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Libyan Political Agreement

The Libyan Political Agreement (الاتفاق السياسي الليبي), known as the Skhirat Agreement, is a UN-brokered accord signed in Morocco on 17 December 2015, creating the Government of National Accord.

Libyan resistance movement

The Senussi resistance to Italian colonization was the Sanusiyya Sufi order's armed opposition in Libya from 1911 to the early 1930s, led by Omar Mukhtar.

Libyan revolts suppressed by Hanno the Great

The Libyan revolts suppressed by Hanno the Great, usually called the Mercenary or Truceless War, were uprisings of Carthage's unpaid mercenaries and Libyan subjects from 241 to 237 BC.

The Libyan slave trade is the buying, selling, and forced exploitation of migrants and refugees in Libya, which expanded after the state's 2011 collapse and drew global attention when CNN showed slave auctions in 2017.

Libyan wars of Ramesses III

The Libyan wars of Ramesses III were two campaigns, in about 1180 and 1174 BC, repelling Libyan tribes, chiefly the Libu and Meshwesh, pressing into the western Nile Delta.

Libyan–Egyptian War

The Libyan–Egyptian War, also called the Four-Day War, was a short border war between Libya and Egypt fought along their Mediterranean frontier near Salum from July 21 to 24, 1977.

Libyco-Berber script

The Libyco-Berber script, also called the Numidian or Libyan script, is the ancient consonantal alphabet of North Africa, surviving today as the Tuareg Tifinagh alphabet.

Libyphoenicians

The Libyphoenicians (Greek Λιβυφοίνικες) were Punic-descended communities of Carthage's North African coast in Byzacium and Tripolitana, a mixed Punic and African people who paid tribute to Carthage.

Oct 10, 2026

LIC Housing Finance

LIC Housing Finance is India's largest housing finance company, a deposit-taking lender promoted by Life Insurance Corporation of India and regulated by the Reserve Bank of India.

Licancabur

Licancabur is a 5,916 m symmetrical stratovolcano on the Bolivia–Chile border in the Andean Central Volcanic Zone, with a 400 m summit crater holding one of the world's highest lakes, Inca ruins, and a normal Inca-road climbing route.

Oct 21, 2026

Licania

Licania Aubl. is a Neotropical tree genus of Chrysobalanaceae, apetalous flowers, ovary at receptacle base, about 100 species from Mexico to southeastern Brazil after the 2016 split of the former polyphyletic 214-species genus into eight genera.

Lição de Coisas

Lição de coisas is a 1962 book of poems by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, his fullest experiment with form under the provocations of Concretismo.

Oct 21, 2026

Licarbazepine

Licarbazepine (10-hydroxycarbazepine, MHD) is the chiral active metabolite of the antiepileptics oxcarbazepine and eslicarbazepine acetate; S-enantiomer (eslicarbazepine) predominates, half-life about 8-10 hours, sodium-channel blocker.

Licchavi (Nepal)

Licchavi (लिच्छवी) was a dynasty ruling the Kathmandu Valley, probably from the Vaishali region of India, known for Sanskrit inscriptions and for overseeing the first truly Nepalese state.

Licchavi clan

The Licchavi clan (लिच्छवि) ruled a republic at Vaishali in northern Bihar, admired for its government, and a later line founded an enduring dynasty in Nepal.

Licchavi dynasty

The Licchavi dynasty ruled the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal from around the 4th century until about 880; its earliest dated record is Manadeva I's 464 CE inscription.

Licchavi republic

The Licchavi republic (लिच्छवि गण) was a clan-state of the Licchavi kshatriya clan, headquartered at Vaishali in the sixth and fifth centuries BC and the chief component of the Vajji confederacy.

Lice (film)

Lice is an upcoming horror-comedy film directed by Jonathan Bensimon, starring Emile Hirsch, Justin Long, and Kevin Connolly, about a weaponized lice outbreak at a 1980s Long Island high school under military lockdown, releasing in 2027.

Oct 10, 2026

Licence Raj

The Licence Raj was India's system of centralized industrial licensing and import controls under the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951, which slowed growth until the 1991 reforms abolished it.

Licence to Kill

Licence to Kill, originally titled Licence Revoked, is a 1989 spy film, the sixteenth James Bond film and Timothy Dalton's second and final outing as the agent.

License

License (law): permission from an authority or owner allowing a licensee to do what would otherwise be prohibited. Unlike a lease, a license creates no property interest, is usually revocable and non-assignable, and covers land use and IP.

License to Drive

License to Drive is a 1988 American teen comedy directed by Greg Beeman, starring Corey Haim as a teenager who takes out a Cadillac after failing his driving test.

License to Wed

License to Wed is a 2007 American romantic comedy directed by Ken Kwapis, in which an engaged couple must pass an intrusive marriage-preparation course run by Robin Williams's reverend.

Oct 15, 2026

Licensed Assisted Access

Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) is a 3GPP standard, first specified in LTE Release 13, that lets mobile operators transmit on 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum shared with Wi-Fi.

Licensed frontier markets (quechang)

Licensed frontier markets (榷场, quechang) were official Song dynasty border markets where silk and rice were traded with the Liao, Jin, and Western Xia under supervision.

Licensed practical nurse

Licensed practical nurse (LPN), called licensed vocational nurse (LVN) in California and Texas: a nurse licensed after a roughly one-year program and the NCLEX-PN, providing basic bedside care under RN supervision; median pay $64,400 (May 2025).

Licensed professional counselor

Licensed professional counselor (LPC), also LMHC or LCPC: a state-licensed master's-level mental health clinician who assesses, diagnoses, and treats behavioral disorders; credentialed via CACREP-accredited education, supervised fieldwork, and the NCE or NCMHCE exam, with cross-state practice through the Counseling Compact.