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Livingston Taylor
Livingston Taylor, born 1951 in Boston, is an American folk-pop singer-songwriter, younger brother of James Taylor, known for Top 40 hits like "Carolina Day" and "I Will Be in Love with You," Berklee teaching since 1989, and the 2025 album Symphonic Steps.
Livingston, Montana
Livingston, Montana, is a city of about 8,040 people in Park County on the Yellowstone River, founded as a Northern Pacific Railroad town in 1882.
Livingston, New Jersey
Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, incorporated in 1813 and named for Governor William Livingston. A suburb 21.9 miles from New York City with 31,330 residents (2020), nine public schools, and Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center.
Livingstone
Livingstone (Maramba), Zambia's tourist capital in Southern Province near Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya); founded 1905, Northern Rhodesia's capital 1911–1935, city status 1997; 177,393 residents (2022 census); economy dominated by adventure tourism.
Livingstone Falls
Livingstone Falls (Chutes de Livingstone) is a roughly 350-km chain of rapids and cataracts on the lower Congo River below Malebo Pool, DRC, named by Henry Morton Stanley for David Livingstone after his 1877 descent; the Inga rapids within it anchor a hydropower potential above 40 GW.
Livingstone's last expedition
Livingstone's last journey was David Livingstone's third and final African expedition (1865–1873) to find the source of the Nile, ending with his death in Zambia in 1873.
Livio Berruti
Livio Berruti (1939-2026), Italian sprinter, won the 1960 Rome Olympic 200 m gold in 20.5 (20.62 electric), equaling the world record twice in one day; first non-North American and first European Olympic 200 m champion.
Liviu Guță
Liviu Guță, born Liviu Cătălin Mititelu, is a Romanian manele singer born in Brașov in 1979, best known for the nationwide hit "De ce mă minți" in 2003–2004.
Liviu Librescu
Liviu Librescu, born in Romania in 1930, was an Israeli aeronautical engineer and Virginia Tech professor who died in 2007 shielding his students during the campus shooting.
Liviu M. Mirica
Liviu M. Mirica is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist who has been the Lycan Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2019, known for nickel and palladium catalysis.
Liviu Stan
Liviu Stan, Romanian sport shooter; with Sorin Babii and Petru Ilie holds the 50m Pistol Men team world record, 1719 points, set 7 September 1985 at the European Championships in Osijek; also 1985 individual European champion.
Livonia
Livonia (Livland, Liflandia): historic Baltic region now split between southern Estonia and Latvia's Vidzeme; Terra Mariana from 1207, Livonian Confederation to 1561, then Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian, and Russian rule.
Livonian Brothers of the Sword
Livonian Brothers of the Sword (Fratres militiæ Christi de Livonia, Schwertbrüderorden): Catholic military order founded 1202 by Bishop Albert of Riga in Livonia, modeled on the Templars; defeated at Saule 1236 and merged into the Teutonic Order as the Livonian Order in 1237.
Livonian Confederation
The Livonian Confederation was a loose association of the Livonian Order and church states in the eastern Baltic, covering roughly present-day Estonia and Latvia, until the 1560s.
Livonian Crusade
The Livonian Crusade was a papally sanctioned series of military campaigns, traditionally dated 1198 to 1290, that conquered and Christianized present-day Latvia and Estonia, ending with the Semgallians' defeat.
Livonian language
Livonian, or Līvõ kēļ, is a critically endangered Finnic language closely related to Estonian, historically spoken on Latvia's Courland coast and now spoken by roughly twenty revitalized speakers.
Livonian Order
Livonian Order: Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order (also Sword Brethren, Fratres militiae Christi Livoniae), a military order ruling much of Latvia and Estonia 1237-1562, dissolved after the Livonian War.
Livonian War
The Livonian War (1558–1583), also called the War of Livonia, was a war begun by Ivan IV of Russia for control of Livonia, ending with Russia losing all its Baltic conquests.
Livonians
Livonians (līvlizt, Latvian lībieši) are a Finnic people indigenous to Latvia, once inhabiting a third of the country, now about 200 people with roughly 40-50 critically endangered speakers of the Livonian language.
Livor mortis
Livor mortis, also called postmortem hypostasis or lividity, is the gravity-dependent reddish-purple skin discoloration after death; onset within 20 minutes to 2 hours, fixed after 8 to 12 hours, useful for timing death and detecting body movement.
Livorno
Livorno (Leghorn), Tuscan port city on the Tyrrhenian coast, founded as a Medici free port (city status 1606, Free Port 1676); known for its canals, Fortezza Vecchia, Terrazza Mascagni, cacciucco, and the Italian Naval Academy.
Livox
Livox is a LiDAR sensor manufacturer whose sensors use a non-repetitive scanning pattern, serving autonomous driving, robotics, drones, surveying, and security surveillance with products like the Mid-360 and Tele-15.
LIVRE
LIVRE (Livre – Liberdade, Esquerda, Europa e Ecologia) is a Portuguese ecosocialist, pro-European, left-libertarian party founded in 2014 by Rui Tavares; it entered parliament in 2019 and held six seats after the 2025 election.
Livvy Dunne
Livvy Dunne, also known as Olivia Dunne, is an American former gymnast who competed for LSU and became the highest-earning female college athlete of the NIL era.
Livy
Livy (Titus Livius, 59 BC–AD 17), Paduan author of Ab urbe condita, a 142-book history of Rome from its foundation to 9 BC; 35 books survive, the rest via Periochae and fragments.
Livyatan
Livyatan melvillei, originally named Leviathan melvillei, is an extinct macroraptorial sperm whale from the middle Miocene (about 12–13 Ma) Pisco Formation, Peru, known from one 75% complete skull, with 13.5–17.5 m length estimates and teeth over 36 cm in both jaws, coexisting with megalodon.
Livzon Mabpharm
Livzon Mabpharm, also known as 丽珠单抗, is a Chinese biotech company founded in 2010 by Livzon Group and Joincare. It is the main operating entity of 丽珠生物.
Livzon Mabpharm (丽珠单抗生物)
Livzon Mabpharm (丽珠单抗生物) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company based in Zhuhai, founded in 2010. It specializes in monoclonal antibodies and developed Lecankitug, a dual-target biologic.
Liwan 3-1 Gas Field
Liwan 3-1 is a deepwater natural gas field in the South China Sea, discovered in 2006 and the first deepwater gas field developed offshore China.
Liwei Lin
Liwei Lin (林立伟) is a mechanical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley and co-director of BSAC, known for MEMS research and insect-scale soft robots, including a cockroach-like robot that survived being stepped on.