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Liv Ullmann
Liv Ullmann (born 1938, Tokyo) is a Norwegian actress and director, Bergman's star in Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage and Saraband, twice Oscar-nominated, later a director (Faithless) and IRC vice president.
Liv Warfield
Liv Warfield (Olivia Warfield, born 1979, Peoria, Illinois) is an American soul/R&B singer and New Power Generation vocalist under Prince; solo albums include The Unexpected (2014) and The Edge (2023).
Livanjsko Polje
Livanjsko Polje (Livno karst field) is the largest karst polje of the Dinaric karst, about 405–410 km² in western Bosnia and Herzegovina near Livno, a Ramsar wetland since 2008, regularly flooded on 230 km² and home to the Balkans' largest peatland.
Live (band)
Live is an American alternative rock band formed in 1990 in York, Pennsylvania, whose album Throwing Copper reached No. 1 and featured the hit "Lightning Crashes".
Live & Learn (Crush 40 song)
Live & Learn is a hard rock song by Crush 40. Composed by Jun Senoue, it is the main theme of the 2001 game Sonic Adventure 2.
Live 8
Live 8: ten simultaneous concerts on 2 July 2005, organized by Bob Geldof to pressure G8 leaders at Gleneagles for debt relief, doubled aid, and fair trade for Africa, not fundraising like Live Aid.
Live A Live (ライブ・ア・ライブ)
Live A Live (ライブ・ア・ライブ) is Square's 1994 Super Famicom anthology JRPG directed by Takashi Tokita with music by Yoko Shimomura; its 2022 HD-2D remake gave it its first worldwide release.
Live action
Live action: filmmaking with real actors and animals photographed in real time, as opposed to cel, stop-motion, or computer animation; spans hybrid history from The Lost World and King Kong to CGI-era VFX, virtual production, and live-action adaptations of games and animation.
Live action role-playing game
Live action role-playing game (larp, LARP): participants physically portray characters in fictional settings with costumes, props, and rules. Emerged independently in the 1970s–80s in North America, Britain, and the Nordics; distinct from tabletop RPGs, cosplay, and theatre.
Live Aid
Live Aid, called the global jukebox, was a 1985 charity mega-concert organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure for Ethiopian famine relief, raising tens of millions of dollars.
Live AMP
Live AMP, also written Live Amp, was a South African live music show on SABC1, airing Friday nights from 2007 until its final episode in November 2021.
Live and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die (1973) is the eighth James Bond film and Roger Moore's 007 debut, directed by Guy Hamilton, with Paul McCartney's Oscar-nominated title song, a $7M budget, and $161.8M worldwide gross.
Live and Let Die (song)
"Live and Let Die" is the 1973 James Bond theme written by Paul and Linda McCartney, performed by Wings, produced by George Martin, a US No. 2 hit, first Oscar-nominated Bond song, later covered by Guns N' Roses.
Live and Remember
Live and Remember (Живи и помни) is a 1974 novella by Valentin Rasputin about a Soviet soldier who deserts and the wife hiding his secret.
Live at Leeds
Live at Leeds is the Who's 1970 live album, recorded 14 February 1970 at the University of Leeds Refectory, released May 1970 with six tracks, expanded in 1995, 2001, and 2010 reissues; distinct from John Martyn's 1975 album of the same name.
Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
Live at Montreux Jazz Festival albums: live recordings from the Swiss festival founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, from Bill Evans 1968 and Swiss Movement 1969 to the Mercury Studios DVD series, The Montreux Years, and RAYE 2024.
Live at the Apollo (TV series)
Live at the Apollo, also titled Jack Dee Live At The Apollo, is a BBC stand-up comedy series recorded at London's Hammersmith Apollo before 3,000-plus audiences, running 20 series from 2004 until the BBC axed it in 2026.
Live at the Wiltern (Rolling Stones album)
Live at the Wiltern is a 2024 Rolling Stones live album and video (Mercury Studios) documenting their November 4, 2002 Licks Tour theater show in Los Angeles, with Solomon Burke and Jim Keltner guests and a rarity-heavy 21-song set list.
Live at WOMAD 1982
Live at WOMAD 1982 names two albums from the first WOMAD festival, Shepton Mallet, July 1982: a 2022 Various Artists Real World compilation and Peter Gabriel's solo Friday-night set, released digitally 2025 and physically 8 May 2026.
Live attenuated hepatitis A vaccine (H2 strain)
Chinese single-dose live attenuated hepatitis A vaccine from the H2 strain, developed by Mao Jiangsen's team, licensed 1992, used in China's EPI and India; efficacy 94-100%.
Live axle
A live axle is a driven axle that supports part of a vehicle's weight and drives its wheels, covering the whole assembly of housing, differential, and axle shafts.
Live Below the Line
Live Below the Line is an annual fundraising campaign in which participants feed themselves for five days on the World Bank's extreme poverty line, begun in Melbourne in 2010.
Live Birth
A live birth is the delivery of an infant who breathes or shows any sign of life, such as a heartbeat, regardless of pregnancy length, per the WHO definition.
Live births following abortion attempts
Live births following abortion attempts occur when an attempted induced termination ends in a live-born infant, mainly in second-trimester procedures; about 11.2% of 15–29 week hospital abortions in a Quebec cohort, reduced by feticidal injection.
Live by Night (film)
Live by Night (2016) is Ben Affleck's Prohibition-era crime drama, adapted from Dennis Lehane's 2012 novel, starring Affleck as gangster Joe Coughlin; it grossed $22.7M against a $90M budget and scored 34% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Live by the sword, die by the sword
English proverb adapted from Matthew 26:52, not a Bible quotation; warns that violence returns to its user and, figuratively, that one's means of success can cause one's downfall; equivalents exist in Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
Live cell imaging
Live cell imaging is a microscopy method that records time-lapse images of living cells over minutes to days, following individual cells through division, migration, signaling, and drug response.
Live coding
Live coding, or on-the-fly programming, is a performance practice in which performers write and modify code in front of an audience, best known from electronic music.
Live E.P. (Led Zeppelin EP)
Live E.P. is a 2025 four-track live EP by Led Zeppelin, released September 12 on vinyl, CD and digital for the 50th anniversary of Physical Graffiti, pairing 1975 Earl's Court and 1979 Knebworth recordings first issued on the 2003 DVD.
Live Evil (Black Sabbath album)
Live Evil is Black Sabbath's 1982 double live album, its first official live release, recorded on the Mob Rules tour with Dio, Iommi, Butler, and Appice; mixing disputes ended the first Dio era.