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Little green army men
Little green army men are 2-4 inch monochrome plastic toy soldiers first made in 1938 by Bergen Toy & Novelty, popularized in the 1950s as a lead-free alternative, revived by Toy Story, and inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2014.
Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)
"Little green men" (later "polite people") were masked Russian soldiers in unmarked green uniforms who seized Crimea in February-March 2014, first denied and later acknowledged by Putin, enabling the peninsula's annexation.
Little Havana
Little Havana is a Miami neighborhood west of Downtown, centered on Calle Ocho (SW 8th Street). Formerly Riverside and Jewish, it became a Cuban exile hub in the 1960s, later Nicaraguan and Central American, listed endangered in 2015.
Little Hearts (2024 film)
Little Hearts (ലിറ്റിൽ ഹാർട്ട്സ്) is a 2024 Malayalam comedy-drama-romance directed by Aby Treesa Paul and Anto Jose Pereira, starring Shane Nigam and Mahima Nambiar as part of a father-son pair navigating three intertwined romances in Idukki, Kerala; released 7 June 2024, later on Amazon Prime Video.
Little Hearts (2025 film)
Little Hearts is a 2025 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy directed by Sai Marthand, starring Mouli Tanuj Prasanth and Shivani Nagaram as teenagers who fall in love at a coaching center.
Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie is Laura Ingalls Wilder's 1935 children's novel, third in her eight-book Little House series, following the Ingalls family from Wisconsin to a Kansas homestead near Independence, with Osage encounters, the 1974 Michael Landon TV series, and a 2026 Netflix adaptation.
Little House on the Prairie (2026 TV series)
Little House on the Prairie (2026) is a Netflix drama series created by Rebecca Sonnenshine, adapting Laura Ingalls Wilder's 1935 novel; 8 episodes premiered July 9, 2026, starring Luke Bracey and Alice Halsey, renewed for a second season adapting On the Banks of Plum Creek.
Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
Little House on the Prairie: American NBC family Western drama (1974–1983, nine seasons, 205 episodes) starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's books; distinct from the 2026 Netflix reboot by Rebecca Sonnenshine.
Little Houses Group
Little Houses Group was a London operator of family clubs with nurseries, founded by Charlie Gardiner, opening its first club in 2022 and later rebranding as OurHouse.
Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age, also called the mini ice age, was a period of cooler climate from about 1300 to 1850, when glaciers advanced and the coldest decades came in the 17th century.
Little India, Singapore
Little India (Tekka) is Singapore's historic Indian community district, bounded by Serangoon Road, Sungei Road and Jalan Besar. Grown from mid-1800s cattle trading, gazetted for conservation in 1989, it hosts Deepavali and Pongal, temples, Tekka Centre and the Indian Heritage Centre.
Little Italy (2018 film)
Little Italy is a 2018 romantic comedy, directed by Donald Petrie, about the adult children of rival Toronto pizzeria owners, played by Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen, who fall in love.
Little Italy, Manhattan
Little Italy, Manhattan: a Lower Manhattan neighborhood centered on Mulberry Street, once a 50-block Italian immigrant enclave, now a compact restaurant and festival district known for the Feast of San Gennaro, Ferrara Bakery, and Lombardi's pizzeria.
Little Ivies
The Little Ivies are an informal label for small, highly selective private liberal arts colleges in the northeastern US, centered on NESCAC members like Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan; unlike the formal Ivy League, membership lists vary, typically 10 to 18 colleges.
Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner is a six-line English nursery rhyme first recorded in Henry Carey's 1725 Namby Pamby, with a disputed Glastonbury legend about steward Thomas Horner, a Christmas pie, and Mells Manor.
Little Jimmy Dickens
Little Jimmy Dickens, James Cecil Dickens, was a country singer who joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1948 and was the first to wear rhinestone suits.
Little John
Little John is a legendary English outlaw, the tallest of Robin Hood's Merry Men and his loyal lieutenant, first appearing in the early Robin Hood ballads.
Little League Baseball
Little League Baseball, also called Little League International, is a nonprofit youth baseball and softball organization founded in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1939, with about 2 million players in more than 80 countries.
Little League World Series
Little League World Series: annual August baseball world championship for 10- to 12-year-olds in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania; 20 teams (10 US, 10 international) qualify through district-to-region play; Chinese Taipei leads with 17 titles.
Little Lies
Little Lies is a 1987 Fleetwood Mac song written by Christine McVie and Eddy Quintela for Tango in the Night; its third single, peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 5 in the UK, distinct from the film, brand, and novels of the same name.
Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve
Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve, Ramsar site 798 near Guyra, NSW, is a 257.6 ha reserve protecting Little Llangothlin Lagoon, a 105 ha permanent high-altitude lake, a drought refuge for waterbirds, and threatened species such as the austral toadflax and Australasian bittern.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy is Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 children's novel about Cedric Errol, an American boy who inherits the title Lord Fauntleroy from his grandfather the Earl of Dorincourt, and whose velvet suit and lace collar launched a boys' fashion craze.
Little Lorraine (film)
Little Lorraine is a 2025 Canadian crime drama, Andy Hines's feature debut, based on Adam Baldwin's song "Lighthouse in Little Lorraine," about a 60-person Cape Breton fishing town drawn into 1980s cocaine smuggling; premiered at TIFF, released April 17, 2026.
Little magazine
Little magazine: a noncommercial, small-circulation periodical for experimental poetry, fiction, and criticism. Also called small magazine; born 1895–1900, flourished 1912–1939 with Poetry, the Little Review, and the Dial, launching modernist writers.
Little magazine movement
The little magazine movement (লিটল ম্যাগাজিন আন্দোলন) is a century-old Bengali tradition of small, non-commercial literary periodicals serving as the chief platform for experimental writing and new authors.
Little Man (2006 film)
Little Man (2006) is a Wayans brothers comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, in which Marlon Wayans' jewel thief Calvin poses as a baby to recover a stolen diamond, digitally grafted onto child actor Linden Porco's body; it grossed $58.3 million in the US.
Little Man Tate
Little Man Tate (1991) is Jodie Foster's directorial debut, a drama from Scott Frank's screenplay about 7-year-old prodigy Fred Tate, his single mother Dede, and psychologist Jane Grierson, released by Orion Pictures.
Little Manila
Little Manila: historic Filipino American neighborhood in south Stockton, California, centered on El Dorado and Lafayette Streets; the largest Filipino community outside the Philippines from the 1920s to the 1960s, later demolished by the Crosstown Freeway; name also used in Toronto and Queens.
Little Mecatina
Little Mecatina River (Rivière du Petit Mécatina) is a 545-590 km transboundary river of Labrador and Quebec's Lower North Shore, draining about 19,625 km2 into the Gulf of St. Lawrence; name from Innu makatinau, "big mountain".
Little Men
Little Men (1871), full title Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is Louisa May Alcott's sequel to Little Women, set at Jo Bhaer's progressive Plumfield school, modeled on Bronson Alcott's Temple School, followed by Jo's Boys.