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Longwood Central School District Longwood Central School District covers 53 square miles (137 km2) in central Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, New York, United States, and serves the communities of Ridge, Middle Island, Coram, Yaphank, and parts of Shoreham, Shirley, Medford, Miller Place, Mount Sinai, and Upton (Brookhaven National Laboratory). During the 2005-2006 school year, there were 9,518 students enrolled and 836 teachers employed at Longwood CSD.
Longwood Medical and Academic Area Longwood Medical and Academic Area (also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or just Longwood) is a section of Boston with a high density of hospitals, colleges, and biomedical research centers. LMA straddles the Fenway-Kenmore and Mission Hill neighborhoods and is centered on Longwood Avenue as it runs between Huntington Avenue and Brookline Avenue.
Longworth family The Longworth family is most closely associated with Cincinnati, Ohio, and was one of Cincinnati's more well-known families during the 19th and 20th centuries. The founder of the Ohio family, Nicholas Longworth (16 January 1783 - 10 February 1863), came to Cincinnati from Newark, New Jersey sometime before 1808.
Longworth House Office Building The Longworth House Office Building (LHOB) is one of three office buildings used by the United States House of Representatives. The building was named in 1962 in honor of the former Speaker of the House, Nicholas Longworth of Ohio.
Longxing Monastery The Longxing Monastery () is an ancient Buddhist monastery located near the town of Zhengding in Hebei Province, China, approximately 15 kilometers north of the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang. It has been referred to as the "First Temple south of Beijing".
Longy School of Music The Longy School of Music is a conservatory located in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1915 by Georges Longy, a French-born oboist who joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1898.
Longyearbyen Longyearbyen is the largest settlement in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway and also its capital. It has approximately 1,800 inhabitants, most of them Norwegians and some Russians and is located on Svalbard's largest island, Spitsbergen.
Longzhong Plan The Longzhong Plan (隆ä¸ĺ°Ť) is the name given to a strategic plan given by the famed third century Chinese tactician and administrator Zhuge Liang. It formed the basis for the grand plan of the warlord Liu Bei and later the Three Kingdoms state of Shu.
Lonhro Lonhro is an Australian thoroughbred racehorse who raced between 2000 and 2004. Nicknamed "The Black Flash", he was foaled in 1998, bearing a close resemblance to his sire, the brilliant racehorse Octagonal.
Lonchocarpus utilis Cubé or Lancepod (Lonchocarpus utilis) is part of the Fabaceae (or Leguminosae) family. It is native to the tropical forests of Peru, as well as of Brazil and Guyana, growing from 100-1,800 meters above sea level.
Lonchura The Munias, Mannikins and Silverbills are small passerine birds in the genus Lonchura of the estrildid finch family. They are resident breeding birds in the Old World tropics, with most variety in southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to the Indonesia and the Philippines.
Loni Anderson Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Jennifer Marlowe" on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and as a former wife of Burt Reynolds (from 1988 to 1993). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter, well-publicized debacle.
Loni Hancock Loni Hancock served as mayor of Berkeley, California from 1986 to 1994, and is currently representing California State Assembly District 14. The 14th Assembly District includes Albany, Berkeley, Canyon, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Kensington, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda Pleasant Hill, Richmond, San Pablo and parts of Martinez, Oakland, and Walnut Creek.
Lonicera fly The Lonicera fly, a taxon in the genus Rhagoletis, is a North American fruit fly (family Tephritidae). Its larvae feed on the berries of species of honeysuckle (Lonicera) that have been introduced to America within the last 250 years.
Loningisa Loningisa was a studio and record label based out of Kinshasa in the country formerly known as Zaire (now DR Congo). Loningisa was made famous by the emergence the African Jazz/pop band OK Jazz, whose music became extremely popular and influential upon African and Congolese music.
Lonja de la Seda The Lonja de la Seda (English: Silk Exchange) in Valencia, or simply La Lonja to the locals (also La Llotja on street signs), is one of the principal tourist attractions in the city and a World Heritage Site. Currently the seat of the Cultural Academy of Valencia, the building frequently hosts exhibitions.
Lonne Elder III Lonne Elder III (born December 26 1927 – died June 11 1996) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. In 1973, he along with Suzanne De Passe became the first African Americans to be nominated for the Academy Award for writing.
Lonnie Donegan Lonnie Donegan MBE (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002) was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name. He is sometimes called the King of Skiffle and is often cited as a large influence on the generation of British musicians who became famous in the 1960s.
Lonnie Frisbee Lonnie Frisbee (1949, Costa Mesa, California - March 12, 1993) was an American "hippie" Pentecostal evangelist in the late 1960s and 1970s. He worked in conjunction with Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel movement and he was the key figure in the Jesus Movement.
Lonnie Gordon Lonnie Gordon is a female House, Hi-NRG and soul music singer from New York's Bronx, who had several entries on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the nineties, including three that hit #1. She also had a major UK pop hit with the Stock, Aitken & Waterman produced song, "Happenin' All Over Again", which reached #4 in the main singles chart in 1990.
Lonnie Holley Lonnie Bradley Holley, sometimes known as The Sand Man (Born February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama), is an African American artist and art educator. He was born the 7th of 27 children, and spent part of his childhood at the Industrial School for Negro Children in Mount Meigs, Alabama before running away to Louisiana where he started working as a short-order cook.
Lonnie Johnson Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1894 – June 6, 1970) was a pioneering blues and jazz singer/guitarist born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. There is some dispute over the year of his birth, but 1894 is what appears on his passport.
Lonnie Johnson (inventor) Lonnie Johnson is best known as the inventor of the SuperSoaker® water gun. The top selling toy in the United States in 1991 and 1992, over 40 million SuperSoakers® have generated over $200 million in sales since 1990.
Lonnie Jordan Leroy "Lonnie" Jordan (born November 21, 1948 in San Diego, California) was a founding member of War, an American funk band in the 1970s and 1980s. Jordan had a number of roles over the years, acting as vocalist and playing guitar, piano, synthesizer, and percussion.
Lonnie Latham The Reverend Dr. Lonnie Latham (born January 7, 1946) served as the senior pastor of South Tulsa Baptist Church, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a post he held from 2002 to January 6, 2006, when he resigned from that position as well as from the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, (where he served as one of four such members from Oklahoma), and as the recording secretary of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.
Lonnie McLucas Lonnie McLucas was a Black Panther Party member in Bridgeport, Connecticut who was found guilty of the May 21, 1969 murder of New York Panther Alex Rackley, in the first of the New Haven Black Panther trials in 1970. Rackley had been held and tortured at New Haven, Connecticut Panther headquarters for two days, under suspicion of being an informant for the FBI's COINTELPRO program.
Lonnie Sheldon Lonnie Jewel Sheldon (born October 19, 1955 in Bakersfield, California) is a former NBA player who played from 1976-1985. He played college basketball for Oregon State University, and was selected by the New York Knicks in the second round of the 1976 NBA Draft.
Lonnie Shelton Lonnie Jewel Shelton (born October 19 1955 in Bakersfield, California) is a former NBA player who played from 1976-1985. He played college basketball for Oregon State University, and was selected by the New York Knicks in the second round of the 1976 NBA Draft.
Lonny Bohonos Lonny Bohonos (born May 20, 1973, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a professional ice hockey Right Wing. He played in the NHL from 1995-1999 with the Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs, and currently plays in the Deutsche Eishockey-Liga in Germany with the Mannheim Eagles.
Lonny Frey Linus Reinhard (Lonny) Frey (born August 23, 1910 in Saint Louis, Missouri) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1933-1936), Chicago Cubs (1937, 1947), Cincinnati Reds (1938-1943, 1946), New York Yankees (1947-1948) and New York Giants (1948). Frey began his career as a switch hitter and continued to bat from both sides of the plate until the end of 1938.
Lonny Ross Lonny Ross is an American television actor who is best known for his recurring role as comedic actor Josh Girard on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. He appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on January 10, 2007 to speak about his role on the show and his past experience as an intern for Conan.
Lonomia The genus Lonomia is a moderate-sized group of fairly cryptic saturniid moths from South America, famous not for the adults, but for their amazingly venomous caterpillars, which are responsible for a few deaths each year, especially in southern Brazil, and the subject of hundreds of published medical studies.
Lonquimay Lonquimay is the terminus of a broad gauge railway in Chile, which is often, still today, cited as the most practical railroad route over the Andes to Argentina. The line includes Las RaĂces tunnel, 4,563Â m, Chile's longest, but has not yet been extended beyond Lonquimay.
Lonsdale (car) Lonsdale was a marque of car sold in the United Kingdom by Mitsubishi Motors between 1982 and 1983, and took its name from the industrial suburb of Lonsdale in Adelaide where it was built. The only car sold under this brand was the Lonsdale, a badge engineered Mitsubishi Sigma.
Lonsdale Cup The Lonsdale Cup is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 7 furlongs and 198 yards (3,199 metres) at York Racecourse during the Ebor Festival meeting in August.
Lonsdale Quay Lonsdale Quay is a major transit hub for Vancouver's North Shore municipalities, as well as a public market and tourist destination. Located at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue in the City of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, it is the northern terminal for the SeaBus passenger ferry.
Lonsdale Sports Arena Lonsdale Sports Arena was a high-banked 1/3 mile high-banked paved oval located two miles north of Pawtucket, Rhode Island on Mendon Road in Cumberland, Rhode Island, on the banks of the Blackstone River. The track operated from 1947 to 1956.
Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Lonsdale Street is located in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid, it runs roughly east-west. Lonsdale Street's eastern end intersects with Spring Street while its western end intersects with Spencer Street.
Lonsdale, South Australia Lonsdale is an industrial suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It has the postcode of 5160 and borders Hallett Cove to the north, Reynella and Morphett Vale to the east, Christie Downs to the south and both Christies Beach and O'Sullivan Beach to the west.
Lonsdaleite Lonsdaleite is a hexagonal allotrope of the carbon allotrope diamond, believed to form when meteoric graphite falls to Earth. The great heat and stress of the impact transforms the graphite into diamond, but retains graphite's hexagonal crystal lattice.
Lontar Foundation The Lontar Foundation, a not-for-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia, was founded in 1987 by four Indonesian writers: Goenawan Mohamad, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Umar Kayam, and Subagio Sastrowardoyo and the American translator, John H. McGlynn.
LonTalk LonTalk is a protocol optimized for control created by Echelon Corporation for networking devices over media such as twisted pair, powerlines, fiber optics, and RF. It is popular for the automation of various functions in industrial control, home automation, transportation, and buildings systems such as lighting and HVAC; see Intelligent building.
LonWorks LonWorks is a networking platform specifically created to address the unique performance, reliability, installation, and maintenance needs of control applications. The platform is built on a low bandwidth protocol created by Echelon Corporation for networking devices over media such as twisted pair, powerlines, fiber optics, and RF.
Loo (comics) Loo is a character created in DC Comics by Keith Giffen who was first (And to date, only) seen in the Lobo miniseries Lobo's Back. After having killed several other bounty hunters (for getting in his way it seems) he set out to kill Lobo in order to get a reputation as the greatest bounty hunter in the universe.
Looe Looe (Cornish: Logh) is a coastal town in the Caradon district of south-east Cornwall, England, UK, with a population of 5280 (2001 census). It lies around 20 miles west of the city of Plymouth and 7 miles south of Liskeard.
Looe Island Looe Island, also known as St George's Island, is a small island a mile from the mainland town of Looe in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Until recently it was owned (and inhabited) by two sisters, Babs and Evelyn Atkins, who have made a gift of the island to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust in perpetuity.
Look (American magazine) Look was a weekly, general-interest magazine published in the United States from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles. A large-size magazine of 11 by 14 inches, it was generally considered the also-ran to Life magazine.
Look 3X Look 3x is the ninth album by MC Hammer, released 2006 by MC Hammer’s own label, FullBlast Digital Music Group. The album contains singles such as, "Look 3x" (Produced by Scott Storch) and "Get 2 No U" (featuring J.
Look and feel The look and feel of a graphical user interface comprises aspects of its design, including elements such as colors, shapes, layout, and typefaces. (the "look"), as well as the behavior of dynamic elements such as buttons, boxes, and menus (the "feel").
Look and Read Look and Read is a BBC television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving children's literacy skills. The programme presents fictional stories in a serial format, the first of which was broadcast in 1967 and the most recent in 2004 making it the longest running nationally broadcast programme for schools in the UK.
Look and Tremble Look and Tremble, sometimes Look and Tremble Shoals or Look and Tremble Falls is a shoal or rapids and swimming hole on the Chipola River in the United States state of Florida. It lies south of the 274 crossing of the Chipola west of Altha in Calhoun County.
Look at Life(series) Look at Life was a weekly series of short documentary films produced in the sixties by the Rank Organisation for showing in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. It replaced the circuit’s newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly television.
Look at Me I'm Three Look at Me I'm Three is the 10th episode in season 2 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
Look at the Princess Part I: A Kiss is But a Kiss "Look at the Princess Part I: A Kiss is But a Kiss" is an episode from the second season of the American television series Farscape, written by David Kemper and directed by Andrew Prowse and Tony Tilse.
Look at the Princess Part II: I Do, I Think "Look at the Princess Part II: A Kiss is But a Kiss" is an episode from the second season of the American television series Farscape, written by David Kemper and directed by Andrew Prowse and Tony Tilse.
Look at the Princess Part III: The Maltese Crichton "Look at the Princess Part III: The Maltese Crichton" is an episode from the second season of the American television series Farscape, written by David Kemper and directed by Andrew Prowse and Tony Tilse.
Look Around (Anthony Rapp album) Look Around is the first full-length album by American actor/singer Anthony Rapp, known as a singer for his performance as Mark Cohen in the musical Rent and the film adaptation of the musical. It was released on October 1, 2000.
Look Around (Sergio Mendes album) Look Around is a successful 1968 LP by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, with vocalists Lani Hall and Janis Hansen. Mendes really burst into mainstream prominence when they performed the Oscar nominated Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "The Look of Love" on the Academy Awards telecast in March 1968.
Look Around You Look Around You is a BBC television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert. The first series of eight 10-minute shorts was shown in 2002, and the second series of six 30-minute episodes in 2005.
Look Back in Anger Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her snooty best friend (Helena Charles). Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
Look Both Ways Look Both Ways is an Australian independent movie, written and directed by Sarah Watt, starring an ensemble cast, which was released on August 18 2005. The film was supported by the Adelaide Film Festival fund and opened the 2005 festival.
Look Forward to Failure Look Forward to Failure was an EP released on November 10, 1998 by The Ataris on Fat Wreck Chords. This was the first album released to feature the fan favorite "San Dimas High School Football Rules".
Look Into My Eyes (Benzino song) "Look Into My Eyes" is a 2005 single off the album Arch Nemesis and a response to Eminem's Like Toy Soldiers. In the song it shows Eminem calling Jimmy Iovine, telling him he wants to quit, after his friend Proof is killed by Benzino.
Look Mexico Look Mexico is a four-piece indie-rock band from Tallahassee, FL on Lujo Records, an independent record label based in Washington, DC known for releasing mostly indie rock and twee pop bands such as Dark Romantics, Drugstore Cowboys, and COHO. They generally tour with their good friends Baby Calendar, Fake Problems and Band Marino.
Look Now Look Now was a single by Smog accompanying the release of his 1999-album Knock Knock. Both songs - Look Now and The Only Mother - can be found as b-sides on the first Knock Knock-single Held and as bonus tracks on the Japanese version of the album.
Look of Love - The Very Best of ABC Look of Love - The Very Best of ABC was released in 2001. Although essentially a reissue of greatest hits package Absolutely (ABC Album) (which was released in 1990), the album featured two new songs by Fry titled "Peace and Tranquility" and "Blame".
Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango) "Look on the Floor" is a pop–dance song written by Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward, David Clewett, and Ivar Lisinski for Bananarama's album Drama (2005). The song was produced by Mute 8 and received a mixed reception from music critics.
Look to the Lady Look to the Lady is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published January 1931, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds Publishing, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, New York as The Gyrth Chalice Mystery. It is the third novel featuring the mysterious Albert Campion, accompanied once more by his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg.
Look Through Any Window "Look Through Any Window" was the first American top-40 hit for the British Invasion band The Hollies, peaking at #32 in January 1966. Written by professional songwriter Graham Gouldman, its distinctive 12-string riff, along with soaring harmonies and Bobby Elliott's explosive drumming, make it one of the Hollies' and the British Invasion's finest moments.
Look Who's Talking Now Look Who's Talking Now is the third and final film in the trilogy that began with Look Who's Talking in 1989. Released in 1993, the film finds John Travolta and Kirstie Alley reprising their roles as James and Molly Ubriacco, respectively.
Look Who's Talking Too Look Who's Talking Too is the 1990 sequel to the commercially successful movie Look Who's Talking (1989). It stars Kirstie Alley and John Travolta as the parents of Mikey (voiced by Bruce Willis), a toddler coping with the newest addition to the family, baby Julie (voiced by Roseanne Barr).
Look's Music International Look's Music International is an independent record label based in Boise, Idaho which is owned and operated by musician and composer Pete Holly. It also runs Lofty Heights Recording Studio and Look's Music Publishing, B.
Look-ahead (backtracking) In backtracking algorithms, look ahead is the generic term for a subprocedure that attempts to foresee the effects of choosing a branching variable to evaluate or one of its values. The two main aims of look-ahead are to choose a variable to evaluate next and the order of values to assign to it.
Look-alike A look-alike is a living person who closely resembles another living person. In popular Western culture, a look-alike is a person who bears a close physical resemblance to a celebrity, politician or member of royalty.
Look-Aside Interface The Look-Aside Interface is a computer interface that was specified by an interface interoperability agreement produced by the Network Processing Forum. It specifies the method to interface a Network Processing Element (of which a NPU is an example) to a Network Search Element (of which a CAM is an example).
Look-down/shoot-down Look-down/shoot-down is a capability a radar system is said to possess if it is able to detect, track and lock a target moving below the horizon as seen by the radar. Look-down/shoot-down capability is an essential feature of modern airborne military radar systems.
Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman is a documentary film from executive producers Bryan Singer and Kevin Burns which details the history of the Superman franchise, from comic book, to television, to the big screen.
Lookin' Through the Windows Lookin' Through the Windows was a 1972 soul album released by The Jackson 5 on the Motown label. At this point, the group members, including thirteen-year-old lead singer Michael Jackson, were growing up, and no longer felt comfortable singing the same bubblegum pop records that had made them teen idols.
Looking Backward Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts, and was first published in 1888. It was written in reaction to the disillusionment with an increasingly competitive and industrial society.
Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906 Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906 is a black and white photograph taken by Arnold Genthe in San Francisco, California on the morning of April 18, 1906 in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Looking for Alibrandi Looking For Alibrandi is an internationally acclaimed novel and feature film, written by Melina Marchetta and published in October 1992. The novel and film is set in the 1990s, starring Australian talent, including Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, the film's main character, Anthony LaPaglia as her father, Michael Andretti, who left her and her mother before her birth, and Kick Gurry as Josie’s love interest, Jacob Coote.
Looking for Richard Looking for Richard is a 1996 documentary directed by and starring Al Pacino, both a staging of William Shakespeare's Richard III and a broader examination of Shakespeare's continuing role and relevance in popular culture.
Looking for You Looking For You is a hit gospel song by the world's best-selling gospel artist, Kirk Franklin. With its fresh '70s style funky vibe, the song reached #5 on the Hip-Hip&R&B charts and #61 on the Billboard 100.
Looking For Alibrandi (novel) Looking for Alibrandi is a popular, commercially successful novel written by Australian author Melina Marchetta. The novel has been particularlary successful within Australia, where it is widely studied in high schools at a senior level.
Looking For Group (Comic) On November, 6 2006 Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza launched a new webcomic called Looking For Group (Comic)]. The Comic follows Cale'Anon (an elven archer) on his quest to save the world and Richard, (an undead warlock), whose quest is to have fun killing things.
Looking For Stars Looking For Stars (ćźé”) is one rare MediaCorp (Media Corporation of Singapore)-produced drama serial that starred celebrity couple Fann Wong and Christopher Lee. It tells the story of two star-crossed lovers who have to live with each other's quirks, idiosyncrasies and foibles after a one-night stand in Tokyo.
Looking glass self Created by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902 (McIntyre), the Looking-Glass Self is a sociological concept that has three major components and is unique to humans (Shaffer). According to Lisa McIntyre’s The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology, in the Looking-Glass Self a person views him or her self through others perceptions in society and in turn gains identity.
Looking Glass Falls Looking Glass Falls is a waterfall in Western North Carolina, located near Brevard. The name comes from Looking Glass Rock, which becomes a wintertime mirror (or "looking glass") of sunlight, as water freezes on its sides and reflects the sun.
Looking Glass Servers Looking Glass servers are computers on the Internet running one of a variety of publicly available Looking Glass software implementations. A Looking Glass server (or lg server) is accessed remotely for the purpose of viewing routing info.
Looking Glass Workshop The Looking Glass Workshop is an Indie/Underground music label and art collective created by Justin Emerle. As a label, the Looking Glass Workshop has put out many underground acts, mainly in the Philadelphia area, including the Echo Orbiter.
Looking On Looking On is the third album by The Move, their first to feature Jeff Lynne, their first containing entirely original compositions, and the first album on the Fly label, its catalogue nuimber being FLY 1. It includes both their 1970 singles, the Top 10 hit â€Brontosaurus’ and the less successful â€When Alice Comes Back To The Farm’.
Lookit Lookit is a humor graphic novel and webcomic written and drawn by Ray Friesen. The book features many different characters and stories, chiefly Mellville the Penguin and his cohorts, Tbyrd Fearlessness, Captain Cautious and the PiratesWeBe
Lookout Mountain Lookout Mountain, actually a plateau, is located at the northwest corner of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the southern border of Tennessee near Chattanooga. It is one of the southernmost ridge mountains of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians.
Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area Lookout Pass is a ski area in northern Idaho on the Montana border, 4 miles (7 km) east of Mullan on Interstate 90. It has a summit elevation of 5650 feet (1722 m) on Runt Mountain with a vertical drop of 1150 feet (350 m) on the northeast-facing slopes.
Lookout Studio Lookout Studio is a stone building located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, within Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. It is part of the Grand Canyon Village Historic District, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
Looksky (computer worm) Looksky is a mass-mailing computer worm that will, once a computer has been infected, send itself by e-mail using the system's contact list, using the title "Your account has been suspended". It will also lower the security settings on the infected computer.
LookSmart LookSmart owns an internet directory, Wisenut search engine, Furl social bookmarking website, experimental Grub distributed web-crawling project, FindArticles premium content search and NetNanny desktop parental controls software.
Lookup In computing, lookup usually refers to searching the internal and specially crafted database for an item that satisfies some specified property. For example, variable lookup performed by a (scripting) language interpreter, virtual machine or other similar engine usually consists of performing certain actions to dynamically find correspondence between variable identifier and actual variable internal representation, usually involving symbol table lookup.
Lookup table In computer science, a lookup table is a data structure, usually an array or associative array, used to replace a runtime computation with a simpler lookup operation. The speed gain can be significant, since retrieving a value from memory is often faster than undergoing an expensive computation.
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