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Lists of schools in the United States
Lists of schools in the United States: federal directories are the Common Core of Data (CCD), about 100,000 public schools, and the biennial Private School Universe Survey (PSS), covering about 75 percent of private K-12 schools.
Lists of scientists
Lists of scientists: compilations of researchers by field, honor, institution, or citation metrics. Includes Royal Society Fellows directory, Dictionary of Scientific Biography (4,500+ entries), Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers, and the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% ranking.
Lists of shipwrecks
Lists of shipwrecks are inventories, registers, and databases recording ships lost at sea or inland waters, with vessel name, date, place, and cause of loss, used for heritage management, archaeology, and research.
Lists of stars
Lists of stars are compilations of stars, from bright and nearest-star lists to all-sky catalogs, with the IAU keeping official names and surveys like Gaia recording measured properties.
Lists of state leaders by age
Lists of state leaders by age rank world presidents, prime ministers, and monarchs from youngest to oldest. Average leader age was 57 from 1945 to 2023, above 60 in the 2020s; Paul Biya is the oldest serving head of state.
Lists of television programs
Lists of television programs: printed directories (Brooks & Marsh, Terrace), archive catalogs (Library of Congress Three Decades of Television, BFI), and schedule databases (BBC Genome, Vanderbilt) enumerating TV series, specials, and broadcasts.
Lists of television stations in North America
Lists of television stations in North America compile US, Canadian, and Mexican TV stations by call sign, channel, affiliation, and owner, drawing on FCC CDBS/LMS databases, CRTC records, and Mexican concession registries.
Lists of tennis players
Lists of tennis players: official ATP, WTA, and ITF wheelchair rankings, Grand Slam and year-end No. 1 record lists, Hall of Fame rosters, and independent rating systems, with counting rules like the WTA's best 18 singles results.
Lists of tennis records and statistics
Lists of tennis records and statistics: ATP, WTA, ITF and Grand Slam record-keeping plus third-party databases. Djokovic 24 majors, Court 24 all-time, Graf 377 weeks at No. 1, Connors 1,274 match wins.
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases: official indexes (docket search, Granted/Noted Lists, United States Reports), Library of Congress briefs archives, and educational landmark-case lists, each organized by term, citation, or significance.
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume
Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume index decisions by their volume in the United States Reports, the Court's official reporter, whose numbering runs from Dallas's 1790 volume 1 through over 580 bound volumes today.
Lists of Victoria Cross recipients
Lists of Victoria Cross recipients: official registers (WO 98, 1856-1944), the 1953 CAB 106/320 list, and national directories covering the 1,351-plus crosses and three bars awarded since 1856.
Lists of video games
Lists of video games: editorial catalogues, databases such as MobyGames and IGDB, ranked best-of lists like PC Gamer's Top 100, and canonical preservation lists, distinguished by how entries are selected.
Lists of volcanoes
Lists of volcanoes: catalogs of volcanic features organized by name, country, elevation, type, or activity status. Key sources are the Smithsonian GVP (1,214 Holocene-active volcanoes), NOAA NCEI (over 1,600 locations, over 800 eruptions), and USGS GVP-linked records.
Lists of wars
Lists of wars: systematic catalogs of armed conflicts such as UCDP (25 battle-deaths/year, 1946–), Correlates of War (1,000 deaths, 1816–2007), and ACLED (no threshold), differing by definitions, coverage, and data methods.
Lists of wars involving the United States
Lists of wars involving the United States, also called America's Wars or U.S. periods of war, compile U.S. conflicts from 1775 onward; contents vary by compiler, spanning 11 declared wars in five conflicts to hundreds of undeclared military operations.
Lists of World Heritage Sites
Lists of World Heritage Sites: UNESCO's World Heritage List (1,273 sites, 173 countries after 2026) and List of World Heritage in Danger, governed by the 1972 Convention, ten criteria, and nomination rules.
Lists of World War I flying aces
Lists of World War I flying aces, also called victory or Blue Max Level lists, rank pilots with five or more confirmed aerial victories. Scores differ by nation's credit rules, overclaiming, and lost records; Richthofen leads with 80.
Listserv
LISTSERV is email list management software introduced in 1986 on BITNET, the first program to automate mailing list administration, and its name remains a registered trademark of L-Soft.
Lisuan Tech
Lisuan Tech (砺算科技) is a Chinese GPU developer founded in Shanghai in 2021, whose LX 7G100 card became the first Chinese-designed discrete GPU to pass Microsoft WHQL certification.
Lisunov Li-2
The Lisunov Li-2 (PS-84) was a Soviet license-built version of the American Douglas DC-3, produced from 1939 and serving as the Soviet Air Force's primary World War II transport.
Lisuride
Lisuride is a synthetic ergoline derivative and dopamine receptor agonist used as an antiparkinson drug, prolactin-lowering agent, and migraine preventive in Europe, though not FDA-approved in the United States.
Liszt (Mercurian crater)
Liszt is an IAU-approved 85-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury, centered at 16.10°S, 168.10°W (planetographic), catalogued as feature ID 3424 in the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
Lisztomania
Lisztomania (German Lisztomanie) was the fan frenzy around pianist Franz Liszt's 1840s concerts, named by Heinrich Heine in 1844; it began in Berlin in 1842 and prefigured Beatlemania.
Lisztomania (1975 film)
Lisztomania (1975) is Ken Russell's British rock-opera fantasy biopic of Franz Liszt, starring Roger Daltrey, with Paul Nicholas as Wagner and Ringo Starr as the Pope; a critical and commercial failure.
Lit (band)
Lit: Orange County, California rock band (formed 1988, formerly Razzle and Stain) behind the platinum 1999 album A Place in the Sun and the hit "My Own Worst Enemy," which topped Billboard's Modern Rock chart for 11 weeks; seven albums through Tastes Like Gold (2022).
Lita (wrestler)
Lita (Amy Christine Dumas, born 1975) is an American retired professional wrestler, four-time WWE Women's Champion, 2014 Hall of Famer, Team Xtreme member with the Hardy Boyz, and rival of Trish Stratus.
Lita Ford
Lita Ford, also Lita Rossanna Ford, is a London-born American guitarist and singer, Runaways lead guitarist from 1975 to 1979, whose 1988 album Lita with "Kiss Me Deadly" and the Ozzy Osbourne duet "Close My Eyes Forever" made her a Platinum-selling glam-metal solo artist.
Lita Grey
Lita Grey (Lillita Louise MacMurray), American actress and Charlie Chaplin's second wife; child performer in The Kid, leading lady of The Gold Rush, married him at 16 in 1924, divorced 1927.
Litany of Ra
The Litany of Ra, also Litany of Re, is a New Kingdom Egyptian royal funerary text invoking Re in 75 forms, first inscribed in Thutmose III's tomb.