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Leontius Theotokitis
Leontius Theotokitis (Λεόντιος ὁ Θεοτοκίτης) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from early to late 1189, a compromise candidate installed when clergy opposed Emperor Isaac II Angelos's preferred patriarch.
Leontopithecus
Leontopithecus (lion tamarins), genus Lesson 1840 in Callitrichidae; four endangered species, L. rosalia, chrysomelas, chrysopygus, caissara, endemic to Brazil's Atlantic Forest, distinguished by shoulder manes.
Leontopodium
Leontopodium (edelweiss) is an Asteraceae genus of roughly 30–57 perennial species, mostly Asian with two European alpines, L. alpinum and L. nivale, studied for phylogeny, lignans like leoligin, and alpine conservation.
Leontopodium nivale
Leontopodium nivale, the edelweiss (also Leontopodium alpinum), is a European mountain daisy with white felted bracts, split into widespread subsp. alpinum and the Apennines–Pirin endemic subsp. nivale.
Leontopolis
Leontopolis (Egyptian Taremu, modern Tell el-Muqdam) was a major ancient Egyptian city in the eastern Nile Delta, a center of the lion god Mahes's cult and a possible 23rd Dynasty royal seat.
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price, born Mary Violet Leontyne Price in 1927, is an American soprano from Laurel, Mississippi, and the first African American opera singer to gain international acclaim.
Leonurus
Leonurus (motherwort), Lamiaceae genus of about 25 temperate Eurasian herb species; source of alkaloids leonurine and stachydrine, used as uterotonic in East Asia and sedative in Europe.
Leopard
Leopard (Panthera pardus): a big cat of genus Panthera with rosetted coat, native to Africa and southern Asia, nine subspecies, IUCN Vulnerable, CITES Appendix I since 1975, range down 61% since 2007 assessment.
Leopard 1
The Leopard 1 is a West German main battle tank, first delivered in 1965, built for mobility, and serving with more than a dozen countries.
Leopard 2
The Leopard 2 is a German main battle tank developed by Krauss-Maffei in the 1970s, armed with a 120 mm smoothbore gun and used by 18 European countries.
Leopard 2A4M CAN
The Leopard 2A4M CAN is a Canadian main battle tank, an upgraded Leopard 2A4 built by KMW, fielded in Afghanistan from 2010 and deployed to Latvia in 2023.
Leopard cat
Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), also Mainland leopard cat, a small spotted wild cat of South, Southeast, and East Asia; IUCN Least Concern, split from Sunda leopard cat in 2017, ancestor of the Bengal cat breed.
Leopard gecko
Leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius), common leopard gecko, a nocturnal ground gecko from Afghanistan, Pakistan, northwest India, and Iran; the third most popular reptile pet, with moveable eyelids, temperature-dependent sex determination, and tail autotomy.
Leopard Quarter (Baofang)
The Leopard Quarter (Baofang, 豹房) was a complex built for the Ming Zhengde emperor in Beijing's imperial city, serving as his residence and de facto seat of government.
Leopard seal
Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), solitary Antarctic pack-ice seal and apex predator, sole species of its genus. Eats krill by suction filter-feeding plus penguins, fish, and other seals; IUCN Least Concern, trends unknown.
Leopard shark
Leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata, tiburón leopardo), a houndshark of California bays and estuaries from Oregon to Mexico; pavement-toothed, up to 1.9 m, 4–37 live pups, IUCN least concern; distinct from the endangered Indo-Pacific leopard shark Stegostoma tigrinum.
Leopardi (Mercurian crater)
Leopardi is a 72-km-wide IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury at 73°S, 180°W, in quadrangle H-15, named in 1976 for Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet, scholar, and philosopher (1798–1837).
Leopardus
Leopardus (Gray, 1842), the American spotted cats or ocelot lineage, a Neotropical genus of small wild cats including the ocelot, margay, Andean cat, pampas cats, Geoffroy's cat, guigna, and tiger cats; 2n=36 chromosomes, highly discordant phylogeny, up to 13 species, new species L. tilcayo described 2026.
Leopardus colocola
Leopardus colocola (pampas cat, colocolo, gato pajero), a small South American wild cat described by Molina in 1782. A 2021 revision split the complex into five species; L. colocola sensu stricto is restricted to central Chile and is Near Threatened.
Leopardus geoffroyi
Leopardus geoffroyi, Geoffroy's cat (gato montés), a small 3-6 kg Neotropical wild cat from southern Bolivia to Patagonia; spotted, nocturnal, Least Concern, CITES Appendix I, hybridizes with L. guttulus in southern Brazil.
Leopardus guttulus
Leopardus guttulus, the southern tiger cat or southern tigrina, is a small Vulnerable Neotropical wild cat of central/southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, split from Leopardus tigrinus in 2013 and hybridizing with Geoffroy's cat.
Leopardus jacobita
Leopardus jacobita, the Andean cat or Andean mountain cat (gato andino), is an Endangered small wild cat of the high Andes and Patagonia in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, with about 2,177 mature individuals, black nose, ringed bushy tail, and mountain vizcacha prey.
Leopardus tigrinus
Leopardus tigrinus, the northern tiger cat or oncilla, a small Vulnerable Neotropical wild cat from Costa Rica and Panama to central Brazil; split from L. guttulus in 2013, about 9,000–10,000 mature individuals, declining from habitat loss.
Leopold and Loeb
Leopold and Loeb: Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb, wealthy University of Chicago students who kidnapped and murdered Bobby Franks in 1924 as a 'perfect crime,' spared the death penalty by Clarence Darrow.
Leopold Aschenbrenner
Leopold Aschenbrenner is a German-born investor and former OpenAI safety researcher who wrote the 2024 essay Situational Awareness and founded the hedge fund Situational Awareness LP.
Leopold Berchtold
Leopold Berchtold (1863–1942), Austro-Hungarian foreign minister 1912–1915, drafted the July 1914 ultimatum to Serbia, declared war 28 July 1914, resigned January 1915, replaced by Burián.
Léopold Boissier
Léopold Boissier was a Swiss lawyer, diplomat, and University of Geneva law professor who served as president of the International Committee of the Red Cross from 1955 to 1964.
Leopold Cafe
Leopold Cafe, founded 1871 on Colaba Causeway, Mumbai, by Irani Zoroastrian immigrants and named after Belgium's King Leopold; first target of the 26/11 2008 attacks, reopened within five days, bullet marks preserved.
Leopold Figl
Leopold Figl (1902–1965), Austrian ÖVP politician, agrarian engineer, and Dachau survivor; first elected Federal Chancellor of the Second Republic (1945–1953), later Foreign Minister who signed the 1955 State Treaty and declared "Österreich ist frei".
Leopold Freund
Leopold Freund was an Austrian radiologist who performed the first documented scientific therapeutic use of X-rays in Vienna in 1896, treating a girl's hairy birthmark and founding radiotherapy.