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Licking County
Licking County, Ohio, a central Ohio county with county seat Newark; population 185,564 (2025 est.), 16th of 88 counties, fast-growing, median household income $84,426, Intel $20B fab site, Hopewell earthworks.
Lickleyhead Castle
Lickleyhead Castle is a 16th-century L-plan laird's house near Auchleven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, remodeled in 1629 for John Forbes and now a Category A listed holiday let.
Licor 43
Licor 43 (Cuarenta y Tres) is a Spanish vanilla-citrus liqueur, 31% ABV, made in Cartagena since 1946 by the Zamora family from 43 secret ingredients; famous for the Carajillo 43 espresso cocktail.
Licorice Pizza
Licorice Pizza (2021) is Paul Thomas Anderson's coming-of-age comedy-drama set in 1973 in the San Fernando Valley, starring Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman as Alana Kane and Gary Valentine; named for a defunct SoCal record store chain.
Licto
Licto is a group of three basaltic andesite scoria cones (Cerro Tulabug, Loma Bellavista, Licto) along the Rio Chambo 25 km SE of Riobamba, Ecuador, the southernmost Quaternary volcanism in the Interandean valley, with no known Holocene eruptions.
Licus Vallis
Licus Vallis, a >350 km ancient river valley on Mars near the highland-lowland boundary, carved by at least two catastrophic lake overflow floods plus surface runoff, with well-paired fluvial terraces.
Lída Baarová
Lída Baarová, born Ludmila Babková, was a Czech film and stage actress who starred in over 70 films and became notorious for her affair with Joseph Goebbels.
Lida Howell
Lida Howell (Matilda Scott Howell, 1859–1938/39), American archer of the Cincinnati Archers; won all three women's archery golds at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics and 17 of 20 US national championships, 1883–1907.
Lida P. Hariri
Lida P. Hariri is an American pulmonary pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who develops endobronchial optical coherence tomography for imaging lung disease.
Lidai Minghua Ji
Lidai Minghua Ji (歷代名畫記) is a ten-juan history and theory of Chinese painting completed in 847 by Zhang Yanyuan, regarded as the earliest systematic art-historical writing.
Lidar
Lidar, also called LADAR or laser radar, is an active remote sensing method that measures distances with laser pulses to produce precise three-dimensional maps of terrain.
Lidar bathymetry
Lidar bathymetry is a remote sensing method that maps shallow seafloor depth by firing green laser pulses from aircraft, reaching roughly 50 m in clear coastal water.
LiDAR mapping
LiDAR mapping is an active remote sensing method that measures distances with laser pulses, producing 3D point clouds and elevation models of terrain, vegetation, and water.
LiDAR odometry
LiDAR odometry is a robotics and computer vision method that estimates a sensor's 6-DoF motion by registering successive LiDAR point cloud scans, supporting localization, SLAM, and autonomous navigation.
LiDAR-based SLAM
LiDAR-based SLAM is a family of simultaneous localization and mapping methods in which a laser sensor measures distances, letting robots build maps and find their position in real time.
Lidcombe & Bankstown Line
The T6 Lidcombe & Bankstown Line, also called the Bankstown and Lidcombe Line, is a Sydney Trains shuttle serving six stations between Lidcombe and Bankstown, created in 2024.
Liddell power station
Liddell power station was a coal-fired power station in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, which operated from 1971 until its closure in 2023.
Liddle's syndrome
Liddle's syndrome (pseudoaldosteronism) is a rare autosomal dominant, low-renin hypertension caused by gain-of-function ENaC mutations in SCNN1B/SCNN1G, causing early-onset hypertension, hypokalemia, and metabolic alkalosis, treated with amiloride or triamterene.
Liddon Gulf
Liddon Gulf, also Kangikhokyoak, is a 64-mile inlet on the southwest coast of Melville Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, named in 1820 by Parry for Lieutenant Matthew Liddon of HMS Griper.
Lider fun geto
Lider fun geto (לידער פון געטאָ; Poems of the Ghetto) is a 1946 Yiddish poetry collection by Abraham Sutzkever, gathering poems written in the Vilna Ghetto under German occupation.
Lidewij de Vos
Lidewij de Vos (born 1997) is a Dutch politician, leader of Forum voor Democratie since January 2026 and its 2025 lead candidate; a trained biochemist and violist, she succeeded Thierry Baudet as FVD's Tweede Kamer faction leader.
Lidewij Welten
Lidewij "Lied" Welten, Dutch field hockey attacker born 1990 in Eindhoven; three Olympic golds (2008, 2012, 2020), silver 2016, three world titles, 247 caps, 95 goals, FIH World Player of the Year 2015, retired May 2024.
Lidgate
Lidgate is a small village and civil parish in West Suffolk, England, on the B1063 between Exning and Clare. Known for its 12th-century motte-and-bailey castle (built about 1143, remodelled as a 16th-century fortified manor), a Roman corridor-villa discovered in 1971, and a Domesday settlement of two manors recorded in 1086.
Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Bastianich (Lidia Giuliana Matticchio Bastianich, born 1947, Pula, Istria) is an Italian-American chef, Emmy-winning PBS host, cookbook author, and Eataly founder who opened Felidia in 1981 and hosted PBS cooking series since 1998.
Lidia Domolky Sakovics
Lidia Domolky Sakovics (Lídia Dömölky-Sákovics, Sákovicsné Dömölky Lídia), Hungarian foil fencer born 1936 in Budapest; 1964 Olympic team foil champion, 1960 and 1968 silver medalist, 1955 individual world champion, later coach, journalist, and 2025 Nemzet Sportolója.
Lidia Freiberg
Lidia Freiberg (Лидия Фрейберг), Soviet Leningrad middle-distance runner of the 1930s; held USSR 800m records (2:22.8, 2:22.4), ran 1000m in 3:03.6, and set a pre-ratification 1500m world best of 5:02.0 in 1936.
Lidia Gueiler Tejada
Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921–2011) was a Bolivian politician who served as interim constitutional president from 1979 to 1980, the first woman to hold Bolivia's presidency and Latin America's second woman head of state.
Lídia Pereira
Lídia Pereira is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and serves as Vice-Chair of the European People's Party group.
Lidia Poët
Lidia Poët (1855–1949), first woman admitted to the Italian bar (Turin, 9 August 1883), disbarred by the Court of Cassation in 1884, readmitted in 1920 after the Sacchi Law; subject of the Netflix series The Law According to Lidia Poët.
Lidia Thorpe
Lidia Thorpe, Gunnai-Gunditjmara-Djab Wurrung Australian senator for Victoria since 2020; ex-Greens, independent Blak Sovereign Movement Voice opponent, PFAS committee chair, King Charles protest.