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Leadsynbio (引航生物)
Leadsynbio (引航生物) is a Chinese synthetic-biology company founded in 2015 by chemist Xie Xinkai that makes antibiotic ingredients by enzyme catalysis, and filed for a Hong Kong listing in 2026.
Leadville, Colorado
Leadville, Colorado, is the county seat and highest incorporated city in North America, founded in 1877 during a silver boom; mining continues there nearly to the present day.
Leadwell CNC Machines
Leadwell CNC Machines (台湾丽伟电脑机械) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of CNC machining centers and lathes, founded in 1980 in Taichung and part of the Fair Friend Group.
Leadwind
Leadwind, registered as Lead Wind Ventures, FCR, is a Spanish venture capital fund launched by Telefónica and K in 2021, investing in early-growth and deep-tech scaleups in Southern Europe and Latin America.
Leaf
Leaf: the primary photosynthetic plant organ, a flat thin structure with stomata and veins. Covers leaf anatomy, C3/C4/CAM photosynthesis, hydraulics, evolution tied to CO2 decline, autumn senescence, and measured leaf traits.
Leaf by Niggle
Leaf by Niggle is a short story by J.R.R. Tolkien about a painter who leaves his great Tree painting during a journey, completing it only in the afterlife.
Leaf Huang
Leaf Huang, born in China in 1946, is a drug delivery and nanomedicine researcher who first published PEG's prolongation of liposome circulation time and pioneered non-viral gene vectors.
Leaf litter breakdown
Leaf litter breakdown is the decomposition of dead leaves in streams and rivers through leaching, microbial conditioning, and fragmentation, a key energy source for aquatic food webs.
Leaf miner
Leaf miners are insect larvae (beetles, flies, moths, sawflies; over 10,000 species) that feed inside leaf tissue between the epidermal layers, forming serpentine or blotch mines; major crop pests include Liriomyza and Phyllocnistis, with fossil mines known from the Early Triassic onward.
Leaf spring
A leaf spring, also called a semi-elliptical or cart spring, is a spring of curved steel strips bound together that suspends a vehicle's axle from its frame.
Leaf vegetable
Leaf vegetable (leafy green): crop grown for edible leaves, e.g. lettuce, spinach, cabbage, kale. Highly perishable (0 °C storage), nitrate-accumulating, and regulated for raw-eating safety such as Australia's Standard 4.2.8 (2025).
Leafcutter ant
Leafcutter ants are fungus-growing ants of the genera Atta and Acromyrmex that cut fresh plant material for underground fungus gardens, and account for roughly 25% of Neotropical herbivory.
Leafhopper
Leafhopper (Cicadellidae): sap-sucking true bugs of 20,000-25,000 described species worldwide; xylem-feeding sharpshooters vector Xylella fastidiosa (Pierce's disease) and related leafhoppers spread phytoplasmas and viruses; known for jumping, tymbal songs and brochosomes.
Leafy seadragon
Leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques, Glauert's seadragon): a camouflaged syngnathid fish of southern Australia's kelp reefs, 3-50 m deep, males brooding eggs on the tail, protected, IUCN Least Concern/Near Threatened.
LeafyIsHere
LeafyIsHere is the former YouTube handle of Calvin Lee Vail (born 1995), an American commentary creator known for mocking narrations over CS:GO gameplay; his channel was permanently terminated in August 2020 for harassment, followed by Twitch and X bans.
League (unit)
The league is a historical unit of distance, and of land area in Spanish colonial usage, whose value varied widely; the English land league equaled 3 statute miles.
League City
League City, Texas: largest city in Galveston County on Clear Creek near Clear Lake and Johnson Space Center; 114,392 residents in 2020, city 2026 estimate 125,884; founded 1890s by J.C. League.
League of Assassins
The League of Assassins is a DC Comics international organization of killers founded and usually led by Ra's al Ghul, the Demon's Head. It debuted in Strange Adventures #215 (1968), was named in Detective Comics #405 (1970), and was renamed the League of Shadows in the Nolan films.
League of Cambrai
League of Cambrai: anti-Venetian alliance concluded secretly at Cambrai on 10 December 1508 by Pope Julius II, Louis XII, Maximilian I, and Ferdinand II of Aragon; its Agnadello victory (14 May 1509) stripped Venice of its Terraferma before the coalition collapsed into the anti-French Holy League.
League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina was the ruling communist party of socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, headquartered in Sarajevo, from World War II until 1990.
League of Communists of Croatia
The League of Communists of Croatia, founded in 1937 as the Communist Party of Croatia, ruled socialist Croatia within Yugoslavia until it lost power in 1990.
League of Communists of Macedonia
League of Communists of Macedonia (Сојуз на комунистите на Македонија, SKM), Macedonian branch of the Yugoslav ruling party, founded 1943 in Tetovo, renamed 1953; sole legal party in socialist Macedonia until 1990, then became SDSM.
League of Communists of Montenegro
The League of Communists of Montenegro, also known as Savez komunista Crne Gore, was the Montenegrin branch of Yugoslavia's ruling party, holding a monopoly on power from 1945 to 1990.
League of Communists of Serbia
The League of Communists of Serbia (Savez komunista Srbije, SKS) was the Serbian branch of Yugoslavia's ruling communist party; under Slobodan Milošević it became the Socialist Party of Serbia in 1990.
League of Communists of Slovenia
The League of Communists of Slovenia (Slovene: Zveza komunistov Slovenije) was the Slovenian branch of Yugoslavia's ruling party, governing Slovenia until it broke away in 1990.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Savez komunista Jugoslavije, SKJ), ruling party of socialist Yugoslavia from 1945; renamed from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1952, federalized in 1969, and dissolved after its 14th Congress in January 1990.
League of Corinth
League of Corinth, a modern name for the Hellenic alliance and common peace founded by Philip II of Macedon at Corinth in spring 337 BCE after Chaeronea, led by a hegemon and synedrion, waging war on Persia until Alexander's death in 323 BCE.
League of German Girls
League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM), also called League of German Maidens: the girls' wing of the Nazi Hitler Youth, founded 1930, compulsory after the 1936 law and 1939 decree, training girls aged 14 to 18 for motherhood; outlawed after 1945.
League of Gods (封神传奇)
League of Gods (封神传奇) is a 2016 Chinese fantasy action film directed by Koan Hui, starring Jet Li, Fan Bingbing and Tony Leung Ka Fai; a 500-million-RMB effects-heavy adaptation of Investiture of the Gods that flopped critically and commercially.
League of Ireland
League of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland's association football league founded in 1921 with the FAI; three senior divisions under FAI administration since 2006, record 2025 attendances, and loss-making club finances.