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Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Vonn (born 1984) is an American alpine skier, Olympic downhill gold medalist (Vancouver 2010), and record-setting 82-time World Cup winner who retired in 2019, returned in 2024 as the oldest World Cup winner, and crashed at the 2026 Olympics.
Lindstrøm
Lindstrøm, also known as Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, is a Norwegian electronic music producer and pioneer of Scandinavian space disco, best known for the 2005 track "I Feel Space".
Lindström's theorem
Lindström's theorem, proved by the Swedish logician Per Lindström in 1969, characterizes first-order logic as maximal in expressive power among logics satisfying compactness and the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem.
Lindt
Lindt, brand of Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG, Swiss premium chocolate maker founded 1845 in Zurich; known for conching (1879), Lindor, Gold Bunny, Excellence; CHF 5.92bn sales in 2025.
Lindt Cafe siege
The Lindt Cafe siege (Sydney siege), 15–16 December 2014: Man Haron Monis held 18 hostages in Martin Place for 16 hours; Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson died; coroner found police waited too long.
Lindworm
Lindworm (Lindwurm, Old Norse linnormr): serpentine winged or wingless dragon of Germanic legend and Nordic folk belief, a venomous fireless giant snake, known from Fafnir, Klagenfurt's 1593 fountain, and heraldry.
Lindy Boggs
Lindy Boggs (Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, 1916-2013), Louisiana Democratic congresswoman 1973-1991, first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana, author of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act's sex-discrimination ban, and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican 1997-2001.
Lindy Booth
Lindy Booth (born 1979, Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian actress known for Claudia on Relic Hunter, Cassandra Cillian on The Librarians (2014-2018), and Night Bitch in Kick-Ass 2.
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (Alice Lynne Murchinson, born 1948, Whakatane, NZ) was wrongly convicted in 1982 of murdering baby Azaria, taken by a dingo at Uluru; exonerated 1988, dingo finding 2012.
Lindy effect
The Lindy effect, or Lindy's Law, is the statistical tendency for non-perishable things like books and technologies to have longer remaining life expectancy the longer they have existed.
Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is an American planetary scientist, principal investigator of NASA's Psyche mission to a metal asteroid, and since 2025 director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley.
Lindy Hop
Lindy Hop, also called the original swing dance, is a partnered African American vernacular jazz dance created in Harlem in the late 1920s, centered on the swingout, developed at the integrated Savoy Ballroom, and revived worldwide in the 1980s.
Lindy Remigino
Lindy Remigino (1931–2018) was an American sprinter who won the 1952 Helsinki Olympic 100 meters in the closest Olympic sprint finish to that time, edging Jamaica's Herb McKenley, plus relay gold.
Lindy Ruff
Lindy Ruff (born 1960, Warburg, Alberta) is an NHL head coach, fourth all-time in wins (952), coaching Buffalo, Dallas, and New Jersey; Jack Adams winner 2006, 1999 Cup Final with Buffalo.
Lindy West
Lindy West is an American feminist writer and comedian, author of the New York Times bestseller Shrill and the 2026 memoir Adult Braces about her open marriage, and co-founder of #ShoutYourAbortion.
Line (geometry)
In geometry, a line is a straight, one-dimensional extent of points that extends without limit in both directions, and is treated as an undefined term fixed by the axioms.
Line (software)
Line, also known as Line messenger, is a free Japanese messaging app launched in 2011, now operated by LY Corporation with 181 million monthly active users.
Line × tester analysis
Line × tester analysis is a plant breeding mating design that crosses inbred lines with testers to estimate combining ability and heterosis in hybrid crops.
Line 1 (Riyadh Metro)
Line 1 of the Riyadh Metro, also called the Blue Line, is a 38 km driverless metro line running north to south through Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Line 1 (北京地铁1号线) (Beijing Subway)
Line 1 (北京地铁1号线) is the oldest line of the Beijing Subway, an east–west trunk from Pingguoyuan through Tian'anmen Square to Sihui East, opened in 1971.
Line 5 Eglinton
Line 5 Eglinton, also known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, is a 19-kilometer light rail line in Toronto operated by the TTC, opened in February 2026 after nearly five years of delays.
Line at infinity
The line at infinity is a projective line added to an affine plane, collecting one new point per parallel class, so every pair of distinct lines meets exactly once.
LINE Bank Taiwan
LINE Bank Taiwan (连线商业银行) is an internet-only bank in Taiwan run by the affiliate of the LINE messaging service, offering deposits, transfers, and loans with no physical branches since 2021.
Line blanketing
Line blanketing is the collective effect of vast numbers of spectral lines in a stellar atmosphere that block flux, redistribute it to longer wavelengths, and heat deeper layers.
Line bundle
A line bundle is a vector bundle whose fiber at every point is one-dimensional; in algebraic geometry it appears as an invertible sheaf and encodes divisors.
Line card
A line card is a printed circuit board in a telephone exchange that provides the electronic interface between one subscriber's line and the switching system.
Line chart
A line chart, also called a line graph, is a data visualization that connects data points with line segments, most often to show change over time.
Line dance
Line dance: a partnerless choreographed group dance performed in rows to a repeated step sequence, especially to country music; emerged from 1970s disco and country-western bars, with soul line dancing and viral revivals on TikTok.
Line Debois Frejlev Nielsen
Line Debois Frejlev Nielsen is a Danish biosensor researcher and business executive, co-founder and CEO of MedicQuant ApS, an Aarhus-based diagnostics company using DNA nanotechnology for drug testing.
Line emission
Line emission is the release of electromagnetic radiation at discrete, well-defined frequencies, produced when atoms, ions, or molecules drop to lower energy states and emit photons, appearing as bright lines in a spectrum.