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Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend, also released as Lamborghini: The Legend, is a 2022 biographical drama directed by Bobby Moresco, starring Frank Grillo as Ferruccio Lamborghini and Gabriel Byrne as Enzo Ferrari; loosely based on Tonino Lamborghini's book, it premiered in Rome and was panned by critics.
Lambretta
Lambretta is an Italian motor scooter first built by Ferdinando Innocenti in Milan in 1947, named after the Lambro river, and rivaled by the Vespa.
Lambrini Girls
Lambrini Girls: Brighton, England punk duo of Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira; debut album Who Let the Dogs Out (2025, City Slang) hit UK No. 16; second album No Refunds due January 2027.
Lambro
Lambro is a narrative poem by Polish Romantic writer Juliusz Słowacki, written in Paris in 1832, about a Greek corsair sworn to hatred of the Turks.
Lambrum
Lambrum, also Ad Lambrum or Lambro Flumen, was a Roman road station on the Ticinum-Placentia road in northern Italy, at the Lambro river crossing, 20 miles from Ticinum and 16 from Placentia per the Vicarello beakers.
Lambrusco
Lambrusco is a family of twelve black grape varieties from Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and the sparkling red wines made from them; three main grapes, Sorbara, Salamino, Grasparossa, plus six DOCs distinguish it.
Lambton power station
Lambton power station is a name shared by two plants: a coal-fired station in Ontario, Canada, that ran from 1969 until 2013, and an 1890 electric-light station in New South Wales.
Lambton Worm
The Lambton Worm is a County Durham dragon legend: John Lambton's discarded catch grows into a monster, is slain in the River Wear, and curses his family for nine generations; famous through C.M. Leumane's 1867 song.
LAMC1
LAMC1, or laminin subunit gamma 1, is a human gene on chromosome 1 that encodes the gamma 1 chain of laminin, a key basement membrane protein.
LAMC2
LAMC2 (laminin subunit gamma 2), gene at 1q25.3 encoding the gamma-2 chain of laminin-332 (formerly laminin-5, kalinin, nicein, epiligrin); mutations cause Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa, and overexpression marks poor prognosis and gemcitabine resistance in pancreatic and other cancers.
LaMDA
LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a family of Transformer-based language models specialized for open-ended dialogue, developed by Google, announced in 2021, and later used to power Bard.
LAME
LAME (LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder), also known as libmp3lame, is a free, open-source MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL, begun in 1998 and built into Audacity for MP3 export.
Lamé (lunar crater)
Lame (Lame crater) is an 84.28-km-wide impact crater on the Moon at 14.76 S, 64.56 E, named in 1964 for French mathematician Gabriel Lame; it is a cryptomare dark-halo crater in the Balmer-Kapteyn region, distinct from the satellite crater Lame N.
Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions
Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions is a 1972 autobiography by Lakota medicine man John Lame Deer and writer Richard Erdoes, published by Simon and Schuster.
Lame duck (politics)
Lame duck (politics): an outgoing official whose successor is already elected or known, as in US lame-duck congressional sessions, the 1933 Twentieth Amendment, and term-limited presidents and governors losing electoral accountability.
Lamech (לֶמֶךְ) (father of Noah)
Lamech (Hebrew לֶמֶךְ) is a Sethite patriarch in the Genesis 5 genealogy, the son of Methuselah and father of Noah, who lived 777 years and died five years before the Flood.
Lamecha Girma
Lamecha Girma, Ethiopian 3000m steeplechase runner born 2000, world record holder at 7:52.11 (Paris 2023), Olympic silver medallist Tokyo 2020, three-time world silver medallist, and former world indoor 3000m record holder.
Lameck Banda
Lameck Banda, born 2001 in Lusaka, is a Zambian left winger who played for Nkwazi, ZESCO United, Arsenal Tula, Israeli clubs, and Lecce in Serie A, reaching 100 appearances before a 2026 contract dispute with Lecce and a move to Al-Swehly.
Lamellaptychus
Lamellaptychus is a genus of aptychi, the paired calcareous lower-jaw plates of extinct ammonites, established by Franz Trauth in 1927 and known from Jurassic to Cretaceous rocks from Europe to North Africa.
Lamellar armour
Lamellar armour: body armor of small rectangular plates (lamellae) laced together horizontally and vertically, distinct from scale, laminated, and mail armor. Originating in Assyria in the 8th-7th century B.C., it spread across Eurasia and survived in Tibet into the 20th century.
Lamellar ichthyosis
Lamellar ichthyosis is a rare autosomal recessive congenital skin disorder in which large, plate-like scales cover most of the body, usually without significant redness.
Lamellar keratoplasty
Lamellar keratoplasty is a corneal transplant operation replacing only diseased corneal layers, in anterior and posterior forms, which rose from 5% to 58% of grafts between 2005 and 2014.
Lamellocyte
Lamellocyte: large flat adhesive Drosophila larval hemocyte (Cell Ontology CL:0000396), rare in healthy larvae, induced by parasitoid wasps; main effector of encapsulation and melanization via PPO3, arising from plasmatocytes, sessile hemocytes, and the lymph gland.
LaMelo Ball
LaMelo Ball (born 2001) is an American NBA point guard, 2020 third overall pick, 2020-21 Rookie of the Year and 2022 All-Star; traded from the Charlotte Hornets to the Minnesota Timberwolves in June 2026.
Lament
A lament, in Russian called plach or prichitaniye (причитания), is improvised ritual folk verse mourning death, separation, or misfortune, with funeral, wedding, and recruit varieties.
Lament for Adonis
The Lament for Adonis is an ancient Greek poem by Bion of Smyrna mourning Aphrodite's grief for Adonis, killed by a boar during a hunt.
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
"Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" (Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías) is a 1934 elegy by Federico García Lorca mourning the bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, gored to death in Manzanares.
Lament for Nippur
The Lament for Nippur, also called the Lament for Nibru, is a Sumerian literary composition mourning the destruction of Nippur, the god Enlil's city, and its restoration.
Lament for Qu Yuan
Lament for Qu Yuan (Diao Qu Yuan fu) is a fu rhapsody by Han writer Jia Yi, mourning the drowned poet Qu Yuan and the earliest such surviving work.
Lament for Ur
The Lament for Ur, or Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur, is a Sumerian city lament mourning the fall of Ur to the Elamites in 2004 BCE.