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Ley de Exvinculación of 1874

The Ley de Exvinculación of 1874 (Ley de Exvinculación de 1874) was a Bolivian law, promulgated by President Tomás Frías, that granted individual land titles while legally abolishing indigenous communities.

Ley Lerdo

The Ley Lerdo was a Mexican desamortization law of 25 June 1856, drafted by Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, that forced civil and religious corporations to sell their real estate.

Ley line

Ley lines, proposed by Alfred Watkins in 1921 as prehistoric straight trackways and later reinterpreted as earth-energy lines by John Michell, are rejected by archaeologists as chance alignments.

Ley sobre Ocupación y Enajenación de Terrenos Baldíos of 1883

The Ley sobre Ocupación y Enajenación de Terrenos Baldíos of 1883, also called the Decreto sobre Colonización y Compañías Deslindadoras, was a Mexican law creating private surveying companies.

Leya Kırşan

Leya Kırşan (also Leyla Kırşan), born 2008 in Istanbul, is a Turkish actress known as Elif in Tozkoparan/Tozkoparan İskender and Fatma Hatun in Kuruluş Osman, now starring in Sevdam Karadeniz.

Oct 15, 2026

Leybold

Leybold is a German manufacturer of vacuum pumps and leak-detection equipment, founded in Cologne in 1850 and owned since 2016 by the Swedish group Atlas Copco.

Leyden

Leyden (Leiden) is a two-player domino game, a cross-layout version of Matador using a double-six set, rule of seven, four matador wild tiles, and reverse scoring where 100 points loses.

Leyden jar

The Leyden jar, also spelled Leiden jar and first made by Ewald Georg von Kleist in 1745, is a glass jar that stores static electricity, the first electrical capacitor.

Leyden Labs

Leyden Labs, or Leyden Laboratories B.V., is a Dutch biotech company founded in Leiden in 2020 by former Crucell veterans to develop preventative antibody nasal sprays against respiratory viruses.

Leydi Moya

Leydi Moya (Leydi Laura Moya López, listed by UIPM as Leidis Laura Moya), Cuban modern pentathlete born 1992 in Havana; 2010 Youth Olympic gold medalist, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympian, 2019 Pan American Games bronze medalist who retired and moved to Las Vegas.

Leydig cell

Leydig cells, or interstitial cells of the testes, are steroid-producing cells in the testis that make testosterone and were named after Franz Leydig, who identified them in 1850.

Leydig cell hypoplasia

Leydig cell hypoplasia (Leydig cell agenesis, LCH, OMIM 238320) is a rare autosomal recessive 46,XY disorder of sex development caused by inactivating LHCGR mutations, causing low testosterone, female or ambiguous genitalia, and absent puberty in genetic males.

Leye Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark

Leye Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark (乐业-凤山世界地质公园) is a karst geopark in Guangxi, China, spanning Leye and Fengshan counties, with the Dashiwei tiankeng group, 613 m deep sinkholes, giant cave chambers, and the 177 m Buliu Natural Bridge.

Leyenda de los Soles

The Leyenda de los Soles, or "Legend of the Suns," is an anonymous Nahuatl narrative dated 22 May 1558 that recounts four previous world ages, called suns, and their destructions.

Oct 22, 2026

Leyendas mexicanas

Leyendas mexicanas is an 1862 book of narrative verse by the Mexican writer, journalist, and historian José María Roa Bárcena, published in Mexico City, collecting legendary tales, northern European ballads, and miscellaneous poems.

Leyla

Leyla (Wegi) is a two-row mancala board game played near Jigjiga, Ethiopia, on a 2x6 board with four counters per hole; its distinctive goal is capturing opponent's holes, per Pankhurst 1971.

Oct 22, 2026

Leyla Erbil

Leyla Erbil (1931–2013) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of modernist narrative in Turkish literature, nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2002 and 2004.

Oct 22, 2026

Leylâ Hanım

Leylâ Hanım (died 1848) was an Ottoman divan poet from Istanbul, ranked among the five most important women poets of classical Turkish poetry; her only work is her Dîvân of 2,534 couplets.

Leyla Harding

Leyla Harding, fictional Emmerdale character played by Roxy Shahidi from 2008 to 2025; wedding planner, mother of Jacob Gallagher, died in a frozen-lake limo crash in February 2025.

Leyla Milani

Leyla Milani (لیلا میلانی), born Leyla Razzaghi in 1982, is an Iranian-Canadian-American model best known as briefcase model number 13 on NBC's Deal or No Deal.

Leylah Fernandez

Leylah Annie Fernandez (born 2002, Montreal) is a Canadian left-handed tennis player, 2021 US Open finalist, six-time WTA singles titlist (Monterrey, Hong Kong, Washington DC, Osaka, Singapore), and 2023 Billie Jean King Cup champion with Canada.

Leyland brothers

The Leyland Brothers were Mike and Mal Leyland, English-born Australian outback documentary filmmakers known for Wheels Across a Wilderness, Ask the Leyland Brothers, and the bankruptcy of their Leyland Brothers World theme park.

Leyland cypress

Leyland cypress (× Hesperotropsis leylandii, Leylandii) is a sterile hybrid conifer from Leighton Hall, Wales, grown as fast hedges, screens, and Christmas trees; prone to Seiridium canker and UK hedge disputes.

Leyland Motors

Leyland Motors Limited was a British truck and bus manufacturer based in Leyland, Lancashire, which became the UK's largest heavy truck producer by the late 1960s.

Leyland P76

The Leyland P76 is a large family sedan designed and built in Australia by Leyland Australia, sold from 1973 to 1974 and winning Wheels magazine's 1973 Car of the Year award.

Oct 10, 2026

Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee, also known as Leymah Roberta Gbowee, is a Liberian peace activist who led Christian and Muslim women in ending Liberia's civil war in 2003.

Oct 20, 2026

Leymeriella

Leymeriella (Jacob, 1907) is an extinct Lower Albian ammonite genus, family Leymeriellidae, ranging from the Urals to east Greenland; its tardefurcata Zone marks the Albian base, though the marker is geographically limited.

Leymus

Leymus (wild rye), a Triticeae grass genus separated from Elymus in 1848, with about 57 rhizomatous perennial species of temperate Northern Hemisphere steppes, dunes, and salt marshes; allopolyploid NsXm genomes, Ns from Psathyrostachys; includes forage grass Leymus chinensis.