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Labour service (Hungary) Labour service (Hungarian: munkaszolgálat) were a form of Hungarian forced labor, labor battalions conscripted by the German-allied regime primarily from young Hungarian Jewish men at the onset of and during World War II.
Labour/Le Travail Labour/Le Travail is an academic journal which publishes articles on the labor movement in the Canada, sociology, labour economics, and employment relations. Although its focus is Canadian, the journal carries articles about the United States and other nations as well.
Labourd Labourd (Lapurdi in Basque; from Latin Lapurdum, Labord in Gascon) is a former French province and part of the present-day Pyrénées Atlantiques département. It is historically one of the seven provinces of the traditional Basque Country.
Labourhome Labourhome is a popular political blog specializing in British politics started by Alex Hilton and Jag Singh. Launched in 2006 with the tagline, "Back to the roots," the site targets supporters of the British Labour Party.
Labours of Hercules The Twelve Labours (Greek: dodekathlos) of Heracles (Latin: Hercules) are a series of archaic episodes connected by a later continuous narrative, concerning a penance carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes. The establishment of a fixed cycle of twelve labours was attributed by the Greeks to an epic poem, now lost, written by Peisandros of Rhodes, dated about 600 BC (Burkert).
LabourStart LabourStart is the online news service of the international trade union movement. Founded in March 1998, it distributes news both from its own website and also through a news syndication service which is used by over 600 trade union websites around the world.
Labrador Labrador (also Coast of Labrador) is a region of Atlantic Canada. Together with the island of Newfoundland from which it is separated by the Strait of Belle Isle, it constitutes the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Labrador (band) Formed in 1998 by Danish legend Flemming Borby from the remains of the acclaimed band Greene, Labrador combines marvellous vocals with well judged electronica and an indie sensibility, bringing a hip contemporary edge to keep your ears addicted and your batteries worn out. (MM - Bigtime.
Labrador (electoral district) Labrador (formerly known as Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador and Grand Falls—White Bay) is a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1949.
Labrador Current The Labrador Current is a cold current in the north Atlantic Ocean which flows from the Arctic Ocean south along the coast of Labrador and passes around Newfoundland, continuing south along the east coast of Nova Scotia. It is a continuation of the West Greenland Current and the Baffin Island Current.
Labrador Duck The Labrador Duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius was a striking black and white eider-like sea duck that was never known to be common, and is believed to be the first bird to go extinct in North America after 1500. The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.
Labrador Nature Reserve Labrador Nature Reserve (Chinese: 拉柏多自然保护区), also locally known as Labrador Park (拉柏多公园), is located in the southern part of the main island of Singapore. It contains the only rocky sea-cliff on the mainland that is accessible to the public.
Labrador Peninsula Labrador Peninsula is a large peninsula in eastern Canada. It is bounded by the Hudson Bay to the west, the Hudson Strait to the north, the Labrador Sea to the east, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the south-east.
Labrador Retriever The Labrador Retriever ("Labrador" or "Lab" for short), is one of several kinds of retriever, and is the most popular breed of dog (by registered ownership) in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The breed is exceptionally friendly, intelligent, energetic and good natured, making them excellent companions and working dogs.
Labrador Sea Labrador Sea (French: mer du Labrador) (60°00'N, 55°00'W) is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between Labrador and Greenland. Water depths in the center of Labrador Sea are around 3 km and it is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast.
Labrador tea Labrador tea, is a name commonly applied to two species: Ledum palustre (Northern Labrador Tea, also known as Rhododendron tomentosum) and Ledum groenlandicum (Bog Labrador Tea). In Labrador itself, Labrador Tea is also frequently called Indian Tea.
Labrador West (electoral district) Labrador West is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. There are three communities in the district: Labrador City, Wabush and Churchill Falls, with a combined population of approximately 10,000.
Labraid Loingsech Labraid Loingsech, also known as Labraid Lorc, son of Ailill Áine, son of Lóegaire Lorc, was a legendary High King of Ireland of the 6th century BC. He is considered the ancestor of the Laigin, who gave their name to the province of Leinster.
Labrang Monastery Labrang Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་ Wylie: bla-brang bkra-shis-'khyil; Chinese: 拉卜楞寺 Pinyin: lābǔlèng sì) is one of the six great monasteries of the Geluk (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism, of which the Dalai Lama is a member. Labrang is located in Xiahe County in Gansu province, and also in the traditional Tibetan province of Amdo.
Labruja Labruja is a parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Ponte de Lima in Portugal. It is known for its monumental Church of Our Lord of Socorro, where big festivals are held on the first Saturday and Sunday of July.
Labtayt Sulci Labtayt Sulci is a system of deep fractures on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Labtayt Sulci was first seen in low-resolution, Voyager 1 images, but was observed in much more detail during a flyby by the Cassini spacecraft during its February 2005 flyby of Enceladus.
Labuan Labuan (Jawi: لابوان) is the main island of the Malaysian Federal Territory of Labuan. Labuan is best known as an offshore financial centre and a tourist destination for nearby Bruneians and scuba divers.
Labuan War Cemetery Labuan War Cemetery is a notable war graveyard of World War II which is located in Labuan, Malaysia. Many of the soldiers buried in this cemetery, including Gurkha, British and Australian troops, were killed during the Japanese Invasion of North Borneo.
Laburnum, Victoria Laburnum refers to a small area in the 'Bellbird' area of the suburb of Blackburn, Victoria, Australia. While not officially recognised, it covers the area bordered by Middleborough and Blackburn Roads, Gardiners Creek and the Belgrave/Lilydale railway line.
LabWindows/CVI LabWindows/CVI (CVI is short for C for Virtual Instrumentation) is an event-driven, ANSI C programming environment developed by National Instruments. The program was originally released as LabWindows for DOS in 1987, but was soon reinvisioned (and renamed) for the Windows platform.
Labyrinth In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Gk. λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and which was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.
Labyrinth (Acornsoft) Labyrinth is a video game published in 1984 by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro. At the time, it was widely considered to be an excellent Acornsoft release, with its high resolution graphics, addictive gameplay and fluid animation.
Labyrinth (film) Labyrinth is a 1986 fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and designed through the art of Brian Froud and Henson, with screenwriting by Henson, children's author Dennis Lee, and Monty Python alum Terry Jones. A novelization was written by A.
Labyrinth (game) Labyrinth: The Computer Game is an early computer adventure game, inspired by the Jim Henson fantasy film, Labyrinth. The game was developed by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts) and published by Activision in 1986 for the Apple II and Commodore 64 platforms.
Labyrinth (solitaire) Labyrinth is solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. Although the words labyrinth and maze are synonymous, this game and the solitaire game of Maze should not be confused with each other because they are different in the manner of game play and dealing.
Labyrinth of Evil Labyrinth of Evil is a novel by James Luceno set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy. The events of this novel occur just before Star Wars—Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, overlapping with the events of the third season of Star Wars: Clone Wars.
Labyrinth of Reflections Labyrinth of Reflections is a first novel in the Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko. The trilogy consists of Labyrinth of Reflections, False Mirrors, and Transparent Stained-Glass Windows.
Labyrinthe Labyrinthe or Labyrinthe: Live Roleplaying game is based at the Chislehurst Caves (near Sidcup in Kent, UK) Labyrinthe is open every weekend of the year providing adventures in the extensive cave system. the natural advantage of this location is that the weather isn't a factor.
Labyrinthodontia Labyrinthodont (Greek, "maze-toothed") is an obsolete term for any member of an extinct superorder or subclass (Labyrinthodontia) of amphibians, which constituted some of the dominant animals of Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic times (about 350 to 210 million years ago). The name describes the pattern of infolding of the dentine and enamel of the teeth, which are often all of the creatures that survives.
Labyrinths Labyrinths (1962) is a collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges. It includes "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", to name some of Borges' more famous stories.
Labyrinthulomycetes The Labyrinthulomycetes are a group of protists that produce a network of filaments or tubes, which serve as tracks for the cells to glide along and absorb nutrients for them. There are two main groups, the labyrinthulids and thraustochytrids.
LaBelle, Texas LaBelle is an unincorporated town on Taylor Bayou ten miles south of Beaumont in central Jefferson County, Texas on State Highway 365. Although officially recognized settlers had lived in the Taylor Bayou area since the 1830s, a post office was not established at the community known as Lower Taylor's Bayou until 1888.
LaBradford Smith LaBradford Smith (born April 3 1969, in Bay City, Texas) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Washington Bullets in the 1st round (19th overall) of the 1991 NBA Draft. Smith played in 3 NBA seasons for the Bullets and Sacramento Kings, averaging 6.
LaBrandon Toefield LaBrandon Cordell Toefield (born September 24, 1980 in Independence, Louisiana) is an American football running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was selected with the 35th pick of the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft out of Louisiana State University.
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians The Lac Courte Oreilles are one of 7 Wisconsin bands of Ojibwa. The band is centered at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation in northwestern Wisconsin, which surrounds Lac Courte Oreilles (Odaawaa-zaaga'igan in the Ojibwe language, meaning "Ottawa Lake").
Lac de Serre-Ponçon The Lac de Serre-Ponçon is a lake in southeast France; it is one of the largest artificial lakes in western Europe. The lake gathers the waters of the Durance and the Ubaye rivers, flowing down through the Hautes-Alpes and the Alpes du Sud to the Rhône River.
Lac des Deux Montagnes The Lac des Deux Montagnes (English: Lake of Two Mountains) is part of the delta widening of the Ottawa River in Quebec, Canada, where it feeds into the Saint Lawrence River, around the many islands of the Hochelaga Archipelago through this lake to the northeast, or neighbouring Lake Saint-Louis, which takes the St-Lawrence south of the Island of Montreal.
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are an Ojibwa Native American tribe, with an Indian reservation lying mostly in the Town of Lac du Flambeau in southwestern Vilas County, and in the Town of Sherman in southeastern Iron County in the U.S.
Lac La Belle, Michigan Lac La Belle, meaning beautiful lake, is the name given to a lake and a small unincorporated community on this lake in Keweenaw County, Michigan. The town was originally the site of a stamping plant for the copper mines of the Keweenaw.
Lac Leamy Lac Leamy is a lake in Gatineau, Quebec. The lake is located just to the south of the Gatineau River, and just west of the Ottawa River, and is linked to both of them with flowing in from the Gatineau and exiting to the Ottawa.
Lac Long Quan The traditional creation myth of the Vietnamese Kinh people (ethnic Vietnamese) claims Lac Long Quan as the father of the Vietnamese people. Lac Long Quan's name means King Dragon of the Land of Lac and he was the son and sole successor of King Duong, the first king of the country then called Xich Quy (Red Devil).
Lac operon The lac operon is an operon required for the transport and metabolism of lactose in Escherichia coli and some other enteric bacteria. It consists of three adjacent structural genes, a promoter, a terminator, and an operator.
Lac qui Parle River The Lac qui Parle River is a tributary of the Minnesota River in southwestern Minnesota and eastern South Dakota, United States. Its watershed drains 1,156 square miles (2,294 square kilometers) along its 66 mile (106 kilometer) course through Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, and Yellow Medicine counties.
Lac repressor The lac repressor is a DNA-binding protein which inhibits the expression of genes coding for proteins involved in the metabolism of lactose in bacteria. It is active in the absence of lactose, ensuring that the bacterium only invests energy in the production of machinery necessary for the uptake and metabolism of lactose when when lactose is present.
Lac Saint-François Lac Saint-François (Lake Saint Francis) is a lake which borders southeastern Ontario, southwestern Quebec and northern New York State. It is located on the Saint Lawrence River between Lake Ontario and Montreal.
Lac Saint-Jean Lac Saint-Jean is a large, shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands (1003 km2, 63m deep). It is situated 206 kilometres north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River.
Lac Unique, New Brunswick Lac Unique is a small town in New Brunswick, Canada most notable for its large maple sugar factory. With less than 10 full-time employees, it is not large by normal standards, but large in the sense that it produces maple sugar products used throughout New Brunswick, especially in the Madawaska region, as well as in Aroostook County, Maine.
Lac Vieux Desert Lac Vieux Desert is a lake divided between Gogebic County, Michigan, and Vilas County, Wisconsin. Fed primarily by springs in the surrounding swamps, it is the source of the Wisconsin River, which flows out of its southwest corner.
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (or the Gete-gitigaaniwininiwag in the Anishinaabe language) is a band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, many of whom reside on the Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation, an Indian reservation located near Watersmeet, Michigan.
Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation located in Watersmeet Township of southeastern Gogebic County, in the western part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is the landbase for the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
Lac-Brome, Quebec The Town of Lac-Brome is located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. Six villages surrounding Brome Lake — Bondville, East Hill, Foster, Fulford, Knowlton, Iron Hill and Brome-Ouest — were amalgamated in 1971 to create the Town of Lac-Brome (or Brome Lake in its English form).
Lac-Frontière, Quebec Lac-Frontière is a tiny village of 150 people in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality within the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is located at the border (frontière in French) with the United States.
Lac-MĂ©gantic, Quebec Lac-MĂ©gantic is a town in southeastern Quebec, Canada on a lake of the same name. Situated in Frontenac County in the historic Eastern Townships, Lac-MĂ©gantic is the seat of Le Granit Regional County Municipality.
Lac-Poulin, Quebec Lac-Poulin is a tiny village of 80 people in Quebec, Canada, in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region. It is one of the least populous incorporated community in the province of Quebec.
Lacaille 8760 Lacaille 8760 is a red dwarf star in the constellation Microscopium, the microscope. Although it is slightly too faint to be seen without a telescope, this star is one of the nearest to our Sun, being about 12.
Lacandon The LacandĂłn are one of the Maya peoples who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas, near the southern border with Guatemala. Their homeland, La Selva Lacandona ("The Lacandon Jungle"), lies along the Mexican side of the Usumacinta River and its tributaries.
Laccolith A laccolith is an igneous intrusion (or concordant pluton) that has been injected between two layers of sedimentary rock. The pressure of the magma is high enough that the overlying strata are forced upward, giving the laccolith a dome or mushroom-like form with a generally planar base.
Lace (TV series) Lace is a television miniseries, produced in 1984, based on the novel of the same name by author Shirley Conran. The plot concerns the search by sex symbol Lili (Phoebe Cates) for her natural mother, who surrendered her for adoption as a newborn.
Lace card A lace card is a punch card with all holes punched (also called a whoopee card, ventilator card or IBM doily). Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism.
Lace knitting Lace knitting is a style of knitting characterized by stable "holes" in the fabric arranged with consideration of aesthetic value. Lace is sometimes considered the pinnacle of knitting, because of its complexity and because woven fabrics cannot have holes (easily).
Lace Market The Lace Market is an historic quarter-mile square area of Nottingham, UK. Once the heart of the world lace industry, with many impressive examples of 18th Century industrial architecture, it is a protected heritage area.
Lace Sensor The Lace Sensor is a guitar pickup designed by Don Lace and manufactured by AGI (Antodyne General International). Unlike other guitar pickups, Lace Sensors are not wound around magnetic poles, but utilise a magnetic "comb matrix" which ensures that the magnetic field is even along the whole length of the pickups.
Lace-bark tree The lace-bark tree is a tree native to Jamaica, known botanically as Lagetta lintearia, from its native name lagetto. The inner bark consists of numerous concentric layers of interlacing fibers resembling in appearance lace.
Lacewing fly Lacewing fly is the name given to neuropterous insects of the families Hemerobiidae and Chrysopidae, related to the antlions, scorpion-flies, with long filiform antennae, longish bodies and two pairs of large similar richly veined wings. The larvae are short grubs beset with hair-tufts and tubercles.
Lacey (wrestler) Lacey (born April 27, 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American professional wrestler, working with numerous promotions throughout her career such as Ring of Honor, SHIMMER, IWA-Mid South, and NWA Midwest. She is known as the smartest business woman in Ring of Honor, previously managing Lacey's Angels, B.
Lacey and his Friends Lacey and his Friends (Baen Books, ISBN 99927-45-73-8) is a 1986 compilation of three stories by David Drake, about Jed Lacey, a ruthless ex-rapist turned detective by a psychological computer. It includes other, less grim stories at the end.
Lacey Davenport Lacey Davenport was a character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury. She is often said to be based on Millicent Fenwick, a Republican member of Congress from New Jersey, though Trudeau often denied this link.
Lacey Fosburgh Lacey Fosburgh (3 October 1942 – January 11, 1993) was an American journalist, author, and academic. She is best known for her bestselling non-fiction book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977), which was nominated for the 1978 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book.
Lacey Hearn Lacey Earnest Hearn (born March 3, 1881; died October 1969) was a American athlete and sprinter who competed in the early twentieth century. Individually he pecialized in the 1500 Metres, and he won a bronze medal in Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Lacey Oak Lacey Oak (Quercus glaucoides) is a small to medium-size deciduous tree which is native to the Texas Hill Country in Texas, United States. It seldom grows more than 35 feet (11 meters) tall, and has a stocky trunk.
Lacey Turner Lacey Amelia TurnerBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1984-2004. (born on 28 March 1988) is an English actress best known for playing Stacey Slater, in the popular BBC television soap EastEnders.
Lacey's Spring, Alabama Lacey's Spring is an unincorporated community in northeastern Morgan County, Alabama at the base of Brindley Mountain. It is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.
Laci Peterson Laci Peterson, born Laci Denise Rocha (May 4, 1975 – ca. December 25 2002), was the subject of one of the most discussed missing person cases in United States history after she went missing while seven months pregnant with her first child.
Lacida The Lacida (or LCD) was a rotor cipher machine designed before World War II by the Polish Cipher Bureau for wartime use by Polish higher commands. Its name derived from the initials of Gwido Langer, Maksymilian Ciężki and Leonard Stanisław Danilewicz and/or his brother, Ludomir Danilewicz.
Lacito Archive The Lacito Archive provides free access to documents of connected, spontaneous speech, mostly in rare or endangered languages, recorded in their cultural context and transcribed in consultation with native speakers.
Lack of outside support in the Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising, in 1944 ended in the capitulation of the city and its near total destruction. According to many historians, a major cause of this was the almost complete lack of outside support and the late arrival of the support which did arrive.
Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad The Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, more commonly known as the Laurel Line, was a third rail electric interurban streetcar line which operated commuter train service from 1903 to 1952, and freight service until 1976.
Lackawanna County Stadium Lackawanna County Stadium is a minor league baseball stadium located in Moosic, Pennsylvania (between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre). The stadium is the home of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, the AAA affiliate of the New York Yankees. It was opened in 1989, and seats 10,982 fans. The field's dimensions and turf surface were designed to match those of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, then home to the Red Barons' original major league affiliate, the Philadelphia Phillies.
Lackawanna Cut-Off The Lackawanna Cut-Off (also known as the New Jersey Cut-Off) was a 28-mile high-speed, double-track mainline constructed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad between 1908-1911 and which ran from Port Morris, New Jersey to Slateford, Pennsylvania. Considered an engineering masterpiece, the Cut-Off pioneered the use of reinforced concrete on a grand scale, as well as the use of massive cutting and filling that would become not only standard practice in railroad construction but, later, highway construction as well.
Lackawanna River The Lackawanna River is a tributary of the Susquehanna River, approximately 35 mi (56 km) long, in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. It flows through a region of the northern Pocono Mountains that was formerly a historically significant center of anthracite coal mining in the United States.
Lackawaxen River The Lackawaxen River is a tributary of the Delaware River, approximately 25 mi (40 km) long, in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. The river flows through a largely rural area in the northern Pocono Mountains, draining an area of approximately 598 sq mi (1540 km²).
Lackenby Lackenby is a small village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and cerimonaly in the county of North Yorkshire. It is situated to the immediate east of Eston and Middlesbrough and immediately to the west of Lazenby.
Lackey (manservant) A lackey is a term for a uniformed manservant, in its original meaning (attested 1529, according to the OED), which derived from Medieval French laquais, "foot soldier, footman, servant". The modern connotation of "servile follower" appeared later, in 1588 (OED).
Lackey moth The Lackey moth, or Malacosoma neustria is a member of the Malacosoma genus, common across southern Britain and central europe. The Malacosoma genus is notable for its caterpillars which are brightly coloured, and form silken tents to regulate their temperature.
Lacnet LAcNet is an acronym used for the voluntary organisation 'Lanka Academic Network', which was founded in June 1991. It evolved from Sri Lanka Network (SLNet), an electronic gathering of people from and/or interested in Sri Lanka.
Lacnunga Lacnunga is a collection of miscellaneous medical texts, mainly in Old English, included alongside other medical texts in the manuscript London, British Library Harley 585, probably copied in South-Western England around the first decade of the eleventh century. The collection contains many unique texts, including an unusual proportion of charms which providing rare glimpses into Anglo-Saxon popular religion and healing practices.
Laco Lučenič Laco Lučenič (born November 23, 1952) is a Slovak musician and music producer, and a member of the famous Slovak bands Fermáta, Prúdy, Modus and Limit. He is also popular for his role as a judge on the Slovak Pop Idol (Slovensko hľadá SuperStar).
Lacock Lacock is a village in Wiltshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) from the town of Chippenham. The village is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust, and attracts many visitors by virtue of its unspoiled appearance.
Lacombe Lucien Lacombe Lucien is a 1974 French motion picture that tells the story of a teen boy during the German occupation of France in World War II. Based in part on director Louis Malle's own experiences, the film was selected by The New York Times as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.
Lacombe, Alberta Lacombe () is a town in central Alberta, Canada, located north of Red Deer, the nearest city; and south of Edmonton, the nearest major city. The town is set in the beautiful, rolling parkland of central Alberta, between the Rocky Mountain foothills to the west, and the flatter Alberta prairie to the east.
Laconia incident The Laconia incident was an incident during World War II in September 1942 when RMS Laconia, carrying some 80 civilians and 268 British Army soldiers, and about 1,800 Italian prisoners of war with 160 Polish soldiers on guard, was struck by a torpedo from a Kriegsmarine U-boat off the coast of west Africa and sank. The U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Werner Hartenstein, realized the error and commenced rescue operations, joined by other U-boats.
Laconic phrase A "Laconic phrase" is a very short or terse statement, named after Laconia, an area of modern and ancient Greece. Due to the militaristic traditions of the people of ancient Sparta, the most important city in Laconia, the Laconians focused less on the development of education, arts, and literature.
Laconism Laconism is a figure of speech in which someone uses very few words to express an idea. This may be used for efficiency (like in military jargon), for philosophical reasons (especially among thinkers who believe in minimalism, such as stoics), for better disarming a long, pompous speech (the most famous example being at the Battle of Thermopylae) or, simply, a consequence of poor literary education (arguably, this is the real reason why Spartans were concise at Thermopylae and the rhetorical consequence of their laconism was just an unvoluntary, positive and surprising consequence).
Laconophile Laconophiles are those who have a love of Lacedaemon or Sparta, in Laconia, and its culture and laws. Those who admire the Spartans praise their valor in war, their military success, their aristocratic and virtuous ways, the stable order of their political life and their constitution, with its tripartite mixed government.
Lacore Records Lacore Records is a Columbus, Ohio based independent record label which was founded in 2006 by underground producer and emcee Corey Trenton Howell (better known as Corey Trenton and for a short span as 6Nyne). The soul basis of the founding was to establish a roster of artists dedicated to Hardcore Rap and the so often term Acid Rap and/or Horrorcore.

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