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Lolita (orca)
Lolita, also Tokitae or Toki (Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut), a Southern Resident orca captured at Penn Cove in 1970, held over 50 years at Miami Seaquarium, added to the ESA listing in 2015, died there August 18, 2023, age 57.
Lolita (term)
Lolita (term): Spanish diminutive of Lola, from Dolores, turned into an English common noun meaning a precociously seductive girl after Nabokov's 1955 novel, and also the name of a non-sexualized Japanese street fashion.
Lolita Chakrabarti
Lolita Chakrabarti OBE (born 1969, Hull) is a British actress and playwright, RADA-trained, known for Red Velvet (2012) and her Olivier and Tony-winning stage adaptation of Life of Pi.
Lolita Davidovich
Lolita Davidovich (born 1961, London, Ontario) is a Canadian actress whose breakout was the title role in Blaze (1989) opposite Paul Newman; also credited as Lolita David; married director Ron Shelton in 1997.
Lolita Express
Lolita Express is the press nickname for a Boeing 727 private jet owned by Jeffrey Epstein, whose handwritten flight logs became central evidence against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Lolita fashion (ロリータ・ファッション)
Lolita fashion, also known as Goth loli, is a Japanese street fashion featuring voluminous knee-length skirts held out by petticoats, inspired by Victorian and Rococo clothing.
Lolita Lebrón
Lolita Lebrón (Dolores Lebrón Sotomayor), 1919–2010, Puerto Rican Nationalist who led the March 1, 1954 shooting in the US House of Representatives, imprisoned at Alderson, released 1979.
Lolita Lobosco
Lolita Lobosco, broadcast as Le indagini di Lolita Lobosco, is a Rai 1 Italian crime dramedy (2021–2024, three seasons) freely adapted from Gabriella Genisi's novels, directed by Luca Miniero and starring Luisa Ranieri as a Bari vicequestore.
Lolium multiflorum
Lolium multiflorum, Italian or annual ryegrass, a Poaceae bunchgrass native from Macaronesia to the Himalaya, grown worldwide for forage, silage, and cover cropping, and a major herbicide-resistant weed.
Lolium perenne
Lolium perenne, perennial ryegrass, is a Poaceae forage and turf grass native from Europe to the Himalaya, self-incompatible, wind-pollinated, optimal at 14-25 degrees C, drought-sensitive, and the most widely grown temperate grass.
Lolium rigidum
Lolium rigidum (rigid or annual ryegrass), Mediterranean annual grass and pasture species, is Australia's worst crop weed and the world's most severe herbicide-resistance case, with resistance to 11 sites of action and first glyphosate resistance in 1996.
Lolium temulentum
Lolium temulentum, darnel or darnel ryegrass, an annual Poaceae weed of cereal fields, toxic via fungal alkaloids, native to Macaronesia, North Africa and temperate Eurasia, never domesticated despite Neolithic co-occurrence with crops.
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza, founded 1991 by Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction as a traveling alternative-rock festival, since 2005 a four-day Grant Park festival in Chicago, about 460,000 attendees, plus international editions in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Berlin, Paris, and India.
Lollapalooza Chile (electronic stage)
Lollapalooza Chile is the Chilean edition of the Lollapalooza festival, first held in Santiago in 2011, whose electronic-music programming is anchored by the branded Perry's Stage.
Lollapalooza India
Lollapalooza India is the Indian edition of the Lollapalooza festival brand, held annually at Mumbai's Mahalaxmi Race Course since January 2023 and produced by BookMyShow Live.
Lollardy
Lollardy, whose adherents were called Lollards, was a movement of religious dissent in late medieval England that grew from John Wycliffe's Oxford circle around 1382.
Lolli Paolini
Lolli Paolini (Villa dei Lolli Paolini) is an archaeological site of Roman villa remains on the Colli di Santo Stefano at Tivoli, Italy, immediately south of Hadrian's Villa.
Lolliguncula brevis
Lolliguncula brevis, the Atlantic brief squid (Blainville, 1823), a small euryhaline loliginid squid from Nova Scotia to southern Brazil; North and South Atlantic populations are genetically distinct sister species.
Lollipop
Lollipop (lolly, sucker): hard candy on a stick, cooked to hard-crack from sugar, corn syrup, water and acids. Word dates to early 1800s Britain; stick candy after 1890; George Smith 1908.
Lollipop (Lil Wayne song)
"Lollipop" (2008) by Lil Wayne featuring Static Major, from Tha Carter III; produced by Jim Jonsin and Deezle, originally written for a Danity Kane project; first RIAA Diamond certification for Wayne and 2009 Grammy winner for Best Rap Song.
Lollipop Chainsaw
Lollipop Chainsaw: 2012 Grasshopper Manufacture hack-and-slash by Suda51, starring cheerleader Juliet Starling; remastered as RePOP by Dragami Games in 2024; sequel Back2Back announced 2026.
Lolly Adefope
Lolly Adefope is a British character comedian and actress, Edinburgh Fringe debut Lolly (2015) and Lolly 2 (2016), known for Ghosts, Shrill, Miracle Workers, Taskmaster, and her West End debut in Oh, Mary!.
Lolly Vegas
Lolly Vegas (Candido Albelando Vasquez-Vegas, 1939-2010), Yaqui/Shoshone-Mexican American singer-guitarist, co-founded Native American rock band Redbone with brother Pat and wrote the Gold-certified 1974 No. 5 hit "Come and Get Your Love".
Lollywood
Lollywood is the common name for Pakistan's film industry, historically based in Lahore and producing Urdu and regional-language films. Key facts: golden era in the 1960s with about 130 films a year, decline under Zia-era censorship to zero Urdu releases in 2012, and revival since Khuda Kay Liye (2007) and The Legend of Maula Jatt (2022).
Lolo Ferrari
Lolo Ferrari (Ève Geneviève Aline Vallois, 1963–2000), French dancer, pornographic actress, singer and Eurotrash presenter, Guinness-recorded for the world's largest breast implants; died in Grasse in 2000 amid a murder investigation of her husband Eric Vigne.
Lolo Jones
Lolo Jones (Lori Susan Jones, born 1982, Des Moines, Iowa), American hurdler and bobsledder; LSU All-American; 7th in 100m hurdles Beijing 2008, 4th London 2012; 2014 Sochi Olympic bobsledder.
Lolo Soetoro
Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo (Lolo Sutoro), 1935–1987, Indonesian geographer and topographer, stepfather of Barack Obama; married Ann Dunham in 1965, raised Obama in Jakarta, died of liver failure.
Lolong
Lolong was a male saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) captured 3 September 2011 in Bunawan, Philippines; at 6.17 m and 1,075 kg he was the largest crocodile in captivity ever, dying 10 February 2013 of pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
Loloru
Loloru (also spelled Lolaru) is a dormant 1,887 m compound volcano, the southeasternmost on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, with nested calderas, a summit lake, six Holocene explosive eruptions ending about 1050 BCE, and persistent fumarolic activity.
Loltun
Loltún (Lol-Tun, "flower of stone") is a large dry karst cave and archaeological site near Oxkutzcab, Yucatán, Mexico, with a cultural sequence from about 9000 BC to 1500 AD and about 4,000 Late Pleistocene–Holocene fossils.