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Lehigh University
Lehigh University is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, founded in 1865 by industrialist Asa Packer with what was then the largest single gift to an American educational institution.
Lehigh Valley
The Lehigh Valley is a two-county region of eastern Pennsylvania (Lehigh and Northampton; Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton), Pennsylvania's third-largest metro, with 708,644 residents, a $55.7 billion GDP, and a coal, steel, and manufacturing history.
Lehigh Valley Railroad
The Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) was an American Class I railroad chartered in the 1840s to haul anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to Jersey City and Buffalo.
Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers was an American investment bank founded in 1850 that grew into the fourth-largest in the United States before filing for bankruptcy in September 2008 with $639 billion in assets.
Lehmann's poison frog
Lehmann's poison frog (Dendrobates lehmanni) is a critically endangered poison frog endemic to a small area of Colombia's Pacific Andes, black with red, orange, or yellow bands.
Lehna Singh Bhangi
Lehna Singh Bhangi (ਲਹਿਣਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੰਗੀ) was a Sikh chief of the Bhangi misl who helped capture Lahore in 1765 and ruled a quarter of the city until his death in 1797.
Leho Tedersoo
Leho Tedersoo (born 1980) is an Estonian mycologist and Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies at the University of Tartu, known for global studies of soil fungal diversity.
Lehrke Inlet
Lehrke Inlet, also Lehrke Bay, is an ice-filled inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Cape Boggs and Cape Sharbonneau, discovered by the USAS in 1940 and named for Lester Lehrke of the Bear.
Lehron ke Rajhans
Lehron ke Rajhans (लहरों के राजहंस) is a 1963 Hindi play by Mohan Rakesh about Nanda, the Buddha's half-brother, torn between worldly life and monkhood.
Lehrstück
The Lehrstück (plural Lehrstücke, "learning play") is a short dramatic form developed by Bertolt Brecht between 1926 and 1933, in which learning happens through performance itself.
Lehui Tianxia (北京乐汇天下科技有限公司)
Lehui Tianxia (Beijing Lehui Tianxia Technology Co., Ltd.) was a Chinese mobile-game developer in Beijing, known for Pocket Ninja and Pocket One Piece, acquired by Rapoo in 2013.
Lehun
Lehun (al-Lahun, Khirbat al-Lahun) is a multi-period archaeological site in central Jordan, in ancient Moab, best known for its excavated Iron Age fortified village and fortress.
Lei (garland)
Lei is the Hawaiian garland of flowers, leaves, shells, seeds, or feathers, brought by Polynesian voyagers, given in the spirit of aloha, worn for rank and ceremony, celebrated on Lei Day since 1928.
Lei Áurea
Lei Áurea (Golden Law), Law No. 3,353 of 13 May 1888, the Brazilian statute signed by Princess Isabel that abolished slavery in Brazil, freed roughly 600,000 people, and granted no compensation or follow-up policies.
Lei Chen
Lei Chen (陈磊), also known as Chen Lei, is a Chinese technology executive and founding member of PDD Holdings, the e-commerce group behind Pinduoduo and Temu, and its co-chairman.
Lei Ding
Lei Ding is a stem cell biologist and professor at Columbia University Medical Center since 2013, known for identifying the bone marrow cells that maintain hematopoietic stem cells.
Lei do Ventre Livre
Lei do Ventre Livre ("Law of the Free Womb"), also called Lei Rio Branco, was an 1871 Brazilian law freeing children born to enslaved women, a landmark toward abolition.
Lei Eusébio de Queirós
The Lei Eusébio de Queirós, Law no. 581 of 1850, was the law of the Empire of Brazil that repressed the Atlantic slave trade by declaring slave importation piracy.
Lei Feng (雷锋)
Lei Feng (雷锋, 1940–1962) was a PLA soldier, real or composite, turned into China's most famous model hero by Mao's 1963 "Learn from Lei Feng" campaign, still promoted each March 5.
Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados
The Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) is Brazil's comprehensive data protection law, regulating personal data processing, signed in 2018 and enforced by the ANPD.
Lei Houyi
Lei Houyi (雷厚义, born 1991) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Chongqing who founded Wukong Bicycle, the first of China's bike-sharing startups to shut down, exiting in June 2017.
Lei Jiang (江雷)
Lei Jiang (江雷) is a Chinese physical chemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who founded superwettability, designing bioinspired materials that control how liquids wet, spread, and move.
Lei Jun (雷军)
Lei Jun, born 1969 in Hubei, is a Chinese tech entrepreneur who founded Xiaomi in 2010, earlier led software company Kingsoft, and sold his e-commerce site Joyo.com to Amazon.
Lei Ming
Lei Ming (雷鸣) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, one of Baidu's seven founding members and its chief architect, who left in 2003 and founded Kuwo Music in 2005.
Lei Sheng
Lei Sheng (雷声), born 1984 in Tianjin, is a Chinese left-handed foil fencer, 2012 London Olympic individual champion, two-time world team champion, Rio 2016 flag bearer, and later coach of the Chinese Fencing Team.
Lei Stanley Qi
Lei Stanley Qi, publishing as Lei S. Qi, is a Stanford bioengineer who invented the CRISPRi and CRISPRa methods for turning genes off and on without altering DNA.
Lei Wang
Lei Wang (Wang Lei) is a Singapore-based electrocatalysis researcher and assistant professor at the National University of Singapore who converts carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.
Lei Wei
Lei Wei (魏磊) is a Singapore-based engineer, professor at Nanyang Technological University, who makes hair-thin semiconductor fibers and weaves them into fabrics that sense, compute, and display.
Lei Xiaoliang
Lei Xiaoliang (雷小亮) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who left NetEase in 2011 to co-found Momo, the stranger-social app that listed on Nasdaq in 2014.
Lei Xing
Lei Xing is a medical physicist at Stanford University who directs its Medical Physics Division, leads the Xing Laboratory, and works on artificial intelligence, imaging, and radiation oncology.