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Lunatics (TV series)
Lunatics (2019) is a Netflix mockumentary comedy series created, written, directed by and starring Australian comedian Chris Lilley as six eccentric characters: Keith, Becky, Gavin, Jana, Quentin, and Joyce, in one 10-episode season.
Lunay
Lunay is the stage name of Jefnier Osorio Moreno, a Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap singer from Corozal, known for "Soltera" with Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee.
Luncani-Tîrsa
Luncani-Tîrsa: Dacian-era archaeological area in Hunedoara County, Romania, centered on the Piatra Roșie fortress (817 m, UNESCO-listed, excavated by Daicoviciu from 1949) and Târsa plateau settlement and Roman marching camp remains.
Lunch
Lunch is the midday meal, historically the day's main meal until industrialization made it quick and separate; shaped US school lunch policy from 1894 penny lunches and the 1946 National School Lunch Act to workplace lunch-skipping trends.
Lunch (song)
"Lunch" (LUNCH) is a 2024 song by Billie Eilish, lead single and track 2 of Hit Me Hard and Soft, written with Finneas; a bass-driven sapphic desire song that peaked at UK Number 2.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Lunch atop a Skyscraper (Lunch on a Beam) is the famous 1932 photograph of eleven ironworkers eating on a beam 850 feet above Manhattan during construction of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building; staged publicity, photographer unknown, only two workers identified.
Lunch box
A lunch box is a reusable container for carrying a midday meal from home to school or work, evolved from nineteenth-century metal worker's pails to plastic and insulated designs.
Lunch meat
Lunch meat, also called cold cuts, luncheon meats, or deli meats, is precooked or cured sliced meat for sandwiches. Covers nitrite curing, USDA storage times, WHO Group 1 cancer classification, and health evidence.
Lunch Poems
Lunch Poems is a 1964 poetry collection by Frank O'Hara, written largely on his lunch breaks from the Museum of Modern Art and published by City Lights Books.
LUNCH trial
LUNCH (NCT04253951) is an Italian double-blind randomized controlled trial testing lung ultrasound-monitored feeding against standard care for detecting silent and apparent aspiration in infants and young children with cerebral palsy or developmental disabilities; 150 participants, 6-month follow-up.
Lunchables
Lunchables, also known as Dairylea Lunchables, is an American brand of ready-to-eat meal kits launched nationally by Oscar Mayer in 1988 and now sold by Kraft Heinz.
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Luncheon of the Boating Party (Le déjeuner des canotiers), 1880–81 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir showing fourteen friends at the Maison Fournaise terrace, Chatou; exhibited 1882, bought by Duncan Phillips in 1923, held by The Phillips Collection, Washington.
Lunchly
Lunchly is a brand of prepackaged lunch kits launched in 2024 by YouTubers MrBeast, Logan Paul, and KSI, each pairing a Prime drink, a Feastables bar, and a food entree.
Lund
Lund, Sweden: one of Scandinavia's oldest cities, Danish until 1658, seat of an archbishopric from 1103, home of Lund University (founded 1666, inaugurated 1668), site of the 1676 Battle of Lund, and a major student city of about 100,000.
Lund University
Lund University (Lunds universitet), founded 1666 and inaugurated 1668 as Regia Academia Carolina, is a large public Swedish university in Lund with nine faculties, about 46,000 students, and QS 2027 rank 71.
Lunda (Phrygia)
Lunda was a bishopric of the late Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana in central Anatolia, listed fifteenth of 38 sees and traditionally placed at Eski Seid.
Lunda Empire
The Lunda Empire (Ntchibundu ya Lunda) was a Central African state ruled by the Mwant Yav, with its capital at Musumba, powerful from the 1500s to the 1800s.
Lunda Norte Province
Lunda Norte (Província da Lunda-Norte), northeastern Angola province, capital Dundo, created 1978 from the Lunda division; 103,760 km², 19 municipalities, 1,742,217 people (2024 census), Cokwe people, diamond mining economy.
Lunda Sul Province
Lunda Sul Province (Província da Lunda Sul), eastern Angola, capital Saurimo; 77,636 km², 14 municipalities, 893,936 people (2024 census); Cokwe people and language; diamond mining at Catoca; governor Gildo Matias José since 2025.
Lunda wars of expansion under Mwaant Yaav
The Lunda wars of expansion were the military campaigns by which the Lunda empire, based at Musumba in present-day DR Congo, conquered neighbors and controlled regional trade.
Lundbeck
Lundbeck, formally H. Lundbeck A/S, is a Danish pharmaceutical company headquartered in Valby, Copenhagen. Founded in 1915, it focuses on drugs for psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Lundbergs
Lundbergs is a listed Swedish investment company founded in Norrköping in 1944 by Lars Erik Lundberg, holding commercial property and nine listed stakes including Hufvudstaden.
Lunde
Lunde: name of several places in Norway and Denmark, including an ancient Norwegian cemetery site (Pleiades 20535, 30 BC-AD 640), the Nome churchyard by the Telemark Canal, and Danish cemeteries and a parish church.
Lundmark (lunar crater)
Lundmark is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the far side of the Moon, about 103–106 km across near 39°S 152.5°E, southeast of Mare Ingenii, near Koch and Jules Verne craters, named for astronomer Knut Lundmark.
Lundy
Lundy: granite island in the Bristol Channel, 19 km off North Devon, largest island there; former pirate and smuggler base, National Trust-owned, Landmark Trust-managed, England's first marine nature reserve, rat-free since 2006.
Luneburg lens
A Luneburg lens is a spherical lens whose refractive index is highest at its center, focusing waves from any direction without aberration, used in radar reflectors.
Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Lünen is a city of about 87,000 in the Unna district, North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Lippe at the Ruhr area's northern edge. A Hanseatic town chartered in 1341, it was a coal-mining city from 1873 to 1992 and is now a recycling and technology center.
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (Old Town Lunenburg), a town founded in 1753 as a planned British colonial grid settlement by German, Swiss, and French settlers; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995, criteria (iv) and (v), 33.85 ha property, National Historic Site 1991.
Lunfardo
Lunfardo is the colloquial argot of Buenos Aires that arose in the late 19th century among immigrant popular classes and spread through Argentina and Uruguay, especially through tango lyrics.
Lung
Lung: paired respiratory organ exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide across ~70 m² of alveolar surface; right lung three lobes, left two; five diseases dominate global lung deaths; 2025 WHO lung health resolution.