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Lapse rate The lapse rate is defined as the negative of the rate of change in temperature with height observed while moving upwards through an atmosphere. While typically applied to Earth's atmosphere, the concept can be extended to any gravitationally supported ball of gas.
Lapsed Catholic The term lapsed Catholic describes a person raised as a Roman Catholic who no longer practices the religion. Many lapsed Catholics become so after leaving their parental home, where they may have gone through the paces of religious services to please a more devout relative, especially a parent.
Lapsed lurker Internet domain name registrations are for a fixed period of time. If the owner of a domain name doesn't re-register the name with an internet registrar prior to expiry, then the domain name can be purchased by anybody else after it expires.
Lapsed power In politics and government, lapsed power is a term often used to describe a certain constitutionally-granted power of government that is no longer used, according to constitutional convention. This may be because the power's original conditions of use no longer exist, making it an anachronism, or simply because the nation's political culture and attitudes have shifted, making the power appear too morally or ethically objectable to use.
Lapsi Lapsi was the name given to apostates in the early Christian Church, when Christians were under pressure to renounce their faith. It also means those who have fallen away from their faith and decide later in life to come back to it.
Lapstone Zig Zag The Lapstone Zig Zag was a zig zag railway built on the Great Western Railway of New South Wales in Australia around 1872, to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the eastern side of the mountains. The ruling grade was already very steep at 1 in 33 (3%).
Lapstone, New South Wales Lapstone () is a small village on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. The village consists mostly of stand-alone housing and has a few public facilities such as a football field, a number of netball fields and a play area attached for young children.
Laptev Sea The Laptev Sea (Russian: мо́ре Ла́птевых) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the eastern coast of Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula, the Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands.
Laptop cooler A laptop/notebook cooler or cooler pad, is an accessory for laptop computers that helps reduce their operating temperature. Normally used when the laptop's fan device is unable to sufficiently cool the laptop, a cooling pad houses its own fans (usually 2 or 3) and rests beneath the laptop.
Laptop Generation Among other things, the term Laptop Generation can refer to the set of electronic music artists who first made extensive use of computers in creating electronic music. Being more accessible and affordable, computers and laptops helped open a multitude of people to electronic music who otherwise would have been deterred.
Laptop theft Laptop theft is a serious threat to users of mobile computers. Many methods to protect the data and to prevent theft have been developed, including alarms, laptop locks (such as the widespread Kensington lock standard), and visual deterrents such as STOP security plates that are hard or impossible to remove thus killing the resale value.
Laptopical Laptopical was founded in 2004, and offers news commentary about laptops, mobile computers. Since its launch, Laptopical has commented upon and reviewed over two hundred laptop computers from a variety of brands including Apple Computer, Dell, Lenovo and Sony.
Lapu Lapu shrine The Lapu Lapu shrine is a 20 metre bronze memorial statue erected on Mactan Island in the place of Punta Engaño, Cebu, Philippines, in honour of Datu, Lapu-Lapu who defeated the Spaniards and killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.
Lapu-Lapu Lapu-Lapu (Kaliph Pulaka) (born 1491, died 1542) was the earliest known indigenous Visayan chieftain, and datu (king) of Mactan in the Philippines. Known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spanish colonization, and Roman Catholic prosylitizing.
Lapu-Lapu City Lapu-Lapu City is a 1st class city in the province of Cebu, Philippines. The city occupies most of Mactan Island, just one kilometer southeast from the island of Cebu, and also covers the whole of Olango Island five kilometers further to the southeast plus a few other islets.
Lapua Movement Lapua Movement (Lapuan liike) was a political movement in Finland. It started in 1929 and was initially dominated by ardent anti-communist nationalists, emphasizing the legacy of the nationalist activism, the White Guards and the Civil War in Finland.
Lapurdian Lapurdian is a dialect of the Basque language spoken in the Labourd (Basque: Lapurdi) region of the Basque Country in France. Lapurdian, along with Gipuzkoan, is used heavily in Batua, a standardised dialect of the Basque language used in teaching and the media.
LaPorte Church of Christ LaPorte Church of Christ is an independent church with an all-white congregation in Laporte, Colorado, led by Peter J. Peters, a Christian Identity minister, teaching that the white "Aryan" race is God's chosen race and that whites comprise the ten lost tribes of Israel, referring to the Bible to justify these ideas.
Lara Baruca Lara Baruca (aka Lara-B, born August 1, 1979 in Koper, Slovenia) is a singer who began her career in her early teens. She has developed her own unique style combining rock, electronic, industrial and soul styles.
Lara Bingle Lara Bingle (born 1987, Cronulla, New South Wales) is an Australian model who is best known for appearing on Fingal Spit in the controversial 2006 Tourism Australia advertising campaign So where the bloody hell are you?, where she delivers this final line in the television commercial.
Lara Cardella Lara Cardella (born November 13, 1969 in Licata, Italy) is an Italian writer. Her first book Volevo i pantaloni, written when she was nineteen, caused a scandal in the small Sicilian community where she lived because it fiercely criticized the backwardness, chauvinism and parochialism of modern Sicily.
Lara Cohen Lara Cohen was a musician in the mid-1990’s United States indie-rock scene. Despite her relatively obscure place of residence in Merion, Pennsylvania, USA, Cohen became a prominent figure in the national indie-rock scene during her teens.
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary Tomb Raider: Anniversary, also known as Tomb Raider: 10th Anniversary Edition, is the next release of the Tomb Raider series. It is now confirmed by Eidos/SCi that this will be a remake of the original Tomb Raider game using the Tomb Raider: Legend game engine.
Lara Fabian Lara Fabian (born Lara Crokaert January 9, 1970 in Etterbeek, Belgium) is an international Flemish French-language singer, known for her vocal prowess and skilled technique. She often sings in Italian, Spanish, and English in addition to French.
Lara Fabian (French album) Lara Fabian's self titled French debut album is considered by some to be her best album because it is the only album Lara has ever record that is somewhat raucous, highly spirited, and very amiable. It is also notable because it is her only album that is dominated by Dance-pop type songs instead of ballads.
Lara Giddings Lara Giddings (born 4 November 1972, Goroka, Papua New Guinea) is an Australian politician. She is an Australian Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the outer suburban Hobart electorate of Franklin.
Lara language Lara (also called Berkati, Land Dajak II: Berkati, Lara’, and Luru) is a language spoken by some 12,000 people in Borneo. Speakers are found in the Indonesian area of the island (Kalimantan) on the Upper Lundu and Sambas rivers, around Bengkayang east of Gunung Pendering, and to the north, in Pejampi and two other villages (incidentally, this is one of the most linguistically diverse places on the planet).
Lara Lewington Lara Lewington (born May 10 1979) is a British weathergirl and television presenter on Five, joining Five News in January 2003. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Drama and is an NCTJ trained journalist.
Lara Sacher Lara Sacher (English pronunciation similar to Sasher) (born 2 November 1986) is an Australian actress who played Serena Bishop on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2003 to 2005, when the character was killed off in a plane crash along with her mother, Liljana and father, David. She also appeared in the children's show Noah and Saskia playing the character of Claire.
Lara Schnitger Lara Schnitger (born 1969 in Haarlem, Netherlands) is an American and Dutch sculptor, living and working in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Lara Schnitger studied at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) from 1987 to 1991.
Lara Veronin Lara Liang Veronin (, born 2 May 1988 in California, United States), a Russian-Taiwanese-American student from the Taipei American School class of 2006, is the lead female vocalist in the popular Taiwanese band Nan Quan Ma Ma (南拳媽媽), whose second album, Nan Quan Ma Ma #2, reached as high as #4 on the Taiwan album charts. She was raised in Southern California and moved to Taiwan in her teens.
Lara's Theme Lara's Theme is the generic name given to a recurring musical cue written for the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre. It has become an internationally known tune and remains a favorite to this day.
Laragh, County Wicklow Laragh is a small picturesque village in County Wicklow, Ireland. It lies at the junction of three roads through the Wicklow Mountains ( R115, R755 and R756) and is primarily known for its proximity to the Monastic settlement of Glendalough.
Laraine Day American actress Laraine Day (b. Laraine Johnson on October 13, 1917 in Roosevelt, Utah), a descendant of a prominent Mormon pioneer leader, moved with her family from Utah to California, where she began her acting career with the Long Beach Players.
Larak Island Larak Island is an island off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf which has been one of Iran's major oil export point since 1987. Larak Island was bombed by Iraq in November and December 1986 as part of the Iran-Iraq War.
Laraki Laraki is a Moroccan manufacturer of luxurious high-performance sport cars. Its owner is Laraki Abdeslam, a 31 year old Moroccan designer who started out creating luxurious yachts (the emir of Bahrein is the main client).
Laramide orogeny The Laramide orogeny was a period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 70 to 80 million years ago, and ended 35 to 55 million years ago. The exact duration and ages of beginning and end of the orogeny are in dispute, as is the cause.
Laramie (TV series) Laramie was a television series aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr.
Laramie County Community College Laramie County Community College is a community college in Laramie County, Wyoming. Its main campus is in Cheyenne, and there are three additional campuses: the Albany County Campus in Laramie, the Eastern Laramie County Campus, and the Francis E.
Laramie Mountains The Laramie Mountains are a range of moderately high peaks on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in the state of Wyoming in the United States. The range is the northernmost extension of the line of the ranges along the eastern side of the Rockies, an in particular of the higher peaks of the Front Range directly to the south.
Laramie Plains The Laramie Plains is an arid highlands (approximately elevation 8000 ft) in south central Wyoming in the United States. The plains extend along the upper basin of the Laramie River on the east side of the Medicine Bow Range.
Laranja Freak Laranja Freak is a psychedelic band of Porto Alegre, Brazil. It appeared in the year of 1997 and makes what it calls "Frantic Psychedelic Music", making a compound between the Jovem Guarda, psychedelia and rock.
Laranjeiras Laranjeiras is a primarily residential neighborhood located in the Southern Zone of Rio de Janeiro. It is one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, being founded in the 17th century, with the construction of country houses in the valley located around Carioca River, which bordered Corcovado.
Larapinta Trail The Larapinta Trail is an extended walking track in the Northern Territory, Australia. Its total length covers 223 kilometres from East to West, with one end at Alice Springs and the other at Mount Sonder, one of the territory's highest mountains.
Larbi Ben M'hidi Larbi Ben M'hidi (1923–1957) was a prominent Algerian leader during the war of independence. He was captured by French paratroopers in February 1957 while supervising the guerilla actions of the FLN in the Battle of Algiers and tortured to death by the French Special Services.
Larbi Benbarek Larbi Benbarek or Larbi Ben Barek (also known as the Black Pearl) (June 16, 1914 - September 16, 1992) (Casablanca, Morocco) was a Moroccan football player. He was the first player to bear the nickname of Black Pearl.
Larc Spies Larc Spies is an American actor who is best known for playing Derrick Blank, step-brother to main character Jerri Blank on the comedy TV series Strangers with Candy. However, the role was played in the movie by Joseph Cross.
Larceny In the United States, larceny is a common law crime involving stealing. Under the common law, larceny is the trespassory taking and asportation of the (tangible) personal property of another with the intent to deprive him or her of it permanently.
Larceny (Scheme implementation) The Larceny Project is a set of Scheme implementations using the Twobit optmizing Scheme compiler. Larceny is the back-end which compiles to native x86 or Sparc code, Petit Larceny is a Scheme to C compiler and Common Larceny is a Microsoft .
Lard Lard is an animal fat produced from rendering the fat portions of the pig. Lard was a commonly used cooking oil though its use in contemporary cuisine has diminished because of health concerns posed by saturated fat and cholesterol.
Larderello Larderello is a geologically active area of southern Tuscany, Italy, which is renowned for its geothermal productivity. The region was known from ancient times for its volcanic nature and exceptionally hot springs.
Laredo Heat Laredo Heat are an American soccer team, founded in 2004. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Mid-South Division of the Southern Conference against teams from Austin, Baton Rouge, Dallas, El Paso, Jackson and New Orleans.
Laredo, Cantabria Laredo is a town in the Northern Spanish province and autonomous community of Cantabria. Located between the cities of Santander and Bilbao, Laredo is well known in the region and nationally for "La Salvé" (its 5 km long beach) and for the historic part of town dating back to Roman times.
Larentalia The Roman festival of Larentalia was held on December 23, but was ordered to be observed twice a year by Augustus; by some supposed to be in honour of the Lares, a kind of domestic genii, or divinities, worshipped in houses, and esteemed the guardians and protectors of families, supposed to reside in chimney-corners. Others have attributed this feast in honour of Acca Larentia, the nurse of Romulus and Remus, and wife of Faustulus.
Larenz Tate Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. Born on the west side of Chicago, Tate is the youngest of three siblings (his two brothers, Larron and Lahmard, are also actors) whose family moved to California when he was nine years old.
Lares, Puerto Rico Lares (LAH-res) is a small mountain municipality of Puerto Rico's central-western area located north of Maricao and Yauco; south of Camuy, east of San Sebastián and Las Marias; and west of Hatillo, Utuado and Adjuntas. Lares is spread over 10 wards and Lares Pueblo (Downtown Lares).
Large and Complex Financial Institutions Large and Complex Financial Institutions, or LCFI, is a polite term for the bulge bracket banks. The context is that of systemic risk, a topic of particular concern to central banks, financial regulators and the Bank for International Settlements.
Large Area Neutron Detector The Large Area Neutron Detector is also know as LAND. It is the name of a detector for neutrons installed at GSI (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) situated in Arheilgen close to the city of Darmstadt, Germany.
Large blue butterfly The Large Blue (Maculinea arion) is a blue butterfly, that is resident in Europe and some parts of Asia. The butterfly went extinct in the United Kingdom in 1979, but has since been reintroduced by conservationists.
Large Binocular Telescope The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT, originally named the Columbus Project) is located on 10,700-foot Mount Graham in the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona and is a part of the Mount Graham International Observatory. As of April 2006, the telescope is under construction and partly operational.
Large cardinal property In the mathematical field of set theory, a large cardinal property is a property of cardinal numbers, such that the existence of such a cardinal is not known to be inconsistent with ZFC and it has been proven that if ZFC is consistent, then ZFC is consistent with the nonexistence of such a cardinal. Furthermore, unlike the case of the continuum hypothesis, it is (provably) not possible to show that any large cardinal axiom is even consistent with ZFC, from the assumption that ZFC is consistent.
Large cent (United States coin) The United States large cent was a coin with a face value of 1/100 of a United States dollar. The first official mintage of the large cent was in 1793, and its production continued until 1857, when it was officially replaced by the modern-size one-cent coin (commonly called the "penny").
Large countable ordinal In the mathematical discipline of set theory, there are many ways of describing specific countable ordinals. The smallest ones can be usefully and non-circularly expressed in terms of their Cantor normal forms.
Large Cities Climate Leadership Group The Large Cities Climate Leadership Group is a group of cities committed to the reduction of urban carbon emissions and adapting to climate change. It was founded following the World Cities Leadership Climate Change Summit organised by the Mayor of London in October 2005.
Large extra dimension In particle physics, the ADD model, also known as the model with large extra dimensions, is a scenario inspired by string theory to explain the weakness of gravity relatively to other forces in which the fields of the Standard Model are confined to a higher-dimensional membrane, while gravity can propagate in several additional spatial dimensions that are compact but large. The model was proposed by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and Gia Dvali in 1998.
Large faggot worm The large faggot worm (Eumeta crameri) is a moth that spins its cocoon all its larval life, decorating it with small twigs, bark and thorns from the trees on which it feeds. After hatching, they climb to the top of their host tree and begin feeding on the tender shoots.
Large family car A large family car is a European classification of cars which are larger than a small family car and smaller than an executive car. Examples of popular large family cars are the Ford Mondeo, Opel Vectra, Renault Laguna and Volkswagen Passat.
Large format Large format describes large photographic films, large cameras, view cameras (including pinhole cameras) and processes that use a film or digital sensor, generally 4 x 5 inches or larger. The most common large formats are 4 Ă— 5 and 8 Ă— 10 inches.
Large gauge transformation Let's say we have a topological space M and a topological group G and a principal G-bundle over M. A global section of this principal bundle is a gauge fixing and the process of replacing one section by another is a gauge transformation.
Large Group Awareness Training Large Group Awareness Training or LGAT is a term popularized in the American Psychological Association's 1986 draft DIMPAC report and also by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich in the 1996 book Cults in our Midst to describe intense commercial trainings by non-psychologists which from the outside may resemble group therapy. Often secretive and expensive, these were often criticized as financial pyramid schemes, brainwashing or irresponsible, unlicensed psychotherapy, marketed as "educational" to avoid issues of licensing and malpractice.
Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator and collider located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland (). Currently under construction, the LHC is scheduled to begin operation (at reduced energies) in November 2007.
Large Helical Device The Large Helical Device is a fusion research device located in Japan and is the largest superconducting stellarator in the world and employs a heliotron magnetic field originally developed in Japan. The objective of the project is to conduct fusion plasma confinement research in a steady-state in order to elucidate possible solutions to physics and engineering problems in helical plasma reactors.
Large Intestine (Fu) As distinct from the Western medical concept of Large Intestine, this concept from Traditional Chinese Medicine is more a way of describing a set of interrelated parts than an anatomical organ. (See Zang Fu theory)
Large kelpfish The large kelpfish, Chironemus marmoratus, is a kelpfish of the genus Chironemus, found in southern Australia, and between North Cape and East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand, in depths down to 30 m. Their length is between 25 and 40 cm.
Large Millimeter Telescope The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) (Spanish: Gran Telescopio Milimétrico, or GTM) was inaugurated on 22 November 2006. It is the world's largest single dish telescope in its frequency range, built for observing radio waves in the wave lengths from 1 to 4 mm.
Large numbers Large numbers are numbers that are significantly larger than those ordinarily used in everyday life, for instance in simple counting or in monetary transactions. The term typically refers to large positive integers, or more generally, large positive real numbers, but it may also be used in other contexts.
Large Professor William Paul Mitchell (born March 21, 1972), best known as Large Professor, also as Large Pro and the Extra P, is a New York based hip hop record producer and rapper. He is best known as a member of the influential early-90s underground hip hop group Main Source, and for discovering immensely popular rapper Nas.
Large set (Ramsey theory) In Ramsey theory, a set S of natural numbers is considered to be a large set if and only if Van der Waerden's theorem can be generalized to assert the existence of arithmetic progressions with common difference in S. That is, S is large if and only if every finite partition of the natural numbers has a cell containing arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions having common differences in S.
Large sieve In mathematics, the large sieve is a method of analytic number theory. As the name implies, it was at least originally concerned, as a sieve method, with (for example) sifting from an integer sequence by means of congruence conditions modulo prime numbers, in which a relatively large number of residue classes for each modulus are excluded.
Large Seal Script Large or Great Seal script (大篆 Dàzhuàn; Japanese daiten) refers generally to Chinese writing somewhat earlier than the Small or Lesser Seal Script (小篆 Xiǎozhuàn; Japanese shōten, also termed simply seal script), of the Qin dynasty. The name 大篆 Dàzhuàn was coined in the Hàn dynasty as a vague reference to writing of the Qin system similar to but earlier than Small Seal.
Large Stone Structure The Large Stone Structure is the name given to the remains of a large 10th to 9th century BC public building in central Jerusalem, south of the Old City. The name was given to the structure, as a result of its proximity with another site known as the Stepped Stone Structure, by the discoverer of the site, Eilat Mazar.
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a planned wide-field "survey" reflecting telescope that will photograph the available sky every three nights. Construction should start in 2010 with completion in 2013.
Large Toadlet The Large Toadlet or Great Toadlet or Major Toadlet (Pseudophryne major) is a species of ground-dwelling frog native to eastern Queensland (including Moreton and North Stradbroke Island and northern New South Wales, Australia.
Large Tortoiseshell The Large Tortoiseshell Nymphalis polychloros is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. althuogh it looks very like the Small Totrtoiseshell] (Nymphalis urticae), it is more closely related to the [[Camberwell Beauty.
Large Value Transfer System The Large Value Transfer System, or LVTS, is a system in Canada for electronic wire transfers of large sums of money; it permits the participating institutions and their clients to send securely large sums of money in real-time with complete certainty that the payment will settle.
Large Volume Detector The Large Volume Detector (LVD) is a particle physics experiment situated in the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy. It has been in operation since June of 1992, and is a member of the Supernova Early Warning System.
Large Zenith Telescope The Large Zenith Telescope (LZT) is a big implementation of zenith telescopes that looks into the zenith, that is, straight up. It is located in the University of British Columbia's Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, about 70km east of Vancouver.
Large-footed Finch The Large-footed Finch, Pezopetes capitalis, is a passerine bird which is endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Despite its name, it is not a true finch, but rather a member of the large Emberizidae family, which also includes buntings, American sparrows, juncos and towhees.
Large-fruited Elm The Large-fruited Elm Ulmus macrocarpa Hance is a small deciduous tree or large shrub endemic to the Far East excluding Japan. It is notable for its tolerance of drought and extreme cold and is the predominant vegetation on the dunes of the Korqin sandy lands in the Jilin province of north-eastern China, making a small tree at the base of the dunes, and a shrub at the top As is obvious from its name, the tree is distinguished by its large, orbicular, wafer-like samarae] < 50 mm in diameter.
Large-group communication Large group communication is a general description for organizational communication as a communication context describing large numbers of individuals who are members of a group. Large group contexts can include communities of interest, geography, or economy brought together by need or self-identification.
Large-print Large-print (also large-type or large-font) describes a type of book or other (paper, online or otherwise) published material in which the typeface (or font), and sometimes the medium, are considerably larger than usual, to accommodate people who have poor vision. Often public special-needs libraries will stock large-printt versions of books, along with versions written in Braille.
Large-scale structure of the cosmos In physical cosmology, the term large-scale structure refers to the characterization of observable distributions of matter and light on the largest scales (typically on the order of billions of light-years). Sky surveys and mappings of the various wavelength bands of electromagnetic radiation (in particular 21-cm emission) have yielded much information on the content and character of the universe's structure.
Large-tooth sawfish The large-tooth sawfish, Pristis microdon, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in tropical waters of the north Atlantic and the central Pacific, between latitudes 32° N and 19° S. Its length is up to 6.
Largemouth triplefin The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, east to American Samoa and Rapa, at depths of between 2 and 41 m. Its length is up to about 47 mm.
Largenose catshark The largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador and central Chile, between latitudes 9° N and 28° S. Its length is up to 70 cm.
Largentière Largentière is a commune of the Ardèche département, in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, located approximately ten kilometers southwest of Aubenas. Its name, adopted in the Thirteenth Century, refers to the silver mines in the area between the Tenth and Fifteenth Centuries, operated under the authority of the Counts of Toulouse and the Bishops of Viviers.
Larger than Life (Backstreet Boys song) "Larger Than Life" was the second single released from the 1999 Backstreet Boys album, Millennium. It was written by "Brian Littrell, Max Martin and Kristian Lundin, and is mainly a tribute to the group's fans.
Larger Than Life (film) Larger Than Life is a comedy staring Bill Murray as Jack Corcoran, a motivational speaker for the masses in mini-malls and rented halls across the country. Jack's advice is: if life isn't all that you expected, put aside all those wouldas, couldas and shouldas and Get over it!
Largespine velvet dogfish The largespine velvet dogfish, Centroscymnus cryptacanthus, is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found on the lower continental slopes between latitudes 50° S and 54° S in the southeast Pacific Ocean from the Straits of Magellan, and the southwest Pacific from New Zealand, at depths of between 650 and 920 m. Its length is up to 68 cm.
Largest body part The largest body part is either the largest given body part across all animals or the largest example of a body part within a species. The largest animals on the planet are not the only ones to have large body parts, with some smaller animals actually having one particularly enlarged area of the body.

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