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Liberté, égalité, fraternité
Liberté, égalité, fraternité is the national motto of France, rooted in the French Revolution, formalized under the Third Republic in 1880, written into the 1946 and 1958 Constitutions, and replaced by Vichy's Travail, famille, patrie.
Libertinagem
Libertinagem is a 1930 book of poems by Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira, his fourth collection and first entirely modernist, gathering 38 poems in free verse and colloquial language.
Libertine
Libertine (French libertin, from Latin libertinus, freedman): a person rejecting moral and religious restraint. Covers Calvinist polemic origin, libertins érudits like Gassendi, libertine literature, Restoration rakes, and modern dissolute sense.
Libertine novel
The libertine novel is a genre of French fiction, centered on the eighteenth century, whose erotic fiction embodies Enlightenment free thought, spanning Crébillon fils to Sade and Laclos's Liaisons dangereuses.
Libertinism
Libertinism (French libertinage) is a European current of the 16th to 18th centuries combining skeptical rejection of religious authority with a hedonistic way of life, later embodied by figures like Casanova.
Liberty
Liberty, also called freedom, is the condition of being free from constraint. Isaiah Berlin's negative liberty (absence of interference) versus positive liberty (self-mastery), plus republican non-domination, structure its political philosophy.
Liberty (department store)
Liberty (Liberty & Co., Liberty London) is a London luxury department store founded by Arthur Lasenby Liberty on 15 May 1875, famed for Tana Lawn printed fabrics and its 1924 mock-Tudor Great Marlborough Street flagship built from warship timber.
Liberty and Refoundation
Libertad y Refundación (LIBRE), Honduras's left-wing party founded in 2011 as the FNRP's political arm after the 2009 Zelaya coup; won the 2021 presidency with Xiomara Castro, lost the 2025 election with Rixi Moncada (19.19%).
Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell, also called the State House Bell, is a bronze bell cast in 1753 for the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, known for its large crack.
Liberty Broadband
Liberty Broadband Corporation was an American holding company spun off from Liberty Media in 2014 whose principal asset was a large ownership stake in Charter Communications.
Liberty DeVitto
Liberty DeVitto (Liberatori DeVitto, born 1950, Brooklyn) is an American rock drummer, Billy Joel's drummer for about 30 years from Turnstiles (1976) to 2005/2006, later of The Lords of 52nd Street and The Slim Kings.
Liberty Dialysis Holdings, Inc.
Liberty Dialysis Holdings, Inc. was an American outpatient dialysis company founded in 2002 by Mark Caputo and Bob Santelli, which Fresenius Medical Care acquired in 2012 for about $2.1 billion.
Liberty dollar (private currency)
The Liberty Dollar, also called the American Liberty Dollar, was a private silver- and gold-backed currency issued by Bernard von NotHaus's NORFED from 1998 until a 2007 federal raid.
Liberty Flames football
Liberty Flames football: Liberty University's FBS college football team, first fielded 1973 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Eight Big South titles, FBS independent 2018-2022, Conference USA member since 2023, 2023 Fiesta Bowl.
Liberty Global
Liberty Global is an international provider of broadband, video, telephony and mobile services in Europe with about 80 million connections, operating Virgin Media O2, VodafoneZiggo, and Telenet.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) was an American horticulturist and botanist at Cornell University, known as the Father of American Horticulture and coiner of the term "cultivar."
Liberty Island
Liberty Island, formerly Bedloe's Island, is a 15-acre island in New York Harbor, part of New York State, home to the Statue of Liberty and Fort Wood, administered by the National Park Service since 1933 and renamed in 1956.
Liberty Korea Party (자유한국당)
Liberty Korea Party (자유한국당, LKP), South Korean conservative party existing February 2017 to February 2020, renamed from the Saenuri Party amid the Park Geun-hye scandal, led by Hong Joon-pyo and Hwang Kyo-ahn, and merged into the United Future Party in 2020.
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple), Delacroix's 1830 oil painting of the July Revolution's Trois Glorieuses, showing allegorical Liberty with Phrygian cap leading insurgents over a barricade; Louvre, salle Mollien.
Liberty Lobby
Liberty Lobby, founded by Willis Carto in Washington, D.C. in the late 1950s, was a far-right "pressure group for patriotism" that published The Spotlight and promoted antisemitic and Holocaust-denial material before its 2001 bankruptcy.
Liberty Media
Liberty Media Corporation is an American media holding company that owns Formula 1 and MotoGP, having split off SiriusXM, the Atlanta Braves, and Liberty Live by 2025.
Liberty Mutual
Liberty Mutual is an American mutual property and casualty insurance group owned by its policyholders rather than shareholders. Founded in 1912 in Massachusetts, it reported $50.2 billion in revenue in 2024.
Liberty Oilfield Services
Liberty Oilfield Services, since 2022 named Liberty Energy Inc., is a Denver, Colorado provider of hydraulic fracturing services to onshore oil and gas producers, founded in 2011.
Liberty Park
Liberty Park, Salt Lake City's oldest and second-largest urban park, a roughly 100-acre Utah park dedicated 1882, home to Tracy Aviary and the historic Chase Home, Mill, and Well; distinct from parks of the same name in Spokane, Memphis, and Summit County, Ohio.
Liberty Resources II, LLC
Liberty Resources II, LLC is a privately held, Denver-based oil and gas acquisition and development company formed in November 2013 by the leadership of predecessor Liberty Resources LLC, backed by Riverstone.
Liberty Ross
Liberty Ross (Liberty Lettice Lark Ross, born 1978) is a British model and actress, a 2000s Vogue cover star and face of Burberry and Dior Addict, later an actress, Genetic denim designer, and co-owner of Flipper's Roller Boogie Palace with Usher.
Liberty ship
The Liberty ship, designated EC2-S-C1, was an American cargo ship of World War II, with 2,710 built between 1941 and 1945 to carry war supplies to the Allies.
Liberty State Park
Liberty State Park, a 1,200-acre New Jersey state park in Jersey City opened June 14, 1976, is the state's only ferry gateway to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, site of the CRRNJ Terminal, and subject of decades-long anti-privatization battles.
Liberty University
Liberty University, formerly Liberty Baptist College, is a private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded in 1971 by pastor Jerry Falwell Sr. and among the world's largest Christian universities.
Liberty X
Liberty X, originally Liberty, a British-Irish pop group formed in 2001 by the five Popstars runners-up (Heaton, Lundon, Simm, Taylor, Young) after Hear'Say won; UK No.1 "Just a Little", three albums, split 2007, 2027 reunion tour.