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Leopold and Astrid Coast Leopold and Astrid Coast () is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between the western extremity of the West Ice Shelf, at 81° 24' E, and Cape Penck, at 87° 43' E. It is located in the eastern half of Princess Elizabeth Land.
Leopold Antonovich Sulerzhitsky Leopold Antonovich Sulerzhitsky was a Russian author whose diary kept track of early Doukhobor life before, during, and just after the Doukhobor's migration to Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century. The published diary is called, "To America with the Doukhobors.
Leopold Óváry Leopold Óváry was a Hungarian historian and custodian of the Hungarian state archives born in Veszprém on December 31, 1833. He took part in the Hungarian struggle for liberty in 1848 and in the Italian war of independence in 1859.
Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom, a fictional thirty-eight year old advertising canvasser, is the protagonist of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, assuming the role of the 'Odysseus' character. Like the Greek hero in The Odyssey, he is absent at the beginning of the story, and does not feature until episode four of the novel (itself the opening episode of part two).
Leopold Eidlitz Leopold Eidlitz (March 23 1823, Prague, Bohemia - 1908, New York, New York) was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the Temple Emanu-El (New York, 1866-68, destroyed 1923) and the New York State Capitol (Albany, New York, 1876-1881). Other important commissions included the Broadway Tabernacle (1859, demolished about 1907) and the completion of the New York County Courthouse, better known as the Tweed Courthouse (1876-81).
Leopold Engel Leopold Engel (April 19 1858) (death date unknown) - was born in St Petersburg, Russia. His father was Karl Dietrich Engel (1824-1913), a violinist who became 1846 became Konzertmeister (leader) of the orchestra of the Imperial Russian Theatre in 1846.
Leopold Figl Leopold Figl (October 2 1902 in Rust, Lower Austria, - May 9 1965 in Vienna) was an Austrian politician of the Ă–VP (Christian Democrats) and the first Federal Chancellor after the Second World War. He was also the youngest Federal Chancellor of Austria.
Leopold Graf Berchtold Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand Graf Berchtold (in English: Count Leopold Anthony John Sigismund Joseph Corsinus Ferdinand von Berchtold, in Hungarian: Gróf Berchtold Lipót, in Czech: Leopold hrabě Berchtold z Uherčic) (April 18,1863 – November 21,1942) was Austro-Hungarian foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War.
Leopold I, Duke of Austria Leopold I (born August 4, 1290 in Vienna, died February 28, 1326 in Strassburg) was a Duke of Austria and Styria from the Habsburg family. He was the third son of King Albert I and brother of Duke Frederick I the Handsome (III as King of the Romans).
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (July 3, 1676 – April 7, 1747), called "the Old Dessauer" (der alte Dessauer), general field marshal in the Prussian army, was the only surviving son of John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and was born at Dessau.
Leopold II of Belgium Leopold II, King of the Belgians (Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor (French) or Leopold Lodewijk Filips Marie Victor (Dutch)) (April 9 1835 – December 17 1909) succeeded his father, Leopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 and remained king until his death. He was the brother of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico and cousin to Queen Victoria.
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II (born Peter Leopold Joseph) (May 5, 1747 – March 1, 1792) was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792 and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was a son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I.
Leopold III of Belgium Leopold III of the Belgians (Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel) (November 3, 1901 – September 25, 1983) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of his Heir Apparent, his son Baudouin.
Leopold III, Margrave of Austria Leopold III (1073 – November 15, 1136), Margrave of Austria, 1095-1136, also known as Saint Leopold (his feast day being November 15), patron saint of Austria, in general, and of Vienna, Lower Austria, and, jointly with Saint Florian, of Upper Austria, in particular.
Leopold Jessner Leopold Jessner (March 3, 1878–October 30, 1945) was a noted producer and director of German Expressionist theater and cinema. His first film, Hintertreppe (1921), is considered a major turning point which paved the way for the later German Expressionist experiments of German filmmakers F.
Leopold Josef Graf Daun Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Fürst von Thiano (Count Leopold Joseph von Daun or Dhaun) (September 24, 1705 – February 5, 1766), Prince of Thiano, Austrian field marshal, was born at Vienna, as son of Count Wirich Philipp von Daun.
Leopold Kozeluch Leopold Kozeluch (born Jan Antonín Koželuh, alternatively also Leopold Koželuh, Leopold Kotzeluch) (June 26 1747 – May 7 1818) was a Czech composer and teacher of classical music. He was born in Welwarn, today Velvary.
Leopold Kronecker Leopold Kronecker (December 7, 1823 – December 29, 1891) was a German mathematician and logician who argued that arithmetic and analysis must be founded on "whole numbers", saying, "God made the integers; all else is the work of man" (Bell 1986, p. 477).
Leopold Löw Leopold Löw (Czernahora, Moravia, May 22, 1811 – Szeged, Hungary, 13 October, 1875) Hungarian rabbi. He received his preliminary education at the yeshibot of Trebitsch, Kolín, Leipnik, and Eisenstadt (1824-35), and then studied philology, pedagogics, and Christian theology at the Lyceum of Presburg and at the universities of Pest and Vienna (1835-41).
Leopold matrix The Leopold matrix is a qualitative environmental impact assessment method, used to identify the potential environmental impact of a project on the environment. The system consists in a matrix with columns representing the various activities of the project, and rows representing the various environmental factors to be considered.
Leopold Maxse Leopold James Maxse (1864-1932) was a journalist and editor of the conservative British publication, National Review, between August 1893 and his death in January 1932. He was succeeded as editor by his sister, Violet Milner.
Leopold Morse Leopold Morse, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Wachenheim, Rhenish Palatinate, Bavaria, August 15, 1831; attended the common schools in Wachenheim; immigrated to the United States in 1849 and resided for about a year in Sandwich, N.H.
Leopold Mozart Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, music teacher and violinist. He was born in the city of Augsburg ( Germany), and was legally a citizen of the Diocese of Salzburg (now in Austria), but spent much of his time in Vienna, Austria, (all within the Holy Roman Empire).
Leopold Museum The Leopold Museum, housed in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria, is home to one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art, featuring artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl.
Leopold Nowak Leopold Nowak (Vienna, Austria, 17 August, 1904 – May 27, 1991) was a musicologist chiefly known for editing the works by Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society. He reconstructed the original form of some of those works, most of which had been revised and edited many times.
Leopold Okulicki General Leopold Okulicki (noms de guerre Kobra, NiedĹşwiadek; 1898-1946) was a General of the Polish Army and the last commander of the anti-German underground Home Army during the World War II. He was murdered after the war by the Soviet NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB.
Leopold Pokagon Leopold Pokagon, Potawatomi Wkama (chief). Taking over for Tobinabee, who died due to a fall from a horse when drunk in 1827, Pokagon became the head of the Potawatomi of the Saint Joseph River Valley, a band that would come to take his name.
Leopold RĂĽgheimer Leopold RĂĽgheimer (May 5, 1850 - May 24, 1917) was a notable German chemist whose name is connected to the Staedel-RĂĽgheimer pyrazine synthesis, a reaction that was discovered by himself and Wilhelm Staedel. RĂĽgheimer was born in Walldorf (near Meiningen) in 1850 as the son of a merchant.
Leopold Stokowski Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz April 18, 1882 in London, England, died September 13, 1977 in Nether Wallop, England) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony Orchestra and The American Symphony Orchestra.
Leopold von Hoesch Leopold von Hoesch (1881–1936) was a career German diplomat. He was stationed in Paris in the early 1920s and following the recall of the German Ambassador in 1923 after the Ruhr crisis was appointed acting head of the German Embassy in Paris.
Leopold von Ranke Leopold von Ranke (December 21, 1795 - May 23, 1886) was one of the greatest German historians of the 19th century, and is frequently considered the founder of "scientific" or source based history. Ranke set the tone for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources, an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics (Aussenpolitik) and a commitment to writing history "as it essentially [was]" (wie es eigentlich gewesen ist).
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (January 27, 1836 – March 9, 1895), writer and journalist, was born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine). Today, he is best known for his name being the basis for the term masochism.
Leopold V, Archduke of Austria Leopold V, Archduke of Further Austria (Graz, October 9, 1586 – September 13, 1632 in Schwaz, Tirol) was the son of Archduke Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria, and the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand II, father of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria. He was Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg (until 1625) and Archduke of Further Austria including Tirol.
Leopold Z. Goldstein Leopold Z Goldstein (1899-1963), an American physician and endocrinologist was born in Camden, New Jersey, graduated from Camden High School and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1922. He continued a path in medicine initiated by his older brother, Hyman I Goldstein.
Leopold Zunz Leopold Zunz (1794–1886) (Hebrew: יום טוב ליפמן צונץ—"Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz") was the founder of what has been termed the "Science of Judaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck has been a university since 1669. It is currently the largest education facility in the Austrian Bundesland of Tirol and third largest in Austria according to student population, behind Vienna University and Graz University.
Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern Prince Leopold Stefan Karl Anton Gustav Eduard Tassilo von Hohenzollern (22 September 1835 - 8 June 1905) was the head of the Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, and played some minor role in European power politics.
Leopoldinia piassaba Leopoldinia piassaba (Para piassava, Piassava fiber palm, Piassava palm) is a palm native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil and Venezuela, which is often used to produce the piassava. This plant is natural habitat of the Rhodnius brethesi, which is a potential vector of Chagas disease, and it is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Leopoldo Bravo Leopoldo Bravo (1919-03-15–2006-08-04) was an Argentine politician and diplomat. As well as serving in the Argentine Senate and as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he was a three-time governor of San Juan Province and considered a caudillo.
Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, Marquess of Ría de Ribadeo (Don Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, Marqués de la Ría de Ribadeo)(born April 14, 1926, Madrid) was a Spanish political figure and President of the Spanish government during Spain's period of transition after the end of Francisco Franco's regime.
Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache Don Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache (1741-1785), originally Squillace, Italian-born minister of Charles III of Spain. Born in Messina, Gregorio was one of Enlightenment Spain's leading statesmen from the arrival of Charles III to the Marquis's death in 1785.
Leopoldo Galtieri Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (July 15, 1926 - January 12, 2003) was an Argentinian general and the de facto President of Argentina from 22 December 1981 to 18 June 1982, during the last military dictatorship.
Leopoldo Laborde Leopoldo Laborde (born in November 6, 1970) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, photographer, editor and self-made producer. He enters the movie- business in 1984 as a production assistant in Mexico City.
Leopoldo Miguez Leopoldo Miguez (born September 9, 1850 in NiterĂłi; died July 6, 1902 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian composer. He studied at conservatories in Paris and was known as a champion of the music of Richard Wagner.
Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan Don Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, Count of Lucena, 1st Duke of Tetuan, (es: Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, primer duque de Tetuán) (1809-1867), Spanish general and stateman. He was of Irish ancestry, a descendant of Calvagh O'Donnell, chieftain of Tyrconnel.
Leopoldo Serantes Leopoldo Serantes is an amateur boxer from the Philippines who competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in the Light Flyweight (-48 kg) division winning the bronze medal in a lost bout in the semifinals. Olympic Movement's results database
Leopoldsberg The Leopoldsberg (425 m, 1,394 ft) is perhaps Vienna’s most famous overlook, towering over the Danube and the city. Leopoldberg’s most prominent landmark is the church which stands at the top, and which is clearly visible from Vienna below.
Leora Kornfeld Leora Kornfeld is a Canadian businessperson and former radio personality. She was best known for hosting Realtime on CBC Stereo in the 1990s, which was billed as the first radio program in the world to integrate emerging Internet technologies such as e-mail and IRC into its program format.
Leos Janacek International Competition The Leos Janacek International Competition (Czech: Mezinárodní soutěž Leoše Janáčka) has been announced by the Faculty of Music of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno since 1994, Czech Republic. The competition is annually hold for disciplines relating to Janáček’s works.
Leosthenes Leosthenes (in Greek Λεωσθένης; died 323 BC) was an Athenian, commander of the combined Greek army in the Lamian war. We know not by what means he had obtained the high reputation which we find him enjoying when he first makes his appearance in history: it has been generally inferred, from a passage in Strabo, that he had first served under Alexander the Great in Asia; but it now seems certain that this is a mistake, and that Leonnatus is the person there meant.
Leosthenes (admiral) Leosthenes (in Greek Λεωσθένης; died 361 BC) was an Athenian, who commanded a fleet and armament in the Cyclades in 361 BC. Having allowed himself to be surprised by Alexander, tyrant of Pherae, and defeated, with a loss of five triremes and 600 men, he was condemned to death by the Athenians, as a punishment for his ill success.
Leota Toombs Leota Thomas was an employee of WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering), the division of The Walt Disney Company that designs and builds Disney's theme parks and resort hotels. She was born Leota Ann Wharton.
Leotard A leotard is a skin-tight one-piece garment that covers the torso and body but leaves the legs free. It was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard (1839–1870), about whom the song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" was written.
Leotis Martin Leotis Martin (March 10, 1939–November 20, 1998) was an American boxer best known for his victory over former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. This was Liston's only defeat in his comeback campaign after losing his heavyweight title to Ali and the rematch.
Lepagia Lepagia is a poorly known genus of meat-eating mammal-like reptile, (Therapsids), which lived during the Upper Triassic in Europe. Partly due to the paucity of remains (it's only known from teeth) the precise affinities of this genus are unclear.
Lepaute (crater) Lepaute is a small lunar crater that is located along the western edge of the Palus Epidemiarum, a minor lunar mare in the southwestern part of the Moon's near side. To the east is the larger Ramsden crater, within a system of rilles named the Rimae Ramsden.
Leper Chapel, Cambridge The Leper Chapel in Cambridge, also currently known as the Leper Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, lies on the east side of the city, off Newmarket Road just after crossing over the railway line at Barnwell Junction.
Leper Messiah "Leper Messiah" is the sixth song from Metallica's 1986 album Master of Puppets, dealing with televangelists who use people's guilt to con them out their money. By promising the people that they, or their loved ones, would be saved with donations, the culprits actually care about nothing but money and keep it for themselves.
Lephalale Lephalale (previously known as Ellisras), is a coal mining town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa immediately north of the Waterberg Massif. The Matimba Power Station at Lephalale is the largest dry cooled coal power station in the world.
Lepcha language Lepcha (ISO/DIS 639-3: lep) is a language spoken by the Lepcha people in Sikkim in India, and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. The Lepcha script (also known as "rĂłng") is a syllabic script which has a lot of special marks and requires ligatures.
Lepcha people The Lepcha (population: 50,000) are the aboriginal inhabitants of present day Sikkim. Many Lepcha are also found in western and southwestern Bhutan, the Ilam District of eastern Nepal and even the hills of West Bengal.
Lepidaspis serrata Lepidaspis serrata ("Serrated Scaley Shield") was an extinct heterostracan jawless fish from Early Devonian Canada. Its genus name refers to the fact that the shield is composed of hundreds of tiny scales.
Lepidium campestre Lepidium campestre, or Field pepperweed is an annual plant in the Brassicaceae or mustard family, native to Europe, but commonly found in North America as an invasive weed. The most notable characteristic of field pepperweed are its racemes which fork off of the stem.
Lepidium meyenii Lepidium meyenii or maca is an herbaceous biennial plant or annual plant (some sources say a perennial plant) native to the high Andes of Peru. It is grown for its fleshy hypocotyl (actually a fused hypocotyl and taproot), which is used as a root vegetable and a medicinal herb.
Lepidium virginicum Lepidium virginicum, or Virginia pepperweed is an annual or biennial weed in the Brassicaceae or mustard family. As with Lepidium campestre, Virginia pepperweed's most identifiable characteristic are its racemes, which come from the plants highly branched stem [1].
Lepidocrocite Lepidocrocite (FeO(OH)), also called esmeraldite or hydrohematite, is an iron oxide-hydroxide mineral. Lepidocrocite has an orthorhombic crystal structure, a hardness of 5, specific gravity of 4, a submetallic luster and a yellow-brown streak.
Lepidodendron Lepidodendron (also known as the "Scale tree") is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plant related to the Lycopsids (club mosses). They are called Giant club mosses, since they sometimes reached heights of over 30 m, and the trunks were often over 1 m in diameter.
Lepidophyma Tropical night lizards (genus Lepidophyma—Greek for "warty scales,") compose one of three genera of night lizards (family Xantusiidae), which are a group of viviparous (live-bearing) lizards. There are 19 tropical night lizard species, making it the most populous night lizard genus.
Lepidopteran diversity This is a list of the Diversity of the Lepidotera showing the estimated number of genera and species described for each superfamily and, where available, family. See Lepidoptera for a note of the schedule of families used.
Lepidosaphes ulmi Lepidosaphes ulmi also known as oystershell scale is a scale insect that is a pest on woody plants. The small insects attach themselves to bark and cause injury by sucking the tree's sap, this metabolic drain on the plant may kill a branch or the entire tree.
Lepidosauromorpha Lepidosauromorpha is a group of reptiles comprising all diapsids closer to lizards than to archosaurs (including crocodiles and birds). The only living sub-group is the Lepidosauria: extant lizards, snakes, and tuatara.
Lepidus the Younger Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger or Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor (Minor, Latin for the younger, died 30 BC), was the only child of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the triumvir. Lepidus' mother was Junia Secunda, a sister to Marcus Junius Brutus.
Lepismatidae Lepismatidae is a family of primitive wingless insects belonging to the order Thysanura with about 190 described species. This family contains the two most familiar apterygotes, the silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) and the firebrat (Thermobia domestica).
Lepo Sumera Lepo Sumera (May 8 1950 - June 2 2000) was an Estonian composer who studied with Veljo Tormis in his teens and, from 1968, with the renowned Professor Heino Eller at the Estonian Academy of Music (then Tallinn Conservatoire). After Prof.
Lepoglava Lepoglava is a town in VaraĹľdin County, northern Croatia, located southwest of VaraĹľdin, west of Ivanec and northeast of Krapina, at around . It has a population of 4,084, with a total of 8,718 people in the municipality (2001 census).
Lepontic language Lepontic is an extinct Celtic language, the language of the Lepontii, that was spoken in parts of Cisalpine Gaul between 700 BC and 400 BC. Sometimes called Cisalpine Celtic, it is considered a dialect of the Gaulish language and thus a Continental Celtic language (Eska 1998).
Lepontii The Lepontii were an ancient people occupying portions of Rhaetia (in modern Switzerland and Italy) in the Alps during the time of the Roman conquest of that territory. The Lepontii have been variously described as a Celtic, Ligurian, Raetian, and Germanic tribe.
Leporinus obtusidens Leporinus obtusidens is a South American species of ray-finned fish that inhabits the basins of the Paraná River and the Río de la Plata, the Uruguay River, and the São Francisco River (including minor rivers and tributaries like the Bermejo, Pilcomayo, Salí, Juramento, Dulce, and Uniguay). It may be found in the main courses and streams, as well as in lakes and lagoons; it often shelters among stones and aquatic vegetation.
Leposavić Leposavić (Serbian: Лепосавић or Leposavić; Albanian: Leposaviq or Albaniku) is a town and municipality in Kosovo, a Serbian province under UN administration. According to the 1991 census, the municipality of Leposavić had a population of 16,395 people.
Lepospondyli Lepospondyli are a group of small but diverse Carboniferous to early Permian amphibians. Six different clades are known, the Acherontiscidae, Adelospondyli, AĂŻstopoda, Lysorophia, Microsauria and Nectridea, and between them they include newt-like, eel- or snake-like, and lizard-like forms, along with species that don't fit any current category.
Leppard Glacier Leppard Glacier () is a large valley glacier draining east into Scar Inlet, to the north of Ishmael Peak, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. First seen from the air and photographed in part by Hubert Wilkins on December 20, 1928, the glacier was surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955.
Leprechaun In Irish mythology, a leprechaun (Modern Irish: leipreachán) is a type of male faerie said to inhabit the island of Ireland. They are a class of "faerie folk" associated in Irish mythology and folklore, as with all faeries, with the Tuatha Dé Danann and other quasi-historical races said to have inhabited Ireland before the arrival of the Celts.
Lepromin The lepromin skin test is used to determine what type of leprosy a person has. It involves the injection of a standardized extract of the inactivated "leprosy bacillus",(Mycobacterium lepraeor "Hansen's Bacillus") under the skin.
Leptines Leptines was an Athenian orator. He is known as the proposer of a law that no Athenian, whether citizen or resident alien (with the sole exception of the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogeiton), should be exempt from the public charges (Atroup~ytai) for the state festivals.
Leptis Magna Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna (or Lepcis Magna as it is sometimes spelled), also called Lpqy or Neapolis, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire. Its ruins are located in Al Khums, Libya, 130 km east of Tripoli.
Leptis Parva Leptis Parva,(not to be confused with Leptis Magna in Tripolitania) was an ancient city on the eastern coast of Tunisia by the Gulf of Hammamet in close proximity to the modern city of Monastir. It was founded as a Phoenician colony sometime during the 8th century BCE, around the time Carthage was founded, and was a commercial city.
Leptocanna chinensis Leptocanna chinensis is a species of bamboo (tribe Bambuseae of the family Poaceae) and the sole in the genus Leptocanna. The genus name is formed from Greek ("thin-caned") and alludes to the bamboo's thin culm wall (as thin as 23 mm).
Leptoceratops Leptoceratops (meaning 'lean-horned face' and derived from Greek lepto-/λεπτο- meaning 'small', 'insignificant', 'slender', 'meagre' or 'lean', cerat-/κερατ- meaning 'horn' and -ops/ωψ meaning face) was a primitive ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Western North America, at the same time as its giant relatives Triceratops and Torosaurus. Its skulls have been found in Alberta, Canada and in Wyoming.
Leptoceratopsidae The family Leptoceratopsidae, its name derived from the type genus Leptoceratops, is a group of several small neoceratopsian genera which appear not to belong to the clade Protoceratopsidae. They resembled, and were closely related to, other ceratopsids, but all discovered species are generally smaller and more primitive.
Leptocereus grantianus Leptocereus grantianus is a sprawling or suberect, nearly spineless cactus, reaching up to 2 meters in height and 3 to 5 centimeters in diameter. Its elongated stems have from three to five prominent ribs with broadly scalloped edges.
Leptocircini Leptocircini (formerly Graphiini) is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies that includes the genera Eurytides (kite swallowtails), Graphium (swordtails), and Lamproptera (dragontails). The tribe consists of 144 species in seven genera worldwide and one native North American species, Eurytides marcellus.
Leptoconops torrens Leptoconops torrens is a species of small biting flies in the family Ceratopogonidae ("No-see-ums"). Adults are black and tiny, about 1/16 inch long, and are small enough to pass through window screens.
Leptodactylus fragilis The Mexican White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis) is a species of Leptodactylid frog which ranges from southern Texas, in the United States, south through Mexico and Central America to Colombia and Venezuela.
Leptodeira Leptodeira is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as cat-eyed snakes. The genus consists of 9 species that are native to primarily Mexico and Central America, but range as far north as the United States into the southern tip of the state of Texas, and as far south as South America, to Argentina.
Leptogenesis (physics) In the strict sense, leptogenesis is a process which creates leptons. Theories of leptogenesis try to explain how the Universe changed from a state with no leptons just after the Big Bang to a state containing many leptons (mostly electrons) today.
Lepton In physics, a lepton is a particle with spin-1/2 (a fermion) that does not experience the strong nuclear force. The leptons form a family of elementary particles that are distinct from the other known family of fermions, the quarks.
Lepton (Wuorinen) Lepton is a composition scored for celeste, harp, and piano by Charles Wuorinen and the name of an album of compositions by Wuorinen released on Tzadik (#7007) in 2002 as part of their composer series. Lepton is also the name of Wuorinen's cat.
Lepton epoch In physical cosmology, the lepton epoch is the era in which the leptons dominated the mass of the Universe. It started roughly 1 second after the Big Bang, after the hadron epoch, when the temperature was about 10 billion kelvins or 10 gigakelvins, and ended 180 seconds after the Big Bang.
Leptoquark Leptoquarks are hypothetical color-triplet bosons that carry both lepton and baryon numbers. They are encountered in various extensions of the Standard Model, such as technicolor theories or GUTs based on Pati-Salam model, SU(5) or E6, etc.
Leptospermum Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They are distributed throughout Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; two species also extend to Malaysia and one (Manuka L.

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