Encyclopedia

Lightning rod A lightning rod (or lightning protector) is a metal strip or rod, usually of copper or similar conductive material, used as part of lightning safety to protect tall or isolated structures (such as the roof of a building or the mast of a vessel) from lightning damage. Its formal name is lightning finial or air terminal.
Lightning route The "Lightning Route" was nickname given to the first city-wide system of electric streetcars established in Montgomery Alabama USA on April 15, 1886. This early technology was developed by Belgian Inventor Charles Van De Poele.
Lightning Ridge, New South Wales Lightning Ridge is a town in north-western New South Wales, Australia, in Walgett Shire, near the southern border of Queensland. Lightning Ridge a world epicenter of the mining of black opals and other opal gemstones.
Lightning Seeds The Lightning Seeds are an alternative pop band, largely the brainchild of writer, singer and guitarist Ian Broudie (born August 4 1958, Liverpool, England). Previous to the Seeds, Broudie was involved with other bands: earliest first, there was Big In Japan, followed by Original Mirrors and Care.
Lightning Talk A Lighting Talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers.
Lights of Orion The Lights of Orion are a fictional force from the Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy TV series. They are a magical energy source that were hidden millennia ago by the Magna Defender, and somehow ended up on Terra Venture.
Lights out management Lights-out management (LOM) is the ability for a system administrator to monitor and manage servers by remote control regardless of whether the machine is powered on. A complete LOM system consists of a hardware component called the LOM module and a program that facilitates the continuous monitoring of variables such as microprocessor temperature and utilization.
Lights Out (game) Lights Out is an electronic puzzle game, originally created by Hasbro. The game is a 5x5 grid of lights, and when the game starts, a sequence of these lights (random, or one of a set of stored puzzle patterns) are switched on.
Lights Out (puzzle) Lights out, also known as Fiver, is a one player puzzle that is played on a m by n grid of squares in which every square has two states: on and off. The game usually starts off with all squares off, where the goal is to turn on every square.
Lights Out (radio show) Lights Out was an American old-time radio program featuring "tales of the supernatural and the supernormal." It was immensely popular, and was one of the first horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum.
Lights Out Hong Kong Lights Out Hong Kong (香港熄燈 or 888熄燈) is a campaign in Hong Kong to protest against the city's air pollution. Organisers of the campaign urged people in Hong Kong to switch off their lights for 3 minutes at 8pm on 8/8/2006 as a statement of protest.
Lightsaber Lightsaber is the name of a weapon that plays a key role in the movies, games and novels that constitute the Star Wars universe. Lightsabers are science fiction versions of their namesake, the saber, but with the metal blade replaced by something resembling a bar of solid, a circular beam of pure energy about a meter long which can differ in color (red, blue, green, purple, and sometimes yellow and orange).
Lightsaber combat Lightsaber combat describes the fictional fighting styles employed by Jedi and Sith characters in the Star Wars multi-media franchise. The details of the lightsaber styles are never mentioned directly in the released Star Wars films, but they are explored in novelizations as well as Expanded Universe sources such as magazines, comic books, the Star Wars Role-playing Game and "Visual Dictionaries.
Lightship Ambrose Lightship Ambrose served as the sentinel beacon marking Ambrose Channel, the main shipping channel for New York Harbor, from 1823 until the station was replaced by Ambrose Lightstation, a Texas Tower, in 1967. Between 1823 and 1967 several ships were commissioned Lightship Ambrose and served at the station.
Lightship Columbia The Lightship Columbia WLV-604 was the first lightship on the Pacific Coast of the United States. The Columbia River lightships have guided vessels across the “Graveyard of the Pacific” from 1892 until 1979.
Lightship Chesapeake The Lightship Chesapeake, commissioned Lightship 116, is owned by the National Park Service and on a 25 year loan to the Baltimore Maritime Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1820, several lightships have served at the Chesapeake lightship station and have been called Chesapeake.
Lightship Nantucket The Lightship Nantucket was the name given to the lightvessel which marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals in Massachusetts. Several ships have been commissioned and served at the Nantucket Shoals lightship station and have been called Nantucket.
Lightsnake Lightsnake is an analog to digital converter in the form of an illuminated cable. Designed predominantly for guitarists, the device allows the player to plug their guitar straight into a USB port on their computer.
Lightspeed Media Corporation The Lightspeed Media Corporation is a company from Glendale, Arizona, founded in 1999 by Steve Jones, that operates many Internet pornography Web sites and contracts various models. The company thrived during the dot-com period of 1999 to 2001.
Lightstick A lightstick, also called a glowstick, is a transparent plastic tube which contains chemical fluids held apart in two compartments. The outer plastic tube contains one part of the chemical mixture, and the inner compartment is a glass or brittle plastic tube containing the second mixture.
LightSurf Philippe Kahn and Sonia-Lee founded LightSurf in 1998 shortly after Kahn's invention of the Camera PhoneParks, Maney, Krey in 1997. LightSurf was formed to take advantage of the explosive convergence of wireless messaging technology, the Internet, and digital media.
Lighttpd lighttpd (also called "Lighty") is a web server which is designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and its speed goals make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static media separately from dynamic content.
Lightvessels in Ireland Lightvessels in Ireland is a link page for any lightvessel or lightfloat stationed off the coast of Ireland. The Commissioners of Irish Lights are responsible for the majority of marine navigation aids around the island of Ireland.
Lightweight (MMA) The lightweight division in mixed martial arts generally limits competitors to 155 or 160 lb (70 or 73 kg) – these are the weight limits as defined by the UFC and PRIDE Fighting Championships, respectively. The lightweight division sits between the lighter featherweight division, and the heavier welterweight division.
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol The Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) is a proprietary wireless LAN authentication method developed by Cisco Systems. Important features of LEAP are dynamic WEP keys and mutual authentication (between a wireless client and a RADIUS server).
Lightweight Java Game Library The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance cross-platform libraries such as OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) and OpenAL (Open Audio Library) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound.
Lightweight methodology A lightweight methodology is a software development methodology which has only a few rules and practices or ones which are easy to follow. In contrast, a complex methodology with many rules is considered a heavyweight methodology.
Lightweight rowing In rowing, lightweight (Lwt for short) is a special category where limits are placed on the maximum weight of competitors. The rational is that larger, taller people have a small but significant physical advantage and tend to dominate the sport.
Lightweight Software Test Automation Lightweight software test automation is the process of creating and using relatively short and simple computer programs, called lightweight test harnesses, designed to test a software system. Lightweight test automation harnesses are not tied to a particular programming language but are most often implemented with the Java, Perl, Visual Basic .
Lightweight TT The Lightweight TT was a motorcycle road race that was part of the Isle of Man TT festival; an annual motor-cycle event at the end of May and beginning of June. Between 1949 and 1976 the Lightweight TT Race was part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.
Lightwood Lightwood Resevoir is in the town of Buxton, Derbyshire and is a beautiful wildlife reserve, in recent years it has been drained demolished and levelled out with the terible loss of hundred of fish, birds and small mammals. 2 hard working volunteers named Alex Wheeldon, and Mike Leather worked from 2002 to 2004 to help bring back wildlife into the area, now a nature reserve has been set up and many wild animals visit the area especially Canadian geese.
Lightworker A lightworker is a person who feels inspired to help others through spiritual meditation, teaching, healing, prayer, writing and speaking through unconditonal love. Lightworkers come from a variety of spiritual traditions and backgrounds, yet generally agree that the healing light they work with is comprised of eternal energy connecting everyone and everything in the universe, and that it is possible for people to connect consciously with divine light energies through intention.
Lightwright Lightwright is a spreadsheet/database program created specifically for theatrical lighting applications. The program is used to sort and manage data related to lighting designs and to generate design paperwork.
LightWave LightWave (or, more properly, LightWave 3D) is a computer graphics program for 3D modeling, animating and rendering. The original program was shipped with the Video Toaster, an expansion card for the Commodore Amiga 2000 computer.
Ligia Lieder "Ligia Lieder (the abstract claustrophobie of the desert)" (Javier AdĂşriz), is a cycle of four songs for soprano and piano, composed in (1993-1994) by Juan Maria Solare. [11'25"] It is dedicated to Gabriela Liberatori.
Lignan A lignan is a chemical compound found in plants. Lignans are one of the two major classes of phytoestrogens, which are antioxidants found in a variety of plants which includes flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, rye, soybeans, broccoli, beans, and some berries.
Ligne Ligne is a French word meaning line. It was in use prior to the French adaptation of the metric system in the late 1700s, and is still used by French and Swiss wristwatch makers to measure the size of a watch movement.
Ligne claire Ligne claire (French for "clear line") is a style of drawing pioneered by Hergé, the Belgian creator of The Adventures of Tintin. It is a style of drawing which uses clear strong lines which have the same thickness and importance, rather than being used to emphasize certain objects or be used for shading (for this reason it is sometimes also called the democracy of lines).
Ligne de risque Ligne de risque is an avant-garde journal for literature, founded in 1997 in Paris by François Meyronnis, Yannick Haenel and Frédéric Badré. It's mainly influenced by Lautréamont, Heidegger, Guy Debord and Philippe Sollers.
Ligne de Sceaux "La Ligne de Sceaux" (The Sceaux Line) was a railway line in France running from Paris to some of its southern suburbs, including Sceaux from which it takes its name. It is now part of the RATP's RER line B, though the name is still used informally.
Lignin Lignin (sometimes "lignen") is a chemical compound that is most commonly derived from wood and is an integral part of the cell walls of plants, especially in tracheids, xylem fibres and sclereids. It is one of most abundant organic compounds on earth after cellulose and chitin.
Lignocellulosic biomass Lignocellulosic biomass is biomass composed primarily by lignin and cellulose. Examples of lignocellulosic biomass are all types of trees, grasses, agricultural residues such as corn stover, sugarcane bagasse, straw, etc.
Lignumvitae Key State Botanical Park Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park is a Florida State Park located on 2,800 acre Lignumvitae Key, one mile west of US Highway 1 (Overseas Highway) at mile marker 78.5, and can only be reached by private boat or tour boat.
Ligny Ligny is a village in the municipality of Sombreffe (in the province of Namur), where Napoleon defeated BlĂĽcher two days before the battle of Waterloo while Wellington and Marshal Ney were engaged at Quatre Bras.
Ligon Middle School Ligon Middle School is a middle school located in the low-income ghetto neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina. Thus it includes a high population of underpriveleged children, the brunt of whom are African American and Hispanic in nature.
Liguanea Liguanea is a historically significant area in the island of Jamaica in the West Indies. Its name came from the language of the pre-Columbian Taino people who inhabited the island and named it after the iguana lizard that is endemic to the island, and an important source of food for the Taino.
Ligue de Hockey de La Capitale The Ligue de Hockey de La Capitale or Capital Junior "AA" Hockey League is a Junior "AA" (Junior "B" Canada-Wide) ice hockey league in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and Hockey Canada.
Ligue de Hockey Junior A Bois-Francs The Ligue de Hockey Junior A Bois Francs or Bois Francs Junior "A" Hockey League is a Junior "A" (Junior "C" Canada-Wide) ice hockey league in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and Hockey Canada.
Ligue de Hockey Junior A Rive-Sud The Ligue de Hockey Junior A Rive-Sud or Rive-Sud Junior "A" Hockey League is a Junior "A" (Junior "C" Canada-Wide) ice hockey league in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and Hockey Canada.
Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Beauce-Bellechasse The Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Beauce-Bellechasse or Beauce-Bellechasse Junior "AA" Hockey League is a Junior "AA" (Junior "B" Canada-Wide) ice hockey league in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and Hockey Canada.
Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Estrie-Mauricie The Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Estrie-Mauricie or Estrie-Mauricie Junior "AA" Hockey League is a Junior "AA" (Junior "B" Canada-Wide) ice hockey league in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and Hockey Canada.
Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Laurentides-Lanaudière The Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Laurentides-Lanaudière or Laurentides-Lanaudière Junior "AA" Hockey League is a Junior "AA" (Junior "B" Canada-Wide) ice hockey league in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and Hockey Canada.
Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Richelieu The Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Richelieu or Richelieu Junior "AA" Hockey League is a Junior "AA" (Junior "B" Canada-Wide) ice hockey league in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and Hockey Canada.
Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean The Ligue de Hockey Junior AA Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean or Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean Junior "AA" Hockey League is a Junior "AA" (Junior "B" Canada-Wide) ice hockey league in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Quebec and Hockey Canada.
Ligue de Hockey Junior de Montréal The Ligue de Hockey Junior de Montréal or Montreal Junior Hockey League was a Junior "B" (Junior "AA" in Quebec) ice hockey league in Quebec, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada. The leagues website was deleted in March of 2006.
Ligue des droits de l'homme The Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, "Human Rights League") is a French NGO founded on June 4, 1898, by the republican Ludovic Trarieux to defend captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew wrongly accused of treason - this would be known as the Dreyfus Affair. The LDH is a member of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH).
Ligue des Patriotes The Ligue des Patriotes was a French far right league, founded by the nationalist poet Paul Déroulède in 1882. It began life as a non-partisan nationalist league calling for 'revanche' (revenge for the French defeat during the Franco-Prussian War) against Germany.
Ligue nationaliste canadienne The Ligue nationaliste canadienne, also known as the Ligue nationaliste, was a nationalist and anti-imperialist organization in Quebec, Canada during the early 20th century. Founded by journalist Olivar Asselin, his newspaper Le Nationaliste was its official organ.
Ligugé Abbey Ligugé Abbey, also St. Martin's Abbey, Ligugé, is a Benedictine monastery in the present commune of Ligugé in the département of Vienne, and in the diocese of Poitiers, and one of the earliest monastic foundations in France.
Ligure Ligure occurs in the Bible, in the book of Exodus 28:19 and 39:12, as the name of a stone in the third row of the high priest's breastplate, the Hoshen. Some have supposed that this stone was the same as the jacinth, others believe that it was the opal or amethyst.
Ligures The Ligures (English: Ligurians, Greek: Λιγυες) were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. The Ligures inhabited what now corresponds to Liguria, northern Tuscany, Piedmont, part of Emilia-Romagna, part of Lombardy, and parts of southeastern France.
Ligurian language The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and south-eastern France known as the Ligures. Very little is known about this language (mainly place names and personal names remain) which is generally believed to have been Indo-European; it appears to have adopted significantly from other Indo-European languages, primarily Celtic (Gaulish) and Italic (Latin).
Ligurian language (Romance) Ligurian is a Romance language, consisting of a group of Gallo-Italic dialects currently spoken in Liguria, northern Italy, and parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, and Monaco. Genoese (Zeneize or Zeneise) one of the most well-known dialects, spoken in Genoa, the principal city of Liguria.
Ligurian Republic The Ligurian Republic was a short-lived French client republic formed by Napoleon on June 14, 1797. It consisted of the territory of the old Republic of Genoa which covered most of the Ligurian region of Northwest Italy.
Ligurian Sea Cetacean Sanctuary The International Ligurian Sea Cetacean Sanctuary is a Marine Protected Area aimed at the protection of marine mammals (cetaceans). It covers an area of approximately 84,000 km², comprising the waters between Toulon (French Riviera), Capo Falcone (western Sardinia), Capo Ferro (eastern Sardinia) and Fosso Chiarone (Tuscany).
Lihl' Ixhiba Likagogo Lihl' Ixhiba Likagogo ("My Grandmother's Kitchen") is an album by the South African isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It was released in October 2000 on the Gallo label, the group's recording home since 1973.
Lich In modern fantasy fiction, a lich (sometimes spelled liche, and pronounced 'litch') is a type of undead creature, usually an evil magician or a powerful undead king. The use of the term lich as a specific type of undead creature originates in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game; previous works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith's "Empire of the Necromancers", had used it as a general term for any animated or inanimate corpse.
Lichenification Lichenification is the thickening of skin (or epidermis) with the accentuation of the normal lines of the skin, giving rise to an appearance resembling a tree bark. It is commonly seen in chronic eczema (or atopic dermatitis), where there is constant scratching and rubbing of the skin and in lichen simplex chronicus.
Lichenometry Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between algal and fungal communities and they increase in size radially as they grow. Measuring the diameter of the largest lichen on a rock surface can thus be used to determine the time the rock has been exposed.
Lichfield Lichfield (Welsh: Caerlwytgoed) is a small city and civil parish in Staffordshire, 110 miles northwest of London and 14 miles north of Birmingham. It is famous for its three-spired cathedral and as the birthplace of Dr.
Lichfield Canal Lichfield Canal, as it is now known, was historically a part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal, being the section of that canal from Ogley Junction on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal, a length of 7 miles. Currently derelict, it is being rebuilt.
Lichfield City Station Lichfield City Station opened in 1849 on what was then the LNWR line which came down through Lichfield Trent Valley and, just to the south of Lichfield City, curved West heading for Walsall. In 1884 the LNWR Sutton Coldfield to Lichfield Line was completed leading to a junction just to the south of the station and placing Lichfield City Station at the hub of the two routes.
Lichfield House Compact The Lichfield House Compact was an agreement between the Whig government, the Catholic Party and the Radicals to act as one body against the Conservative Party. It was signed in February 1835 and this was how Daniel O'Connell managed to pass more reforms for Ireland.
Lichfield Trent Valley railway station Lichfield Trent Valley (Ordnance Survey grid reference ) is a split-level railway station on the outskirts of the city of Lichfield in Staffordshire, England. It is one of two stations in Lichfield, the other being Lichfield City.
Lichkeit The Lichkeit, short for Persoenlichkeit, is a fictional robot in the Super Robot Wars series. It has appeared as an enemy unit in Super Robot Taisen Compact 2 trilogy, Super Robot Wars Impact, and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2, but made playable later on in the games.
Licht Licht (Light), subtitled "The Seven Days of the Week," is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen which, in total, lasts over 29 hours. Though it has often been said it was inspired by The Urantia Book, only Donnerstag makes direct reference to it, in acts 1 and 3.
Lichtenberg figure Lichtenberg Figures (Lichtenbergischestaubfiguren, or "Lichtenbergian Dust Figures") are branching electric discharges (or electrical trees) that are sometimes preserved on the surface or the interior of a solid dielectric. They are named after the German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who originally discovered and studied them.
Lichtenberg's Avertissement Lichtenberg's Avertissement, written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, is a poster intended to deter the citizens of Göttingen, Germany, from attending the performance of Jacob Philadelphia in 1777. The performance was supposed to be an exhibition of scientific experiments.
Lichtenburg (concentration camp) Lichtenburg was a Nazi concentration camp, housed in a Renaissance castle in Prettin, near Wittenberg in eastern Germany. Along with Sachsenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and operated by the SS from 1933 to 1939.
Lichtspielhaus Lichtspielhaus (German for "Cinema") is the German NDH-metal band Rammstein's second DVD. It is compilation of all their videos to date, some live performances, commercial advertisements and trailers, and "making-of"s.
Liir Liir is a supporting character in Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and the protagonist of its sequel, Son of a Witch. In the latter novel, he uses the names "Liir Thropp" and "Liir Ko.
Liisa Hyssälä Liisa Marja Hyssälä (born December 18 1948 in Ii) is a Finnish politician of the Centre Party. She has been a delegate to the Parliament of Finland since 1995 and Minister of Social Affairs and Health of Finland since 2003.
Lijagulep A Congolese Spotted Lion or more correctly lijagulep is the hybrid of a female leopard/jaguar cross (a jagulep or lepjag) with a male lion. Several lijaguleps have been bred, but only one appears to have been exhibited as a Congolese Spotted Lion.
Lijepa naša domovino Lijepa naša domovino ("Our Beautiful Homeland") is the national anthem of Croatia. It was the anthem of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, and became that of the Republic of Croatia upon the declaration of independence in 1991.
Lijmen/Het Been Lijmen/Het Been is a Dutch movie adapted from short stories by Willem Elsschot and directed by Robbe De Hert, starring Mike Vedrengh and Koen De Bouw. The movie was coproduced by Belgian and Dutch filmcompanies.
Lijnbaan The Lijnbaan is the main shopping street of Rotterdam. It has been opened in 1953, as the main street in the new shopping district, after the old shopping district got completely destroyed during the may 14th 1940 bombing by the German Luftwaffe.
Lik Sang Lik Sang (; literal: "powerful and energetic") was a popular distributor of Asian electronics. The company sold import games, toys, figures, anime-related items, and obscure adapters and controllers for various game platforms.
Lik-M-Aid Lik-M-Aid has been on the market in the United States, since at least the 'mid-20th century. It was manufactured by Sunmark Brands, which was bought out by Nestlé, and is now part of the Willy Wonka product line.
Lika Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. Today most of the territory of Lika is part of Lika-Senj county and some parts part of Karlovac county and Zadar county.
Lika-Krbava Lika-Krbava (in Croatian) or Lika-Korbava (in Hungarian) was the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the autonomous region Croatia-Slavonia within the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in south-western Croatia.
Lika-Senj County Lika-Senj county - Ličko-senjska županija is a county in Croatia that includes the Lika region and some northern coastline of the Adriatic near the town of Senj, including the northern part of the Pag island. Its center is Gospić.
Likar Ramos Concha Likar Ramos Concha (born September 8, 1985 in Barranquilla) is a boxer from Colombia, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native South American country. There he was stopped in the round of sixteen of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Belarussia's Mikhail Biarnadski.
Likasoft Archivarius 3000 Archivarius 3000 is a full-featured application to search documents and e-mail on the desktop computer, on local network and removable drives (CD, DVD). The documents can be searched by content, the same as with Internet search engines.
Likatier tribe The Likatier tribe (in German Stamm der Likatier, until 1998 known as Stamm FĂĽssen Eins) is a community of about 200 people (more than half being minors) who live and work together in FĂĽssen in the south of Germany. The group is not a tribe in the usual sense, since everyone can become a member; it owns several houses and businesses in the city, and critics sometimes view it as a cult or sect, although members do not share a common well-defined religious or spiritual belief system.
Likbez Likbez (Russian: ликбе́з IPA: from ликвида́ция безгра́мотности ) was a campaign of eradication of illiteracy in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s. It was started on December 26, 1919, when Lenin signed the decree "On eradication of illiteracy among the population of RSFSR" ("О ликвидации безграмотности среди населения РСФСР").
Like a Rat Does Cheese Like A Rat Does Cheese is song written and sung by Tré Cool of Green Day this song cannot be found on any single or album and does not receive airplay because of its offensive content. The song is about oral sex (Tré telling a girl to "suck his dick until her lips fall off").
Like a Rolling Stone "Like a Rolling Stone" is a song by Bob Dylan from his album Highway 61 Revisited. First issued in 1965, it represents, in its length (6:09), style, and scoring, one of the most influential of Dylan's songs.
Like a Stone "Like a Stone" is a song from Audioslave's 2002 self-titled debut album, Audioslave. The song is based around a simple guitar riff, and features one of guitarist Tom Morello's trademark high-pitched solos.
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is a graphic novel in English, written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. It follows a rather fantastic and paranoid story line, very different from the stark realism of Clowes' more widely known Ghost World.
Like an Ever Flowing Stream Like an Ever Flowing Stream is the debut album by Swedish death metal band Dismember, released in May of 1991 (see 1991 in music). The title may refer to the Biblical Book of Amos 5:24, "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (New International Version).

Information are taken from Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia, to which contribute many volunteers from around the whole world. Texts are available under the following conditions GNU Free Documentation License.