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Lata Mangeshkar Award (Madhya Pradesh government)
The National Lata Mangeshkar Award (राष्ट्रीय लता मंगेशकर सम्मान) is a Madhya Pradesh government honor for music direction and playback singing, presented annually in Indore since 1984.
Lata Sabharwal
Lata Sabharwal, also credited as Lataa Saberwal, is an Indian actress known as Rajshri Maheshwari in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2009–2021) and its spin-off, with film roles in Vivah, Ishq Vishk, and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo; she quit daily soaps in 2021.
Lata Wankhede
Lata Wankhede is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Sagar constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after chairing the state women's commission.
Latacunga
Latacunga, capital of Cotopaxi province, Ecuador, Andean city at about 2,750 m near Cotopaxi volcano; 2022 canton population 217,261; known for lahar risk, floriculture, and the Mama Negra festival.
Latady Island
Latady Island: ice-covered Antarctic island in the Bellingshausen Sea at 70°45′S 74°35′W, west of Alexander Island, about 80 km south of Charcot Island; covered by BAS 2025 regional maps.
Latady Mountains
Latady Mountains: mountain group at 74°45′S 64°18′W on the southern Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula; namesake of the Upper Jurassic Latady Formation and the Latady Basin's Latady Group.
Latah
Latah (melatah), a Southeast Asian culture-specific startle syndrome of Malaysia and Indonesia, marked by exaggerated startle with echolalia, echopraxia, coprolalia, and forced obedience, mainly in Malay women; debated as disorder versus social role.
Latakia (اللاذقية)
Latakia (اللاذقية), ancient Laodicea ad Mare, is Syria's main Mediterranean port city and capital of Latakia governorate, founded by Seleucus I, with a Roman tetrapylon and a port that resumed full-capacity operations in 2025.
Latakia Governorate
Latakia Governorate (محافظة اللاذقية) is one of Syria's fourteen governorates, in the far northwest on the Mediterranean coast, with the port city of Latakia as its capital.
LATAM Airlines Flight 800
LATAM Airlines Flight 800 was a Boeing 787-9 flight that abruptly dropped during cruise from Sydney to Auckland on 11 March 2024, injuring about 50 people.
LATAM Airlines Group
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. is a Chilean airline holding company formed in 2012 through the merger of LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines; it is South America's largest airline group.
Latamoxef
Latamoxef, also known as moxalactam, is a broad-spectrum synthetic oxa-beta-lactam antibiotic of the cephalosporin family, discovered by Shionogi, given intravenously, and limited chiefly by bleeding risk.
Latanoprost
Latanoprost (Xalatan) is a prostaglandin F2α analogue eye drop, first US-approved 1996, that lowers intraocular pressure in open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension via increased uveoscleral outflow, dosed once daily at 0.005%.
Latanoprostene bunod
Latanoprostene bunod (Vyzulta) is a nitric oxide-donating prostaglandin F2α analogue eye drop, FDA approved November 2017, that lowers intraocular pressure in open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension via a dual outflow mechanism.
Latarjet procedure
The Latarjet procedure stabilizes a shoulder with recurrent anterior instability by transferring the coracoid process and its attached tendon to the glenoid, fixed with screws.
Lätäseno-Hietajoki Mires
Lätäseno-Hietajoki Mires (Lätäsenon-Hietajoen suot), Ramsar Site 1520 in Enontekiö, Lapland: a 43,367 ha palsa mire and river complex protected since 1988, part of Käsivarren erämaa Natura 2000 area.
LaTavia Roberson
LaTavia Roberson, born 1981 in Houston, is an American R&B singer and founding member of Destiny's Child, co-writer of "Say My Name" and "Bills, Bills, Bills," two-time Grammy winner, dismissed in 2000, later actress, author-in-progress, and nonprofit founder.
Latavius Murray
Latavius Murray (born 1990) is an American NFL running back from UCF, drafted 181st overall by Oakland in 2013; a 2015 Pro Bowler who later played for the Vikings, Saints, Ravens, Broncos, and Bills.
LATCH (child restraint system)
LATCH, or Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children, is the standardized United States vehicle hardware system for attaching child restraints without the vehicle seat belt.
Latch-up
Latch-up is a CMOS integrated circuit failure mode in which a transient triggers a sustained high-current path between power and ground until power is removed.
Latchiya Jananayaka Katchi
Latchiya Jananayaka Katchi (லட்சிய ஜனநாயகக் கட்சி, LJK) is a Puducherry political party founded December 14, 2025 by Jose Charles Martin; it joined the NDA, won Kamaraj Nagar in 2026 with 2.32% vote share, and is distinct from Tamil Nadu's IJK.
Latchkey kid
Latchkey kid, also latchkey child, is a school-age child home alone after school because parents work. Term recorded from 1944-45 wartime usage; label for Generation X; research finds few consistent harms.
Late Antique Little Ice Age
The Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) was a proposed cold interval in the Northern Hemisphere from 536 to about 660 AD, triggered by volcanic eruptions.
Late antiquity
Late antiquity is the period of European and Mediterranean history between about 250 and 750 CE, when the Greco-Roman world was transformed into medieval western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.
Late Autumn (秋日和)
Late Autumn (秋日和, Akibiyori) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1960 Shochiku color drama, released November 13, 1960, starring Setsuko Hara as a widow whose remarriage scheme frees her daughter to marry; it reworks Late Spring with a mother-daughter pair.
Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
Serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (2002, ref 1024rev) of eight south-eastern Sicilian towns, Caltagirone, Catania, Modica, Noto, Ragusa among them, rebuilt in late Baroque style after the 11 January 1693 M 7.3 earthquake.
Late blight resistance protein R1A-like, N-terminal
N-terminal region of R1A-like NB-LRR late blight resistance proteins encoded at the R1 locus of Solanum demissum; race-specific receptor against Phytophthora infestans used in potato breeding since 1951.
Late bloomer
Late bloomer: a person whose abilities, achievements, or offending emerge later than peers'. Covers US late-blooming college graduates (~20% after age 30), late-onset offenders (~13% of RYDS), and pubertal timing effects.
Late Bronze Age collapse
Late Bronze Age collapse: the decline of eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern states and palace economies around 1200 BC. Hittite kingdom fell, Mycenaean palaces ended; causes debated (drought, Sea Peoples, earthquakes, trade breakdown); no single cause; not universal.
Late Bronze Age tin trade
The Late Bronze Age tin trade moved tin from Anatolia and Central Asia to the Near East, documented at Kültepe and by the Uluburun shipwreck.