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L'Auberge du Lac Resort
L'Auberge du Lac Casino and Resort (French for The Lake's Inn) is a Lake Charles-based casino owned and operated by Pinnacle Entertainment. Outside of Atlantic City and Las Vegas, it is the largest casino in the United States. History Due to outlawing of gambling in nearby Texas, the demand for a..
L'Aubespine
The L'Aubespine family was a French family descended from Claude de l'Aubespine, a lawyer of Orléans and bailiff of the abbey of Saint Euverte in the beginning of the 16th century. His progeniture gained distinction in offices connected with the law. Sebastien de l'Aubespine (d. 1582) was abbot of..
L'Aube Nouvelle
L'Aube Nouvelle (The Dawn of a New Day) is the national anthem of Benin. Written and composed by Gilbert Jean Dagnon, it was adopted upon independence in 1960. French Lyrics Jadis à son appel, nos aïeux sans faiblesse Ont su avec courage, ardeur, pleins d'allégresse Livrer au prix du sang des c..
L'Aurore
L'Aurore (The Dawn) was a literary and socialist newspaper published in Paris, France, from 1897 to 1914. Its most famous headline, "J'Accuse," concerned the Dreyfus Affair. ..
L'aut'journal
L’aut’journal is a French language newspaper distributed in Quebec freely and through subscription. It was founded in 1984 by political scientist and journalist Pierre Dubuc, and as of 2004 has a circulation of 35,000 copies. It advocates Quebec sovereignty, socialism and feminism, and strongly..
L'Auto-Journal
L'Auto-Journal is a bimonthly magazine created in 1950 by Robert Hersant and editor-in-chief Gilles Guérithault, devoted to automobiles. L'Auto-Journal became famous in 1955 by unveiling the aspect of the Citroën DS. It is in fact the first automobile magazine to propose automobile scoops. Sket..
Lau
Lau may be: People with the Cantonese surname 刘: Andy Lau, singerEvelyn Lau, writer Other people: Israel Meir Lau, Israeli religious leader Geography: Lau, Nigeria, a local government areaLau Islands, part of the Republic of the Fiji Islands See also Liu, Mandarin surname 刘 This is a [d..
Laua-an, Antique
Laua-an is a 4th class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 23,258 people in 4,725 households. Barangays Laua-an is politically subdivided into 40 barangays. BanbanBongbonganCabariwanCadajugCanituanCapnayanCasit-anGuinbanga-..
Laub-Petschnikoff Stradivarius
The Laub-Petschnikoff Stradivarius is a violin constructed in 1722 by the famous luthier Stradivari. It is one of only 700 Stradivarius violins, violas, cellos or guitars that are known to exist in the world today. Manufactured in 1722, it was owned and played by Ferdinand Laub (1832-1875) and lat..
Laubach
Laubach is a town in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated 23 km east of Gießen. ..
Lauben-Heising
Lauben-Heising is a municipality in Bavaria. ..
Lauben Heising
Lauben-Heising is a municipality in Bavaria. Within the district Oberallgäu this municipality is the smallest with just 8 km² and some 3,200 residents. The municipality consists of several settlements: Lauben, Heising, Hofen, Moos und Stielings as well as the very small villages Nasengrub, Gr�..
Lauberhorn
The Lauberhorn Ski race, Lauberhornrennen takes place annually in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland on the longest downhill run in the world. Its enormous length of about 4455 meters with ride times about 2:30 minutes (about 1 minute longer than regular downhill races) and the achievement of top spe..
Laubert
Laubert Country      France Région Languedoc-Roussillon Départment Lozère Arrondissement Mende Canton Châteauneuf-de-Randon INSEE 48082 Postal Code 48170 MayorCurrent Term Bernard Toulouse2005-2008 Intercommunality Longitude ..
Lauber Arboretum
Lauber Arboretum is an arboretum located in Kakabeka Falls, Ontario. It has been developed privately by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sitch. The arboretum includes many [indigenous] species, along with twenty-odd species non-indigenous to the area, which the Sitches have collected on their travels. La..
Lauburu
The lauburu or Basque cross has four comma-shaped heads similar to the Japanese tomoe. The entire shape can be constructed with a compass and straightedge, beginning with the formation of a square template; each head can be drawn from a neighboring vertex of this template with two compass settings..
Laub (onomastics)
Onomastics and disambiguational informations about the words and surnames forms Laub-, Laup- style. Contents 1 Laub, ..
Laucala
Vanua Levu Group Cikobia-i-Lau Kioa Laucala Matagi Namena Lala Qamea Rabi Taveuni Vanua Levu Yadua Taba Islands of Fiji Principal islands Viti Levu Vanua Levu Significant outliers Conway Reef Kadavu Taveuni Rotuma Archipelagos Kadavu Group Lau Islands Lomaiviti Islands Mamanuca Islands Moala..
Laucala (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji)
History of Fiji Timeline Discovery The rise and fall of Cakobau Colonial Fiji Fiji since 1970 Main article Constitutional crisis of 1977 Coups of 1987 Coup of 2000 Main article Timeline - Mutinies Aftermath - AllegationsMara deposed - Iloilo plotInvestigations - TrialsCourt Martial - Military..
Laucala (Open Constituency, Fiji)
History of Fiji Timeline Discovery The rise and fall of Cakobau Colonial Fiji Fiji since 1970 Main article Constitutional crisis of 1977 Coups of 1987 Coup of 2000 Main article Timeline - Mutinies Aftermath - AllegationsMara deposed - Iloilo plotInvestigations - TrialsCourt Martial - Military..
Laucha
Laucha is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Unstrut, northwest of Naumburg. It is part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Unstruttal. ..
Laucha-Schwarzeiche
Laucha-Schwarzeiche is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the Merseburg-Querfurt district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated southwest of Halle (Saale). The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft is in Schafstädt. The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Laucha-Schwarzeiche consists ..
Lauchhammer
Lauchhammer is a town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in southern Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Schwarze Elster, approx. 17 km west of Senftenberg, and 50 km north of Dresden. ..
Lauchheim
Lauchheim is a town in the Ostalbkreis district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Jagst, 12 km northeast of Aalen. ..
Lauchlan Chisholm
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Lauchlin Bethune
Lauchlin Bethune (15 April 1785 - 10 October 1874) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1831 and 1833. Born near Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1785, bethune attended private schools and the Lumberton Male Academy. Elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1817, 1818, 1822 to 1825, and..
Lauchlin Currie
Lauchlin Currie in 1939 Lauchlin Bernard Currie (October 8, 1902 – December 23, 1993) was a Canadian-born economist from New Dublin, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was born to Lauchlin Bernard Currie, an operator of a fleet of merchant ships, and Alice Eisenhauer Currie, a schoolteacher. As a natu..
Lauch Faircloth
Lauch Faircloth Duncan McLauchlin "Lauch" Faircloth (born 14 January 1928), served as a Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina. Before his Senate service, Faircloth was a prominent and wealthy hog farmer. One impetus for his political activism was his disagreement with the increasing re..
Laud
For the archbishop, see William Laud The name laud means "The Lute". La (The female form of the word "the" in Spanish) Ud (oud which is the Arabic name for Lute). Spanish Laud The laúd is a plectrum plucked chordophone from Spain. It consists of twelve metallic strings (six double), as the bandu..
Lauda-Königshofen
Lauda-Königshofen is a town in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Tauber, 7 km southeast of Tauberbischofsheim, and 30 km southwest of Würzburg. ..
Laudabiliter
In 1155, Pope Adrian IV issued a papal bull Laudabiliter giving the English King Henry II lordship over Ireland. The bull is the subject of academic dispute over its authenticity; the original document is no longer in existence, only later copies exist. Henry invaded Ireland in 1171, using the pap..
Laudakia
Classification of genus Laudakia Laudakia adramitanusLaudakia agrorensisLaudakia atricollisLaudakia badakhshanaLaudakia bochariensisLaudakia caucasiaLaudakia dayanaLaudakia erythrogastraLaudakia himalayanaLaudakia kirmanensisLaudakia lehmanniLaudakia melanuraLaudakia microlepisLaudakia nuptaLaudak..
Laudakia agrorensis
The Agror agama Laudakia agrorensis is an agamid lizard found in Afghanistan, India (Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir) and Pakistan. External links [EMBL reptile database] References Ananjeva, N.B. & Tuniev 1994 Some aspects of historical biogeography of Asian rock agamids Russ. J. Her..
Laudakia badakhshana
The Badakhshana Rock Agama Laudakia badakhshana is an agamid lizard found in NE Afghanistan, N Pakistan, N India, China (Xinjiang), SE Turkmenistan, eastward through Tajikistan to W Kyrgyzstan. Type locality: Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, 36° 34' N, 67° 05' E, 457 m elevation. External..
Laudakia caucasia
The Caucasian Agama Laudakia caucasia is a species of agamid lizard found in the Caucasus, E/S Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Dagestan (Russia), E Turkey, Iraq, N Iran, Afghanistan, NW Pakistan and parts of India. External links [EMBL reptile database]http://i..
Laudakia dayana
Laudakia dayana is a species of Agamid lizard found in Haridwar, India. External links [EMBL reptile database] References Baig,K.J. & Böhme,W. 1995 Partition of the Stellio-group of Agama. 8th Ord. Gen. Meet. Soc. Europ. Herpet.: 36Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the B..
Laudakia himalayana
The Himalayan Agama Laudakia himalayana is an agamid lizard found in NE Afghanistan, N Pakistan, N India (Kashmir), Nepal, China (Xinjiang), SE Turkmenistan, eastward through W Tajikistan to W Kyrgyzstan and E Uzbekistan. Type locality: Lei and Kargill, Ladakh-Province, Kashmir External links &#..
Laudakia melanura
The Black Agama Laudakia melanura is an agamid lizard found in Iran, Pakistan, India (NW Punjab) nasiri: Toba Kakar Range, Balochistan and Pakistan at elevations of 2300 to 2400 m above sea level. Race lirata: Pakistan; Terra typica: Gedrosia, Baluchistan (= Saman, Dasht Province, Baluchistan, fid..
Laudakia pakistanica
The Pakistan Agama is a species of agamid lizard found in Pakistan. Race khani: Pakistan, Terra typica: Hadar (Chilas), Federal Administered Northern Area, Pakistan, 32° 25' N, 74° E, elevation 945 m. Race auffenbergi: Pakistan; Terra typica: Besham, Distr. Swat, Northwest Frontier Province, Pak..
Laudakia tuberculata
The Kashmir Rock Agama is a species of agamid lizard found in N Pakistan, India (W Himalaya, Kashmir, Punjab), Nepal (Katmandu), Afghanistan, and China (Tibetan Plateau). External links [EMBL reptile database]http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Laudakia_tuberculata.jpg Refere..
Laudal
Laudal is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It was created by the split of Øyslebø og Laudal municipality on January 1 1899. At that time Laudal had a population of 836. On 1 January 1963 Laudal was merged with Øyslebø and parts of Bjelland and Finsland to create the new muni..
Laudanum
Laudanum is an opium tincture, sometimes sweetened with sugar and also called wine of opium. Contents 1 History2 Featurings in fiction3 Today's status4 See also History In the 16th century, Paracelsus experimented with the medical value of opium. He decided that its medical..
Laudanum (disambiguation)
Laudanum may refer to: Laudanum, an alcoholic tincture of opium, also called wine of opium.Laudanum, a Roman fortress in the Asterix comic books.Children of Laudanum, a modern world music group from Canada who cite Coleridge, de Quincey, and other notable laudanum addicts as literary influences to ..
Laudatur
Laudatur is the highest grade in the Finnish matriculation examination (See Abitur) and its abbreviation is "L". Only the top 5% of the participants are given an L. Other possible grades are Eximia cum laude approbatur (E, 15% of participants), Magna cum laude approbatur (M, 20%), Cum laude approbat..
Laudaukse Kääksutajad
Laudaukse Kääksutajad is an Estonian folk music group. Their name is Estonian for "Barn door Squeakers". They released their first album, Ühtelaulmine in 2004. The singers are: Evelyn Rosenberg - vocal. Maria Laatspera - vocal, drums. Katrin Laidre - vocal, whistles. Kairi Leivo - vocal, dru..
Lauda Air
Lauda Air is an airline based in Austria. Together with Austrian Airlines and Austrian Arrows, Lauda Air belongs to the Austrian Airlines Group. History Lauda Air was founded in 1978 by former Formula One driver Niki Lauda. In 1989 Lauda started their first long-haul flights from Vienna to Sydney..
Lauda Air Flight 004
Lauda Air Flight 004 was an international passenger flight that crashed due to a thrust reverser deployment of the number one engine, in flight. On May 26, 1991, about 2310 local time, Flight 004 (originating from Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport), a Boeing B-767-3Z9ER, registration OE-LAV, took off fr..
Laude
Laude (singular: lauda, or lauda spirituale) is the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance. It remained popular into the nineteenth century. Originally, the lauda was a monophonic (single-voice) form, but a polyphonic type developed in the ..
Laudelino Mejías
Contents 1 Early life2 Career3 Last years and legacy4 Miscellanea5 See also Early life Laudelino Mejías, Trujillo, Venezuela, (b. August 1893), (d. November 30, 1963). The atmosphere in which the future composer sees his first light is sad and humble, until the en..
Laudenbach
Laudenbach is the name of: Laudenbach (Unterfranken), a town in Bavaria, GermanyLaudenbach (Rhein-Neckar), a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wi..
Lauder
Lauder is a Royal Burgh in the Scottish Borders. It lies on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills, on the Southern Upland Way. Notable buildings in the town include the Tollbooth or Town Hall, which predates 1600. Thirlestane Castle is just outside the burgh. The town recently celebrated 500 years of ..
Lauderdale
Lauderdale is the name of various places: Lauderdale, Scotland, the district enclosing the town of Lauder, and the valley of the Leader Water in ScotlandLauderdale, Tasmania, Australia Lauderdale is the name of several places in the United States of America: Lauderdale, Louisiana (two places):* in..
Lauderdale, Minnesota
Lauderdale is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,364 at the 2000 census. Link: http://www.ci.lauderdale.mn.us/ (City of Lauderdale website) Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²), all land. Dem..
Lauderdale, Tasmania
Lauderdale is a town on the outskirts of Hobart, capital of Tasmania, Australia. The population of Lauderdale is 2,445 that has had no real decline/increase in the last 10 years (2001 census [link]). It is in the local government area of City of Clarence. The town is situated upon the ea..
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea is a town in Broward County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,563 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 5,968 [link]. Geography Lauderdale-by-the-Sea is located at [26°11′22″N, 80°5′52″W]..
Lauderdale (film)
Lauderdale is a 1989 comedy film. It is also known as Spring Break USA and Spring Fever USA. External link ..
Lauderdale County
Lauderdale County is the name of several counties in the United States: Lauderdale County, AlabamaLauderdale County, MississippiLauderdale County, Tennessee This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page,..
Lauderdale County, Alabama
Lauderdale County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of Colonel James Lauderdale, of Tennessee. As of 2000 the population was 87,966. Its county seat is Florence and it's a prohibition or dry county. Contents 1 History2 Geography2.1 Adjacent Counties3..
Lauderdale County, Mississippi
Lauderdale County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 78,161. Its county seat is Meridian6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent Counties2 Demographics3 Cities and towns4 External links Geography According to the U.S. Censu..
Lauderdale County, Tennessee
Lauderdale County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 27,101. Its county seat is Ripley6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Parks and Recreation1.2 Adjacent Counties2 Demographics3 Cities and towns Geography According to the U.S. C..
Lauderdale House
Lauderdale House is an arts and education centre based in Waterlow Park, Highgate. As an arts centre, it runs an extensive programme of performances, workshops, outreach projects and exhibitions. Lauderdale House was one of the finest country houses in Highgate and was originally built in 1582 with..
Lauderdale Lakes, Florida
Location of Lauderdale Lakes in Broward County in State of Florida Lauderdale Lakes is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The population was 31,705 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 31,639 [link]. Contents 1 Ge..
Lauderdale Maule
Lauderdale Maule (27 March 1807–1 August 1854) was a Scottish soldier. He was a younger son of the Lord Panmure. He served as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1853 until 1854, when he died of cholera in the Crimea. |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Lauderdale Tower
Lauderdale Tower is a residential skyscraper, part of the Barbican Estate in the City of London. It is 123 metres (403 feet) tall with 43 floors, and is the 14th tallest building in London (along with its two Barbican Estate companion buildings, Shakespeare Tower and Cromwell Tower). It was complet..
Lauderhill, Florida
Lauderhill is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which includes Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The population was 57,585 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 59,542 [link]. Cont..
Laudermarke
The village (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Laudermarke in the municipality of Vlagtwedde. Laudermarke ([52°53′N 7°7′E]) is a town in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Vlagtwedde, and lies about 19 km northeast of Em..
Lauder - Morasha School
The Lauder - Morasha School in Warsaw, Poland is a Jewish day school opended by the Ronald S. Lauder foundation in 1994. It was founded in memory of Estee Lauder, a concentration camp survivor from Poland. It is the first school under Jewish auspices in the country since 1969. In 2005 its enrollment..
Lauder College
Lauder College is a further education college based in Halbeath, Dunfermline, Scotland. Lauder College’s mission is to ‘enthuse and enable learning’. This purpose derives from our founder George Lauder who’s vision was to provide meaningful and accessible education for the people of Dunferm..
Lauder – Lea Deutsch Elementary School
The Lauder – Lea Deutsch Elementary School is an elementary Jewish day school in Zagreb, Croatia. It opened on September 1, 2003, and is the first school under Jewish auspices in the country since the Jewish Elementary School closed in 1941. It is named after Lea Deutsch, a girl who died during th..
Laude (Groningen)
The village (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Laude in the municipality of Vlagtwedde. Laude ([52°56′N 7°8′E]) is a town in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Vlagtwedde, and lies about 23 km northeast of Emmen. The st..
Laudibus
Laudibus, a latin word meaning "praise", is a vocal sextet based at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. ..
Laudine
Laudine, also known as the Lady of the Fountain, is a character from Arthurian legend who appears in Chrétien de Troyes' poem Yvain, the Knight of the Lion and all works based on it, such as the Welsh tale Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain and the German Iwein by Hartmann von Aue. She marries the ..
Laudir DeOliveira
Laudir DeOliviera is an honest to goodness Brasillian percussionist. His first professional experience was pounding the skins for Brasilian musical legend, Sergio Mendes. Later, he started working with the band Chicago, playing on the albums VII through XIV. Laudir left Chicago aound 1981, and he ..
Laudium, Gauteng
Laudium is an Indian township in Centurion (Tshwane metropolitan area), South Africa. It was a settlement formed under the apartheid government as part of their segregation policy aimed at moving ethnic groups out of Marabastad and central Pretoria, which were being zoned as 'White Areas' around 195..
Laudrup
Laudrup is the last name of a family of football (soccer) players: Michael Laudrup, captain of the Danish national team, clubs FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.Brian Laudrup, Danish national squad, clubs Bayern Munich and Glasgow Rangers.Finn Laudrup, father of Michael and Brian, Danish national squad, ..
Lauds
Lauds is one of the two "major hours" in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. It is to be recited in the early morning hours, preferably near dawn. Contents 1 Structure of the hour2 Variations3 Historical development of Lauds before the ..
Laud Humphreys
Laud Humphreys (October 16, 1930 - August 23, 1988) was an American sociologist and author. He was born as Robert Allan Humphreys and chose "Laud" as his first name when he was baptised again upon entering the Episcopal Church. He graduated from the Seabury-Western Episcopal Theological Seminary in ..
Laud Weiner
Laud Weiner is a short subject film written and directed by Phillip Euling, starring David Hyde-Pierce. Plot The film follows Laud Weiner, a egotistical, arrogant, and back-stabbing movie studio executive, as he explains how he is a success to the camera whilst taking credit for other people's ide..
Lauenburg/Elbe
"Lauenburg" redirects here. For , see . Map of Germany showing Lauenburg [Lauenburg] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated at the northern bank of the river Elbe, east of Hamburg. Lauenburg belongs to the Kreis (di..
Lauenburg (disambiguation)
The German name [Lauenburg] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) may refer to: Lauenburg/Elbe, city in Schleswig-HolsteinLauenburg (district), district in Schleswig-HolsteinDuchy of Lauenburg, former German principalityNaturpark Lauenburgische Seen, nature park in Lauenburg Dis..
Lauenburg (district)
Lauenburg Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein Capital: Ratzeburg |- | Area:||1263 km² |- | Inhabitants:||182,600 (2002) |- | pop. density:||145 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||RZ |- | Homepage:||[herzogtum-lauenburg.de] |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colsp..
Lauenen
Lauenen (French: Lauvine, Romansh: Lavina) is a mountainous municipality in the Saanen District of the canton of Berne, Switzerland. It is also a parish of the Bern-Jura-Solothurn Reformed Church. Lauenen is known as an area with substantial danger of landslides and avalanches, which is the origin..
Lauer
Lauer is a small island in the Hvaler municipality in South-East Norway. The Hvaler islands are located in the Oslofjord, not far from the border with Sweden. The name "Lauer" is derived from Old Norse "Laufeyar", "the leafy island". Like many Norwegian place names, the name of the island is conne..
Laue (crater)
Crater characteristics Coordinates ..
Laufakanaa
In Polynesian mythology (Tonga), Laufakanaa is the god of wind and a son of Tamapo. ..
Laufeia
Laufeia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Laufeia aenea Simon, 1889 (China, Korea, Japan)Laufeia aerihirta (Urquhart, 1888) (New Zealand)Laufeia eucola (Thorell, 1890) (Sumatra)Laufeia keyserlingi (Thorell, 1890) (Sumatra, Java)Laufeia liujiapingensis Yang & Ta..
Laufen
Laufen is a small German town located on the southeastern border of Bavaria. Laufen, situated inside the Salzach river bend lies directly across the river from the Austrian town of Oberndorf, where the carol "Silent Night" was first performed at St. Nicola church by the school master Franz Gruber a..
Laufenburg
Laufenburg may refer to: Laufenburg, GermanyLaufenburg, Switzerland See also Habsburg-Laufenburg This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the in..
Laufenburg, Germany
For the adjacent town in Switzerland see Laufenburg, Switzerland. Laufenburg is a small city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, part of the Waldshut district. It has approximately 4300 inhabitants (including 6 outskirts 8300 inhabitants). Laufenburg is separated from a Swiss city with the same name ..
Laufenburg, Switzerland
Laufenburg is a small city in Aargau, Switzerland. It has approximately 2000 inhabitants. On the other side of the Rhine River lies Laufenburg (Baden), Germany. The same name is not by accident, as the two used to be the same city. In the early 19th century Napoleon divided the city. Two bridges n..
Laufey
In Norse mythology, Laufey or Nál was, with Fárbauti, the mother of Loki. She is otherwise unknown. Her name means "leaf island", and is a kenning for a tree. The island of Lauer is named after her. ..
Lauffen
Lauffen is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Neckar, 9 km southwest of Heilbronn. ..
Laufitu Tonga
Laufitu Tonga was a Tongan-Fijian chieftainess. She was the first wife of Rasolo, who was the third Roko Sau of the Lau Islands and first installed holder of the title Tui Nayau. She was by him the mother of Malani, the seventh Roko Sau and the second to hold the Tui Nayau title. As Rasolo was the ..
Lauf (Baden)
Lauf is a community in Ortenau County in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ..
Lauf (onomastics)
Onomastics and disambiguational informations about words and surnames Lauf-, Laufer.. etc. Contents 1 Lauf2 Laufen3 Laufenberg3.1  Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Place names of Lauf- style Germany Lauf, see aboveLaufachLaufenSulzbach-Lau..
Lauf an der Pegnitz
Lauf an der Pegnitz is a small town in the metropolitan area of Nuremberg, Germany. It is the capital of the district Nürnberger Land, in Bavaria. ..
Laugardalsvöllur
Laugardalsvöllur is the national stadium of Iceland. It is located in Reykjavík, and seats 7,000 individuals, 3,500 each in stands on opposite sides of the field. One stand was constructed in 1958 and the other in 1997. Additional capacity can be added by bringing in two temporary stands seating 1..
Laugarvatn
Laugarvatn Laugarvatn is a lake in the south of Iceland. It is a bit smaller than the neighbouring Apavatn. It is situated at a popular touristical round-trip, the Golden Circle. If somebody wants to go from Þingvellir to Haukadalur, it is possible to follow a track through an interesting v..
Laugavegur
This article is about the trekking route in South-West Iceland. For the Reykjavík shopping street, see Laugavegur (Reykjavík). Landmannalaugar on the Laugarvegur The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valle..
Laugavegur (Reykjavík)
For a trekking route in South-west Iceland see Laugavegur. Laugavegur is one of the oldest shopping streets of central Reykjavík, Iceland. The name means Pool Road, as it used to lead to the hot springs in Laugardalur where in olden times the women of Reykjavík took their laundry. It has experie..
Lauge Koch Nature Reserve
Lauge Koch Nature Reserve is one of the world's largest nature reserves. It lies in northwestern Greenland. ..
Laugh-O-Gram Studio
Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City. The Laugh-O-Gram Studio was among the first studios in which Walt Disney worked. Disney founded the studio in 1922, producing popular, but ultimately unprofitable, cartoons for mostly local audiences. Disney's Laugh-O-Gram company went out of business in J..
Laugh? I Nearly Went To Miami!
'' Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami! is a stage comedy by Miles Tredinnick. It was first produced in Hampstead, London in 1985 and published the following year by Samuel French Ltd.. The original cast starred Russell Wootton and Jill Greenacre. It has been translated into many languages and is regula..
Laughable loves
Laughable loves is a collection of seven short stories written by Milan Kundera in which he presents his characteristic savage humour by mixing the extremes of tragedy with comic situations. There is the story of a proffessor who keeps avoiding an academic, and in the end gets into trouble for his ..
Laugharne, Wales
for at grid reference SN301109 Laugharne (Welsh: Talacharn) is a town in Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Tâf. It is known for having been the home of Dylan Thomas from 1949 until his death in 1953, and is thought to have been an inspiration for the fictional town o..
Laugharne Castle
Laugharne Castle is a castle in the town of Laugharne in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is located on the estuary of the River Tâf. The castle was built by the Normans after 1100 as part of their invasion of Wales. It was seized by Rhys ap Gruffydd in 1189. ..
Laugher
A laugher is a slang term for one of several types of drugs, usually euphorics or stimulants, that have a tendency to make the user laugh easily and hysterically while under its influence. Examples of laughers include cannabis (in small amounts), ecstasy and speed. Other categories into which drug..
Laughery Creek Bridge
The Laughery Creek Bridge is an abandoned bridge on the border of Dearborn County, Indiana and Ohio County, Indiana. It crosses Laughery Creek. This bridge was built in 1878. It is the only example in the world of a Triple Whipple Truss. This bridge is currently on the National Register of Histo..
Laughingthrush
The Laughingthrushes are the genus Garrulax of the large Old World babbler family of passerine birds. They occur in tropical Asia, with the greatest number of species occurring in the Himalaya and southern China. These are rangy, medium-sized, floppy-tailed landbirds with soft fluffy plumage. The..
Laughing Cavalier
Laughing Cavalier, 1624 The Laughing Cavalier (1624) is a famous Old Master painting by the Dutch Baroque artist Frans Hals. It is in the Wallace Collection in London, England. In a similar way to the Mona Lisa, it has an enigmatic smile, and since the subject is painted looking straight at t..
Laughing City
Laughing City was an EP released by the band Eisley as well as the name of the band's online discussion board. The EP was published by Record Collection Music. Track Listing: I wasn't preparedTelescope EyesTree TopsOver the MountainsLaughing City ..
Laughing City E.P.
Laughing City is the first EP of the band Eisley released after signing with Warner Brothers Records. It was released May 20, 2003 on Record Collection Music. Track listing All songs written by Eisley. "I Wasn't Prepared" – 3:33"Telescope Eyes" – 3:36"Tree Tops" – 4:20"Over The..
Laughing Colors
Laughing Colors are a rock band from Baltimore/Washington DC. Contents 1 Members2 Band history3 Permanent Vacation4 Trivia5 Discography5.1 Studio albums5.2 Live albums6 External links Members Dave Tieff (lead vocals, rhythm guitar)Will Dorsey, Jr. (drum..
Laughing Dove
The Laughing Dove (Streptopelia senegalensis) is a small pigeon which is a resident breeding bird in the tropics in Africa south of the Sahara, the Middle East and southern Asia east to India. In India it is also known as the Little Brown Dove. Probably as the result of stowaways from Africa or In..
Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye
Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye or The Lame Fox is a Serbian fairy tale collected by A. H. Wratislaw in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources, number 40. Andrew Lang included it in The Grey Fairy Book. Synopsis [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details fo..
Laughing Falcon
The Laughing Falcon, Herpetotheres cachinnans, also called the Snake Hawk, is a medium-sized bird of prey in the falcon family, the only member of the genus Herpetotheres. It is a specialist snake-eater. It is found from both coastal slopes of Mexico through Central and South America south to Ama..
Laughing Fit (Code Lyoko episode)
"Laughing Fit" is the fifteenth episodes of the French animated television series Code Lyoko. It premiered in France on December 10, 2003 and in the United States on May 7, 2004. Contents 1 Summary2 Recap3 Memorable Quotes4 Trivia4.1 Basic Science4.2 Allusions to th..
Laughing gas
Laughing gas may refer to: a common name of nitrous oxide, a substance used by dentistsa novel by Wodehousethe title of several movie shortsa song performed by Quiet Riot This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you..
Laughing Gas (film)
This page is about the short movies. For other senses of this word, see the disambiguation page Laughing Gas is the title of several movie shorts (1907, 1914 starring Charlie Chaplin, 1920) whose plot revolves around real or would-be dentists. ..
Laughing Gas (novel)
This page is about the novel. For other senses of this word, see the disambiguation page Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 4, 1936 by Doubleday Doran, New York..
Laughing Gas (solo)
This page is about the song. For other senses of this word, see the disambiguation page Laughing Gas was a song performed by Quiet Riot at all the live performances while Randy Rhoads played with the band. It was never recorded onto an album until a live bootleg performance was enhanced (with rerec..
Laughing God
In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, the Laughing God is one of only two Eldar Gods to have survived the Fall of the Eldar. It is said that during the fight between Slaanesh and Khaine the Laughing God hid behind Khaine for protection, in the aftermath of the struggle the Laughing God fled..
Laughing Gull
The Laughing Gull, Larus atricilla, is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. It breeds on the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, southern California, USA, and northern South America. Northernmost populations migrate further south in winter, and this species occurs as a rare v..
Laughing in the Wind
Laughing in the Wind is the American DVD release title of the Chinese Wuxia television series, Xiao Ao Jiang Hu (it is also known as The Legendary Swordsman, as well as Blood Cold and Proud hot, and State of Divinity). It aired in 2000 in China, and was released in America on DVD in 2005, in four p..
Laughing Kookaburra
The Laughing Kookaburra is a handsome, stocky bird of about 45 cm in length, with a large head, a prominent brown eye, and a very large bill. It is found throughout eastern Australia, and has been introduced into the south-west corner of Western Australia, Tasmania, Flinders Island, Kangaroo Islan..
Laughing Man
The Laughing Man could refer to: The Man Who Laughs, AKA, L'homme qui Rit or The Laughing Man is a novel written by Victor Hugo, in 1869. The Laughing Man is a short story written by J.D. Salinger. The Laughing Man is character in the anime series [[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]. Laughin..
Laughing Man (Ghost in the Shell)
This article pertains to a Ghost in the Shell character. For other uses of "The Laughing Man", please see Laughing Man The Laughing Man's logo The Laughing Man (笑い男, warai otoko) is a character in the fictional anime series [[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]. He is an expert..
Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)
"Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)" is a popular song. The music was written by Bernie Wayne, the lyrics by Ben Raleigh. The song was published in 1946. Three versions were popular in 1946: by Dinah Shore, by Andy Russell, and by Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra (with vocal by Billy Willi..
Laughing Owl
The Laughing Owl (Sceloglaux albifacies), Whekau or White-faced Owl, was an endemic owl found in New Zealand, but is now extinct. It was plentiful when European settlers arrived in New Zealand in 1840. Specimens were sent to the British Museum where reports on them were published in 1845. By 1880,..
Laughing Pizza Productions
Laughing Pizza Productions is a children's record and video label based in Atlanta, Georgia formed in 2002 by husband and wife songwriters Billy Schlosser and Lisa Michaelis Schlosser with their daughter Emily(Born 1998). They also perform as the Pizza!s and have won a following with families who ..
Laughing Stock
Laughing Stock was Talk Talk's fifth and final album, released in 1991. Previously, the group's sound changed significantly with each new release, but Laughing Stock was almost a mirror image of their previous album Spirit of Eden. Both featured improvised instrumentals from a large pool of musici..
Laughing stock
A laughing stock is a phrase used to describe a something which has become the object of ridicule. The phrase is often hyphenated (laughing-stock) and is thought to originate from the time where stocks were used to punish and humiliate petty criminals. ..
Laughing Stock (song)
"Laughing Stock" "Laughing Stock" is a single by the American rock group Grandaddy released in 1998. Title inspired from album recorded by the band "Talk Talk". Tracklist Laughing StockGPC12-pak $5.99 ..
Laughing Target
|} Laughing Target is an anime OVA released in 1987. It was licensed for english release by Central Park Media but this license has since expired. ..
Laughing Whitefish River
The Laughing Whitefish River (not to be confused with the Whitefish River) is located in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river rises in eastern Marquette County and flows east and then north through Alger County to the mouth on Lake Superior at [46°31′30″N, 87°01..
Laughlin
Laughlin has several uses: Places* Laughlin, a city in Nevada* Laughlin Air Force Base People* Billy Laughlin* Harry Laughlin* James Laughlin (poet)* James Laurence Laughlin (economist)* Robert B. Laughlin* William S. Laughlin This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of arti..
Laughlin, Nevada
Laughlin at night, with the Colorado River in foreground Laughlin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 7,076. Laughlin is located on the Colorado River 94 miles (152.3 km) south of Las Vegas. Directly across t..
Laughlin Air Force Base
Laughlin Air Force Base is a facility of the United States Air Force located near Del Rio, Texas, close to the border of the United States with Mexico. Laughlin Air Force Base, the largest pilot training base in the USAF is home to the 47th Flying Training Wing; on weekdays, the airfield sees more t..
Laughter
Self-portrait of Joseph Ducreux shown laughing. A child laughing Laughter is the physiological reaction to occasions of humor or the 'comic' stimulus; it is an outward expression of amusement. Aristotle noted that "only the human animal laughs". No satisfactory theory of laughter that ex..
Laughter, Tears and Rage
Laughter, Tears And Rage Album by Act Released 1988 Length 57 min 30 sec Record label ZTT Act Chronology Laughter, Tears and Rage(1988) - - Laughter, Tears and Rage was the sole album produced by Act - the short musical collaboration between Thomas Leer and ex-Propaganda vocalist Clau..
Laughter & Lust
Track Listing: Obvious Song (4:11)Goin' Downtown (3:05)Stranger Than Fiction (3:10)Oh Well (2:29)Jamie G. (2:04)Hit Single (3:37)It's All Too Much (4:22)When You're Not Around (4:01)The Other Me (4:11)Trying To Cry (6:35)My House (4:26)The Old Songs (3:32)Drowning (5:09) ..
Laughter in the Rain
Laughter in the Rain is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka and written by Sedaka and Phil Cody. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 1, 1975. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Laughter Yoga
Laughter Yoga is physically-oriented technique that uses a blend of playful, empowering and otherwise "tension-releasing" simple laughter exercises, interspersed with gentle breathing and stretching exercises, rhythmic clapping and chanting of Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha in unison. This is done as a way to impro..
Laughton
Laughton could be actor Charles LaughtonLaughton, East SussexLaughton, LeicestershireLaughton, LincolnshireLaughton-en-le-Morthen, South Yorkshire See also Lawton This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise mi..
Laughton, East Sussex
Laughton is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located 5 miles (8km) west of Lewes. It appears in the Domesday Book, and there are Roman remains nearby. External links [Laughton][Laughton church] ..
Laughtondale, New South Wales
Laughtondale is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the Hornsby Shire local government area. External links Suburbs within Hornsby Shire | North Shore | Sydney Arcadia | Asquith | Beecroft | Berowra | Berowra Heights | Berowra Waters | ..
Laughton Place
Laughton Place is a historic building near Lewes, Sussex owned by the Landmark Trust. It was restored under the supervision of architect John Warren. ..
Laugh in a Half
Laugh in a Half was a comedy anthology show broadcast on CBC Radio One in 2003. Hosted by Walter Rinaldi, it was a summer replacement show for Madly Off in All Directions that ran for 13-weeks from June to late August of that year. Each show focused on a particular topic, such as "pioneers of comed..
Laugh not War
Part of a series onAnti-War topics Opposition to... Iraq War War on Terrorism Afghanistan War Vietnam War War of 1812 American Civil War Second Boer War Agents of opposition Anti-war organizations Conscientious objector Draft dodger Peace movement Peace churches Related ideologies A..
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Laugh Parade
Laugh Parade is the name of a group of weekly comic strips written by Bunny Hoest and drawn by John Reiner [link] . It appears in Parade Magazine, a Sunday newspaper supplement. Laugh Parade usually consists of three or four single-panel comic strips, one of which is titled Howard Huge. ..
Laugh Radio
Laugh Radio was a test community radio station in Melbourne, Australia. It broadcast ten test broadcasts during the 90s, all but the last of which was broadcast on 89.9FM. The format of the station was unique in that it broadcast comedy programming 24 hours a day. Similar stations exist today, bu..
Laugh to Laugh: Ang Kulit!
A gag show on QTV Channel 11 on 8:00 to 8:30 pm Contents 0.1 Hosts0.2 Segments0.3 Segments that no longer shown0.4 See also0.5 Website Hosts Ryan YllanaBoy 2 QuizonJaja GonzalesBoom Boom GonzalesJulia ClareteAlfred VargasWilma DosentJuliana PalermoAndrew WolfePaul Sal..
Laugh track
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. A laugh track, laughter track or canned laughter is a separate soundtrack with the artificial sound of audience ..
Lauhanvuori National Park
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Lauharulla
Lauharulla is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Lauharulla insulana Simon, 1901 (Tahiti)Lauharulla pretiosa Keyserling, 1883 (New South Wales) ..
Lauhitya Kingdom
Lauhitya (Lohity, Lohitya etc as variations) was the eastern-most country (it is also the name of a river) known to the people of the epic-age (Treta Yuga or Dwapara Yuga). This kingdom existed on the banks of river Brahmaputra known by the name Lauhitya during the epic-age. Bhargava Rama is believe..
Lauingen
Lauingen is a town in the district of Dillingen in Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the left bank of the Danube, 5 km west of Dillingen, and 37 km northeast of Ulm. ..
Lauinger Library
The Joseph Mark Lauinger Library is the main library of Georgetown University. It is the center of a seven library system that includes 2.8 million volumes. The facility is named after an alumnus who was killed in the Vietnam War. The library, which was opened on April 6, 1970, includes the Woodstoc..
Laukaa
Laukaa is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 17,069 (2004) and covers an area of 825.45 km² of which 173.31 km² is water. The population density is 20.5 inhabitants per km². ..
Laukhella
Laukhella is a village in Lenvik kommune, Troms, Norway. The village lies to the west of the town of Silsand in Senja. The village has a prefabricated house factory. Islandsbotn stadium is also here, which is the home ground of F.K. Senja. ..
Laukiz
Laukiz is a town and municipality located in the province of Bizkaia, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. External link [LAUKIZ in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)] () [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit ] ..
Laukpatis
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. To meet Wikipedia's and make it more accessible to a general audience, this article may require [Cleanupcl..
Lauksargis
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Lauksargis is a name of a masculine deity in Lithuanian mythology, perhaps identical to Laukpatis. ..
Lauku dvasios
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Laukų dvasios (spirits of fields) in Lithuanian mythology were spirits, who were running through the fields. Wh..
Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa
Masiofo Laulu Fetaui Mata'afa also known as Fetaui Mata'afa, was a former member of the Samoan Parliament (HRPP). She was the second woman to be elected to the Samoan parliament. Prior to her marriage to Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu’u II, C.B.E., Samoa's first Prime Minister, she was a high scho..
Lauma
Lauma, in Baltic mythology, is a woodland fae, and guardian spirit of orphans. Originally a sky spirit, her compassion for human suffering brought her to earth and to share our fate. She is assistant at birth, assuring the health and welfare of both mother and child. If the mother does not survive,..
Laumė
Laumė in Lithuanian mythology is a lower spirit, nymph or fairy. Laumės (plural) interestingly enough have birds’ claws for feet. They usually appear in groups of three. They are able to do women’s work perfectly, and are especially skilled in weaving and spinning. They love children, respect ..
Laumière (Paris Metro)
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Laumontite
Laumontite crystals Laumonite is a mineral, one of the zeolite group. Its molecular formula is ()2.4H2O, a hydrated calcium-aluminium silicate. It is found in hydrothermal deposits left in calcareous rocks, often formed as a result of secondary mineralization. ..
Launceston
Launceston is the name of the following places: Launceston, Cornwall, United KingdomLaunceston, Tasmania, AustraliaThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point ..
Launceston, Cornwall
Launceston (Cornish: Lannstefan; the English name is pronounced /ˈlɔːns(t)ən/, /ˈlɑːns(t)ən/ or /ˈlæns(t)ən/, usually without the 't' by the Cornish, but with by everyone else) is a town in the north of Cornwall, United Kingdom, with a population of approximately 7,000. It is situated a..
Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston City Council, Coat of Arms Launceston City Council, Tasmania Launceston is a small city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia, population approximately 98,000, located at the juncture of the North Esk, South Esk, and Tamar rivers. It is the second largest city in ..
Launceston (Tasmania electorate)
The Electoral Division of Launceston was a former electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. It was abolished in 1999 after a redistribution tribunal established new borders for Legislative Council divisions. The division of Launceston used to include the Launceston city council subu..
Launceston Airport
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Launceston and Western Railway
The Launceston and Western Railway was a private railway that opened a broad gauge (1600 mm) railway line between Deloraine and Launceston in 1871. It was built with debt guarantees from landowners near the line who stood to benefit. The line went bankrupt in 1872 and was taken over by the Tasmanian..
Launceston Christian School
Launceston Christian School is a Private School based in Riverside, Launceston, Tasmania. It is part of the Christian Parent Controlled Schools of Tasmania. Launceston Christian School (LCS) caters for students from Kindergarten through to Year 12. The school has 530 students and the principal is Mr..
Launceston Church Grammar School
Launceston Church Grammar School Nisi Dominus Frustra (Unless the Lord is with us, our labor is vain.) Established 1846 School type Independent Principal Stephen Norris Location Launceston, TAS, Australia Colors Blue, Black and White Homepage [www.lcgs.tas.edu.au] L..
Launceston College
Launceston College is located in Australia's second oldest city of Launceston, in the state of Tasmania. Launceston College enrols students studing years 11 and 12, as well as year 13. The college promotes itself as a high quality, safe learning environment, and offers a wide variety of subjects t..
Launceston Elliot
Launceston Elliot (June 9, 1874 - August 8, 1930) was a Scottish weightlifter. He was the first British Olympic champion. Launceston Elliot Launceston Elliot was born in India. His family was an established part of the Scottish aristocracy with Lord Minto being head of the family which had..
Launceston F.C.
Launceston F.C. is a football club based in Cornwall, England. They joined the South Western League in 1958. In the 2004-05 season, they reached the 1st round of the FA Vase. For the 2005-06 season, they are members of the South Western League. Former players who have gone on to play for league clu..
Launceston General Hospital
The Launceston General Hospital is one of the three main public hospitals in Tasmania, Australia. It is located in Launceston and serves the north of the state. It provides a wide range of services including Interventional Cardiology, Renal, Gastroenterology, Haematology-Oncology, Rehabilitation, ..
Launceston Remand Centre
Launceston Remand Centre is an Australian prison facility located in Cimitiere Street, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. References This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing ap..
Launceston Steam Railway
Train on the LSR The Launceston Steam Railway is a 1'11½" (600 mm) narrow gauge railway in Cornwall, based in Launceston. Trains run for 2½ miles to Newmills, where there is a farm park. The first railway to reach Launceston was the Launceston and South Devon Railway, opened in 1865 from L..
Launch
Launch means to establish, to debut or to send out. It may also refer to: Launch (boat), a type of boatLAUNCHcast is the name of a Yahoo! music-related service.Launch (Dragon Ball), the English name of Lunch, a Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z character. It may also call to mind: Ship naming and lau..
LaunchBar
LaunchBar is an launch application for Mac OS X. It can provide instant access to one's applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your music library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name. Similar Quicksilver (software) for Mac OS X..
LAUNCHcast
A 1999 issue (#35) of the LAUNCH disk magazine, a precursor of LAUNCHcast. For other uses of the word launch, see launch. This page is specifically for the Yahoo! Music service. LAUNCHcast is an online music service that plays music based on the user's ratings and preferences. With a Yahoo..
Launchd
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. launchd is a unified, open source service management framework for starting, stopping and managing daemons, programs and scripts. It was intro..
Launched roller coaster
The launched roller coaster is a modern form of roller coaster which has risen to prominence within the last decade. In place of a traditional chain lift, the launched coaster initiates a ride with high amounts of acceleration via one or series of Linear Induction Motors (LIM), Linear Synchronous Mo..
LaunchELF
LaunchELF is an open-source filemanager for the PlayStation 2 console. Written with PS2SDK, it allows users with a modchip or other boot device to run homebrew software and manipulate files on mediums such as memory Card, hard drive, or USB mass storage devices. Launchelf's current version is 3.4..
LauncherX
LauncherX is a a launcher application for Palm OS made by GoTreo Software. See also ZLauncherInitiate External link [LauncherX on MyTreo.net] ..
Launching Place, Victoria
Launching Place is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. Launching Place has many camping grounds where families go camping, hiking and boating in the Yarra River. Melbourne suburbs near Launching Place(Shire of Yarra Ranges) Gruy..
Launchpad
Launchpad may refer to Launch pad - For rockets etc.Launchpad Competition - Highschool band competitionLaunchpad McQuack - Disney characterLaunchpad (website) - A website for software developmentThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same tit..
LaunchPadCMS
LaunchPadCMS is an Open Source Content Management System designed principly for educational institutions with an interest in using Free/Open Source Software in providing their Web Communications and Marketing needs. Using years of experience with hard to use proprietary tools, LaunchPadCMS was at f..
Launchpad (website)
Launchpad is a web application and web site supporting software development, particularly Free Software development. Launchpad is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. It has several parts: Rosetta, a site for translating human language strings that occur in software programs; Malone, a bug tra..
Launchpad Competition
Launchpad is a statewide, alternative music competition for Wisconsin high school students who are in bands formed outside of the traditional music classroom ensembles. Created by the Wisconsin Foundation for School Music and Wisconsin School Music Association, Launchpad celebrates the reach of musi..
Launchpad McQuack
Launchpad McQuack as he first appeared on DuckTales. Launchpad McQuack is a character created by the Walt Disney Company who first appeared as Scrooge McDuck's pilot on DuckTales, and later in the series Darkwing Duck as Darkwing's sidekick. He was a brave, good-hearted, but not altogether brig..
Launchy
Launchy is an extension created for the Firefox web browser that enables the user to launch external applications -- such as other browsers or text editors -- from Firefox's context menu. The latest stable release is 4.2.0. See also List of Firefox extensions External links [Official Launch..
Launch (boat)
Launch means a motorboat with an open or half open deck. The name is derived from the largest boat carried by a man-of-war. The etymology of the word is as follows: Spanish lancha, from Portuguese lancha, from Malay lancha, lancharan, "boat," from lanchar "velocity without effort," "action of glidi..
Launch angle
In fiber optic telecommunications, the launch angle has the following meanings: The angle, with respect to the normal, at which a light ray emerges from a surface.The beam divergence at an emitting surface, such as that of a light-emitting diode (LED), laser, lens, prism, or optical fiber end face..
Launch capsule
A launch capsule is used to carry a submarine-launched missile from the attacking submarine through the distance of water up to the ocean surface, immediately after which the capsule is jettisoned, as the missile continues its journey propelled by the booster motor. ..
Launch control
Launch control refers to an electronic device that is used to assist a Formula 1 driver in the very moment of the start of a race. How it works This device combines the effort of an electronic-driven accelerator and a computer program in the car. The software drives the accelerator according to eng..
Launch Control Center
The Launch Control Center (LCC) is a four-story building that is the electronic "brain" of Launch Complex 39. It is attached to the southeast corner of the Vehicle Assembly Building and it is 5,535 meters (18,159 ft) from Pad 39A . The term and acronym also refer to the underground facilities used..
Launch escape system
Apollo LES Pad Abort test A Launch Escape System (LES) is a top-mounted rocket connected to the crew module of a crewed spacecraft and used to quickly separate and launch the crew module away from the rest of the rocket in the case of an emergency. Since the escape rockets are above the crew..
Launch numerical aperture
In telecommunications, launch numerical aperture (LNA) is the numerical aperture of an optical system used to couple (launch) power into an optical fiber. LNA may differ from the stated NA of a final focusing element if, for example, that element is underfilled or the focus is other than that for..
Launch on warning
Launch on warning is a nuclear strategy which came about during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. With the invention of the ICBM, it became an integral part of the mutually assured destruction (MAD) doctrine. Contents 1 History2 Launch on warning3 Game th..
Launch pad
''This article refers to the structure from which rockets are launched. For other uses see the disambiguation page at Launchpad. The launch pad refers to the facilities where rockets or spacecrafts liftoff. A typical launch pad consists of the service and umbilical structures. The service structur..
Launch Pad (TV series)
Launch Pad was a short lived television show that broadcasted usually in the early morning on the kid-oriented cable network Nickelodeon. It was meant to teach kids about space travel technology. As part of the Cable in the Classroom service, the show was intended to be taped by teachers and shown i..
Launch Services Alliance
In July 2003, Arianespace joined with Boeing Launch Services and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to create the Launch Services Alliance. The flagship launchers for the Launch Services Alliance are Arianespace's Ariane rocket, Boeing's Sea Launch platform and Mitsubishi's H-II A vehicle. The agreement en..
Launch title
A launch title is a video game that has been made available to consumers synchronously with its respective video game console, meaning they are the only available games at the time of the console's launch. Because they provide first impressions of the console's features and technical abilities, they..
Launch tower
A launch tower is constructed on the launch pad of an unguided rocket for the purpose of guiding the rocket until it is fast enough for aerodynamic stabilization to take effect. For the launch of self-guided rockets a launch tower is unnecessary. Service towers and supply towers are sometimes falsel..
Launch track
The launch track is the section of a launched roller coaster in which the train is accelerated to its full speed in a matter of seconds. A launch track is always straight and is usually banked upwards slightly, so that a train would roll backwards to the station in the event of a loss of power. A l..
Launch vehicle
A Saturn V launch vehicle sends Apollo 15 on its way to the moon. A launch vehicle is a rocket that is used to launch a payload into space. It usually will place this payload into orbit. The term derives from the American term "Satellite Launching Vehicle". In the English language, the phras..
Launch Vehicle Digital Computer
The Apollo Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) was one of the major components of the Instrument Unit fitted to the S-IVB stage of the Saturn V and Saturn IB rockets. Its primary role was to provide an autopilot for the Saturn from launch to orbit insertion, but it also supported pre- and post-la..
Launch window
Launch window is a term used in aerospace to describe a time period in which a particular rocket must be launched. For trips into Earth orbit almost any time will do, but if the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with another (or a planet, or other point in space) the launch must be carefully timed s..
Launde
Launde is a civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, bordering Rutland. The parish is the site of Launde Abbey. It gives its name to an electoral division of Leicestershire that stretches all the way from Scraptoft, Thurnby and Stoughton, near Leicester, to the border with Rutlan..
Laundering
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Laundering can refer to: Money laundering, disguising the origin of illegally gained wealthClothes laundering, washing clothes or other textilles This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associat..
Laundess
Laundess is an Australian surname. It is the anglicized version of a Greek name. It was created by [Themio Laundess] when he was naturalised during 1875 in British colony New South Wales. There is an earlier anglicized version of the name, Loutopolous, but the original Greek name has been ..
Launde Abbey
Launde Abbey is located in Leicestershire and is presently used as a Conference and Retreat Centre, by the Church of England Diocese of Leicester. The Abbey is an Elizabethan Manor House, extensively modified, originally built on the site of an Augustinian Priory. The original priory was founded i..
Laundi
Laundi is a town and a nagar panchayat in Chhatarpur district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Laundi had a population of 20,186. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Laundi has an average ..
Laundromat
A laundromat in California powered by solar panels on the roof. A laundromat (U.S.), launderette or laundrette(British), washette (Southeastern U.S.), washateria (Southwestern U.S.) or Laverap (Argentina, translation: quickwash) is a facility where clothes are washed and dried. This is often ..
Laundry
"Man and woman washing linen in a brook", from William Henry Pyne's Microcosm, 1806. Laundry can be: items of clothing and other textiles that require washing,the act of washing clothing and textiles,the room of a house in which this is done. Contents 1 History of laundry1.1 Befo..
Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union
The Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union is an AFL-CIO union in the United States. It was created as an alternative to the old Teamsters Laundry and Dry-Cleaners, which had been expelled from the AFL-CIO in 1958 for corruption. Russell Crowell was president of the new union from 1962 to 1983..
Laundry ball
The Laundry ball is a pseudoscientific product whose sellers claim that when placed in a washing machine, it will clean clothes without detergent. The product is typically sold by participants in multilevel marketing schemes. Straight Dope Article[link] ..
Laundry detergent
Laundry detergent is a substance which is a type of detergent that is added when one is washing laundry to help get the laundry cleaner. It is often colloquially called laundry soap or simply detergent or soap and it helps wash the fabric in a manner rather analogous to the way soap helps wash ha..
Laundry machine
A laundry machine can refer to: A washing machine orA clothes dryer. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..
Laundry room
Laundry room A laundry room (also called a utility room) is a room where clothes are washed. In a modern home, a laundry room would be equipped with an automatic washing machine and clothes dryer, and often a large basin, called a laundry tub, for hand-washing delicate articles of clothing su..
Laundry Service
Laundry Service is an album by Shakira, released in 2001. It debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 3.4 million copies in the U.S. alone, and over 13 million copies worldwide. The album is Shakira's first in the English language. [[Laundry Service: Washed & Dried]] released in 2002, c..
Laundry Service: Washed & Dried
Laundry Service: Washed & Dried released in 2002, improved [[Citing sources citation needed]] the already successful album Laundry Service and contains two discs. Contents 1 Tracklist2 Personnel3 Release details4 External links Tracklist CD "Objection..
Laundry symbols
Laundry symbols, also called care symbols, are pictograms which represent different methods of washing, drying, dry-cleaning and ironing clothing. They are written on labels attached to clothing, to indicate how a particular item should best be cleaned. There are different standards for care labels ..
Launeddas
The launeddas, triple clarinet or triplepipe is a typical Sardinian woodwind instrument, consisting of three pipes. It is polyphonic and played using circular breathing. An ancient instrument, dating back to at least the 8th century BC [#endnote_8thcentury], launeddas are still played duri..
Laune Rangers
Laune Rangers is a Gaelic Football club based in Killorglin, County Kerry. Famous players have included Mike Hassett and Michael Frank Russell. ..
Launt Thompson
Launt Thompson (February 8, 1833 - 1894), American sculptor, born in Abbeyleix, Ireland. Due to the potato famine going on in Ireland at the time, he emigrated to the United States in 1847 with his widowed mother, and they settled in Albany, New York. There, he found work as a handyman. After stud..
Launy Grøndahl
Launy Grøndahl (1886–1960) was a Danish composer and conductor. He is best known for his trombone concerto and for his pioneering recordings of the symphonies of fellow Dane Carl Nielsen. External links [Biography (in Spanish)] |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Laupāhoehoe, Hawai'i
Laupāhoehoe is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 473 at the 2000 census. Geography Laupāhoehoe is located at [19°58′60″N, 155°14′9″W] (19.983296, -155.235889)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the Un..
Laupen
There are places that have the name Laupen: In Switzerland: Laupen BE a commune and a district in the Canton of BernLaupen ZH, in the commune of Rüti in the Canton of ZürichLaupen SG, on the river Thur in the Canton of St. Gallen This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of ..
Laupen (district)
The District of Laupen is one of the 26 administrative districts in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital is the municipality of Laupen. The district has an area of 88 km² and consists of 11 municipalities: Municipality Population (Jan 2005) Area (km²) Clavaleyres 54 1.0 Feren..
Laupheim
Location of Laupheim in Germany Laupheim is a town in the district of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Laupheim is a small town with 18460 inhabitants. The size is about 61,78 km². Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Attractions3.1 Das Laupheimer Kinder- und Heimatfe..
Laupstad
Laupstad is a small village situated on the island of Austvågøy in northern Norway. Laupstad belongs to the municipality of Vågan. ..
Laur, Nueva Ecija
Laur is a 4th class municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 26,902 people in 5,500 households. Barangays Laur is politically subdivided into 17 barangays. Barangay I (Pob.)Barangay II (Pob.)Barangay III (Pob.)Barangay IV (P..
Laura
Laura is a common given name for a female. It is also the name of several places: Laura, Saskatchewan, a community southwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in CanadaLaura, Queensland, a small community on Cape York Peninsula in AustraliaLaura, Marshall Islands, a populated place on the Majuro Atoll in ..
Laura's Law
Laura's Law, (Assembly Bill 1421, [Helen Thomson], Davis), was passed by the California legislature and signed into law by then Governor Grey Davis in 2002, allows for court ordered outpatient treatment of mental health clients who refuse medication in counties that enact outpatient commit..
Laura, Ohio
Laura is a village in Miami County, Ohio, United States. The population was 487 at the 2000 census. Geography Laura is located at [39°59′39″N, 84°24′28″W] (39.994064, -84.407894)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village ..
Laura, Queensland
Laura, [15°32′S 144°30′E], is a small town (pop. approx. 120) north of Lakeland on Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia. It is on the only road north towards the tip of the Peninsula, and is the centre for the largest collection of prehistoric rock art in the world. ..
Laura, Saskatchewan
Laura is a community southwest of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada. ..
Laura, South Australia
Laura ([33°11′S 138°18′E]) is a rural town in the Mid North of South Australia, 15 km north of Gladstone along Main North Road and 40 km east of Port Pirie. It is famous as the home of Golden North Ice cream, and was the boyhood home of poet C.J. Dennis. Laura is administered by th..
Laura: Live at the Bottom Line
Laura: Live at the Bottom Line is the second live album by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro and her tenth original album in total, including the 1977 live album Season of Lights. Nyro's long-time label Columbia Records wanted a brand new studio album from Nyro, who had sta..
Lauraceae
The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 2000 (perhaps as many as 4000) species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and Brazil. Most are aromatic evergr..
Lauralee Bell
Lauralee Bell as Christine Blair Lauralee Kristen Bell (born December 22 1968) is an American soap opera actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. The daughter of soap opera creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, she was offered a bit role as a model, Christine "Cricket" Blair, on ..
Lauralee Summer
Lauralee Summer is the author of the book Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars : A Memoir. She graduated from Harvard University in 1998. This is a memoir of the journey Lauralee takes from her unstable and continually uprooted childhood to her success as a wrestler on the Harvard University men'..
Laurales
Laurales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. It will always include the family Lauraceae (the Bay laurel family). This order has not always been recognised by systems of plant taxonomy, these plants sometimes being included in order Magnoliales. The APG II system, of 2003 (unch..
Laurana Kanan
Laurana Kanan is the name most commonly used when referring to Lauralanthalasa Kanan, a fictional character in the Dragonlance fantasy series. Although Laurana joins the Heroes of the Lance under inauspicious circumstances, she eventually rises to become the main female protagonist in the Chronicle..
Laurance Doyle
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. Laurance R. Doyle is a scientist who received his PhD from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. He ..
Laurance Labadie
Laurance Labadie (1898 – 1975) was an American individualist anarchist and author. He was the son of American anarchist Joseph Labadie. His writings include Origin and Nature of Government and Anarchism Applied to Economics. In Anarchism Applied to Economics Labadie writes: "In a world where..
Laurance M. Hyde
Laurance Mastick Hyde (February 2, 1892–1978) was a chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. He was a Republican. Hyde was born in Princeton, Missouri and served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He was the justice and then the chief justice of the Missouri supreme court. Some of his ..
Laurance Rockefeller
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26,1910 – July 11, 2004) was a financier, philanthropist, and conservationist. He was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and brother to Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller was born in New York City and graduated from Princeton in 1932. He then attended Harva..
Laurance Rudic
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Laurance Rudic is a British actor. He was born into a musical, theatrical family in Glasgow, Scotland,..
Laurance Safford
Laurance Safford Captain Laurance F. Safford (1890 – 1973) was a U.S. Navy cryptologist. He established the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and headed the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His identification with th..
Laurania
Laurania is an imaginary country created by Sir Winston Churchill and used as a backdrop for his only novel Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. Contents 1 Background2 The 1883 Civil War and 1888 Revolution3 Laurania's African colony4 A description of the City of Lau..
Laurasia
250px Laurasia was a supercontinent that most recently existed as a part of the split of the Pangaean supercontinent in the late Mesozoic era. It included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the northern hemisphere, chiefly Laurentia (most of modern North America), Balti..
Laurasiatheria
Laurasiatheria is a clade with the rank of cohort or super-order, of the Placentalia (living) or Eutheria (Placentals and their extinct ancestors) subclass of mammals, based on DNA sequence analyses and Retrotransposon presence/absence data. The name comes from the theory that these mammals evolved ..
Laurasia class frigate
Laurasia class frigate Fast Facts Type mobile frigate Class Laurasia Launched Unknown Manufacturer ZAFT Operator ZAFT Terminal Serpent Tail Ships of Class: Laurasia, Gamow, Tsuigara, Ziegler, Galvani, Amzen General Characteristics Length Approx. 200 meters Pr..
Laura (1944 film)
Laura a 1944 film noir tells the story of a police detective, investigating a woman's murder, who falls in love with her portrait. It stars Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. Adapted from Vera Caspary's novel by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, E..
Laura (album)
Laura (1978) is Menudo's second Spanish album featuring original members: brothers Nefty and Fernando Sallaberry and brothers Carlos, Oscar, and Ricky Melendez. Tracks: (1)Gongoli (2)El Ayer (3)Maria Pilar (4)Llegas Tu (5)Laura (6)Fuego (7)El Momento Del Adios (8)Isole (9)Libre ..
Laura (Giorgione)
Portrait of a Young Bride (Laura) Giorgione, c. 1506 Oil on canvas transferred on wood, 41 × 33,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum The Portrait of a Young Bride, also known as Laura, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione, c. 1506. It is housed in the Kunsthistorisches Mus..
Laura (Russian car)
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Laura (song)
"Laura" is a song by American glam rock band Scissor Sisters and is the lead track on their self-titled debut album (see 2004 in music). It was released as the band's first single in October 2003 in the UK, placing at #54 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2003 in British music). It was later reissued 7..
Laura (WARP character)
Laura is a heroine used by Japanese game developer WARP in all of their games. Used by the company as a sort of a "digital actress", her given name is always the same, but her last name changes with every appearance. As of 2001 (after the releases of D2) Laura was officially retired by Kenji Eno. ..
Laura Adams Armer
Laura Adams Armer (January 12, 1874 – 1963) was an American artist and writer. In 1932, her novel Waterless Mountain won the Newbery Medal. Armer was born Laura Adams in Sacramento, California. While studying at the California School of Design in San Francisco, she met her future husband, S..
Laura Albert
Laura Victoria Albert (born 1965) is the author of writings credited to the fictional teenage persona of JT LeRoy, a long-running literary hoax who was presented to the public and publishers as a transgendered, sexually questioning, abused, former homeless drug addict and male prostitute. Albert was..
Laura Allen
Laura Allen (born March 21, 1974 in Portland, Oregon) is an American actress. [Image:http://www.boomspeed.com/sushigal/LauraBW.jpg] Contents 1 Career1.1 All My Children1.2 44002 External links Career All My Children Allen was best known to fans as Laura Kirk English..
Laura Allred
Laura Allred is a comics artist who is best known for her work with her husband Mike Allred. For her work, she received the Wizard Fan Award for Favorite Colorist in 1995. ..
Laura Angel
Laura Angel (born October 16, 1974 in the Czech Republic) is a Czech hardcore adult actress and model. In the world of European hardcore, she is distinguished by her jet-black hair, intense eyes and commanding camera presence. Born in the Czech Republic, Laura is fluent in five languages: Engli..
Laura Anne Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman is an author Contents 1 Works1.1 ..
Laura Anne Jones
Laura Anne Jones, born February 21, 1979 is a Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly. The daughter of a farmer and a lecturer, she was brought up in Monmouthshire. She joined the Conservatives in 1996 and was involved in Conservative Future, the party's youth wing. She attended Plymouth Univers..
Laura Antonelli
Laura Antonelli (born November 28, 1941) is a former Italian film actress. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in the city of Pola in what was then the Italian district of Istria (the region is now part of Croatia and the city is renamed Pula). Originally a school teacher, Antonelli began acting on t..
Laura Antoniou
Laura Antoniou (b. 1963) is an American novelist. She is most famous as the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson. Laura Antoniou has also published many other books including the three "Leather Women" anthologies..
Laura Ashley
Laura Ashley CBE, (born 7 September 1925 - died 17 September 1985) was a Welsh designer. She became a household name on the strength of her work as a designer and manufacturer of a range of colourful fabrics for clothes and home furnishings. Contents 1 Career1.1 Catalyst1.2 Expan..
Laura Bailey
This article is about Laura Bailey, the supermodel. For the voice actress, see Laura Bailey (voice actress). Laura Bailey (born August 6, 1972, in London, England) is a British supermodel and occasional actress. She is the face of the new Jaguar X Type. She posed nude in the book 4 Inches featur..
Laura Bailey (voice actress)
Laura Bailey is an American voice actress. She was born 28 May 1981 in Mississippi. Best known for her anime roles, she has also supplied voices in video games and worked as staff on several anime series. Contents 0.1 Notable Anime Roles0.2 Game Roles0.3 Staff Credits1 Exter..
Laura Ballance
Member of the band Superchunk and co-founder of Merge Records along with Mac McCaughan. She loves hot dogs. ..
Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi. Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (31 October 1711 – 20 February 1778) was an Italian scientist, the first woman to officially teach at a college in Europe. Biography Born in Bologna into a wealthy family with a lawyer as a father, she was privately educated and tutored for seven..
Laura Baugh
Laura Zonetta Baugh (born May 31, 1955 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American golf champion. As an child she won the National PeeWee Championship five times, her first coming at age 3. Her parents divorced when she was 11 years old and she moved with her mother from their Florida home to Long B..
Laura Beale
Laura Beale (neé Dunn) was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. She was played by Hannah Waterman. Laura only ever wanted a happy marriage, but she was always made to feel inferior and unattractive by her husband, Ian Beale. She tried hard, but their marriage was a dis..
Laura Bell
Laura Bell (1829-1894) was a famous courtesan of Victorian England. She was most notorious for allegedly earning £250,000 for spending a single night with Nepalese Prince Jung Bahadoor, although other sources say that was the total he spent on gifts for her over their full relationship. In 1852 Bel..
Laura Berg
Laura Berg is an American softball player. She graduated from Fresno State in 1990. She has a rare distinction of having 3 gold medals in the Olympic games. She is known by softball fans as the best centerfielder in the world. Awards and Honors 2005 International Sports Invitational Champion2004 G..
Laura Bertram
--> Laura Maureen Bertram (born September 5, 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress. Contents 1 Career2 Private life3 Awards4 Trivia5 Credits6 External links Career Her credits include the TV series Ready or Not, Seasons of Love, and Andromeda, and..
Laura Betterly
Laura Betterly is a Scientologist and resident of Clearwater, Florida who, as the head of Data Resource Consulting, became notorious for sending large quantities of commercial e-mail in the early 21st century when she cracked as a joke, call me the Spam Queen to a journalist. [link] Metho..
Laura Betti
Laura Betti (May 1, 1927 - July 31, 2004) was an Italian actress. Betti made her film debut in Fellini's La Dolce Vita. She was a close friend of the director Pier Paolo Pasolini, for whom she made a documentary after his death. External link [BBC Obituary] ..
Laura Blundy
Laura Blundy (2000) is a historical novel by Julie Myerson set in Victorian London. It is the story of a woman whose life takes a turn for the worse. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. After her mother has died in childbirth, Laura Blundy is brought up b..
Laura Boddington
Laura Boddington (born 1980, in London, UK) is an English-born film and television actress, who has been working in Canada the last 10 years. Most viewers may remember her as "Un-George" on the Showtime series Dead Like Me. Laura Boddington has had supporting roles in various TV productions and mo..
Laura Borden
Laura Bond Borden (born 1862 in Halifax, Nova Scotia; died September 7, 1940) was the wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada. See also: Spouses of the Prime Ministers of Canada |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Laura Bow
Laura Bow is an amateur detective and heroine of two adventure games, Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest (1989) and Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992), both created by the computer game company Sierra Entertainment (formerly Sierra On-Line). Laura Bow was created by Roberta Williams, co-founder o..
Laura Bozzo
Dr. Laura Bozzo Dr. Laura Bozzo-Rotondo (born 1951) is a Peruvian television talk show host of Italian descent who has become famous as a chat show hostess and for the feminist social views she expresses on her shows. Contents 0.1 The Start of Bozzo's Reign0.2 The Start of Bozzo'..
Laura Branigan
Laura Branigan (1993) Laura Branigan (July 3, 1957 – August 26, 2004) was a popular American singer/actress from Brewster, New York, best known in the U.S. for the song "Gloria" (1982). She received the first of four Grammy Award nominations for the song. Branigan introduced the ballad "How ..
Laura Branigan (album)
Laura Branigan Album by Laura Branigan Released April 1990 Recorded ??? Genre Pop/Rock Length 43 min 07 sec Record label Atlantic Producer Richard Perry, Laura Branigan, Peter Wolf Professional reviews AMG 2/5 [link] Laura Branigan Chronology Touch(1987) Laura Branigan(1990) ..
Laura Bravo
Laura Bravo (more commonly known as Lori Bravo) is an avant garde musician, painter and photographer, from Glendale, Arizona. She was formerly the singer and bassist with death-metal pioneers Nuclear Death, but is currently performing with her side project, "Raped". Bravo was responsible for the art..
Laura Breckenridge
--> Laura Breckenridge (born August 22 1983) is an American actress born in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, most noted for her portrayal of 19-year-old college student Rose Sorelli on The WB's Related. The role of a young woman who switches her major from pre-med to experimental theater is not exactly a s..
Laura Bridgman
Laura Dewey Bridgman (December 21, 1829 - May 24, 1889) is known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. However, there are accounts of deaf-blind people communicating in tactile sign language ..
Laura Bryan Birn
Laura Bryan Birn (°3 April 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress who plays the recurring role of Lynne Bassett on CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. External links ..
Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is the current First Lady of the United States. Contents 1 Early life1.1 Fatal car accident2 College years, teacher, librarian3 Marriage and family4 First Lady of Texas5&nbs..
Laura Cadman
Lieutenant Laura Cadman, played by Jaime Ray Newman, is a character on the science fiction television show Stargate Atlantis. She is in her mid-20s, judging by her appearance and rank. She first appeared in Episode 204, "Duet" and she is returned in Episode 213, "Critical Mass" to become a more per..
Laura Canales
Laura Canales (born August 19, 1954 - died April 16, 2005) was a Tejano musician. She made her recording debut in 1973 with Los Unicos before joining El Conjunto Bernal. Her first regional hit was a cover of Midnight Blue, which she performed with Snowball & Company. In 1981, Canales married drumm..
Laura Cantrell
Laura Cantrell Laura Cantrell is a country singer and DJ from Nashville, Tennessee. She presents a weekly radio show on WFMU called the Radio Thrift Shop. Contents 1 Biography2 Discography2.1 LPs2.2 EPs3 References4 External links Biography Cantrell moved to N..
Laura Carter
Laura Carter is a multi-instrumentalist musician from Athens, GA. She is more notably in the indie rock band Elf Power, but has performed with a number of bands within the Elephant Six Collective, such as The Gerbils, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Dixie Blood Moustache. She also runs the Orange Twin Con..
Laura Cereta
Laura Cereta (1469-1499) was a Renaissance humanist and feminist. Most of her writing was in the form of letters to other intellectuals. Biographical Information Cereta was born in 1469 in Brescia. She was sent to a convent at the age of seven to be educated. She learned religious principles ..
Laura Chapman
Laura Chapman is an American voice actress working with ADV Films, known for her roles in the English-language dubs of anime series. She is a gifted singer - a talent she's yet to be able to put on display in her voice-work - but her ability to hold a note for long periods of time earned her prais..
Laura Claycomb
Laura Claycomb is a lyric coloratura soprano. She gained international attention for the first time in 1994 after stepping in at the last minute to perform Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Geneva Opera. This role was also the vehicle of debut at the Paris Bastille, with the Munich Radio O..
Laura Combes
Laura Combes was a professional female bodybuilder from the United States. Born on October 19, 1953, in New York, New York, Laura moved to Tampa, Florida in 1966 at age 13. As a teenager she played many sports, including fencing, sailing, archery, canoeing, horseback riding, water skiing, and tenn..
Laura Cottingham
Laura Cottingham (b. 1963) is an art critic who lives in New York. She taught contemporary art issues in the College of Art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Works A selection of her essays on art, , was printed in 1999. A French edition of her 1994 pamphlet "How many 'b..
Laura Cover
Laura Cover (born May 6, 1977 in Bucyrus, Ohio) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in October, 1998 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. Laura has several tattoos on her body including a cherub just below her stomach, a rose on her left sho..
Laura Creavalle
Laura Cordelia Creavalle is an IFBB professional female bodybuilder, originally from Guyana. Background Creavalle was born on January 25, 1959. She was married to bodybuilder Chris Aceto. Laura was one of the most successful female bodybuilders of the 1990s. She was the first women to win the Ms..
Laura Czarnotta
|residence= Warsaw |height= 162 cm |weight= |partner= |coach= Sarkis Tewanian |skating club= Marymont Warszawa |turned pro= |combined total= 90.59 |combined date= WJC 2006 |SP score= 33.29 |SP date= WJC 2006 |FS score= 57.30 |FS date= WJC 2006 }} Most Recent Results: Event Points Finish ..
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Laura D'Andrea Tyson Laura D'Andrea Tyson is a US economist and former Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and Chairman of the National Economic Council. She is currently Dean of the London Business School. From 1998 to 2001, she was Dean of the Haas School of Busines..
Laura D'Auguste
Laura D'Auguste is a female mixed martial artist. She initially started practising martial arts to protect herself and her daughter from her husband. She also works as a cardiac nurse. Contents 1 Biography2 Career3 Footnotes4 Sources and See Also Biography D'Auguste's firs..
Laura Daniela Lloreda
Laura Daniela Lloreda (born April 30, 1981) is a Puerto Rican volleyball player. She was born in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sports-wise, she has two citizenships, as she lived for many years in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, and represented that country's national team at various international..
Laura Davies
Laura Davies Personal Information Birth: 5 October, 1963,Coventry, England Nationality: British Residence: Ottershaw, Surrey, England Career College: N/A Turned Professional: 1985 Current Tour: LPGA Tour (joined 1988); life member of Ladies European Tour Professio..
Laura Dawn
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Laura Day
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Laura Dean
Laura Dean (born May 271963 in New York, New York) is an American dancer and actress , best known for her role in the 1980 film Fame. ..
Laura Dern
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the movie Rambling Rose. Her other movies include Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Blue Velvet, A Perfect World, Wild at Heart, October Sky (..
Laura DiDio
Laura DiDio Laura DiDio is a senior analyst, formerly with Giga Information Group (now Forrester Research) and currently (2004) with The Yankee Group consulting firm in Boston. She received a B.A. in communications from Fordham University and worked for many years as a reporter and editor..
Laura Donnelly
Laura Donnelly Elliott is a fictional character in the American soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. She was played by Donna Mills, who is closely identified in the role; Laura was also played by Barbara Stanger and Velekka Gray later on. The former nun Laura, the daughter of pathologist..
Laura E. Richards
Laura E. Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 - January 14, 1943) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a high-profile family. During her life, she wrote over 90 books, including children's, biographies, poetry, and others. A well-known children's poem for which she is n..
Laura Elizondo
Laura Elizondo Laura Elizondo Erhard (born on August 28, 1983 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) obtained the title of Nuestra Belleza Tamaulipas on July 2004 and represented her state in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico on September of the same year. She became Miss Mexico Uni..
Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivel (born September 30, 1950) is a Mexican author. She was born the third of four children of Julio César Esquivel, a telegraph operator, and his wife Josefina, in Mexico City. Her novels include Like Water for Chocolate and Swift as Desire. Especially in Like Water for Chocolate, she ..
Laura Fermi
Laura Capon Fermi (1907–1977) was an Italian-born writer and political activist, and the wife of Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi. Born Laura Capon in Rome, Italy, in 1907, she married Enrico Fermi in 1928. They had two children: a daughter, Nella, in 1931 and a son, Giulio (named after Enr..
Laura Finocchiaro
Laura Finocchiaro is a Brazilian singer. ..
Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders, print and broadcast journalist and author Laura Flanders is an American journalist whose writing has appeared in The Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, Tompaine.com, and ZNet. She has also contributed Op-Ed pieces to the San Francisco Chronicle. Flanders h..
Laura Flessel-Colovic
Laura Flessel-Colovic (born November 6, 1971 in Pointe-à-Pitre) is a French épée fencer. She is currently number one on the all-time list of French female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners with five medals, two more than those on joint second place: Micheline Ostermeyer, Marielle Goitsche..
Laura Flores
Laura Flores (born Laura Aurora Flores Heras on August 23, 1963) is a Mexican actress and singer, born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Contents 1 Biography2 Films3 Telenovelas4 Television shows5 Resources Biography Her first taste of stardom came when she joined "Herm..
Laura Foy
Laura Foy (born March 16, 1976 in Oakdale, New York) was a co-host alongside Tina Wood and Geoff Keighley of the interactive video game television program G4tv.com on G4. Foy began her television career in New York, where she co-hosted an online show entitled Lilith and Eve on AllGamesNetwork. She..
Laura Frankos
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Laura Frankos was born February 9 1960. She has one mystery novel, Saint Oswald's Niche, published. It is curr..
Laura Fraser
Laura Fraser (born 24 July, 1976) is a Scottish actress. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Her first real break was playing Door, in the BBC's dark fantasy series Neverwhere in 1996. She also starred in the 1998 BBC film The Tribe with Joely Richardson and Anna Friel and played Lavinia in Titus,..
Laura Freixas
Laura Freixas (1958-) is a Spanish novelist, short story writer, and newspaper columnist. Contents 1 Biography2 Bibliography2.1 Novels2.2 Short story collections2.3 Non-fiction works3 External links Biography Freixas was born in Barcelona and holds a law degree fro..
Laura Fygi
Laura Fygi (Born August 27, 1955 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch female singer. For the first eight years of her life, she lived with her parents in South America. She is the daughter of a Dutch father (manager at Philips) and an Egyptian mother, a belly dancer by profession. Between 1987 and 1991, Laur..
Laura Garrone
Laura Garrone (born in November 15, 1967 in Milan) is a former professional tennis player from Italy, who won five doubles titles during her career on the WTA Tour. The righthander reached her highest career ranking on January 19, 1987, when she became the number 32 of the world. Her best Grand Slam..
Laura Gemser
Laura Gemser in Nackte Eva / Eva Nera / Black Cobra starring Jack Palance, in (1976) Laura Gemser (born October 5 1950, Java, Indonesia) is a Dutch erotic actress of Indo descent and is generally accepted as one of the 1970s most famous erotic icons. She is sometimes credited as Moira Chen, La..
Laura Gildemeister
Laura Arraya Gildemeister (born in January 12, 1964 in Argentina) is a former tennis player from Peru, who won four singles titles in her professional career. Her best Grand Slam result was the quarterfinal at the 1991 Wimbledon Championships in London. Singles career titles 1982, Tokyo1984, Miami,..
Laura Gilpin
Laura Gilpin ( April 22, 1891 in Austin Bluffs, Colorado – November 30, 1979 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) is an American photographer. She is famous for photographing Native Americans, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo. Her Southwestern landscapes are also prominent. Her birthplace is sometimes l..
Laura Gissara
Laura Gissara (born March 14, 1984), was a contestant on the 2005 season of Australian Idol. She was eliminated from the show on September 26, 2005. Contents 1 ''Australian Idol''1.1 Record Deal Signed1.2 ''Australian Idol'' Performances2 External links Australian Idol Laura..
Laura Goodwin
Laura Goodwin is a BDSM practitioners' rights activists and the founder of United Leather Connecticut. External links [LauraGoodwin.org][Star Trek Obsession][PEP Buffalo: Laura Goodwin] ..
Laura Granville
Laura Granville (born May 12, 1981, Chicago, Illinois) is an American tennis player. During the two years she spent at Stanford, she set the record for most consecutive singles victories with 58. [link] Professionally, she attained the highest ranking in singles of any woman to come out ..
Laura Griffith
Laura Griffith is an American actress and soprano born in California. She made her Broadway debut in Sweet Smell of Success. Additional Broadway credits include Oklahoma and The Light in the Piazza. She is currently touring in The Light in the Piazza in the role of Franca. ..
Laura Hall
Laura Hall is an American musician. Hall is best known for her role as band leader / pianist on the improvisational comedy television show Whose Line Is It Anyway? Beyond this role, Hall has also recorded a number of children's records, as well as Christian rock worship music. Hall has also particip..
Laura Hannant
Laura Hannant (b. 1986, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a youth activist and former Chairwoman of the International Children's Jury. In 2000, she nominated the late Iqbal Masih to receive the first World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child. She had befriended Iqbal, a "debt slave" who was li..
Laura Harring
Laura Harring (born Laura Elena Martínez Herring on March 3 1964 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a Mexican American actress and former Miss USA (1985). Harring lived the first ten years of her life in Mexico, before her family relocated to San Antonio, Texas. At age 16 she convinced her fami..
Laura Harris
Laura Harris (born November 20, 1976, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as grim reaper Daisy Adair in the cable series Dead Like Me and as Marie Warner in the spy drama 24. Her film career dates back to 1990 when she appeared in an adaptation of Stephen King..
Laura Hernández
Laura Hernández Laura Hernández Pérez (born ca. 1972) is a Puerto Rican actress and journalist best known for being jailed in the Dominican Republic after being accused of drug trafficking with her husband and five other individuals who were traveling with her at the time of her arrest. She..
Laura Hill
Laura Hill was born in the UK, where she moved to New Zealand at a young age. She is well-known for her potrayal as Toni Warner (nee Thompson). She acts as the on-going mother of little Harry and is also a nurse at Shortland Street Hospital starring as Toni Warner. Her name used to be Toni Thompso..
Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrand (born 1967) is the author of the acclaimed [[Seabiscuit: An American Legend]], a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001. The book later became the basis of the 2003 movie Seabiscuit. He..
Laura Hope Crews
Laura Hope Crews (b. San Francisco, California on December 12, 1879 - d. New York City, New York on November 12, 1942) was a character actress of movies and stage. The daughter of a stage actress and a backstage carpenter, Crews started acting at age four. She stopped acting to finish school. After ..
Laura Hubert
Laura Hubert is a Canadian rock and jazz singer. She was the lead vocalist for the alternative rock group Leslie Spit Treeo in the 1980s and 1990s, and has subsequently released three solo jazz CDs. Discography My Girlish Ways (2001)Live at the Rex (2002)Half Bridled (2004) External link [Laur..
Laura I. Wiley
Laura Ives Wiley is a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. She represents the state's 61st legislative district, which encompasses southwestern Guilford County, a majority of the city of High Point, and the township of Jamestown. She was elected to the North Carolina Gen..
Laura Ingalls
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Laura Ingalls Wilder - writer, author of Little House on the Prairie books ..
Laura Ingalls (aviator)
This article is about aviator Laura Ingalls. There is an article on the author Laura Ingalls Wilder. --> Laura Ingalls Laura Houghtaling Ingalls (1901 – January 10, 1967) was a female pilot of the 1930s. Contents 1 Birth2 Sibling3 Aviation4 Accused spy5 Death6..
Laura Ingalls Wilder
This article is about Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author. There is an article on the aviatrix Laura Ingalls. Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American author. She authored the series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood in a pioneer fami..
Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway is a named road connecting historic areas that relate to the life of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, best known for writing Little House on the Prairie. The highway was first designated in 1995 as U.S. Highway 14 from Lake Benton in southwest Minnesota to Mank..
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal is a prize awarded by the American Library Association to writers or illustrators of children's books published in the U.S. who have made substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature. The bronze medal prize is named after its first winner, Laura Ingal..
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham Laura Ingraham (born 1964 in Glastonbury, Connecticut) is an American conservative talk radio host and author. Contents 1 Career2 The Laura Ingraham Show3 Personal4 Controversies4.1 Views on homosexuality4.2 Concerned Alumni of Princeton4.3 ..
Laura Innes
Laura Elizabeth Innes (born August 16, 1959) is an American actress and director. Innes was born in Pontiac, Michigan and introduced to professional theater by her father, who frequently took the family to the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Following his advice to "do..
Laura Ismail
--> Laura Ismail is a singer in the British R&B group Rouge. She is of Egyptian descent. Her band mates are Amrita Hunjan and Legha Yusif. ..
Laura Izibor
Laura Izibor(born Dublin,Republic of Ireland is an Irish R&B Singer who won best new hope for 2006 at the the 2006 Meteor Ireland Music Awards. ..
Laura J. Burns
Laura J. Burns is an American author. She sometimes works with Melinda Metz Works Buffyverse Colony (Buffy novel)Apocalypse Memories (Buffy novel) ..
Laura J. Mixon
Laura J. Mixon is a chemical and environmental engineer better known as a science fiction writer. She writes about the impact of technology and environmental changes on personal identity and social structures. Her work is often associated with the cyberpunk movement, and has been the focus of acad..
Laura J. Williams
Laura J. Williams was a woman who disguised herself as a man and used the alias Lt. Henry Benford in order to raise and lead a company of Confederate Texans during the American Civil War. She and the company participated in Battle of Shiloh. References The Civil War Book of List, Combined Books,199..
Laura Jacobs
Laura Jacobs is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, critic, and author. Jacobs wrote the novel Women About Town. She is the dance critic for The New Criterion. ..
Laura Jean Libbey
Laura Jean Libbey, born March 22, 1862 - died October 25, 1924, was an American writer. The highly popular author of fiction, her works were what became know as dime novels. Today they would be categorised as formulaic romance novels. In 1898, at the age of 36, she married a lawyer. They did not h..
Laura Johnson
Laura Johnson (born August 1, 1957 in Burbank, California) is an American actress, probably best remembered for playing Terry Hartford in the soap opera Falcon Crest from 1983 to 1986. Johnson was married to actor Harry Hamlin from 1985 to 1989. External link ..
Laura Joh Rowland
Laura Joh Rowland is the author of a series of mystery novels set in the late days of feudal Japan, mostly in Edo during the late 1600's. They mainly deal with the efforts of Sano Ichiro a former Ronin who becomes the chief investigator for the fifth Tokugawa's shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and his pr..
Laura K. Boyer
Laura Kate Boyer is a clinical assistant professor at the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Background In 1991, Boyer received her BA (Cum Laude) in Geography and Psychology at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her MA in Human Geog..
Laura Kamrath
Laura Kamrath is an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Anthea in the 1995 film, The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet, based upon the 1904 children's novel by E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet. Kamrath received her B.A. in French and geology from Mount Holyoke College in 200..
Laura Keene
right Laura Keene (1826 – November 4, 1873) was an Anglo-American actress and manager, whose real name was Mary Frances Moss. She was a niece of the British actress Elizabeth Yates. She was born in Winchester, England. She married, in 1844, Henry Wellington Taylor, by whom she had two ..
Laura Kightlinger
Laura Kightlinger (born June 13, 1969, in Jamestown, New York, USA) is an American comedian. She hosted Stand-Up Stand-Up on Comedy Central. Kightlinger worked as a writer and consulting producer on Will & Grace, and had a recurring guest role on the series as Sheila, a nurse at a fertility clinic..
Laura Kipnis
Laura Kipnis is a cultural and media critic. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include: [[Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics]] (1993)[[Bound And Gagged: Pornography a..
Laura Kirk
Laura Ellen Kirk (born 1966 in Lecompton, Kansas) is an American actress. Kirk is best known to fans as Lisa Picard from the 2000 movie Lisa Picard is Famous having co-wrote the story with friend Nat DeWolf. She has reportedly close ties with actress Mira Sorvino and the two have been seen in publ..
Laura Knight
Laura Knight (1877-1972), English impressionist painter. Famous for capturing the world of London's theater district, ballet and the circus. Was a member of theNewlyn Schoolof art. First women artist to be made a Dame of the British Empire. Laura Knight (maiden name Johnson) was born in Long Easton..
Laura Koffman
Laura Koffman (born Laura Bonarrigo on October 29, 1965 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cassie Callison on One Life to Live, which she played originally from March 1991 to January 1999. Her firing, while on maternity leave, became a source of c..
Laura Krier
Laura Krier is an American singer/songwriter from South Dakota, currently living in the South of Spain. She is a co-founder of the independent record label [Mere Music International]. Her album "Nothing But Trouble" (2006) features R&B, Rock and Pop songs. More information on: [Lau..
Laura Kriho
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Laura Lansing Slept Here
Laura Lansing Slept Here is a made-for-television movie released in 1988, starring Katharine Hepburn as the title character, Joel Higgins, Karen Austin and Hepburn's grand-niece Schuyler Grant. It was written by James Prideaux and directed by George Schaefer. Hepburn plays a famous, pampered novel..
Laura La Plante
Laura La Plante Laura La Plante (born Laura La Plant on November 1, 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri; died October 14, 1996 in Woodland Hills, California) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success in silent movies. She is best remembered for starring in the silent classic The..
Laura Lee Hope
Cover of Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on an Auto Tour Laura Lee Hope is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several other series of children's novels. Actual writers taking up the pen of Laura Lee Hope include Howard and Lilian Garis, Elizabeth Ward, Harri..
Laura Leighton
Laura Leighton (born July 24, 1968) is an American actress. She was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa, and graduated from West High School there. She starred on Melrose Place from 1993 to 1997 as Sydney, Jane's sister. She originally appeared in a one-off guest appearance during the show's first ..
Laura León
Laura Leon is the stage name of Rebeca Valderrama (born November 24 in Comalcalco, Tabasco) a Mexican actress and singer. She is often referred to as "La Tesorito" ("little treasure") since that is a term of endearment she uses for people. She resides in Mexico City, Mexico and is a childhood frie..
Laura Linney
Linney in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, 2005 Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an Oscar-nominated American actress, active in movies, television, and theater. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life1.2 Career1.2.1 Film1.2.2 Television1.2.3 Theater1.3 Privat..
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman is an author of detective fiction born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1959 and raised in Baltimore, Maryland (where she now lives) and went to high school in Columbia, Maryland (where she was the captain of the Wilde Lake High School It's Academic team). She is best known for creating the ser..
Laura Lopes
Laura Rose Lopes (neé Parker Bowles) (born 1979) is the daughter of The Duchess of Cornwall and Andrew Parker Bowles. Her elder brother is Tom Parker Bowles. Her stepfather is The Prince of Wales. Laura Parker Bowles was educated at St Mary's, Shaftesbury, Dorset, a Roman Catholic convent school...
Laura Love
For the American musician Laura Love, see Laura Love (musician) Laura Love was the parliamentary candidate for Falkirk in the 2005 UK General Election, representing the Scottish National Party (SNP). Born in Airdrie in 1980 to a Scottish father and French mother, Laura holds only a French passport...
Laura Love (musician)
Laura Love is an American musician born in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is biracial and had a rocky childhood, raised by a mother with schizophrenia and in foster homes. Her father, who had little involvement in her life, was the jazz musician Preston Love. After releasing three albums on her own label, O..
Laura Luz
Laura Luz (born Laura María de la Luz Fernández Jiménez) (May 10, 1967) is a Mexican stage and television actress, born in Mexico City. She first appeared on stage at the age of 11 and her first professional work was in 1983 in the play Las Leandras. Laura has performed in numerous plays, runni..
Laura Lynn Handy
Laura Lynn Handy (born July 25, 1980 in Atlantic City, NJ) is an American figure skater. She competed in pairs with partner Paul Binnebose, and the duo won the bronze medal at the 1999 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Later that year, Binnebose suffered a skull fracture, and he never returned to c..
Laura Lyons
Laura Lyons (born October 22, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1976 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker and Mario Casilli. Laura was working at the Chicago Playboy Club, as well as duty as..
Laura MacArthur Elementary School
Laura MacArthur Elementary School [link] is an elementary school located in West Duluth, Minnesota, with approximately 450 students and 90 full-time and part-time staff. The school attained a four star academic achievement rating in both reading and mathematics on Minnesota Department of E..
Laura Macfarlane
Laura Macfarlane, formerly known as Lora Macfarlane, is a Scottish-born rock and roll musician, singer and songwriter based in Australia. Originally from Glasgow, she arrived with her parents in Perth when young, and was involved in a number of bands there from the late 1980s onward, including The B..
Laura Malone
Laura Malone (born October 25, 1956 in Spokane, Washington) is an American actress. She is best known to daytime television fans for her role as "Blaine Ewing" on the drama Another World. Malone played the role from 1978 to 1984. External link ..
Laura Mañá
Laura Mañá (born January 12 1968 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is an actress, film director and screen writer. Filmography As a director and screen writer Morir en San Hilario, 2005Palabras encadenadas, 2003Sexo por compasión, 2000Paraules, 1997 As an actress Romasanta, 2004Pizza Arrabbiata, 1..
Laura Martin
Laura DePuy Martin is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. She has been recognized for her work with the Comics Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist Award in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. ..
Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway
Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway D.G.St.J CBE (born Laura Elizabeth Pochin) (d. January 4, 1933, Antibes) was a British suffragist and noblewoman. She was the daughter of Henry Davis Pochin, a noted industrialist and chemist. On March 6, 1877, she married Charles McLaren, a business associate of ..
Laura Mercier
Laura Mercier is a French make-up artist who has lent her name to a line of cosmetics. External links [Brief biography of Laura Mercier] ..
Laura Mercier Cosmetics
Laura Mercier Cosmetics is a brand of cosmetics produced by Gurwitch Products. Contents 1 History2 The company today3 See also4 External links5 References History Laura Mercier Cosmetics was founded by Janet Gurwitch and Gary Kusin in 1996, and was named after French ma..
Laura Mersini
Dr. Laura Mersini is a theoretical physicist-cosmologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since January 2004. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Tirana in her native Albania, and she was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the University of Wisconsin-..
Laura Metzger
Laura Metzger is a BBC World producer and reporter often seen reporting for Talking Movies. External links [BBC America Profile][BBC World Profile] ..
Laura Michelle Kelly
Kelly with husband Nick Winston'' Laura Michelle Kelly (born 1981) is an English actress and singer who achieved critical acclaim in the role of Mary Poppins in the musical of the same name. Kelly then went to Singapore to star in a revival of A Twist of Fate produced by the Singapore Reper..
Laura Miller
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Laura Miller (born November 18, 1958) is the current mayor of Dallas, Texas (USA). Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Miller attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent the early part of her career as a journalist. As a journalist, Miller worked as a ..
Laura Miller (disambiguation)
Laura Miller can refer to: Laura Miller is the current mayor of Dallas, TexasLaura Miller is the name of the character who is Ben Matlock's goddaughter in the TV series MatlockLaura A. Miller is the editor of PR Watch This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles assoc..
Laura Miller (Matlock)
Laura Miller is a fictional character portrayed by Laura Robbins in the television series, Matlock and is the goddaughter of Ben Matlock. The last time she saw her godfather was 11 years prior to her wedding, at her mother's funeral. She no longer lived in Mt. Harlan at this point, instead working..
Laura Misch
Laura Misch (born November 23, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American model, actress and writer. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1975 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Laura worked as a Bunny at the Playboy Club in New Orleans, where she ..
Laura Moffatt
Laura Jean Moffatt (born 9 April 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Party member of Parliament for Crawley, and was first elected in 1997, after boundary changes led to most of the rural parts of the constituency being removed to neighbouring constituencies. She was also re-..
Laura Molina
Laura Molina is a female badminton player from Spain. She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she retired in her first round match. She trailed Pui Yin Yip of Hong Kong 1-11, 0-7 when she decided to end the match. In the mixed doubles event (p..
Laura Moreno
Laura del Carmen Moreno Garza (born November 16, 1978 in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican artistic gymnast. External links [International Federation of Gymnastics' profile on Laura Moreno]() [Profile] ..
Laura Moss
Laura Moss (born November 1, 1973 in Kings Mountain, North Carolina) is an American actress of stage and television. She is most known for being the fifth actress to play Amanda Cory on the soap opera Another World, a role she played from 1996 to 1998. She succeeded Christine Tucci in the role and ..
Laura Mulvey
Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at Oxford and is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck College, London. She worked at the British Film Institute for many years before taking up her current position. Mulvey is best known f..
Laura Muntz Lyall
Laura Muntz Lyall, June 18, 1860 – December 9, 1930, was a Canadian impressionist painter. Born Laura Adeline Muntz in Radford, Warwickshire, England, her family emigrated to Canada when she was a child to farm in the Muskoka District of Ontario. As a young woman, Muntz studied to teach scho..
Laura N. Chick
Laura N. Chick (1952-) is the current Los Angeles City Controller. Prior to becoming controller, she served as a councilwoman. [Biography] ..
Laura Nader
Laura Nader is currently a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Radcliffe University in 1961. Her education included fieldwork in a Zapotec village in Oaxaca, Mexico, which nurtured her interest in law as it exists in vario..
Laura Neri
Laura Neri (Greek: Λάουρα Νέρι) is a director of Greek and Italian origins. Born in Brussels, Belgium, she graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (MFA in Film Production). Laura Neri was born of a Greek mother and an Italian father, which meant she was trilingual by the time she ..
Laura Newton
Laura Kelly Newton (born Macleod, November 27, 1977 at Congleton, Cheshire) is a cricketer for the England women's team. She also plays for Wolverhampton and Staffordshire. ..
Laura Nicholls
Laura Nicholls (born September 25, 1978 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at two consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 29th position in the 50m Freestyle. Four years..
Laura Norder
--> --> Laura Norder (aka Laura Oldfield-Ford) is a British artist influenced by anarchism and the DIY punk ethic. Her pseudonym is taken from the Thatcherite pronunciation of "law and order". Originally from rural Yorkshire she studied at the Slade School of Art and contributed paintings to th..
Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro) (October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer, one of the most influential musicians to emerge in the 1960s. She blazed the trail for – and directly influenced – future female singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Phoeb..
Laura Ortiz
Laura Ortiz is a young 5'2" actress, who appeared as the deformed child in The Hills Have Eyes. She is also the chatty caffeinated cheerleader named Ashley Hall, in the now-famous T-Mobile commercial. She was born in Bogota, Colombia but currently resides in California. She was born under the Taurus..
Laura Orvieto
Laura Orvieto, born Laura Cantoni (March 7, 1876 - May 9, 1955), was a Jewish Italian writer. Biography Laura Cantoni was born in Milan, from where she moved in 1899 after having married the poet Angiolo Orvieto. She collaborated with the magazine Il Marzocco and published several books for childr..
Laura Palmer
Laura Palmer is a fictional character played by Sheryl Lee on the David Lynch/Mark Frost television series Twin Peaks. Laura's death was the catalyst for the events of the series. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Laura was known by most everybody in the..
Laura Parnes
Laura Parnes is a video artist, gallery owner, and professor of video at Bennington College. Parnes is best known for “Heidi 2”, an unauthorized feminist response to “Heidi” (1992), created by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. The original video piece "Heidi" has been characterized by many vid..
Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini (born May 16, 1974) is an Italian pop singress, popular in her native country and in other neo-latin countries, famed for her soulful voice, her romantic ballads and love songs. She has made records in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and recently a duet in French. Contents 1..
Laura Penny
Laura Penny Laura Penny is a teaching fellow in the Foundation Year Programme at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Penny is the author of Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit, a study of the phenomenon of bullshit and its role in modern society. Penny..
Laura Perls
Laura Perls was the wife of Frederick S.Perls (Fritz Perls) (1893 - 1970). She was a noted German-born psychologist and psychotherapist and helped establish the gestalt school of psychotherapy. Laura Perls was born Lore Posner, in 1905 (Litt, n.d.). She became interested in psychology when she was 1..
Laura Peverara
Laura Peverara (c. 1550–January 4 1601) was an Italian virtuoso singer who was also a harpist and dancer who was born and brought up in Mantua. Her father was an intellectual who tutored to princes, leading to Laura's being brought up in courtly society. In the 1570's she was singing in Verona..
Laura Philo
Laura Philo (born April 27, 1975 in Scotia, New York) is an American professional golfer. She won the 1995 North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship at Pinehurst. In 1996 she won the Eastern Women's Amateur Championship and made it to the quarterfinals of the 1996 United States Women's Amat..
Laura Ponte
Laura Ponte y Martinez (born June 9, 1973) is a Spanish model. She entered the fashion industry in 1993, and has worked for Valentino, Lagerfeld, and Ralph Lauren, among others. She married Beltrán Gómez-Acebo y Borbón on September 18, 2004, in Segovia. Her husband is the nephew of King Juan Car..
Laura Pous Tio
Laura Pous Tio (born October 1, 1984 in Granollers, Spain) is a professional female tennis player from Spain. On September 19, 2005, Pous Tio achieved her highest singles ranking: World No. 74. External links WTA Tour profile for [Laura Pous Tio] ..
Laura Prepon
Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Pinciotti on the Fox television series That '70s Show. Prepon was born and raised in Watchung, New Jersey, the youngest of five children in a family of Jewish and Irish Catholic descent. She is 5 feet 10 ..
Laura Pyper
--> Laura Pyper is a British actress from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Most notably she has starred in the second series of the Sky One UK supernatural Television series Hex as Ella Dee. She also played Vicky Nobel in the 2004 Irish film, [Headrush]. Additionally she featured in ..
Laura R. Howell
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Laura Ramsey
Laura Ramsey (born 1982) is an American film and television actress. Ramsey was born in Brandon, Wisconsin, where she attended Laconia High School and subsequently moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She was first cast in the reality show-based film, The Real Cancun (2003), before st..
Laura Recovery Center
LRC logo The Laura Recovery Center is a foundation designed to foster communication between law enforcement, families, and local communities in their efforts to recover lost and abducted children. The center was founded by Bob and Gay Smither in response to the murder of their daughter Laura ..
Laura Regan
Laura Regan (born in 1974 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Jessica Lynch in the TV movie Saving Jessica Lynch. The youngest in a family of six, Laura Regan is the daughter of former Nova Scotian premier Gerald Regan and sister of former federal Min..
Laura Restrepo
Laura Restrepo is a Colombian writer. She was born in Bogotá in 1950. She graduated from the University of the Andes with a degree in Philosophy and Literature and afterwards completed postgraduate work in Political science. In the 1960s Restrepo gave up her teaching post at the National Univers..
Laura Richmond
Laura Richmond is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in September, 1988 and has appeared in some Playboy videos. Appearances in Playboy special editions Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 5 June 1989 - pages 76-83.Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 9 Sep..
Laura Riding
Laura (Riding) Jackson (January 16, 1901 - September 2, 1991) was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was born Laura Reichenthal in New York to a family of Austrian Jewish immigrants, and educated at Cornell University, where she began to write poetry, publishin..
Laura Rockefeller Chasin
Laura Rockefeller Chasin (born 1936) is the daughter of Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) and Mary French. Through her father, her great-grandfather is Standard Oil's co-founder John D. Rockefeller and through her mother, another great-grandfather is Fredrick Billings, a president of No..
Laura Rodríguez
Laura Fiora Rodríguez Riccomini (1957-1992) was a Chilean political activist from the Humanist Party. In 1989 she became the world's first Humanist to win a seat in parliament, after claiming victory as part of the Concertación coalition. Rodríguez was born in Santiago, Chile. She married to Dar..
Laura Roslin
In the fictional universe of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, Laura Roslin is the former president of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Her character is played by Mary McDonnell. Contents 1 Before Succession2 Presidency2.1 Escaping the Cylons2.2 Restoring Government2.3 Pr..
Laura Ross
Laura Ross at the 2003 U.S. Chess Championships Laura Ross (born 1988) is an American chess player. She holds the title of Woman FIDE Master. In 1998 she finished 8th in the World Championship Girls Under 10. She holds the distinction of being the first female ever in the United States to hea..
Laura Rothenberg
Laura Elizabeth Rothenberg (February 3, 1981 - March 20, 2003)[link] authored Breathing for a Living, a memoir about her fight with cystic fibrosis, a fatal disease, and her subsequent double lung transplant. ..
Laura Rozen
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Laura Rozen is the author of a left-wing political blog called War and Piece. She is a journalist based in Washi..
Laura S. Walker State Park
Laura S. Walker State Park is a 626 acre (2.53 km2) Georgia state park located near Hoboken and the Okefenokee Swamp. The park is named after Laura Walker, a Georgia writer, teacher, civic leader, and naturalist (she is most famous for the latter). The park's location near the Okefenokee makes it ..
Laura Sabia
Laura Sabia (September 18 1916 – October 17 1996) was a Canadian social activist and feminist. She played an important part, as National Chair of the Committee for the Equality of Women, in the creation of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women called by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson ..
Laura Sadler
Laura Sadler in Holby City Laura Sadler (December 25, 1980 – June 19, 2003) was an English actress best known for her role as nurse Sandy Harper in the BBC ONE hospital drama series Holby City. She was born (as Laura Ruth Sadler) in Ascot, Berkshire, and took up television acting as a y..
Laura Salverson
Laura Goodman Salverson (December 9, 1890 – July 13, 1970) was a Canadian author. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of Lárus Guðmundsson and Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir who immigrated to Winnipeg in 1887 from Grundir in Bolungarvík, Iceland, she married George Salverson in 1913. Se..
Laura Sandys
Laura Sandys is a British Conservative politician and businesswoman. She is Chair of openDemocracy, a trustee of the Civic Trust and Open University and advises companies investing in international markets. Sandys has been an active member of the Conservative Party since she was born due to having..
Laura San Giacomo
Laura San Giacomo (born November 14 1962) is an American actress. Contents 1 Profile2 ''Just Shoot Me''3 Personal life4 Trivia5 External links Profile San Giacomo, an Italian American, was born in West Orange, New Jersey and raised in the neighboring town of Denville. ..
Laura Sayers
Laura Margaret Sayers (born October 11, 1978) is an assistant producer on the Scott Mills Show, broadcast on the BBC's Radio 1 station. Although she is not a presenter on the show, in keeping with established Radio 1 traditions, Laura regularly takes part in challenges and events on air. Originally..
Laura Schlessinger
Dr. Laura Schlessinger Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and moral commentator, most known as host of the popular Dr. Laura radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three hours a day on weekdays. Schlessinger is an outspo..
Laura Schuft
Laura Schuft, an American sociologist, is currently at the University of French Polynesia in Tahiti. She has studied the social integration of mainlander French workers in the French Polynesian society. She presently works on the issue of inter-ethnic marriage. ..
Laura Scudder
--> Laura Clough Scudder (1881 – 1959) was an entrepreneur in Monterey Park, California who made and sold potato chips and who pioneered the packaging of potato chips in sealed bags. Born in Philadelphia, Laura Scudder worked as a nurse before moving to California. While there she became th..
Laura Secord
Painting by Mildred Peel Laura Secord (née Ingersoll) (September 13, 1775 – October 17, 1868) was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. She has often been called Canada's Paul Revere. Laura Ingersoll was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1775. Suffering the aftermath of the A..
Laura Serrano
Laura Serrano (born October 20, 1967) is a Mexican boxer. Serrano almost became a boxer by default, but soon she showed she was born with the talent to become a champion. She began boxing at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Nacional in Mexico City, where she was studying to become a lawyer. She..
Laura Shapiro Kramer
Laura Shapiro Kramer (b. July 27, 1948) is a U.S. author, producer and film maker. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Shapiro Kramer left New England to attend the University of Wisconsin in the 1960s. In 1969 she moved to Los Angeles where she attended UCLA studying Film and Art History. ..
Laura Shepherd
Laura Shepherd is a Canadian animator. She was the assistant director of 1986's [[The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation]]. Currently, she has been director of Nelvana's Jacob Two-Two series. External link ..
Laura Silverman
Laura Silverman is an American actress/voice actress and a native of Bedford, New Hampshire. She had a starring role as Laura, Dr. Katz' receptionist on Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and many roles in Home Movies including Linda Small and Loni. She has made many cameos including appearances on ..
Laura Simonds Southworth
Laura Simonds Southworth is a book illustrator. Her books include Naturalist (1995). See also: Edward O. Wilson ..
Laura Sinclair
Laura Sinclair may refer to: Laure Sainclair, an adult film actress.Laura Sinclair (Pacific Palisades), a fictional character from the television show, Pacific Palisades (soap opera) redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..
Laura Sinclair (Pacific Palisades)
Some of the information in this has not been [Verifiabilityverified] and might not be reliable. It should be checked for inaccuracies and modified as needed, [cite sourcesciting sources]. Laura Sinclair was a fictional character from the short lived Fox TV soap opera Pacific P..
Laura Sjoberg
Laura Sjoberg is the author of Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq, published by Rowman and Littlefield. The book was written when she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Women a..
Laura Skandera Trombley
Laura Skandera Trombley is the fifth president of Pitzer College, and her inauguration on February 15, 2003 marked the beginning of the College's 40th anniversary year. She brings to the College a level of energy and imagination suitable for a progressive young college combined with the seriousness ..
Laura Smet
Laura Smet, daughter of rock musician Johnny Hallyday and the actress Nathalie Baye, is a French actress born in Paris, France, on November 15, 1983. Filmography 2003 - La Demoiselle d'honneur (lit., Lady of Honour), dir. Claude Chabrol2003 - La Femme de Gilles (Gilles' Wife), dir. Frédéric Font..
Laura Smith
Laura Smith is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1995 single "Shade of Your Love", one of the year's biggest hits on adult contemporary radio stations in Canada, and for her rendition of the Scottish folk song "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean". Smith was born and raised in ..
Laura Solon
Laura Solon (aged 26 as of August 2005) is an English comedienne, writer and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award, only the second female to win as a solo performer (the first being Jenny Eclair in 1995). She was born in London and raised in Little Kimble near Aylesbury. She won the Perrier awa..
Laura Summer
Laura Summer is a voice actor. Contents 1 Known Roles1.1 Anime Roles1.2 Non-Anime Roles1.3 Movie Roles Known Roles Anime Roles [[Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime)|Digimon: Digital Monsters]] - Patamon (Adventure-Adventure 02)Flint the Time Detective - Princess Hightower Non-..
Laura Swisher
Laura Swisher was the comedic "Ed McMahon" of Unscrewed with Martin Sargent that aired late-nights on TechTV. The show was cancelled on 2004-11-11, after G4 had purchased TechTV. Swisher was also on the music video Strange New Element by the band Low Water. Nearly at the end of the video, she ma..
Laura Sydell
Laura Sydell (born 1961 in New Jersey) is a radio broadcaster for NPR. She is a former senior technology reporter for Public Radio International's Marketplace, and a regular reporter on for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. She was recently a Free..
Laura VanRyn
Laura VanRyn (d. April 26, 2006) was killed during her senior year at Taylor University in a tragic van collision with a semitrailer on Interstate 69 near Highway 18 in Indiana. While it was originally thought that Laura survived the accident with severe head trauma, the case became the subject ..
Laura Veirs
Laura on the cover of Year of Meteors Laura Veirs is an American singer-songwriter. She grew up in Colorado, where she often spent summers camping with her family, which gave her much of her song-writing inspiration. She now lives in Seattle. Laura says that she didn't seriously listen t..
Laura Vickerson
Laura Vickerson (Born in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian artist who uses rose petals and obsessive technique to create installation art. She has exhibited at the 5th Istanbul Biennial, Surrey Art Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Oakville Galleries. Laura currently lives and works i..
Laura Villari
Laura Villari is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. ..
Laura Volkman Vineyards
Laura Volkman Vineyards is a small vineyard and winery in Newberg, Oregon. Laura Volkman is the grower and winemaker. She interned under Michael Etzel at Beaux Freres. The winery has a 3-acre estate vineyard. The initial release in 2004 was 58 cases of pinot noir named "Elle Reve." It spent 11 mont..
Laura Voutilainen
Laura Voutilainen (born May 17, 1975 in Jyväskylä), is a Finnish singer. Her debut single was called Muuttanut oon maailman but her final breakthrough came in 1993 with the hit song Kerran. One year later she released her first album, unsurprisingly called Laura Voutilainen. It sold over 120,000 ..
Laura Wheeler Waring
Laura Wheeler Waring (1887 - February 3, 1948) was an African American artist, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans produced during the Harlem Renaissance. Reference [PBS African American World] ..
Laura Wilkinson
Laura Wilkinson Women’s Diving Gold 2000 10m Platform Laura Wilkinson (born November 17, 1977 in Texas) is an American diver. As a child, Wilkinson was a gymnast, but had to give up on the sport after a growth spurt during puberty made her too tall to continue. She would then ..
Laura Willoughby
Laura Willoughby (born 27 May 1974 in Chard, Somerset) is a Liberal Democrat politician. She is currently a councillor on Islington Council in London and was the parliamentary candidate in the May 2005 general election for the Liberal Democrats in the Islington North constituency where she lives. Sh..
Laura Wilson
For the New Zealander, see Laura Wilson (actress) Laura Wilson is a British crime-writer based in London, where she was born and raised. She has degrees in English Literature form Somerville College, Oxford, and University College London, and has worked as a teacher and editor of non-fiction. Many o..
Laura Woolsey Lord Scales
Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (November 13, 1879-June 12, 1990) was an American educator and college dean. She served as Dean of Students at Smith College in Massachusetts for 22 years, 1922-1944. As Smith College "warden," Scales served as the dean of students, in charge of housing students, chaperon..
Laura Wright
Laura Wright (born Laura Sisk on September 11, 1970 in Clinton, Maryland) is an American soap opera actress. She was born and raised in Clinton, Maryland, and graduated from Surrattsville High School in 1988. She married architect John Wright in October 1995 and changed her name accordingly. The ..
Laura Young
This article is part of the Classical guitar series (Please move this template to the end of the page) [[Portal:Classical guitar|Classical guitar Portal]] - Classical guitar - History of the classical guitar - Vihuela - Baroque guitar - Early romantic guitar - Romantic guitar - Modern classical..
Laura Youngblood
Laura Youngblood is a veteran of the United States Navy and wife of a sailor who was killed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She has gained recent prominence for taking on noted anti-war mother Cindy Sheehan. Travis Youngblood Travis Youngblood was a United States Navy Corpsman who died in Bag..
Laura Young (Playmate)
Laura Young (born May 22 1938 – died November 27 1999) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1962 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar, the first Playmate of his lengthy career at Playboy (though his second Playmate, Jan Rob..
Laura Z. Hobson
Laura Kean Zametkin (June 19, 1900–February 28, 1986) , best known as Laura Z. Hobson, was an American novelist. She is best-known for her novel Gentleman's Agreement (1947), a study on anti-semitism. Daughter of Michael and Adella, Jewish socialist immigrants, she studied at Cornell Univers..
Laura Zapata
Laura Zapata (born Laura Sodi Miranda in 1956) is a Mexican telenovela actress. She has acted in Televisa productions most of her life. Her surname Zapata was adopted from her marriage. Her official name in Mexico is Laura Sodi de Zapata. Zapata is the eldest sister of singer Thalía and of Ernest..
Laura Ziskin
Laura Ziskin is an American film producer. She is most famous for producing the Spider-Man film franchise, along with fellow producer Avi Arad. See also [IMDB entry for Laura Ziskin] ..
Laurea
In Italy, the laurea is the main post-secondary academic degree. Until very recently, lauree took much longer to earn, on the average, than undergraduate degrees elsewhere in Europe and North America, and required writing a thesis. Thus laureati are addressed as dottore (for a man) or dottoressa (f..
Laureano Gómez
--> Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro (1889-1965) was President of Colombia from 1950 to 1953, and long time leader of the Colombian Conservative Party. Gómez was born into an aristocratic family in Bogotá on February 20, 1889. He studied engineering at the National University, graduating in 190..
Laureano Leone
Laureano Leone (born September 11, 1928 in Rocca Pia, L'Aquila, Italy) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1990. Leone was educated at Liceo Classico "Ovidio" Sulmona in L'Aquila, and the Detroit Institute of Techno..
Laureano Pineda
Laureano Pineda was President of Nicaragua in 1851. ..
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa (July 12, 1912 – December 8, 1997) was appointed Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1968. ..
Laureate
In English, the word laureate has come to signify eminence or association with literary or military glory. History The laurel, in ancient Greece, was sacred to Apollo, and as such was used to form a crown or wreath of honor for poets and heroes; and this usage has been widespread. "Laureate letter..
Laureate Education, Inc.
Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ: [LAUR]) is an education services holding company, based in Baltimore, Maryland, which owns a number of for-profit colleges and online universities, including Walden University and other college brands worldwide. The company has campus-based programs in 15 c..
Lauredian Union
The Lauredian Union (Unió Laurediana) is a local political party in Andorra. At the last elections, 4 march 2001, the party won 2 out of 28 seats in the General Council of Andorra. It lost parliamentary representation in 2005. ..
Laureen Harper
Laureen Teskey Harper (born 1963) is the wife of Stephen Harper, who has been Prime Minister of Canada since February 6, 2006 and leads the Conservative Party of Canada. Teskey was born in Turner Valley, a rural county southwest of Calgary, Alberta. Her parents were ranchers and owned an electrical..
Laureen Oliver
Laureen Oliver is a politician in New York. A resident of Rochester, she is a founder of the New York State Independence Party. The former Monroe County Chairwoman of United We Stand America, Oliver was an original member of the Independence Party. She served as the party's chairwoman from 1994 to ..
Laurel
Laurel may refer to: Contents 1 Botany2 Honors3 Coins4 People5 Places Botany Lauraceae, the botanical laurel family, including*Bay laurel Laurus nobilis, the original true laurel that is the source of bay leaves used as a seasoning*California Laurel Umbellularia cali..
Laurel, Batangas
Laurel is a 4th class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 27,604 people in 5,153 households. Barangays Laurel is politically subdivided into 21 barangays. As-IsBalakilongBerinayanBugaan EastBugaan WestBuso-busoDayap ItaasG..
Laurel, Delaware
Laurel is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 3,668 at the 2000 census. It once hosted the Laurel Blue Hens of the Eastern Shore Baseball League. Geography Laurel is located at [38°33′26″N, 75°34′22″W] (38.557091, -75.572789)[Geographic refe..
Laurel, Florida
Laurel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,393 at the 2000 census. It is generally considered part of Nokomis and people who live in the CDP have either a Nokomis or Osprey address. Geography Laurel is located at [27°8′29″N,..
Laurel, Indiana
Laurel is a town in Franklin County, Indiana, United States. The population was 579 at the 2000 census. Geography Laurel is located at [39°30′3″N, 85°11′13″W] (39.500936, -85.186895)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town h..
Laurel, Iowa
Laurel is a city in Marshall County, Iowa, United States. The population was 266 at the 2000 census. Geography Laurel is located at [41°53′1″N, 92°55′22″W] (41.883720, -92.922906)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has..
Laurel, Maryland
Laurel is a city about 14 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 19,960 at the 2000 census. Laurel is home to a horse racetrack, Laurel Racecourse, which is actually in Anne Arundel County. Laurel was also the home of an automob..
Laurel, Mississippi
Laurel is a city located in Jones County in Mississippi, a state of the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,393 although a significant population increase has been reported following Hurricane Katrina. Also, a steady influx of Hispanic immigrant lab..
Laurel, Montana
Old silos bearing ads at the entrance to Laurel Laurel is a city in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States. The population was 6,255 at the 2000 census. Both the interstate highway I-90 and a number of local railroads run through Laurel. It is most known for its industry and agriculture, ..
Laurel, Nebraska
Laurel is a city in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 986 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Trivia4 External links Geography Laurel is located at [42°25′41″N, 97°5′35″W] (42.427966, -97.093053)[Geographic ..
Laurel, New York
Laurel is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, USA. It is inside both the Town of Southold and the Town of Riverhead. The population was 1,188 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Other communities in the Town of Southold5 External links His..
Laurel, Oakland, California
Laurel is one of the many culturally diverse neighborhoods in Oakland, California. It is situated between the foot of the Oakland hills and Mills College. At the heart of the neighborhood lies MacArthur Boulevard, a bustling shopping area with annual festivals and many local shops. The Laurel, mu..
Laurel, Virginia
Laurel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Henrico County, Virginia, United States. The population was 14,875 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics2.1 Population History of Laurel CDP from the ..
Laureldale, Pennsylvania
Laureldale is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The population was 3,759 at the 2000 census. Geography Laureldale is at [40°23′21″N, 75°54′51″W] (40.389293, -75.914150)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a..
Laureles, Texas
Laureles is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,285 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Education4 External links Geography Laureles is located at [26°6′48″N, 97°29′22″W] (26.11..
Laurelhurst, Seattle, Washington
This article does not cite its [[Opentopia:Cite sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by including appropriate citations. Laurelhurst Laurelhurst is an affluent residential neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is bo..
Laurell K. Hamilton
--> --> Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American horror and science fiction/fantasy writer. She was born in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indiana. Her mother was killed in a car crash in 1969. Today Hamilton resides in St. Louis County, Missouri. Her princip..
Laurelton, Queens
Laurelton is an African American neighborhood in Queens, New York, USA. A stop on the Long Island railroad -- all of Queens, New York, is actually located on Long Island -- Laurelton was named for the laurels that grew there over 100 years ago. A growing website exists where former residents fro..
Laurelton (LIRR station)
Laurelton is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch, located in the Laurelton neighborhood of Queens, 14.9 miles (24.0 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Mahattan. The station is located at 225th Street and 141st Road. This station has an island platform and can hold an 8-car train. ..
Laurelvale
Laurelvale is a small village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, adjacent to the small village of Mullavilly and 7 miles north east of Armagh. In the 2001 Census Laurelvale/Mullavilly had a population of 959 people. Contents 1 History2 2001 Census3 External links4 See also ..
Laurelvale fc
Laurelvale are a Northern Irish football club playing in the Mid-Ulster Intermediate Section A External links [Laurelvale FC Website] ..
Laurelville, Ohio
Laurelville is a village in Hocking County, Ohio, United States. The population was 533 at the 2000 census. Geography Laurelville is located at [39°28′16″N, 82°44′17″W] (39.471135, -82.738186)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau..
Laurel (English coin)
The Laurel was the third English gold coin with a value of twenty shillings or one pound produced during the reign of King James I. It was named after the laurel that the king is portrayed as wearing on his head, but it is considerably poorer in both quality and style than the sovereign and Unite wh..
Laurel (LDS)
A Laurel is a 16-17 year old participant in the Young Women's program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. See also BeehiveMia Maid..
Laurel Aitken
--> Laurel Aitken (April 22, 1927–July 17, 2005) became famous as one of the originators of Jamaican ska music in the late 1950s.He is brother to singer Bobby Aitken. Aitken was born as Lorenzo Aitken in Cuba. He recorded one of the earliest ska records, the double A-sided "Little Sheila"/"..
Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy, in a promotional still from their 1937 feature film Way Out West. Laurel and Hardy were an American-based comedy duo who became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures. The members of the duo were the thin British-born and raised Sta..
Laurel and Hardy films
This is a list of films which either star or feature the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy. For filmographies of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy without the other, see: Filmography of Oliver Hardy and Filmography of Stan Laurel. Collectively, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared in dozens of short films..
Laurel B. Clark
Laurel Blair Salton Clark (March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was a medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the shuttle disintegrated after re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Clark, of Racine, Wisc..
Laurel Bay, South Carolina
Laurel Bay is a census-designated place and military housing complex in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 6,625 at the 2000 census. As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, Laurel Bay is included within the Beaufort Urban Cluster and the Hilton Head Island-Beaufort Micr..
Laurel Broten
Laurel C. Broten is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Etobicoke—Lakeshore for the Ontario Liberal Party. Prior to entering politics, she was a lawyer, community activist and volunteer. Broten attended Mc..
Laurel Canyon
Laurel Canyon can refer to several things: Laurel Canyon is an area in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.Laurel Canyon is a street that connects the San Fernando Valley to Hollywood that passes through Laurel CanyonLaurel Canyon is a record album from 1969 by Jackie DeShannon.Laurel Canyon (film) is a 2..
Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California
Laurel Canyon is a canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and like Topanga Canyon very oriented to the central thoroughfare, Laurel Canyon Boulevard. There are many side roads that branch off the main canyon, but most of them are not through streets, reinforcing the neighborhood as self-co..
Laurel Canyon (film)
Laurel Canyon is a 2002 American drama movie, written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko. Synopsis [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Sam and his fiancée, Alex, are a newly engaged couple who move to Los Angeles to further their working careers. Sam is a..
Laurel Canyon (LACMTA Station)
Laurel Canyon is a station on the Los Angeles LACMTA Orange Line. It is named after adjacent Laurel Canyon Boulevard. The station is in the North Hollywood district of the City of Los Angeles. Connections Metro Bus: 156, 230 The Los Angeles Metro Rail Next station (West)Valley College   ..
Laurel Canyon Boulevard
Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). Laurel Canyon bypasses the city of San Fern..
Laurel Canyon Freeway
The Laurel Canyon Freeway was to have been a north-south freeway in Los Angeles, California and its suburbs. Its proposed alignment was from the intersection of the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Route 101/CA-170) and the Ventura Freeway (CA-134/US-101) in the southeastern San Fernando Valley to the San D..
Laurel Caverns
Laurel Caverns, formerly known as Dulaney's Cave and Laurel Hill Cave, is the largest cave in Pennsylvania. It sits on the Chestnut Ridge near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and is a privately-owned show cave with an hour-long guided tour. Laurel Caverns is unique since it is not a limestone cave, but r..
Laurel County, Kentucky
Laurel County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 52,715. Its county seat is London. Laurel is partially a prohibition or dry county. 6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent counties2 Demographics3 Trivia4 Cities and towns5&nbs..
Laurel Dale, West Virginia
Laurel Dale is an unincorporated community on New Creek in Mineral County, West Virginia. Laurel Dale was established in 1878. The community is located along West Virginia State Route 93. External link Communities Bayard | Berkeley Springs | Bolivar | Capon Bridge | Charles Town | F..
Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
Laurel Elizabeth Keyes (died 1983) was an American author, lecturer and counselor. She is best-known for her early works on sound therapy and weight management. Biography Keyes was a writer from an early age. Over the years, she wrote stories, articles and poetry for magazines and newspapers. She r..
Laurel Falls Trail
The Laurel Falls Trail is an American hiking trail, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Sevier County, Tennessee. The trail ascends Cove Mountain (elev. 4,050 ft; 1,372 m), leading past Laurel Falls, one of the most popular waterfalls in the national park, en route to the summit of Cove M..
Laurel forest
Laurel forest is a subtropical or mild temperate forest, found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable and mild temperatures. They are characterized by evergreen, glossy-leaved trees, with members of the Laurel family (Lauraceae) prominent, either as the predominant trees or in association..
Laurel Futurity
The Laurel Futurity is an annual horse race held at Laurel Park, Maryland. At one time it was one of the richest and most important races for two-year-old American thoroughbreds. Past winners include Triple Crown champions, Secretariat and Affirmed. In 2005, it was won by Barbaro. ..
Laurel Gibbons
Laurel Gibbons is a Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur in the Health and Wellness Industry at the time of the 2006 federal election, in which she was a candidate. Following her third place finish, she ran in the 2006 provincial by-election, both times for the New Democratic Party. She lives i..
Laurel Goodwin
Laurel Goodwin (born August 11, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American actress. A child model, Goodwin made her screen debut as the love interest of Elvis Presley in the 1962 film, Girls! Girls! Girls!. Between then and 1969, she appeared in only three more films and as a guest actor on several te..
Laurel Hester
Lt. Laurel Hester (August 15, 1956 – February 18, 2006) was a lesbian New Jersey police officer who rose to national attention with her deathbed appeal for the extension of pension benefits to domestic partners. Laurel Hester was a 23-year veteran of the Ocean County prosecutor's office when she ..
Laurel Highlands
The Laurel Highlands, in the southwestern part of the state of Pennsylvania, encompasses Fayette County, Somerset County and Westmoreland County. The Laurel Highlands region contains a population of about 600,000 people. Population growth is not big with small increases in Fayette and Somerset count..
Laurel High School
Laurel High School may refer to: Laurel High School (Los Alamitos, California) [link]Laurel High School (Laurel, Delaware) [link]Laurel High School (Laurel, Maryland)Laurel High School (Laurel, Mississippi) [link]Laurel High School (Laurel, Montana) [link]Laur..
Laurel High School (Laurel, Maryland)
Laurel High School (LHS) is a public high school located in Laurel, Maryland and is the oldest school in the Prince George's County Public Schools system. Founded in 1899 with an enrollment of 59 students and 4 teachers the school building was originally what is now the Phelps Community Center in La..
Laurel Hill
Laurel Hill is the name of several locations, including: Laurel Hill, Florida, a city in Okaloosa CountyLaurel Hill Creek, a tributary of the Youghiogheny River in PennsylvaniaSnake Hill, also known as Laurel Hill, an igneous rock intrusion in New Jersey This article consisting of geographical loca..
Laurel Hill, Florida
Laurel Hill is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 549 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 576 [link]. Geography Laurel Hill is located at [30°57′55″N, 86°27′33″W] (30.965369, -86.45914..
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Laurel Hill Cemetery, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the second major rural garden cemetery in the United States and one of the few cemeteries in the country designated as a National Historic Landmark. redirect[[Template:Portal]]John Jay Smith, a librarian and editor with interests in horticult..
Laurel Hill Creek
Laurel Hill Creek is a tributary of the Youghiogheny River in Somerset County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Laurel Hill Creek drains the east slope of Laurel Hill in the Laurel Highlands and flows to the appropriately named community of Confluence, where it joins the Casselman River a few yar..
Laurel Hill Tunnel
Laurel Hill Tunnel is one of three original Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels which were abandoned (this one in 1964) after two massive realignment projects. The Laurel Hill Tunnel was bored under the border between Westmoreland and Somerset Counties. The others, located further east, were the Sid..
Laurel Holloman
Laurel Holloman (born May 23, 1971 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American actress, currently best known for her roles as Justine on Angel and Tina Kennard on the Showtime series The L Word. Holloman made her film debut as one of the eponymous teenagers in Maria Maggenti's The Incredibly..
Laurel Hollow, New York
Laurel Hollow is an village in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York in the USA. The population was 1,930 at the 2000 census. The Village of Laurel Hollow is in the Town of Oyster Bay. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 External links History The sett..
Laurel House Station
The Laurel House Station, branch MP 18.5, was built as part of the three-foot gauge Kaaterskill Railroad, an extension of the Stony Clove and Catskill Mountain Railroad. It was built so passengers could stop there and take a horse and carriage to the Laurel House, a hotel that was nearby. When it wa..
Laurel Kenner
Laurel Kenner was born in California in 1944. She is a well known financial writer in New York City. Her 28-year journalism career includes five years as chief US stocks editor at Bloomberg News (1995–2000) and five years as an award-winning aerospace reporter for Copley Los Angeles Newspaper..
Laurel Lake, New Jersey
Laurel Lake is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Commercial Township, in Cumberland County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 2,929. Geography Laurel Lake is located at [39°19′41″N, 75°1′53″W] (39.328014, -75..
Laurel Martin
Laurel Hershey Martin (born June 8, 1969 in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania) is a former field hockey player from the United States, who was a member of the US women's team that finished fifth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin competed in 69 international matches for the United Sta..
Laurel Mountain, Pennsylvania
Laurel Mountain is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough is located at the foot of Laurel Mountain (elev. 2800 ft.) and is convenient to skiing, hiking and other outdoor activities. There are a number of limestone caves within a half hour drive. Geography L..
Laurel Mountain Elementary School
Laurel Mountain Elementary School is a K-5 school in Austin, Texas administered by the Round Rock Independent School District. In May 2003, HR 999 of the 78th Texas State Legislature, proposed by representative Stick, commended the school and its principal, Jan Richards, for being awarded exemplary..
Laurel Near
Laurel Near played the role of The Lady in the Radiator in 1977's Eraserhead. After a long hiatus, filiming resumed with a scene involing the Lady in the Radiator. Laurel Near sang in a trio with her two sisters Holly and Timi, the latter was a good friend of Catherine E. Coulson. Flimography Era..
Laurel Networks
Laurel Networks, based in the Robinson Township in the Pittsburgh region, this company specializes in routers for telecommunication carriers. [Laurel Networks website] ..
Laurel oak
The Laurel oak (Quercus laurifolia) is a medium sized evergreen or semi-evergreen oak in the red oak section Quercus sect. Lobatae. It is native to the southeast of the United States, from coastal Virginia to central Florida and as far west as southeast Texas. It is a tree growing to 20-25 m tall..
Laurel Park
Laurel Park can refer to: Laurel Park, North CarolinaLaurel Park, VirginiaA racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directl..
Laurel Park, North Carolina
Laurel Park is a town in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,835 at the 2000 census. Geography Laurel Park is located at [35°18′51″N, 82°29′50″W] (35.314074, -82.497219)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Cen..
Laurel Park, Virginia
Laurel Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Henry County, Virginia, United States. The population was 781 at the 2000 census. Geography Laurel Park is located at [36°41′23″N, 79°47′27″W] (36.689798, -79.790791)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the Unit..
Laurel Park (racecourse)
Laurel Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Laurel, Maryland, USA. History Laurel Park was first founded in 1911. In 1914 James Butler purchased the track and appointed Matt Winn as the promoter and manager of the track. In 1947, the Maryland Jockey Club, which owned Timonium and Pimlico purchased t..
Laurel Pigeon
The Laurel Pigeon (Columba junoniae) is a member of the family Columbidae, doves and pigeons, which is endemic to the Canary Islands. A rare resident breeder in the mountain laurel forest zone, the Laurel Pigeon builds a stick nest in a tree. There it lays one white egg. At 40-43 cm, a Laurel Pi..
Laurel Prieb
Laurel Prieb, the husband of Wendy Selig-Prieb and son-in-law of Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, was until recently the Vice President of Corporate Affairs for the Milwaukee Brewers. Shortly after the 2005 sale of the Brewers to Los Angeles investor Mark Attanasio, Prieb became Vice Pr..
Laurel Rose Willson
Laurel Rose Willson (August 18 1941 – 8 April 2002) was an American woman born in Washington, whose allegations of Satanic ritual abuse were published under the alias Lauren Stratford. She later assumed the guise of a Holocaust survivor, and adopted the alias of Laura Grabowski. Willson was..
Laurel Run
Laurel Run may refer to: Towns: Laurel Run, Maryland, in St. Mary's CountyLaurel Run, Pennsylvania, in Luzerne CountyLaurel Run, West Virginia, in Preston County Streams: Laurel Run (Bald Eagle Creek) (4 streams)Laurel Run (Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning River)Laurel Run (Clearfield Creek) (2 streams..
Laurel Run, Pennsylvania
Laurel Run is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 723 at the 2000 census. Geography Laurel Run is located at [41°13′2″N, 75°50′29″W] (41.217222, -75.841456)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bur..
Laurel Scheaf
Laurel Scheaf is a former schoolteacher, and current "Landmark Forum Leader." ([Photo])Photo at Landmark Education, Faculty Photos, Laurel Scheaf http://www.landmarkeducation.com/display_images.jsp?top=21&mid=166&siteObjectID=330 She first began working for Werner Erhard in 1967, going d..
Laurel School
Laurel School is an independent, college preparatory for girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The school also owns 140 acres of land, known as the Fairmount Campus, in Russell Township. Jennie Prentiss established the school in her Cleveland, Ohio home in 1896. Laurel is a founding member of the Clevelan..
Laurel School District
Laurel School District is a name shared by several school districts in the United States. Laurel School District of Sussex County, Delaware (see List of school districts in Delaware)Laurel School District of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (see List of school districts in Pennsylvania) This is a ..
Laurel Snyder
Laurel Snyder (born 1974) is an American poet, essayist, children's author, and blogger. Her books include Daphne & Jim: a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse (Burnside Review Press), Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes (Soft Skull Press), and Inside the Slidy Diner (Tricycle Pr..
Laurel Springs, New Jersey
Laurel Springs highlighted in Camden County Laurel Springs is a Borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 1,970. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Government3.1 Local government3.2 Federal,..
Laurel Takashima
Laurel Takashima is a fictional character who appeared in the Babylon 5 pilot movie [[Babylon 5: The Gathering|The Gathering]]. She was portrayed by asian american actor Tamlyn Tomita. Laurel Takashima met Commander Jeffrey Sinclair while working at Mars Colony Security. She had been stationed..
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Well behaved women seldom make history.—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women. Ulrich's innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work ..
Laurel Thomas
Emmerdale character Laurel Thomas Played by Charlotte Bellamy Duration 2002- Date of Birth 1974 Marital Status Married Occupation Cleaner Family Ashley and Gabby Laurel Thomas (née Potts) is a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She is played by Charlot..
Laurel wreath
In Greek mythology Apollo is represented wearing a laurel-wreath on his head, and in ancient Greece wreaths were awarded to victors, both in athletic competitions, including the ancient Olympics and poetic meets under his care, as well as worn by several emperors. Whereas ancient laurel wreaths a..
Lauren
Lauren is a common given name for a female, and occasionally a name for a male. It is also used as a surname. It comes from Latin origin, referring to the bay laurel plant, or to be victoriously crowned with laurels. Lauren may refer to: Lauren Bacall — an American actressLauren Christy — a si..
Lauren-Elaine Edleson
Lauren-Elaine Edleson (born November 7, 1983, San Diego, California) is an American model and actress. External links [Official site][Acclaim Talent Agency profile][IMDb profile] ..
Lauren-Marie Taylor
Lauren-Marie Taylor (born in the The Bronx, New York, USA) is an American actress who has starred in film and on television. She is best known for her role in the 1981 horror movie Friday the 13th Part 2. Lauren has starred in soap operas as well: in Loving as Stacey Donovan Forbes Allen from 1983-..
Laurence
Male name. Taken from the Latin 'of the Laurel leaf'. Laurence can mean several things: Saint Laurence of CanterburySaint Laurence, or Saint LawrenceSir Laurence Olivier, British actor.Stephen Laurence, American philosopher.Laurence Tribe, American professor of constitutional law. See also: Lauren..
Laurence's Gate
Laurence's Gate is a barbican which was built in the 13th century as part of the walled fortifications of the medieval town of Drogheda. The original names for Laurence St and Laurence's Gate were East St and East Gate, respectively. In the 14th century, the street and Gate were renamed because th..
Laurence-Moon syndrome
Laurence-Moon syndrome is a rare hereditary condition associated with retinitis pigmentosa, spastic paraplegia, hypogonadism and mental retardation. It is named after the physicians John Zachariah Laurence and Robert Charles Moon who provided the first formal description of the condition in a paper..
Laurencekirk
Laurencekirk is a small town in Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road. It is the largest village in the Howe of the Mearns area and houses the local secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was recently awarded the charter mark. Its old name was "Conveth", a corruption of Coinmhea..
Laurence Angwin
Laurence Angwin (born 7 October 1982) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He is infamous for being sacked by his team, the Carlton Football Club after turning up to training having used recreational drugs. Contents 1 Adelaide career2 Carlton caree..
Laurence Ballard
Laurence Ballard is an American stage and screen actor, whose career has focused on regional theatre in the U.S. Stage credits Ballard has appeared in many productions over the years, most recently as Mansky in The Play’s the Thing. He has worked locally with several Seattle theatre companies, i..
Laurence Baxter
Laurence Alan Baxter (28 February 1954, London - 8 November 1996, Long Island) was professor of statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Early life Mr Baxter was born in Bearstead Jewish Maternity Hospital, Stoke Newington; his family lived in Ilford, Essex. He was educated at..
Laurence Belfiore
--> Laurence Belfiore (born November 22, 1954) joined the chemical engineering department of Colorado State in 1983 after a period of post-doctoral research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His major research interests focus on the phase behavior of polymer blends in the presence of electric fields, po..
Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon (August 10, 1869 at Lancaster, England – March 10, 1943 at Reading, Berkshire) was a British poet, dramatist and art scholar. Contents 1 Life & works2 For the Fallen3 ‘Condemn’ or ‘contemn’?4 Music5 Post-war life6 Bibliography of ..
Laurence BonJour
Laurence BonJour (Ph.D., 1969, Princeton University) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from Macalester College and his doctorate from Princeton University with a disertation directed by Richard Rorty. Hi..
Laurence Borremans
Laurence Borremans was Miss Belgium 1996 and a semi-finalist at the Miss World pageant. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Laurence Brereton
Laurence John Brereton (b. 1946), who retired in 2004, was a state minister, a federal member of cabinet, and kingmaker in the election of several Australian Labor Party leaders, including Paul Keating and Mark Latham. He surivived the political controversy of the Botany Council affair in the mid-'..
Laurence Bruce
Laurence Bruce of Cultmalindie (b. 20 Jan 1547 – d. Aug 1617) was the son of John Bruce of Cultmalindie and Eupheme Elphinstone. Easter Cultmalindie is a small town in Tibbermore parrish, Perthshire, Scotland. The Bruces of Cultmalindie were a minor branch of the Bruce family in Scotland, and ..
Laurence Calvert
Laurence Calvert VC MM (February 16, 1892- July 6, 1964) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 26 years old, and a Sergeant in the 5th Bn., The King..
Laurence Cane-Honeysett
Laurence Cane-Honeysett is a British musician, producer and music journalist specialized in Jamaican music. He started writing for Record Collector, as Jamaican music consultant around 1990. He is now producer for Trojan Records and supervise all the reissues. Bibliography Young, gifted and black ..
Laurence Cardee Craigie
Laurence Cardee Craigie (January 26, 1902 – February 27, 1994), was a United States aviator and United States Air Force General. He was the first U.S. military jet pilot; in 1942 he piloted the Bell XP-59. He died in Riverside, California. ..
Laurence Chaderton
Laurence Chaderton (September, 1536?- 13 November, 1640), Puritan divine, was born at Lee's Hall, in the parish of Oldham, Lancashire, probably in September 1536, being the second son of Edmund Chaderton, a gentleman of an ancient and wealthy family, and a zealous Catholic. Under the tuition of La..
Laurence Clarkson
Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667), sometimes called Claxton, was an English theologian and accused heretic. He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose collection of radical protestants known as the Ranters. Clarkson's ideas are set out in a 1650 tract called A Single Eye. Clarkson opposed..
Laurence Collier
Sir Laurence Collier KCMG (1890–1976) was the British ambassador to Norway between 1939 and 1950, including the period when Norway's government was in exile in London during the Second World War. He was the son of the artist John Collier and his first wife Marian Huxley, the daughter of Thoma..
Laurence Cottle
Laurence Cottle is a session bassist best known for briefly being a member of Black Sabbath. He joined the band in 1989 for the Headless Cross album, but left the band before a world tour to support the album. ..
Laurence Courtois
Laurence Courtois (born on January 18, 1976 in Kortrijk, Belgium) was a professional female tennis player from Belgium. In her career she never won a WTA Tour singles titles but she did win 4 titles in doubles. ..
Laurence Crane
Laurence Crane (born 1961 in Oxford) is a composer. He studied composition at Nottingham University with Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne. He now lives and works in London. He is closely associated with the ensemble Apartment House, for whom he has written two pieces specially: Riis (1996) and John ..
Laurence Curtis
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Laurence D. Fink
Laurence D. Fink is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock Financial Management Inc. Popularly known as Larry, he started his career at First Boston upon graduating from the University of California Los Angeles. Larry earned an MBA at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management (the..
Laurence Decore
Laurence G. Decore (June 28, 1940 - November 6, 1999) was a Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer, politician, former mayor of Edmonton and leader of the Alberta Liberal Party. Born Lavrentiy Dikur in Vegreville, Alberta, he was the son of John Decore, a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons from 194..
Laurence Duggan
For other people called Laurence Duggan, see Laurence Duggan (disambiguation) Laurence Duggan was head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II. Duggan was recruited by journalist Hede Massing as a Soviet spy since the mid 1930's. Duggan told the FBI..
Laurence Duggan (disambiguation)
Laurence Duggan is Laurence Duggan head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II.Laurie Duggan Australian poet..
Laurence Dunmore
Laurence Dunmore is a designer and film director whose first major collaboration was the British production of The Libertine in 2005. He is also a member of Ridley Scott Associates and has directed advertisements for Adidas, BMW and ING. Dunmore began his career as a graphic designer studying on t..
Laurence Dworet
Dr. Laurence Dworet, M.D. (usually just credited as Laurence Dworet) is an American screenwriter. In 1990, he and his writing partner Robert Roy Pool sold their spec screenplay The Ultimatum for $500,000 against $1,000,000 if a film was made. It was the story of terrorists who plant an atomic bomb ..
Laurence Echard
Laurence Echard (circa 1670 - 1730) was a British historian. He was born at Barsham, Suffolk, and educated at Cambridge, took orders and became Archdeacon of Stow. He translated Terence, part of Plautus, D'Orleans' History of the Revolutions in England, and made numerous compilations on history, ..
Laurence Eusden
Laurence Eusden Laurence Eusden (1688 - September 27, 1730), was a rather unremarkable English poet who nevertheless became Poet Laureate in 1718. Contents 1 Life2 Poetry and Criticism3 References4 External links5 Notes Life Laurence Eusden was born in Spofforth i..
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix Revolutions Laurence Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and occasional stage actor. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life1.2 Career1.3 Personal life2 Filmography2.1 Actor2.2&n..
Laurence Foley
Laurence Foley Laurence Michael Foley, Sr. (October 5, 1942—October 28, 2002) was an American diplomat assassinated outside his home in Amman, Jordan. Born in Boston, Foley joined the Peace Corps in 1965 upon graduating from the University of Massachusetts. He worked for the Peace Co..
Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox (born 1978) is a British actor. He has appeared in several films, stage and television productions. He trained at RADA. Family connections He is the third son of the actor James Fox. His uncles are the actors Edward Fox, Daniel Chatto and the producer Robert Fox. His cousin is the ac..
Laurence Freeman
Father Laurence Freeman OSB is the spiritual director of The World Community for Christian Meditation. Fr Laurence has directed the WCCM ever since John Main's death and has carried on his teachings. He travels the world leading retreats and seminars on the tradition and practice of Christian medi..
Laurence Gardner
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Laurence Gartel
Laurence Gartel, born June 5 1956, is considered a pioneer of Digital ArtVital, Julius. The Fine Artist's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion, p.70, Watson-Guptill, ISBN 1581152817. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Joan Whitney Payson Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princ..
Laurence Godfrey
Laurence Godfrey is the name of: Academics Laurence Godfrey (physics lecturer), physics lecturer and litigant in Godfrey v. Demon Sports figures Laurence Godfrey (archer), olympic archer This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. I..
Laurence Godfrey (archer)
Laurence Godfrey (born 9 June 1976) is an athlete from the United Kingdom. He competes in archery. Godfrey competed for the United Kingdom (as Great Britain) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first three elimination matches, advancing to the quarterfinals. In th..
Laurence Godfrey (physics lecturer)
Dr. Laurence Godfrey (born 21 November 1952, London, England) established a legal precedent for libel on Usenet, in the landmark Godfrey v. Demon case. In 1993 he and CERN colleague Phillip Hallam-Baker became immersed in a very public dispute on Usenet, which culminated in a libel action (settled ..
Laurence Goldstein
Laurence Goldstein (born 1943) is a poet, editor, and professor in the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1943, he received a B.A. from UCLA in 1965 and a PhD from Brown University in 1970. Since 1977, Goldstein has been the chi..
Laurence Gronlund
Laurence Gronlund (July 13, 1846 - October 15, 1899) was an American lawyer and socialist. Life Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Law in 1865, and moved to the United States in 1867. He taught German in Milwaukee, Wisconsin until was admitted t..
Laurence Guittard
Laurence Guittard is an actor and singer, mostly appearing on the Broadway stage. Notable appearances include Count Malcom in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Curly in the 1979 revival of Oklahoma!, and several productions of Man of La Mancha. Mr. Guittard was nominated for a Tony Award for..
Laurence H. Silberman
Judge Laurence Hirsch Silberman (born October 12,1935) was appointed United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in October 1985, and took senior status on November 1, 2000. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1957 and Harvard Law School..
Laurence Harbor, New Jersey
Map of Laurence Harbor CDP in Middlesex County Laurence Harbor is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Old Bridge Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 6,227. Geography Laurence Harbor is located at &..
Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Arthur" Laurence Harvey (October 1, 1928 - November 25, 1973) was a Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films. Laurence Harvey maintained throughout his life that his birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikn..
Laurence Henry Hicks
Laurence Henry Hicks (1912-1997) was an Australian composer. He composed Nauru Bwiema, national anthem of Nauru, in 1968. ..
Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman (July 18, 1865 - [February 20,1959]]) was an English playwright. The younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman, Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. After education at local schools, he went with his sister Clemence to study art at the Lambert School of..
Laurence Howard
Dr. Laurence Howard, JP, PhD, is the Lord Lieutenant of Rutland, a magistrate in Leicester, sub-dean at Leicester University Medical School and a former Chief Magistrate of England and Wales. Dr. Howard was born in the south of England, took his degree in Physiological Science at Nottingham Univers..
Laurence Hugh Frost
Laurence Hugh Frost (July 22, 1902–May 1977) was a U.S. admiral. Frost graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1926 and served in various ships and shore stations throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He was the commanding officer of USS Greer when that destroyer was attacked by a German U-boat on..
Laurence Hutton
Laurence Hutton (1843-1904) was an American essayist and critic, born in New York City and educated privately there. He was an inveterate traveler and for about 20 years spent his summers abroad. From about 1870 he contributed continually to periodicals. from 1886 to 1898 he was the literary ..
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (March, 1641 – May 2, 1711), was an English statesman and writer. The second son of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, he was a near contemporary of King Charles II of England. Following the Restoration, he sat as member of parliament, first for Newport, ..
Laurence Iannaccone
Laurence Iannaccone (AN-a-CONE-ee) is an economics professor at George Mason University. His work focuses on the economics of religion and is currently working on two books on the subject. He's established “Religion, Economics, and Culture,” an interdisciplinary “Association for the Study of R..
Laurence Irving
Laurence Irving (1871-1914) was an English dramatist and novelist. Laurence Irving was a son of the Victorian actor manager, Sir Henry Irving. Due to the financial failure of one of Laurence's plays, his father was forced to sell the Lyceum Theatre, London. Laurence Irving later drowned in the RM..
Laurence J. Peter
Dr Laurence J. Peter (September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990) was an educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and began his career as a teacher in 1941. He received the degree of Doctor ..
Laurence Jackson
Laurence Jackson was a Scottish curler. He was part of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team which won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924. He was the son of fellow gold-medallist Willie Jackson. See also Curling at the 1924 Winter..
Laurence Jalbert
Laurence Jalbert (born Lise Jalbert 18 August 1959 in Rivière-au-Renard, Quebec) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter. She began her career with the band Volt in 1985. Although the band won CKOI-FM's L'Empire des futures stars competition in 1987, they recorded only one single, "Nobody Knows", befo..
Laurence Janifer
Laurence M. Janifer (March 17, 1933- July 10, 2002) was a prolific science fiction author, with a career spanning over 50 years. Contents 1 Biography2 Selected bibliography2.1 as Laurence Janifer2.2 as Larry M. Harris2.3 as Alfred Blake2.4 as Andrew Blake2.5 a..
Laurence Juber
Laurence Juber is a British guitarist, and is perhaps most famous for playing lead guitar in Wings from 1978 to 1981, when the band disbanded. Juber then became a studio guitarist, and played guitar for shows such as Family Ties and Happy Days. In 1990, Juber released his first solo album, Solo Flig..
Laurence Klinger
Laurence Klinger (1951) was born in São Paulo, Brazil. At eight-years-old, he became ill and was forced to stay in bed for several months. To help him pass the time, his grandfather gave him his first typewriter - a light blue Dutch Royal - as a birthday present. Two years later, his work began..
Laurence L. Girard
Laurence L. Girard, or Larry Girard, as he is better known, is an independent filmmaker from Vermont. Larry was born in Concord, New Hampshire on June 28th, 1988. He has two sisters: Cassie and Katrina, and one brother: Lucas. Larry started making films when he was 11. His first film was made wi..
Laurence Lampert
Laurence Lampert is a leading academic on Nietzsche studies. Lampert completed his doctorate from Northwestern University in 1971 and is currently professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. Books Nietzsche's Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (New Haven: Yale University Press..
Laurence Lau
Laurence Lau, in a still from Another World with Joanna Going, who played his love interest. Laurence Lau (born May 10, 1954) is an American soap opera actor. He was born in Long Beach, California. He first became popular by playing the role of rich kid Greg Nelson on All My Children (1981-1..
Laurence Leboeuf
Laurence Leboeuf (born December 13, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is the daughter of Diane Lavallée and Marcel Leboeuf. She is currently dating Max Walker, who also plays in 15/Love. Filmography Le secret de ma mère (2006) (filming) .... JeanneThe Secret (2006) (completed) .... AmeliaHuman T..
Laurence Lerner
Laurence (David) Lerner (born 12 December 1925) is a South African born British literary critic and poet. He was born in Cape Town to parents of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry, and educated at the University of Cape Town and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was lecturer in English, University College o..
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (March 11, 1965) is a British interior designer and television personality best known for his appearances on the BBC television programme Changing Rooms. He is noted for his flamboyant personality and for affecting a dandyish appearance. He is sometimes credited, sans hyphen,..
Laurence Luckinbill
[[Image:Sybok.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Laurence Luckinbill as Sybok in [[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]]] Laurence George Luckinbill (born November 24, 1934 in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is an American film and television actor. He was graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1958. He i..
Laurence Lynn, Jr.
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. is the George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. He was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. He is also the..
Laurence M. Keitt
Laurence Massillon Keitt (1824-1864) is included in several lists of Fire-Eaters — men who adamantly urged the secession of southern states from the United States, and who resisted measures of compromise and reconciliation, leading to the American Civil War. Keitt was born in Orangeburg Coun..
Laurence Manning
Laurence Manning (January 1, 1899 - 1972) was a Canadian science fiction author who wrote "The Voyage of the Asteroid", which appeared in the Summer 1932 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly, and the novel The Man Who Awoke (1933). He was also a founding member of the American Rocket Society, serving a..
Laurence Mark
Laurence Mark (born in New York City) is an American film producer. Films 1987, Black Widow (executive producer)1988, My Stepmother Is an Alien (executive producer)1988, Working Girl (executive producer)1989, Cookie (producer)1989, Sweet Bird of Youth (TV) (executive producer)1990, Mr. Destiny (ex..
Laurence Marks
Laurence Marks (born 8 December 1948 in Islington, London) is one half of writing duo Marks & Gran. He co-wrote popular the sitcoms Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart with Maurice Gran. Before writing television programmes, Marks was a journalist on The Sunday Times. External link ..
Laurence Maroney
[] at NFL.com Laurence Maroney (born February 5, 1985 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a National Football League running back for the New England Patriots. College Career At the University of Minnesota, he split duties with current Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III. Because of this..
Laurence Marvin
Laurence Marvin is Assistant Professor of History in the Evans School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Berry College whose primary scholarly focus is the Albigensian Crusade. External links [homepage] ..
Laurence McGinty
Laurence McGinty was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. References [The Hon. Laurence Frederick MCGINTY (1921 - 1991)] ..
Laurence Meyer
Laurence Meyer is an economist and was a Federal Reserve governor from June 1996 to January 2002. Meyer received a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Yale University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. He then taught at Washington University in St. Lou..
Laurence Minot
Laurence Minot (1300? - 1352?) was a poet. Nothing is certainly known of him. He may have been a soldier. He celebrates in northern English and with a somewhat ferocious patriotism the victories of Edward III. over the Scots and the French. This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin,..
Laurence Monroe Klauber
Laurence M. Klauber (born 1883 in San Diego, California, died 1968), was an American herpetologist, and was considered to be the foremost authority on rattlesnakes. Klauber didn't start out as a herpetologist. For much of his life he worked for the San Diego Gas & Electric Company. He worked his wa..
Laurence Moody
Laurence Moody (born circa. 1954) is a British television director who originally cut his teeth working as a trainee at Granada Television including at this time directing a number of episodes of their top rated ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street. Subsequently, he has worked on a wide range of tele..
Laurence Naismith
Laurence Naismith (born 14 December, 1908 in Surrey; died 5 June, 1992 in Queensland, Australia) was a British actor who starred in many great well known films, such as Richard III, Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sink the Bismarck! (1960) and as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in 'A Night t..
Laurence Nowell
Two sixteenth-century English cousins, one an antiquarian and the other a churchman, were named Laurence Nowell. Their biographies have been confused since the seventeenth century. Contents 1 Antiquarian2 Churchman3 Biographical confusion4 References Antiquarian Laurence (or..
Laurence O'Keefe
Laurence O'Keefe (Born Newcastle, England, January 2, 1965), is an English bass player and has previously played in a number of bands, most notably The Jazz Butcher, Levitation and Dark Star. Since Dark Star split up, O'Keefe has toured with Sophia External links [A Dark Star fan site]&#..
Laurence of Canterbury
Saint Laurence of Canterbury (died February 3, 619) was the second Archbishop of Canterbury. He arrived at Thanet with St. Augustine in 597 as part of the missionary effort dispatched from Rome to Kent in 595. He was sent back to Pope Gregory I to report on the successes in Kent in converting King E..
Laurence Oliphant
See also Laurence Oliphant (1691-1767). Laurence Oliphant (1829, Cape Town - December 23, 1888, Twickenham), was a British author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic. Best known for his 1870 satirical novel Piccadilly, he spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spiritu..
Laurence Oliphant (1691-1767)
Laurence Oliphant (1691-1767) was a Jacobite, who belonged to a branch settled at Gask in Perthshire. He took part in the rising of 1715, and both he and his son Laurence (d. 1792) were actively concerned in that of 1745, being present at the battles of Falkirk and Culloden. After the ruin of the St..
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award winning English actor, Academy Award nominated director, and an Academy Award winning producer. He was regarded by many critics as the greatest actor of the 20th century. His career stretched over several..
Laurence Olivier Awards
The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. The awards are organized by The Society of London Theatre in London. Contents 1 Aw..
Laurence Olivier chronology of stage and film performances
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Laurence Olivier Presents
Laurence Olivier Presents was a British Television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The individual plays adapted for television were: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, The Collection by Harold Pinter, Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton, Come Back, Little Sheba..
Laurence Parisot
Laurence Parisot is the head of the French MEDEF employers' union, and also directs the IFOP poll institute. ..
Laurence Pavitt
Laurence Anstice Pavitt (1 February 1914 - 14 December 1989) was a Labour and Co-operative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Willesden West from 1959 to 1974, and for Brent South from 1974 until he retired in 1987. His successor was Paul Boateng. Pavitt was ..
Laurence Payne
Laurence Payne is a British actor. His television credits include: The Trollenberg Terror, Z Cars, Moonstrike, Doctor Who (in the serials The Gunfighters, The Leisure Hive and The Two Doctors), The Sandbaggers, Airline and Tales of the Unexpected. External link ..
Laurence Rees
Laurence Rees (born 1957) is Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books on war and historical atrocities. Most recently, he wrote and produced the six-hour BBC/KCET documentary [[Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State]]. His books include [[The..
Laurence Robertson
Laurence Anthony Robertson (born 29 March 1958, Bolton) is a British politician. He has been Conservative Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury since 1997. In May 2005 he became Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland, a controversial choice given his opposition to the Good Friday Agreement. He is also..
Laurence Rochat
Laurence Rochat (born 1 August 1979) is a Swiss cross-country skier. External links [Home page] ..
Laurence S. Baker
Laurence Simmons Baker (May 15, 1830 – April 10, 1907) was an officer in the United States Army on the frontier, then later a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Contents 1 Early life and career2 Civil War3 Postbellum activities4&nb..
Laurence Saunders
Laurence Saunders (1500s - February 8, 1555), was the son of Thomas Saunders and Margaret Cave of Harrington, Northamptonshire, England. He was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge. After his graduation he engaged in trade, but when the Reformation began in the reign of King Edward VI..
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (August 18, 1720 – May 5, 1760) was the last aristocrat hanged in England. The 4th Earl Ferrers, descendant of an ancient and noble family, was the eldest son of Hon. Laurence Ferres, himself a younger son of the 1st Earl Ferrers. At the age of twenty, he q..
Laurence Skog
Laurence Edgar Skog (born April 9, 1943) is an American botanist who specializes on the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. From 1973 to 2003 he was a curator and research scientist in the Botany Department of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Since his retirement ..
Laurence Steinhardt
Laurence Steinhardt (1892 - 1950) was a U.S. diplomat. He was the U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union between 1939 and 1941. The [Arlington National Cemetery website] lists him as follows: Served in the Army Quartermaster Corps during World War II [sic; it was WW I]. After the w..
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published sermons, wrote memoirs, an..
Laurence Street
Laurence Whistler Street is an Australian Jurist. He was formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Judicial and ADR Career (Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Sydney; Barrister, Queen's Counsel, practicing extensively in Maritime, Commercial, Banking and Insolvency Law) ..
Laurence Thompson
Laurence Larry G. Thompson was a war veteran, sinologist, classical violinist and USC professor of East Asian languages and cultures emeritus. (Born 1920, died July 10 2005). He was born in 1920 in the Shandong province of China, and lived there until age 14. As a young man, he joined the U.S. Mari..
Laurence Tieleman
Laurence Tieleman (born November 14, 1972 in Brussels, Belgium) is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1993. He has a Dutch father and a Italian mother, both working for the European Community. Tieleman won one doubles title (1998, Tashkent) during his career. The righthand..
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Alan Tisch (born March 5 1923, died November 15 2003) was a Wall Street investor and self-made billionaire. He was the CEO of CBS television network from 1986 to 1995. With his brother Bob Tisch, he was part owner of the Loews Corporation. He is the namesake of the Tisch School of the Arts..
Laurence Tolhurst
Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst (born Laurence Andrew Tolhurst on 3 February, 1959 in Horley, Surrey, England) was a founding member and drummer/keyboardist for the UK goth rock band, The Cure. Contents 1 The Cure2 Post 'The Cure'3 Overview4 Trivia5 External links The Cure At th..
Laurence Tomson
Laurence Tomson (1539-1608) revised both the text and the annotations of the New Testament of the Geneva Bible. His revised edition appeared in 1576. Tomson was a Calvinist, and his annotations reflect that system of theology. Tomson was the personal secretary of Sir Francis Walsingham, the sec..
Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribe (b. [October 10, 1941]) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. Contents 1 Background and Career2 Cases3 Critics4 Policy Debate5 Books6 External links Background and Career..
Laurence Trimble
Laurence Trimble 15 February 1885, Robbinston, Maine USA was a silent film actor, writer and director. Trimble began his career as an actor the in 1910 silent Saved by the flag. He made 100 silent films between 1908 and 1926. Trimble was best know for his films starring his dogs Jean and later S..
Laurence Warder
Laurence Warder is the bassist in the band Temposhark. He graduated with a degree in film from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. One of his best friends is Sheila Chipperfield from the band Elastica. He promotes and DJs at [Riot Fever and Kinki] ..
Laurence Wedgwood
Laurence Wedgwood (1844 - 5 May 1913) director of the Wedgwood pottery firm. Wedgwood was the youngest son of Francis Wedgwood and his wife Frances Mosley. Elder brothers Godfrey and Clement were also in the business. He was the great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood. He married Emma Elizab..
Laurence Whalen
Laurence J. Whalen (born Pennsylvania, 1944) is a senior judge of the United States Tax Court. A.B., Georgetown University, 1967; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1970; LL.M., 1971. Admitted to District of Columbia and Oklahoma Bars. Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Tax..
Laurence Whistler
Alan Charles Laurence Whistler (January 211912-December 19 2000) (always referred to as Laurence Whistler) was a British poet and artist, who devoted himself to glass engraving, including some celebrated examples of stained glass. He was the brother of Rex Whistler. His son Simon Wistler followed hi..
Laurence Wilson
Laurence Wilson (born 10 October 1986 in Liverpool) is a young footballer contracted to play for Chester City in the 2006-07 season, having previously been on the books at Everton. He has played for England at all youth levels up to and including under-19. Wilson is a graduate of the Everton youth ..
Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep Laurence Yep (葉祥添, born June 14, 1948) is an award-winning Chinese American modern author. Born as Laurence Michael Yep in San Francisco, California, he was the youngest child of his family. Often, he felt torn between both United States and Chinese culture,..
Laurene Landon
Laurene Landon (born 1958 as Laurene Landon Coughlin) is a film actress who first began appearing in movies in the late 1970s. She played Velda to Mike Hammer in the 1982 film I, the Jury and showed her comic ability in [[Airplane II: The Sequel]] playing one of the stewardesses. The attractive bl..
Laurens
Laurens may refer to: Laurens, IowaLaurens (town), New YorkLaurens (village), New YorkLaurens, South CarolinaLaurens County, Georgia Laurens, a commune of the Hérault département, in France Henri Laurens, a French sculptor and illustrator.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a ..
Laurens, Iowa
Laurens is a city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,476 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Education4 Laurens in popular culture5 External links Geography Laurens is located at [42°50′50″N, 94°50′58″W ..
Laurens, South Carolina
Laurens is a city in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 9,916 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Laurens County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Located in northwest South Carolina, it is named after Henry Laurens, and is a leading manufacturer of glass..
Laurens (town), New York
Laurens is a town in Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 2,402 at the 2000 census. The Town of Laurens is in the south part of the county, north of the City of Oneonta. There is a village named Laurens in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, t..
Laurens (village), New York
Laurens is a village in Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 277 at the 2000 census. The Village of Laurens is in the Town of Laurens. Geography Laurens is located at [42°31′53″N, 75°5′17″W] (42.531434, -75.088173)[Geographic references#1GR1]. A..
Laurens County
Laurens County is the name of several counties in the United States: Laurens County, GeorgiaLaurens County, South Carolina This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link t..
Laurens County, Georgia
Laurens County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population was 44,874. The county seat is Dublin, Georgia6. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,120 km² (819 mi²). 2,104 km² (812 mi²) of it is land, and 16 km² (6 m..
Laurens County, South Carolina
Laurens County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 69,567. Its county seat is Laurens6. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,875 km² (724 mi²). 1,852 km² (715 mi²) of it is land and 23 km² (9 mi�..
Laurens Hammond
Laurens Hammond (January 11, 1895–July 3, 1973), was an engineer and inventor of the Hammond organ. Contents 1 Youth2 Early inventions3 University4 Inventions5 Military6 Retirement Youth Laurens Hammond was born in Evanston, Illinois to William Andrew and Idea..
Laurens Henry Cohn, Sr. Memorial Plant Arboretum
The Laurens Henry Cohn, Sr. Memorial Plant Arboretum (or Cohn Arboretum), 16 acres (6.5 hectares), is an arboretum located at 12206 Foster Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. It is open to the public daily. The Arboretum contains more than 120 species of native and adaptable trees and shrubs, inclu..
Laurens Janszoon Coster
Statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, where he was born. Laurens Janszoon Coster (b. ca. 1370, Haarlem, the Netherlands – d. ca. 1440), or Laurens Jansz Koster, was one of the early European printers. He was an important citizen of Haarlem and held the positio..
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (born March 18 1937) is a Dutch D66 politician. Brinkhorst has been an undersecretary of state of foreign affairs and a minister of agriculture. Furthermore he has presided the D66-group at the Second Chamber of the Dutch parliament. He was also a..
Laurens Perseus Hickok
Laurens Perseus Hickok (December 20, 1798 - May 7, 1888), American philosopher and divine, was born at Bethel, Connecticut. He took his degree at Union College in 1820. Until 1836 he was occupied in active pastoral work, and was then appointed professor of theology at the Western Reserve College, O..
Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel
Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel (January 19, 1736 - May 7, 1800 [link]) was Grand Pensionary of Zeeland and, from November 9, 1787 to February 4, 1795, of Holland. He was an orangist, which means that he was a supporter of Prince William V of Orange. He became grand pensionary of Holland whe..
Laurens van den Acker
Laurens van den Acker is an automobile designer from the Netherlands. van den Acker joined Ford Motor Company in 1998, eventually becoming lead designer on the Ford Escape before replacing Moray Callum as global head of design for Mazda in May 2006. ..
Laurens van der Post
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post by Frances Baruch Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (aka Laurens van der Post) December 13, 1906 – December 16, 1996. Famous 20th century Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, war hero, [political adviser] to British heads of state, educator, journali..
Laurent
Laurent is French for Lawrence or Laurence Laurent, Prince of BelgiumLaurent de La Hyre, (1606–1656) French artistLaurent series in mathematics, named after the French mathematician Pierre Alphonse LaurentLaurent Schwartz, French mathematicianLaurent Véronnez A successful Belgium-based Trance DJ..
Laurent, marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr Laurent, marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (April 13, 1764 – March 17, 1830) was a French a commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who rose to the rank of Marshal of France. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life and Revolution..
Laurent, South Dakota
Laurent is a proposed planned community in McCook County, South Dakota designed for deaf, hard of hearing and other sign language users. The town is named after Laurent Clerc; its initial inhabitants are expected to move in during 2008. The project was started by Marvin T. Miller, a former jour..
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila (November 27, 1939 – January 18, 2001) was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 1997, when he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko until his assassination in January 2001. He was succeeded by his son Joseph Kabila. He was born a member of the Luba tribe in J..
Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck
Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (May 3, 1809 – July 16, 1887), Belgian palaeontologist and chemist, was born at Leuven. He studied medicine in the university of his native town, and in 1831 he became assistant in the chemical schools. He pursued the study of chemistry in Paris, Berlin and Giesse..
Laurentia
North American craton. The North American craton (also known as Laurentia), like all craton land, was created as continents move about the surface of the Earth, bumping into other continents and drifting away. Many times in its past, Laurentia has been a separate continent as it is now in th..
Laurentian
Laurentian (French: Laurentides or Laurentien) may refer to: Anything related to Saint Lawrence or the Saint Lawrence RiverLaurentia, the craton at the heart of the North American continent*The exposed parts are also known as the Canadian Shield, the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau.The..
Laurentian, Ontario
Laurentian is a community in the Ontario city of Greater Sudbury. For postal delivery and telephone exchange purposes, addresses in Laurentian are considered part of Val Caron. From 1973 to 2000, Laurentian was part of the town of Valley East, in the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. On January 1..
Laurentian Bank of Canada
The Laurentian Bank of Canada TSX: [LB] is a Schedule I bank in the province of Quebec. (It also has one branch in Ottawa.) Contents 1 History2 Mergers3 Membership4 External links History LBC dates back to 1846 with the founding of the Montreal City and District S..
Laurentian Codex
Laurentian Codex (Russian: ) is a collection of chronicles that includes the 12th century version of the Primary Chronicle and its continuations, mostly relating the events in the Northen Russia (Vladimir-Suzdal). The codex was copied by the Nizhegorod monk Laurentius for the Prince Dmitry Konstan..
Laurentian Highlands
The Laurentian Highlands consist of a landmass that extends from the Gatineau and Ottawa rivers in the west to beyond the Saguenay River in the east. Elevation ranges from 400 metres to more that 1000 metres (about 1300 to 3300 feet) in Laurentides Provincial Park north of Quebec City. These highla..
Laurentian High School
Laurentian High School is a former Ottawa high school. It was located on Baseline Rd. between Merivale and Clyde, in the city's western suburbs. The school was opened in 1958. It was designed at the same time as Rideau High School and Ridgemont High School and has the same base design. Over time L..
Laurentian Hills, Ontario
Laurentian Hills is a town in eastern Ontario, Canada on the Ottawa River in Renfrew County. It surrounds Deep River. Communities Chalk RiverMeilleurs BayMoor LakePoint AlexanderRolphtonWylie According to the Canada 2001 Census: Population: 2,750% Change (1996-2001): -1.2Dwellings: 1,237Area (km²...
Laurentian Lady Vees
The Laurentian Lady Vees are the women's athletic teams that represent Laurentian University in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The men's teams are known as the Laurentian Voyageurs. The Lady Vees compete in basketball, soccer, swimming, cross-country running and Nordic skiing. The Lady Vees bask..
Laurentian Leadership Centre
The Laurentian Leadership Centre on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, offers the opportunity for third and fourth year students at Trinity Western University to experience a fully-credited semester of study as well as an internship in the nation's capital. Although the program is open to students of any ..
Laurentian Library
Arial view. The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana) is a library in Florence, Italy. It is famous as a repository of nearly 11,000 manuscripts and early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze under the patronage of the Medici pop..
Laurentian mountains
The Laurentian mountains (French: Laurentides) are a mountain range in southern Quebec, Canada, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of 960.8 metres (3,150 feet) at Mont Tremblant, a popular ski area. The Gatineau, L'Assomption, Lièvre, Montmorency, Nord an..
Laurentian River System (Ontario)
The Laurentian River System is an ancient river in southern Ontario, Canada. The river predates the recent ice ages. The river valley was filled with glacial debris. Water still flows down this old valley -- underground. The source of the aquifer is thought to be near Georgian Bay, approximately..
Laurentian University
Laurentian University (Université Laurentienne), founded in 1960, is a mid-sized bilingual university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, approximately 350 km north of Toronto, and 395 km north-west of Peterborough. While LU's focus is primarily on undergraduate programming, the university als..
Laurentian Valley, Ontario
Laurentian Valley is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada on the Ottawa River in Renfrew County. According to the Canada 2001 Census: Population: 8,733% Change (1996-2001): -2.7Dwellings: 3,333Area (km².): 552.42Density (persons per km².): 15.8 Communities Cotnam IslandDavis MillsFairviewForest..
Laurentian Voyageurs
The Laurentian Voyageurs are the men's athletic teams that represent Laurentian University in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The women's teams are known as the Laurentian Lady Vees. See also Canadian Interuniversity Sport. External link [Laurentian Voyageurs] ..
Laurentia McLachlan
Dame Laurentia McLachlan was born Margaret McLachlan in 1866 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1884 she joined the Benedictine Abbey at Stanbrook (in Worcestershire, England). In 1931 she was elected Abbess of Stanbrook. Dame Laurentia as she became known also served the wider Benedictine ..
Laurentides (electoral district)
Laurentides was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2003. This riding was created in 1987 from Labelle riding. It was abolished in 2003, and redistributed between Laurentides-Labelle and Rivière-du-Nord Laurentide..
Laurentides (region)
The Laurentians (in French - Laurentides) is a region of Quebec. While it is often called the Laurentians in English, the region includes only part of the Laurentian mountains. The area was inhabited by the Montagnais First Nations tribe, until the French settled it in the first half of the 19th ..
Laurentides—Labelle
Laurentides—Labelle in relation to the other Quebec ridings Laurentides—Labelle is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. Its population in 2001 was 96,133. Contents 1 Geography2 History2.1 Me..
Laurentide ice sheet
The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered hundreds of thousands of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States, between ~90,000 and ~18,000 years before the present day. Its southern margin included the modern sites of New York Cit..
Laurentien (Quebec City)
Laurentien is a borough of Quebec City. Population (2001): 82,965. It is comprised of Val-Bélair, Cap-Rouge and part of Sainte-Foy. Before January 1, 2006, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures and L'Ancienne-Lorette were also comprised in this borough, but they were restored as separate municipalities. ..
Laurentine Hamilton
The Reverend Laurentine Hamilton (1826 - April 9, 1882) was a Presbyterian minister accused of heresy, and founder of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland. Hamilton was born in Catlin, New York, near Seneca Lake. He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1850. He went on to atte..
Laurentius
Laurentius can be: Saint Lawrence (d.258)Antipope Laurentius (fl. 498–506)Joannes Laurentius Lydus (fl. 540–550)Laurence of Canterbury (d. 619)Lorenzo da Firenze (Magister Laurentius de Florentia, Masini, d. 1372 or 1373)Laurentius Andreae (fl. 1520–1540)Laurentius Petri (1499–1573)Wawrzynie..
Laurentius Abstemius
Laurentius Abstemius was an Italian writer, Professor of Belles Lettres at Urbino, and Librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo under Pope Alexander VI. Born at Macerata in Ancona, he distinguished himself, at the time of the revival of letters, as a writer of considerable talents. As librarian at Urbino, he ..
Laurentius Andreae
Laurentius Andreae (born as Lars Andersson) was a Swedish clergyman and scholar. Andreae is best known as a reformer, one of the main proponents of the Swedish Protestant reformation in the years 1520-1540. He was born between 1470-1480 in the town Strängnäs in Sweden. He and the brothers Laur..
Laurentius Christophori Hornæus
Laurentius Christophri Hornaeus (1645 - May 17, 1719) aka Lars Christophri Hornæus, was a minister and witch hunter in Torsåker and Ytterlännäs, Sweden. Contents 1 Birth2 Education3 Torsåker witch trials4 Konservera prästänkan5 Death and burial6 Lars Larsson H..
Laurentius Paulinus Gothus
Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (November 10, 1565 – November 29, 1646) was a Swedish theologian, astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala (1637-1645). In 1588 Gothus travelled to Germany and studied in the Rostock University for three years. He was influenced by Pierre de la Ramée (also known as Pe..
Laurentius Petri
Laurentius Petri Nericius (Örebro 1499 – October 27, 1573), originally Lars Persson, was a Swedish clergyman and the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden. He and his brother Olaus Petri are, together with the King Gustav Vasa, regarded as the main protestant reformers of Sweden. ..
Laurentius Petri Gothus
Laurentius Petri Gothus (dead February 12, 1579) was the second Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1575-1579. He was born in 1529 or 1530 in the province Östergötland, from where the name Gothus is derived as the means of separating him from his predecessor as archbishop, Laurentius ..
Laurentius Surius
Laurentius Surius was a Catholic hagiologist and church historian. Biography He was born at the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, 1522. It is not certain whether his parents were Catholics or Lutherans. According to a remark made by Peter Canisius ("Epistolæ", ed. Braunsberger, I, 36), he was born a Prot..
Laurenţiu Buş
Laurenţiu Buş (born August 27, 1987 in Cluj) is a Romanian football player, currently under contract at FCU Politehnica Timişoara. After breaking into the first team at Universitatea Cluj, the young offensive midfielder caught the eye of Poli Timişoara officials and joined the Timişoara based c..
Laurenţiu Roşu
Laurenţiu Dumitru Roşu (born 26 October 1975) is a Romanian footballer. He was born in Iaşi and debuted in Divizia A with Steaua Bucureşti in 1993. Steaua won the league title during his first five seasons in the club, and took the cup title in 1996, 1997 and 1999. He headed overseas to the Spa..
Laurenţiu Rotaru
Laurentiu Rotaru is a bass-baritone. He took second prize in The National Association of Teachers of Singing competition (2004), and was a winner of The Connecticut Guild Opera Competition(2004), and a finalist of Amici Competition (2005), and The Connecticut Guild Opera Competition (2005). --> He..
Laurent Aïello
Laurent Aïello (born May 23, 1969 in Fontenay, France) is a retired race car driver. He has won four touring car championships during his career – French Supertouring Cars in 1994, German Supertouring Cars in 1997, the British Touring Car Championship in 1999 and DTM in 2002. In 1998 he also won..
Laurent Bado
Laurent Bado is a Burkinabé politician and member of the National Rebirth Party (PAREN). Running as the PAREN presidential candidate in the 13 November 2005 elections, Bado placed 3rd out of 13 candidates, receiving 2.60% of the vote. ..
Laurent Beaudoin
Laurent Beaudoin, C.C., O.Q., M.Comm., D.Sc.Adm., F.C.A., (born May 13, 1938, in Laurier Station, Quebec) is a Canadian businessman. The son-in-law of Joseph Armand Bombardier, Beaudoin became Chief Executive Officer of Bombardier, Inc. in 1979, rescuing it from near bankruptcy. He currently sits o..
Laurent Belissen
Laurent Belissen (August 8, 1693 - February 12, 1762) was a Baroque composer. Belissen was born in Aix-en-Provence, and spent most of his life in Marseilles. ..
Laurent Blanc
Laurent Blanc (born November 19, 1965 in Alès) is a French football defender, who scored the first golden goal in World Cup history in the 1998 World Cup. In his club career from 1983 to 2003, Blanc played for Montpellier, Napoli, Nimes, Saint Etienne, Auxerre, Barcelona, Olympique Marseille, In..
Laurent Brochard
Laurent Brochard (born on March 26, 1968 in Le Mans, France) is a professional male cyclist from France. In 1997 he won a stage of the Tour de France and became World Road Racing Champion in San Sebastian, Spain. Brochard was a competitive runner and only started cycling competitively at age 19. H..
Laurent Cassegrain
Light path in a Cassegrain Reflector Laurent Cassegrain was a Catholic priest born in the region of Chartres around 1629 and died at Chaudon (Eure-et-Loir) on August 31, 1693. At the time of his death he was working as a teacher giving science classes at the Collège de Chartres, a French lyc�..
Laurent Chappis
Laurent Chappis (born 1915 in Aix-les-Bains, France), architect and town planner, created the French ski resort of Courchevel located in the Trois Vallées and in doing so practically wrote the rule book on how to design a ski resort. Chappis was a keen ski tourer exploring the mountains around Gren..
Laurent Clerc
Laurent Clerc (born Louis Laurent Marie Clerc) was born December 26, 1785 in La Balme les Grottes, department of Isere, France, a village on the northeastern edge of Lyon. Clerc has been called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and "The Father of the Deaf" by generations of American deaf people...
Laurent Colot
Laurent Colot (1520–1590) was a French physician. Colot specialized in the treatment of kidney stones, using secret techniques he inherited from his father Germain. Laurent was named lithotomist of the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and, in 1556, was named Operator of Stones for Henri II, although Ambr..
Laurent D'Jaffo
Laurent Mayaba D'Jaffo (born November 5, 1970) was a Beninese football player. D'Jaffo was part of the Benin squad at the 2004 African Nations Cup. D'Jaffo has also played for Aberdeen, Ayr United, Stockport County and Sheffield United. D'Jaffo since retired and is now working as a football agent, ..
Laurent Delorge
Laurent Delorge (born July 21, 1979) is a Belgian footballer. He played for R.S.C. Anderlecht until 17 February 2006, when he was fired for alleged 'wrongdoing' with former club SK Lierse, in conjunction with the match-fixing investigation currently going on in Belgian football. He has recently ag..
Laurent Desjardins
Laurent Desjardins (born March 15, 1923 in St. Boniface, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a member of the Manitoba legislature for most of the period from 1959 to 1988, and was a cabinet minister under New Democratic Premiers Edward Schreyer and Howard Pawley. Desjardins..
Laurent de Brunhoff
Laurent de Brunhoff (born August 30, 1925, Paris, France), author and illustrator. After studying fine arts at the Académie de La Grande Chaumière in Paris, de Brunhoff took over the Babar series of books first begun by his father, Jean de Brunhoff. After the war, he also did work in other creati..
Laurent de La Hyre
Laurent de La Hyre (February 27, 1606 - December 28, 1656) was a French painter, born at Paris. He became a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand and studied the works of Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, but never visited Italy. La Hyre is associated with the transitional period before the introduction ..
Laurent Dufaux
Laurent Dufaux (born May 20, 1969 in Montreux, Switzerland) was a professional road cyclist from 1991 - 2003. Most important victories 1993 Dauphiné-Libéré winner overall and 1 stage1994 Dauphiné-Libéré winner overall1995 Burgos Tour winner overall and 2 stages1996 Tour de France winner 1 st..
Laurent Esso
Laurent Esso (born 10 August 1942) is a Cameroonian politician. He has been foreign minister of the country since December 2004. Prior to becoming foreign minister, Esso served as defense minister from April 2001 to December 2004. ..
Laurent Eynac
Laurent Eynac was French politician who was appointed Minister of Transportation on 7 June 1935 until 24 January 1936. ..
Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius (born August 20, 1946) is a former Prime Minister of France. He was Prime Minister from July 17, 1984 to March 20, 1986. He was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minster of the Fifth Republic. He resigned following the Socialist Party defeat, but r..
Laurent Fignon
Laurent Fignon (born August 12, 1960) is a French former cyclist, who won the Tour de France twice in 1983 and 1984, and missed winning it a third time, in 1989, by a very narrow margin. He also won the Giro d'Italia in 1989, having been runner-up in 1984, and the Milan-Sanremo Classic two times. ..
Laurent Fischer
Laurent Fischer is the current marketing director of Nintendo of Europe. He is in charge of planning all of Nintendo's European marketing operations. He replaces former European head Jim Merrick who left Nintendo in early January of 2006 to pursue other opportunities. History With Nintendo Fischer..
Laurent Freidel
Laurent Freidel is a physicist, working at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He is working in loop quantum gravity and spin foam models of quantum gravity. He has recently coauthored a series of papers on the Ponzano-Regge model, a spin foam model of 3-di..
Laurent Gagnier
Laurent Gagnier, born January 12, 1979 in Antibes, France is a French midfielder currently playing for French Ligue 2 side Niort. His previous clubs include OGC Nice and CS Sedan. ..
Laurent Garnier
Laurent Garnier (born February 1, 1966) is a French techno music producer and DJ. A former staffer at the embassy in London, Frenchman Laurent Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late '80s and became by the following decade one of the best all-around DJs in the world, able to span classic..
Laurent Gbagbo
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo (born May 31, 1945) has been the president of Côte d'Ivoire since 2000. From Gagnoa, he was professor of history at the University of Cocody-Abidjan, and later dean of the faculty of Languages and Cultures. He founded the Ivorian Popular Front (Front Populaire Ivoirien, or F..
Laurent Hunziker
Laurent Hunziker is a french saxophonist, who played with various artists in France and abroad. Since 2002 when he was invited one night to play with Supertramp, he joined in a british band called [The Logical tramps] (or Logicaltramp) to play Supertramp's tunes for many concerts around U..
Laurent Itti
Laurent Itti (born December 12, 1970 in Tours, France) is a computational neuroscientist. He received his MS in "Image Processing" from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris in 1994, and a PhD in "Computation and Neural Systems" from Caltech in 2000. He is currently a..
Laurent Jalabert
Laurent Jalabert (born November 30, 1968) is a French former professional cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Affectionately known as "Jaja", he rode to victory in many one-day and stage races and was ranked number 1 in the 1990s. Although he was never the winner of Tour de France, he won the Vuelta a E..
Laurent Lafforgue
Laurent Lafforgue (born November 6, 1966, in Antony, France) is a French mathematician. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. in the Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry team at the Université de Paris-Sud. Currently he is a research director of CNRS, detach..
Laurent Mbariko
Laurent Jean-Pierre Mbariko (January 19, 1925 - December 30, 1972) from the Kwilu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was a prominent Congolese politician who played a significant role in Congo's independence from Belgium. After elementary schooling in Catholic missionary schools, he follow..
Laurent Millaudon
Laurent Millaudon was a wooden side-wheel river steamboat launched at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856 operating in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, and captained by W.S. Whann. At the beginning of the American Civil War she was taken into service by the Confederate Navy as CSS General Sterling Price. On 6..
Laurent Picard
Laurent A. Picard (born 1927) was the president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1972 to 1975. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree and Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1947 from Université Laval. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Science in Physics in 19..
Laurent Pichon
Laurent Pichon (born March 8, 1981) is a French footballer. Born in Calais, the goalkeeper was named as one of the back-up players for Lille's UEFA Champions League campaign of 2005/06. Pichon is 6'1" tall and weighs 12 stone. ..
Laurent Puechguirbal
Laurent Puechguirbal (aka Peuchy), born June 1971 in Aurillac (15), is a French actor and writer. His first novel, Ta Vérité, was published in 2005. --> Bibliography Ta Vérité - 2005 ..
Laurent Rédon
Laurent Rédon (born August 5, 1973) is a race car driver born on Loire, France on the 5th of August 1973. He was a test driver for the Formula One teams Minardi (1998) and Benetton (1999). Most recently he drove for the Mi-Jack Conquest Racing in the Indy Racing League in 2001 and 2002, including t..
Laurent Robert
Laurent Robert (born May 21, 1975 in Saint Benoît, Réunion) is a French left winger who currently plays for Levante UD of the Spanish La Liga. Contents 1 Clubs2 Newcastle United Days3 Free Kick Expert4 Portsmouth5 SL Benfica6 Levante7 Miscellaneous8 Exter..
Laurent Ronde
The crown of Louis XV, Ronde's most famous creation Laurent Ronde was the Crown Jeweller of France in the early 18th century. His most famous creation was the Crown of Louis XV, which he designed and manufactured and which was used as the coronation crown at the coronation of 1722 in Reims. ..
Laurent Schwartz
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002 in Paris) was a French mathematician. Among other teaching positions, he taught at École Polytechnique from 1959 to 1980. His considerable mathematical work, including the theory of distributions, won him the Fields Medal in 1950. Apart f..
Laurent series
A Laurent series is defined with respect to a particular point c and a path of integration γ. The path of integration must lie in an annulus (shown here in red) inside of which f(z) is holomorphic. In mathematics, the Laurent series of a complex function f(z) is a representation of that funct..
Laurent Terzieff
Laurent Terzieff was born on June 27 1935 in Toulouse, (France) Son of a plastician and a Russian sculptor who emigrated in France during First World War, the young Laurent Terzieff, nine years old in 1944, was marked by the spectacle of the bombardments. Teenager set on philosophy and poetry, he..
Laurent Vaguener
Laurent Vaguener is a singer who in 1979 represented the principality of Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Notre Vie, C'est La Musique". He finished 16th with just 12 points, and was the last Monagesque Eurovision act for 25 years until 2004. ..
Laurent Verbiest
Laurent Verbiest was a Belgian football player. He died in a car crash in the middle of his career. Verbiest played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium. He played in the match Belgium-Netherlands in 1964 with 10 fellows from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by J..
Laurent Véronnez
Laurent Véronnez aka Airwave is a Belgium-based trance/electronica music DJ. Born in 1978, He has worked on countless productions under 35 different aliases (Airwave, Body shock, Cape Town, Planisphere, Fire & Ice, Nova, The Green Martian, Lolo, Cloud 69, Meridian, and many, many others) got him ..
Laurent Voulzy
Laurent Voulzy (born Lucien Voulzy on December 18, 1948 in Paris, France) is a French singer and composer. He originally lead the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus before joining Pascal Danel as guitarist from 1969 to 1974. However he is best known for his collaborative songwriting efforts..
Laurent Wolf
Laurent Wolf is a French Tribal-house producer and DJ. He is the author of several compilations that contain his own tracks and also his remixes. He reached the tops of the charts with his "Saxo" and "Calinda" compositions. In August 2004 he released his new album "Positiv Energy". Discography Sing..
Laurenus Clark Seelye
Laurenus Clark Seelye (1827-1924) was the first president of Smith College, serving from 1873-1910. He was also the brother of Julius Hawley Seelye. References Early History of Smith College - (1923)H.C.S. Rhees wrote a biography of Seelye in 1929. External links [Biographical Scketch of Seely..
Laurenzana
Laurenzana is a town and commune in the province of Potenza, in the region of Basilicata (southern Italy). It rises on a spur between the torre Camastro and the wood surrounding the Serrapotamo valley. Contents 1 History2 Main sights3 Economy4 Religious festivals5 Typic..
Laurenz Meyer
Laurenz Meyer (* February 15 1948 in Salzkotten) is a German politician (Christian Democratic Union or CDU). From 2000 to 2004 he was General Secretary of the CDU. Laurenz Meyer (CDU) Contents 1 Education and career2 Family3 Party4 Elected representative5 RWE Aff..
Lauren Allen
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Lauren Ambrose
Lauren Ambrose Lauren Ambrose (born Lauren Anne D'Ambruoso, 20 February 1978) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for portraying the character Claire Fisher on the popular HBO drama Six Feet Under. Contents 1 Personal life2 Career3 Filmography4 ..
Lauren Anderson
Lauren Anderson (born June 6, 1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American model who was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in July, 2002 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. Lauren was the winner of the TV special Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold?, broadcast on Fox in May 2..
Lauren Anderson (dancer)
Lauren Anderson is a ballet dancer with the Houston Ballet in Houston, Texas, and in 1990 became the first black American ballerina to become a principal for a major dance company, an important milestone in American ballet. --> A Houston native, Ms. Anderson joined the Houston Ballet in 1983. ..
Lauren and Loraine Vélez
Lauren and Loraine Vélez (born November 2, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York) are twin sisters of Puerto Rican descent who are actresses. Lauren Velez The twins parents immigrated from Puerto Rico in the early 1950s and lived in the Brooklyn section of New York where the twins were born. Their fath..
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress. Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she has become a fashion icon and role model for modern-day women. Today, she is considered a legendary actress, partly due to the longevity of her career. ..
Lauren Bay
Lauren Bay (born August 9, 1981 in Trail, British Columbia) is a Canadian softball pitcher. She began playing softball at age 12, and is a student at Oklahoma State University. She was a part of the Canadian Softball team who finished 9th at the 2002 World Championships in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan an..
Lauren Bendik
Lauren Bendik, is a voice actor who has had a role in several anime. Anime Roles Angel Tales (TV) as Nana the DogHaibane Renmei (TV) as ChildNieA 7 (TV) as Chie KaritaR.O.D the TV as Chiho Iwata Resources [Anime News Network] ..
Lauren Berlant
Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She writes on issues of popular culture and on the nature of citizenship. She is the author of The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship, the title essay of which won the 1993 Norman Foerster Award..
Lauren Bernofsky
Dr. Lauren Bernofsky (b. 1967, Rochester, MN) is a Baltimore area composer of songs, choral music, chamber music, and orchestral music. Her music is characterized by rhythmic excitement, frequent adherance to classical forms, a keen awareness of the capabilities and limitations of the instruments, ..
Lauren Bessette
Lauren Gail Bessette (November 5, 1964 – July 16, 1999) was the daughter of William J. Bessette and his wife, née Ann Messina. She died (at age 34) along with her sister Carolyn Bessette and her sister's husband, John F. Kennedy, Jr., when an aircraft he was piloting crashed into the sea near..
Lauren Booth
Lauren Booth (born Sarah Booth July 22 1967) is a British journalist. She has written for the New Statesman and the Daily Mail. She is the half-sister of Cherie Booth and daughter of the actor Tony Booth. She married the actor Craig Darby in June 2000. External links ..
Lauren Branning
Lauren Branning is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. She is played by Madeline Duggan. She is the daughter of Max and Tanya Branning and half sister of Bradley Branning. She also has a sister called Abi. Lauren moved into 5 Albert Square with her parents and sister, ..
Lauren Brianna
Lauren Brianna is an American member of JammXKids. Trivia Hometown: Whittier, CAFavorite Color: PinkFavorite Food: PastaFavorite Song: "Unwritten" by Natasha BedingfieldHobbies: singing, dancing, acting, playing volleyballPets: 1 dog, a Shi Tzu named SkittlesFavorite Actor: Will FerrellFavorite Act..
Lauren Brooke
Lauren Brooke is the author of two series of books targeted at pre-adolescent girls who are horse fanciers, the "Heartland" and "Chestnut Hill" series. The "Heartland" of the Heartland series is a farm where abused and neglected horses are rehabilitated by girls. In the dedication of one of the boo..
Lauren Buckley
Lauren Buckley (born March 29 1986) is an Australian singer, best known as an entrant in the first season of Australian Idol. Aged 17 at the time, she finished in 9th place. One of her standout performances during the show was her rendition of "Imagine" by John Lennon in the semi-final stages of t..
Lauren Bush
Lauren Bush Lauren Bush (born June 25, 1984) is a model and the daughter of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush (née Smith) and niece of President of the United States George W. Bush. She was born in Texas and went to high school in Houston at the Kinkaid School. Her sister, Ashley, is currently a jun..
Lauren Carpenter
Lauren Carpenter was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Sarah Vandenbergh from 1993 until 1994. Family Husband: Mark (surname unknown)Son: Mason (surname unknown)Father: Lou CarpenterMother: Kathy CarpenterBrother: Guy CarpenterHalf-Sisters: Louise Carpenter..
Lauren Christy
Lauren Christy's 1993 debut album. Lauren Christy is a singer and songwriter born in London, England. She studied at the Bush Davies Ballet School from age 11 to 17, before she decided to become a musical artist. She was a member of several bands. Her first band, Pink Ash, consisted of six ma..
Lauren Cisneros
Lauren Cisneros (born 1983) is a beauty queen who won the title Miss Colorado USA 2005. Cisneros, who hails from Castle Rock, Colorado, has Native American, Spanish, Norwegian and French heritage. Prior to her pageant win, she had placed second runner-up to Janel Haw in the previous year's compe..
Lauren Collins
-->Lauren Felice Collins (born 29 August 1986) is a Canadian television actress. Collins was born in Thornhill, Toronto, Ontario and is of Jewish heritage.[link] She is perhaps best known for playing Paige Michalchuk on [[Degrassi: The Next Generation]]. Her other television credits inc..
Lauren Crowley
Lauren Crowley likes to sneak in people's bedrooms and stare at them while they are sleeping....naked. ..
Lauren Drummond
Lauren Drummond born in December 1987 in Cheadle, Cheshire. She has had many different TV roles including Coronation Street, Grange Hill, Doctors and in 2005 she won two roles - those being the role of Mika Grainger in new Shed/BBC drama series Waterloo Road, focusing on the daily running of a run-d..
Lauren Dyer Amazeen
Lauren Dyer Amazeen (1951 - ) Lauren Amazeen formed Vanguard Visions Inc. in 1997 in New York City. She has spent the past 20 years working with and writing about visionary artists and creative thinkers whose work transforms the way we perceive culture and the human experience. Since 2000, she has..
Lauren Etame Mayer
Laureano Bisan-Etame Mayer (born January 19, 1977 in Londi Kribi, Cameroon), commonly known simply as Lauren, is a Spanish footballer of Equatoguinean origin and a Cameroonian international , who currently plays for English Premier League team Arsenal. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early C..
Lauren Faust
Lauren Faust (born 1975) is an American born animator of Lithuanian, Polish and German descent. She is the wife of Craig McCracken, the creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and has also worked on both of these shows. The character of Frankie in Foster's is based on..
Lauren Fenmore Baldwin
Lauren Fenmore Williams Grainger Baldwin is a fictional character who has appeared on both The Young and the Restless and its "sister soap" The Bold and the Beautiful. Actress Tracey E. Bregman played the character on Y&R from 1983 to 1995 and from 2001 to the present (albeit on a recurring basis),..
Lauren Fielder
Lauren Fielder, best known as the former co-host of the ZDTV show GameSpotTV (now known as X-Play, on G4), is the Editor at Large for Ziff Davis' videogames.com, as well as a regular contributor to GameSpot and Electronic Gaming Monthly. Fielder's television experience began with WBBM-TV, the CBS st..
Lauren Gale
Lauren "Laddie" Gale (April 22, 1917—July 29, 1996) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. Gale, playing under Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Howard Hobson, led the University of Oregon in scoring in 1938 and 1939, earning all-Pacific Coast Conference honors in each se..
Lauren Goodnight
Lauren Goodnight (born May 19, 1980) is an anime voice actress for ADV Films, as well as a webcomic artist, currently based out of South Carolina. In addition to performing various roles in popular anime series, most notably as Natsue Awayuki in Pretear, she has worked on the webcomic FaerieTale, a..
Lauren Graham
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls. Contents 1 Early life2 Education3 Career4 Private life5 Trivia6 Filmography7 Quotes8 Salary9 External link..
Lauren Green
Lauren Green (born June 30, 1963) is a morning newscaster for Fox News Channel. She gives the top- and bottom-of-the-hour headline updates weekdays during the morning television show Fox & Friends, which airs from 6:00–9:00 a.m. ET. She also covers arts for the network. In addition to her posi..
Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield is an American fashion photographer and photojournalist. She has published two books of her work, and has been featured in a variety of magazines. Her photographs generally deal with issues of women's bodies, and how women view themselves and their bodies. She has also directed a ..
Lauren Grissom
Lauren Grissom (born 1985) is the current Miss Tennessee USA 2006. Grissom comes from Shelbyville, Tennessee. On April 21, 2006 she competed for the title of Miss USA 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland. Grissom placed in the top 15 in the pageant, which was won by Tara Conner of Kentucky. Grissom grad..
Lauren Harries
Lauren Charlotte Harries (formerly James Harries), was born in Surrey, England in 1978 and is a disputed (see below) child prodigy who became famous in Britain after appearing on Wogan, Terry Wogan's chat show in 1988. On the programme the ten-year-old boy appeared to demonstrate a knowledge about ..
Lauren Harris
Lauren Harris is the daughter of Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris. She is currently pursueing a singing career. Lauren's band has a current line up of Voodoo Six guitarist Richie Faulkner from UK, Tom McWilliams (drums) from U.S. (Jon Secada, Critical Mass) and new Bassist Randy Gregg (Thin Lizzy, ..