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Lonesome Crow
Lonesome Crow (German: Lonesome Crow) is the 1972 debut album by German hard rock band Scorpions, recorded October 1971 at Star Studios Hamburg, produced by Conny Plank, with a 15-year-old Michael Schenker on lead guitar, released on Brain Records.
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by Larry McMurtry, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, following two retired Texas Rangers on a vast cattle drive.
Lonesome Dove (miniseries)
Lonesome Dove is a 1989 CBS four-part Western miniseries adapted from Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer-winning novel, directed by Simon Wincer, starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as Texas Rangers driving cattle to Montana; it won six Emmys and a Peabody Award.
Lonesome Dove series
Lonesome Dove series: Larry McMurtry's four-novel Western tetralogy (Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, Comanche Moon) about Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, plus the Pulitzer-winning 1985 novel and its Emmy-winning 1989 CBS miniseries adaptations.
Lonesome George
Lonesome George (Solitario Jorge), last Pinta giant tortoise (Chelonoidis abingdonii), found 1971 on Pinta, died June 24, 2012 at Santa Cruz; genome and Wolf Volcano hybrids preserve partial lineage.
Lonestar
Lonestar, originally called Texassee, is an American country music band formed in 1992 in Nashville by five Texas natives; "Amazed" topped both country and pop charts in 1999.
Lonette McKee
Lonette McKee (born 1954, Detroit) is an American actress, singer, and composer, breakout as Sister in Sparkle (1976), Tony-nominated as Julie in Show Boat, films include The Cotton Club and Malcolm X.
Long and short scales
The long and short scales are two competing systems for naming large numbers: in the short scale each new term is 1,000 times the previous one, in the long scale 1,000,000 times.
Long Arm of the Law (省港旗兵)
Long Arm of the Law (省港旗兵) is Johnny Mak's 1984 Hong Kong crime classic about mainland 'Big Circle' robbers betrayed in a jewellery heist, ending in a Kowloon Walled City gun battle; Golden Horse Best Director winner.
Long Arm of the Law II (省港旗兵2)
Long Arm of the Law II (省港旗兵2, 省港旗兵续集) is a 1987 Hong Kong crime film directed by Michael Mak, the second entry in the Long Arm of the Law series, about undercover operatives infiltrating a criminal gang.
Long barrow
A long barrow is a Neolithic burial mound, rectangular, oval, or trapezoidal, with ditches alongside it; the tradition arose in western Europe during the 5th millennium BC.
Long baseline acoustic navigation
Long baseline acoustic navigation is an underwater positioning method that uses seafloor acoustic beacons at known positions, letting a submerged vehicle fix its position by measuring acoustic travel times.
Long Bay Correctional Centre
Long Bay Correctional Centre, also called Long Bay jail, is a group of three correctional centers, including Long Bay Hospital, at Matraville in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Long Beach Airport
Long Beach Airport, also known as Daugherty Field, is a city-owned public airport in Long Beach, California, about 15 miles southeast of LAX. Established in 1923, it is California's oldest municipal airport.
Long Beach Coast
Long Beach Coast (also the Regulators) is an independent Pioneer League professional baseball team founded in 2026, playing at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field, co-owned by Warren G, managed by Troy Percival.
Long Beach Container Terminal
Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) is a container terminal at the Port of Long Beach, California, operated by OOCL and among the most automated US terminals.
Long Beach Island
Long Beach Island (LBI) is an 18-mile developed barrier island off Ocean County, New Jersey, between Barnegat and Little Egg inlets, with six shore towns, a 19th-century whaling and railroad resort history, and engineered beach nourishment since the 1930s.
Long Beach Polytechnic High School
Long Beach Polytechnic High School (Poly), a public high school in Long Beach, California, founded 1895 as Long Beach High School, renamed Polytechnic 1911; LBUSD school known for PACE magnet, Jackrabbits athletics, and a $450M campus transformation.
Long Beach Street Circuit
Long Beach Street Circuit: temporary 1.968-mile, 11-turn street course in downtown Long Beach, California, home of the Grand Prix of Long Beach since 1975; hosted F1 1976-1983, now IndyCar and IMSA.
Long Beach Surf Shop (osm node/4377800091)
Long Beach Surf Shop (LB Surf) is a family-owned surf shop at 70 West Park Ave, Long Beach, NY 11561, founded 1984 per its site (directories say 1982), stocking 300+ surfboards, wetsuits, and apparel in a 1928 warehouse; distinct from the same-named Tofino, BC shop.
Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California: coastal city in southern Los Angeles County, incorporated 1897, population about 450,000. Known for the Port of Long Beach, the 1921 oil boom, the 1933 earthquake and Field Act, the Queen Mary, and diverse neighborhoods.
Long Beach, New York
Long Beach, New York, is a city on a barrier island along Long Island's south shore in Nassau County, known for its ocean beach and 2.2-mile boardwalk.
Long Black Veil
"Long Black Veil" ("The Long Black Veil") is a 1959 country ballad by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin, first recorded by Lefty Frizzell, a murder-ballad about a man executed rather than reveal an affair, later covered by The Band, Johnny Cash, and hundreds more.
Long Branch, New Jersey
Long Branch is a coastal city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, a Gilded Age summer resort and the 'Summer Capital' where seven presidents vacationed and where Garfield died at Elberon in 1881; 2020 population 31,667.
Long Bridge
Long Bridge is the name of several historic bridges, chiefly the Grade I listed 16-arch medieval bridge over the River Taw at Barnstaple, Devon, plus bridges at Bideford, Coggeshall, Llanidloes, and the Potomac rail crossing in Washington, DC.
Long Bright River (TV series)
Long Bright River is a Peacock limited crime drama series, March 13, 2025, adapted from Liz Moore's 2020 novel, starring Amanda Seyfried as Philadelphia cop Mickey Fitzpatrick searching Kensington's opioid crisis for a killer and her missing sister.
Long Cai
Long Cai (蔡龙) is a biologist at Caltech who develops imaging methods for single cells, known for seqFISH and for MEMOIR, which records molecular events into cell genomes.
Long Campaign
The Long Campaign (hosszú hadjárat), also called the Balkan campaign, was a 1443–1444 crusading expedition against the Ottoman Empire led by King Władysław III and János Hunyadi.
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" (also "Long Cool Woman") is a 1972 swamp rock hit by the Hollies, written by Allan Clarke, Roger Cook, and Roger Greenaway; it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, sold 2 million copies, and is often mistaken for Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Long COVID
Long COVID (post COVID-19 condition): chronic multisystem illness after SARS-CoV-2 infection lasting 3+ months; 200+ symptoms including PEM, brain fog, POTS; no biomarker or validated cure; ~400 million cumulative cases, ~$1 trillion annual economic impact.