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Lord Weary's Castle
Lord Weary's Castle is Robert Lowell's second poetry collection, published in 1946 and awarded the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, with the elegy "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" as its best-known poem.
Lord William Bentinck
Lord William Bentinck (1774–1839), British soldier and statesman, Governor of Madras 1803–1807 and Governor-General of India 1828–1835; first Governor-General of India, abolished sati in 1829, suppressed the Thugs, and made English the basis of Indian education.
Lord Willingdon
Lord Willingdon (लॉर्ड विलिंग्डन), born Freeman Freeman-Thomas, was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor General of Canada and as Viceroy of India from 1931 to 1936.
Lord Wood of Anfield
Lord Wood of Anfield is a British Labour life peer and Oxford academic who became a Foreign Office minister in July 2026 after advising Ed Miliband.
Lord Xinling steals the tiger tally to relieve Zhao
Lord Xinling steals the tiger tally to relieve Zhao (窃符救赵) was a 258 BC operation in which the Wei prince Lord Xinling seized his king's tiger tally and lifted the Qin siege of Handan.
Lord Xinling Steals the Tiger Tally to Save Zhao
Lord Xinling Steals the Tiger Tally to Save Zhao is a Warring States episode in which Lord Xinling of Wei broke Qin's siege of Handan, saving Zhao.
Lord Xinling's coalition attack on Qin
Lord Xinling's coalition attack on Qin (信陵君合纵攻秦) was a Warring States campaign in which Lord Xinling of Wei led five states to defeat Qin's army under Meng Ao.
Lord's
Lord's, the 'Home of Cricket' in St John's Wood, London: MCC-owned Test ground founded 1814 by Thomas Lord, capacity 30,000 rising above 32,000 by 2027, 150 Tests, the 2.5-metre slope, honours boards, Ashes urn, and the 2023 Bairstow stumping controversy.
Lord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, is the prayer Jesus taught his disciples, recorded in two versions in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4.
Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), also called United Holy Salvation Army, is Joseph Kony's Ugandan rebel group founded in 1987, notorious for child abductions, ICC indictments, and survival across central Africa.
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, also called the Kony rebellion, is Joseph Kony's 1987 rebellion against Uganda's government, marked by child abduction, Sudanese backing, displacement across DRC, CAR, and South Sudan, and ICC charges against Kony.
Lord's Supper in Reformed theology
The Lord's Supper in Reformed theology, or spiritual real presence, teaches that believers truly feed on Christ's body and blood by the Holy Spirit, not bodily in the bread and wine.
Lorde
Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, born 1996) is a New Zealand art-pop singer-songwriter whose 2013 single "Royals" and album Pure Heroine made her a global star; later albums Melodrama, Solar Power, and Virgin (2025).
Lorde discography
Lorde discography: four studio albums by New Zealand singer Lorde, Pure Heroine (2013), Melodrama (2017), Solar Power (2021), and Virgin (2025), plus The Love Club EP, the Grammy-winning single Royals, and 2024 interim singles.
Lordi
Lordi is a Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band formed in 1992 by Tomi "Mr Lordi" Putaansuu, known for permanent monster costumes. It won Eurovision 2006 in Athens with "Hard Rock Hallelujah" on 292 points, Finland's first win, and has released nineteen studio albums.
Lordosis
Lordosis (swayback) is the natural forward curvature of the cervical and lumbar spine, or its abnormal exaggeration; normal curves are 30-40 degrees cervical and 40-60 degrees lumbar, usually idiopathic and rarely treated.
Lordosis behavior
Lordosis behavior is the hormone-dependent reflexive mating posture of female quadrupeds, in which the spine dorsiflexes to permit penile insertion. Driven by estrogen and progesterone acting on the ventromedial hypothalamus, measured by the lordosis quotient; humans do not display it.
Lords of Acid
Lords of Acid, Belgian electronic dance band formed 1988 in Antwerp by Praga Khan, Jade 4 U, and Olivier Adams; acid house/industrial dance act known for "I Sit on Acid," the gold U.S. album Voodoo-U, and explicit tongue-in-cheek lyrics.
Lords of Chaos (film)
Lords of Chaos is Jonas Åkerlund's 2018 biographical horror drama about Mayhem and the Norwegian black metal scene, based on Moynihan and Søderlind's book, starring Rory Culkin and Emory Cohen, premiered at Sundance 2018, released 2019, RT 73%.
Lords of Dogtown
Lords of Dogtown (2005) is Catherine Hardwicke's biographical drama, scripted by Stacy Peralta, dramatizing the Z-Boys, Peralta, Tony Alva, and Jay Adams, whose empty-pool skating in 1970s Venice Beach radicalized skateboarding.
Lords of the Fallen (2023 video game)
Lords of the Fallen (2023) is a dark-fantasy soulslike action-RPG by Hexworks/CI Games, released 13 October 2023 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S. Axiom/Umbral dual-realm mechanic, 2.5M+ sales, UE5, reboot of the 2014 game.
Lords of the Fallen II
Lords of the Fallen II (LOTF II) is an upcoming Unreal Engine 5 dark fantasy soulslike action RPG by Hexworks and CI Games, sequel to the 2023 game, revealed at Gamescom ONL 2025, delayed to Q1 2027, launching day one on Steam, Epic, PS5, and Xbox.
Lords Spiritual
The Lords Spiritual, or Spiritual Peers, are up to 26 Church of England bishops entitled to sit in the House of Lords, capped by law since 1847.
Lords Temporal
The Lords Temporal are the secular members of the House of Lords, the UK Parliament's upper chamber, comprising mostly life peers since hereditary peers lost their seats in 2026.
Lordship of Chincha
The Lordship of Chincha (señorío de Chincha) was a prosperous pre-Inca trading polity on the central Peruvian coast, incorporated into the Inca Empire in the late fifteenth century.
Lordship of Chios
The Lordship of Chios was the entity through which the Aegean island of Chios was ruled by Genoese interests from 1304 to 1566, ending with Ottoman conquest.
Lordship of Corinth
The Lordship of Corinth was a Frankish lordship over the town and citadel of Corinth, held within the Principality of Achaea from 1210 to 1358.
Lordship of Ireland
Lordship of Ireland (Tiarnas na hÉireann), 1171–1541: the dominion held by the king of England as dominus Hibernie, from the papal-grant tradition and Treaty of Windsor to the 1541 Act for the Kingly Title.
Lordship of Lesbos
The Lordship of Lesbos was a semi-independent state on the Aegean island of Lesbos, ruled by the Genoese Gattilusio family from 1355 until the Ottoman conquest.
Lordship of Milan
The Lordship of Milan (Italian: Signoria di Milano) was the dynastic rule of the Della Torre and then the Visconti families over Milan, from 1277 until the duchy was created in 1395.