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La Honda, California
La Honda is an unincorporated census designated place in the redwood forests of southern San Mateo County, California, along Highway 84. Founded around John L. Sears' 1861-62 store, it is a low-density rural community in the La Honda Creek watershed.
La Hotte Biosphere Reserve
La Hotte Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2016 in south-eastern Haiti, covering 435,193 ha of terrestrial and marine areas around the Massif de la Hotte and Macaya National Park, Haiti's most biodiverse region.
La Huérguina Formation
La Huérguina Formation (Formación La Huérguina), Upper Barremian limestone unit in Serranía de Cuenca, Spain, hosting the Las Hoyas Konservat-Lagerstätte: ~126 Ma freshwater wetland, ~20,000 soft-tissue fossils, ~250 species, 25% endemic.
La Ilusión Viaja en Tranvía
La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar) is a 1954 Mexican comedy by Luis Buñuel, produced by Clasa Films Mundiales, in which tram workers Caireles and Tarrajas steal tram 133 before it is scrapped.
La India (musician)
La India is the stage name of Linda Viera Caballero, a Puerto Rico-born salsa singer raised in the South Bronx, known as La Princesa de la Salsa.
La Inolvidable Banda Agua de la Llave
La Inolvidable Banda Agua de la Llave is a Mexican banda group formed in 2007 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, led by Maikel Medina and known for 'La Última Vez'.
La Isla Bonita
La Isla Bonita: 1986 Madonna song from True Blue, written with Patrick Leonard and Bruce Gaitsch, originally offered to Michael Jackson; UK number one, US number four.
La Isla Mínima
La Isla Mínima (Marshland), 2014 Spanish thriller by Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos, set in 1980 in the Guadalquivir marshes; two Madrid detectives hunt a killer of teenage girls. Won 10 Goyas from 17 nominations, including Best Film.
La Jaula de Oro
La jaula de oro (The Golden Cage), 2013 film by Diego Quemada-Díez, a Mexico-Spain drama about Guatemalan teenage migrants riding La Bestia freight trains to the US; Cannes Un Certain Talent winner, distinct from Ruben Alves' comedy La Cage Dorée.
La Jetée
La Jetée (1962) is Chris Marker's 28-minute French photo-roman short, told almost entirely in still black-and-white photographs, about time travel after World War III destroys Paris; it won the 1963 Prix Jean Vigo and inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.
La Jeune Belgique
La Jeune Belgique was a Belgian review of art and literature published in Brussels from 1881 to 1897, central to the rise of Belgian francophone letters.
La Jeune Captive
La Jeune Captive is an elegy by the French poet André Chénier, written in 1794 at Saint-Lazare prison and inspired by his fellow prisoner Aimée de Coigny.
La Jeune Parque
La Jeune Parque is a long French poem by Paul Valéry, published in 1917: 512 alexandrine verses that ended his twenty-year silence and made him the leading French poet.
La Joaqui
La Joaqui is the stage name of Joaquinha Lerena De La Riva (born 1994), an Argentine singer and rapper described as a referent of RKT, the Argentine mix of reggaetón and cumbia villera.
La Jolla
La Jolla, nicknamed The Jewel, is an affluent coastal community of about 5,718 acres in northern San Diego, California, founded by the 1887 Grand Auction, home to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and the Salk Institute, and the site of a 2020s cityhood secession effort.
La Jornada Semanal
La Jornada Semanal is the Sunday cultural supplement of the Mexican daily La Jornada, published in Mexico City since 1984 and directed by writers including Juan Villoro.
La Joya Independent School District
La Joya Independent School District, also known as La Joya ISD, is a public school district in western Hidalgo County in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, serving over 21,000 students.
La Jument
La Jument (Phare de la Jument) is an active French lighthouse built from 1904 to 1911 off Ouessant in the Iroise Sea, made famous by Jean Guichard's 1989 photograph of a keeper facing a giant wave.
La Keisha Jackson
La Keisha Jackson is an American Democratic politician and member of the Indiana Senate, representing District 34 since 2024 after the death of Senator Jean Breaux.
LA Knight
LA Knight (Shaun Ricker, born 1982), also known as Eli Drake and briefly Max Dupri, is an American WWE wrestler, two-time United States Champion and former Million Dollar Champion, famous for catchphrase-driven promos compared to The Rock and Steve Austin.
La La Anthony
La La Anthony (Alani Nicole Vazquez, born 1979, Brooklyn) is an American actress, producer and former MTV VJ known for Total Request Live, Power's LaKeisha Grant, BMF, The Chi, The Love Playbook, and her 2010-2021 marriage to Carmelo Anthony.
La La La (Naughty Boy song)
"La La La" is a 2013 single by UK producer Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith, released via Virgin. It gave both their first UK Number 1, sold 145,000 copies in week one, became the UK's 148th million-selling single, and features a Bolivia-set Wizard of Oz-influenced video.
La La Land
La La Land is a 2016 American musical film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. It won 6 Oscars, a record 7 Golden Globes and 5 BAFTAs, and tied the 14-nomination Oscar record before Moonlight took Best Picture.
La La Land Kind Cafe
La La Land Kind Cafe is a Dallas coffee shop chain founded in 2019 by Francois Reihani that employs and mentors youth aging out of foster care.
La Lagaste, Pomas-et-Rouffiac
La Lagaste (Camp dal Ker) is a Gaulish market oppidum at Pomas and Rouffiac-d'Aude, Aude, France, on the Malepère foothills. Occupied from the first Iron Age, flourishing late 2nd century BC, it hosted potter's kilns and Sestius amphora trade before mid-1st-century BC abandonment.
La Laguna-Aguascalientes Gas Pipeline
The La Laguna-Aguascalientes Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto La Laguna-Aguascalientes) is a 453-kilometer, 48-inch natural gas pipeline running from Durango to Aguascalientes, owned by Esentia and operated under a 25-year contract with CFE since 2019.
La Légende des siècles
La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) is a poetry collection by Victor Hugo retelling human history in verse, published in installments between 1859 and 1883.
La Ley de Herodes
La ley de Herodes (Herod's Law) is Luis Estrada's 1999 Mexican black-comedy satire in which a naive PRI mayor becomes corrupt in 1949; it was censored by IMCINE, then won 10 Ariels and became a box-office hit.
La Ley del Deseo
La ley del deseo (Law of Desire) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1987 Spanish melodrama-thriller, the first production of El Deseo, starring Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, and Antonio Banderas; it premiered at Berlin's Panorama, won a Teddy Award, and was Almodóvar's first film released abroad.
La libertà
La libertà is a canzonetta written by the Italian poet Pietro Metastasio in 1733, addressed to a woman named Nice and celebrating the poet's liberation from the bonds of love.