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Lalsalu
Lalsalu (লাল সালু, "Red Cloth") is a 1948 Bengali novel by Syed Waliullah, whose character Majid exploits village faith by presenting an ordinary grave as a saint's shrine.
Lalthansanga
Lalthansanga is an Indian politician from Mizoram and a Zoram People's Movement minister who defeated incumbent chief minister Zoramthanga in Aizawl East I in the 2023 election.
Lalu Prasad Yadav (लालू प्रसाद यादव)
Lalu Prasad Yadav (लालू प्रसाद यादव), Indian politician, Bihar Chief Minister 1990-1997, founder of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (1997), and Union Railway Minister 2004-2009; leading Mandal-era social justice leader later convicted in fodder scam corruption cases.
Lam Ap
Lam Ap (Lâm Ấp) was a state founded in 192 CE in the Quang Nam region of what later became Champa, lasting until the mid-8th century.
Lam khap
Lam khap is the umbrella term for the traditional extemporized vocal music of the lowland Lao, sung in repartee by a male and female singer with khaen accompaniment.
Lam Phloen Wongskr
Lam Phloen Wongskr (ลำเพลิน วงศกร) is the stage name of Wongsakorn Yawararat, a Thai luk thung and mor lam singer from Buriram whose hit "รำคาญกะบอกกันเด้อ" passed 400 million YouTube views by 2025.
Lam phluean
Lam phluean (ลำเพลิน) is a fast, energetic form of Isan group folk performance that developed from molam in northeastern Thailand around 1955, blending sung verse with modern instruments.
Lam Research
Lam Research is an American semiconductor equipment supplier founded in 1980 and headquartered in Fremont, California, whose systems perform deposition, etch, and clean steps in chip manufacturing.
Lam Sơn uprising
The Lam Sơn uprising (Khởi nghĩa Lam Sơn) was a ten-year Vietnamese rebellion of 1418–1427, led by Lê Lợi against the Ming occupation of Đại Việt.
Lam Tsuen (林村)
Lam Tsuen (林村) is a valley of 23 mostly Hakka villages in Tai Po District, Hong Kong, settled since the Song dynasty, home of the Wishing Trees, the Wishing Square, and the annual Well-wishing Festival.
Lam Turki
Lam Turki, also known as Kowwa Dand, is a Bengali solitaire board game on a ten-point star board with nine pieces, documented by Sunder Lal Hora in 1933 in the Teesta Valley, Kalimpong.
Lama (genus)
Lama is a camelid genus (Cuvier, 1800) with the domestic llama (Lama glama) and wild guanaco (Lama guanicoe); the alpaca was moved to Vicugna, and llamas descend from guanacos domesticated in the Central Andes.
Lama (landform)
Lama (plural lame) is an incised valley landform of the Murge karst, Apulia, Italy; example Lama Lamasinata, a fluvio-karstic valley distinct from Lake Lama in Siberia and the Lama soil series.
Lama (བླ་མ་)
Lama (བླ་མ་, Bla-ma) is the Tibetan Buddhist title for a spiritual teacher, translating the Sanskrit guru, ranging from one's personal teacher to a vajra master empowered to confer tantric teachings.
Lamā Cemetery
Lamā Cemetery is an ancient burial ground near Lama in southwestern Iran, used from the late second millennium BC, with 74 stone-walled graves of nomadic pastoralists.
Lama Dorji
Lama Dorji, also written Lama Darja (1726 or 1728 to 1753), was the penultimate ruler of the Dzungar Khanate, reigning from 1750 until his death in 1753.
Lama Office
The Lama Office (喇嘛印务处) was the Qing-dynasty bureau managing the capital's Tibetan Buddhist clergy under the Lifanyuan, and later helped draw golden-urn lots for Mongol reincarnations.
Lama Oil Field
The Lama Oil Field (Campo Lama) is an oil field in central Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, discovered in 1957 by the Superior Oil Company and still operating.
Lama Tholus
Lama Tholus is a 110-km-wide tholus, a dome-shaped volcanic feature, on Venus at 7.8°N, 266.0°E in quadrangle V-28, named in 2003 by the IAU for a Sumerian protective goddess.
Lamadian Oil Field
Lamadian Oil Field (喇嘛甸) is an operating oil field in Heilongjiang, China, discovered in 1960 and one of the constituent fields of the Daqing oil complex, operated by Daqing Oilfield.
Laman graph
A Laman graph is a graph on n vertices with exactly 2n − 3 edges whose subsets stay sparse, making it minimally rigid in the plane by Laman's 1970 theorem.
Lamanai
Lamanai, Maya for "submerged crocodile," is a large ancient Maya site on the New River Lagoon in northern Belize, occupied from about 1500 BC to the present.
Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander, born Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. in 1940, is a retired Republican politician who served Tennessee as governor, U.S. secretary of education, and senator from 2003 to 2021.
Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt (1932-2006), Texas oil heir and sports executive, founded the American Football League in 1959 and the Kansas City Chiefs, coined "Super Bowl," drove the AFL-NFL merger, and built U.S. soccer and tennis ventures.
Lamar Jackson
Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens quarterback, 2016 Heisman winner at Louisville, two-time NFL MVP (2019, 2023), first QB with 4,000 passing and 900 rushing yards in a season.
Lamar Miller
Lamar Miller (born 1991, Miami) is a former NFL running back from Miami (FL), drafted 97th overall in 2012 by the Dolphins. He rushed for 5,864 yards and 32 touchdowns, made the 2018 Pro Bowl with the Texans, and set the Texans' longest run at 97 yards.
Lamar Odom
Lamar Odom, born 1979, American NBA forward, 1999 fourth pick, played for Clippers, Heat, Lakers, Mavericks; two-time champion 2009-2010, 2011 Sixth Man of the Year, 2015 near-fatal overdose.
Lamar Oil Field
The Lamar Oil Field (Campo Lamar) is a giant oil field in south-central Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, discovered by Phillips Petroleum in 1958 with an estimated ultimate recovery of more than 1.5 billion barrels.
Lamar University
Lamar University, a public university in Beaumont, Texas and Texas State University System member, founded 1923 as South Park Junior College; 18,000+ students, Carnegie R2 doctoral classification, SACSCOC-accredited, 139 degree programs.
Lamarck (lunar crater)
Lamarck is an impact crater on the Moon, Gazetteer feature ID 3249, about 99.67 km in diameter, centered at -23.15°, -69.94°, a large modified impact crater of the lunar southern hemisphere.