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Latvian Writers' Union
The Latvian Writers' Union (Latvijas Rakstnieku savienība, LRS) is a professional organization uniting Latvian writers, scholars, and translators, founded in 1940 and renamed in 1990.
Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty
Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty (Latvijas–Krievijas miera līgums), also called the 1920 Treaty of Riga: peace treaty signed at Riga 11 August 1920, by which Soviet Russia recognized Latvian independence, renounced all sovereign rights, and paid 4,000,000 gold roubles.
Latvians
Latvians (latvieši) are the Baltic-speaking people of Latvia, formed from the Curonian, Semigalian, Selonian, and Latgalian tribes; 63.8% of Latvia's 1.845 million residents in 2026, speaking Latvian, one of two surviving Baltic languages.
Latvijas Radio
Latvijas Radio, also known as Radio of Latvia, is the public radio broadcaster of Latvia. Founded in 1925, it ran channels like LR2 and merged into Latvijas Sabiedriskais medijs in 2025.
Latvju dainas
Latvju dainas is the first complete scholarly edition of Latvian folk songs, compiled by Krišjānis Barons and published in six volumes between 1894 and 1915 in Jelgava and St Petersburg.
Latyna Humphrey
Latyna M. Humphrey is an American politician and Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives representing the 2nd district, centered on Columbus, with criminal justice reform and housing access among her priorities.
Lau (Martian crater)
Lau is an impact crater on Mars, IAU Gazetteer feature 3296, centered near 74.22°S, 107.80°W with a diameter of about 105 km; distinct from the Lau Basin and Lau Ridge on Earth.
Lau Basin
The Lau Basin is a back-arc basin in the southwest Pacific Ocean behind the Tonga Arc, where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Australian Plate.
Lau family
Lau family (FIN 619), asteroid family in the outer main belt named after 10811 Lau; 56 members at 120 m/s cutoff, possible young family, 10-object CX halo at 490 m/s, possible interloper (36824).
Lauana Prado
Lauana Prado is a Brazilian sertanejo singer and songwriter from Goiânia, a leading voice of feminejo, best known for the 2018 hit "Cobaia" and her Raiz live albums.
Laubendorf
Laubendorf names several places: a district of Langenzenn in Bavaria (first recorded 1237, St. Georg church, Protestant since 1525) and the Bohemian village now called Pomezí, plus an ancient church site in the Barrington Atlas.
Laubeuf Fjord
Laubeuf Fjord (Fiord Laubeuf, Seno Laubeuf) is a 25-mile-long Antarctic sound between Adelaide Island and the Loubet Coast, charted by Charcot in 1909 and named for engineer Maxime Laubeuf.
Laubry-Pezzi syndrome
Laubry-Pezzi syndrome, or ventricular septal defect with aortic insufficiency, is a rare congenital heart malformation in which an aortic cusp prolapses into a VSD via the Venturi effect, causing aortic regurgitation; described by Laubry and Pezzi in 1921.
Lauca Biosphere Reserve
Lauca Biosphere Reserve, Reserva de la Biósfera Lauca, a UNESCO MAB site in Chile's far-north Andean puna, designated 1981 and extended 2021 to 1,026,567 ha across General Lagos, Putre, and Camarones, with Aymara communities and about one-third of Chile's fauna.
Laúca hydroelectric plant
The Laúca hydroelectric plant is a 2,070 MW hydropower complex on the Kwanza River in Angola, the country's largest, supplying about 40 percent of its electricity.
Lauchheim
Lauchheim is a small town on the River Jagst in the Ostalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany, about 80 kilometers east of Stuttgart, known for its large excavated early medieval cemetery.
Lauda (airline)
Lauda, also known as Laudamotion or LaudaMotion, is a European low-cost airline founded by Niki Lauda in 2018, sold to Ryanair in 2018, and operating Airbus A320 aircraft for the Ryanair Group.
Lauda Air
Lauda Air was an Austrian airline founded in 1979 by Formula 1 champion Niki Lauda, absorbed by Austrian Airlines and retired as a brand in 2013.
Lauda Air Flight 004
Lauda Air Flight 004 was a Boeing 767 flying from Bangkok to Vienna that broke up in flight in 1991 after a thrust reverser deployed, killing all 223 aboard.
Laudanum
Laudanum, an alcoholic tincture of opium, was named by Paracelsus in the 16th century and popularized by Thomas Sydenham's 1667 recipe; it dominated Victorian home medicine, caused widespread poisoning deaths, and survives as Schedule II opium tincture.
Laudato si'
Laudato si' is a 2015 encyclical letter of Pope Francis on care for the environment, the first encyclical in the Catholic Church devoted to ecology.
Lauder Brunton
Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, first baronet (1844–1916), was a Scottish-born physician and pharmacologist who first reported amyl nitrite relieving angina pectoris in 1867 and wrote the first comprehensive pharmacology textbook.
Lauderdale power station
Lauderdale power station is a Florida Power & Light generating site in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, hosting FPL's first plant since 1927 and the Dania Beach Clean Energy Center.
Laudi
Laudi, also called laude or lauda, are informal non-liturgical religious songs in the Italian vernacular that flourished from the mid-13th century, with Jacopone da Todi as their greatest author.
Laue (lunar crater)
Laue, lunar crater, Feature ID 3297, about 89.17 km across at 28.29°N, -97.05°E on the Moon; IAU-approved 1970, named for German physicist and Nobel laureate Max von Laue (1879-1960).
Laue diffraction
Laue diffraction is a crystallographic method in which a stationary crystal is hit by polychromatic X-rays, recording many diffraction spots in a single exposure; spot positions report orientation and lattice quality.
Laufey
Laufey (Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir), Icelandic-Chinese jazz-pop singer-cellist from Reykjavík, Los Angeles-based; TikTok breakout, albums Everything I Know About Love, Bewitched, A Matter of Time; two Grammy wins for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
Laufey Regio
Laufey Regio is a low, elongated volcanic topographic rise on Venus, about 1000 by 2000 km and 0.5 km high in northern Navka Planitia, IAU-named in 2000 for a Norse giantess, dominated by Var and Atanua Montes and interpreted as an extinct, late-stage plume rise.
Laufilitonga
Laufilitonga (c. 1797–1865) was the 39th and last Tuʻi Tonga, the sacred paramount ruler of Tonga; his death in 1865 ended a dynasty a thousand years old.
Lauga
Lauga is the formal oratory of Samoa, delivered by matai, chiefs and talking chiefs, at weddings, funerals, meetings, and title ceremonies across the Samoan world.