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LĂ«tzebuerger Guiden a Scouten The LĂ«tzebuerger Guiden a Scouten (LGS, Scouts and Guides of Luxembourg) is one of Luxembourg's Scouting and Guiding organizations. It is a member of the Luxembourg Boy Scouts Association and of the Bureau de Liaison des Associations Guides du Luxembourg.
Léconi Léconi is a town in south eastern Gabon, lying east of Bongoville on the Léconi River, surrounded by the Batéké Plateau. It is known for the Léconi Canyons (actually craters) and Léconi Park, a private wildlife park also involved in agriculture.
Légal Trap The Légal Trap or Blackburne Trap is a chess opening trap. Sire de Légal (1702-1792) was a French player, while Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1924) was a British master, and one of the world's strongest players in the latter part of the 19th century.
LĂ©ger Marketing LĂ©ger Marketing claims to be the largest independent research firm in Canada and is a member of Gallup International Association. Since 1986 LĂ©ger Marketing, a polling and market research enterprise, provides access to the Canadian and American markets.
LĂ©gion d'honneur The LĂ©gion d'honneur (officially Ordre national de la LĂ©gion d'honneur) French, translatable as "Legion of Honor" or "Legion of Honour" (see spelling differences), but known as the LĂ©gion d'honneur to avoid confusion with similarly-named decorations (e.g.
Léo-Paul Desrosiers Léo-Paul Desrosiers (April 11, 1896 - April 20, 1967) was a Québécois writer and journalist well-known for his historical novels. He was influenced by the nationalism of Henri Bourassa and Lionel-Adolphe Groulx.
Léon Benett Léon Benett, (originally named Hippolyte Léon Benet) (1838 Orange, Vaucluse – 1917 Toulon) was a French painter and illustrator. He changed his surname to Benett (with double t), because Benet (with single t) means "silly" in french.
LĂ©on Bloy LĂ©on Bloy (PĂ©rigueux, July 11, 1846 - Bourg-la-Reine, November 3, 1917) was a French novelist, essayist, pamphleteer and poet. Beginning as a member of the Symbolist school, his later works reflect a deepening devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and most generally a tremendous craving for the Absolute.
Léon Cogniet Léon Cogniet (1794 – 1880, both Paris) was a French painter. In 1812, Cogniet entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the same time as Delacroix and Géricault.
Léon Degrelle Léon Joseph Marie Degrelle (June 15 1906 – April 1 1994) was a Belgian politician, who founded Rexism and later joined the Nazi German Waffen SS (becoming a leader of its Walloon contingent). After World War II, he was a prominent figure in the neo-fascist and Holocaust denial movements.
Léon Foucault Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (name pronounced "Foo-KOH") (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, invented the gyroscope, and discovered eddy currents.
Léon Halévy Léon Halévy (Paris January 14, 1802; died at Saint Germain-en-Laye September 2, 1883), French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromenthal Halévy. After finishing a course at the Lycée Charlemagne, Halévy became a disciple and collaborator of Saint Simon, aiding in the foundation of his organ, Le Producteur, and writing the introduction to his work, Opinions Littéraires, Philosophiques et Industrielles, in which Rodrigues and Bailly also assisted.
Léon Houa Léon Houa (8 November 1867 - 31 January 1918) was a Belgian road bicycle racer famous for winning the first three editions of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1892-1894. The race has become to be known as La Doyenne ("the oldest woman"), and is one of the five 'Monuments' of the European professional road cycling calendar, and the oldest.
LĂ©on Krier LĂ©on Krier (born 1946, Luxembourg) is an architect, architectural theorist and urban planner. From the late 1970s onwards (but especially during the 1980s) Krier has been one of the most influential neo-traditional architects and planners.
LĂ©on Morin, prĂŞtre LĂ©on Morin, prĂŞtre is a 1952 novel by BĂ©atrix Beck, which won the Prix Goncourt. It was made into a 1961 French movie, directed and scripted by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva.
LĂ©on Moutrier LĂ©on Moutrier was a Luxembourgian politician and diplomat. A member of Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies for the Liberal League, he served as the Director-General for the Interior and Public Information from 24 February 1916 until 3 January 1917, and for Justice and Public Information from that date until 28 September 1918.
LĂ©on Mugesera LĂ©on Mugesera is a Rwandan man, resident in Quebec, Canada since 1992. He is currently facing deportation hearings in Canada for an inflammatory anti-Tutsi speech which his critics allege was a precursor to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Léon Scieur Léon Scieur (19 March 1888 in Florennes – 7 October 1969 ebenda) was a Belgian cyclist who won the 1921 Tour de France, along with Stages 3 and 10. His first great victory came at the 1920 Liège-Bastogne-Liège; he won a stage and finished fourth overall at the 1920 Tour de France, the same spot he finished in the 1919 Tour de France.
Léon Theremin Léon Theremin (born Lev Sergeyevich Termen, Лев Сергеевич Термен in Russian) (August 15 1896–November 3 1993) was a Russian inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments.
Léon Walras Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (December 16, 1834 in Évreux, France - January 5, 1910 in Clarens, near Montreux, Switzerland) was a French economist, considered by Joseph Schumpeter as "the greatest of all economists". He was a mathematical economist associated with the creation of the general equilibrium theory.
LĂ©onard (comic) LĂ©onard in French, and Leonardo in the Dutch translation is a Belgian comic book character by artist Philippe Liegeois and scenarist Bob de Groot, better known under their pennames "Turk & De Groot".
LĂ©once Perret filmography (actor) A definitive filmography for LĂ©once Perret would be virtually impossible given that he wrote, acted in, directed or produced more than 400 films. Of those more than 400 films, only roughly one third are still available today.
LĂ©once Perret filmography (director) A definitive filmography for LĂ©once Perret would be virtually impossible given that he wrote, acted in, directed or produced more than 400 films. Of those more than 400 films, only roughly one third are still available today.
Léonce Verny François Léonce Verny, (December 2 1837-May 2 1908) was a French engineer who directed the construction of the Japanese arsenal of Yokosuka, as well as many related modern infrastructure projects from 1865 to 1876, thus helping jump-start Japan's modernization.
LĂ©onie Gilmour LĂ©onie Gilmour (1872-1933) was an American educator, editor, and journalist who played a unique role in Japanese-American relations in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was the wife and editor of the writer Yone Noguchi and the mother of sculptor Isamu Noguchi and dancer Ailes Gilmour.
LĂ©opold Davout d'Auerstaedt LĂ©opold Davout (August 9, 1829 - 9 February 1904) was a French general of the Second Empire and third Duc d'Auerstaedt, a title originally held by his uncle Louis Nicolas Davout. The title was resurrected by an Imperial edict of Napoleon III in 1864.
Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (October 9, 1906 – December 20, 2001) was a Senegalese poet, author and dictator who served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). Senghor also happened to be the first African to sit as a member of l'Académie française.
LĂ©opold Survage LĂ©opold Survage (1879-1968) (variant names LĂ©opold Sturzwage, Leopold Sturwage, Leopoldij Sturzwasgh, Leopoldij Lvovich Sturzwage) was an important French painter of Russian-Danish-Finnish descent, born in 1879 in Willmanstrand, Finland (with selected references indicating a birthplace of Moscow, Russia).
LĂ©ri-Weill dyschondrosteosis LĂ©ri-Weill dyschondrosteosis or LWD is a rare genetic disorder which results in dwarfism with short forearms and legs (mesomelic dwarfism) and a particular deformity of the forearms (Madelung deformity). It is often caused by mutations in the SHOX gene found in the pseudoautosomal region PAR1 of the X and Y chromosomes.
LĂ©rins Islands The LĂ©rins Islands (ĂŽles des LĂ©rins) are a group of four Mediterranean islands off the French Riviera, near Cannes. The two largest islands in this group are the ĂŽle Sainte-Marguerite and the ĂŽle Saint-Honorat.
Lévis—Bellechasse Lévis–Bellechasse, is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It was created in 2003 from Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière and Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet ridings.
LĂ©vy C curve In mathematics, the LĂ©vy C curve is a self-similar fractal that was first described and whose differentiability properties were analysed by Ernesto CesĂ ro in 1906 and G. Farber in 1910, but now bears the name of French mathematician Paul LĂ©vy, who was the first to describe its self-similarity properties, as well as to provide a geometrical construction showing it as a representative curve in the same class as the Koch curve.
LĂ©vy metric In mathematics, the LĂ©vy metric is a metric on the space of cumulative distribution functions of one-dimensional random variables. It is a special case of the LĂ©vy-Prokhorov metric, and is named after the French mathematician Paul Pierre LĂ©vy.
LĂ©vy process In probability theory, a LĂ©vy process, named after the French mathematician Paul LĂ©vy, is any continuous-time stochastic process that starts at 0, admits cĂ dlĂ g modification and has "stationary independent increments" -- this phrase will be explained below. The most well-known examples are the Wiener process and the Poisson process.
Lévy's constant In mathematics Lévy's constant (sometimes known as the Khinchin–Lévy constant) occurs in an expression for the asymptotic behaviour of the denominators of the convergents of continued fractions. In 1936 French mathematician Paul Lévy showed that the denominators qn of the convergents of the continued fraction expansions of almost all real numbers satisfy
Lézard rouge The lézard rouge (French for "red lizard") is a historic Tunisian train, once the property of the Bey of Tunis but now used for tourists. It runs from Metlaoui to Redeyef and passes through the Selja Gorges, taking some 40 minutes for the journey.
Lääne County Lääne County (Estonian: Lääne maakond), or Läänemaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in western Estonia and borders Baltic Sea to the north, Harju County to the north-east, Rapla County to the east, Pärnu County to the south, and the island counties of Saare and Hiiu to the west.
Lääz Rockit Lääz Rockit are a thrash/power metal band formed in San Francisco, California in 1982. Although one of the lesser-known groups of the Bay Area thrash metal scene, each album in their history has received high critical marks.
Läckö Castle Läckö Castle is a medieval castle in Sweden, located on an island in the lake Vänern. Läckö Castle was build in the late 13th century, but additional construction was made in the 17th century when the castle belonged to Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie.
Länsförsäkringar Länsförsäkringar, or literally County Insurance, is a Swedish group of insurance companies. The group consists of 24 independent companies, one in each of the Counties of Sweden (pre 1998 division), that cooperates under a common brand name.
Länsimetro Länsimetro (Finnish for 'western metro') is a common term used for the planned extension of the Helsinki Metro system from central Helsinki to the neighbouring city of Espoo. It is a very frequently raised question in the municipal politics of the two cities.
Länsiväylä Länsiväylä (Västerleden in Swedish) is a motorway in the Greater Helsinki area of Finland, mainly at the Helsinki conurbation. The road begins in Ruoholahti in western Helsinki and continues west through the island of Lauttasaari and then across the city border to Espoo.
Lärm Lärm was a Dutch band that pioneered grindcore and what later became known as power violence, (along with Siege). However, the band itself had roots in hardcore punk and straight edge; and branded themselves extreme noise.
Læsø Læsø is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located 19 kilometers off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Danish mainland. Læsø is also the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) on that island.
LĂ´n Goed LĂ´n Goed is a wide tree-lined avenue created in the 18th century for transporting lime from the coast to the upland farms of Eifionydd. It runs more or less northwards from near Chwilog on the LlĹ·n Peninsula in North Wales.
LĂ´n Las Cymru LĂ´n Las Cymru (Welsh : Wales' Green Lane) is the Welsh National Cycle Route which runs largely north-south from Holyhead to Cardiff and Chepstow. In total it measures some 400km in length, and is Route 8 of the United Kingdom National Cycle Network.
Löffelstelzen Transmitter Löffelstelzen Transmitter is a broadcasting facility of SWR at Bad Mergentheim-Löffelstelzen at 9°47'1" E and 49°30'30" N. It was inaugurated at the beginning of the fifties and used at those days a guyed mast, which was insulated against ground, because it was used for medium-wave broadcasting with a butterfly antenna for FM- and TV-transmission on its top.
Löffler's syndrome Löffler's syndrome or Loeffler's syndrome is a disease in which a certain type of white blood cell called an eosinophil accumulates in the lung in response to a parasitic infection. It was first described in 1932 by Wilhelm Löffler in cases of eosinophilic pneumonia caused by the parasites Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralis and the hookworms Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.
Löfgren syndrome Löfgren syndrome is a subtype of acute sarcoidosis that is frequent in Scandinavian, Irish, and Puerto Rican women. It is characterized by a complex of hilar adenopathy on x-ray and erythema nodosum (tender red nodules, usually on the shins).
Lövånger Court District Lövånger Court District, or Lövångers tingslag, was a district of Västerbotten in Sweden and is now a small town. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Löwenheim–Skolem theorem In mathematical logic, the classic Löwenheim–Skolem theorem states that for any countable first-order language L with signature langlemathbf{C}, mathbf{F}, mathbf{R}, sigmarangle and L-structure M, there exists a countably infinite elementary substructure N subseteq M. A natural and useful corollary of this theorem is that every consistent L-theory has a countable model.
Löwenherz Löwenherz (German for "Lionheart") is a German-style board game designed by Klaus Teuber and published in 1997 by Goldsieber in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. A revised edition, titled Löwenherz: Der König kehrt zurück in German and Domaine: Land, Wealth, Power, Prestige in English, was subsequently released in 2003 by Kosmos in German and Mayfair Games in English.
Löwenzahn Löwenzahn (Dandelion) is a children's television series on the channel ZDF on German television, hosted by Peter Lustig. Its first episode aired on January 7 1979 under the former name of the series Pusteblume.
Löwchen The Löwchen is a breed of dog that once had the dubious distinction, like the Portuguese Water Dog and the Havanese, of being the "rarest dog in the world". Even today, the breed generally has fewer than a few hundred new registrations each year worldwide1.
Løgstør Løgstør is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in North Jutland County on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality, including the island of Livø, covers an area of 218 km², and has a total population of 10,270 (2005).
Løkken-Vrå Løkken-Vrå, is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in North Jutland County on the northwest coast of the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 181 km², and has a total population of 8,828 (2005).
Lørenskog I.F. Lørenskog Idrettsforening is a Norwegian football club from Lørenskog, founded in 1933 as a merger between Lørenskogkameratene and Solheim Idrettsforening. Most of the time the club has played in the Norwegian Second Division, with a short spell in the Norwegian First Division (now known as Adeccoligaen) in 2002.
Lørenskog Storsenter Lørenskog Storsenter (often referred to by its original name Triaden, or Triaden Lørenskog Storsenter) is a shopping centre in Lørenskog, Norway. The shopping centre was opened in 1988, and in 2005 it had a turnover of 825 million Norwegian kroner.
Løvstakken Løvstakken (477 metres above sea level) is one of De syv fjell, the seven mountains surrounding Bergen, Norway. The mountain is located between Fyllingsdalen and Bergensdalen, and was namesake of a borough of Bergen which is now merged with Årstad and Fyllingsdalen.
Lèine bhàn The lèine bhàn, literally meaning White Shirt (in Scottish Gaelic), was a distinctive smock which trangressors of ecclesiastical law, in Scotland, were at one time obliged to wear in church during public worship on one or more Sundays – also called gùn odhar (dun gown), and gùn na h-eagalaise (church gown).
Lèse majesté Lèse majesté (French expression, from the Latin Laesa maiestas or Laesae maiestatis (crimen), (crime of) injury to the Majesty; in English, also lese majesty or leze majesty) is the crime of violating majesty, an offense against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.
LÉ Grainne (CM10) LÉ Gráinne (CM10) was a "Ton" Class Minesweeper in the Irish Naval Service. She was named after Gráinne, a legendary princess who was promised to Fionn mac Cumhail but ran away with his young follower Diarmuid.
L’amour de loin L’amour de loin (Love from Afar) is the first opera by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho from a five act French libretto by Amin Maalouf. The opera was given its world premiere performance on 15 August 2000 at the Salzburg Festival and its US premiere on 31 July 2002 at the Santa Fe Opera.
Lędzianie Lendians, Polish: Lędzianie by Constantine VII Lendzanenoi or Lendzaninoi in 959, by Josippon Lz’njn in 953, by Nestor the Chronicler, 981 - Lachy, by Ali al-Masudi Landzaneh - 940, better known in historiography by the names derived from the latin terminology used for them in the Bavarian Geographe document from 845 , Lendizi habent civitates XCVIII Lendizi have 98 gords, and Uuislane (Wislans). Were a Lechitic tribe inhabiting, since at least the 7th century, lands known today as East Lesser Poland.
Lā'ie, Hawai'i Lāie is a community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Koolauloa District on the Island of Oahu, City & County of Honolulu. In Hawaiian, lāie means "ie leaf" (ie is a climbing pandanus: Freycinetia arborea).
Lăptăria Enache Lăptăria Enache (literally "Enache Milkbar"; also sometimes known as Lăptăria lui Enache, "Enache's Milkbar") is one of the leading bars in Bucharest, Romania. Located in a slightly curved space over the main halls of the National Theatre Bucharest near Piaţa Universităţii (University Square, Bucharest), the bar is one of the city's best-known gathering spots and music venues.
Lbsce Lal Bahadur Shastry College of Engineering, Kasargod (LBSCE) is one amonng the prestigious technical institutions in Kerala,India. The LBSCE is affiliated with Kannur University and approved by AICTE,New Delhi.
LB&SCR E2 Class The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway E2 Class was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by Lawson Billington. 10 were built between 1913 and 1916, with the last five having unusual extended side tanks.
LB&SCR E4 Class [Birch Grove wearing LB&SCR Marsh umber livery and carrying her name her side tanks. This is historically incorrect as the umber-liveried engines carried the letters LBSC on their tanks, where earlier they had carried names.
LBC LBC Radio (originally the London Broadcasting Company) operates two London-based radio stations, with news and talk formats. LBC was Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, providing a service of news and information to London.
LBJ High School Lyndon Baines Johnson High School in northeast Austin, Texas is a high school built in 1974 that later came to house one of Austin's two magnet high schools, the Science Academy. In early 2002, the Liberal Arts Academy, Austin's other magnet high school, was moved from Johnston High School to LBJ, forming what is now known as the LASA program (Liberal Arts and Science Academy).
LBJ/Skillman Station LBJ/Skillman Station is a DART light rail station located in north Dallas, Texas north of Interstate 635 (LBJ Freeway) between Skillman Street and Miller Road near Garland DART.org - Blue Line Station Locations.
LBV 1806-20 LBV 1806-20 is a possible binary star located 30,000–49,000 light-years from the Sun, towards the center of the galaxy. It has a total system mass of 130–150 Solar masses and an estimated variable luminosity of up to 38 million times that of the Sun, making it comparably luminous to Eta Carinae or the Pistol Star, contends for the most luminous known star (all of which are luminous blue variables).
Lck Lck (or leukocyte-specific protein tyrosine kinase) is an enzyme that is found inside specialized cells of the immune system called lymphocytes. This 56 kilodalton enzyme is a tyrosine kinase, which phosphorylates tyrosine residues of certain proteins involved in the intracellular signaling pathways of these lymphocytes.
LC Barrow LC Barrow (1913-1979) was the brother of Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde fame) and Buck Barrow. Born into a poor farming family amongst the Texas cotton fields along with his seven other siblings, he was a rarity as his mother actually remembered his birth.
LC circuit An LC circuit consists of an inductor, represented by the letter L, and a capacitor, represented by the letter C. When connected together, an electrical current can alternate between them at an angular frequency of
LCARS In the Star Trek fictional universe, LCARS (an acronym for Library Computer Access and Retrieval System), is a computer operating system used on Federation starships. Within Star Trek chronology, the term was first used in Star Trek: The Next Generation and in subsequent shows.
LCD games from The Legend of Zelda series Although Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda game series was mostly constricted to consoles and the Game Boy, two "mini" versions were released, the confusingly-named "Zelda Game Watch" and "Zelda Game & Watch".
LCD shutter glasses LCD shutter glasses are glasses used in conjunction with computers to create the illusion of a three dimensional image, an example of stereoscopy. Glass containing liquid crystal and a polarizing filter has the property that it becomes dark when voltage is applied, but otherwise is translucent.
LCD Smartie LCD Smartie is open-source software for Microsoft Windows which allows an LCD display to be used as a (additional) display device from a PC. Examples of such devices include the Hitachi HD44780 Controller, the Matrix Orbital Serial/USB LCD, and Palm OS devices (when used in conjunction with PalmOrb).
LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem is the musical side-project of producer James Murphy, co-founder of dance-punk label DFA Records. The music of LCD Soundsystem can also be described as a mix of dance music and punk, along with elements of disco and other styles.
LCF theorem prover LCF is an interactive theorem prover developed at the universities of Edinburgh and Stanford by Robin Milner and others. LCF (Logic for Computable Functions) introduced the general purpose programming language ML to allow users to write theorem proving tactics.
LCFG LCFG stands for "Local ConFiGuration system". Developed at the University of Edinburgh beginning around 1993, it is "a system for automatically installing and managing the configuration of large numbers of computer systems.
LCM-8 The LCM-8 ("Mike Boat") is a river boat and mechanized landing craft used by the United States Navy and Army during the Vietnam War. They also saw use during Operation Just Cause in Panama as well as Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
LCVP The Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively in World War II. The craft was designed by Andrew Higgins of Louisiana, based on boats made for operating in swamps and marshes.
Lǐ Wèi Lǐ Wèi (李未) (born June 8, 1943) is president of Beihang University. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Beijing University in 1966, and then studied under Gordon Plotkin to obtain his Ph.
Ldtp GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project (GNU/LDTP) is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test GNU/Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the "Accessibility" libraries to poke through the application's user interface.
LD Alajuelense Liga Deportiva Alajuelense (LDA), is a Costa Rican football club, currently playing in the Primera DivisiĂłn, is the most popular "Article which states Liga Deportiva Alajuelense's superiority in popularity over Deportivo Saprissa (Spanish)." club in Costa Rica soccer history, and together with Deportivo Saprissa shares the majority of National Championships, 24 in total.
LD Assistant LD Assistant is a suite of CAD software products for Entertainment Lighting Design, Visualization and Event Planning. LD Assistant includes lighting objects and features for 2D and 3D design, schedules, paperwork, reports, textures and materials, realistic renderings, visual effects and a build-in real-time visualization module for 64 DMX universes.
LD50 In toxicology, the LD50 (abbreviation for "Lethal Dose, 50%") or median lethal dose of a toxic substance or radiation is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population. LD50 figures are frequently used as a general indicator of a substance's toxicity.
LDAP Application Program Interface The LDAP Application Program Interface, described by RFC 1823, is an Informational RFC that specifies an application programming interface in the C programming language for version 2 of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Version 2 of LDAP is historic.
LDAP Data Interchange Format The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) is a standard data interchange format for representing (LDAP) directory content as well as directory update (Add, Modify, Delete, Rename) requests. LDAP is an acronym for "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol".
LDL receptor The LDL Receptor is a mosaic protein that mediates the endocytosis of cholesterol-rich LDL. It is a cell-surface receptor that recognises the apoprotein B100 which is embedded in the phospholipid outer layer of LDL particles.
LDS Business College LDS Business College (LDSBC) is a two-year college in Salt Lake City, Utah, focused on training students in business and industry. The college is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and operates under the Church Educational System or CES.
LDS cinema LDS or Mormon cinema refers to motion pictures with themes relevant to Latter-day Saints. Many of these films are screened extensively within high LDS population centers such as Utah, and do not regularly reach mainstream viewers in other parts of the world.
LDS Conference Center The LDS Conference Center, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the premier meeting hall for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church, popularly known as the "Mormons"), and one of the largest theater-style buildings in the world. Completed in spring 2000 in time for the Church's twice-yearly General Conferences, the 21,000 seat Conference Center replaced the traditional use of the nearby Salt Lake Tabernacle, built in 1868, for LDS General Conferences and major church gatherings, devotionals, and other events.
LDS fiction LDS fiction (or Mormon fiction) is a growing niche market of fiction novels featuring themes related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church, see also "Mormon"). Much of the recent rise in the number of titles and the improvement in the quality of LDS fiction is often attributed to Gerald Lund's popular LDS historical fiction series The Work and the Glory.
LDS Humanitarian Services LDS Humanitarian Services is part of the LDS Philanthropies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The organization's humanitarian aims are to aid impoverished families worldwide in becoming self-reliant, healthy, and educated as well as provide aid in emergency situations caused by wars or natural disasters.
LDS Church Office Building The Church Office Building is a 28-story building in Salt Lake City, Utah, and serves as the worldwide headquarters for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The building is 420 ft (128 m) tall and is located near Temple Square on the corner of North Temple and State Street.
LDS movies LDS movies refers to non-commercial motion pictures commissioned by or officially produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This differs from LDS cinema where members of the church produce films without official church involvement.

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