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Larisa Savkina
Larisa Savkina (Лариса Михайловна Савкина), born 1955 in Rustavi, is a retired Soviet handball player and 1980 Moscow Olympics gold medalist who played for Automobilist Baku, appearing in all five matches and scoring one goal.
Larissa (ancient city)
Larissa (Λάρισα, Larisa, Pelasgis), ancient capital of Pelasgiotis in Thessaly on the Peneios river; Aleuadai seat, 5th-century artistic center, Macedonian 344-196 BC, Thessalian League capital. Distinct from Larisa in Aeolis and Syrian Larissa.
Larissa (asteroid)
Larissa (Neptune VII, S/1989 N 2) is a small, dark, heavily cratered inner moon of Neptune, about 190 km across, orbiting at 73,600 km in 13.3 hours; detected in 1981 and confirmed by Voyager 2 in 1989.
Larissa (Λάρισα)
Larissa (Λάρισα), capital of Thessaly, Greece, on the Pinios River; largest city of Thessaly, about 160,000 municipal residents, same site for 8,000 years, hit by 2023 Storm Daniel floods.
Larissa Adler Lomnitz
Larissa Adler Lomnitz (1932–2019) was a French-born Chilean-Mexican anthropologist at UNAM whose 1975 book on how Mexico City's urban poor survived through exchange networks became a classic of urban anthropology.
Larissa Chasma
Larissa Chasma is a 150 km chasma (trough system) on Saturn's moon Dione, IAU-approved in 1982, centered at 28.98°N 69.50°W, named for the Thessalian town of Larissa, Achilles' native region; distinct from Neptune's moon Larissa.
Larissa FastHorse
Larissa FastHorse, Sicangu Lakota Nation (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) playwright, choreographer, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow from South Dakota. Her satire The Thanksgiving Play made her the first known Native American female playwright on Broadway (2023) and the first Native playwright on American Theatre's most-produced list. Co-founder of Indigenous Direction; Guggenheim Fellow 2025.
Larix
Larix (larches) is a genus of deciduous conifers in Pinaceae, the only widespread conifer genus shedding its needles annually. Species include L. decidua, L. gmelinii, L. laricina, and L. lyallii, cold-adapted trees of boreal and treeline habitats.
Larix decidua
Larix decidua, European larch, is a deciduous conifer (Pinaceae) native to the Alps, Sudetes, and Carpathians, widely planted for durable timber, Venice turpentine, and the vigorous hybrid Dunkeld larch.
Larix gmelinii
Larix gmelinii, Dahurian larch (落叶松), a deciduous conifer of Pinaceae native from Siberia to Kamchatka and China; dominates permafrost of northeastern Eurasia, tree line to 70°N, with varieties japonica, olgensis, principis-rupprechtii.
Larix kaempferi
Larix kaempferi (Japanese larch, karamatsu, カラマツ) is a deciduous conifer native to central Honshu, Japan, introduced to the West in 1861 and widely planted for timber; known for canker resistance, hybrid vigor with L. decidua, and Phytophthora ramorum dieback.
Larix laricina
Larix laricina, tamarack or eastern larch (hackmatack), is a deciduous North American conifer of bogs and muskegs from the Atlantic to Alaska, with yellow autumn needles, pulpwood timber, and eastern larch beetle outbreaks in Minnesota.
Lark
Larks (family Alaudidae) are 93–100 species of open-country passerine birds of Africa and Eurasia, known for elaborate flight song, cryptic soil-matching plumage, ground nesting, and repeated desert colonization.
Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series)
BBC One costume drama series 2008-2011, four series, adapted by Bill Gallagher from Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical trilogy; Laura Timmins apprentices at Dorcas Lane's Candleford post office; about seven million viewers.
Lark Technologies, Inc.
Lark Technologies, Inc., doing business as Lark Health, is a privately held digital-health company founded by Julia Hu in 2011 in Mountain View, California, offering AI-powered coaching for chronic disease management.
Lark Voorhies
Lark Voorhies (born 1974, Nashville) is an American actress best known as Lisa Turtle on Good Morning, Miss Bliss and Saved by the Bell (1989-93), with soap roles on Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful and a 2021 revival return.
Larkana (city)
Larkana (Larkano), Sindh, Pakistan: 17th largest city, headquarters of Larkana District (est. 1901), formerly Chandka and the 'City of Gardens'; near Mohenjo-daro, rice trade center, flood-prone.
Larkana (district)
Larkana District (Sindhi: لاڑکانو), Sindh, Pakistan; headquarters Larkana city; formed 1 August 1901 from Karachi and Shikarpur districts; 1,948 km², 1,784,453 people (2023), four tehsils, Mohenjo-daro, rice belt.
Larkhall
Larkhall is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, south-east of Hamilton, formerly a mining and textiles town, now predominantly residential, with over 15,000 residents and a rail link to Glasgow reopened in December 2005.
Larkin Poe
Larkin Poe are Rebecca and Megan Lovell, an Atlanta-born, Nashville-based sister duo playing self-produced Southern blues and roots rock on Tricki-Woo Records, formed in 2010 after the Lovell Sisters, with 2024 Grammy winner Blood Harmony and 2025 album Bloom.
Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Larks' Tongues in Aspic is King Crimson's fifth studio album (March 1973), the debut of the Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross, and Muir lineup, a violin-driven progressive rock landmark that launched a multi-decade Larks' pentalogy.
Larmor (lunar crater)
Larmor is a 99-kilometer-wide impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named by the IAU in 1970 for British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor.
Larmor formula
The Larmor formula, or Larmor radiation, gives the total power radiated by an accelerating point charge at nonrelativistic speeds, proportional to the square of the acceleration.
Larmor precession
Larmor precession is the rotation of a magnetic moment about the axis of an applied magnetic field at a rate proportional to the field strength.
Larmor radius
The Larmor radius, or gyroradius, is the radius of a charged particle's circular motion perpendicular to a magnetic field, a basic length scale in plasma physics.
Larnaca (Λάρνακα)
Larnaca (Λάρνακα), also Kition/Citium, is Cyprus's third largest city, a south-coast port built over an ancient Mycenaean and Phoenician city-kingdom, birthplace of Zeno the Stoic, with excavated temples, ship sheds, and a €400 million port redevelopment.
Larnaca International Airport
Larnaca International Airport (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Λάρνακας), also known as Larnaca Airport, is Cyprus' main international gateway, opened in 1975 near the city of Larnaca.
Larnax tas Lapithou inscription
The Larnax tas Lapithou inscription is a Phoenician dedication to Melqart on a marble statue pedestal from Cyprus, dated to 274–273 BC and held by the Louvre.
Laroc
Laroc, also known as Club Laroc, is an open-air electronic-music nightclub in Valinhos, São Paulo, Brazil. Opened in 2015, it holds 5,000 people and calls itself Brazil's first "sunset club".
Laromustine
Laromustine (VNP40101M, Cloretazine, Onrigin) is a sulfonylhydrazine alkylating prodrug releasing 90CE and methyl isocyanate; studied in AML, unapproved, development halted after 2009 ODAC.