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Le nom du vent Le nom du vent (French for "The name of the wind") is a 2003 album by jazz band Maak's Spirit. It was recorded at De Meent (Alsemberg, Belgium) in February 2002 after a meeting with Gnawa musicians in North Africa.
Le Nain Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu Le Nain were painters in early 17th century France. The three were born in Laon (Mathieu in 1607; Antoine and Louis were originally believed to have been born in 1588 and 1593, respectively, but those dates have since been disputed: they may have instead been born just before and just after 1600), and by 1630 all three lived in Paris.
Le Napoléon (1850) Le Napoléon was a battleship of the French Navy, and the first purpose-built steam battleship in the world "Napoleon (90 guns), the first purpose-designed screw line of battleships", Steam, Steel and Shellfire, Conway's History of the Ship (p39). She is also considered the first true steam battleship, and the first screw battleship ever "Hastened to completion Le Napoleon was launched on 16 May 1850, to become the world's first true steam battleship", Steam, Steel and Shellfire, Conway's History of the Ship (p39).
Le Nouvel Observateur Le Nouvel Observateur (often shorten to Le Nouvel Obs) is a weekly French newsmagazine. It is the most prominent French general information magazine based in Paris in terms of audience and circulation (currently at 538,200).
Le parti pris des choses Le parti pris des chose is a book of prose poems by French poet and essayist Francis Ponge, first published in 1942. The title is most often translated into English as The Voice of Things, however it is also sometimes translated as The Way Things Are or The Nature of Things, perhaps to echo Lucretius, though the book's philosophical underpinnings are more often associated with phenomenology.
Le péril jeune Le Péril Jeune is a 1994 French film directed by Cédric Klapisch and released in English as Good Old Daze. It is a comedy-drama starring among others Romain Duris (Tomasi), Nicolas Koretzky (Momo), Joachim Lombard (Léon), Vincent Elbaz (Alain Chabert), Julien Lambroschini (Bruno), Elodie Bouchez (Sophie), Julie-Anne Rauth (Marie), Hélène de Fougerolles (Christine), Lisa Faulkner (Barbara) and Jackie Berroyer (Jo) .
Le petit bitu Le Bitu is a book which compiles a register of numerous commercium songs. As an important part of the student folklore, it is considered a must-have for students who want to be involved in societies in the french-speaking part of Belgium.
Le petit Gonzalès (album) This album of Dalida was her very first big step in the rock & roll world. It contains big hits like "Le petit Gonzalès" (one of her biggest since 1958's "Gondolier"), "Que sont devenues les fleurs?
Le petit Nicolas Le petit Nicolas (Little Nicolas) is a series of humorous French children's books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, published between 1956 and 1964. They describe the everyday life of a little boy, Nicolas, living in the 1950s.
Le plus grand Belge Le plus grand belge (French for the "The Greatest Belgian"), was a television show on the Belgian french-speaking public channel RTBF. In the program the audience could vote for the greatest Belgian by using the website, sending an SMS or using the telephone.
Le postillon de Lonjumeau Le postillon de Lonjumeau (The Coachman of Longjumeau) is an opéra-comique in three acts by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by 'De Leuven and Brunswick' (pen names of Adolphe von Ribbing and Léon Lévy). It was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on October 13th, 1836.
Le prisonnier du Bouddha Le prisonnier du Bouddha, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin assisted by Jidéhem, is the fourteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The story appeared sequentially in Le Journal de Spirou, before being released as a hardcover album in 1960.
Le Pacte Des Loups Le Pacte Des Loups (titled Brotherhood of the Wolf in English, but literal translation The Pact Of The Wolves) is a 2001 movie directed by Christophe Gans, starring Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Mark Dacascos, and written by Gans and Stéphane Cabel.
Le Papillon (ballet) Le Papillon (The Butterfly) is a "fantastic ballet" in 4 acts/4 scenes, with choreography by Marie Taglioni and music by Jacques Offenbach. Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (1861), and revised by Marius Petipa (1874).
Le Paradis massacre The Le Paradis massacre was an atrocity against soldiers hors de combat during the Battle of France of World War II, when members of the British 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were victims of a German SS war crime at Le Paradis in the Pas-de-Calais on May 26, 1940.
Le Parisien Le Parisien ("The Parisian") is a French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and suburbs. A national edition exists, called Aujourd'hui en France ("Today in France").
Le Pays de la Sagouine Le Pays de la Sagouine is a Acadian celebration in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada, founded by Antonine Maillet. She wanted to show what it was like to live the Acadian life and by writing over forty novels on the Acadians (including her award winning novel "La Sagouine"), she did just that.
Le Père Duchesne Le Père Duchesne (Old Man Duchesne or Father Duchesne) was an extreme radical newspaper during the French Revolution, edited by Jacques Hébert, who published 385 issues from September 1790 until eleven days before his death by guillotine, which took place on March 24, 1794. The title was used again hundreds of times afterwards, mainly during revolutionary periods, for publications with no direct connection to the original: for example, during the July Revolution of 1830, the Revolution of 1848, and during the Paris Commune (1871).
Le Père Duchesne (19th c.) Le Père Duchêne ("Old Man Duchesne") is the title of a newspaper which appeared during revolutionary periods of the nineteenth century. It borrowed its title from the Père Duchesne published by Jacques Hébert during the French Revolution.
Le Père Goriot Le Père Goriot (English title: Old Goriot or Father Goriot) is an 1835 novel written by the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. It is one of the series of novels to which Balzac gave the title of "La Comédie humaine" ("The Human Comedy").
Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966) is a fifty minute film starring French nouvelle vague icon Jean-Pierre Léaud, whose character takes on a job dressing up as Santa Claus in order to save money for a stylish duffel coat. It was the second commercial film made by French director Jean Eustache, who would go on to make several other featurettes.
Le Petit Piaf Le Petit Piaf (French for "little sparrow") is an exclusive three-star hotel located right in the eastern part of the old city of Belgrade in Skadarlija, which is a remarkable tourist attraction with well-known restaurants, art galleries, and antique and souvenir shops. The charming and picturesque district up to 20,000 people gather every day which is beneficial from the point of view of attracting leisure demand.
Le Petit Séminaire de Québec, campus de l'Outaouais Le Petit Séminaire de Québec - campus de l'Outaouais is a private French-language college in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It offers a secondary school International Baccalaureate program as well as the post-secondary Diploma of Collegial Studies.
Le Petit Soldat Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier) is a 1960 film, written and directed by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. It was Godard's first film with Anna Karina, who starred as VĂ©ronica Dreyer alongside Michel Subor (as Bruno Forestier).
Le Petit Spirou Le Petit Spirou ("Young Spirou") is a comic strip created by Tome & Janry in 1987. This series developed from La jeunesse de Spirou (1987) a Spirou et Fantasio album where Tome and Janry (then the authors of the main series) set to imagine Spirou's youth.
Le Petit Vingtième Le Petit Vingtième ("The Little Twentieth") was the weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle ("The Twentieth Century") from 1928 to 1940. The comics series The Adventures of Tintin first appeared in its pages.
Le Peuple Migrateur Le Peuple Migrateur (also known as Winged Migration in the United States and Canada, or The Travelling Birds in the United Kingdom, or The Travelling Birds: An adventure in flight in Australia), is an Academy Award nominated 2001 documentary film directed by Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats and Jacques Perrin (who was also one of the writers and narrators) showcasing the immense journeys routinely made by birds during their migrations.
Le Pin, Charente-Maritime Le Pin (French meaning "the pine") is a commune in the canton of Montlieu-la-Garde of the Charente-Maritime in the département in the Poitou-Charentes région in France. Le Pin is the leastly populated commune in the canton of Montlieu-la-Garde.
Le Plus Grand Français Le Plus Grand Français de tous les temps (The Greatest Frenchman of all Time) was a France 2 show of early 2005, based on an original series of Great Britons on the BBC. The show asked the French viewers who they thought was the Greatest Frenchman or Frenchwoman.
Le Poème Harmonique Le Poème Harmonique is a musical ensemble founded in 1997 by Vincent Dumestre to recreate and promote ancient music, in particular that of the 17th century. Using rare instruments such as the theorbo, the lirone, the tiorbino and the arpa tripla, Le Poème Harmonique aims to recapture the poetry of ancient music.
Le Point Le Point is a French weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of L'Express, which was then owned by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, a député (member of parliament) of the Parti Radical.
Le Poisson Doré (ballet) Le Poisson Doré (The Golden Fish) (AKA Zolotaia Ribka) is a "fantastic ballet" in 4 acts/6 scenes with prologue and epilogue. The choreography was by Arthur Saint-Léon, and the music by Léon Minkus.
Le Pont-de-Montvert Le Pont-de-Montvert is a French commune in the département of Lozère (région Languedoc-Roussillon), located in the heart of the Parc National des Cévennes in south-central France which groups more than a dozen scattered hamlets. The inhabitants of Le Pont-de-Montvert are called Pontoises, or even Montvertipontains.
Le Portel Le Portel is a commune and the chief town of a canton of northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais department, arrondissement of Boulogne-sur-Mer. It belongs to the communauté d'agglomération Boulogne Côte d'Opale which gathers 22 communes.
Le Poste des Cadodaquious Le Poste des Cadodaquious was a small French fort founded in 1719; it was located northwest of Texarkana, Texas in today's Bowie County. Recent analysis suggests that the site was somewhere on the escarpment near either Everett or Barkman.
Le Prieur rocket Le Prieur rockets (French Fusées Le Prieur) were a type of incendiary air-to-air rockets used in World War I against observation balloons and airships. They were invented by the French Lieutenant Yves Le Prieur and were first used in the Battle of Verdun.
Le Prive Le Prive is the prototypical Korean club or "K-Club" in Los Angeles. Le Prive represents the most successful of the K-clubs in Koreatown ("K-Town") and is perhaps the largest Asian dance club in North America.
Le Punching-Ball et la Vache à lait : La Critique universitaire nord-américaine face au Surréalisme Le Punching-Ball et la Vache à lait: La Critique universitaire nord-américaine face au Surréalisme is a book by Guy Ducornet (published in 1992 by Editions Actual/Deleatur) criticizing "lies and misinterpretations of surrealism," and attacks on surrealism, specifically in universities in the United States, by neo-Marxists, postmodernists, structuralists, deconstructivists and certain neo-feminists.
Le Puy-en-Velay Le Puy-en-Velay (Lo Puèi de Velai in the Auvergnat dialect of the Occitan language, pronounced [lu/lə ˈpœj də ˈvəlaj]) is a commune of south-central France, préfecture (capital) of the Haute-Loire département. Population (1999): 20,490.
Le Québécois Libre Le Québécois Libre (or QL) is an online libertarian magazine, or webzine published in Quebec, Canada. The "QL", owned and published by Martin Masse since 1998, portrays a classical liberalist point of view on numerous topics, particularly related to current affairs in Quebec.
Le repaire de la murène Le repaire de la murène, written and drawn by Franquin, is the ninth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, adding underwater adventure to the Spirou universe. After appearing in segments in Le Journal de Spirou, it was released as a complete hardcover album in 1957.
Le roi d'Ys Le roi d'Ys (The King of Ys) is an opera by the French composer Edouard Lalo, first peformed at the Opéra Comique, Paris on 7 May, 1888. The libretto, by Edouard Blau, is based on the Breton legend of the drowned kingdom of Ys.
Le roi des Ă©toiles Le roi des Ă©toiles is a chorale work by Igor Stravinsky, written for men's chorus in 1912. The composition is an arrangement of Konstantine Balmont's poem Zvezdolikii, the title of which is sometimes translated to English as "Star-face".
Le roi malgré lui Le roi malgré lui (English: 'The King in Spite of Himself') is an opéra-comique in three acts by Emmanuel Chabrier with an original libretto by Emile de Najac and Paul Burani. It was premiered on 18 May 1887 at the Opéra-comique in Paris.
Le roi s'amuse Le roi s'amuse is a play written by Victor Hugo in 1832. While it depicts the escapades of Francis I of France, censors of the time believed that it also contained insulting references to King Louis-Philippe and banned it after one performance.
Le RĂŞve (show) Le RĂŞve (The Dream in French) was the first production show to open in the Wynn Las Vegas casino resort . It is set in a 1 million gallon water-oriented theatre, featuring incredible diving and feats of strength with state-of-the-art special effects, where no seat is more than 40 feet (12 m) from the stage.
Le Rêve Transformé Le Rêve Transformé (1913) is a painting by the Italian pre-surrealist Giorgio de Chirico. This work contains the classic de Chirico images of an empty urban scene at late evening with a ghostly train on the horizon.
Le RĂ©pertoire de la Cuisine Le RĂ©pertoire de La Cuisine by Louis Saulnier, is a reference book available in the original French and in English translations. Several used editions are in circulation, such as the Canterbury Press (Westminister, Maryland) translation of 1961, or the Barrons Educational Series edition of 1976.
Le Rire Le Rire, or "Laughter," was a successful humor magazine published from October 1894 through the 1950s. Founded in Paris by Felix Juven during the Belle Époque, Le Rire appeared as typical Parisians began to achieve more education, income and leisure time.
Le Rocher-Percé Regional County Municipality, Quebec Rocher-Percé is a county regional municipality of Quebec in Canada. It is named after Percé Rock (the pierced rock), a massive arched sandstone rock rising from the Atlantic just off the tip of the Gaspé peninsula.
Le Roi et l'oiseau Le Roi et l'oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) is a 1980 traditionally-animated feature film directed by Paul Grimault. Begun in 1948 as The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen); cited by the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki as an influence.
Le Roi se meurt Le Roi se meurt (English Exit the King) is an absurdist drama by Eugene Ionesco that premiered in 1962. Berenger, the main character from his more well-known play, Rhinoceros, also appears here as King Berenger the First.
Le Roi Soleil (musical) Le Roi Soleil is a successful French musical by Kamel Ouali, produced by Dove Attia and Albert Cohen, about the life of Louis XIV (played by Emmanuel Moire). It premiered on 22 September 2005 at the Palais des Sports in Paris.
Le siège de Corinthe Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth) is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre Soumet, based on Maometto II by Cesare della Valle. First performance: Paris Opéra, Paris, 1826.
Le Sage's theory of gravitation In 1690 Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664-1753) and in 1758 Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724-1803) of Geneva proposed a simple kinetic theory for gravity, which offered a mechanical explanation for Newton's force equation.Le Sage, G.
Le Saint-Remi Le Saint Remi was a 400 ton ship. Leaving Nantes, France on June 27, 1785, under the command of Captain Baudin, it departed with 325 Acadians and 16 stowaways to New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving September 10, 1785.
Le Secret des Vikings Le Secret des Vikings is a pseudohistorical work by the French author Joel Supéry. According to Supéry, the Scandinavian attacks against the Frankish Empire were carried out not by raiding adventurers looking for gold and silver but by armies applying a military strategy.
Le Sexe qui parle Le Sexe qui parle (The Sex Who Talks) is a French adult film of 1975. It was not only the first exclusive hardcore feature film produced and released in France but also the first one that met international success.
Le Shed Le Shed is a five piece funky metal band formed in Hull in the UK, and known by many for their original and innovative crossover style. The band is named after the shed the members used as a rehearsal space in the band's early days.
Le Show Le Show is a weekly syndicated public radio show hosted by satirist Harry Shearer and carried on many National Public Radio and other public radio stations throughout the US. It is also available internationally on NPR Worldwide and shortwave radio, as well as on XM Public Radio on satellite radio in the US and Canada.
Le Silence de la Mer (film) Le Silence de la mer is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville that takes place in 1941 and concerns an Frenchman and his niece's relationship with a German lieutenant who lives in their house during the German occupation of France. Melville based the film on the 1942 book of the same name, Le Silence de la Mer by Jean Bruller (under the name Vercors) and actually filmed inside of Vercors' own home outside of Paris.
Le Smoking Created in 1966 by famous coutourier Yves Saint Laurent, the Le Smoking tuxedo suit for women was the first of its kind to earn attention in the fashion world and in popular culture. It pioneered long, minimalist, androgynous styles for women, as well as the use of power suits and the pantsuit in modern-day society.
Le Statut des Moines Le Statut des Moines is a short text by a classical Muslim jurist taken out of context by an extreme radical group as justification for the murder of unarmed civilians committed to inter-faith dialogue. In 1996 in Algeria the Groupe Islamique Armé (Armed Islamic Group or GIA) published an announcement that it had authorized the murder of seven Trappist monks in Tibhirine and quoted from the text of the great Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyyah.
Le Sueur River The Le Sueur River (luh-SOOR) is a tributary of the Blue Earth River, about 80 mi (130 km) long, in southern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Blue Earth and Minnesota Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Le temple de la Gloire Le temple de la Gloire (The Temple of Glory) is an opéra-ballet in five acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The work was first performed on 27 November, 1745 at the Grande Ecurie, Versailles, and is set to a libretto by Voltaire.
Le temps des fleurs (album) This album by Dalida, which is a more melancolic mood than the previous, contains one of her big hits, the russian oriented "Le temps des fleurs", but also the ballad "Je m'endors dans tes bras".
Le trésor de la langue Le trésor de la langue (English: The treasure of language) is an album of music released by the guitarist René Lussier on the Ambiances Magnétique label in 1989. Many consider it to be Lussier's greatest album.
Le Tallec's patterns Camille Le Tallec has preserved and created in its studio more than 250 Limoges porcelain decorative patterns signed by the Le Tallec's marks. There were realized in the french technical tradition of the 18th et 19th centuries, developped for the Sèvres porcelain.
Le Temps Perdu Le Temps Perdu (English translation: "Lost Time") was the first French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 (that Contest being unique for allowing two songs per country), performed in French by Mathé Altéry.
Le Tigre Le Tigre is a feminist electro post-punk band formed in 1998 by Kathleen Hanna, previously from the band Bikini Kill. Initially envisioned as a live back up band for Hanna's solo project Julie Ruin, Le Tigre mixes the politics and feminism of riot grrrl with fun electronic samples and lo-fi beats.
Le Ton beau de Marot Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (ISBN 0-465-08645-4), published by Basic Books in 1997, is a book by Douglas Hofstadter in which he explores the meaning, strengths, failings, and beauty of translation.
Le Tour de Langkawi Le Tour de Langkawi (French for "Tour of Langkawi") is an annual cycling race which is held in Malaysia. The name of the event comes from the starting point of the first few editions, in Langkawi, Kedah, although some later editions did not include Langkawi in the race at all.
Le Tour du Québec en BD Le Tour du Québec en BD (Travel Québec Through Graphic Novels) is a collection of graphic novels written by Jean-François Gaudet and drawn by Hugues Poirier, with some contributions from other artists. The novels are published by the two authors, owners of the advertising agency, Le Vent Qui Vente.
Le Tournoi Le Tournoi was a football tournament held in France in the summer of 1997 that featured England, France, Italy and Brazil. It was a primarily a warm-up tournament for the World Cup that would take place in France 12 months later.
Le Traboulidon Le Traboulidon was a French language children's television show made in Quebec in the mid-1980s. Its stories revolved around the adventures of clowns Philo (an inventor played by Denis Mercier) and Bulle (played by Sylvie LĂ©onard).
Le Train de Nulle Part Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train from Nowhere) is a 233-page French novel, written in 2004 by a French doctor of letters, Michel Dansel, under the pen name Michel Thaler. The novel is notable as an example of constrained writing; the entire novel is written without a single verb.
Le Trésor des Humbles Le Trésor des Humbles (The Treasure of the Humble) (Mercure de France, 1896) is the title of a collection of thirteen deeply reflective mystical essays by Belgian Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck, his first. The work is dedicated "a Madame Georgette Leblanc.
Le Tuan Hung Le Tuan Hung (Lê Tuấn Hùng; surname Lê) is a Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist based in Australia. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music.
Le voyageur du Mésozoïque Le voyageur du Mésozoïque, written and drawn by Franquin, is the thirteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story, and another, La Peur au bout du fil, appeared in Le Journal de Spirou, before being released as a hardcover album in 1960.
Le Va et le Vient The title of Ivan Tcherepnin's orchestral work, Le Va et le Vient ("the coming and the going"), refers to the birth of his son,Stefan Tcherepnin (born September 29, 1977), which was immediately followed by the death of his father, Alexander Tcherepnin (died September 29, 1977). It was premiered at the Lucerne Music Festival on August 8, 1978, with the composer conducting.
Le Van Vien Le Van Vien (aka Bay Vien, Vien the seventh) was the leader of Binh Xuyen, a powerful Vietnamese criminal organization. During the Bao Dai regime (1948-55), he made arrangements with regime, by which Binh Xuyen was given control of their own affairs in return for their support of the regime.
Le Verrier (lunar crater) Le Verrier is a small lunar impact crater located in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium. To the west is the slightly larger Helicon crater, and further to the west-northwest lies the mountain-ringed Sinus Iridum bay.
Le Vieux de '37 Le Vieux de '37 (French for "The Old One of '37", more accurately translated as "The Old Man of '37") is the name under which is known an illustration by Henri Julien created approximately in 1880 to illustrate Le vieux patriote, a poem from Louis Fréchette.
Le Villi Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera-ballo in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Alphonse Karr. The original one act version was first performed at the Teatro dal Verne, Milan on May 31, 1884.
Le Volume Courbe Le Volume Courbe is a folk-inspired band with Charlotte Marionneau as the sole member with occasional additions. Thus far, Le Volume Courbe has released one album, I Killed My Best Friend, on UK independent label Honest Jon's.
Le Vrai Le Vrai (AKA Beautiful Woman at Le Vrai) was a fictional character seen in The Matrix Reloaded as the beautiful woman who sat near Neo, Trinity, The Twins, Morpheus and The Merovingian. The Merovingian explains to Neo about cause and effect and by demonstrating his point he specifically sends a small piece if chocolate cake to Le Vrai.
Lea & Perrins Lea & Perrins is a United Kingdom food company, originating in Worcester with a subsidiary in the United States which manufactures Lea & Perrins in New Jersey. Lea & Perrins was part of the HP Foods company that was bought by Heinz from previous owner Danone in 2005.
Lea Anderson The founder of the Cholomondeleys and Featherstonehaughs dance companies, she has choreographed over 100 dances with the two companies. She graduated from the Laban Centre and in 1984 created The Cholomondeleys.
Lea Bridge Lea Bridge is a district of the London Borough of Hackney. It is situated to the northeast of the borough and bounded by Upper Clapton to the north, Lower Clapton to the south, and the River Lee Navigation to the east.
Lea Bridge railway station Lea Bridge is a closed railway station on the line between Stratford and Tottenham Hale stations. The station was located on the north side of Lea Bridge Road (A104) close to the junction of that road with Argall Way and Orient Way in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, north-east London .
Lea Cummings Lea Cummings is a British musician and artist. Born in September 1974 in Lancaster and currently based in Glasgow, Cummings was the bassist for hardcore rock trio Phobophilia for some years before leaving to form Opaque in 1997.
Lea DeLaria Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958 at Belleville, Illinois) is a US comedian, actor, and jazz musician. She has italian origins extremely prominent figure in the world of lesbian] stand-up comedy, she is noted for her raunchy persona and inflammatory, irreverent political commentary, which have proven controversial inside and outside the gay and lesbian community.
Lea Green railway station Lea Green railway station is a railway station in St Helens, Merseyside, England, around three miles from the town centre near to the suburb of Clock Face. It is situated on the northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line (the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway).
Lea Hall railway station Lea Hall railway station is situated in the Lea Hall area east of the city of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. It has two platforms, one each side of the two running lines, with no points or sidings.
Lea Hernandez Lea Hernandez (born 11 March 1964) is an American comic book and webcomic creator who usually draws in a manga-influenced style. She is the co-creator of Killer Princesses with Gail Simone (published by Oni Press), and the creator of Rumble Girls (published by Image Comics).
Lea Rabin Lea (Leah) Rabin (née Schlossberg) (April 8, 1928 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany — November 12, 2000 in Petah Tikva, Israel) was the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.
Lea Rosh Lea Rosh (born October 1, 1936 in Berlin; birth name Edith Renate Ursula Rosh) is a German television journalist and publicist. She is best known for being elected the "most embarrassing Berliner" (peinlichste Berlinerin) by the readers of the magazine Tip in 2003.
Lea Salonga Lea Salonga-Chien (born Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga on February 22, 1971 in Manila) is a Tony Award-winning Filipino-American singer and actress who is best known for her portrayal of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon. In the field of musical theater, no other Filipino has achieved the same international recognition as Salonga.
Lea Vivot Lea Vivot (born Drahomíra Lea Hekelová in 1950 in Horní Temenice) is a Czech-born Canadian sculptor. She has studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario as well as Prague, Czechoslovakia, Milan, Italy and New York, USA.
Lea-Lorien Lea-Lorién is an American female singer/songwriter from New York City, New York who is the daughter of guitarist Carlos Alomar and singer/actress Robin Clark (both were performers on David Bowie's 1975 Young Americans album, which featured Alomar's guitar performance on "Fame").

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