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Laugardalsvöllur
Laugardalsvöllur is Iceland's national football stadium in the Laugardalur district of Reykjavík, opened 17 June 1959. Home of the national teams, cup finals, and European club matches; capacity listed between 9,800 and 15,000.
Laugaricio
Laugaricio (Leugaricio), a Roman winter camp of 179/180 AD at today's Trenčín, Slovakia, where 855 soldiers of Legio II Adiutrix under M. Valerius Maximianus wintered during the Marcomannic Wars; known from the castle-rock inscription, the camp itself remains unlocated.
Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch (1892–1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer who mapped North Greenland by dog sledge and led East Greenland expeditions from 1926 to 1958.
Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy
Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy collects three extended Family Guy specials parodying the original Star Wars films: Blue Harvest (2007), Something, Something, Something, Dark Side (2010), and It's a Trap! (2011), released unedited on Blu-ray and DVD December 21, 2010.
Laugh track
Laugh track: recorded or canned laughter added to TV and radio comedy so it sounds like an audience is laughing. Invented by Charley Douglass's Laff Box; first used on The Hank McCune Show, NBC, September 9, 1950; meta-analysis shows positive effect on viewers (r = .391).
Laugh-O-Gram Studio
Laugh-O-Gram Studio, also called Laugh-O-Gram Films, was Walt Disney's first animation studio in Kansas City, Missouri (1922-1923), producing the Newman Laugh-O-grams and fairy-tale cartoons before bankruptcy; alumni included Ub Iwerks, Rudolf Ising, Hugh Harman, and Friz Freleng.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 MGM silent romantic drama directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Lon Chaney as clown Tito Beppi and 14-year-old Loretta Young, adapted from the Belasco-Cushing play based on Pagliacci; nominated for Best Title Writing.
Laugharne
Laugharne (Welsh: Talacharn) is a small town and medieval borough in Carmarthenshire, south-west Wales, on the Taf estuary, known for its Norman castle and its association with Dylan Thomas.
Laughing Bird Cay
Laughing Bird Cay (Laughing Bird Caye) is a 1.4-acre Belizean island on a coral faro 11 miles off Placencia, Stann Creek District, the core of Laughing Bird Caye National Park, a no-take UNESCO World Heritage component known for Fragments of Hope coral restoration; a same-named island exists in Eleuthera, Bahamas.
Laughing Buddha (film)
Laughing Buddha (Kannada: ಲಾಫಿಂಗ್ ಬುದ್ಧ) is a 2024 Kannada comedy-drama directed by M. Bharath Raj, produced by Rishab Shetty, starring Pramod Shetty as constable Govardhan; distinct from the 2021 Malayalam film Laughing Budha.
Laughing kookaburra
Laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), a large Australian kingfisher famed for its laughing territorial dawn call. Native to eastern Australia; introduced to Tasmania, Western Australia, and New Zealand; cooperative breeder, IUCN Least Concern.
Laughing Stock
Laughing Stock, Talk Talk's fifth and final studio album, released 16 September 1991 on Verve/Polydor; recorded at Wessex Studios 1990-91 with Tim Friese-Greene, Phill Brown, about 50 musicians; UK chart No. 26; foundational post-rock influence.
Laughlin wavefunction
The Laughlin wavefunction is a variational many-body wavefunction proposed by Robert Laughlin in 1983 describing the fractional quantum Hall effect as an incompressible quantum liquid.
Laughlin, Nevada
Laughlin, Nevada is an unincorporated resort town on the Colorado River in Clark County, named after casino owner Don Laughlin and home to eight casino resorts.
Laughter
Laughter: rhythmic social vocalization shared with great apes for about 15 million years, signaling harmless intentions via reward, affiliation, and dominance functions, driven by dual cingulo-temporal and motor-opercular brain systems.
Laughter Chefs – Unlimited Entertainment
Laughter Chefs – Unlimited Entertainment is an Indian comedy cooking reality show on Colors TV and JioHotstar, produced by Optimystix Entertainment, adapted from Cooku with Comali, hosted by Bharti Singh and judged by chef Harpal Singh Sokhi, running three seasons since June 1, 2024.
Laughter Therapy
Laughter therapy (humor therapy): complementary therapy using humor, laughter exercises, laughter yoga, and clowning to improve well-being; MeSH D027641, introduced 2002; meta-analyses show moderate mental health benefits with low study quality.
Laugo Alien
The Laugo Alien, also known as the Laugo Arms Alien, is a Czech semi-automatic competition pistol in 9mm, designed by Ján Lučanský and first shown in 2019.
Lauha Parpati
Parpati Lauha (Lauha Parpati, लौहपर्पटी) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral flake medicine of Kajjali (mercury-sulphur) with Lauha Bhasma, used for malabsorption, anaemia, and digestive disorders; AFI Part 1 formulation 16:4, no expiry date assigned.
Laūma Dorsa
Laūma Dorsa (Lauma Dorsa) is a 1,517-km ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 64.8°N, 190.4°E, IAU-named in 1985 for a Latvian sky witch; a deformation belt debated as extensional or compressional, with an associated sheet lava flow field.
Laumellum
Laumellum (Greek Λαύμελλον), Roman vicus or small town at modern Lomello, Pavia, Lombardy, in Regio XI Transpadana; a road station 12 miles from Cutias on the Tabula Peutingeriana, named by Ptolemy, Ammianus, and the Vicarello beakers.
Launceston Elliot
Launceston Elliot (1874–1930), Scottish weightlifter born in British India, won the one-hand lift with 71 kg at Athens 1896, becoming Britain's first Olympic champion, plus silver in the two-hand lift behind Viggo Jensen.
Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston, Tasmania: Australia's third-oldest city, at the North Esk–South Esk confluence forming the Kanamaluka/Tamar Estuary; over 71,000 residents, founded 1804 by William Paterson, a UNESCO City of Gastronomy.
Launch cost and price comparisons
Launch cost and price comparisons, also known as comparison of orbital launcher families, measure how much it costs to reach orbit, usually in dollars per kilogram to low Earth orbit.
Launch escape system
A launch escape system, or launch abort system, separates a crewed spacecraft from a failing launch vehicle on the pad or during ascent, returning the crew by parachute.
Launch pad
A launch pad, also called a launching pad, is a reinforced site where rockets are held, fueled, and fired at liftoff, with flame trenches and sound suppression.
Launch power optimization
Launch power optimization is the process of choosing the optical power each WDM channel launches into a fiber link, balancing OSNR gains against nonlinear interference that grows with the cube of power.
Launch vehicle
A launch vehicle, also known as a space launch vehicle, is a rocket-powered vehicle that carries a spacecraft from Earth into orbit or onto a trajectory beyond it.
Launch window
A launch window is the span of time during which a launch may take place while satisfying safety and mission constraints, at daily and planetary scales.
Launching gantry
A launching gantry, also called a launching girder or launcher gantry, is a self-propelled overhead steel truss that erects precast segmental bridges without ground cranes.