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La Otra Familia
La Otra Familia (The Other Family), 2011 Mexican drama by Gustavo Loza: a gay couple, Jean Paul and Chema, care for seven-year-old Hendrix, abandoned by his crack-addicted mother; released 25 March 2011 by 20th Century Fox, first national LGBT-themed commercial production.
La palabra del mudo
La palabra del mudo (Spanish for "The word of the mute one") is the title under which Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro collected his short stories, first published in 1973.
La Palma
La Palma is the north-westernmost island of Spain's Canary Islands, a volcanic Atlantic island of 708 km² known for its laurel forests and the 2021 Tajogaite eruption.
La Palma (miniseries)
La Palma is a four-part Norwegian Netflix disaster miniseries (premiered December 12, 2024) by Fantefilm, about a family and a researcher facing a volcanic eruption and tsunami on the Canary island.
La Paz
La Paz, formally Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the administrative capital of Bolivia, founded by the Spanish in 1548 and the highest capital in the world.
La Paz Revolution of 1809
The La Paz Revolution of 1809 (Revolución de La Paz de 1809) was an uprising in La Paz, Upper Peru, where Pedro Domingo Murillo's rebels set up the Junta Tuitiva.
La Paz, Baja California Sur
La Paz, Baja California Sur: state capital and port on the Bay of La Paz, Gulf of California. Named by Vizcaíno (1595/1596), continuously settled since 1811, capital since 1830; municipality of 292,241 people (2020) facing water scarcity.
La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation
La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, also called La Pedrera de Meià, a Barremian (about 130-125 Ma) lithographic limestone Konservat-Lagerstätte in Sierra del Montsec, Lleida, Catalonia, with Montsechia vidali, Noguerornis gonzalezi, and 112 holotypes.
La Perla (Rosalía and Yahritza y su Esencia song)
"La Perla" is a November 2025 song by Rosalía featuring Yahritza y Su Esencia, track 7 of LUX on Columbia Records. A Paquita la del Barrio-inspired diss track over a waltz, it reached #1 in Argentina, #5 Apple Music in Spain, and earned Latin Grammy nominations.
La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico
La Perla, a historic seaside neighborhood outside Old San Juan's walls, Puerto Rico; former heroin hub, Despacito filming site, community-led revival, about 350 residents.
La Pérouse (lunar crater)
La Pérouse is an impact crater about 80 km across on the eastern limb of the Moon, named in 1935 for the French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse.
La Pérouse expedition
The La Pérouse expedition was a French scientific voyage around the world in 1785–1788 under Jean-François de Galaup de La Pérouse, lost on the reefs of Vanikoro in 1788.
La petite mort
La petite mort, French for "the little death," is a literary euphemism for orgasm and the post-orgasm state; covers its 16th-century medical origin, Balzac, dictionary history, and postcoital dysphoria research.
La Petriș
La Petriș (Petriș) is a commune in Arad County, Crișana, Romania, with six villages, 13,059 ha, 1,283 residents (2021), first attested 1337, and the Salbek Castle landmark; distinct from a same-named village in Bistrița-Năsăud.
La pícara soñadora (2026 TV series)
La pícara soñadora (2026) is a TelevisaUnivision M-Drama remake of the 1991 telenovela, starring Abril Di Yorio and Darío Duque, 21 episodes on Canal 5 and ViX from 24 August 2026.
La Pièce du Fient
La Pièce du Fient: Gallo-Roman villa site at Richebourg (Yvelines), France, 12-13 ha, Gaulish farm from 60 BC, one of the earliest romanized villas, first French site with a Gaulish-period temple, first excavated ancient gardens, abandoned mid-3rd century.
La Piscine (film)
La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), 1969 Jacques Deray psychological thriller with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin; Saint-Tropez villa jealousy ends in a pool drowning; screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière, music Michel Legrand.
La Plata
La Plata, Argentina: provincial capital founded 19 November 1882 on the Lomas de la Ensenada site after Buenos Aires federalization; planned grid with diagonals by Pedro Benoit's engineering department; gold medal, Paris 1889.
La Plateforme
La Plateforme was the developer platform of French AI company Mistral AI, offering its generative models as APIs, launched in beta in December 2023 and renamed Mistral AI Studio in 2025.
La Pléiade
La Pléiade was a group of mid-sixteenth-century French Renaissance poets led by Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim Du Bellay, who sought to elevate the French language.
La Poesía Sorprendida
La Poesía Sorprendida was a Dominican literary movement and magazine published in Santo Domingo from 1943 to 1947, breaking with localist poetry for a surrealist, universal vision.
La Pommeraie
La Pommeraie (An Avallod), also Parc Animalier de Peumérit, is a small animal park in Peumerit, Finistère, Brittany. Formerly Zoo de la Pommeraie, it closed in 2000 for lacking an exotic-animal permit and reopened with domestic animals on about 4.5–5 hectares.
La Poste (France)
La Poste is France's state-owned national postal operator, with origins in royal courier relays around 1476, that delivers mail and parcels and provides banking through La Banque Postale.
La poupée qui fait non
"La poupée qui fait non" ("The doll who says no") is a 1966 French pop song by Michel Polnareff, recorded in London with future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jeanne de France
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jeanne de France is a 1913 free-verse poem by Blaise Cendrars, published in Paris as an artist's book designed by Sonia Delaunay.
La Quemada
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) is a monumental pre-Hispanic hilltop city in the Malpaso Valley, Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mexico, 56 km south of Zacatecas city. Occupied from the 4th to 12th centuries with its apogee 600–850, it controlled 220 settlements and was the largest site in north-central Mexico.
La Querida (mansion)
La Querida, also called Castillo del Mar or La Guerida, is a 1923 Addison Mizner Mediterranean Revival mansion at 1095 N. Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida; the Kennedy family's Winter White House, sold in 1995 and again in 2020 for $70 million.
La Queyrie
La Queyrie: Roman stone quarries in the Plaine de la Queyrie north-east of Die, Drôme, France, in province Narbonensis. Hard Urgonian limestone (gazetteer: marble) extracted 125–275 AD for buildings in Die.
La Quinta, California
La Quinta is a Coachella Valley city in Riverside County, California, incorporated May 1, 1982 and named for the 1926 La Quinta Resort. Population 37,558 (2020 census), 39,440 estimated 2025; 35.26 square miles; median household income $99,250.
La Quinzaine littéraire
La Quinzaine littéraire was a French fortnightly literary review of criticism, founded in Paris in 1966 by François Erval and Maurice Nadeau and published in tabloid format until 2013.