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Long Daqiang
Long Daqiang (龙大强), born 1973, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Solarspace, a solar cell manufacturer in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, that rose to second among global cell makers in 2024.
Long Day's Journey into Night
Long Day's Journey into Night is a four-act tragedy by Eugene O'Neill, written 1939 to 1941 and following the Tyrone family through a single August day in 1912.
Long Day's Journey into Night (2025 film)
Long Day's Journey into Night (2025) is Jonathan Kent's film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play, starring Jessica Lange (Mary Tyrone, reprising her Tony-winning Broadway role) and Ed Harris (James Tyrone), with Ben Foster and Colin Morgan; premiered at Dublin 2025, released by Quiver in 2026.
Long Day's Journey Into Night (地球最后的夜晚) (2018 film)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (地球最后的夜晚) is Bi Gan's 2018 Chinese neo-noir art film, his second feature after Kaili Blues. It premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard, closes with an hour-long 3D sequence shot, won three Golden Horse Awards, and grossed US$41 million in China.
Long Depression
The Long Depression, also called the First Great Depression, was a period of falling prices and financial crises from 1873 to 1896, beginning with a New York banking panic.
Long division
Long division is a standard method for dividing multi-digit numbers by hand, breaking the problem into a series of steps and allowing arbitrarily large numbers to be computed on paper.
Long drive
Long drive is golf's distance-only competition, contested on the World Long Drive tour since 1974. Competitors use 47-48 inch, low-loft (4-8.5 degree) conforming drivers to hit grid-bound drives; Zack Holton won the 2025 world title at 471 yards.
Long Duration Exposure Facility
The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) was a NASA spacecraft that exposed 57 materials and science experiments to low Earth orbit for about 5.7 years, from 1984 to 1990.
Long Fei
Long Fei (龙飞) is a Chinese business executive recorded as legal representative and general manager of Shanghai Panda Hu Yu Culture, the company behind the Panda TV streaming platform.
Long Feng Xuan Casino
Long Feng Xuan Casino (龙凤轩娱乐城) is a licensed casino in Sangkat Bei, Sihanoukville, Cambodia, run by Long Feng Xuan Co., Ltd.; licensed December 2022 and identified by Amnesty International as scamming compound SI20.
Long For You (我与你的光年距离)
Long For You (我与你的光年距离) is a 2017 Chinese fantasy romance web drama adapted from Korean manhwa Snow Girl, directed by Mao De Shu, starring Song Weilong and Zhou Yutong, streamed on LeTV from 14 February 2017 in 21 episodes, passing 1 billion views, with a 2018 Mango TV sequel.
Long Gone Heroes
Long Gone Heroes is a 2024 American action thriller directed by John Swab. Frank Grillo stars as a former special forces operative who travels to South America to rescue his niece.
Long gun
A long gun is a firearm fired from the shoulder, such as a rifle or shotgun, with a shoulder stock and longer barrel than a handgun.
Long hair
Long hair is human scalp hair grown long via 5–7-year anagen follicle phases (up to 50–110 cm; record 5.627 m). Long associated with women since Greco-Roman antiquity, it has served as a political, religious, and gender symbol from the Qing queue to the 1960s.
Long Hill Capital Venture Partners
Long Hill Capital Venture Partners is the fund family of Long Hill Capital Management, a Shanghai-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Xiaodong Jiang and Bo Jiang.
Long interspersed nuclear element
Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE, chiefly LINE-1/L1): the only active autonomous human retrotransposon, ~17% of the genome, ~100 active copies, mobilizes Alu and SVA via target-primed reverse transcription, and causes disease and cancer through insertional mutagenesis.
Long Island
Long Island: 118-mile island in southeastern New York spanning Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties; 2.9 million suburban residents, glacial moraine origin, sole-source aquifer, and the LIRR commuter rail.
Long Island City
Long Island City (LIC) is the westernmost neighborhood of Queens, New York City, across the East River from Manhattan, noted for rapid development, waterfront parks, and one of the city's highest concentrations of art galleries.
Long Island Compromise
Long Island Compromise is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's second novel (Random House, July 2024), a family saga about wealthy Long Island Jewish siblings shaped by their father Carl Fletcher's 1980 kidnapping and $250,000 ransom, and by the later collapse of the family fortune.
Long Island iced tea
Long Island iced tea: IBA official cocktail of vodka, tequila, white rum, gin, triple sec, lemon, syrup, and cola; no tea. Created by Robert Butt at the Oak Beach Inn, New York, 1972; a Tennessee 1920s claim is disputed.
Long Island MacArthur Airport
Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP), originally Islip Airport, is a public airport in Ronkonkoma on Long Island, New York, owned by the Town of Islip since 1944.
Long Island Medium
Long Island Medium is a TLC reality series (2011–2019, 14 seasons, 174 episodes) following Theresa Caputo of Hicksville, New York, a self-professed medium giving readings, also studied by scholars and criticized by skeptics.
Long Island Power Authority
The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) is a not-for-profit public utility created by New York in 1986 that owns the electric grid serving Long Island and the Rockaway Peninsula.
Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), or MTA LIRR, is a commuter railroad owned by the MTA connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn with Long Island, New York.
Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound is a major urban estuary between Connecticut and Long Island, New York, connected to the ocean via the East River and three eastern passes. About 185 km long, it supports 1,200+ invertebrate species, a $9.4 billion economy, and ongoing hypoxia-restoration efforts.
Long Island University
Long Island University (LIU), founded 1926, is a private multi-campus New York university with main campuses in Brooklyn and Brookville (LIU Post), over 150 degree programs, Middle States accreditation since 1955, NCAA Division I Sharks athletics, and Carnegie R2 research classification.
Long Itchington
Long Itchington is a Warwickshire village on the River Itchen, recorded as Icetone in Domesday 1086 under Princess Christina with 24 hides, known for its Roman villa near Snowford Bridge and a deserted medieval settlement west of the village.
Long John Baldry
Long John Baldry (John William Baldry, 1941-2005), English blues singer and guitarist, Blues Incorporated vocalist on R&B From the Marquee, UK No. 1 with Let the Heartaches Begin, discoverer of Rod Stewart, namesake of Elton John, voice of Dr Robotnik.
Long John Silver
Long John Silver is the one-legged pirate, ship's cook, and mutiny leader of Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883), inspired by William Ernest Henley; Robert Newton's 1950 Disney portrayal created the 'Arrr!' pirate accent and the pop-culture pirate archetype.
Long John Silver's
Long John Silver's is an American fast-food seafood and chicken chain founded in 1969 in Lexington, Kentucky, headquartered in Louisville, known for hand-battered Alaska pollock, hushpuppies, and Yum! Brands ownership from the 2000s to 2011.