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Life of Saint Louis
The Life of Saint Louis (Vie de Saint Louis) is a French chronicle of King Louis IX written by his crusade companion Jean de Joinville between 1297 and 1309.
Life of Saint Nino
The Life of Saint Nino (Georgian: წმიდა ნინოს ცხოვრება) is the principal hagiographic work of medieval Georgia, describing how Saint Nino converted Kartli to Christianity.
Life of Saint Sava of Serbia
The Life of Saint Sava (Žitije svetog Save) is a medieval Serbian hagiography of Saint Sava, first archbishop of the Serbs, written by the monks Domentijan and Teodosije.
Life of Saint Simeon
The Life of Saint Simeon (Житије светог Симеона) is a 13th-century Serbian hagiography about Stefan Nemanja, the grand župan who became the monk Simeon on Mount Athos.
Life of Saint Simeon Nemanja
The Life of Saint Simeon Nemanja is a 1207/1208 hagiography by Saint Sava, the first Serbian princely vita, honoring his father, the monk-prince Stefan Nemanja.
Life of St. Aregawi of Debre Damo
The Life of St. Aregawi of Debre Damo (Gadla Aragawi) is a Ge'ez hagiography about the monk who founded Debre Damo monastery in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Life of the Party (2018 film)
Life of the Party (2018) is a comedy directed by Ben Falcone, co-written with Melissa McCarthy, who stars as divorced mom Deanna enrolling at her daughter's college; $30M budget, $65M gross, 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Life of Theodosius of the Caves
The Life of Theodosius of the Caves (Житие Феодосия Печерского) is a hagiographic work by the monk Nestor about Theodosius, hegumen of the Kiev Caves Monastery.
Life of William Shakespeare
Life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Stratford-born English playwright, actor, and Lord Chamberlain's Men shareholder. Covers baptism, marriage to Anne Hathaway, the lost years, London career, Stratford investments, and 1616 death.
Life on a String (边走边唱)
Life on a String (边走边唱, Bian Zou Bian Chang) is Chen Kaige's 1991 drama adapted from Shi Tiesheng's novella, about blind musicians and a thousand broken strings; it competed at Cannes 1991 and was the first Hubert Bals Fund film.
Life on Mars
Life on Mars is the scientific question of whether life exists or ever existed on Mars; none has been confirmed, though organic molecules and potential biosignatures have been found.
Life on Mars (British TV series)
Life on Mars: British BBC One police drama (2006–2007, 16 episodes) by Graham, Jordan, and Pharoah; John Simm's DI Sam Tyler wakes in 1973 after a car accident, under Philip Glenister's DCI Gene Hunt, with a coma-fantasy resolution, Emmy win, sequel Ashes to Ashes, and five remakes.
Life on Mars (song)
Life on Mars? is a 1971 David Bowie song from Hunky Dory, written as revenge after Paul Anka's My Way superseded Bowie's rejected lyric for Comme d'habitude; recorded at Trident with Rick Wakeman and Mick Ronson, it reached UK number 3 as a 1973 single.
Life on Other Planets
Life on Other Planets is Supergrass' fourth studio album (2002), a glam-tinged UK rock record that peaked at number 9 in Britain and spawned the singles Grace and Seen the Light.
Life on Our Planet
Life on Our Planet (2023) is an eight-episode Netflix nature docuseries from Silverback Films and Amblin, narrated by Morgan Freeman, blending wildlife footage with ILM CGI to retell 4 billion years of life through five mass extinctions.
Life on the Line (film)
Life on the Line (2015, released 2016) is a David Hackl workplace drama-thriller starring John Travolta, Kate Bosworth, and Devon Sawa as Texas linemen battling a deadly storm; Metascore 24, $39,027 gross.
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's 1883 book about his years as a Mississippi steamboat pilot before the Civil War and his 1882 return to the river.
Life on Titan
Life on Titan, also called Titanian life, is a hypothesized possibility studied in astrobiology: Saturn's moon Titan has liquid methane lakes and a possible subsurface ocean.
Life on Venus
Life on Venus, also known as habitability of Venus, is the scientific question of whether life exists or ever existed there, focusing on microbial life in the clouds.
Life or Something Like It
Life or Something Like It is a 2002 Stephen Herek romantic comedy-drama starring Angelina Jolie as Seattle reporter Lanie Kerrigan, told by a prophet (Tony Shalhoub) she will die in a week; a Regency/Fox film grossing $14.4 million against a $40 million budget.
Life peer
Life peer: a member of the UK House of Lords appointed for life under the Life Peerages Act 1958, created by letters patent on the Prime Minister's advice; non-hereditary, non-transferable, mostly barons and baronesses, distinct from hereditary peers.
Life Sahi Hai
Life Sahi Hai is a Hindi comedy web series created by Tarun Jain, produced by Luv Ranjan and Ankur Garg (Luv Films), about four men sharing a Delhi apartment; two seasons, 2016 and 2018, later on ZEE5.
Life satisfaction
Life satisfaction, or satisfaction with life, is a person's overall judgment of how satisfied they are with their life, measured on a 0-to-10 scale in surveys.
Life Savers
Life Savers is an American brand of ring-shaped hard candy, gummies, and mints, introduced in 1912 by Clarence A. Crane and now owned by Mars.
Life sciences
Life science, also called the life sciences or biological science, is the branch of natural science that studies living organisms, spanning biology, genetics, biotechnology, genomics, and biomedical research.
Life Sciences Partners
Life Sciences Partners (LSP) was a European life sciences venture capital firm headquartered in Amsterdam, founded by Martijn Kleijwegt in 1998 and acquired by EQT AB in 2022.
Life Sentence (TV series)
Life Sentence is an American comedy-drama television series created by Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith for The CW, starring Lucy Hale as a young woman whose cancer is cured.
Life simulation game
A life simulation game, also called an artificial life game, is a video game genre where players manage characters' daily lives, usually without defined goals.
Life skills
Life skills are adaptive, positive psychosocial and interpersonal abilities for handling everyday demands, defined by WHO and also called transferable or soft skills; organized in three WHO categories and various 12-skill frameworks, and taught in schools worldwide.
Life Studies
Life Studies is a 1959 poetry collection by Robert Lowell, regarded as the starting point of confessional poetry, a term critic M. L. Rosenthal coined in his review.