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L&YR Class 21The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 21 is a class of small 0-4-0ST steam locomotive designed for shunting. The LMS gave them the power classification 0F. Preservation Two have survived to preservation, these are L&YR 68 (later LMS 11218 and BR 51218) and 1910-built L&YR 19 (LMS ..
L&YR Class 23The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 23 is a class of 0-6-0ST steam locomotive. One, L&YR 752 (LMS 11456) is preserved, having been sold to the NCB and as of 2005 is undergoing an overhaul to bring her back to working order. ..
L&YR Class 25The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Class 25 is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive. They were introduced in 1876 by new locomotive superintendent William Barton Wright and 280 were built in total. Some were later converted to saddle tanks. The first was withdrawn in 1930 but the class remaine..
L&YR Class 27The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 27 is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed for freight work. They were designed by John Aspinall. One, 1896-built L&YR number 1300 (later LMS 12322 and BR 52322) has survived to preservation on the East Lancashire Railway. The Rebuild The Re..
L&YR Class 28The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 28 is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive, designed by George Hughes. Is is the rebuild of Aspinall's Class 27, due to the addition of a Belpaire firebox and the extension of the footplate and front sandboxes. The Class 28 was the inspiration for Jame..
L&YR Class 5The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Class 5 is a class of 2-4-2T steam locomotive. Preservation The first of the class, 1008 is preserved as a static exhibit in the National Railway Museum. ..
LyraLyra click for larger image Abbreviation Lyr Genitive Lyrae Symbology the Lyre Right ascension 19 h Declination 40° Area Ranked 52nd Number of stars(magnitude < 3) 1 Brightest star App. magnitude 0.03) Meteor showers LyridsJune LyridsAlpha Lyrids Borderingconstell..
Lyra's OxfordLyra's Oxford is a short book by Philip Pullman depicting an episode involving the heroine of His Dark Materials, Pullman's bestselling trilogy. Lyra's Oxford is set when Lyra Silvertongue is sixteen, shortly after the end of the trilogy. It was released to whet the appetite of fans of the trilogy..
Lyran AllianceThe Lyran Alliance is a fictional state in the BattleTech universe. It was created as a result of a deal between Thomas Marik and Kathrine Steiner-Davion. To prevent the Free Worlds League from discontinuing supplies for the war against the Clans to the rest of the Inner Sphere, Victor Steiner-Dav..
Lyran CommonwealthThe Lyran Commonwealth was a fictional interstellar state in the game BattleTech supposedly formed in the year 2341 and disbanded in 3056 to join the Federated Commonwealth. Its successor is the Lyran Alliance which is the name by which the Lyran state now goes by. The Lyran Commonwealth was formed ..
Lyran Star EmpireIn the fictional Star Fleet Universe as represented in the range of games from Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. as well as the first two Star Fleet Command games (and the Orion Pirates stand-alone addon for Starfleet Command II) from Taldren, the Lyrans are a felinoid race possessing a stellar empire ..
Lyra (disambiguation)Lyra can refer to: Lyra, or lyre, the stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity (see also Cretan music).Lyra, a constellation.The RCA Lyra, a line of digital audio playersK. Lyra, a Belgian football clubLyra Belacqua, one of the two protagonists in Philip Pullman's H..
Lyra BelacquaLyra Belacqua is the heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a parallel universe to our own. Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between angels and a false deity called The Authori..
Lyra OrpheeLyra Orphee is a character from the Saint Seiya manga/anime. He was introduced in the Hades arc, and is based on the Greek mythological character of the same name. While he is officially a silver saint, it is stated that his cosmos rivals even those of gold saints. Contents 1 Statistics2&n..
Lyra ReefLyra Reef (2°S 153.5°) is a large reef located approximately 200 kilometers northeast of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. ..
Lyra Township, MinnesotaLyra Township is a township in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 378 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 91.7 km² (35.4 mi²). 91.7 km² (35.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it ..
Lyra violThe lyra viol is a small bass viol, used primarily in England in the seventeenth century. While the instrument itself differs little from the standard consort viol, there is a large and important repertoire which was developed specifically for the lyra viol. The lyra viol can approximate polyphoni..
LyrceaIn Greek mythology, Lyrcea was a plain where Io was born. ..
LyreGreek vase with muse playing kithara A lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by it. The lyre is a member of the zither family, and was ordinarilly played by strumming, like a guitar, rather t..
LyrebirdA Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. They are the: Superb Lyrebird or Weringerong (Menura novaehollandiae) is found in areas of wet forest in Victoria an..
LyrestadLyrestad is a village of Mariestad Municipality in Sweden. In Lyrestad the main Stockholm - Gothenburg railway crosses the Göta Canal. ..
Lyretail damselfishThe lyretail damselfishes are fishes in the genus Neopomacentrus in the family Pomacentridae. Species Neopomacentrus anabatoides (Bleeker, 1847)Neopomacentrus aquadulcis Jenkins and Allen, 2002Neopomacentrus azysron (Bleeker, 1877)Neopomacentrus bankieri (Richardson, 1846)Neopomacentrus cyanomos ..
LyricLook up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lyric may refer to: Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of viewLyric, from the Greek language, a song sung with a lyreLyrics, the composition in verse which is sung to a melody to constitute..
Lyrical BalladsLyrical Ballads, with its publication in 1798, is classically considered to have marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in literature. The book was a joint venture between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned and ..
Lyrical CommissionLyrical Commission are a Melbourne-based, Australian hip hop outfit, who released their debut album The Stage Is Set in 2002, Lyrical Commission is comprised of Trem, Brad Strut, Bob Balans, and DJ J-Red. J-Red has won several Australian DJ battles such as DMC, ITF, VESTAX and has placed in the w..
Lyrical danceLyrical dance is a fusion of ballet and jazz techniques. Lyrical dance challenges choreographers and dancers to use motion to interpret music and express emotion. A lyrical dancer's movements attempts to show the meaning of the music. Choreographers use connected and flowing movements to tell the s..
LyricistA lyricist is an author of song lyrics. Some lyricists are also musical composers, while others team up with composers. There have been many such famous song-writing teams, such as George Gershwin (music) and his brother Ira Gershwin (lyrics). George Gershwin also wrote many of his own lyrics. I..
Lyricist LoungeThe Lyricist Lounge Show was the first sketch show of its kind, combining comedy with hip-hop music, creating sketches with raps interspersed throughout the sketches. A by-product of the immedsely popular New York-based hip-hop showcase, Lyricist Lounge, "The Lyricist Lounge Show" combined tradit..
Lyricist Lounge, Volume OneLyricist Lounge, Volume One is the first installment of Rawkus Records Lyricist Lounge album series, based on the infamous Lyricist Lounge showcases in New York. The double-disc compilation features De La Soul, Mos Def, Q-Tip, Tash of Tha Alkaholiks, Punch & Words, O.C., Ras Kass, Black Thought, C..
Lyricist Lounge: West CoastLyricist Lounge: West Coast is the third installment of the Lyricist Lounge series, released in November 2002. This compilation was not released on Rawkus Records like the previous two Lyricist Lounge releases, and was not as successful as the past installments. Unlike the first two Lyricist Loung..
Lyricist Lounge 2Lyricist Lounge 2 is the second installment in Rawkus Records Lyricist Lounge album series. The release was one of Rawkus' most commercially successful releases, featuring the hit crossover singles, "Oh No" and "Get Up", the former charting on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite its success, Lyricist L..
LyricoLyrico (aka Harumi Tsuyuzaki 露崎春女; born April 11, 1974 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a female Japanese pop, R&B, soul singer and songwriter. Shortly after her debut in 1995, she achieved a fame as an extraordinarily talented singer. With her astonishing vocal skills and unique songwriting talent, L..
LyriconThe lyricon is an electronic wind instrument, the first to be constructed. Invented by Bill Bernardi, it was manufactured by a company called Computone Inc in Massachusetts. The lyricon enabled instrumentalists to control a synthesizer by playing a type of electronic saxophone, the synthesizer bein..
LyricsLyrics are the words in songs. Lyrics can be written as the accompanying music is composed, or added afterwards. Sometimes, however, music is adapted to or written for a song or poem that has already been written. A person who writes lyrics is called a lyricist. The meaning conveyed in lyrical verse..
Lyrics: 1962 - 1985Lyrics: 1962 - 1985 is a book compiling all of Bob Dylan's lyrics from the beginning of his career in 1962 until 1985. The book also contains his notes, lyrics to never released songs and some of his drawings. It followed his book Writing and Drawing. ..
Lyrics BornCover of Same Shit Different Day Album Lyrics Born (formerly Asia Born, born Tom Shimura in Tokyo, Japan in 1972), is a half-Japanese-American, half-Italian-American hip hop MC. Through his childhood he lived in Tokyo and Salt Lake City, Utah, and has lived most of his life in the San Francis..
LyrictrackerThe LyricTracker Project was founded in 2000 in Europe. It aims to be the most complete song lyrics and information database on the web and contains lyrics exclusively provided by its users. 3rd party database access The LyricTracker database can be accessed using a XML-based HTTP backend called SO..
Lyricus Teaching OrderInformation about the Lyricus Teaching Order comes from two websites (see External Links, below). The first website was the Wingmakers website, then a new website specific to the Lyricus Teaching Order was created. The newer website for the Lyricus Teaching Order describes the Wingmakers website ..
Lyric Opera HouseThe Lyric Opera House is a music venue in Baltimore, Maryland. It opened in 1894, and was modelled after the Neues Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany. It is currently the home of the Baltimore Opera and institutions which have performed in the Lyric Opera include the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (unt..
Lyric Opera of ChicagoThe Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1954. The company's permanent home is the Civic Opera House, a 1929 structure with an Art Deco interior. Its 3,563-seat capacity makes it the second-largest opera auditorium in Nort..
Lyric opera san diegoLyric Opera San Diego was founded in 1979, primarily for the purpose of performing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. At the time it was known as the San Diego Gilbert and Sullivan Company. The focus of the company changed in 1990, when Leon Natker was hired as General Director, and the company was ren..
Lyric PiecesTitle page of the fourth volume of Lyric Pieces Lyric Pieces (Norwegian: Lyriske stykker) is a collection of 66 small to medium sized pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published across 10 volumes, from 1867 (op. 12) to 1901 (op. 71). The collection includes several of h..
Lyric poetryLyric poetry is a form of poetry that does not attempt to tell a story, as do epic poetry and dramatic poetry, but is of a more personal nature instead. Rather than portraying characters and actions, the lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feelings, states of mind, an..
Lyric RecordsLyric Records was the name of two different record labels of the early 20th century. Lyric Records (Germany) - GermanyLyric Records (US) - U.S...
Lyric Records (Germany)Lyric Records was a Germany based label marketing gramophone records to the British market prior to World War I. At least some of the master recordings were originally from other labels, including Polyphon and Favourite. See also List of record labelsLyric Records (US) ..
Lyric Records (US)Lyric Records was a record company based in the United States of America from about 1917 to 1920. The parent company of Lyric Records was initially listed on the label as the Lyraphone Company of America, New York City, although actually headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. Later labels reflecte..
Lyric School of ActingFounded in 2001, Lyric School of Acting is now widely considered one of Canada’s premiere acting schools, boasting an international roster of award-winning television and film actors. ..
Lyric SopranoLyric Soprano A soprano who uses a light quality in her voice, high tessitura, and great agility. This combination of techniques classifies them as Lyric Sopranos. It is also referred as a female singer with a slightly higher range than a Dramatic Soprano and has more upper range than of a soubre..
Lyric sopranoLyric soprano - A sweet, graceful female voice, with range similar to that of the soubrette but with a stronger quality, and stronger upper register. In opera, reserved for ingenues and other sympathetic characters. From fach: Lyrischer Sopran English equivalent: Lyric sopranoRange: From middle C..
Lyric Street RecordsLyric Street Records is a record label owned by The Walt Disney Company. The label is a country artist label. Artist incuded in their roster are Rascal Flatts, SHeDAISY, previous American Idol contestant Josh Gracin, Trent Tomlinson, and Sarah Buxton. See also List of record labels External li..
Lyric Suite (Berg)Lyric Suite is a string quartet written by Alban Berg from 1925 to 1926 and (publicly) dedicated to Alexander von Zemlinsky . Contents 1 Composition and analysis2 Recordings3 Movements4 Tone rows4.1 Movement I4.2 Movement III4.3 Movement VI4.4 Constructive ..
Lyric TheatreLyric Theatre (sometimes "Theater", the American spelling) is a common name for performing-arts houses, including: Australia Lyric Theatre Brisbane, QueenslandLyric Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales U.S. Lyric Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri.Lyric Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.Lyric Theatre..
Lyric Theatre, DublinThe Lyric Theatre grew out of Austin Clarke's Dublin Verse Speaking Society. It operated out of the Abbey Theatre's downstairs studio theatre, the Peacock from 1941 to 1944 and the Abbey proper from 1944 to 1951 when it closed as a consequence of the fire that destroyed the building. References Pr..
Lyric Theatre (London)The Lyric Theatre is a theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue London, the heart of the West End. It is now the oldest surviving theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. Its capacity is 932. It was designed by C.J. Phipps in the late Victorian age when the West End was being built up as a centre of theatre. It was kno..
LyrinxLyrinx are fictional humanoids in Ian Irvine's quartet The Well of Echoes Contents 1 General Description2 Lyrinx Characters3 Origins4 The Fate Of The Lyrinx General Description Lyrinx are described as 8 foot tall humanoids with huge wings, armour plating, six inch claws on t..
LyriocephalusClassification of genus Lyriocephalus Lyriocephalus scutatus ..
LyrisLyris Technologies Inc. is an email marketing firm located in Emeryville, California. It is a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey Corporation OTCBB: [jlhy]. It was originally founded by John Buckman and Jan Hanford. J.L. Halsey Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Lyris Technologies..
LyritaLyrita Recorded Edition was a classical music label, specialising in the works of British composers. The bulk of Lyrita's catalogue focused on orchestral and symphonic works, including otherwise neglected composers at that time, including Havergal Brian, Edmund Rubbra, Arnold Bax, Deryck Cooke, Hum..
Lyrup, South AustraliaLyrup is a town in South Australia's rural Riverland area. Lyrup (about ([34°10′S 140°44′E])) is located on the banks of the Murray River. It is 267 kilometres north-east of Adelaide, the capital of the state of South Australia and 25 kilometres from Renmark. As of 2000, the popu..
LYR electric unitsThe Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway electrified urban railway lines in Liverpool and Manchester in order to improve the service offered against the competition being put up by new electric tramways. Liverpool electrification In Liverpool, the 600 V DC third rail system was adopted. The first line ..
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