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Los Traileros del Norte

Los Traileros del Norte, billed since 1985 as Los Caballeros del Estilo Diferente, are a norteño group from Guadalupe, Nuevo León, Mexico, formed in 1983 and known for the accordion-led hit "Rosas Blancas".

Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve

Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Los Tuxtlas), decreed 1998 in southern Veracruz, Mexico, protects 155,122 ha of the northernmost tropical rainforest in the Americas on volcanic Sierra de Los Tuxtlas; UNESCO MAB site since 2006.

Los Valles de Omaña y Luna Biosphere Reserve

Los Valles de Omaña y Luna Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de los Valles de Omaña y Luna), a UNESCO MAB site in León Province, Spain, designated 2005, rezonified 2019; about 81,162 ha, six municipalities, Cantabrian fauna such as brown bear and capercaillie.

Los Van Van

Los Van Van is a Cuban dance band founded in Havana in 1969 by Juan Formell, creator of the songo style, known as the Rolling Stones of salsa.

Los Villares (Quintana del Marco)

Los Villares (Quintana del Marco) is a Roman villa site in León, Spain, in the Órbigo vega, discovered in 1899, famed for the Hylas and the Nymphs mosaic, declared BIC in 1996, and listed as endangered heritage.

Los Villares necropolis

Los Villares necropolis: Iberian tumular cemetery at Hoya Gonzalo, Albacete, Spain, with 40 stone tumuli, 106 pit cremations, and the Caballero sculptures, used 6th-4th century BC; distinct from the 5th-6th century AD necropolis at Baños y Mendigo, Murcia.

Los Volcanes Biosphere Reserve

Los Volcanes Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biósfera Los Volcanes) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in central Mexico, designated in 2010 around Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.

Los Yonic's

Los Yonic's is a Mexican grupero group founded in 1975 in Guerrero, known for romantic cumbias such as "Pero te vas a arrepentir" and "Palabras tristes".

Los Zetas

Los Zetas, Mexican criminal organization founded in the late 1990s by Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas from military deserters; split from the Gulf Cartel in 2010, notorious for the San Fernando and Allende massacres, fragmented after 2012 into the Northeast Cartel and Old School Zetas.

Losa

Losa: submerged Gallo-Roman mansio (road station) on the Roman road from Bordeaux to Dax, named in the Antonine Itinerary, 7 leagues from Boïos; now under Lake Sanguinet, France. Not the Sardinian Nuraghe Losa.

Losaka-Tissa

Losaka-Tissa (लोसकतिस्स) was an arahant monk of Kosala, a fisherman's son ordained by Sāriputta, remembered for lifelong poverty ending in release on the day he finally ate his fill.

LOSALIOS

LOSALIOS (ロザリオス) is a Japanese rock band begun in 1996 by drummer Tatsuya Nakamura of Blankey Jet City, playing almost purely instrumental punk, jazz, and avant-garde music.

Losar

Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་) is the Tibetan and Himalayan New Year, from lo (year) and sar (new), set by the lunisolar Tibetan calendar in February or March. Variants include Gyalpo, Sonam, and Tamu Losar; celebrations last about fifteen days with purification rites, guthuk soup, khapse, and prayer flags.

Losartan

Losartan (Cozaar, DuP 753) is the first angiotensin II receptor blocker, an orally active AT1-selective antihypertensive approved by the FDA in 1995, with active metabolite E3174, indicated for hypertension, LVH stroke risk, and diabetic nephropathy.

Loschmidt's paradox

Loschmidt's paradox, also called the reversibility paradox or Umkehreinwand, is the objection, raised by Johann Joseph Loschmidt in 1876, that irreversible entropy increase cannot follow from time-reversal invariant mechanics.

Lose My Mind (Don Toliver song)

"Lose My Mind" is a 2025 synth-heavy pop rap single by Houston rapper Don Toliver featuring Doja Cat, the lead single from F1 The Album, produced by Grant Boutin, Hans Zimmer, and Ryan Tedder.

Lose You to Love Me

Lose You to Love Me, Selena Gomez piano ballad co-written with Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter, and Mattman & Robin; released October 23, 2019 on Interscope as lead single from Rare and her first Billboard Hot 100 number one.

Lose Yourself

Lose Yourself is Eminem's 2002 single from the 8 Mile soundtrack, produced with Jeff Bass and Luis Resto. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks, was the first rap song to win the Best Original Song Oscar, and won two 2004 Grammys.

Losene Keita

Losene "Black Panther" Keita (born 1997, Conakry, Guinea) is a Belgian UFC featherweight and former Oktagon MMA two-division champion; 17-2 record, 11 KO wins, missed weight for his cancelled 2025 UFC Paris debut.

Loser (Beck song)

Beck's "Loser" (1993, Bong Load; reissued 1994 on DGC's Mellow Gold) is a slide-guitar and rap hybrid built on a Johnny Jenkins drum sample; it hit number 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart and number 15 in the UK.

Loser (film)

Loser (film) is a 2000 American romantic comedy directed by Amy Heckerling. It follows a scholarship student in New York who falls for a classmate involved with her professor.

Loser (Tame Impala song)

"Loser" is a 2025 song by Tame Impala (Kevin Parker), second single from the album Deadbeat, released 3 September 2025 on Columbia. Funk track referencing Beck's "Loser"; video stars Joe Keery; UK peak number 10.

Losii Dikho

Losii Dikho is an Indian politician of the Naga People's Front who became Deputy Chief Minister of Manipur in February 2026, representing the 48-Mao Assembly Constituency for three consecutive terms.

Losing Isaiah

Losing Isaiah is a 1995 American drama directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, starring Jessica Lange and Halle Berry in a custody battle over an adopted child, adapted from Seth Margolis's novel.

Losing It

"Losing It" is a 2018 tech house single by Australian producer FISHER that spent 21 weeks at number 1 on Beatport and earned a Grammy nomination.

Losing My Religion

"Losing My Religion" is R.E.M.'s 1991 lead single from Out of Time, built on a Peter Buck mandolin riff. A Southern idiom for losing composure, it peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won two Grammys.

Losing stream

Losing stream, also called influent stream: a stream or reach that loses streamflow by infiltration into the ground, recharging the aquifer; in karst it may sink into fractures or a ponor, unlike a sinking stream at a swallet.

Losing-Trick Count

Losing-Trick Count (LTC), or Losing Trick Count, is a contract bridge hand-evaluation method for trump contracts: count losers per suit (max three), combine with partner's, subtract from 24 to estimate tricks; coined by F. Dudley Courtenay in 1934.

Losliya Mariyanesan

Losliya Mariyanesan (லாஸ்லியா மரியனேசன்), born 1996 in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan-Indian actress, newsreader, and presenter; Bigg Boss Tamil 3 second runner-up (2019) and star of Friendship, Koogle Kuttappa, Mr. Housekeeping, and Gentlewoman.

Losmapimod

Losmapimod (GW856553) is an oral p38 alpha/beta MAPK inhibitor tested for acute coronary syndrome, COPD, and FSHD; it showed target engagement and good tolerability but failed efficacy endpoints, and its FSHD program was discontinued in 2024.