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Éloa, ou La sœur des anges
Éloa, ou La sœur des anges, 1824, is Alfred de Vigny's epic tripartite philosophic poem of Eloa, a simple girl who falls in love with a stranger at odds with God. It is made clear that the stranger is Lucifer. He falls in love with the girl, but his own twisted notions of love prohibit him from ..

Lo-ammi
In the Tanakh book of Hosea, a son born to the prophet and his wife Gomer. The name, which translates as "Not my people," is chosen by the Lord as a sign of the Lord's displeasure with the people of Israel for following other gods (see Hosea 1:8-9). ..

Loa
The Loa (also Lwa or L'wha) are the spirits of the Vodoun religion practiced in Haiti, and other parts of the world. They are also referred to as the Mystères and the Invisibles. They are somewhat akin to saints or angels in Western religions in that they are intermediaries between Bondye (Bon Dieu..

LOA
LOA could stand for: Library of America, a famous American publisher Length Over All, commonly used to indicate maximum hull length of a vessel. LOA is the most commonly-used way of expressing the size of a boat, and is also used for calculating the cost of a marina berth (for example, £2.50 per m..

Loa, Utah
Loa is a town located on SR24 in Wayne County, Utah, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 525. It is the county seat of Wayne County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Geography Loa is located at [38°24′10″N, 111°38′38″W] (38.402854, -111.6439..

Loach
Loach may refer to: Loach, a freshwater fish of the family Cobitidae.The Hughes H-6, a helicopter known colloquially as "Loach". 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 ..

Loachapoka, Alabama
Location of Loachapoka in Lee County. Loachapoka is a town in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is located seven miles west of Auburn in west-central Lee County. As of 2004, the population of the town was 162. The name "Loachapoka" means "turtle killing place" in Muskogee. In literature,..

Loach (fish)
Loaches are freshwater fishes of the family Cobitidae, small benthic (bottom-dwelling) fishes with a flattened ventral profile. There are 160 different species of them. Loaches are mostly scavengers and are omnivorous, usually not very picky about their food. They may eat aquatic crustaceans, inse..

Loach catfish
Loach catfishes (Amphiliidae) are a family of catfish. Genera Andersonia - Amphilius - Belonoglanis - Dolichamphilius - Doumea - Leptoglanis - Paramphilius - Phractura - Psammphiletria - Tetracamphilius - Trachyglanis - Zaireichthys Wikis..

Loach Minnow
The Loach Minnow (Rhinichthys cobitis) is a species of freshwater fish. It is a member of the carp family (family Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes. It is common in streams and small rivers throughout the Gila River and San Pedro River systems in Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora. The species is..

Loacker
A. Loacker AG is a company based in South Tyrol (Italy, before World War Two Austria) There are production areas in Bozen (Italy), Ritten (Italy), Heinfels (Austria). Their products are sold across the globe. Its products consist of wafers and other sweet food. Loacker sells also products from oth..

Load
Load may mean: The structural load or forces (weights, wind or water pressure, earthquake shocks, .etc..) applied to a structure.Cargo, Freight or LadingThe load of a mutual fund; see Mutual fund fees and expenses.The genetic load of a populationThe parasite load of an organismLoad (album), by Met..

Load-balanced switch
A load-balanced switch is a switch architecture which guarantees 100% throughput (the equivalent of perfect arbitration) with no central arbitration at all, at the cost of sending each packet across the crossbar twice. Load-balanced switches are currently (2005) a subject of research for large rout..

Load-Haul
Load-Haul livery, as carried by Class 37 no. 37710 at Didcot on 30th October 2004. Class 56 no. 56003 also carrying Load-Haul livery. Load-Haul was a railfreight operator based in the North-East of the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1994 prior to the privatisation of British Rail. The..

Load-Link/Store-Conditional
In computer science, load-link (LL, also known as "load-linked" or "load and reserve") and store-conditional (SC) are a pair of instructions that together implement a lock-free atomic read-modify-write operation. Load-link returns the current value of a memory location. A subsequent store-condition..

LOADALL
LOADALL is the common name for two different, undocumented machine instructions of Intel 80286 and Intel 80386 processors, which allows access to areas normally outside of the IA-32 API scope, like descriptor cache registers. The LOADALL for 286 processors is encoded 0Fh 05h, while the LOADALL for 3..

Loaded
Loaded may refer to: Loaded (language)Loaded (album), by The Velvet UndergroundLoaded (song), by Primal ScreamLoaded (magazine), a British men's magazineLoaded (novel), by Christos TsiolkasLoaded (video game) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated wit..

Loaded (album)
Loaded is The Velvet Underground's fourth album. The album was released in September, 1970, two months after Lou Reed had left the band, by Atlantic Records' sub-label Cotillion Records. Contents 1 About the album1.1 Double CD reissue1.2 Trivia2 Track listing2.1 Origina..

Loaded (magazine)
Loaded, first published by IPC in 1994, is the oldest British "lads' mag" - "For men who should know better". It was founded by James Brown, a former deputy editor of the music weekly New Musical Express. In its early days, the magazine's readership was once memorably described as "50% Sun readers..

Loaded Bible
Loaded Bible is a comic book one-shot written by Tim Seeley, with art by Nate Bellgrade. The story is about an apocalyptic future where Jesus Christ must save America from vampires after a nuclear war. External links [Interview with Tim Seeley][A review] ..

Loaded Deck
Loaded Deck was a Chicagoland rock band that rose to prominence during the early 1990s. They were influenced by a variety of musical forms that were popular at the time, especially glam metal and classic rock. History The band saw its genesis in May, 1989 when schoolmates Chris Sernel and Lars ..

Loaded language
A language construct, such as a word or a question, is said to be loaded if it carries meaning or implications beyond its strict definition (its denotation). Loaded words are words or phrases which have strong emotional overtones or connotations and which evoke strongly positive (or negative) rea..

Loaded Records
Loaded Records was a UK dance record label formed in 1990 by Tim Jeffery and JC Reid. It launched artists like Pizzaman, Slacker and Wildchild. More recently it released albums by Super_Collider (featuring Jamie Lidell) and singles by Annie, Holden & Thompson (ft James Holden) as well as launching ..

Loaded Weapon 1
Loaded Weapon 1 (also known as National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1) is a 1993 comedy film, directed by Gene Quintano and starring Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, and William Shatner. The film mainly spoofed the plot of Lethal Weapon 2 but also referred to popular past movies such as Basic Inst..

Loader
Loader can refer to: Loader (equipment)Loader (computing)Boot loader 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. ..

LoaderLeomon
LoaderLeomon is a Digimon from the Digimon series. A Machine Digimon, he is the Ultimate form of Leormon. He is said to be the result of a construction machine's CAD data leaked during an upload, fusing unto a Liamon. He has yet to appear in any other media than the D-Accel and cards. Evolution F..

Loader (computing)
In computing, a loader is a program that performs the functions of a linker program and then immediately schedules the resulting executable program for action (in the form of a memory image), without necessarily saving the program as an executable file. Loader programs are useful for prototyping, t..

Loader (equipment)
A Volvo L120E front loader. A loader clearing a landslide. A Komatsu front loader with articulated steering. A parked Hanomag loader A loader backhoe A loader with a specialized claw used to carry logs around a sawmill A loader, also called a front loader, front e..

Loadhog
Loadhog Ltd. is a manufacturing firm based in Sheffield, England that produces re-usable packaging for items in transit. These inlcude the Loadhog Lid and the SmartStak securing system. The term Loadhog is often used to describe a Loadhog Lid. Loadhog is a subsidiary of Gripple Ltd., and began pro..

Loading
In telecommunication, the term loading means the insertion of impedance into a circuit to change the characteristics of the circuit. The loading may be expressed as (a) the equivalent mean power and the peak power as a function of the number of voice channels or (b) the equivalent power of a mult..

Loading bay
A loading bay is an area in a building such as a factory, warehouse, supermarket or theatre, where goods are unloaded from delivery vehicles. ..

Loading bay (theatre)
A loading bay is a room in a theater which is usually quite large. It generally has a bay door (a large metal door which rolls up, at least the size of the opening on a standard semi-trailer) at opposite sides of the room, one for a truck and the other for access to the stage. Sometimes sets and eq..

Loading characteristic
Loading characteristic: In multichannel telephone systems, a plot, for the busy hour, of the equivalent mean power and the peak power as a function of the number of voice channels. The equivalent power of a multichannel signal referred to the zero transmission level point is a function of the nu..

Loading coil
In electronics, a loading coil is a coil (inductor) that does not provide coupling to any other circuit, but is inserted in a circuit to increase its inductance. Loading coils are archaically known as Pupin coils after Mihajlo Pupin (especially when used for the Heaviside condition), and process of..

Loading dock
A loading dock is an architectural fixture where trucks may be loaded and unloaded. They are commonly found on large commercial and industrial buildings. Warehouses that handle palletized freight use a dock leveler so items can be easily loaded and unloaded using power moving equipment (e.g. a ..

Loading dose
If a drug takes a long time to reach therapeutic levels, then a higher dose (the loading dose) may be given initially before dropping down to a lower maintenance dose. Drugs which may be started with an initial loading dose include digoxin and teicoplanin. ..

Loading gauge
The size of tunnels dictates the maximum size of the trains. A loading gauge is the envelope or contoured shape within which all railroad cars, locomotives, coaches, buses, trucks and other vehicles, must fit. It is dictated by the size of tunnels, height of bridges, the shape, height and pos..

Loading screen
Due to the slow drive speed in the Sega Mega-CD, some games (here FIFA Int. Soccer) had lengthy loading screens A loading screen is a picture shown by a computer program, often a video game, while the program is loading or initializing. Loading screens that disguise the length of time that a p..

LoadLeveler
LoadLeveler is a job scheduler written by IBM, to control scheduling of batch jobs. LoadLeveler matches the job requirements with the best available computer resource for execution. It was primarily available only for AIX operating system, however it is now also available for Linux systems. Exter..

Loadlin
The Linux boot loader loadlin starts Linux from DOS or Microsoft Windows (since loadlin version 1.6 / 2002). The program loadlin and the Linux kernel have to be in a directory on the user's hard disk (FAT16, FAT32, USB devices). After started, loadlin stops Windows, creates a RAM disk, loads the ke..

Loadmaster
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LoadRunner
Mercury's LoadRunner is a performance and load testing product for examining system behavior and performance, whilst generating actual load. LoadRunner can emulate hundreds or thousands of concurrent users to put the application through the rigors of real-life user loads, whilst collecting informati..

Loadstar
This article is about the Commodore 64 disk magazine. Loadstar is also the name of an unrelated computer game, [[Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine]], from Rocket Science Games. A lodestar is a star used to find direction. Cover of Loadstar #53 (1988) Loadstar (ISSN 0886-4144) is a disk ..

Load (album)
Load is the sixth album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1996. (See 1996 in music). For Load Metallica embraced many new styles and influences and reflected it in the songwriting for the album. The album also marked the first appearance of a new Metallica logo, rounding off ..

Load (computing)
The system load is a UNIX computing term that describes the amount of work that a computer system is doing. The load average is the system load over a period of time. It is conventionally given as three numbers that represent the system load during the last one, five, and fifteen minute periods. ..

Load balancer
Load balancing (performed by a load balancer) is a type of service performed by a computer - or dedicated network switch often known as a content switch - that assigns work loads to a set of networked computer servers in such a manner that the computing resources are used in an optimal manner. Con..

Load balancing
Load balancing refers to the general practice of balancing a load. In computing, load balancing (computing) refers to balancing server traffic amongst multiple computers.In aviation, load balancing (aviation) refers to mass/load balancing within an aircraft.In electrical power generation, load balan..

Load balancing (computing)
In computing, load balancing is a technique (usually performed by load balancers) to spread work between many computers, processes, disks or other resources in order to get optimal resource utilization and decrease computing time. Contents 1 Load balancing at server level1.1 Server load ..

Load bearing wall
In architecture and building technique, a load bearing wall is one in which a wall of a structure bears the weight and force resting upon it, as opposed to a curtain wall which uses the strength of a sub wall and superstructure to carry the weight. In curtain walls, the facing applied is done for c..

Load cell
A single-point load cell A load cell is typically an electronic device (transducer) that is used to convert a force into a differential electrical signal. This device normally consists of four strain gauges in a wheatstone bridge configuration, but are also available with one or two strain ..

Load curve
A load curve is a chart showing the amount of electricity customers use over the course of time. Power producers use this information to plan how much electricity they will need to make at given times. See also Load profileLoad duration curveElectricity generationElectric power transmissionElect..

Load distribution
Load distributing is meant to improve performance on a computer network by evenly dispersing jobs to different nodes or routes. By doing this, no one route or node is overused, thus improving reliability. Problems One of the major problems caused by load distributing is bandwidth usage. If a networ..

Load Duration Curve
A load duration curve (LDC) is used in electric power generation to illustrate the relationship between generating capacity requirements and capacity utilization. A LDC is similar to a load curve but the demand data is ordered in descending order of magnitude, rather than chronologically. The LD..

Load factor
The term load factor has several meanings: In aerodynamics, the load factor, n, is the vector expressed by the ratio of the resulting mass force acting on an aircraft and the weight of the aircraft.[ n=(W+Fi)/|W|=(g+a)/g=1+a/g ] where W is the weight of the aircraft and Fi is the inertia ..

Load flow study
Load flow study, in power engineering, deals with power system behavior given load variations, and the effect of loading on the power stations. ..

Load Inc.
Founded in 2003, Load Inc. is a Paris based development studio specialized in car and arcade games. Currently working on the Xbox 360. Tagline: *** 100% Fat Free Games! *** External links [Official website] ..

Load profile
In electronics, a load profile is a graph of the changes in the electrical load on an electrical device versus time. Power Generation In the electricity generation sector, a load curve is a chart showing the amount of electricity customers use over the course of time. Power producers use this in..

Load Records
Load Records is an American noise/experimental independent record label. It was begun by Ben McOsker to put a 7-inch record out for the band Boss Fuel. The label quickly became the most prominent source for the noise music coming out of Providence, Rhode Island --loosely functioning in the same way..

Load Sharing Facility
Load Sharing Facility (or simply LSF) is a commercial computer software job scheduler sold by Platform Computing. It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked, Unix systems on many different architectures. External links [Platform Computing: LSF Family] ..

Load testing
Load testing is the act of testing a system under load. In mechanical systems it refers to the testing of a system to certify it under the appropriate regulations (LOLER in the UK - Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations). Load testing is usually carried out to a load 1.5x the SWL (S..

Load transfer
In automobiles, load transfer is the imaginary "shifting" of weight around a motor vehicle during acceleration (both longitudinal and lateral). This includes braking, or deceleration (which can be viewed as acceleration at a negative rate). Load transfer is a crucial concept in understanding vehicle..

Loafers
Loafers or penny loafers are low, leather step-in shoes whose tops resemble a moccasin, but have broad flat heels. They first appeared in the mid 1930's. They have no shoelaces or buckles. Penny loafers are made of leather and are often worn in formal situations. The men's fashion and lifestyle mag..

Loafing and Camouflage
Loafing and Camouflage (Greek: "Λούφα και Παραλλαγή") (1984) is a cult classic Greek movie directed by Nikos Perakis. It was followed by a sequel in 2005, [[Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean]]. Contents 1 Plot summary2 Credits3 Awards4 See also..

Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean
Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean (2005) is the sequel of the classic 1984 movie Loafing and Camouflage by Nikos Perakis. Contents 1 Plot2 Trivia3 Cast4 External links Plot This army satire follows a small group of Greek soldiers in the island of Kos, when they are..

Loaf (album)
This was the first live release by the jam band moe. Recorded live at the Wetlands in New York City on November 24-25 1995. 2,000 copies were released. It is out of print. Track listing MothRebubulaAl's Ticket Spiel32 ThingsBusterNewt SlanderMeatSeat Of My Pants Personnel moe. Rob Derhak - bass, ..

Loaf and Jug
The Loaf and Jug is a deli-style restaurant in Brookfield, Wisconsin. There is also a smaller location in downtown Elm Grove, Wisconsin. Customers at the Loaf and Jug fill out an order form and proceed down a "line" where they can watch their meal made before their eyes. Menu Menu Items includ..

Loaf Island
Loaf Island (52°50'N 173°12E) is a small satellite of Attu Island in the Near Islands group at the extreme western end of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Loaf Island is situated in Massacre Bay on the southeast side of Attu. It was named by the U.S. Army during its occupation of Attu during World ..

Loaísa Expedition
Loaísa Expedition was a sea expedition between 1525 - 1526, which was sent to colonize the East Indies. The expedition was led by sea captain-commander García Jofre de Loaísa and Juan Sebastián Elcano, who sailed with 146 men and 7 ships from Spain on July 24, 1525. However, their expedition fai..

Loakan Airport
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Loakes Park
Loakes Park was the home of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club from 1895 to 1990. Its location was adjacent to the hospital in the centre of High Wycombe, UK. The ground was donated to the club, by Frank Adams, in whose honour the club's present ground, Adams Park was named. Arguably the most memorabl..

Loam
Loam is soil composed of a relatively even mixture of three mineral particle size groups: sand, silt, and clay. Loams are gritty, plastic when moist, and retain water easily. Yet they drain well where the topography allows. They generally contain more nutrients than sandy soils. In addition to the ..

Loamhedge
Loamhedge is an abbey in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. It is the abbey where Abbess Germaine and her mice came from when a disease, presumably Dryditch Fever, struck the abbey. ..

Loamhedge (book)
Loamhedge is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 2003. It is the sixteenth book in the Redwall series. Contents 1 Plot summary2 Book Translations (English)3 Translations4 External link Plot summary US cover of Loamhedge [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning&..

Loamhedge Abbey
In Brian Jacques's fictional Redwall universe, 'Loamhedge Abbey is the abbey from which the original founders of Redwall Abbey came. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. In the book Mossflower, the mice of Loamhedge left their abbey to flee from a deadly p..

Loami, Illinois
Loami is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 804 at the 2000 census. Geography Loami is located at [39°40′31″N, 89°50′48″W] (39.675394, -89.846545)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the vil..

Loammi Baldwin
Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10 1744-October 20 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. His son, Loammi Baldwin, Jr., was also a well-known engineer. Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering. He surveyed and was respon..

Loammi Baldwin, Jr.
Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (May 16 1780-June 30 1838) was the son of noted engineer Col. Loammi Baldwin, and was in his own right an engineer of great distinction. Baldwin was born at North Woburn, Massachusetts, educated at Westford Academy, and graduated from Harvard College in 1800. His early inclinat..

Loan
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Loan-to-value
Loan to Value (usually expressed as a percentage): Refers to the principle loan amount divided by the value of a property or other asset. Example; Principle loan amount = $80,000.00 divided by Property value = $100,000.00 has a 80% loan to value (also called LTV). The valuation of property is typ..

Loanda
Loanda may mean: Loanda, Paraná, a city in BrazilLoanda, Gabon, a city in GabonLuanda, capital city of Angola (old spelling) 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 lin..

Loanda, Paraná
Loanda is a city in the northwestern region of Paraná, one of Brazil's southern states. ..

Loango
Loango was an African kingdom from approximately the 15th century to the 19th century in what is now the Republic of Congo. At its height in the seventeenth century the country stretched from Mayombe in the north to almost the mouth of the Congo River. The inhabitants spoke a northern dialect of..

Loango National Park
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Loanhead
Loanhead (pop. 6,900) is a small town in Midlothian, Scotland, to the south of Edinburgh, and close to Roslin, Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith. The town was built on coal and shale mining, and paper making. It was granted burgh status in 1884 [link], but it had been granted a charter allowing a w..

Loans Affair
The Loans Affair (also called the Khemlani Affair) is the name given to the political scandal involving the Whitlam Government of Australia in 1975, in which it was accused of attempting to illegally borrow money from Middle Eastern countries by bypassing standard procedure as dictated by the Austra..

Loanword
A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related process whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself. The word "loanword" is itself a calque of the Germ..

Loan (disambiguation)
A loan is a financial instrument. Loan may also refer to: Loanword, a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation*Calque, a loan translationInterlibrary loan, a user of one library borrowing books, etc. that are owned by another libraryLoan (football), a play..

Loan (football)
In football (soccer), a loan involves a particular player being allowed to temporarily play for a club other than the one he is currently contracted to. Loan deals may last from a few weeks to all season-long. Players may be loaned out to other clubs for several reasons. Most commonly, youth player..

Loan Acquisition Corporation
Loan Acquisition Corporation is an affiliate of Beal Bank and Beal Savings Bank that buys individual loans and loan portfolios and has been one of the largest buyers in the secondary market for mortgage loans (excluding prime residential loans). Since mid-2000, Loan Acquisition Corporation acquired ..

Loan Amount
Loan Amount: Pertaining to mortgages and their Risk-based pricing factors, the Loan Amount factor is sub-categorized as follows: Typically lenders will increase rate costs on Loan Amounts less than $100,000 and greater than $650,000. ..

Loan origination
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. Loan orgination is the process by which a lender obtains new loans. This includes: qualifying borrowersapp..

Loan protection insurance
Loan protection insurance, or loan payment protection insurance, is a form of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). This type of insurance can help you protect your monthly loan payments if you become unemployed or suffer an accident or sickness. Loan protection insurance will typically be used to pr..

Loan Purpose
Loan Purpose. Pertaining to mortgages and their risk based pricing factors, the Loan Purpose factor is sub-categorized as follows: 1) Purchase. 2) Rate & Term Refinance. 3) Cash-Out Refinance. Lenders asses that a Purchase Loan contains the least amount of Risk and thus 'price' Purchase loans mos..

Loan sale
A loan sale is a sale, often by a bank, under contract of all or part of the cash stream from a specific loan, thereby removing the loan from the bank's balance sheet. ..

Loan servicer
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. A loan servicer is a public or private entity that handles the following tasks: Collecting, monitoring an..

Loan servicing
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Loan shark
A loan shark is a person or body that offers illegal unsecured loans at high interest rates to individuals, often backed by blackmail or threats of violence. They provide credit to those who cannot obtain it from more respectable sources, usually because interest rates commensurate with the perceiv..

Loan Shark (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
The loan shark was a fictional demon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer who appeared in the episode Tabula Rasa in saeson six. He first showed up and claimed that Spike owed him forty kittens in a poker game and disappeared before paying up. He had vampire lackeys working with him who were about to sterak ..

Loan to value
Loan to Value (LTV) is a mathematical calculation which expresses the amount of a first mortgage lien as a percentage of the total appraised value of real property. The resulting percentage is commonly referred to as the loan to value ratio. For instance, an appraised property value of $120,000 and..

Loara High School
Loara High School is a high school in the Anaheim Union High School District, located in the city of Anaheim in Orange County, California. Loara was established in 1962 and is one of eight comprehensive high schools within the district. Famous alumni include folk singer Tim Buckley; his son (and re..

Loarn mac Eirc
Loarn mac Eirc was a legendary king of Dál Riata who may have lived in the 5th century. The Duan Albanach and the Senchus Fer n-Alban and other genealogies name Loarn's father as Erc son of Eochaid Muinremuir. There are no records or traditions of Loarn as king, and his main significance is as the..

Loarre castle
Loarre Castle is a Romanesque fortress in Huesca province, Aragon, Spain. It commands a magnificent situation in the foothills of the Pyrenees overlooking the vast plains of Sotonera south to Huesca and beyond. View of the Loarre in Spring The complex was built largely during the 11th and 12t..

Loathly lady
The loathly lady is a common literary device used in medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale. The motif was prominent in Celtic mythology, where the lady often represented the sovereignty of the land. Characteristics The loathly lady is a hideous woman who d..

Loay, Bohol
Loay is a 5th class municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 14,433 people in 2,615 households. Barangays Loay is politically subdivided into 24 barangays. AgapeAlegria NorteAlegria SurBonbonBotoc OccidentalBotoc OrientalCalvarioC..

Loayza Province
Loayza is a province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. ..

Loa (comics)
Loa is a fictional character found in the Marvel Universe. A mutant, Loa is a student at the Xavier Institute. She made her debut in New X-Men: Academy X #5. Contents 1 Character Biography2 Powers3 Trivia4 External links5 Bibliography Character Biography Born in Hawai..

Loa Falkman
Carl-Johan ("Loa") Falkman (born July 24, 1947) is a Swedish baritone singer and actor. After studying music, Falkman made his first major performance on the Royal Swedish Opera in 1973. In the 1990 melodifestival (Swedish preselection contest for the Eurovision Song Contest), Falkman got the last..

Loa loa filaria
Loa loa filaria is a microscopic worm which causes the disease loa loa filariasis in humans. It is found in the rainforests of central Africa.Humans contract this disease through the bite of a horse fly.The disease can cause red ichy swellings below the skin which is known as Calabar swellings. The ..

Loa loa filariasis
Loa loa microfilaria. Source: Arcari et al. Loa loa filariasis (also loiasis and African eyeworm) is a skin and eye disease caused by the nematode worm, loa loa filaria. Humans contract this disease through the bite of a horsefly, also known as mango fly. The deer fly is also a vector of Loa ..

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