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Lufotrelvir
Lufotrelvir (PF-07304814) is Pfizer's intravenous phosphate prodrug of the SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease inhibitor PF-00835231, the first Mpro inhibitor in COVID-19 clinical trials and the IV analogue that led to oral nirmatrelvir; its phase 3 program was discontinued.
Luftfartsverket
Luftfartsverket (LFV), in English Air Navigation Services of Sweden, is the Swedish state enterprise providing air traffic control for civil and military aviation, and pioneered remote tower control in 2015.
Luftflotte 1
Luftflotte 1 was a Luftwaffe Air Fleet command created in Berlin in 1939. It participated in the Polish campaign and served the northern sector of the Eastern Front.
Luftflotte 4
Luftflotte 4 (Air Fleet 4) was a Luftwaffe air-fleet headquarters formed in Vienna in March 1939, best known for directing the conquest of Crete and the Stalingrad airlift.
Lufthansa
Lufthansa, formally Deutsche Lufthansa AG, is Germany's largest airline, carrying 65.7 million passengers in 2025 from hubs at Frankfurt and Munich as the core of a global aviation group.
Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo is the airfreight subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, formed in 1994, flying Boeing 777F freighters and selling belly capacity to about 350 destinations.
Lufthansa Flight 181
Lufthansa Flight 181, the Landshut, was a Boeing 737 hijacked by PFLP militants in October 1977 and freed by a German commando raid in Mogadishu.
Lufthansa Group
The Lufthansa Group is a German aviation group based in Cologne and Frankfurt, Europe's largest and the world's fourth largest airline group by traffic in 2025.
Lufthansa heist
Lufthansa heist: December 11, 1978 armed robbery of Lufthansa's JFK cargo terminal, stealing about $5 million cash and $875,000 in jewelry, the largest US cash robbery at the time, linked to Jimmy Burke and depicted in Goodfellas.
Lufthansa Technik
Lufthansa Technik AG is a German provider of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services for commercial aircraft, headquartered in Hamburg and wholly owned by the Lufthansa Group since 1994.
Lufton
Lufton Roman Villa, Brympton, Somerset: a minor 4th-century Romano-British corridor house with an elaborate octagonal bath suite and fish mosaic, found in 1945 and excavated 1946-1963.
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH is a German company founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen in 1908 to build the rigid airships that carried his name.
Luftstreitkräfte
Luftstreitkräfte is the German term for air forces: the Imperial German Air Service renamed from the Fliegertruppen in October 1916, and the East German NVA air force (LSK/LV); today's German air force is the Luftwaffe.
Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was Nazi Germany's air force 1935-1945 (not the modern Bundeswehr Luftwaffe), founded under Hermann Göring, decisive in Poland 1939 and France 1940, defeated in the Battle of Britain and worn down by Allied attrition by 1944.
Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg
Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg (Luftwaffen-Sportverein Groß-Hamburg e.V.) was a Luftwaffe military football club founded late 1942; Gauliga Hamburg champion 1943/44, German vice-champion 1944, Tschammerpokal finalist 1943, disbanded 1944.
Lufussa
Lufussa (Luz y Fuerza de San Lorenzo) is a Honduran private electricity generation company founded in 1994 in San Lorenzo, Valle, with 390 MW of installed capacity.
Lugal
Lugal, literally 'big man', is the Sumerian royal title conventionally translated 'king', borne by independent Early Dynastic city-state rulers and later by kings of Akkad and Ur III.
Lugal-annemundu
Lugal-annemundu, also written Lugal-ane-mundu, is a legendary king of Adab in the Sumerian King List, which gives him a 90-year reign about 2400 BCE and no contemporary inscriptions.
Lugal-dalu
Lugal-dalu, also written Lugal-da-lu, was a ruler of the Sumerian city of Adab in southern Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, around 2500 BC, known from two votive inscriptions.
Lugal-kinishe-dudu
Lugal-kinishe-dudu, also written Lugalkiginedudu, was an Early Dynastic king of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia around 2425 BC, who united Uruk and Ur and made a brotherhood pact with Entemena of Lagash.
Lugal-kitun
Lugal-kitun is the twelfth and last king of the first dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, which records a 36-year reign before kingship passed to Ur.
Lugal-ushumgal
Lugal-ushumgal (Lugal-ušumgal) was governor (ensi) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash under the Akkadian Empire, appointed by Naram-Sin around 2230 BC and retained under Shar-Kali-Sharri.
Lugalanda
Lugalanda of Lagash was an ensi, or ruler, of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash in the late Early Dynastic period, husband of Queen Baranamtara and immediate predecessor of Urukagina.
Lugalannatum
Lugalannatum, also written Lugalanatum, was an ensi, or governor-ruler, of the Mesopotamian city-state of Umma around 2130 BC, known from a dedication inscription naming Si'um as king of Gutium.
Lugalbanda
Lugalbanda, also Lugulbanda, is a legendary king of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, hero of two Sumerian epics, husband of Ninsun, and father of Gilgamesh.
Lugalshaengur
Lugalshaengur (Lugal-sha-engur) was an early ruler, or ensi, of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, known only from a mace-head inscription of Mesalim, king of Kish.
Lugalsilâsi I
Lugalsilâsi I is a ruler of the Uruk II dynasty known only from the Sumerian King List, with no contemporary inscription attesting him, dated to the mid-3rd millennium BC.
Lugalzagesi
Lugalzagesi, also known as Lugalzaggisi, was a Sumerian king of Umma and then Uruk, the last overlord of Mesopotamia before Sargon of Akkad defeated and captured him.
Lugalzagesi's conquest of Lagash
Lugalzagesi's conquest of Lagash was the defeat and sack of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash by Lugalzagesi of Umma around 2350 BC, ending Urukagina's reign.
Lugano
Lugano, Ticino's largest city on Lake Lugano in Italian-speaking Switzerland: 68,633 inhabitants of 141 nationalities (2025), 75.8 km² across 21 districts, Switzerland's third-largest financial hub, formed by mergers in 1972, 2004, 2008, and 2013.