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Lesotho Highlands Water Project
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a bi-national scheme of dams and tunnels supplying Lesotho highlands water to Gauteng, South Africa, under a 1986 treaty.
Lesotho loti
The Lesotho loti (plural maloti) is the currency of Lesotho, issued by the Central Bank of Lesotho and pegged one-to-one to the South African rand.
Lesotho national olympic committee
The Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LNOC), also the Commonwealth Games Association of Lesotho, was founded in 1971 and recognized by the IOC in 1972, when Lesotho made its Olympic debut.
Lespedeza
Lespedeza (bush clover) is a Fabaceae genus of 48 accepted species native to Asia, Australia, and North America; some species are forage legumes, while sericea lespedeza (L. cuneata) is an invasive, tannin-rich noxious weed in the United States.
Lespignan
Lespignan, Hérault commune near Béziers with the Gallo-Roman villa of Vivios (classified 1993), Roman limestone quarries of the 1st–2nd centuries, a 1379 charter from Charles V, and the 1632 siege by Louis XIII.
Less (song)
Less (song): 2026 single by Olivia Rodrigo from You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love; written with Amy Allen and Daniel Nigro; peaked at 21 in the US and UK, 11 in New Zealand. Distinct from songs named Less by Nils Frahm, Cherrie, and others.
LESS CoV-2 study
LESS CoV-2 (RECOVAC LESS CoV-2 Study, NCT04841785) is a Dutch national prospective observational cohort study of long-term efficacy and safety of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in CKD G4-G5, dialysis, and kidney transplant patients, enrolling 4,868 participants from 2021 to 2023.
Less Than a Lover
Less Than a Lover is a 2026 alternative pop single by South Korean singer JENNIE of BLACKPINK, released through Columbia Records and later included on her EP Fallen Angel.
Less Than Jake
Less Than Jake is an American ska punk band formed in 1992 in Gainesville, Florida, blending fast punk rock with trombone and saxophone; 2003's Anthem marked its commercial peak.
Less Than One
Less Than One is a 1986 essay collection by the Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky, his first book of prose, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Less than truckload shipping
Less than truckload (LTL) shipping is a road freight service for shipments too large for parcel but too small to fill a trailer, typically 150 to 10,000 pounds.
Less than Zero (film)
Less than Zero is a 1987 American drama film directed by Marek Kanievska, loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel, starring Andrew McCarthy and Robert Downey Jr.
Less than Zero (novel)
Less than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis's 1985 debut novel (Simon & Schuster), follows Clay, a college freshman home in Los Angeles, drifting through drugs, parties, and moral emptiness among wealthy youth; basis of the 1987 film.
Less-than sign
The less-than sign, or less-than symbol, is the mathematical symbol <, indicating that the value on its left is smaller than the value on its right.
Lessa
Lessa, also spelled Lasea or Lasaia (Greek Λασαία), was a coastal town on southern Crete near Fair Havens, mentioned in Acts 27:8 during Paul's voyage to Rome.
Lessepsian migration
Lessepsian migration, or Erythrean invasion, is the one-way movement of Red Sea marine species into the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal (opened 1869), named after Ferdinand de Lesseps; over 400 multicellular species and 100 fish species have crossed.
Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are an island arc in the Caribbean Sea, stretching from the Virgin Islands south to Grenada and formed by subduction of the Atlantic plate.
Lesser Aral Sea and Delta of the Syrdarya River
The Lesser Aral Sea and Delta of the Syrdarya River is a 330,000-hectare Ramsar wetland in Kazakhstan, designated as the country's tenth such site in 2012.
Lesser ecdysozoan phyla: Tardigrades, velvet worms, and relatives
The lesser ecdysozoan phyla are the small animal phyla that molt their cuticle, including tardigrades (water bears), velvet worms, priapulids, and kinorhynchs, grouped by shared ancestry rather than appearance.
Lesser Khingan
Lesser Khingan (Xiao Hinggan, 小兴安岭), mountain range in north central Heilongjiang, China, separating the Heilongjiang and Songhua rivers; 500–1000 m average altitude, 72.6% forest cover, humid monsoon climate, rich wildlife.
Lesser kudu
Lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis) is a Near Threatened spiral-horned antelope of northeastern African scrublands, 60-105 kg, with 11-14 white side stripes, male-only twisted horns, and leaf-moisture hydration.
Lesser of two evils principle
The lesser of two evils principle holds that when only two harmful options exist, one should choose the less harmful. Related to double effect and trolley-problem ethics, it shapes political ethics (Morgenthau, dirty hands) and lesser-evil voting.
Lesser Poland
Lesser Poland, also known as Małopolska or Polonia Minor, is a historical region in southern Poland around Kraków, joined to the Polish state in the late 10th century.
Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Lesser Poland Voivodeship (województwo małopolskie), a province of southern Poland created 1 January 1999 with capital Kraków; area 15,183 km², about 3.4 million residents, six national parks and several UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Lesser roadrunner
Lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox, Correcaminos chico), a monotypic ground cuckoo of arid Mexico to northern Nicaragua; 45–50 cm, unstreaked chest, crimson postorbital patch; IUCN Least Concern, 500,000–4,999,999 mature individuals, stable trend.
Lesser Slave
Lesser Slave denotes Lesser Slave Lake and the Lesser Slave River in Alberta, Canada: a 1,160 km² boreal lake, Alberta's largest managed fishery, draining east into the Athabasca River near the town of Slave Lake.
Lesser Sunda Islands
The Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara) are an island chain east of Java, mostly in Indonesia, running from Bali to Timor. Key facts: volcanic Sunda-Banda arc, area 73,144 sq km, Wallacean biodiversity, Komodo National Park.
Lesser-used silyl protecting groups
Lesser-used silyl protecting groups are silyl groups documented as alternatives to widely used silyl ethers for alcohols and phenols, including DEIPS, DPMS, sisyl, and TBDPSE.
Lessing (Mercurian crater)
Lessing is a 95.39-km impact crater on Mercury at 28.42°S, 90.29°, imaged by MESSENGER's Narrow Angle Camera. Unlike typical complex Mercurian craters it has a central pit, likely volcanic in origin, instead of a central peak.
Lessivage
Lessivage, also called argilluviation, is the transfer of fine clay particles, chiefly under 2 μm, from a soil's eluviated E-horizon to a deeper B-horizon, producing the clay-enriched horizons of Luvisols.