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La Dama
La Dama: name for regional draughts games (Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Filipino dama) and a Canarian rock-carved 25-hole board game of Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife; compulsory maximum captures define Turkish dama.
La dama boba
La dama boba (The Foolish Lady) is a 1613 comedy by Lope de Vega about two sisters, the foolish Finea and the learned Nise, and their suitors.
La dama duende
La dama duende is a 1629 cloak-and-sword comedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, set in Madrid, where a widow's hidden door convinces a guest a ghost haunts him.
La Dame Blanche
La Dame Blanche is the stage name of Cuban singer and flautist Yaite Ramos Rodríguez, whose music fuses Afro-Cuban roots with hip hop, reggae, and cumbia.
La Dauphine Rupes
La Dauphine Rupes is a 252 km escarpment (rupes) on Mercury at 66.30°N, 26.62°W in the H-01 Borealis quadrangle, IAU-approved in 2014 and named for Verrazzano's 1524 French royal ship.
La Défense
La Défense: purpose-built business district west of Paris in Hauts-de-Seine, on the historic axis beyond the Arc de Triomphe. Europe's leading business district; 566 ha, 60 towers, raised pedestrian slab, Grande Arche, begun 1958 under EPAD.
La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse
La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse is a 1549 treatise by Joachim Du Bellay, manifesto of the Pléiade, urging French poetry to rival Latin.
La destrucción de la ciudad de México-Tenochtitlán
The destruction of Mexico-Tenochtitlan was the 1521 siege, capture, and demolition of the Mexica capital by Hernán Cortés and his mostly indigenous allies, ending the Mexica empire.
La destrucción o el amor
La destrucción o el amor (Destruction or Love) is a 1935 poetry collection by Vicente Aleixandre, a Spanish Generation of '27 poet and 1977 Nobel laureate.
La Diga Nord
La Diga Nord is the Italian name for the northern breakwater of a harbor mouth, notably at Malamocco, Lido, Chioggia, and Ravenna (Cavalcoli, 2250 m), plus alpine dams.
La Diga Sud
La Diga Sud (Italian, "the south dam") names several paired structures: the Venice Lido, Chioggia, and Ravenna south breakwaters and alpine dams at Lago Bianco, Gabiet, and Fontana Bianca, with dates, lengths, and construction details.
La Digue Reef
La Digue Reef is the fringing coral reef surrounding La Digue, the fourth-largest island of Seychelles, where more than 90% of live coral died in the 1998 bleaching event.
La Dispute (band)
La Dispute is an American post-hardcore band formed in 2004 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, fronted by vocalist Jordan Dreyer. Known for narrative concept albums including Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (2008), Wildlife (2011), Rooms of the House (2014), Panorama (2019), and No One Was Driving the Car (2025) on Epitaph Records.
La Dogana
La Dogana (a duana), Roman tower-shaped funerary mausoleum at Centuripe, Sicily, 2nd-3rd century AD, only upper floor visible; named for later reuse as a customs post; counterpart of the Castello di Corradino.
La Dolce Villa
La Dolce Villa is a 2025 Netflix romantic comedy directed by Mark Waters, starring Scott Foley as Eric, who travels to Italy to stop daughter Olivia (Maia Reficco) from restoring a one-euro villa, and falls for mayor Francesca (Violante Placido). Filmed in Tuscany and Lazio, released February 13, 2025.
La Dolce Vita
La dolce vita, Federico Fellini's 1960 Italy-France black-and-white comedy-drama starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg; unanimous 1960 Palme d'Or winner, source of the word paparazzi and the Trevi Fountain scene.
La Dolfina
La Dolfina is an Argentine high-handicap polo team founded by Adolfo Cambiaso in Cañuelas, known for winning three consecutive Argentine Triple Crowns from 2013 to 2015.
La domain
La domain (La motif, LaM): a conserved winged-helix-derived RNA-binding domain of the La autoantigen and La-related proteins (LARPs), binding UUU-3'OH RNA ends; distinct from the La protein itself and from bacterial La-like domains.
La Domenica del Corriere
La Domenica del Corriere was an Italian illustrated weekly, the Sunday supplement of Corriere della Sera from 1899 to 1989, famous for painted covers by Achille Beltrame.
La Doña (2016 TV series)
La Doña is an American-Mexican telenovela produced by Telemundo, adapted from Rómulo Gallegos's 1929 novel Doña Bárbara and starring Aracely Arámbula, which ran from 2016 to 2020.
La donna è mobile
"La donna è mobile" ("Woman is fickle") is the Duke of Mantua's tenor canzone from Act III of Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto, in B major and 3/8 time, kept secret before the premiere and famous worldwide since.
La duquesa Job
"La duquesa Job" is an 1884 poem by Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera depicting a young urban woman in Porfirian Mexico City, often called the first Mexican modernist poem.
La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve
La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera La Encrucijada) is a Pacific-coast protected wetland in Chiapas, Mexico, decreed 1995, Ramsar 1996, UNESCO MAB 2006, with Mexico's tallest mangroves threatened by invasive African oil palm.
La Escopeta Nacional
La escopeta nacional (The National Shotgun) is a 1978 Spanish satirical comedy by Luis García Berlanga and Rafael Azcona, first of the Leguineche trilogy, about a Catalan industrialist staging a hunt to sell intercoms to Franco-era elites; 2,063,043 admissions.
La estación violenta
La estación violenta is a 1958 poetry collection by Octavio Paz, published in Mexico by Fondo de Cultura Económica, gathering nine poems written between 1948 and 1957.
La Factoría
La Factoría, also written Factoría, is a Panamanian reggaeton group formed in 1999 by producer DJ Pablito, best known for the 2007 hit "Perdóname" with Eddy Lover.
La Faille
La Faille (The Wall) is a Quebec French-language crime thriller TV series by Frédéric Ouellet, produced by Pixcom for Club illico from 2019, starring Isabel Richer as detective Céline Trudeau across three seasons and 25 episodes.
La Familia Michoacana
La Familia Michoacana (LFM) is a Mexican drug cartel founded 2005-2006 in Michoacán by defectors from Los Zetas and the Milenio Cartel; known for pseudo-religious ideology, extortion, and violence, it fragmented in 2011 into the Knights Templar and persists through La Nueva Familia Michoacana and United Cartels.
La Famille Bélier
La Famille Bélier is a 2014 French comedy-drama directed by Éric Lartigau, about a hearing girl who is her deaf family's voice until music offers her a future.
La fanciulla del West
La fanciulla del West, also The Girl of the Golden West, is Puccini's three-act "American" opera to a Civinini-Zangarini libretto after Belasco's play, premiered at the Met on 10 December 1910 under Toscanini with Destinn, Caruso, and Amato.