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Lyrico Lyrico (aka Harumi Tsuyuzaki 露崎春女; born April 11, 1974 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a female Japanese pop, R&B, soul singer and songwriter. Shortly after her debut in 1995, she achieved a fame as an extraordinarily talented singer.
Lyrics Born Lyrics Born (formerly known as Asia Born, born Tom Shimura in Tokyo, Japan in 1972), is a half-Japanese-American, half-Italian-American hip hop MC. Through his childhood he lived in Tokyo and Salt Lake City, Utah, and has lived most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lyricus Teaching Order The Lyricus Teaching Order is an intergalactic teaching order that appears in the Wingmakers Mythology and Cosmology. Inside the Wingmakers mythos, an intergalactic and ancient order of sentient beings are slowly guiding humanity towards the discovery of the scientific evidence of the human soul.
Lysa Hora Lysa Hora (Ukrainian: Лиса Гора; Russian: Лысая гора (Lysaya Gora); literally "Bald Mountain") is a large woody hill in the Ukrainian capital Kiev (Kyiv), near the confluence of the Dnieper and Lybid' rivers. The mount supposedly takes its name from the fact that some slopes of the hill are not covered by trees.
Lysa Hora (folklore) Lysa Hora or Bald Mountain (Ukrainian: Лиса гора, Lysa hora, pl. Lysi hory; Russian: Лысая гора, Lysaya gora, Polish: Łysa Góra) is a concept of East Slavic, and particularly Ukrainian, folk mythology related to witchcraft.
Lysander Spooner Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, and legal theorist of the 19th century. He is also known for competing with the U.
Lysandra Lysandra (in Greek Λυσανδρα; lived 3rd century BC) was daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater. She was married first to Alexander, the son of Cassander, king of Macedonia, and after his death to Agathocles, the son of Lysimachus.
Lysanias Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene, according to Luke 3:1, in the time of John the Baptist. The only Lysanias mentioned in secular history as exercising authority in this district was executed in 36 BC by Mark Antony.
Lyse Doucet Lyse Doucet (born 24 December, 1958 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada) is a presenter and correspondent for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World television. Occasionally she reports for BBC Radio 4 or BBC television news but is almost unknown to the domestic British audience.
Lyse kloster Holy Maria Abbey (Lyse Mariakloster in Norwegian)) is a now-ruined Cistercian monastery in Os in the county of Hordaland in south-western Norway. The name Lyse is derived from Lysefjorden, “The fjord of light”.
Lysefjord Lysefjord (or Lysefjorden, the suffix "-en" is a form of the definite article in the Norwegian language) is a fjord located in Forsand in south-western Norway. The name means light fjord, and is said to be derived from the lightly coloured granite rocks along its sides.
Lysenkoism Lysenkoism was a political campaign against genetics and geneticists which happened in the Soviet Union from the middle of the 1930s to the middle of the 1960s, centered around the figure of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. Lysenkoism has also been known as Michurinism or Lysenko-Michurinism.
Lysergic acid Lysergic acid, also known as D-lysergic acid and (+)-lysergic acid, is a precursor for a wide range of ergoline alkaloids that are produced by the ergot fungus and some plants. Amides of lysergic acid, commonly called lysergamides, are widely used as pharmaceuticals and as psychedelic drugs (LSD).
Lysette Anthony Lysette Anthony (born September 26, 1963 in London, England) is an English film, television, and theatre actress. Her parents are actors Michael Anthony and Bernadette Milne and her birth name was Lysette Chodzko.
LysgĂĄrdsbakkene Stadion LysgĂĄrdsbakkene Stadion is a ski jump hill in Lillehammer, Norway. It was used as arena for ski jumping (K90, K120 and team events) and Nordic combination (K90 and team events), as well as the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Lysicles (general) Lysicles (in Greek Λυσικλης; died 338 BC), one of the commanders of the Athenian army at the battle of Chaeronea, 338 BC, was subsequently condemned to death, upon the accusation of the orator Lycurgus. The speech which Lycurgus delivered against Lysicles is referred to by Harpocration.
Lysimachia (Thrace) Lysimachia (in Greek Λυσιμαχια or Λυσιμαχεια) was an important hellenistic Greek town in European Turkey on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese (the modern Gallipoli peninsula), not far from the bay of Melas (the modern Gulf of Saros). It was built by Lysimachus in 309 BC, when he was preparing for the last struggle with his rivals; for the new city, being situated on the isthmus, commanded the road from Sestos to the north and the mainland of Thrace.
Lysimachus of Egypt Lysimachus (in Greek Λυσιμαχoς; lived 3rd century BC) was a son of king Ptolemy Philadelphus (283–246 BC) by Arsinoe, the daughter of Lysimachus, king of Thrace. He survived both his brother Ptolemy III Euergetes (246–221 BC), and his nephew, Ptolemy IV Philopator (221–204 BC); but was put to death by Sosibius, the minister and guardian of Ptolemy Epiphanes (204–181 BC).
Lysimeter A lysimeter is a measuring device which can be used to measure the amount of actual evapotranspiration which is released from an area of woodland. By recording the amount of precipitation that an area receives and the amount lost through the soil, the amount of water lost to evapotranspiration can be calculated.
Lysinge Hundred Lysinge Hundred, properly Lysings härad, is a hundred of western Östergötland (Ostrogothia) in Sweden. It corresponds roughly to Ödeshög Municipality, with the exception of Kumla parish, which is a part of Mjölby Municipality.
Lysinuric protein intolerance Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI), also named hyperdibasic aminoaciduria type 2 or familial protein intolerance, is an autosomal recessive disorder of diamino acid transport. About 100 patients have been reported, almost half of them of Finnish origin.
Lysistrata Lysistrata (Attic: Λυσιστράτη, Doric: Λυσιστράτα), Aristophanes' anti-war comedy, written in 411 BC, has female characters, led by the eponymous Lysistrata, barricading the public funds building and withholding sex from their husbands to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War. In doing so, Lysistrata engages the support of women from Sparta, Boeotia, and Corinth.
Lysistratus Lysistratus was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, brother of Lysippus of Sicyon. We are told by Pliny the Elder that he followed a strongly realistic line, being the first sculptor to take impressions of human faces in plaster.
Lyskovo Lyskovo () is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River, opposite the mouth of the Kerzhenets River, on the shores of Cheboksary Reservoir, 90 km south-east of Nizhny Novgorod. It is the administrative center of Lyskovsky District.
LysKOM LysKOM is a KOM-based conferencing system developed by the Lysator Academic Computer Society at Linköping University and Linköping Institute of Technology. It can be seen as a cross between news and e-mail, but with the presence and speed of IRC or IM-networks.
Lysogen A lysogen or lysogenic phage is a phage that does not go into a lytic cycle but instead either integrates into the host bacteria's chromosome or "lives" as a stable plasmid within the host cell. In order to maintain the stability, the cI gene codes for repression of the lytic action, inhibiting the expression of genes that code for phage replication.
Lysogenic conversion Lysogenic conversion is when a temperate phage induces a change in the phenotype of the bacteria infected that is not part of a usual phage cycle. Changes can often involve the external membrane of the cell by making it impervious to other phages or even by increasing the pathogenic capability of the bacteria for a host.
Lysogeny Lysogeny, or the lysogenic cycle, is one of two methods of viral reproduction (the lytic cycle is the other). While the lytic cycle is common to both animal viruses and bacterial phages, lysogeny is more commonly found in animal viruses.
Lysol (cleaner) Lysol is a brand name for a dettol solution used as a disinfectant cleaner. It is sold in aerosol sprays, mold & mildew removers and inhibitors, all-purpose cleaners, and many other varieties of cleaning products.
Lysosomal storage disease The lysosomal storage diseases are a group of which over forty disorders are currently known that result from defects in lysosomal function. Lysosomes are cytoplasmic organelles that contain enzymes (specifically, acid hydrolases) that break macromolecules down to peptides, amino acids, monosaccharides, nucleic acids and fatty acids.
Lysosome [of typical animal cell, showing subcellular components. Organelle]s: (1) [[nucleolus (2) nucleus (3) ribosome (4) vesicle (5) rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) (6) Golgi apparatus (7) Cytoskeleton (8) smooth Endoplasmic reticulm (9) mitochondria (10) vacuole (11) cytoplasm (12) lysosome (13) centrioles]]
Lyssa The Greek goddess of rabies and mad rage, Lyssa was one of the Maniae (madnesses), a nurse of Eros and a daughter of Nyx, who was impregnated by the blood from the wound of the castrated Ouranos. Lyssa's most famous (if not only) mythology is that she was the goddess who drove mad the dogs of the youth Actaeon to kill their master, after the hunter had glanced upon the nakedness of a bathing Artemis, and did not look away.
Lystrosaurus Lystrosaurus (meaning 'shovel reptile', pronounced list-row-sore-uss) was a genus of Early Triassic Period therapsids, which lived approximately 250 million years ago in what is now Antarctica, India and South Africa. It was a common synapsid, a group of animals ancestral to (and including) mammals, more frequently referred to as "mammal-like" reptiles.
Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone The Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and a faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo. The name refers to Lystrosaurus, a genus of mammal-like reptile, a dominant life form of the Early Triassic Period, whose fossils have been found in that structure.
Lysyl oxidase Lysyl oxidase is an extracellular enzyme that catalyzes formation of aldehydes from lysine residues in collagen and elastin precursors. These aldehydes are highly reactive, and undergo spontaneous chemical reactions with other lysyl oxidase-derived aldehyde residues, or with unmodified lysine residues.
Lyta Alexander Lyta Alexander, played by Patricia Tallman, is a fictional character from the television science fiction drama Babylon 5. Lyta appeared in the pilot episode The Gathering, as the station's Psi Corps-assigned telepath, but did not appear in the first season.
Lyte Funky Ones Lyte Funky Ones (LFO) is an American three-man pop group consisting of Rich Cronin, Devin Lima (born Harold Lima), and Brad Fischetti. Before Devin Lima joined the group in 1999, the 3rd member was "Brizz", who was with the group from its start in 1997.
Lytham St Annes Lytham St Annes is a conurbation in the Fylde district of Lancashire, England. The neighbouring towns of Lytham and St-Annes-on-Sea (the latter nearly always abbreviated to St Annes) have grown together and now form a seaside resort, sometimes seen as a smaller and more genteel alternative to nearby Blackpool.
Lytchett Minster School Lytchett Minster School is a comprehensive school, with around 1200 students and 50 teachers, located just outside (4 miles) of Poole near (1 mile) the smaller town of Upton, in southern Dorset located in southern England. It contains seven academic years: year 7 (age 11 to 12), year 8 (age 12 to 13), year 9 (age 13 to 14), year 10 (age 14 to 15) and year 11 (age 15 to 16).
Lytle Brown Lytle Brown (November 22, 1872 - May 3, 1951) was a Major General of the US Army and Chief of Engineers commanding the US Army Corps of Engineers. He served at the Battle of San Juan Hill and the siege of Santiago in the war with Spain, where he became city engineer of Manila and engineering officer for Northern Luzon.
Lyttelton Range The Lyttelton Range () is a narrow northwest-trending mountain range located south of Dunedin Range in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica. The range is 26 km (16 mi) long and forms the western wall of the upper part of the Dennistoun Glacier.
Lyttelton, New Zealand Lyttelton () is a port town on the north shore of Lyttelton Harbour next to Banks Peninsula, 12 km by road from Christchurch on the eastern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. According to the 2001 census, the usually-resident population of Lyttelton (including neighbouring bays such as Rapaki and Corsair Bay) was 3042.
Lyttle Lytton Contest The Lyttle Lytton Contest is a diminutive derivative of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and was first run in the year 2001. Both are tongue-in-cheek contests that take place annually and in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
Lyttleton Engineering Works Lyttleton Engineering Works (LIW from Afrikaans: Lyttleton Ingeniëurs Werke) was a South African arms manufacturing company now amalgamated with Vektor Arms as the Systems division of the Land Systems Group of Denel.
Lytton Band of Pomo Indians The Lytton Band of Pomo Indians is a Native American tribe created in the late 1980s by lineal descendants of the two families who lived at the Lytton Rancheria in Healdsburg, California from 1937 to about 1960. The tribe now has between 200 and 300 members.
Lytton First Nation The Lytton First Nation is a First Nations government located in the Fraser Canyon region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. While it is the largest of all Nlaka'pamux bands, unlike all other governments of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people, it is not a member of any of the three Nlaka'pamux tribal councils, which are the Nicola Tribal Association, the Fraser Canyon Indian Administration and the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council.
Lytton Strachey Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1 1880 – January 21 1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.
Lyubery During the period of Glasnost in the late 1980s in the Soviet Union, the Lyubery were a youth-cult whose aim was to "cleanse" Soviet society of Western influences by attacking Westernized youth, mainly in major cities such as Moscow. They singled out and targeted people who who looked like a fan of Western pop culture or who engaged or looked like they would engage in protests against the Soviet government.
Lyubcho Georgievski Ljubco Georgievski ( ), (born January 17, 1966 in Ĺ tip) is a politician from the Republic of Macedonia and former Prime Minister of the country. In 1999 he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as being the world's youngest Prime Minister.
Lyubimetz 13 Lyubimetz 13 (Bulgarian language: Любимец 13, English language: Favourite 13) is a comedy movie released in Bulgaria in 1958. It was directed by Vladimir Yanchev and written by Lyuben Popov and Vladimir Yanchev.
Lyubov Gurina Lyubov Gurina (born August 6, 1957 in Matushkino, Kirov Oblast) is a retired middle distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia. Competing mainly in 800 metres, in 1994 she became the oldest European champion at the age of 37.
Lyubov Kuznetsova Lyubov Kuznetsova (Russian: Любовь Кузнецова), born in 1928 is a Russian calligrapher and font designer. The official digital version of the Literaturnaya font was developed at ParaGraph in 1996 by her.
Lyubov Speranskaya Speranskaya Lyubov Lvovna (Russian: Сперанская Любовь Львовна nee Stein) is People's artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, member of Russian Artist's Union, the first woman-scenograph in Tatarstan, theatre artist, portraitist, graphic painter, ceramist, ethnographer, the participant of Great Patriotic War.
Lyubsha Lyubsha (Russian: Любша) is an archaeological site situated on the right bank of the Volkhov, about 1,500 metres downstream from Staraya Ladoga. As was established by the 1993 excavations, Lyubsha is the site of the earliest Varangian fort in Russia, established in the first half of the 8th century, thus predating Ladoga.
Lyudinovo Lyudinovo () is a town in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of the Lake Lompad formed by a dam on the Nepolot River. Lyudinovo is situated some 65 km north of Bryansk and 188 km southwest of Kaluga.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (Ukrainian: Людмила Михайлівна Павліченко, Russian: Людмила Михайловна Павличенко) (July 12, 1916 – October 10, 1974) was a Soviet sniper during World War II.
Lyudmila Putina Lyudmila Putina (, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina, née Shkrebneva, Шкребнева) (born January 6, 1958, Kaliningrad, Soviet Union) is the wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In her early years she was an airline stewardess on local flights from Kaliningrad.
Lyudmila Rogachova Lyudmila Rogachova (born October 30, 1966 in Lad Balka) is a retired Russian middle distance runner who competed mainly in the 1500 metres. She became a World Indoor and European champion in this event, and won an Olympic silver medal in 1992 with a personal best time of 3:56.
Lyudmila Rudenko Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (Russian: Людмила Владимировна Руденко; the transcription of her first name may vary in different sources - Liudmila, Ljudmila, Ludmila...; 27 July 1904 in Lubny, Russia–04 March 1986) was a Soviet chess player and the second Women's World Chess Champion from 1950 until 1953.
Lyudmila Zhivkova Lyudmila Zhivkova () (26 July 1942 - 21 July 1981) was a Bulgarian politician from the Bulgarian Communist Party and daughter of Communist leader Todor Zhivkov, with whose nepotism she reached the rank of a Politburo member.
Lyuh Woon-Hyung Lyuh, Woon-Hyung (May 26 1886 – July 19 1947) was a Korean politician who argued that Korean independence was essential to world peace. His pen-name was Mongyang, the Chinese characters for "dream" and "light.
Lyulin Mountain Lyulin () is a mountain in western Bulgaria, located several kilometres west of Sofia. The highest point is Dupevitsa Peak (1,256 m), access to which is forbidden The Buchino Pass divides the mountain into two, a western and eastern part, and the Bosnovi Polyani are a popular tourist attraction.
Lyulin Peak Lyulin Peak (Vrah Lyulin 'vr&h lyu-'lin) is a sharp double peak forming the E extremity of Delchev Ridge and Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island. The peaks rise to approximately 200 m, have rocky, ice-free slopes and surmount Renier Point.
Lyusternik–Schnirelmann category In mathematics, the Lyusternik–Schnirelmann category (or, Lusternik–Schnirelmann category, LS-category, or simply, category) of a topological space X is the topological invariant defined as the smallest cardinality of an open covering of X by contractible subsets. For example, if X is the circle, this takes the value two.
Lyveden New Bield Lyveden New Bield (sometimes called New Build) is an unfinished summer house in the parish of Aldwinkle St Peter in the county of Northamptonshire, England. It was constructed for Sir Thomas Tresham, the fervent Roman Catholic of Rushton Hall, and is thought to have been designed by Robert Stickells.
LY-60 / FD-60 / PL10 The LY-60/FD-60/PL-10 is a family of PRC missiles developed by the Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, largely based on the Italian Alenia Aspide missile - itself a version of the American AIM-7 Sparrow missile. There are four versions of the basic design, three of which are surface-to-air and one air-to-air.
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a large rigid airship (or dirigible) in the early 20th century. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who held the rank of Graf or Count in the German nobility (in German usage the "von" in a name is omitted when a title such as "Graf" is employed).
LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin The Graf Zeppelin (LZ 130) was the last of the great Zeppelins built by the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau during the period between the World Wars. She was the second ship to carry the designation "Graf Zeppelin" (after the LZ 127), and thus she is often referred to as Graf Zeppelin II.
LZ-138 The LZ 138 is a fictitious, otherwise nameless Zeppelin in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Indiana Jones and his father, Henry Jones Sr. go aboard to escape from Nazi Germany after recovering Henry Jones Sr.
LZ77 and LZ78 LZ77 and LZ78 are the names for the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978. These two algorithms form the basis for most of the LZ variations including LZW, LZSS and others.
LZMA LZMA, short for Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm, is a data compression algorithm in development since 1998 and used in the 7z format of the 7-Zip archiver. It uses a dictionary compression scheme somewhat similar to LZ77 and features a high compression ratio (generally higher than bzip2) and a variable compression-dictionary size (up to 1 GB).
LZW LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch. It was published by Welch in 1984 as an improved implementation of the LZ78 algorithm published by Lempel and Ziv in 1978.

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