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Little David
Little David was the nickname of an American 36-inch siege mortar developed by the U.S. Army during World War II that never fired a shot in combat.
Little Death (film)
Little Death (2024) is an American dark comedy drama, Jack Begert's feature debut, starring David Schwimmer as a pill-addled screenwriter; it premiered at Sundance 2024, won the NEXT Innovator Award, and is distributed by Mubi.
Little Demon (TV series)
Little Demon is an FXX adult animated horror-comedy created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran Valla, starring Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito, and Lucy DeVito as a mother, Satan, and his teen Antichrist daughter; one 10-episode season premiered August 25, 2022.
Little Desert National Park
Little Desert National Park: 132,000 ha semi-arid mallee park in western Victoria between the Wimmera River and the SA border, created after the 1969 Little Desert dispute, home to the vulnerable malleefowl, largely burnt in the January 2025 bushfire.
Little Deuce Coupe
Little Deuce Coupe is a 1963 Beach Boys car song by Brian Wilson and Roger Christian about a hot-rodded 1932 Ford, and the title track of the October 1963 album of the same name; its B-side peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album reached No. 4.
Little Ding-Dong Science Park
Little Ding-Dong Science Park (小叮噹科學主題樂園) is Taiwan's only outdoor natural-science theme park, opened January 1990 in Xinfeng, Hsinchu County, with physics exhibits and Taiwan's largest indoor ski slope.
Little Diomede Island
Little Diomede Island (Ignaluk) is a US island in the Bering Strait, 2.4 miles from Russian Big Diomede across the International Date Line, home to the Iñupiat village of Diomede, population 82 in 2020.
Little Disasters
Little Disasters is a six-part Paramount+ psychological thriller adapted from Sarah Vaughan's 2020 novel, starring Diane Kruger as Jess and Jo Joyner as doctor Liz, who reports her friend to social services over her baby's unexplained head injury; UK premiere May 22, 2025, US December 11, 2025.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit is Charles Dickens's 1855–1857 novel, serialized by Bradbury and Evans in 19 monthly parts, about Amy Dorrit, born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison, Arthur Clennam, and the satirical Circumlocution Office.
Little Dorrit (1988 film)
Little Dorrit (1988) is a six-hour, two-part British film of Dickens' novel, written and directed by Christine Edzard, starring Alec Guinness and Derek Jacobi, told twice from two points of view.
Little Dorrit (TV series)
Little Dorrit (2008) is a BBC1 miniseries in 14 half-hour episodes adapted by Andrew Davies from Dickens's novel, starring Claire Foy, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tom Courtenay; a BBC–WGBH Boston co-production that won two Primetime Emmys.
Little Dragon
Little Dragon: Swedish electronic pop quartet from Gothenburg (Yukimi Nagano, Erik Bodin, Fredrik Wallin, Håkan Wirenstrand), formed 1996; seven albums including Grammy-nominated Nabuma Rubberband and Gorillaz collaborations.
Little Ease
Little Ease, a tiny confined space in the Tower of London traditionally described as a 1.2 m square windowless torture cell, linked to Edmund Campion and Guy Fawkes but likely a blocked passage.
Little Einsteins
Little Einsteins is an American preschool animated series (2005–2009) created by The Baby Einstein Company for Playhouse Disney, produced by Curious Pictures, teaching classical music and art through missions of Leo, June, Quincy, Annie, and Rocket; distinct from Baby Einstein videos.
Little Ellen
Little Ellen is a 2D animated HBO Max preschool series (2021–2022) about seven-year-old Ellen DeGeneres in New Orleans, created by Kevin A. Leman II, voiced by Laurel Emory, canceled in August 2022 with 20 unreleased episodes.
Little Entente
The Little Entente was a defensive alliance of Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia, formed in 1920 and 1921 to contain Hungarian revisionism and a Habsburg restoration.
Little Eva
Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd, 1943 or 1945–2003) was an American singer from Belhaven, North Carolina, whose "The Loco-Motion" hit No. 1 in 1962 while she babysat for songwriters Goffin and King.
Little Evil
Little Evil (2017) is a Netflix horror comedy written and directed by Eli Craig, starring Adam Scott, Evangeline Lilly, and Owen Atlas, about a new stepfather who suspects his 5-year-old stepson Lucas is the Antichrist.
Little Feat
Little Feat, American rock band formed 1969 in Los Angeles by Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Bill Payne, and Richie Hayward; known for Dixie Chicken, Waiting for Columbus, George's 1979 death, 1988 re-formation, and the Last Farewell Tour from 2026.
Little finger
Little finger (pinky, fifth digit, digit V): the smallest, ulnar-most finger of the human hand. Contributes about 15% of individual grip force; its exclusion cuts grip strength 33%; fifth metacarpal fractures (boxer's fractures) are about one-third of adult hand fractures.
Little Fires Everywhere (miniseries)
Little Fires Everywhere is a 2020 American drama miniseries on Hulu, developed by Liz Tigelaar from Celeste Ng's 2017 novel and starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in eight episodes.
Little Fires Everywhere (novel)
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng's 2017 second novel (Penguin Press), set in Shaker Heights, Ohio, follows the Richardsons and artist Mia Warren amid a custody battle; 48-week NYT bestseller, adapted as a 2020 Hulu series with Witherspoon and Washington.
Little Fockers
Little Fockers (2010), third Meet the Parents comedy directed by Paul Weitz, starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro; grossed $310.7M worldwide but earned 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, the trilogy's weakest entry.
Little Forest (리틀 포레스트) (film)
Little Forest (리틀 포레스트) is Yim Soon-rye's 2018 South Korean drama adapting Daisuke Igarashi's manga, starring Kim Tae-ri as Hye-won, who leaves Seoul for a year of farming, cooking, and healing in her rural hometown; it follows the two-part 2014–2015 Japanese film version.
Little Germany, Manhattan
Kleindeutschland (Little Germany, Dutchtown) was Manhattan's German immigrant enclave on the Lower East Side, the leading German-American neighborhood in the US by the 1850s, ended by the 1904 General Slocum disaster.
Little Giant Fire
The Little Giant Fire was a lightning-caused wildfire that began in July 2026 in Chelan County, Washington, burning 172,906 acres between the Chiwawa and Entiat rivers.
Little Giants
Little Giants (1994) is an Amblin/Warner Bros. family sports comedy directed by Duwayne Dunham, starring Rick Moranis and Ed O'Neill as rival brothers coaching peewee football teams, famous for the 'Annexation of Puerto Rico' trick play.
Little Gidding
Little Gidding is a 1942 poem by T. S. Eliot, the fourth and final of his Four Quartets, named for a Huntingdonshire village and written during the London Blitz.
Little Goody Two Shoes (video game)
Little Goody Two Shoes is a 2023 horror narrative adventure game by Portugal's AstralShift, published by Square Enix Collective for PC, Switch, PS5, and Xbox. It follows Elise in Kieferberg across day-life-sim and night Witching Hour horror, with ten endings.
Little Goose Dam
Little Goose Dam is a run-of-river hydroelectric dam and navigation lock on the lower Snake River in Washington, operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.