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Landscapes of Dauria
Landscapes of Dauria (Paysages de la Dauria) is a 2017 transboundary serial UNESCO World Heritage site of four parts across Mongolia and Russia, protecting 912,624 ha of Daurian steppe, wetlands, migratory cranes, and Mongolian gazelle routes.
Landscaping
Landscaping is the art of arranging vegetation, built features, and terrain to improve an outdoor area, covering site planning, grading, patios, fences, and plant selection.
Landsgemeinde
The Landsgemeinde is the open-air popular assembly of a Swiss canton, where eligible voters elect the government and decide laws by a show of hands.
Landsknecht
Landsknecht (plural Landsknechte): German mercenary foot soldiers of the late 15th and 16th centuries, formed under Maximilian I on the Swiss model, pike-armed, paid four gulden monthly, organized in regiments with soldier courts, and displaced by standing armies.
Landskrona bois
Landskrona BoIS (Landskrona Boll och Idrottssällskap), Swedish football club founded 7 February 1915 from IFK Landskrona and Diana; plays at Landskrona IP, won Svenska Cupen 1972, 34 Allsvenskan seasons, now in Superettan.
Landslide
A landslide, also called a land slip, is the movement of rock, debris, or earth down a slope under gravity, ranging from slow creep to fast debris flows.
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song)
Landslide, a Stevie Nicks folk rock ballad on Fleetwood Mac's 1975 self-titled album, written in Aspen, Colorado; covered by the Dixie Chicks and Smashing Pumpkins, and a late chart hit via Stranger Things.
Landslide victory
Landslide victory: an election won by an exceptionally large margin, with no fixed legal definition; common benchmarks are 10-20 point popular-vote margins or about 70% of U.S. electoral votes, with examples from 1936, 1984, and recent global elections.
Landstar System
Landstar System is an asset-light transportation management company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 1988, it delivers freight services through about 1,050 independent agents and third-party capacity providers.
Landwasser Viaduct
The Landwasser Viaduct (Landwasserviadukt) is a 65-meter-high masonry railway viaduct near Filisur in Graubünden, Switzerland, built in 1902 on the Rhaetian Railway's UNESCO-listed Albula Line.
Landweber iteration
Landweber iteration is a gradient-descent method for solving ill-posed linear inverse problems, introduced by Louis Landweber in 1951 and used in image deblurring and tomography.
Landwind X7 (陆风X7)
The Landwind X7 (陆风X7) was a compact crossover SUV made by Chinese manufacturer Landwind from 2015, known as a close copy of the Range Rover Evoque.
Landya B. McCafferty
Landya B. McCafferty (born 1962) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in New Hampshire since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Lane
A lane is one of the longitudinal strips into which a roadway may be divided for the movement of traffic, as defined in the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic.
Lane Bryant
Lane Bryant is an American plus-size women's apparel and intimates chain founded in New York City in 1904 by Lena Bryant, which grew from a maternity dress into the country's largest plus-size retailer.
Lane County, Oregon, United States
Lane County, Oregon: county created January 24, 1851, named for first territorial governor Joseph Lane; county seat Eugene; 382,971 residents (2020); stretches Pacific coast to Cascades; home rule charter since 1962.
Lane Cove National Park
Lane Cove National Park: 670-hectare NSW national park (gazetted 1992) along the Lane Cove River in Sydney's north, a bushland corridor with Aboriginal sites, threatened species, picnics, walks and holiday park.
Lane Cove Tunnel
The Lane Cove Tunnel is a 3.6 km twin-tube toll motorway in Sydney, Australia, opened on 25 March 2007 to link the M2 at North Ryde with the Gore Hill Freeway at Artarmon.
Lane Davies
Lane Davies (born 1950), American actor known as Mason Capwell on Santa Barbara (1984-1989), with General Hospital roles, Shakespeare festival founding work in California and Tennessee, and Prague Shakespeare Company performances.
Lane departure warning system
A lane departure warning system is a vehicle safety technology that monitors lane markings and alerts the driver when the vehicle drifts out of its lane.
Lane detection
Lane detection is a computer vision task that identifies driving lane boundaries from camera and LiDAR data in real time, supporting lane keeping and departure warning.
Lane Factor
Lane Factor (Steph Henry Lane Factor, born 2005) is a Creek-Seminole and Caddo American actor from Midwest City, Oklahoma, known for playing Cheese in Reservation Dogs, his first role, and for The Fabelmans.
Lane Frost
Lane Frost, full name Lane Clyde Frost, was an American professional bull rider who won the 1987 PRCA world championship and died at Cheyenne Frontier Days in 1989.
Lane Garrison
Lane Garrison (born 1980) is an American actor and screenwriter from Dallas, Texas, best known for playing David "Tweener" Apolskis on Prison Break from 2005 to 2007.
Lane Johnson
Lane Johnson (David Lane Johnson, born 1990) is a former NFL offensive tackle who played 14 seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles, drafted fourth overall in 2013, winning Super Bowls LII and LIX with five All-Pro and six Pro Bowl honors before retiring in October 2026.
Lane Kiffin
Lane Kiffin, American football coach (born 1975, Lincoln, Nebraska), son of Monte Kiffin; head coach of Raiders, Tennessee, USC, FAU, Ole Miss, and LSU (since Nov. 30, 2025); 121-55 college record, $91M LSU deal.
Lane Martin
Lane W. Martin is an American materials scientist who studies ferroelectric and multiferroic oxide thin films; he directs the Rice Advanced Materials Institute at Rice University.
Lane positioning
Lane positioning is the motorcycle riding practice of choosing where within a lane to travel, so the rider can see the road, be seen, and keep an escape route.
Lane Pryce
Lane Pryce, fictional British financial officer on AMC's Mad Men, played by Jared Harris. Sent from Puttnam, Powell, and Lowe in Season 3, he co-founds Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, then dies by suicide in Season 5 after embezzlement.
Lane Rogers
Lane V. Rogers (1994–2025), stage name Blake Mitchell, American gay adult film performer and OnlyFans creator from Versailles, Kentucky; Helix Studios exclusive, later CockyBoys; died in a Ventura County motorcycle collision.