Leonhart Fuchs
Leonhart Fuchs was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock
La Scala
La Scala was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal Theatre at La Scala. Today the theatre is recognised as one of the leading opera and ballet theatres in the world and is home to the La Scala Theatre Chorus, La Scala Theatre Ballet and La Scala Theatre Orchestra.
Lady Be Good
Lady Be Good was an American B-24D Liberator of the United States Army Air Forces, serial number 41-24301, during World War II. Based at Benina Airfield in Soluch (today Suluq), Libya, it crashed in April 1943 returning from a mission and was later discovered in 1959 hundreds of miles into the Sahara with its crew mysteriously missing.
Lake Vostok
Lake Vostok is the largest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Antarctica. It is located beneath Russia's Vostok Station, 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) under the surface of the central Antarctic ice sheet, within the Australian Antarctic Territory.
Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey.
Lapham’s Quaterly
Lapham's Quarterly is a literary magazine established in 2007 by former Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham. Each issue examines a theme using primary source material from history.
L’Ardia di San Costantino Festival
One of the biggest festivals in Sardinia is L’ardia Di San Costantino, commemorating Constantine’s victory over Maxentious at the Mulvian Bridge in 312, where Constantine is reported to have seen a flaming cross inscribed with the words “in this sign thou shall conquer”. Every year on July 5th through 7th, Constantine’s charge is recreated with a monumental horse race held on the grounds of the Sanctuario DI San Costantino, just outside Sedilo’s eastern boundary.
La Ardilla Roja
La Ardilla Roja is a film by Julio Medem.
Lord Frederic Hamilton
Lord Frederick was the first person to introduce skiing to Canada. And he wrote The Vanished Pomps Of Yesterday Being Some Random Reminiscences Of A British Diplomat.
La Palace
Le Palace was, from 1978 through 1983, a fashionable Parisian place where relations between fashion, music, "Parisian chic", and underground culture crystallized.