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Lubań County Lubań County (in Polish powiat lubański) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Lubber fiend The lubber fiend, Lob, lubberkin, lurdane or Lob Lie-By-The-Fire was a legendary creature of England that was similar in attributes to the "urisk" or brownie of Scotland and northern England. It has been related also to Robin Goodfellow, and Hobgoblins.
Lubbers Stadium Lubbers Stadium is a stadium on the Allendale campus of Grand Valley State University in Michigan. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Grand Valley State University Lakers.
Lubberts effect Lubberts effect refers to the non-uniform response of an imaging system to x-rays that are absorbed at different depths within the input phosphor. It indicates an input phosphor depth-dependent response of the imaging system.
Lubbock Lake Landmark Lubbock Lake Landmark is an important archeological site and natural history preserve in the city of Lubbock, Texas. The Landmark contains evidence of almost 12,000 years of occupation by ancient peoples on the Llano Estacado (Southern High Plains).
Lubbock Lazers The Lubbock Lazers were a soccer club based in Lubbock, Texas that competed in the SISL and USISL. For the 1991/92 indoor season, the team was named the Lubbock Tornado, but returned as the Lazers after that season.
Lubbock Memorial Civic Center The Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, a convention center located in Lubbock, Texas, was built in 1977 and dedicated to the memory of local residents who died in a 1970 tornado that struck the site of the center. In front of the center is a statue honoring Buddy Holly, who had died in 1959.
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum The Lubbock Municipal Coliseum is a 7,050-seat multi-purpose arena in Lubbock, Texas. The Coliseum serves as home to the Lubbock Cotton Kings Ice hockey team, and the Texas Tech Ice Hockey team, and will, in 2007, be home to the Lubbock Renegades af2 arena football team.
Lubbock Renegades The Lubbock Renegades an af2 expansion team scheduled to begin play in 2007. The team will play their home games at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum, which was the former home of the IFL/NIFL team, the Lubbock Lone Stars/Gunslingers.
Lubbock Tornado The Lubbock Tornado was an F5 tornado that occurred in Lubbock, Texas on May 11, 1970. It was one of the worst tornadoes in Texas history, and occurred exactly 17 years to the day after the deadly Waco Tornado.
Lubeh Lubeh (Любэ) is a pop band from Russia, whose music harmoniously combines elements of Western rock and roll, traditional Russian folk music, military bard music, and even some attempts at rapping. Starting in 1989 with their first release, they have released 13 albums inside of Russia.
Lubell-Yamamoto-Meshalkin inequality In combinatorial mathematics, the Lubell-Yamamoto-Meshalkin inequality, more commonly known as the LYM inequality, is an inequality on the sizes of sets in a Sperner family, proved by Lubell (1966), Yamamoto (1954), and Meshalkin (1963).
Lubenham Lubenham is a small rural village just to the west of Market Harborough, a market town in the South of Leicestershire, England. The first ever Grand National was held in Lubenham, on the grounds of what is now Thorpe Lubenham Hall.
Luberon The Luberon Massif (Provençal Occitan: Leberon in classical norm or Leberoun in Mistralian norm) has a maximum altitude of 1,256 m and an area of about 600 km². It is composed of two mountain ranges: the Big Luberon and the Little Luberon, lying in the middle of Provence in the far south of France.
Lubersac Lubersac is a small town and commune located near Arnac-Pompadour and Uzerche, formerly called Louparsat (« lou percé » in Limousin) because of the knight's legend whom killed a wolf of a blow of sword to save his beloved. Its inhabitants are named Lubersacois (men) and Lubersacoises (women).
Lubin County Lubin County (in Polish powiat lubiński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Lubin School of Business Lubin School of Business, a nationally ranked business school, is one of six schools of Pace University. The accounting program for the Lubin School of Business, on both the Bachelor's Degree and MBA levels, is considered to be fairly prestigious and high caliber.
Lubin Studios Lubin Studios, formally incorporated as the Lubin Manufacturing Company, was an American motion picture production company formed in 1902 and incorporated in 1909 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Siegmund Lubin. The company was the offspring of Lubin's film equipment and film distribution and production business began in 1896.
Lublin County Lublin County () is a powiat (county) in eastern Poland, in Lublin Voivodship. The county seat is the city of Lublin and the powiat includes the area around it, but not the city itself which forms its own separate urban powiat.
Lublin R-VIII The Lublin R-VIII was the Polish bomber - reconnaissance aircraft and seaplane, designed in the late-1920s in the Plage i Laśkiewicz factory in Lublin. It was the first own design of Plage i Laśkiewicz, and the first with the name Lublin.
Lublin R-XIII The Lublin R-XIII was the Polish observation, close reconnaissance and army cooperation plane, designed in the early-1930s in the Plage i Laśkiewicz factory in Lublin. It was the main army cooperation plane in the Invasion of Poland.
Lublin Voivodeship Lublin Voivodeship (Polish: województwo lubelskie) is an administrative region, or voivodeship, of eastern Poland. It was created January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin (2), Chełm, Zamość, Biała Podlaska and partly Tarnobrzeg and Siedlce voivodeships, according to the Local Government Reorganisation Act of 1998.
Lubmin Lubmin is a coastal resort in Vorpommern, northeast Germany, near to the city of Greifswald and lying on the Greifswalder Bodden, a bay of the Baltic Sea. Lubmin is the administrative seat of Amt Lubmin, to which belongs another nine municipalities.
Lubna al Qasimi Sheikha Lubna Khalid Sultan al Qasimi was appointed Minister for Economy and Planning of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in November 2004. Lubna holds the distinction of being the first woman to hold a ministerial post in the United Arab Emirates.
Lubna Azabal Lubna Azabal born in Brussels, Belgium is an Arab actress of Moroccan origin. Her introduction to most Americans was through her performance in the 2006 Golden Globe-winning Palestinian political thriller, Paradise Now.
Lubny Lubny () is a city in the Poltava Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Lubensky Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast.
Lubok In Russian, Lubok (Cyrillic: Лубок) means a variety of Russian popular prints in woodcut, characterized by simple graphics and narratives derived from literature, religious stories and popular tales. Lubki prints were used as decoration in houses and inns and might be regarded as a predecessor of the modern comic strip.
Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area born out of the peace park’s vision to establish a network of transfrontier conservation areas in Africa. It straddles the border between South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, southern Mozambique and Swaziland.
Lubomir Kavalek Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek (Czech: Lubomír Kaválek, born August 9 1943) is a noted Czech-American chess player. He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965.
Lubomyr Cardinal Husar [Husar () (born 26 February] [[1933) is a Cardinal of the Catholic Church and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a minority church in Ukraine but the second largest sui juris church in full communion with the Holy See. After the recent transfer of the see of Lviv to Kiev (Kyiv) in August, 2005, he is now the Ukrainian Greek Major Archbishop of Kiev and Halych.
Lubos Bartecko Ľuboš Bartečko (pronounced: Bar-Tetch-Ko) (Born - July 14, 1976 in Kežmarok, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a Slovak Professional Hockey Right Winger in the National Hockey League who has played for the St.Louis Blues and Atlanta Thrashers.
Lubrański Academy The Lubrański Academy (Polish: Akademia Lubrańskiego; Latin: Collegium Lubranscianum) was a university college established 1518 in Poznań by the bishop Jan Lubrański. It was the first school with university aspirations in Poznań (in fact it was not "full" university).
Lubrication Lubrication occurs when opposing surfaces are separated by a lubricant film. The applied load is carried by pressure generated within the fluid, and frictional resistance to motion arises entirely from the shearing of the viscous fluid.
Lubumbashi Lubumbashi (formerly Elisabethville) is ranked as the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (capital Kinshasa, formerly Zaire) and the hub of the southeastern part of the country. The copper-mining city serves as the capital of the relatively prosperous Katanga (formerly Shaba) province, lying near the Zambian border.
Lubusz Land Lubusz Land, (Polish: ziemia lubuska, German: Land Lebus, Czech: Lubušsko) is a historical ziemia region in Poland, on the Oder river. Historically at times Polish, the Imperial Bishopric of Lebus, east of Brandenburg, west of Greater Poland, south of Pomerania and north of Silesia.
Luby's massacre On October 16, 1991 in Killeen, Texas, a man named George Hennard drove his 1987 Ford Ranger truck into a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen Texas, yelled "This is what Bell County has done to me!" then opened fire on the restaurant's patrons and staff with a Glock 17 and later a Ruger P89.
Luc Boltanski Luc Boltanski is the leading figure in the new "pragmatic" school of French sociology (see: French Pragmatism). He is a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and is the founder of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale.
Luc Courchesne Luc Courchesne (born 1952 in St-Leonard d'Aston, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian artist who works in the field of interactive art. Since the early eighties he has spent his time researching interactivity, and campaigning for the inclusion of multimedia exhibits in museums.
Luc de la Corne Luc de la Corne, (b 1711 – d October 1, 1784) was the son of Jean-Louis de La Corne and the brother of Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne. As in the case of most of his contemporaries, he was an officer in the colonial regular troops.
Luc Etienne Périn Luc Etienne Périn, also known as Luc Étienne, (1908-1984)was a French writer and a proponent of 'Pataphysics. He was born on the 8th September, 1908, in the small town of Neuflize, in the Ardennes, and died on the 27th of November, 1984, in Reims.
Luc Ferry Luc Ferry (born January 1 1951) is a French philosopher and a notable proponent of Secular Humanism. From 2002 and until 2004 he served as the Minister of Education on the French cabinet led by Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
Luc Frieden Luc Frieden (born 16 September 1963 in Esch-sur-Alzette) is a Luxembourgian politician for the Christian Social People's Party (CSV). He has been Minister for Justice and Minister for the Treasury and Budget since 1998.
Luc Guindon Luc Bernard Guindon (July 31, 1943—) is a justice of the peace and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Luc Harvey Luc Harvey, born (April 4, 1964 in Chicoutimi, Quebec) is a Canadian politician and the current Member of Parliament for the riding of Louis-Hébert in Quebec. In 2006, he ran for office as a member of the Conservative Party against Bloc Québécois politician Roger Clavet and won with 34.
Luc Jouret Luc Jouret (October 17, 1947 - October 5, 1994), born in Kikwit, Belgian Congo, was a Belgian cult leader in Switzerland. He co-founded the Parti Communautaire Européen with Jean Thiriart, a leading member of the neo-Nazi Jeune Europe Belgian group.
Luc Longley Lucien James "Luc" Longley (born January 19 1969 in Melbourne, Australia) is a former professional basketball player, and also the first Australian to play in the NBA. He attended college at the University of New Mexico.
Luc Malo Luc Malo (born November 2, 1973 in Contrecoeur, Quebec) is a Canadian politician and the current Member of Parliament for the riding of Verchères—Les Patriotes. He ran as a member of the Bloc Québécois in the 2006 federal election and won with approximately 57% of the vote.
Luc Mesadieu Luc Mesadieu is a Haitian political figure and member of the political party New Christian Movement for a New Haiti. Mesadieu has been a political opponent of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and is known for being attacked by gang members associated with Amiot MĂ©tayer.
Luc Moullet Luc Moullet (born 14 October, 1937 in Paris) is a French film critic and filmmaker, and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave. Moullet's films are known for their humor, anti-authoritarian leanings and rigorously primitive aesthetic, which is heavily influenced by his love of American B-movies.
Luc Nilis Luc Nilis (born May 25, 1967 in Hasselt, Belgium) is a former Belgian football striker. He ended his career early in the 2000-01 season after he broke his leg in a match with his club Aston Villa following a clash with goalkeeper Richard Wright.
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (born 9 February 1986 in Yaounde, Cameroon) is a 6'7" Cameroonian basketball player who plays for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins in the Pacific Ten Conference of the NCAA.
Luc Sindjoun Luc Sindjoun (born March, 1964) is a Professor of Political Science at University of Yaoundé II (Cameroon); he is the first African scholar trained in African universities to be successful at the French competition for the promotion to the title of Agrégé de Science Politique. He had made several publications in French and English in renowned political science journals.
Luc Van Lierde Luc Van Lierde (born April 14, 1969 in Brugge) is an athlete from Belgium, who has been competing in triathlon since 1990. He twice won the Hawaii Ironman competition, the most prestigious triathlon event, and became world champion, having won every other title in his discipline, only a gold medal from the Summer Olympics eludes him.
Luc Van Tien (television) Luc Van Tien is a Vietnamese television show currently airing on the ImaginAsian network in the United States. Based on a 19th century epic poem, the show has been referred to as a "Vietnamese Romeo and Juliet.
Luc Venet Luc Venet is a friend of and spiritual collaborator with Satprem, and has translated many of the latter's books from French to English. He left a career in mathematics to devote himself to the spiritual work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and the possibility of transforming the human species.
Luc Wylder Luc Wylder (born November 17, 1958 in New Jersey) is the stage name for Raymond Reilly, Roman Catholic of Irish and French heritage, an American producer, director, digital cinematographer, pornographic actor, and webmaster. Wylder also owns and operates Fallen Angel Video.
Luca Bassani Luca Bassani is the Italian founder of the maritime design company Wally Yachts The company enjoyed a successful run designing and building futuristic and highly crafted sailing yachts which were very well received by the sailing professionals as well as the general public.
Luca Casarini Luca Casarini is an Italian activist and former proponent of the Tute Bianche movement. Casarini was influential in the development of the "white overalls" movement, that practiced social and civil disobedience while dressed in white overalls and padding (know as a "padded block").
Luca della Robbia Luca della Robbia (1400-1482) was a Florentine sculptor noted for his terracotta roundels. Della Robbia developed a pottery glaze that made his creations more durable in the outdoors and thus suitable for use on the exterior of buildings.
Luca Gaurico Luca Gaurico (in Latin, Lucas Gauricus) (March 12, 1476 - 1558) was an Italian astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician. He was born to a poor family in the Kingdom of Naples, and studied judicial astrology, a subject he defended in his Oratio de Inventoribus et Astrologiae Laudibus (1508).
Luca Giammarco Luca Giammarco, from Italy, is the top-ranked slalom skateboarder in the world. A multi-talented competitor, Giammarco was a competitive rock climber and placed in the 1999 and 2001 UIIA World Cup climbing competitions.
Luca Longhi Luca Longhi (1507-1580), was an Italian Mannerist painter from Ravenna, Italy who primarily produced religious paintings and portraits. His works include The Marriage of Saint Catherine, The Lady and the Unicorn Adoration by the Shepards [http://www.
Luca Maria Gambardella Luca Maria Gambardella (born 4 January 1962) has been co-director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA since 1995. Together with former IDSIA senior researcher Marco Dorigo and others he made substantial contributions to the rapidly growing research field of Artificial Ants, a set of multi-agent methods inspired by the pheromone-based communication of biological ants.
Luca Pianca Luca Pianca is Italian-Swiss musician-lutenist born in Lugano, Switzerland (his specialty is archlute). He studied with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Mozarteum Salzburg and collaborated with Concentus Musicus Wien since 1982.
Luca Princiotta Luca Princiotta, born July 12 1982 in Como, is an Italian guitarist. He began his career playing in the thrash metal band Deathector between 1996 and 1998, before joining the Iron Maiden tribute band The Clairvoyants.
Luca Romagnoli Luca Romagnoli (born on 12 September 1961 in Rome) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy with the fascist party Fiamma Tricolore, and is a member of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group in the European Parliament.
Luca Sacchi Luca Sacchi (born January 10, 1968 in Milan) is a former medley swimmer from Italy, who won the bronze medal in the 400m Individual Medley at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988.
Luca Stulli Luca Stulli (1772—1828) was a Jeronymite scientists who first made epidemiological studies of heritable skin disorders. His treatise of what became the 'mal de Meleda' on the Adriatic island of Mljet (Meleda) is a classic in the dermatologic literature.
Luca Zaia Luca Zaia (Conegliano, 1968), young president of the Province of Treviso from 1997 to 2005 (elected two times with the only support of the Lega Nord in 1997 and 2002), is definitely the rising-star of Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord in Veneto and though the very leader of the Liga Veneta.
Lucan Sarsfields Lucan Sarsfields is a Dublin based Gaelic Athletic Association club which was founded in 1886, making it one of the oldest GAA clubs in Dublin. Sarsfields first contested the Dublin Senior Football Championship in 1887.
Lucan, Dublin Lucan (Irish: Leamhcán) is a suburban town in South Dublin, Ireland on the western outskirts of Dublin city, 15km from the city centre. The town lies at the confluence of the River Liffey and the River Griffeen, its tributary.
Lucania Lucania was an ancient district of southern Italy, extending from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. To the north it adjoined Campania, Samnium and Apulia, and to the south it was separated by a narrow isthmus from the district of Bruttium.
Lucanus cervus Lucanus cervus is the best-known species of stag beetle (family Lucanidae), and is sometimes referred to simply as the stag beetle. It lives in holes in old trees and dead trunks, in the forest as well as in groves.
Lucaria The Lucaria was an ancient Roman feast, solemnized in the woods, where the Romans, defeated and pursued by the Gauls, retired and concealed themselves; it was held, on July 19, in a wood, between the Tyber and the road called Via Salaria.
Lucas Alamán Lucas Ignacio Alamán y Escalada (Guanajuato, Mexico, October 18, 1792—Mexico City, June 2, 1853) was a Mexican scientist, politician, historian and writer. He studied at the Real Colegio de Minas de la Nueva España.
Lucas Belvaux Lucas Belvaux (born 14 November 1961 in Namur, Belgium) is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the Trilogie, consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre.
Lucas Black Lucas York Black (born November 29, 1982) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles on the television series American Gothic, and in the films Sling Blade, Friday Night Lights, and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Lucas Brothers, Builders Charles Thomas [1820-1895] and Thomas Lucas [1822-1902] sons of James Lucas [1792-1865] Builder, of St Pancras, London started work on the Liverpool Street to Norwich railway, working for Sir Samuel Morton Peto and progressed to rebuilding his house, Somerleyton as well as his Lowestoft project, including the railway, the station, the Esplanade, St John’s church and several hotels. At their works in Lowestoft they pre-fabricated huts for the Brassey/Peto navvies who built the Crimea railway.
Lucas critique The Lucas Critique says that it's naive to try to predict the effect of a policy experiment based on correlations in historical data, especially high-level aggregated historical data. For example, Fort Knox has never been robbed, but that doesn't mean we can safely eliminate the guards, since the incentive to rob Fort Knox depends on the presence of the guards.
Lucas Cammareri Lucas Hernán Cammareri (born April 4, 1981 in Buenos Aires) is a field hockey forward from Argentina, who made his debut for the national squad in 2002, and competed for his native country in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He played in Holland for a while, at Dutch club SCHC, just like his brother Matias Cammareri.
Lucas Conrad Elmendorf Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (1758 - August 17, 1843) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Kingston, New York, he graduated from Princeton College in 1782, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1785 and practiced.
Lucas de Deus Santos Lucas de Deus Santos (born October 9 1982), nicknamed Caca, is a Brazilian professional football (soccer) midfielder who currently plays for Danish Superliga side Aalborg Boldspilklub. He is the brother of footballer Leonardo de Deus Santos.
Lucas Kanade method Optical flow methods try to calculate the motion between two image frames which are taken at times t and t+delta t at every pixel position. As a pixel at location (x,y,z,t) with intensity I(x,y,z,t) will have moved by delta x, delta y, delta z and delta t between the two frames, following image constraint equation can be given:
Lucas Leiva Lucas Pezzini Leiva (born January 9, 1987 in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul) is a Brazilian football (soccer) midfielder. In 2005, playing for GrĂŞmio, he won the Campeonato Brasileiro SĂ©rie B and the GauchĂŁo 2006.
Lucas Mire Lucas Miré (born 1972) is an American singer/songwriter based in Atlanta, Ga, whose music is characterized by personal lyrics, relationship themes, and melancholy melodies. His debut CD, "Forever's Not As Long As It Used To Be," was independently released in 2005 on Zakz Records.
Lucas number The Lucas numbers are an integer sequence named after the mathematician François Édouard Anatole Lucas (1842–1891), who studied both that sequence and the closely related Fibonacci numbers (both are Lucas sequences). Much like the Fibonacci numbers, each Lucas number is defined to be the sum of its two immediate predecessors.
Lucas Oil Stadium Lucas Oil Stadium is a retractable roof sports and entertainment facility currently under construction in Indianapolis, Indiana. It will replace the twenty-two-year-old RCA Dome as the home field of the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts franchise.
Lucas Ostiglia Lucas Ostiglia (born 3 May 1976) is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for French club Agen in the top level of rugby in France, the Top 14. He has also represented the Argentina national team, including representing them at the Rugby World Cup.
Lucas Pantelis Lucas Pantelis (born March 12, 1982 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays in the position as a central midfielder. He currently plays for Adelaide United in the newly formed Hyundai A-League.
Lucas Prata Lucas Prata is a dance music musician born in Queens, New York. He has produced many hits recognized by the dance and electronica community, including "Never Be Alone", "And She Said", "Love Of My Life" featuring Reina and "Let's Get It On.
Lucas Rey Lucas Rey (born October 11, 1982 in Buenos Aires) is a field hockey midfielder from Argentina, who plays club hockey in his native country for San Fernando. He is a member of the Men's National Team since 2002, and finished in 11th position at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Lucas Rincón Romero General Lucas Rincón Romero was the highest-ranking Venezuelan military officer at the time of the coup d'etat] against Venezuelan President [[Hugo Chávez in 2002. He announced in a television broadcast that Chávez had resigned, "se le solicitó al señor presidente la renuncia de su cargo, lo cual aceptó.
Lucas Scott Lucas Eugene Scott is a fictional character on the CW television series One Tree Hill, played by Chad Michael Murray. Lucas is Nathan Scott’s half brother and former rival, and must balance his tumultuous relationships with his father Dan Scott and the two girls in his life, Peyton Sawyer and Brooke Davis.
Lucas Terrier The exact origins of the Lucas terrier are not a matter of conjecture, as is the case with many breeds of dog. Simply, the Lucas terrier was produced by Sir Jocelyn Lucas and his kennel manageress/business partner, the Honourable Mrs Enid Plummer, by crossing a Norfolk dog (at that time known as the drop eared Norwich as the two breeds had not been separated) called Colonsay Cuffer with a small variety of Sealyham from Sir Jocelyn's Ilmer Kennel.
Lucas Trerice In 2004, Lucas Trerice achieved national attention in the United States for wrapping his friend Chris Kirk's entire apartment in Olympia, Washington, with aluminum foil. The prank took five days to complete and everything in the apartment was covered with the sole exception being Penn & Teller's book Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends.
Lucas van Leyden Lucas van Leyden (Leiden, 1489 – 1533 in Leiden), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch engraver and painter, born and mainly active in Leiden, who was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and is generally regarded as one of the finest engravers in the history of art. He was the pupil of his father, from whose hand no works are known, and of Cornelis Engelbrechtsz, but both of these were painters whereas Lucas himself was principally an engraver.
Lucas Vila Lucas Vila (born August 23, 1986 in Buenos Aires) is a field hockey striker from Argentina, who made his debut for the national squad in 2005, ater having played the Junior World Cup in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Since the 2004 Summer Olympics, in which he didn't compete, he is playing for Dutch club TMHC Tilburg in The Netherlands.
Lucas Watzenrode the Elder Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (German also Lukas, Polish Łukasz) (1400 – 1462) was a trader in the Hanseatic city of Thorun, father of bishop Lucas Watzenrode the Younger, and grandfather of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
Lucas Wolenczak Lucas Wolenczak (later Ensign Lucas Wolenczak) was a character on the television series seaQuest DSV, played by the late Jonathan Brandis. He is one of only three characters to remain on the show for all three seasons and is the only character to appear in every episode.
Lucas' reagent Lucas' reagent is a solution of zinc chloride in concentrated hydrochloric acid, used to classify alcohols of low molecular weight. The reaction is a substitution in which the chlorine replaces the hydroxy group.

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