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Little Metropolis church (Athens)
The Little Metropolis (Panagia Gorgoepikoos, Agios Eleutherios) is a small Byzantine church beside Athens Cathedral, built almost entirely of reused ancient marble with 90 sculpted spolia and a famous calendar frieze.
Little Nellie (autogyro)
Little Nellie is the heavily armed single-seat Wallis WA-116 autogyro that starred in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, flown by its designer Ken Wallis.
Littlecote
Littlecote: Wiltshire estate near Hungerford with Littlecote House and a Roman courtyard villa whose Orpheus mosaic, lost after 1727 and rediscovered in 1976, was excavated 1978-1991.
Litton Industries
Litton Industries was an American defense and electronics conglomerate headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, that grew through 1960s acquisitions and was acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2001.
Littoral combat ship
The littoral combat ship (LCS) is a fast United States Navy surface combatant class for shallow near-shore waters, built in two variants and configured through interchangeable mission packages.
Littorio-class battleship
The Littorio class, also known as the Vittorio Veneto class, was a group of four fast battleships built for the Italian Regia Marina in the late 1930s.
Litz wire
Litz wire, from the German Litzendraht meaning woven wire, is a conductor of many thin insulated strands twisted together to reduce AC resistance from about 10 kHz to 1–2 MHz.
Liu Qingfeng (刘庆峰)
Liu Qingfeng (刘庆峰), born 1973 in Anhui, is a Chinese speech-technology researcher who founded iFLYTEK in 1999 as a doctoral student and has led it ever since.
Liuhua 16-2 Oil Field
Liuhua 16-2 (流花16-2) is an offshore oil field in the South China Sea about 240 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong, part of China's first self-operated deepwater oilfield cluster.
Liuhua 20-2 Oil Field
Liuhua 20-2 (流花20-2) is an offshore oil field in the South China Sea, about 240 km south of Hong Kong, operated by CNOOC and producing since September 2020.
Liujiaxia hydroelectric plant
Liujiaxia hydroelectric plant (刘家峡水电站) is a 1,225 MW hydroelectric station on the Yellow River in Gansu, China, the first large Chinese-designed station above 1 million kW.
Liumin Suo
Liumin Suo (索鎏敏) is a Chinese battery and electrolyte scientist at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, known for the water-in-salt electrolyte.
Liutyi (Лютий)
Liutyi (Лютий) is a Ukrainian long-range one-way attack drone developed by Antonov and adopted in 2024, known for strikes on Russian oil refineries at ranges up to 1,000 km.
Liuzhi power station
Liuzhi power station (六枝电厂) is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Liuzhi Special District, Liupanshui, Guizhou, China, and China Resources Power's first thermal project in southwest China.
Live axle
A live axle is a driven axle that supports part of a vehicle's weight and drives its wheels, covering the whole assembly of housing, differential, and axle shafts.
Live coding
Live coding, or on-the-fly programming, is a performance practice in which performers write and modify code in front of an audience, best known from electronic music.
Live migration
Live migration is the process of moving a running virtual machine from one physical host to another with only brief interruption, enabling load balancing, maintenance, and server consolidation.
Live operations (video games)
Live operations (LiveOps) is the ongoing post-release management of a video game as a live service, delivering continual updates, events, and promotions to keep players engaged.
Live USB
A live USB is a USB flash drive containing a bootable operating system that runs directly from the drive, without installation, used for trying, repairing, and portable systems.
Live variable analysis
Live variable analysis, also called liveness analysis, is a backward data-flow analysis compilers use to determine which variables may still be needed, primarily for dead code elimination and register allocation.
LiveBench
LiveBench is a benchmark for large language models that resists test-set contamination by refreshing its questions monthly, scoring every answer automatically against objective ground-truth values without LLM judges.
LiveCodeBench
LiveCodeBench is a continuously updated benchmark measuring how well large language models solve competitive-programming problems, created by UC Berkeley, MIT, and Cornell researchers and released in March 2024 to resist contamination.
LiveJournal
LiveJournal (Russian: Zhivoy Zhurnal, or ZheZhe) is a blogging platform owned since 2007 by Russia's SUP Media, central to Russian political blogging in the 2000s.
LiveLeak
LiveLeak was a British video-sharing website founded in 2006 by Hayden Hewitt and the team behind Ogrish, hosting uncensored footage of war and violence until its 2021 shutdown.
Livent
Livent Corporation was an American lithium chemicals producer, spun off from FMC in 2019, that made battery-grade lithium compounds in Argentina before merging with Australia's Allkem in 2024 to form Arcadium Lithium.
LiveRamp Holdings
LiveRamp Holdings is a San Francisco-based data collaboration and identity resolution company known for RampID and AbiliTec; Publicis Groupe agreed to acquire it in 2026 for $2.167 billion.
Liverpool & Inner West Line
The Liverpool & Inner West Line (T3) is a Sydney Trains suburban service running from Liverpool to the City Circle via Regents Park and Lidcombe.
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), opened in England in 1830, was the world's first inter-city passenger railway and the first to rely exclusively on steam locomotives.
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool, is Britain's largest Anglican cathedral, built on St James' Mount between 1904 and 1978 to Giles Gilbert Scott's Gothic design.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks was Liverpool's municipal water undertaking from 1847, which built the Rivington reservoirs and the Vyrnwy dam, Britain's first large masonry dam, completed in 1888.