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Lake Norman
Lake Norman is North Carolina's largest man-made lake, a reservoir on the Catawba River near Charlotte created by Duke Power's Cowans Ford Dam between 1959 and 1963.
Lake Oroville
Lake Oroville is a reservoir on the Feather River in Butte County, California, formed by Oroville Dam in 1967 as the principal storage facility of the California State Water Project.
Lake Pedder
Lake Pedder is an impoundment in south-west Tasmania, created in 1972 by damming the Serpentine and Huon rivers, flooding a smaller natural lake of the same name.
Lake Piru
Lake Piru is a reservoir in Ventura County, California, created in 1955 behind Santa Felicia Dam on Piru Creek and operated by United Water Conservation District.
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is a pair of parallel toll bridges carrying traffic about 24 miles across Lake Pontchartrain between Metairie and Mandeville, Louisiana, completed in 1969.
Lake Powell
Lake Powell, also called Powell Reservoir, is a reservoir on the Colorado River behind Glen Canyon Dam in Utah and Arizona, the second-largest in the United States.
Lake Shore Drive
Lake Shore Drive, officially Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive, is a limited-access highway carrying US Route 41 along the Lake Michigan shore of Chicago through downtown.
Lake Side power plant
Lake Side power plant is PacifiCorp's 1,246 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Vineyard, Utah, built on the former Geneva Steel site and commissioned in 2007.
Lake Somerset
Lake Somerset is the name of several reservoirs, most notably a water supply and flood mitigation reservoir on the Brisbane River in Queensland, Australia, completed in 1951.
Lake Travis
Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Central Texas, formed by Mansfield Dam northwest of Austin; it is the only Highland Lake with dedicated flood storage.
Lake Vermont Coal Mine
Lake Vermont Coal Mine is an open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin near Dysart, majority-owned by Jellinbah Group and operated by Thiess, with its first shipment in February 2009.
Lake Volta
Lake Volta, also called Volta Lake, is the reservoir of Ghana's Akosombo Dam and the largest man-made lake in the world by surface area, covering 8,502 square kilometers.
Lake Washington Ship Canal
The Lake Washington Ship Canal is an eight-mile waterway in Seattle connecting Lake Washington and Lake Union to Puget Sound, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1911 to 1917.
Lake Wivenhoe
Lake Wivenhoe is the reservoir formed by Wivenhoe Dam, completed in 1984, on the Brisbane River in Queensland, Australia; it supplies more than half the region's drinking water.
lakeFS
lakeFS is an open-source data version control system, "Git for data," by Treeverse (founded 2020). It adds zero-copy branching, commits, merges, and rollback to S3, Azure, and GCS data lakes, licensed under BSL 1.1.
Lakehouse architecture
Lakehouse architecture is a data management design that adds database features like ACID transactions to low-cost cloud object storage in open formats, serving analytics, machine learning, and streaming.
Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms (paper)
CIDR 2021 paper by Armbrust, Ghodsi, Xin, and Zaharia defining the lakehouse: warehouse features such as ACID transactions and SQL performance over open Parquet data lakes via a transactional metadata layer like Delta Lake.
Lakekeeper
Lakekeeper is an open-source (Apache 2.0) Apache Iceberg REST Catalog written in Rust by Vakamo, providing access control via OpenFGA/Cedar, vended credentials for S3, ADLS, GCS, audit, and a Lakekeeper+ commercial edition.
Lakera
Lakera is a Swiss-American AI security company founded in Zurich in 2021, best known for the Gandalf prompt-injection game and the Lakera Guard guardrail product for screening LLM traffic.
Lakeside Shopping Centre
Lakeside Shopping Centre, known as Intu Lakeside, is a large shopping center in West Thurrock, Essex, England, opened in 1990 with over 250 shops and restaurants.
Lakeview Generating Station
Lakeview Generating Station was a coal-fired power station on the Lake Ontario shore in Mississauga, Ontario, once called the world's largest fossil generating station, closed in 2005.
Lakewood Power Plant
The Lakewood Power Plant, also known as Lakewood Cogeneration, is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Lakewood, New Jersey, opened in 1994 and now mothballed.
Lakhta Center
Lakhta Center (Лахта Центр) is a skyscraper complex in Saint Petersburg, Russia, housing Gazprom's central office; its 462-meter tower, completed in 2018, is the tallest building in Europe.
Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho
The Lakshmana Temple is a 10th-century Hindu temple at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, India, dedicated to the three-headed Vaikuntha Vishnu and consecrated in 954 CE.
Lakvijaya Power Plant
Lakvijaya Power Plant, also called the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant, is Sri Lanka's first and only coal-fired power station, generating about 40 percent of its electricity.
Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport
Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport, formally Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, is the airport serving Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, at Babatpur about 26 km northwest of the city.
Lal Bihari (लाल बिहारी)
Lal Bihari, known as Lal Bihari Mritak, is an Indian farmer from Uttar Pradesh declared dead in 1976 who spent 18 years proving he was alive.
LaLaport Toyosu
LaLaport Toyosu, also known as Urban Dock LaLaport Toyosu, is a large shopping center in Toyosu, Tokyo, opened in 2006 on the former IHI shipyard site.
Lalitpur power project
The Lalitpur power project is a 1,980 MW coal-fired power station at Mahroni tehsil in Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India, owned by Bajaj Group company LPGCL.
Lallit Anand
Lallit Anand is a mechanical engineer who works in solid mechanics, holding the Rohsenow Professorship at MIT since 2009 and known for constitutive theories of plasticity at large deformations.