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L4 (spacecraft)
L4, ESA's fourth large-class science mission under Voyage 2050, is a planned orbiter and lander to Saturn's moon Enceladus to sample its water plumes and search for signs of life.
L4 microkernel family
The L4 microkernel family is a lineage of small operating-system kernels begun by Jochen Liedtke in 1993 that provide only threads, address spaces, IPC, and scheduling in privileged mode.
L7 (band)
L7 is an American all-female rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1985 by Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner. Known for "Pretend We're Dead" and Bricks Are Heavy (1992), Rock for Choice, a 2001-2014 hiatus, and the 2026 Last Hurrah farewell tour.
L7nnon
L7nnon, the stage name of Lennon dos Santos Barbosa Frassetti, is a Brazilian rapper from Realengo, Rio de Janeiro, born in 1994 and one of Brazil's most-streamed.
L8-BO
L8-BO is a Y6-family small-molecule non-fullerene acceptor, reported in 2021 by Yanming Sun, that with the donor PM6 delivered a then-record 18.32% efficiency in organic solar cells.
La Academia
La Academia is a Mexican musical reality competition created by Giorgio Aresu for TV Azteca, first aired June 30, 2002. Contestants train, sing in weekly Sunday concerts, and are eliminated by public vote; ten generations (2002–2012) produced 265 participants and winners such as Myriam Montemayor, Yahir-era stars, Carlos Rivera, and Yuridia.
La Alcudia
La Alcudia (L'Alcúdia), archaeological site of ancient Ilici near Elche, Alicante, Spain; find-spot of the Lady of Elche (1897); Roman colony Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta; Domus project documented its full 2,000-year sequence.
La Almoloya
La Almoloya: Argaric Bronze Age hilltop site between Pliego and Mula, Murcia, Spain, occupied c. 2200–1550 BCE; political center of El Argar with assembly hall, 1944 discovery, UAB excavations since 2013, richest Argaric tomb.
La amada inmóvil
La amada inmóvil (Versos a una muerta) is a posthumous 1920 book of elegiac poetry by Mexican poet Amado Nervo, written for his companion Ana Cecilia Luisa Dailliez.
La Amarga Chica Oil and Gas Field
La Amarga Chica is a shale oil and gas field in the Vaca Muerta formation of Argentina's Neuquén Basin, operated by YPF and Vista Energy near Añelo.
La Amistad
La Amistad, a Spanish schooner at the center of the 1839 Amistad rebellion and United States v. the Amistad, in which 53 Mende captives led by Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinqué) won freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court.
La amortajada
La amortajada is a 1938 novel by Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal in which a dead woman, Ana María, narrates her own funeral from inside her coffin.
La Araucana
La Araucana is a 16th-century Spanish epic poem by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga about the Spanish conquest of Chile and the war with the Mapuche, published in Madrid in three parts between 1569 and 1589.
La Argentina manuscrita
La Argentina manuscrita is a 1612 chronicle of the Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán, the region's first mestizo historian.
La Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata
La Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata is a 1602 epic poem by Martín del Barco Centenera about the conquest of the Río de la Plata.
La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho
La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho is a banda sinaloense group from El Limón, Sinaloa, Mexico, led by founder and clarinetist René Camacho.
La Aurora International Airport
La Aurora International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora) serves Guatemala City about 6.4 km from its center, handling over 4.9 million passengers a year by 2025.
La Baie
La Baie is a borough of Saguenay, Quebec, on the baie des Ha! Ha!, formed in 1976 from Port-Alfred, Bagotville, and two parish municipalities; settled from 1838, industrialized from 1917.
La Bamba (film)
La Bamba (1987) is Luis Valdez's Columbia Pictures biographical drama of Ritchie Valens, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales, with Los Lobos performing the music; it grossed $54 million and entered the National Film Registry in 2017.
La Bamba (song)
La Bamba is a Veracruz son jarocho folk song, famously adapted as 1958 rock by Ritchie Valens and taken to No. 1 in the US and UK by Los Lobos' 1987 film version.
La Barranca
La Barranca is a Mexican rock band founded by José Manuel Aguilera and Federico Fong in the mid-1990s, active since their 1996 debut El Fuego de la Noche.
La Bauche
La Bauche: a commune of 6.58 km² in Savoie, France (73360), near Saint-Franc and Attignat-Oncin; distinct from a Vergezac hamlet and a Saintes archaeological site of the same name.
La Bayadère (Баядерка)
La Bayadère (Баядерка) is a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus, with a scenario by Petipa and Sergei Khudekov. It premiered in St. Petersburg in 1877, originally in.
La Befa, Carcerelle
La Befa, Carcerelle: a Roman villa rustica in the Ombrone valley, southern Tuscany, at the Torrente di Crevoli–Ombrone confluence near Murlo and Buonconvento; excavated in the 1970s, published by Dobbins (1980), abandoned late fourth century CE.
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Keats's 1819 ballad "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy"), in twelve ABCB quatrains, tells of a knight enthralled by a fairy woman; title echoes Alain Chartier's medieval French poem; two versions exist.
La Belle Noiseuse
La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker) is Jacques Rivette's 1991 four-hour French drama, adapted from Balzac's Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu, starring Michel Piccoli and Emmanuelle Béart; it won the Grand Prix at Cannes 1991.
La Belle Sauvage
La Belle Sauvage (2017) is Philip Pullman's first Book of Dust novel, set a decade before His Dark Materials, in which Malcolm Polstead and Alice rescue baby Lyra by canoe through a flooded Thames.
La beltà
La beltà is a 1968 poetry collection by the Italian poet Andrea Zanzotto, gathering his poems from 1961 to 1967 and considered his most complex, mature work.
La Blue Girl
La Blue Girl, also known as Inju Gakuen, is a hentai manga by Toshio Maeda starring Miko Mido, a demon-hunting kunoichi, adapted into four OVA series and three live-action films.
La Boca
La Boca, Buenos Aires barrio at the Riachuelo mouth, also called Caminito district; Genoese immigrant working-class port neighborhood, home of Boca Juniors, colorful conventillos, tourism-driven gentrification and Riachuelo cleanup.