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Logitech G15 The Logitech G15 is a keyboard produced by Logitech designed specifically for gamers. It includes 18 macro keys that can each have 3 macros assigned to them and a backlit monochrome LCD display (Which can show helpful information from compatible applications to the user).
Logo A logo (from the Greek λογότυπος = logotipos) is a graphic element, symbol, or icon of a trademark or brand and together with its logotype, which is set in a unique typeface or arranged in a particular way. A typical logo is designed to cause immediate recognition by the viewer.
Logo (TV channel) Logo is an American digital cable television channel owned by Viacom's MTV Networks division. Targeting programming aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, it launched on June 30, 2005.
Logogram A logogram, or logograph, is a single grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme (a meaningful unit of language). This stands in contrast to other writing systems, such as syllabaries, abugidas, abjads, and alphabets, where each symbol (letter) primarily represents a sound or a combination of sounds.
Logographer (history) The logographers (from the Ancient Greek λογογράφος, logographos, a compound of λόγος, logos, here meaning 'story' or 'prose', and γράφω, grapho, 'write') were the Greek historiographers and chroniclers before Herodotus, "the father of history". Herodotus himself called his predecessors λογοποιόι (logopoioi, from ποιέω, poieo, 'to make').
Logographer (legal) The title of logographer (from the Ancient Greek λογογράφος, logographos, a compound of λόγος, logos, 'word', and γράφω, grapho, 'write') was applied to professional authors of judicial discourse in Ancient Greece. The modern term speechwriter is roughly equivalent.
Logographi Logographi, (Λογογραφοι; writers of prose histories or tales), the name given by modern scholars to the Greek historiographers before Herodotus.(1) Thucydides, however, applies the term to all his own predecessors, and it is therefore usual to make a distinction between the older and the younger logographers.
Logology Logology is a term that means the study of words with an emphasis on letter patterns, often as part of recreational wordplay such as anagrams, palindromes and isograms, rather than on meaning. The word was popularized, to the extent that it is popular at all, by Dmitri Borgmann, an author of several books on language in the late 1960s.
Logopandecteision Logopandecteision is a 1653 book by Sir Thomas Urquhart, disingenuously detailing his plans for the creation of an artificial language by that name. The book is written in several parts, most notably including a list of the language's 66 unparalleled excellences; the rest is made up of rants against his creditors, the Church of Scotland, and others whose neglect and wrongdoings prevent him from publishing this perfected language.
Logopenic progressive aphasia Logopenic progressive aphasia (LPA) is a form of primary progressive aphasia characterized by slow speech and impaired syntactic comprehension and naming. It is similar to Wernicke's aphasia and is associated with atrophy to the left posterior temporal cortex and inferior parietal lobule.
Logopolis Logopolis is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from February 28 to March 21, 1981. It was Tom Baker's last story as the Doctor and marks the first appearance of Peter Davison in the role.
Logoport Logoport is a proprietary software program owned by the localisation company Lionbridge. The program is a CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tool, which uses a translation memory stored on an online central database to provide translators with similar previous translation units on which to base new translations.
Logorrhoea Logorrhoea or logorrhea (Greek λογορροια, logorrhoia, “word-flux”) is defined as an “excessive flow of words” and, when used medically, refers to incoherent talkativeness that occurs in certain kinds of mental illness, such as mania. The spoken form of logorrhoea (in the non-medical sense) is a kind of verbosity that uses superfluous or fancy words to disguise a useless or simple message as useful or intellectual, and is commonly known as “verbal diarrhea.
Logos The Greek word λόγος or logos is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word" but can also mean thought, speech, meaning, reason, proportion, principle, standard, or logic, among other things.
Logos Bible Software Logos Bible Software is a company that produces software for biblical analysis. They are best known for producing Logos Bible Software Series X, a bible study application for Microsoft Windows built on the Libronix Digital Library System.
Logos Foundation The Logos Foundation is a professional organisation for the promotion of new musics and audio related arts by means of new music production, concerts, performances, composition, technological research projects and other contemporary music related activities.
Logos Foundation (Australia) The Logos Foundation was a Christian group that flourished in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, under the leadership of the charismatic preacher Howard Carter. The Logos Foundation was initially a multidenominational Charismatic teaching ministry, and primarily Protestant and also had ties with Catholic lay groups and individuals.
Logos Group The Logos Group is a major European translation organization. In addition to their translation services, they are known for some of the free services they provide online, most famously the massive Logos Dictionary, which has grown through volunteer submissions since 1995, and as of 2005 has over 7 million terms in over 200 languages and dialects.
Logosophy Logosophy is a "body of organized knowledge" ("Ciencia" in Spanish. See etymology of the word "Science" in its own article) that offers teachings of conceptual order and practices to better oneself through a process of conscious evolution.
Logosphere The Logosphere was first seen on the internet in 1997 as logosphere.com, the home page of a few information enthusiasts who founded a consulting firm to further the flow of information within companies and organizations.
Logosyllabary A Logosyllabary is a type of writing system whose symbols (or graphemes) function as both logograms and as phonetic syllables. A third class of symbols called determinatives sometimes also occur; these are silent ideograms which clarify the meaning of words written out phonetically.
Logotherapy Developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, Logotherapy is considered the "third Viennese school of psychotherapy" after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology. It is a type of Existential Analysis that focuses on a "will to meaning" as opposed to the Nietzschian doctrine of "will to power" or Freud's "will to pleasure".
Logothete Logothete (Greek λογοθέτης, Med. Latin logotheta, Italian: logoteta, Romanian: logofăt) originally was a Byzantine administrative title analogous to the secretary of the state in use from the 6th to 14th century.
Logres Logres (also spelt Logris or Loegria) is the name of King Arthur's realm in the Matter of Britain. It derives from Lloegr, the Welsh name for the area of Great Britain roughly covering the land of present-day England.
Logrolling Logrolling (or horse trading in British English) is a colorful phrase used to describe trading of votes by legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member. The term is also used for similar activities in academics, notably the "cross quoting" of papers in order to drive up reference counts.
Logrolling (sport) Logrolling, or birling, is a sport that originated in the lumberjack tradition of the northeastern United States and Canada. After bringing their logs downriver, the lumberjacks would have a competition to see who could balance on a log the longest while it is still rolling in the river.
Logwood The Logwood tree (Haematoxylum campechianum) was once an important source of red dye. The tree's scientific name means 'bloodwood' ('haima' being Greek for 'blood' and 'xulon' Greek for wood) from the Campeche region of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
Loh Kooi Choon v. Government of Malaysia Loh Kooi Choon v. Government of Malaysia (1977) 2 MLJ 187 is a case decided in the Federal Court of Malaysia concerning the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, and also involving the extent to which Parliament can amend the Constitution.
Lohachara Island Lohachara Island was an islet which was permanently flooded in the 1980s.Kolkata Newsline – 22 yrs after deluge, they fear more October 31, 2006 It was located in the Hooghly River as part of the Sundarban delta in the Sundarban National Park, located near the Indian state of West Bengal The definite disappearance of the island was reported by Indian researchers in December 2006Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island, The Independent, December 24, 2006.
Lohamey ha-Geta'ot Lohamey ha-Geta'ot (Hebrew: לוחמי הגטאות) is an Israeli kibbutz having some 300 members. Its name means "fighters of the ghettoes" and the kibbutz commemorates the Jews who fought back against Nazism.
Lohengrin In some German Arthurian literature, Lohengrin, the son of Parzival (Percival), is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His story is a version of the Knight of the Swan legend.
Lohengrin (opera) Lohengrin is a romantic opera (or music drama) in three acts by Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto. The first production was in Weimar, Germany on 28 August 1850 under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner.
Lohr Lohr (also: Lohr am Main) is a town in the Main-Spessart district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Main, 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Aschaffenburg, and 34 kilometres (21 mi) northwest of WĂĽrzburg.
Lohr Industrie Lohr Industrie is a French manufacturer of Translohr and Modalohr tram cars, as well as manufacturer of select parts for the NYC Subway. Lohr Industrie and Translohr were mistranslated as Rollindustry and Transroll respectively in China due to the voicing confusion.
Lohrmann (crater) Lohrmann is a small lunar crater that is located to the west of the Oceanus Procellarum lunar mare, near the western limb of the Moon. It lies to the north of the dark-floored Grimaldi walled plain, and just to the south of the Hevelius crater.
Loch Ard (ship) The Loch Ard was a clipper ship which was wrecked at Mutton Bird Island just off the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia in 1878. The name was drawn from Loch Ard, a lake which lies to the west of the village of Aberfoyle, and to the east of Loch Lomond.
Loch Arkaig treasure The treasure of Loch Arkaig, sometimes known as the Jacobite Gold, was a large amount of specie provided by Spain to finance the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, and said still to be hidden at Loch Arkaig in Lochaber.
Loch Burn, Watten Loch Burn, Watten, flows out of the eastern end of Loch Watten in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland, at a height of around 20 metres and about one kilometre north/northeast of the village of Watten. Less than a kilometre east of its source at Loch Watten the burn flows into Wick River.
Loch class frigate The Loch class was a class of anti-submarine (A/S) frigate built for the Royal Navy and her allies during World War II. They were an innovative design based on the experience of 3 years of fighting in the Battle of the Atlantic and attendant technological advances.
Loch Cluanie Loch Cluanie (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Cluanaidh) is a loch in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It is a reservoir, contained behind the Cluanie dam, constructed in the 1950s as part of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board's Glenmoriston project to generate hydroelectricity.
Loch Eriboll Loch Eriboll (Scottish Gaelic: "Loch Euraboil") is a 16km long sea loch on the North Coast of Scotland, which has been used for centuries as a deep water anchorage as it is safe from the often stormy seas of Cape Wrath and the Pentland Firth. Its Norse name (meaning Home on a gravel beach) reveals the dominant culture of 1000 years ago though much earlier Bronze age remains can be found in the area, including a souterrain and a very well-preserved wheelhouse on the hillside above the west shore.
Loch Ericht Loch Ericht (Scottish Gaelic, Loch Eireachd) is a freshwater lake (or loch) on the border between Perth and Kinross and the Highlands Council areas of Scotland. The River Ericht flows from the south end of the loch and later enters Loch Rannoch.
Loch Garry Loch Garry, (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Garadh), is 25km north of Fort William, Lochaber, Scotland, and is 11km long and 50m deep. It is fed by waters from Loch Quoich 10km upstream on the River Garry, and drains into Loch Oich in the Great Glen just 5km downstream.
Loch Garten Osprey Centre The Loch Garten Osprey Centre is a nature reserve at Boat of Garten in the Abernethy Forest, Badenoch and Strathspey, in the Highland council area of Scotland, and in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Loch Indaal Loch Indaal (or Lochindaal) is a sea loch on the island of Islay, the southernmost of the Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. Together with Loch Gruinart to the north, it is part of a geological fault which branches off from the Great Glen Fault.
Loch Linnhe Loch Linnhe (Scottish Gaelic: An Loch Dubh) is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. In Gaelic is is usually known as "An Linne Sheileach" downstream of Corran, and "An Linne Dhubh" upstream of Corran.
Loch Lomond (Illinois) Loch Lomond is a man-made lake in Mundelein, Illinois, as well as the subdivision built around said lake. The lake is administered by the Loch Lomond Property Owners Association, and access is restricted to members of the association and their guests.
Loch Lomond Recreation Area, Felton, CA Loch Lomond Recreation Area is a water reservoir that doubles as a beautifully unique mountain lake recreational environment. Established in 1963, it's hidden high in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Felton, CA, and offers fishing, boating, picnicking, and hiking.
Loch Lyon Loch Lyon (Scottish Gaelic, Loch Liobhunn/Loch Lìomhann) is a freshwater loch found in Glen Lyon, located in Perth, Scotland, which feeds the River Lyon. The original natural loch was much expanded by a hydro-electric dam, part of the North of Scotland Hydro-electric Breadalbane scheme.
Loch Ness Monster The Loch Ness Monster, sometimes called Nessie (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag), is a mysterious and unidentified animal, or group of animals, claimed to inhabit the Scottish loch of Loch Ness, the largest freshwater loch in Great Britain by volume. Nessie is usually categorized as a type of lake monster.
Loch Ness Monster (roller coaster) The Loch Ness Monster is a fairly large roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Europe (formerly Busch Gardens Williamsburg). Designed by Ron Toomer of Arrow Dynamics, the Loch Ness monster was the first, and is the only coaster still operating, to feature interlocking loops.
Loch Ossian Loch Ossian is narrow loch that is about 5km long on the north eastern edge of Rannoch Moor, on The Corrour Estate, with its western corner 2km east of Corrour railway station. It is drained by the River Ossian, flowing north into Loch Guilbinn and ultimately to the River Spean at Moy.
Loch Quoich Loch Quoich (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Chuaich) is a loch and reservoir situated west of Loch Garry approximately 40km northwest of Fort William, Lochaber, Scotland. The name means "loch of the cup/quaich".
Loch railway station, Victoria Loch is a railway station on the former South Gippsland line in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The station is now part of the South Gippsland Tourist railway, after passenger operations on the line ceased after Cranbourne station in 1993.
Loch Ryan Loch Ryan is a Scottish sea loch that acts as an important natural harbour for shipping, providing calm waters for ferries operating between Scotland and Northern Ireland. The town of Stranraer is the largest settlement on its shores, with boats operating both from the town and from the village of Cairnryan further north on the loch.
Loch Seaforth Loch Seaforth (in Scottish Gaelic, Loch Shiphoirt) is sea loch in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It forms the boundary between Lewis and Harris and formerly was the boundary between the traditional counties of Ross and Cromarty and Inverness-shire.
Loch Shiel Loch Shiel (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Seile) is a 25 km freshwater loch, 120 m deep, situated 20 km west of Fort William in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. Its nature changes considerably along its length, being deep and enclosed by mountains in the north east and shallow surrounded by bog and rough pasture in the south west, from which end the 4 km River Shiel drains to the sea in Loch Moidart near Castle Tioram.
Loch Striven Loch Striven (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Sroigheann) is a sea loch adjoining the west side of the Firth of Clyde just north of the Isle of Bute, where it forms a narrow inlet about 8 miles (12 km) long extending north into the Cowal peninsula. During times of recession in shipping the loch has been used as a sheltered anchorage for laid up vessels such as large oil tankers.
Loch Thom Loch Thom is a reservoir which since 1827 has provided a water supply to the town of Greenock in Inverclyde, Scotland. It is named after the civil engineer Robert Thom who designed the scheme which created the reservoir and delivered water via a long aqueduct known as The Cut.
Loch Torridon Loch Torridon (Scottish Gaelic: "Loch Thoirbheartan") is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland in the Northwest Highlands. Torridon village lies at the head of the loch and is surrounded by the spectacular Torridon Hills.
Loch Treig Loch Treig (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Trèig) is a 9 km freshwater loch situated in a steep-sided glen 20 km east of Fort William, in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. While there are no roads alongside the loch, the West Highland Line follows its eastern bank.
Loch Venachar Loch Venachar (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Bheannchair) is a freshwater loch in Stirling district, Scotland, situated between Callander and Brig o' Turk. It lies approximately 82 metres above sea level, and is 6 kilometres long with a maximum depth of approximately 33 metres.
Loch Watten Loch Watten is a loch in Caithness, Scotland in the River Wick drainage basin. The name is a tautology, consisting of the word "loch" (of Gaelic origin) and vatn, a Norse word meaning the very same, found in such names as "Þingvallavatn" and Myvatn in Iceland, and "Røssvatnet" and "Møsvatn" in Norway.
Lochaber axe The Lochaber axe, also called a Jeddart axe, was a Scottish war axe that came into use around 1600. The name of the weapon derives from Lochaber, an area in the western Scottish Highlands, as the weapon was employed principally by the Scottish highlanders, who (generally without any cavalry of their own) required armament against cavalry.
Lochailort Lochailort is a village in Scotland that lies at the head of Loch Ailort, a sea loch, on the junction of the Road to the Isles (A830) between Fort William and Mallaig with the A861 loop towards Salen and Strontian. It is served by Lochailort railway station on the West Highland Line.
Lochan Singh Sardar Lochan Singh (1892-1996) was an Indian civil engineer and cabinet minister. Born in West Punjab (now Pakistan), he was educated in engineering, first at Queen's College Belfast, and later at the Imperial College, London.
Lochboisdale Lochboisdale (Lochbaghasdail) is the main ferry terminal for the island of South Uist and is undergoing a revival of fortunes after a period of closures of the local shop (which closed in 1991 after trading for over 100 years) and the local hotel. The pier area has undergone a transformation as the old shop and surrounding buildings were either renovated or removed to provide new housing and commercial units for rent.
Lochbuie, Mull Lochbuie (Scottish Gaelic: Locha Buidhe) is an isolated settlement on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. Perhaps its most noted residents have been George Sassoon (author, linguist; and son of poet and author Siegfried Sassoon) and Siegfried's wife, the former Hester Gatty.
Lochee Harp F.C. Lochee Harp Football Club are a junior football club based in the Lochee area of the city of Dundee in Scotland. Formed in 1904 and nicknamed "the Harp", they play their home games at Beechwood Park, which has room for around 1,800 spectators.
Lochgelly Lochgelly (Gaelic: Loch Gheallaidh) is a town in Fife, Scotland. It was originally a mining town, but with the industry now dead the town has slipped into economic and social deprivation as with other former mining towns.
Lochgilphead High School Lochgilphead High School in Lochgilphead, Argyll is a secondary school servicing around 500 students. A new campus is currently under construction incorporating the nearby Lochgilphead Primary School and the White Gates Learning Centre, and is expected to be open in 2007.
Lochia alba Lochia alba is a whitish or yellowish-white endometrial discharge, released through the vagina, that typically begins during the second or third week after childbirth. It follows a five-to-ten-day period of lochia rubra and lochia serosa, the bloody or blood-tinged endometrial discharge that occurs in the days immediately following birth.
Lochinvar, New South Wales Lochinvar is a small town in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia in Maitland City Council. The town is mostly built up along the busy New England Highway between the major centres of Maitland and Singleton and is 165 kilometres north of Sydney.
Lochinver Lochinver (Loch an Inbhir in Gaelic) is a village on the coast in the Assynt district of Sutherland, Highland, Scotland. A few miles northeast is Loch Assynt which is the source of the River Inver which flows into Loch Inver at the village.
Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh (born 11 March 1933, died 18 November 2000) was an Irish physicist of world-wide repute in the field of theoretical particle physics. He is best known for the O'Raifeartaigh Theorem, an important result in unification theory, and the O'Raifeartaigh Model of supersymmetry breaking.
Lochlyn Munro Lochlyn Munro (born Richard Laughlain Munro, February 12, 1966, Lac La Hache, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of clean-cut but intense characters ranging from police officers to personal trainers. His most famous role to date is that of Clifford "Cliff" O'Malley, a crazed frat boy in the 1998 comedy Dead Man on Campus.
Lochmaben Stone The Lochmaben Stone is a megalith standing in a field, nearly a mile west of the Sark mouth on the Solway Firth , three hundred yards or so above high water mark on the farm of Old Graitney in Dumfries & Galloway in Scotland. Map reference: NY 3123 6600.
Lochnagar Lochnagar is a mountain in the Grampians of Scotland, located about five miles south of the River Dee near Balmoral. It is named after Lochan na Gaire, the 'little loch of the noisy sound', a loch to be found in the mountain's northeast corrie.
Lochnagar mine The Lochnagar mine was an explosive-packed mine located south of the village of La Boisselle in the Somme département of France, which was detonated at 7.28 am on 1 July, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Lochner era The Lochner era is a period in American legal history from roughly 1890 to 1937 in which the United States Supreme Court tended to strike down economic regulations mandating certain working conditions or wages, or limiting working hours in favor of laissez-faire economic policy. In the eponymous 1905 case of Lochner v.
Lochrin Lochrin is a small area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is a short distance to the south and west of the city centre and contains a wide mixture of retail shops, leisure facilities, other businesses and tenement housing.
Loi Loi is the word in Meitei language (Meiteilon) for the term "scheduled caste". The term "Loi" is given to the Meitei villages of Manipur in northeast India, who refused to adopt Hinduism when the newly converted Manipuri King ordered all his subject to adopt the religion.
Loi Estrada Luisa "Loi" Pimentel Ejercito Estrada (born June 2, 1930 in Iba, Zambales) is the wife of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, and was the thirteenth First Lady of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001. In 2001, she ran as a candidate of the opposition for a seat in the Senate.
Loi Gayssot The Gayssot Act (Loi Gayssot), voted for on July 13, 1990, makes it an offense in France to question the existence of the category of crimes against humanity as defined in the London Charter of 1945, on the basis of which Nazi leaders were convicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945-46 (art.9).
Loiano Loiano is a town and comune of province of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, 44°16N 11°20E, in the Tusco-Emilian Apennines at 714 m (2343 ft) above sea-level. Its population was 4260 as of the 2003 census.
Loic Courteau Loic Courteau (born January 6, 1964, in Bordeaux, France) is a former French tennis player. Courteau has coached the French Fed Cup team in years past, and has been the coach of Amélie Mauresmo, the winner of two Grand Slams, since 2002.
Loida Nicolas-Lewis Loida Nicolas Lewis is Chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice, LLC, the Lewis Family investment firm, and is also Chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice (China), Limited, a Cayman company which operates retail convenience stores in five major cities in China and TLC Beatrice Foods (Philippines) which operates a fresh meat processing plant.
Loimologia Loimologia, or, an historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665, With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion is a treatise by Dr. Nathaniel Hodges (1629–1688), originally published in London in Latin (Loimologia, sive, Pestis nuperæ apud populum Londinensem grassantis narratio historica) in 1672; an English translation was later published in London in 1720.
Loin de moi (album) On her ninth album, Dalida was now leaving, little by little, her exotica style for a more pop-rock genre. This album, not as successful as the previous, contains hits like "Avec une poignée de terre" and "Nuits d'Espagne".
Loinen Loinen (finnish: parasite) is a Sludgecore/Doom metal band from Karjaa (Karis), Finland. Formed in 2002, the band incorporates elements of Noise Rock, Hardcore Punk (in particular Terveet Kädet), and even Black Metal into their sound.
Loire River The Loire River (pronounced in French), the longest river in France with a length of just over 1000 km, drains an area of 117,000 km², more than a fifth of France. The central part of the Loire Valley was added on the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO On December 2, 2000.
Loire Valley Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire) is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. It is also noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its world-famous castles, such as the Châteaux Amboise, Château de Villandry and Chenonceau.
Lois Brown Lois Brown is a Canadian businesswoman and presumptive politician. She is a former member of the Canadian Alliance Party having been its nominated candidate prior to the merger with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Lois Capps Lois Grimsrud Capps (born January 10 1938), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing the 23rd District of California (District map), which was numbered as the 22nd District prior to the 2000 round of redistricting. It consists of a long, thin strip of the Southern California coast in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
Lois Collinder Lois Collinder is an Australian actress, best known for playing gangly inmate Alice "Lurch" Jenkins in the television series Prisoner. She in fact started out in the series in 1984 as a non-speaking extra and worked her way up from being a bit player to developing "Lurch" into a central character.
Lois Gibbs Lois Gibbs, or Lois Marie Gibbs, (born 1952) is an environmental activist whose involvement in environmental causes began in 1978, when she discovered that her 7-year-old son's elementary school in Niagara Falls, New York was built on a toxic waste dump. Subsequent investigation revealed that her entire neighborhood had been built on top of that same dump, the Love Canal.
Lois Gladys Leppard Lois Gladys Leppard is the author of The Mandie Series of children's novels. Leppard wrote her first Mandie story when she was only eleven years old, but did not become a professional author until she was an adult.
Lois Herr Lois Herr is an aspiring American politician and a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Democrat from Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district. In the 2006 election she is running her second campaign for the seat currently held by Republican Joseph R.
Lois Hill Accessories Lois Hill is a globally-inspired jewelry designer who hails from rural northwestern Illinois. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in textile design, Hill traveled the world in search of inspiration.
Lois Hole Lois Elsa Hole, CM, AOE (1933, Buchanan, Saskatchewan – January 6 2005, Edmonton, Alberta) was a Canadian politician, businesswoman, educator and best-selling author. She was the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from February 10 2000 until her death.

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