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Lancet MMR autism fraud
Lancet MMR autism fraud: the 1998 Lancet paper by Andrew Wakefield falsely linking MMR vaccine to autism, exposed as fraudulent by Brian Deer's BMJ investigation, retracted in 2004, with Wakefield struck off by the GMC in 2010.
Lancey Foux
Lancey Foux, born Lance O. Omal in 1995, is a British rapper from East London known for genre-blending UK rap, trap, and electronic club music.
Lancheng Yizhi
兰城遗址 (蘭城遺址, also 爛城), a Tang-era rammed-earth city site in Wushitala township, Heshuo County, Xinjiang; national protected site 7-0502-1-502 (2013), two nested enclosures of about 56,300 square meters, unexcavated and closed to visitors.
Lanchester's laws
Lanchester's laws, or the Lanchester equations, are mathematical models of combat attrition proposed by Frederick Lanchester in 1916, with a square law for aimed fire and a linear law for duels.
Lancia
Lancia is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded by Vincenzo Lancia in Turin in 1906, now a Stellantis brand, known for the Lambda and a record ten World Rally Championship titles.
Lancia Delta
The Lancia Delta is a compact car produced by Italian manufacturer Lancia in three generations between 1979 and 2014, its HF rally versions winning six consecutive world titles.
Lancia Delta S4
The Lancia Delta S4, also known as the Lancia S4, was Lancia's twincharged, four-wheel-drive Group B rally car that won its 1985 debut at the RAC Rally.
Lancia Gamma (2026)
The Lancia Gamma is a fastback crossover produced by Italian automaker Lancia, premiering at the 2026 Paris Motor Show and built in Melfi, Italy, in hybrid and electric versions.
Lancia Rally 037
The Lancia Rally 037, also known as the Lancia Rally, is a Group B rally car built by Lancia and Abarth that won the 1983 World Rally Championship.
Lancia Stratos
The Lancia Stratos is a mid-engine Italian sports car built from 1973 to 1978, designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone to win the World Rally Championship.
Lancia Thema
The Lancia Thema is an executive sedan made by Lancia in two generations, from 1984 to 1994 and from 2011 to 2014 as a rebadged Chrysler 300.
Lancia Ypsilon
The Lancia Ypsilon is a small premium hatchback built by Italian carmaker Lancia, a Stellantis brand, sold since 1985 in five generations, with the current model introduced in 2024.
Lancia Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale
The Lancia Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale is a four-wheel-drive Rally2 rally car built by Lancia Corse HF, which debuted at the 2026 Rallye Monte-Carlo and won the WRC2 Teams' Championship in its first season.
Lancium
Lancium Technologies Corp is a Texas energy-transition company founded in 2017 that builds gigawatt-scale data center campuses whose power demand can flex within seconds to support the Texas grid.
Lancôme
Lancôme, also known as Lancôme Paris, is a French luxury perfume, makeup, and skincare house founded in 1935 by Armand Petitjean and owned by L'Oréal since 1964.
Lanczos algorithm
The Lanczos algorithm, also called the Lanczos method, is an iterative method introduced by Cornelius Lanczos in 1950 for finding extreme eigenvalues of large sparse symmetric matrices.
Land
Суша (land) is Earth's dry surface, about 149 million km² or 29% of the globe, in six continents, 39% of the Northern and 19% of the Southern Hemisphere, with 78% external drainage.
Land (2021 film)
Land (2021) is a survival drama and Robin Wright's feature directorial debut, also called Land. Wright stars as grieving lawyer Edee Holzer, who retreats to a remote Rockies cabin and is saved by hunter Miguel (Demián Bichir); Focus Features released it February 12, 2021.
Land (O'Farrell novel)
Land (2026) is Maggie O'Farrell's tenth novel, a historical family saga set in post-Great Hunger Ireland, about mapmaker Tomás and his son Liam surveying for the Ordnance Survey after a magical well transforms Tomás.
Land 129
Land 129 is an Australian Defence Force program acquiring uncrewed aerial systems for the Army, with Phase 3 replacing the RQ-7B Shadow 200 tactical UAS with the Insitu Pacific Integrator.
Land acquisition in India
Land acquisition in India: compulsory state acquisition of private land under eminent domain. Governed by the Land Acquisition Act 1894 until the RFCTLARR Act 2013 (effective 1 January 2014), which added consent, social impact assessment, and market-linked compensation.
Land and expand
Land and expand, also called land and grow, is a B2B and SaaS growth strategy of winning a small initial contract, then growing revenue through added seats, tiers, or usage.
Land art
Land art, also called Earth art or earthworks, is a late-1960s movement making art in and with the landscape, from Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty to Richard Long's walked lines and James Turrell's Roden Crater.
Land breeze
A land breeze, also called an offshore breeze, is a coastal wind at night that blows from land toward sea as the land cools faster than water.
Land Captains
The Land Captains (Земские начальники) were Russian Empire officials combining administrative and judicial power over the rural population, created in 1889 and abolished in 1917.
Land Captains Statute of 1889
The Land Captains Statute of 1889 (Закон о земских участковых начальниках) was a Russian law creating land captains with administrative and judicial power over peasants.
Land conservation
Land conservation: protecting land from conversion or degradation through direct regulation, incentive-based tools such as conservation easements, and community-based management; covers effectiveness evidence, history, and 30 by 30 progress.
Land consolidation
Land consolidation: a land management instrument that regroups fragmented parcels into compact holdings with equivalent land exchanged, originating in post-WWI Europe (Poland 1923, Netherlands 1924), now multipurpose, with effects on productivity, degradation, and rural development varying by design.
Land court (Poland)
A land court (Polish: sąd ziemski) was a nobility court of first instance in pre-partition Poland and Lithuania, hearing civil cases among settled nobility until 1795.
Land cover
Land cover is the observed biophysical cover of the earth's surface, including vegetation and human constructions, distinguished from land use; mapped via systems such as FAO's LCCS and satellite products like Landsat and NLCD.