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Llywelyn the Elder ap Maredudd ap Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd Llywelyn "The Elder" or Llywelyn ap Maredudd ap Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd was a second-cousin of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and Dafydd ap Llywelyn of the royal house of Gwynedd in the 13th Century. His father was Prince Maredudd who fought alongside his brother in an alliance with Llywelyn the Great to depose their uncle Dafydd in 1195.
Llywelyn's coronet Llywelyn's Coronet was seized alongside other holy artifacts in 1284 from the ruins of the defeated Kingdom of Gwynedd. It was taken to London where it was presented to King Edward I of England as a token of the complete annihilation of the independent Welsh state.
LLAOATS In Physical geography, LLAOATS (pronounced "ya-oats") is an acronym used to describe factors that contribute to the climate at any given location. The impact of each factor is listed in decreasing order e has a higher impact than land/water distribution, which has a higher impact than atmospheric circulation, and so on.
LLBN Loma Linda Broadcasting Network is a community and variety television station run by volunteers. They broadcast different programs 24 hours a day, such as NASA broadcasts, Christian television shows and montages of nature.
LLMDB The Lifelong Labour Market Database (LLMDB2) is a panel data set, owned by the Department for Work and Pensions in Britain. LLMDB2 holds a 1% sample from the new National Insurance Recording System (NIRS2) and is a fully representative sample of around 600000 people.
LLR Recordings LLR Recordings was an independent record label located in the suburbs of Chicago, USA. Run by Johnny Minardi and Tony Marino, students at Prospect High School and Maine West High School, LLR started out as Little League Records in 1998.
Lm13700 The LM13700 series consists of two current controlled operational transconductance amplifiers (OTA) each having differential inputs and a push-pull output. The LM13700 is like a standard op-amp: both have a pair of differential inputs and a single output, but an OTA is voltage in and current out rather than voltage in and voltage out; and OTAs are programmable via the IABC pin.
Lmao LMAO or lmao is an internet slang word that is an abbreviation of "laugh my ass off". Some people use it in everyday talk when it is pronounced "Le-mouw" and not as often incorrectly said "le-mayo"
LM hash LM hash or LAN Manager hash is one of the formats that Microsoft LAN Manager and Microsoft Windows use to store user passwords that are less than 15 characters long. This type of hash is the only type of encryption used in Microsoft LAN Manager, hence the name, and versions of Windows up to Windows Me.
LM Thompson Leonard Thompson was a South African Historian, well known for his seminal work on the formation of the Union of South Africa and the Oxford two volume History of South Africa, a collaboration with NM Wilson. He died in 2004.
LM-49 The LM-49 (Russian ЛМ-49) is the Soviet motor four-axle tramcar. First prototype of this vehicle was built in 1949 (hence the 49 in the name) at the Leningrad Wagon Repair Plant (VARZ, ВАРЗ, Ленинградский Вагоноремонтный Завод - Russian abbreviature and full name).
LM-57 The LM-57 (Russian ЛМ-57) is the Soviet motor four-axle tramcar. First prototype of this vehicle was built in 1957 (hence the 57 in the name) at the Leningrad Wagon Repair Plant (VARZ, ВАРЗ, Ленинградский Вагоноремонтный Завод - Russian abbreviature and full name).
LMA Manager series LMA Manager is a football (soccer) management video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Developed primarily for consoles, the franchise differs from the PC-based Football Manager and Championship Manager series by focusing on visual details such as a fully 3D match engine, although still maintaining the realism and level of detail craved by fans of the genre - a unique combination when the series was first released.
LMC (music group) LMC is an English dance artist consisting of producers Lee Monteverde, Matt Cattman and Chris Nuttall. They have performed remixes for Scooter, Erasure, Dannii Minogue,Lasgo, Flip & Fill , Robert Palmer and Shania Twain.
LMLK seal LMLK seals were stamped on the handles of large storage jars mostly in and around Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah (circa 700 BC) based on several complete jars found in situ buried under a destruction layer caused by Sennacherib at Lachish. None of the original seals have been found, but about 2,000 impressions (also referred to as stamps) made by at least 21 seal types have been published.
LMO LMO stands for living modified organisms, which are those organisms that have been genetically modified through the application of biotechnology including organisms that have been modified by novel recombinant DNA techniques as well as those that have been modified by mutagenesis or classical breeding and selection techniques.
LMS 3-Cylindered Stanier 2-6-4T LMS 3-Cylindered Stanier 2-6-4T is a class of steam locomotive designed for work over the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. All 2500-36 were built in 1934 at Derby Works, but from 1935 the LMS switched to constructing a very similar, simpler, 2-cylindered design.
LMS diesel shunter 1831 This was the original experimental shunter, nominally rebuilt by the Midland Railway's Derby Works from a 1377 Class 0-6-0T steam locomotive originally built in September 1892 by the Vulcan Foundry, whose number it inherited (1831), though very little of the steam locomotive was actually re-used. Of itself, it was not very successful, but it did provide useful data for the further development of the diesel shunter design.
LMS diesel shunter 7050 This locomotive carried its original number of 7400 only within the Preston works where it was built, and was delivered as number 7050. It was loaned to the War Department between 1940-1941, which numbered it 25.
LMS diesel shunters The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) pioneered the use of diesel shunting locomotives in Great Britain. The variety of experimental and production diesel shunters produced by the LMS is summarised below.
LMS Jubilee Class 5552 Silver Jubilee London Midland and Scottish Railway's number 5552 (British Railways' number 45552), named Silver Jubilee was Jubilee Class 4-6-0 express steam locomotive. It was specially named for the silver jubilee of George V.
LMS locomotive numbering and classification A number of different numbering and classification schemes were used for the locomotives owned by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and its constituent companies. This page explains the principal systems that were used.
LMS Princess Coronation Class [6233 Duchess of Sutherland running in 2001. She is roughly in the same condition as between 1941 (when a double chimney] was fitted) and 1945 (when she received her [[smoke deflectors), though it is unlikely that she ever would have carried a nameplate that read www.
LMS Princess Coronation Class 6233 Duchess of Sutherland [6233 Duchess of Sutherland running in 2001. She is roughly in the same condition as between 1941 (when a double chimney] was fitted) and 1945 (when she received her [[smoke deflectors), though it is unlikely that she ever would have carried a nameplate that read www.
LMS Stanier Class 8F The London Midland and Scottish Railway's 8F class 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotive is a class of steam locomotive designed for hauling heavy freight. 852 were built between 1935 and 1946 as a freight version of William Stanier's successful black five, and the class saw service overseas during the Second World War.
LMTP The Local Mail Transfer Protocol or LMTP is a derivative of SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. LMTP is designed as an alternative to normal SMTP for situations where the receiving side does not have a mail queue, such as a Mail Delivery Agent that understands SMTP conversations.
LMule lMule (meaning Linux Mule) was an early attempt to bring an eMule-like client to Linux started in January 2003 by Timo Kujala, who ported all eMule code to Linux by himself. Alternative applications were at the time command line applications whilst lMule was very similar to eMule in look and feel.
LNAT The LNAT, National Admissions Test for Law, is an admissions aptitude test that was adopted in 2004 by eight UK university law programs as an admissions requirement for home applicants. The test was established at the leading urgency of Oxford University as an answer to the problem facing universities trying to select from an increasingly competitive pool with similarly high A-levels.
LNAV Lateral NAVigation in aviation is a function of autopilot which directs lateral movement of aircraft either according to pre-programmed FMS flight plan during climb, cruise and descent or according to ILS localizer during approach.
LNER Class A1/A3 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class A1/A3 is a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives, designed by Nigel Gresley. The A3 was a refinement of the earlier A1, and the two are often considered together; all surviving A1 locomotives were eventually rebuilt as class A3.
LNER Class B17 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class B17, also known as "Sandringham" or "Footballer" class was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed for hauling passenger services on the Great Eastern Main Line.
LNER Class J50 The London and North Eastern Railway Class J50 was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotive. They had long side tanks that came to the front of the boiler, which sloped forwards to improve visibility and had a recess cut in to aid maintenance.
LNER Class P1 The London and North Eastern Railway Class P1 Mineral 2-8-2 Mikado was a class of 2 steam locomotives designed Nigel Gresley. They were some of the most powerful freight locotives ever designed in Britain, and it was initially intended they be a more powerful 2-10-0 version of the earlier Class O2 2-8-0s.
LNER Class U1 The London and North Eastern Railway Class U1 was a solitary 2-8-0+0-8-2 Beyer-Garratt locomotive designed for banking coal trains over the Worsborough Bank, a steeply graded line in South Yorkshire and part of the Woodhead Route. The locomotive was fitted with crew respirators due to the poor ventilation in the two tunnels on the bank.
LNER Class V1/V3 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class V1 and Class V3 were two classes of related 2-6-2T steam locomotive. The V3 was a development of the V1 with increased boiler pressure and resultant increased tractive effort, and many V1s were rebuilt into V3s.
LNER electric units In 1937 the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) built a fleet of articulated electric multiple unit passenger trains for use on the Tyneside electric lines, which linked the English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with the coast at North Shields and South Shields.
LNER locomotive numbering and classification A number of different numbering and classification schemes were used for the locomotives owned by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and its constituent companies. This page explains the principal systems that were used.
LNER Peppercorn Class A1 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Peppercorn Class A1 was a class of steam locomotives. 49 were built to the design of Arthur Peppercorn (who was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway) during the early British Railways era, but none survived.
LNER Thompson Class A2 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class A2 was a class of steam locomotive designed for express passenger work. There were three subclasses; the A2/1 (4 engines) which were originally ordered as V2 2-6-2s, the A2/2 (6 engines) rebuilt from P2 2-8-2s and A2/3 (15 engines) which were new builds.
LNER Thompson Class B2 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class B2 was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive. Ten were rebuilt from LNER Class B17, but no more were rebuilt as a result of the successful LNER Thompson Class B1.
LNER Thompson Class Q1 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class Q1 was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. They were first built in 1934 but production was delayed during World War II due to a shortage of components.
LNER Thompson/Peppercorn Class K1 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class K1 is a type of 2-6-0 (mogul) steam locomotive designed by Edward Thompson. Thompson preferred a simple two-cylinder design instead of Gresley's three cylinder one.
LNG exporting countries The group of countries exporting natural gas (NG) in liquified form. These include Indonesia, Algeria, Malaysia, Qatar, Nigeria, Australia, Oman, Brunei Darussalam, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, among others.
LNG El Paso Sonatrach The LNG El Paso Sonatrach was a liquefied natural gas carrier of the El Paso Marine Corporation which was active in the late 1970s. Although she was US owned, the ship was registered in Liberia because of tax and economical reasons.
LNWR electric units During 1909-1922, the London and North Western Railway embarked on a large-scale project to electrify their whole London inner-suburban network, encompassing the lines from London Euston to Watford and the North London Railway from London Broad Street to Richmond. This also included branch lines such as Watford to Croxley Green (where a depot was built to house the electric units), and links to what was to become the London Underground network.
Lo Barnechea, Chile Lo Barnechea is a municipality (comuna) of the province of Santiago, part of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile. It is located in the northeastern extremity of the province and contains some of Chile's fanciest neighborhoods (including La Dehesa, site of one of Pinochet's homes) as well as slums (poblaciones).
Lo Down Lo Down was a tag team formed in WWF in July 2000 consisting of Chaz (formerly known as Mosh of The Headbangers) and D'Lo Brown. The team enjoyed minor success but mostly wrestled on Sunday Night HEAT and WWF Jakked/Metal.
Lo Fidelity Allstars The Lo Fidelity Allstars are a London-based electronica group who have recorded from the late 1990s to the present. Their earlier work is noted for genre-crossing stylings, distorted, morose, and at times alien lyrics, distinctive funk bass lines, and extensive use of lo-fi recording practices (although it would be a stretch to call the style of the music as a whole "lo-fi", in the more traditional sense).
Lo Fong Lo Fong is a character in Konami's role playing game Suikoden IV. She and her brothers used to work at the hotsprings in Mordo island (trying to dupe people out of 10,000 potch for using the hotsprings, claming it is used by Lazlo's army).
Lo Ka Fai Lo Ka Fai (born August 14, 1976 in Hong Kong, China) is a racecar driver who competed in the Asian Touringcar Championship in 2002, 2004 and 2005. He also joined the Asia-Seat team for the 2005 World Touring Car Championship, but never competed in any races.
Lo mai gai Lo mai gai (literally glutinous rice chicken), also called steamed chicken in lotus leaf wrap, or glutinous rice in lotus leaf wrap, is a kind of southern Chinese food. It contains glutinous rice filled with chicken, Chinese mushrooms, lap cheong (Chinese sausage) and sometimes dried shrimp.
Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida (What I Told You While You Were Pretending to Be Asleep) is the title of the third studio album released on April 28, 2003, by the Spanish pop/rock band La Oreja De Van Gogh.
Lo Que Callmos Las Mujeres Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres (English: What We Woman Silence), is a Mexican television show which deals with the social problems of Mexican Society. The show started airing on the Mexican television station, TV Azteca as a way to compete with XEW-TV Canal de las Estrellas' Mujer, casos de la vida real.
Lo Shu Square Lo Shu Square (; also written 雒書; literally: Luo (River) Book/Scroll) or the Nine Halls Diagram (), is the unique normal magic square of order three. Lo Shu is part of the legacy of the most ancient Chinese mathemtical and divinatory (Yi Jing 易經) traditions, and is an important emblem in Feng Shui (風水), the art of geomancy concerned with the placement of objects in relation to the flow of qi (氣) 'natural energy'.
Lo Wang Lo Wang is the main character of the video game Shadow Warrior, released by 3D Realms on May 13, 1997. The game was based on a modified version of the Build engine, which was also used in the more popular 3D Realms title Duke Nukem 3D.
Lo Wu (KCR) Lo Wu (Chinese: çľ…ćą–, Jyutping: Lo4 Wu4, Pinyin: LuĂłhĂş) is the northern terminus of the of Hong Kong, sitting in Lo Wu within the Closed Area on Hong Kong's northern frontier. The station serves as a primary checkpoint for rail passengers between Hong Kong and mainland China and vice-versa, rather than serving a specific residential/commercial area like the other stations do.
Lo-ammi In the Tanakh book of Hosea, a son born to the prophet and his wife Gomer. The name, which translates as "Not my people," is chosen by the Lord as a sign of the Lord's displeasure with the people of Israel for following other gods (see Hosea 1:8-9).
Lo-Fi B-Sides Released in 1998, Lo-Fi B-Sides was the second EP produced by the now-defunct Matthew Good Band. The EP was limited to 5000 copies, and was included as a bonus with purchase of the band's 1997 album Underdogs.
Lo-Key "Lo-Key" was a group founded by Lance Alexander and Tony "Prof T" Tolbert, staff writers signed to Flyte Tyme Productions, respectively. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Lance and Prof T were in a band called 'Grand Jury' before moving to Minneapolis.
Lo-Key Fu Lo-Key Fu is a producer, performer and remixer based in Perth, Western Australia who is most well known for writing various style of breakbeat and won the West Australian Music Industry Association award for Best Electronic Producer in 2005. In June 2006, Lo-Key Fu won The Contender, an international song competition held by Title Fight Recordings in conjunction with Bijou Breaks.
Lo-Key? Lo-Key is a funk group from Minneapolis, Minnesota consisting of singers Prof T and Dre, keyboardist Lance Alexander, bassist T-Bone and drummer "D". The group had a hit in 1993 with the single "I Got A Thang 4 Ya!
Lo-ruhamah Lo-ruhamah is the name of the first daughter of the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer in the Book of Hosea (1:6-8) of the Tanakh. The name, which translates as "not pitied," is chosen by God as a sign of displeasure with the people of Israel for following other gods.
Loa (Spanish play) A loa is a short theatrical piece used to introduce a comedia in the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) tradition for the purpose of setting the mood and capturing the interest of the audience. Loa literally means praise, it being customary to offer compliments to distinguished members of the audience, the town in which the play was performed, etc.
Load balancing (computing) In computing, load balancing is a technique (usually performed by load balancers) to spread work between many computers, processes, hard disks or other resources in order to get optimal resource utilization and decrease computing time.
Load bank A load bank is a device which develops an electrical load, applies the load to an electrical power source and converts or dissipates, the resultant power output of the source. A Load Bank is intended to accurately mimic the operational or “real” load which a power source will see in actual application.
Load bearing boss A load bearing boss is a term referring to the phenomenon in video games (typically RPGs but it can happen in other genres as well) in which the defeat of a powerful opponent (or boss) directly results in the destruction of the area in which the battle took place. For example, in the Castlevania series, the defeat of Dracula results in the destruction of Dracula's Castle.
Load bearing wall A load bearing wall is one in which a wall of a structure bears the weight and force resting upon it, as opposed to a curtain wall which uses the strength of a sub-wall and superstructure to carry the weight. The materials most often used to construct load bearing walls in large buildings are stone, block, or brick.
Load following power plant A load following power plant is a power plant that adjusts its power output as demand for electricity fluctuates throughout the day. Load following plants are in between base load and peaking power plants in efficiency, speed of startup and shutdown, construction cost, cost of electricity and capacity factor.
Load profile In electrical engineering, a load profile is a graph of the variation in the electrical load versus time. A load profile will vary according to customer type (typical examples include residential, commercial and industrial), temperature and holiday seasons.
Load Sharing Facility Load Sharing Facility (or simply LSF) is a commercial computer software job scheduler sold by Platform Computing. It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures.
Load transfer In automobiles, load transfer is the imaginary "shifting" of weight around a motor vehicle during acceleration (both longitudinal and lateral). This includes braking, and deceleration (which is an acceleration at a negative rate).
Load-balanced switch A load-balanced switch is a switch architecture which guarantees 100% throughput (the equivalent of perfect arbitration) with no central arbitration at all, at the cost of sending each packet across the crossbar twice. Load-balanced switches are currently (2005) a subject of research for large routers scaled past the point of practical central arbitration.
Load-Link/Store-Conditional In computer science, load-link (LL, also known as "load-linked" or "load and reserve") and store-conditional (SC) are a pair of instructions that together implement a lock-free atomic read-modify-write operation.
Loadable Kernel Module Loadable Kernel Modules, or LKM, are object files that contain code to extend the running kernel, or so-called base kernel. Operating systems other than Linux, such as BSD systems, also provide support for LKM's.
Loaded (magazine) Loaded, first published by IPC in 1994, is the oldest British "lads' mag" - "For men who should know better". It was founded by James Brown, a former deputy editor of the music weekly New Musical Express.
Loaded (video game) Loaded is a top-down shooting game that was developed by Gremlin Interactive. Released in 1996 on both the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn, the game received mixed reviews, and is notorious for its violence and gore.
Loaded Deck Loaded Deck was a Chicagoland rock band that rose to prominence during the early 1990s. They were influenced by a variety of musical forms that were popular at the time, especially glam metal and classic rock.
Loaded language Loaded words are words or phrases which have strong emotional overtones or connotations and which evoke strongly positive (or negative) reactions far beyond the specific meaning of the word which is listed in the dictionary.
Loader (computing) In computing, a loader is a program that performs the functions of a linker program and then immediately schedules the resulting executable program for action (in the form of a memory image), without necessarily saving the program as an executable file. In Unix, the so-called linking loader also gets called again during program execution to perform runtime binding (linking) for dynamic libraries[programs are useful for prototyping], testing, and one-off applications.
Loading bay (theatre) A loading bay is a room in a theater which is usually quite large. It generally has a bay door (a large metal door which rolls up, at least the size of the opening on a standard semi-trailer) at opposite sides of the room, one for a truck and the other for access to the stage.
Loading coil In electronics, a loading coil is a coil (inductor) that does not provide coupling to any other circuit, but is inserted in a circuit to increase its inductance. The need was discovered by Oliver Heaviside in studying the disappointing slow speed of the Transatlantic telegraph cable.
Loading gauge A loading gauge is the envelope or contoured shape within which all railroad cars, locomotives, coaches, buses, trucks and other vehicles, must fit. It is dictated by the size of tunnels, height of bridges, the shape, height and position of third rail covers (if the third rail is covered at all) as well as the shape, height and position of railway platforms.
Loading master The Loading Master Person-In-Charge (PIC) is the marine transfer operator at the marine terminal who supervises the movement of petroleum products between tanker ships, barges, and the terminal while the vessel is berthed at the dock. In this capacity the marine transfer operator ensures that all regulatory aspects concerning protection of the environment and maritime security are adhered to during marine transfer operations.
Loading screen A loading screen is a picture shown by a computer program, often a video game, while the program is loading or initializing. Loading screens that disguise the length of time that a program takes to load were common when computer games were loaded from audio tape, a process which could take anywhere up to 20 minutes.
LoadRunner LoadRunner is a performance and load testing product by Hewlett-Packard (since it acquired Mercury Interactive in November 2006) for examining system behavior and performance, while generating actual load. LoadRunner can emulate hundreds or thousands of concurrent users to put the application through the rigors of real-life user loads, while collecting information from key infrastructure components (Web servers, database servers etc).
Loadstar Loadstar (ISSN 0886-4144) is a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer, published since 1984, and still in publication as of 2005. It derived its name from the command used to cause the first file on a Commodore 1541 disk to execute, LOAD "*",8,1, with inspiration from the word "lodestar".
Loaf Island Loaf Island (52°50'N 173°12E) is a small satellite of Attu Island in the Near Islands group at the extreme western end of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Loaf Island is situated in Massacre Bay on the southeast side of Attu.
Loafing (ice hockey) Loafing or cherry picking in ice hockey is when a player, the loafer (usually a forward), literally loafs — spends time in idleness — or casually skates behind the opposing team's unsuspecting defencemen while they are in their attacking zone.
Loafing and Camouflage Loafing and Camouflage () (1984) is a cult classic Greek movie directed by Nikos Perakis. It was followed by a sequel in 2005, Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean and a sitcom in season 2006-2007, featuring actors of the sequel, but set during the time of the original movie.
Loamshire Regiment Loamshire Regiment is a placeholder name used by the British Army to provide examples for its procedures. For example, the Loamshire Regiment is provided by the British Forces Post Office to show how to write a British Army address, and is used to set out specimen charges for violations of military law.
Loan protection insurance Loan protection insurance, or loan payment protection insurance, is a form of payment protection insurance. This type of insurance can help you protect your monthly loan payments if you become unemployed or suffer an accident or sickness.
Loan servicing Loan servicing is the process by which a mortgage bank or subservicing firm collects the timely payment of interest and principal from borrowers. The level of service varies depending on the type loan and the terms negotiated between the firm and the investor seeking their services.
Loan shark A loan shark is a person or body that offers illegal unsecured loans at high interest rates to individuals, often backed by blackmail or threats of violence. They provide credit to those who are not willing or are unable to obtain it from more respectable sources, usually because interest rates commensurate with the perceived risk are illegal.
Loan to value The loan-to-value (LTV) ratio is a mathematical calculation which expresses the amount of a first mortgage lien as a percentage of the total appraised value of real property. For instance, if a borrower wants $130,000 to purchase a house worth $150,000, the LTV ratio is $130,000/$150,000 or 87%.
Loango National Park Loango National Park is a national park in western Gabon. It protects diverse coastal habitat, including part of the 220 km² Iguéla Lagoon, the only significant example of a typical western African lagoon system that is protected within a national park.
Loans and interest in Judaism Loans and interest in Judaism is a complicated and detailed field of Jewish law and the Torah and Talmud encourage the granting of loans. However, lending money, objects or services on interest is forbidden according Jewish law and is called ribbit.
Loans Affair The Loans Affair (also called the Khemlani Affair) is the name given to the political scandal involving the Whitlam Government of Australia in 1975, in which it was accused of attempting to illegally borrow money from Middle Eastern countries by bypassing standard procedure as dictated by the Australian Treasury.
Loantaka Brook Loantaka Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River. The main headwaters of Loantaka Brook arise in Morris Township between Route 124 (Madison Avenue) and Woodland Avenue in the area just below the medical office parks on the south side of Madison Avenue (see map).
Loanword A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related process whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself.
Loara High School Loara High School is a high school in the Anaheim Union High School District, located in the city of Anaheim in Orange County, California. Loara was established in 1962 and is one of eight comprehensive high schools within the district.

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