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Lion Temple of Apedemak, Naqa
The Lion Temple of Apedemak at Naqa is a Meroitic temple in ancient Naqa, central Sudan, built in the 1st century CE by King Natakamani and Queen Amanitore for the lion-headed war god Apedemak.
Lion Temple of Musawwarat es-Sufra
The Lion Temple of Musawwarat es-Sufra, also called the Apedemak Temple, is a Meroitic temple in Sudan built under King Arnakhamani in the late 3rd century BC.
Lion Zoo
Lion Zoo (አንበሳ ጊቢ, Anbessa Gibi) is Addis Ababa's historic zoo, founded in 1948 by Emperor Haile Selassie for gifted black-maned Abyssinian lions, later relocated to the 26-hectare Peacock Park in Bole.
Lion-class battleship
The Lion-class battleships were six fast battleships designed for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s as successors to the King George V class; none was ever completed.
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食狮史)
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食狮史, Shī Shì shí shī shǐ) is a Classical Chinese homophonic text by linguist Yuen Ren Chao, every syllable read shi in Mandarin; drafted by Hu Mingfu in 1916, revised in the 1950s, and printed in Britannica in 1960.
Lion-man
The Lion-man (Löwenmensch) of Hohlenstein-Stadel is a roughly 40,000-year-old mammoth-ivory figurine from a German cave, combining a cave lion's head with a human body; at 31.1 cm it is the largest known Ice Age figurine, rebuilt from nearly 300 fragments and held at the Museum Ulm.
Lion-tailed macaque
Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), also called wanderoo: an Endangered, canopy-dwelling Old World monkey endemic to Western Ghats rainforests of India, with about 2,400-3,500 wild individuals, heavily fragmented populations, and its largest studied group concentration in the Anamalai Hills.
Lion's Den
Lion's Den (Leonera) is Pablo Trapero's 2008 Argentine prison drama, premiered in Competition at Cannes, starring Martina Gusman as Julia, an inmate raising her son behind bars; shot in real prisons with inmates as extras.
Lion's mane jellyfish
The lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) is a large cold-water jellyfish of the boreal North Atlantic and North Pacific, widely described as the largest jellyfish known.
Lion's Mound
The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion) is a large artificial hill topped by a cast-iron lion on the battlefield of Waterloo in Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium, built between 1824 and 1826.
Liondub
Liondub is a New York City jungle and drum & bass DJ and producer active since 1991, known for blending jungle with reggae and dancehall and heading Liondub International.
Lionel Abrahams
Lionel Abrahams (1928–2004) was a South African poet, novelist, critic, editor, and publisher whose magazine The Purple Renoster and Renoster Books brought the first volumes of Oswald Mtshali and Mongane Wally Serote into print during apartheid.
Lionel B. Ivashkiv
Lionel B. Ivashkiv is an American physician-scientist and rheumatologist who studies cytokine signaling and macrophage biology, and is Chief Scientific Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (Lionel Blythe, 1878–1954), American actor of the Barrymore acting dynasty; Oscar winner for A Free Soul, MGM star, Dr. Gillespie in the Dr. Kildare films, and Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life.
Lionel Beffre
Lionel Beffre is a Monegasque politician serving as Minister of Interior in the government of Monaco, where he has spoken publicly on road safety policy.
Lionel Blair
Lionel Blair (Henry Lionel Blair Ogus, 1928-2021) was a Canadian-born British dancer, choreographer, actor, and TV presenter, known for Give Us a Clue, Name That Tune, A Hard Day's Night, and the 1961 Royal Variety show with Sammy Davis Jr.
Lionel Christiaen
Lionel Christiaen is a French developmental systems biologist who directs the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen, studying heart and muscle lineage development in the tunicate Ciona.
Lionel Corporation
Lionel Corporation was an American toy manufacturer founded in 1900 by Joshua Lionel Cowen, best known for electric toy trains that dominated the United States market in the 1950s.
Lionel Cox
Lionel Cox (Lionel Malvyne Cox, 1930–2010), Australian track cyclist; won tandem sprint gold with Russell Mockridge and individual sprint silver behind Enzo Sacchi at Helsinki 1952; not the swimmer Lauren Cox.
Lionel Crabb
Lionel "Buster" Crabb (1909–1956), British Royal Navy clearance diver and George Medal holder, vanished diving under the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze at Portsmouth in an MI6 mission; not the psychologist Lawrence Crabb.
Lionel Curtis
Lionel Curtis was a British public administrator and writer who founded the Round Table movement, co-founded Chatham House, and championed the term 'commonwealth' over 'empire'.
Lionel Emmett
Lionel Charles Renwick Emmett (1913-1996) was an Indian field hockey player and physician who won gold with India at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and later patented intrauterine contraceptive devices; not the footballer Luke Emmett or umpire Emmett Ashford.
Lionel Fry
Lionel Fry (1933–2021) was a British dermatologist, consultant at St Mary's Hospital, London from 1969, who established dermatitis herpetiformis as gluten sensitivity and showed psoriasis is immune-mediated.
Lionel H. Opie
Lionel H. Opie (L. H. Opie) was a South African cardiologist at the University of Cape Town who showed how beta-blockers protect the heart during a heart attack.
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton (1908-2002), American jazz vibraphonist, drummer, and bandleader known as King of the Vibes; pioneered jazz vibraphone with Louis Armstrong, joined the integrated Benny Goodman Quartet in 1936, and led the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, famous for Flying Home.
Lionel Hutz
Lionel Hutz, also Miguel Sanchez, is The Simpsons' incompetent Springfield lawyer voiced by Phil Hartman 1991-1997; debuted in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", retired after Hartman's 1998 death.
Lionel Jeffries
Lionel Jeffries (1926–2010), English character actor, screenwriter and director of The Railway Children (1970); played Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Cavor in First Men in the Moon.
Lionel Logue
Lionel Logue (1880-1953), Australian speech therapist and elocutionist at 146 Harley Street who treated King George VI's stammer from 1926, co-founded the British Society of Speech Therapists, and inspired The King's Speech.
Lionel Luthor
Lionel Luthor is the Smallville TV character, father of Lex Luthor, created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (pilot, 2001), played by John Glover in 141 episodes, LuthorCorp founder/CEO, distinct from comic Lex's father Jules Thorul.
Lionel M. Bernstein
Lionel M. Bernstein (1923–2019) was an American gastroenterologist at the University of Illinois and NIH, best known for the Bernstein test for reflux esophagitis and later a medical informatics leader.