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Ludwig von Pastor
Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928) was an Austrian Catholic historian of the papacy, author of the 16-volume History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages.
Ludwig Windthorst
Ludwig Windthorst (1812–1891) was a German jurist and Catholic politician, a former Hanoverian justice minister who led the Zentrum through the Kulturkampf as Bismarck's chief opponent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher, born in Vienna in 1889, whose Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations shaped analytic philosophy and ideas of meaning as use.
Ludwig's angina
Ludwig's angina (submandibular space infection) is a rapidly spreading, life-threatening cellulitis of the floor of the mouth, usually from lower molar dental infection, first described by Wilhelm von Ludwig in 1836, with airway compromise as the main danger.
Ludwigia
Ludwigia is a genus of about 87 species of flowering plants in the evening-primrose family, mostly annual or perennial herbs of wet places with usually yellow flowers.
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg, Große Kreisstadt north of Stuttgart, seat of Landkreis Ludwigsburg; planned ducal residence city founded 1704–18 around Germany's largest baroque palace (18 buildings, 450+ rooms), Blühendes Barock gardens, Filmakademie, and the 1958 Zentrale Stelle for Nazi-crime investigations.
Ludwigsburg Palace
Ludwigsburg Palace, also known as Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg, is a Baroque residential palace in Ludwigsburg, Germany, begun in 1704 as a hunting lodge for Duke Eberhard Ludwig of Württemberg.
Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a district-free city in Rhineland-Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine opposite Mannheim, home to BASF's headquarters and the largest integrated chemical complex of a single company; 177,355 residents, city rights 1859.
Ludwigslied
The Ludwigslied, meaning Lay of Ludwig, is an Old High German poem of 881/882 celebrating King Louis III's victory over a Viking force at Saucourt-en-Vimeu in 881.
Ludwigsparkstadion
Ludwigsparkstadion, Saarbrücken football stadium, home of 1. FC Saarbrücken since 1953; rebuilt 2016-2021 to 16,003 capacity; hosted Saarland national team and 1977 6:1 over Bayern.
Ludwik Adamowicz
Ludwik Adamowicz is a quantum chemist at the University of Arizona known for state-selective multireference coupled-cluster methods, a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Ludwik Gross
Ludwik Gross (1904–1999) was a Polish-born American virologist who, working at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, showed that leukemia in mammals is transmitted by a virus and won the 1974 Lasker Award.
Ludwik Hirszfeld
Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884–1954) was a Polish physician and immunologist who demonstrated with Emil von Dungern that blood groups are inherited, established the ABO nomenclature, and survived the Warsaw Ghetto.
Ludwik Leibler
Ludwik Leibler, born 1951 in Warsaw, is a Polish-born French chemist and theoretical physicist at CNRS and ESPCI Paris, known for self-healing rubber, vitrimers, and nanoparticle tissue adhesives.
Ludwik Mierosławski
Ludwik Mierosławski (1814–1878) was a Polish general, revolutionary commander, and political writer who led insurgent forces in the risings of 1848, 1849, and 1863, briefly serving as dictator during the January Uprising of 1863.
Ludwika Paleta
Ludwika Paleta is a Polish-Mexican film, television, and theater actress, born in Kraków in 1978, best known for Carrusel (1989) and winner of her first Ariel Award in 2024.
Lueders Park Piru
Lueders Park Piru (LPP), also Lueders Park Hustlers, a Bloods-affiliated Piru street gang on the East Side of Compton, California, founded early 1970s, named for Lueders Park at 1500 E. Rosecrans Avenue.
Luedji Luna
Luedji Luna, full name Luedji Gomes Santa Rita, is a Brazilian singer from Salvador, Bahia whose music blends MPB, jazz, and Afro-Brazilian rhythms; she won a Latin Grammy in 2025.
Lueji
Lueji, also written Ruwej, is a queen of the Lunda state of Central Africa whose marriage to the Luba hunter Chibinda Ilunga began the Luba-Lunda dynasty.
Luella Klein
Luella Klein, also Luella Klein-Colquitt, was an American obstetrician-gynecologist who became the first woman president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1984.
Luena
Luena (Vila Luso until 1975) is the capital of Moxico Province, eastern Angola, on the Benguela Railway; founded 1895, city status 1956, site of the 2002 Luena peace memorandum.
Luena Memorandum of Understanding
The Luena Memorandum of Understanding (Memorando de Entendimento do Luena), signed in Luena on 4 April 2002, is the ceasefire agreement that ended Angola's civil war.
Luenberger observer
The Luenberger observer is a state estimator introduced by David Luenberger in 1964: a copy of the system's model whose estimate converges to the true state.
Lufax (陆金所)
Lufax (陆金所) is a Shanghai-based Chinese fintech founded by Ping An Insurance in 2011 as a peer-to-peer lending platform, now a loan facilitator for small businesses and consumers.
Lufeng 15-1 Oil Field
Lufeng 15-1 Oil Field is a deepwater oil field in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea, developed by CNOOC and home to the Haiji-1 platform.
Lufeng Jiahuwan power station
Lufeng Jiahuwan power station (陆丰甲湖湾电厂) is a coastal ultra-supercritical coal-fired power station in Hudong Town, Lufeng, Guangdong, China, operating two 1,000 MW units, with two more under construction.
Lufenuron
Lufenuron (Program, Sentinel) is a benzoylurea insect growth regulator, CAS 103055-07-8, that inhibits chitin synthesis in flea larvae and other arthropods; JECFA ADI 0-0.02 mg/kg bw; EU approval expired 2019.
Luffa
Luffa (loofah, 丝瓜; Luffa aegyptiaca, L. acutangula) is a Cucurbitaceae vine genus grown for edible immature fruit and for dried fibrous sponges; tropical Asian origin, eight species, trellised warm-season crop.
Lufkin, Texas
Lufkin, Texas, is the seat of Angelina County in East Texas, established in 1882 along the Houston, East and West Texas Railway and home to 34,143 people in 2020.
Lufkin, TX Micro Area
Lufkin, TX Micro Area (CBSA 31260) is a micropolitan statistical area covering Angelina County, Texas, with principal city Lufkin; population 88,094 in 2024, median household income $63,719, 797.9 square miles.