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Leticia, Colombia Leticia, Colombia, is a small city of approximately 37,000 inhabitants on the left bank of the Amazon river, and at the point where Colombia, Brazil and Peru, come together in an area called Tres Fronteras. Leticia is the capital of the department of Amazonas, and Colombia's southernmost town (4.
Letino Letino is a small village in the province of Caserta in Italy. Famous as one of the villages liberated by the Italian Libertarian Communist Insurrection of 1877 by Errico Malatesta, Andrea Costa, Carlo Cafiero, the Russian Stepniak and 30 other comrades.
Letitia Christian Tyler Letitia Christian Tyler (November 12, 1790 – September 10, 1842), first wife of John Tyler, was First Lady of the United States from 1841 until her death. Letitia Tyler had been confined to an invalid's chair for two years when her husband unexpectedly became President.
Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" is a comic book story by Kyle Baker, co-written with Liz Glass. It originally appeared in DC Comics' Elseworlds 80-page Giant #1 in June 1999, but the story, which included baby Superman crawling into a microwave oven and drinking milk directly from a cow, was deemed too offensive by the President of DC Comics, Paul Levitz, and the issue was pulped.
Letkajenkka Letkajenkka, anglicized to letkis, is a Finnish dance that is often danced at parties (at home, not so often in clubs). All the people dancing form a line so that you hold on to the one in front of you by the waist.
Letlhakane diamond mine The Letlhakane diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Botswana about 190 kilometers (120 miles) west of the city of Francistown. Letlhakane, meaning "little reeds", is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana.
Letna Park Letna Park is a large park built on a plateau above steep embankments along the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic. Letna's elevation and location afford commanding views of the Prague Old Town (Staré Město).
Leto In Greek mythology, LÄ“táą“ (Greek: , Lato in Dorian Greek, the "hidden one") is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. In the Olympian scheme of things, Zeus is the father of her twins, Apollo and Artemis.
Leto Regio Leto Regio is a geological feature on Phoebe, a small outer moon of Saturn. It is classified as a Regio, a large area marked by reflectivity or color distinctions from adjacent areas, or a broad geographic region.
Letocetum Letocetum is a historical site, now known as the village of Wall, Staffordshire, England, being the remains of a Roman settlement. It is owned and run by the National Trust, under the name "Letocetum Roman Baths Site & Museum".
Letoon Letoon is known to have been one of the most important religious centers of the Lycian region in Anatolia, located between the towns of KaĹź and Fethiye in Antalya province of Turkey, approximately 4 km south of Xanthos along the Xanthos River.
Letoon trilingual The Letoon trilingual is an inscribed stele uncovered in 1973 during the archeological exploration of the Letoon temple complex, near Xanthos, ancient Lycia, in present Turkey. The Letoon trilingual consists of apparently parallel inscriptions in Greek, Aramaic, and Lycian.
Letov LF-107 Luňák The LF-107 Luňák is a Czech aerobatic glider designed by Rudý Letov in the late 1940's. The design was developed within a prolific group of aeronautical engineers and sailplane pilots including among others K.
Letraset Letraset is a company which manufactures sheets of artwork elements which can be transferred to artwork being prepared; see the article on screentone for details. The name Letraset was often used to refer generically to sheets of dry transferrable lettering of any brand.
Letraset (band) Letraset is the name of a musical side-project, based in Melbourne, Australia, of Nicole Thibault and Julian Patterson, both also of Minimum Chips. Letraset uses much of the instrumentation of Minimum Chips (analogue synthesizer, electric organ, trombone), but is more experimental; where Minimum Chips make straightforward pop songs, much of Letraset's output is instrumental.
Letsrun.com LetsRun.com is a website, run by brothers Robert (cross country coach at Cornell University) and Weldon Johnson (28:06 10k runner and pacer of Paula Radcliffe in her first world record in the marathon), devoted to track & field and cross country.
Letter (alphabet) A letter is an element in an alphabetic system of writing, that is, in the Greek alphabet and its descendants. Written signs in earlier writings are best called syllabograms (which denote a syllable) or logograms (which denote a word or phrase).
Letter (game) Letter is an early 1970s text-based computer game for BASIC designed by People's Computer Company in which one must guess a letter from A to Z, which the computer is "thinking of." The game appeared on page 16 of the book What to Do After You Hit Return or P.
Letter 2 My Unborn Letter 2 My Unborn was a posthumous single off of the album Until the End of Time by 2pac. It contains a music video that got moderate airplay but wasn't as successful as the other single off of the album, which was the title track.
Letter and spirit of the law The letter of the law versus the spirit of the law is an idiomatic antithesis referring to intent. When one obeys the letter of the law but not the spirit, he is obeying the literal interpretation of the words (the "letter") of the law, but not the intent of those who wrote the law.
Letter bank A letter bank is a type of anagram where all the letters of one word (the "bank") can be used as many times as desired (minimum of once each) to make a new word or phrase. For example, IMPS is a bank of MISSISSIPPI, and SPROUT is a bank of SUPPORT OUR TROOPS.
Letter case In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between majuscule (capital or upper-case) and minuscule (lower-case) letters. Most Occidental languages (certainly those based on the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Armenian alphabets) use multiple letter cases in their written form as an aid to clarity.
Letter combination of uu The combination occurs rarely in the English language and, other than continuum, muumuu and vacuum, in words which are unfamiliar or archaic. With the exception of Muumuu (Hawaiian) and (Welt)anschauung (German), they derive from Latin roots.
Letter frequencies The frequency of letters in text messages has often been studied for use in cryptography, and frequency analysis in particular. An exact analysis of this is not possible, as each person writes slightly differently, and the amount of writing in a language is too vast to allow anything more than a statistical sample of a language to be analysed.
Letter from an Unknown Woman Letter from an Unknown Woman (Brief einer Unbekannten) is a novel authored by Stefan Zweig, which tells the story of a writer who, while reading a letter written by a woman he does not remember, gets glimpses into her life story.
Letter from America Letter from America was a weekly 15-minute radio series on BBC Radio 4, previously called the Home Service, which ran for 2,869 shows from March 24 1946 to February 20 2004, making it the longest-running speech radio programme in history.
Letter game A letter game involves the exchange of written letters, or e-mails, between two or more participants. The first player writes a letter in the voice of a newly created character; in this first letter, the writer should establish her own identity and that of her correspondent, should set the scene, and should explain why she and her correspondent must communicate in written fashion.
Letter notation In music, letter notation is a system of representing the notes of the 12-tone scale by their letter names A-G, possibly with a trailing sharp or flat symbol, such as A# or Bb. This is the most common way of specifying a note in speech or in written text.
Letter of 59 Letter of 59 (also known as the Memorial of 59) was an open letter signed by 66 (at first, 59, hence the name) Polish intellectuals who protested against the changes of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland. The letter was issued in 1975, although additional people signed it in January 1976.
Letter of Agency A Letter of Agency is a document authorizing a telecommunications provider to act on your behalf. This is generally required in the United States when switching a telephone service provider while keeping the current telephone number or any other service which requires transfer of information from one provider to another.
Letter of Appointment (Mormonism) In Mormonism, the Letter of Appointment is a controversial two-page document used by the supporters of James Strang to prove that he was the designated successor to Joseph Smith, Jr. as prophet and head of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Letter of Aristeas The so-called Letter of Aristeas is a Hellenistic Jewish forgery or pseudepigrapha. Josephus (Antiquities XII:ii passim) ascribes to a certain Aristeas a letter, written to a certain Philocrates, describing the Greek translation of the Jewish Law to seventy-two interpreters sent into Egypt from Jerusalem at the request of the librarian of Alexandria, resulting in the Septuagint translation.
Letter of Benan The Letter of Benan was a forgery issued by Ernst Edler von der Planitz in 1910, allegedly originally composed in Greek in 83 CE, then translated into Coptic; von der Planitz's work is allegedly a translation from a fifth century Coptic papyrus containing a translation of the same; however, there is no evidence any of these works ever existed. It consists of a letter purporting to be of an Egyptian physician describing his encounters with Jesus and the apostles.
Letter of credit A letter of credit, often abbreviated as an LC or L/C, (the acronym LOC may also be used but this is more typically used to mean a Line of Credit) and also referred to as a documentary credit, often abbreviated as DC or D/C, documentary letter of credit, or simply as credit (in UCP 600 which is effective as from 1st July 2007) is a document issued mostly by a financial institution which provides an irrevocable payment undertaking to a beneficiary against complying documents as stated in the credit. This means that once the beneficiary or a presenting bank acting on its behalf, makes a presentation to the issuing bank or confirming bank, if any, within the expiry date of the LC, comprising documents complying with the terms and conditions of the LC, the applicable UCP and international standard banking practice, the issuing bank or confirming bank, if any, is obliged to pay irrespective of any instructions from the applicant to the contrary.
Letter of Credence A Letter of Credence is a formal letter sent by one head of state to another formally accrediting a named individual (usually but not always a diplomat) to be their ambassador in the country of the head of state receiving the letter of credence. A letter of recall is the letter sent recalling an ambassador, either as a means of diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and replaced by another envoy.
Letter of general Alesandro Luzan to Benito Mussolini The letter of general Alesandro Luzan to Benito Mussolini from 1941 is one of the main documents that testifies about the concern Italian military had about the unrestrained crimes of Croatian Ustashe. As a direct result of such concernes, Italian military (in fact Germans as well) had decided to try to restrain Ustashe in their genocide against the Serbs.
Letter of introduction The letter of introduction, along with the visiting card, was an important part of polite social interaction in the 18th and 19th centuries. It remains important in formal situations, such as an ambassador presenting his credentials, and in certain business circles.
Letter of marque A Letter of Marque and Reprisal was an official warrant or commission from a national government authorizing the designated agent to search, seize, or destroy specified assets or personnel belonging to a party which had committed some offense under the laws of nations against the assets or citizens of the issuing nation, and was usually used to authorize private parties to raid and capture merchant shipping of an enemy nation.
Letter of Nanse The letter of Nanše is one of the first international attempts to agree on common standards of measure "to weigh silver with standard weights" and to "standardize the size of reed baskets." Over a period of several millennia international trade and commerce spread the idea of standards of measure based on definitions of land and property throughout the ancient near east.
Letter of Peter to Philip The Letter of Peter to Philip found in the cache of texts at Nag Hammadi (bound into Codex VIII), contains a brief letter purporting to be from Saint Peter to Saint Philip, followed by a narrative and gnostic discourse upon the nature of Christ. It was probably written in the late 2nd century or the beginning of the 3rd, originally in Greek, but translated into Coptic in the Nag Hammadi text.
Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops The Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops (; ) was a letter sent on 18 November, 1965 by Polish bishops of the Roman Catholic Church to their German counterparts. In this groundbreaking letter they declared: "We forgive and ask for forgiveness".
Letter of the Day The Letter of the Day is a classic segment on Sesame Street with Prairie Dawn and Cookie Monster. In which Prairie Dawn introduces the letter of the day, often written in icing on a cookie, then attemps to stop the Cookie Monster from devouring it.
Letter opener A letter opener, or paperknife, is a knife-like object used to open envelopes or to slit uncut pages of books. Electric versions are also available, which work by using motors to slide the envelopes across a blade.
Letter patent Letters patent are a type of legal instrument in the form of an open letter issued by a monarch or government granting an office, a right, monopoly, title, or status, to someone, or to some entity such as a corporation.
Letter Rogatory A Letter Rogatory or Letter of Request is a formal request from a court to a foreign court for some type of judicial assistance. The most common remedies sought by Letters Rogatory are service of process and taking of evidence.
Letter scale A letter scale is a weighing scale used for weighing letters in order to determine the correct amount of postage. Until the 1990s most letter scales were mechanical, but today electronic scales are the most common.
Letter sheet In philatelic terminology a Letter sheet, often written lettersheet, is nowadays an item of postal stationery issued by a postal authority. It is a sheet of paper that can be folder, usually sealed, most often with sealing wax in the 18th and 19th century, and mailed without the use of an envelope.
Letter to Flora Until the discovery of Gnostic works among the hidden cache at Nag Hammadi, few authentic Gnostic works survived. One has been the "Letter to Flora" from a Valentinian teacher, Ptolemy— who is also known from the writings of Irenaeus— to a wealthy Gnostic lady named Flora.
Letter to Jane Letter to Jane (1972) is a postscript film to Tout va bien directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the Dziga Vertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam.
Letter to the Inhabitants of Canada On May 29, 1775, the American Continental Congress sent a formal letter to the Inhabitants of Canada inviting them to join in the American Revolution, the Lettre adressée aux habitans de la province de Québec, ci-devant le Canada.
Letter To America Letter To America (often abbreviated to LTA) is a weekly spoken podcast produced principally in Belfast, Northern Ireland by the American television director and artist Jett Loe. It is also the name of an associated weblog, which describes the podcast as a "dispatch from the heart of Belfast, Northern Ireland".
Letter-winged Kite The Letter-winged Kite (Elanus scriptus) is a small, rare and irruptive Australian raptor with a core range in central Australia. It is similar in appearance to the Black-shouldered Kite except for a very distinctive black underwing pattern of a shallow ‘M’ shape, seen when in flight.
Letterbox Letterboxing is the practice of transferring widescreen films to video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio. Since the video display is most often a more square aspect ratio than the original film, the resulting video must include masked-off areas above and below the picture area (often referred to as "black bars," or, more accurately, as mattes).
Letterboxing Letterboxing is an outdoor hobby that combines elements of orienteering, art and problem-solving. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several web sites (see below), or by word of mouth.
Letterer In comics, the letterer is the person who draws the letters in the word balloons, draws in sound effects and usually designs a book's logo. This may seem like an easy job, but the right use of fonts, letter size, and layout of the words inside the balloon all contribute to the impact of the text.
Letterhead A letterhead is the heading at the top of a sheet of letter paper, usually consisting of a name and an address, and for corporate use, their Corporate design. It can also refer to a piece of letter paper imprinted with this heading.
Letterist International The Letterist International (LI) was a Paris-based collective of radical artists and theorists between 1952 and 1957, who provide the link between Isidore Isou's Letterist group and the Situationist International. The spelling 'Lettrist' is also common in English, but 'Letterist' was the form the French group (Internationale Lettriste) themselves preferred, and used in their 1955 sticker: 'If you believe you have genius, or if you think you have only a brilliant intelligence, write the letterist internationale.
Letterkenny Letterkenny (Leitir Ceanainn in Irish) is the largest town in County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland, located 35 miles north of Donegal Town and 20 miles west of Derry in Northern Ireland on the River Swilly. Its name is an anglicisation of the Irish language name, which, translated, means "The Valley of the Cannon Family".
Letterkenny Institute of Technology Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) formerly Regional Technical College, Letterkenny is located in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland. It is a third level institution serving County Donegal and the North West of Ireland.
Letterkenny Rovers F.C. Letterkenny Rovers Football Club is a football club from Ireland currently competing in the Irish Ulster Senior League. The club is based in Letterkenny and works closely with League of Ireland First Division side Finn Harps F.
Letterman Army Hospital Letterman Army Hospital was located on the Presidio of San Francisco. Established around 1899, the hospital was named, in 1911, for Jonathan Letterman, featured in every US foreign conflict in the 20th century, and remained in service until the army base was decomissioned in 1995.
Lettermullen Lettermullen (Irish Leitir Meallain) is a small island on the west coast of Ireland in Connemara, County Galway situated approximately 36 miles from Galway city. Located at the far western end of Galway Bay, Lettermullen is the western-most of three islands (Lettermullen, Tir an fhia and Lettermore, collectivly Gorumna) connected to the mainland via bridges and causeways.
Letterpress printing Letterpress printing is a term for printing text with movable type, in which the raised surface of the type is inked and then pressed against a smooth substance to obtain an image in reverse. In addition to the direct impression of inked movable type onto paper or another receptive surface, the term letterpress can also refer to the direct impression of inked media such as zinc "cuts" (plates) onto a receptive surface.
Letters (Jimmy Webb album) Letters is the third solo album by singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, released by Reprise in 1972. It is notable for containing Webb's own version of "Galveston", which had been a hit for Glen Campbell in 1969.
Letters close Letters Close (Lat. litterae clausae) are a type of legal document which is a closed letter issued by a monarch or government granting a right, monopoly, title, or status to someone or some entity such as a corporation.
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania The essays called Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732-1808) and published under the name, "A Farmer," from 1767 to 1768. The twelve letters were widely read and reprinted throughout the thirteen colonies, and were important in uniting the colonists against the Townshend Acts.
Letters from a Lost Uncle Written for children, Letters from a Lost Uncle (ISBN 0413745902) by Mervyn Peake is a combination of pencil drawing and typed manuscript. It is written in the form of letters from a lost uncle who is travelling in distant polar regions in search of the white lion.
Letters from an American Farmer Letters From An American Farmer And Sketches Of Eighteenth-Century America was written by Jean de Crèvecoeur in 1782. Crevecoeur was an exceptional addition to the world of American literature and this was even more obvious with the publishing of his epistolary book.
Letters from Lexington The original edition of Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda, first published in 1993, solidified Noam Chomsky's position as American's most distinguished critic of the media. Chomsky incidentally resides in Lexington, MA, and via letters contributed to a short-lived literary experiment.
Letters From Lehrer Letters From Lehrer is a play written by Canadian Richard Greenblatt, and performed by him at CanStage, from 16 January to 25 February, 2006. It follows Tom Lehrer's musical career, the meaning of several of his songs, the politics of the time when he wrote the songs, and Greenblatt's own experiences with Lehrer's music, while playing some of Lehrer's songs intermittenly.
Letters Never Sent Letters Never Sent is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 20th album, and 18th studio album, released in 1994. Carly wrote "Like A River" in honor of her mother, Andrea Simon, and "Touched By The Sun" in honor of her dear friend, Jackie Onassis, both of whom died in 1994.
Letters of a Portuguese Nun The Letters of a Portuguese Nun (Fr. Les Lettres portugaises), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, are a work believed by most scholars to be epistolary fiction (comprising five letters) written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1685).
Letters of Administration Letters of Administration are granted by a court or probate registry to appoint appropriate people to deal with a deceased person's estate where property will pass under Intestacy Rules or where there are no executors living (and willing and able to act) having been validly appointed under the deceased's will. Traditionally, letters of administration granted to a representative of a testate estate are called "letters of administration with the will annexed" or "letters of administration cum testamentio annexio" or "c.
Letters of the Living The Letters of the Living () was a title provided by the Báb to the first eighteen disciples of the Bábí Religion. In some understandings the Báb places himself at the head of this list (as the first letter).
Letters on the English Voltaire studied in England between 1726 and 1728. He grew quite fluent in English, and eventually published Letters Concerning the English Nation (also known as Letters on the English) in that language in 1733.
Letters to Cleo Letters to Cleo was an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts (although they originally started out as a ska band). The band was made up of members Michael Eisenstein, Kay Hanley, Stacy Jones, Greg McKenna, Scott Riebling, and Tom Polce.
Letters to Lauren Letters to Lauren is a story written and directed by Miranda Spigener; based on Carl Lucian's true experience in Prague, Czech Republic and Houston, TX as a young archaeologist in the 1950s. The character Michael Crestmont is based on Carl Lucian.
Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy was an eight-volume collection of articles ostensibly written by an Ottoman spy named "Mahmut". Giovanni Paolo Marana is credited for some editions, though various British authors are also credited.
Lettershendoney Lettershendoney (sometimes spelt Lettershandoney) (Irish: Litir Seanduine; meaning Hill of the old man) is a small village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, close to Drumahoe. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 506 people.
Lettice Sandford Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate, (1902-1993) was a draftsman, wood-engraver, pioneer corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist of her beloved Herefordshire. She was a daughter of Lachlan Mackintosh Rate of Milton Court, Surrey, a director of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, the central bank of the Ottoman empire, and wife of Christopher Sandford of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press.
Lettre de cachet In French history, lettres de cachet were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal, or cachet. They contained orders directly from the king, often to enforce arbitrary actions and judgements that could not be appealed.
Lettre Ulysses Award The Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage has been given annually since 2003 for the best texts in the genre of literary reportage, which must have been first published during the previous two years. The award was initiated by Lettre International, Berlin, and is organized by the Foundation Lettre International Award, a joint partnership between Lettre International and the Aventis Foundation.
Lettres de mon moulin Lettres de mon moulin or Letters from My Windmill  is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet first published in its entirety in 1869. Some of the stories had been published earlier in newspapers or journals such as Le Figaro and L'Evénement as early as 1865.
Lettres provinciales The Lettres provinciales (Provincial letters) are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte. They are a defense of Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, a friend of Pascal's who in 1656 was condemned by the Faculté de Théologie at the Sorbonne in Paris for views that were claimed to be heretical.
Lettrism Letterism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. In a body of work totalling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture, most notably in poetry, film, painting and political theory.
Lettsworth, Louisiana Lettsworth is a small village located in the extreme northern tip of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana in the United States. It lies on the East bank of the Atchafalaya River near its intersection with the Mississippi River and the Red River at the Old River Control Structure.
Lettuce Midorikawa is a fictional character in the manga and anime Tokyo Mew Mew. Lettuce is known as Bridget Verdant in Mew Mew Power, Brigiti in As Super Gatinhas (Portuguese version) and Lory Midorikawa in Mew Mew: Amiche Vincenti (Italian version).
Lettuce necrotic yellows virus Lettuce necrotic yellows virus (LNYV) is a plant virus belonging to the virus order Mononegavirales, family Rhabdoviridae and genus cytorhabdovirus. It was first identified in Australia in the plant species Lactuca sativa in 1963 by Stubbs et al.
Letty Lind Letitia Elizabeth Rudge, better known as Letty Lind (December 21 1862 - August 27 1923), was an English actress and dancer, best known for her work in Burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre, and in musical theatre at Daly's Theatre, in London.
Letzte Instanz Letzte Instanz, founded in Dresden, Germany in 1996, is a German rock band particularly noted for their use of the violin and cello. The founding members included Hörbi, Tin Whistle, Muttis Stolz, Kaspar Wichman, Holly D.
LeTourneau University LeTourneau University is a private, nondenominational Christian university located in Longview, Texas with flagship programs in engineering, aeronautical science, business and education. The university also provides business and education programs for working adults in educational centers around Texas.
Leucadendron argenteum Leucadendron argenteum (Silver tree, Silver leaf tree, Witteboom, or Silwerboom) is an endangered species in the family Proteaceae, endemic to a small area of the Cape Peninsula, Stellenbosch, and Paarl in South Africa, notably the Lion's Head area and the Kirstenbosch gardens.
Leucadia National Leucadia National Corporation (traded on the New York Stock Exchange as LUK) is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, engages in telecommunications, healthcare services, manufacturing, banking and lending, real estate, and winery businesses. As of August 2005, Leucadia was valued at over US$4 billion.
Leucauge venusta The Orchard spider (Leucauge venusta) is a long-jawed orbweaver spider that occurs from southern Canada to Panama, along the East coast, reaching into the central US. The web is often oriented horizontally, with the spider hanging down in the center.
Leucine-rich repeat A leucine-rich repeat (LRR) is a protein structural motif that forms an α/β horseshoe fold. It is composed of repeating 20-30 amino acid stretches that are unusually rich in the hydrophobic amino acid leucine.
Leucippe and Clitophon The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon (in Greek τα κατα Λευκιππην και Kλειτoφων), written by Achilles Tatius, is one of the five surviving Ancient Greek romances, notable for its many similarities to Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, and its apparent mild parodic nature.
Leucippus Leucippus or Leukippos (Greek: , first half of 5th century BC) was among the earliest philosophers of atomism, the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms. He was born at Miletus or AbderaThe Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, pg.
Leucite Leucite or amphigene is a rock-forming mineral composed of potassium and aluminium tectosilicate KAl(SiO3)2. Crystals have the form of cubic icositetrahedra, but, as first observed by Sir David Brewster in 1821, they are not optically isotropic, and are therefore pseudo-cubic.
Leucocoprinus birnbaumii Leucocoprinus birnbaumii, the yellow houseplant mushroom, previously known as Lepiota lutea, is a common fungus that grows in many house plants, generally occurring in warmer areas, or in greenhouses or potted plants.
Leucoerythroblastic A leucoerythroblastic picture on blood film can be the bone marrow response to any irritation including marrow infiltration [causing immature red cells]. Marrow infilitrative disorders include myelomas, malignancy, myelofibrosis etc.

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