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Liverpool poets
The Liverpool poets, also called the Mersey poets, are Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten, whose 1967 anthology The Mersey Sound brought poetry to a mass audience.
Liverpool Street station
Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway terminus in the City of London serving East Anglia, opened in 1875 and now Britain's busiest station.
Liverworts of Ireland
The liverworts of Ireland comprise 236 taxa recorded by the 2025 national Red List, including rare hyperoceanic Atlantic species of wet heath and Atlantic woodland.
Liverwurst
Liverwurst (Leberwurst) is a spreadable German cooked sausage of precooked meat, fat, spices, and 10–35% liver; US law requires at least 30% liver, and Braunschweiger is its smoked American variant.
Livery
Livery, from Latin liberata via French livrée, is distinctive clothing or badges supplied by a household, company, or state to mark affiliation; it covers servants' dress, City of London livery companies, and vehicle paint schemes.
Livery company
Livery companies are the guilds and trade associations of the City of London, descended from medieval craft guilds; the Weavers' charter of 1155 is the earliest, and 113 companies now combine charity, trade support and City governance.
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a ten-book Greek work by Diogenes Laertius, written in the 3rd century CE, covering ancient Greek philosophy.
Lives of Girls and Women
Lives of Girls and Women is a 1971 book by Alice Munro, her only novel, following the coming of age of Del Jordan in small-town Ontario.
Lives of the Kings and Archbishops of Serbia
Lives of the Kings and Archbishops of Serbia, also called Danilo's collection, is a corpus of biographies of medieval Serbian rulers and archbishops written chiefly by Archbishop Danilo II.
Lives of the Mayfair Witches
Lives of the Mayfair Witches: Anne Rice's trilogy of The Witching Hour (1990), Lasher (1993), and Taltos (1994), about the New Orleans Mayfair witch dynasty bound to the spirit Lasher; adapted by AMC from 2023.
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, familiarly known as Lives of the Poets, is Samuel Johnson's 1779–1781 work of biographies and criticism of English poets.
Lives Outgrown
Lives Outgrown, Beth Gibbons' debut solo album released May 17, 2024 on Domino, is a 10-track, 45-minute folk-leaning record co-produced with James Ford and Lee Harris, noted for its improvised drum kit and mortality themes.
Livesense
Livesense Inc. (株式会社リブセンス) is a Tokyo-based internet media company founded by Taichi Murakami in 2006, operating job and lifestyle websites including マッハバイト and 転職会議, and trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under code 6054.
Livestock
Livestock: domesticated terrestrial animals such as cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats and horses raised for meat, milk, eggs, fibre, hides, and traction; kept by over half of rural households, supplying one-third of world protein and 12% of anthropogenic GHG emissions.
Livestock biosecurity
Livestock biosecurity comprises the management and physical measures that keep disease pathogens out of farms, stop them spreading within herds, and prevent movement between farms.
Livestock branding
Livestock branding, also called hot-iron or freeze branding, permanently marks cattle and horses for ownership and theft deterrence. Ancient Egyptian origin, Spanish introduction to the Americas, welfare research, and state brand registration laws distinguish it.
Livestock carrier
Livestock carrier: specialized multi-deck ship (also called live export vessel) carrying cattle, sheep and goats by sea, mostly converted cargo ships, regulated under Australia's Marine Order 43 and EU Regulation 2023/372.
Livestock Conservancy
The Livestock Conservancy, formerly the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, is a US nonprofit founded in 1977 that conserves endangered livestock and poultry breeds through its Conservation Priority List.
Livestock farming
Livestock farming, also called animal husbandry, is the raising of domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry for meat, milk, eggs, fibre and traction. It supplies about a third of global food protein, spans grassland, mixed and landless production systems, and generates roughly 6.2 GtCO2eq of greenhouse gas emissions yearly.
Livestock guardian dog
Livestock guardian dog (LGD): a large dog bred to live with and protect sheep, goats, and cattle from predators by bonding with the stock. Used for millennia; North American use began in the 1970s; effectiveness varies 11–100%.
Livestock in Sri Lanka
Livestock in Sri Lanka: cattle, buffalo, goat, swine, and poultry farming, also called the dairy and poultry sector. About 1.5 million cattle and 35.5 million poultry; dairy self-sufficiency near 40 percent; over 80 percent of 600,000 farms are small scale.
Livestock insurance
Livestock insurance compensates producers for animal deaths, lost value, or price and margin losses, spanning private mortality policies, US programs like LRP and LIP, and index-based schemes.
Livestock keepers' rights
Livestock keepers' rights (LKR), also framed via the Declaration on Livestock Keepers' Rights, is a civil-society concept from the Interlaken process granting small-scale livestock keepers rights over breeding, policy participation, and traditional knowledge to conserve animal genetic resources.
Livestock methane mitigation
Livestock methane mitigation is the set of feeding, breeding, and management practices used to cut enteric methane, a greenhouse gas produced by archaea in the rumen of cattle, sheep, and goats.
Livestock transportation
Livestock transportation moves live farm animals by road, rail, sea and air between farms, markets and slaughterhouses. Regulated by EU Regulation 1/2005, the US 28-hour law, and WOAH standards; welfare risks include heat stress, overcrowding and disease spread.
Livestock truck
A livestock truck is a road vehicle, rigid or towing trailers, built with pens, decks, ramps, and ventilation to carry cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry between farms, markets, and slaughterhouses.
Livestreamed suicide
Livestreamed suicide is the real-time internet broadcast of a suicide or attempt, documented in cases like South Korea's BJ Imvely; studied for suicide contagion, and addressed through platform takedowns and live-streaming safety guidance.
Livestreaming
Livestreaming is real-time broadcasting of video and audio over the internet, also called live streaming. Pioneered by Severe Tire Damage's 1993 concert and Justin.tv, it now spans Twitch, YouTube Live, and e-commerce, with latency tiers from ultra-low to normal.
Livestrong Foundation
Livestrong Foundation, formerly the Lance Armstrong Foundation, is an Austin, Texas cancer-survivorship nonprofit founded in 1997, known for the 2004 $1 yellow Nike wristband, renamed in 2012 after Armstrong's doping ban.
Livesuit
Livesuit is a 2024 science fiction novella by James S.A. Corey, pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, set in their Captive's War series.