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Links (golf)
Links (golf): the oldest golf course style, on sandy Scottish coastal linksland from Old English hlinc (ridge); only 92 of Scotland's courses (17%) are true links, and The Open has been played on links since 1860.
Links between Trump associates and Russian officials
Links between Trump associates and Russian officials: documented 2016 campaign and transition contacts (Trump Tower meeting, Manafort-Kilimnik polling data, Papadopoulos-Mifsud). Mueller found multiple links but no established coordination; the 2020 Senate report called the contacts a grave counterintelligence threat.
LinkSpace (翎客航天)
LinkSpace, also known as Link Space Aerospace Technology, was a Beijing-based Chinese private rocket company founded by Hu Zhenyu in January 2014 to develop a reusable rocket.
LinkSquares
LinkSquares is a Boston-based software company founded in 2015 by Vishal Sunak and Chris Combs that sells an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform to legal teams.
Linksys
Linksys is an American consumer and small-business networking brand founded in 1988 by Victor and Janie Tsao, known for wireless routers, mesh Wi-Fi, and the WRT54G.
Linksys WRT54G series
The Linksys WRT54G series is a family of wireless-G broadband routers sold by Linksys from December 2002, combining an access point, switch, and router in one unit.
Linktree
Linktree is an Australian link-in-bio service founded in Melbourne in 2016. It is a creator economy tool, reporting more than 70 million users and 1.3 billion monthly profile views.
Linlang
Linlang is a 2023 Philippine mystery-thriller series by Dreamscape Entertainment starring Kim Chiu, Paulo Avelino, and JM de Guzman; it premiered on Prime Video (14 episodes), aired as a 48-episode teleserye in 2024, and streamed on Netflix as Deceit. Distinct from the 1999 Viva Films movie and the 2006 GMA series of the same title.
Linmo
Linmo (临摹) is the traditional Chinese practice of copying existing calligraphy and painting, the foundation method for learning and transmitting the visual arts since ancient times.
Linn Berggren
Malin "Linn" Berggren, born 1970 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish former singer, founding lead vocalist and keyboardist of Ace of Base (1990–2007), heard on "All That She Wants" and "The Sign"; she withdrew from public life and left the band in 2007.
Linn County, Iowa, United States
Linn County, Iowa, a county in east-central Iowa with county seat Cedar Rapids; second most populous of Iowa's 99 counties, 230,299 residents (2020), created 1837, named for Senator Lewis F. Linn.
Linn County, Oregon, United States
Linn County, Oregon: Willamette Valley county with county seat Albany, established December 28, 1847 and named for Senator Lewis F. Linn; population 128,610 (2020), national leader in ryegrass production.
Linn Jørum Sulland
Linn Jørum Sulland, Norwegian handball right back (born 1984, Oslo), Olympic champion 2012, world champion 2011 and 2015, European champion 2008 and 2010; 193 caps, 579 goals; Champions League winner with Larvik 2011 and Vipers 2021.
Linn Kristin Riegelhuth Koren
Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren, called Linka, born 1984 in Ski, is a Norwegian retired handball right wing; two Olympic golds (2008, 2012), World gold 2011, five European titles, 279 caps and 971 goals for Norway, IHF World Player of the Year 2008.
Linnaean taxonomy
Linnaean taxonomy: Carl Linnaeus's ranked classification system with binomial genus-species names, founded by Systema naturae (1735) and Species plantarum (1753); still the primary naming framework for over 1.9 million described species despite cladistic criticism.
Linnaeus's flower clock
Linnaeus's flower clock, or Horologium Florae, is a scheme by Carl Linnaeus for telling time from the opening and closing of flowers, published in 1751.
Linnanmäki
Linnanmäki (Lasten Päivän Säätiö park) is Finland's oldest and most popular amusement park, opened 27 May 1950 in Helsinki's Alppila district, with over 40 rides, the 1951 wooden Vuoristorata coaster, and over €130 million donated to child welfare.
Linnea M. Avallone
Linnea M. Avallone is an American atmospheric chemist known for airborne instruments measuring trace gases and cirrus clouds, now NSF Chief Officer for Research Facilities.
Linnea Quigley
Linnea Quigley (born 1958, Davenport, Iowa) is an American scream queen and B-movie actress, famous as Trash in Return of the Living Dead (1985), with 125–200+ film credits, bands The Skirts and Mad Whistle, and three memoir books.
Linnean Society of London
Linnean Society of London, founded 1788 by James Smith, oldest learned society for natural history; holds Linnaeus's collections; Darwin–Wallace 1858 evolution papers read here; publishes four journals with OUP.
Linnés Orangeriträdgård
Linnés Orangeriträdgård, Linnaeus's Orangery Garden at Möckelsnäs, Sweden, is a reconstruction of an 18th-century Linnaeus garden with an orangery, four themed plant quarters, and orange trees up to 200 years old.
Lino Ferreira
Lino S. Ferreira is a Portuguese researcher in biomaterials, stem cells, and nanomedicine, leading the Advanced Therapies group at the University of Coimbra's Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology.
Lino Novás Calvo
Lino Novás Calvo (1903–1983) was a Galician-born Cuban writer and journalist, author of Pedro Blanco, el negrero (1933) and a leading Cuban short-story writer who went into US exile after the Cuban Revolution.
Lino Tagliapietra
Lino Tagliapietra, born in Murano in 1934, is an Italian glass artist who taught at Pilchuck from 1979 and is known for the Dinosaur series.
Linocut
Linocut (linoleum cut, lino cut) is a relief printmaking technique carving a design into linoleum, inked and pressed to paper; adopted by German Expressionists, the Grosvenor School, Matisse, and Picasso, who developed the reduction method in 1959.
Linode
Linode is a cloud infrastructure provider offering Linux virtual machines, founded by Christopher Aker in 2003 and acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022 for about $900 million.
Linoleic acid
Linoleic acid (linoleate) is an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, 18 carbons with two cis double bonds, that humans cannot synthesize and must get from vegetable oils, nuts, and seeds.
Linoleic acid (LA) metabolism
Linoleic acid (LA) metabolism, also called the omega-6 PUFA elongation-desaturation pathway, converts dietary 18:2(n-6) via ACSL activation, FADS1/FADS2 desaturation, and ER elongation to arachidonic acid and docosapentaenoic acid, with a final peroxisomal beta-oxidation step.
Linolelaidic acid
Linolelaidic acid, also called linoelaidic acid, is the all-trans geometric isomer of linoleic acid, an 18-carbon omega-6 trans fat formed during partial hydrogenation of vegetable oils.
Linolenic acid
Linolenic acid is an 18-carbon fatty acid with three double bonds, usually meaning alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), an essential omega-3 nutrient abundant in flaxseed oil, chia seeds, and walnuts.