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Luçon
Luçon is a commune of the Vendée département, in France. [Luçon Cathedral:[link],[link]] ..

Luo
This article is about Luo-speaking (Lwo-speaking) peoples of eastern Africa. For the Chinese surnames, see Luo (surname) For Luo people of Kenya, see Luo (Kenya) The Lwo (also Lwoo or Luo) are a family of linguistically-related ethnic groups (tribes) which live in an area that stretches from the sou..

Luodian
Luodian is a county of Guizhou province, in southwestern China. The county seat and its largest city is also named Luodian, but was formerly known as Longping. Climate in the area is humid subtropical, with strong monsoon influences bringing heavy rain during the summer, while winters are dry due ..

Luodong, Yilan
Luodong (}; }) is an urban township in the central part of Yilan County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Its name derives from the Taiwanese aboriginal word Rutung. Area: 11.34 km²Population: 73,196 people (2004)Transportation Luodong is served by the Yilan Line of Taiwan Railway Adminis..

Luogotenente
The Italian word Luogotenente, plural luogotenenti, is an etymological parallel to lieutenant, deriving from the Latin locum tenens "holding a place", i.e. someone who fills a position in stead of another, as a substitute, deputy etcetera. It has a few specific historical uses: Contents 1 M..

Luohan
Luohan can mean: Arhat, in BuddhismLuohan (fish)Luohan (martial arts) 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. ..

Luohan (martial arts)
Luohan is a fighting technique of Asian martial arts such as Bangau Putih. The name cames from the Chinese word for arhat (罗汉). Luohan techniques are characterized by very strong arms and deep stances, with physically strong movements and an upright back. ..

Luohe
漯河市Luòhé Shì Administration Type Prefecture-level city Area 2,617 km² Population 2,511,000 GDP Unknown Major Nationalities Han County-level divisions 5 Township-level divisions 55 Area Code 395 Luohe is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, People..

Luohu
Please see Lo Wu article, which focuses on 羅湖 at the Hong Kong side. Luohu is located in the centre of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and adjacent to Hong Kong. The Luohu immigration control point is the main bridge across the Shenzhen River between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and accounts for..

Luolavuori
Luolavuori is a district in the Uittamo-Skanssi ward of the city of Turku, in Finland. It is located to the southeast of the city centre, and is mainly parkland. There is a large old people's home in Luolavuori. The current (as of 2004) population of Luolavuori is 4,477, and it is decreasing at ..

Luol Deng
Luol Deng in Chicago Bulls uniform Luol Deng (born April 16, 1985 in Wow, Sudan) is a professional basketball player in the NBA. Since being born in Wow, Sudan, Deng has lived in Egypt, the UK, and the United States. Deng has represented England at Under-16 and Under-19 level, and was an amba..

Luoma Lake
Luoma Lake is located in Jiangsu province of south eastern China, near the city of Suqian (宿迁). ..

Luonnonmaa
Luonnonmaa is an island in the city of Naantali, in south-western Finland. It forms most of the city's area, but only a fraction of its population as it is rather sparsely populated. It previously belonged to the rural municipality of Naantali (Naantalin maalaiskunta), but the municipality was annex..

Luop
Luop is a dish consisting of Vietnamese beef in grape leaves. ..

Luopioinen
Luopioinen is a municipality of Finland, situated about 60 kilometers from Tampere. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region. It is a beautiful rural summer town containing a few lakes, most famous being lake Kukkia. Statistics Established in 1868Population 2,372 (as of December 31, 2003)Age distribution..

Luornu Durgo
Luornu Durgo is the name of three characters from different eras of the Legion of Super-Heroes Duo Damsel pre-Zero HourTriad (comics) post-Zero HourTriplicate Girl post-Infinite Crisis This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an..

Luostari
Luostari (Russian: is a settlement in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, near the Norwegian border. It was occupied by the German army during the World War II. Before the WWII Luostari was part of Finland. Yuri Gagarin served here after having graduated from the Orenburg Pilot's School (1957–1960). ..

Luot-chozjik
In the Sami pantheon, the protector-goddess of the reindeer herds. Sources [Encyclopedia Mythica] ..

Luotian
Luotian (羅田) is the main town of Luotian County, which falls under the administration of Huanggang (黃冈) Municipality (also known as Huanggang Prefecture), in the eastern part of Hubei Province, China. Located in the foothills of Dabie Shan (Dabie Mountains), the County has a population of a..

Luoxiao Mountains
Luoxiao Mountains are a range of mountains located on the western border of Jiangxi, China. ..

Luoyang
洛阳市Luòyáng Shì Administration Type Prefecture-level city Area 15,208 km² Population 6,383,900 (2004) GDP ¥14,170 per capita (2004) Major Nationalities Han, Hui, Manchurian, Mongolian County-level divisions 15 Township-level divisions Unknown Area Code 379 Luoy..

Luo (disambiguation)
Luo may refer to: Luo, a group of related African ethnic groupsLuo, people of Kenya, also known as Joluo, part of the above named groupLuo, a Chinese surname.This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page,..

Luo (Kenya)
Luo (also called Jo-Luo; formerly Nilotic Kavirondo) are a people (tribe) living in flat country (Luoland) near Lake Victoria, mostly in western Kenya (the “Kenya Luo”), but also in eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania. They are the most populous group of Nilotes and constitute the third largest..

Luo (surname)
Luo refers to the Mandarin romanizations of the Chinese surnames 羅 (Simplified Chinese: 罗, pinyin: Luó, Jyutping: Lo4) and 駱 (Simplified Chinese: 骆, pinyin: Luò, Jyutping: Lok3). Of the two surnames, 羅 is much more common among Chinese people. In Cantonese, 羅 is usually romanized as ..

Luo Binwang
Luo Binwang (駱賓王 or 骆宾王) (around 640 - 684) of the Tang Dynasty, was a Chinese poet born at Yiwu, Wuzhou, Zhejiang, but raised in Shandong. He is grouped with Wang Bo, Yang Jiong and Lu Zhaolin as one of the Four Greats of the Early Tang as the most outstanding poets of their time. A..

Luo Gan
Luo Gan (罗干) (born July 1935) is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and Political and Legislative Affairs Committee secretary of the People's Republic of China. The son of prominent Chinese revolutionary Luo Ruiqing, Luo Gan was born in Shandong provin..

Luo Guanzhong
Luó Guànzhōng (Traditional Chinese: 羅貫中; Wade Giles: Lo Kuan-chung) (c 1330 - 1400) was a 14th century Chinese author attributed with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing Outlaws of the Marsh, two of the most revered adventure epics in Chinese literature. Literary historians a..

Luo languages
The Luo languages comprise about 15 languages spoken in an area ranging from Southern Sudan via Uganda to Southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into Northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They form one of the two branches of Western Nilotic, the other being Dinka-Nuer...

Luo Mu
Luo Mu (1622-1706) was a painter, poet and prose writer born in Jiangxi. He spent most of his life in the capital Nanchang. He was noted for his landscape paintings, especially of mountains, and for what would be termed the "The JiangXi Style". His personality was said to be convivial and he counted..

Luo Pin
Luó Pìn (1733 - 1799) was a Qing dynasty painter from Anhui. He studied painting under Jin Nong and developed a unique personal style. This including refusing government service to live a life of poverty selling paintings. He was the youngest of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. External links &#..

Luo Points
Luo Points is an acupuncture term referring to special points in the body that are believed to have greater significance. According to acupuncture theory, the points, twelve in all, are places where the body can be manipulated to greater effect when applying acupuncture or tui na techniques, and can..

Luo Ronghuan
Luo Ronghuan (罗荣桓, Wades-Giles: Lo Jung-huan, November 26, 1902 – December 16, 1963) was a Chinese communist military leader. Luo was born in a village in Hengshan County, Hunan Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in April 1927 and the CCP later that year. During the ..

Luo Tong
Luo Tong a vassal under Sun Quan. Even though it was known that Luo Tong was relatively poor, he was still a very honorable man being loyal to his step mother at all times. When Zhuge Liang at one time came to Wu, Luo Tong tried challenging him with a battle of words, but ended up being stopped by H..

Luo Xian
Luo Xian an officer of the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms Period of China. Xian ended up being relagated to Ba Dong for not siding with Huang Hao of the Imperial Court who had seized true power of Shu, through the ineptitude of Liu Chan. Luo Xian put up a defense against Lu Kang of Wu fo..

Luo Xihe
Luo Xihe Name Luo Xihe Chinese Trad. 羅洗河 Simp. 罗洗河 Pinyin Luó Xǐhé Born November 23, 1977 Birthplace ..

Luo Xuejuan
Luo Xuejuan (Simplified Chinese: 罗雪娟; Traditional Chinese: 羅雪娟) (born January 26 1984 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province) is a Chinese swimmer. She began swimming in 1991 because her parents thought she was so thin that the exercise would make her stronger. Luo represented China at the 2..

Luo Yixiu
Luo Yixiu (Simplified Chinese: ; 1889-1910) was the first wife of Mao Zedong from 1907 until her death in 1910. She was from the Chinese town of Shaoshan. ..

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