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Land Rush of 1889
The Land Rush of 1889, also called the Oklahoma Land Run or Harrison's Horse Race, opened the Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory at noon on April 22, 1889, when about 50,000 settlers claimed roughly two million acres, founding Oklahoma City and Guthrie.
Land Settlement Committees
The Land Settlement Committees were bodies created by Nicholas II in 1906 to help peasants leave the commune and consolidate strips into farmsteads, abolished in 1917.
Land snail
Land snail: shelled air-breathing terrestrial gastropod mollusk; Stylommatophora dominate (~80% of species); 30 independent water-to-land colonizations; lung from mantle cavity; island endemism and heavy extinction threat.
Land snails and slugs of India
Land snails and slugs of India: 1,129 recorded terrestrial gastropod species, with 76% endemism in the Western Ghats; studied since Benson (1803–1870); threatened by habitat loss and the invasive giant African snail.
Land snails of the Hawaiian Islands
The land snails of the Hawaiian Islands are 767 native species, 98 percent endemic, descended from a few colonizers and now 60 to 90 percent extinct.
Land Special Operations Force
Land Special Operations Force (Land SOF, LSOF): British Army formation established 1 December 2023 under Field Army Troops, commanded by a major-general, built around the four Ranger Regiment battalions, 11th Brigade, and information-warfare units for subthreshold special operations.
Land speed record
Land speed record: fastest officially verified speed by a wheeled vehicle on land, FIA-ratified as a two-way average. Outright record 763.035 mph by ThrustSSC, Andy Green, 1997, Black Rock Desert, Mach 1.016, still unbroken.
Land surface scheme
A land surface scheme, also called a land surface model, is the component of atmospheric and climate models that simulates heat, water, and carbon exchange between land and atmosphere.
Land Survey Project
The Land Survey Project (지적조사사업) was a cadastral survey of Korea under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1918, creating land registers that underpinned modern real-estate registration.
Land tax and poll tax (tianzu and koufu)
Land tax and poll tax (tianzu and koufu, 田租口赋) were the two pillars of regular taxation in China's Han dynasty, named together in the Hanshu.
Land Tax Reform
Land Tax Reform (地租改正) was a Meiji Japan overhaul of the land tax system, replacing rice tribute with a fixed 3 percent money tax from 1873.
Land tenure
Land tenure: the legal regime defining who can own, lease, or use land, for how long, and under what conditions. Covers feudal origins, freehold, leasehold, and commonhold tenures, customary systems, tenure security, and SDG indicators 1.4.2 and 5.a.1.
Land tied island
Land tied island: an island joined to the mainland or another island by a tombolo, a wave-built sand or shingle bar; examples include Portland, Tyre, and Stockton Island.
Land transport
Land transport, also called ground or surface transportation, is the movement of people and goods over ground by road and rail, one of the principal transport modes.
Land Transport Authority
The Land Transport Authority is a Singapore statutory board, established in 1995, that plans and regulates the country's land transport, including roads, rail, buses, and vehicle registration.
Land Transport New Zealand
Land Transport New Zealand was a New Zealand Crown entity, created on 1 December 2004, that handled land transport safety regulation, driver and vehicle licensing, and transport funding allocation.
Land Transport Safety Authority
The Land Transport Safety Authority (LTSA) was a New Zealand Crown entity, established in 1993, that promoted road safety until it merged into Land Transport New Zealand in 2004.
Land unter!
Land unter! (Land Unter, Turn the Tide) is Stefan Dorra's 1997/2001 trick-avoidance card game for 3-5 players: play weather cards 1-60 to avoid high water level cards and keep life preservers; Spiel des Jahres recommendation list 2001.
Land use
Land use: the arrangements, activities, and inputs people undertake in a land cover type to produce, change, or maintain it; distinct from land cover, classified by FAO LCCS and SEEA, central to climate and biodiversity policy.
Land use plan
Land use plan: a government-adopted document allocating land among uses and guiding zoning and development. Covers FAO definition, US comprehensive plans and zoning, OECD systems, plan-led versus development-led models, tool generations, and measured effectiveness.
Land value
Land value: the monetary worth of land as property, separate from improvements. Covers Ricardian rent theory, Henry George's single tax, valuation methods, and land value capture.
Land value tax
The land value tax (LVT), or site value tax, is a recurrent tax on the unimproved value of land itself, not buildings, tried in more than 30 countries.
Land Warrior
Land Warrior was a United States Army program equipping infantry with soldier-worn computers, radios, navigation, and weapon sensors for digitally sharing battlefield information, fielded in Iraq in 2007.
Land-grant university
Land-grant university: U.S. institutions designated under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 and the 1994 Equity Act; three categories (1862, 1890, 1994), missions in teaching, Hatch Act research, and Smith-Lever Cooperative Extension, NIFA-funded.
Land-use planning
Land-use planning is the public regulation and organization of land uses through plans, zoning, and impact assessment. Covers its US origins in 1930s county planning, OECD system variation, environmental and climate integration, and England's 2026 Land Use Framework.
Land's Advocate of Holland
The Land's Advocate of Holland (Dutch: landsadvocaat) was the salaried legal adviser and business manager of the States of Holland from 1480 to 1619, when the office became the Grand Pensionary.
Land's End
Land's End (Penn an Wlas) is a granite headland in west Cornwall, the most south-westerly point of mainland Britain, with 61 m cliffs, the 874-mile John O' Groats signpost, Longships Lighthouse views, and a Heritage Great Britain visitor complex.
Land's End to John o' Groats
Land's End to John o' Groats, often abbreviated LEJOG with the reverse called JOGLE, is the roughly 874-mile by-road traversal of mainland Great Britain between Cornwall and Scotland.
Landau
Landau in der Pfalz, a district-free city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, with about 48,000 residents; founded 1274, French fortress until 1816, university city since 1990, and Germany's largest wine-growing municipality.
Landau (automobile)
A landau is a car body style, named for a German city and a carriage, in which the roof over the rear passenger compartment folds back.