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Lakes Argyle and Kununurra
Lakes Argyle and Kununurra: Ramsar-listed artificial freshwater wetlands on the Ord River in the East Kimberley, Western Australia, formed by the 1963 Diversion Dam and 1972 Argyle Dam; Lake Argyle is Australia's second-largest freshwater lake and a major freshwater crocodile and waterbird refuge.
Lakes of the lower Turgay and Irgiz
Lakes of the lower Turgay and Irgiz (Irgiz-Turgay Lakes), a Ramsar site (no. 108, 1976) and Key Biodiversity Area in Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan; 348,000 ha of shallow lakes on the Turgay, Irgyz, and Ulkayak rivers, a major waterbird migration and moulting site.
Lakes of Titan
The lakes of Titan, also known as Titan's lakes, are bodies of liquid methane and ethane concentrated near the poles of Saturn's largest moon, discovered by Cassini radar in 2006.
Lakesha Womack
Lakesha Womack is an American politician and Democratic nominee for North Carolina's 14th Congressional District seat in the 2026 US House election, running against incumbent Representative Tim Moore.
Lakeshore, Ontario
Lakeshore, Ontario: a town in Essex County on Lake St. Clair, formed in 1999 from Belle River and four townships; 40,410 people in 2021, Essex County's largest municipality.
Lakesia Collins
Lakesia Collins is an American politician and Democratic member of the Illinois Senate from the 5th district, a Chicago legislator whose laws cover squatter removal, school sexual misconduct protections, and adult changing stations.
Lakeside School (Seattle)
Lakeside School (Seattle): independent coeducational day school, grades 5-12, north Seattle; formed 1971 by merger of boys' Moran-Lakeside (founded 1919) and girls' St. Nicholas (1910); tuition $52,000, 30% on aid; alumni include Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Lakeside Shopping Centre
Lakeside Shopping Centre, known as Intu Lakeside, is a large shopping center in West Thurrock, Essex, England, opened in 1990 with over 250 shops and restaurants.
Lakestar
Lakestar is a venture capital firm headquartered in Zurich, founded by Klaus Hommels in 2012, best known for early investments in Spotify, Airbnb, Revolut, and Klarna.
Lakestar SPAC I SE
Lakestar SPAC I SE was a Luxembourg special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Klaus Hommels, which raised EUR 275 million in 2021 and merged with HomeToGo.
Lakeview Generating Station
Lakeview Generating Station was a coal-fired power station on the Lake Ontario shore in Mississauga, Ontario, once called the world's largest fossil generating station, closed in 2005.
Lakeview Terrace
Lakeview Terrace (2008) is a Neil LaBute thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson as LAPD officer Abel Turner, who harasses the interracial couple (Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington) next door; Screen Gems release that opened number one.
Lakewood Church
Lakewood Church, also known as Lakewood Megachurch, is a non-denominational charismatic evangelical megachurch in Houston, Texas, led by Joel Osteen and housed in the former Compaq Center.
Lakewood Power Plant
The Lakewood Power Plant, also known as Lakewood Cogeneration, is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Lakewood, New Jersey, opened in 1994 and now mothballed.
Lakewood Township, New Jersey
Lakewood Township, Ocean County, New Jersey: a township incorporated in 1893, once a Gilded Age resort, now a fast-growing municipality of about 144,000 people with a large Orthodox Jewish community, major yeshiva, and industrial parks.
Lakewood, California
Lakewood, also known as Lakewood, CA, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1954 as a master-planned community of about 71,316 residents.
Lakewood, Colorado
Lakewood, Colorado: home rule suburb of about 157,000 residents immediately west of Denver in Jefferson County, Colorado's fifth-largest city. Incorporated 1969; council-manager government; Belmar downtown; 2026 zoning repeal election.
Lakey Peak
Lakey Peak is an A-frame coral reef surf break at Hu'u, Dompu, on Sumbawa's south coast, Indonesia, producing both a left and right from one peak; nearby breaks include Periscopes, Nungas, Cobblestones, and Lakey Pipe, best May–October on SW groundswell.
Lakeyah
Lakeyah, also known as Lakeyah Danaee, is an American rapper and singer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who signed with Quality Control Music in 2020 and made XXL's 2021 Freshman Class.
Lakh (लाख)
Lakh (लाख), also spelled lac, is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand, the standard large-number word in South Asian finance and everyday speech.
Lakhamu Fossa
Lakhamu Fossa, also Lakhmu Fossae, is a 370-km tectonic trough system (fossa) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede at 11.7S, 227.2W, IAU-named in 1985 after an Assyro-Babylonian dragon monster born of Apsu and Tiamat.
Lakhan Lal Dewangan
Lakhan Lal Dewangan is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving as a cabinet minister in the Government of Chhattisgarh, holding the commerce and industry and labor portfolios.
Lakhan-jo-daro
Lakhan-jo-daro, also written Lakhueen-jo-daro, is a mid-sized settlement of the Indus civilization, occupied around 2600–1900 BCE, on the Indus River at Sukkur, Sindh, Pakistan, about 80 km north of Mohenjo-daro.
Lakhana Deva
Lakhana Deva (लखन देव) is described as a deified tribal hero of Hindu affiliation, traditionally dated to about 1193–1194, though no retrieved source attests him.
Lakhendra Kumar Raushan
Lakhendra Kumar Raushan is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Bihar, holding the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare portfolio since 2025.
Lakhmid dynasty
The Lakhmid dynasty (المناذرة في الحيرة) was an Arab dynasty that ruled central Iraq from its capital al-Hira from about 300 to 602 CE, generally as allies of Sasanian Persia.
Lakhmid kingdom
The Lakhmid kingdom, also known as the Lakhmids, was a dynasty in central Iraq from 300 to 602 CE. It served as a client of the Sasanian kings.
Lakhmids
The Lakhmids (المناذرة) were an Arab dynasty, founded by Amr ibn Adi at al-Hira in the late third century, that ruled central Iraq as Sasanian clients until 602.
Lakhmu Fossae
Lakhmu Fossae, a furrow system in Galileo Regio on Ganymede, are degraded NW–SE tectonic troughs in dark terrain, older than and crosscut by the N–S Zu Fossae, showing flexural rift-flank uplift.
Lakhni'ah Yanuf
Lakhni'ah Yanuf (Sabaic Lḥyʿt Ynf) was a late-fifth-century Himyarite king of ancient South Arabia, attested in the inscription RES 4969 as a son and co-regent of Sharhabil Yakkuf.