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Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright (born 1947) is an American journalist and author, New Yorker staff writer since 1992; his The Looming Tower won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Going Clear examined Scientology.
Lawrence Wu
Lawrence Wu is a Singapore solar entrepreneur and finance specialist who co-founded Sunseap Group in 2011 with Frank Phuan, now CFO of EDP Renewables APAC.
Lawrence Zukerberg
Lawrence R. Zukerberg (1959–2022) was an American pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital whose work established cyclin D1 as a diagnostic marker of mantle cell lymphoma.
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas: college city between Kansas City and Topeka, founded 1854 by the New England Emigrant Aid Society as a free-state stronghold; site of the 1856 Sack of Lawrence and Quantrill's 1863 raid; home of the University of Kansas.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lawrence, Massachusetts: planned Essex County mill city on the Merrimack River, 25 miles north of Boston; founded 1845 by the Essex Company, site of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike, population 89,143 (2020), largely Latino immigrant city.
Lawrenceburg power station
The Lawrenceburg power station is a 1,232 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on the Ohio River, operating since 2004 and selling into the PJM wholesale market.
Lawrenceville School
The Lawrenceville School, founded 1810 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, is a coeducational boarding and day school for grades 9-12, known for Harkness discussion teaching, 18 residential Houses, $82,710 boarding tuition, and a $725 million endowment.
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Lawrenceville, Georgia, county seat of Gwinnett County, incorporated December 15, 1821 and named for Captain James Lawrence. Oldest city in Gwinnett, second oldest in metro Atlanta; about 30,600 residents (2020), home to Georgia Gwinnett College.
Lawrencium
Lawrencium, formerly called unniltrium, is a synthetic radioactive element with atomic number 103 and symbol Lr, the last and heaviest actinide, first identified at Berkeley in 1961.
Lawrie McMenemy
Lawrie McMenemy, born Lawrence McMenemy MBE, is an English football manager who led Southampton to the 1976 FA Cup and later served as England assistant manager and Northern Ireland manager.
Lawrie W. Powell
Lawrie W. Powell (1934–2022) was an Australian hepatologist internationally recognized for his work on hemochromatosis, the iron-storage disorder, and called the Father of Australian Hepatology.
Laws against witchcraft
Laws against witchcraft: statutes criminalizing the practice, professed exercise, or accusation of magic and sorcery, from the 1542 English Witchcraft Act and 1736 repeal to modern laws punishing accusers in India, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.
Laws of Attraction
Laws of Attraction is a 2004 romantic comedy directed by Peter Howitt, starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore as rival New York divorce lawyers who marry in Ireland; New Line release grossing $30 million worldwide.
Laws of Burgos
The Laws of Burgos (Leyes de Burgos) were Spanish royal ordinances issued in 1512 regulating the treatment, religious instruction, and forced labor of indigenous people in the Spanish Caribbean.
Laws of Cricket
Laws of Cricket: the written rules of cricket, maintained by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) since 1787, first codified 1744, 42 Laws in the 2017 Code, with ICC playing conditions layered on top internationally.
Laws of Eshnunna
The Laws of Eshnunna, also called the Code of Eshnunna, is an Old Babylonian collection of 60 Akkadian legal rules, the earliest known in that language.
Laws of Form
Laws of Form is a 1969 book by the British mathematician G. Spencer-Brown that introduces the calculus of indications, showing it equivalent to Boolean algebra and the propositional calculus.
Laws of nature
In philosophy, laws of nature are general principles, such as Newton's law of gravitation, that describe how the natural world behaves in a way that is not accidental.
Laws of rugby union
Laws of rugby union: the codified rules of rugby union, first written at Rugby School in 1845, standardized by the RFU in 1871, and now made by World Rugby, covering scoring, set pieces, offside, and discipline.
Laws of Stephen I of Hungary
The Laws of Stephen I of Hungary (Szent István törvényei) are two books of decrees by King Stephen I, Hungary's first king, enforcing Christianity and regulating landholding.
Laws of the Ayutthaya Corpus
The Laws of the Ayutthaya Corpus (กฎหมายตราสามดวง) are the royal laws of Ayutthaya, reissued by Rama I in 1805 as the Law of the Three Seals.
Laws of the Game (association football)
Laws of the Game: the 17-Law worldwide code of association football, written and owned by the IFAB (four British associations plus FIFA), not FIFA; covers 1863 origins, annual amendment cycle, VAR and offside technology, and 2025–2027 changes.
Laws of thermodynamics
The laws of thermodynamics are four principles governing heat, work, temperature, and entropy: thermal equilibrium defines temperature, energy is conserved, entropy never decreases, and absolute zero is unreachable.
Laws regarding rape
Laws regarding rape define the crime through force-based or consent-based models, including yes-means-yes and no-means-no variants. Key reforms include the Istanbul Convention, France's 2025 consent law, and the abolition of the marital rape exemption.
Lawson (ローソン) (store)
Lawson (ローソン) is a major Japanese convenience store chain run by Lawson, Inc. (LAWSON, NATURAL LAWSON, LAWSON STORE 100). Founded from J.J. Lawson's 1939 Ohio milk shop; first Japanese store opened 1975 in Osaka; about 14,000 domestic stores plus 7,000+ in China.
Lawson conjecture
The Lawson conjecture, posed by H. Blaine Lawson in 1970, states that the Clifford torus is the only embedded minimal torus in the unit 3-sphere; Simon Brendle proved it in 2012.
Lawson criterion
The Lawson criterion is the condition on plasma temperature, density, and confinement time required for a fusion plasma to ignite, identified by John D. Lawson in 1955.
Lawson Humphries
Lawson Humphries (born 2003) is a Geelong AFL defender from Wickham, WA; drafted pick 63 in 2023 from Swan Districts, 2024 Rising Star nominee, Geelong's 2025 rebound-50 leader, signed until 2028.
Lawsonia inermis
Lawsonia inermis, henna (also mehndi, Egyptian privet), the sole Lythraceae species of its genus; a 2–6 m shrub whose leaves yield the dye lawsone, used for millennia as hair and skin colorant and in traditional medicine.
Lawsuit
A lawsuit is a court proceeding in which a plaintiff brings a claim against a defendant for damages, an injunction, or declaratory relief. Covers the federal civil process, common law pleading, the 1848 Field Code, and the 1938 Federal Rules.