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Little Red Corvette
Little Red Corvette is a 1982 Prince song from the album 1999, released as a single in February 1983; it reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, his first Top 10 hit, inspired by Lisa Coleman's pink 1964 Mercury Montclair.
Little Red Dots
Little red dots are compact red sources at high redshift, discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022 and thought to involve growing supermassive black holes.
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, Rotkäppchen), ATU 333 fairy tale of a girl and a wolf; first printed by Perrault in 1697, rewritten with a rescue by the Grimms in 1812.
Little Red-Haired Girl
Little Red-Haired Girl: unseen Peanuts character, Charlie Brown's unrequited love, first mentioned November 19, 1961, never named in the strip; inspired by Donna Mae Wold; named Heather in 1977 TV specials.
Little Reunions
Little Reunions (小團圓, Xiao tuanyuan) is the final, most autobiographical novel of the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, completed in 1976 and published posthumously in 2009.
Little Richard
Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman, 1932-2020), Macon, Georgia-born singer, pianist, and songwriter; architect of rock and roll via 1955's "Tutti Frutti" and Specialty Records hits; 1986 Rock Hall inaugural inductee; queer Black pioneer of 1950s pop.
Little River Band
Little River Band is an Australian soft rock band formed in Melbourne in 1975, the first Australian group with sustained commercial success in the United States.
Little Rock Central High School
Little Rock Central High School, opened 1927 in Little Rock, Arkansas, is the only operating high school that is a National Historic Site, known for the 1957 desegregation crisis in which the Little Rock Nine enrolled under federal troop escort.
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were nine Black students, including Ernest Green and Elizabeth Eckford, who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 under 101st Airborne protection after Governor Faubus blocked them with the National Guard.
Little Rock School District
Little Rock School District (LRSD) is the public school district of Little Rock, Arkansas: 48 schools, about 21,200 students, the 1957 Little Rock Nine crisis, decades of desegregation litigation, and a 2015 state takeover.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas: capital and largest city of Arkansas on the Arkansas River, named for the 1722 'la petite roche' outcropping; site of the 1957 Little Rock Nine Central High desegregation crisis; 2020 population 202,591.
Little Round Top
Little Round Top is a rocky hill in Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania, site of fierce Union defense on July 2, 1863, notably the 20th Maine's bayonet charge under Joshua Chamberlain, recently rehabilitated in 2022-2024.
Little Russia Governorate
The Little Russia Governorate, also known as Malorossiya, was a governorate of the Russian Empire in Left-Bank Ukraine, created in 1764 after Catherine II abolished the hetman's office.
Little Russian Collegium
The Little Russian Collegium was the imperial Russian administrative body governing Left-Bank Ukraine, created by Peter I in 1722 and re-established by Catherine II in 1764, which ended Cossack autonomy.
Little Saigon, Orange County
Little Saigon, Orange County: the largest overseas Vietnamese enclave, centered on Bolsa Avenue in Westminster and Garden Grove, California. A refugee-built district of nearly 200,000 Vietnamese Americans, home to Asian Garden Mall and a major voting bloc.
Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands
Little Saint James is a roughly 70-acre private island off St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, owned by Jeffrey Epstein from 1998, alleged site of trafficking, sold in 2023 to Stephen Deckoff.
Little Ships of Dunkirk
The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 700 privately owned small craft requisitioned for Operation Dynamo (26 May-4 June 1940), the 338,226-troop evacuation; they ferried troops off shallow beaches but carried a minority, and most were crewed by the Royal Navy, not their owners.
Little Shop
Little Shop: 1991 Fox Kids American/French animated series adapting The Little Shop of Horrors, 13 episodes, Marvel Productions/Saban, man-eating plant reworked as friendly Junior.
Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Frank Oz's film of the Ashman-Menken Off-Broadway musical, also called the Audrey II movie musical, starring Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene, famous for its discarded $5 million original ending restored in the 2012 director's cut.
Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
Little Shop of Horrors is a 1982 horror comedy rock musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, based on Roger Corman's 1960 film, about Seymour Krelborn and his man-eating plant Audrey II; it ran 2,209 off-Broadway performances and spawned the 1986 Frank Oz film.
Little Simz
Little Simz, born Simbiatu Abisola Abiola Ajikawo in 1994, is a British rapper and actress from north London. Known for Grey Area and the Mercury Prize-winning Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, she records on her own AGE 101 label.
Little Singles
Little Singles is a TLC American reality dating series (2026) following five little people friends, including John, Sammy, Krista, Stephanie, and JJ, on a Palm Springs vacation; 10 episodes, TV-14, IMDb 6.7.
Little Stranger (band)
Little Stranger: American alternative hip-hop duo of John and Kevin Shields (unrelated), formed 2015, Philadelphia roots, based in Charleston, South Carolina; albums Buddha the Beast, Trip Around Saturn, Sat Around Trippin, Broken Hearted Boys Club.
Little string theory
Little string theory is a six-dimensional, non-gravitational quantum theory arising from NS5-branes, behaving like a field theory at low energies but stringlike at high energies.
Little Swan
Little Swan (小天鹅) is a Wuxi-based Chinese washing machine brand established in 1958 that made China's first fully automatic washing machine in 1978 and is now owned by Midea.
Little Things (TV series)
Little Things is an Indian romantic comedy web series created by and starring Dhruv Sehgal with Mithila Palkar, following Mumbai live-in couple Dhruv Vats and Kavya Kulkarni; it began on Dice Media's YouTube in 2016 and ran four seasons, the last three on Netflix.
Little Trouble Girls
Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica) is Urška Djukić's 2025 Slovenian debut drama about 16-year-old Lucija's sexual awakening at a Catholic choir convent retreat; Berlin FIPRESCI winner and Slovenia's 98th Oscar submission.
Little Turtle
Little Turtle (Mihšihkinaahkwa) was a Miami war leader and chief who led victories over the United States Army in the Northwest Indian War before negotiating the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
Little Vera (Маленькая Вера)
Little Vera (Маленькая Вера, Malenkaya Vera) is a 1988 Gorky Studio drama by Vasily Pichul and Maria Khmelik, the first Soviet film with erotic scenes, seen by about 56 million viewers and a defining perestroika film.
Little Voice
Little Voice is a 1998 British comedy-drama written and directed by Mark Herman, adapted from Jim Cartwright's play and starring Jane Horrocks, Brenda Blethyn, Michael Caine, and Ewan McGregor.