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Luohe Luohe is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, People's Republic of China. It is surrounded by the cities of Xuchang, Zhoukou, Zhumadian and Pingdingshan on its north, east, south and west respectively.
Luohu Luohu (simplified Chinese: 罗湖; traditional Chinese: 羅湖; pinyin: luóhú; Cantonese: lɔ4wu4) is one of the 6 districts of the Shenzhen City in Guangdong province of China. It is adjacent to Shenzhen River in the south, and is surrounded by Futian, Bao'an, Longgang and Yantian districts in Shenzhen.
Luoland Luoland (historically, "Kavirondo") is the tribal homeland of the Kenya Luo (also called Jo-Luo or Kavirondo), a people of western Kenya, also extending into eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania. This area consists roughly of the basin surrounding Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria.
Luongphaw Ajar Tala Uttama Reverend Luongphaw Ajar Tala Uttama, a Mon Buddhist monk (1910 — 18 October 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand) was originally a Burmese citizen and later fled to Thailand and became one of Thailand's most admired and revered persons.
Luoyang Luoyang () is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyang to the south, Sanmenxia to the west, Jiyuan to the north, and Jiaozuo to the northeast.
Luoyang dialect The Luoyang Dialect is a dialect of Zhongyuan Mandarin spoken in Luoyang and nearby parts of Henan province. Although it served as the prestige dialect of Chinese from the Warring States Period into the Ming Dynasty, it differs greatly from modern Standard Mandarin, which is based instead on the Beijing dialect.
Lupang Hinirang "Lupang Hinirang" is the national anthem of the Philippines. Its music was composed in 1898 by Julian Felipe in Spanish, with lyrics adapted from the poem Filipinas, written by a young poet-soldier named Jose Palma in 1899.
Lupara Lupara is an Italian word used to refer to a side-by-side sawed-off shotgun, with external hammers for each barrel and two triggers, often homemade, and traditionally associated with Cosa Nostra, the Italian organized crime group dominant in Sicily, which uses it for vendettas, defense, and hunting. The word 'lupara' means literally 'wolf-shot', reflecting its lethal power and history of use in Mafia killings.
Lupe Fiasco Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born on February 17, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois) known by the stage name Lupe Fiasco is an African-American rapper. Raised on the west side of Chicago as the youngest of nine siblings, Lupe developed a taste for art and a sharp artistic sense, which he says he owes to both his parents.
Lupe Fiasco: Trials and Tribulations Vol. 1 Lupe Fiasco: Trials and Tribulations Vol. 1 is a Mixtape by Lupe Fiasco, which takes it's title from the track "Trials and Tribulations", off of the Leaked version of Food & Liquor (Note: the track "Trials and Tribulations: Only appears on the leaked version of Food & Liquor, and not the retail version).
Lupe Pintor Jose Guadalupe Pintor Guzman (born April 13, 1955), better known as Lupe Pintor, is a former World Boxing Champion from Cuajimalpa, Mexico. Nicknamed El Indio De Cuajimalpa or The Indian From Cuajimalpa, he started boxing professionally in 1974.
Lupen Crook Lupen Crook (born Matthew Pritchard) is an British singer-songwriter and musician who has been part of the underground folk scene since 2004. Crook began writing his own songs on his twelve string acoustic guitar after he formed many unsucessful bands.
Lupercal The Lupercal was a cave at the foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome. In the legend of Rome's foundation, Romulus and Remus were found there by the lactating female wolf who suckled them until they were found by Faustulus.
Lupertazzi Crime Family The Lupertazzi (Organized Crime) Family, is a fictional mob family from the HBO series, The Sopranos. The Lupertazzi Crime Family is a major partner of the DiMeo Crime Family and one of the five New York Crime Families.
Lupin Lupin, often spelled lupine in North America, is the common name for members of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae. The genus comprises between 150-200 species, and has a wide distribution in the Mediterranean region - Subgen.
Lupin (Philippine TV series) Lupin is an upcoming TV series on GMA Network starring Richard Gutierrez with Rhian Denise Ramos, Katrina Halili and Ehra Madrigal. If France has Arsène Lupin a fictional gentleman thief and Japan has their famous funny, wisecracking hopeless romantic robber Lupin III, the Philippines now has Lupin, a Filipino thief with a heart.
Lupin Mine The Lupin Mine () is a gold producer in Nunavut Territory, Canada, having opened in 1982. It was originally owned and operated by Echo Bay Mines Limited, who in 2003 became a fully-owned subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation.
Lupine Games Lupine Games was a very small PC game development company started by Geoff Howland which completed two games: Hatfields & McCoys (published by ValuSoft in 1999) and Emergency Rescue: Firefighters (published by WizardWorks in 2000).
Lupine Howl Lupine Howl were a rock band formed in Bristol, England in 1999, by Sean Cook (vocalist, bassist), Mike Mooney (guitarist) and Damon Reece (born 16 February 1967) (drummer). The three had been dismissed from their respective roles in Spiritualized by that band's frontman, Jason Pierce.
Lupino family The Lupino family was a British theatre family that could trace their roots back to an Italian emigré of the early 17th century. Several of this family adopted the surname Lane from Sarah Lane (1822-1899, née Borrow), the director of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, who was related.
Lupino Lane Henry William George Lupino or Lupino Lane (June 16, 1892 London, UK– November 10 1959 London) was a British-born actor of the Lupino family, a theatre family that could trace their roots back to an Italian immigrant in the 17th century. He adopted the surname Lane from his great-aunt Sarah Lane (1822-1899, née Borrow), the director of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton.
Lupinus arboreus Lupinus arboreus (Yellow Bush Lupine) is a species of lupine native to the western United States in California, where it is widely distributed coastal scrub and sand dunes. Because it has been widely introduced, there is some uncertainty about its native range; it is thought to be native from Point Reyes National Seashore south to San Luis Obispo County.
Lupinus arizonicus Lupinus arizonicus (Arizona lupine) is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the United States, growing in open places and sandy washes below 1100 m altitude. It is common around Joshua Tree National Park and Death Valley National Park.
Lupinus diffusus Lupinus diffusus (Oak Ridge Lupine, Spreading Lupine, or Sky-blue Lupine) is a species of lupine native to the southeastern United States, from North Carolina south to Florida and west to Mississippi. It is restricted to very dry, sandy soils, often in open pine or oak woodland, and is an endangered species.
Lupinus microcarpus Lupinus microcarpus (Wide-bannered Lupine or Chick Lupine), is a species of lupine native to western North America from southwestern British Columbia south to the Mojave Desert in California and Baja California, and also a disjunct population in South America in central Chile and western Argentina. It grows from sea level in the north of the range, up to 1600 m in southern California.
Lupinus nanus Lupinus nanus ("Sky Lupine", "Field Lupine", "Dwarf Lupin" or "Douglas' Annual Lupine"), is a species of lupine native to the western United States. It grows naturally in chaparral clearings and along slopes in California and Nevada.
Lupinus odoratus Royal Mojave lupine (Lupinus odoratus), is a spring wildflower found in the central and western Mojave Desert in the southwestern United States. The plant grows to 12 inches, with flowers that are blue-purple in color, with a yellow or white spot on the banner petal.
Lupinus polyphyllus Lupinus polyphyllus (Large-leaved Lupine, Big-leaved Lupine, or, primarily in cultivation, Garden Lupin) is a species of lupine (lupin) native to western North America from southern Alaska and British Columbia east to Alberta and western Wyoming, and south to Utah and California. It commonly grows along streams and creeks, preferring moist habitats.
Lupinus sulphureus Lupinus sulphureus (Sulphur Lupine) is a species of lupine native to western North America from southern British Columbia south through Washington to Oregon. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 40-80 cm tall.
Lupita D'Alessio Lupita D'Alessio (born Guadalupe Contreras Ramos on March 10, 1954 in Tijuana, Baja California) is a Mexican singer and actress. She is nicknamed La Leona Dormida (a title of one oh her songs which translates to "The sleeping lioness") because of the constant theme of criticism of men in her songs and presentations.
Lupita Tovar Lupita Tovar (born July 27, 1911 in Oaxaca) is a Mexican actress, best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish language version of Dracula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director.
Lupitus of Barcelona Lupitus of Barcelona, identified with a Christian archdeacon called Sunifred, was an astronomer in late 10th century Barcelona, then part of the Marca Hispanica between Islamic Al-Andalus and Christian France (in 985 changing from Christian back into Muslim hands by the conquest of Al-Mansur).
Lupo III Centule of Gascony Lupo III Centule (Basque: Otsoa Wasco, French: Loup Centulle, Gascon: Lop Centullo, Latin: Lupus Centullus, Spanish: Lope or Lobo Centulo; diedcirca 820) was the Duke of Gascony briefly from 818 until his deposition by Pepin I of Aquitaine in 819. He was either a son of GarcĂ­a I or of Centule, a brother of Sancho I.
Lupton Stadium Charlie and Marie Lupton Baseball Stadium and Williams-Reilly Field opened in 2003 on the campus of Texas Christian University. The stadium is a two tiered complex with three suites, an office for the current baseball coach, two radio booths, and a press box.
Lupus anticoagulant Lupus anticoagulant is an autoimmune disorder caused by antibodies that bind to phospholipids and proteins associated with the cell membrane. This antibody has the peculiar nature of causing a delay in coagulation in laboratory tests (the partial thromboplastin time) while clinically predisposing for thrombosis.
Lupus Protospatharius Lupus Protospatharius Barensis was the reputed author of the Chronicon rerum in regno Neapolitano gestarum, a precise history of the Mezzogiorno from 805 to 1102. He has only been named as the author since the seventeenth century.
Lupus vulgaris Lupus vulgaris are painful cutaneous tuberculosis skin lesions with nodular appearance, most often on the face around nose and ears. The lesions may ultimately develop into disfiguring skin ulcers if left untreated.
Luqman (person) Luqman is the name of a person mentioned in the sura named after him, sura luqman, but it is unclear whether he is a prophet or a wali. According to the most wide-spread shiite belief, Luqman was a wiseman, not a prophet nor a wali.
Luquillo, Puerto Rico Luquillo (loo-KEE-yo) is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the northeast coast, northwest of Fajardo; and east of Rio Grande. Luquillo is spread over 5 wards and Luquillo Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Luray Caverns Luray Caverns is a large commercial cavern in Luray, Virginia (USA). It is an underground cavern system filled with columns, mud flows, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, mirrored pools and many other formations.
Lure of the Temptress Lure of the Temptress is a fantasy point-and-click adventure game with comedic elements, created by Revolution Software, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment, and initially released in 1992 for Atari ST, DOS and Amiga systems.
Lured Lured (1947) is a film released by United Artists, directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, and Cedric Hardwicke. Ball plays Sandra Carpenter, a dance hall girl hired to catch a murderer, with Sanders playing Robert Fleming, a suspicious man who wins Sandra's heart.
Lurgan Lurgan (), is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland with a population of approximately 24,000. Lurgan is situated in the Craigavon Borough Council area, to the south of Lough Neagh in the centre of Northern Ireland.
Lurgy The lurgy (or lurgi) is Commonwealth English slang for an unspecified contagious disease, generally one considered inconvenient and non-fatal with obvious symptoms, such as influenza or the common cold. Particularly violent strains are often referred to as "The Dreaded Lurgy".
Lurch Lurch is the fictional manservant to The Addams Family created by cartoonist Charles Addams. He is a tall, shambling, lugubrious butler who somewhat resembles Frankenstein's monster (as played by Boris Karloff) and (on the television series) has a deep, resonant voice.
Lurch McDuck Lurch McDuck, also known as Sheik Beak, is Scrooge McDuck's cousin in the 1968 story "The Doony Desert Dilemma" Vic Lockman and Tony Strobl . An imposter calling himself Lurch Duck and claiming to be Scrooge's long-lost cousin attempts to defraud Scrooge of half his fortune.
Luri language Luri is a southwestern Iranian language and is mainly spoken by the Lurs and Bakhtiari people in the Iranian provinces of Lorestan, Ilam, Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari, Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad and parts of Khuzestan and Hamadan.
Luria-DelbrĂĽck experiment Luria-Delbruck experiment (1943) (also called the Fluctuation Test) demonstrates that in bacteria, genetic mutations arise in the absence of selection, rather than being a response to selection. Therefore, Darwin's theory of natural selection acting on random mutations applies to bacteria as well as to higher organisms.
Lurie Tower The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower, located on North Campus at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and housing a grand carillon (one of only 23 in the world), was built in 1996 as a memorial for Michigan alumnus Robert H.
Luristan bronze Luristan bronze is a term used for a set of ancient bronze artifacts of various individual forms which mainly have been recovered from Luristan and Kermanshah areas in west central Iran. The typical Luristan style bronze artifacts include a great number of weapons, ornaments, tools, and ceremonial objects.
Lurking variable A lurking variable (confounding factor or variable, or simply a confound or confounder) is an extraneous variable in a statistical or research model that affects the dependent variables in question but has either not been considered or has not been controlled for. The confounding variable can lead to a false conclusion that the dependent variables are in a causal relationship with the independent variable.
Lurleen Wallace Lurleen Burns Wallace (September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was the Governor of Alabama from 1966-68 and first wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, and as of 2006 she is the only woman to have been elected to this office.
Lurquin-Coudert The Lurquin-Coudert was a French automobile manufactured in Paris from 1907 until 1914. Produced by a maker of industrial engines, they were "voiturette-tricars"; a twin-cylinder ran in the touring class at the 1907 Château-Thierry hillclimb, and vee-twin cyclecars went into production beginning in 1910.
Lusaka Stock Exchange The Lusaka Stock Exchange, LuSE, which was organized with the assistance of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, opened in February 1994. The IFC structured the exchange to meet G-30 recommendations for clearing and settlement system design and operations.
Lusatian culture The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1300 BC-500 BC) in eastern Germany, most of Poland, parts of Czech Republic and Slovakia (in older articles described also as Czechoslovakia) and parts of Ukraine. It covers the Periods Montelius III (early Lusatian culture) to V of the Northern-European chronological scheme.
Lusatian Mountains Lusatian Mountains (Czech: Lužické hory, German: Lausitzer Gebirge), a mountain range in Sudetes, on the southeastern border of Germany and the Czech Republic, east of the Elbe River, a continuation of the Erzgebirge which is west of the Elbe. The Lusatians themselves are an extension of the Sudeten mountains of Bohemia and Moravia, and which join the Carpathian Mountains.
Lusatian Neisse The Lusatian Neisse (Sorbian: Łužiska Nysa, Czech: Lužická Nisa, , ) is a river in the Czech Republic (54 km) and along the Polish-German border (198 km), in total 252 km long. It is a left tributary of the Oder River, into which it flows near Guben.
Lusca The lusca is a name given to a sea monster reported from the Caribbean. It has been suggested by cryptozoologists that the lusca is a gigantic octopus, far larger than the known giant octopuses of the genus Enteroctopus.
Luscombe Castle Luscombe Castle was built in 1800 for Charles Hoare, a prominent banker from the near by resort town of Dawlish, in the county of Devon in England. The house was designed by John Nash, and was a trendsetter for the Gothic Revival with its castellated tower and walls.
Lush (programming language) Lush, the Lisp Universal Shell, is an object-oriented dialect of Lisp that was initially developed as a scripting language for machine learning applications, but can also be used for general purpose, systems, and network programming or administration tasks. Built around a compact and efficient Lisp interpreter, it also compiles to native C code and includes a multidimensional array processing engine.
Lush Life Lush Life was an American sitcom starring Lori Petty (A League of Their Own) and Karyn Parsons (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air). The two starred as totally different roommates who shared a studio apartment for financial reasons.
Lush Life (song) "Lush Life" is a jazz standard written by Billy Strayhorn from 1933 to 1938. The song describes the narrator's weariness of the nightclub life, spent in the company of "jazz and cocktails" and "girls [with] worn and solemn gray faces".
Lushan Lushan () is the name of a region, and a mountain called Mount Lushan, in China's Jiangxi Province, located between Lake Boyang and the city of Jiujiang 29 33'58 N, 115 59'30 E. Its history dates thousand of years in China's past.
Lusheng The lusheng (traditional: [simplified: 芦][also spelled lu sheng) is the Chinese name for a musical instrument with multiple bamboo pipes, each fitted with a [[Free reed aerophone|free reed], which are fitted into a long blowing tube. It most often has five or six pipes of different pitches, and is thus a [[Polyphony|polyphonic instrument.
Lushington Falls Unchalli Falls which is also called as Lushington Falls is a waterfall created by a 116 meter drop in the Aghanashini river. The falls are located 30 kilometers from Sirsi, a town in the Uttara Kannada District of the Indian state of Karnataka.
Lushoto Lushoto is one of the seven districts of the Tanga Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the northeast by Kenya, to the east by the Muheza District, to the northwest by the Kilimanjaro Region and to the south by the Korogwe District.
Lusik Lusik and Marut are villages located on the absolute shoreline some 57 kilometres north of Madang on the northwest coast of Papua New Guinea, and are pristine examples of a traditional coastal villages. Lusik faces out to the open ocean, and Marut borders a bay overlooking Kabukum Island.
Lusitania Lusitania was an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal, except for the area between the rivers Douro and Minho (part of Hispania Tarraconensis), and part of modern day western Spain, the present autonomous communities of Extremadura and (part of) Castile-Leon. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people.
Lusitanian language Lusitanian (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was a paleo-Iberian Indo-European language known by five inscriptions and numerous names of places (toponyms) and of gods ([The language was spoken before the Roman conquest of Lusitania], in the territory inhabited by [[Lusitanian tribes, from Douro to the Tagus rivers in Portugal.
Lusitanian War The Lusitanian War, called the Purinos Polemos (meaning Fiery War),This is the name for it in Polybius and Appian. was a war of resistance fought between the advancing legions of the Roman Republic and the Lusitani tribes of Hispania Ulterior from 155 to 139 BC.
Lusitanians The Lusitanians (or Lusitani in Latin) were a tribe, or various tribes, from the western Iberian peninsula, which became the Roman province of Lusitania (modern Portugal south of the Douro river and Extremadura in modern Spain). They spoke a Lusitanian language.
Lusitano The Lusitano is an ancient Portuguese breed of horse that until the 1960s shared its registration with the Spanish horse, the Andalusian. Both are sometimes called Iberian horses, as their land of origin is the Iberian peninsula.
Lusitano Stadium Lusitano Stadium located in Ludlow, Massachusetts, is a 3,000 seat stadium built in 1918 now currently used for soccer. Currently its tenants are the Western Mass Pioneers of the USL Second Division and the Western Mass Lady Pioneers of the W-League.
Lusk's Ferry Road Lusk's Ferry Road was an early road in Illinois that provided an overland connection between the main settlement, Fort Kaskaskia, on the Mississippi River, and Lusk's Ferry, an important crossing point on the Ohio River. The overland route afforded an alternative to the river route, which required a difficult trip upstream on the Mississippi.
Lusophone music Portugal and its former colonies are linked musically by the shared influence of fado, a bluesy form of music derived from itinerants in Lisbon. In varying forms, the genre has dominated Portuguese music since the early 20th century, and has also spread to its former colonies, especially Brazil and the African colonies (Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Angola), while having a lesser influence on the Asian colonies of Sri Lanka and East Timor.
Lusophony Games The Lusophony Games () is a multinational multi-sport event organized by the ACOLOP, which involves athletes coming from Portuguese-speaking countries, namely those belonging to the CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries), but also others where there are significant Portuguese communities or that have a common past with Portugal.
Luss Luss is a village in the Argyll & Bute region of Scotland, on the west bank of Loch Lomond, Scotland's largest freshwater loch. Its original name is Clachan dubh, or 'dark village', probably because of Ben Lomond which towers over the Loch and its villages.
Lusser's Law Lusser's Law is a prediction of reliability named after Robert Lusser. It states that the reliability of a series system is equal to the product of the reliability of its component subsystems, if their failure modes are known to be statistically independent.
Lust Lust is any intense desire or craving, usually sexual, although it is also common to speak of a "lust for life", "lust for blood (bloodlust for short)", or a "lust for power" or other goals.
Lust For Dracula Lust For Dracula is a pornographic adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, set in modern times and with all-female cast, making it an example of the lesbian vampire genre. The film is available in both Rated and Un-rated versions.
Lust Stained Despair Lust Stained Despair is the second album by the Finnish gothic doom band Poisonblack. Provisionally titled The Music For the Junkies by Poisonblack frontman Ville Laihiala Anthony Morgan, "Lust Stained Despair - Vocalist Ville Laihiala Shares Brutal Confessions In the Wake of Poisonblack's Sophomore Album", at Rockdetector.
Lust's Dominion Lust's Dominion, or The Lascivious Queen is an English Renaissance stage play, a tragedy written perhaps around 1600 and first published in 1657. The first edition attributed the authorship of the play to Christopher Marlowe, though this attribution has been recognized as spurious by critics and scholars for nearly two centuries.
Luster (film) Luster is a 2002 in film gay-themed drama film directed by Everett Lewis. The film, about the lives of a group of friends in the queer punk scene, played the film festival circuit throughout 2003 and 2004 following its theatrical release.
Lusternia, Age of Ascension Lusternia is the fourth MUD from Iron Realms Entertainment, and has many unique skills and systems that set it apart from the other three games or from other games in the genre. Some of the features include: player-run cartels that allow for the complete customization and construction of many types of items, skillchoices, which allow for choices and diversity in one's skills, even within their own guild (a feature that is largely unavailable in many MUDs), custom player housing, a complex yet user-friendly politics system influenced directly by players, and an economic system that takes many different variables into account, such as villages tithing goods to a city or commune that has convinced it to side with the organization for a period of time.
Lustfaust Lustfaust was a pioneering band from West Berlin active from the mid 70s to the early 80s. They employed numerous musical strategies usually stemming from the wide variations in age and experience of the bands regular members.
Lustmord Brian "Lustmord" Williams is a musician credited with creating the dark ambient genre with the influential album, "Heresy" - a relentlessly dark work that has been described as sounding like a journey through Hell.
Lustratio Lustratio was an ancient Roman purification ceremony, involving a procession and the sacrifice of a pig, a ram, and a bull (suovetaurilia). The procession traced a "magical boundary" around the area to be purified.
Lustre (mineralogy) Lustre (American English: luster) is a description of the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. For example, a diamond is said to have an adamantine lustre and pyrite is said to have a metallic lustre.
Lustrum Lustrum was a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors of Rome in name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census, and which took place after a period of five years, so that the name came to denote a period of that length. The usage of the word lustrum to mean 5 years is now obselete.
Lusus In the Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) of Luís de Camões (printed 1572), the literary work that was created to form a national epic for Portugal, Lusus was progenitor of his tribe (the "Lusiads") and founder of Lusitania, the Roman province that roughly corresponded to modern Portugal. Among its Iberian and Celtic tribal inhabitants, there were no historical "Lusii" to have a tribal eponym, "Lusus".
Lusutfu The Lusutfu is a river of north-eastern South Africa that runs entirely though central Swaziland through the towns Bhunya, Loyengo, Siphofaneni and Big Bend. The city of Big Bend is located near a point in the river course where it meanders abrupty highly likely the reason why the settlement waa so called named.
Luta Livre Luta Livre - Although the individual words "luta" and "livre" mean "fight" and "free" respectively, the term "Luta Livre" means wrestling in Portuguese. It is often assumed that Luta Livre is a Brazilian hybrid martial art, but that is not the case.
Lute The lute refers to both any plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back as well as specifically an instrument from the family of European lutes. Lute and oud both descend from a common ancestor, with diverging evolutionary paths.
Lute Barnes Luther Owens "Lute" Barnes (born April 28, 1947, in Forest City, Iowa) is a former professional baseball player who played Major League Baseball for the New York Mets from 1972-1973. Barnes was drafted by the Mets out of Oregon State University in the 21st round (482nd overall) of the 1969 amateur draft.
Lute hole Lute holes are wooden pieces designed to fit into the sound-hole of a guitar, reducing feedback and protecting the edge of the sound hole from pick damage. They often look similar to the decorative carvings of early stringed instruments, such as Lutes, Ouds and Vihuelas.
Lute of Pythagoras The lute of Pythagoras is a geometric form made of pentagons with inscribed pentagrams where the sides of the pentagrams are the sides of the smaller pentagons. The form is a fractal, like the Koch snowflake where an infinite progression of forms fits into a finite space.
Lute Olson Robert Luther "Lute" Olson (born September 22, 1934 in Mayville, North Dakota) is the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He is one of the UA's highest-paid employees, though a substantial percentage of his salary is supplemented by private interests (primarily UA alumni organizations).
Lute song The lute song was a generic form of music in the late Renaissance and very early Baroque eras, generally consisting of a singer accompanying himself on a lute, though lute songs may often have been performed by a singer and a separate lutenist.
Luteal phase The luteal phase (or secretory phase) is the latter phase of the estrous cycle in animals, and the menstrual cycle in humans and great apes. It begins with the formation of the corpus luteum and ends in either pregnancy or luteolysis.
Lutefisk Lutefisk (lutfisk) (pronounced in Norway, in Sweden and the Swedish-speaking areas in Finland) is a traditional food of the Nordic countries made from stockfish (air-dried whitefish) and lye (lut). In Sweden, this food is called lutfisk, omitting the medial 'e'.

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