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Little Voice (2020 TV series)

Little Voice is a 2020 Apple TV+ musical drama created by Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson, starring Brittany O'Grady as aspiring New York singer-songwriter Bess King; nine episodes, one season, canceled in 2021.

Little Walter

Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs, 1930–1968), American Chicago blues harmonica virtuoso with Muddy Waters and solo on Chess/Checker; pioneered amplified, distorted harp; hits "Juke" and "My Babe"; Rock and Blues Hall of Fame inductee.

Little War (Cuba)

The Little War (Guerra Chiquita) was a failed Cuban uprising against Spanish rule from 1879 to 1880, organized by Calixto García after the Pact of Zanjón.

Little Waterhouse Lake

Little Waterhouse Lake is a 56-hectare Ramsar wetland site (Site No. 260, listed 16 November 1982) in northeast Tasmania: a brackish coastal freshwater lagoon between dunes, home to dwarf galaxias, green and gold frog, and rare clubsedges.

Little White House

The Little White House is Franklin D. Roosevelt's six-room 1932 cottage at Warm Springs, Georgia, built near the 88-degree springs he visited for polio therapy from 1924; he died there April 12, 1945, and it is now a Georgia state historic site.

Little White Lies

Little White Lies (French: Les Petits Mouchoirs) is a 2010 French comedy-drama written and directed by Guillaume Canet, starring Marion Cotillard, François Cluzet, and Jean Dujardin.

Little Wide Open

Little Wide Open is Kevin Morby's eighth studio album, released May 15, 2026 on Dead Oceans, produced by Aaron Dessner at Long Pond Studio; a 13-track, 59-minute Midwest-rooted Americana record closing his trilogy with Sundowner and This Is a Photograph, scoring 85 on Metacritic.

Little Wing

"Little Wing" is a 1967 Jimi Hendrix song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, recorded October 25–28, 1967 for Axis: Bold as Love; a 2:26 ballad built on an Em-to-D progression, widely covered by Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sting, and others.

Little Wing (2024 film)

Little Wing (2024) is a Paramount+ coming-of-age drama directed by Dean Israelite, written by John Gatins, based on Susan Orlean's 2006 New Yorker article; Brooklynn Prince and Brian Cox star in a Portland pigeon-racing story released March 13, 2024.

Little Witch Academia (リトルウィッチアカデミア)

Little Witch Academia (リトルウィッチアカデミア) is a Studio Trigger anime franchise about Akko Kagari at Luna Nova witch academy; it began as a 2013 Anime Mirai short, continued via Kickstarter with The Enchanted Parade (2015), and became a 2017 TV series directed by Yoh Yoshinari, streamed on Netflix.

Little Women

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's 1868–1869 two-part novel, follows the March sisters in Civil War-era Massachusetts; an instant bestseller, never out of print, endlessly adapted and critically reevaluated.

Little Women (1949 film)

Little Women (1949) is MGM's Technicolor remake of Alcott's novel, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Peter Lawford; it won the Oscar for Best Art Direction and was the first color screen version.

Little Women (1994 film)

Little Women (1994) is Gillian Armstrong's Columbia Pictures adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel, starring Winona Ryder as Jo March, Susan Sarandon, Christian Bale, and Claire Danes; released December 1994, grossing $48.8M with three Oscar nominations.

Little Women (2017 TV series)

Little Women (2017 TV series): three-part BBC One and Masterpiece PBS adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel, written by Heidi Thomas, directed by Vanessa Caswill, starring Maya Hawke as Jo March.

Little Women (2019 film)

Little Women, sometimes called Greta Gerwig's Little Women, is a 2019 American coming-of-age period drama written and directed by Gerwig, adapted from Louisa May Alcott's 1868–1869 novel.

Little Women (musical)

Little Women is a 2005 Broadway musical, book by Allan Knee, music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, based on Alcott's novel. Ran 137 performances at the Virginia Theatre, starring Sutton Foster, later licensed by MTI; distinct from the Kim Oler version and Jo – The Little Women Musical.

Little Women (작은 아씨들) (2022 TV series)

Little Women (작은 아씨들, Jageun Assideul) is a 2022 tvN-Netflix Korean mystery thriller loosely adapting Alcott's novel; three poor Oh sisters battle the Jeongran Society, peaking at 10.2% ratings.

Little Women: Atlanta

Little Women: Atlanta is a Lifetime reality series (2016-2021, six seasons), a Little Women: LA spin-off following little women in Atlanta; premiere drew 1.3 million viewers.

Little Yachty (album)

Little Yachty is the sixth album by the American rock band Sugar Ray, released July 26, 2019, and named for yacht rock and the rapper Lil Yachty.

Little Zoo

Little Zoo names several unrelated animal attractions: a California animal-therapy nonprofit, a Wiltshire exotic animal rescue centre, a zoo near Marhamat, Uzbekistan, and a Bangkok exotic pet cafe.

Little's law

Little's law, or Little's theorem, is a theorem of queueing theory stating that L = λW: average number in a system equals arrival rate times average time.

LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet (LBP): Sony PlayStation puzzle-platformer franchise by Media Molecule and Sumo Digital, starring Sackboy, built on 'Play, Create, Share' level creation; 10+ million user levels, servers shut down 2021/2024, delisted 2024.

LittleBigPlanet 3

LittleBigPlanet 3 is a 2014 puzzle-platformer by Sumo Digital for PS3 and PS4, the first main entry not made by Media Molecule, adding OddSock, Swoop, and Toggle, 16-layer create mode, and later losing its online servers.

Littlecote

Littlecote: Wiltshire estate near Hungerford with Littlecote House and a Roman courtyard villa whose Orpheus mosaic, lost after 1727 and rediscovered in 1976, was excavated 1978-1991.

Littlehampton libels

The Littlehampton libels (1920–1923) were anonymous obscene letters sent to residents of Littlehampton, Sussex, involving neighbours Edith Swan and Rose Gooding, four trials, a miscarriage of justice against Gooding overturned on appeal, and Swan's eventual 12-month prison sentence.

Littlest Pet Shop

Littlest Pet Shop is a Hasbro toy franchise of collectible miniature animal figures launched in 1992, with over 1 billion pets sold worldwide and a Generation 7 relaunch in 2024.

Littleton, Colorado

Littleton, Colorado: home-rule city and Arapahoe County seat about 11 miles south of Denver, founded by engineer Richard Sullivan Little, platted 1872, incorporated 1890, population 45,652 (2020).

Littlewood conjecture

The Littlewood conjecture is an open problem in Diophantine approximation, stating that every pair of real numbers can be simultaneously approximated by rationals with the same denominator.

Littlewood–Offord problem

The Littlewood–Offord problem asks for the largest probability that a random signed sum of fixed coefficients lands on one value or in a small interval; Paul Erdős proved the sharp bound in 1945.

Littlewood–Richardson rule

The Littlewood–Richardson rule is a combinatorial rule for computing the Littlewood–Richardson coefficients that expand products of Schur functions, stated by Littlewood and Richardson in 1934.