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Ladyhawke (musician)
Ladyhawke is Phillipa "Pip" Brown (born 1981, Wellington), a New Zealand synth-pop singer-songwriter whose 2008 debut hit No. 1 in NZ; albums include Anxiety, Wild Things, and Time Flies.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male a cappella choir founded by Joseph Shabalala, singing Zulu isicathamiya. Known for Paul Simon's Graceland, five Grammy wins, and the name meaning strongest axes from Ladysmith.
Ladytron
Ladytron is a Liverpool electronic pop band formed in 1999 by Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu, now a trio with Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo; albums 604 through Paradises (2026), hit Seventeen, named after a Roxy Music song.
Lae
Lae is a port city on the Huon Gulf, capital of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, and one of the country's two largest cities. It is the industrial hub and commercial port at the end of the Highlands Highway, with a 2011 district population of 148,934.
LAE118
LAE118 (LAE-118) is Laekna's internally discovered, orally active allosteric PI3Kα pan-mutant selective small-molecule inhibitor for PIK3CA-mutant solid tumors; FDA and China CDE IND approved, in Phase I (NCT07787520), and licensed ex-Greater China to Vasque Bio for up to USD 527 million.
Laekna (来凯医药)
Laekna (来凯医药) is a Shanghai-based clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2016, listed in Hong Kong since 2023, whose lead drug afuresertib reached Phase III in breast cancer.
Lael Brainard
Lael Brainard is an American economist who served as a Federal Reserve governor from 2014, as Fed Vice Chair from 2022 to 2023, and as Biden's National Economic Council director.
Laelapidae
Laelapidae (synonym Laelaptidae) is a diverse family of Mesostigmata mites in Dermanyssoidea, with over 1,300 species in nine subfamilies: rodent ectoparasites, soil predators, arthropod associates, disease vectors, and biocontrol agents.
Laelaps (mite)
Laelaps (Koch, 1836) is the type genus of mite family Laelapidae, rodent fur ectoparasites such as the spiny rat mite L. echidninus; molecular work challenges its monophyly and cosmopolitan status.
Laelia (city)
Laelia was an ancient city of the Turdetani in western Hispania Baetica, southern Spain, known from Pliny, Ptolemy, and its own coinage; its site remains unidentified.
Laeliinae
Laeliinae, a Neotropical orchid subtribe of tribe Epidendreae with about 40-50 genera and roughly 1,500 species, includes Cattleya, Laelia, Epidendrum, Encyclia, Brassavola, and Prosthechea; molecular phylogeny shows low sequence variation and polyphyletic former genera.
Laem Chabang
Laem Chabang is Thailand's main deep-water port, opened in 1991 on the Gulf of Thailand in Chonburi Province, handling more than 60% of the country's container traffic.
Laércio Cosentino
Laércio Cosentino is a Brazilian software entrepreneur, an electrical engineering graduate of the University of São Paulo, who founded Microsiga in 1983 and chairs TOTVS, Latin America's largest software company.
Lærdal Tunnel
The Lærdal Tunnel (Lærdalstunnelen) is a 24,509-meter two-lane road tunnel on the E16 between Lærdal and Aurland, Norway, the longest road tunnel in the world, opened in 2000.
Laesio enormis
Laesio enormis, a Roman-law contract doctrine from Diocletian's constitutions of 285 and 293 AD and Justinian's Codex C.4.44.2, lets a seller rescind a land sale priced below half its true value; it survives in the French Code civil and Austrian ABGB.
Læso
Læso (Læsø), Ramsar Site 149 in Denmark, is a 66,380 ha coastal wetland in the northern Kattegat, the largest Danish tidal and saltmarsh area outside the Wadden Sea, designated for Common Scoter and managed through grazing and the LIFE Læsø project.
Laeta Kalogridis
Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis (born 1965, Winter Haven, Florida) is an American screenwriter and producer, Davidson '87 and UCLA MFA, known for Shutter Island, Avatar, Terminator Genisys, Alita: Battle Angel, and creating Netflix's Altered Carbon.
Laetiporus
Laetiporus, chicken of the woods, is a genus of bright orange bracket fungi (Laetiporaceae, Polyporales) causing brown rot of trees; once one cosmopolitan species, DNA studies split it into many species across temperate and tropical regions.
Laetitia Casta
Laetitia Casta, French model and actress born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, discovered at 15 in Corsica, Guess? face 1994-1999, Marianne de l'an 2000, muse to Herb Ritts and Yves Saint Laurent, César-nominated for Gainsbourg.
Laëtitia Eïdo
Laëtitia Eïdo is a French actress, singer, and painter, born in 1985, best known internationally for playing Dr. Shirin El Abed in Netflix's Fauda (2015–2018), for which she was named Best Actress.
Laëtitia Hollard
Laëtitia Hollard, also credited as Laetitia Hollard, is an American actress born in 2003, a Juilliard Group 54 graduate raised in Wisconsin, known for playing Nurse Emma Nolan in The Pitt season 2 and Cassandra in Trauma Or, Monsters All.
Laetoli
Laetoli, Tanzania: Pliocene site with the oldest known hominin footprints, a 27 m trail of about 70 prints in 3.66-million-year-old volcanic ash, likely made by Australopithecus afarensis and showing human-like bipedal walking.
Laevocardia
Laevocardia (levocardia): cardiac position term for a heart lying in the left hemithorax, counterpart of dextrocardia and mesocardia; used in Van Praagh-style classification of congenital heart disease; distinct from the cockle genus Laevicardium.
LaFace Records
LaFace Records is an American record label founded in 1989 in Atlanta by L.A. Reid and Babyface. It helped make Atlanta a music hub and sold over 50 million albums.
Lafarge (company)
Lafarge is a French building materials company founded in 1833, once the world's largest cement maker and today the French brand of the Swiss group Holcim.
Lafayette College
Lafayette College, a private undergraduate-only liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania, chartered March 9, 1826, and named for the Marquis de Lafayette; combines liberal arts with ABET-accredited engineering, 2,675 undergraduates, 10:1 ratio, Division I Leopards.
Lafayette Escadrille
The Lafayette Escadrille (Escadrille N.124) was a French Air Service fighter squadron of American volunteers under Captain Georges Thenault, serving April 1916 to February 1918 before transferring to the U.S. 103rd Aero Squadron.
Lafayette G. Pool
Lafayette G. Pool, also known as Lafayette Green Pool, was an American tank commander credited with destroying 258 German armored vehicles, including 12 tanks, in 1944.
Lafayette Mendel
Lafayette Mendel (1872–1935) was an American biochemist who spent his career at Yale, where his rat feeding experiments with Thomas Osborne proved some amino acids are essential and helped identify vitamin A.
Lafayette Parish
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, seat Lafayette city; created 1823 from St. Martin Parish, named for Marquis de Lafayette; partially consolidated government; 241,753 people (2020); heart of Acadiana Cajun country.