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La Vie de saint Alexis
La Vie de saint Alexis, also called the Chanson de saint Alexis, is a mid-eleventh-century Old French hagiographic poem and one of the earliest monuments of French literature.
La Vie en rose
La Vie en rose is Édith Piaf's signature 1946 French love song, lyrics by Piaf with music credited to Louiguy, SACEM-deposited November 1945, first recorded 9 October 1946, and made a global standard by Louis Armstrong's 1950 Mack David version.
La Vie en Rose (2007 film)
La Vie en Rose (La Môme) is Olivier Dahan's 2007 France-UK-Czech biopic of Édith Piaf, starring Marion Cotillard, who won the 2008 Best Actress Oscar; shot in Prague for about $25 million, it earned about $86 million worldwide.
La Violencia
La Violencia, Colombia's undeclared civil war of 1946–1958 between Liberals and Conservatives, triggered by Gaitán's 1948 assassination and the Bogotazo, ended by the National Front; commonly cited at 200,000 dead, though demographic estimates run lower.
La Vitoria-Reserva Geothermal Power Station
La Vitoria-Reserva Geothermal Power Station is a geothermal plant in El Salvador whose name no retrieved source confirms; the verified expansion sites are the Chinameca and San Vicente fields.
La Voix (drag queen)
La Voix, stage name of Christopher Dennis (born 1980), is a British drag queen, singer and comedian from Stockton-on-Tees; runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 6, Britain's Got Talent 2014 semi-finalist, first drag queen on Strictly Come Dancing 2025, later cast as Miss Hannigan in Annie.
La vorágine
La vorágine is a 1924 novel by the Colombian writer José Eustasio Rivera, his only published one, following Arturo Cova and Alicia as the Amazon rubber boom swallows them.
La Voz (Spain)
La Voz is the Spanish version of the talent show The Voice, which premiered on Telecinco in 2012 and has aired on Antena 3 since 2019.
La Voz Kids (Spanish TV series)
La Voz Kids is the Spanish version of The Voice Kids, a children's singing competition on Telecinco from 2014 and Antena 3 since 2019, with blind auditions, battles, and a public-vote final for singers aged 7 to 15.
La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos
La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos is a two-volume 1967 collage book by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, made with artist Julio Silva and published by Siglo XXI in Mexico.
La Ya Sadiki
La Ya Sadiki (لا يا صديقي) is a 1990 album and song by Iraqi singer Kadim Al Sahir, roughly 47 minutes long, the longest of his career.
La Yagua
La Yagua (the jaguar game, "el tigre y los perros") is a traditional Chiriguano-Chane hunt board game from Argentina: twelve dogs trap one jaguar on a 5x5 grid with a triangular den; the jaguar captures by hopping.
La Zizanie
La Zizanie is a 1978 French comedy by Claude Zidi starring Louis de Funès and Annie Girardot: an anti-pollution-machine manufacturer's home expansion drives his wife to run against him for mayor.
La Zowi
La Zowi (Zoe Jeanneau Canto, born 1993 in Paris and raised in Granada) is a French-Spanish trap singer known as the matriarch of Spanish trap, working in trap, reggaeton, and neoperreo.
La-33 (group)
La-33 is an independent salsa orchestra from Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2001 and best known for 'La Pantera Mambo', a salsa version of the Pink Panther theme.
La-ba'shum
La-ba'shum is an early ruler of Uruk identified in the Sumerian King List. He is placed after Gilgamesh and two other rulers in the early 3rd millennium BC.
La-Ce-H superhydrides
La-Ce-H superhydrides are hydrogen-rich superconductors in which lanthanum and cerium share the metal sublattice, synthesized at 100 to 170 GPa with transition temperatures up to 178 K.
La-erabum
La-erabum, earlier read Lasirab, was a Gutian ruler of the Sumerian King List, assigned a two-year reign between Apilkin and Irarum and known from an inscribed mace-head found at Sippar.
LA-N-1
LA-N-1 (LAN-1, CVCL_1827) is a human neuroblastoma cell line established in 1977 from a bone marrow metastasis in a 2-year-old boy, carrying MYCN amplification and an ALK F1174L mutation.
La-related proteins
La-related proteins (LARPs): conserved eukaryotic RNA-binding protein superfamily with five subfamilies (genuine La/LARP3, LARP1, LARP4, LARP6, LARP7), defined by the La module (LaM+RRM1), acting in RNA processing, 7SK snRNP assembly, and TOP mRNA translation regulation.
La'el Collins
La'el Collins (born 1993) is an NFL offensive tackle from LSU who went undrafted in 2015, played 74 games for the Cowboys (2015-21) and Bengals (2022), signed a $50 million extension, and was sidelined by hip and knee injuries.
La'Myia Good
La'Myia Good (born 1979, Panorama City, California), also known as La'Myia Good–Bellinger, is an American singer and actress, older sister of Meagan Good; former Isyss Arista group member, Killzone 3 voice of Jammer, and actress in The Wood and Death Saved My Life.
La+ Darknesss
La+ Darknesss (ラプラス・ダークネス) is a Japanese VTuber affiliated with hololive production, who debuted in 2021 as founder and leader of the sixth-generation unit Secret Society holoX.
La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3 (LSCF)
La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3 (LSCF) is a strontium- and cobalt-substituted lanthanum ferrite perovskite oxide, the most widely used air electrode for solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysis cells, also studied as a bifunctional oxygen catalyst.
La2PrNi2O7
La2PrNi2O7 is a praseodymium-doped bilayer nickelate that becomes a bulk high-temperature superconductor under pressure above about 11 GPa, with a record onset temperature of 82.5 K.
La3Ni2O7
La3Ni2O7 is a bilayer Ruddlesden–Popper nickelate oxide, reported in 2023 to superconduct near 80 K under pressure and later in strained thin films at ambient pressure.
La7
La7 is an Italian national generalist TV channel launched 24 June 2001 on former Telemontecarlo frequencies, focused on news and political talk shows. Owned by Cairo Communication since 2013, it ranks third in prime time and runs sister channels La7d and La7 Cinema.
Laabam (லாபம்)
Laabam (லாபம்; transl. Profit) is a 2021 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed and co-written by S. P. Jananathan, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Shruti Haasan.
LAACablation study
LAACablation (NCT03788941) is a physician-initiated prospective registry at Shanghai Xinhua Hospital studying left atrial appendage closure combined with catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation; 931-patient analysis found similar safety and efficacy in women and men.
Laadla (लाडला) (1994 film)
Laadla (लाडला), 1994 Hindi masala film directed by Raj Kanwar, starring Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, and Raveena Tandon; a hit about a union leader forced to marry the mill owner, with music by Anand-Milind.