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Lament for Uruk
The Lament for Uruk, also known as the Lament for Unug, is a Sumerian city lament mourning the destruction of Unug, composed after the fall of Ur in 2004 BCE.
Lament for Ying
"Lament for Ying" (哀郢, Ai Ying) is a poem by the Warring States poet Qu Yuan, mourning the Chu capital Ying, lost to Qin in 278 BC, and his own exile.
Lament of the Lady of Qin
The Lament of the Lady of Qin (秦婦吟) is a long 883 narrative poem by Tang poet Wei Zhuang recounting the Huang Chao rebellion's destruction of Chang'an.
Lament of the Soldier's Wife
Lament of the Soldier's Wife (Chinh phụ ngâm, also called Chinh phụ ngâm khúc) is a classical Chinese poem by Đặng Trần Côn, composed around 1741, famed through Vietnamese Nôm translations.
Lament on the Fall of Edessa
Lament on the Fall of Edessa (Armenian: Voghb Yedesioy) is a medieval Armenian lament poem by Nerses Shnorhali, written after Muslim troops seized Edessa in 1144.
Lament świętokrzyski
Lament świętokrzyski, also known as Żale Matki Boskiej pod krzyżem, is an anonymous Polish medieval poem of the late 15th century in which the Virgin Mary grieves beneath the cross.
Lamentation (Nerezi)
The Lamentation, or Threnos, is a fresco of 1164 in the Church of Saint Panteleimon at Gorno Nerezi near Skopje, showing the Virgin mourning over the dead Christ.
Lamhe
Lamhe (लम्हे, "Moments") is a 1991 Yash Chopra Hindi romantic drama starring Anil Kapoor and Sridevi in a double role, a box-office flop that won five Filmfare Awards and became a cult classic.
Lamia (ancient city)
Lamia (Λαμία), ancient chief city of the Malians in the Spercheios valley, central Greece; controlled the Thessaly route, prospered from 413 BC, besieged in the Lamian War, destroyed by Rome in 190 BC.
Lamia (Λαμία)
Lamia (Λαμία, formerly Zitouni), a city in mainland Greece and capital of the Region of Central Greece and Phthiotis, first attested in 426 BC, site of the Lamian War of 323 BC, municipality 66,657 residents in 2021.
LaMia Flight 2933
LaMia Flight 2933 (LMI2933) was a Bolivian charter flight that crashed near Medellín, Colombia, on 28 November 2016, carrying Chapecoense; 71 of 77 aboard died.
Lamia Merzouki
Lamia Merzouki is a Moroccan business executive, chief operating officer of Casablanca Finance City since 2010 and chair of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers since 2024.
Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae (Labiatae), the mint family, is a cosmopolitan Lamiales family of about 236 genera and over 7,000 species, sixth largest among angiosperms, with opposite leaves, four-stamened zygomorphic flowers, and major culinary and aromatic uses.
Lamiales
Lamiales, also known as Scrophulariales or Lamiiflorae, is a large order of flowering plants with over 20,000 species worldwide, including mints, olives, sesame, and foxgloves, named in 1993.
Lamian War
Lamian War (ὁ Λαμιακὸς πόλεμος, also ὁ Ἑλληνικὸς πόλεμος), 323–322 BCE: Greek revolt led by Athens and Aetolia against Antipater's Macedon after Alexander the Great's death; ended at Crannon with garrisons, oligarchies, and the fall of Athenian democracy.
LaMichael James
LaMichael James (born 1989) is a former Oregon Ducks running back, 2010 Doak Walker Award winner and Heisman third-place finisher who ran for 5,082 college yards and later played for the 49ers and Dolphins; College Football Hall of Fame 2023.
Lamidi Fakeye
Lamidi Olonade Fakeye (1928–2009) was a Nigerian Yoruba woodcarver from Ila Orangun, known for carved doors, veranda posts, and figures across a 71-year career, including doors for the Kennedy Center.
Lamina emergent mechanism
A lamina emergent mechanism is a compliant mechanism made from planar sheet material whose motion emerges out of the fabrication plane, shipping flat and needing no assembled joints.
Lamina propria
Lamina propria: the loose connective tissue layer beneath the epithelium of all mucous membranes, containing capillaries, lymphatics, fibroblasts, and dense immune cell populations; forms the middle mucosal layer above the muscularis mucosae.
Laminar flow
Laminar flow, also called lamellar flow, is a regime of fluid motion in smooth, parallel layers with no mixing, occurring when the Reynolds number is low.
Laminar flow control
Laminar flow control (LFC) is an active aircraft boundary-layer control technique, usually skin suction, that delays turbulent flow to reduce drag and fuel burn by up to about 30 percent.
Laminar–turbulent transition
Laminar–turbulent transition, also known as transitional flow, is how smooth laminar flow breaks down into turbulence, typically as the Reynolds number increases past a critical value.
Laminaria digitata
Laminaria digitata (oarweed, tangle) is a North Atlantic brown kelp, type species of Laminaria, with digitate blades, ~1% dry-weight iodine, and Irish hatchery-based longline aquaculture for alginates and extracts.
Laminarin
Laminarin, (1→3)-β-D-glucan, CAS 9008-22-4, is a linear β-1,3-glucan storage polysaccharide of the kelp Laminaria digitata used as a plant defense elicitor (Vacciplant, Iodus), EU-approved as a low-risk pesticide active substance until 28 February 2033.
Laminate flooring
Laminate flooring is a rigid floor covering of a printed wood or stone image under a hard wear layer, invented in Sweden in 1977 and installed as a floating floor.
Laminated glass
Laminated glass, also known as laminated safety glass, is two or more glass plies bonded by a polymer interlayer, typically PVB, so fragments stay attached after breakage.
Laminated object manufacturing
Laminated object manufacturing (LOM) is an additive manufacturing process that builds objects layer by layer from adhesive-coated sheets, typically paper, bonded by a heated roller.
Laminated veneer lumber
Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is an engineered wood product made by bonding thin wood veneers with parallel grain, stronger and more uniform than solid timber.
Lamination
Lamination: joining layers of material with heat, pressure, and adhesive into one composite. Covers textile lamination methods (hot-melt, flame, liquid adhesive), 2/2.5/3-layer waterproof-breathable structures, delamination, and fiber-metal laminates.
Lamine Bey
Lamine Bey (Mohamed el-Amine Bey, Muhammad VIII al-Amin), 1881-1962, last bey of Tunis and only king of independent Tunisia; reigned 15 May 1943 to 25 July 1957, deposed when the Constituent Assembly abolished the Husainid monarchy and proclaimed the Republic under Habib Bourguiba.