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La Chilindrina
La Chilindrina is the freckled, bespectacled child character of El Chavo del Ocho, created by Chespirito and played by María Antonieta de las Nieves from 1973; daughter of Don Ramón, her rights were registered by the actress in 1995 and confirmed by Mexico's Supreme Court.
La chimera
La Chimera is a 2023 drama by Alice Rohrwacher, her fourth feature, competing at Cannes 2023. Josh O'Connor plays Arthur, a British archaeologist joining Italian tombaroli robbing Etruscan tombs in 1980s Tuscany while mourning Beniamina; praised by critics and awarded at Nastri d'Argento and the European Film Awards.
La Chinoise
La Chinoise is Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 French political film about five students forming a Maoist cell in a Paris apartment, released 30 August 1967, starring Anne Wiazemsky and Jean-Pierre Léaud, Venice Special Jury Prize winner, and a precursor of May 68.
La Chona (song)
"La Chona" is a 1995 norteño song by Los Tucanes de Tijuana about a party-loving woman, famous for the trote dance, stadium anthem status, Metallica's 2024 cover, and Fortnite Festival feature.
La Ciénaga
La Ciénaga (The Swamp), 2001 Argentine drama, Lucrecia Martel's debut feature about two families decaying at a Salta finca; Alfred Bauer Award at Berlin, Sundance screenplay prize, landmark of New Argentine Cinema.
La Cinq
La Cinq: France's first national private free generalist TV channel, founded by Silvio Berlusconi, broadcasting 20 February 1986 to 12 April 1992 before liquidation by the Paris commercial tribunal.
La Cira Oil and Gas Field
La Cira-Infantas is an onshore oil field in the Middle Magdalena Valley of Santander, Colombia, discovered in 1918 and operated by Ecopetrol, with about 940 million barrels produced.
La cocina
La Cocina is a 2024 black-and-white drama by Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios, based on Arnold Wesker's 1957 play The Kitchen, set in a Times Square restaurant kitchen and starring Raúl Briones and Rooney Mara.
La Cocosa
La Cocosa (Villa Romana La Cocosa) is a large Roman peristyle villa 16 km south of Badajoz, Spain, discovered in 1944, excavated from 1945 by Serra Ráfols, occupied 1st-8th centuries, with a Triton mosaic and paleochristian complex, declared BIC in 2024.
La Coka Nostra
La Coka Nostra is a Boston-formed hip-hop supergroup (also styled LCN) uniting House of Pain's Everlast, Danny Boy, and DJ Lethal with Ill Bill, Slaine, and Big Left; albums A Brand You Can Trust (2009), Masters of the Dark Arts (2012), and To Thine Own Self Be True (2016).
La Colmena
La Colmena: 1951 postwar Madrid novel by Camilo José Cela, censored in Spain and first published in Buenos Aires, and its 1982 Mario Camus film adaptation that won the Berlin Golden Bear.
La Colombe Coffee Roasters
La Colombe Coffee Roasters is an American specialty coffee company founded in Philadelphia in 1994 by Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti, acquired by Chobani for $900 million in 2023.
La Colonia Formation
The La Colonia Formation is a Late Cretaceous to Paleogene marine rock unit in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina, known for its rich fossil vertebrates and plants.
La Comédie humaine (人间喜剧)
La Comédie humaine (人間喜劇, The Human Comedy) is a 2010 Hong Kong Cantonese parody comedy by Chan Hing-kai and Janet Chun, starring Chapman To and Wong Cho-lam as a hitman and screenwriter; Film Development Fund financed, HK Film Critics Society recommended film.
La Comunidad
La Comunidad (Common Wealth) is a 2000 Spanish black comedy by Álex de la Iglesia starring Carmen Maura as an estate agent who finds 300 million pesetas in a dead neighbor's Madrid flat; it was Spain's top-grossing Spanish film of 2000 and won three Goyas.
La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens
La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens (Jardín Botánico-Histórico La Concepción), a subtropical garden in Málaga, Spain, created 1855 by the Marquises of Casa Loring, city-owned since 1990, with 50,000+ plants of 3,000+ species.
La Condamine
La Condamine: French toponym and surname. Covers the Voconces villa-sanctuary site at Pontaix (Drôme), the Chasséen station at Saint-Aunès (Hérault), Alpine and Jura places, and the scientist Charles-Marie de La Condamine.
La Condoumine
La Condoumine (Condamine du Moulin) is a large Gallo-Roman villa at Puissalicon, Hérault, France, 13 km north of Béziers on the Libron; excavated by J.-P. Bacou (1971), about 6 hectares, marble finds, abandoned in the 5th century CE.
La Corte de Faraón
La corte de Faraón (also La corte del Faraón) is a 1910 Spanish one-act biblical operetta by Vicente Lleó, libretto by Perrín and Palacios, premiered at Madrid's Teatro Eslava; the emblematic sicalíptico zarzuela, banned under Franco and adapted in García Sánchez's 1985 film.
La Cosiata
La Cosiata was an 1826 political movement led by General José Antonio Páez in Valencia, Venezuela, against the Bogotá government, leading to Venezuela's separation from Gran Colombia in 1830.
La Côte-St-André
La Côte-Saint-André (La Côte-St-André) is a commune in Isère, France, a Savoyard planned new town of the late 13th century with France's largest timber-covered medieval hall (76 × 29 m), the Château Louis XI, and the 1888 Bronze Age char find at Le Rival; birthplace of Hector Berlioz.
La Coupole
La Coupole is a giant Second World War bunker at Helfaut-Wizernes near Saint-Omer, France, built by Nazi Germany in 1943–1944 to launch V-2 rockets at London.
La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France (avec FDJ) was ASO's women's one-day cycling race from 2014 to 2021, first run on the Champs-Élysées and won five times by Dutch riders including Marianne Vos and Annemiek van Vleuten, before being replaced by the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2022.
La Croix Sparkling Water
LaCroix (La Croix) sparkling water: zero-calorie, unsweetened flavored seltzer launched by G. Heileman Brewing in Wisconsin in 1980, owned by National Beverage Corp. since 1996, flavored by natural fruit essences, and a leading premium U.S. sparkling water brand.
La Crosse encephalitis
La Crosse encephalitis, caused by La Crosse virus (LACV), a California serogroup orthobunyavirus spread by Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes, is the leading pediatric arboviral encephalitis in the United States, affecting mainly children under 16 with seizures and, rarely, fatal outcomes.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
La Crosse, Wisconsin: Mississippi River city of 52,680 at the Black River confluence in the Driftless Region, founded 1841, incorporated 1856, a college town and regional health care and manufacturing hub.
La Cucaracha
La Cucaracha, the traditional Spanish-language corrido about a legless cockroach, predates the Mexican Revolution but became famous through revolutionary propaganda verses, the 1916 Canciones Mexicanas print, and the 1934 film Viva Villa.
La Cultura en México
La Cultura en México was a weekly cultural supplement of the Mexican magazine Siempre!, first issued in February 1962 and directed for much of its life by Fernando Benítez.
La Cuma, Monte Rinaldo
La Cuma, Monte Rinaldo: archaeological park in the Aso valley, Marche, Italy, holding a late-Republican Roman sanctuary (2nd-1st century BC) with a Tuscanic temple of Jupiter, Doric/Ionic-Italic portico, and sacellum; rediscovered 1957, excavated by Bologna and the British School at Rome since 2016.
La Cygne Generating Station
La Cygne Generating Station is a two-unit, coal-fired power plant in La Cygne, Kansas, owned by Evergy Metro and Evergy Kansas South, with units in service in 1973 and 1977.