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Laurentian Library
Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana), Florence: Michelangelo-designed Medici manuscript library atop San Lorenzo's cloister. Commissioned 1523 by Clement VII, stair by Ammannati 1559, opened 1571; vestibule breaks classical rules, a Mannerist landmark.
Laurentian Mixed Forest Province
Laurentian Mixed Forest Province (USFS ecological province 212): transitional forest spanning northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, southern Ontario, and New England, with 17.4 million forested hectares and rising 1999–2015 disturbance.
Laurentian Upland
The Laurentian Upland is a physiographic division of the United States, area 1 of eight in the Fenneman and USGS scheme, comprising the Canadian Shield's exposed portions.
Laurentides
Laurentides (Laurentians) names both an ancient eroded mountain range in southern Quebec, formed by the Grenvillian orogeny within the Grenville Province, and the Quebec tourist region of 20,548 km2 with Mont-Tremblant park and about 2.1 G$ in annual tourism spending.
Laurențiu Plăeșu
Laurențiu Plăeșu is a Romanian politician of the AUR party who serves as Senator for Prahova, Deputy President of the Senate, and deputy leader of AUR's Senate group.
Laurentius Surius
Laurentius Surius (c. 1522–1578) was a German Carthusian monk and hagiographer whose six-volume De probatis sanctorum historiis, published at Cologne in 1570, was recognized by the Bollandists as the best predecessor of their Acta Sanctorum.
Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year
The Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year honors the male athlete judged to have delivered the outstanding sporting performance of the previous year, first awarded in 2000.
Laureus World Sports Awards
Laureus World Sports Awards: annual honors for the world's best athletes, teams, and sports programs, first held in Monaco in 2000 with patron Nelson Mandela; winners voted by the 69-member Laureus World Sports Academy.
Lauri A. Aaltonen
Lauri A. Aaltonen is a Finnish physician-scientist, Professor of Tumor Genomics at the University of Helsinki, known for establishing the molecular basis of hereditary colorectal cancer.
Lauri E. Markowitz
Lauri E. Markowitz is an American physician and epidemiologist who joined the CDC in 1983, studied measles outbreaks, and led HPV vaccine surveillance showing large infection declines.
Lauri Koskela
Lauri Koskela (1907-1944), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler; Olympic featherweight bronze 1932 and lightweight gold 1936; European champion 1935, 1937, 1938; killed in the Continuation War.
Lauri Lehtinen
Lauri Aleksanteri Lehtinen (1908–1973), Finnish long-distance runner. Won 5,000 m gold at Los Angeles 1932 in 14:30.0 after setting a 14:17.0 world record, and silver at Berlin 1936 behind Gunnar Höckert.
Lauri Markkanen
Lauri Markkanen (born 1997) is a 7-foot-1 Finnish basketball player for the Utah Jazz, drafted seventh overall in 2017 and an NBA All-Star and Most Improved Player in 2023.
Lauri Moore
Lauri Moore is an American venture capitalist and a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners in Silicon Valley since 2024, investing in early-stage data, AI, and developer tools.
Lauri of Lokhari Mound
Lauri of Lokhari Mound (Lokhari, Banda/Chitrakut, Uttar Pradesh) is an ASI-protected site of ruined Jain temples, known for first-half-10th-century Chausath Yogini temple remains with twenty theriomorphic Yogini images, some looted and later recovered.
Lauri Peters
Lauri Peters (Patricia Peterson, born 1943, Detroit) is an American actress and drama teacher, the original Liesl von Trapp on Broadway in The Sound of Music (1959), a 1960 Tony nominee and Theatre World Award winner, later co-founder of NYU's Meisner Extension; not the fictional indie-film figure of blog posts.
Lauri Saxén
Lauri Saxén (1927–2005) was a Finnish developmental biologist and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Helsinki, known for work on embryonic induction and kidney organogenesis.
Lauri Törni
Lauri Allan Törni (Larry A. Thorne, 1919–1965), Finnish Mannerheim Cross knight, Waffen-SS officer 1941 and 1945, and US Army Special Forces major killed in Vietnam; convicted of treason, pardoned 1948, buried at Arlington.
Lauriane Rougeau
Lauriane Rougeau, Canadian ice hockey defenceman born 1990 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec; Olympic gold Sochi 2014, silver PyeongChang 2018; world gold 2012; Cornell and CWHL Montreal star.
Lauric acid
Lauric acid, also known as dodecanoic acid, is a saturated fatty acid with a straight twelve-carbon chain, the main fatty acid in coconut oil and used in soaps and detergents.
Lauric arginate
Lauric arginate (LAE, ethyl lauroyl arginate, E 243) is a cationic surfactant food preservative made from lauric acid, L-arginine, and ethanol; GRAS in the US up to 200 ppm and an EU-approved preservative up to 225 ppm, acting by membrane damage and oxidative stress.
Laurie A. Boyer
Laurie A. Boyer is Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at MIT who studies cardiac cell fate, first-authoring the 2005 embryonic stem cell circuitry paper and discovering Braveheart.
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson (born 1947) is an American experimental performance artist, composer, and filmmaker. Known for "O Superman" (UK No. 2, 1981), Big Science, United States, NASA residency, and Heart of a Dog.
Laurie Babin
Laurie Babin (Laurie Fortin-Babin) is a Canadian actress from Montreal, Quebec, known for L'Échappée, Lac-Noir, and her Prix Iris-winning role as Clémentine in Red Rooms (Les Chambres rouges, 2023).
Laurie Baker
Laurie Baker (Laurie Baker-Mutch), born 1976 in Concord, Massachusetts, is an American ice hockey forward who won gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics and silver in 2002, starred at Providence College, and was 1997 USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year.
Laurie Bembenek
Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek (1958–2010), ex-Milwaukee police officer and Playboy Club waitress, convicted 1982 of murdering her husband's ex-wife; escaped Taycheedah prison 1990, captured in Thunder Bay, Ontario; freed via 1992 no-contest plea; post-conviction DNA and ballistics findings later undermined the case.
Laurie Bird
Laurie Bird (1953–1979), American actress and photographer, played The Girl in Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), appeared in Cockfighter and Annie Hall, then quit acting; she died by suicide at 25.
Laurie Buckhout
Laurie Buckhout, also known as Laurie Moe Buckhout, is a retired Army colonel and Republican candidate for North Carolina's 1st District. She founded Corvus Consulting and served in the White House.
Laurie Cunningham
Laurie Cunningham (Lawrence Paul Cunningham, 1956-1989), English winger of Jamaican Windrush family; West Brom 'Three Degrees' star, first British player of Real Madrid (66 games, 20 goals, La Liga 1980), England's first black competitive international; died in a 1989 Madrid car crash.
Laurie David
Laurie David, American environmental activist and producer of An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and Fed Up (2014), also known for The Biggest Little Farm, the Detroit Project, and climate books.