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La Roux
La Roux is an English synth-pop act formed in 2006 by Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid; known for 2009's "Bulletproof" (UK No. 1), the Grammy-winning debut album, Trouble in Paradise (2014), Supervision (2020), and the 2026 album Old Flames.
La Sabana
La Sabana (Zona Arqueológica de 5 de Mayo–La Sabana) is a pre-Hispanic archaeological zone in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on Cerro La Bola, with at least 38 granite petroglyphs, a water-cult ritual site linked to the destroyed Ciudad Perdida settlement, opened to the public in 1997.
La Salle Green Hills
La Salle Green Hills (LSGH) is a Catholic Lasallian basic-education school in Mandaluyong City, Philippines, founded by the De La Salle Brothers in 1959. It offers Pre-Nursery to Grade 12, IB Diploma Programme, and free Alternative Education.
La Salle University
La Salle University: private Lasallian Catholic university in Philadelphia, founded 1863, university status 1984. Three schools, 4,000+ students, 30th president Daniel J. Allen since 2022, enrollment turnaround after revenue decline.
La Salsa Mayor
La Salsa Mayor, originally Nuestra Orquesta La Salsa Mayor, was a Venezuelan salsa orchestra formed in 1978 by musicians leaving Oscar D'León's band, known for "Fuimos Amigos".
La Sape
La Sape (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes) is a Congolese dandy subculture of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, rooted in the colonial era, resisting Mobutu's dress bans, and spreading to Paris, Brussels, and London.
La Satire Ménippée
La Satire Ménippée is a collective French political pamphlet in prose and verse, published in 1594 to caricature the Estates General held by the Catholic League in 1593 and to support Henri IV.
La Scala
La Scala (Teatro alla Scala) is Milan's opera house, opened 3 August 1778 with Salieri's L'Europa riconosciuta, designed by Piermarini, rebuilt after 1943 wartime damage, restored 2002-2004, staging about 250 performances a year.
La secchia rapita
La secchia rapita ("The stolen bucket") is a mock-heroic poem by Alessandro Tassoni, first published in Paris in 1621, about a war between Bologna and Modena over a stolen wooden bucket.
La Selle Biosphere Reserve
La Selle Biosphere Reserve, Haiti's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2012), covers 377,221 ha of the Massif de la Selle including Pic la Selle (2,684 m); since 2017 part of the La Selle–Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo transboundary reserve.
La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve
La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera La Sepultura, REBISE) is a UNESCO MAB site in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico, decreed 6 June 1995 and designated 2006, protecting dry tropical, pine–oak, and cloud forests with jaguars and over 90 migratory birds.
La Serena, Chile
La Serena is a city in northern Chile, capital of the Coquimbo Region and of the province of Elqui. Founded in 1544 on the Elqui River, it is the second oldest city in Chile after Santiago.
La Shawn Ford
La Shawn Ford is an American Democratic politician and Illinois state representative who won the March 2026 Democratic primary for Illinois's 7th Congressional District, the seat being vacated by retiring Representative Danny Davis.
La Siberia Biosphere Reserve
La Siberia Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de La Siberia), a UNESCO MAB site in northeast Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, designated 19 June 2019; reservoirs on the Guadiana and Zújar rivers, dehesa landscapes, Iberian lynx habitat, expanded to 195,196 ha in 2026.
La Silla Observatory
La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory operated by the European Southern Observatory on La Silla mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, ESO's first, inaugurated in 1969.
La Sinagoga mausoleum and villa
La Sinagoga mausoleum and villa: a mid-4th-century cruciform Roman mausoleum (popular name, not a synagogue) and associated villa with baths near Sádaba, Zaragoza, Spain; excavated by García y Bellido in 1962, declared a Spanish national monument in 1963.
La Solidaridad
La Solidaridad was a fortnightly Spanish-language newspaper published in Spain from 1889 to 1895 by Filipino reformists, serving as the principal organ of the Propaganda Movement advocating Philippine assimilation with Spain.
La Sonora Carruseles
La Sonora Carruseles is a Colombian salsa and boogaloo orchestra formed in Medellín in 1995 by Discos Fuentes, known for "La Salsa la Traigo Yo".
La Sonora Ponceña
La Sonora Ponceña is a Puerto Rican salsa band founded in 1954 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, by Enrique "Quique" Lucca and led by his son, pianist Papo Lucca.
La Spezia
La Spezia, eastern Liguria, Italy: gulf port city and provincial capital, home of the Regia Marina arsenal (1869) and a major container port, gateway to the Cinque Terre.
La Spirale à Aromates - De Kruidenspiraal
La Spirale à Aromates (De Kruidenspiraal) is a garden in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels, named for a herb spiral: a spiral raised bed creating microclimates for aromatic plants.
La Stella Restaurant meeting
The La Stella Restaurant meeting, known as "Little Apalachin," was the September 1966 raid in Forest Hills, Queens, in which police arrested thirteen American Mafia bosses, including Carlo Gambino, Carlos Marcello, and Santo Trafficante, at lunch.
La Strada
La Strada (1954) is Federico Fellini's Italian neorealist fable starring Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina, sold to strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn); first Oscar winner for Best Foreign-Language Film.
La suave patria
La suave patria is a 1921 poem by Mexican poet Ramón López Velarde, written for the centenary of Mexican independence and published after his death that June.
La Superba
La Superba (Y Canum Venaticorum, or Y CVn) is a deeply red J-type carbon star in Canes Venatici, a semi-regular variable about 711 light-years away.
La Sylphide
La Sylphide: Romantic two-act ballet premiered 12 March 1832 at the Paris Opéra, choreographed by Filippo Taglioni for Marie Taglioni; the surviving version is Bournonville's 1836 Copenhagen staging with Løvenskiold's music.
La Tarea
La tarea (Homework) is a 1990 Mexican comedy-drama by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, starring María Rojo and José Alonso, about a film student secretly videotaping her reunion with her ex-lover; notable for its three long fixed-camera takes and 1991 festival awards.
La Tembladera
La Tembladera, a 200-hectare Ramsar wetland lagoon in Santa Rosa canton, El Oro, Ecuador, fed by the Arenillas river; also a Peruvian district center, a Veracruz railway station, and a Spanish word for trembling.
La Temple de la Madeleine, Geneva
Temple de la Madeleine, Geneva: late Gothic Protestant church at Rue de la Madeleine 15, rebuilt from 1388 over a 5th-century memoria, site of Farel's 1535 French sermon, now the Swiss-German Reformed parish church.
La Tène culture
La Tène culture: Iron Age archaeological culture of the Celts, c. 450–52/15 BC, successor to Hallstatt, named after the Lake Neuchâtel type site; known for curvilinear art, chariot burials, and oppida.