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Lampung
Lampung, an Indonesian province at the southeastern tip of Sumatra, capital Bandar Lampung; created 18 March 1964 (Law 14/1964) from the Lampung Residency of South Sumatra; population 9.53 million (SUPAS 2025).
Lampung FSRU
The Lampung FSRU, formally PGN FSRU Lampung, is a floating LNG terminal moored 21 km off Lampung, southern Sumatra, operated by PGN since 2014 to supply gas to Java.
Lamtuna
The Lamtuna (لمتونة) were a Sanhaja Berber tribe of camel nomads in the western Sahara, in what is now southern Morocco, Western Sahara, and Mauritania, and they formed the core of the Almoravid movement and army.
Lamu Old Town
Lamu Old Town, on Lamu Island on Kenya's northern coast, is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, continuously inhabited over 700 years, built in coral stone and mangrove timber, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
Lamu Port
Lamu Port is a deep-water seaport at Manda Bay in Lamu County, Kenya, and the maritime anchor of the LAPSSET Corridor linking Kenya, South Sudan, and Ethiopia.
Lamuri
Lamuri, also recorded as Lambri and Ramni, was an ancient trading kingdom at the northern tip of Sumatra, Indonesia, mentioned by foreign sources from the 9th to 16th centuries.
Lamyatt
Lamyatt is a small Somerset hamlet near Castle Cary and Bruton, mentioned in Domesday. Its hill, Lamyatt Beacon, held a Romano-Celtic temple with votive figurines and a later sixth-to-eighth-century cemetery of mainly female burials.
Lan Bo Chen
Lan Bo Chen (陈良博) is a Taiwan-born cell biologist, a Harvard pathology professor and Dana-Farber researcher elected to Academia Sinica in 1996, known for work on fibronectin.
Lan Hongchun
Lan Hongchun (蓝鸿春), born 1985 in Shantou, Guangdong, is a mainland Chinese director, screenwriter, and editor of Teochew-dialect Chaoshan films: Love & Swatow, Proud of Me, Back to Love, and the 2026 blockbuster Dear You.
Lan Larison
Lan Larison (born 2001) is an NFL running back for the New England Patriots, a 2025 undrafted free agent from UC Davis who set the school's career all-purpose yards record (6,504) and debuted in 2026.
Lan Ling Wang: Willows
Lan Ling Wang: Willows is a celebrated parting lyric by the Northern Song poet Zhou Bangyan, set on the Sui Dike at Kaifeng and included in the Three Hundred Song Lyrics.
Lan Na
Lan Na (ล้านนา) was a Tai kingdom in northern Southeast Asia founded by King Mangrai and centered on Chiang Mai from 1296 until the Burmese conquest of 1558.
Lan Na under Burmese rule
Lan Na under Burmese rule (1558–1774) was the period when the northern Tai kingdom of Lan Na, centered on Chiang Mai, lost independence to Burma's Bayinnaung in 1558.
Lan Na under Siamese overlordship
Lan Na under Siamese overlordship (1774–1899) was the period when the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na became a tributary state of Siam, ending two centuries of Burmese rule.
LAN party
LAN party: a gathering where gamers connect computers or consoles to a local area network, mainly to play multiplayer games together. Peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s before broadband; BYOC tradition; DreamHack 2013 record 22,810 visitors.
Lan Shizhang
Lan Shizhang (兰世章), born 1974 in Sanjiang, Guangxi, Chinese weightlifter; 4th in flyweight at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, two Asian Games golds, and world clean & jerk records at -54 kg and -56 kg.
Lan Xang fragmentation
The Lan Xang fragmentation, beginning in 1707, split the Kingdom of Lan Xang, ancestor of the modern Lao state, into kingdoms at Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and Champasak.
Lan Xang–Đại Việt War (1479–1480)
The Lan Xang–Đại Việt War was a 1479–1480 conflict in which Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt invaded Lan Xang and Bồn Man, then withdrew under Chinese pressure.
Lan Yang
Lan Yang is an electrical engineer and Edwin H. and Florence G. Skinner Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, working in nanophotonics and plasmonics.
Lan Yu
Lan Yu (蓝玉) was a Ming dynasty general, Duke of Liang, who won the decisive Battle of Buir Lake in 1388 and was executed with some 15,000 associates for alleged treason in 1393.
Lan Yu (蓝宇) (2001 film)
Lan Yu (蓝宇, 2001) is a Stanley Kwan Hong Kong romance drama starring Hu Jun and Liu Ye, adapted from the anonymous internet novel Beijing Story; banned on the mainland, Golden Horse audience-voted Best Film, 4K-restored since 2021.
Lan Yu Case
The Lan Yu Case (蓝玉案) was a 1393 treason prosecution by the Hongwu Emperor against Ming general Lan Yu, ending in his execution and about 15,000 deaths.
LANA
LANA (ラナ) is a Japanese singer and rapper born in 2004 in Shonan, Kanagawa, who broke out via SoundCloud at 15 and topped Billboard Japan's Heatseekers chart in 2023.
Lana Clarkson
Lana Jean Clarkson (1962-2003), American actress and model, star of Roger Corman's Deathstalker and Barbarian Queen; shot dead at Phil Spector's Alhambra mansion in 2003; Spector convicted of second-degree murder in 2009.
Lana Condor
Lana Condor (Trần Đồng Lan), Vietnamese-born American actress born 1997 in Can Tho, adopted at four months; known as Jubilee in X-Men: Apocalypse and Lara Jean Covey in Netflix's To All the Boys trilogy, later Boo, Bitch and Coyote vs. Acme.
Lana Del Ray (album)
Lana Del Ray, subtitled a.k.a. Lizzy Grant, is the 2010 debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Elizabeth Grant, released digitally and withdrawn after two months.
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey, stage name of Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born 1985, New York City; raised in Lake Placid), is the American singer-songwriter of Born to Die (2012), Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) and Ocean Blvd (2023), known for cinematic Americana pop.
Lana Del Rey 2025 UK and Ireland Tour
Lana Del Rey 2025 UK and Ireland Tour: six-date first stadium run, 23 June to 4 July 2025, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, Dublin, two Wembley nights; 300,000+ tickets, Southern Gothic house staging, supports London Grammar, BANKS, Addison Rae.
Lana Del Rey discography
Lana Del Rey discography: catalog of Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, from Lizzy Grant and May Jailer releases (Kill Kill 2008, A.K.A. Lizzy Grant 2010) through nine Lana Del Rey studio albums (Born to Die 2012 to Ocean Blvd 2023) and the announced tenth album Stove.
Lana Garmire
Lana X. Garmire is an American computational biologist known for bioinformatics methods in single-cell transcriptomics and cancer genomics, who received a Presidential Early Career Award in the 2017 cohort.