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Letter of Hasan al-Basri to Umar II
The Letter of Hasan al-Basri to Umar II (رسالة الحسن البصري إلى عمر بن عبد العزيز) is an Arabic epistle of counsel on rulership, attributed to the preacher Hasan al-Basri.
Letter of intent
Letter of intent (LOI), also called term sheet or memorandum of understanding: a preliminary document recording main deal terms before a binding contract, used in M&A, real estate, and employment; mostly non-binding except exclusivity, confidentiality, and expense clauses.
Letter of Majesty (1609)
The Letter of Majesty (Majestát, Rudolfův majestát) was a charter issued by Emperor Rudolf II on 9 July 1609 granting religious liberties to the estates of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Letter of marque
Letter of marque: a government license authorizing privateers to capture enemy ships, also called letter of marque and reprisal. Congress holds the exclusive US power, unused since the War of 1812; the 1856 Declaration of Paris abolished privateering, but modern cyber letters of marque bills exist.
Letter of Pepi II to Harkhuf
The Letter of Pepi II to Harkhuf is a royal letter from young king Pepi II to the official Harkhuf, the oldest surviving royal letter in Egyptian history.
Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha
The Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha is a 1500 report to King Manuel I of Portugal describing the discovery of Brazil, the first document of Brazilian history.
Letter of Piha-walwi
The Letter of Piḫa-Walwi is a Hittite diplomatic letter of the New Kingdom period, in which the prince Piḫa-Walwi rebukes King Ibiranu of Ugarit for failing to appear before the Hittite king.
Letter of recommendation
Letter of recommendation (reference letter): a statement of support for a candidate's employment, education, or funding. Distinguished by narrative advocacy, documented inflation, racial and gender bias patterns, and standardized alternatives.
Letter of Sargon II to Ashur
The Letter of Sargon II to Ashur is the only complete surviving Neo-Assyrian royal letter to a god, a clay tablet reporting Sargon II's 714 BC campaign against Urartu.
Letter on the Himyarite Martyrs
The Letter on the Himyarite Martyrs is a Syriac letter attributed to Simeon of Beth Arsham, a Monophysite bishop, describing the persecution of Najrān's Christians in 523.
Letter to Brezhnev
Letter to Brezhnev (1985) is a British romantic comedy-drama directed by Chris Bernard, written by Frank Clarke, starring Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg, Peter Firth, and Alfred Molina, about two Liverpool women and two Soviet sailors.
Letter to Gogol
Letter to Gogol (Письмо к Гоголю) is an open letter written by critic Vissarion Belinsky to Nikolai Gogol in 1847, attacking his defense of serfdom and autocracy.
Letter to Ren An
The Letter to Ren An (报任安书), or Letter in Reply to Ren Shaoqing, is a famous letter by Han historian Sima Qian explaining why he endured castration to finish the Shiji.
Letter to the American People (رسالة إلى الشعب الأمريكي)
Letter to the American People, also known as رسالة إلى الشعب الأمريكي, is a 4,000-word manifesto published in 2002 that blends religious and political criticism of the United States.
Letter to the editor
Letter to the editor (LTE): a short reader-submitted comment published by a newspaper, magazine, or scholarly journal, usually responding to recent content; distinguished from op-eds and editorials by brevity (about 200 to 500 words), reader authorship, and its role in post-publication peer review.
Letter to the Himyarites
The Letter to the Himyarites is an early sixth-century Syriac letter attributed to Jacob of Serugh, responding to the persecution of Najran's Christians by the Himyarite king Yusuf Dhu Nuwas.
Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Sydney
The Letter to the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, is a 1986 handwritten letter from Queen Elizabeth II, sealed in Sydney to be opened in 2085.
Letterboxd
Letterboxd is a New Zealand social platform for logging, rating, and reviewing films, created in 2011 by Auckland web designers Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, with 13 million members.
Letterboxing (filming)
Letterboxing, or letterbox format, fits a widescreen image onto a narrower screen undistorted, leaving black bars above and below; the classic use was showing widescreen films on 4:3 televisions.
Letterboxing (hobby)
Letterboxing: outdoor hobby begun on Dartmoor in 1854 by James Perrott at Cranmere Pool; finders follow written clues, not GPS, and exchange rubber-stamp impressions between the box's logbook and their personal logbook; distinct from geocaching (2000).
Lettered olive
Lettered olive (Oliva sayana, also Americoliva sayana), a western Atlantic olive snail from North Carolina to the Gulf states, with a glossy cylindrical shell to 65 mm and letter-like brown zigzag markings; carnivorous sand-flat digger.
Letterer–Siwe disease
Letterer–Siwe disease is the obsolete eponym for aggressive multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis of infants, now classified as multisystem LCH with risk-organ (liver, spleen, bone marrow) involvement, historically fatal in over 50% of children under 2.
Letterkenny
Letterkenny (Leitir Ceanainn) is the largest town in County Donegal, Ireland, founded as a 1611 Ulster Plantation market town under Patrick Crawford and Sir George Marbury; known for the Letterkenny 2040 regeneration strategy, courthouse revival, and transport constraints.
Letterkenny (TV series)
Letterkenny: Canadian sitcom created by Jared Keeso and Jacob Tierney, adapted from the 2013 YouTube series Letterkenny Problems; Crave's first original series, 12 seasons, 2016-2023, also on Hulu.
Letterman (sports)
Letterman (sports): a student who has earned a varsity letter in high school or college athletics, from the Harvard baseball 'H' of 1865; displayed on wool-and-leather letterman jackets, now extended to academics, band, and debate.
LetterOne
LetterOne (L1) is a Luxembourg-based international investment group founded in 2013 by Alfa Group principals Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, German Khan, and Alexey Kuzmichev after the TNK-BP sale.
Letterpress printing
Letterpress printing is a relief printing technique in which raised type and images are inked and pressed directly onto paper, introduced by Gutenberg in the mid-15th century.
Letters
The Letters of Madame de Sévigné are the correspondence of the marquise de Sévigné (1626–1696), more than 1,000 letters chiefly to her daughter, written from 1655 to 1696.
Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙)
Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙) is Clint Eastwood's 2006 Japanese-language war film, companion to Flags of Our Fathers, starring Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi; it won the 79th Academy Award for Sound Editing and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Letters from My Windmill
Letters from My Windmill, or Lettres de mon moulin, is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet, framed as letters from a windmill in Provence, first published in 1869.