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Lu's Jellyhead
Lu's Jellyhead is a medium-sized species of cirrate octopus found near New Zealand. External link [CephBase: ] ..
Luísa, Duchess of Cadaval
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Luísa Todi
A painting of Luísa Todi Luísa Rosa de Aguiar Todi (1753 - 1833) was a very popular Portuguese opera singer. Luísa Todi was a mezzo-soprano with a rich strong voice and great dramatic talent. She was exclusively dedicated to the dramatic style. Luísa Todi was born on January 9, 1753 in Se..
Luís Alberto Cubilla
Luís Alberto Cubilla (born March 28, 1940 in Paysandu, Uruguay) is a former football (soccer) player and coach. Also known as "El Negro", Cubilla is a former defender that played for Colón de Paysandu, Peñarol of Uruguay, FC Barcelona of Spain, River Plate of Argentina, Nacional of Uruguay, Sant..
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (August 25, 1803–May 7, 1880) was a Brazilian military leader. Considered one of the most important heroes in Brazilian military history, Caxias fought in the Argentina-Brazil War, the War of Tatters, and, most notably, in the War of Triple Allianc..
Luís Amado
Luís Filipe Marques Amado (b. September 17, 1953) is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal in the government led by the Socialist Party. Before replacing Diogo Freitas do Amaral as Minister of Foreign Affairs on June 30 2006, Amado was the Minister of Defence. Amado graduated in econo..
Luís Ángel Arango Library
Luis Ángel Arango Library, located at Bogotá, Colombia, it started in 1923 as a small library with a few economic books. Today, this collection has grown to the point that it has become the premier library of the country and is considered to be the second most important public library in Latin Ame..
Luís Antônio
Luís Antônio is a municipality/county in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its coordinates are [21°33′18″S, 47°42′16″W]. The population in 2004 is 7,837, the area is 599.28 km² The elevation is 675 m. ..
Luís Boa Morte
Luís Boa Morte, pron. IPA [lu'iʃ 'boɐ 'mɔɾt(ɨ)], (b. 4 August 1977) is a Portuguese footballer, currently playing for Fulham, an English club in the Premiership. He is a favourite amongst Fulham's supporters for his impassioned, never give up and sometimes aggressive style of play -..
Luís Bonfá
Luís Bonfá (1922-2001) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer most widely known for the compositions he penned for the film Black Orpheus. Bonfá was born on October 17, 1922 in Rio de Janeiro. He began teaching himself to play guitar as a child; he studied in Rio with Uruguayan classical guitari..
Luís Cabral
This article is about the former President of Guinea-Bissau. For the evangelist of this name, see Luis Cabral. Luís de Almeida Cabral (born 10 April 1931), the first President of Guinea-Bissau, served from 1973 to 1980, when a military coup d'état deposed him. In the early 1960s, the African P..
Luís Carlos Prestes
Luís Carlos Prestes (January 3 1898 – March 7 1990) was the leader of the 1920s tenente rebellion and the Communist opposition to the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil. Known as the "cavalier of hope," Prestes was involved in organizing the failed tenente rebellion of 1922, a revolt..
Luís Cunha
Nani fullname Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha (b. 17 November 1986 in Amadora) is a Portuguese football (soccer) midfielder, currently plays for Sporting Clube de Portugal. Football career Nani start his career at Real Sport Clube de Massamá before joining Sporting Clube de Portugal youth system. ..
Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque
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Luís Delgado
Luis Manuel Ferreira Delgado, better known as Delgado (born 11 January 1972 in Luanda, Angola), is an Angolan football left defender who currently, as of May 2006, plays for Petro Atletico. He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. ..
Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões Monument to Luís de Camões, Lisbon Luís Vaz de Camões (pron. IPA /lu'iʃ vaʃ dɨ ka'mõj̃ʃ/; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens) (c. 1524 – June 10, 1580) is considered Portugal's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Homer,..
Luís de Onís
Luís de Onís (1769 – 1830) Born in La Mancha, Spain was the Spanish foreign minister who negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty with United States Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1819. ..
Luís de Pablo
Luís de Pablo (born January 28, 1930) is a Spanish composer. He was born in Bilbao, living in Madrid from age six and starting to compose aged 12. Although he received composition lessons from Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he was essentially an autodidact in composition. His participation at the..
Luís de Sousa
Luís de Sousa (Manoel de Sousa Coutinho) (1555 - 1632), Portuguese monk and prose-writer, was born at Santarem, a member of the noble family of Sousa Coutinho. In 1576 he broke off his studies at Coimbra University to join the order of Malta, and shortly afterwards was captured at sea by Moorish p..
Luís Eduardo Garzón Garzón
Luis Eduardo Garzón (nicknamed "Lucho") (born February 11, 1951 in Bogotá) is currently the Mayor of Bogotá (2004-2007), a left-wing Colombian political activist and a former union leader. He is a member of the Independent Democratic Pole (PDI), a new, democratic left-wing party that seeks to pos..
Luís Eduardo Schmidt
Luís Eduardo Schmidt nickname Edu (b. 10 January 1979 in Jaú, Brazil) is a Brazilain football player, as of 2006 plays for Real Betis. Teams and clubs 1997-2000: São Paulo ( Brazil)2000-2004: Celta de Vigo ( Spain)2004-present: Real Betis ( Spain)Brazil national football team*17 November 1999 -*..
Luís Enrique Martínez García
Luís Enrique Martínez García (born May 8, 1970 in Gijon) is a Spanish ex-football player. Incredibly versatile, he played all over the field, usually in the midfield, but also in attack and even on defense. After starting his career with Sporting Gijon in 1989, Luis Enrique spent most of it ..
Luís Esteves
Luis Esteves, born Lisbon, Portugal on February, 2nd, 1956. Both in the political sense and in professional one (is graduated in two business schools in Lisbon) he has made is contributions on wrting about trade and urbanistic matters. His writings were used in articles and speechs as part as his fu..
Luís Fabiano
Luís Fabiano Clemente (born November 8, 1980 in Campinas, São Paulo), better known by his first name of Luis Fabiano, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward. He enjoyed great success at Brazilian side São Paulo FC, with a disappointing spell in French football sandwiched in between. Hi..
Luís Figo
Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo (pron. IPA [lu'iʃ 'fiɣu]) (born November 4, 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a legendary Portuguese international footballer, who plays as a midfielder and winger, currently for Inter Milan. Figo was the 2000 European Footballer of the Year, the 2001 FIFA Wo..
Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza
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Luís Filipe Rocha
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. Luís Filipe Rocha is a Portuguese film director born in 1947. ..
Luís Filipe Vieira
Luís Filipe Vieira (full name Luís Filipe Ferreira Vieira), born 22 June 1949, is the chairman of Portuguese sports club Sport Lisboa e Benfica. He was previously chairman of Alverca FC. Chairmanship of Alverca FC Vieira was the president of Alverca FC for a couple of years, at a time when the An..
Luís Fróis
Portuguese 200 Escudos honoring Luis Frois, (1997) Luís Fróis (1532-1597) was a dedicated Portuguese missionary. He was born in Lisbon and in 1548 joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). In 1563, he came to Japan to spread his gospel, and in the following year arrived at Kyoto, meeting Ashi..
Luís I of Portugal
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Luís José Luís José Junqueira Freire
Luís José Junqueira Freire (December, 1832- June, 1855) was a Bahian poet. His 'Inspirações do Claustro' was published in 1855. ..
Luís Loureiro
Luis Loureiro (born 1974) is a Portuguese Footballer who currently plays for Sporting Clube de Portugal and for the Portuguese National Team. He is a quick and smart player who can turn defense into a counter attack making him one of Sporting's biggest threat. Sporting Clube de Portugal - Curr..
Luís María Peralta
Don Luís María Peralta (b. 1759, Sonora, New Spain; d. August 26, 1851) was a soldier in the Spanish Army, who received one of the largest of the Spanish land grants, Rancho San Antonio, a 44,800 acre (181 km²) plot that encompassed most of the East Bay region of California. The Peralta family (..
Luís Mariutti
Luís Mariutti (born March 22, 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil) formerly the bassist of the Brazilian power metal band Angra, now plays bass for the band Shaaman. ..
Luís Marques Mendes
Luís Marques Mendes (b. Azurém, Guimarães, 5 September 1957) is a Portuguese politician, leader of the Social Democratic Party. ..
Luís Oliveira Gonçalves
Luís Oliveira Gonçalves (born 22 June 1960) is the current coach of the Angola national football team, and is part-Brazilian. Before coaching the senior side, Gonçalves was in charge of the Under-20 team, with which he won the African Youth Championship. He sprang a major surprise when Angola m..
Luís Peazê
Luís Peazê is/was a Brazilian writer and journalist; translator of Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Por Quem os Sinos Dobram - Portuguese), author of Alvidia - Um Horizonte a Mais (Portuguese only), among other titles. He was also a sailor and environmentalist. External links http://www..
Luís Pires
Luís Pires (15th century/16th century), Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil, being one of the captains of the fleet. On leaving the Cape Verde Islands Luís Pires was forced by a storm to return to Lisbon, never having reached Brazil or India (the i..
Luís Queiró
Luís Queiró (born July 2, 1953 in Coimbra) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group. ..
Luís Romano de Madeira Melo
Luís Romano de Madeira Melo was born the 10 June in 1922 on the Capeverdean island of Santo Antão. He is a bilingual poet, novelist, and folklorist who writes in Portuguese and the capeverdean Crioulo of Santo Antão. He prefers to refer to the capeverdean language as "língua cabo-verdiana". Roma..
Luís Seoane
Luís Seoane (1910-1979) was a lithographer and artist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 1, 1910, to Galician immigrants, he spent much of his childhood and youth in Galicia. He was educated in A Coruña. His first exhibition came in 1929. Returning to Argentina in 1936 to escape the Span..
Luís Teixeira
Luís Teixeira was one of the teachers of Portuguese King John III of Portugal. He was one of the first Portuguese humanists. Educated in Italy with other names of Portuguese humanism he was influenced by florentine ideals of Angelo Poliziano. He had a relative influence on the young prince. ..
Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes
Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes, 2nd Viscount of Montalegre, was a Portuguese soldier, born 1770, who served on the absolutist side in Portugal's Liberal Wars. As the military commander in Trás-os-Montes in 1823 he raised a rebellion in the name of the absolutist prince, Dom Miguel. During the civil..
Luís Vélez de Guevara
Luís Vélez de Guevara (August 1, 1579 - November 10, 1644), Spanish dramatist and novelist, was born at Ecija. After graduating as a sizar at the university of Osuna in 1596, he joined the household of Rodrigo de Castro, cardinal-archbishop of Seville, and celebrated the marriage of Philip II in ..
Lusail
--> Lusail City is the newest city in Qatar. It will be built north of Doha, the capital of Qatar, on over over 35 sq km and eventually provide accommodation for up to 200,000 people. The development will have two marinas, residential areas, commercial districts, and leisure facilities, including ..
Lusaka
Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is located in south central Zambia at 15°25' South, 28°17' East (-15.41667, 28.28333) [link], on a plateau at 1280 m (4200 ft) in altitude. It has a population of 1,084,703 (2000 census). Lusaka was founded in 1905 by European..
Lusaka International Airport
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Lusaka Province
Lusaka Province is one of Zambia's nine provinces. The provincial capital is Lusaka, which is also the national capital. Provinces of Zambia ..
Lusaka Stock Exchange
The Lusaka Stock Exchange, LuSE, which was organized with the assistance of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, opened in February 1994. The IFC structured the exchange to meet G-30 recommendations for clearing and settlement system design and operations. The exchange operates an e..
Lusankya
The Super Star Destroyer Executor, identical twin to the Lusankya Lusankya was a Super Star Destroyer, the sister ship of Darth Vader's Executor, from the fictional Star Wars universe. It was built by the Kuat Drive Yards. It served as Ysanne Isard's private prison, then as the primary Imperi..
Lusatia
Lusatia Logo of Domowina Sorbian Flag Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech Lužice) is a historical region between the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers and the Elbe river in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg, south..
Lusatian culture
The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1300 BC-500 BC) in eastern Germany, most of Poland, parts of Czech Republic and Slovakia (in older articles described also as Czechoslovakia) and parts of Ukraine. It covers the Periods Montelius III (early Lusatian culture) ..
Lusatian Mountains
Lusatian Mountains (Czech: Lužické hory, German: Lausitzer Gebirge), a mountain range of Europe, on the southeastern border of Germany and the Czech Republic, east of the Elbe River, a continuation of the Erzgebirge which is west of the Elbe. The Lusatians themselves are an extension of the Sudete..
Lusatian Neisse
The Lusatian Neisse (Sorbian: Łužiska Nysa, Czech: Lužická Nisa, German: Lausitzer Neiße, Polish: Nysa Łużycka) is a river in the Czech Republic (54 km) and along the Polish-German border (198 km), in total 252 km long. It flows into Oder River near Guben. It originates in the Jizera Mountai..
Lusby, Maryland
Lusby is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,666 at the 2000 census. Geography Lusby is located at [38°21′13″N, 76°26′12″W] (38.353555, -76.436615)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United State..
Lusca
Lusca is also part of Dublin. The lusca is a name given to a sea monster reported from the Caribbean. It has been suggested by cryptozoologists, that the lusca is a hypothesised gigantic octopus far bigger than the known giant octopus of the Pacific genus Enteroctopus. Many reports of the creat..
Luschka's joints
In anatomy, Luschka's joints are formed between uncinate processes above and uncus below; see synovial. ..
Lusciano
Lusciano is a commune in the province of Caserta in Campania, Italy. Nearest communes AversaTrentola - Ducenta It is also the residential centre and has a residential complex named Aversa 2. Before the Fascism the comune included also Ducenta and its name was Lusciano e Ducenta (Lusciano and Duc..
Luscinia
Luscinia is a genus of small passerine birds formerly classed as members of the thrush family, but now considered to be Old World flycatchers. The species are: Bluethroat, Luscinia svecicaSiberian Rubythroat, Luscinia calliopeRufous-tailed Robin or Swinhoe's Nightingale, Luscinia sibilansThrus..
Luscious Jackson
Luscious Jackson was an all-woman band formed in 1991 in New York City. They performed a style of alternative music that combined hip hop, punk, folk and dance. The band is named for a basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers (Lucious Brown "Luke" Jackson). Contents 1 History2 Nota..
Luscombe
Luscombe aircraft was an aircraft manufacturer in the golden age of aviation. Contents 1 The Beginnings1.1 Specifications: Model 1 (Phantom)2 Trenton, New Jersey2.1 Specifications: Model 4 (Luscombe 90)3 Model 83.1 Dallas, Texas4 Model 114.1 Specificatio..
Luscombe 8
The Luscombe 8 is a series of high wing monoplanes designed in the late 1930s. Contents 1 Background1.1 Dallas, Texas2 Specifications: Model 8 (Luscombe 50)3 Specifications: Model 8A (Silvaire)4 Specifications: Model 8B (Silvaire)5 Specifications: Model 8C (Silvai..
Luscombe Castle
Luscombe Castle was built in 1800 for Charles Hoare, a prominent banker from the near by resort town of Dawlish, in the county of Devon. The house was designed by John Nash, and was a trendsetter for the Gothic Revival with its castellated tower and walls. The inside is simple Neo Classicism, but ..
Luseland Airport
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LUSENET
LUSENET was a free public bulletin-board system active from 1995 to 2005. Created as an experiment by MIT computer scientist and early internet entrepreneur Philip Greenspun, the TCL-based system was named as a pun combination of USENET and luser. Because LUSENET allowed anyone to start their own f..
Luser
SVensson's ITS on KLH-10 Welcome to SV! SV ITS.1648. PWORD.2660. TTY 11 2. Lusers, Fair Share = 2% One example of the usage of "luser". In Internet slang, a luser (sometimes expanded to local user; also luzer or luzzer) is a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritat..
Luserina Barows
Luserina Barows is a character from the Genso Suikoden series of roleplaying games Suikoden V. She is the daughter of Salum Barrows. Statistics Name: Luserina Barows Origin: Rainwall Age: 18 (Suikoden V) Race: Human Family: Salum Barows (father), Euram Barows (older brother). Affiliation: Prince of..
Lush
Lush may refer to: One prone to engage in excessive drinking of alcohol, see Drunkeness.Lush (band), a British shoegazing band.Lush (store), a cosmetics shop.The Lush programming language.Bristolian/South Wales word meaning very nice or good. eg."That biscuit was lush"This is a [disambiguati..
Lushai hills
The Lushai Hills are part of the Patkai range in Mizoram, India. It is inhabited mainly by tribal dwellers. External link [Mara district] ..
Lushan
Lushan is famous for its villas. Lushan (Simplified Chinese: }}}; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is the name of a region, and a mountain called Mount Lushan, in China's Jiangxi Province, located between Lake Boyang and the city of Jiujiang 29 33'58 N, 115 59'30 E. Its history dates thousand ..
Lushan Conference
The Lushan Conference (also known as the Lushan Plenum or the Eighth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee) began on July 23, 1959 and was an informal discussion about the Great Leap Forward. Contents 1 Original objective2 Unexpected twist3 Downfall of Peng Dehuai4 Consequen..
Lushan National Geological Park
The small peaks of the mountain range can be climbed by visitors. Lushan National Geological Park (also known as the Lushan National Park and the Lushan Geopark) is located in the Mount Lushan region of Jiangxi Province in the People's Republic of China, and extends across a 500 km² area to ..
Lusheng
The lusheng (traditional: [[wiktionary:蘆|蘆]][[wiktionary:笙|笙]]; simplified: [[wiktionary:芦|芦]][[wiktionary:笙|笙]]; also spelled lu sheng) is the Chinese name for a musical instrument with multiple bamboo pipes, each fitted with a free reed, which are fitted into a long blowing tube. ..
Lushington Falls
Lushington Falls (also known as Unchalli Falls) is a waterfall created by a 116 meter drop in the Aghanashini river. The falls are located 30 kilometers from Sirsi, a town in the Uttara Kannada District of of the Indian state of Karnataka. The falls are named for J. D. Lushington, a District Collect..
Lushnjë
Lushnjë (Albanian: Lushnjë (spelling LushñƏ) or Lushnja. Lushnjë dialect: Lushnje or Lushnja) is a town of Central-West Albania located at 40.95°N, 19.71°E. It is the center of the District of Lushnjë in the County of Fier and has a population of about 38,000 (2003 est.). The town was founde..
Lushnjë District
The District of Lushnjë (Albanian: Rrethi i Lushnjës) is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It has a population of 143,000 (2004 estimate), and an area of 712 km². It is in the west of the country, and its capital is Lushnjë. Other places in this district include Rrogozhinë. Dis..
Lushootseed
Lushootseed (also xwəlšucid, dxwləšúcid, Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, Skagit-Nisqually) is the language or dialect continuum of several Salish Native American groups of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is a member of two main divisions of the Salishan language grou..
Lushoto
Lushoto is one of the seven districts of the Tanga Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the northeast by Kenya, to the east by the Muheza District, to the northwest by the Kilimanjaro Region and to the south by the Korogwe District. According to the 2002 Tanzania National Census, the populati..
Lushton, Nebraska
Lushton is a village in York County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 33 at the 2000 census. Geography Lushton is located at [40°43′26″N, 97°43′28″W] (40.723807, -97.724476)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the vill..
Lush (band)
Lush were an English shoegazing band, formed in 1988 by Steve Rippon, Emma Anderson, Meriel Barham, Chris Acland and Miki Berenyi. Barham left nearly immediately, eventually settling in fellow shoegazing band Pale Saints. Robin Guthrie helped the band sign to 4AD and released Scar, an EP, in 198..
Lush (store)
Lush is a company based in Poole in Dorset in the UK that produces and sells hand-made bath products, soaps, body lotions and cosmetics. The first store was in the United Kingdom but now they have more than 185 shops in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ho..
Lush Life
For the John Coltrane album, see Lush Life (album). For the Billy Strayhorn song, see Lush Life (song). Lush Life was an American sitcom starring Lori Petty (A League of Their Own) and Karyn Parsons (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air). The two starred as totally different roommates who shared a studio a..
Lush Life (song)
Lush Life is a jazz standard song written by Billy Strayhorn from 1933 to 1938. One of its most notable recordings was by Nat King Cole. John Coltrane recorded it twice, once in 1957 as the title track of an album for Prestige Records, and once in 1962, with Johnny Hartman singing. External links ..
Lush programming language
Lush, the Lisp Universal Shell, is an object-oriented dialect of Lisp that was initially developed as a scripting language for machine learning applications, but can also be used for general purpose, systems, and network programming or administration tasks. Built around a compact and efficient Lisp..
Lusíada University
The Lusíada University (Universidade Lusíada) is a Portuguese private university. It was founded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1986. It later opened branches in the Portuguese cities of Oporto and Vila Nova de Famalicão, and abroad in Angola at Luanda, Benguela, and Cabinda. It is one of seven recognize..
Lusiana Lukman
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Lusia Strus
Lusia Strus is a neo-Futurist actress with a notable role as Adam Sandler's assistant in 50 First Dates. Hailing from Chicago, Strus has plied her trade in theatre and stage for close to two decades. ..
Lusignan
The Lusignan coat of arms: "Barry of eight, argent and azure" The Lusignan family originated in Poitou in western France. In the late 12th century Guy de Lusignan and his heirs came to rule the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus. Contents 1 Origins2 Crusader kings3&nb..
Lusignan, Guyana
Lusignan is a community on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Guyana. Lusignan public golf course. Lusignan Prison. ..
Lusik
Lusik and Marut are villages located on the absolute shoreline some 57 kilometres north of Madang on the North West Coast of Papua New Guinea, and are pristine examples of a traditional coastal villages. Lusik faces out to the open ocean, and Marut borders a bay overlooking Kabukum Island. On th..
Lusine
Lusine (also L'usine and Lusine ICL) is Texan Jeff McIlwain, an ambient/IDM musician. He currently lives in Seattle. Discography L'usine (released 1999 Label: Isophlux)A Pseudo Steady State (released 2000, Label: U-Cover)Coalition (released 2001, Label: U-Cover)Iron City (released 2002, Label: Mad ..
Lusine Zakaryan
Lusine Zakaryan, born Svetlana Zakaryan, (1937, Akhaltsikhe, Georgian SSR - 1992) was an Armenian opera singer (soprano). Growing up in southern Georgia, she moved with her family to Yerevan in 1952, where she attended a musical secondary school. She entered Yerevan Conservatory in 1957 and her sin..
Lusitania
This article concerns the Roman province. For other uses, see Lusitania (disambiguation). Lusitania was an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal, except for the area between the rivers Douro and Minho, and part of modern day western Spain, the present autonomous community..
Lusitanians
The Lusitanians (or Lusitani in Latin) were a tribe, or various tribes, from the western Iberian peninsula, which became the Roman province of Lusitania). They spoke a Lusitanian language. The modern Portuguese see the Lusitanians as their ancestors of the modern living in the western portion of th..
Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church
The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church (Portuguese: Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica) is the Anglican church in Portugal. The establishment of a constitutional monarchy in 1834 granted limited religious toleration to non-Roman Catholics, and consequently led to the op..
Lusitanian language
Lusitanian (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was a paleo-Iberian Indo-European language known by five inscriptions and numerous names of places (toponyms) and of gods (theonyms). The language was spoken before the Roman conquest of Lusitania, in the territory inhabited by Lusitanian tri..
Lusitanian mythology
Lusitanian (or Ancient Portuguese) Gods were later related with the Celtic and Roman invaders. The Lusitani people adopted the Celt and Roman cults and influenced them with theirs. Many Lusitani gods were adopted by the Romans. Endovelicus was the supreme god, being the god of health, and it forme..
Lusitania (disambiguation)
Lusitania is the ancient Roman province in western Hispania (or Iberia), corresponding to modern Portugal. The word Lusitania may also refer to: RMS Lusitania, the British ocean liner sunk by a German U-Boat in World War ILusitanians, the original Indo-European inhabitants of Lusitania (Proto-Celt..
Lusitania (planet)
Lusitania is a fictional planet from the science fiction novel of the Ender Wiggin series, Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. It is named after the Roman name, in Latin, for Portugal, so, it stands to reason that the inhabitants are Catholic Portuguese. This planet is inhabited by all three R..
Lusitanic
Portuguese Language Communities of the World Lusitanic is a term used to categorize persons who share the linguistic and cultural traditions of the Portuguese-speaking nations of Portugal, Brazil, Macau, East Timor, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea Bissau and..
Lusitano
The Lusitano is a breed of horse from Portugal that closely resembles the Andalusian. Like the Andalusian, it is also an Iberian horse. It was used as a cavalry and carriage horse, but today excels in bullfighting, due to its very calm temperament, and great agility and speed. The breed is also us..
Lusitanos
Lusitanos is an Andorran football club. ..
Lusitanosaurus
Lusitanosaurus (meaning "Portuguese lizard") is a genus of dinosaur from the early Jurassic period. It is a Thyreophoran of the Scelidosauridae. The genus was first described by Lapparent and Zbyszewski in 1957. It is only known from a partial skull and teeth, and is considered nomen dubium. Lusit..
Lusitano Stadium
Lusitano Stadium located in Ludlow, Massachusetts; is a 3,000 seating stadium built in 1918 that is now currently used for soccer. Currently its tennents are the Western Mass Pioneers of the USL Second Division, and the Western Mass Lady Pioneers of the W-League. Current Stadiums in the USL Secon..
Lusius Quietus
Lusius Quietus was a Roman general and governor of Iudaea in 117. Originally a Moorish prince, his military ability won him the favor of Trajan, who even designated him as his successor. During the emperor's Parthian campaign the numerous Jewish inhabitants of Babylonia revolted, and were relentles..
Lusk's Ferry, Illinois
Lusk's Ferry was a place where pioneers crossed the Ohio River from Kentucky into Illinois. Some sources say that Golconda, Illinois was once called "Lusk's Ferry". Others say that the name properly refers to the place across the River, in Livingston County, Kentucky. Lusk's Ferry was a terminus of..
Lusk's Ferry Road
Lusk's Ferry Road was an early road in Illinois that provided an overland connection between the main settlement, Fort Kaskaskia, on the Mississippi River, and Lusk's Ferry, an important crossing point on the Ohio River. The overland route afforded an alternative to the river route, which required a..
Lusk, Wyoming
Lusk is a town in Niobrara County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,447 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Niobrara County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Notable people born in Lusk4 Trivia5 External links ..
Lusk Creek
Lusk Creek is a creek located in southeastern Illinois. It is a tributary of the Ohio River, which it joins at Golconda. Lusk Creek flows through the Lusk Creek Canyon, which is perhaps the wildest place in Illinois. Only a single highway bridge crosses the canyon. The watershed is almost entirely..
Lusk Creek Canyon
Lusk Creeck Canyon is the name of a canyon and National Natural Landmark located in Pope County, Illinois. The area is a large gorge formed by the erosion of sandstone. ..
Lusk Reservoir
Lusk Reservoir is located next to Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy at West Point. It is open for fishing in the Spring and early Fall, and usually freezes over during the winter months. The number of gallons in Lusk Reservoir is required knowledge of all freshman (plebes)..
Lusmagh
Lusmagh is an area and townland in Offaly, Republic of Ireland. It is also a Roman Catholic parish, in the Doicese of Clonfert, the only one east of the River Shannon. ..
Lusoga language
Lusoga is a Bantu language spoken in the Busoga region of Uganda by approximately 1 500 000 people. References Fallers, Margaret Chave (1960) The eastern lacustrine Bantu (Ganda and Soga). Ethnographic survey of Africa: East central Africa, Vol 11. London: International African Institute. Ex..
Lusones
The Lusones were an ancient Celtiberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They spoke a variety of the Celtiberian language. They should not be confused with the Lusitanians, even if a relation between them both is plausible. External links [Detailed map of the P..
Lusophobia
Lusophobia (Lusofobia) is a hostility toward Portugal or the Portuguese language. Like Lusitanic, the word derives from Lusitania, the Ancient Roman province covering nearly three quarters of modern Portugal and part of western central Spain. The term is used in Portuguese speaking countries, and it..
Lusophone
A Lusophone is someone who speaks the Portuguese language natively or by adoption. As an adjective, it means "Portuguese-speaking." The word itself is derived from the name of the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, which covered an area that is today Portugal. The notion of "Lusophone" reaches be..
Lusophone music
Portugal and its former colonies are linked musically by the shared influence of fado, a bluesy form of music derived from itinerants in Lisbon. In varying forms, the genre has dominated Portuguese music since the early 20th century, and has also spread to its former colonies, especially Brazil and..
Lusotitan
Lusotitan is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was a brachiosaurid sauropod with long forearms, one of the hallmarks of the brachiosaur family. Its fossils were found in Portugal. The type species is Lusotitan atalaiensis. Originally described as Brachiosaurus atalai..
Luso American
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Luss
Luss is a village in the Argyll & Bute region of Scotland, on the west bank of Loch Lomond, Scotland's largest freshwater loch. Its original name is Clachan dubh - dark village, probably because of Ben Lomond which towers over the Loch and its villages. Saint Kessog brought Christianity to Luss in..
Lussatite
Lussatite Is described in Dana's Textbook of Mineralogy 4th ed. page 473. It was first described by the Frenchman E. Mallard, One of the earliest mineralogists to examine common opals using the optical microscope. As it appeared to be a distinct mineral, he gave it the name 'lussatite.' His conclusi..
Lusser's Law
Lusser's Law is a prediction of reliability named after Robert Lusser. It states that the reliability of a series system is equal to the product of the reliability of its component subsystems, if their failure modes are known to be statistically independent. ..
Lussery-Villars
Lussery-Villars is a municipality in the district of Cossonay of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. On 1 January, 1999, Lussery and Villars-Lussery merged to form the municipality. ..
Lussier Hot Springs
Lussier Hot Springs is a quaint and undeveloped hot spring just inside Whiteswan Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia, a province of Canada. Access Access is East off Highway 93/95 at the Whiteswan Provincial Park exit (located 22 km North of Skookumchuck or 8 km South of Canal Flats). Tak..
Lussy-sur-Morges
Lussy-sur-Morges is a commune in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges. External links http://www.lussy-sur-morges.ch ..
Lust
Lust is any intense desire or craving, usually sexual, although it is also common to speak of a "lust for life" or a "lust for power" or other goals. As a sexual term, lust implies a sexual desire in and of itself, an erotic arousal and wish, or intense physical or sexual attraction or craving. I..
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Lustenau
Coat of Arms Map General information Federal State: Vorarlberg Bezirk: Dornbirn Area: 22,55 km² Population: 20.806 (30 September, 2004) Population density: 905/km² Elevation: 404 m Postal code: A-6890 Area code: +43 5577 Website: http://www.lustenau.a..
Luster
Luster could refer to: For the file system called Lustre, see Lustre (file system).For the municipality in Norway, see Luster, Norway.For the synchronous programming language, see Lustre programming languageThere is also a color grading software called Lustre, developed by Autodesk Media and Entert..
Luster, Norway
Luster kommune County Sogn og Fjordane District Sogn Municipality NO-1426]] Administrative centre Gaupne Mayor (2003) Torodd Urnes (KrF) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage km²2,603 km²0.84 % 2004) - Percentage..
Lusternia, Age of Ascension
Lusternia is a MUD created by Iron Realms Entertainment. It is set in a valley called the Basin of Life, where the forces of civilization and nature war over villages that produce magical energy known as 'power'. The unique thing regarding this game is its massive history and the fact that "evil" ch..
Lusterware
Lusterware is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic sheen that gives the effect of iridescence, produced by metallic oxides and an overglaze finish. This style was popular with and likely invented by Persian potters in the 9th century. Lusterware was also produced during the reign of th..
Luster (movie)
Luster is a 1992 US film about a young gay man called Jackson. Jackson loves the freedom of not being bound to a partner and therefore being able to enjoy his life. Plot synopsis [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Luster is a refreshingly funny and sexy..
Lustfaust
Lustfaust was a pioneering band from West Berlin active from the mid 70s to the early 80s. They employed numerous musical strategies usually stemming from the wide variations in age and experience of the bands regular members. They were certainly involved with early industrial, noise and electronic..
Lustgarten
Lustgarten (English: Pleasure Garden) is a park in Museum Island in Berlin. It originally belonged to the Berlin City Palace. After German reunification, the park was redone by Hans Loidl, who won a competition to choose a landscape architect to design Lustgarten. At its north side the Old Museu..
Lustleigh
Lustleigh is a small village nestled in the Wrey Valley, between Bovey Tracey and Moretonhampstead. It is inside the Dartmoor National Park. The village centre is focused around the church of St John the Baptist. Surrounding this are a variety of old buildings, many of which are thatched. There..
Lustleigh May Day
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. Lustleigh May Day is an ann..
Lustmord
Lustmord is also a German and Swedish word that means "lust murder". Brian "Lustmord" Williams is a musician credited with creating the dark ambient genre with the influential album, "Heresy" - a relentlessly dark work that sounds like a journey through Hell. He started recording with the industri..
Lustnau
Lustnau is a subdivision of Tübingen. It became a part of Tübingen in 1934. Its present population is around 10,000 and the area is 1.43 km² and is the largest subdivision in Tübingen. Lustnau has two kindergarten schools, a school and a high school. Contents 1 History2 Events3&nb..
Lustra
Lustra may refer to: Lustra (band), a rock band best known for the song "Scotty Doesn't Know" in the movie Eurotrip.Lustrum (plural "Lustra"), a period of five yearsLustra (poetry), by Ezra PoundLustra, Italy, a commune in the province of Salerno (Campania) This is a [disambiguationdisambigu..
Lustratio
Lustratio was an ancient Roman purification ceremony, involving a procession and the sacrifice of a pig, a ram, and a bull (suovetaurilia). The procession traced a "magical boundary" around the area to be purified. The ceremony was designed to purify the area from all previous religious lapses as ..
Lustration
Lustration is, literally, "a sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified" and in the past it used to refer to a specific type of religious ceremony. However, during the period after the fall of the va..
Lustra (band)
[[http://www.lustramusic.com/images/4photos.jpg]]PART I: BASIC It all started with fine wine and cheeses. Ok, it was cheap beer and stolen cigarettes. In any case, Chris and Nick met in a film and video class on the campus of U-Mass and soon formed a band, as if by a slightly drunken accident. A few..
Lustre
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lustre can mean many things: For the file system called Lustre, see Lustre (file system).For the municipality in Norway, see Luster, Norway.For the synchronous programming language, see Lustre programming languageThere is also a co..
Lustre (file system)
Lustre is a Free Software distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing. The name is a merge of Linux and clusters. The project aims to provide a file system to cope with clusters of tens of thousands of nodes with petabytes of storage capacity, without compromising on ..
Lustre (mineralogy)
For other senses of this word, see lustre. Lustre (American English: luster) is a description of the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. For example, a diamond is said to have an adamantine lustre and pyrite is said to have a metallic lustre. The word lustre traces..
Lustre programming language
Lustre is a formally defined, declarative, and synchronous data-flow programming language, for programming reactive systems. It began as a research project in the early 1980s. In 1993, it progressed to practical, industrial use, in a commercial product, as the core language of the industrial environ..
Lustria
In Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, Lustria is a region located to the south of the Naggaroth, modelled in many ways on medieval South America. Lustria is inhabited by the Lizardmen. They are based upon the Maya, Aztec, Inca and Toltec people that had great empires or kingdoms..
Lustron house
The Lustron house was developed in the post-World War II era in response to the shortage of houses for returning GIs. Contents 1 History2 Preservation3 See also4 External links History In 1947, Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund, who had worked with construct..
Lustrum
Lustrum was a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors of Rome in name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census, and which took place after a period of five years, so that the name came to denote a period of that length. This article incorporates ..
Lustybeg Island
Lustybeg Island is an island located in Lower Lough Erne, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. In the early 20th century, Lady Hunt from Alberta in Canada owned Lustymore Island and Lustybeg Island. When her residence, Glenvar House, on Lustymore was accidentally burned down, Lady Hunt moved to Ge..
Lustymore Island
Lustymore Island is an island located in Lower Lough Erne, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Nearby Boa Island, in its Caldragh cemetery has a carved Janus type figure. A second figure was brought to Caldragh in 1939 from Lustymore Island. In the early 20th century, Lady Hunt from Alberta i..
Lusty Lady
Lusty Lady is also a biweekly sex-related column by Rachel Kramer Bussel in the Village Voice Marquee of the Seattle Lusty Lady, Thanksgiving 2005 Lusty Lady is the name of two peep show establishments, one in downtown Seattle and one in the North Beach district of San Francisco. Contents ..
Lust for a Vampire
Lust For a Vampire is a 1971 British Hammer Horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster, starring Yutte Stensgaard, Michael Johnston and Barbara Jefford. It is the second film in the so-called Karnstein Trilogy loosely based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla. It was preceeded by The Vampire Lo..
Lust For Blood (album)
Lust For Blood is the eleventh original album by industrial/Gothic band Velvet Acid Christ. The album is scheduled to be released in 2006 along with a promotional single, Wound. Track listing In November 2005, Velvet Acid Christ musician Bryan Erickson posted a tentative track list for the album ..
Lust for Life
Lust for Life may refer to: Lust for Life (novel)Lust for Life (1956 movie)Lust for Life (album)Lust for Life (song) 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 poin..
Lust for Life (album)
Lust for Life is a 1977 album by Iggy Pop, his second collaboration with David Bowie following The Idiot, released earlier in the year. As well as being a critical success, it was Pop's most commercially popular album to date. The title track gained further exposure two decades later when it was f..
Lust for Life (film)
Lust for Life is a 1956 film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and George Cukor and produced by John Houseman. It stars Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela B..
Lust for Life (novel)
Lust for Life (1934) is a biographical novel written by Irving Stone and is based on the life of the famous Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one. It is Irving Stone's first major..
Lust for Life (song)
Lust for Life is a 1977 song by Iggy Pop, featuring on the album Lust for Life. Co-written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie, the song is known for its drumbeat which opens the song. The guitar riff has been closely imitated by other songs such as Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet and The Sporting Life by ..
Lust in Phaze
Lust in Phaze is a 2002 'best of' compilation album composed of tracks recorded by the band Soul Coughing. The album is composed of, in order, six tracks from the LP Ruby Vroom; the hitherto unreleased song "Buddha Rhubarb Butter"; "Unmarked Helicopters", also found on the X-Files tribute album Son..
Lust in the Dust
"Lust in the Dust" is a movie starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Cesar Romero, and Lainie Kazan. Lust in the Dust tells the story of a lonely, large dancehall girl (Divine) wandering through the desert in search of the town of Chile Verde. She happens upon Hunter as a hunky, butch and silent cowboy who ..
Lust murder
A lust murder is a homicide in which the offender stabs, cuts, pierces, slashes, or otherwise mutilates the sexual organs or areas of the victim's body. The mutilation of the victim may include evisceration and/or displacement of the genitalia. It also includes such activities as posing and propping..
Lusus
In the Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) of Luís de Camões (printed 1572), the literary work that was created to form a national epic for Portugal, Lusus was progenitor of his tribe (the "Lusiads") and founder of Lusitania, the Roman province that roughly corresponded to modern Portugal. Among its Iberian a..
Lu Sheng-yen
Lu Sheng-Yen (盧勝彥) (1945-) is the spiritual leader of the True Buddha School, a new religious movement based on the ideals of Taoism, Sutrayana and Tantric Buddhism. Lu is revered by his disciples as a "Living Buddha", called Lian-sheng. (蓮生活佛). His organization claims that over fiv..
Lu Sidao
Lu Sidao (531-582) (Chinese 盧思道) as a Sui dynasty poet, also called Zixing 子行. He was from Fanyang Commandery (part of modern Beijing). ..
Lu sin
Lu sin,a native of Jiao Zhi.First general under Wu Ling Leader Shen Ryong.A fictional character from the Three Kingdoms era of ancient china. Contents 1 Life2 Qualities3 Family4 Quotations Life Lu sin was raised under his father Lu Zhu he served the prefect of Jiao Zhi until..
Lu Su
Lu Su (鲁肃) was an advisor for the kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of ancient China, having taken over the position from Zhou Yu. During the Battle of Chi Bi, Lu Su served as a close advisor to Zhou Yu and a liaison with Liu Bei's forces. Upon Zhou Yu's death, Lu Su was put in cha..
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