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LUF
LUF can mean multiple things: Luxembourgish franc, the ISO 4217 code for the former currency of LuxembourgLiberal Youth LeagueLuf, an island in the Bismarck Archipelago close to the Admiralty Islands ..

Lufeng
Lufeng (陸豐)is a county-level city of Shanwei in the Southern province of Guangdong of the People's Republic of China. Situated in a coastal area near the county of Haifeng, Hoklo, a kind of Minnan dialect and Hakka are spoken in Lufeng. ..

Lufengosaurus
Lufengosaurus, meaning "Lufeng Lizard", was a prosauropod dinosaur which lived from the Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China. At about 6 metres long, it was the first complete dinosaur skeleton mounted in China and a commemorative postage stamp was issued in..

Lufenuron
Lufenuron is an enzyme and the active ingredient in the anti-flea veterinary medicine Program. Lufenuron is stored in the animals body fat and transferred to adult fleas through their bite. Adult fleas transfer it to their eggs by its presence in the mother fleas blood or by the larva feeding on di..

Luff
Luff has two separate, but closely related, sailing-related meanings. The first, a noun, luff, is the name for a particular part of a sail. The second, a verb (luffing, etc), means either: the flapping of a sail when a sailboat is heading upwind, and the boat is pointed too closely to the directio..

Luffa
A luffa sponge whose coarse texture helps with skin polishing. The luffas (from Arabic لوف; also spelled loofah or loofa) are tropical and subtropical annual vines comprising the genus Luffa. The fruit of at least two species, L. acutangula and L. aegyptiaca, is grown to be harvested be..

Luffberry
Luffberry Circle, also spelled "Lufberry" or "Lufbery", is a defensive air combat tactic that was most commonly used during WWI. Contents 1 Description2 History3 Other Uses of the Term4 Raoul Lufbery Description This air-to-air tactic was purely defensive in nature, and coul..

Luffenham Heath
Luffenham Heath is an 18-hole golf course near South Luffenham in Rutland, England, designed by James Braid. It opened in 1911. In 1929, the club captain was the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VIII. The club subsequently applied to be allowed to add the word Royal as a prefix to the ..

Luffield Abbey
Luffield Abbey is a village in the very north of Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the border with Northamptonshire, close to Biddlesden. It is one of the few examples in the country where there is an ancient parish with no church at its centre, though since the Victorian era it has been ..

Luffness
Luffness is a hamlet in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies between the towns of Gullane and Aberlady and is approximately 20 miles east of Edinburgh. Most of the houses in Luffness are traditional farm cottages. Luffnew New golf course is part of the fine selection of courses in the area, and the My..

Luffy's Past! The Red-Haired Shanks Appears!
"Luffy's Past! The Red-Haired Shanks Appears!", known as "The Passing of the Hat" in the United States, is the fourth episode of the anime adaption of the manga One Piece, and the first episode in the Buggy the Clown Arc of the series. It covers the 1st and 8th chapters of the manga. It originally a..

Luffy's Revival! Kaya's Life And Death Confrontation
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Lufia
Lufia (Estpolis Denki in Japan) is a series of computer role-playing games by Taito for the Super NES and Game Boy Color/Advance, most of them developed by Neverland. The games combine RPG and puzzle game elements. The player is provided an overhead 2D, third person view. Contents 1 Series ..

Lufia: The Legend Returns
Lufia: The Legend Returns (Japanese: Estpolis Denki: Yomigaeru Densetsu) is a computer role-playing game for the Game Boy Color developed by Neverland and published by Taito, Natsume, and Ubisoft in Japan, North America, and Europe respectively in 2001. It is the third game in the Lufia series and..

Lufia: The Ruins of Lore
Lufia: The Ruins of Lore (Japanese: Estpolis Gaiden: Chinmoku no Iseki) is a computer role-playing game developed by Neverland and published by Taito in Japan in 2002 and later in North America by Atlus in 2003. It is the fourth game in the Lufia series of video games and the first one to appear o..

Lufia & the Fortress of Doom
Lufia & the Fortress of Doom (Japanese: エストポリス伝記, "Estpolis Denki" or "Estpolis Biography") is a RPG game with puzzle elements developed by Neverland and published by Taito in 1993, for the Super Nintendo video game console. It is the first game in the Lufia series of video games. ..

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals is a RPG game with puzzle elements developed by Neverland and published in Japan in 1995 by Taito, and in North America and Europe in 1996 by Natsume and Nintendo respectively, for the Super Nintendo video game console. Contents 1 Storyline2 Sinistrals3..

Lufkin, Texas
Lufkin is a city in Angelina County, Texas, United States. The population was 32,709 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Angelina County[Geographic references#6GR6], and is situated in East Texas. The town is named for Abraham P. Lufkin, a cotton merchant and Galveston, Texas city..

Lufkin Daily News
The Lufkin Daily News is a newspaper that serves the city of Lufkin, Texas. The newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for Public Service for an obituary of a local man who died in Marine training camp, which grew into an investigation of that death and a fundamental reform in the recruiting..

Lufkin Industries
Lufkin Industries NASDAQ: [LUFK] is a manufacturing company based in Lufkin, Texas and one of the largest employers in the city. Founded in 1902, it produces machinery such as oil pumps, electrical equipment and trailers for trucks. Its president and chief executive officer (as of Februar..

Luft
tright Luft, the German word for "air" (sometimes also "space" or "breath"), is used by some chess writers and commentators to denote a space left by a pawn move into which a castled king may mov..

Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft
Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft, universally referred to as LFG, was a World War I German aircraft manufacturer. They are best known for their various "Roland" designs, notably the Roland C.II and Roland D.VI, although they also produced a number of airships and experimental designs. LFG formed on April..

Luftfahrt-Bundesamt
Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA) is a German government agency, under the control of the Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Housing. It is responsible for developing and maintaining aviation safety standards, as well as certifying airlines and airports. External links [Luftfahrt Bundesamt&..

Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter
LGW - Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter Dornier Do 228 LGW is a German regional airline officially known as Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter mbH. The Dortmund based airline transported about 50,000 passengers in 2003 and the expected sales is 13 million Euro in 2004. Altogether the company has approxi..

Lufthansa
Lufthansa (Deutsche Lufthansa AG) is the largest German airline. The name Lufthansa derives from Luft (the German word for "air") and Hansa (the Hanseatic trade organization that was active in Northern Europe during medieval times). Lufthansa's headquarters is in Cologne while its main base and pr..

Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo is a cargo airline founded on November 30, 1994 as an independent logistics company within the Lufthansa group. Core business is the airport-to-airport transport. Lufthansa Cargo does not only offer space on its own freighters, but also has access to the freight capacities of more ..

Lufthansa CityLine
Lufthansa CityLine is a subsidiary airline of Lufthansa Regional, which itself is part of the major airline in Germany, Lufthansa. History Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT) was founded in 1956 (and still exists today as a separate airline) in Emden. It was renamed DLT Luftverkehrsgesellschaf..

Lufthansa destinations
This is a list of airports that Lufthansa flies to. It includes destinations served by Lufthansa CityLine or Lufthansa Regional partners (July 2006). Contents 1 ..

Lufthansa Flight 181
Lufthansa Flight 181, commonly known as The Landshut (IPA: [lanzhut]) was a Lufthansa Boeing 737 that was hijacked as part of the events in the German Autumn of 1977. It was closely connected to the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, then president of the German employers' association, in..

Lufthansa Flight 540
Lufthansa Flight 540, registered as D-ABYB, was a commercial Lufthansa Boeing 747-130, carrying 157 people (140 passengers and 17 crew members), operating final segment of its routing Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg. Lufthansa Flight 540 burning after the crash. On November 20, 19..

Lufthansa heist
The Lufthansa heist took place on the morning of Monday, December 11, 1978 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. About $5 million in cash and $850,000 in jewelry was stolen from the Lufthansa airlines cargo terminal, making it the largest cash robbery in U.S. history. Most of the stolen goods we..

Lufthansa Regional
Contact Air/Lufthansa Regional ATR 42 Lufthansa Regional Avro-RJ85 Lufthansa Regional is a subsidiary of the largest German airline Lufthansa. It transports 10.5 million passengers a year, serving 80 destinations and over 150 routes. The airline and its partners operate 156 aircraft t..

Lufthansa Systems
Lufthansa Systems AG is an IT services provider and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa. Despite the company's origin it does not only provide services in the aviation sector, but all kinds of IT services from infrastructure to application development and consulting. Lufthansa Systems is headqua..

Lufti Bin Ali
Lufti Bin Ali (also known as Mohammed Abdul Rahman) is a Tunisian held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba[list of prisoners (.pdf)], US Department of Defense, May 15 2006 During his Administrative Review Board hearing he explained that ..

Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH is a German company which, during the early 20th century, was a leader in the design and manufacture of rigid airships. The company was founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. 'Luftschiffbau' is a German word meaning building of airships. Count von Zeppelin had been bui..

Luftschiffer
Luftschiffertruppe, a German word meaning "airshipmen's troop", was the designation of the German airship units. Contents 1 Military lighter-than-air aviation2 The Luftschifftruppe3 World War I4 The Treaty of Versailles5 See also6 References7 External links Mi..

Luftstreitkräfte der NVA
Die Luftstreitkräfte der NVA, was the Air Force of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was in existance from 1955 to 1990, when both East and West Germany united. As a Warsaw Pact nation, the GDR Air Force was supplied exclusively with Eastern Bloc-produced aircraft, such as the S..

Lufttransport
Lufttransport is a Norwegian helicopter and fixed-wing airline that operates primarily air ambulance helicopter and plane for the Norwegian and Swedish governments. In addition the airline offers services including survailence for the Norwegian Coast Guard, transport of ship pilots and scheduled a..

Luftwaffe
The Deutsche Luftwaffe or [Luftwaffe] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (German: air force, literally "Air Arm" or "Air Weapon", IPA: ['luftvafə]) is the commonly used term for the German air force. The history of the German military aviation forces began in 191..

Luftwaffen-Legion Lettland
Luftwaffen Legion - Lettland [ Liepaja-Grobina, Latvia] Under an OKL order of August 11, 1944 the Latvian Flying Units were combined into the Luftwaffen-Legion Lettland. The training centre at Liepaja-Grobina became Erg.Flg.Gr. Lettland (Latvian Replacement Training Group) Obstl. Janis Ruc..

Luftwaffenhelfer
Luftwaffenhelfer (commonly: Flakhelfer) are terms commonly used for German students deployed as child soldiers during World War 2. The Luftwaffenhelfer ("Luftwaffe support personnel") program was the implementation of the "Kriegshilfseinsatz der Jugend bei der Luftwaffe" ("Deployment of the youth t..

Luftwaffe Central (Weissrutenische) detachment (Luftflotte 6, Belarus)
These Luftwaffe unit was detached in Belarus,East Poland,East Prussia,Ukraine,Slovakia and Russian occupied lands for air support of Axis forces in sector;with command offices in Priluki,Belarus, during June 26,1944,Eastern front Contents 0.1 Strategical Reconnaissance0.2 Bombers(Mediu..

Luftwaffe Field Division
The Luftwaffe Field Divisions were authorized in October 1942. They consisted of 200,000 to 250,000 "surplus" Luftwaffe personnel. They were organized as 12,500 strong M1942 Rifle(Jäger) Divisions with most serving on the Eastern Front.These were ordinary infantry divisions organized from Luftwaffe..

Luftwaffe Northern (Arctic) detachment(Luftflotte 5)(Finland-Norway)
This Luftwaffe detachment served in Finland and Norway for air support of Axis forces in sector, with command offices in Oslo, Norway (at date July 26, 1944). Contents 0.1 Kom. Gen.d.dtsch. Lw.i. Finnland(General-chief of Luftwaffe in Finland ..

Luftwaffe North (Ostland) detachment (Luftflotte 1, Baltic Area)
This Luftwaffe detachment served in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Immola, Finland for air support of Axis forces in area; with command offices in Malpils, Latvia, (June 26,1944), Eastern front. Contents 0.1 Strategic Reconnaissance0.2 Maritime Reconnaissance0.3 Transports0.4 ..

Luftwaffe Organization
The German Luftwaffe of World War 2 had a distinct pattern of organization. On the strategic level it was organised into something akin to the USAF concept, but with certain deviations. On the tactical level it differed distinctly, and was a much more flexible organisation, at least for the first ha..

Luftwaffe serviceable aircraft strengths (1940-1945)
The following tables summarize the operational strength of the German air force, or Luftwaffe, in terms of the number of different aircraft by general category. The period covered is World War II from 1940 to 1945, starting at the time of the Battle of Britain. Contents 1 19402 19413&nb..

Luftwaffe Southern (Balkan-Ukraine) detachment (Luftflotte 4, Romania-Hungary)
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Luftwaffe units before the 1939 invasion of Poland
In peace time these Luftwaffe detachments were based in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia ; but they were moved to advanced bases on the outbreak of hostilities with Poland, the "Fall Weiss" Operation, on September 1,1939. Contents 0.1 Luftwaffe Lehrdivision (Development and O..

Lufu language
The Lufu language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language still spoken by some elders among the 2,000-3,000 Lufu in Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun. It is reported to have been close to Bete and Bibi. According to the Vienna [Yukuben P..

Lufwood
Lufwood is a fictional plant derived from the Edge Chronicles, a series of books created by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. The Lufwood tree is ash-grey and very tall, with a straight trunk devoid of many branches up until the canopy. Lufwood timber has many unique qualities: it burns with a purpl..

Lu Fang
Lu Fang(吕方) is a character in the Water Margin. Lu Fang was also from Tanzhou, just like Jiang Jing. He donned a flowery robe, covered with a suit of fiery-red armour, along with a silk belt and a headdress. He rode on a fiery-red steed as well, and wielded a spear similar to Lu Bu's. Since you..

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