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Loy Yang Coal Mine

Loy Yang Coal Mine is Australia's largest brown coal mine, an open cut in Victoria's Latrobe Valley feeding the Loy Yang A and Loy Yang B power stations.

Loyal and Righteous Militias of the North

The Loyal and Righteous Militias of the North (河北忠义军) were irregular armed bands in northern China that acknowledged the Song dynasty and fought the Jin forces during the Southern Song.

Loyal Oil and Gas Field

Loyal is an oil and gas field on the UK Continental Shelf west of Shetland, discovered in 1994 and producing through BP's Glen Lyon FPSO.

Loyal Order of Moose

Loyal Order of Moose, fraternal order founded 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky by Dr. John Henry Wilson; revived by James J. Davis, runs Mooseheart school and Moosehaven retirement home, over 1,000,000 members.

Loyal to the Game

Loyal to the Game, 2Pac posthumous studio album (2004, Interscope), produced chiefly by Eminem with Afeni Shakur; debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200, RIAA Platinum, built from unreleased early-1990s 2Pac recordings.

Loyal Valley Capital Advantage

Loyal Valley Capital Advantage is the name for the Cayman Islands US dollar private equity funds of Loyal Valley Capital, a Shanghai growth equity firm founded in 2015.

Loyal wingman drone

A loyal wingman drone, also called a collaborative combat aircraft, is an autonomous, armed drone that flies alongside crewed fighters, performing sensing, combat, and electronic warfare missions.

Loyalist (American Revolution)

Loyalists (Tories) were American colonists loyal to the British Crown during the Revolution, an estimated 15-30 percent of the population. About 19,000 served the British; after defeat, 60,000-100,000 emigrated to Canada, Britain, the Caribbean, and Sierra Leone.

Loyalist Teaching

The Loyalist Teaching, also called the Loyalist Instruction of Kairsu, is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian instruction text on loyalty to the king, best known from the Abydos stela of Sehetepibre of the Twelfth Dynasty.

Loyalist, Ontario

Loyalist Township, Ontario: lower-tier municipality in Lennox and Addington County on Lake Ontario between Napanee and Kingston, formed January 1, 1998 by amalgamating Ernestown, Amherst Island, and Bath; about 17,000 residents, 342 km².

Loyalty

Loyalty: a practical disposition of persisting, potentially costly devotion to a person, group, cause, or institution. Covers Royce's loyalty-to-loyalty ethics, virtue debates, political and legal loyalty, psychology, and commerce, distinguishing it from patriotism, fidelity, and allegiance.

Loyalty (Kendrick Lamar song)

LOYALTY. is a 2017 Kendrick Lamar song featuring Rihanna from the album DAMN., produced by Terrace Martin, DJ Dahi, and Sounwave over a Bruno Mars "24K Magic" sample; it won the 2018 Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Performance.

Loyalty Islands

The Loyalty Islands (Îles Loyauté) are uplifted coral islands in the southwest Pacific between New Caledonia's main island and Vanuatu, forming one of New Caledonia's three provinces.

Loyalty program

A loyalty program, also known as a customer loyalty program or rewards program, is a marketing arrangement in which customers earn rewards such as points, miles, or cashback for repeat purchases.

Loyd Grossman

Loyd Grossman (born 1950, Massachusetts) is a British-American broadcaster known for MasterChef and Through the Keyhole, creator of Loyd Grossman sauces, NHS Better Hospital Food panel chair, and Chair of the RSA from 2024, knighted in 2025.

Loyd Jowers

Loyd Jowers (1926-2000) was a Memphis restaurateur, owner of Jim's Grill near the Lorraine Motel, who claimed in 1993 he took part in a conspiracy to kill Martin Luther King Jr.; a 1999 civil jury found him liable, but the Justice Department deemed his claims not credible.

Loyd Jowers trial

The Loyd Jowers trial, King v. Jowers (1999), was a Memphis wrongful-death civil suit in which a jury found Jowers and "others, including government agencies" conspired to kill Martin Luther King Jr.; the Justice Department later deemed Jowers's claims fabricated.

Loyle Carner

Loyle Carner, born Benjamin Gerard Coyle-Larner in 1994, is an English South London rapper known for confessional, jazzy hip-hop, Mercury-nominated albums Yesterday's Gone and Hugo, and his ADHD cookery school Chilli Con Carner.

Loyola College, Chennai

Loyola College, Chennai: autonomous Jesuit Catholic minority college founded 1925 by Fr. Francis Bertram SJ, affiliated to University of Madras, Nungambakkam campus, NAAC A++, NIRF top-15 college.

Loyola Law School

Loyola Law School (LMU Loyola Law School), founded 1920 as St. Vincent's School of Law, is the ABA-accredited Jesuit law school of Loyola Marymount University in downtown Los Angeles, known for its Frank Gehry campus, 20+ social justice clinics, and strong Southern California employment outcomes.

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a private Catholic (Jesuit and Marymount) university in Los Angeles, formed by the 1973 merger of Loyola University and Marymount College; about 9,900 students, R2 classification, 2026-27 tuition $68,042.

Loyola Ramblers men's basketball

Loyola Ramblers men's basketball: NCAA Division I program of Loyola University Chicago; 1963 national champions over Cincinnati, only Illinois school with a DI hoops title, 2018 Final Four run.

Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago: private Jesuit, Catholic research university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, rechartered 1909. Carnegie R1 since 2025, 13 schools, about 12,538 students, Chicago-area campuses plus Rome.

Loyola University Maryland

Loyola University Maryland, formerly Loyola College, is a private Jesuit university in Baltimore founded in 1852 by Rev. John Early, S.J., the ninth-oldest Jesuit institution in the United States.

Loyumba Shinyen

Loyumba Shinyen (লয়ুম্বা শিন্যেন), also written Loiyumba Shinyen or Loiyumba Silyel, is the written constitution of the Meitei kingdom of Manipur, promulgated by King Loiyumba in 1110 and regarded as Manipur's first written constitution.

Lozi kingdom

Lozi kingdom (Barotseland, Bulozi): Litunga-ruled state on the upper Zambezi floodplain, western Zambia. Kololo conquest 1838, Lozi restoration 1864, Lewanika's 1890 BSAC concession, Barotseland Agreement 1964, ongoing autonomy dispute.

Lozi praise poetry

Lozi praise poetry is the oral tradition of poems recited before the Litunga, king or queen of Zambia's Lozi people, to praise, advise, or rebuke the ruler.

LP (singer)

LP (Laura Pergolizzi, born 1981, Huntington, NY) is an American singer-songwriter. Breakthrough: 2016 'Lost on You', No. 1 in 18 countries; also wrote for Rihanna and Christina Aguilera; albums through Room 12 (2026).

LP 261-75 A

LP 261-75 A (TOI-1779) is a young, fully convective M4.5 red dwarf 33.9 pc away hosting transiting brown dwarf LP 261-75 C (67.4 Jupiter masses, 1.88-day orbit, aligned) and wide imaged companion LP 261-75 b/B, an L6 brown dwarf at 450 au.

LP 40-365

LP 40-365 (GD 492) is a nearby hyper-runaway white dwarf traveling faster than the Milky Way's escape speed, likely the surviving remnant of a Type Iax supernova.