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Lingala
Lingala, also called Ngala, is a Bantu language of Central Africa with tens of millions of speakers, and one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's four national languages.
Lingam
The lingam, or Shiva lingam, is the aniconic emblem of the Hindu god Shiva, usually a cylinder set into a base, and the main object of Shaiva worship.
Lingam (TV series)
Lingam (லிங்கம்) is a 2026 Tamil crime thriller web series on JioHotstar, 8 episodes, starring Kathir as a kabaddi champion who becomes a gangster after a false murder accusation.
Lingamaneni Ramesh
Lingamaneni Ramesh is an Indian politician and entrepreneur from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, and a Janasena Party member of the Rajya Sabha, representing Andhra Pradesh since 2026.
Lingan power station
Lingan Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned by Nova Scotia Power in Lingan, Nova Scotia. Its 620 MW across four units make it the utility's largest station.
Lingaraja Temple (ଲିଙ୍ଗରାଜ ମନ୍ଦିର)
Lingaraja Temple (ଲିଙ୍ଗରାଜ ମନ୍ଦିର) is an 11th-century Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, regarded as the culminating monument of the Kalinga architectural tradition.
Lingayat
The Lingayats (ಲಿಂಗಾಯತ), also called Virashaivas, are a Shaiva devotional community of Karnataka founded in the twelfth century by Basava, a minister of King Bijjala.
Lingayat movement
The Lingayat movement, also called Virashaivism (ವೀರಶೈವ), is a Shaiva reform movement attributed to Basava at Kalyana in twelfth-century Karnataka that rejected caste and temple ritual.
Lingbao School
The Lingbao School (灵宝派) was a Daoist movement of the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties, whose scriptures Lu Xiujing redacted into an orthodox 35-juan canon in 437.
Lingbei Province
Lingbei Province (岭北行省) was a branch secretariat of the Yuan dynasty, created in 1307 by Emperor Wuzong and seated at Karakorum, stretching north to Lake Baikal.
Lingbiao luyi
Lingbiao luyi (岭表录异, Records of the Unusual from Lingnan) is a three-juan late Tang account of Lingnan's products, customs, and seafaring by Liu Xun, a Guangzhou official under Emperor Zhaozong.
Lingche
Lingche (灵澈), also named Yuan Cheng, was a Tang dynasty Vinaya monk and one of the first poet-monks; of his nearly 2,000 poems, 16 survive.
Lingchi (凌迟)
Lingchi (凌迟), or "death by a thousand cuts," was imperial China's most severe execution, codified from the Liao dynasty onward for crimes like rebellion and parricide, and abolished on 24 April 1905 by Wu Tingfang and Shen Jiaben.
Lingchong You
Lingchong You is a Chinese-born American synthetic biologist at Duke University, best known for a 2004 Nature paper programming bacterial population density through cell–cell communication and regulated killing.
Lingcod
Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), also called Cultus cod or buckethead, is a large greenling of the northeast Pacific from Alaska to Baja California, a voracious nest-guarding predator supporting major commercial and recreational fisheries.
Lingdao Gucheng Yizhi
泠道故城遗址 (Lingdao Ancient City Site), Han-era walled county seat in Lengshui Town, Ningyuan County, Yongzhou, Hunan; walls 170x87 m, moat, used to 965 AD, national heritage site 2013.
Linger (蝴蝶飞)
Linger (蝴蝶飛/蝴蝶飞) is a 2008 Hong Kong supernatural romantic drama directed by Johnnie To, written by Ivy Ho, starring Li Bingbing and Vic Chou; a Mandarin-language ghost-lover story, To's 48th film, released January 2008 with modest box office.
Lingerie
Lingerie: women's underwear, sleepwear, and intimate apparel, from French linge (linen). Covers hard garments like corsets and structured bras and soft items like slips and panties, shaped by 400 years of fashion history and a USD 22 billion US market.
Linggadjati Agreement
The Linggadjati Agreement (Overeenkomst van Linggadjati; Perjanjian Linggarjati) was a 1946 accord in which the Netherlands recognized the Republic of Indonesia's authority over Java, Madura, and Sumatra.
Linggan
Linggan (灵干) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Sui period who served as head of the Great Chanding monastery at the Western Capital and died in 612.
Linggawarman
Linggawarman was, according to the Wangsakerta manuscript tradition, the twelfth and last king of the Hindu kingdom Tarumanagara in western Java, reigning from 666 to 669 CE.
Linghu Chu
Linghu Chu (令狐楚), 766–837, was a Tang dynasty statesman and literary stylist who rose from a staff secretary in Taiyuan to chief minister under Emperor Xianzong.
Linghu Defen
Linghu Defen (令狐德棻), 583 to 666, was a Tang dynasty historian and official who initiated and directed the compilation of several official histories of the pre-Tang dynasties.
Linghu Tao
Linghu Tao (令狐绹) was a Tang dynasty official, son of the statesman Linghu Chu, who served as chancellor for roughly ten years under Emperor Xuanzong.
Linghua Wang
Linghua Wang is a physician-scientist and computational biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for a pan-cancer T cell atlas linking T cell stress responses to immunotherapy resistance.
Lingjun Investment
Lingjun Investment, also known as Lingjun Quant (灵均投资), is a Chinese quantitative private fund manager founded in 2014 and based in Beijing, managing over RMB 60 billion.
Lingjun Li
Lingjun Li (李灵军) is an analytical chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for discovering more than 500 novel neuropeptides and for TEMI, a single-cell-resolution mass spectrometry imaging method.
Lingnan Military Commissioner of the Five Prefectures
The Lingnan Military Commissioner of the Five Prefectures (岭南五府经略使) was a Tang-dynasty office, based in Guangzhou, that pacified the region's non-Han peoples and oversaw its maritime trade.
Lingnan Salt and Iron Commission
The Lingnan Salt and Iron Commission (岭南盐铁) was the Tang dynasty's salt-monopoly administration for the Lingnan region, whose sea-salt revenue of 400,000 strings a year provisioned the army at Annan.
Lingnan School
The Lingnan School (岭南画派) is a modern school of Chinese painting founded in the early twentieth century by Guangdong painters Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, and Chen Shuren.