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Loma
Loma (Morrison & Sprague, 1981) is a genus of fish-infecting microsporidian fungi (Glugeidae) that form xenomas; L. salmonae causes microsporidial gill disease in farmed salmon, L. morhua infects Atlantic cod.
Loma Blanca wind farm
The Loma Blanca wind farm is a group of wind power plants on the Atlantic coast of Chubut Province, Argentina, near Trelew, Rawson, and Puerto Madryn, built in stages since 2013.
Loma Campana Oil and Gas Field
Loma Campana is a shale oil and gas field in Argentina's Vaca Muerta formation, operated by YPF with Chevron and producing about 100,000 barrels per day.
Loma la Lata Oil and Gas Field
Loma la Lata is a giant gas and condensate field in Neuquén Province, Argentina, discovered by YPF in 1977 and described in 2008 as South America's largest gas producer.
Loma Linda, California
Loma Linda, California: San Bernardino County city (incorporated 1970, pop. ~24,791), home of Loma Linda University and Medical Center; often cited as a Blue Zone, a claim lacking epidemiological confirmation.
Loma Mountains
Loma Mountains: mountain range in Koinadugu District, north-east Sierra Leone, home to Bintumani (1,945 m), West Africa's highest peak west of Mount Cameroon. Gazetted a forest reserve in 1952 (32,815.6 ha), upgraded to Loma Mountains National Park in 2015; source of the Sewa and Rokel rivers.
Lomami (landform)
Lomami River, a major left-bank tributary of the Congo River in the DR Congo, flowing south to north roughly parallel to the Congo; known for its narrow linear basin, biogeographic barrier role, and Lomami National Park.
Lomana LuaLua
Lomana Trésor LuaLua, born 1980 in Kinshasa, DR Congo forward and winger; played for Colchester, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, and Olympiacos; 146 Premier League games, 24 goals, 31 DR Congo caps, 7 international goals.
Lomar
Lomar is a Saudi fashion house based in Jeddah, founded by Loai Naseem and Mona Al-Haddad, known as the first Saudi fashion business to redesign the traditional male thobe.
Lomba do Sabao
Lomba do Sabão (Lomba do Sabao) is a Porto Alegre–Viamão locality in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, known for its 1940s-era, 11-meter decommissioned water-supply dam in Parque Saint'Hilaire, now slated for CAF-funded requalification.
Lombard House, London
Lombard House (Sunderland House), 2B Trebeck Street, Curzon Street, Mayfair: Grade II listed 1901 Edwardian town mansion built for the 9th Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; later League of Nations HQ, Lombard Bank headquarters, then Qatari-owned private residence.
Lombard Investments
Lombard Investments is a private equity investment manager founded in 1985 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with more than 100 investments in Asia and North America.
Lombard language
Lombard (lumbáart, ISO 639-3 lmo) is a Gallo-Italic Western Romance language of Lombardy, eastern Piedmont, Ticino, Grisons, and western Trentino, with about 3.5 million speakers, no standard, Western and Eastern varieties, and no official recognition.
Lombard literature
Lombard literature is the literary tradition of Lombardy in northern Italy, from medieval Latin authors like Paul the Deacon to Milanese dialect writing and the modern linea lombarda.
Lombard Squires
Lombard "Lom" Squires (c. 1906) was an American DuPont chemical engineer who, as chief supervisor at Hanford's 200 Area from June 1944, helped engineer the bismuth phosphate process separating plutonium from irradiated fuel.
Lombard Street (San Francisco)
Lombard Street (San Francisco): east–west street whose one-block Russian Hill section between Hyde and Leavenworth has eight brick hairpin switchbacks (1922), 27% grade cut to 16%, Guinness world's most crooked road.
Lombardini
Lombardini is an Italian manufacturer of small diesel and gasoline engines, founded in Reggio Emilia in 1933 and part of the Kohler engine business since 2007.
Lombardische Kieselkalk Formation
Lombardische Kieselkalk (Lombardischer Kieselkalk), the Moltrasio Limestone of the Lombardian Basin, Southern Alps: an Early Jurassic, cherty, gray-black basinal limestone, up to about 3,000 m thick, overlying the Saltrio Formation.
Lombards
Lombards (Langobardi, Longobards): Germanic people who invaded Italy in 568 and ruled a kingdom there until Charlemagne took Pavia in 774; southern Lombard principalities lasted to the late 11th century.
Lombardy
Lombardy (Lombardia), Italy's most populous region (10,033,918 in 2024) around Milan, spans the Alps to the Po Valley with lakes Como, Garda, Maggiore, Iseo; highest Italian GDP, twelve provinces, Visconti-Sforza and Austrian history.
Lombok
Lombok: Indonesian island in West Nusa Tenggara east of Bali, homeland of the Muslim Sasak people, dominated by 3,726 m Mount Rinjani and the 1257 Samalas caldera, ruled by Balinese rajas until the 1894 Dutch expedition.
Lombok expedition
The Lombok expedition (Dutch: Lombok-expeditie) was an 1894 Dutch colonial campaign in which the KNIL conquered the kingdom of Lombok, ending Balinese rule and seizing its royal treasury.
Lombok Strait
The Lombok Strait is a deep channel between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok connecting the Bali Sea to the Indian Ocean, and the deepest route for ships too large for the Strait of Malacca.
Lomé
Lomé is the capital and main seaport of Togo on the Gulf of Guinea, founded under the 1884 German protectorate, capital since 1897, with about 837,000 inhabitants in 2010 and a leading regional transshipment port.
Lomé Convention
The Lomé Convention was a series of trade and aid treaties between the European Economic Community and African, Caribbean, and Pacific states, signed from 1975.
Lomé Peace Agreement
The Lomé Peace Agreement was a treaty signed in Lomé, Togo, on 7 July 1999 between Sierra Leone's government and RUF rebels to end the civil war.
Lomefloxacin
Lomefloxacin, sold as Maxaquin, is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic approved in the United States in 1992 to treat bronchitis and urinary tract infections, later discontinued and known for phototoxicity.
Lomi-lomi salmon
Lomi-lomi salmon, also called lomi salmon, is a traditional Hawaiian cold side dish of salt-cured salmon hand-massaged with tomato and onion, a fixture of luaus and plate meals.
Lomiiel
Lomiiel is a Dominican dembow artist from La Romana, Dominican Republic, best known for the 2024 viral hit "Hay Lupita", which topped charts and led to his debut album "Bless" in 2025.
Lomilomi massage
Lomilomi (Lomi Lomi), traditional Hawaiian massage rooted in oral family healing traditions; defined in HRS §452-1 as kneading, stroking, and pressing of the body; certified historically by Hawaii's Board of Massage, with scant lomilomi-specific clinical research.