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LA to Vegas
LA to Vegas is an American sitcom that aired on Fox in 2018, following the crew and passengers of Jackpot Airlines on weekend flights between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
La Tomatina
La Tomatina is Buñol, Spain's annual tomato-throwing festival on the last Wednesday of August, begun in 1945, banned under Franco, legalized in 1959, capped at 22,000 ticket holders, and a Fiesta de Interés Turístico Internacional since 2002.
La Tour d'Argent
La Tour d'Argent is a historic grand restaurant in Paris on the quai de la Tournelle, famous for its numbered pressed duck, the canard au sang, served since 1890.
La Toya Jackson
La Toya Jackson (La Toya Yvonne Jackson), American singer, author, and TV personality born 1956 in Gary, Indiana; fifth Jackson sibling, 1980s solo R&B career, "Heart Don't Lie," memoirs, and reality television.
La Trastienda
La Trastienda Club is a live-music venue in San Telmo, Buenos Aires, opened in 1993 in a 19th-century warehouse and hosting rock, tango, jazz, and world music.
La traviata
La traviata, Verdi's three-act opera on a libretto by Piave after Dumas fils's La Dame aux camélias, premiered at La Fenice, Venice, 6 March 1853, failed, then triumphed in the 1854 revision.
La Trinité
La Trinité ("the Trinity") names the Christian dogma of three persons in one substance and, in France, 16 communes plus many churches, abbeys, and chapels, including Vendôme's 1034 abbey, the Callas mausoleum-chapel, Paris's Sainte-Trinité, and La Trinité-sur-Mer.
La Tristesse d'Olympio
La Tristesse d'Olympio is an elegy by Victor Hugo, written in October 1837 after revisiting the Bièvre valley with Juliette Drouet and published in 1840.
La Trobe University
La Trobe University, a public Australian university established by Act in 1964 and opened in 1967 at Bundoora, Melbourne; third university in Victoria, seven campuses, over 36,000 students, named after Charles Joseph La Trobe.
La Trochita
La Trochita, formally the Viejo Expreso Patagónico (Old Patagonian Express), is a 75 cm gauge heritage steam railway in Argentine Patagonia, now operated by Chubut for tourism.
La Troienne
La Troienne (1926–1954), French-bred mare by Teddy, never won a race but became the most important broodmare imported to the US in the 20th century; foundation of Bruce Lowe family 1-x, dam of Black Helen and Bimelech, ancestress of Buckpasser.
La Tropa Chicana
La Tropa Chicana is a Mexican band from La Barca, Jalisco, founded around 1974, whose "chicanón" sound mixes tecno banda and mariachi; hits include "Vestido Mojado".
La Tuque, Quebec
La Tuque, Quebec: city on the Saint-Maurice River in Mauricie, founded 1911; largest Quebec city by area (agglomeration 29,310 km², like Belgium) with about 11,000–15,000 residents, forest economy, Gouin reservoir, mayor Pierre Pacarar.
La Union
La Union, known in Ilocano as Elyu, is a province of the Philippines in the Ilocos Region on Luzon, created in 1850 and known for surfing.
La Unión (group)
La Unión is a Spanish pop/rock band formed in Madrid in 1982, best known for "Lobo-Hombre en París" and more than 3 million records sold.
La Vague Basque
La Vague Basque is a surf school and sports venue in Biarritz, France, founded in 1997 by David Quérol and Christophe Moraiz, labeled École Française de Surf, based since 2003 on the Côte des Basques beach.
La Vallée d'Iherir
La Vallée d'Iherir (Ramsar Site 1057) is a 57,892-hectare wetland valley in Algeria's Tassili n'Ajjer, designated 2 February 2001, with permanent gueltas, relict Saharan species, and major Holocene rock paintings.
La Vaquilla
La Vaquilla (The Heifer) is Luis García Berlanga's 1985 Spanish Civil War comedy, written with Rafael Azcona, about Republican soldiers stealing a bull; also restaurants and the escaped Minglanilla cow.
La Vautubière
La Vautubière is a Roman villa site at Coudoux, Bouches-du-Rhône, in the lower Arc valley, discovered in 1929 and excavated in 1965 by Bernard Pouyé; its trapetum orbis attests an ancient olive oilery.
La Vega
La Vega (Concepción de La Vega), Dominican Republic: city and capital of La Vega province in Cibao Sur. Founded as a Spanish gold boomtown in the 1490s, destroyed by the 1562 earthquake, refounded 1813; known for Carnaval Vegano.
La Vela Puerca
La Vela Puerca is a Uruguayan rock band formed in Montevideo in 1995, known for fusing rock, reggae, and ska, and among Uruguay's most popular bands.
La Venta
La Venta is a major Olmec archaeological site in Tabasco, Mexico, dominant from about 1200 to 400 BC and known for its Great Pyramid and colossal heads.
La verdad sospechosa
La verdad sospechosa (The Suspicious Truth) is a three-act verse comedy by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, written around 1620, about a compulsive liar in Madrid.
La Vergne police department sex scandal
La Vergne police sex scandal: 2022-2024 Tennessee misconduct case in which five La Vergne PD officers and Chief Burrel "Chip" Davis were fired, Maegan Hall settled a federal lawsuit for $500,000 in March 2024, and no criminal charges were filed.
La Vergnée a Romegoux
La Vergnée a Romegoux: a large rural Gallo-Roman villa near the hamlet of La Vergnée, Romegoux, Charente-Maritime, France; built late 1st century AD, occupied to the 5th century, excavated 1936-1940 by the Burgauds, covering about 4.25 hectares.
La Verna cave
La Verna (Salle de la Verna) is a giant chamber in the Gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin, Sainte-Engrâce, France; 255×245 m, 3.65 million m³, Europe's largest, discovered 1953, open to the public since 2010.
La Vida (book)
La Vida is a 1966 ethnography by Oscar Lewis presenting the life stories of sixteen members of a Puerto Rican family in San Juan and New York.
La vida breve
La vida breve (A Short Life) is a 1950 novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, whose invented city Santa María recurs throughout his later fiction.
La Vida Mancha
La Vida Mancha (Life Marks) is a 2003 Spanish drama by Enrique Urbizu, written by Michel Gaztambide, starring José Coronado, Zay Nuba, and Juan Sanz; the middle film of his noir trilogy, released 9 May 2003.
La Vie (painting)
La Vie (1903) is Pablo Picasso's large Blue Period oil painting, 196.5 x 129.2 cm, in the Cleveland Museum of Art since 1945, painted in Barcelona over the hidden earlier work Last Moments, with the male figure changed from a self-portrait to Casagemas.