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LongNet

LongNet is a Transformer variant introduced by Microsoft Research in July 2023 that scales sequence length to over 1 billion tokens through dilated attention, cutting quadratic cost to linear.

Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus), also needlenose gar or billy gar: a long-snouted, air-breathing freshwater predatory fish of eastern North America, up to about 3 feet typically, with stable populations and slow-evolving living-fossil genomes.

Longobardites

Longobardites is an extinct genus of ceratitid ammonoid cephalopods that lived during the Triassic Period, established by Carl Mojsisovics in 1882 with Longobardites breguzzanus as its type species.

Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)

Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.), or I Longobardi in Italia. I luoghi del potere, is a 2011 UNESCO serial World Heritage site of seven Lombard fortresses, churches, and monasteries across Italy, inscribed under criteria (ii), (iii), and (vi).

Longomontanus (lunar crater)

Longomontanus, a 145.5-km IAU-approved lunar impact crater at 49.55°S, 21.88°W in the southern highlands, a flat-floored walled plain named for Tycho Brahe's assistant Christian Longomontanus.

Oct 20, 2026

Longonot

Mount Longonot (Oloonong'ot) is a 2,776 m trachytic caldera stratovolcano southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Kenya Rift, last erupted 1863, with 2004–2006 InSAR uplift and a national park.

Sep 25, 2026

Longqing opening of maritime trade

The Longqing opening of maritime trade (隆慶開關) was the Ming dynasty's 1567 partial lifting of the haijin sea ban, licensing private merchants to trade overseas from Yuegang in Fujian.

Oct 22, 2026

Longquan celadon

Longquan celadon (龙泉青瓷) is a green-glazed stoneware produced since the Song dynasty at kilns in Longquan, Zhejiang, China, celebrated for jade-like powder blue and plum green glazes.

Longs Peak

Longs Peak, 14,259 ft, highest summit of Rocky Mountain National Park and northernmost Colorado fourteener; its Class 3 Keyhole Route (14.5 mi, 5,100 ft gain) was first climbed in 1868 by John Wesley Powell.

Oct 22, 2026

Longshan black pottery

Longshan black pottery (黑陶) is the highly polished, thin-walled black ware made by the Longshan culture of Neolithic China, centered in Shandong around 2600 to 1900 BCE and considered the peak of prehistoric Chinese pottery.

Oct 20, 2026

Longshan, Jilin

Longshan District (龙山区) is a district of Liaoyuan, Jilin, China, in the city's southern half, named for Longshou Mountain. Created 1983 from former Xi'an County; 187.34 km², about 305,100 residents, service-dominated economy.

Longship

The longship, called langskip in Old Norse, is a long, narrow Viking warship built for speed and shallow water, powered by oars and a square sail.

Longshore drift

Longshore drift is the transport of sand and gravel along a coastline by waves approaching the shore at an angle, moving material in a zigzag path.

Longshoreman

A longshoreman is a worker who loads and unloads cargo ships, dock work that has historically given workers leverage at the transfer point between sea and land transport.

Longshot (film)

Longshot (2001) is an American comedy-crime film directed by Lionel C. Martin, written by Tony DeCamillis and Lou Pearlman, starring DeCamillis, Hunter Tylo, and Paul Sorvino, with cameos by NSYNC, Britney Spears, and O-Town; distinct from the 1981, 2017, 2019, and 2026 similarly titled films.

Longshot (Marvel Comics)

Longshot is a Marvel Comics X-Men affiliate created by Ann Nocenti and Arthur Adams in Longshot #1 (September 1985): a luck-manipulating artificial humanoid from Mojo's Mojoverse, husband of Dazzler and, retroactively, father and son of Shatterstar.

Longstock

Longstock (Hampshire village on the River Test near Stockbridge; also 'stoc', 'Stoche'): first recorded AD 982, Domesday 'Stoche'; Roman villa excavated 1922, Danish Dock scheduled monument, Houghton Down Iron Age and Roman site.

Longsword

The longsword, also called the bastard sword or hand-and-a-half sword, is a European sword of roughly 1350 to 1550, held in one or two hands.

LongTail Ad Solutions, Inc.

LongTail Ad Solutions, Inc., doing business as JW Player, is a New York-based video technology company offering hosting, streaming, analytics, and ad monetization, merged into JWP Connatix in 2024.

Longtan Dam

Longtan Dam (龙滩大坝) is a roller-compacted concrete gravity dam on the Hongshui River in Guangxi, China, the tallest of its kind, anchoring the 6,300 MW Longtan Hydropower Station begun in 2001.

Longthorpe

Longthorpe Roman fort: Claudian-era vexillation fortress of 27 acres near Peterborough, occupied c. AD 44/48-62, reduced to an 11-acre fort, linked to Legion IX and a military pottery works depot.

Oct 3, 2026

Longtime Companion

Longtime Companion is a 1990 American drama directed by Norman René, written by Craig Lucas, following gay friends in New York and Fire Island from 1981 to 1989 during the AIDS crisis; the first wide-release AIDS feature, it won Sundance's Audience Award and earned Bruce Davison an Oscar nomination.

Longuemare Consultants

Longuemare Consultants Inc. is a consulting firm overseen by R. Noel Longuemare, an electrical engineer who spent 41 years at Westinghouse and served in the Pentagon from 1993 to 1997.

Longueuil

Longueuil, Quebec: South Shore city across from Montreal, central city of the Agglomération de Longueuil (458,178 in 2025). Founded as the 1657 seigneurie of Charles Le Moyne; three boroughs, Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert, Greenfield Park; 254,483 residents in 2021.