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Lafayette Park, Detroit
Lafayette Park is a residential district in Detroit designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, built from 1956 on the site of the razed Black Bottom neighborhood.
Lafayette, Indiana
Lafayette, Indiana: county seat of Tippecanoe County on the Wabash River, founded by William Digby on May 25, 1825 and named for the Marquis de Lafayette; population 70,783 in 2020, home of Subaru of Indiana Automotive and Purdue University next door.
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana: parish seat of Lafayette Parish on the Vermilion River, heart of Acadiana's Cajun and Creole culture. Founded as Vermilionville, renamed 1884; consolidated city-parish government; 2020 population 121,374; oil-based economy diversified into tech and health care.
Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo, 小泉八雲), 1850–1904, Greek-born writer of Irish-Greek parentage who worked as a journalist in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Martinique, then settled in Japan, naturalized in 1896, and wrote Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan and Kwaidan.
LaFerrari
LaFerrari is a limited-edition hybrid hypercar made by Ferrari in Maranello from 2013 to 2016, pairing a 6.3-liter V12 with an electric motor for 950 hp, limited to 499 cars.
Laferrere
Gregorio de Laferrere (Laferrere) is a city in La Matanza partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, founded 4 May 1911 by writer Gregorio de Laferrere, Pedro Luro, and Honorio Luque; its most populous locality, on the Belgrano Sur rail line.
Laff-A-Lympics
Laff-A-Lympics (Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics) is a 1977 Hanna-Barbera ABC animated Olympic spoof with 45 characters on three teams, Scooby Doobies, Yogi Yahooeys, Really Rottens, hosted by Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf.
Laffer curve
The Laffer curve describes the proposed relationship between a tax rate and the tax revenue it raises, named after Arthur B. Laffer, who remarked in 1974 that two tax rates can yield the same revenue.
Lafnitz
SV Licht-Loidl Lafnitz, Austrian football club founded 1964 in Lafnitz, Styria; rose from sixth tier to the 2. Liga (2018/19–2024/25), declined Bundesliga promotion, relegated 2025, now Regionalliga Süd.
Lafora disease
Lafora disease, also called progressive myoclonus epilepsy type 2 (EPM2), is a fatal autosomal recessive epilepsy from EPM2A or NHLRC1 mutations causing insoluble Lafora bodies; onset at 8–19 years, median survival 11 years.
Laforin
Laforin, product of the EPM2A gene at 6q24, is the animal kingdom's only carbohydrate-binding dual-specificity phosphatase, a glucan phosphatase whose loss causes fatal Lafora disease.
Lafuquek Ancient City Site
拉甫却克古城遗址 (Lafuquek Ancient City), a Tang dynasty walled town in Hami, Xinjiang, identified as Nazhi County seat, with an excavated cemetery, Buddhist temple, and Silk Road finds.
Lafutidine
Lafutidine (Protecadin, Lafaxid) is a second-generation H2 receptor antagonist anti-ulcer drug marketed only in Japan and India, with nitric oxide-mediated gastroprotection and symptom benefit over famotidine in reflux esophagitis.
Lag BaOmer (ל״ג בעומר)
Lag BaOmer (ל״ג בעומר), also spelled Lag B'Omer, is a minor Jewish holiday on the 33rd day of the Omer, celebrated with bonfires and weddings.
Lag screw
A lag screw, also called a coach screw or lag bolt, is a large wood screw with a hexagonal head driven with a wrench for heavy-duty wood construction.
Lagaan (लगान)
Lagaan (लगान), full title Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, is a 2001 Hindi sports-drama musical directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, starring Aamir Khan as villager Bhuvan, who leads a 1893 cricket match against British officers with land tax at stake; Oscar-nominated, A.R. Rahman score.
Lagalla (lunar crater)
Lagalla is an 88.78-km-wide lunar impact crater at 44.48°S, 22.36°W, IAU-approved in 1935 and named for Italian philosopher Giulio Cesare Lagalla (1571–1624), with nine lettered satellite craters.
Lagamal (crater on Ganymede)
Lagamal is a 131-km-wide IAU-approved impact crater on Ganymede at 64.30°N, 244.21°W, named in 2000 after the son of the Babylonian god Ea, set in Ganymede's central-pit crater regime.
Lagan Laagii Re
Lagan Laagii Re (લગન લાગી રે) is a 2026 Gujarati romantic comedy directed by Saandeep Patel, starring Malhar Thakar, Aarohi Patel, and Tatsat Munshi, released 6 February 2026; it earned ₹3.62 crore net in India.
Laganja Estranja
Laganja Estranja (Jay Jackson, born 1988) is an American drag performer, choreographer, and cannabis-rights activist from Dallas who competed on RuPaul's Drag Race season 6, auditioned in drag for So You Think You Can Dance, released 'Legs' with Rye Rye, and came out as transgender in 2021.
Lagar
Lagar is a 1954 poetry collection by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, her fourth book and the last published in her lifetime, and the only one first published in Chile.
Lagarostrobos franklinii
Lagarostrobos franklinii, Huon pine (formerly Dacrydium franklinii), a slow-growing Tasmanian endemic conifer in Podocarpaceae; dioecious riverbank rainforest tree to 30 m, living stems to 2,500 years, Mt Read male clone possibly over 10,000 years, oil-rich durable timber, IUCN Least Concern.
Lagartero
Lagartero (El Lagartero) is a Maya archaeological zone in La Trinitaria, Chiapas, Mexico, on islands in Lagos de Colón near the Guatemala border; a Late Classic (700–900) ceremonial center of the upper Grijalva basin with over fifteen pyramids.
Lagash Sulcus
Lagash Sulcus is a 1,575-km grooved-terrain sulcus on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for an early Babylonian town; imaged by Voyager 2 in 1979 and part of the WNW groove super-system.
Lagavulin distillery
Lagavulin distillery is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery on the south coast of Islay, Scotland, founded in 1816 and owned by Diageo since 1997.
Lagdo Dam
Lagdo Dam (barrage de Lagdo) is a multipurpose embankment dam and hydroelectric station on the Benue River in northern Cameroon, built from 1978 to 1982 and impounding Cameroon's largest reservoir.
Lage Raho Munna Bhai (लगे रहो मुन्ना भाई)
Lage Raho Munna Bhai (लगे रहो मुन्ना भाई) is Rajkumar Hirani's 2006 Hindi comedy-drama, sequel to Munna Bhai M.B.B.S., starring Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, and Vidya Balan; it popularized Gandhigiri and won four National Film Awards.
Lagenaria
Lagenaria is an African genus of six cucurbit vine species, home of the bottle gourd Lagenaria siceraria (calabash), among the oldest domesticated plants, used as containers, utensils, and instruments, with disputed arrival in the Americas.
Lagenorhynchus
Lagenorhynchus is a genus of oceanic dolphins established by John Edward Gray in 1846, now reduced by molecular studies to a single species, the white-beaked dolphin.
Lagentium
Lagentium, also recorded as Legeolio and Lagecio, was a Roman fort and civilian settlement beneath Castleford, West Yorkshire, on the River Aire, occupied from around AD 71 to about 364.