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Leftfield
Leftfield: British electronic act formed 1988 by Paul Daley and Neil Barnes, pioneers of progressive house; albums Leftism (1995) and Rhythm and Stealth (1999); "Open Up" with John Lydon; continued by Barnes after 2010.
Leftöver Crack
Leftöver Crack: New York Lower East Side punk band formed from Choking Victim's breakup, blending ska, crust, and hardcore (Crack Rock Steady). Albums Mediocre Generica (2001), Fuck World Trade (2004), Constructs of the State (2015); fronted by Stza.
Leftoverture
Leftoverture is the fourth studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released October 21, 1976 on Kirshner Records. Known for the hit "Carry On Wayward Son" (US No. 11), the closing suite "Magnum Opus," and 4x Platinum US sales.
Lefty
Lefty is an 1881 story by Nikolai Leskov, written in the skaz genre, about three Tula gunsmiths who outdo English craftsmanship by shoeing a steel flea.
Lefty Frizzell
Lefty Frizzell (William Orville Frizzell, 1928-1975), honky-tonk country singer from Corsicana, Texas; Columbia star from 1950 with four simultaneous 1951 Top Ten hits; later "Saginaw, Michigan"; Country Music Hall of Fame 1982.
Lefty Gunplay
Lefty Gunplay (Franklin Holladay) is a Baldwin Park, San Gabriel Valley rapper signed to OTR Records who broke out via Kendrick Lamar's "tv off" (GNX, 2024), reaching number two on the Hot 100 and earning a 2026 Grammy nomination.
Lefty Gwynne
Lefty Gwynne (Horace Gwynne, 1912-2001), Canadian bantamweight boxer who won gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, beating Melis, Villanueva, and Ziglarski; later Canadian pro bantamweight champion and Sports Hall of Fame inductee.
Lefty Ruggiero
Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero (1926–1994), Bonanno family soldier, sponsored FBI undercover agent Joe Pistone (Donnie Brasco); arrested 1981, convicted, served 10 years, died of cancer; portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1997 film.
Leg before wicket
Leg before wicket (LBW), Law 36 of the MCC Laws of Cricket, dismisses a cricket batter hit on the body by a fair delivery that would have hit the wicket; pitching outside leg stump rules it out, and DRS Umpire's Call governs marginal reviews.
Leg press
Leg press: machine-based lower-body exercise pushing a weighted platform, targeting quadriceps, glutes, hamstrings, and calves. Seated, sled, 45-degree, and vertical variants; stop short of knee lockout; strength gains are modality-specific versus squats.
Leg spin
Leg spin (wrist spin) is a cricket bowling style where the wrist turns the ball away from a right-handed batter; variations include the googly and carrom ball, with Shane Warne its leading Test wicket-taker.
Leg1
Leg1 (liver-enriched gene 1, C6orf58 homolog) is a conserved gene encoding a secreted DUF781-domain protein; zebrafish Leg1a protects liver development via FGFR3, and mammals have LEG1a/b/c paralogs, with pigs retaining all three.
Lega Basket Serie A
Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), founded 27 May 1970, is the Italian league organizing the top men's basketball division on FIP delegation: 16 teams, 240-game regular season, best-of-5 playoffs, Coppa Italia Final Eight, Supercoppa, about 4,000 average attendance.
Lega ivories
Lega ivories are small ivory sculptures by the Lega people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, used as rank insignia and teaching objects in the Bwami initiation society.
Lega Nord
Lega Nord (Northern League, Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania): Italian right-wing populist party founded in 1991 by Umberto Bossi, federalist and secessionist for Padania, transformed under Matteo Salvini into the national party Lega per Salvini Premier.
Legacies (TV series)
Legacies (2018–2022) is a CW supernatural teen drama, the third series in the Vampire Diaries Universe after The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. Created by Julie Plec, set at the Salvatore School for Hope Mikaelson, using a monster-of-the-week format.
Legacy (Five Finger Death Punch album)
Legacy is the tenth studio album by Five Finger Death Punch, released digitally July 31, 2026 via Better Noise Music to mark the band's 20th anniversary; produced by Drew Fulk, 10 tracks, 36 minutes.
Legacy (The Bear)
"Legacy" is the seventh episode of season 3 of FX's comedy-drama The Bear, aired June 26, 2024, written by Christopher Storer and Catherine Schetina; it centers on Carmy's idea of legacy and Shapiro's offer to Sydney, and ranks among the show's lowest-rated episodes.
Legacy and regional telephone plugs and sockets
Legacy and regional telephone plugs and sockets are the country-specific connectors, such as the British BT 431A and German TAE, that predate the modular RJ family.
Legacy Capital III, L.P.
Legacy Capital III, L.P. is a Cayman Islands-domiciled private equity buyout fund managed from Los Angeles by Legacy Partners, LLC, which sold $176.8 million of securities in 2016.
Legacy code
Legacy code is existing source code a team must keep working while changing it, defined by Michael Feathers in 2004 as simply code without automated tests.
Legacy Effects
Legacy Effects is an American practical special effects studio in San Fernando, California, founded in 2008 by four supervisors from Stan Winston Studio, known for animatronics and prosthetic makeup.
Legacy of Kain
Legacy of Kain: dark fantasy action-adventure series set in Nosgoth, begun with Blood Omen (1996, Silicon Knights/Crystal Dynamics); Soul Reaver (1999, Amy Hennig) introduced realm-shifting; revived via 2024-2026 remasters and Ascendance.
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered is the 2026 Crystal Dynamics/PlayEveryWare remaster of the 2003 action-adventure Defiance, the only series game starring both Kain and Raziel, with HD visuals, a toggleable modern camera, lost levels, and the Dark Prophecy demo, out March 3, 2026 on PS5, PS4, Xbox, Switch, and PC.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (1999, Crystal Dynamics) is an action-adventure starring the wraith Raziel, Kain's slain lieutenant, with material/spectral realm-shifting, soul-devouring health, and streaming open-world tech; remastered December 2024.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered is Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics' December 10, 2024 remaster of the 1999 and 2001 Soul Reaver games for PS4/PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC, with a graphics toggle, modern camera, and photo mode.
Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869–1948): his satyagraha method of nonviolent resistance, its influence on Martin Luther King Jr. and Mandela, and the contested record on caste and the Ambedkar debate.
Legacy of Spies (TV series)
Legacy of Spies is an upcoming eight-part BBC/MGM+ espionage drama adapting John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and A Legacy of Spies, starring Matthew Macfadyen as George Smiley and Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas, filmed in 2026, premiering 2027.
Legacy of the Roman Empire
Legacy of the Roman Empire: Rome's transmission of law (Corpus Iuris Civilis, civil law tradition), Latin and Romance languages, roads (Via Appia, ~300,000 km network), and governance to later European and Mediterranean societies.
Legacy Survey of Space and Time
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is a ten-year optical survey of the southern sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, begun in 2026.