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Lunar Pendant The Lunar Pendant is an ancient Gnostic pendant that was used by their Arch-Priest in various ceremonies. The pendant itself was said to hold the power of the moon and sun within it, and various deviations have been made throughout history.
Lunar Pool Lunar Pool is a rough billiards simulation created by Compile for the Nintendo Entertainment System, in which each stage is a differently shaped pool table. The object is to knock each ball into a pocket using a cue ball.
Lunar Receiving Laboratory The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) is a facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (Building 37) that was constructed to quarantine astronauts and material brought back from the Moon during the Apollo program.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is an unmanned orbiter planned for launch to the Moon in October 2008 aboard an Atlas 5 . It is an early element of the implementation of the United States Vision for Space Exploration and its objectives are primarily to support that policy, such as surveying lunar resources and identifying possible landing sites.
Lunar Society The Lunar Society was a discussion club of prominent industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England. At first called the Lunar Circle, 'Lunar Society' became the formal name by 1775.
Lunar Society Moonstones The Moonstones () are a set of eight carved memorials to various members of the Lunar Society. Made in 1998, they can be viewed in the grounds of the Asda supermarket in Queslett, Great Barr, Birmingham, England.
Lunar Strain Lunar Strain is the first album released by Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames, in 1994. In 1999, it was re-released in Japan, including all the tracks of the Subterranean album, under the title Lunar Strain & Subterranean.
Lunar terrane The Moon is composed of two major geologic provinces that have a unique origin, composition, and thermal evolution. The Procellarum KREEP Terrane is a small province on the near side of the Moon that has high abundances of KREEP.
Lunar: Dragon Song Lunar: Dragon Song (called in Japan and Europe) is a console role-playing game for the Nintendo DS developed by Japan Art Media and published by Marvelous Interactive and Ubisoft in 2005. In addition to being the first game in the Lunar series for the DS, it is also the first original game in the series since Lunar: Walking School in 1995, and the first new Lunar title (excluding remakes) released in North America since Lunar: Eternal Blue for the Sega CD.
Lunar: Eternal Blue Lunar: Eternal Blue is a turn-based role-playing game (RPG) released in 1994 for the Mega CD and in 1995 for its North American counterpart the Sega CD. It is part of the Lunar series and is the sequel to Lunar: The Silver Star.
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete is an enhanced remake of the 1993 RPG , a video game developed by Japan Art Media and published by Kadokawa Shoten. Silver Star Story Complete was originally released on the Sega Saturn console in Japan, but it has since been ported and re-released on several additional platforms, most notably the Sony Playstation.
Lunar: The Silver Star Lunar: The Silver Star (ă«ăŠ~サă»ă‚·ă«ăăĽă‚ąă‚żăĽ Runa Za ShirubÄ SutÄ) is the first game in the Lunar series and is a console RPG created by Game Arts for the Mega CD platform in Japan. It was the most popular game for the entire platform in Japan during the Mega CD's short lifespan.
Lunar: Walking School Lunar: Walking School (in Japan Lunar: Samposuru Gakuen, sometimes translated as Lunar: Strolling School) is a console role-playing game in the Lunar series released for the Sega Game Gear in Japan in 1996. Since then, no international versions or translations have officially been released.
Lunarin Lunarin is a band from Singapore who enjoy playing music in the "alternative rock" vein, and are often described as "heavy yet lyrical". Their style of music has earned them much recognition in Singapore's local music scene.
Lunascape Lunascape is a Belgian trip hop band founded in the mid-1990s by Kyoko Baertsoen and Walter Hilhorst. The group was initially formed under the name Calyx, but changed it to avoid confusion with a London drum and bass group by the same name.
Lunate Lunate is a term meaning crescent or moon-shaped. In the specialized terminology of lithic reduction, a lunate flake is a small, crescent-shaped flake removed from a stone tool during the process of pressure flaking.
Lunate bone The lunate bone (semilunar bone) is a bone in the human hand that may be distinguished by its deep concavity and crescentic outline. It is situated in the center of the proximal row of the carpus, or wrist, between the scaphoid and triangular bone.
Lunatic at Large On November 1, 2006, Philip Hobbs announced that he will be shepherding a film treatment of Lunatic at Large, which was commissioned by film director Stanley Kubrick for treatment from noir pulp novelist Jim Thompson in the 1950s, but it had become lost until Kubrick's 1999 death.http://imdb.
Lunatic Calm Lunatic Calm is a UK-based electronic music group, specializing in big-beat hardcore and down-tempo trip-hop. Formed in 1996 and comprised of Simon "sHack" Shackleton and Howard "Howie" Saunders, they composed and produced several high-energy tracks and two albums.
Lunatic Express The Lunatic Express was the name given to a railroad built by the British colonial government in East Africa during Victorian times. Officially called the Uganda Railway, it was constructed over the period 1895-1901 from Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria in the interior and later onward to Kampala in Uganda.
Lunawanna, Tasmania Lunawanna (Australian Postcode 7150) is a small township on the western side of Bruny Island, Tasmania, facing the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, named after part of the Tasmanian aboriginal name for Bruny Island, Lunawanna-alonnah (a nearby township a little to its north being named Alonnah.
Luncke Expedition Luncke Expedition (1957 - 1958) was an Antarctica expedition with a team lead by a Norwegian Luncke and based at Norway Station. The team conducted observations in meteorology, atmospheric science and glaciology.
Lund (Tribe) It is a tribe of balochistan originated from other tribes (mostly it is rind). Exact origins are not known but by seeing their generations now residing it is found that they are originated from central balochistan.
Lund Institute of Technology Lund Institute of Technology or Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH) refers to the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Originally established separate from the university in 1961, it was incorporated in 1969.
Lund Khwar Lund Khwar , pronounced as "Loon-d, Kh-waa-rh" is a famous historical village of District Takht Bhai in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Literally it means "the ever flowing stream or brook".
Lund Parish Church Lund Parish Church is a Church of England parish church serving the villages of Newton, Clifton and Salwick and is located on Church Lane in the village of Clifton in the English county of Lancashire. It is part of the deanery of Kirkham and is in the Diocese of Blackburn.
Lund Principle The Lund Principle is an important principle in ecumenical relations between Christian churches. It affirms that churches should act together in all matters except those in which deep differences of conviction compel them to act separately.
Lund string model In particle physics, the Lund string model is a phenomenological model of hadronization. It treats all but the highest-energy gluons as field lines, which are attracted to each other due to the gluon self-interaction and so form a narrow tube (or string) of strong color field.
Lund School of Economics and Management The Lund School of Economics and Management or Ekonomihögskolan is a business school at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. It is said to be one of the better business schools in Europe, and has been certified by EQUIS.
Lund University Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet), Universitas Gothorum Carolina, is a Swedish university and Scandinavia's largest institution for education and research,Welcome to Lund University located in Lund in southernmost Sweden. The university was founded in 1666 and is the second oldest within Sweden's present borders.
Lund University main building The main building of the Swedish Lund University was designed by architect Helgo Zettervall and inaugurated in 1882. Construction began in 1874, when the old main building Kungshuset had become too small for the growing number of students.
Lund, British Columbia Lund is a small craft harbour along the northern part of the Georgia Strait and an unincorporated village on the mainland coast of British Columbia. The main landmark in the village is the Lund Hotel, established in 1905.
Lund, Wisconsin Lund, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community located on the county line between Pepin and Pierce Counties, in central western Wisconsin, along the junctions of county highways "SS", "CC" (formerly WIS 183) and "J". Lund is located approximately 9 miles northwest from Pepin and 6 miles northeast from Stockholm, Wisconsin.
Lunda language Lunda, also known as Chilunda, is a Bantu language (of the larger Niger-Congo family) that is spoken in Zambia, Angola and, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lunda and its dialects are spoken and understood by perhaps 2.
Lundbeck H. Lundbeck A/S (KFX: LUN) (also known as Lundbeck) is a Danish international pharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development, production, marketing and sale of drugs for the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Lundberg Bakery (Austin, Texas) The Lundberg Bakery, also known as the Old Bakery and Emporium, is a historic bakery building currently serving as a gift shop in downtown Austin, Texas. The building was completed in 1876 and is located at 1006 Congress, half a block south of the Capitol grounds.
Lundell Settlement The Lundell Settlement was a class action taken again Dell Computers regarding design flaws on their Inspiron 5150 note book. There are a number of design flaws ranging from flaws in the cooling system of the notebook to a tab on the "C" panel pressing on the motherboard.
Lundenburgh Lundenburgh was a name given to London following the restoration of the city by King Alfred the Great in 886 AD. It refers to his policy of creating boroughs or defended places to help defend against the Danes.
Lunderskov municipality Lunderskov municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Vejle County near the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 96 km², and has a total population of 5,478 (2005).
Lunderston Bay Lunderston Bay on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde provides a popular beach and picnic area and is part of Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park. It lies in Inverclyde to the south of Gourock and gives access to a coastal walk continuing further south to Inverkip.
Lundestad family Lundestad is the name of a Norwegian family of which several scholars and intellectuals have originated. One nmotable menber is Geir Lundestad, historian, writer and chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
Lunds Studentsångförening Lunds Studentsångförening (Lund University Male Voice Choir) (LSS) is a Swedish amateur choir, which counts its history from 1831. Today one of Sweden's top male choirs, the choir has assumed many different shapes during its history.
Lundtoft Lundtoft is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in South Jutland County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 137 km², and has a total population of 6,184 (2005).
Lundy cabbage Lundy cabbage is a species of primitive brassicoid endemic to the island of Lundy off the southwestern coast of Great Britain, where it is sufficiently isolated to have formed its own species, with its endemic insect pollinators.
Lundy's Restaurant Lundy's Restaurant, also known as Lundy Brothers Restaurant, is an institution in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY. Irving Lundy started a business selling clams out of a pushcart which was then expanded to clam bar and in the 1920s, a clam shack built on stilts over the Bay.
Luneberg lens A Luneberg lens is a spherically symmetric, variable-index refracting structure which will form perfect geometrical images of two given concentric spheres onto each other. The Luneberg lens is a spherical lens (usually a ball lens) generally having a gradient of decreasing refractive index n radially out from its center.
Lunenburg (electoral district) Lunenburg was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1925 and from 1949 to 1953. Its boundary was that of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
Lunenburg English Lunenburg English is a dialect of English, spoken in the Lunenburg-Bridgewater towns in the province of Nova Scotia. It is sometimes called the "Bridgewater Accent" by much of the local men as well as those in the surrounding areas in Nova Scotia.
Lunete Lunete, (Welsh, English: Luned; French: Lunete, Lunet) in Arthurian legend, was the handmaiden and advisor to the Lady of the Fountain (Laudine). She is described in Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion as being "a charming brunette, prudent, clever and polite...
Lunette In architecture, a lunette (diminutive of French lune, "moon") is a half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void. A lunette is formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs.
Lunex Project The Lunex Project was a US Air Force plan for a manned lunar landing prior to the Apollo Program. One of the biggest differences between Lunex and Apollo was the decision to land the entire spacecraft on the Moon rather than have a separate lander take some of the astronauts to the surface and rendevous with the remaining astronauts in lunar orbit for the return to Earth.
Lung (Zang) As distinct from the Western medical concept of Lungs, the concept of Zang from Traditional Chinese Medicine is more a way of describing a set of interrelated parts than an anatomical organ. (See Zang Fu theory)
Lung allocation score The lung allocation score or LAS is a numerical value used by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to assign relative priority for distributing donated lungs for transplantation within the United States. The lung allocation score takes into account various measures of a patient's health in order to direct donated organs towards the patients who are in direst need of a lung transplant.
Lung fung soup Lung fung soup ([pinyin: lĂłng fèng tÄng), or Dragon phoenix soup, is a thick seafood] or [[gou rou soup made with lemon, chili peppers, and Chinese vegetables. Other variations could include a vegetarian version of the same with mushrooms instead of seafood.
Lung Fu Shan Country Park Lung Fu Shan Country Park (龍虎山éŠé‡Žĺ…¬ĺś’, established December 18 1998) is a country park located in the Central and Western District of Hong Kong. It covers the densely vegetated slopes of Lung Fu Shan, including the disused Pinewood Battery as well as the Pinewood Garden picnic area, providing a scenic backdrop to the residential and commercial districts of Hong Kong Island.
Lung Leg Born Elizabeth Carr in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lung Leg is best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album EVOL. The pin-up girl and star of the transgressive movement, she disappeared as quickly as she rose to fame.
Lung Leg (band) Lung Leg were an indie band from Glasgow, formed in 1994, and disbanded 1999. They were known for a sparsely recorded stop-start kind of music influenced by C86 and riot grrrl as much as by post-punk bands such as The Fall and The Fire Engines.
Lung Leng Lung Leng is an archaeological site located in Sa Binh commune, Sa Thay district, Kon Tum Province of the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. The site was discovered in 1999 during the construction of a hydroelectric power plant.
Lung transplantation Lung transplantation is a surgical procedure in which a patient's diseased lungs are partially or totally replaced by lungs which come from a donor. While lung transplants carry certain associated risks, they can also extend life expectancy and enhance the quality of life for end-stage pulmonary patients.
Lunga (Treshnish Isles) The Isle of Lunga is the largest of the Treshnish Isles group. It is the main centre of bird population with thousands of puffins, guillemots, razorbills, storm petrels and Manx Shearwaters breeding on Lunga and on the Harp Rock, a sea stack separated by a narrow gut.
Lungbarrow Lungbarrow is an original novel written by Marc Platt and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Published in Virgin Books' New Adventures range, it was the last of that range to feature the Seventh Doctor.
Lunge (exercise) The lunge is a weight training exercise that is used to strengthen the quadriceps muscle, gluteal muscles and the muscles comprising the "hamstrings", the semitendinosus, the semimembranosus, and the biceps femoris. A longe lunge emphasizes the glutes whereas a short lunge emphasizes the quadriceps.
Lungfish Lungfishes are sarcopterygian fish belonging to the order Dipnoi. Lungfish are best-known for retaining characteristics primitive within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and structures primitive within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed internal skeleton.
Lungi The lungi (Bangla: লŕ§ŕ¦™ŕ§Ťŕ¦—ি) is a garment worn around the waist in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar. While its origin is found in South Indian culture, it is worn by diverse communities across Southern Asia.
Lungisani Ndlela Lungisani Lionel Ndlela (born September 8 1980 in Frankfort, Free State) is a South African football (soccer) striker for Premier Soccer League club Mamelodi Sundowns and South Africa. At 2m, he is arguably one of the tallest players in world football.
Lungless salamander Lungless salamanders (Family Plethodontidae) are salamanders which do not have lungs and instead conduct respiration through their skin and the tissues lining their mouth. Currently approximately 376 species of plethodontid salamanders are known, making up the majority of known species (Min et al.
Lungo Lungo is italian for 'long', and refers to the coffee beverage made by using an espresso machine to make an espresso (single or double dose or shot) with much more water (generally twice as much), resulting in a stretched espresso, a lungo.
Lungwebungu River The Lungwebungu River is a river in southeastern Africa, and the largest tributary of the Zambezi River. The headwaters of the Lungwebungu are in central Angola, it flows 645 km through Angola and Zambia, joining the Zambezi in Zambia.
Lunch (Dragon Ball) Lunch is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball and the anime Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. She is known as Launch in the FUNimation dub and she is known as Marilynn in an English-language Dragon Ball dub from the 1980's.
Lunch box The lunch box, also referred to as a lunch pail or lunch kit, is a rigid container used for carrying food. The essential idea of a food container has been around for a very long time, but it wasn't until people began using tobacco tins to haul meals in the early 20th century, followed by the use of lithographed images on metal, that the containers became a staple of western youth, and in turn, a marketable product in the eyes of manufacturers.
Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows is a compilation album of previously unreleased demo tracks recorded in the early 1990s by Marilyn Manson (then known as Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids). Original guitarist Scott Putesky ("Daisy Berkowitz") obtained the rights to these recordings in a lawsuit against Brian Warner, and has announced that this release is only the first in a planned series of Spooky Kids CDs.
Lunch counter A lunch counter is a small restaurant, much like a diner, where the patron sits on a stool on one side of the bar and the server serves from the other side of the bar, where the kitchen is. As the name suggests, they were most widely used for the lunch meal.
Lunch lady Lunch lady is slang American term for a woman who serves lunch in a school cafeteria. Since the 1960's, Lunch Ladies have sometimes been caricatured as overweight uncaring women with hairnets, rubber gloves, glasses and moles.
Lunch with the Devil Released in 2001 on Deep Shag Records, Lunch With The Devil features the soon to be forgotten classics "Poodlecide", a tribute to 80's metal icon Ronnie James Dio ("Dio Rocks!"), and a twisted ballad of unbidden lust that borders on stalking ("The Thighs Of Tammy Faye" ).
Lunchables [Lunchables Pizza box (Spiderman edition)] Lunchables are Oscar Mayer/Kraft combinations of food that are packaged and aimed at children's lunches. In late 2005 they were added to Sensible Solution's line of products to make them more healthy.
Lunchbox locker A Lunch Box Locker is a form of Locking differential that is installed inside of the differential carrier. Because the differential carrier does not have to be removed from the axle housing to install a Lunchbox Locker, they are typically easier to install and less expensive than a Full-Carrier replacement locking differential.
Luncheon Voucher The Luncheon Voucher (LV) is a paper ticket used by some employees in the United Kingdom to pay for meals in private restaurants. It allows companies to subsidise mid-day meals (luncheons) for their employees without having to run their own canteens.
Lunchlady Doris In the animated series The Simpsons, Lunchlady Doris (originally voiced by Doris Grau) is an overweight, middle-aged, and laconic worker at the Springfield Elementary School cafeteria. During school cut backs, she also served as the school nurse and in the episode Much Apu About Nothing she was seen as a mail carrier.
Lunchtime Live Lunchtime Live, also referred to as Lunchtime Live with Kay Burley, is a two-hour weekday show in the United Kingdom on Sky News, hosted by Kay Burley. Usually airing between 12pm and 2pm, the show combines rolling-news coverage with reports on various "human interest" stories.
Luni, Italy Luni is a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Ortonovo, province of La Spezia, in the Liguria region of northern Italy. It gives its name to Lunigiana, a region spanning eastern Liguria and northern Tuscany (province of Massa and Carrara).
Lunicus Lunicus is a 1994 computer game developed by Cyberflix and published by Paramount InteractiveGeorgia Tech Alumni Association - Interactive Adventure, dated Fall 1994. It shares many traits in both graphical style and gameplay with some of Cyberflix's other games, like Jump Raven.
Lunigiana Lunigiana is an historical territory of Italy, which today falls within the provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara. Its borders derive from the ancient Roman settlement, later the Medieval diocese of Luni, which no longer exists.
Luninets Luninets (, ) is a town and administrative centre for the Luninets district in Brest Province, Belarus, before which it was in Poland (1540-1793, 1920-1939) and Russia and the Soviet Union (1793-1920, 1939-1941, 1944-1991). It has a population of some 24,000, and is immediately east of the Pinsk district within Brest.
Lunisolar calendar A lunisolar calendar is a calendar whose date indicates both the moon phase and the time of the solar year. If the solar year is defined as a tropical year then a lunisolar calendar will give an indication of the season; if it is taken as a sidereal year then the calendar will predict the constellation near which the full moon may occur.
Luniz Luniz were a Oakland rap duo formed by rappers Yukmouth and Numskull. They released an internationally successful hit in 1995 entitled "I Got 5 on It", two versions of which appear on their album Operation Stackola.
Lunlun Zou Lunlun Zou (surname Zou; Chinese language - traditional: 鄒倫倫; simplified: 邹伦伦; pinyin: Zōu Lún Lún) is a player and teacher of the guzheng, a Chinese zither. She has performed at many concert halls and opera houses around the world, including Vienna, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sydney, and has performed for China's President Jiang Zemin and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Lunn Poly Lunn Poly was the largest chain of travel agents in the United Kingdom. The company originated from two successful travel agencies which had been established in 1890s; The Polytechnic Touring Association and Sir Henry Lunn Travel.
Luno The White Stallion Luno The White Stallion was a Terry Toons television series that aired in the mid-1960s. It centered on a little boy named Tim who had a marble Pegasus horse named Luno who would come alive and whisk him off on adventures in far off lands when Tim said the words, "Oh winged horse of marble white, take me on a magic flight".
Lunokhod 1 Lunokhod 1 (Đ›Ńноход, moon walker in Russian) was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17.
Luny Tunes Luny Tunes are a Dominican reggaeton production duo composed of Francisco Saldaña (Luny) (born June 23, 1979) and VĂctor Cabrera (Tunes) (born April 12, 1981) . Both members were born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in the Boston metropolitan area until they moved to Puerto Rico where their success started with the help of DJ Nelson as their executive producer and promoter.
Luo (family of ethnic groups) The Luo (also spelled Lwo) are a family of related ethnic groups (tribes) who live in an area that stretches from the south of Sudan, through Northern Uganda and Eastern Congo (DRC), into Western Kenya, and ending in the upper tip of Tanzania. These people speak an Eastern Sudanic (Nilotic) language, a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
Luo (surname) Luo refers to the Mandarin romanizations of the Chinese surnames 羅 (Simplified Chinese: 罗, pinyin: Luó, Jyutping: Lo4) and 駱 (Simplified Chinese: 骆, pinyin: Luò, Jyutping: Lok3). Of the two surnames, 羅 is much more common among Chinese people.
Luo Binwang Luo Binwang (駱賓王 or 骆宾王) (around 640 - 684) of the Tang Dynasty, was a Chinese poet born at Yiwu, Wuzhou, Zhejiang, but raised in Shandong. He is grouped with Wang Bo, Yang Jiong and Lu Zhaolin as one of the Four Greats of the Early Tang as the most outstanding poets of their time.
Luo Da You Luo Da You, or Lo Ta-yu (TC: 羅大佑, SC: 罗大佑, PY: LĂşo DÄ Yòu) is an influential Taiwanese singer-songwriter who, during the 1980s, revolutionized Chinese pop and rock music with his melodic lyrics, his love songs, and his witty social and political commentary that he infused in his more political songs, often to the point that some of his songs were suppressed in Taiwan and China during the 1980s. He is considered by many to be the "Godfather of modern Chinese rock music" and is recognized as a major cultural icon in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China.
Luo Guanzhong LuĂł GuĂ nzhĹŤng (Traditional Chinese: 羅貫ä¸; Wade Giles: Lo Kuan-chung) (c 1330 - 1400) was a 14th century Chinese author attributed with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing Outlaws of the Marsh, two of the most revered adventure epics in Chinese literature.
Luo Hu Commercial City Luohu Commercial City (simplified Chinese: 罗湖商业城; traditional Chinese: 羅湖商ćĄć; pinyin: luĂłhĂşshÄngyèchĂ©ng) is an enclosed shopping mall located on the Shenzhen side of the Shenzhen River, right outside the entrance/exit to Luohu Immigration Control Point.
Luo languages The Luo languages comprise about 15 languages spoken in an area ranging from Southern Sudan via Uganda to Southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into Northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They form one of the two branches of Western Nilotic, the other being Dinka-Nuer.
Luo Points Luo Points is an acupuncture term referring to special points in the body that are believed to have greater significance. According to acupuncture theory, the points, twelve in all, are places where the body can be manipulated to greater effect when applying acupuncture or tui na techniques, and can be used to aid the circulation of qi so as to keep the body healthy.
Luo Xian Luo Xian an officer of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms Period of China. Xian ended up being relegated to Ba Dong for not siding with Huang Hao of the Imperial Court who had seized true power of Shu, through the ineptitude of Liu Shan.
Luohan (martial arts) Luohan () translates to arhat and is a fighting technique of Asian martial arts such as Bangau Putih and Eighteen Luohan Fist (p=shĂbÄlĂşohĂ nquán). Luohan techniques are characterized by very strong arms and deep stances, with physically strong movements and an upright back.
Lunar Pool Lunar Pool is a rough billiards simulation created by Compile for the Nintendo Entertainment System, in which each stage is a differently shaped pool table. The object is to knock each ball into a pocket using a cue ball.
Lunar Receiving Laboratory The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) is a facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (Building 37) that was constructed to quarantine astronauts and material brought back from the Moon during the Apollo program.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is an unmanned orbiter planned for launch to the Moon in October 2008 aboard an Atlas 5 . It is an early element of the implementation of the United States Vision for Space Exploration and its objectives are primarily to support that policy, such as surveying lunar resources and identifying possible landing sites.
Lunar Society The Lunar Society was a discussion club of prominent industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England. At first called the Lunar Circle, 'Lunar Society' became the formal name by 1775.
Lunar Society Moonstones The Moonstones () are a set of eight carved memorials to various members of the Lunar Society. Made in 1998, they can be viewed in the grounds of the Asda supermarket in Queslett, Great Barr, Birmingham, England.
Lunar Strain Lunar Strain is the first album released by Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames, in 1994. In 1999, it was re-released in Japan, including all the tracks of the Subterranean album, under the title Lunar Strain & Subterranean.
Lunar terrane The Moon is composed of two major geologic provinces that have a unique origin, composition, and thermal evolution. The Procellarum KREEP Terrane is a small province on the near side of the Moon that has high abundances of KREEP.
Lunar: Dragon Song Lunar: Dragon Song (called in Japan and Europe) is a console role-playing game for the Nintendo DS developed by Japan Art Media and published by Marvelous Interactive and Ubisoft in 2005. In addition to being the first game in the Lunar series for the DS, it is also the first original game in the series since Lunar: Walking School in 1995, and the first new Lunar title (excluding remakes) released in North America since Lunar: Eternal Blue for the Sega CD.
Lunar: Eternal Blue Lunar: Eternal Blue is a turn-based role-playing game (RPG) released in 1994 for the Mega CD and in 1995 for its North American counterpart the Sega CD. It is part of the Lunar series and is the sequel to Lunar: The Silver Star.
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete is an enhanced remake of the 1993 RPG , a video game developed by Japan Art Media and published by Kadokawa Shoten. Silver Star Story Complete was originally released on the Sega Saturn console in Japan, but it has since been ported and re-released on several additional platforms, most notably the Sony Playstation.
Lunar: The Silver Star Lunar: The Silver Star (ă«ăŠ~サă»ă‚·ă«ăăĽă‚ąă‚żăĽ Runa Za ShirubÄ SutÄ) is the first game in the Lunar series and is a console RPG created by Game Arts for the Mega CD platform in Japan. It was the most popular game for the entire platform in Japan during the Mega CD's short lifespan.
Lunar: Walking School Lunar: Walking School (in Japan Lunar: Samposuru Gakuen, sometimes translated as Lunar: Strolling School) is a console role-playing game in the Lunar series released for the Sega Game Gear in Japan in 1996. Since then, no international versions or translations have officially been released.
Lunarin Lunarin is a band from Singapore who enjoy playing music in the "alternative rock" vein, and are often described as "heavy yet lyrical". Their style of music has earned them much recognition in Singapore's local music scene.
Lunascape Lunascape is a Belgian trip hop band founded in the mid-1990s by Kyoko Baertsoen and Walter Hilhorst. The group was initially formed under the name Calyx, but changed it to avoid confusion with a London drum and bass group by the same name.
Lunate Lunate is a term meaning crescent or moon-shaped. In the specialized terminology of lithic reduction, a lunate flake is a small, crescent-shaped flake removed from a stone tool during the process of pressure flaking.
Lunate bone The lunate bone (semilunar bone) is a bone in the human hand that may be distinguished by its deep concavity and crescentic outline. It is situated in the center of the proximal row of the carpus, or wrist, between the scaphoid and triangular bone.
Lunatic at Large On November 1, 2006, Philip Hobbs announced that he will be shepherding a film treatment of Lunatic at Large, which was commissioned by film director Stanley Kubrick for treatment from noir pulp novelist Jim Thompson in the 1950s, but it had become lost until Kubrick's 1999 death.http://imdb.
Lunatic Calm Lunatic Calm is a UK-based electronic music group, specializing in big-beat hardcore and down-tempo trip-hop. Formed in 1996 and comprised of Simon "sHack" Shackleton and Howard "Howie" Saunders, they composed and produced several high-energy tracks and two albums.
Lunatic Express The Lunatic Express was the name given to a railroad built by the British colonial government in East Africa during Victorian times. Officially called the Uganda Railway, it was constructed over the period 1895-1901 from Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria in the interior and later onward to Kampala in Uganda.
Lunawanna, Tasmania Lunawanna (Australian Postcode 7150) is a small township on the western side of Bruny Island, Tasmania, facing the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, named after part of the Tasmanian aboriginal name for Bruny Island, Lunawanna-alonnah (a nearby township a little to its north being named Alonnah.
Luncke Expedition Luncke Expedition (1957 - 1958) was an Antarctica expedition with a team lead by a Norwegian Luncke and based at Norway Station. The team conducted observations in meteorology, atmospheric science and glaciology.
Lund (Tribe) It is a tribe of balochistan originated from other tribes (mostly it is rind). Exact origins are not known but by seeing their generations now residing it is found that they are originated from central balochistan.
Lund Institute of Technology Lund Institute of Technology or Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH) refers to the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Originally established separate from the university in 1961, it was incorporated in 1969.
Lund Khwar Lund Khwar , pronounced as "Loon-d, Kh-waa-rh" is a famous historical village of District Takht Bhai in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Literally it means "the ever flowing stream or brook".
Lund Parish Church Lund Parish Church is a Church of England parish church serving the villages of Newton, Clifton and Salwick and is located on Church Lane in the village of Clifton in the English county of Lancashire. It is part of the deanery of Kirkham and is in the Diocese of Blackburn.
Lund Principle The Lund Principle is an important principle in ecumenical relations between Christian churches. It affirms that churches should act together in all matters except those in which deep differences of conviction compel them to act separately.
Lund string model In particle physics, the Lund string model is a phenomenological model of hadronization. It treats all but the highest-energy gluons as field lines, which are attracted to each other due to the gluon self-interaction and so form a narrow tube (or string) of strong color field.
Lund School of Economics and Management The Lund School of Economics and Management or Ekonomihögskolan is a business school at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. It is said to be one of the better business schools in Europe, and has been certified by EQUIS.
Lund University Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet), Universitas Gothorum Carolina, is a Swedish university and Scandinavia's largest institution for education and research,Welcome to Lund University located in Lund in southernmost Sweden. The university was founded in 1666 and is the second oldest within Sweden's present borders.
Lund University main building The main building of the Swedish Lund University was designed by architect Helgo Zettervall and inaugurated in 1882. Construction began in 1874, when the old main building Kungshuset had become too small for the growing number of students.
Lund, British Columbia Lund is a small craft harbour along the northern part of the Georgia Strait and an unincorporated village on the mainland coast of British Columbia. The main landmark in the village is the Lund Hotel, established in 1905.
Lund, Wisconsin Lund, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community located on the county line between Pepin and Pierce Counties, in central western Wisconsin, along the junctions of county highways "SS", "CC" (formerly WIS 183) and "J". Lund is located approximately 9 miles northwest from Pepin and 6 miles northeast from Stockholm, Wisconsin.
Lunda language Lunda, also known as Chilunda, is a Bantu language (of the larger Niger-Congo family) that is spoken in Zambia, Angola and, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lunda and its dialects are spoken and understood by perhaps 2.
Lundbeck H. Lundbeck A/S (KFX: LUN) (also known as Lundbeck) is a Danish international pharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development, production, marketing and sale of drugs for the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Lundberg Bakery (Austin, Texas) The Lundberg Bakery, also known as the Old Bakery and Emporium, is a historic bakery building currently serving as a gift shop in downtown Austin, Texas. The building was completed in 1876 and is located at 1006 Congress, half a block south of the Capitol grounds.
Lundell Settlement The Lundell Settlement was a class action taken again Dell Computers regarding design flaws on their Inspiron 5150 note book. There are a number of design flaws ranging from flaws in the cooling system of the notebook to a tab on the "C" panel pressing on the motherboard.
Lundenburgh Lundenburgh was a name given to London following the restoration of the city by King Alfred the Great in 886 AD. It refers to his policy of creating boroughs or defended places to help defend against the Danes.
Lunderskov municipality Lunderskov municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Vejle County near the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 96 km², and has a total population of 5,478 (2005).
Lunderston Bay Lunderston Bay on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde provides a popular beach and picnic area and is part of Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park. It lies in Inverclyde to the south of Gourock and gives access to a coastal walk continuing further south to Inverkip.
Lundestad family Lundestad is the name of a Norwegian family of which several scholars and intellectuals have originated. One nmotable menber is Geir Lundestad, historian, writer and chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
Lunds Studentsångförening Lunds Studentsångförening (Lund University Male Voice Choir) (LSS) is a Swedish amateur choir, which counts its history from 1831. Today one of Sweden's top male choirs, the choir has assumed many different shapes during its history.
Lundtoft Lundtoft is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in South Jutland County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 137 km², and has a total population of 6,184 (2005).
Lundy cabbage Lundy cabbage is a species of primitive brassicoid endemic to the island of Lundy off the southwestern coast of Great Britain, where it is sufficiently isolated to have formed its own species, with its endemic insect pollinators.
Lundy's Restaurant Lundy's Restaurant, also known as Lundy Brothers Restaurant, is an institution in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY. Irving Lundy started a business selling clams out of a pushcart which was then expanded to clam bar and in the 1920s, a clam shack built on stilts over the Bay.
Luneberg lens A Luneberg lens is a spherically symmetric, variable-index refracting structure which will form perfect geometrical images of two given concentric spheres onto each other. The Luneberg lens is a spherical lens (usually a ball lens) generally having a gradient of decreasing refractive index n radially out from its center.
Lunenburg (electoral district) Lunenburg was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1925 and from 1949 to 1953. Its boundary was that of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
Lunenburg English Lunenburg English is a dialect of English, spoken in the Lunenburg-Bridgewater towns in the province of Nova Scotia. It is sometimes called the "Bridgewater Accent" by much of the local men as well as those in the surrounding areas in Nova Scotia.
Lunete Lunete, (Welsh, English: Luned; French: Lunete, Lunet) in Arthurian legend, was the handmaiden and advisor to the Lady of the Fountain (Laudine). She is described in Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion as being "a charming brunette, prudent, clever and polite...
Lunette In architecture, a lunette (diminutive of French lune, "moon") is a half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void. A lunette is formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs.
Lunex Project The Lunex Project was a US Air Force plan for a manned lunar landing prior to the Apollo Program. One of the biggest differences between Lunex and Apollo was the decision to land the entire spacecraft on the Moon rather than have a separate lander take some of the astronauts to the surface and rendevous with the remaining astronauts in lunar orbit for the return to Earth.
Lung (Zang) As distinct from the Western medical concept of Lungs, the concept of Zang from Traditional Chinese Medicine is more a way of describing a set of interrelated parts than an anatomical organ. (See Zang Fu theory)
Lung allocation score The lung allocation score or LAS is a numerical value used by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to assign relative priority for distributing donated lungs for transplantation within the United States. The lung allocation score takes into account various measures of a patient's health in order to direct donated organs towards the patients who are in direst need of a lung transplant.
Lung fung soup Lung fung soup ([pinyin: lĂłng fèng tÄng), or Dragon phoenix soup, is a thick seafood] or [[gou rou soup made with lemon, chili peppers, and Chinese vegetables. Other variations could include a vegetarian version of the same with mushrooms instead of seafood.
Lung Fu Shan Country Park Lung Fu Shan Country Park (龍虎山éŠé‡Žĺ…¬ĺś’, established December 18 1998) is a country park located in the Central and Western District of Hong Kong. It covers the densely vegetated slopes of Lung Fu Shan, including the disused Pinewood Battery as well as the Pinewood Garden picnic area, providing a scenic backdrop to the residential and commercial districts of Hong Kong Island.
Lung Leg Born Elizabeth Carr in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lung Leg is best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album EVOL. The pin-up girl and star of the transgressive movement, she disappeared as quickly as she rose to fame.
Lung Leg (band) Lung Leg were an indie band from Glasgow, formed in 1994, and disbanded 1999. They were known for a sparsely recorded stop-start kind of music influenced by C86 and riot grrrl as much as by post-punk bands such as The Fall and The Fire Engines.
Lung Leng Lung Leng is an archaeological site located in Sa Binh commune, Sa Thay district, Kon Tum Province of the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. The site was discovered in 1999 during the construction of a hydroelectric power plant.
Lung transplantation Lung transplantation is a surgical procedure in which a patient's diseased lungs are partially or totally replaced by lungs which come from a donor. While lung transplants carry certain associated risks, they can also extend life expectancy and enhance the quality of life for end-stage pulmonary patients.
Lunga (Treshnish Isles) The Isle of Lunga is the largest of the Treshnish Isles group. It is the main centre of bird population with thousands of puffins, guillemots, razorbills, storm petrels and Manx Shearwaters breeding on Lunga and on the Harp Rock, a sea stack separated by a narrow gut.
Lungbarrow Lungbarrow is an original novel written by Marc Platt and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Published in Virgin Books' New Adventures range, it was the last of that range to feature the Seventh Doctor.
Lunge (exercise) The lunge is a weight training exercise that is used to strengthen the quadriceps muscle, gluteal muscles and the muscles comprising the "hamstrings", the semitendinosus, the semimembranosus, and the biceps femoris. A longe lunge emphasizes the glutes whereas a short lunge emphasizes the quadriceps.
Lungfish Lungfishes are sarcopterygian fish belonging to the order Dipnoi. Lungfish are best-known for retaining characteristics primitive within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and structures primitive within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed internal skeleton.
Lungi The lungi (Bangla: লŕ§ŕ¦™ŕ§Ťŕ¦—ি) is a garment worn around the waist in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar. While its origin is found in South Indian culture, it is worn by diverse communities across Southern Asia.
Lungisani Ndlela Lungisani Lionel Ndlela (born September 8 1980 in Frankfort, Free State) is a South African football (soccer) striker for Premier Soccer League club Mamelodi Sundowns and South Africa. At 2m, he is arguably one of the tallest players in world football.
Lungless salamander Lungless salamanders (Family Plethodontidae) are salamanders which do not have lungs and instead conduct respiration through their skin and the tissues lining their mouth. Currently approximately 376 species of plethodontid salamanders are known, making up the majority of known species (Min et al.
Lungo Lungo is italian for 'long', and refers to the coffee beverage made by using an espresso machine to make an espresso (single or double dose or shot) with much more water (generally twice as much), resulting in a stretched espresso, a lungo.
Lungwebungu River The Lungwebungu River is a river in southeastern Africa, and the largest tributary of the Zambezi River. The headwaters of the Lungwebungu are in central Angola, it flows 645 km through Angola and Zambia, joining the Zambezi in Zambia.
Lunch (Dragon Ball) Lunch is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball and the anime Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. She is known as Launch in the FUNimation dub and she is known as Marilynn in an English-language Dragon Ball dub from the 1980's.
Lunch box The lunch box, also referred to as a lunch pail or lunch kit, is a rigid container used for carrying food. The essential idea of a food container has been around for a very long time, but it wasn't until people began using tobacco tins to haul meals in the early 20th century, followed by the use of lithographed images on metal, that the containers became a staple of western youth, and in turn, a marketable product in the eyes of manufacturers.
Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows is a compilation album of previously unreleased demo tracks recorded in the early 1990s by Marilyn Manson (then known as Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids). Original guitarist Scott Putesky ("Daisy Berkowitz") obtained the rights to these recordings in a lawsuit against Brian Warner, and has announced that this release is only the first in a planned series of Spooky Kids CDs.
Lunch counter A lunch counter is a small restaurant, much like a diner, where the patron sits on a stool on one side of the bar and the server serves from the other side of the bar, where the kitchen is. As the name suggests, they were most widely used for the lunch meal.
Lunch lady Lunch lady is slang American term for a woman who serves lunch in a school cafeteria. Since the 1960's, Lunch Ladies have sometimes been caricatured as overweight uncaring women with hairnets, rubber gloves, glasses and moles.
Lunch with the Devil Released in 2001 on Deep Shag Records, Lunch With The Devil features the soon to be forgotten classics "Poodlecide", a tribute to 80's metal icon Ronnie James Dio ("Dio Rocks!"), and a twisted ballad of unbidden lust that borders on stalking ("The Thighs Of Tammy Faye" ).
Lunchables [Lunchables Pizza box (Spiderman edition)] Lunchables are Oscar Mayer/Kraft combinations of food that are packaged and aimed at children's lunches. In late 2005 they were added to Sensible Solution's line of products to make them more healthy.
Lunchbox locker A Lunch Box Locker is a form of Locking differential that is installed inside of the differential carrier. Because the differential carrier does not have to be removed from the axle housing to install a Lunchbox Locker, they are typically easier to install and less expensive than a Full-Carrier replacement locking differential.
Luncheon Voucher The Luncheon Voucher (LV) is a paper ticket used by some employees in the United Kingdom to pay for meals in private restaurants. It allows companies to subsidise mid-day meals (luncheons) for their employees without having to run their own canteens.
Lunchlady Doris In the animated series The Simpsons, Lunchlady Doris (originally voiced by Doris Grau) is an overweight, middle-aged, and laconic worker at the Springfield Elementary School cafeteria. During school cut backs, she also served as the school nurse and in the episode Much Apu About Nothing she was seen as a mail carrier.
Lunchtime Live Lunchtime Live, also referred to as Lunchtime Live with Kay Burley, is a two-hour weekday show in the United Kingdom on Sky News, hosted by Kay Burley. Usually airing between 12pm and 2pm, the show combines rolling-news coverage with reports on various "human interest" stories.
Luni, Italy Luni is a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Ortonovo, province of La Spezia, in the Liguria region of northern Italy. It gives its name to Lunigiana, a region spanning eastern Liguria and northern Tuscany (province of Massa and Carrara).
Lunicus Lunicus is a 1994 computer game developed by Cyberflix and published by Paramount InteractiveGeorgia Tech Alumni Association - Interactive Adventure, dated Fall 1994. It shares many traits in both graphical style and gameplay with some of Cyberflix's other games, like Jump Raven.
Lunigiana Lunigiana is an historical territory of Italy, which today falls within the provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara. Its borders derive from the ancient Roman settlement, later the Medieval diocese of Luni, which no longer exists.
Luninets Luninets (, ) is a town and administrative centre for the Luninets district in Brest Province, Belarus, before which it was in Poland (1540-1793, 1920-1939) and Russia and the Soviet Union (1793-1920, 1939-1941, 1944-1991). It has a population of some 24,000, and is immediately east of the Pinsk district within Brest.
Lunisolar calendar A lunisolar calendar is a calendar whose date indicates both the moon phase and the time of the solar year. If the solar year is defined as a tropical year then a lunisolar calendar will give an indication of the season; if it is taken as a sidereal year then the calendar will predict the constellation near which the full moon may occur.
Luniz Luniz were a Oakland rap duo formed by rappers Yukmouth and Numskull. They released an internationally successful hit in 1995 entitled "I Got 5 on It", two versions of which appear on their album Operation Stackola.
Lunlun Zou Lunlun Zou (surname Zou; Chinese language - traditional: 鄒倫倫; simplified: 邹伦伦; pinyin: Zōu Lún Lún) is a player and teacher of the guzheng, a Chinese zither. She has performed at many concert halls and opera houses around the world, including Vienna, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sydney, and has performed for China's President Jiang Zemin and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Lunn Poly Lunn Poly was the largest chain of travel agents in the United Kingdom. The company originated from two successful travel agencies which had been established in 1890s; The Polytechnic Touring Association and Sir Henry Lunn Travel.
Luno The White Stallion Luno The White Stallion was a Terry Toons television series that aired in the mid-1960s. It centered on a little boy named Tim who had a marble Pegasus horse named Luno who would come alive and whisk him off on adventures in far off lands when Tim said the words, "Oh winged horse of marble white, take me on a magic flight".
Lunokhod 1 Lunokhod 1 (Đ›Ńноход, moon walker in Russian) was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17.
Luny Tunes Luny Tunes are a Dominican reggaeton production duo composed of Francisco Saldaña (Luny) (born June 23, 1979) and VĂctor Cabrera (Tunes) (born April 12, 1981) . Both members were born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in the Boston metropolitan area until they moved to Puerto Rico where their success started with the help of DJ Nelson as their executive producer and promoter.
Luo (family of ethnic groups) The Luo (also spelled Lwo) are a family of related ethnic groups (tribes) who live in an area that stretches from the south of Sudan, through Northern Uganda and Eastern Congo (DRC), into Western Kenya, and ending in the upper tip of Tanzania. These people speak an Eastern Sudanic (Nilotic) language, a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
Luo (surname) Luo refers to the Mandarin romanizations of the Chinese surnames 羅 (Simplified Chinese: 罗, pinyin: Luó, Jyutping: Lo4) and 駱 (Simplified Chinese: 骆, pinyin: Luò, Jyutping: Lok3). Of the two surnames, 羅 is much more common among Chinese people.
Luo Binwang Luo Binwang (駱賓王 or 骆宾王) (around 640 - 684) of the Tang Dynasty, was a Chinese poet born at Yiwu, Wuzhou, Zhejiang, but raised in Shandong. He is grouped with Wang Bo, Yang Jiong and Lu Zhaolin as one of the Four Greats of the Early Tang as the most outstanding poets of their time.
Luo Da You Luo Da You, or Lo Ta-yu (TC: 羅大佑, SC: 罗大佑, PY: LĂşo DÄ Yòu) is an influential Taiwanese singer-songwriter who, during the 1980s, revolutionized Chinese pop and rock music with his melodic lyrics, his love songs, and his witty social and political commentary that he infused in his more political songs, often to the point that some of his songs were suppressed in Taiwan and China during the 1980s. He is considered by many to be the "Godfather of modern Chinese rock music" and is recognized as a major cultural icon in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China.
Luo Guanzhong LuĂł GuĂ nzhĹŤng (Traditional Chinese: 羅貫ä¸; Wade Giles: Lo Kuan-chung) (c 1330 - 1400) was a 14th century Chinese author attributed with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing Outlaws of the Marsh, two of the most revered adventure epics in Chinese literature.
Luo Hu Commercial City Luohu Commercial City (simplified Chinese: 罗湖商业城; traditional Chinese: 羅湖商ćĄć; pinyin: luĂłhĂşshÄngyèchĂ©ng) is an enclosed shopping mall located on the Shenzhen side of the Shenzhen River, right outside the entrance/exit to Luohu Immigration Control Point.
Luo languages The Luo languages comprise about 15 languages spoken in an area ranging from Southern Sudan via Uganda to Southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into Northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They form one of the two branches of Western Nilotic, the other being Dinka-Nuer.
Luo Points Luo Points is an acupuncture term referring to special points in the body that are believed to have greater significance. According to acupuncture theory, the points, twelve in all, are places where the body can be manipulated to greater effect when applying acupuncture or tui na techniques, and can be used to aid the circulation of qi so as to keep the body healthy.
Luo Xian Luo Xian an officer of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms Period of China. Xian ended up being relegated to Ba Dong for not siding with Huang Hao of the Imperial Court who had seized true power of Shu, through the ineptitude of Liu Shan.
Luohan (martial arts) Luohan () translates to arhat and is a fighting technique of Asian martial arts such as Bangau Putih and Eighteen Luohan Fist (p=shĂbÄlĂşohĂ nquán). Luohan techniques are characterized by very strong arms and deep stances, with physically strong movements and an upright back.
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