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Little Metropolis church (Athens)

The Little Metropolis (Panagia Gorgoepikoos, Agios Eleutherios) is a small Byzantine church beside Athens Cathedral, built almost entirely of reused ancient marble with 90 sculpted spolia and a famous calendar frieze.

Little Milton, Ditchend Villa

Little Milton, Ditchend Villa: a small Romano-British corridor villa near Ditchend Farm, Little Milton, Oxfordshire, 8 miles southeast of Oxford, known from cropmarks, with a ditched enclosure and a stone house possibly over a timber predecessor.

Little Miss Drama Tour

The Little Miss Drama Tour was a 2026 North American arena tour by American rapper Cardi B, her first headline arena run, supporting Am I the Drama?.

Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet is a traditional English nursery rhyme, first printed in 1805 in Songs for the Nursery (Roud 12902), about a girl frightened from her curds and whey by a spider; the Thomas Muffet origin story is unproven.

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) is an American indie comedy-drama road film by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, written by Michael Arndt, about the Hoover family driving a VW bus from Albuquerque to a California beauty pageant; it won two Oscars and grossed about $100 million worldwide.

Little Miss Twain

Little Miss Twain is Shania Twain's seventh studio album, released July 24, 2026 on Republic Records, produced by Zach Dawes. A rootsy, autobiographical return to country after Queen of Me, featuring Tanya Tucker, Josh Homme, and The War and Treaty.

Little Missouri

Little Missouri River: name of two U.S. rivers. The northern one drains 21,500 km² of Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas, flows through Theodore Roosevelt National Park to Lake Sakakawea; the Arkansas one joins the Ouachita River.

Little Mix

Little Mix are a British girl group formed on The X Factor in 2011 (originally Rhythmix), the first girl band to win the show; members Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Jesy Nelson sold 45 million records with five UK No. 1 singles before a 2022 hiatus.

Little Mix discography

Little Mix discography: six studio albums (DNA 2012 to Confetti 2020), compilation Between Us (2021), and five UK Number 1 singles including Black Magic and Sweet Melody.

Little Monsters (2019 film)

Little Monsters (2019) is a zombie comedy film written and directed by Abe Forsythe, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Josh Gad, and Alexander England. It premiered at Sundance on January 27, 2019, streamed on Hulu from October 11, 2019, and holds 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Little Moth (血蝉)

Little Moth (血蝉, Xue chan) is Peng Tao's 2007 Chinese independent drama, adapted from Bai Tianguang's novel, about a disabled girl sold into begging; it premiered at Locarno 2007 and won Cairo's Golden Pyramid.

Little Mountain

Little Mountain (Al-Jabal al-Saghir, الجبل الصغير) is a 1977 novel by Elias Khoury that depicts the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in Beirut through three contradictory narrators.

Little My (ちびのミイ)

Little My (ちびのミイ, Lilla My, Pikku Myy) is Tove Jansson's tiny, fearless Mymble girl from the Moomin books: first in Moominpappa's Memoirs (1950), Snufkin's half-sister, adopted by the Moomins, never sad, only glad or angry.

Little Nellie (autogyro)

Little Nellie is the heavily armed single-seat Wallis WA-116 autogyro that starred in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, flown by its designer Ken Wallis.

Little Nemo

Little Nemo in Slumberland is Winsor McCay's full-page Sunday comic strip, debuting in the New York Herald on October 15, 1905, renamed In the Land of Wonderful Dreams in Hearst's New York American (1911-1914), famed for experimental layouts, dream narratives, and influence on later comics and animation.

Little Nemo (1911 film)

Little Nemo (1911), full title Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics, is McCay's first animated short, a Vitagraph one-reeler of 4,000 hand-colored drawings, released April 8, 1911, and added to the National Film Registry in 2009.

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Nemo, ニモ) is a 1989 Japanese-American animated musical fantasy film directed by Masami Hata and William Hurtz, adapted from Winsor McCay's comic strip, released in Japan in 1989 and the US in 1992 by Hemdale.

Little Nicky

Little Nicky is a 2000 American fantasy comedy film directed by Steven Brill, in which Adam Sandler plays Satan's youngest son, sent to New York City to recapture his escaped brothers.

Little Nightmares (series)

Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platformer horror video game series from Tarsier Studios, first released in 2017, with three main games and 20 million units sold.

Little Nightmares II

Little Nightmares II is a 2021 suspense-adventure game by Tarsier Studios, published by Bandai Namco, starring Mono and Six on a journey to the Signal Tower; Metacritic 82, with an Enhanced Edition on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Switch 2.

Little Oakley Roman villa

Little Oakley Roman villa, Tendring, Essex: partially excavated Roman villa found in 1939, with Flavian timber building, 2nd-century corridor villa, mid-3rd-century bath block, and 5th-century Saxon occupation; published as EAA 98 (2002).

Little Odessa (film)

Little Odessa (1994) is James Gray's debut crime drama, starring Tim Roth as a hit man returning to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn; it won the Venice Silver Lion and earned $1,095,885 domestically.

Little Orphan Annie

Little Orphan Annie, Harold Gray's American comic strip debuting August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News, ran 86 years to 2010; also known simply as Annie, it spawned a radio serial, the 1977 Broadway musical, and films.

Little owl

Little owl (Athene noctua, Steinkauz, Civetta): small sedentary Palearctic owl of open farmland, IUCN Least Concern with 5–10 million mature individuals; introduced to Britain in the 1870s, where its population has fallen 88% since 1967.

Little Palace at Knossos

The Little Palace at Knossos is a Minoan elite building about 230 m NW of the Palace of Knossos, roughly 1,500 sq m, built MM IIIB-LM IA, destroyed by fire in LM II, excavated by Evans from 1905.

Little penguin

Little penguin (Eudyptula minor; fairy penguin, kororā), the world's smallest penguin at about 30 cm and 1.1–1.2 kg, breeding on southern Australian and New Zealand coasts; IUCN Least Concern.

Little People, Big World

Little People, Big World (LPBW), TLC reality series following the Roloffs of Oregon, parents Matt and Amy with dwarfism and son Zach; premiered 2006, ran 25 seasons through 2024, centered on Roloff Farms.

Little Petra

Little Petra, known in Arabic as Siq al-Barid, is a Nabataean rock-cut site in a narrow canyon about 4.5 km north of Petra in southern Jordan, used as a caravan resting place.

Little Popo

Little Popo, or Petit Popo, was the European name for Aného in modern Togo, a slave-trading port and the first capital of German Togo from 1886 to 1897.

Little Queen

Little Queen is Heart's second studio album, released May 14, 1977 on Portrait Records. Produced by Mike Flicker in Seattle, it contains Barracuda (US #11) and earned Canadian double platinum certification.