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Labourd
Labourd (Lapurdi), a former Basque province of France on the Bay of Biscay, now in Pyrénées-Atlantiques; known for its Biltzar assembly at Ustaritz, pays abonné fiscal status, and 1790 merger into Basses-Pyrénées.
Labourism
Labourism is the political tradition of advancing working-class interests through union-backed labor parties and collective bargaining within capitalism, a term peculiar to Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
Labours of Hercules
Labours of Hercules: twelve penance feats imposed by King Eurystheus on the Greek hero Heracles (Hercules) after he killed his family in Hera-sent madness; canonized in the fifth century BC, rewarded with immortality.
Laboya Aqua Palace
Laboya Aqua Palace (雷堡雅魚樂空間) is a public aquarium at Zihyou 3rd Road 155, Zuoying District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; phone +886 7 3502222; opened as boutique aquarium shop 雷堡雅 in 2011 near Lotus Pond.
Labradoodle
Labradoodle: a Labrador Retriever × Poodle crossbreed, first bred 1989 by Wally Conron at Guide Dogs Victoria for an allergy-friendly guide dog, Sultan; not AKC-recognized, and no breed is proven hypoallergenic.
Labrador
Labrador is the mainland portion of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, covering about 70% of its land area but only 5% of its population.
Labrador Current
Labrador Current: cold, low-salinity polar-origin current flowing southeastward along Baffin Island, Labrador, and Newfoundland; seasonal transports of 5-17 Sv; joins the Gulf Stream to form the North Atlantic Current.
Labrador duck
Labrador duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius), also called pied duck or skunk duck: a small extinct sea duck of the northeastern North American coast, last confirmed in 1875 on Long Island, with fewer than 60 museum specimens surviving.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corporation
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corporation is a Canadian royalty company on the Iron Ore Company of Canada, holding a 7% royalty and 15.10% equity stake.
Labrador Retriever
Labrador Retriever: Newfoundland-origin British-developed gun dog breed, 21.5-24.5 in, 55-80 lb, black/chocolate/yellow; AKC No. 2 after 31-year No. 1 run, Canada's top breed 32 years.
Labrador Sea
The Labrador Sea is a North Atlantic marginal sea between Labrador, Greenland, and Newfoundland, the main formation site of Labrador Sea Water through winter deep convection reaching 500–2,500 m, feeding the AMOC and deep-ocean oxygen and carbon uptake.
Labrador Sea Water
Labrador Sea Water is a cold, fresh intermediate-depth water mass of the North Atlantic, formed by winter deep convection in the central Labrador Sea and spread across the Atlantic.
Labradorite
Labradorite is a calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar first reported from Labrador, Canada, in 1770, best known for labradorescence, an iridescent blue, green, and gold play of color.
Labral reconstruction
Labral reconstruction is an arthroscopic procedure that rebuilds a damaged hip or shoulder labrum with graft tissue when the native labrum is too damaged to repair, restoring the joint's suction seal.
Labral repair
Labral repair is a surgical procedure, usually arthroscopic, that reattaches a torn labrum to its bony attachment in the hip or shoulder rather than removing it.
Labrang Monastery
Labrang Monastery (拉卜楞寺) is a Tibetan Buddhist Gelug monastery in Xiahe County, Gansu, China, founded in 1709 and counted among the six most important Gelug monasteries.
LaBrant family
LaBrant family: Cole and Savannah LaBrant, American family vloggers behind The LaBrant Fam YouTube channel with about 13 million subscribers; known for Christian family content, clickbait controversies including a 2021 cancer-scare video, and criticism over child privacy and earnings.
Labraunda
Labraunda, also written Labranda, is an ancient mountain sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos in Caria, about 13 km north of Mylasa, western Asia Minor's most important Carian sanctuary.
Labridae
Labridae, the wrasses (including parrotfishes and cales), is a species-rich family of shallow-water coastal marine fishes, about 600-676 species, second largest marine fish family, with cleaning behavior, protogynous sex change, and a Cretaceous origin near 79 Ma.
Labrinth
Labrinth (Timothy Lee McKenzie, born 1989, Hackney, London) is a British singer, songwriter, rapper and producer, Syco's first non-talent-show signing in six years, known for Electronic Earth, LSD, and the Emmy-winning Euphoria score.
LaBron Kozone
LaBron Kozone, Greensboro NC pro wrestler, MLW signee, final DPW World and National Champion, Fire Star Pro trainer of Je'Von Evans and Jackson Drake, Ballgame lariat finisher.
Labrus bergylta
Labrus bergylta, the ballan wrasse (Norwegian berggylt), a large protogynous hermaphrodite labrid fish of the eastern Atlantic from Norway to Morocco, farmed and caught as a cleaner fish against salmon lice; IUCN Least Concern.
Labrys
Labrys (λάβρυς) is the Lydian word for axe, per Plutarch, now the standard name for the symmetric double-headed axe, a central religious symbol of Minoan Crete, attribute of Zeus Labraundos, and since the 1970s a lesbian emblem.
LABS-2 study
LABS-2 (Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2), NCT00465829: NIDDK-funded US observational cohort of 2,458 adults undergoing first bariatric surgery 2006–2009 at 10 hospitals, followed up to 7 years for weight, comorbidity, and mortality outcomes.
Labtayt Sulci
Labtayt Sulci is a 162-km sulcus of subparallel furrows and ridges on Saturn's moon Enceladus, a roughly 1-km-deep canyon extending north from the South Polar Terrain into the trailing hemisphere, named after a city in the Arabian Nights.
Labuan
Labuan (Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan) is a federal territory of Malaysia, an island group in the South China Sea off Sabah declared federal territory in 1984.
Labuan Bajo
Labuan Bajo is a port town on the western tip of Flores, Indonesia, capital of West Manggarai Regency and the main gateway to Komodo National Park.
Labubu
Labubu (拉布布) is a toothy elf-like collectible toy character created in 2015 by Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung in The Monsters picture books and sold by Pop Mart since 2019; its 2023 plush keychain sparked a global blind-box craze.
Laburnum
Laburnum (golden chain, golden rain) is a small European legume genus of two species, L. alpinum and L. anagyroides, plus the hybrid L. x watereri 'Vossii', grown for yellow pendulous racemes and poisonous cytisine-containing seeds.
Laburnum anagyroides
Laburnum anagyroides, common laburnum or golden chain tree (syn. Cytisus laburnum), a Fabaceae shrub or tree to 7 m native to S. Central and SE Europe, with yellow June–July racemes and cytisine-poisonous seeds; IUCN least concern.