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Liberty's Kids
Liberty's Kids (Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776) is a 40-episode DiC Entertainment animated historical fiction series on PBS Kids, 2002-2003, following young reporters in Benjamin Franklin's print shop through the American Revolution, 1773-1789, with Walter Cronkite voicing Franklin.
Liberum veto
Liberum veto was a parliamentary practice of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under which any single deputy could veto a bill or dissolve the Sejm, abolished in 1791.
Libet experiment
The Libet experiment is a 1983 study by Benjamin Libet at UC San Francisco that found brain activity precedes conscious awareness of the urge to move.
Libevitug (HH-003)
Libevitug (立贝韦塔单抗, HH-003, brand 华优诺) is Huahui Health's first-in-class human IgG1 antibody against HBV PreS1, blocking HBV/HDV entry via NTCP; NMPA conditionally approved it for chronic hepatitis D in January 2026.
libFuzzer
libFuzzer is a coverage-guided, in-process, evolutionary fuzzing engine that is part of the LLVM project, used by Google's OSS-Fuzz service to test over 1000 open source projects.
Libido
Libido, or sexual desire, is the motivation for sexual activity; derived from Freud's drive construct. Governed by excitatory and inhibitory brain processes, hormones, and affected by stress, illness, and drugs; deficiency defines HSDD.
Libido in domestic animals
Libido in domestic animals is the likelihood that a male or female shows sexual behavior when given the chance to mate, assessed in breeding soundness examinations of sires.
LiblibAI
LiblibAI is a Chinese AI image-creation and model-sharing platform based in Beijing, founded by Chen Mian in 2023, offering image generation, design agents, and AI video tools.
Libman–Sacks endocarditis
Libman–Sacks endocarditis, also called verrucous endocarditis, is a nonbacterial endocarditis with sterile vegetations on the heart valves, most often the mitral valve, in systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome, first described in 1924.
Libnah
Libnah (Hebrew לִבְנָה) was a Canaanite and later Judahite town in the Shephelah, a Levitical town that revolted against King Jehoram and was besieged by Sennacherib.
Libo Shan
Libo Shan (单立波) is a plant immunologist and professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, known for work on how plant receptor kinases and NLR immune receptors are activated.
Libo Yin
Libo Yin (尹力博) is a Chinese economist and professor at Beihang University working in asset pricing, energy finance, and climate finance, ranked among the top 5% of economists by RePEc.
Libocedrus
Libocedrus is a genus of five cypress-family conifer species native to New Zealand and New Caledonia, published by Endlicher in 1847, placed in subfamily Callitroideae, and paraphyletic unless Pilgerodendron is included.
Libochovice
Libochovice (Libochowitz), town in Litoměřice District, Czech Republic, on the Ohře river; 2,965 residents in 2011. Known for its early Baroque chateau by Antonio della Porta (1683–1689), a national cultural monument, and as birthplace of Jan Evangelista Purkyně.
Libor
Libor, the London Interbank Offered Rate, was a benchmark interest rate published daily in London from 1986 to 2024, referencing hundreds of trillions of dollars in contracts.
Libor Prochazka
Libor Procházka (born 1974, Vlašim) is a Czech ice hockey defenseman, 1998 Nagano Olympic gold medalist and 1999 world champion with Czech Republic; also bronzes 1997, 1998; drafted by St. Louis Blues 1993.
Libor Radimec
Libor Radimec, born 1950 in Ostrava, Czech defender and sweeper; Olympic football gold with Czechoslovakia at Moscow 1980, three league titles and 212 games with Baník Ostrava, 17 caps, later Austria Wien and First Vienna.
Libor scandal
The Libor scandal was a series of cases, beginning in 2012, in which major banks manipulated the London Interbank Offered Rate, drawing over $9 billion in fines.
LIBOR transition
The LIBOR transition was the regulated replacement of the London Interbank Offered Rate, the dominant global interest rate benchmark for roughly 40 years, with overnight rates such as SOFR, ending in 2024.
Liborio Bellomo
Liborio Bellomo, born Liborio Salvatore Bellomo in 1957 and known as "Big Barney," is an American alleged mobster and reported boss of New York's Genovese crime family.
Libra (astrology)
Libra (तुला) is the seventh zodiac sign in Western astrology, a cardinal air sign ruled by Venus, symbolized by scales, and associated with balance and partnership.
Libra (constellation)
Libra is a faint zodiacal constellation of the southern sky representing the scales, lying on the ecliptic between Virgo and Scorpius, and best seen in June.
Libra (novel)
Libra, Don DeLillo's 1988 Viking novel (his ninth), intertwines Lee Harvey Oswald's life and the JFK assassination with a fictional CIA plot; also known for the Nicholas Branch frame narrative and the 'latent history' debate with the Warren Report.
Librarian
Librarian: information professional who helps patrons find and use information and manages library collections. Types include academic, public, school, and special librarians; US median pay $68,270 (May 2025), 3% job growth projected 2025-2035.
Library
Library: an organized collection of books and information resources kept for use, especially the tax-supported public library open to all. Covers history from 1754 and 1848 landmarks, services, digital lending economics, and funding pressures.
Library (computing)
In computing, a library, also called a software library, is a collection of prewritten code that programs call to reuse tested functionality instead of writing it from scratch.
Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada (LAC), created in 2004 by merging the National Library and National Archives, preserves Canada's documentary heritage under the LAC Act, runs digitization, legal deposit, and ATIP services, and opens the joint Ādisōke facility with Ottawa Public Library in summer 2026.
Library and information science
Library and information science, or Library Studies, is the field studying the information communication chain, combining library science and information science, and focusing on information, technology, and people.
library at Nysa on the Maeander
The library at Nysa on the Maeander was a Roman building in Caria, western Anatolia, erected around 130 CE as a library, archive, meeting hall, and courtroom.
Library catalog
A library catalog, long kept as a card catalog, is a searchable register of the materials held by one library or many, today mostly online, with WorldCat the largest union catalog.