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Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan: Greek myth in which Zeus, as a swan, seduces or rapes Leda, wife of Tyndareus of Sparta, fathering Helen and Pollux; retold by Euripides, Ovid, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Yeats.
Leda Planitia
Leda Planitia is a 2,890 km-wide lowland plain on Venus, centered at 44°N, 65°E, IAU-approved in 1982 and named for the Greek mythological mother of Helen and Castor.
Ledbyher
Ledbyher (Rachel Aisyah Diack, born 2003) is an English rapper and producer of the UK underground (UK Ug) scene, known as 'bedroom drill'/'cinematic jerk'; her debut mixtape The Elephant (Island Records, 2026) follows the 2023 EP CUNCH.
LeddarTech
LeddarTech is a Canadian automotive software company headquartered in Quebec City whose LeddarVision product fuses vehicle sensor data for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving systems.
Ledderhose disease
Ledderhose disease, or plantar fibromatosis, is a rare benign fibroproliferative disorder of the plantar fascia causing painful nodules; treated conservatively, with radiotherapy or fasciectomy, though surgical recurrence is common.
Lederata
Lederata was a Roman auxiliary fort on the southern bank of the Danube at modern Ram, Serbia, possibly Trajan's crossing point into Dacia in 101.
Lederberg (Martian crater)
Lederberg is a Martian impact crater, 87.25 km in diameter. Located in the Xanthe Terra region, it was adopted in 2012 to honor American molecular biologist Joshua Leder.
Lederhosen
Lederhosen (Lederhose) are leather breeches from Alpine Tracht, originally workwear in Bavaria and Austria, revived by Josef Vogl's 1883 costume association, banned for Jews in 1938, and now festival dress at Oktoberfest.
Ledger
A ledger is the principal book or file of account in double-entry bookkeeping, collecting a business's transactions into accounts, in contrast to the chronological journal.
Ledger art
Ledger art is a genre of Plains Indian pictographic drawing, created mostly from about 1860 to 1900, depicting war deeds, hunting, courtship, and ceremony on ledger paper.
Ledges State Park
Ledges State Park is a 1,117-acre Iowa state park in south-central Boone County, dedicated in 1924 and known for sandstone bluffs rising above the Des Moines River and Pea's Creek canyon.
Ledi Sayadaw
Ledi Sayadaw (လယ်တီဆရာတော်) was a Burmese Buddhist monk and Pali scholar, born in 1846 and died in 1923, who promoted mass lay meditation after the British annexation of 1885.
Ledipasvir
Ledipasvir (GS-5885) is a Gilead HCV NS5A inhibitor, marketed in the fixed-dose combination Harvoni (ledipasvir 90 mg/sofosbuvir 400 mg), FDA-approved in 2014 for chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 and later for ages 3 and up, genotypes 1, 4, 5, 6.
Ledisi
Ledisi (Ledisi Anibade Young, born 1972, New Orleans) is an American R&B/jazz singer. Independent on LeSun, Verve star with Lost & Found, Grammy winner 2021 for "Anything for You" on her Listen Back label.
Ledley King
Ledley King (born 1980, Bow, London), English one-club central defender for Tottenham Hotspur 1999-2012; 323 appearances, 2008 League Cup captain, 9.82-second fastest Premier League goal, 21 England caps, later Club Ambassador.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape (Lednicko-valtický areál), a ~200 km² designed landscape in South Moravia, Czech Republic, created by the Liechtenstein dukes; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996, criteria (i), (ii), (iv).
Ledo Road
The Ledo Road, also called the Stilwell Road, was a World War II highway built by American engineers from Ledo, Assam, through Burma to supply China.
Ledoux Patera
Ledoux Patera, a 75 km patera (scalloped volcanic crater) on Venus at 9.2°S, 224.8°E, IAU-named in 1994 for Jeanne, a French artist (1767–1840).
Ledprona
Ledprona (Calantha) is the first sprayable dsRNA biopesticide, EPA-registered December 2023; it silences the PSMB5 gene of the Colorado potato beetle via RNA interference.
Leduc Formation
Leduc Formation: Upper Devonian (Frasnian) stromatoporoid reef carbonates of the Woodbend Group in the Alberta subsurface, named by Imperial Oil in 1950; host of the 1947 Leduc and 1948 Redwater oil discoveries and major Alberta oil and gas reserves.
Leduc-Woodbend Oil and Gas Field
The Leduc-Woodbend Oil and Gas Field is a light-oil and gas field in central Alberta south of Edmonton, discovered by Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 well on February 13, 1947.
Ledyakaya
Ledyakaya, more commonly spelled Ledyanaya (Ледяная, "Icy"), is a glacier-capped peak in the Koryak Mountains of the Russian Far East and the range's highest point at 2,562 m.
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Lee "Scratch" Perry (Rainford Hugh Perry, 1936–2021), aka The Upsetter, Jamaican reggae producer and dub pioneer who built the Black Ark studio, produced Bob Marley and the Wailers, Super Ape, and won a 2003 Grammy.
Lee (2023 film)
Lee (2023) is a biographical war drama directed by Ellen Kuras, starring Kate Winslet as WWII Vogue war correspondent Lee Miller; premiered at TIFF 2023, released 2024, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated.
Lee A. Kilgore
Lee A. Kilgore (1905–2000) was an American electrical engineer at Westinghouse who designed large rotating electric machinery and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Lee Ainslie
Lee S. Ainslie III is an American hedge fund investor who founded Maverick Capital in Dallas in 1993, after training at Julian Robertson's Tiger Management as one of the "Tiger Cubs."
Lee Alvin DuBridge
Lee Alvin DuBridge was an American experimental physicist and founding director of the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II, and president of Caltech from 1946 to 1969.
Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson is an American Republican politician representing Georgia State Senate District 24, first elected in 2016 after serving in the State House from 2009 to 2012.
Lee Anderson (British politician)
Lee Anderson, Reform UK MP for Ashfield since 2024 and party chairman from May 2026; formerly Conservative deputy chair, suspended February 2024 over Sadiq Khan remarks; first Reform UK MP.
Lee Ann Womack
Lee Ann Womack (born 1966, Jacksonville, Texas) is an American country singer-songwriter, known for the 2000 crossover hit "I Hope You Dance," a Grammy win with Willie Nelson, and the 2005 CMA Album of the Year.