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Laibin power station
Laibin power station is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Laibin, Guangxi, China, owned by Guangxi Investment Group; its Laibin-B stage was China's first competitively tendered power BOT project.
Laicheng power station
Laicheng power station (华电国际莱城发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Laiwu, Shandong, China, wholly owned by Huadian Power International, with four 300-megawatt units serving the Shandong grid.
Laid (American TV series)
Laid is a 2024 Peacock dark romantic comedy series, a remake of the 2011 Australian show, starring Stephanie Hsu as Ruby, whose exes die in the order she slept with them; canceled after one season in May 2025.
Laid (song)
"Laid" is a 1993 song by English band James, title track of the album Laid, produced by Brian Eno. Peaked at 25 in the UK and 61 on the Billboard Hot 100; the band's US breakthrough, later used in American Pie trailers.
Laid edges
Laid edges (baby hairs): hairstyling practice, prominent in Black and Latina communities, of smoothing and shaping short hairline hairs with edge control gel and a small brush into swoops and curls; traced to the 1920s and Josephine Baker.
Laid-Back Camp
Laid-Back Camp (Yuru Camp△, ゆるキャン△) is Afro's camping manga serialized from 2015 in Manga Time Kirara Forward, then Comic Fuz, about Rin Shima and Nadeshiko Kagamihara camping around Yamanashi, Shizuoka, and Nagano; adapted into anime from 2018, a drama, and a 2022 film, with over 10 million copies in print.
Laidamlulum Vallis
Laidamlulum Vallis, a Maidu-named lava channel (canale) on southern Venus, about 2,700 km long, third longest on Venus after Baltis and Citlalpul Valles, IAU-approved 2000, quad v58.
Laie Hawaii Temple
The Laie Hawaii Temple, also called the Hawaii Temple, is a Latter-day Saint temple in Lāʻie, Hawaii, dedicated in 1919 as the Church's first outside the continental United States.
Laifen
Laifen (徕芬) is a Chinese personal-care appliance company founded in 2019 by Ye Hongxin, best known for high-speed hair dryers priced at a fraction of Dyson's.
Laika (Лайка)
Laika, also known as Kudryavka and nicknamed Muttnik, was a Soviet space dog who became the first animal to orbit Earth on Sputnik 2 in 1957.
LAIKA domain
LAIKA domain (InterPro IPR045353; Pfam PF19256) is a conserved eukaryotic protein domain found in the cell cycle and apoptosis regulator protein CCAR1, catalogued by Pfam, NCBI CDD, and InterPro.
Laikipia
Laikipia, a Kenyan county on the Laikipia Plateau between Mount Kenya and the Great Rift Valley, about 9,500 km2; mixed ranching, pastoralism, and conservancy tourism, with documented land and human-wildlife conflict.
Laila (2025 film)
Laila is a 2025 Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Ram Narayan, starring Vishwak Sen as a Hyderabad beautician who disguises himself as a woman named Laila.
Laila (லைலா) (actress)
Laila (லைலா), also Laila Mehdin, born 1980, is an Indian actress of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi cinema; debut Dushman Duniya Ka (1996), Tamil debut Kallazhagar (1999), known for Pithamagan, comeback Sardar (2022).
Laila Ali
Laila Ali (born 1977), daughter of Muhammad Ali, is an American retired professional boxer who competed 1999–2007, retiring undefeated at 24-0 with 21 knockouts, a five-time world champion, and later a TV host and entrepreneur.
Laila Cunningham
Laila Cunningham (born Laila El-Meleigy) is a British politician, former CPS prosecutor, and Reform UK's 2028 London mayoral candidate, announced January 2026; she defected from the Conservatives in 2025 while a Westminster Lancaster Gate councillor.
Laila Edwards
Laila Edwards, American ice hockey defenseman/forward from Cleveland Heights, Ohio; first Black woman on a U.S. Olympic hockey team (2026 gold), 2024 worlds MVP, three NCAA titles at Wisconsin, PWHL San Jose's 4th overall pick in 2026.
Laila Majnu (लैला मजनू) (1976 film)
Laila Majnu (लैला मजनू), 1976 Hindi/Urdu romantic drama by H.S. Rawail starring Rishi Kapoor and Ranjeeta Kaur, with music by Madan Mohan and Jaidev; a golden jubilee hit distinct from the 2018 remake.
Laila Majnu (लैला मजनू) (2018 film)
Laila Majnu (लैला मजनू), a 2018 Hindi romantic drama directed by Sajid Ali and written by Imtiaz Ali, stars Avinash Tiwary and Triptii Dimri in Kashmir; a 2018 flop that became a 2024 re-release phenomenon.
Laila Morse
Laila Morse, stage name of Maureen Lesley Oldman, is an English actress born 1945 in Dorking, Surrey, and elder sister of Gary Oldman. Known for Nil by Mouth (1997) and as Big Mo Harris in EastEnders from 2000, leaving 2021 and returning permanently in 2024.
Laila Robins
Laila Robins, born 1959 in St. Paul, Minnesota, is an American stage, film, and TV actress; known for Planes Trains and Automobiles, Homeland's Martha Boyd, The Boys' Grace Mallory, and Obie-winning Apple Family Plays.
Laila Rouass
Laila Rouass (ليلى رواس), born Laila Abdesselam in London in 1971, is a British actress known for playing Amber Gates in Footballers' Wives and Sahira Shah in Holby City.
Laila Schou Nilsen
Laila Schou Nilsen (1919-1998), Norwegian all-round athlete; 1936 Olympic alpine combined bronze and downhill winner, world allround speed skating champion 1937-1938, first woman awarded Egebergs Ærespris.
Laila Zaidi
Laila Zaidi (born 1993) is a British actress, not the Brazilian actress Laila Zaid, known as Cyd in Benidorm series 10, Asma Farooqi in Ackley Bridge series 5, and Zara in Mood.
Laila!
Laila! (Laila Smith, alias Laila Smith) is a Brooklyn-born American bedroom R&B singer-songwriter-producer, daughter of Yasiin Bey (Mos Def); debut album Gap Year! (2024), sophomore We'll Never Be This Young Again (2026), 300M+ streams.
Laima Tessera
Laima Tessera is a large tessera terrain in northern Venus, named for the Latvian and Lithuanian goddess of fate, IAU-approved 1985, 971 km across, one of the three largest tesserae and the type example of trough-and-ridge tessera.
Laimdota Planitia
Laimdota Planitia is a 1,800-km-wide lowland plain on Venus at 58S, 117E, in the Fredegonde quadrangle (V-57) east of Lada Terra; IAU-named in 1997 for a Latvian myth heroine.
Lain Singh Bangdel
Lain Singh Bangdel (1924–2002) was a Nepali novelist, painter, sculptor, and art historian whose realist novels reshaped Nepali fiction and whose photographs helped repatriate looted art.
Lain-Jong Li
Lain-Jong Li is a materials scientist working on chemical synthesis of two-dimensional semiconductors, and is Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore.
Laine Erik
Laine Erik (Erik-Kallas, 1942-2024), Estonian 800 m runner for the Soviet Union; sixth at Tokyo 1964, ninth at Mexico City 1968, 1965 Universiade gold, Soviet record 2:03.6.