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Lavia
Lavia is a monotypic African bat genus (Megadermatidae, false vampire bats) erected by Gray in 1838; its single species Lavia frons, the yellow-winged bat, ranges from Senegal to Somalia and Zambia, is monogamous and territorial, and is IUCN Least Concern.
Lavina
Lavina (Лавина) chiefly names Lavina Mall, a Kyiv shopping and entertainment center opened December 1, 2016, with 127,000 m² of retail, 400+ stores, the Multiplex cinema, and the Galaxy indoor amusement park; also PR Lavina Dnipro and other places.
Lavina (Лавина) (band)
Lavina (Лавина) is a six-piece progressive/alternative metal band from Niš, Serbia, formed mid-2020, debut album Odyssey (2022). Won Pesma za Evroviziju '26 with "Kraj mene" and finished 17th at Eurovision 2026 in Vienna. Distinct from the Bulgarian heavy metal band Лавина (1989).
Lavinia Agache
Lavinia Agache is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who secured Olympic gold and bronze. Officials listed her birth year as 1966, allowing her to compete at a younger age.
Lavinia Fisher
Lavinia Fisher (1793-1820), American innkeeper hanged with husband John for highway robbery near Charleston, SC; famed as America's first female serial killer, a claim historians dispute.
Lavinia Fontana
Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter of Bologna and Rome, one of the first European women to sustain a long professional career on public commissions, including altarpieces.
Lavinia Milosovici
Lavinia Milosovici (Lavinia Corina Miloșovici, "Milo"), Romanian artistic gymnast born 1976 in Lugoj; two 1992 Olympic golds, the last Olympic perfect 10, five world titles, 19 world and Olympic medals, Hall of Fame 2011.
Lavinia Nature Reserve
Lavinia Nature Reserve is a 7,034-hectare protected wetland on the north-east coast of King Island, Tasmania, made a Ramsar site in 1982 and known for the endangered orange-bellied parrot.
Lavinia Planitia
Lavinia Planitia, Venus lowland basin near 45S 345E, over 2,000 km across, marked by ridge and fracture deformation belts, tessera boundaries, and basaltic lava flows like Mylitta Fluctus.
Lavinium Dorsum
Lavinium Dorsum is a 96.35 km ridge (dorsum) on asteroid 4 Vesta at 27.15°N, 109.15°E, IAU-approved November 21, 2012 and named for the Roman city of Lavinium, famed for its Aeneas traditions and cults of Vesta.
Lavnin
Lavnin, also known as Tel Lavnin, is a multi-period archaeological tell in the Adullam region of the Judean Shephelah, Israel, occupied from the Late Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.
Lavo
Lavo (ល្វោ), also rendered Lavapura, was a kingdom centered on present-day Lopburi in central Thailand, a major Dvaravati city-state from the 7th century that came under Khmer rule and was absorbed by Ayutthaya in 1388.
Lavochkin La-15
The Lavochkin La-15, NATO name "Fantail", was a Soviet single-engine jet fighter built by Lavochkin's design bureau that lost to the MiG-15; 235 aircraft were completed in 1949.
Lavochkin La-5
The Lavochkin La-5, early examples designated LaG-5, was a Soviet single-seat fighter of World War II, created in 1942 by fitting the LaGG-3 airframe with a Shvetsov M-82 radial engine.
Lavoisier (lunar crater)
Lavoisier, lunar crater, 71.01 km wide at 38.17°N 81.25°W on the Moon, named for Antoine Lavoisier; a floor-fractured crater with pyroclastic deposits and satellite craters C, E, F, H.
Lavoisier Island
Lavoisier Island, also called Isla Mitre (Argentina) or Isla Serrano (Chile), is an 18-mile-long island in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica, first charted by Charcot's 1903-05 expedition and renamed in 1960 for chemist Antoine Lavoisier.
Lavon Affair (פרשת לבון)
The Lavon Affair (פרשת לבון), also known as Operation Susannah, was a failed 1954 Israeli covert operation in which Egyptian Jewish recruits bombed civilian targets in Egypt to be blamed on local groups.
LaVon Bracy Davis
LaVon Bracy Davis is an American Democratic politician from Ocoee, Florida, who serves in the Florida Senate from District 15 and previously represented House District 40.
Lavonte David
Lavonte David, nicknamed Flash or LoLo, is a retired NFL linebacker (born 1990, Miami) who played 14 seasons, 2012-2025, entirely for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, won Super Bowl LV, made one Pro Bowl and one first-team All-Pro, and is the franchise's all-time leading tackler with 1,714 tackles.
Lavorare stanca
Lavorare stanca (Hard Labor) is the first poetry collection by Italian writer Cesare Pavese, published in 1936 and reworked into a definitive Einaudi edition in 1943.
Lavoura Arcaica
Lavoura Arcaica (Ancient Tillage) is a 1975 novel by Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar, in which André returns to his Lebanese immigrant family's farm and confronts his father.
LaVoy Finicum
Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, Arizona rancher and spokesman for the 2016 Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, was shot dead by Oregon State Police on January 26, 2016, at an FBI roadblock after fleeing a traffic stop; the shooting triggered an FBI agent's trial and a DOJ Inspector General review.
Lavoye
Lavoye (Meuse, France), Argonne commune; Roman samian pottery production center (La Verine workshop, c. 130–3rd century) and 367-grave Merovingian necropolis (480–680) excavated by Dr. Meunier, published by Joffroy 1974; tomb of the "chef" (grave 319).
Lavr Kornilov (Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов)
Lavr Georgievich Kornilov (Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов), 1870–1918, Russian general of infantry, Supreme Commander-in-Chief in August 1917, leader of the Kornilov affair against Kerensky's Provisional Government, and first commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army, killed at Ekaterinodar in 1918.
Lavrentis Machairitsas
Lavrentis Machairitsas (Λαυρέντης Μαχαιρίτσας, 1956–2019) was a Greek singer-songwriter from Volos who led the Termites rock band, then had a solo career; his 1991 album Didymoteicho Blues sold over 50,000 copies.
Lavrentiy Beria (Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия)
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Лаврентий Павлович Берия, 1899–1953), Soviet secret police chief and Marshal of the USSR, directed the NKVD from 1938 and the Soviet atomic bomb project from 1945; executed for treason in December 1953.
Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu
Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu, born in 1983 in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, is a Telugu Desam Party politician who has represented Narasaraopet in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Law
Law: a system of rules regulating community conduct, enforced through penalties. Covers common law versus civil law families, Roman law roots, natural law versus legal positivism, and rule-of-law measurement.
Law 'On the Protection of Socialist Property'
The Law 'On the Protection of Socialist Property' (Закон «Об охране социалистической собственности») was a Soviet decree of 1932 punishing theft of kolkhoz property by execution.
Law & Order
Law & Order is Dick Wolf's American crime-drama franchise, premiering on NBC September 13, 1990: bifurcated NYPD-investigation and Manhattan-prosecution episodes, spin-offs including SVU (1999), Criminal Intent, and Trial by Jury, a 2010 cancellation, and a 2022 revival.