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Lousonna
Lousonna (also Leusonna) was the Gallo-Roman vicus of Lausanne at Vidy on Lake Geneva, founded 16/15 BC, with forum, basilica, theatre, and port; abandoned in the 4th century for the Cité hill.
Louta
Louta is the stage name of Jaime Martín James, an Argentine singer and songwriter whose music blends pop, trap, cumbia, and salsa; he opened Taylor Swift's 2023 Buenos Aires shows.
Loutfy Mansour
Loutfy Mansour (1909–1976) was an Egyptian businessman who founded the cotton-exporting firm Loutfy Mansour and Sons in 1952, the origin of Mansour Group, one of Egypt's largest family-owned conglomerates.
Loutra Hypatis Early Christian basilica and bath
Loutra Hypatis Early Christian basilica and bath (Λουτρά Υπάτης): excavated site at Varka hamlet, Phthiotida, Greece, pairing a mid-4th-century Roman bath with a three-aisled paleochristian basilica whose mosaics come from the Klapsi workshop.
Louvain method
The Louvain method is a greedy heuristic algorithm for detecting communities in large graphs by maximizing modularity, proposed by Blondel, Guillaume, Lambiotte, and Lefebvre in 2008.
Louvre
The Louvre (Musée du Louvre) is France's national art museum in the former royal palace in Paris, founded in 1793. Nine curatorial departments, about 30,000 works displayed of nearly 500,000 held, 9 million visitors in 2025, and the 2025 crown jewels heist distinguish it.
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Louvre Abu Dhabi, first universal museum in the Arab world, opened 8 November 2017 on Saadiyat Island under a 2007 France-UAE agreement; Jean Nouvel dome, 700-work collection, 965 million euro partnership.
Louvre Accord
The Louvre Accord was a February 1987 agreement by G6 finance ministers and central bankers to stabilize exchange rates around current levels after the Plaza Accord.
Louvre Palace
The Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) is a former royal residence in Paris begun as a fortress under Philippe Auguste around 1190, now housing the Louvre, the world's most-visited museum.
Louvre Pyramid
The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a glass pyramid by I. M. Pei at the Louvre in Paris, inaugurated in 1989 as the museum's main entrance.
Lovable (company)
Lovable, first known as GPT Engineer, is a Stockholm AI company founded in 2023 by Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin that generates and hosts full-stack web apps from plain-language descriptions.
Lovable Labs Inc
Lovable Labs Inc, founded by Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin in 2023, is the Delaware company behind Lovable, an AI platform that builds software from plain-language descriptions.
Lovada Sangarawa
Lovada Sangarawa (ලෝවැඩ සඟරාව) is a 15th-century Sinhala didactic poem of about 140 verses, composed by Vidagama Maitreya Mahathera under King Parakramabahu VI of Kotte to teach Buddhism in plain Sinhala.
Lovage
Lovage (Levisticum officinale, Maggi plant, Liebstöckel) is a tall Apiaceae perennial herb native to Iran-Afghanistan, with a strong celery-parsley, umami flavor from ligustilide; once a Roman staple in Apicius, now largely replaced by celery and parsley.
Lovastatin
Lovastatin (Mevacor, mevinolin, monacolin K) is a fungal-derived HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor from Aspergillus terreus, the first FDA-approved statin (September 1987), lowering LDL cholesterol about 40% at 80 mg daily.
Lovász conjecture
The Lovász conjecture is an open problem in graph theory stating that every finite connected vertex-transitive graph has a Hamiltonian path, posed by László Lovász in 1969.
Lovász local lemma
The Lovász local lemma is a 1975 result of Erdős and Lovász: if bad events each have small probability and limited dependence, none may occur with positive probability.
LOVB Austin
LOVB Austin is a professional women's volleyball team in League One Volleyball (LOVB), based in Austin, Texas. Sixth founding franchise, back-to-back LOVB champions in 2025 and 2026, owned by G9 Ventures, Bolt Ventures, and Spurs Sports & Entertainment.
LOVB Nebraska
LOVB Nebraska, formerly LOVB Omaha, is a professional women's volleyball team in Omaha playing in LOVB Pro since January 2025; rebranded August 2025 under owner Jordan Larson, with a 66,000 sq ft Gretna training facility and a 10-10 2026 season.
LOVB Pro
LOVB Pro is the professional women's volleyball league of League One Volleyball (LOVB, "love"), launched January 2025 with six league-owned, club-anchored US teams; it expanded to 10 teams and two conferences for 2026-27, with LOVB Austin the 2025 champion.
Lovćen
Lovćen (Ловћен) is a karst limestone mountain in southwestern Montenegro between Kotor and Cetinje, highest peak Štirovnik 1,749 m. Its national park (1952, 6,220 ha) holds Njegoš's Meštrović mausoleum on Jezerski vrh.
Lovcen (horse)
Lovcen (ロブチェン) is a Japanese Thoroughbred colt (foaled 9 April 2023) by World Premiere out of Songwriting, trained by Haruki Sugiyama. He won the 2025 Hopeful Stakes and the 2026 Satsuki Sho and Japanese Derby, and is distinct from a German 2005 gelding of the same name.
Lovčice
Lovčice: name of several Czech villages, chiefly one in Hradec Králové District with a late Roman Elbe-Germanic inhumation grave, and a Moravian village first mentioned 1131, later Liechtenstein property.
Love
Love, in philosophy, is personal love: caring for a particular person for her own sake. Key distinctions are eros, philia, and agape; main modern theories treat love as union, robust concern, valuing, or emotion.
Love (2015 film)
Love (2015 film) by Gaspar Noé: French-Belgian-Brazilian 3D erotic drama starring Karl Glusman, Aomi Muyock, Klara Kristin; Cannes 2015 midnight premiere, unsimulated sex, 135 minutes, mixed reviews.
Love (2024 film)
Love (Kjærlighet) is a 2024 Norwegian drama by Dag Johan Haugerud, part of his Sex Dreams Love trilogy, about a doctor and a nurse exploring intimacy outside conventional relationships; it competed at Venice 2024.
Love (band)
Love: American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, led by Arthur Lee (1945–2006); first rock act on Elektra, one of the first interracial rock bands, best known for the 1967 album Forever Changes.
Love (Dexys Midnight Runners album)
Love (LOVE) is Dexys Midnight Runners' seventh studio album, released 4 September 2026 on Heavenly Recordings, their first under the full band name since 1985's Don't Stand Me Down, produced by David Holmes.
Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce)
Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) (결혼작사 이혼작곡, Marriage Lyrics and Divorce Music) is a 2021-2022 TV Chosun Korean drama by writer Phoebe (Im Sung-han) about three radio-station wives facing their husbands' infidelity, 48 episodes on Netflix.
Love (lunar crater)
Love is an IAU-adopted impact crater on the Moon, 90.08 km in diameter, centered at 6.33° S, 129.17° E; a complex crater far above the lunar simple-to-complex transition size.