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Liar's Dice (film)
Liar's Dice is a 2013 Hindi road movie, the feature debut of Geetu Mohandas, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Geetanjali Thapa. It premiered at Sundance 2014, won two National Film Awards, and was India's entry to the 87th Academy Awards.
Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker: Michael Lewis's 1989 nonfiction book about bond selling at Salomon Brothers, named for the dollar-bill serial-number bluffing game; also studied as an AI benchmark.
Liard Island
Liard Island (Isla Liard) is a mountainous Antarctic island, 24 km long and 11 km wide, rising to 1,000 m in north-central Hanusse Bay off Graham Land's west coast, discovered and named by Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-10.
Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park
Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park, a 1,082 ha BC park on the Alaska Highway at km 765, protects Canada's second largest hot spring (Alpha pool 42–52°C, 81 L/s), warm swamps, and the endemic Hotwater Physa snail.
Lias Saoudi
Lias Saoudi (Lias Kaci Saoudi) is the English singer-songwriter and writer who fronted Fat White Family, formed in a 2011 Peckham squat; albums Champagne Holocaust to Forgiveness Is Yours (2024), Decius and Moonlandingz collaborator, and author of Ten Thousand Apologies and Tears of the Patriarch.
Liat Air
Liat Air, also known as LIAT20, is a regional airline based in Antigua that flies routes across the Eastern Caribbean. It began flying in 2024.
Liatris
Liatris (blazing star, gayfeather) is a genus of about 32-42 species of corm-forming perennial herbs in Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae, native to North America and the Bahamas, grown as ornamentals.
Libai Huang
Libai Huang is a physical chemist, Tarpo Professor at Purdue University, known for ultrafast microscopy that images exciton and hot-carrier transport in perovskites and 2D materials.
Liban Farra
Liban Farra is a 100-km-wide farum (pancake dome) on Venus at 23.9°S, 353.5°E, one of nine named farra, IAU-approved in 1994 and named for an Irish water goddess.
Libanius
Libanius (Λιβάνιος) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician of Antioch in Roman Syria, c. 314–393, the most distinguished teacher of rhetoric in the fourth-century Eastern Roman Empire.
Libarna
Libarna, ancient Roman city in Liguria (regio IX), now Piedmont, Italy, on the Via Postumia between Genua and Dertona near Serravalle Scrivia. Municipium 45 BC, colony by late 1st century AD; peak 1st-2nd century AD; abandoned 5th-7th centuries; partially excavated archaeological park.
Libas
Libas is an Indian fast-fashion ethnic wear brand led by Sidhant Keshwani, operated by Zivore Apparel Private Limited from Noida, which crossed Rs 1,000 crore in annual run rate in 2026.
Libation
Libation, also called drink-offering, is the ritual pouring of a liquid offering to a deity, hero, ancestor, or the dead, attested since the Bronze Age.
Libaya
Libaya was, according to the Assyrian King List, the 49th ruler of Assyria in the early Adaside dynasty, a son of Belu-bani who reigned 17 years.
Libbali-sharrat
Libbāli-šarrat was a 7th-century BC queen of Assyria, wife of King Ashurbanipal, known from her own stele from Assur and probably the garden banquet relief from Nineveh.
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888–1969) was an American zoologist, the most influential comparative invertebrate zoologist of the twentieth century, known for the six-volume treatise The Invertebrates and for working unpaid at the American Museum of Natural History.
Libby Dam
Libby Dam is a 422-foot concrete gravity dam on the Kootenai River in northwestern Montana, completed in 1975 and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Libby Patera
Libby Patera is a 90 km diameter patera (volcanic depression) on Venus at 34.5S, 199.5E, adopted by the IAU in 1997 and named for American chemist-physicist Leona Woods Marshall (1919-1986).
Libby Schaaf
Libby Schaaf (born 1965) is an American politician, 50th mayor of Oakland, California (2015-2023), later Bay Area Council CEO, known for the Oakland Promise, the 2018 ICE raid warning, and a 2026 State Treasurer candidacy.
Libby Titus
Libby Titus (Elizabeth Jurist, 1947-2024), American singer-songwriter from Woodstock, NY; two self-titled albums (1968, 1977), co-wrote "Love Has No Pride" with Eric Kaz, founded the New York Rock and Soul Revue, and married Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.
Libby Trickett
Libby Trickett (Lisbeth Constance Trickett, OAM, née Lenton, born 1985), Australian swimmer; four Olympic golds across Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012; multiple 100m freestyle world record holder.
Libby Zion Law
Libby Zion Law: New York State resident work-hour and supervision regulations (1987, Bell Commission) following the 1984 death of 18-year-old Libby Zion at New York Hospital; catalyst for ACGME national 80-hour duty-hour limits.
Libeled Lady
Libeled Lady is a 1936 MGM screwball comedy directed by Jack Conway, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy, about a fake marriage scheme to beat a $5 million libel suit; a Best Picture nominee.
Libellulidae
Libellulidae, commonly called skimmers or perchers, is the largest and most frequently observed family of dragonflies worldwide, with about 1030 species in 142 genera, often seen around ponds and lakes.
Liber Abaci
Liber Abaci, also spelled Liber Abbaci, is a 1202 Latin treatise by Leonardo Pisano, known as Fibonacci, that taught calculation with Hindu-Arabic numerals and posed the rabbit problem behind the Fibonacci sequence.
Liber Medicinalis
Liber Medicinalis, also known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima, is a Latin didactic poem of about 1,100 hexameters offering remedies for ailments, attributed to Quintus Serenus.
Liber Officiorum Spirituum
Liber Officiorum Spirituum (Book of the Offices of Spirits) was a lost 16th-century demonological grimoire cited by Weyer (1577) as his Pseudomonarchia Daemonum source and an ancestor of the Ars Goetia's 72 spirits.
Liber Pontificalis
Liber Pontificalis (Gesta Pontificum Romanorum) is an anonymous Latin collection of papal biographies from Saint Peter onward, first compiled in the papal administration in the early sixth century and continued to the ninth century and beyond.
Libera (choir)
Libera is a South London boys' vocal group (ages 7–16) from St Philip's Church, Norbury, formerly Angel Voices, renamed Libera in 1999, founded by Robert Prizeman, recording Latin-liturgical and classical-crossover music as a UK charity.
Libera Corona
Libera Corona is a 350 km-wide corona on Venus at 12.5N, 24.0E in central Eistla Regio, named for a Roman fertility goddess and approved by the IAU in 1994.