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Lusigang power station
Lusigang power station (also written Lvsigang; 大唐国际吕四港发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Qidong, Jiangsu, China, commissioned in 2010 with a 2,640 MW first phase.
Lusitania
Lusitania, also Hispania Lusitania, was a Roman imperial province in western Iberia created by Augustus, capital Emerita Augusta (Mérida), bounded by the Douro and Guadiana, ending under Visigothic control by 411 AD.
Lusitanians
The Lusitanians (Latin Lusitani) were an ancient Indo-European people of western Iberia between the Tagus and Douro rivers, speakers of the non-Celtic Lusitanian language, famed for Viriathus's resistance to Rome and for giving their name to the Roman province of Lusitania.
Lusitans
FC Lusitans, also known as Lusitanos, is an Andorran football club from Andorra la Vella founded in 1999 by Portuguese immigrants, winning consecutive Andorran league titles in 2012 and 2013.
Luso-Kongo War of 1669–1670
The Luso-Kongo War of 1669–1670 was the final armed confrontation between Portugal's Angolan colony and the Kingdom of Kongo. Soyo's army crushed a joint Portuguese and Kongolese invasion at Kitombo in 1670.
Luspatercept
Luspatercept (REBLOZYL, ACE-536) is an erythroid maturation agent, an activin receptor IIB-Fc fusion protein binding TGF-beta ligands, approved 2019 for anemia in beta thalassemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, dosed 1 mg/kg subcutaneously every 3 weeks.
Lussonium
Lussonium, a Roman auxiliary fort on the Pannonian Danube limes at Paks-Dunakömlőd, Hungary, occupied from the mid-1st to early 5th century AD, garrisoned by Alpine cohorts and late Roman cavalry, now a restored ruin garden.
Lust
Lust, or the sex drive (libido), is intense sexual desire, one of three brain systems for mating (lust, attraction, attachment) in Fisher's framework, mediated by testosterone and estrogen with the amygdala, and distinct from romantic love.
Lust for Life (Iggy Pop album)
Lust for Life is Iggy Pop's second solo studio album, released in 1977 on RCA Records and co-written and produced by David Bowie in West Berlin after The Idiot. Contains the title track and The Passenger; revived by Trainspotting in 1996.
Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey album)
Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey album): fifth studio album by Lana Del Rey, released July 21, 2017 via Interscope/Polydor; 16 tracks, mostly recorded at Rick Nowels' The Green Building; guests include The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky, Stevie Nicks, Sean Ono Lennon.
Lust murder
Lust murder (Lustmord; erotophonophilia) is a subcategory of sexual homicide in which sadistic killing itself produces sexual gratification, distinguished by mutilation, FBI offender typologies, and Krafft-Ebing's 1886 origins.
Lust Stories
Lust Stories (2018) is a Hindi-language Netflix anthology film of four short films by Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar, a companion to Bombay Talkies, told from women's viewpoints; Emmy-nominated, with sequels in 2023 and later.
Lust Stories 2
Lust Stories 2 is a 2023 Hindi-language Netflix anthology film, sequel to the Emmy-nominated Lust Stories, with four shorts by R. Balki, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sujoy Ghosh, and Amit Ravindernath Sharma, released 29 June 2023.
Lust, Caution (色，戒)
Lust, Caution (色，戒) is a 2007 espionage drama directed by Ang Lee, adapted from Eileen Chang's short story, in which a resistance agent seduces a puppet-government official in occupied Shanghai.
Lusterware
Lusterware is ceramic with an iridescent metallic sheen, made by a second low-temperature firing; invented in Iraq around the 9th century and perfected at Kashan, Iran.
Lustmord
Lustmord is the solo project of Welsh artist Brian Williams (born 1964), started in 1980; his 1990 album Heresy founded the dark ambient genre, and he is known for SPK membership, film and game sound design, and collaborations with Tool, Melvins, and Robert Rich.
Lustration
Lustration, from the Latin for purification, is the administrative screening and removal of officials tied to a former authoritarian regime, first codified by Czechoslovakia in 1991.
Lustre (mineralogy)
Lustre, also called mineral luster, is the way a mineral's fresh surface reflects light, described by terms such as metallic, vitreous, pearly, and adamantine, with vitreous the most common.
Lustspiel
Lustspiel is the traditional German-language term for comedy, the counterpart of Trauerspiel, or tragedy. In a narrower sense it names a bourgeois German comedy form, exemplified by Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm.
Lusutrombopag
Lusutrombopag (Mulpleta, Mulpleo), an oral thrombopoietin receptor agonist approved in 2018, raises platelet counts in adults with chronic liver disease before invasive procedures; 3 mg daily for 7 days, main risk thrombosis.
Lusya Chebotina (Людмила Андреевна Чеботина)
Lusya Chebotina (Lyudmila Andreevna Chebotina, Люся Чеботина), Russian pop singer born 1997 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; breakthrough 2021 hit "Solntse Monako"; albums Bezlimitnaya lyubov and The End.
Lut Desert
Dasht-e Lut (دشت لوت), the Lut Desert, is Iran's second-largest desert, a hyper-arid salt desert in the southeast and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2016.
LUT University
LUT University (Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology LUT) is a public Finnish science university founded in 1969, with campuses in Lappeenranta and Lahti, covering technology, business, and social sciences, ranked in the THE top 350 and 9th worldwide for climate action.
Luta Livre
Luta Livre (Luta Livre Esportiva), a Brazilian no-gi catch-wrestling art founded by Euclydes "Tatu" Hatem, focused on submissions and takedowns; distinct from Telecatch pro wrestling and Olympic freestyle wrestling, with a historic Gracie rivalry.
Lute
The European lute (from Arabic al-‘ud) is a plucked string instrument with a ribbed pear-shaped body, paired string courses, and tied gut frets, used from the Middle Ages to the Baroque for solo music and basso continuo; distinguishable from the fretless oud and from the double-necked theorbo.
Lute Olson
Lute Olson (Robert Luther Olson, 1934-2020) was a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who won the 1997 NCAA title at Arizona, reached five Final Fours, and won 776-780 games at Long Beach State, Iowa, and Arizona.
Luteal cell
Luteal cells, or lutein cells, are the progesterone-producing cells of the ovarian corpus luteum: large luteal cells from granulosa cells and small luteal cells from theca cells, regulated by LH and rescued by hCG.
Luteal phase
Luteal phase: the post-ovulatory half of the menstrual cycle, when the corpus luteum secretes progesterone; normally 11–17 days. Covers luteal phase deficiency (≤10 days), its contested diagnosis, and IVF luteal support.
Lutefisk
Lutefisk (Swedish lutfisk, Finnish lipeäkala) is a Nordic Christmas dish of air-dried cod soaked in lye and rehydrated, giving mild flavor and gelatinous texture; first described by Olaus Magnus in 1555 and popular in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Lutein
Lutein is a yellow xanthophyll carotenoid produced by plants and concentrated in the human retina and lens, where it may act as an antioxidant and absorb blue light.