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Liezi
Liezi (列子), personal name Lie Yukou, was a Daoist thinker of the state of Zheng around 450 to 375 BC, regarded as an early Daoist between Laozi and Zhuangzi.
Líf and Lífþrasir
Líf and Lífþrasir (Lif and Lifthrasir) are the two humans of Norse mythology who survive Ragnarök by hiding in Hoddmímis holt, feed on morning dews, and repopulate the renewed world, per Vafþrúðnismál 44–45 and Gylfaginning 53.
Lifan Group
Lifan Group is a Chongqing motorcycle maker founded by Yin Mingshan in 1992, later a passenger-car maker and the first private Chinese carmaker listed on A-shares.
Lifanyuan
Lifanyuan (理藩院) was the Qing dynasty's central agency for the Mongols, Tibetans, and Muslims, founded as the Mongol Office and renamed Lifanyuan in 1638, and abolished after the 1911 Revolution.
Life
Life: no absolute scientific definition exists; NASA's working definition is a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution. All known life is cellular with shared biochemistry; astrobiology searches for biosignatures on Mars and exoplanets.
Life (1999 film)
Life is a 1999 American prison comedy directed by Ted Demme, starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as two men wrongfully convicted of murder in 1932 Mississippi.
Life (2015 film)
Life (2015) is a biographical drama by Anton Corbijn, written by Luke Davies, starring Robert Pattinson as photographer Dennis Stock and Dane DeHaan as James Dean; premiered at Berlin 2015, 111 minutes, R-rated, modest box office.
Life (2017 film)
Life is a 2017 American science-fiction horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson, and follows a crew studying a dangerous Martian sample.
LIFE (habitat)
LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible Environment) is an expandable space habitat by Sierra Space, planned as the primary habitat module of the Orbital Reef space station.
Life (magazine)
Life (stylized LIFE), the American weekly pictorial magazine Henry Luce launched November 23, 1936, distinct from the 1883 humor magazine of the same name. Photojournalism icon with over 8 million peak circulation; weekly to 1972, monthly 1978-2000.
Life (video games)
Life (video games) covers the lives mechanic, the limited chances before a game session ends, from arcade Pac-Man to Candy Crush timers, plus whole-life games, life sims, Conway's Game of Life, and The Game of Life adaptations.
Life & Beth
Life & Beth is a semi-autobiographical Hulu comedy-drama created, written, directed by, and starring Amy Schumer, with Michael Cera; two seasons, 20 episodes, 2022-2024, cancelled after season 2.
Life 1
Life 1 is the fifth studio album by the American musician Quadeca, released on October 1, 2026 through his own label, X8 Music. It runs 14 tracks and 48 minutes.
Life After Beth
Life After Beth is a 2014 A24 zombie comedy, Jeff Baena's directorial debut, starring Aubrey Plaza and Dane DeHaan; a dead girlfriend returns as a decaying zombie, premiering at Sundance 2014.
Life After Death
Life After Death is the second and final studio album by the Notorious B.I.G., released in 1997, sixteen days after his murder, and widely regarded as one of the greatest hip hop albums.
Life After Fighting
Life After Fighting is a 2024 Australian action thriller, Bren Foster's directorial debut, in which retired martial arts champion Alex Faulkner fights a child trafficking ring after two students disappear; filmed in western Sydney, distributed by Vertical.
Life After People
Life After People is a History Channel speculative documentary franchise (2008 special; series 2009-2010 and 2025, 3 seasons, 28 episodes) depicting what happens to cities, structures, and wildlife after humans suddenly vanish, narrated by James Lurie.
Life After the Navigator
Life After the Navigator is a 2020 documentary directed by Lisa Downs about Joey Cramer, child star of Flight of the Navigator, tracing his fall into addiction and recovery.
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims is an 1883 autobiography by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Northern Paiute author, and the first known autobiography by a Native American woman.
Life and a Half
Life and a Half, also known as La Vie et demie, is the 1979 debut novel of Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi, a founding text of the African dictator novel.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (生死疲劳) is a 2006 novel by Mo Yan recounting rural Chinese history through an executed landlord reincarnated as animals.
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined is Stephenie Meyer's 2015 gender-swapped retelling of Twilight, marking the franchise's tenth anniversary, with Bella as Beau Swan and Edward as Edythe Cullen, published in a dual anniversary edition with an alternate ending.
Life and Fate
Life and Fate is an epic novel by the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, centered on the Battle of Stalingrad and widely compared with Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Life as a House
Life as a House is a 2001 American drama directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Kevin Kline as terminally ill architect George Monroe, who rebuilds his house and family with son Sam (Hayden Christensen) and ex-wife Robin (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Life as We Know It (film)
Life as We Know It is a 2010 American romantic comedy directed by Greg Berlanti, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as godparents raising their goddaughter.
Life Below Zero
Life Below Zero is a National Geographic documentary reality series (2013-2025, 23 seasons, 231 episodes) following subsistence living in remote Alaska, produced by BBC Studios, starring Sue Aikens and the Hailstones, winner of nine Emmy Awards.
Life Burns Faster
Life Burns Faster is Metallica's 24-show residency at Sphere in Las Vegas (also called the Sphere residency), running October 2026 to March 13, 2027, using the No Repeat Weekend format with rare songs such as ...And Justice for All.
Life cycle
Life cycle: the complete sequence of developmental stages an organism passes through in its lifetime, from one generation to the next; distinct from the product life cycle of industrial assessment.
Life cycle design
Life cycle design, also called environmentally conscious design or ecodesign, is an engineering method that minimizes a product's environmental impact across its entire life cycle.
Life expectancy
Life expectancy: average remaining years of life at a given age, computed from life tables. Period vs cohort measures; global level 73.3 years in 2023 after a 1.8-year COVID-19 drop; wide regional and socio-economic gaps.