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Lamarckism
Lamarckism, from Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's 1809 Philosophie Zoologique, is the theory that environmentally acquired, use- and disuse-driven traits are inherited. Rejected by the Modern Synthesis, it persists in quasi-Lamarckian forms such as CRISPR-Cas and epigenetic inheritance.
LaMarcus Aldridge
LaMarcus Aldridge, American NBA power forward-center from Dallas; starred at Texas, No. 2 pick in 2006, played for Trail Blazers, Spurs, and Nets; seven-time All-Star, 20,000 points, retired twice over a heart condition.
Lamarr Wilson
Lamarr Wilson (1977–2025), known as "That Unboxing Guy," was an American YouTuber and technology journalist from Chicago known for unboxing videos and product reviews of consumer electronics.
Lamasba
Lamasba (Henchir Merouana, Algeria) was a Roman Numidian city and municipium, famous for a 218-222 AD Latin inscription regulating irrigation water by days and hours, the sole detailed epigraphic record of an ancient North African irrigation community.
Lamashtu
Lamashtu (Lamaštu), a female Mesopotamian demon and fallen goddess, daughter of Anu, who attacked pregnant women and infants; countered by Pazuzu amulets, spread to Anatolia, and sometimes linked to Lilith.
Lamashtu Mons
Lamashtu Mons is a 260-km-wide volcanic mountain (mons) on Venus at 2.8°N, 172.7°E in quadrangle V-25, a kilometer-high shield with radiating lava flows, IAU-named in 2003 for the Sumerian disease goddess Lamashtu.
Lamassi
Lamassi was a nadītum, a woman dedicated to the god Shamash, in Old Babylonian Sippar, attested in lease contracts and an illness-and-care tablet; two bearers of the name are recorded.
Lamassu
Lamassu (also shedu, aladlammû): Mesopotamian protective deity shown as a winged human-headed bull or lion, carved as colossal five-legged gateway guardians in Neo-Assyrian palaces such as Khorsabad and Nineveh.
Lamassu of Khorsabad
The Lamassu of Khorsabad, also known as the Shedu statues of Dur-Sharrukin, are colossal human-headed winged bulls guarding the Assyrian king Sargon II's capital at Khorsabad, Iraq.
Lamatorma
Lamatorma (Greek Λαματορμα) is a name of ancient Cilicia, probably a place name, attested as an epithet of Athena in a Greek dedication by two families.
Lamb
Lamb is the meat of a young domestic sheep, under about 14 months, milder and lighter than mutton; USDA classes, grades, five primal cuts, nutrition, and high carbon footprint per protein.
Lamb (2021 film)
Lamb (Dýrið) is a 2021 Icelandic supernatural drama, the debut feature of Valdimar Jóhannsson co-written with Sjón, starring Noomi Rapace as a farmer raising a lamb-human hybrid; it won Cannes Un Certain Regard's first Prize of Originality.
Lamb (lunar crater)
Lamb is a 103.55-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at about 42.7°S, 100.9°E, named after British mathematician-physicist Sir Horace Lamb (1849–1934); the name was approved in 1970.
Lamb and mutton
Lamb and mutton: meat of domestic sheep, lamb from animals under about a year old, mutton from older sheep. Covers USDA classification and grading, global sheep meat markets, and lamb's high methane-driven carbon footprint.
Lamb Chop (puppet)
Lamb Chop, the sock puppet sheep created by ventriloquist Shari Lewis, debuted on Captain Kangaroo, starred in The Shari Lewis Show and Lamb Chop's Play-Along, is now performed by Mallory Lewis, and became a viral Multipet dog toy.
Lamb Funeral Home scandal
Lamb Funeral Home scandal: 1980s Pasadena, California mortuary case in which David Sconce ran mass cremations, commingled ashes, and sold organs and dental gold, prompting California cremation regulation reforms.
Lamb of God
Lamb of God, Greek amnos tou theou, is a title for Jesus from John 1:29, central to Christian salvation doctrine and the Eucharistic Agnus Dei.
Lamb of God (band)
Lamb of God, formerly Burn the Priest, is an American groove metal band formed in 1994 in Richmond, Virginia, led by vocalist Randy Blythe with guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler; known for New American Gospel, Ashes of the Wake, Sacrament, and 2026's Into Oblivion.
Lamb shift
The Lamb shift is the small energy difference between the 2S and 2P levels of hydrogen, measured by Willis Lamb in 1947 and explained through renormalized quantum electrodynamics.
Lamb to the Slaughter
Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl's 1953 black-comedy short story: Mary Maloney kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and feeds it to the police; adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Tales of the Unexpected.
Lamb-Shaffer syndrome
Lamb-Shaffer syndrome (LAMSHF, SOX5 haploinsufficiency syndrome), a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from SOX5 loss on 12p12.1, causing developmental delay, speech delay, intellectual disability, dysmorphism; first described 2012.
Lamb–Chaplygin dipole
The Lamb–Chaplygin dipole, found independently by Horace Lamb and Sergei Chaplygin around 1900, is an exact solution of the Euler equations: two counter-rotating vortices that translate without changing shape.
Lambada
Lambada: Brazilian partner dance and music genre from Belém, Pará, mid-1970s, blending carimbó with merengue, cúmbia and bolero; not to be confused with the Kaoma 1989 hit or the LAMBADA NLP dataset.
Lambada (film)
Lambada (1990), also released as Lambada: Set the Night on Fire, is a Cannon Pictures dance film directed by Joel Silberg, starring J. Eddie Peck as a Beverly Hills math teacher who moonlights as a lambada dancer; it opened against The Forbidden Dance on March 16, 1990 and grossed $4.3 million.
Lambada (song)
Lambada, also known as Chorando Se Foi, is Kaoma's 1989 global dance hit sung by Loalwa Braz, an uncredited re-recording of Los Kjarkas' Bolivian song Llorando se fue that sold over four million copies and triggered a famous plagiarism lawsuit.
Lambayeque
Lambayeque, a department and region of northern Peru with capital Chiclayo, 3 provinces, 38 districts; 2025 census population 1,405,000; heartland of the Sicán (Lambayeque) culture, Sipán tombs, and Túcume pyramids.
Lambayeque culture
The Lambayeque culture, also called Sicán, was a pre-Columbian society on Peru's northern coast from about 750 to 1375 CE, known for monumental adobe buildings and metalworking.
Lambda
Lambda is an American GPU cloud provider founded in 2012 by twin brothers Stephen and Michael Balaban, renting NVIDIA GPU clusters for AI training and inference.
Lambda (Λάμδα)
Lambda (Λάμδα, Λ, λ) is the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing /l/ and the numeral 30, derived from Phoenician lamed; ancestor of Latin L and Cyrillic El, and a standard symbol for wavelength, eigenvalues, and the lambda calculus.
Lambda (ラムダ) (rocket family)
Lambda (ラムダ) was a family of Japanese all-solid-propellant rockets developed by the University of Tokyo in the 1960s; its four-stage L-4S variant launched Japan's first satellite, OHSUMI, in 1970.