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Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque is a small earthen mosque in Larabanga, Ghana, considered the country's oldest and one of the oldest in West Africa, traditionally dated to 1421.
Larache (العرائش)
Larache (العرائش) is a Moroccan Atlantic port city at the mouth of the Oued Loukkos, opposite the ancient ruins of Lixus, held by Spain 1610–1689 and 1911–1956, capital of a 513,936-person province.
Laraine Day
Laraine Day, born La Raine Johnson, was an American MGM contract actress (Dr. Kildare series, Foreign Correspondent, Mr. Lucky, The Locket), later 'The First Lady of Baseball' as Leo Durocher's wife.
Laraine Newman
Laraine Newman, born 1952, is an American comedian, actress, and voice artist, a founding Groundlings member and original Saturday Night Live cast member (1975–1980) who created Connie Conehead and later built a prolific animation voice career.
Larak (Sumer)
Larak, also written Larag, was an ancient Sumerian city in southern Mesopotamia, third of the five antediluvian cities in the Sumerian King List, whose site has not been identified.
Larama I
Larama I, also read Laramas, was a king of the Late Hittite kingdom of Gurgum, centered on modern Kahramanmaraş in southeastern Turkey, from about 960 BC.
Laramide orogeny
The Laramide orogeny was a mountain-building episode from about 75 to 40 million years ago that built much of the Rocky Mountains through thick-skinned, basement-cored uplifts.
Laramidia
Laramidia, the western Late Cretaceous landmass of North America formed by the Western Interior Seaway (about 95–68 Ma), hosted a major dinosaur radiation including ceratopsids and debated northern and southern faunal provinces, distinct from eastern Appalachia.
Laramie (TV series)
Laramie (TV series), American NBC Western 1959-1963, Revue Studios, John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, 124 episodes set in 1870s Wyoming Territory Sherman Ranch stage stop.
Laramie River Station
Laramie River Station is a three-unit, coal-fired power plant near Wheatland, Wyoming, with about 1,700 MW of capacity, operated by Basin Electric Power Cooperative since 1980.
Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming: high-plains college town at about 7,200 feet, founded 1868 on the Union Pacific Railroad, home of the University of Wyoming, Louisa Swain's 1870 vote, and the Wyoming Territorial Prison.
Laravel
Laravel is an open-source PHP web application framework created by Taylor Otwell and released in 2011, known for the Eloquent ORM and Blade templating engine.
Larazotide
Larazotide (larazotide acetate, AT-1001), an eight-amino-acid synthetic zonulin antagonist peptide for celiac disease; showed symptom benefit in phase 2 gluten-challenge and GFD trials, but its phase 3 CeDLara trial was discontinued in 2022.
Larb (ລາບ)
Larb (ລາບ, Thai ลาบ), also laap or laab, is the national minced meat or fish salad of Laos, eaten in Isaan Thailand, Shan State, and Yunnan, bound with khao khua toasted rice powder, herbs, and chili, served with sticky rice; a UNESCO-listed symbol of Lao identity.
Larbi Ben M'hidi
Larbi Ben M'hidi (محمد العربي بن مهيدي) was an Algerian revolutionary leader, a founder of the FLN who launched the 1954 insurrection and was executed by France in 1957.
Larçay
Larçay, commune in Indre-et-Loire on the left bank of the Cher near Tours, France, known for its late Roman castellum (81 x 66 m, built about 256-270 AD, never finished), a reused mausoleum, a Gallo-Roman villa at Bellevue, and the Bléré-Tours aqueduct.
Larcena Pennington Page
Larcena Ann Pennington Page Scott (1837–1913), Arizona pioneer captured by Apache in March 1860 near the Santa Rita Mountains; left for dead, she survived a sixteen-day return and later led the Society of Arizona Pioneers' Ladies' Auxiliary.
Larceny
Larceny, a common law property crime also called stealing or theft, is the trespassory taking and carrying away of another's personal property without consent, with intent to permanently deprive the owner; graded as petit or grand larceny by value.
Larceny (1996 film)
Larceny is Christopher Nolan's unreleased 1996 British black-and-white 16 mm short film, about eight minutes long, about an apartment burglary, screened at the 1996 Cambridge Film Festival and never publicly released.
Larch
Larch (Larix) is a genus of deciduous coniferous trees of the Northern Hemisphere, unusual for shedding golden needles in autumn, with 10–13 species, durable timber, and major pests including European larch canker and eastern larch beetle.
Larch arabinogalactan
Larch arabinogalactan (larch gum, ResistAid, E-409) is a water-soluble, highly branched 6:1 galactose:arabinose polysaccharide (15,000-60,000 Da) from Larix occidentalis and L. laricina heartwood, used as a food additive, prebiotic fiber, and supplement.
Lard
Lard is rendered pig fat, especially abdominal visceral fat, used in cooking and baking. Also called manteca de cerdo; distinguished from rendered pork fat and tallow. Contains 38-43% saturated fat, smoke point 121-218°C, once a major US export to the UK.
Lardarius Webb Jr.
Lardarius Webb Jr., Ravens cornerback and son of former Ravens DB Lardarius Webb Sr. (2009-17). Undrafted 2026 signing from Wake Forest after Jones College, Oklahoma State, and South Alabama; practice squad as of September 2026.
Larderello
Larderello is a hamlet of Pomarance near Pisa in Tuscany, Italy, where the world's first geothermal electricity was produced in 1904 and Europe's largest geothermal power complex now operates.
Lardon
Lardon (plural lardons; also lardoon): a small strip or cube of fatty bacon or pork fat, French in origin from lard, used in dishes such as coq au vin and quiche Lorraine or threaded into lean meat for larding.
Laredo Petroleum
Laredo Petroleum was an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on the Permian Basin of West Texas, founded by Randy Foutch in 2006.
Laredo, Texas
Laredo, Texas: city on the Rio Grande across from Nuevo Laredo, founded 1755 by Tomás Sánchez as Villa de San Agustín de Laredo; home of Port Laredo, the busiest U.S. cargo entry point, with about $339.7 billion in 2024 trade.
Laremy Tunsil
Laremy Tunsil, born 1994, is an NFL left tackle from Ole Miss, drafted 13th overall by Miami in 2016, later a five-time Pro Bowler with Houston and Washington and the NFL's highest-paid offensive tackle.
Larenz Tate
Larenz Tate (born 1975, Chicago) is an American actor known for O-Dog in Menace II Society, Love Jones, Ray, Crash, and Councilman Rashad Tate in Power, and as Berry Gordy in Michael (2026).
Lares
Lares (older form Lases) were Roman tutelary deities of household, crossroads, and travel, worshipped at lararia and at the Compitalia; renamed Lares Augusti after Augustus' 7 BC reform, and reinterpreted by Flower as gods of place, not ancestors.