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Lotte van Beek
Lotte van Beek (Charlotte Willemijn van Beek, born 1991, Zwolle) is a retired Dutch speed skater: 2014 Olympic team pursuit gold and 1500 m bronze, 2018 team pursuit silver, 2018 European 1500 m champion.
Lotte Verbeek
Lotte Verbeek, Dutch actress born 1982, in Venlo; Locarno and Marrakech Best Actress winner for Nothing Personal (2009), Berlinale Shooting Star 2010, known as Geillis Duncan in Outlander, Katarina Rostova in The Blacklist, and Emmy Göring in Nuremberg (2025).
Lotte World (롯데월드)
Lotte World (롯데월드) is a Lotte Group leisure complex in Jamsil, Seoul, opened July 12, 1989 as Korea's first large-scale indoor theme park, with indoor Adventure, outdoor Magic Island on Seokchon Lake, 35 rides, mall, hotel, and folk museum.
Lotte World Aquarium (South Korea)
Lotte World Aquarium (롯데월드 아쿠아리움), opened October 16, 2014 in Lotte World Mall, Jamsil, Seoul, holds 55,000 animals of 650 species in 13 zones; known for its beluga Bella and stalled release pledge.
LOTTE WORLD Busan
Lotte World Adventure Busan (롯데월드 어드벤처 부산), an outdoor theme park by Lotte World in Busan's Osiria Tourism Complex, opened March 31, 2022. Six zones, 17 rides, Giant Digger coaster, designed by Legacy Entertainment.
LOTTE WORLD KIDS PARK
LOTTE WORLD KIDS PARK (롯데월드 키즈파크) is Lotte World's indoor children-only theme park in Lotte Mall Eunpyeong, Seoul, opened December 22, 2016; about 6,600 m², undersea-kingdom themed, with 12 attractions, distinct from Jamsil's Lotte World Adventure.
Lotte World Tower (롯데월드타워)
Lotte World Tower (롯데월드타워), also known as Lotte Tower, is a 555-meter, 123-story mixed-use skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea, opened in 2017 as the country's tallest building.
Lotteria (ロッテリア)
Lotteria (ロッテリア) is a hamburger fast-food chain founded in Japan in 1972 by the Lotte group, now run mainly in South Korea by Lotte GRS and known for its bulgogi burger.
Lotteries in Australia
Lotteries in Australia: state-licensed public lotteries (Lotto, Powerball, Oz Lotto, scratch-its) run mostly by The Lottery Corporation except WA's Lotterywest, plus charity and community lotteries; 2026 federal reforms ban online keno and foreign matched lotteries from 1 January 2027.
Lotteries in the United States
Lotteries in the United States: government-run games in 45 states, DC, and two territories since New Hampshire's 1964 Sweepstakes; $113.3 billion fiscal 2024 sales funding education and other programs.
Lottery
Lottery: a paid-entry game of pure chance for prizes, and a state revenue tool. Covers definition, history from 1539 France onward, earmarking for education, odds, regressivity, and harm.
Lottery jackpot records
Lottery jackpot records: highest advertised grand prizes won, led by the $2.04 billion Powerball won in California in 2022 (Edwin Castro). US Powerball and Mega Millions dominate because uncapped rollovers; EuroMillions caps at €250 million.
Lottery mathematics
Lottery mathematics applies combinatorics and probability to lottery games: Powerball's 5/69+1/26 matrix gives 292,201,338 combinations (1 in 292.2 million jackpot odds), Mega Millions 1 in 290,472,336, with expected value reduced by jackpot sharing.
Lottery Ticket (2010 film)
Lottery Ticket (2010 film) is an American comedy directed by Erik White. It stars Bow Wow as a man who wins $370 million, facing schemes from his community.
Lottery ticket hypothesis
The lottery ticket hypothesis is a 2018 deep learning conjecture by Jonathan Frankle and Michael Carbin: dense random networks contain sparse winning-ticket subnetworks that train to full accuracy alone.
Lotti Siniscalco
Carlotta "Lotti" Siniscalco is an Italian-born American venture capitalist and General Partner at Emergence Capital, where she led early-stage investments in Oyster, Federato, Method, and other enterprise software companies.
Lottie Dod
Lottie Dod (Charlotte Dod, 1871–1960), English athlete nicknamed "The Little Wonder": five-time Wimbledon ladies' singles champion (1887–1893), youngest ever at 15 years 285 days, 1904 British Ladies' Amateur golf champion, and 1908 Olympic archery silver medallist.
LOTTO (Poland)
LOTTO (Poland): national 6-of-49 lottery run by state-owned Totalizator Sportowy since 1957 (as Toto-Lotek, then Duży Lotek, Lotto since 2009), under a state monopoly, funding sport and culture.
Lotto 6/49
Lotto 6/49 is Canada's national 6-from-49 lottery, run by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation: $3 per play, 1-in-13,983,816 jackpot odds, a fixed $5 million Classic jackpot, and a Gold Ball draw guaranteeing a winner each draw.
Lotto Max
Lotto Max (LOTTO MAX) is Canada's national Tuesday/Friday jackpot lottery run by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation. Since April 14, 2026: $6 buys 4 lines of 7 from 52; $10M–$90M jackpots, MAXMILLIONS at $50M+, MAXPLUS $100,000 prizes; jackpot odds 1 in 33,446,140 per play.
Lotto Sport Italia
Lotto Sport Italia is an Italian sports footwear and apparel brand founded in 1973 by the Caberlotto brothers in Montebelluna, Treviso, known for its double-field logo, tennis heritage, laceless Zhero soccer boots, and WHP Global ownership; distinct from the LottoItalia lottery consortium.
Lotus
Lotus L. (trefoils, birdsfoot trefoil) is an Old World Fabaceae genus of herbs and shrublets in tribe Loteae, published 1753, with Lotus corniculatus as major forage and Lotus japonicus as a model legume; unrelated to Nelumbo, the sacred lotus.
Lotus (Christina Aguilera album)
Lotus is the 2012 RCA studio album by Christina Aguilera, marketed as a rebirth after Bionic. 13 tracks, guests CeeLo Green and Blake Shelton, production by Max Martin, Shellback, and Alex da Kid; peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, Metacritic 56.
Lotus (Little Simz album)
Lotus is the sixth studio album by British rapper Little Simz (Simbiatu Ajikawo), released 6 June 2025 on AWAL, produced entirely by Miles Clinton James after her lawsuit against former producer Inflo over a £1.7 million loan, peaking at No. 3 in the UK.
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program released in January 1983 by Lotus Development Corporation for the IBM PC, named for its three combined functions: spreadsheet, graphics, and database management.
Lotus and Water Birds
Lotus and Water Birds (荷花水鸟图), also titled Lotus, Rock and Water Bird, is a recurring lotus-pond subject in the ink paintings of Qing dynasty artist Bada Shanren.
Lotus Bakeries
Lotus Bakeries, also branded Biscoff, is a Belgian family-controlled snacking company founded in 1932 in Lembeke, known for Lotus Biscoff caramelised cookies and spread, listed on Euronext Brussels (LOTB) with 2025 revenue of EUR 1,355 million.
Lotus birth
Lotus birth, or umbilical nonseverance, is leaving the umbilical cord uncut so the baby stays attached to the placenta until natural detachment in 3 to 10 days; no proven benefit, documented infection and sepsis risks.
Lotus Carlton
The Lotus Carlton, sold in continental Europe as the Lotus Omega, is a 377 bhp high-performance version of the Vauxhall Carlton saloon built by Lotus from 1990 to 1992.
Lotus Cars
Lotus Cars, also known as Group Lotus, is a British sports car and engineering company founded by Colin Chapman in 1948 and based at Hethel, Norfolk.