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Liubar Raion

Liubar Raion (Любарський район) was a district in southwestern Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Liubar; created 1923, abolished 1962, restored 1965, 757 km², 31,046 people (2001), dissolved in the 2020 reform.

Liubech Congress

The Liubech Congress (Любечский съезд 1097 года) was a meeting of six Kievan Rus' princes at Liubech in October 1097, where they agreed each prince should keep his patrimony.

Liubo

Liubo (六博) is an ancient Chinese board game for two players, played from the 4th century BCE, especially popular during the Han dynasty; its exact rules are lost.

Liudger

Liudger, also Ludger or Ludgerius, was a Frisian-born missionary and the first bishop of Münster under Charlemagne; he founded Werden Abbey and died in 809, venerated as a saint.

LiuDui Hakka Cultural Park

Liudui Hakka Cultural Park (六堆客家文化园区) is a free, 30-hectare national Hakka culture park in Neipu, Pingtung County, Taiwan, opened October 22, 2011, with umbrella-shaped solar buildings, tobacco and rice exhibitions, and children's museums.

Liugongcheng Site

Liugongcheng Site is an ancient walled settlement in Gansu's Hexi Corridor, a Han military barrier that became Tang Changle County; its east wall bends inward four times.

Liuhe Tang

Liuhe Tang (六和汤), or Six-Harmony Decoction, is a classical Chinese medicine formula for summer disorders such as vomiting, diarrhea, chills and fever, and thirst, first traced to the Song dynasty formulary Taiping Huimin Hejiju Fang.

Liuhua 16-2 Oil Field

Liuhua 16-2 (流花16-2) is an offshore oil field in the South China Sea about 240 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong, part of China's first self-operated deepwater oilfield cluster.

Liuhua 20-2 Oil Field

Liuhua 20-2 (流花20-2) is an offshore oil field in the South China Sea, about 240 km south of Hong Kong, operated by CNOOC and producing since September 2020.

Liujianfang

Liujianfang (六间房), also known as 6.cn, is a Chinese online entertainment company founded in Beijing in 2006, which pivoted from video sharing to paid show livestreaming.

Liujiang

Liujiang (柳江人): Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens skeleton, nearly complete cranium plus 17 postcranial bones, found 1958 in Tongtianyan cave, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China; redated 2024 from ~67+ ka to ~33,000–23,000 years ago.

Liujiaxia hydroelectric plant

Liujiaxia hydroelectric plant (刘家峡水电站) is a 1,225 MW hydroelectric station on the Yellow River in Gansu, China, the first large Chinese-designed station above 1 million kW.

Liumin Suo

Liumin Suo (索鎏敏) is a Chinese battery and electrolyte scientist at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, known for the water-in-salt electrolyte.

Liupanshui

Liupanshui (六盘水), a prefecture-level city in western Guizhou, China, formed in 1964 from Liuzhi, Panxian, and Shuicheng counties as a Third-Front coal base; a karst, cool-summer "China Cool Capital" of about 3.03 million residents.

Liuqiao Group

Liuqiao Group is a privately held Chinese down and feather company in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, founded by the Fu family and supplying brands like Uniqlo and Canada Goose.

Liusuo Zhang

Liusuo Zhang is a Chinese physiologist at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao, known for cloning the C. elegans tmc-1 gene.

Liutyi (Лютий)

Liutyi (Лютий) is a Ukrainian long-range one-way attack drone developed by Antonov and adopted in 2024, known for strikes on Russian oil refineries at ranges up to 1,000 km.

Liuxiangcheng Site

柳巷城遗址 (Liuxiang city site), a Han–Wei fortified town site in Changxing town, Meixian County, Baoji, Shaanxi; excavated 2009–2011 as a rare late Eastern Han wubao, possibly Dong Zhuo's Meiwu; eighth-batch national key cultural relics protection unit (8-0146-1-146, 2019).

Liuzhi power station

Liuzhi power station (六枝电厂) is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Liuzhi Special District, Liupanshui, Guizhou, China, and China Resources Power's first thermal project in southwest China.

Liuzhong Ancient City Site

柳中古城遗址(Liuzhong Ancient City Site),又称鲁克沁古城,位于新疆吐鲁番鄯善县鲁克沁镇的唐至清时期城址,汉代柳中故地,班勇驻守之所,2013年列为第七批全国重点文物保护单位,编号7-0511-1-511。

Liuzhou

Liuzhou (柳州, Longcheng) is a prefecture-level industrial city in central Guangxi, China, on the Liu River; founded as Tanzhong County in 111 BC, named Liuzhou in 634, and one of Guangxi's two mature green-economy cores with Nanning.

Liuzhou Chengzhi

Liuzhou Chengzhi (柳州城址), also Tiandu Zhai or Dongmuhui, is a Song-to-Ming rammed-earth military city site in Haiyuan County, Zhongwei, Ningxia; a seventh-batch national key cultural relics protection unit (2013) and a preserved witness of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake. Distinct from the Gansu Pingchuan namesake.

Liuzhou Getou

Liuzhou Getou (六州歌头, Song of the Six States) is a Song dynasty cipai, a fixed tune pattern known for its many three-character lines and heroic, patriotic lyrics.

LIV (nightclub)

LIV is a megaclub opened in 2008 inside the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, run by David Grutman, named for the Roman numeral 54, with the Spider LED dome, roughly $45 million annual revenue, and a Las Vegas sibling venue.

Liv and Maddie

Liv and Maddie is a Disney Channel family sitcom (2013–2017) created by John D. Beck and Ron Hart, in which Dove Cameron plays identical twins Liv and Maddie Rooney; four seasons, retitled Cali Style in season 4.

Liv Boeree

Liv Boeree (born 1984) is a British former professional poker player, EPT San Remo 2010 champion and 2017 WSOP Tag Team bracelet winner, co-founder of Raising for Effective Giving, and host of the Win-Win podcast on game theory and AI risk.

LIV Golf

LIV Golf, also called the LIV Golf League, is a Saudi PIF-backed professional golf league launched in June 2022 with 54-hole shotgun-start events, permanent teams, and large guaranteed payouts; it moved to 72 holes in 2026 and entered chapter 11 restructuring that September.

Liv Lisa Fries

Liv Lisa Fries (born 1990, Berlin) is a German actress, Charlotte Ritter in Babylon Berlin (2017–2026), and award-winning lead of Sie hat es verdient, Und morgen Mittag bin ich tot, and In Liebe, Eure Hilde (Deutscher Filmpreis 2025).

Liv Morgan

Liv Morgan (Gionna Jene Daddio, b. 1994) is a WWE wrestler, three-time Women's World Champion, record four-time Women's Tag Team Champion, 2022 Money in the Bank winner, inaugural Crown Jewel Champion, and 2026 Royal Rumble winner.

Liv Tyler

Liv Tyler (Liv Rundgren Tyler, born 1977), American actress and former model, daughter of Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell; known as Grace Stamper in Armageddon and Arwen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.