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Lane Smith
Lane Smith (1936–2005), American character actor born in Memphis, Tennessee; McMurphy in 650 off-Broadway performances of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Drama Desk winner for Glengarry Glen Ross, Nixon in The Final Days (1989), and Perry White on Lois & Clark (1993–97). Died of ALS, aged 69.
Lane splitting
Lane splitting, also called whitelining, is when a motorcyclist rides between rows of vehicles in the same lane. California alone fully permits it, legalizing it in 2017.
Lane Stadium
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field, Blacksburg, Virginia: Virginia Tech Hokies football stadium opened 1965, capacity 65,632, known for the Enter Sandman entrance tradition and 94 consecutive sellouts.
Lane–Emden equation
The Lane–Emden equation, also called the polytropic differential equation, is a second-order nonlinear equation describing the density profile of self-gravitating polytropic gas spheres, first studied by Jonathan Homer Lane in 1870.
Lanea
Lanea is an extinct Early Devonian conodont genus (Spathognathodontidae) established by Murphy and Valenzuela-Rios in 1999, type species Ozarkodina eleanorae; its middle Lochkovian lineage of Pa elements underpins global Lochkovian biozonation.
Laneia
Laneia (Λάνεια, Lania) is a traditional wine village in Cyprus's Limassol district, 25 km from Limassol at 575 m altitude, with Cyprogeometric-era finds, 281 residents in 2011, and a protected ancient oak.
Lanfang Republic
The Lanfang Republic (蘭芳公司) was a self-governing community of Chinese gold miners in West Borneo, founded by Luo Fangbo in 1777 and dissolved by the Dutch in 1884.
Lanfear
Lanfear (Mierin Eronaile, Selene, Cyndane), a Forsaken in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time: strongest female channeler, drilled the Bore, obsessed with Lews Therin/Rand, killed by Moiraine, played by Natasha O'Keeffe on TV.
Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson (1937–2011), American playwright from Lebanon, Missouri; Pulitzer Prize winner for Talley's Folly and co-founder of Circle Repertory Company; plays include The Hot l Baltimore, Fifth of July, and Burn This.
Lanfranc
Lanfranc (c. 1010–1089) was an Italian-born monk, teacher, and canon lawyer who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1070, serving William the Conqueror as counselor and securing Canterbury's primacy over York.
Lanfranc Cigala
Lanfranc Cigala, also spelled Lanfranco Cigala or Cicala, was a Genoese nobleman, judge, diplomat, and troubadour who wrote lyric poetry in Provençal; 32 of his poems survive.
Lang Jingshan
Lang Jingshan (1892–1995) was a Chinese photographer and China's first photojournalist, best known for composite photography, a darkroom method combining negatives into images resembling Chinese ink landscape paintings.
Lang Lang (郎朗)
Lang Lang (郎朗), born 1982 in Shenyang, is a Chinese classical pianist who broke through at 17 with the Chicago Symphony, plays 12 concertos worldwide, and founded the Lang Lang International Music Foundation.
Lang Park
Lang Park, officially Brisbane Stadium and commercially Suncorp Stadium, is a 52,500-seat rectangular stadium in Milton, Brisbane, home to rugby league's Broncos and Dolphins, rugby union's Reds, and soccer's Roar.
Lang Ping
Lang Ping (郎平), also known as Jenny Lang, is a Chinese volleyball player and coach who won Olympic gold in 1984 as captain and 2016 as coach.
Lang Son UNESCO Global Geopark
Lang Son UNESCO Global Geopark (Công viên địa chất toàn cầu UNESCO Lạng Sơn), Viet Nam's fourth geopark, recognized 8 September 2024; 4,842 km² of karst, Na Duong fossils, and Tay-Nung culture.
Lang-i Rud
Lang-i Rud is an ancient place in Iran at Barrington Atlas map 92 grid G2, identified with Laodicea = Nemavand and known from Leo Trümpelmann's 1968 study of its fire temple; some sources place the Lang-e Rud area southeast of Qom.
Langa Langa Stars
Langa Langa Stars, initially the 7 Patrons de Langa Langa Stars, were a Zairean soukous group formed in 1981 by ex-Zaiko Langa Langa vocalist Evoloko Jocker, recording from 1981 to 1987.
Langa massacre
Langa massacre (Uitenhage massacre): 21 March 1985 shooting by South African Police on mourners marching from Langa township to KwaNobuhle near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape; 20 killed, many wounded, on the 25th Sharpeville anniversary.
Langa, South Africa
Langa is a township on the Cape Flats about 11 km from central Cape Town, South Africa, opened in 1927 as the city's oldest surviving planned township.
Langali sodhana
Langali sodhana is the Ayurvedic purification of Gloriosa superba (Langali) tubers, an upavisha semi-poison, using rock salt with buttermilk for 4-5 days or cow urine for 1 day to reduce colchicine toxicity before therapeutic use.
Langali Taila (afi afi-langalitaila)
Langali Taila (Lāṅgalī Taila, synonym Nirgundi Taila) is an Ayurvedic medicated oil from Sharngadhara Samhita 9:198, made of sesame oil, Nirgundi juice, and Gloriosa superba root paste, indicated for vata disorders.
Langalibalele affair
The Langalibalele affair (Umvukelo waseLangalibalele) was the suppression of the Hlubi chief Langalibalele by the British Colony of Natal in late 1873, after he defied orders to register his tribesmen's firearms.
Langar (Sikhism)
Langar, also known as Guru ka Langar, is the free community kitchen of Sikhism, serving vegetarian meals to all comers seated together on the floor.
Langbeinite
Langbeinite, also known as K-Mag, is a rare potassium magnesium sulfate mineral, K₂Mg₂(SO₄)₃, mined near Carlsbad, New Mexico, chiefly as a chloride-free fertilizer supplying potassium, magnesium, and sulfur.
LangChain
LangChain is an open-source framework for building applications on large language models, started in October 2022 and grown into a family of agent-engineering products including LangGraph and LangSmith.
Langdarma
Langdarma was the last emperor of the unified Tibetan Empire, reigning from about 838 to 842 and remembered in Buddhist tradition as the persecutor who ended its first flowering of monastic Buddhism.
Lange (Mercurian crater)
Lange is an IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury, Feature ID 14586, about 180 km in diameter, centered at 6.40°N, 260.00°W near the Mercurian equator; distinct from any lunar or Martian feature of the same name.
Lange (musician)
Lange, real name Stuart Langelaan, is a British trance producer and DJ from Shrewsbury, England, active since 1997 and known for the hit 'Drifting Away'.
Lange (ski boots)
Lange is an American-founded ski boot brand, now part of Dynastar-Lange. Bob Lange introduced the first plastic ski boot in 1962, and by 1970 it dominated racing boots worldwide.