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Lu Brandali
Lu Brandali is a Nuragic archaeological complex at Santa Teresa Gallura, northern Sardinia, with a mixed corridor- and tholos-type nuraghe, a 36-hut village with a Bronze Age copper-smelting workshop, and a giants' tomb, occupied 14th-10th centuries BC.
Lü Bu (吕布)
Lü Bu (呂布, Fengxian), late Eastern Han warrior-warlord born in Wuyuan; served and killed Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, fled Chang'an after the 192 plot, and was besieged and executed at Xiapi in 198–199.
Lü Buwei installs King Zhuangxiang of Qin
Lü Buwei installs King Zhuangxiang of Qin (吕不韦立庄襄王): the merchant Lü Buwei raised the hostage prince Zi Chu to the Qin throne in 250 BC.
Lü Buwei's faction at the Qin court
Lü Buwei's faction at the Qin court (吕不韦集团) was the political network of merchant Lü Buwei, who made Zi Chu king and compiled the Lüshi chunqiu.
Lu Cewu
Lu Cewu (卢策吾), born 1982, is a Chinese robotics researcher and Shanghai Jiao Tong University professor who co-founded Flexiv in 2016 and Qiongche Intelligence in 2023.
Lu Chuanlin
Lu Chuanlin (鹿传霖, 1836–1910) was a Qing dynasty official from Dingxing, Zhili, who served as governor of Henan and Shaanxi, Viceroy of Sichuan, and Grand Secretary.
Lu Chulong
Lu Chulong (卢楚隆, born 1956) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Shunde, Foshan, who co-founded Vanward Group with his brothers in 1993 and chairs the appliance maker.
Lu Chunlong
Lu Chunlong (陆春龙), born 1989 in Jiangyin, China, is a retired trampoline gymnast, 2008 Olympic champion (41.00) and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, and 2011 world champion; later a national team administrator.
Lu Chuqi
Lu Chuqi (卢础其, born 1949) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Vanward gas water heater and kitchen appliance group in Shunde, Guangdong, in 1993.
Lü clan
The Lü clan (吕氏) was the consort kin of Empress Lü of Han China, who held the capital's armies until their extermination in a coup in 180 BC.
Lü Clan Disturbance
The Lü Clan Disturbance (诸吕之乱) was an 180 BCE Han dynasty upheaval in which the Lü clan was exterminated and Liu Heng became Emperor Wen.
Lu clan of Fanyang
The Lu clan of Fanyang (范陽盧氏) was a hereditary aristocratic lineage seated at Fanyang in present-day Hebei, prominent from the Wei-Jin period through the Tang.
Lu clan of Wu Commandery
The Lu clan of Wu Commandery (吴郡陆氏) was a hereditary great family of Wuxian in the lower Yangzi region, prominent from the Han through the Six Dynasties.
Lu Daopei Medical Group (陆道培医疗集团)
Lu Daopei Medical Group (陆道培医疗集团) is a Chinese private hospital group specializing in hematology, founded in 2012 by the hematologist Lu Daopei, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician.
LU decomposition
The LU decomposition, also called LU factorization or LR decomposition, expresses a matrix as the product of a lower triangular matrix L and an upper triangular matrix U.
Lu Duoxun
Lu Duoxun (卢多逊, 934–985) was a Song dynasty scholar-official who rose from deputy chancellor under Taizu to chancellor under Taizong, then fell for trafficking with Prince Ting Mei.
Lü Gang
Lü Gang (吕刚, also romanised Gang Lv) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded the Beijing travel platform Mafengwo in 2006 with Chen Gang, serving as chief operating officer.
Lü Guang
Lü Guang (吕光), courtesy name Shiming, was a Di general of the Former Qin state who conquered the Western Regions for Fu Jian and founded Later Liang.
Lü Guang's founding of Later Liang
Lü Guang's founding of Later Liang (吕光建后凉) was the creation of the Later Liang state by the Di general Lü Guang, who took the throne as Heavenly King in 396.
Lü Guang's western campaign
Lü Guang's western campaign was a 382 expedition by the general Lü Guang to the Western Regions, where he took Kucha and returned to found the Later Liang state.
Lü Guangquan
Lü Guangquan (吕光泉, born 1965) is a Chinese-American semiconductor equipment engineer and chairman of Piotech, a Shenyang maker of thin-film deposition equipment, after a twenty-year career at Novellus and AIXTRON.
Lu Guanqiu
Lu Guanqiu (鲁冠球) was a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Wanxiang Group in 1969 with six farmers and built it into a multinational auto parts maker; he died in 2017.
Lu Gui Bu
Lu Gui Bu (录鬼簿, A Register of Ghosts) is a two-volume register of Yuan dynasty zaju and sanqu writers, compiled by the playwright Zhong Sicheng and completed in 1330.
Lu Guimeng
Lu Guimeng (died 881) was a late Tang dynasty Chinese poet, essayist, and agronomist who lived as a scholar-recluse farming his estate at Fuli near Suzhou.
Lu Han
Lu Han (鹿晗), born 1990 in Beijing, is a Chinese Mandopop singer and actor, former EXO and EXO-M member who left in 2014 by lawsuit, known for the Reloaded albums, the single 勋章, and films like Time Raiders.
Lu Hsueh-ju
Lu Hsueh-ju (吕学儒) is a Taiwanese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of ZEMO, an all-electric corporate chauffeur fleet company founded in Taipei in 2021 after he worked on Yulon Group's Luxgen electric vehicle program.
Lu Hsun (Mercurian crater)
Lu Hsun is an IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury, feature ID 3495, about 96-98 km wide, centered at 0.00 degrees latitude, 23.40 degrees west longitude, and cataloged as a polygonal impact crater.
Lu Jeu Sham
Lu Jeu Sham is a Hong Kong-born condensed matter theorist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, and one of the three founders of density functional theory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Lu Ji
Lu Ji (陆机) was a Western Jin dynasty writer and general, grandson of the Wu chancellor Lu Xun, executed at forty-three after a great defeat.
Lu Jia
Lu Jia (陆贾) was a Western Han dynasty essayist, diplomat, and advisor to Liu Bang, known for the Xinyu (New Discourses) and for twice securing the submission of Nanyue.