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Letitia James
Letitia James, 67th Attorney General of New York since 2019, first woman elected to that office; former NYC Public Advocate and council member; secured over $9 billion, sued Trump for fraud, and was federally indicted in 2025, then dismissed.
Letitia Wright
Letitia Michelle Wright (born 1993, Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese-British actress who plays Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, won the 2019 BAFTA Rising Star Award, and led Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Leto (Λητώ)
Leto (Λητώ, Latin Latona), Greek Titaness, daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus; persecuted by Hera, she gave birth on Delos; chief cult at the Letoon of Xanthos in Lycia.
Leto II Atreides
Leto II Atreides, the Tyrant or God Emperor, is Frank Herbert's Dune character, twin son of Paul and Chani, who merges with sandtrout, rules 3,500 years on the Golden Path, and dies by engineered assassination.
Leto Regio
Leto Regio is a 95-km-wide regio on Phoebe, Saturn's ninth satellite, centered at 60°N, 20°W, IAU-approved in 2000 and named for Leto, mythological daughter of Phoebe; distinct from Phoebe Regio on Venus.
Letoon
The Letoon, also known as Letoum, is the sanctuary of the goddess Leto near Xanthos in Lycia, Turkey, and the federal sanctuary of the Lycian League, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988.
Letopis Matice srpske
Letopis Matice srpske (Летопис Матице српске) is a Serbian literary magazine published in Novi Sad since 1824, making it the oldest Serbian literary periodical still in publication.
Letopolis
Letopolis, known in Egyptian as Sekhem or Khem, was an ancient Egyptian city at modern Ausim, 12 km northwest of Cairo, and the capital of the 2nd nome of Lower Egypt.
LeToya Luckett
LeToya Luckett (born 1981, Houston) is an R&B singer and actress, founding Destiny's Child member, Grammy-winning co-writer of "Say My Name", with three solo albums and roles in Greenleaf and Divorced Sistas.
Letras de México
Letras de México was a Mexican literary and artistic gazette published in Mexico City from 1937 to 1947, founded and edited by the writer Octavio G. Barreda.
Letras Libres
Letras Libres is a Mexican monthly magazine of literary criticism, essays, and political ideas founded in January 1999 as the successor in spirit to Octavio Paz's magazine Vuelta.
Letraset
Letraset: British company founded in London in 1959, maker of dry rub-down transfer lettering sheets (Instant Lettering, 1961) that democratized display typography; 473 original typefaces, Baseline magazine, later owned by Esselte and Colart/Winsor & Newton.
Letronne (lunar crater)
Letronne, lunar crater, IAU 1935, named for French archaeologist Jean Antoine Letronne; 117.59 km Imbrian-age flooded crater forming a bay on the southern edge of Oceanus Procellarum near Gassendi.
Letrozole
Letrozole (Femara, CGS 20267) is a nonsteroidal third-generation aromatase inhibitor approved in 1997 for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in postmenopausal women, dosed 2.5 mg daily, also used off-label for ovulation induction.
LetsGetChecked
LetsGetChecked is an at-home health testing and virtual care company founded in Dublin, Ireland, by Peter Foley, selling mail-in test kits for sexual health, cholesterol, diabetes, and thyroid disorders.
Letsie I
Letsie I, born Mohato (1811–1891), was the eldest son of Moshoeshoe I and paramount chief of the Basotho of Basutoland, now Lesotho, from 1870 to 1891.
Letsile Tebogo
Letsile Tebogo (born 2003, Kanye, Botswana) is a sprinter, 200m Olympic champion at Paris 2024 in 19.46, Botswana's first Olympic gold medalist and Africa's first 200m Olympic champion.
Letter (alphabet)
Letter (alphabet): a grapheme in an alphabetic script representing one or more phonemes, both consonants and vowels; arranged in fixed order. English uses 26 letters for about 44 phonemes; distinct from abjad, abugida, and syllabary systems.
Letter (message)
Letter (message): a written message, usually in an envelope sent by mail; core of epistolary correspondence. Covers its conventions, epistolary intent, history from penny post to email relation, decline and revival.
Letter (paper size)
Letter (ANSI A) is the standard paper size for everyday printing in the United States and Canada, measuring 8.5 × 11 inches, slightly wider and shorter than A4.
Letter box
A letter box, also called a mail box or mail slot, is a receptacle for receiving mail: a door slot, wall-mounted box, curbside mailbox, or centralized locked compartments for apartments.
Letter case
Letter case (uppercase/lowercase, majuscule/minuscule) is the paired-letter distinction in bicameral scripts like Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic; covers its Roman-to-Carolingian history, type-case terminology, capitalization conventions, and Unicode case mapping and folding.
Letter frequency
Letter frequency: the statistical distribution of how often each letter appears in a language's written text. English's most common letters are e, t, a, o, i, n, s; exact rankings vary by corpus. Basis of cryptanalytic frequency analysis and keyboard, Morse code, and text-analysis design.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail is Martin Luther King Jr.'s open letter of April 16, 1963, written in Birmingham City Jail responding to eight clergymen's "A Call for Unity," defending nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience of unjust laws.
Letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu
The Letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu is an Old Babylonian clay tablet in the Louvre where a young man complains to his mother about his clothing.
Letter from Kublai Khan
The Letter from Kublai Khan is a 1266 diplomatic letter asking Japan to open friendly ties, hinting at force; Japan's silence led to the Mongol invasions of 1274 and 1281.
Letter from Millard Fillmore to the Emperor of Japan
The Letter from Millard Fillmore to the Emperor of Japan (合衆国大統領国書) is an 1852 letter asking Japan to open to trade, carried by Commodore Perry.
Letter number sequencing
Letter number sequencing is a neuropsychological test task assessing working memory, in which the examinee recalls numbers in ascending order followed by letters in alphabetical order.
Letter of Ammurapi (RS 18.147)
The Letter of Ammurapi (RS 18.147) is a cuneiform letter from the royal archives of Ugarit at Ras Shamra, Syria, associated with the kingdom's last king.
Letter of credit
A letter of credit, also called a documentary credit, is a bank's written undertaking to pay a seller against conforming documents, giving payment security in international trade.