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Lowry Air Force Base Lowry Air Force Base, formerly located in the cities of Aurora and Denver, Colorado, was the site of a United States Air Force training base that was heavily involved with the training of United States Army Air Forces bomber crews during World War II. It was permanently closed in 1994.
Lowry Hill Tunnel Lowry Hill Tunnel is a tunnel accommodating the Interstate 94 freeway near downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota that was completed in late 1971. It is placed at a near-right-angle turn in the highway, forcing the 3 lanes of traffic in each direction to slow down.
Lowry Hill, Minneapolis Lowry Hill is a neighborhood within the Calhoun-Isles community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The neighborhood is named for the terminal morraine on which it sits, a hill named after late ninteenth century real estate mogul and trolley tycoon Thomas Lowry.
Lowry War The Lowry War is considered one of the most important and controversial events in North Carolina history. Led by Henry Berry Lowry (also spelled as Henry Berry Lowrie), a 17-year old Lumbee Indian boy whose father and brother were murdered at the hands of the Confederate Home Guard, a clan of North Carolinian Indian and African-Americans waged a seven year war against the Old South from 1861 to 1874.
Lowryder The Jointdoctor's Lowryder is a strain of cannabis known for its low size, automatic flowering characteristics and quick germination time. These characteristics make it perfect for stealth growing in the narcotics industry, as well as for beginners.
Lowther Castle Lowther Castle is a country house in the historic county of Westmorland which now forms part of the modern county of Cumbria in northern England. It has belonged to the Lowther family, latterly the Earls of Lonsdale, since the Middle Ages.
Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, most often referred to simply as 'Lowther', is an independant girl's school located in the suburb of Essendon, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school currently has roughly 700 students from Kindergarten to Year 12.
Lowther Stakes The Lowther Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for two-year-old thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 6 furlongs and 3 yards (1,210 metres) at York Racecourse during the Ebor Festival meeting in August.
Lowthorp Lowthorp is a surname derived from the small parrish of Lowthorpe in the wapentake of Dickering in the east riding of York. Rev John Lothropp, the first immigrant of this surname to the New World arrived in 1634 on the ship Griffin.
Lowthorpe railway station Lowthorpe railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Lowthorpe on the Yorkshire Coast Line line from Scarborough to Hull and was opened on 6 October 1846 by the York & North Midland Railway. It closed on 5 January 1970.
Lowton Lowton is a village close to Leigh, and in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, formlery part of the historic county of Lancashire. It is located in the North West England region, around 3 miles from Leigh, 5 miles north of Warrington and 9 miles south of Wigan.
Lowton Churches Romania Appeal Lowton Churches Romania Appeal is a charity set up by the five churches of Lowton, England (St Luke's, St Mary's, St Catherine's, Lane Head Methodist, Lowton Independent Methodist) after the fall of CeauĹźescu in 1990. It grew from work of an aid trip arranged by the churches after knowledge of the living conditions in the country's orphanages first became widespread.
Lowville and Beaver River Railroad The Lowville and Beaver River Railroad (LBR) is a short-line railroad owned by Genesee Valley Transportation (GVT) of Batavia, New York. The Lowville & Beaver River runs from an interchange, with GVT subsidiary Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad (MHWA) to Croghan, New York.
Lowy Institute for International Policy The Lowy Institute for International Policy is based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is an independent, nonpartisan think tank endowed by Frank Lowy to conduct original, policy-relevant research about international political, strategic and economic issues from an Australian perspective.
Loxahatchee, Florida Loxahatchee is a roughly-defined community located in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located in the areas west and northwest of Royal Palm Beach, Florida and approximately 17 miles west of West Palm Beach.
Loxia Technologies The Loxia Technologies Corporation (dba: Loxia), is a multinational computer technology corporation with offices in three countries as of December 2006, and headquarters in Miami, Florida, USA. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.
Loxie & Zoot Loxie & Zoot is a webcomic by Australian artist Stephen Crowley about nudists Loxie and Zoot, co-owners of the Koala Bares Naturist Resort. The strip updated on Wednesdays and Fridays through April 26, 2006.
Loxley, Warwickshire Loxley, Warwickshire is a village near Stratford-upon-Avon, where it is supposed that Robin Hood was born and raised. Some believe that a certain Robert Fitz Oto is the true Robin Hood, as he owned Loxley Manor and his tombstone lies by Loxley Church.
Loxommatidae The Baphetids or Loxommatids were large tetrapod predators of the Late Carboniferous period (Namurian through Westphalian) of Europe. Fragmentary remains from the Early Carboniferous of Canada have been tentatively assigned to the group.
Loxoprofen Loxoprofen (INN) is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug in the propionic acid derivatives group. It is marketed in Brazil, Mexico and Japan by Sankyo as its sodium salt, loxoprofen sodium, under the trade name Loxonin®, and in Argentina as Oxeno®.
Loy Krathong Loy Krathong (or Loi Kratong, Thai ลอยกระทง) is a festival celebrated annually throughout Thailand. It is held on the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar, in the western calendar this usually falls into November.
Loy Mendonsa Loy Mendonsa is the Loy of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio which consist of himself, Shankar Mahadevan and Ehsan Noorani. Before becoming a music composer, he was a keyboard musician for famous music composers such as A.
Loy Yang Power Station, Victoria Loy Yang Power Station is located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south eastern Victoria, Australia. It is coal powered, and is the largest amongst a number of power stations using the vast reserves of brown coal which exist in the Latrobe Valley.
Loyal American Regiment The Loyal American Regiment was a Royal Provincial regiment comprised of American loyalists who served in the American Revolution from 1777 to 1783. The unit fought in many engagements throughout the war and was among the thousands of loyalists exiled to Nova Scotia in 1783.
Loyal Publication Society The Loyal Publication Society was founded in 1863, during a time when the Union Army had suffered many reverses in the Civil War. The purpose of the society was to bolster public support for the Union effort, by disseminating pro-Union news articles and editorials to newspapers around the country.
Loyal to the Game Loyal to the Game is an album containing previously unreleased music recorded by Tupac Shakur before his death in 1996. Released in the US on December 14 2004 (December 12 in the UK) Loyal to the Game produced by Eminem, and is consequently very reminiscent of Eminem's style.
Loyalist In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the "powers that be" or the establishment. This article specifically refers to individuals and groups who are loyal to the British monarchy or to Great Britain.
Loyalist Anti-Repeal Union The Loyalist Anti-Repeal Union was an Irish unionist organization established in 1886 in Ulster. It was created by the most influential Protestant groups - landowners, businessmen, churchmen - in opposition to Home Rule for Ireland.
Loyalist feud A loyalist feud refers to any of the sporadic feuds which have erupted almost routinely between Northern Ireland's various loyalist paramilitary groups since the late 1990s. The most violent was one in 2002, which split the Ulster Defence Association, one of the main loyalist organisations in Northern Ireland.
Loyalist Volunteer Force The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland which broke away from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and was led by the late Billy Wright. It is outlawed as a terrorist organisation in the UK and Ireland.
Loyalsock Creek Loyalsock Creek is a tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River located chiefly in Sullivan and Lycoming counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. As the crow flies, Lycoming County is about 100 mi (160 km) northwest of Philadelphia and about 165 mi (265 km) east-northeast of Pittsburgh.
Loyalsock State Forest Loyalsock State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #20. As of July 1, 2005, a reorganization of Pennsylvania State Forests in eastern Pennsylvania resulted in the creation of the "Loyalsock State Forest" and the elimination of the name Wyoming State Forest.
Loyalty Effect The Loyalty Effect is a 1996 book by Fred Reichheld of the consulting firm Bain & Company, and the book's title is also sometimes used to refer to the broader loyalty business model as a whole. Reichheld's book was exceptionally popular with marketing and customer relationship management professionals, and as such the phrase "loyalty effect" has become synonymous in some circles with the more generic concepts covered by the loyalty business model.
Loyalty Marketing Loyalty Marketing is a school of thought used in marketing and strategic management in which a company focuses on growing and retaining existing customers through incentives. The discipline of customer loyalty marketing has been around for many years, but expansions from merely making it a model for conducting business to making it a vehicle for marketing and advertising has become omnipresent in consumer marketing organizations since the mid-to-late 1990s.
Loyd Carrier The Loyd Carrier was one of a number of small tracked vehicles used by the British and Commonwealth forces in the Second World War to transport equipment and men about the battlefield. Alongside the Bren, Scout and Machine Gun Carriers, they moved infantry support weapons.
Loyd Christopher Lloyd (Loyd) Eugene Christopher (December 31, 1919 – September 5, 1991) was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox (1945), Chicago Cubs (1945), and Chicago White Sox (1947). He stood 6'2" and weighed 190 lbs.
Loynton Moss Loynton Moss is a nature reserve situated at Loynton, near the village of Woodseaves, in Staffordshire, England. Through the reserve runs the Shropshire Union Canal, as it runs from nearby Norbury to High Offley.
Loyola Academy Loyola Academy is a private, co-educational college preparatory high school located in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. It is one of 47 Jesuit high schools in the United States and is a member of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association.
Loyola Blakefield Loyola Blakefield is a Catholic, college preparatory school established by the Jesuits and imbued with the spirit of Ignatius Loyola to educate men to serve others. The ideal Loyola graduate is a man of integrity who, because he strives "to find God in all things," is open to growth, dedicated to academic excellence, religious, committed to diversity, loving and dedicated to work for a just world.
Loyola Catholic Secondary School Loyola Catholic Secondary School is a Roman Catholic high school located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The school has about 1500 students, and is operated by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.
Loyola Catholic School Loyola Catholic School (formerly known as Mankato Area Catholic School), is located in Mankato, Minnesota. The school has two campuses, the Fitzgerald Campus, housing grades four through eight, and the Good Council Campus, which houses grades K-3 and 9-12.
Loyola College in Maryland Loyola College in Maryland, formerly Loyola College, is a private, coeducational university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, affiliated with the Society of Jesus and the Roman Catholic Church. Founded in 1852 by Father John Early and eight other members of the Society of Jesus, Loyola College in Maryland is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Loyola College, Mount Druitt Loyola College, Mount Druitt is a Roman Catholic co-educational day school for students aged from 15 - 18 years located in Mount Druitt, New South Wales, Australia. An Ignatian school in the tradition of St Ignatius of Loyola, it is situated in Sydney's Western Suburbs in a seven hectare lightly wooded, landscaped site which received the Sulman Award from the Royal Institute of Architects for its design.
Loyola de Palacio Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi (September 16, 1950—December 13, 2006) was a Spanish politician. She was one of the first women to rise to political prominence in Spain after the death of General Franco.
Loyola International College Loyola International College is an interdisciplinary college of Concordia University on the Loyola campus, which used to be Loyola College (Montreal). It offers a minor programme in "Diversity and the Contemporary World".
Loyola Marymount University Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California. The University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of five Marymount institutions of higher education.
Loyola Medal In 1961, the Loyola Alumni Association and the administration of Loyola College (Montreal) agreed to the creation of the Loyola Medal "as a permanent tribute to the outstanding leadership and achievement on the Canadian scene". The first medal was awarded in 1963 to General Georges P.
Loyola Phoenix The Loyola Phoenix is the official newspaper of Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Published on a weekly basis, it not only serves the students and faculty of the various colleges of the university in the United States and Italy, but it also serves the northside Chicago neighborhoods of Edgewater and Rogers Park and has a readership that extends through the twenty-eight member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Loyola School (Thiruvananthapuram) Founded in 1961, Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram (LST) is a private Jesuit school for boys. It is situated in a large, leafy campus (approximate area: 11 acres) in the suburb of Sreekariyam in Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala state, India.
Loyola Schools The Loyola Schools is the school unit of the Ateneo de Manila University that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the Arts and Sciences. It operates under the statutes of the Ateneo de Manila University.
Loyola Sullivan Loyola Sullivan is a Canadian provincial politician currently elected as the Member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly for the Ferryland District. He was appointed as Minister of Finance by the Progressive Conservative government under Premier Danny Williams in late 2003, and Government House Leader in July 2006.
Loyola University Loyola University, Loyola College, and Loyola Academy are historic and current educational institutions of the Society of Jesus named in honor of the founder of the Roman Catholic Church religious order, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The names are also used outside the religious order by local archdioceses and dioceses and by non-Catholic denominations of Christianity.
Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Chicago is a private co-educational religious-affiliated university established in Chicago in 1870 as Saint Ignatius College. It was founded by the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus and bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola.
Loyola University Chicago School of Law Loyola University Chicago School of Law is a college of Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1909 by the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order of priests known as the Jesuits, the School of Law is located in downtown Chicago on prime real estate within walking distance of the landmark Water Tower (only surviving downtown building of the Great Chicago Fire), John Hancock Center (one of the tallest buildings in the United States), Holy Name Cathedral and the Magnificent Mile of North Michigan Avenue.
Loyola University Medical Center Loyola University Medical Center, founded in 1979 by Loyola University, is located in Maywood, Illinois, west of Chicago. The hospital complex includes the Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital and the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center.
Loyola University New Orleans Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational Jesuit university in the United States with 5,000 students (3,000 undergraduates). Loyola University New Orleans' main campus is located in the Uptown neighborhood, fifteen minutes from the historic French Quarter, across St.
Loysburg, Pennsylvania Loysburg, Pennsylvania is a small town in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States in part of South Woodbury Township. It lies in Morrison Cove along Pennsylvania Route 869 and the Yellow Creek near the Loysburg Gap in Tussey Mountain.
Lozanić's triangle Lozanić's triangle (sometimes called Losanitsch's triangle) is a geometric arrangement of binomial coefficients in a manner very similar to that of Pascal's triangle. It is named after the Serbian chemist Sima Lozanić, who researched it in his investigation into the symmetries exhibited by rows of paraffins.
Lozen Saddle Lozen Saddle (Lozenska Sedlovina 'lo-zen-ska se-dlo-vi-'na) is a 437m high saddle situated between Lozen Nunatak and Zograf Peak, Livingston Island which provides overland access from the Wörner Gap area to the Shipka Valley. The saddle was first visited on 17 December 2004 and takes its name from the adjacent Lozen Nunatak.
Lozenetz Hospital The Lozenetz University Hospital (университетска болница „Лозенец“) is a governmental university hospital in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, associated with the Council of Ministers. It disposes of some of the best technical equipment in the country, including the only digital mammograph in Bulgaria, a modern hospital laboratory, a NMR spectroscope and others.
Lozenge (heraldry) The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge (an object that can be placed on the field of the shield), usually somewhat narrower than it is tall. It is to be distinguished in modern heraldry from the fusil, which is like the lozenge but narrower, though the distinction has not always been as fine and is not always observed even today.
Lozi language Lozi, also known as Silozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language (of the Niger-Congo language family) that is spoken by the Lozi people, primarily in southwestern Zambia and in surrounding countries. Lozi and its dialects are spoken and understood by approximately six percent of the population of Zambia.
Lozin' Must Lozin' Must is a single released on April 6, 1997 by the Swedish punk-skate band Millencolin comprising of the first single "Lozin' Must" from the full length album For Monkeys with a cover of the song "Israelites" originally performed by Desmond Dekker and the non-album track "Vixen".
Loznica (town) Loznica (Serbian Cyrillic: Лозница) is a town and municipality located in the Mačva District of Serbia, although it is not geographically located in Mačva, but in Podrinje. It lays at Drina river, at 44.
LOADALL LOADALL is the common name for two different, undocumented machine instructions of Intel 80286 and Intel 80386 processors, which allows access to areas normally outside of the IA-32 API scope, like descriptor cache registers. The LOADALL for 286 processors is encoded 0Fh 05h, while the LOADALL for 386 processors is 0Fh 07h.
LOCA Records Loca Records is an independent electronica and post rock record label based in Brighton, UK. All the music, artwork and videos are released under copyleft licenses and distributed physically on Vinyl, CD, and cassette.
LOCC LOCC, or Local Operations and Classical Communication, is a method in quantum information theory where a local (product) operation is performed on part of the system, and where the result of that operation is "communicated" classically to another part where usually another local operation is performed. An example of this is distinguishing two Bell pairs, such as the following:
LOFAR LOFAR is the LOw Frequency ARray for radio astronomy. It is an ambitious project to build an interferometric array of radio telescopes distributed across the Netherlands and Northern Germany, with a total effective collecting area of up to 1 square kilometre.
LOGCFL In computational complexity theory, LOGCFL is the complexity class that contains all decision problems that can be reduced in logarithmic space to a context-free language. This class is situated between NL and AC1, in the sense that it contains the former and is contained in the latter.
LOKI In cryptography, LOKI89 and LOKI91 are block ciphers designed as possible replacements for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The ciphers were developed based on a body of work analysing DES, and are very similar to DES in structure.
LOL (Internet slang) LOL (also written lol) is a common element of Internet slang used, historically, on Usenet but now widespread to other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even spread to face-to-face communication. It is an abbreviation for "laughing out loud" or "laugh out loud" "LOL" is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms such as "ROTFL" ("roll(ing) on the floor laughing"), a more emphatic expression of laughter, and "BWL" ("bursting with laughter"), above which there is "no greater compliment" according to Magid.
LOM port The LOM port (Lights Out Management port) is a remote access facility. On a SUN server, when the main processor is switched off, or when one cannot telnet to the server, one would use a link to the LOM port to access the server.
LOMAC LOMAC is a Linux extension that implements a low watermark security policy based on Biba's model. It deals with the arrival of malicious code from the Internet by downgrading daemons that receive incoming traffic, so that even if they are compromised, they will not be able to write to any high integrity parts of the system.
LON-CAPA LON-CAPA is a free software online educational course management system (CMS) originally developed at Michigan State University in the late 1990s, and currently developed by the LON-CAPA Academic Consortium, headed by Michigan State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is covered by the GNU General Public License.
LOOM (ontology) Loom or LOOM™ is a knowledge representation language developed by researchers in the Artificial Intelligence research group at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. The Loom project's goal is the development and fielding of advanced tools for knowledge representation and reasoning in Artificial Intelligence.
LORAN LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) is a terrestrial navigation system using low frequency radio transmitters that use the time interval between radio signals received from three or more stations to determine the position of a ship or aircraft. The current version of LORAN in common use is LORAN-C, which operates in the low frequency 90 to 110 kHz band.
LORAN-C transmitter Jan Mayen The LORAN-C transmitter Jan Mayen is a LORAN-C transmission facility on the island of Jan Mayen at 70°54'51″N, 8°43'57" W().. The LORAN-C transmitter Jan Mayen uses as antenna a 190-metre high (625ft) guyed mast.
LORAN-C transmitter Loop Head LORAN-C transmitter Loop Head is a LORAN-C transmitter at Loop Head, Ireland at 52° 35' 03" N, 9° 49' 06" W (). LORAN-C transmitter Loop Head is used as Zulu Secondary station with a transmission power of 250 kW at the Ejde LORAN-C chain (GRI 9007) and as Yankee Secondary in the Lessay LORAN-C chain (GRI 6731).
LORAX (robot) The Life on Ice: Robotic Antarctic Explorer or LORAX is an experimental robotics project being developed by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, supported by NASA. The intent of the project is to create an autonomous rover to survey the distribution of microbes on Antarctica's ice sheets.
LOVE Belize Television LOVE Belize Television is a local cable-only television station broadcasting 24 hours a day from Belize City, Belize. It is a subsidiary of RSV Media Center, and has been established in Belize City since the late 1990's, having grown out of LOVE FM's radio coverage.
LOVE ENHANCED ♥ single collection LOVE ENHANCED ♥ single collection is Namie Amuro's second singles collection under the avex trax label. The album covers 11 of the 12 singles she released after returning from a one year maternity leave in 1998.
LOVE Park LOVE Park (JFK Plaza) is a plaza located in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The design of LOVE Park turned out to be perfect for skateboarding and the plaza became internationally famous as one of the best places to skate in the world until a 2000 skateboarding ban was enforced in 2002.
LOVELY ~Yume Miru LOVELY BOY~ (single) Tomoko Kawase's seventh single under Tommy February6, and the ninth overall single from her solo career. L•O•V•E•L•Y ~Yumemiru LOVELY BOY~ is the theme song for the Pokemon movie titled Rekku no Homonsha Deoxys.
Lp space In mathematics, the Lp and ell^p spaces are spaces of p-power integrable functions, and corresponding sequence spaces. They form an important class of examples of Banach spaces in functional analysis, and of topological vector spaces.
LP album Long Playing (LP), 12-inch ["33 rpm]" (actually 33â…“) [[vinyl gramophone records were the primary release [for recorded music] for about 40 [[years from the 1960s until CDs effectively replaced them in the late 1990s. The primary competing format at this time was the audio cassette, which were gradually replacing reel-to-reel tapes.
LP Field LP Field is a football stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, used primarily as the home stadium of the NFL's Tennessee Titans, but also used by Tennessee State University. It is also the site of the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, a postseason college football game played each December, and has occasionally been used as a venue for soccer matches.
LP relaxation In mathematics, the LP-relaxation of a linear programming (LP) problem with integer constraints is the problem that arises when the integer constraints are dropped. This can be used to reduce mixed integer programming (MIP) problems, in which some variables are required to take on a discrete set of values, or discrete optimization problems, in which all variables have to satisfy such a requirement, to LP-form.
LPA512 LPA512 (Serbian ЛПА512) was an industrial programmable logic controller - a small (438 * 286 * 278 mm ), portable, computer developed by Ivo Lola Ribar Institute of Serbia in 1986 as an enhacement to its prior product, PA512. It was first deployed in Maribor car factory.
LPAR In IBM mainframe computing and enterprise storage, a Logical Partition, commonly called an LPAR, is a virtualized computing environment abstracted from all physical devices. On IBM mainframes, LPARs can form a Sysplex or Parallel Sysplex, managed by a facility called PR/SM.
LPC (programming language) The LPC programming language is an object-oriented programming language derived from C and developed by Lars Pensjö to facilitate MUD building on LPMuds. It has been used not only for mud game creation, but also has evolved into the Pike programming language used for various internet servers, multimedia applications and system administration tasks.
LPD (Landing Platform Docks) L-51 Galicia LPD (Landing Platform Docks) L-51 Galicia Vessel built in Ferrol, fruit of NATO collaboration between the Dutch and Spanish Royal Navies. The works started in 1996 and the vessel was presented to the Spanish Navy (Armada Española) in 1998.
LPG (band) LPG is a Dutch indie-pop band, signed on Excelsior Recordings/V2 Records. In April 2005, their critically acclaimed debut album I fear no foe was released in the Netherlands, receiving positive reviews from established magazines and websites, such as Oor, VPRO 3voor12 and Volkskrant.
LPGA The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which runs from February to December each year.
LPGA Championship The LPGA Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the McDonald's LPGA Championship Presented by Coca-Cola, is the second-longest running tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association surpassed only by the U.S.
LPGA Takefuji Classic The Takefuji Classic was an annual golf tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour that took place every year from 2000 through 2006. Between 2000 and 2002 it was held at two different courses in Hawaii.
LPI Media LPI Media (short for Liberation Publications) is a media company which targets the gay and lesbian community with publications, Web sites, and book publishing operations, such as The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, HIV Plus, and gay penned titles through Alyson Books.
LPL Financial Linsco/Private Ledger (LPL Financial Services) has become one of the largest organizations of independent, fee-only financial advisors. Formed in 1989 through the merger of two successful brokerage firms, Linsco (established in 1968) and Private Ledger (established in 1973), LPL has expanded its number of financial advisors from a few hundred to over 7,000.
LPMud LPMud (sometimes shortened to simply "LP") is a MUD variant developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö (hence the LP in LPMud) that separates the mud game functionality between a virtual machine (known as the driver) and world-building components in the LPC programming language (known as the mudlib).
LPUniversity Foundation The LPUniversity Foundation was an umbrella community project that aspired to revive the LPCommunity through offering community driven services; offering mutual location for education, research, development, discussion and certification; preservation of the LPC programming language; community support; the development of standards; and a modern, revolutionary, powerful, open-source, collaboratively developed LPC mudlib.
LPWA Super Ladies Showdown LPWA Super Ladies Showdown was a professional wrestling pay-per-view from the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association. It took place on February 23, 1992 from the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and was the only PPV from the LPWA.

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