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Lange Frans & Baas B
Lange Frans & Baas B were a Dutch rap duo from Diemen-Zuid whose hits 'Zinloos' and 'Het land van...' reached number 1 before their 2009 split.
Lange v Atkinson
Lange v Atkinson, New Zealand defamation case series (1997-2000): former PM David Lange sued Joe Atkinson and ACP; courts extended qualified privilege to political discussion, later superseded by Durie v Gardiner.
Langedrag Wildlife Park
Langedrag Naturpark (Langedrag Wildlife Park), a Norwegian mountain farm, wildlife park and camp school in Nore og Uvdal, Buskerud, founded 1978 by Eva and Edvin Thorson; about 500 animals of 25 species, famous for wolves and the NRK series Vi på Langedrag.
Langeled Gas Pipeline
Langeled is a subsea gas pipeline carrying Norwegian gas from Nyhamna to Easington, England. Completed in 2007, it was then the world's longest underwater gas pipeline.
Langeled pipeline
The Langeled pipeline is a Norwegian subsea gas pipeline carrying gas from Nyhamna, via Sleipner, to Easington, England; it was the world's longest at completion in 2006.
Langemak (lunar crater)
Langemak, lunar farside impact crater, 104.76 km wide at 9.93°S 119.45°E, IAU-named 1970 for Soviet rocketry pioneer Georgiy Langemak; late Imbrian, polygonal rim, satellite Langemak N.
Langenhain
Langenhain is the name of several villages in Hesse, Germany, including Langenhain-Ziegenberg, which grew up beside a Roman frontier fort, and a district of Hofheim am Taunus first documented in 1309.
Langenlois
Langenlois, a wine town in Lower Austria's Kamptal first recorded as "Liubisa" (1072–1091), is home to the Gesamtsportverein Langenlois 1921, a 16-branch, 1,000-member sports club whose football side plays in the 2. Landesliga West.
Langer Heinrich Mine
The Langer Heinrich Mine is an open-pit uranium mine in the Namib Desert of Namibia, held by Paladin Energy and CNNC, which produced uranium from 2006 until 2018 and restarted commercial production in March 2024.
Langer mesomelic dysplasia
Langer mesomelic dysplasia (LMD) is a rare inherited bone growth disorder causing severe short stature and shortened arms and legs, from missing both copies of the SHOX gene.
Langerhans cell
Epidermal Langerhans cells (LCs), discovered by Paul Langerhans in 1868, are tissue-resident macrophages with dendritic-cell function in the skin epidermis; they self-renew locally, present antigen in lymph nodes, and balance immunity and tolerance.
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), formerly Histiocytosis X, is a rare clonal myeloid neoplasm of CD1a/CD207-positive dendritic cells driven by MAPK mutations, especially BRAF V600E, affecting bone, skin, and risk organs.
Langerhans cell histiocytosis involving the skin
Cutaneous Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH): skin involvement by a rare MAPK-driven myeloid neoplasm of immature dendritic cells. Ranges from self-resolving skin-limited disease to skin signs of life-threatening multisystem LCH.
Langerhans cell sarcoma
Langerhans cell sarcoma (LCS), also called malignant histiocytosis X, is a rare aggressive high-grade dendritic cell tumor of Langerhans cells, extranodal and multifocal, with incidence 0.2 per 10,000,000 and poor prognosis.
Langevin algorithm
The Langevin algorithm is a Markov chain Monte Carlo method that samples a probability distribution by following the gradient of its log-density with added Gaussian noise.
Langevin dynamics
Langevin dynamics describes motion with Newton's equations augmented by friction and a random force, so the system exchanges energy with a heat bath at a chosen temperature.
Langevin equation
The Langevin equation is a stochastic differential equation describing a particle under friction and a random fluctuating force, introduced by Paul Langevin in 1908 to describe Brownian motion.
Langfang
Langfang (廊坊) is a prefecture-level city in central-eastern Hebei Province, China, lying between Beijing and Tianjin and approved as a city by the State Council in April 1989.
Langflow
Langflow is an open-source, Python-based visual builder for AI applications, founded at the startup Logspace, acquired by DataStax in 2024, and under IBM since 2025.
LangGraph
LangGraph is an open-source, low-level agent orchestration framework by LangChain for building stateful multi-actor LLM applications, representing workflows as graphs with cycles and launching in 2024.
Langhian
The Langhian is a geologic stage of the Miocene epoch spanning 15.98 to 13.82 million years ago, named by Lorenzo Pareto in 1865 after the Langhe hills of Piedmont, Italy.
Langhuan Wenji
Langhuan Wenji (琅嬛文集) is the collected prose and poetry of the late Ming and early Qing writer Zhang Dai, one of the three works by which readers most often approach him.
Langjökull
Langjökull ("Long Glacier") is Iceland's second largest ice cap, ~900 km² in the central western highlands. Two LIA advances (1400–1550, 1680–1890); 29% volume lost since 1890; hosts the man-made Into the Glacier tunnel.
Langkasuka
Langkasuka was an ancient Hindu-Malay kingdom on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula near Pattani in southern Thailand, attested from the 2nd century for roughly a millennium.
Langkawi
Langkawi: 99-island archipelago and duty-free resort in Kedah, northwest Peninsular Malaysia; main island Pulau Langkawi, 478.5 km2, home of Southeast Asia's first UNESCO Global Geopark (2007) and LADA-managed tourism.
Langkawi Nature Park
Langkawi Nature Park (LNP) is a 50-acre mangrove and zoological reserve in Kampung Belanga Pechah, Langkawi, Malaysia, within Kilim Geoforest Park. Its 800m mangrove boardwalk, jaguars, hyenas, pandemic closure in 2020, and December 2023 reopening distinguish it from the nearby Langkawi Wildlife Park.
Langkawi Sky Bridge
The Langkawi Sky Bridge (Malay: Jambatan Udara Langkawi) is a 125-meter curved pedestrian cable-stayed bridge on Gunung Mat Cincang in Langkawi, Malaysia, opened in 2005 and hanging about 660 meters above sea level.
Langkawi UNESCO Global Geopark
Langkawi UNESCO Global Geopark: Malaysia's and Southeast Asia's first geopark, designated 1 June 2007, covering 99 islands in Kedah, about 478 sq km of land, with Cambrian rocks over 550 million years old and three geoforest parks.
Langkawi Wildlife Park
Langkawi Wildlife Park, formerly Langkawi Bird Paradise, is an interactive animal park on Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia, where visitors can feed more than 150 species.
Langlands dual group
The Langlands dual group of a reductive group G, introduced by Robert Langlands in the late 1960s, is the reductive group obtained by exchanging characters with cocharacters and roots with coroots.