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Litton Industries
Litton Industries was an American defense and electronics conglomerate headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, that grew through 1960s acquisitions and was acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2001.
Littoral Banovina
The Littoral Banovina, also known as the Primorje Banovina, was a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia created in 1929, covering the Adriatic coast with its seat in Split.
Littoral cell
A littoral cell, also called a sediment cell or coastal compartment, is a length of coastline whose sediment movement is largely self-contained, a unit used for calculating sediment budgets.
Littoral cell hemangioma of the spleen
Littoral cell hemangioma of the spleen, also called littoral cell angioma (LCA), is a rare splenic vascular tumor of littoral cells, first described by Falk in 1991, usually benign, diagnosed by histology and immunohistochemistry.
Littoral combat ship
The littoral combat ship (LCS) is a fast United States Navy surface combatant class for shallow near-shore waters, built in two variants and configured through interchangeable mission packages.
Littoral Region
Littoral (Région du Littoral), one of Cameroon's ten regions on the Atlantic coast, capital Douala; four departments (Moungo, Nkam, Sanaga-Maritime, Wouri), about 20,239 km², over 3.3 million people, and the country's main port and industrial economy.
Littoral zone
Littoral zone, also called intertidal zone, is the shore band between land and sea, from the spray zone through the tide-covered intertidal to shallow subtidal water; subdivided by tide level and wave exposure, it also names lake and river shores.
Littoraria irrorata
Littoraria irrorata, the marsh periwinkle (Say, 1822), is a littorinid snail of U.S. Atlantic and Gulf salt marshes that farms fungi by wounding live Spartina alterniflora, its first marine fungal-farming case.
Littorina
Littorina (periwinkles) is a genus of temperate northern-hemisphere rocky-shore gastropods in Littorinidae, with 19 living species; monophyletic, radiating in the NW Pacific Middle Miocene and reaching the Atlantic via Pliocene trans-Arctic migration.
Littorina saxatilis
Littorina saxatilis, the rough periwinkle, is a small intertidal sea snail of North Atlantic rocky shores and salt marshes, a model system for studying ecological speciation.
Littorio-class battleship
The Littorio class, also known as the Vittorio Veneto class, was a group of four fast battleships built for the Italian Regia Marina in the late 1930s.
Litubium
Litubium, an ancient Ligurian town in northern Italy, known only from Livy Book 32; it surrendered with Clastidium to the consul Quintus Minucius in 198 BC, possibly near Retorbido.
Litunga
The Litunga is the title of the king of the Lozi people of Barotseland, in Zambia's Western Province, meaning "keeper" or "owner of the earth".
Liturgical calendar (Lutheran)
The Lutheran liturgical calendar is the annual cycle of Sundays, seasons, feasts, and commemorations by which Lutheran churches order worship, beginning with Advent and paired with one- or three-year lectionaries.
Liturgical colours
Liturgical colors are the colors of clergy vestments and altar hangings that Western churches assign to seasons and feasts, so each day's color signals its main liturgical celebration.
Liturgical drama
Liturgical drama is a modern, nineteenth-century term for the sung Latin religious plays and dialogues performed in medieval Western church services, most famously the Easter Quem quaeritis dialogue.
Liturgical year
The liturgical year, also called the church year, is the annual cycle of seasons and feasts through which Christian churches commemorate the life of Christ.
Liturgy
Liturgy is formal, communal worship organized as a repeatable sequence of rites, prayers, and texts; the word comes from the Greek leitourgia, meaning "action of the people."
Liturgy of Death
Liturgy of Death is the seventh studio album by Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, released February 6, 2026 on Century Media; 8 tracks, 48:54, produced by Tore Stjerna, themed on death, with Garm guesting.
Liturgy of the Hours
The Liturgy of the Hours (Latin Liturgia Horarum), also called the Divine Office, is the Catholic Church's public daily prayer, spread through the whole day in five offices.
Litus Saxonicum
Litus Saxonicum (Saxon Shore): late Roman coastal defensive system of forts in south-east Britain and northern Gaul, named from the Notitia Dignitatum's Count of the Saxon Shore, built from the AD 230s to about 290.
Lituya Bay
Lituya Bay, also known as Baie des Français, is a T-shaped fjord in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, known for its 1958 megatsunami with a 1,720-foot run-up.
Litvinov Protocol
Litvinov Protocol (Moscow Protocol), 9 February 1929 treaty signed by the USSR, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Romania to bring the Kellogg-Briand Pact into force immediately among themselves; distinct from the 1934 Laval-Litvinov protocol on the Eastern Pact.
Litz wire
Litz wire, from the German Litzendraht meaning woven wire, is a conductor of many thin insulated strands twisted together to reduce AC resistance from about 10 kHz to 1–2 MHz.
Liu Anshi
Liu Anshi (刘安世), courtesy name Qizhi, was a Northern Song censor famous as the "Tiger of the Hall" for confronting emperors, and a disciple of Sima Guang.
Liu Ba
Liu Ba (刘巴), courtesy name Zichu, was an official of late Han China and Shu Han, best known as head of Liu Bei's civil secretariat and drafter of his imperial accession documents.
Liu Baiyu
Liu Baiyu (刘白羽, born Liu Yuzan) was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and war correspondent who won the Stalin Prize in 1950 and the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1991.
Liu Ban
Liu Ban (刘攽) was a Northern Song scholar-official, historian, and poet who served as one of Sima Guang's principal assistants on the Zizhi Tongjian, covering the Han sections.
Liu Bang's deathbed succession remarks
Liu Bang's deathbed succession remarks (刘邦遗言) were the dying Emperor Gaozu of Han's instructions to Empress Lü, naming Cao Can, Wang Ling, and Zhou Bo as future leaders.
Liu Bang's Pei group
Liu Bang's Pei group (沛集团), also called the Feng-Pei group, was the band of followers who rose with Liu Bang at the end of the Qin dynasty.