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Loudness war
The loudness war, also called the loudness race, is the competitive increase in recorded music's loudness through compression, limiting, and clipping during mastering, which intensified in the CD era before streaming loudness normalization removed the incentive.
Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III, full name Loudon Snowden Wainwright III, is an American folk singer-songwriter and actor born in 1946, known for the 1972 hit "Dead Skunk."
Loudong school
The Loudong school (娄东派), also called the Taicang school, was a Qing dynasty Chinese landscape painting school centered on Wang Shimin and his grandson Wang Yuanqi of Taicang.
Loudoun County, Virginia
Loudoun County, Virginia: northern Virginia county, seat Leesburg (est. 1757, named for the fourth Earl of Loudoun). Known as Data Center Alley, it holds the world's highest concentration of data centers, generating 39% of its FY2026 budget.
Loudoun Hill
Loudoun Hill is a trachyte volcanic plug near Darvel, East Ayrshire, Scotland, site of Robert the Bruce's victory over Aymer de Valence on 10 May 1307 and a doubtful 1296 Wallace engagement.
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into sound by moving a diaphragm that pushes and pulls the surrounding air.
Loudwire
Loudwire is an American hard rock and heavy metal news website operated by Townsquare Media and published since 2011, with a YouTube channel and the Loudwire Nights radio show.
Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons (Louella Rose Oettinger, 1881–1972), American Hollywood gossip columnist for William Randolph Hearst's papers from 1915 to 1960, with over forty million readers, known for the Citizen Kane suppression episode and her rivalry with Hedda Hopper.
Loufan Ancient City Site
娄烦古城遗址 (Loufan Ancient City Site), an Eastern Zhou walled city in Loufan County, Taiyuan, Shanxi, identified as the Loufan nomadic state capital broken by King Wuling of Zhao in 306 BC; seventh-batch national heritage site, number 7-0048-1-048.
Loufan people
The Loufan people (楼烦) were a pastoral, horse-riding people of the Ordos Plateau and northern Shanxi, contending with Zhao, Qin, and Jin in the Warring States period.
Louga
Louga, a region of northern Senegal created in 1976 from the split of Diourbel, capital the city of Louga; three departments (Kébémer, Linguère, Louga), about 1.13 million inhabitants (RGPH 2023), Sahelian pastoral economy.
Louga Department
Louga Department, a department of Senegal in the Louga region with capital Louga city; 477,765 inhabitants (RGPH-5 2023), 17 communes, the most populous of the region's three departments (Louga, Kébémer, Linguère).
Lough Neagh
Lough Neagh, in Northern Ireland, is the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles at about 383 km2. It drains via the Lower Bann, supplies 40% of NI drinking water, sits in a Paleocene pull-apart basin, and faces recurring blue-green algae blooms.
Lough Neagh & Lough Beg
Lough Neagh & Lough Beg: linked lakes in central Northern Ireland; Lough Neagh is the UK's largest freshwater lake (383 km2), a Ramsar site supplying 40% of NI drinking water, affected by the 2023 toxic algal bloom.
Loughborough
Loughborough is a large market and university town in Charnwood, Leicestershire, between Leicester and Nottingham, known for Loughborough University (founded 1909, first UK technological university), John Taylor & Co bellfoundry, and its 800-year-old market.
Loughborough University
Loughborough University, chartered 1966 as the UK's first technological university, grew from a 1909 Technical Institute. Known for its 523-acre campus, 41-year BUCS sport streak, London postgraduate campus, and 19,418 students.
Loughcrew (Megalithic Landscape)
Loughcrew, also called Slieve na Calliagh or Sliabh na Callaigh (Hills of the Witch), is a Neolithic passage tomb cemetery of about 30 tombs on hilltops near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, known for Cairn T's equinox alignment, megalithic art, and Conwell's 1863 investigations.
Lougheed Island
Lougheed Island, Nunavut, is a 1,308 km2 uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, named by explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1916 after Senator Sir James Lougheed; largest of the Findlay group, under 150 m elevation.
Loughgall
Loughgall FC, the Villagers, formed 1967 in Loughgall, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; plays at Lakeview Park. Four straight Irish League B Division titles 1995-98, NIFL Championship 2022/23, twelve Bob Radcliffe Cups.
Loughton Camp
Loughton Camp: Iron Age slight univallate hillfort in Great Monk Wood, Epping Forest, Essex, built around 500 BC, single bank and ditch enclosing about 4.5 ha, scheduled monument 1013518, companion to Ambresbury Banks.
Louguan Dao
Louguan Dao (楼观道) was a Daoist monastic school centered at the Louguan abbey on Zhongnanshan, influential under the Northern Wei and flourishing under the Sui and Tang.
Louhi Planitia
Louhi Planitia, a 2,440 km-wide lowland plain on Venus near the north pole, IAU named 1985 for the Karelo-Finn mother of the North; center 80.5°N, 120.5°E.
Louie Anderson
Louie Anderson, born Louis Perry Anderson, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author who hosted Family Feud from 1999 to 2002 and won a 2016 Emmy for playing Christine Baskets on FX's Baskets.
Louie Barry
Louie Mark Barry (born 2003, Sutton Coldfield) is an English left winger/striker, ex-West Brom and Barcelona youth player, Aston Villa FA Cup goalscorer vs Liverpool, prolific on loan at Stockport County, now Sheffield Wednesday.
Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson (Luigi Balassoni, 1924-2009) was an American swing-era and big band jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader who pioneered the double bass drum set-up, won the Gene Krupa contest at 17, played with Duke Ellington, and was a 1994 NEA Jazz Master.
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio, born 1958, is an American pastor, author, and speaker who founded the Passion movement for college students and leads Passion City Church in Atlanta.
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert, Republican U.S. Representative from Texas's 1st District 2005-2023, former Smith County judge and Texas 12th Court of Appeals chief justice; led 2020 election objections, lost 2022 Texas attorney general primary.
Louie Louie
Louie Louie: Richard Berry's 1950s R&B song about a homesick sailor, made famous by the Kingsmen's 1963 No. 2 hit with unintelligible vocals that triggered an FBI obscenity investigation.
Louie Sibley
Louie Joseph Sibley (born 2001, Burton upon Trent) is an English left-footed midfielder, ex-Derby County (173 apps, 20 goals), now Oxford United, on loan at Bradford City; famous for an 18-year-old hat-trick at Millwall in 2020.
Louie Spence
Louie Spence, born 1969, is a British dancer and television personality, star of Sky1's Pineapple Dance Studios and artistic director of Pineapple Dance Studios in Covent Garden.