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Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft The German expression Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (phonetically: "lahnd-weird-shaft-lee-che pro-duct-eonz-gae-noss-an-shaft"), or — more common — its acronym LPG was the official designation for large, collectivised farms in the former East Germany.
Landyacht Landyacht is colloquial term in the United States, Australia and parts of Canada, used to describe the large sedans that American automobile manufacturers produced, particularly full-size, rear-wheel drive sedans, from the 1950s through the 1980s. Features commonly found in vehicles that are referred to as landyachts include not only very generous exterior proportions, but also somewhat vague steering and a "spongy" ride with a feeling that is often described as being "floaty.
Lane Avenue Bridge The Lane Avenue Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Olentangy River in the American city of Columbus, Ohio. It was completed on November, 14, 2003, after only 16 months of construction, five months ahead of schedule.
Lane College Lane College is a four-year, accredited historically black college located in Jackson, Tennessee, just east of the downtown area. It is primarily a liberal arts institution associated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
Lane departure warning system A lane departure warning system (LDW) is a mechanism designed to warn a car driver when his or her vehicle begins to move out of its lane (unless a turn signal is on in that direction) on freeways and arterial roads.
Lane diets A lane diet describes a technique of transportation planning in which the width of a lane is narrowed in order to achieve reduced overall roadway width and operational improvements to the transportation system. A leading proponent of lane diets is former Florida Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Dan Burden.
Lane Dwinell Lane Dwinell (November 14, 1906–March 27, 1997) was an American manufacturer and Republican politician from Lebanon, New Hampshire. Born in 1906 in Newport, Vermont, he served in and led both houses of the New Hampshire legislature before his two terms as Governor.
Lane End Primary School Lane End Primary School is a county primary school located at the bottom of Ramillies Avenue Cheadle Hulme, next to the Ladybrook Valley and Bramhall Park. Lane End Primary School is administered by the Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
Lane Evans Lane Allen Evans (born August 4 1951) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983 until January 3, 2007, representing the 17th District of Illinois. The district is based in Illinois' share of the Quad Cities area and includes Rock Island, Moline, Quincy, Decatur,Galesburg
Lane Frost Lane Frost (October 12, 1963 in La Junta, Colorado – July 30, 1989 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) was a champion professional bull rider and Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association member, who died in the arena at the 1989 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, of injuries sustained seconds after he dismounted his bull, "Taking Care of Business".
Lane Huffman Lane Steven Huffman, (born August 22 1958 in Houston, Texas), is a retired American professional wrestler who is better known as Stevie Ray. He is best known as being part of the tag team Harlem Heat with his younger brother Booker Huffman (better known as Booker T).
Lane Penn Jeff Lane Penn was a representative rugby football player for Taranaki (1957-1963) and Wairarapa-Bush (1965-1966), and coach of a highly competitive Wairarapa Bush side 1983-1987. He has been employed as All Black selector 1988-1991, and as president of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union 2001-2003.
Lane snapper The lane snapper (Lutjanus synagris) is silvery-pink to reddish in color, with short, irregular pink and yellow lines on its sides; diffuse black spot, about as large as the eye; the dorsal fin centered above the lateral line; outer margin of caudal fin blackish. Similar fish are the mutton snapper, Lutjanus analis, and the mangrove snapper, Lutjanus griseus.
Lane Technical College Prep High School Lane Technical College Prep High School, colloquially known as Lane Tech (and occasionally ironically referred to as Addison Square Garden), is a high school located in Chicago, Illinois. It's one of the oldest schools in the city, and with an enrollment of over four thousand students, it is the largest.
Lane Theological Seminary Lane Theological Seminary was established in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1829 to educate Presbyterian ministers. It was named in honor of Ebenezer and William Lane, who pledged $4,000 for the new school, which was seen as a forward outpost of the Presbyterian Church in the western territories of the United States.
Lane Transit District The Lane Transit District (LTD) is a public agency that provides public transportation to the Eugene, Oregon metropolitan area (which is in Lane County), including the neighboring cities of Springfield, Junction City, Creswell, and Cottage Grove. LTD began service in 1970 with 20 vehicles, but today provides over 20,000 bus trips a week.
Lane's End Breeders' Futurity The Lane's End Breeders' Futurity is a Grade I race for two-year-old thoroughbred horses run at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the Keeneland dirt. The race is a major prep to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
Lane's End Stakes The Lane's End Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held in late March at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky. The race is open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $500,000.
Lane-Emden equation In astrophysics, the Lane-Emden equation is Poisson's equation for the gravitational potential of a self-gravitating, spherically symmetric polytropic fluid. It is named after the astrophysicists Jonathan Homer Lane and Robert Emden.
Lane, West Yorkshire Lane Village is a small hamlet 3 miles southwest of Holmfirth and approximately half a mile southwest of Holme Village on the A6024 Woodhead Road. It lies on the edge of Holme Moss just inside the Peak District National Park boundary.
Lanercost Chronicle The Lanercost Chronicle is a northern English and Scottish history covering the years 1201 to 1346. It covers the Wars of Scottish Independence, but it is also highly tangential and as such provides insights into English life in the thirteenth century.
Lanesfield Lanesfield is a district now within the boundaries of Wolverhampton, specifically in the city council's Spring Vale ward. Lanesfield lies within the Ancient Manor of Sedgley and was a rural village for many years until the growth of the Black Country's industries.
Lanester Lanester is a commune in the département of Morbihan and the Bretagne region of France. It is located in the metropolitan Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Lorient, and is the largest suburb of the city of Lorient, across the Scorff River on its east side.
Laney College Laney College is a community college located in Oakland, California, next to the Lake Merritt BART station and the Kaiser Convention Center. Laney is the largest of the four colleges of the Peralta Community College District which serves northern Alameda County.
Lanfair Valley Lanfair Valley is located in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California near the Nevada state line. It is bounded on the north by the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains, on the east by the Piute Range, and on the south by the Woods Mountains and Vontrigger Hills.
Lanfang Republic The Lanfang Republic (modern name in Traditional Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Lánfāng Gònghéguó) was a Hakka state in western Kalimantan that was established by Luo Fangbai in 1777 until it was ended by Dutch occupation in 1884. The Lan Fang Republic is a contender for the first republic in Asia.
Lanford Wilson Lanford Wilson (born on April 13, 1937 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American playwright. He was raised in the Ozarks until, as a teenager, he moved to California to live with his father, from whom his mother had been long divorced.
Lanfro Lanfro is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Gurage Zone, Lanfro is bordered on the south by the Kembata Alaba and Tembaro Zone, on the west by Dalocha, on the north by Silte, and on the east by the Oromia Region.
Lang Campbell Lang Campbell (born September 25, 1981 in Winchester, VA) is an American football quarterback who is a current member of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. Campbell was a two-year starter at The College of William and Mary .
Lang Hancock Langley Frederick George "Lang" Hancock (10 June 1909–27 March 1992) was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the competing spheres of business and politics. Famous initially for discovering the world's largest iron ore deposit in 1952 and becoming one of the richest men in Australia, he is now best remembered for his marriage to the controversial, and much younger, model Rose Porteous.
Lang Lang railway station, Victoria Lang Lang was a railway station on the South Gippsland line in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, the station operated until the closure of the line between Cranbourne Station and Leongatha Station in 1993. This station remains partialy intact with its platform and signals still in resonable condition, the track along this section is still in reasonable condition.
Lang Lang River The Lang Lang river is a relatively short coastal river located in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The river headwaters are in the Strzelecki Ranges, in the East Poowong[valley north of the town of Korumburra], flowing northwest, then west before entering [[Western Port, near the town of Lang Lang.
Lang Lang, Victoria Lang Lang is a small town on the eastern coast of Western Port just off the South Gippsland Highway near its intersection with Bass Highway in the Shire of Cardinia, 85 km south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Lang Ping Lang Ping (simplified Chinese: 郎平), known as Jenny Lang Ping is one of the most famous and respected individuals in the history of volleyball. She was hired as the head coach of the USA women's national volleyball team on February 7, 2005.
Langa ka Phalo Langa ka Phalo (about 1705 - 1794) was the founder of the amaMbalu sub-group of the Xhosa nation and reigned as chief from 1740 until his death. Langa was born as to Phalo ka Tshiwo and is known to have had two sons Ngqeno ka Langa (1759) and Thole ka Langa.
Langalbandh Langalbandh (, literally, the place where the plough stopped), is a place located in Bangladesh, and is considered to be holy by Hindus. It is located in the Dhaka District, on the bank of the Brahmaputra River near the Dhaka-Chittagong highway.
Langar House Langar House also sometimes know as Langar Houz is a part of Hyderabad, India. Langar means mega cooking place , During the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate this was the place all the food was cooked and hence which was then carried into the fort and all the people were fed and Hence the name 'Langar' House.
Langara College Langara College is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has more than 23,000 students (full-time and part-time). Programs were first offered in 1965 at King Edward Centre as part of Vancouver City College (current name is Vancouver Community College).
Langara Lighthouse The Langara Lighthouse is a manned lighthouse located atop a scenic bluff on the northwest corner of Langara Island. It is one of only two lighthouses in the Queen Charlotte Islands – the other being at Cape St.
Langara-49th Avenue Station Langara-49th Avenue Station will be a station on the Canada Line, located at the intersection of West 49th Avenue and Cambie Street in Vancouver, Canada. The station is due to open in 2009, when the Canada Line opens.
Langaran characters in Stargate In the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the Langarans are a race of humans inhabiting the planet Langara. The planet is divided in three major nation-station, Kelowna, Terrania, and the Andari Federation, which have suffered from constant war and strife for generations.
Langarus Langarus (died 335 BC), king of the Agrianians, was a contemporary of Alexander the Great (336–323 BC), with whom he ingratiated himself even before the death of Philip II, previous king of Macedon. He rendered Alexander important services shortly after his accession, in his expedition against the Illyrians and Taulantians, when the Autariatae were preparing to attack him on his march.
Langbaurgh (UK Parliament constituency) Langbaurgh was a parliamentary constituency in the Langbaurgh area of North East England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Langbaurgh (wapentake) Langbaurgh was a wapentake (hundred), or liberty, of the North Riding of Yorkshire. It covered an area on the northern coast of the county, including Middlesbrough, Easby, Great Ayton, Guisborough, Marske-by-the-Sea, Maltby, Easington, Redcar, and Whitby - the Cleveland area.
Langbaurgh East Langbaurgh East was a wapentake of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the eastern division of Langbaurgh. The name is presently in use as a local justice area (formerly a petty sessional division), consisting of the eastern, mostly rural part of the borough of Redcar and Cleveland.
Langbaurgh East (wapentake) Langbaurgh East was a Wapentake, a division of the ancient county of Yorkshire. The area along with Langbaurgh West forms the Anglo-Saxon area of Cleveland, England (not to be confused with the County of Cleveland of 1974 to 1996) and roughly covers the modern districts of Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, the southern portion of Stockton-on-Tees, the northern parts of Hambleton (Great Ayton, Stokesley) and the northern parts of the Borough of Scarborough.
Langbaurgh West Langbaurgh West was a Wapentake, a division of the ancient county of Yorkshire. The area along with Langbaurgh East forms the Anglo-Saxon area of Cleveland, England (not to be confused with the County of Cleveland of 1974 to 1996) and roughly covers the modern districts of Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, the southern portion of Stockton-on-Tees, the northern parts of Hambleton (Great Ayton, Stokesley) and the northern parts of the Borough of Scarborough.
Langdon Brown Gilkey Langdon Brown Gilkey (February 91919 – November 19, 2004) was an American Protestant Ecumenical theologian. The grandson of Clarence Talmadge Brown, the first non-Mormon minister to gather a congregation in Salt Lake City, Gilkey grew up in Hyde Park Chicago [where his father Charles Whitney Gilkey was the first Dean of the University of Chicago]'s Rockefeller Chapel [and his mother Geraldine Gunsaulus (Brown) Gilkey was a prominent feminist, and niece of Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, the first President of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Langdon Smith Langdon Smith (1877 - 1908) was a poet, artist, illustrator and naturalist, most well know today for his love poem, apparently originally named A Tadpole and a Fish but normally cited as "Evolution".The Cosmos Club (1999)The Philosophic Origins of Science.
Lange-Lerner-Taylor theorem In economic theory, the Lange-Lerner-Taylor theorem states that an economy in which all production is performed by the state, but in which there is a functioning price mechanism, has similar properties to a market economy under perfect competition, in that it achieves Pareto efficiency.
Langebæk Langebæk is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Storstrøm County on the southeastern tip of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in south Denmark. The municipality includes the islands of Langø, Tærø and Lilleø, and it covers an area of 101 km².
Langeland municipality As of January 1, 2007 Langeland municipality will, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), come into existence as a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Denmark. It will consist of the (what are currently existing, but on January 1 2007) former municipalities of Tranekær, Rudkøbing, and Sydlangeland.
Langeled pipeline The Langeled pipeline (also known as Langeled, or the Langeled project) is the world's longest underwater pipeline. The pipeline, which was built for Norsk Hydro ASA, will bring Norwegian natural gas to the UK.
Langendreer Langendreer is the most populous district of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in Germany. Langendreer is between Dortmund, the largest city of Westphalia and Langendreer-Alter Bahnhof, another district of Bochum.
Langenscheidt Langenscheidt is a privately-held German publishing company, specializing in language resource literature. As well as producing same-language dictionaries, Langenscheidt also produces language-to-language dictionaries and travel phrase-books.
Langeoog Langeoog is one of the seven inhabited East Frisian Islands at the edge of the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea in the southern North Sea, located between Baltrum Island (west), and Spiekeroog (east). The name 'Langeoog' means 'Long Island' in the Low German dialect.
Langepas Langepas () is a town in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Kayukovskaya River 15 km north of the right bank of the Ob River, 545 km east of Khanty-Mansiysk, and 875 km northeast of Tyumen. Population: 40,800 (2006 est.
Langer's lines Langer's lines are lines which can be extrapolated by connecting linear openings made when a round pin is driven into the skin of a cadaver, resulting from the principal axis of orientation of the subcutaneous connective tissue (collagen) fibres of the dermis; they vary in direction with the region of the body surface. Skin tends to be much stiffer along these lines rather than across them.
Langerado Langerado Music Festival is an annual music festival in Broward County, Florida, founded in 2003 by Ethan Schwartz of South Florida Jams Productions and Mark Brown of Brown Coffee Productions. For the last two years the festival has been held at every spring at Markham Park, in Sunrise, FL.
Langerhans cell Langerhans' cells are immature dendritic cells containing large granules called Birbeck granules. On infection of an area of skin, the local Langerhans' cells will take up and process microbial antigens before travelling to the T-cell areas in the cortex of the draining lymph node and maturing to become fully-functional antigen-presenting cells.
Langeskov municipality Langeskov municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County near the northeast coast of the island of Funen in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 43 km², and has a total population of 6,365 (2005).
Langevåg Langevåg is the administrative center of the municipality of Sula in Norway, and lays at end of the road on the north side of the island. The place is known for having raised famous musicians as Nils Petter Molvær,Robert Post and the bands Ytre Suløens Jassensemble and The Brazz Brothers.
Langevin Block The Langevin Block is an imposing office building facing Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. As the home of the Privy Council Office and Prime Minister's Office, it is the headquarters of the executive branch of the Canadian government.
Langfang Incident The Langfang Incident (廊坊事件) was a military incident of the Second Sino-Japanese War that occurred on July 26 1937 in Langfang, a town en route from Beijing to Tianjin. The Japanese dispatched troops there as part of an organised attack on the 29th Army.
Langford Lovell Price Langford Lovell Price (1862-1950) was an English economist, born in London. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1888 became fellow and treasurer of Oriel, and was Newmarch lecturer in statistics at University College, London in 1895-96.
Langgam jawa Langgam jawa is a regional form of Indonesian kroncong music most often associated with the city of Surakarta (solo). As is the case with traditional kroncong music, langgam jawa utilizes a variety of non-native instruments, such as the flute, guitar, ukulele, cello and violin.
Langham Hotel Hong Kong The Langham Hotel (formerly known as the Great Eagle), is a hotel in located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong’s commercial and entertainment district. It overlooks the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and Museum and the Hong Kong Space Museum.
Langham Place Langham Place is a 3-in-1 shopping mall, hotel and office tower that opened in the fourth quarter of 2004 in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. It occupies two entire blocks defined by Argyle Street, Portland Street, Shantung Street and Reclamation Street.
Langhans giant cell Langhans giant cells are large cells found in granulomatous conditions. They are formed by the fusion of epithelioid cells (macrophages), and contain nuclei arranged in a horseshoe-shaped pattern in the cell periphery.
Langho Langho is a small village five kilometres north of Blackburn in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It is linked with Blackburn and Clitheroe by the A666 road and is served by Langho railway station on the Ribble Valley Line.
Langho railway station Langho railway station serves the village of Langho in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is one of four railway stations along the Ribble line from Blackburn to Clitheroe reopened in the mid 1990s by Lancashire County Council.
Langholm Langholm, also known in Scots as the "Muckle Toon", is a burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the River Esk and the A7 road. The town grew around the textile industry, but is now best-known as the birthplace of Hugh MacDiarmid and Thomas Telford.
Langhorne Slim Langhorne Slim is a young folk singer, born August 20, 1980, based out of Brooklyn, New York. Originally hailing from Langhorne, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, part of the SUNY system.
Langkasuka Langkasuka (-langkha Sanskrit for "resplendent land" -sukkha of "bliss") was an ancient Hindu Malay kingdom located in the Malay Peninsula. The kingdom along with Old Kedah are probably the earliest kingdom founded on the Malay Peninsula.
Langkawi International Maritime and Air Show Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) brings together the latest technology and products from the aerospace industries. LIMA is now established as one of the major airshow in the world.
Langlade Island Langlade Island, also referred to by foreigners as "Little Miquelon", is part of the commune (municipality) of Miquelon-Langlade, in the French overseas collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Located in the North Atlantic, south of Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula, it is linked to the island of Miquelon by a 12 mile sand dune.
Langland Bay Langland Bay is a popular holiday resort that is relatively difficult to access. Aligned along the top of the beach are a number of small green and white timber holiday beach huts, these are backed by tennis courts for hire.
Langlands group In representation theory, a branch of mathematics, the Langlands (dual) group LG (also called L-group) is a group associated to a reductive group G over a field k that controls the representation theory of G. It is an extension of the absolute Galois group of k by a complex Lie group.
Langlands program In mathematics, the Langlands program is a web of far-reaching and influential conjectures that connect number theory and the representation theory of certain groups. It was proposed by Robert Langlands beginning in 1967.
LanglĂĽtjen LanglĂĽtjen is the name of the two artificial islands created in the 19th century, LanglĂĽtjen I and LanglĂĽtjen II, in the north off the coast of the district Wesermarsch in Lower Saxony, Germany. The islands belong politically to the town of Nordenham.
Langlee Island Langlee Island or Langley Island is an island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island has a permanent size of 4 acres, plus an intertidal zone of a further 3 acres, and is composed of a massing of roxbury puddingstone which rises to a height of 40 feet above sea level.
Langley (crater) Langley is a lunar crater that is located close to the northwestern limb of the Moon, and from the Earth is viewed from the edge. It is located in the gap between Galvani crater which lies across the southeast rim, and Volta crater along the northeast rim.
Langley (electoral district) Langley is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It is an xx km² riding with 111,045 people located in the suburbs of the Lower Mainland.
Langley (provincial electoral district) Langley is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It should not be confused with the federal electoral district of Langley, which encompasses a somewhat larger area.
Langley Aerodrome Aerodrome is a word coined by Smithsonian Institution Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley and applied to a series of engine-driven unmanned and manned aircraft of Langley's design that were built under his direction by Smithsonian staff in the 1890s and early 1900s. The term is derived from Greek words meaning "air runner".
Langley Centre Langley Centre is the major public transit exchange serving the City of Langley and the Township of Langley. It is home to Langley's bus routes and community shuttle routes; all of Langley's bus routes connect to the SkyTrain system, while all of Langley's community shuttles originate from Langley Centre.
Langley Fine Arts School Langley Fine Arts School is a public elementary school and secondary school in Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and is part of School District 35 Langley. It serves the Fort Langley area, though its strong arts program attracts many students from across and outside the district.
Langley Fundamental Elementary School Langley Fundamental Elementary is a public elementary school in Langley, British Columbia part of School District 35 Langley. It was formed by the 1995 amalgamation of Langley Central Fundamental school (which burned down in 1993) and Langley Prairie Elementary.
Langley Green, Crawley Langley Green is a neighbourhood within the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England. Langley Green is in the north of the town and is bordered by Manor Royal to the east, Northgate to the south east, West Green to the south across the ring road and Ifield to the west.
Langley Hall Langley Hall is a red-brick building in the Palladian style, located in Loddon, Norfolk. It was built in 1737 for Richard Bemey, on land that until the Dissolution of the Monasteries belonged to Langley Abbey, and sold two years later to George Proctor to enable Bemey to repay his debts.
Langley Chiefs The Langley Chiefs are a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team from Langley Township, British Columbia, Canada. They are a part of the British Columbia Hockey League and play in the Mainland Division/Coastal Conference.
Langley Mill Pottery Langley Mill Pottery was located in Langley Mill, Derbyshire on the Derbyshire – Nottinghamshire border. From its establishment in 1865 to its final closure in 1982, the pottery went through five distinct periods of ownership, producing a wide range of stoneware ranging from salt glazed ink bottles, utilitarian items and tableware to high quality and original art pottery.
Langley Park School for Boys Langley Park School for Boys (also known as Langley Park Boys' School) is a boys' comprehensive secondary school in Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley, with a mixed-sex sixth form. The school currently has about 1450 pupils.
Langley Park, Western Australia Langley Park is an open space in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. Running alongside Riverside Drive, it is grassed, rectangular in shape and has dimensions 900 x 100 m (3000 x 300 ft).
Langley railway station Langley railway station is a railway station in Langley, a suburb of Slough, Berkshire, England. The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western from London Paddington to Reading stations.
Langley Research Center Langley Research Center (LaRC) Oldest of NASA's field centers, LaRC is located in Hampton, Virginia and directly borders Poquoson, Virginia and Langley Air Force Base. LaRC focuses primarily on aeronautical research, though the Lunar Lander was flight-tested at this facility and a number of high profile space missions are planned and designed on site.
Langley Speedway (Virginia) Langley Speedway is a race track located in Hampton, Virginia, in the United States. In November 1970, it became the site of the last Grand National race before the series was renamed Winston Cup (now NEXTEL Cup).
Langleybury Langleybury was a country house and estate in Hertfordshire, England situated 2 miles north of the town of Watford on a low hill above the valley of the River Gade. It was purchased in 1711 by Robert Raymond later Baron Raymond who was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1724 until 1732.
Langloisia Langloisia setosissima (Bristly Langloisia, Bristly-calico or Lilac Sunbonnets) is a flowering plant, the sole species in the genus Langloisia in the family Polemoniaceae. It is native to the western United States, where it is found in desert washes and on rocky slopes and plains from eastern Oregon and Idaho south to eastern California and Arizona.
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