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Luxembourg at the Winter Olympics Luxembourg first competed at the Winter Olympics in 1928, and has taken part in a total of seven Winter Games. Thus, despite having been one of the earliest countries to take part, Luxembourg has competed in relatively few of the Games.
Luxembourg American Luxembourg Americans, also known as Luxembourgian Americans, are citizens of the United States of Luxembourgian ancestry. According to the United States' 2000 Census, there are 45,139 Americans of full or partial Luxembourgian descent.
Luxembourg Crisis The Luxembourg Crisis (, ) was a diplomatic dispute and confrontation in 1867 between France and Prussia over the political status of Luxembourg. The confrontation almost led to war between the two parties, but was peacefully resolved by the Treaty of London.
Luxembourg Division of Honour The Division of Honour (Luxembourgish: Éirepromotioun, French: Promotion d'Honneur, German: Ehrenpromotion) is the second-level football league in Luxembourg. It lies below the National Division and above the First Division.
Luxembourg Football Federation The Luxembourg Football Federation (FLF) (French: Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football) is the governing body of football in Luxembourg. It organises the Luxembourg Football League and the Luxembourg national football team.
Luxembourg Income Study The Luxembourg Income Study, asbl (LIS) is a non-profit project which produces a cross-national database of micro-economic income data for social science research. The project started in 1983 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.
Luxembourg Internet Exchange The Luxembourg Internet eXchange (LIX) is a facility for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) based in Luxembourg, allowing them to easily interconnect within Luxembourg and hence to improve connectivity and service for their customers. The LIX is operated by the RESTENA Foundation.
Luxembourg National Division The National Division (Luxembourgish: Nationaldivisioun, French: Division Nationale, German: Nationaldivision) is the highest football league in Luxembourg. Before 2006, it contained twelve teams, but it has expanded to fourteen for the 2006-07 season.
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra (, ), abbreviated to OPL, is the national orchestra of Luxembourg, and is based in Luxembourg City, in the south of the Grand Duchy. Its main home is the Philharmonie Luxembourg, a large concert hall opened in 2005 in the Kirchberg quarter in the north-east of the city.
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party The Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (Luxembourgish: LĂ«tzebuerger Sozialistesch Arbechterpartei, French: Parti Ouvrier Socialiste Luxembourgeois, German: Luxemburger Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei), abbreviated to LSAP or POSL,LSAP is more commonly used, although the French POSL is also mandated by the party's statutes. is a social democrat political party in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Luxembourg War Cross The Luxembourg War Cross is a military decoration of Luxembourg which was first created in 1945 by the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg. The War Cross recognizes military service and feats of bravery performed between the years of 1940 and 1945.
Luxembourgian European Constitution referendum, 2005 The Luxembourg referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe is a referendum that was held on 10 July 2005 to decide whether Luxembourg should ratify the proposed Constitution of the European Union.
Luxembourgish euro coins Luxembourg euro coins feature three different designs, though they all contain the portrait or effigy of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg. The designs, by Yvette Gastauer-Claire, also contain the 12 stars of the EU flag, the year of imprint and the name of the country in the Luxembourgish language: LĂ«tzebuerg.
Luxemburgerli Luxemburgerli is the name of a type of confectionery made exclusively by the Confiserie SprĂĽngli in Zurich, Switzerland. Similar to French macarons, they consist of a cookie top and bottom with a rich cream filling in the center.
Luxi The Luxi fonts are a group of fonts which are commonly found on open-source operating systems, such as Linux. They are quite similar to the Lucida fonts, and Luxi Sans is also vaguely like Trebuchet MS and Tahoma.
Luxio are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Luxio in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Luxlite Luxlite is the brand name of Primex Industries Group manufactured lighting products. Luxlite brand energy saving bulbs is one of the prime brands in many parts of the world including North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Luxomni, Georgia Luxomni (Latin, meaning "light [for] all") was a small community between central and southwestern Gwinnett County, Georgia, on a railroad line just east-northeast of Lilburn. It was founded in 1891 around a rail depot, on the line to Lawrenceville, the county seat.
Luxon A luxon is a particle that always travels at the speed of light. Currently, the only known luxons are the massless gauge bosons: the photon (carrier of electromagnetism) and the gluon (carrier of the strong force).
Luxor Luxor (Arabic: الأقصر ) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of the Al Uqsur governorate, population approximately 200,000. As the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, Luxor has frequently been characterised as the "world's greatest open air museum", the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor standing within the modern city.
Luxor (toolkit) Luxor is an open-source XML UI Language (XUL) toolkit in Java that lets you build desktop apps using markup (XML) and scripting. Luxor also includes a web server, a portal engine (supporting RSS), a template engine (Velocity) and more.
Luxor Hotel The Luxor Hotel is a hotel casino located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, and was one of the resort city's first fully-themed megaresorts. Ground was broken for the Luxor in 1991, the same year that construction began on the Treasure Island and the current MGM Grand.
Luxorius Luxorius, Roman writer of epigrams, lived in Africa during the reigns of the Vandal kings Thrasamund, Hilderic, and Gelimer (AD 496-534). He speaks of his poor circumstances, but from the superscription darissimus and spectabilis in one MS.
Luxullianite Luxullianite (also Luxulyanite, Luxulianite) is a rare type of granite, notable for the presence of clusters of radially arranged acicular tourmaline crystals enclosed by phenocrysts of orthoclase and quartz in a matrix of quartz, tourmaline, alkali feldspar, brown mica, and cassiterite.
Luxulyan Luxulyan (pronounced ) (also spelled Luxullian, Luxulian) is a village, valley, and parish (2001 population 1,371) in the borough of Restormel, central Cornwall, United Kingdom. Luxulyan railway station is one of the stations on the Atlantic Coast Line.
Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals The Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals (chūn qiū fán lù ,春秋繁露) is the only work that has survived to the present that is attributed to Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu). It is 82 chapters long, although 3 of the chapters within the present text have been lost and there is considerable textual confusion in other chapters.
Luxury box Luxury box or luxury suite is the North American term for a special seating section in arenas, stadiums and other sports venues. In the United Kingdom the terms used are corporate box, executive box and private box.
Luxury gene Luxury genes are those coding for specialized functions synthesized (usually) in large amounts in particular cell types, in opposition with housekeeping genes, which are involved in basic functions needed for the sustenance of the cell.
Luxury good In economics, a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, contrast with inferior good and normal good. Luxury goods are said to have high income elasticity of demand: as people become more wealthy, they will buy more and more of the luxury good.
Luxury resorts A luxury resort, sometimes referred to as an exclusive resort, is a very expensive vacation facility which is fully staffed and has been rated with five stars. Luxury resorts often boast many visitor activities and attractions such as golf, watersports, spa and beauty facilities, skiing, natural ecology and tranquility.
Luxury SUV A luxury SUV is a North American term for sport utility vehicles which have features that resemble other luxury vehicles. They are relatively expensive and have a higher emphasis on comfort and quality than their mainstream counterparts.
Luxury tax (sports) A luxury tax in the sports sense is a surcharge put on the aggregate payroll of a team to the extent to which it exceeds a predetermined guideline level set by the league. The ostensible purpose of this "tax" is to prevent teams in major markets with high incomes from signing almost all of the more talented players and hence destroying the competitive balance necessary for a sport to maintain fan interest.
Luxury vehicles A luxury vehicle is a vehicle which provides a great abundance of ease and comfort. Although there can be a great range of "vehicles" that offer luxurious settings, a true luxury car will be a car (sedan, coupé, hatchback, station wagon, roadster, etc.
Luxury yacht tender A luxury yacht tender is used to service and to provide support and entertainment to a private or charter luxury yacht. Known commonly as the 'yacht's tender' a luxury yacht tender will often be a rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB) which features cushioned inflatable rubber inner tubes around its rigid (usually fiberglass) hull to protect the luxury yacht when in close contact.
Luya Province Luya is located in the south and west part of the department of Amazonas. Its territory, which partly is ceja de selva, is crossed by branches of the Cordillera Central and Oriental of the Andes, being rasped by deep streams, high pampas and snowed summit.
Luyet Luyet is a very long material that is wrapped around the waist, and then wrapped around the shoulders and head. Some women cover their faces with the extra material left over after they wrap their head or the extra material is tucked around one ear with the face left open.
Luz i madh Luz I Madh is a located within the district of Kavaje, Albania. Luz I Madh is located at Latitude (DMS): 41° 6' 40 N; Longitude (DMS): 19° 34' 51 E and borders other small towns in the district of Kavaje such as, Luz I Vogel, Lekaj and Gosa vogel.
Luz Long Carl Ludwig "Lutz" Long (aka Luz Long) (April 27, 1913 – July 13, 1943) was a German Olympic athlete, most notable for giving advice to his competitor, Jesse Owens. Owens went on to win the gold medal for the long jump event at the 1936 Summer Olympics thanks to Long's advice.
Luzbel Luzbel (Spanish for Lucifer) is a Mexican heavy metal band. The band was founded in 1983 by Raul Greñas (Lead Guitar) ; Antonio "la Rana" Morante (Bass guitar); Jorge Cabrera (Vocals); Hugo Tames (Drums); Fernando Landeros (Guitar)
Luzer LUZER is a four-piece power pop band from Hamilton Township, a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey. Taking the essence of great rock & roll from the last fifty years and spinning it into a refreshing original sound, LUZER was formed in the final days of the last millennium at Steinert High School.
Luzerne, Pennsylvania Luzerne is a borough located five miles (eight km) north of Wilkes Barre in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania near the Susquehanna River. In the early years of the twentieth century, it had coal mines, a foundry, drill factories, flour and feed mills, canning factory, silk mill, etc.
Luzhniki Palace of Sports Luzhniki Palace of Sports, formerly Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium, is an arena in Moscow, Russia, a part of the Luzhniki Sports Complex. Geographical location is Built in 1956, it originally had the spectator capacity of 13,700.
Luzhniki Stadium The Grand Sports Arena of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex (Большая спортивная арена Олимпийского комплекса Лужники) in Moscow, or briefly Luzhniki Stadium (Стадион "Лужники"), is the biggest sports stadium in Russia. Its total seating capacity is 84,745 seats, all covered.
Luzianne Luzianne (a regional pronunciation of the word Louisiana) is the brand name of many Cajun culinary products, such as chili, hot sauces, and perhaps most famously, iced tea and dark roasted coffees. Many varieties of the Luzianne coffee products feature the chicory ingredient which is famous in the New Orleans area.
Luzin N property In mathematics, a function f on the interval [a, b] has the Luzin N property, named after Nikolai Luzin (also called Luzin property or N property) if for all Nsubset[a,b] that lambda(N)=0, it holds that lambda(f(N))=0, where lambda stands for the Lebesgue measure.
Luzon Luzon refers to the largest and most politically important island in the Philippines and to one of the three island groups in the country, with Visayas and Mindanao being the other two. Luzon as an island group includes the island of Luzon itself, plus the Batanes and Babuyan groups of islands to the north, and the main and outlying islands of Catanduanes, Marinduque, Masbate, Romblon, and Mindoro in the south.
Luzon Anti-Dissidence Campaign Medal This medal is awarded to military personnel by the Chief of Staff, AFP, Commanders of Major Services and other units authorized to grant awards, for participation from 13 May 1948, in anti-smuggling/piracy and maritime law enforcement in Luzon and the waters immediately adjacent thereto for at least six (6) months; pacification campaign/operations in Luzon or Task Force "Lawin", "Isarog", "Saranay" and "Talna" and such other Task Forces for at least six months; and for service and participation from 4 July 1946 in law enforcement, military and civic-action operations in Luzon and waters immediately adjacent thereto for at least six months.
Luzon Bleeding-heart The Luzon Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba luzonica is one of a number of species of ground dove in the genus Gallicolumba that are called "bleeding-hearts". They get this name from a splash of vivid red colour at the centre of their white breasts.
Luzon Science Consortium The Luzon Science Consortium was organized by the founding member institution namely Central Luzon State University (CLSU), Cagayan State University (CSU) and Isabela State University (ISU) known as CLSU-CSU-ISU Science Consortium on September 17, 1982. The prime objective of consortium was to improve science education in Luzon upon the advise of the Science Education Institute of the Department of Science and Technology under the Institution Building Program (IBP) of the then National Science and Technology Authority (NSTA)- Science Promotion Institute.
Luzzu A luzzu (pronounced loot-su in Maltese) is a traditional type of fishing boat from the Maltese islands. Traditionally, they are brightly painted in shades of yellow, red, green and blue, and the bow is normally pointed with a pair of eyes.
LUCY LUCY is the fifth single of singer Anna Tsuchiya released February 14, 2007 under the synonym of ANNA TSUCHIYA inspi' NANA (BLACK STONES) for the MAD PRAY RECORDS label, a sub-label to Avex. It is her third single to be released under the NANA franchise, the first being rose and the second being Kuroi Namida
LUD LUD (Local Usage Details) is a detailed record of local calls made and received from a particular phone number. These records are regularly available to police in the United States with a court order, and were traditionally subject to the same restrictions as telephone tapping.
LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas (ЛУКОЙЛ Нефтохим Бургас), based in Burgas, Bulgaria, is the lagrest oil refinery in Southeastern Europe and the largest industrial enterprise in Bulgaria. Owned by Russian oil giant LUKOIL, the refinery provides for 7% of the country's GDP, as well as for 25% of the revenues to the state budget.
LUNCH Ensemble The LUNCH Ensemble is the musical outreach program of the Local United Network to Combat Hunger. LUNCH is a national program based in Connecticut and has involved over 2,000 members since its formation by Bill Pere in 1989.
LURCH LURCH is a tool for software design debugging that uses a nondeterministic algorithm to quickly explore the reachable states of a software model. By performing a partial and random search, LURCH looks for faults in the model and reports the pathways leading to the faults.
LUSerNet LUSerNet (pronounced Loser Net, roughly standing for Lancaster University Student Network) is a free peer-to-peer package for use on local area networks, developed between the end of 2001 and late 2002 by a Lancaster University first year Computer Science student known as 'bramp'LUSerNet Homepage. Following the sudden and massive popularity of the program, the University's network system was brought to near collapse, and forced the network administrators to completely redevelop the network to cope with the program, earning the program cult status.
Lviv Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv , ; ; ; see also other names) is a major city in western Ukraine, the administrative center of the Lviv Oblast, and is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.
Lviv Bus Factory The Lviv Bus Factory, or LAZ (, literally "Lviv Automobile Factory"), mostly known under its obsolete name L’vivs’ky Avtobusnyi Zavod (, literally "Lviv Bus Factory") is a bus manufacturing company in Lviv, Ukraine. Brand name: "LAZ" (cyrillic: ЛАЗ).
Lviv High Castle The Lviv High Castle or Lviv Castle Hill (; ; ) is a historic castle located on one of the hills of the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv. It is currently the highest point in the city, 413 metres above sea level.
Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater The Lviv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Solomiya Krushelnytska (, L'vivs'kyi Derzhavnyi akademichnyi teatr Opery ta baletu imeni Solomyiyi Krushel'nyts'koii) is an opera and theater house located in Lviv, Ukraine. The building was built between 1897 and 1900.
Lviv Polytechnic Lviv Polytechnic National University (, , ) is the biggest scientific university in Lviv. Since its foundation in 1844 it was one of the most important centres of science and technolgical development in Central Europe.
Lvn Pictures LVN Pictures is one of the biggest film studios in the history of Philippine cinema and its foremost establishment in motion picture post-production until 2005. In its heyday of motion picture production, LVN Pictures has been compared to that of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) of Hollywood because it had, under contract, the biggest stars and film craftsmen of the period.
LV-426 LV-426, also known as Acheron is the name of the fictitious moon (frequently but erroneously referred to as a planet) where the Alien was first encountered by humans in the movie Alien (1979) of the Alien Series. Some materials related to the franchise refer to it as "LB-426".
LVN Pictures LVN Pictures is one of the biggest film studios in the history of Philippine cinema and its foremost establishment in motion picture post-production until 2005. In its heyday of motion picture production, LVN Pictures has been compared to that of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) of Hollywood because it had, under contract, the biggest stars and film craftsmen of the period.
Lwaxana Troi Lwaxana Troi, Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed is a fictional character in the television series' Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
LwĂłw Ghetto The LwĂłw Ghetto (also called the Lemberg Ghetto, Lviv Ghetto, and Lvov Ghetto), was in the city of Lviv, the largest city in today's western Ukraine, was one of the larger Ghettos established for Jews in that time's Poland by Nazi authorities. Once holding over 120,000 Jews, killings and deportations to death camps reduced the population to less than 200 by the end of the war.
Lwów School of Mathematics The Lwów School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians working in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), between the World Wars. They often met at the famous Scottish Café to discuss mathematical problems, and published in the journal Studia Mathematica, founded in 1929.
LwĂłw Uprising The LwĂłw Uprising was the armed struggle started by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) against the Nazi occupiers of LwĂłw, during World War II. It started on July 23, 1944 as a part of a plan of all-national uprising codenamed Operation Tempest and lasted until July 27.
LwĂłwek ĹšlÄ…ski County LwĂłwek ĹšlÄ…ski County (in Polish powiat lwĂłwecki) 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. Administratively it is divided into 5 communes.
LWS-3 Mewa The LWS-3 Mewa was the Polish observation and close reconnaissance aircraft, designed in the late-1930s by the LWS factory. It was ordered by the Polish Air Force, but did not manage to enter service before the outbreak of the World War II.
LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress The LX Legislature (60th) of the Congress of Mexico is meeting from September 1, 2006, to September 1, 2009. All members of both the lower and upper houses of Congress were elected in the elections of July 2006.
LXDE LXDE is a free desktop environment for Unix and other POSIX compliant platforms, such as Linux or BSD. LXDE uses IceWM as its default Window Manager and aims at offering a lightweight and fast desktop based on mutually independents components.
LXI LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation (LXI) is a standard developed by the LXI Consortium, it was officially released in September 2005 by Agilent Technologies and VXI Technology. The LXI Consortium now has 50 member companies whose strategic members are (in alphabetical order) Aeroflex], [[Agilent Technologies, Keithley Instruments, Measurement Computing (National Instruments owned), Pickering Interfaces, EADS Testing Services (Racal Instruments), Rohde & Schwarz and VXI Technology.
LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress The LXI Legislature of the Congress of Mexico will be meeting from September 1, 2009, to August 31, 2012. Members of the lower and upper house of the Congress will be elected in the elections of July 2006 while members of the lower house of the Congress will be elected in the elections of July 2009.
LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress The LXII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico will be meeting from September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2015. All members of both the lower and upper houses of the Congress will be elected in the elections of July 2012.
LXR LXR Cross Referencer, usually known as LXR, is a general purpose source code indexer and cross-referencer that provides web-based browsing of source code with links to the definition and usage of any identifier. LXR is written in Perl.
Ly-Cilph In The Night's Dawn Trilogy, the Ly-Cilph are an alien race that evolved on an unnamed moon orbiting a gas giant planet. The unstable nature of the Ly-Cilph's homeworld's orbit meant that every nine years, the moon was consumed by violent storms.
Lya Luft Lya Luft (born September 15, 1938, in Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil) is a writer, a novelist, a poet, a prolific translator (working mostly in the English-Portuguese and the German-Portuguese language combinations). The author was a college professor of linguistics and literature.
Lyab-i Hauz The Lyab-i Hauz (from Persian: لب حوض meaning: By the pond) is the title given to the area surrounding one of the few remaining Hauz or ponds surviving in the city of Bukhara. Until the Soviet period there were many such ponds, which were the city's principal source of water, but they were notorious for spreading disease and were mostly filled in during the 1920s and 30s.
Lyakhovsky Islands The Lyakhovsky Islands (Russian: Ляховские острова Lyakhovskiye ostrova) are the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the arctic seas of eastern Russia. They are separated from the mainland by the Laptev Strait (60 km wide), and from the Anzhu Islands group by the Sannikov Strait (50 km).
Lyal S. Sunga Professor Lyal S. Sunga, Senior Lecturer / Director of Research, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden, is a specialist on international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.
Lyall Watson Lyall Watson (born April 12, 1939) is a botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tries to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms.
Lyalovo Lyalovo () is an ancient village in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on high left bank of the Klyazma River about ten kilometers from its source, one kilometer away from the town of Mendeleyevo, and about three kilometers away from the city of Zelenograd.
Lyana Armstrong-Emery Lyana Armstrong-Emery is a former Gibraltarian politician, and the former party leader of the now defunct Gibraltar Reform Party, a left-of-centre and pro-ecology party with a close association with the Green Party of England and Wales. As her party held no seats in the House of Assembly, she did not have status as an official member of the opposition.
Lyapunov (crater) Lyapunov is a lunar crater that is located along the east-northeastern limb of the Moon, and is viewed from the side by observers on Earth. The eastern rim of this crater just falls into the section of the Moon called the far side, and visibility of this formation is affected by libration.
Lyapunov exponent The Lyapunov exponent or Lyapunov characteristic exponent of a dynamical system is a quantity that characterizes the rate of separation of infinitesimally close trajectories. Quantitatively, two trajectories in phase space with initial separation delta mathbf{Z}_0 diverge
Lyapunov function In the theory of dynamical systems, and control theory, Lyapunov functions, named after Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, are a family of functions that can be used to demonstrate the stability or instability of some state points of a system.
Lyapunov theory Lyapunov theory is a collection of results regarding stability of dynamical systems, named after a Russian mathematician Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov. The primary result of the theory is the concept of Lyapunov stability.
Lyapunov's central limit theorem In probability theory, Lyapunov's central limit theorem is one of the variants of the central limit theorem. Unlike the classical central limit theorem, it does not require that the random variables in question be independent and identically distributed.
Lyari Town Lyari Town is the smallest town by area in the city of Karachi, but also the most densely populated town. It is bordered by the towns of SITE Town to the north across the Lyari River, Jamshed and Saddar to the east, and Kiamari to the west across the main harbour of Karachi.
Lyase In biochemistry, a lyase is an enzyme that catalyzes the breaking of various chemical bonds by means other than hydrolysis and oxidation, often forming a new double bond or a new ring structure. For example, an enzyme that catalyzed this reaction would be a lyase:
Lyaskovets Lyaskovets () is a town in central northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province, 10 km northeast of Veliko Tarnovo, 2 km southeast of Gorna Oryahovitsa and 5 km south of the Yantra River, north of the Balkan Mountains. Its name comes from the word leska ('hazel') or leshnik ('hazelnut'), because the tree was abundant in the area.
Lybid River Lybid () is a small river, a right tributary of Dnieper flowing within the territory of Kiev, Ukraine. There is a legend that it was named after the sister Lybid of the legendary founders of Kiev, Kyi, Schek and Khoryv.
Lybiidae A family of birds comprising the African barbets, once considered part of the now-split family Capitonidae comprising all barbets. There are 42 species ranging from the typical genus Lybius of the forests to the much smaller genus pogoniulus (tinkerbirds) of forest and scrubland.
Lycaenidae The Lycaenidae are the second-largest family of butterflies, with about 6000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. There are nearly 6000 species and they constitute about 40% of the butterfly species.
Lycalopex Lycalopex is a genus created by Burmeisteri in 1854 for the Hoary Fox (Pseudalopex vetulus). Other authors decided to reduce this genus to a subgenus of other Canidae genera, including Dusycion and Pseudalopex, but there is still controversy on the question of whether or not use the genus for some South American foxes].
Lycanthropy In folklore, lycanthropy is the ability or power of a human being to undergo transformation into a wolf. The term comes from ancient Greek lykánthropos (λυκάνθρωπος): λύκος, lýkos ("wolf") + άνθρωπος, ánthrōpos ("man") (Rose, 230).
Lycanthropy (album) Lycanthropy is the first studio album by singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf and was recorded over the eight years between 1994 and 2002. It was critically acclaimed at the time of its release, as was his next effort, Wind in the Wires .
Lycaonia In ancient geography, Lycaonia was a large region in the interior of Asia Minor, north of Mount Taurus. It was bounded on the east by Cappadocia, on the north by Galatia, on the west by Phrygia and Pisidia, while to the south it extended to the chain of Mount Taurus, where it bordered on the country popularly called in earlier times Cilicia Tracheia and in the Byzantine period Isauria; but its boundaries varied greatly at different times.
Lycée Alexandre Ribot The Lycée Alexandre Ribot is a school located at 42 rue Gambetta, in the town of Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais département). Founded as a Jesuit college, it has been a lycée since 1848 and has borne the name of its former student Alexandre Ribot since 1924.

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