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LibriSpeech

LibriSpeech is a corpus of about 1,000 hours of 16 kHz read English speech for speech recognition research, built from LibriVox audiobooks and released in 2015.

Oct 15, 2026

LibriTTS

LibriTTS is a multi-speaker English speech corpus of about 585 hours of read speech at 24 kHz, prepared by Google and released in 2019 for text-to-speech research.

The Libro de Alexandre is an anonymous thirteenth-century Castilian epic poem narrating the fictionalized life and conquests of Alexander the Great, and the first work of the mester de clerecía school.

Libro de los juegos

Libro de los juegos (Libro del axedrez, dados e tablas), illuminated Castilian manuscript of 1283 commissioned by Alfonso X, covering chess, dice, tables, and alquerque; kept at El Escorial, Ms T-I-6.

Libro del caballero Zifar

The Libro del caballero Zifar, also transmitted as the Libro del Caballero de Dios, is a Castilian prose romance about the knight Zifar, who becomes king of Mentón.

Libros de caballerías

Libros de caballerías, or books of chivalry, are long Spanish prose fictions of wandering knights that flourished in print from the late 1400s to the early 1600s.

Libs of TikTok

Libs of TikTok is a conservative social media account and website created by Chaya Raichik that reposts LGBTQ+ and educator content with outrage framing; it shaped Republican messaging on LGBTQ+ issues and has been linked to harassment and bomb threats.

Sep 19, 2026

Libu

The Libu, also written Rebu, were an ancient Libyan tribal people of North Africa, attested in Egyptian records from the New Kingdom onward; their name gave the word Libya.

Libuse Macounova

Libuše Macounová, born 1946, Czechoslovak 400 m sprinter of Spartak Ústí nad Labem; silver and bronze at the 1966 European Indoor Games in Dortmund, silver relay medal in Madrid 1968, and three national 400 m titles.

Libuše Planitia

Libuše Planitia is a 1,200 km-wide plain on Venus at 60°N, 290°E, in quadrangle v06, named by the IAU in 1997 for the legendary Czech princess Libuše, wiser of three sisters.

Libya

Libya (ليبيا), North African Mediterranean country of about 7.46 million with capital Tripoli; since 2014 divided between the Tripoli-based GNU and eastern GNS/LNA under Haftar, with a 2020 ceasefire, postponed elections, an oil-dependent economy, and UN-backed roadmap.

Libya (GNA)–Turkey maritime deal

The Libya (GNA)–Turkey maritime deal, or Turkey-Libya MoU, signed 27 November 2019 and ratified by Ankara on 5 December 2019, purports to delimit EEZ and continental shelf boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean along a corridor near Crete, contested by Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, and the EU.

Oct 15, 2026

Libya Coastal Gas Pipeline

The Libya Coastal Gas Pipeline is an onshore natural gas pipeline in Libya running 1,164 km from Mellitah to Benghazi, operated by the National Oil Corporation.

Libya Linea

Libya Linea is a prominent dilational band, a pull-apart fracture about 366 km long, on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa and a target of NASA's Europa Clipper mission.

Libya Montes

Libya Montes: mountain ring on Mars at the southern rim of the Isidis basin, IAU-named 1979, diameter about 1044 km, ancient basaltic rocks, phyllosilicates, and large fluvial valleys.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 was a passenger flight from Benghazi to Tripoli that collided with a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 in December 1992, killing everyone aboard.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was a passenger flight from Tripoli to Cairo whose Boeing 727 was shot down by Israeli fighters over Sinai in 1973, killing 108 of 113 aboard.

Libyan Centre for Dental Research

Libyan Centre for Dental Research (المركز الليبي لأبحاث طب الأسنان), a Libyan government dental research center established 2023 by ministerial decision 260, based in Zliten, under the Libyan Authority for Scientific Research, with eight specialty research departments.

Libyan civil war (2014–2020)

Libyan civil war (2014–2020), also called the Second Libyan Civil War: conflict between Haftar's eastern LNA and the UN-recognized Tripoli government, from Operation Dignity in May 2014 through the October 2020 ceasefire and 5+5 Joint Military Commission.

Libyan Desert

The Libyan Desert is the hyperarid eastern Sahara, spanning western Egypt, eastern and southern Libya, and northwestern Sudan; it is the most arid part of the entire Sahara.

Oct 10, 2026

Libyan dinar

The Libyan dinar (LYD) is the currency of Libya, issued by the Central Bank of Libya and pegged to the IMF's Special Drawing Rights since 2003.

Libyan genocide (1929–1934)

The Libyan genocide, also known as the Cyrenaican genocide, was the mass killing of Cyrenaica's Bedouins by Fascist Italy from 1929 to 1934, killing 50,000–70,000.

Libyan independence

Libyan independence was achieved on 24 December 1951, when King Idris I proclaimed the United Kingdom of Libya, uniting Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan after Italian colonial rule.

Oct 10, 2026

Libyan Investment Authority (LIA)

The Libyan Investment Authority is Libya's sovereign wealth fund, created in 2006, with about $70 billion in assets, most of them frozen under UN sanctions since 2011.

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) was a jihadist group of Afghan war veterans that fought Gaddafi's regime in a 1995–1998 insurgency before renouncing violence in 2009.

Libyan literature

Libyan literature (الأدب الليبي) is the body of writing, chiefly in Arabic, produced in Libya or by Libyans, flourishing after 1951; Ibrahim al-Koni is its best-known figure.

Libyan National Army (الجيش الليبي الوطني)

Libyan National Army (الجيش الليبي الوطني), also called LAAF, is Khalifa Haftar's self-styled army controlling eastern and southern Libya since its 2014 Operation Dignity launch in Benghazi, distinct from the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity.