods of study must be recognised unless substantial differences can be proved by the institution that is charged with recognition.
Lisbunny Lisbunny townland is situated 3 miles from the village of Claudy, and is near the County Tyrone/Londonderry border. It is a very rural farming area, but an elect bunch of young people from the area have publicised its hidden beauty and opportunity for enjoyment
Lisburn (UK Parliament constituency) Lisburn was a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January, 1801.
Lisburn-Antrim railway line The Lisburn-Antrim railway line is a 20 mile long line that runs from Lisburn Station to Antrim. This section of the NIR network is currently closed to passengers after all rail services were withdrawn from the line in June 2003.
Liscannor Liscannor (Irish: Lios CeannĂşir) is a coastal village in County Clare, Republic of Ireland. Lying on the west coast of Ireland, on Liscannor Bay, the village is located on the R478 road between Lahinch, to the east, and Doolin, to the north.
Liscard Liscard is an area of the town of Wallasey, on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The most centrally located of Wallasey's townships, it is the main shopping area of the town, with many shops located in the Cherry Tree Shopping Centre.
Lisdoonvarna Lisdoonvarna (Irish: Lios DĂşin Bhearna) is a spa town of 800 people in County Clare in the Republic of Ireland. Famous for its music and festivals, in September each year one of Europe's largest matchmaking events is held in the town attracting upward of 40,000 romantic hopefuls, bachelor farmers and accompanying revellers.
Lise Bacon Lise Bacon GOQ (born August 25, 1934 in Valleyfield, Beauharnois County, Quebec) is a Canadian Liberal politician. She was appointed Senator representing the area of De la Durantaye, Quebec on September 14, 1994.
Lise Hilboldt Lise Hilboldt (born January 7, 1954 in Racine, Wisconsin) is an American actress. She did excellent work in Noon Wine, together with Fred Ward, Stellan Skarsgard, Roberts Blossom, Pat Hingle and many of the other actors.
Lise Leveille Lise Annique Leveille is a French Canadian gymnast who represented Canada at the 2000 Olympic Games. She later became part of Stanford University's gymnastics team and is currently a medical student in Vancouver, BC.
Lise Mackie Lise Maree Mackie (born August 10 1975 in Te Kuiti, New Zealand) is an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1990s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She also competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
Lise Mayer Lise Mayer (born November 29, 1957) is a British television writer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States of America, and is best-known as a co-writer of the legendary BBC comedy series The Young Ones, alongside Ben Elton and Rik Mayall; at the time Mayall was her partner.
Lise Meitner Lise Meitner (November 17Due to an accounting error, many documents stated November 7, which is also the date Meitner used herself., 1878 – October 27, 1968) was an Austrian physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.
Lise Skjåk Bræk Lise Skjåk Bræk (born Marie Elisabeth Bræk, 7 November, 1941) is a Norwegian textile artists, known for her works within ceremonial apparel, uniforms, costumes, rugs, and other textiles. She is a resident of Trondheim.
Lise Thibault Lise Thibault (born April 2, 1939) is a Canadian civil servant who was appointed Lieutenant-governor of Quebec on January 30, 1997. As a current Vice-Regal representative of Elizabeth II, as Queen in Right of Quebec, she is styled Her Honour while in office, and The Honourable for life.
Lisette Dufour Lisette Dufour is a French voice actress who is better known as the French voice of both Lisa Simpson and Maggie Simpson on The Simpsons and provides the voice of Grace the Cow on the French dub on Home on the Range.
Lisette Melendez Lisette Melendez is a Freestyle/Latin Pop/Dance-pop singer best known for her 1991 hits "Together Forever" and "A Day In My Life (Without You)". With powerful and sultry vocals, these songs propelled her debut album Together Forever to Gold status with over 400,000 copies sold.
Lisette Sevens Elisabeth ("Lisette") Anthonius Maria Ignatius Sevens (born June 29, 1949 in Helmond, Noord-Brabant) is a former Dutch field hockey defender, who won the golden medal with the National Women's Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Liseuse desk A Liseuse desk is a medium sized writing table with a small hinged panel in the middle which can spring up by the aid of a mechanism or be propped up at a desired angle to facilitate reading, or writing on its slanted surface. Many have lateral panels which swing out on both sides to give a larger desk surface.
Lisfranc fracture The Lisfranc fracture is a fracture and dislocation of the joints in the midfoot, where a cluster of small bones forms an arch on top of the foot between the ankle and the toes. From this cluster, five long bones, the metatarsals, extend until the toes.
Lishana Deni Lishana Deni is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic. It was originally spoken in the town of Zakho and its surrounding villages in northern Iraq, on the border with Turkey.
Lishenets A lishenets (Russian: лишенец), from Russian word лишение, "deprivation", properly translated in this context as a disenfranchised, was a person stripped of the right of voting in the Soviet Union of 1918 — 1936. Disenfranchising was a means of repression of the categories of population that were classified as "enemies of the working people".
Lishkat Hakesher Lishkat Hakesher or The Liaison Bureau, codenamed Nativ (נתיב-path), is an Israeli liaison organization that maintained contact with Jews living in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War and encouraged aliyah, or immigration to Israel.
Lishui Lishui () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It borders Quzhou, Jinhua and Taizhou to the north, Wenzhou to the southeast, and the province of Fujian to the southwest.
Lisi Lisi is a collective term used to describe three closely associated Chadian ethnic groups living in the same geographical area, represented by the Batha and Chari-Baguirmi prefectures: the Bilala (136,000), the Kuka (76,000) and the Medogo (19,000).
Lisinopril Lisinopril (lye-SIH-no-pril, is a drug of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor class that is primarily used in treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, heart attacks and also in preventing renal and retinal complications of diabetes.
Liskeard Liskeard (generally pronounced Lis-KARD, with stress on the second syllable) (Cornish: Lys Kerwyd/Lyskerrys), is an ancient stannary and market town at the head of the River Looe valley in southeast Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It is the administrative centre of the Caradon District.
Liskeard railway station Liskeard station serves the town of Liskeard in Cornwall, it is the junction for the branch to Looe. The station has an unusual layout, trains to Looe leave from a separate platform at a right angle and to the north of the main station with an access road between them.
Liskov substitution principle In object-oriented programming, the Liskov substitution principle is a particular definition of subtype that was introduced by Barbara Liskov and Jeannette Wing in a 1993 paper entitled Family Values: A Behavioral Notion of Subtyping
Lisle, Dordogne Lisle (pronunciation: LEEL), Latin: Leila or Insula is a commune in the canton of Brantôme of the Charente-Maritime in the département in the Aquitaine région in France. The canton seat is located to its east.
Lismore (band) Lismore is a Jersey City,NJ electronic music group formed by vocalist Penelope Trappes and composer/instrumentalist Stephen Hindman in 2002. The group uses both live instruments and programmed beats to achieve their sound.
Lisnargarvey Lisnagarvey is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, near Lisburn. Close to Lisnagarvey there is a high power medium wave BBC radio transmitter with a radio mast of unique design, known as the Lisnagarvey Mast.
Lisnargarvey Mast The Lisnargarvey Mast is the mast radiator for the transmission of BBC Radio Ulster in Lisnargarvey, Northern Ireland (national grid reference: J258919). It was built in 1936 and is the only example in the UK of the type known elsewhere as a Blaw-Knox Tower.
Lisnaskea Lisnaskea () is a large village and the second largest settlement in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and is the former seat of the ancient Maguire Kings. It had a population of 2,739 people in the 2001 Census.
Lisofylline Lisofylline (LSF) is a synthetic small molecule with novel anti-inflammatory properties. LSF can effectively prevent type 1 diabetes in preclinical models and improves the function and viability of isolated or transplanted pancreatic islets.
Lisovyi masyv Lisovyi masyv or Lisova (; literally: Forest neighbourhood) is a neighbourhood located in the northeast part of the city of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Its northern and eastern boundries are bordered with forests, hence its name, its wester boundry is bordered by the Bratislavskyi Street, and its southern boundry - by the Brovarskyi Prospect.
Lisp (programming language) Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive fully-parenthesized syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older.
Lisp machine Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. In a sense, they were the first commercial single-user workstations.
Lisp Machine Lisp Lisp Machine Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, a direct descendant of Maclisp, and was initially developed in the mid to late 1970s as the systems programming language for the MIT Lisp machines.
Lisronagh Lisronagh (Irish: Lios Ruanach), in County Tipperary is a village located 7km north of Clonmel, and 6km south of Fethard. It consists of a primary school, a parish church, a ruined church and castle, now defunct post office and parish hall.
Liss Liss (previously spelt Lys or Lyss) is a village in north east Hampshire, lying between Petersfield and Liphook, and south of Alton in the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish consists of 3,567 acres (14 km²) of semi-rural countryside, and is one of the largest parishes in the region.
Liss railway station Liss railway station is a stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line, serving the village of Liss in Hampshire, England. As a small station, for most of the day there is one train each way (to Portsmouth and Waterloo) an hour.
Lissemys scutata The Burmese flap-shell turtle, lives in the Irrawaddy and Salween rivers of Myanmar, and occurs in northeastern Thailand, and possibly in Yunnan Province, China (Kuchling, 1995). It has an olive-brown to brown carapace with some dark spotting (in juveniles) or reticulations (in adults), and the first peripheral is smaller than the second.
Lissette Ochoa's domestic violence case Lissette Ochoa's domestic violence case became the most renown case of spousal abuse in Colombia because of the couple's elite social status and for the brutality of the battering perpetrated on Lissette Ochoa by husband Rafael Dangond.

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