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Long Journey Ventures
Long Journey Ventures is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm that grew out of the Edelweiss micro-fund and was renamed in 2020, led by Lee Jacobs and Cyan Banister.
Long Ju
Long Ju is an experimental condensed-matter physicist at MIT who studies electron correlations in atomically thin materials, known for the first fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in graphene.
Long jump
Long jump: track and field event with a 40 m runway and 20 cm take-off board; Olympic for men since 1896, women since 1948; world record 8.95 m by Mike Powell (1991).
Long jump at the Olympics
Long jump at the Olympics: men's event since 1896, women's since 1948; Olympic record 8.90 m (Bob Beamon, 1968); US won 22 of 29 men's golds; Miltiadis Tentoglou defended the title with 8.48 m at Paris 2024.
Long Keduo
Long Keduo (隆科多) was a Manchu nobleman who commanded the Beijing gendarmerie, received the Kangxi Emperor's final edict, and fell from power under the Yongzheng Emperor.
Long labour
Long labour (prolonged labour, labour dystocia; ICD-11 JB03) is childbirth lasting longer than average from contraction onset to placental delivery, a leading indication for primary cesarean section, managed by partograph monitoring and oxytocin or amniotomy augmentation.
Long Lake (Indiana)
Long Lake (Indiana Dunes, near Gary, Indiana): East and West Long Lake, large shallow interdunal lakes in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, formed from glacial Lake Chicago remnants; seeps into groundwater; distinct from Long Lakes in Noble and Steuben Counties.
Long Landscape Scroll
The Long Landscape Scroll (四季山水図巻, Sansui chōkan) is a Japanese ink handscroll of the four seasons painted by Sesshū Tōyō in 1486 and designated a National Treasure.
Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Long Live Rock 'n' Roll is Rainbow's third studio album, released 14 April 1978 on Polydor. It was the band's last album with singer Ronnie James Dio, peaked at #89 on the Billboard 200, and preceded Blackmore's shift to a mainstream sound.
Long Live The Black Parade
Long Live The Black Parade was a 2025 stadium tour by My Chemical Romance. It celebrated the 20th anniversary of their 2006 album and sold over 450,000 tickets.
Long Live the Republic!
Long Live the Republic! (Ať žije republika) is a 1965 Czechoslovak war drama by Karel Kachyňa and Jan Procházka, showing WWII's end in Moravia through a 12-year-old boy's eyes; pulled from distribution in 1970.
Long Long Road
Long Long Road is Ringo Starr's 22nd solo album, released April 24, 2026 on UMe, a country/Americana follow-up to Look Up, produced by T Bone Burnett with guests Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, Billy Strings, and Molly Tuttle; Metascore 76. Distinct from other albums of the same title.
Long March (长征)
Long March (长征), the 1934–1936 strategic withdrawal of four Chinese Red Army formations from southern bases to northern Shaanxi, covering 65,000+ li across 14 provinces, marked by the Xiangjiang defeat, Zunyi Conference, and 1936 Huining reunion.
Long March (长征) (rocket family)
The Long March (长征) rockets are China's family of orbital launch vehicles, developed from the mid-1960s. Their first launch in 1970 placed China's first satellite, Dongfanghong-1, into orbit.
Long March 10 (长征十号)
The Long March 10 (长征十号, CZ-10) is a Chinese super-heavy launch vehicle developed by CALT to send crewed spacecraft and the Lanyue lander toward China's Moon landing before 2030.
Long March 10B (长征十号乙)
The Long March 10B (长征十号乙) is a Chinese partially reusable medium-lift rocket developed by CALT; on its 2026 maiden flight its first stage was recovered by a net on a ship at sea.
Long March 11
Long March 11 (长征十一号, CZ-11) is a four-stage solid-propellant Chinese rocket developed by CALT, first flown in 2015 and known for rapid 24-hour launch cycles and China's first sea launch in 2019.
Long March 12 (长征十二号)
Long March 12 (长征十二号) is a Chinese two-stage medium-lift rocket developed by SAST that can lift 12 tonnes to low Earth orbit and first flew in November 2024.
Long March 2C
Long March 2C (长征二号丙, CZ-2C) is a Chinese two-stage, medium-lift orbital launch vehicle built by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, first flown in 1975 from Jiuquan and still in service.
Long March 2D
The Long March 2D (长征二号丁, CZ-2D) is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle made by SAST, first flown in 1992, mainly for low Earth and sun-synchronous orbits.
Long March 2F
The Long March 2F (长征二号F, CZ-2F) is a human-rated Chinese expendable rocket that has launched every crewed Shenzhou spacecraft, Tiangong lab modules, and the Shenlong spaceplane, with the only launch escape system in China.
Long March 3A
Long March 3A (长征三号甲, CZ-3A) is a Chinese three-stage cryogenic launch vehicle first flown in 1994, capable of placing 2,600 kg into geostationary transfer orbit.
Long March 3B (长征三号乙)
The Long March 3B (长征三号乙), also designated CZ-3B, is a Chinese three-stage rocket with four liquid boosters that carries communications, navigation, and lunar missions, first flown in 1996.
Long March 3B/YZ-1
The Long March 3B/YZ-1 is a Chinese launch vehicle combining the Long March 3B rocket with the Yuanzheng-1 (远征一号) upper stage, used to launch pairs of Beidou navigation satellites.
Long March 3C
The Long March 3C (Chang Zheng 3C, CZ-3C) is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle of the Long March family, flown from Xichang and typically carrying Beidou navigation satellites.
Long March 4B
The Long March 4B, also designated CZ-4B or LM-4B, is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle built by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology and flown since 1999.
Long March 4C
Long March 4C (长征四号丙, CZ-4C) is a Chinese three-stage expendable orbital launch vehicle built by SAST, first flown in 2006 and still active with about 58 missions.
Long March 5
Long March 5 (长征五号, CZ-5) is a Chinese heavy-lift rocket developed by CALT, first flown in 2016 from Wenchang; it carries 14 tonnes to geostationary transfer orbit and launches China's space station modules.
Long March 5 (长征五号)
The Long March 5 (长征五号, Changzheng 5) is a Chinese heavy-lift expendable rocket developed by CASC and first flown in 2016 from Wenchang, carrying lunar sample-return and Mars missions.
Long March 6
Long March 6 (长征六号, CZ-6) is a Chinese three-stage small-lift rocket developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology that first flew in September 2015, carrying 20 satellites.