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L'Osservatore Romano
L'Osservatore Romano is the Vatican's Italian-language daily newspaper, founded 1 July 1861; it publishes papal texts and Holy See documents in seven languages, directed by Andrea Monda since 2018.
L'union sportive avranches mont saint michel
US Avranches Mont-Saint-Michel (USAMSM), founded 1897 in Avranches, Manche, is a French amateur football club playing at Stade René-Fenouillère; 2014 CFA champions, 2017 Coupe de France quarterfinalists, in National 1 from 2026-27.
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre (Львів) is a UNESCO World Heritage property in Ukraine, inscribed 1998 under criteria (ii) and (v), on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2023 due to war damage.
L'Wren Scott
L'Wren Scott (Laura "Luann" Bambrough, 1964-2014) was an American model, stylist, and fashion designer, Mick Jagger's partner from 2001; her label launched in 2006, and her $9 million estate passed entirely to Jagger.
L/He
L/He is a substrain designation of the L inbred laboratory mouse strain, He denoting the Heston holding; the strain is recorded by MGI as L/J (MGI:2670058), an inbred strain under standard mouse nomenclature.
L/St
L/St is an inbred laboratory mouse strain from Leonell C. Strong's 1926 Bussey sublines, marked by low mammary tumor incidence, lymphoblastoma, and retinal opacity; distinct from the unrelated Oak Ridge LST strain.
L&M
L&M is an international cigarette brand, originally a filtered cigarette launched in 1953 by Liggett & Myers, sold since 1999 by Philip Morris as a leading mid-price brand.
L&P Cosmetic
L&P Cosmetic (엘앤피코스메틱) is a South Korean cosmetics manufacturer founded in 2009 and headquartered in Seoul, best known as the maker of the MEDIHEAL sheet-mask brand and Korea's largest facial mask manufacturer.
L&S Mechanical
L&S Mechanical is a Richardson, Texas contractor providing turnkey plumbing, HVAC, and electrical installation for large production homebuilders in Texas, acquired by The Sterling Group in 2021.
L0 Series (L0系)
The L0 Series (L0系), also called the L0 Series Shinkansen, is a superconducting maglev train JR Central developed for the Chuo Shinkansen, reaching a record 603 km/h in 2015.
L1 adaptive controller
The L1 adaptive controller is an adaptive control architecture by Chengyu Cao and Naira Hovakimyan, introduced in 2006, that uses a low-pass filter to decouple fast adaptation from robustness guarantees.
L1 guidance
L1 guidance is a nonlinear path-following law that steers a vehicle by commanding lateral acceleration toward a reference point a look-ahead distance ahead on the path.
L1 syndrome
L1 syndrome (CRASH syndrome, L1CAM syndrome): X-linked recessive neurodevelopmental disorder from L1CAM mutations, causing hydrocephalus, intellectual disability, leg spasticity, and adducted thumbs; HSAS form affects about 1 in 30,000 males.
L10-MnGa
L10-MnGa is a rare-earth-free manganese gallium alloy with a tetragonal L1₀ structure and large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, a candidate for spin-transfer torque memory and permanent magnets.
L118 light gun
The L118 light gun is a British 105 mm towed howitzer that entered service in the 1970s and serves as the Royal Artillery's close-support gun, carried underslung by Chinook helicopters.
L12 nanoprecipitate-strengthened high-entropy alloys
L12 nanoprecipitate-strengthened high-entropy alloys combine high strength and ductility, using coherent L12 nanoprecipitates in an FCC matrix to mirror the γ/γ′ architecture of nickel superalloys.
L129A1
The L129A1 Sharpshooter is a 7.62 mm semi-automatic designated marksman rifle used by the British Armed Forces, procured in 2009 for the war in Afghanistan.
L15 (shell)
The L15 was a British 120 mm armor-piercing discarding sabot tank round fired from the L11 rifled gun, originally fitted to the Chieftain main battle tank.
L1544
L1544 (Lynds 1544) is a prestellar core in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, about 550 light-years away, collapsing to form a star but containing no protostar yet.
L16 81mm mortar
The L16 81mm mortar is a British smoothbore, muzzle-loaded medium mortar, designed jointly with Canada, that has been the standard mortar of the British armed forces since 1965.
L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle
The L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) is the semi-automatic, inch-pattern version of the Belgian FN FAL, standard rifle of Britain and Australia during the Cold War.
L1CAM
L1CAM (CD171, NCAM-L1) is an Xq28 gene encoding a 200–220 kDa Ig-superfamily neural cell adhesion glycoprotein; loss-of-function variants cause X-linked L1/CRASH syndrome, and tumor overexpression drives invasion, metastasis and chemoresistance.
L2: Empuraan
L2: Empuraan (എമ്പുരാൻ, L2E) is a 2025 Malayalam political action thriller, sequel to Lucifer, directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, starring Mohanlal as Khureshi-Ab'raam; it grossed Rs 325 crore and streams on JioHotstar.
L214
L214 (L214 Éthique & Animaux) is a French animal-rights nonprofit founded in 2008 from Stop Gavage, named after Code rural article L214-1; known for undercover slaughterhouse investigations, corporate campaigns, and a 2030 goal of halving animals slaughtered in France.
L293D
The L293D is a quadruple half-H motor-driver integrated circuit that drives two DC motors in both directions at up to 600 mA per channel, with built-in flyback diodes, and remains a fixture of hobby robotics.
L298N
The L298N is a dual full-bridge motor driver integrated circuit made by STMicroelectronics, driving up to 2 A per channel at 2.5 to 46 V.
L3 Technologies
L3 Technologies, formerly L-3 Communications, was an American aerospace and defense contractor founded in 1997 from Lockheed Martin divisions and merged with Harris Corporation in 2019 to form L3Harris.
L3/35
The L3/35, originally the Fiat Carro Veloce CV-35, was an Italian two-man tankette armed only with machine guns, fielded from the mid-1930s through World War II.
L3Harris
L3Harris Technologies is an American aerospace and defense technology company headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, formed in 2019 through the merger of Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies.
L3Harris EA-37B Compass Call
The EA-37B Compass Call, also designated EC-37B, is a US Air Force electronic attack aircraft built on a modified Gulfstream G550 that disrupts adversary communications and radars.