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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, subtitled Essays in Natural History, is a collection of essays on evolution and the history of science by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, most of which originally appeared in Natural History. Published by Harmony Books: 1998 (ISBN 978-0-224-05043-2)
Leonardus Lessius Leonardus Lessius, or Leys, Flemish moral theologian, was born in Brecht, near Antwerp, now in Belgium, in 1554. He entered the Jesuits in 1572, and after study in Rome under Suarez, he became professor of theology at Leuven.
Leonatos Captain Leonatos is a character from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. He is the hero of the Bloodquest series of graphic novels (Rennie and MacNeil, 1998), in which he and a group of followers travel into the Eye of Terror to retrieve a lost Blood Angels artifact, the Blade Encarmine.
Leonay, New South Wales Leonay, New South Wales, Australia is located on the western side of the Nepean River, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. This suburb is bounded by the M4 Motorway, the western railway line, and the Nepean River.
Leoncito Astronomical Complex The Leoncito Astronomical Complex (in Spanish, Complejo AstronĂłmico El Leoncito) is an astronomical observatory in the San Juan Province of Argentina. The Leoncito Astronomical Complex is one of two observatories located within El Leoncito National Park, the other facility is the Carlos U.
Leone Battista Alberti Leone Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher, cryptographer, and general Renaissance polymath. In Italy, his first name is usually spelled "Leon.
Leone de' Sommi Leone de' Sommi (Yehuda ben Yitzchak Somi Misha'ar Aryeh) (Hebrew: יהודה בן יצחק סומי משער אריה - Judah son of Isaac Somi) was born in c. 1525, and lived most of his life in the northern Italian city of Mantua, until his death in c.
Leone Ginzburg Leone Ginzburg (April 4, 1909, Odessa – February 5, 1944, Rome) was an influential Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. He was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg, and the father of the historian Carlo Ginzburg.
Leonel Brizola Leonel de Moura Brizola (Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, January 22, 1922 — Rio de Janeiro, June 21 2004) was a Brazilian politician . He was governor of Rio Grande do Sul from 1959 to 1962, as well as serving two terms as governor of Rio de Janeiro state (1983–1987 and 1991–1994).
Leonel Power Leonel Power (1370 to 1385 – June 5, 1445) was an English composer of the late Medieval and early Renaissance eras. Along with John Dunstaple, he was one of the major figures in English music in the early 15th century.
Leones del Caracas The Leones del Caracas (English: Caracas Lions) are a Venezuelan baseball team that plays in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. Since its inception, the team has played in the Estadio Universitario in Caracas.
Leones del Escogido Leones del Escogido (English: Lions of the chosen one) is a professional baseball team in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Established in 1921, the Leones are one of the best teams from the island, having won several Dominican titles and two Caribbean World Series.
Leonese cuisine Leonese cuisine refers to the typical dishes and ingredients of the region of Leon in Spain. This cuisine is known for its cooked dishes ("guisos") and its grilled or roasted meats ("asados"), its high-quality wines, the variety of its desserts, its sausages ("embutidos"), and its cheeses.
Leonese People's Union Leonese People's Union (in Spanish: Unión del Pueblo Leonés) is a regional political party in Castilla y León, Spain. UPL strives to establish a separate autonomous community (Comunidad Autónoma de León or Autonomous Community of León) for the provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca (parts of the old Kingdom of León), now in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León.
Leonetto Cappiello Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942) was an Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris. He started as a caricaturist illustrating in journals like Le Rire, Le Cri de Paris, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au Beurre, La Baionnette, Femina, and others.
Leongatha railway station, Victoria Leongatha is a railway station on the former South Gippsland line in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The station is now part the terminus of the South Gippsland Tourist railway, and has been since passenger operations on the line ceased after Cranbourne station in 1993, the track after Leongatha has been dismantled and turned into the Great Southern Rail Trail.
Leongatha, Victoria Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 133 kilometres south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland Highway. The town is the commercial, educational and civic centre of the region, with some 6,500 people living in the town itself, and 25,000 in the surrounding area.
Leonhard Frank Leonhard Frank (4 September, 1882 in WĂĽrzburg - 18 August, 1961 in Munich) was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, gained acclaim with his first novel, The Robber Band (1914, tr.
Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal Generalfeldmarschall Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (July 20, 1810 - December 21, 1900), Prussian generalfeldmarschall, son of Captain Ludwig von Blumenthal (killed in 1813 at the battle of Dennewitz), was born at Schwedt-on-the-Oder.
Leonhard Seppala Leonhard Seppala (September 14, 1877 – 1967) was a Norwegian of Finnish-speaking (Kven) descent. Born in Skibotn and growing up on the nearby island of Skjervøy, he eventually emigrated to Alaska during the Nome gold rush of 1900 and, in 1913, inherited a team of imported Chukchi huskies, later to be known as Siberian dogs or Siberian Huskies.
Leoni's Own Leoni's Own is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards shuffled together. This game, which has an alternate name of Weavers, uses an ingenious method called weaving, which is explained below in this article.
Leonia High School Leonia High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in Ninth through Twelfth grade from the Borough of Leonia in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Leonia Public Schools. Students from Edgewater attend the school as part of a sending receiving relationship with the Edgewater Public Schools.
Leonid Aleksandrovic Vesnin Leonid Aleksandrovic Vesnin (born 1880, Nizhny Novgorod - died 1933, Moscow), together with his brothers Aleksandr Aleksandrovic Vesnin and Viktor Aleksandrovic Vesnin he was a leading light of Constructivist architecture.
Leonid Andreyev Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev often also in Latin transcription Andrejew (, August 9, 1871-September 12, 1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionism movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the tsarist government.
Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev ; – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, at first in partnership with others. He was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, and was twice Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state), from 1960 to 1964 and from 1977 to 1982.
Leonid Bunimovich Leonid Bunimovich is a Russian mathematician, currently residing in the USA, who specializes in dynamical systems and known for his discovery of focusing chaotic billiards. He received his bachelor's degree in 1967 and doctorate in 1973 from the University of Moscow.
Leonid Feodorov Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov (; 1879 - 1935) was a priest, Exarch, and reputed bishop for the Russian Catholic Church, in addition to being a survivor of the GULAG. After painstaking investigation, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 27 2001.
Leonid Filatov Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov (Russian: Леонид Алексеевич Филатов) (24 December 1946 - 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, pamphleteer, who reached popularity acting in the Taganka Theatre run by Yury Lyubimov. Despite severe illness that haunted him in the 1990s, he received a slew of awards, including the Russian Federation State Prize.
Leonid Gaidai Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леонид Иович Гайдай) (1923–1993) is one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR & modern Russia. His movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.
Leonid Gatovsky Leonid Gatovsky was a Soviet economist (Born in 1889). He was the first economist that brought up the objective rules of the socialist economy by his most outstanding work that is named: The Methodology of the Socialist Economy Theory, which was published in 1930.
Leonid Govorov Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Russian Леонид Александрович Говоров) (February 22, 1897 - March 19, 1955), Soviet military commander, was born in the village of Butyrki in central Russia (now in Kirov Oblast). His father was a sailor.
Leonid Grabovsky Leonid Oleksandrovych Grabovsky (Hrabovsky or Hrabovs'ky, Ukrainian: Леонід Грабовський) (born 28 January 1935) is the most famous and influential contemporary Ukrainian composer to emerge in Kiev during the 1950s.
Leonid Kadeniuk Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (), born 28 January, 1951 in Klishkivtsi, Chernivetska oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the first and as of 2005 the only astronaut of independent Ukraine. He made his flight on NASA's Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87.
Leonid Khachiyan Leonid Khachiyan (May 3, 1952 – April 29, 2005) was a Russian-born mathematician who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous for his Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time.
Leonid Kizim Leonid Denisovich Kizim (born August 5, 1941 in Krasny Liman, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a former Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (December 10, 1980 and October 2, 1984).
Leonid Kvasnikov Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov (2 June 1905 – 15 October 1993) Graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Machine-Building in 1934 and worked as an engineer in a chemical plant for several years in the Tula region. Continued postgraduate engineering studies and joined the KGB in 1938 as a specialist in scientific-technical intelligence.
Leonid Leonov Leonid Maximovich Leonov (Russian: Леонид Максимович Леонов) (1899-1994) was one of the most notable Soviet novelists, styled the 20th-century Dostoyevsky for the deep psychologism of his prose. During the Russian Civil War, he worked as a reporter.
Leonid Mandelstam Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam (Леонид Исаакович Мандельштам, last name more often spelled as Mandelstam) (May 4, 1879 - November 27, 1944) was a Russian/Soviet physicist of Jewish background.
Leonid Nevzlin Leonid Nevzlin is a former Jewish-Russian business oligarch and the former CEO of the Russian oil company Yukos. Nevzlin gained a controlling stake in Yukos when Mikhail Khodorkovsky handed him a 60 percent share in the holding company that controlled the firm After several officers from his company were arrested for murder and other crimes, he fled to Israel].
Leonid Potapov Leonid Vasil'ievitch Potapov (Леонид Васильевич Потапов) (born July 4 1935 in Buryatia) has been the President of the Buryat Republic in Russia since August 1991. He has been reelected three times (in 1994, 1998 and 2002), last time in 2002, when he received 68% of the vote.
Leonid Reiman Leonid Dododzhonovich Reiman (Alternative spelling: Leonid Dododzhonovich Reyman, Russian: Леонид Дододжонович Рейман; born July 12, 1957 in Leningrad) is a Russian businessman and government official, currently Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation. He is married with Yuliya Petrovskaya, they have a son and a daughter.
Leonid Roshal Leonid Mikhailovich Roshal (b. April 27, 1933 in Livny) is a noted pediatrician from Moscow, Russia, expert for World Health Organization, chairman of International Task Force of Pediatric Disaster Medicine in World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.
Leonid Savin Leonid Savin is a Ukrainian journalist and political activist. He edits the book series New Policy (so far three books: one dedicated to globalization process, a toolkit for activists, ana third dedicated to problems of nationalism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination).
Leonid Slutsky Leonid Eduardovich Slutskii (Russian: Леонид Эдуардович Слуцкий, also transliterated Leonid Slutsky or Slutskiy; born January 4, 1968) is a member of the State Duma of Russia. Slutsky is First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Committee on International Affairs.
Leonid Sobinov Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov (Russian: Леони́д Вита́льевич Со́бинов, June 7 [OS May 26] 1872, Yaroslavl – October 14, 1934, Riga) was a Russian opera singer, the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1923). His voice can best be described as that of a lyrical tenor.
Leonid Sobolev Leonid Nikolayevich Sobolev () (9 June 1844 - 13 October 1913) was a Russian general who also served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He served his term of office during the effective dictatorship of Bulgaria by Alexander of Bulgaria and was removed on 19 September 1883 when military rule was brought to an end.
Leonid Solovyov Leonid Vasilyevich Solovyov () (August 19, 1905–April 9, 1962) was a Russian writer. He is famous for such novels as The Book of My Youth and The Jester of Bokhara (about Hodja Nasreddin), but he also wrote many screenplays including one based on Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat.
Leonid Stadnyk Leonid Stadnik () (born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine) is a controversial claimant to the status of the world's tallest living man. He is a certified veterinarian and veterinary surgeon and lives with his mother in the village of Podoliantsy, Ukraine.
Leonid Stolovich Leonid Naumovitsh Stolovich (Russian: Леонид Наумович Столович Estonian: Leonid Stolovitš) (*July 22, 1929 Leningrad) is a Russian – Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966), professor (1967). Stolovich graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on he has been working in Tartu University, Estonia, from 1994 on as a ‘’professor emeritus’’.
Leonid the Magnificent Leonid the Magnificent (born Leonid Filatov) is a Russian drag performer, dancer, and acrobat born in the 1970s who now lives in Brooklyn. The past 6 years he's been trying to appear on stage but every one turned him down except Jay Leno.
Leonid Utyosov Leonid Osipovich Utyosov (Леонид Осипович Утёсов in Russian; real name - Leyzer (Lazar) Vaysbeyn, or Weissbein, Russian: Лазарь (Лейзер) Иосифович Ва(й)сбейн) ( in , Odessa - 9 March 1982, Moscow) was a famous Soviet jazz singer and comic actor, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR (1965).
Leonid Varpakhovsky Leonid Varpakhovsky Leonid Viktorovich Varpakhovsky (Russian: Леонид Викторович Варпаховский ) - (29 March 1908, Moscow - 12 February 1976, Moscow), director, scenarist. A theatre in Montreal (Canada) that bears his name has been opened in 1995.
Leonid Zhabotinsky Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky (Russian: Леонид Иванович Жаботинский; born January 28, 1938 in village Uspenka, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) was an outstanding Soviet weightlifter who set 17 world records in the superheavyweight class and won gold medals at the 1964, and 1968 Olympics.
Leonidas (chocolate maker) Leonidas is a chocolate manufacturer based in Belgium, with an international presence. The company's focus is pralines (chocolate shells with soft fillings); it also sells marzipan, solid chocolates, and other confections.
Leonidas (ship) The Leonidas (Named after king Leonidas I of Sparta) was a labour transport ship that played an important role in the history of Fiji. She had been earlier used to carry indentured labourers to the West Indies, having transported 580 Indian indentured labourers to St Lucia in 1878.
Leonidas Alaoglu Leonidas Alaoglu (March 19, 1914 – August, 1981) was an American mathematician of Greek descent, born in Red Deer, Alberta, who lived for many years in the Los Angeles area. He received his BS in 1936, Master's in 1937, and PhD in 1938 (at the age of 24), all from the University of Chicago.
Leonidas C. Houk Leonidas Campbell Houk was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district of Tennessee. He was born near Boyds Creek, Tennessee in Sevier County on June 8, 1836.
Leonidas Kavakos Leonidas Kavakos (born in 1967) is a Greek violinist. He has established himself as one of the most sought after young virtuoso violinists and appears regularly with leading orchestras and in recital throughout the world.
Leonidas Kouris Leonidas Kouris was born in Athens in 1949 and from 1979 has lived in Pikermi. Kouris finished the famous Varvakeion school and qualified as a Mineralogist Engineer at the National Technical University at Metsovo and graduate of Economic Sciences of University of Athens.
Leoniders Leoniders (леонидяне) are a fictional alien race from the Noon Universe created by the Strugatsky brothers. Their homeworld is Leonida (Леонида), a planet discovered in 2133 AD by Leonid Gorbovsky.
Leonids The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to stream from that point in the sky.
Leonila Garcia Leonila Dimataga Garcia (1906–1994) was the wife of Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia and was the eighth First Lady of the Philippines shortly after the tragic death of Ramon Magsaysay as President that lead to her husband then Vice President Carlos Garcia to succeed the presidency.
Leonine City The Leonine City (in Latin Civitas Leonina) is that part of the city of Rome around which Pope Leo IV commissioned the construction of a wall for military defense during the 9th century. It is on the opposite side of the Tiber from the seven hills of Rome.
Leonnorius Leonnorius was one of the leaders of the Celts in their invasion of Macedonia and the adjoining countries. When the main body under Brennus marched southwards into Macedonia and Greece (279 BC), Leonnorius and Lutarius led a detachment, twenty-thousand strong, into Thrace, where they ravaged the country to the shores of the Hellespont, compelled the city of Byzantium to pay them tribute, and made themselves masters of Lysimachia.
Leonoor Voskamp Leonoor Voskamp (born August 20, 1983) is a Dutch field hockey player, who made her debut for the Dutch National Women's Team on June 20, 2003 during a six-nations tournament in Busan, South Korea. She played for the Dutch hockey club HC Klein Zwitserland from The Hague.
Leonor LĂłpez de CĂłrdoba Leonor LĂłpez de CĂłrdoba (Calatayud, ca. 1362- CĂłrdoba, 1420) wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Castilian, named Memorias by one of its editors, after being banished from the Castilian Court, where she was an advisor and confidant of Queen Catalina of Lancaster.
Leonor Orosa Goquingco Leonor Orosa Goquingco is a pioneer choreographer of the Philippines. One of the foundations of Philippine dance, Goquingco helped establish the Philippine Ballet Theater and founded the Filipinescas Dance Company.
Leonor Telles de Menezes Leonor (Elionor) Telles (Teles) de Menezes (1350 - April 27, 1386), called A aleivosa ("The Treacherous"), was queen consort of Portugal during the 14th century. Born in Trás-os-Montes, she served as queen consort from 1371 to 1383 and as regent from 1383 to 1384.
Leonora Anson, Countess of Lichfield Leonora Anson, Countess of Lichfield LVO (born 1 February 1949) was born Lady Leonora Mary Grosvenor, a daughter of the 5th Duke of Westminster. On 8 March 1975, she married the 5th Earl of Lichfield and became Countess of Lichfield.
Leonora Christina Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, née Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter af Slesvig og Holsten (July 8, 1621–March 16, 1698), was the daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and wife of Steward of the Realm–cum–traitor Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. Known in Denmark since the 19th century for her posthumously published autobiography, Jammersminde, written secretly during two decades of solitary confinement in a royal dungeon, her intimate version of major events she witnessed in Europe's history interwoven with ruminations on her woes as a political prisoner still commands popular interest, scholarly respect, and has virtually become the stuff of legend as retold and enlivened in Danish literature and art.
Leonora Christine Leonora Christine is a fictional spaceship appearing in Poul Anderson's novel Tau Zero, published in 1970. This spaceship travels first between stars and later between galaxies, becoming one of the few famous fictional starships in literature that leave not only our solar system, but also our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
Leonora Knatchbull Leonora Louise Marie Elizabeth Knatchbull (June 25, 1986 – October 22, 1991) was the youngest of the three children of the 8th Baron Brabourne, who was styled Lord Romsey during her lifetime. She died after a one-year battle against a kidney tumour at the age of five.
Leonora of Castile Eleanor of Castile was a regular name of infantas of Castile, namesakes of Queen Leonora and her mother, Alienor of Aquitaine, the first Eleanor ever. Besides daughters died young and minor relatives, there have been:
Leonora Sanvitale Leonora Sanvitale (Contessa di Scandiano) (ca. 1558 – 1582) was a noblewoman and singer at the Este court at Ferrara, and along with her stepmother Barbara Sanseverino, was among the most "brilliant" noblewomen at the court.
Leonore Lemmon Leonore Lemmon (May 11, 1923 - January 1, 1990 - Her body was found in her New York Apartment January 4, 1990, and time of death was calculated as most likely five days earlier.) An attractive, twice-divorced brunette, she was known in her early years as a party girl member of so-called Cafe Society.
Leonov (crater) Leonov is a small lunar crater that lies to the south of Mare Moscoviense, one of the few lunar mares on the far side of the Moon. This crater has a heart-shaped outline, due to an outward bulge along the northwest side.
Leonson Lewis Leonson Lewis (born 30 December 1966) is a football coach and former player from Trinidad and Tobago. The striker got 30 caps and scored 21 goals for the national team between 1988 and 1996 currently coaches W Connection].
Leontari Leontari (Greek, Modern: Λεοντάρι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older form Leontario, Leontarion is a town, seat of the municipality of Falaisia, in the southwestern part of the prefecture of Arcadia. It is south of GR-7/E55, both the old and the new highways.
Leonti Mroveli Leonti Mroveli (Georgian: ლეონტი მროველი) was the 11th-century Georgian historian and priest. Mroveli is not his last name, but comes from the title of bishop at Ruisi (near Urbnisi), a post he held as of 1066.
Leontiasis Ossea Leontiasis Ossea, also known as leontiasis or lion face, is a rare disease, found in patients who have advanced lepromatous leprosy, characterized by an overgrowth of the facial and cranial bones. The common form is that in which one or other maxilla is affected, its size progressively increasing both regularly and irregularly, and thus encroaching on the cavities of the orbit, the mouth, the nose and its accessory sinuses.
Leontine Cooper Leontine Mary Jane Buisson (22 April 1837 - 12 March 1903), better known by her married name, Leontine Cooper, was a teacher, a pioneer trade union organiser, suffragist and campaigner for women's rights in Queensland, Australia.
Leontion Leontion (sometimes rendered "Leontium") apparently was a follower of Epicurus and his philosophy. The information we have about her is scant, and it is mainly in the form of anti-Epicurean tittle-tattle.
Leontiy Sivstov Leontiy Ivanovich Sivstov (1872-1919) was a church reader who lived in Unalaska. Along with Aleksey Yachmenev, who like Sivstov was Aleut himself, Sivstov accompanied Waldemar Jochelson on his 1909-1910 ethnological studies on the Aleut.
Leontodon pyrenaicus Leontodon pyrenaicus is a species of hawkbit found in the Alps, Pyrenees, Cantabrian Mountains, northern Apennines and northern parts of the Balkan Peninsula. It grows in meadows and on stony slopes from the treeline to over 3000 m, usually on acidic soils.
Leontyne Price Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American opera singer (soprano). She was best known for her Verdi roles, above all Aida, a role that she is said to have "owned" for almost 30 years.
Leopard (car) Leopard 6 Liter Roadster is a Polish classical sport-style luxury car, produced by Leopard Automobile AB in the town of Mielec. The Leopard 6 Liter Roadster was designed by Zbysław Szwaj, the company president and designer of the Gepard car.
Leopard (DHT) In computing, Leopard is a distributed hash table searching system written by Yinzhe Yu, Sanghwan Lee and Zhi-Li Zhang, and originally published in NETWORKING, 2005. It creates a DHT which has good locality properties -- not of lookup, but of cached copies which are physically close to the requestor.
Leopard (programming language) Leopard is a programming language featuring an integrated development environment for creating Windows applications. Leopard is designed to be easy to learn and it is especially aimed at users who have never programmed before.
Leopard 2 The Leopard 2 is a German main battle tank built by the German company Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann, developed in the early 1970s and first entering service in 1979, replacing the earlier Leopard 1 as the foremost MBT in the Bundeswehr. Its different versions have served in the armed forces of Germany and ten other European countries.
Leopard Blow The "Leopard Blow," "leopard punch," or "leopard fist" is a common term for a specific type of striking blow, associated primarily with the Chinese martial arts. The maneuver involves folding the first two joints of the fingers inward and striking with the foreknuckles.
Leopard catshark The leopard catshark, Poroderma pantherinum, is a finback catshark of the family Proscylliidae, found in the southeast Atlantic Ocean endemic to South Africa, from the surface to 255 m. Its length is up to 84 cm.
Leopard class frigate The Type 41 or Leopard class were a class of anti-aircraft defence frigates built for the Royal Navy (4 ships) and Indian Navy (3 ships) in the 1950's. These ships were designed to provide anti-aircraft escorts to convoys, as a result they were not built for fleet speeds and made only 24 knots.
Leopard Cat The Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is a small wild cat of Southeast Asia. On average it is as large as a domestic cat, but there are considerable regional differences: in Indonesia the average size is 45 cm, plus 20 cm tail, while it is 60 cm/40 cm in the Amur region.
Leopard frog Leopard frogs, which are also called meadow frogs and grass frogs, are a collection of so-called true frog within the genus Rana. Once abundant in North America and Canada, their population has declined in recent years because of pollution and deforestation.
Leopard moray eel The leopard moray eel, Enchelycore pardalis, is a moray eel of the genus Gymnothorax, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from Reunion to the Hawaiian, Line and Society islands, north to southern Japan and southern Korea, and south to New Caledonia, at depths of between 8 and 60 m. Their length is up to 92 cm.
Leopard syndrome Leopard syndrome is a rare autosomal dominantCoppin BD, Temple IK: Multiple lentigines syndrome (LEOPARD syndrome or progressive cardiomyopathic lentiginosis). J Med Genet 1997 Jul; 34(7): 582-6, multisystem disease caused by a mutation in the protein tyrosine phosphatase, non-receptor type 11 gene (PTPN11).
Leopard tank The Leopard (or Leopard 1) is a German designed and produced main battle tank that first entered service in 1965 and was used as the main battle tank for Germany, several other European countries, Australia, Canada, Brazil and Chile.
Leopard Tortoise The Leopard tortoise (Geochelone pardalis) is a large, grazing species of tortoise that favors semi-arid (not dry), thorny to grassland habitats. On average, they are about 40–45 cm (16-18 inches) long and weigh 18–23 kg (40-50 pounds) (although some reach up to 60 cm (24 inches) and 32 kg (70 lbs)).
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" is a song by Bob Dylan, from his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. Like many other Dylan songs of the 1965-1966 period, the song features a surreal, playful lyric set to an electric blues accompaniment.
Leopold Leopold is an originally Germanic name composed of two stems, common to Germanic names. The first part is related to the Latin word "Leo", meaning lion (Although some say the first part is related to Old High German "liut" meaning "people").

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