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Lone Star (1996 film)
Lone Star is a 1996 American neo-Western mystery drama written, directed, and edited by John Sayles, starring Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson.
Lone Star Real Estate
Lone Star Real Estate, also known as Lone Star Real Estate Funds, is a series of opportunistic real estate private equity funds managed by Lone Star, active since 2008.
Lone Star Residential Mortgage
Lone Star Residential Mortgage is a series of four private funds, launched in 2014, that Lone Star Funds manages to buy performing non-Agency U.S. residential mortgage loans.
Lone Star Value-Add
Lone Star Value-Add is the value-add commercial real estate private equity platform of Lone Star Funds, launched in 2019 with two Cayman Islands funds that raised about $1.36 billion.
Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is a 2013 American biographical war film directed by Peter Berg, starring Mark Wahlberg as SEAL Marcus Luttrell, sole survivor of Operation Red Wings.
Lone Tree (mine)
Lone Tree is a gold mine and processing complex in Humboldt County, Nevada, in the Battle Mountain mining district, which produced about 4.6 million ounces of gold before closing in 2007.
Lone Wolf (gamebooks)
Lone Wolf (Loup solitaire, Lobo Solitario) is Joe Dever's 32-book gamebook series begun with Flight from the Dark in 1984, set in Magnamund, selling over 12 million copies, with free Project Aon editions.
Lone Wolf (upcoming film)
Lone Wolf is an upcoming American conspiracy thriller directed by Mark Pellington, written by Tom Chilcoat, starring Bryan Cranston and Lily Gladstone as a contractor and a troubled vet recruited for a political assassination; its 2025 Albuquerque shoot was disrupted by a $2 million funding shortfall and unpaid crew.
Lone Wolf and Cub
Lone Wolf and Cub (Kozure Ōkami, 子連れ狼) is a gekiga samurai manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, serialized 1970–1976 in Weekly Manga Action, about executioner Ogami Ittō and son Daigorō; 28 volumes, six films, 2001 Eisner Award.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (子連れ狼 三途の川の乳母車)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (子連れ狼 三途の川の乳母車), aka Kozure Ōkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma, is Kenji Misumi's 1972 Toho samurai film starring Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Itto, second of the Katsu Production Lone Wolf and Cub adaptations, with the Besshiki onna female assassins and a sand-dune duel against the Hidari three brothers.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (子連れ狼 子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (子連れ狼 子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる) is the 1972 first film of the six-film Japanese samurai series, directed by Kenji Misumi, starring Tomisaburo Wakayama as framed executioner Ogami Itto, produced by Shintaro Katsu, released by Toho on January 15, 1972.
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (子連れ狼 地獄へ行くぞ!大五郎)
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (子連れ狼 地獄へ行くぞ!大五郎; Kozure Ōkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigorō) is the sixth and final 1974 Lone Wolf and Cub film, directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda, starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, with a ski-and-sled climax and resurrected Tsuchigumo warriors.
Lone Wolf McQuade
Lone Wolf McQuade is a 1983 Orion Pictures action film directed by Steve Carver, starring Chuck Norris as a solitary Texas Ranger fighting arms dealer David Carradine; it earned $4.3 million its opening weekend and inspired Walker, Texas Ranger.
Lone wolf terrorism
Lone wolf terrorism, also called lone-actor terrorism, is political violence by a single self-directed perpetrator without group direction. Key traits: online radicalization, intent leakage, lower lethality than group attacks, no single profile.
Lone'er Kavanagh
Lone'er Kavanagh, English UFC flyweight (10-2 pro, 3-2 UFC, ranked #6), London-born kickboxer at Great Britain Top Team; beat Brandon Moreno in 2026, lost to Royval, faces Temirov at UFC 333.
Loneliness
Loneliness is the subjective distress from a gap between desired and actual social connections, distinct from social isolation and solitude. WHO estimates 1 in 6 people affected, ~871,000 deaths yearly; emotional and social types; measured by UCLA and de Jong Gierveld scales.
Loneliness epidemic
Loneliness epidemic: public-health framing of widespread loneliness, named in Vivek Murthy's 2023 US Surgeon General advisory and the WHO's 2023 concern declaration; prevalence varies by measure, and trend evidence is contested.
Lonely (Akon song)
Lonely (Akon song): 2005 R&B hit from the album Trouble, sampling Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely" in a pitched-up chipmunk voice; US Hot 100 No. 4, UK No. 1, over a billion Spotify plays.
Lonely Among Us
Lonely Among Us is a 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1 episode (production 108, stardate 41249.3) by Michael Halperin and D.C. Fontana, directed by Cliff Bole, in which an energy being possesses Worf, Crusher, and Picard while the ship ferries hostile Selay and Antican delegates.
Lonely Are the Brave
Lonely Are the Brave: 1962 American Western directed by David Miller, Kirk Douglas as cowboy Jack Burns, Dalton Trumbo screenplay from Edward Abbey's The Brave Cowboy, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, Jerry Goldsmith score, Douglas's favorite film.
Lonely Castle in the Mirror (かがみの孤城)
Lonely Castle in the Mirror (かがみの孤城) is a 2022 A-1 Pictures anime film directed by Keiichi Hara, adapting Mizuki Tsujimura's Honya Taisho-winning novel about seven withdrawn students and a wish-granting key in a mirror castle.
Lonely Mountain
The Lonely Mountain (Sindarin Erebor) is Tolkien's solitary Dwarf-peak in north-east Rhovanion, seat of the Kingdom under the Mountain founded T.A. 1999, sacked by Smaug in 2770, and retaken in The Hobbit's quest of 2941.
Lonely People with Power
Lonely People With Power is the sixth studio album by Deafheaven, released March 28, 2025 on Roadrunner Records. Twelve tracks, about an hour, produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen; it returned the band to blackgaze heaviness after Infinite Granite, with guests Jae Matthews and Paul Banks.
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is a travel media company and guidebook publisher founded in 1973 by Tony and Maureen Wheeler with Across Asia on the Cheap; now owned by Red Ventures (since 2020), it claims the world's #1 guidebook publisher position.
Lonely Planet (film)
Lonely Planet is a 2024 Netflix romantic drama written and directed by Susannah Grant, starring Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth in an age-gap love affair at a Moroccan writers' retreat; released October 11, 2024 to mixed reviews.
Lonely runner conjecture
The Lonely Runner Conjecture, or lonely runner problem, is an unsolved number theory problem posed by Jörg M. Wills in 1967 concerning runners on a unit circle.](20 words)
Lonelygirl15
Lonelygirl15 (LG15) was a scripted YouTube web series (June 2006 to August 2008) disguised as the vlog of homeschooled teen Bree, played by New Zealand actress Jessica Rose, created by Miles Beckett, Greg Goodfried, and Ramesh Flinders and unmasked in September 2006.
Loner
Loner: a person who prefers being alone and minimizes social contact; distinct from loneliness (subjective deficit) and solitude (voluntary aloneness). Key facts: Preference for Solitude Scale, Big Five correlates, ostracism costs, health evidence.
Lonerism
Lonerism is the second studio album by Australian project Tame Impala, released October 2012 on Modular. Written and produced solo by Kevin Parker, mixed by Dave Fridmann, it hit No. 4 in Australia, scored 88 on Metacritic, won ARIA Album of the Year, and was Grammy-nominated for Best Alternative Music Album.
Lones Wigger
Lones Wigger Jr. (1937-2017), American rifle shooter and Army lieutenant colonel; two Olympic golds (Tokyo 1964, Munich 1972) and one silver; 27-29 world records, 58 national championships, most decorated US rifle shooter.