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Lambton—Kent—Middlesex Lambton—Kent—Middlesex (formerly known as Middlesex—Kent—Lambton) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Lambung Mangkurat University Lambung Mangkurat University (Indonesian: Universitas Lambung Mangkurat, often abbreviated as Unlam) is a public university in Banjarmasin and Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, established on September 1, 1958. Its current rector is Ir.
Lambya The Lambya are an ethnic and linguistic group based along the border of northwestern Malawi and southwestern Tanzania. In 2001 the Lambya population was estimated to number 85,000, including 45,000 in Malawi and 40,000 (from a 1987 estimate) in Tanzania groups in Malawi]
Lamden Lamden is a late Hebrew expression for a man who is well informed in rabbinical literature, although not a scholar in the technical sense of the term ("talmid hakham"); it does not seem to have been used before the 18th century. Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen (1670-1749) decided that rabbinical scholars were exempt from paying taxes even though scholars then were not scholars in the proper sense of the word, "for the law does not make a difference between lamdan and lamdan" (Resp.
Lame (album) Lame is a 7" vinyl single by the San Diego, California punk rock band Unwritten Law, released in 1996 by Epic Records. It was a promotional release for the band's upcoming album Oz Factor and is currently out of print.
Lame Brain Pete Lame Brain Pete is a post-punk noise-rock band, consisting of Jennifer Schmidt, Caroline Leist, Matthias “Macer” Seibert (who is a member of Mental Tearing After 9 as well), and Daniel Schmidt. Their earliest performances were dadaist-inspired performance art.
Lame duck (game design) A lame duck, in the context of a game, is a player who remains in the game but has no chance of winning. It must be literally impossible— not merely highly improbable — for a player to win for it to constitute a lame-duck scenario.
Lame Gig Contest Lame Gig Contest was Crimpshrine's first album that was turned down by Lookout Records, but was released in Germany. All of the songs(same recordings) made it onto Duct Tape Soup and Sound of a New World being born, eccept for Concrete Lawns and New Scenery.
Lame White Man Lame White Man, or Ve'ho'enohnenehe, was a Southern Cheyenne battle chief who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876 and was killed there. He was also known as Bearded Man (to the Lakota) and Mad Hearted Wolf ("Hahk o ni").
Lameco Eskrima Lameco Eskrima is the system of Filipino martial arts founded by the late Edgar Sulite based on his training and experience with various Philippine Martial Arts masters, with heavy influence from Jose Caballero and Antonio Ilustrisimo.
Lamech Lamech (Hebrew: לֶמֶך-Lemech) is the name of two men in the genealogies of Adam in the book of Genesis. One is the sixth generation descendant of Cain (Genesis 4:18); his father was named Methusael and he was responsible for the "Song of the Sword.
Lamella (materials) A lamella is a gill-shaped structure: fine sheets of material held adjacent one another, with fluid in-between-(or simply 'welded'-plates). They appear in biological and engineering contexts, such as filters and heat exchangers.
Lamella (mycology) A gill, or lamella, is one of the papery ribs under the cap of a mushroom, most often but not always an agaric. As fungi are studied in more detail, several other types of fungi exhibit gills while not members of the Agaricales.
Lamella (zoology) A lamella is a thin plate-like structure, often one amonst many lamellae very close to one another, with open space between. Aside from respiratory organs, they appear in other biological roles including filter feeding, the traction surfaces of geckos, and chloroplast membranes where high permeability is important.
Lamellaphone Lamellaphone (also called "Lamellophone") describes any of a family of musical instruments. The name comes from the Latin root "lamella" for "plate", and the Greek root "phone" for "sound".
Lamellar armour Lamellar armour is a kind of personal armour consisting of small rectangular plates (lames) which are laced together in parallel rows. Lamellar armour evolved from scale armour, from which it differs by not needing a backing for the scales.
Lamellar structure Lamellar structures or microstructures are composed of fine, alternating layers of different materials in the form of lamellae. They are often observed in cases where a phase transformation front moves quickly, leaving behind two solid products, as in rapid cooling of eutectic (such as solder) or eutectoid (such as pearlite) systems.
Lamellar Tearing Lamellar tearing is a type of defect that can occur below a welded joint at points of high stress concentration. The Welding Institute states that tearing is only encountered in rolled steel plate, but not forgings and castings.
Lamen (magic) Lamen is a general term for a magical pendant worn round the neck so that it hangs upon the breast over the heart. It is also referred to as an amulet usually with the sign or symbols and names of a specific spirit, angel, or god.
Lament (song) "Lament" is the name of a song by British band, The Cure. There are two distinct versions of the song, one called "Lament (Flexipop)" from a single featured in a music magazine and "LaMent" from the compilation album, Japanese Whispers.
Lament For The Numb "Lament For The Numb" is a 1993 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn and a one-off group known as The Stone People. The Stone People consisted of Dobbyn himself on the guitar, piano and as the lead vocalist, album producer Mitchell Froom on the keyboard, Bruce Thomas on the bass guitar and Pete Thomas on the drums and as the percussionist.
Lamentations Rabbah The Midrash on Lamentations, like Bereshit Rabbah and the Pesiḳta ascribed to Rab Kahana, belongs to the oldest works of the Midrashic literature. It begins with thirty-six consecutive proems forming a separate collection, certainly made by the author of the Midrash.
Laments (Treny) The Laments (also, Lamentations or Threnodies; ) are a series of nineteen threnodies (elegies) by Jan Kochanowski. Written in Polish and published in 1580, they are a highlight of Polish Renaissance literature, as well as one of Kochanowski's signal achievements.
Laments for Josiah Laments for Josiah is the term used in reference to . The passage reads: "And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Lamer Lamer is a jargon or slang name originally applied in cracker and phreaker culture to someone who didn't really understand what he was doing. Today it is also loosely applied by IRC, BBS, and online gaming users to anyone perceived to be contemptible.
Lameschmillen Lameschmillen, also known as the Bergemer MĂĽhle, is located halfway between Bergem and Noertzange (Commune of Mondercange), at the confluence of the rivers Alzette and Mess. It is one of three watermills in Luxembourg with the same name.
Lamfalussy process The Lamfalussy Process is an approach to the development of financial service industry regulations used by the European Union. Originally developed in March of 2001, it is named after the chair of the EU advisory committee that created it, Alexandre Lamfalussy.
Lami (Open Constituency, Fiji) Lami Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006.
Lamia (city) Lamia (Greek: Λαμία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a city in central Greece. It is a site of archaeological excavation (a castle dating from the pre-classical years, reconstructed in the early middle ages).
Lamia (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the lamia is a magical beast. They are centaur-like creatures, resembling animals such as lions, goats and deer, with a human torso and head coming up from where the animal's head would usually be.
Lamia (mythology) On the fringes of Greek mythology Lamia was one of the monstrous bogeys that terrified children and the naive, like her daughter Scylla, or Empousa. The Lamia had the head and torso of a woman, but the lower half of her body was serpentine.
Lamia Loveless Lamia Loveless (ラミア・ラヴレス) is a fictional character from the Japanese game series Super Robot Wars. She has appeared as a playable character in Super Robot Wars Advance and Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2.
Lamiaceae Lamiaceae, or the Mint family, is a family of plants in about 210 genera and some 3,500 species. It has been considered closely related to Verbenaceae but several recent phylogenetic studies have shown that numererous genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae, whereas the core genera of Verbenaceae are not closely related to Lamiaceae and are more closely related to other members of the Lamiales.
Lamian Lamian () is a Chinese dish of hand-made noodles, usually served in a beef or mutton-flavored soup (湯麵 tāngmiàn), but sometimes stir-fried (炒麵 chǎomiàn) and served with a tomato-based sauce. Literally, 拉 (lā) means to pull or stretch, while 麵 (miàn) means noodle.
Lamian War The Lamian war (323–322 BC) was a war in Greece between Athens, along with her allied city-states in mainland Greece, against Macedonian supreme rule and Antipater, regent in Macedonia and Greece. It was the last war in which the Athenians played a central part, and after they were defeated, Athenians lost their independence.
Lamido Lamido (plural Lamibe) is a corruption in local languages (Fulbe?) of the Arabic title Emir, used by the traditional leaders of certain Islamic communities in West Africa, originally as head of (often vassal) states, nowadays persisting within post-colonial republics.
Lamin A Lamin A is one of the intermediate filament proteins that weave together to form a shell called the nuclear lamina which lines the inner surface of the nucleus of every eukaryotic cell. Lamin A and its closely related variant, Lamin C, are both derived from the same gene by Alternative splicing of a shared pre-mRNA transcript.
Lamin Jusu Jarka Alhaji Lamin Jusu Jarka is a Sierra Leonean former businessman and current chairman of the victims' right's organization Amputees and War Wounded Association (AWWA). Jarka was the Chief Security's Officer of Barclay's Bank in Freetown before the 1999 invasion of Freetown by the Revolutionary United Front rebel group during the recent civil war.
Lamin Khalifah Fhimah Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah (Arabic: الأمين خليفة فهيمة) (born April 4 1956) is a former station manager for Libyan Arab Airlines at Luqa Airport, Malta. He was acquitted on January 31, 2001, by a panel of Scottish judges sitting in a special court at Camp Zeist, Netherlands, of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988.
Lamina (algae) A Lamina in the algae is a generally flattened structure which typically forms the principal bulk of macroscopic plants. It is often developed into specialised organs such as flotation bladders and reproductive organs.
Laminal consonant A laminal consonant is a phone produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, which is the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue. This contrasts with apical consonants, which are produced by creating an obstruction with the tongue apex (tongue tip) only.
Laminar flow cabinet Laminar flow cabinet or laminar flow closet is a carefully enclosed bench designed to prevent contamination of semiconductor wafers, biological samples, or any particle sensitive device. Air is drawn through a HEPA filter and blown in a very smooth, laminar flow towards the user.
Laminar Research Laminar Research is a small software company based out of Columbia, South Carolina, and is dedicated to providing software that accurately reflects the laws of physics. Laminar's flagship product is the flight simulator X-Plane, but it also produces two other programs, Space Combat and Young's Modulus.
Laminate A laminate is a material constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together. The process of creating a laminate is lamination, which usually refers to sandwiching something between layers of plastic and sealing them with heat and/or pressure.
Laminate flooring Laminate flooring is a laminate flooring material made to look like natural products such as wood flooring or natural stone, yet are made up of either synthetic materials (usually melamine resin) or of synthetic materials combined with natural and recycled ingredients and covered with an attached decorative applique including an aluminum oxide finish. Laminate floors are usually much less expensive than wood or natural stone flooring material, and is a reasonable solution for a do-it-yourself homeowner to install.
Laminated glass Laminated glass is a type of safety glass that holds together when [In the event of breaking, it is held in place by an interlayer], typically of [[PVB, between its two or more layers of glass. The interlayer keeps the layers of glass bonded even when broken, and its high strength prevents the glass from breaking up into large sharp pieces.
Laminated list A laminated list, sometimes called a freebie list, is a short list of celebrities so attractive that your significant other must let you sleep with them if the unbelievable opportunity ever arises. This pop culture concept originated on the American tv series Friends, but has since become a cultural meme, showing up on blogs and being discussed in online forums.
Laminated veneer lumber Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is an engineered wood product that uses multiple layers of thin wood assembled with adhesives. It offers several advantages over typical milled lumber: it is stronger, straighter, and more uniform.
Lamine Guèye Lamine Guèye (born 1891, Médine (now in Mali); died 1968) was a Senegalese politician who became leader of the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (Parti Sénégalais de l'Action Socialiste). In 1945 he and his associate Leopold Senghor were elected to represent Senegal in the French National Assembly.
Lamine River The Lamine River ("luh-MEEN") is a tributary of the Missouri River, about 70 mi (115 km) long, in central Missouri in the United States. It is formed in northern Morgan County about 4 mi (6 km) southeast of Otterville by the confluence of Flat Creek and Richland Creek, and flows generally northwardly through Cooper and Pettis Counties.
Laminectomy Laminectomy is a surgical procedure for treating spinal stenosis by relieving pressure on the spinal cord. The lamina of the vertebra is removed or trimmed to widen the spinal canal and create more space for the spinal nerves.
Lamington Lamingtons are sponge cake (or more traditionally, butter cake) cubes, coated in a layer of traditionally chocolate icing then desiccated coconut. They are sometimes served as two halves with a layer of cream and/or strawberry jam between, and are commonly found in Australian outlets such as coffee lounges, lunch bars, bakeries, and supermarkets.
Lamington Road (Mumbai) Lamington Road, named after Lord Lamington, the Governor of Bombay between 1903 and 1907, is a busy thoroughfare near Grant Road station in Mumbai's Western Railway. It is famous for its wholesale (and retail) market in electronics goods.
Lamit Company Lamit Company has been established as one of the largest independent satellite operator companies in Europe, being self-maintained and self-operated through a large worldwide network of distributors and partners.
Lamium Lamium (deadnettle) is a genus of about 40-50 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, of which family it is the type genus. They are all herbaceous plants native to Europe, Asia, and north Africa, but several have become very successful weeds of crop fields and are now widely naturalised across the temperate world.
Lamium album Lamium album (White Deadnettle) is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native throughout Europe and western Asia, growing in a variety of habitats from open grassland to woodland, generally on moist, fertile soils.
Lamjung District Lamjung district, a part of Gandaki zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Besisahar as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,692 sq km and has a population (2001) of 177,149.
Lamka Lamka, officially known as Churachandpur, is a town in India, and is the principal town of Churachandpur district, in Manipur State. It is the second-largest town in Manipur, and lies 62 km from the state capital Imphal and 56 km from the border of Myanmar, at the southern extent of Manipur.
Lamlash Lamlash is the secondary village (after Brodick) on the Isle of Arran, situated in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. It has traditionally been the second most populated village on the island after Brodick, although in recent years its population has been bigger.
Lammas Limited Lammas Limited was a manufacturer of motor cars from 1936 to 1938 based in Sunbury-on-Thames, UK. Their cars were built on a chassis bought in from Graham in the United States, the cars being known as Lammas-Graham.
Lammbock Lammbock is a 2001 German film. The movie is based around two pizza delivery guy's who decide to up their income by adding marijuana to the menu and get into trouble after attracting the attention of an undercover cop.
Lammergeier The Lammergeier or Bearded Vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, is an Old World vulture, the only member of the genus Gypaetus. It breeds on crags in high mountains in southern Europe, Africa, India and Tibet, laying one or two eggs in mid-winter which hatch at the beginning of spring.
Lammermuir Hills The Lammermuir Hills, Lammermuirs or sometimes still spelt with their earlier name of Lammermoors (An Lomair Mòr in Gaelic), in southern Scotland, form a natural boundary between Lothian and the Scottish Borders. They span the unitary authorities of East Lothian and Scottish Borders.
Lammermuir Party Lammermuir Party ( May 26, 1866 – September 30,1866), was a British Protestant Christian group of missionaries to China with the China Inland Mission led by James Hudson Taylor, who were identified with the tea clipper that brought them to China – the Lammermuir (clipper). Mission historians have indicated that this event was a turning point in the history of missionary work in China in the 1800’s.
Lammtarra Lammtarra was an undefeated Champion thoroughbred racehorse who won three major races in 1995 and was voted the Cartier Three-Year-Old European Champion Colt. He won the Epsom Derby in a race record time, the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Lamniformes Lamniformes is an order of sharks, also known as mackerel sharks (which may also be used to refer to the sub-group of Lamniformes, Lamnidae). It includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white shark, and some extremely rare types, such as the megamouth shark.
Lamoille Canyon Lamoille Canyon is the largest valley in the Ruby Mountains, located in the central portion of Elko County in the northeastern section of the state of Nevada, in the western United States. Approximately 12 miles (19 km) in length, it was extensively sculpted by glaciers in previous ice ages.
Lamon Brewster "Relentless" Lamon Tajuan Brewster (born June 5, 1973 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American heavyweight professional boxer, who won the silver medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. As a pro he has won the World Boxing Organization's version of the world heavyweight title.
Lamont Dozier Lamont Dozier (born June 16 1941 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland-Dozier-Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha & the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers. Dozier, along with Brian Holland, served as the team's musical arranger and producer.
Lamont Thompson Lamont Darnell Thompson (born July 30, 1978, Richmond, California) is a safety with the Tennessee Titans. He played college football at Washington State University, and was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft.
Lamont Young (Naples) Lamont Young (1851-1929) Italian architect and urban planner from the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born in Naples and all of the works and urban design associated with his name are found in that city.
Lamorinda Lamorinda refers to the area within Contra Costa County, California composed of the cities of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda. Each city is distinct from the others, but the three share many similar characteristics as described in Central County.
Lamorna (folk song) Lamorna is a traditional folk song associated with the county of Cornwall, and dealing with the courtship of a man and a woman , who turned out to be his wife. There seems to be some evidence that a similar song exists titled Pomona which originates from Manchester in the north of England.
Lamorna Birch Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch, RA, RWS (1869 - 1955) was an artist in oils and watercolours. At the suggestion of fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, Birch adopted the soubriquet "Lamorna" to distinguish himself from Lionel Birch, also an artist.
Lamos (Cilicia) The Lamus also Lamos, now the Turkish: Lamas or Limonlu Çayı) river is a river of ancient Cilicia, now in Mersin Province, Turkey. The river formed the boundary between Cilicia Campestris and Cilicia Trachea, and later between Cilicia Aspera and Cilicia Propria.
Lamos of the Laestrygonians Lamos (or Lamus) was a mythological ruler of the Laestrygonians, who were encountered by Odysseus and his company during their travels. Although Lamos does not appear in person in the story, the city of Telepylos is described as his rocky stronghold.
Lamotrigine Lamotrigine (marketed as Lamictal by GlaxoSmithKline, called Lamictin in South Africa) is an anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder. For epilepsy it is used to treat partial seizures, primary and secondary tonic-clonic seizures, and seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
Lamotte-Picquet (D 645) The Lamotte-Picquet is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth French vessel named after the XVIIIth Century admiral count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (for other ships, see French ship La Motte-Picquet).
Lamoureux Orchestra The Orchestre Lamoureux (officially known as the Société des Nouveaux-Concerts and also known as the Concerts Lamoureux) was an orchestral concert society which gave weekly concerts by its own orchestra, founded in Paris by Charles Lamoureux in 1881. It has played an important role in French musical life, including giving the premieres of Debussy's Nocturnes (1900 and 1901) and La mer (1905).
Lamp (electrical component) A lamp, in technical usage, is a replaceable component such as an incandescent light bulb, which is designed to produce light from electricity. These components usually have a ceramic or metal base, which makes an electrical connection in the socket of a light fixture.
Lamp box Lamp boxes are the smallest post boxes used by the Royal Mail in the UK, by its counterparts in the Commonwealth of Nations and also by An Post in Ireland. Their name derives from the fact that they were designed to be affixed to lamp posts, although they may equally be found embedded in walls or mounted on poles.
Lampades The Lampades (Greek: Λαμπάδες) are the nymphs of the Underworld in Greek mythology. Companions of Hecate, the Greek titan goddess of witchcraft and crossroads, they were a gift from Zeus for Hecate's loyalty in the Titanomachy.
Lampang Lampang, also called Nakhon Lampang (Thai นครลำปาง) to differentiate from Lampang Province, is the third largest town in northern Thailand and capital of the Lampang Province and the Lampang district. Traditional names for Lampang include Wiang Lakon and Khelang Nakhon.
Lampeia Lampeia (Greek: Λαμπεία, Romanization before the 1990s, Lambia), rarely Lampia, is a Greek town and a muinicipality on the southern part of the Divri (Δίβρη) range and is also known as that name. Its population is presently around 1,000.
Lampeter Geography School The Lampeter Geography School was an important collection of academics based at the Geography department of the University of Wales, Lampeter. The department has since closed, but the Lampeter diaspora continues to have a major impact on the academic discipline.
Lampeter-Strasburg School District The Lampeter-Strasburg School District is a school district in rural and suburban Lancaster County, Pennsylvania that serves the borough of Strasburg, as well as Strasburg and West Lampeter Townships. The census-designated place of Willow Street is mostly in the district.
Lampeti Lampeti also Lambeti or Labeti (Greek, Modern: Λαμπέτι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older form Lambetion, is a suburban village in the municipality of Pyrgos in the prefecture of Ilia. It is located about 96 km (old: 103 km) S of Patras, 30 km S of Simopoulo, nearly 47 km SE of Kyllini.
Lamphun Lamphun is a town in northern Thailand, capital of Lamphun Province. The town was founded in the 9th century (CE) by Queen Chama Thevi as the capital of the Haripunchai kingdom, the last Mon kingdom in the area which now forms Thailand.
Lampião Lampião ("Oil Lamp" in Portuguese) was the nickname of "Captain" Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, the most famous leader of a Cangaço band (marauders and outlaws who terrorized the Brazilian Northeast in the 1930s).
Lampione Lampione (Italian: Lantern) is a small rocky island located in the Mediterranean Sea, which belongs geographically to the Pelagie Islands and administratively to the comune of Lampedusa (Sicily region). It is 700 metre long and 180 metre across with the highest point on the island lying at 36 metres: the area is 1.
Lamport's bakery algorithm Lamport's bakery algorithm is a computer algorithm devised by computer scientist Dr Leslie Lamport, which is intended to improve the robustness of multiple thread-handling processes by means of mutual exclusion.
Lamprey A lamprey (sometimes also called lamprey eel) is a jawless fish with a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth, with which most species bore into the flesh of other fish to suck their blood. In zoology, lampreys are often not considered to be true fish because of their vastly different morphology and physiology.
Lampricide Lampricide is a chemical which is designed to target the larvae of Lampreys in river systems before their recruitment as parasitic adults. While effective in that it typically doesn't harm other fish due to the evolutionary relationship between true fish and lampreys, lampricides can be problematic for amphibians such as mudpuppies (genus Necturus) which often share the same habitats.
Lampriformes Lampriformes (also spelt Lampridiformes) are an order of ray-finned fish that includes about 50 living species of deep sea fishes, including the opahs, crestfishes, ribbonfishes, and oarfish. These are acanthomorph teleosts which diverged at the end of the Cretaceous or in the succeeding Paleocene period, 60-70 million years ago.
Lampropeltis calligaster Lampropeltis calligaster is a species of kingsnake known commonly as the prairie kingsnake or mole kingsnake. They are found throughout the southeastern United States, from Nebraska to Virginia, Florida to Texas.
Lampropeltis getula holbrooki The speckled kingsnake is a species of kingsnake found in the central to southern United States from southern Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico. Their range overlaps with the Desert King Snake, Lampropeltis getula splendida and it is known to intergrade with that species.
Lampropeltis getula nigrita The Lampropeltis getula nigrita or Black Mexican Kingsnake is a type of kingsnake which originates from the common species of Mexican Kingsnake which is traditionally blood red with yellowish rings around its body. Although sometimes there can be kingsnakes with a lighter red and darker yellow.
Lampropeltis triangulum annulata The Mexican Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum annulata) is a species of milk snake native primarily to northeastern Mexico in Coahuila, Tamaulipas and Nuevo LeĂłn, but it can be found as far north as the United States, in southwestern Texas.
Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli The Pueblan milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli) is an egg laying species of non-venomous colubrid snake. It is one of the most commonly bred milk snakes in captivity, and due to this is found in several color variations.
Lamprophis Lamprophis is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as African house snakes. They are small, non-venomous snakes, usually brown in color but display a range of variation from red, orange, green to black.

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