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Longevity myths This article concerns the history of the narratives concerning longevity or eternal youth, as well as possibly explanations of the longevity-phenomenon. Longevity narratives include the story of Fountain of Youth, the village elder-narrative, the story Shangri-La, the "Nationalist"-tale, etc.
Longfellow (horse) Longfellow (1867-1893) was one of America's first great thoroughbred racehorses and the sire of great racehorses. A legend in his own time, he was out of the first crop of the imported English stallion, the outstanding Leamington.
Longfellow Bridge Longfellow Bridge, also known to locals as the "Salt and Pepper Bridge" or the "Salt and Pepper Shaker Bridge", carries Route 3 and the MBTA's Red Line across the Charles River to connect Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood with the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A portion of the elevated Charles/MGH train station also rests upon the southern end of the bridge.
Longfellow Mountains The Longfellow Mountains, named after the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1959, are an interrupted mountain range in the state of Maine, running from western Maine, north of Fryeburg, Maine to the east of Maine. They are part of the Appalachian Mountains and geologically regarded as a part of the White Mountains.
Longfellow National Historic Site The Longfellow National Historic Site, also known as the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House, is a historic site located at 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was for almost fifty years the home of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Longfellow Stakes The Longfellow Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run each year in June at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. A five and one half furlong sprint for either gender aged three and up, the ungraded Longfellow offers a purse of $60,000 and a trophy.
Longfields Longfields is a community located in Ottawa, Ontario. This recent neighborhood is located within the growing suburb of Barrhaven in the city's southwest and bordered by Longfields Drive, Strandherd Drive and Woodroffe Avenue.
Longfin African conger The longfin African conger, Conger cinereus, is a conger of the family Congridae, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Marquesas and Easter islands, north to southern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia and Lord Howe Island, at depths down to 80 m. Length is up to 1.
Longfin catshark The longfin catshark, Apristurus herklotsi, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Pacific from Japan, the Philippines, East and South China seas, and the Kyūshū-Palau Ridge, at depths of between 530 and 865 m. Its length is up to 48 cm.
Longfin mako The longfin mako, Isurus paucus, is a large shark of the Lamnidae family, found in temperate and tropical seas worldwide. It is commonly called just mako, although that name is shared with the closely related shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus.
Longfin sawtail cat shark The longfin sawtail catshark, Galeus cadenati, is a rare cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western central Atlantic from Panama and Colombia, and also Venezuela and possibly Trinidad and Tobago. The holotype was taken at a depth of 440 m.
Longford GAA The Longford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae An Longfort) or Longford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Longford. The county board is also responsible for the Longford inter-county football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams.
Longford Hall Longford Hall is a large country house in Longford, a village in Shropshire, England near the town of Newport, built in 1785 for Ralph Leeke who was political agent of the British East India Company, designed by Joseph Bonomi (1739-1808), who had worked with Robert and James Adam.
Longford Senior Football Championship The Longford Senior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the Senior grade clubs in Longford. The winners of the Longford Championship qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
Longford Senior Hurling Championship The Longford Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Longford Clubs. The winners of the Longford Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Longford-Roscommon (Dáil Éireann constituency) Longford-Roscommon is a constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 70,650 and at present is served by 4 Teachtaí Dála (TDs).
Longford-Westmeath (Dáil Éireann constituency) The Longford-Westmeath parliamentary constituency existed for many decades, but was dismantled in advance of the 1992 election. It was re-created by the 2004 Constituency Commission Report on Dáil Constituencies, and will come into being in the 30th Irish general election.
Longford, Ontario Longford Township, in the former County of Victoria was surveyed in 1861 by Brookes Wright Gossage, as one of ten townships sold to the Canadian Land and Emigration Company. Longford was the only one of the townships within Victoria County.
Longford, Warrington Longford is a district to the north-east of Warrington, a unitary authority in the north-west of England. The boundaries been Winwick Road to the west, Longford Street to the south, Poplars Avenue to the North and East.
Longformacus Longformacus (Longphort Mhacais in Gaelic) is a small village in the Scottish Borders near Duns, about 15km west of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The village is in the Lammermuir Hills and the Dye Water runs through the village, flowing east to join the Whiteadder Water nearby.
Longgang District Longgang (龍崗; simplified Chinese: 龙岗) is one of the six districts of the Shenzhen sub-provincial city, in Guangdong Province, southern China. It is located outside of the Special Economic Zone, north-east of Shenzhen.
Longhai Campaign The Longhai Campaign () was series of battle launched by People's Liberation Army in Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region against the National Revolutionary Army. The campaign was launched in hope to coordinate with the Communist military operations in North China Plain.
Longhair and Doubledome Longhair and Doubledome was one of the cartoon shorts to lose in Cartoon Network's Big Pick segment, about two cavemen discovering science that shaped the world. It had two shorts, Longhair and Doubledome (short) and When There's Smoke There's Bob.
Longhead catshark The longhead catshark, Apristurus longicephalus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the Indo-West Pacific from the Seychelles, Japan, the East China Sea, the Philippines, Australia, New Caledonia, and Mozambique, between latitudes 39° N and 22° S, at depths of between 680 and 900 m. Its length is up to 60 cm.
Longhorn beetle The longhorn beetles or long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae) are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by their extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body. The family is large, with over 20,000 species described.
Longhorn cowfish The longhorn cowfish, a variety of Boxfish from the Ostraciidi family, recognisable by its long horns that protrude from the front of its head, rather like those of a cow or bull. They are usually around 10cm/4ins long.
Longhorn cricket club The Longhorn Cricket Club(LCC) is the only active Cricket club in the University of Texas at Austin. It was founded on 12th May, 2004 and has been growing stronger in terms of membership support and league successes ever since.
Longhorn Transformation Pack Longhorn Transformation Pack is a computer application written by "Mr. Windows X" that modifies several system files and settings in Microsoft Windows XP to make it appear like Windows Vista (formerly known as Codename: Longhorn).
Longhouse Religion The Longhouse Religion, also known as the Handsome Lake cult, or Gai'wiio (Good Message in Seneca) is a religious movement started by the Seneca Chief Handsome Lake (Ganioda'yo). Founded in 1799, it is the oldest active prophet movement in North America.
Longhua temple The Longhua Temple (, literally "Lustre of the Dragon Temple") is a Buddhist Temple dedicated to the Maitreya Buddha in Shanghai Municipality, China. Although most of the present-day buildings date from later reconstructions, the temple preserves the architectural design of a Song Dynasty monastery of the Buddhist Chan sect.
Longhunter A Longhunter (or long hunter) was an eighteenth century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier wilderness for as much as six months at a time. Hamilton asserts that "The Long Hunter was peculiar to Southwest Virginia only, and nowhere else on any frontier did such hunts ever originate"Emory L.
Longchen Nyingthig Longchen Nyingthig () is a systematic explanation of Dzogchen within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is generally classified as a Vajrayana or esoteric teaching, and has an extensive meditational and ritual practise associated with it.
Longchenpa Longchenpa or Longchen Rabjampa (1308 - 1364 possibly 1369) was a major teacher in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Along with Sakya Pandita and Je Tsongkhapa, he is commonly recognized as one of the three main manifestations of Manjushri to have taught in Central Tibet.
Longi (Bible) Longi was the Roman centurion who, according to the canonical Christian Gospels, thrust his lance into Jesus's right side while he was on the cross. Subirachs represents him on horseback and carrying his lance.
Longifolene Longifolene is the common (or trivial) chemical name of a naturally-occurring, oily liquid hydrocarbon found primarily in the high-boiling fraction of certain pine resins. The name is derived from that of a pine species from which the compound was isolated, Pinus longifolia (obsolete name for Pinus roxburghii Sarg.
Longines Longines is a watch company founded by Ernest Francillon at Saint-Imier, Switzerland. Its origins can be traced back to the 1830s and it currently holds the oldest registered logo for a watch company (a winged hourglass).
Longing Longing was to have been Dusty Springfield's second LP for the ABC Dunhill Records label, and ninth studio album overall, recorded in 1974 and planned for released the same year. Elements was the working title of the album but it was re-titled and advertised as Longing in the music press near the end of 1974, before the project was abandoned altogether (see original Elements album cover to the right).
Longing Was a Safe Place to Hide Longing Was a Safe Place to Hide is the second full-length album released by Melburnian band Love Outside Andromeda. Overall, it is significantly mellower than their self-titled debut, distancing itself from some of the more frantic songs.
Longinus (literature) Longinus (Λογγίνος) is a conventional name applied to a Greek teacher of rhetoric or a literary critic who may have lived in the first or third century AD. Longinus is known only for his treatise On the Sublime (Περὶ ὕψους), a work which focuses on the effect of good writing (Russell xlii).
Longisquama Longisquama ("long scales") was a lizard-like reptile of the early Triassic Period 240 million years ago, which lived in what is now Turkestan. Longisquama had a row of feather-like structures jutting from its back.
Longitude by chronometer Longitude by Chronometer, known by mariners as "Long by Chron", is an astronomical navigation method of calculating an observer's position on earth. The method gives the observer a position line on which the observer is situated.
Longitude of the ascending node The Longitude of the ascending node (☊, also noted Ω) is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. For a Sun-orbiting body, it is the angle formed at the Sun from the First Point of Aries to the body's ascending node, measured in the reference plane (the ecliptic) and in the direct sense.
Longitude of the periapsis In astrodynamics, the longitude of the periapsis (symbolized bar{omega},) of an orbiting body is the longitude (measured from the point of the vernal equinox) at which the periapsis (closest approach to the central body) would occur if the body's inclination were zero. The longitude of periapsis is a compound angle, with part of it being measured in the plane of reference and the rest being measured in the plane of the orbit.
Longitudes and Attitudes Longitudes and Attitudes is the third book by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Published in 2002, it consists of articles relating to 9/11 and a brief journal of Friedman's experience around that time.
Longitudinal engine In automotive engineering, a longitudinal engine, also sometimes known as a north-south engine, is an internal combustion engine in which the crankshaft is oriented along the long axis of the vehicle, front to back. Most rear wheel drive vehicles use this engine orientation, while most front wheel drive vehicles use a side-to-side transverse arrangement.
Longjaw cisco The longjaw cisco (Coregonus alpenae) was a deep water cisco or chub, usually caught at depths of 100 metres or more from Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Erie. Silver colored and growing to a maximum length of about 30 centimeters (12 inches) long, the extinction of longjaw cisco was a result of overfishing, pollution of the Great Lakes and the disruption of Great Lakes food chains after the introduction of the sea lamprey.
Longjaw mudsucker The longjaw mudsucker Gillichthys mirabilis is a goby (Gobiidae) of the Pacific Ocean coast of California and Baja California, noted for its extremely large mouth and ability to survive out of water for short periods.
Longjawed galaxias The longjawed galaxias, Galaxias prognathus, is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found only in rivers and streams at mid to high altitudes on the eastern side of the Southern Alps in the South Island of New Zealand. It grows to a length of up to 9 cm.
Longjing Longjing (), literally "Dragon Well", is a name applied to a number of locations and products from the southwestern region of the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, China. Most notably, the name refers to the titular Dragon Well itself, as well as the area encompassing the well and the longjing tea famously grown there.
Longjing tea Longjing tea () is a famous variety of green tea from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China where it is produced mostly by hand and has been renowned for its high quality. Longjing is divided into seven grades: Superior (qiqiang), Special (queshe), and then 1 down to 5.
Longkodo Longkodo (Chinese: 隆科多) (died 1728) was an eminent Chinese official at court from the Tonggiya Clan, belonging to the Bordered Yellow Banner, during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). His period of fame lasted from the late Kangxi to early Yongzheng years, perhaps most famous for delivering the Kangxi Emperor's disputed will.
Longkou Longkou (龙口市) is a port city in northeastern Shandong Province, on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Longkou, a county-level city, is administered by the prefecture-level city of Yantai.
Longleat Longleat is a country estate adjacent to the village of Horningsham and near the towns of Warminster in Wiltshire, England and Frome, Somerset, England. It is noted for its Elizabethan country house, maze, landscaped parkland and safari park.
Longleat Safari Park Longleat Safari Park, in Wiltshire, England was opened in 1966 and was the first drive-through safari park outside of Africa. The park is situated in the grounds of Longleat House, the home of the 7th Marquess of Bath and a tourist attraction in its own right.
Longlowong Regional Eisteddfod The Longlowong Regional Eisteddfod was established by local school teacher Beatrice Digby soon after she moved to the area in 1927. Beatrice considered the performing arts to be a vital component in childhood development.
Longman's Beaked Whale Longman’s Beaked Whale (Indopacetus pacificus), also known as the Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale and the Tropical Bottlenose Whale, was considered to be the world’s rarest cetacean until recently, but the Spade Toothed Whale now holds that position. The species has had a long history riddled with misidentifications, which are now mostly resolved.
Longmen, Zhejiang Longmen (Traditional Chinese: 龍門; Simplified Chinese: 龙门) is a township in western Zhejiang, around 20 km distant from the city of Fuyang. The town lies south of the Fuchun River, at the foothills of the Xianxia Range.
Longmeng Longmeng (Chinese for Dragon Dream) is a Chinese low-cost computer being designed to cost €100. The project is being developed by the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Longnose catshark The longnose catshark, Apristurus kampae, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the eastern central Pacific from central and southern California and the Gulf of California, between latitudes 38° N and 23° N, at depths down to 1,890. Its length is up to 58 cm.
Longnose houndshark The longnose houndshark, Iago garricki, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae found in the western Pacific off northern Australia and Vanuatu between latitudes 9° S and 26° S, at depths of between 250 and 475 m. Its length is up to 75 cm.
Longnose pygmy shark The longnose pygmy shark, Heteroscymnoides marleyi, is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, the only member of the genus Heteroscymnoides, found in the tropical southeast Atlantic and western Indian oceans, at depths down to 500 m. Its length is up to 29 cm.
Longnose sawshark The longnose sawshark, Pristiophorus cirratus, is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae, found in the eastern Indian Ocean around southern Australia on the continental shelf at depths of between 40 and 310 m. Its length is up to 1.
Longnose sucker The longnose sucker, Catostomus catostomus, is a freshwater species of fish inhabiting cold, clear waters in North America from northern USA to the top of the continent. In addition, it is the only species of sucker to inhabit Asia, specifically the rivers of eastern Siberia.
Longnose velvet dogfish The longnose velvet dogfish, Centroscymnus crepidater, is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found circumglobally in southern hemisphere subtropical seas, at depths of between 230 and 1,500 m. It reaches a length of 130 cm.
Longomontanus (crater) Longomontanus is an ancient lunar impact crater located in the rugged southern highlands to the southwest of Tycho crater. It is of the variety of large lunar formations sometimes called a "walled plain", although it is actually more of a circular depression in the surface.
Longos, Greece Longos (Greek: Λόγγος), older and uncommon form Loggos is a village located in the municipality of Sympoliteia in the northeastern part of the prefecture of Achaia in the Peloponnese. The village is connected about 1 km north of the old road of GR-8 linking Patras and Corinth along with Aigio while the superhighway is to the south.
Longplayer Longplayer is a piece of music that is designed to last for one thousand years. It started to play on the 1st January 2000 and if all goes to plan will continue without repetition until 31st December 2999, at which point it will restart at the beginning.
Longport railway station Longport railway station is a station serving the areas of Longport, Middleport and Burslem, all districts in the northern part of Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. Passenger services to Longport are provided by Central Trains, and additionally in the peak hours by Northern Rail.
Longquan celadon Longquan celadon (龙泉青瓷) is a celadon-glazed porcelain made at Longquan and neighbouring counties in the province of Zhejiang, China. The first making of Celadon in Longquan begins in the Jin Dynasty (265-376 A.
Longrayed whiptail The longrayed whiptail or four rayed rattail, Coryphaenoides subserrulatus, is a rattail of the genus Coryphaenoides, found circumpolar in all southern oceans, at depths of between 550 and 1,200 m. Its length is between 20 to 37 cm.
Longreach, Queensland Longreach is a town located in central western Queensland, Australia and is approximately 700 kilometres from the coast, west of Rockhampton. The town is named after the 'long reach' of the Thomson River on which it is situated and was gazetted a town in 1887.
Longridge Scout Boating Centre Longridge Scout Boating Centre is a campsite and water activities site on the River Thames near Marlow. It was once owned by the Scout Association however is now independent, it concentrates on water activities such as Bell Boating, Dragon boat, Canoeing, Rowing, Sailing, Kayaking and Powerboating.
Longs Island Longs Island is an island on the North Branch Potomac River nearly one mile long and contains the Long family farm, and is known for the corn it produces from the rich river silt laden soil. Longs Island lies in Allegany County Maryland, but is only accessible from Mineral County, West Virginia near Keyser.
Longship Longships were ships primarily used by the Scandinavian Vikings and the Saxons to raid coastal and inland settlements during the European Middle Ages. They are often called "longboats," but "longship" is more accurate.
Longspine snipefish The longspine snipefish, bellowfish, common bellowsfish, snipe-fish, snipefish, spine trumpet fish, or trumpetfish, Macroramphosus scolopax, is a snipefish of the genus Macroramphosus, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and west Pacific Oceans, at depths of between 25 and 600 metres. Its length is up to 20 cm.
Longstone GAC Longstone GAC is a gaelic football club in South Down, Northern Ireland. In recent times Longstone claimed the runner-up spot in the Senior Football League (ACFL Div 1), which is the top-flight division in the county.
Longstreet (television movie) Longstreet was the title of a television movie that served as the pilot for Longstreet (TV series) (1971-1972). It starred James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans who loses his sight and his wife in an explosion and is determined to track down his wife's killers.
Longstreet (TV series) Longstreet was a television series starring James Franciscus as insurance investigator Mike Longstreet. After a bomb (hidden in a champagne bottle) kills his wife, Ingrid, and leaves him blind, the title character pursues and captures the killers.
Longstreet Hotel, Casino, and RV Resort The Longstreet Hotel, Casino, and RV Resort is located on Nevada State Route 373, in Amargosa Valley, Nevada, seven miles north of Death Valley Junction. The resort has a nine-hole golf course, 60 rooms, an RV park with 50 spaces, as well as a casino, a bar and two restaurants.
Longtail The word longtail is a euphemism used on the Isle of Man to describe a rat, as a relatively modern superstition has arisen that it is considered bad luck to mention this word. The origins of this superstition date to sea-taboos, where certain words and practices were not allowed to be mentioned aboard ship, for fear of attracting bad luck (or worse, bad weather).
Longtail skate The longtail skate, Arhynchobatis asperrimus is a skate, the only member of the genus Arhynchobatis, found around New Zealand at depths of from 90 to 1,000 m on the continental shelf. Its length is from 30 to 75 cm.
Longtail stingray The longtail stingray, Dasyatis longa, is a stingray of the family Dasyatidae found on sandy-bottomed rocky and coral reefs in the eastern Pacific from southern Gulf of California to Colombia and the Galapagos Islands. Its length is up to 2.
Longtime Companion Longtime Companion is a 1990 film with Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott and Mary-Louise Parker. The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the words The New York Times and other newspapers used to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS.
Longue durée The longue durée is a term used by the French Annales School of historical writing to designate their approach to the study of history, which gave priority to long-term historical structures over events. The approach incorporates social scientific methods into history and was pioneered by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in the first half of the 20th century.
Longueuil Chevaliers The Longueuil Chevaliers ("Cavaliers") were a team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, playing in Longueuil, Quebec at Colisée Jean Béliveau. They were founded in 1982 and set a record for the most successful season ever by an expansion franchise, going 37-29-4 under the coaching of Jacques Lemaire.
Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke (Montreal Metro) Longueuil—Université-de-Sherbrooke is a station at the southern terminus of the Yellow Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only station of the metro located in the city of Longueuil.
Longueville, New South Wales Longueville is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and is part of the Lane Cove area. One of the most beautiful and most expensive localities of Lower Northern Sydney (Sydney Lower North Shore), Longueville is located approximately 8 km north-west of Sydney City and lies on the Lane Cove River.
Longview (song) "Longview" is the first major-label single released by pop-punk band Green Day, from their hit 1994 album, Dookie. The music video for this song received intense airplay on MTV, which is largely credited for breaking Green Day into mainstream popularity.
Longview Economic Development Corporation The Longview Economic Development Corporation is one of Texas’ major economic development groups and manages the economic development program for the city of Longview, Texas. The Corporation’s professional staff leads a coordinated marketing program with the assistance of many partners throughout the region and is able to provide timely and accurate information to companies planning to expand in Longview.
Longview–Marshall metropolitan area The Longview–Marshall metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in Northeast Texas. As a metropolitan statistical area or MSA, it was defined as Gregg, Harrison, and Upshur counties, although in local usage it frequently includes Marion and northern Rusk counties.
Longwall mining Longwall mining is form of underground coal mining where a long wall (about 250-400 m long typically) of coal is mined in a single slice (typically 1-2 m thick). The longwall "panel" (the block of coal that is being mined) is typically 3-4 km long and 250-400 m wide.
Longwall Street Longwall Street is a street in central Oxford, England. It runs along the western flank of Magdalen College, separated by an imposing and high 15th century stone wall for the length of the street, behind which is the deer park in the college.
Longwan District Longwan District (simplified Chinese: 龙湾区; pinyin: Lóngwān Qū) is a district of Wenzhou city, Zhejiang province, China. It has an urban population of some 300,000 people and an area of some 279 square kilometers.
Longwave radio mast Hellissandur The Longwave radio mast Hellissandur (also called Gufuskálar ) is a 412 metre high guyed radio mast for longwave transmissions in the vicinity of Hellissandur on the peninsula Snæfellsnes of Iceland at 64°54'24″N, 23°55'18″W,(). This mast, which is the tallest structure in Western Europe, is insulated against ground and guyed in 5 levels by steel ropes, which are subdivided by insulators.
Longwave transmitter Erching The longwave transmitter Erching was a longwave broadcasting facility of the Voice of America, established in 1953 near Erching, Bavaria, Germany. This transmitter, which used a 256 metre high guyed-steel-framework mast aerial, was at the time of its inaugauration the most powerful radio station in the world, with a transmitting power of 1000 kilowatts
Longwave transmitter Europe 1 The Longwave transmitter Europe 1 is the oldest privately owned radio station in Germany, situated at Felsberg-Berus, Germany. It graces its existence to the special state of the Saar territory in the fifties: self-governed, but economically linked to France.
Longwave transmitter Ingoy The Longwave transmitter Ingoy is a longwave transmitter of the Norway broadcasting company for the frequency 153 kHz with a power of 100 kilowatts. The location is Måsøy, Finnmark, Norway and it went in service in 2000 and uses as aerial a 362 metre guyed steel framework mast.
Longwave transmitter Orlunda The Longwave transmitter Orlunda was a broadcast transmission facility for longwave at Orlunda, Sweden near Motala, which was established in 1962. It used as aerial an arrangement of 6 guyed steel framework masts, which were insulated against ground.
Longwave-transmitter Solec Kujawski The Longwave transmitter Solec Kujawski is the new longwave broadcasting facility of the Polish broadcasting company for the 225 kHz frequency. Its construction was necessary after the collapse of the Warsaw radio mast on August 8, 1991 and the resistance of the local population to its reconstruction.
Longwell Green Pre-School Longwell Green Pre-School offers care and education for all children aged 3 and 4 in a well established community based group in the Bristol suburb of Longwell Green. It was formed in the 1970's and classes are held in Longwell Green Community Centre every weekday morning and some afternoon sessions.

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