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Leipzig
Leipzig, Saxony's largest city, first recorded 1015 as urbs Libzi, a trade-fair, university, and music center. Official population 615,932 (end 2025); 1989 Monday demonstrations helped end the GDR.
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
The Leipzig Book Fair Prize (Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse) is an annual German-language literary award presented at the Leipzig Book Fair since 2005, honoring fiction, non-fiction, and translation equally.
Leipzig Convent
Leipzig Convent (Notre Dame Convent and Boarding School), a 1927 red-brick Collegiate Gothic heritage building in RM Reford No. 379, Saskatchewan, run by the School Sisters of Notre Dame for a German Catholic community from 1926 until its 1969 closure.
Leipzig University
Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig), founded 1409, is a German U15 comprehensive university with 14 faculties, 450 professorships, and over 30,000 students, guided by the HEP 2032 and the Leipzig Way.
Leipzig Zoological Garden
Leipzig Zoological Garden (Zoo Leipzig), founded 1878 by Ernst Pinkert, is a 27-hectare German zoo with about 650 species in six theme worlds, known for Gondwanaland, Pongoland, and its Zoo of the Future master plan.
Leipzig/Halle Airport
Leipzig/Halle Airport, also known as Schkeuditz Airport, is a German airport between Leipzig and Halle, opened in 1927 and DHL's European cargo hub since 2008.
Leiqiong UNESCO Global Geopark
Leiqiong UNESCO Global Geopark (雷琼世界地质公园), designated 2015, spans the Qiongzhou Strait between Zhanjiang, Guangdong and Haikou, Hainan; 3,050 km2 with over 100 Quaternary basaltic volcanoes, 38 protected structures, and Huguangyan Maar Lake.
Leir of Britain
Leir of Britain is a legendary pre-Roman king, first recorded in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136), whose division of his kingdom among three daughters underlies Shakespeare's King Lear; his historicity is disputed.
Leiria
Leiria, Portugal: district capital in the Centro region on the river Lis, founded around the 1135 castle of Afonso Henriques, a city and bishopric since 1545, now an industrial and university center of about 134,000 residents.
Leiria District
Leiria District (Distrito de Leiria), west-central Portugal: 16 municipalities, nearly 4,000 km², capital Leiria city; 514,503 residents, UNESCO monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha, diversified industry.
Leirion Gaylor Baird
Leirion Gaylor Baird is an American Democratic politician and the 52nd Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, since 2019, re-elected in 2023 after serving on the city council.
Leisa Gwenllian
Leisa Gwenllian is a Welsh-language actress from Llanrug, North Wales, a 2024 Oxford School of Drama graduate and Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2026, known for Effi o Blaenau, Itopia, and Under Salt Marsh.
Leisan
Leisan, real name Leisan Valieva, is a Russian-born house and tech-house DJ and producer in Los Angeles who co-runs TRANQUILO Records and played Insomniac festivals like EDC Orlando 2025.
Leisel Jones
Leisel Jones (born 1985), Australian breaststroke swimmer, 'Lethal Leisel'; first Australian swimmer at four Olympics (2000-2012), nine Olympic medals including 100m breaststroke gold at Beijing 2008, 14 world records.
Leisha Hailey
Leisha Hailey, born 1971 in Okinawa, is an American actress and musician known as Alice Pieszecki on The L Word and Generation Q, and as a founder of The Murmurs and Uh Huh Her.
Leishmania
Leishmania is a genus of obligate intracellular protozoan parasites transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies, causing visceral (kala-azar), cutaneous, and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; about 21 of 30 species infect humans, with 700,000 to 1 million new cases annually.
Leishmania infection
Leishmania infection: intracellular protozoan parasites (Leishmania spp., causing leishmaniasis) transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies; promastigote-amastigote life cycle, Th1/Th2 immunity, cutaneous, visceral, and mucocutaneous forms, no licensed vaccine.
Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis, also kala-azar, is a sandfly-transmitted parasitic disease caused by over 20 Leishmania species, with cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral forms; 700,000 to 1 million new cases yearly, treatable but fatal if visceral disease is untreated.
Leishmaniosis
Leishmaniosis (leishmaniasis), infection with Leishmania protozoa spread by female phlebotomine sand flies; forms are visceral (kala-azar), cutaneous, and mucocutaneous; WOAH-listed in dogs and cats, diagnosed by PCR, serology, and parasitology.
Leisure
Leisure: free time apart from work and obligations. Covers definitions, history of the eight-hour day, US time-use statistics (5.07 hours/day, 2024), the leisure gap, serious vs casual leisure, cross-country comparisons, and the unfulfilled leisure society.
Leisure (album)
Leisure is the 1991 debut album by English band Blur on Food Records, blending Madchester and shoegaze; it peaked at UK No. 7, spawned the hit "There's No Other Way", and preceded their Britpop reinvention.
Leisure Suit Larry
Leisure Suit Larry, aka Larry Laffer series, adult comedy adventure game franchise created by Al Lowe at Sierra On-Line in 1987, based on Softporn Adventure; classic run 1987-1996, revived by CrazyBunch's Wet Dreams games (2018, 2020), delisted October 2026.
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, also known as Leisure Suit Larry 1, is a 1987 graphic adventure game by Sierra On-Line, designed by Al Lowe.
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude is a 2004 adult comedy game by High Voltage Software and VU Games for PC, PS2, and Xbox; first 3D, Al Lowe-free Larry, minigame-based, starring Larry Lovage, rated M/AO, banned in Australia.
Leisya Pesnya
Leisya Pesnya (Лейся, песня) is a Soviet and Russian vocal-instrumental ensemble formed in 1974 at the Kemerovo Philharmonic, whose Melodiya records sold over 3 million copies.
Leith
Leith is a port district in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the Water of Leith, serving as Edinburgh's port since 1329 and once Scotland's busiest port.
Leith Hill
Leith Hill is a hill in Surrey, England, and at 294 m (965 ft) the highest point in the county, crowned by the 18th-century Leith Hill Tower.
Leitha
Leitha (Hungarian Lajta, historically Sar): Austrian-Hungarian river, right Danube tributary formed by Schwarza-Pitten confluence at Lanzenkirchen, about 180 km long, historic Austria-Hungary border giving Cisleithania and Transleithania their names.
Leitmotif
Leitmotif, also known as leading motive, is a recurring musical theme in a dramatic work. It is used to represent characters, places, or ideas, and is most closely associated with Richard Wagner.
Leix Chaos
Leix Chaos is a 415 km diameter chaos terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at 39.39°S, 136.20°W, IAU-named in 2022 after a city in Celtic mythology, part of Europa's disrupted icy surface.