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Luxo Jr.
Luxo Jr. is Pixar's 1986 two-minute computer-animated short directed by John Lasseter, about a baby lamp and a ball; first CGI film nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar and source of Pixar's hopping-lamp logo.
Luxo Jr. (character)
Luxo Jr. is the baby desk lamp from Pixar's 1986 short Luxo Jr., directed by John Lasseter; he bursts his bouncing ball, returns with a larger one, and now hops on the 'i' in Pixar's animated logo.
Luxonis
Luxonis is a spatial AI company that builds the OAK (OpenCV AI Kit) cameras and DepthAI software platform, combining stereo depth and on-device neural inference.
Luxor (game)
Luxor (Queen Games, 2018) is a Rüdiger Dorn family board game for 2–4 players, ages 8+, about 45 minutes, in which adventurers race through an Egyptian temple to the pharaoh's tomb; a 2018 Spiel des Jahres nominee with a play-only-the-outer-card hand mechanic.
Luxor (الأقصر)
Luxor (الأقصر), southern Egyptian city on the Nile, stands on ancient Thebes (Waset), New Kingdom capital. Known for Karnak, Luxor Temple, Valley of the Kings; UNESCO World Heritage since 1979.
Luxor Governorate
Luxor Governorate (محافظة الأقصر) is one of Egypt's 27 governorates, created in 2009 from Qena and governed from Luxor, about 635 km south of Cairo.
Luxor Las Vegas
Luxor Las Vegas, also known as Luxor Hotel and Casino, is a 30-story black glass pyramid-shaped hotel and casino on the southern Las Vegas Strip, opened in 1993.
Luxor massacre
Luxor massacre: 17 November 1997 attack by al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya gunmen on tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut, Luxor, Egypt; 58 to 71 killed, attackers died in a police gun battle, and the attack spurred the group's renunciation of violence.
Luxor Obelisks
The Luxor Obelisks are a pair of pink-granite obelisks carved under Ramesses II for Luxor Temple; one has stood on the Place de la Concorde in Paris since 1836, the other remains at Luxor.
Luxor statue cache
The Luxor statue cache is a pit of 26 royal and divine statues found in 1989 beneath Luxor Temple and now displayed at Luxor Museum.
Luxor Temple
Luxor Temple, at Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt, is an 18th Dynasty temple of kingship begun by Amenhotep III around 1390 BCE and expanded by Tutankhamun, Horemheb, and Ramesses II, linked to Karnak by the Avenue of Sphinxes and central to the Opet festival.
Luxottica
Luxottica is an Italian eyewear company founded by Leonardo Del Vecchio in 1961, which owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Persol, and since 2018 has formed part of EssilorLuxottica.
Luxshare Precision
Luxshare Precision (立讯精密) is a Chinese contract manufacturer of connectors, cables, and electronic systems, founded by Grace Wang in 2004 and best known as a principal Apple supplier.
Luxshare Precision Industry
Luxshare Precision Industry is a Chinese precision manufacturer founded in 2004 by Wang Laichun, known for assembling Apple products including AirPods, the iPhone, and the Vision Pro headset.
Luxury car
A luxury car, or luxury automobile, is a premium passenger vehicle defined by brand heritage, engineering performance, interior quality, and technology, typically priced from about $30,000 to beyond $200,000.
Luxury goods
Luxury goods are products whose demand rises more than proportionally with income, bought for quality, status, or scarcity rather than need, a roughly €1.4-trillion global industry.
LuxWall, Inc.
LuxWall, Inc. is a Michigan glass manufacturer, founded by Scott Thomsen in 2020, that makes Enthermal vacuum insulating glass marketed as "Transparent Insulation" for energy-saving building retrofits.
Luy Thay
Luy Thay (Lũy Thầy) is a system of defensive walls in Quang Binh, Vietnam, built in the early 1630s to shield the Nguyen lords from Trinh invasion.
Luyanda Zuma
Luyanda Zuma, South African actress and model from Pietermaritzburg; Miss SA 2025 first runner-up; played Liyana in Shaka iLembe season 2, Captain Mo in Levels, and Dabulamanzi in Isitha: The Enemy.
Luyanda Zwane
Luyanda Zwane (born 2004, Umlazi, Durban) is a South African actress known as Sibongile Mbambo in Sibongile & The Dlaminis and Lindani in Netflix's The Polygamist; also Vundlazi in Shaka iLembe, distinct from actress Luyanda Zuma.
Luye rivastigmine multi-day transdermal patch
Luye rivastigmine multi-day transdermal patch (LY30410, RID-TDS, RIVALUEN LA) is a twice-weekly rivastigmine patch for mild to moderate Alzheimer's dementia, bioequivalent to the daily Exelon patch and approved in Europe, Japan, and China.
Luyu Oil Pipeline
The Luyu Oil Pipeline, also called the Ripuluo pipeline (日濮洛管道), is a Chinese crude oil pipeline from Rizhao Port in Shandong to Luoyang in Henan, commissioned in 2021.
Luz
Luz (2018) is a 70-minute German horror thriller, Tilman Singer's KHM diploma film, about a possessed cabdriver's hypnosis confession; premiered at Berlinale 2018, released in German cinemas 21 March 2019.
Luz Casal
Luz Casal, stage name of María de la Luz Casal Paz, is a Spanish pop singer from Galicia known for "Piensa en mí" in Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos.
Luz Elena González Escobar
Luz Elena González Escobar is a Mexican economist and government official who has served as Secretary of Energy of Mexico since 2024, under President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Luz Escamilla
Luz Escamilla is an American politician and Democratic member of the Utah State Senate, representing District 10 and serving as Minority Leader since 2024.
Luz Long
Luz Long (Carl Ludwig Hermann Long, 1913-1943), German long jumper, 1936 Berlin Olympic silver medalist behind Jesse Owens; six German titles, 7.90 m European record; NSDAP member, killed in Sicily; the famous advice story is debunked.
Luz Rivas
Luz M. Rivas is an American Democrat serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 29th district since 2025, after serving in the California State Assembly from 2018 to 2024.
Luz y Fuerza de San Lorenzo
Luz y Fuerza de San Lorenzo, known as Lufussa, is a Honduran electricity generation company founded in 1994 by the Kafie brothers, with 390 MW of thermal capacity at Pavana.
Luzarches
Luzarches, a commune in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, about 30 km north of Paris. Medieval market town and post relay on the Paris-Calais road; church of Saint-Côme-Saint-Damien classified 1912; population 5,008 (2023).