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Last Island, Louisiana Last Island (also called Isle Derniere) is a barrier island and pleasure resort south-southwest of New Orleans on the south shore of Louisiana, USA. It was utterly destroyed by the Last Island Hurricane of August 11, 1856.
Last Judgment In Christian eschatology, the Last Judgment or Judgment Day is the ethical-judicial trial, judgment, and punishment/reward of all individual humans (assignment to heaven or to hell) by a divine tribunal (God) at the end of time, following the destruction of humans' present earthly existence. Some Christians say that God does not judge, since He finds "all to be precious".
Last Letters from Stalingrad Last Letters from Stalingrad was the title of an anthology first published in West Germany, which was translated into many languages. The book contained supposedly authentic war letters of German soldiers of the battle around Stalingrad.
Last Life in the Universe Last Life in the Universe (Thai title: เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล, Ruang rak noi nid mahasan) is a 2003 Thai film directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The film is notable for being trilingual; the two main characters flit from Thai to Japanese to English as their vocabulary requires.
Last Live In Blue Note Tokyo Last Live in Blue Note Tokyo is the ninth and final audio recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. Not to be confused with the 1997 Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio release, Live at Blue Note Tokyo '97.
Last man (football) In football, the last man is defined as being the last member of the defending side in a position to stop an attacking player having an obvious goal-scoring opportunity. This is typically the defender in front of the goalkeeper, but can also be the goalkeeper themselves.
Last man standing (gaming) Last man standing (LMS) is a multiplayer gameplay mode featured in the vast majority of the more recent first-person shooter computer games. The aim of a player in a Last man standing match is to dispatch his opponents and remain the sole survivor; the basic rules followed are generally the same of the Deathmatch gametype, with an important difference: respawn is limited or not allowed at all.
Last mile The last mile is the final leg of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer. Usually referred to by the telecommunications and cable television industries, it is typically seen as an expensive challenge because "fanning out" wires and cables is a considerable physical undertaking.
Last Man The Last Man (German: der letzte Mensch) was a term used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, among other works, to describe the antithesis of the imagined superior being, the "Ăśbermensch", whose imminent appearance is heralded by Zarathustra. This 'Over Man' may be contrasted to a weak-willed individual, one who is tired of life, takes no risks, seeks only comfort and security: the Last Man.
Last Man Standing Coop Last Man Standing Coop (LMS) Coop Mod is a popular Doom 3 single player and multiplayer modification that aims to bring back the classic Doom experience. The "LMS Mod" gametype is survival in nature where the player faces swarms of attacking monsters.
Last Mountain (electoral district) Last Mountain was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1935. This riding was created in 1914 from parts of Humboldt, Regina and Saskatoon ridings
Last Nerve Last Nerve are a Hardcore punk band from Sydney, Australia. Formed in 2002 in response to the death of old-school sounding bands in Sydney, they have since become one of the most prominent Hardcore outfits in Australia.
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (album) Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is a compilation album which accompanies Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster's Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, a book released in 2000 about the history of DJing. It contains various clips ranging from from 1970s Reggae to Handel's Largo - the first song to reach radio airwives in 1906.
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (song) "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" is a song written by Michael Cleveland for R&B/dance group Indeep. It features vocals from Reggie and Rose Marie Ramsey, and its protagonists recall how they were bored to death until a DJ played a hot song and saved their lives by giving new energy to the night.
Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just in Time) "Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just in Time)" is a single by Belfast-based singer-songwriter Duke Special, released on 16 October 2006 on V2 Records and taken from the album Songs from the Deep Forest. B-sides include covers of Ralph McTell's "From Clare to Here" and Razorlight's "Stumble and Fall".
Last of the Breed Last of the Breed, by Louis L'Amour, tells the fictional story of Native American Air Force pilot Joe Mack, shot down over Soviet airspace. Although the setting of the book is never precisely stated, it is imagined to be the 1970s or 1980s, a precise understanding of the time-setting, however, is not essential to the storyline.
Last of the Dogmen Last of the Dogmen is a 1995 action film about the search for a lost Indian tribe. The film stars Tom Berenger and Barbara Hershey with supporting roles by Kurtwood Smith, Steve Reevis, Andrew Miller, Eugene Blackbear and Gregory Scott Cummins.
Last of the Gaderene Last of the Gaderene is a BBC Books original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Third Doctor, Jo, the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, Mike Yates and other members of UNIT.
Last of the Romans The description Last of the Romans (Ultimus Romanorum) has historically been given to any man thought to embody the values of Ancient Roman civilization - values which, by implication, became extinct on his death.
Last of the Sane Last of the Sane is an album by the American hardcore/metal band Earth Crisis, which was released in 2001. After this album the band split up and Karl Buechner, Eric Edwards and Bulldog went on to form the band Freya.
Last of the Titans Last of the Titans is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine issue 300 and came with the first episode of the Eighth Doctor play Storm Warning.
Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- is an addition to the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children film and part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. It is an OVA (Original Video Animation) that was released with the "Ultimate Edition" of the movie (Advent Pieces: Limited) in Japan and will be released in the collector's edition of Advent Children in the U.
Last Orders Last Orders is a 1996 novel and a 2001 motion picture. The film was written and directed by Australian (Writer/Director/Producer) Fred Schepisi, and stars Michael Caine as Jack Dodds, Bob Hoskins as Ray, Ray Winstone as Vince Dodds, David Hemmings as Lenny and Tom Courtenay as Vic Tucker.
Last Present Last Present (aka Last Gift) (Korean title: 선물)is a Korean feature film released by Fun & Happiness Films in 2001. Directed by Oh Gi-hwan, it tells the tale of Yong-ki (Lee Jung Jae), a struggling comedian who continues to see parallels between his disintegrating relationship with his wife, Jung-yun (Lee Young Ae), and the characters he's playing on the stage.
Last Resort (Australian TV show) The Last Resort was an Australian Television drama series created and written by Louis Nowra and originally screened by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The show ran for a little under a year, premiering on April 27, 1988 and ending April 12, 1989 for a total of 30 50 minutes episodes.
Last shot In the law of contracts, under the last shooo rule, a party impliedly assented to and thereby accepted a counter-offer by conduct indicating lack of objection to it. In addition to being based on a questionable notion of implied assent, the last shot rule tended in practice to favor sellers over buyers, because sellers normally “fire the last shot” – i.
Last stand A last stand is a loose military term used to describe a body of troops holding a defensive position in the face of overwhelming odds. The defensive force usually takes very heavy casualties and on occasion is completely destroyed.
Last surviving United States war veterans The last surviving veteran of any particular war, upon his or her death, marks the end of a historic era. Exactly who is the last surviving veteran is often an issue of contention, especially with records from long-ago wars.
Last Spike The Last Spike refers to the final spike used in the construction of a major railway project. Placing the Last Spike is often a momentous occasion; special spikes of gold or silver are often used for ceremonial purposes.
Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway) The Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was the final spike] driven into the [[Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, British Columbia on November 7, 1885. It was driven in by CPR railroad financier Donald Smith, marking the end of a saga of natural disasters, financial crises and even rebellion that plagued Canada's first transcontinental railroad since its beginning.
Last Supper According to the Gospels, the Last Supper was the last meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his death. The Last Supper has been the subject of many paintings, perhaps the most famous by Leonardo da Vinci.
Last Tango in Paris Last Tango in Paris (Italian: Ultimo tango a Parigi, French: Le Dernier Tango Ă  Paris) is a 1972 film which tells the story of an American widower who is drawn into a sexual relationship with a young soon-to-be-married Parisian woman. It stars Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre LĂ©aud.
Last Thing on My Mind "'Last Thing on My Mind" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. The song is featured on their album Please Yourself and was released as the album's second single in the UK in 1992.
Last Thursdayism Last Thursdayism (sometimes Last Tuesdayism or Last Wednesdayism) is a joke version of omphalism. It is the idea that the world was created last Thursday, but with the appearance of age: people's memories, history books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and so forth.
Last Time Forever (song) "Last Time Forever" was the first single released from Squeeze's sixth album, Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti, and also the band's first single since 1982 (though main songwriters Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook had since recorded music as Difford & Tilbrook). The 12" version of the song, like the album version, contains brief samples from the film The Shining; the 7" version edits them out.
Last Time I Saw Him Last Time I Saw Him is a 1973 album released by American singer Diana Ross on the Motown label. The album yielded the charted singles "Last Time I Saw Him" and "Sleepin'" and would be the last studio album Ross issued in the next three years until the Diana Ross album, released in 1976.
Last Train to Trancentral (Blue Man Group EP) Last Train to Trancentral is a digital EP by Blue Man Group, released on October 31, 2006 through the iTunes Store. The EP features a cover of the KLF song "Last Train to Trancentral", which is played during the encore at Blue Man Group theatrical shows.
Last universal ancestor Last universal ancestor (LUA), is the hypothetical latest living organism from which all currently living organisms descend. As such, it is the most recent common ancestor of the set of all currently living organisms.
Last Vote Last Vote is a Swiss post-rock band that was formed in the spring of 2002 by Domininik Fischer, Roman Steiner, Hansmartin Hehrmann and Christian Dill. In the autumn of 2004, cellist Tilo Herlach became the newest member of Last Vote.
Last will and testament of Adolf Hitler The last will and testament of Adolf Hitler was dictated by Hitler to his secretary Traudl Junge in his Berlin FĂĽhrerbunker on April 29 1945, the day he and Eva Braun married. They committed suicide the next day (April 30), three days before the surrender of Berlin to the Soviets on May 2, and just over a week before the end of World War II in Europe on May 8.
Last Wish Last Wish was a rock band from Houston, Texas, most notable for being the first band of Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld. The band had a strong fanbase in Houston, where they played several sold out shows Furstenfeld left the group in 1995 while they were working on their third album.
Last Woman on Earth The Last Woman on Earth is a 1960 American science-fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman. It tells the story of three survivors of a mysterious apocalypse which appears to have wiped out all human life on earth.
Last Words The Last Words - Malcolm Baxter (vocals), Andy Groome (guitar), Leigh Kendall (bass), John Gunn (drums) - were one of the first Australian punk bands. In 1978 they released the single Animal World / Wondering Why on their own label, Remand Records.
Last Year (song) "Last Year" is a song recorded by singer-songwriter Lucie Silvas, to be released as the first single off her upcoming sophomore album The Same Side in the UK. Formerly, "Everytime I Think of You" was released as the firts single in the Netherlands, which has already peaked at the number one position.
Last Year at Marienbad L'année dernière à Marienbad (translated as Last Year in Marienbad in the UK and Last Year at Marienbad in North America) is a 1961 French movie directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff.
Last-Becker Ensemble Last-Becker Ensemble was a German jazz group that was popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Formed in 1948 as an off-shoot of the Radio Bremen dance orchestra conducted by Hans-Gunther Oesterreich, the group is now known more for the later successes of its members after the group's break-up in 1953.
Lasteika Lasteika (Greek: Λαστέικα, older form: Λασταίικα), older form: Lastaiika is a village located slightly east of Pyrgos in the central part of the prefecture of Ilia. GR-9/E55 (Patras - Pyrgos) is only less than 1 km E of the traffic lights installed in the 2000s and lamp posts installed in the mid-1990s.
Lasthenia Lasthenia, commonly known as goldfields, is a genus of the botanical family Asteraceae. Etymology of the genus derives from the Ancient Greek word Lasthenia who was a female pupil of Plato who dressed as a man.
Lastman's Bad Boy Furniture Lastman's Bad Boy is a Canadian furniture business headquartered in Weston with five other locations in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. It is owned by Blayne Lastman, son of former Toronto City Mayor Mel Lastman.
Lastoursville Lastoursville is a city in central Gabon, lying on the River Ogooué, the Trans-Gabon Railway and the N3 road. It was founded as a slave depot named Mandji, renamed Maadiville in 1883 and finally took its current name for François Rigail de Lastours in 1886.
Lastovo Lastovo (Italian: Lagosta, Latin: Augusta Insula, Greek: Ladestanos, Illyrian: Ladest) is a municipality in the Dubrovnik-Neretva county in Croatia. The municipality consists of 46 islands with a total population of 835 people, of which 93% are ethnic Croats, and a land area of approximately 56 km² (22 mi²).
Lastovo Poklad The Poklad (Carnival) event held yearly on the remote Adriatic Island of Lastovo is one of the more unique and authentic carnival traditions celebrated in all of Croatia today. All the island residents participate by wearing folk costumes.
Lasya The term lasya, in the context of Hindu mythology, describes a highly sensuous and languorous dance, which the goddess Parvati performed as a counterpart but in a completely different style. It was as a reaction to the cosmic dance of Tandava performed by Shiva, and was performed concurrently while tandava was in progression.
LaSalle The LaSalle was an automobile product of General Motors Corporation, and sold as a companion marque of Cadillac from 1927 to 1940. The two were linked by similarly-themed names, both being named for explorers—Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, respectively.
LaSalle Expressway The LaSalle Expressway is a short highway in Niagara Falls, New York. The expressway begins near the North Grand Island Bridge and Interstate 190 (New York) with traffic to and from the Robert Moses State Parkway.
LaSalle Thompson LaSalle Thompson III (born June 23 1961 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American former professional basketball player, who spent most of his 15-year career with the Kansas City/Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers. The 6'10", 245-pound Thompson spent time at both the center and power forward positions.
LaSara FireFox LaSara FireFox is a writer, ritualist, sex-positive activist and educator in the fields of sex, sacred sex and sexuality. She is a second-generation Witch, an ordained Priestess, and a clergy member and former president of the Church of All Worlds.
LaShawn Daniels LaShawn Ameen Daniels is an American songwriter, best known for his work with longtime colleague Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. Daniels has written several of the Darkchild Team's hit songs, among them "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy and Monica, "Say My Name" and "Lose My Breath" by Destiny's Child, "It's Not Right (But It's Okay)" by Whitney Houston, and "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez.
LaSIGE LaSIGE (Large-Scale Informatic Systems Laboratory, Portuguese Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala) is a research unit of the Computer Science department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, located at the Faculty's C6 building.
Lata Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar (Marathi/Hindi:लता मंगेशकर) (born September 28, 1929) is a singer from India. Focusing mainly on Hindi and Marathi film music, she is one of the world's foremost Indian vocalists.
Latabatiere La Tabatiere, Quebec is a small isolated fishing village on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawerence, near the border with Labrodor. You can reach the village via a regular a weekly ferry service, or La Tabatiere Airport.
Latacunga Latacunga is a plateau town of Ecuador, capital of the Cotopaxi Province, 89 km (55 miles) south of Quito, near the confluence of the Alaques and Cutuchi rivers to form the Patate, the headstream of the Pastaza. The population of Latacunga is 51,689 largely mestizo] and indigenous.
Latady Island Latady Island is a low ice-covered island, 35 miles long and more than 10 miles wide, lying 45 miles south of Charcot Island and west of Alexander Island and its area is 3,300 km². Latady Island is located at .
Lataif-e-sitta Drawing from Qur'anic verses, virtually all Sufis distinguish Lataif-as-Sitta ("the six subtleties"): Nafs, Qalb, Sirr, Ruh, Khafi, and Akhfa. These lataif (singular: latifa) designate various psychospiritual "organs" or, sometimes, faculties of sensory and suprasensory perception.
Latakia Latakia (Arabic: اللاذقية Al-Ladhiqiyah, Greek: Λαοδικεία, transliterated as Laodicea, Laodikeia or Laodiceia, Turkish: Lazkiye; Latin: Laodicea ad Mare) is the principal port city of Syria, capital of the Latakia Governorate. Its population is 554,000.
Latanoprost Latanoprost (pronounced la-TA-noe-prost) ophthalmic solution is a topical medication used for controlling the progression of glaucoma or ocular hypertension, by reducing intraocular pressure. It is a prostaglandin analogue that works by increasing the outflow of aqueous fluid from the eyes.
Latanza Waters Latanza Waters is a female house music singer who has been featured on several big club hits by various producers and remixers. She is the featured artist on two tracks by Eric Miller: "Deja Vu" (under Miller's alias "E-Smoove") and "Insatiable" (under the Miller alias "Thick Dick").
Latasha Byears Latasha Nashay Byears (born August 12, 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a professional basketball player who plays for the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Byears, who previously played for the Sacramento Monarchs and the Los Angeles Sparks, ranked eighth all-time in field goal percentage (.
Latécoère 28 The Latécoère 28 was a successful French long-haul mailplane and passenger airliner of the 1930s. It was the main symbol of Air France's predecessor, Aéropostale in its efforts to establish intercontinental air mail services and support French colonialism and French cultural influence between the wars.
Late (song) "Late" was an obscure single released in very limited numbers by the band Blue Angel, taken from their 1980 album also called Blue Angel. It did not achieve any chart success in the two countries where it was released.
Late Antiquity Late Antiquity is a rough periodization (c. 300-600 AD) used by historians and other scholars to describe the interval between high Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean world — between the decline of the western Roman Empire from the 3rd century AD onward, to the Muslim Conquests, and the re-forming of Eastern Europe under the Byzantine Empire.
Late Arrival Late Arrival refers to a recent trend in American high schools, where students are typically given one day each week where they are permitted to arrive an hour or more later than the norm. Typically, Wednesday is chosen because of it's position in the middle of the week.
Late Autumn 2006 North American Storm Complex The Late Autumn 2006 North American Storm Complex was a severe winter weather event in the last week of November 2006 and continuing into December 1. It affected much of North America in some form, producing all kinds of severe weather including a major ice storm, blizzard conditions, high winds, extreme cold, a serial derecho and some tornadoes.
Late betting Late betting or past posting is making a bet after the time when no more bets are to be taken. It is considered cheating because information may have become available, including the outcome of the event, that was not available to those making earlier bets.
Late bloomer A late bloomer is a person who does not discover his or her talents and abilities until later than normally expected. In certain cases, the individual may be as old as 60, and retirement may lead to this discovery.
Late Cretaceous Late Cretaceous refers to the second half of the Cretaceous Period, named after the famous white chalk cliffs of southern England, which date from this time. Rocks deposited during the Late Cretaceous Period are referred to as the Upper Cretaceous Series.
Late Devonian extinction The Late Devonian extinction was one of five major extinction events in the history of the Earth's biota. A major extinction occurred at the boundary that marks the beginning of the last phase of the Devonian period, the Famennian faunal stage, (the Frasnian-Famennian boundary), about 364 million years ago, when all the fossil agnathan fishes suddenly disappeared.
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer is an influential Sunday morning political discussion show hosted by Wolf Blitzer on the CNN cable television network and broadcast around the world by CNN International. The show's slogan is The last word in Sunday talk and comments made on the show often feature in the following Monday's news headlines.
Late Egyptian Late Egyptian is the stage of the Egyptian language that began to be written in the New Kingdom around the Amarna period. It is represented by a rich body of religious and secular literature, comprising such famous examples as the Story of Wenamun and the Instructions of Ani.
Late fee A late fee, also known as a late fine, is a charge levied against a client by an organization for not returning a rented or borrowed item by its due date. Its use is most commonly associated with businesses like video rental outlets and libraries.
Late HĹŤjĹŤ clan The was one of the most powerful warrior clans in Japan in the Sengoku period. The clan began when Ise ShinkurĹŤ, a high ranking officer in the shogunate, began to conquer lands and build up his power at the beginning of the 16th century.
Late Inning Pressure Situations (LIPS) A Late Inning Pressure Situation is a baseball statistic developed by the Elias Sports Bureau in their annual book The 1985 Elias Baseball Analyst to determine if "clutch" hitters exist. This question was first posed by Richard D.
Late night culture Late Night Culture, or LNC, is a debunked social website that provided video clips of the post-millennium Generation Y party-culture from 2002-2005. It was founded in February 2002 at an on-campus University of Arizona computer lab, where rented-out video equipment and editing software was used to jumpstart the idea.
Late night television Late night television is the block of television programming usually airing after 11:30 pm to 2:00 am A regular feature of this programming is a particular genre of talk show more colloquially known as "Late Night".
Late Night Alumni Late Night Alumni is the alias of DJ/producer Kaskade, currently signed to 'Om Records' and loaned to the Hed Kandi label. They tend to mix Dance/house music with strings and soft trance like vocals from their lead singer, Becky Jean William's smooth voice.
Late Night Poker Late Night Poker is a British television show in which poker players, mostly professionals or strong amateurs, compete in a short series of No-Limit Texas hold 'em tournament games for a prize of approximately ÂŁ50,000.
Late Night Shopping Late Night Shopping (2001) is a comedy funded by FilmFour Productions. The film is about four young friends (Sean, Vincent, Jody and Lenny) who all work the graveyard shifts in various soul-killing jobs (the hospital, a supermarket, a factory and a call center, respectively) then meet up in a cafe after their shift to talk about nothing and generally kill time.
Late November 1984 Nor'easter The Late November 1984 Nor'easter occurred on the United States' Thanksgiving Day, November 23 1984. A deep extratropical cyclone located just off the shore of Florida led to significant beach erosion and the grounding of the freighter Mercedes I for several months along the coastal town of Palm Beach.
Late November 2006 Nor'easter The Late November 2006 Nor'easter was an extratropical cyclone (nor'easter) that formed offshore the Southeast United States on November 20, bringing heavy rains, high winds, beach erosion, and coastal flooding to the Carolinas and southern New England. In addition, the earliest snowfall ever noted in both Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia occurred on the southwest side of this cyclone.
Late of the Pier Late of the Pier are an Electro rock band from the East Midlands, but their main success has been throughout London and the new clubs and scenes in the area. They have been met with considerable interest especially in the recent New Rave genre( http://www.
Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene (also known as Upper Pleistocene or the Tarantian) is a stage of the Pleistocene Epoch. The beginning of the stage is defined by the base of Eemian interglacial phase before final glacial episode of Pleistocene 126,000 ± 5,000 years ago.
Late Quaternary prehistoric birds Prehistoric birds are various taxa of birds that became extinct before recorded history, or more precisely, before they could be studied alive by bird scientists. They are known from subfossil remains and sometimes folk memory, as in the case of New Zealand's Haast Eagle.
Late star In stellar classification an obsolete and slightly misleading term for K and M class stars. The term was coined in the early 20 century, when there was an astronomical belief that stars begin their history as early stars (O, B and A class) and subsequently cool to late stars.
Late trading Late trading or "after-hours" trading involves placing orders for mutual fund shares after the close of the stock market (4:00 p.m for the New York Stock Exchange), but still getting that day's earlier price, rather than the next day's closing price.
Late Tokugawa shogunate The Late Tokugawa Shogunate ( Bakumatsu) is the period between 1853 and 1867 during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government. It is at end of the Edo period and preceded the Meiji era.
Late Victorian Holocausts Late Victorian Holocausts - El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World is a book by Mike Davis concerning the connection between a set of large famines in the late 1870's and again in the late 1890's and a meteorological phenomenon called ENSO, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.
Late-May 1998 Tornado Outbreak and Derecho The Late-May 1998 Tornado Outbreak and Derecho was a historic tornado outbreak and derecho that began on the afternoon of May 30th extending throughout May 31st, 1998, across a large portion of the northern half of the United States (and southern Ontario) from southeastern Montana east and southeastward to the Atlantic Ocean. The initial tornado outbreak, including the devastating Spencer tornado, hit southeast South Dakota on the evening of the May 30th.
Late-November 2005 Tornado Outbreak On November 27 and 28, 2005, a substantial outbreak of tornadoes occurred in the Central United States. A motorist was killed while struck by a tornado on I-40 in Conway County, Arkansas, and a man was killed in Ripley County, Missouri when the top floor of a two-story home was torn off by an F2 tornado.
Late-September 2006 Tornado Outbreak The Late-September 2006 Tornado Outbreak is a significant tornado outbreak across a large swath of the Central United States on September 21, 22, and 23, 2006, with the main outbreak taking place on September 22. So far, 41 tornadoes have been confirmed (30 on September 22): 4 in Alabama, 5 in Kansas, 2 in Oklahoma, 2 in Michigan, 4 in Kentucky, 4 in Illinois, 6 in Arkansas, 2 in Tennessee and 12 in Missouri (one of them crossed into Illinois).
Late-term abortion Late-term abortions are abortions which are performed during the late stages of pregnancy. Late-term abortion is more controversial than abortion in general because the fetus is much closer to full development and viability than in the first and early second trimesters.

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