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Lordship of Negroponte
The Lordship of Negroponte, also called the Triarchy of Negroponte, was a crusader state on the island of Euboea, founded after 1204 and conquered by the Ottomans in 1470.
Lordship of Transjordan
Lordship of Transjordan (Oultrejordain, Terra trans Iordanem), a crusader lordship of the Kingdom of Jerusalem east of the Jordan, 1100–1189, centered on Montreal and Kerak castles and famously held by Reynald of Châtillon.
Lordship salvation
Lordship salvation is the evangelical position that saving faith necessarily includes submitting to Jesus Christ as Lord, a view debated against Free Grace theology since the 1950s.
Lordstown Motors
Lordstown Motors was an American electric vehicle manufacturer in Lordstown, Ohio, known for the Endurance electric pickup truck; it formed in 2020 and went bankrupt in June 2023.
Lore (TV series)
Lore (TV series): American horror anthology on Prime Video, 2017–2018, adapted from Aaron Mahnke's Lore podcast; two seasons, 12 episodes, blending reenactments, animation, and narration about the real history behind folklore.
Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve
Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve (Cagar Biosfer Lore Lindu), a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 1977 in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia; its core is Lore Lindu National Park, a 200–2,610 m montane rainforest with endemic wildlife and Bada Valley megaliths.
Lore Olympus
Lore Olympus is a romance webcomic by Rachel Smythe on WEBTOON (2018-2024, 280 episodes), a modern retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth. It won three consecutive Eisner Awards for Best Webcomic and is being adapted as a Prime Video animated series.
Loreanne Garcia Ottati
Loreanne Garcia Ottati is a Venezuelan businesswoman who co-founded Kavak, the Mexico City-based used-car platform that became Mexico's first unicorn, and served as Chief People Officer.
Lorecivivint
Lorecivivint is a small-molecule drug injected directly into the knee joint that inhibits the kinases CLK2 and DYRK1A, developed by Samumed and later Biosplice Therapeutics as a disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug.
Loredana Boboc
Loredana Boboc, Romanian artistic gymnast born 1984 in Bucharest, Steaua București club. Won team gold at Sydney 2000 Olympics and at the 1999 Tianjin and 2001 Ghent World Championships; retired in 2001 and became a coach.
Loreen
Loreen (Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, born 1983) is a Swedish dance-pop singer of Moroccan Berber descent who won Eurovision twice, with "Euphoria" (2012, 372 points) and "Tattoo" (2023), the first woman to do so.
Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt (born 1957, Morden, Manitoba) is a Canadian singer, composer, and harpist of "eclectic Celtic" world music, founder of the label Quinlan Road, with over 16 million albums sold and albums The Visit, The Mask and Mirror, and The Book of Secrets.
Lorelai Gilmore
Lorelai Gilmore is the fictional single-mother protagonist of Gilmore Girls (2000-2007, The WB/CW; 2016 Netflix revival), played by Lauren Graham and created by Amy Sherman-Palladino. Distinguished by her best-friend parenting of daughter Rory, her maid-to-innkeeper rise in Stars Hollow, and debates over her feminist and class image.
Lorelei
Lorelei (Loreley, Lurlei): a 132-meter slate rock with a famous echo on the Rhine near St. Goarshausen, Germany, and in legend a golden-haired siren who lures boatmen to wreck. Created as a literary figure by Clemens Brentano (1801) and made canonical by Heine's 1824 poem "Die Lorelei".
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a non-linear puzzle adventure game by Swedish studio Simogo and publisher Annapurna Interactive, released in 2024 for PC and Nintendo Switch.
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (ローレライ)
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (ローレライ) is a 2005 Japanese war sci-fi film, Shinji Higuchi's directorial debut, adapted from Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shūsen no Lorelei, about submarine I-507 and the Lorelei weapon stopping a third atomic bombing.
Lorely Rodriguez (musician)
Lorely Rodriguez, who performs as Empress Of, is a Honduran-American singer, songwriter, and producer of introspective electro-pop with bilingual lyrics, raised near Los Angeles and known for albums including Me (2015) and Dream House (2026).
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum, also called dummy text, is filler placeholder text used in publishing, graphic design, and web development to demonstrate fonts and layout, derived from a mangled passage of Cicero.
Loren Allred
Loren Allred (born 1989, Pittsburgh) is an American singer, the uncredited singing voice of Jenny Lind's "Never Enough" in The Greatest Showman, a 2022 Britain's Got Talent Golden Buzzer finalist, and an independent recording artist.
Loren Bouchard
Loren Bouchard, American animator, writer, producer, director, and composer (born October 10, New York City). Creator of Bob's Burgers (2011, two Emmys), co-creator of Home Movies with Brendon Small, creator of Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil, and co-creator of Central Park.
Loren David Walensky
Loren David Walensky is a chemical biologist and pediatric oncologist, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber researcher, known for hydrocarbon-stapled peptides and BAX activation studies.
Loren Dean
Loren Dean (Loren Dean Jovicic), American actor born 1969 in Las Vegas, known for title roles in Billy Bathgate and Mumford, Anton in Gattaca, Apollo 13, and recurring Russ Brennan on Bones.
Loren Dean Williams
Loren Dean Williams is a biochemist and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology known for the iron(II) RNA cofactor hypothesis and an accretion model of ribosome evolution.
Loren G. Miller
Loren G. Miller is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher, Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Chief of Adult Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA, known for MRSA decolonization trials.
Loren Gray
Loren Gray, full name Loren Gray Beech, is an American internet personality and singer from Pottstown, Pennsylvania, who rose to fame as a lip-sync creator on Musical.ly.
Loren J. Field
Loren J. Field is an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Medicine, known for research on regenerative growth of the heart.
Loren L Looger
Loren L. Looger is an American protein engineer and neuroscientist, an HHMI Investigator and professor at UC San Diego known for engineering the widely used GCaMP calcium indicators.
Loren L. AliKhan
Loren L. AliKhan, born 1983, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Columbia since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Loren Laine
Loren Laine is an American gastroenterologist, professor of medicine and chief of digestive diseases at Yale School of Medicine, and 2012–2013 president of the American Gastroenterological Association.
Loren Legarda
Loren Legarda (Lorna Regina Bautista Legarda) is a Filipina politician and former broadcast journalist, a four-term Philippine senator, the only woman to top two senatorial races and serve as Senate majority leader, and Senate President Pro Tempore known for environmental and climate laws.