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Largest known prime number
The largest known prime number, the Mersenne prime 2^136,279,841 − 1, has 41,024,320 digits and was found by Luke Durant via the GIMPS project in 2024.
Largest naval battle in history
Largest naval battle in history: title usually given to the Battle of Leyte Gulf (23–26 October 1944), where nearly 200,000 men and hundreds of ships fought four engagements across 100,000 square miles; rivals include Jutland.
Largest organisms
Largest organisms: record holders by measure include the blue whale (largest animal, up to 110 ft), General Sherman sequoia (largest tree by volume), Pando aspen clone (heaviest plant), Oregon's Armillaria fungus, and Shark Bay's Posidonia seagrass clone (largest by area).
Largest prehistoric animals
Largest prehistoric animals: record-holding fossil giants, from sauropod dinosaurs like Patagotitan (57 t) and Paraceratherium to megalodon and Archelon, compared with the 180-tonne blue whale, plus how fossil body size is estimated.
Largest remainder method
Largest remainder method (Hare–Niemeyer, Hamilton, Vinton method): quota-based proportional seat allocation; floor seats by Hare or Droop quota, leftover seats to largest remainders; satisfies quota but causes Alabama paradox.
LargeUp
LargeUp is a global platform for Caribbean music, arts, and culture, operating from New York since 2009 and known for its website, mix series, and record label.
Largo Desolato
Largo Desolato is a 1984 play in seven scenes by Václav Havel, about a dissident intellectual trapped between secret police pressure to recant and supporters urging him to stand firm.
Largo di Torre Argentina
Largo di Torre Argentina (Area Sacra di Largo Argentina) is a sunken archaeological square in Rome with four Republican temples (A–D), the Curia of Pompey where Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, a cat sanctuary, and the Burcardo museum.
Largo Preneste
Largo Preneste, a square in Rome's Prenestino-Labicano quarter on the Via Prenestina, home to the Sepulcher of Largo Preneste, a 2nd-3rd century AD brick tomb, and near the Torrione Prenestino mausoleum.
Largus Angenent
Largus T. Angenent, born 1969 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch environmental biotechnologist at the University of Tübingen, known for microbial electrochemistry and chain elongation.
Lari White
Lari White (1965–2018), American country singer, songwriter, producer, and actress; RCA hits 'That's My Baby' and 'Now I Know'; first woman to produce a male country superstar's platinum album (Toby Keith); appeared in Cast Away.
Larian Studios
Larian Studios, Belgian RPG developer founded 1996 in Gent by Swen Vincke; maker of the Divinity series and Baldur's Gate 3 (2023, 20+ million sales, Game of the Year winner); now building Divinity on a new engine.
Lariat debranching enzyme, C-terminal
C-terminal domain of Dbr1, the RNA lariat debranching enzyme that hydrolyzes the 2′–5′ bond of intron lariats; structured in protists, intrinsically disordered in metazoans, carries the nuclear localization signal and mediates TTDN1 activation.
Laridae
Laridae, the gull family (gulls, terns, noddies, skimmers; formerly Sternidae and Rynchopidae separate), is a Charadriiformes family within Lari, sister to the skuas-alcids clade, with about 50 gull species and generalist ecology.
Larimar
Larimar is a bluish, gem-quality variety of the mineral pectolite, found only in the Dominican Republic, where it was rediscovered in 1974 and made the national stone.
Larimar Therapeutics, Inc.
Larimar Therapeutics, Inc., founded as Zafgen in 2005, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, whose lead candidate nomlabofusp is in late-stage development for Friedreich's ataxia.
Larimichthys crocea
Larimichthys crocea (大黄鱼), the large yellow croaker, is a northwest Pacific sciaenid fish whose wild stocks collapsed after 1970s overfishing; it is now China's top marine aquaculture fish, IUCN Critically Endangered in the wild.
Larimichthys polyactis
Larimichthys polyactis, the small yellow croaker (Japanese キグチ), is a Sciaenidae fish endemic to the Bohai, Yellow, and East China Seas; a highly commercial bottom-trawl species now assessed as overexploited in the Yellow Sea.
Larinda Hooks
Larinda Hooks is an American Democratic politician and member of the New York State Assembly from the 35th district in Queens, including East Elmhurst, Corona, and Forest Hills.
Larinum Roman amphitheater
Flavian-era Roman amphitheater at Larinum (Larino, Molise), Italy, in Piana San Leonardo; partly cut into tufa, about 96 by 78 m, funded by testament of a local senator, later a necropolis.
Larisa (Turkey)
Larisa (Buruncuk), Greek Λάρισα, ancient Aeolian city on the Hermos river in Izmir Province, Turkey; Persian-rule fortified town of the 7th–4th centuries BC, abandoned early 3rd century BC, distinct from Larisa Phrikonis identifications and the Thessalian Larisa.
Larisa Aleksandrova Popova
Larisa Aleksandrova-Popova (Лариса Александрова-Попова), born 1957 in Tiraspol, is a Moldovan rower who won gold in the 1980 Moscow Olympic double sculls with Yelena Khloptseva, the first Olympic title for Moldova, plus 1976 silver and three world championships.
Larisa Fortress (Argolid)
Larisa Fortress (Κάστρο Λάρισας), the ancient and medieval acropolis of Argos, Greece, on a 289 m hill; fortified from Mycenaean times, a Byzantine-Frankish-Venetian-Ottoman castle used until 1821, first mentioned at its 1203 capture by Leon Sgouros.
Larisa Karlova
Larisa Karlova (Лариса Александровна Карлова, Larysa Oleksandrivna Karlova), born 1958 in Kyiv, Soviet/Ukrainian handball player; two Olympic golds (1976, 1980) and 1988 bronze with the USSR, Spartak Kyiv playmaker, distinct from other Larisas named Karlova.
Larisa Korobeynikova
Larisa Korobeynikova (Лариса Викторовна Коробейникова), born 1987 in Kurgan, is a Russian foil fencer with three Olympic medals: team silver at London 2012, team gold and individual bronze at Tokyo 2020.
Larisa Kurkina
Larisa Kurkina (Лариса Николаевна Куркина), born 1973, Russian cross-country skier; 2006 Turin Olympic gold in the 4x5 km relay, 2005 Worlds relay silver; retired 2011.
Larisa Latynina (Лариса Семёновна Латынина)
Larisa Latynina (Лариса Семёновна Латынина), Soviet gymnast born 1934 in Kherson, won 18 Olympic medals (9 gold) 1956-1964, the female record, and later coached the USSR women's team.
Larisa Lazutina
Larisa Lazutina (Лариса Лазутина, née Ptitsyna, born 1965), Russian cross-country skier; five Olympic golds and Nagano 1998 medals in all five events; disqualified for darbepoetin at Salt Lake City 2002 and banned two years.
Larisa Oleynik
Larisa Romanovna Oleynik, born 1981, in Santa Clara County, California, is an American actress and voice artist who became a 1990s teen idol as the title character of Nickelodeon's The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994–1998) and as Bianca Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999).
Larisa Petrik
Larisa Petrik (Лариса Петрик), Soviet artistic gymnast born 1949 in Dolinsk, Sakhalin; 1964 USSR all-around champion at 15, beating Latynina; 1968 Olympic gold in team and floor (tied with Čáslavská), beam bronze.