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Luba Shankadi headrests

Luba Shankadi headrests, called musamo in Luba, are carved wooden pillows with female caryatid figures made in the southeastern Congo, chiefly in the 19th century.

Luba-Lunda migrations

The Luba-Lunda migrations were movements of peoples from the Luba and Lunda states of the southern Congo, beginning in the 15th century, into Angola and Zambia.

Sep 23, 2026

Lubab al-Albab (لباب الالباب) is the earliest surviving Persian tazkira, an anthology of poets' biographies and verses completed by Sadid al-Din Awfi in 1221–22, preserving many poets known nowhere else.

Lubaina Himid

Lubaina Himid, born in Zanzibar in 1954, is a British painter who won the 2017 Turner Prize as the first Black woman to receive it.

Lubana wetland complex

Lubana wetland complex (Lubāna mitrājs), Ramsar Site 1384 in Latvia, designated 2003, 51,351 ha; Latvia's largest wetland around Lake Lubāns, with 224 bird species, 22 EU habitats, and Natura 2000 status.

Lubango (city)

Lubango, formerly Sá da Bandeira, is the capital of Angola's Huíla Province on the Huíla Plateau at about 1,760 m. Founded 1885 by Madeiran settlers, city 1923, renamed 1978; major highland economic and university center.

Lubango (district)

Lubango (formerly Sá da Bandeira) is a municipality of Huíla province, Angola, founded 19 January 1885 by 222 Madeiran colonists, elevated to city in 1923, renamed 1978; 890,384 residents in the 2024 census.

Sep 19, 2026

Lubarna I

Lubarna I was king of Patina (Unqi), a Syro-Anatolian kingdom in the Amuq Plain of southern Turkey, who paid tribute to Assyria around 870 BC.

Sep 19, 2026

Lubarna II

Lubarna II, also known as Lubarna of Patina, was king of Patina (Unqi), a Syro-Anatolian kingdom on the Amuq Plain, assassinated by his people in 829 BC.

Lubber Pandhu (லப்பர் பந்து)

Lubber Pandhu (லப்பர் பந்து), a 2024 Tamil sports drama directed by debutant Tamizharasan Pachamuthu, stars Harish Kalyan and Attakathi Dinesh as gully cricket rivals; released 20 September 2024, it grossed ₹47.25 crore worldwide.

Oct 20, 2026

Lubbock County

Lubbock County, Texas: High Plains county created 1876 from Bexar County, named for Tom S. Lubbock, organized March 10, 1891 with Lubbock as county seat; 310,639 residents (2020), centered on Texas Tech and cotton farming.

Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock, Texas, the Hub City and county seat of Lubbock County on the South Plains: founded 1890, home of Texas Tech University, a West Texas health care and cotton trade center of about 273,000 people.

Lübeck

Lübeck, the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, is a northern German city founded in 1143, former 'Queen of the Hanse', with a UNESCO-listed old town (1987), Holstentor, seven church towers, and about 220,000 residents.

Oct 20, 2026

Luberon UNESCO Global Geopark

Luberon UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc du Luberon), Provence, France: UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015 (geopark network member since 2004) and Luberon-Lure Biosphere Reserve; 195,000 ha, Oligocene fossils, Aptian stratotype, ochre deposits.

Lubert Stryer

Lubert Stryer (1938-2024), American biochemist at Stanford, proved FRET as a spectroscopic ruler, discovered transducin amplification in vision, founded Affymax/Affymetrix science, and wrote the classic textbook Biochemistry (1975).

Oct 10, 2026

Lubertus Berrens

Lubertus Berrens (born 1933) is a Dutch biochemist and immunologist known for research on the chemical structure of atopic allergens, especially in house dust, winning the 1972 Robert Koch Prize.

Lubiatowo-Kopalino nuclear power plant

The Lubiatowo-Kopalino nuclear power plant is a planned station in Choczewo commune, Pomerania, which will be Poland's first, with three Westinghouse AP1000 reactors totaling 3,750 MWe.

Lubieszewo

Lubieszewo (Lübsow, Sandberg), village in Gryfice county, Poland; eponymous site of the Lübsow group of 1st–2nd century AD Germanic princely barrow graves with Roman imports, excavated by Eggers and Wołągiewicz.

Lubin–Tate formal group law

The Lubin–Tate formal group law, or Lubin–Tate group, is a formal group over the integers of a local field, introduced by Jonathan Lubin and John Tate in 1965.

Oct 20, 2026

Lubiprostone

Lubiprostone (Amitiza) is a ClC-2 chloride channel activator laxative approved by FDA in 2006 for chronic idiopathic constipation, later for IBS-C in women and opioid-induced constipation.

Lublin

Lublin, largest city of eastern Poland and capital of Lublin Voivodeship; site of the 1569 Union of Lublin, Holy Trinity Chapel frescoes, and a major university centre (~57,000 students).

Lublin Coal Basin

The Lublin Coal Basin (Lubelskie Zagłębie Węglowe, LZW) is a Carboniferous hard coal basin in eastern Poland, mined since 1982 at its only active mine, LW Bogdanka.

Lubmin FSRU

The Lubmin FSRU was a floating storage and regasification unit at the port of Lubmin on Germany's Baltic coast, injecting LNG into the German grid from January 2023.

Sep 27, 2026

Lubna Jaffery

Lubna Jaffery is a Norwegian Labour Party politician who has served as Minister of Culture and Equality since 2023, appointed by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

Lubnor

Lubnor, or Refinaria Lubrificantes e Derivados do Nordeste, is a small specialty oil refinery owned by Petrobras in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, inaugurated in 1966 as Asfor.

Lubok

Lubok (лубок; plural lubki) is a Russian popular print, a woodcut or engraved sheet with bright images and text made for mass audiences from the late 1600s to 1918.