Lech Walesa Lech Walesa is a Poland politician, a former trade union and human rights activist, and also a former electrician. He co-founded Solidarity , the Eastern bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 .
	Lechwe The Lechwe, or Southern Lechwe, is an antelope found in Okavango Delta of Botswana, the Kafue Flats and Bengwelu Swamps of Zambia, and the very southeast of Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lechwe stand 90 to 100 centimetres at the shoulder and weigh from 70 to 120 kilograms.
	Lecithin Lecithin is mostly a mixture of glycolipids, triglycerides, and phospholipids. However, in biochemistry, lecithin is usually used as a synonym for pure phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid which is the major component of a phosphatide fraction which may be isolated from either egg yolk or soy beans from which it is mechanically or chemically extracted using hexane.]
	Lectin Lectins are a type of receptor protein of non-immune origin that specifically interact with sugar molecules without modifying them. These proteins recognize and bind specifically to monosaccharides and are classified by which sugar they recognize. Most lectins recognize either N-acetylneuraminic acid, N-Acetylglucosamine, N-Acetylgalactosamine, galactose, mannose, or fucose.
	Lecture A lecture is an oral presentation intended to teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theories and equations. A politician's speech, a minister's sermon, or even a businessman's sales presentation may be similar in form to a lecture.
	Lecythidaceae The Lecythidaceae is a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species woody plants native to tropical South America and Madagascar. There are two subfamilies, subdivided into several separate families by some authors: *Foetidioideae. Madagascar. Includes only Foetidia.
	LEd LaTeX Editor, called later LEd, is a freeware environment for rapid TeX/LaTeX document development. LaTeX Editor is designed to work on Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. LEd's capabilities vary according to the operating system used, e.g., Visual Styles from Windows XP.
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	Lederhosen Lederhosen are knee-breeches made of leather. Lederhosen is a frequently misspelled and mispronounced word in the English language as "leiderhosen" or "liederhosen" and should be pronounced "laederhoesen". They are made, in order of quality, from Red Deer, goat, calf, or pig hide.
	Ledger line A ledger line or leger line is a tool of musical notation to express notes that do not fall on the regular lines or spaces of the musical staff. A short line is drawn parallel to the lines on the staff, corresponding to where the staff line would be if the note were in range.
	Ledum Ledum is a genus name formerly widely recognised in the family Ericaceae, including 8 species of evergreen shrubs native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and commonly known as Labrador Tea. Recent Genetics evidence has shown that the species previously treated in this genus are correctly placed in the genus Rhododendron, where they are now treated as Rhododendron subsect.
	Lee De Forest Lee De Forest, was an United States inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion tube, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use of electronics.
	Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald was, according to four United States government investigations, the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. On November 22, 1963, Oswald was arrested on suspicion of killing President Kennedy and Dallas, Texas policeman J. D. Tippit earlier that day.
	Lee Krasner Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionism painter in the second half of the 20th Century. She was born in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. Lee studied with Hans Hofmann starting in 1937. Hofmann exposed Krasner to the works of Picasso, Matisse, and other European abstract painters.
	Lee Strasberg *Red Rust - Actor *Green Grow the Lilacs - Actor *Paul Green - Co-Director *1931 - Director *Success Story - Director *Men in White - Director *Gentlewoman - Director *Gold Eagle Guy - Director *Paradise Lost - Theatrical producer by Group Theatre
	Leech Leeches are annelids comprising the subclass Hirudinea. There are freshwater, terrestrial and marine leeches. Like their near relatives, the Oligochaeta, they share the presence of a clitellum. Like earthworms, leeches are hermaphrodites. The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, which is native to Europe, and its congeners have been used for clinical bloodletting for thousands of years.
	Leeds Leeds is a major city in the Northern England county of Yorkshire and the urban core of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire. Since 1974 it is the larger City of Leeds which holds City status in the United Kingdom.
	Leek The leek is a vegetable belonging, with onion and garlic, to the Alliaceae, the onion family. Also in this species are two very different vegetables: The elephant garlic grown for its bulbs, and kurrat which is grown for its leaves in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East.
	Leeward Islands The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles.
	Leflunomide Leflunomide is a medication of the DMARD type, used in active moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. It is a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor.
	Left atrium The left atrium is one of the four heart chamber in the human heart. It receives oxygenated blood from the four pulmonary veins, and pumps it into the left ventricle. The blood is pumped through the left atrioventricular orifice, which contains the mitral valve.
	Left fielder A left fielder, abbreviated LF, is an outfielder in the sport of baseball who plays defense in left field. Left field is the area of the outfield to the left of a person standing at home plate and facing towards the pitcher's mound. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the left fielder is assigned the number 7.
	Left-handed A person who is left-handed primarily uses his or her left hand, more so than the right hand; a left-hander will probably use the left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. Writing is not as precise an indicator of handedness as it might seem, because many left-handed people write with their right hand but use their left hand for other tasks.
	Leftfield Leftfield were a duo of electronica artists and record producers, Paul Daley and Neil Barnes, formed in 1989 in London, England. The pair were pioneers in the fields of intelligent dance music and progressive house, being the first to fuse House Music with Dub_music and reggae [Release the Pressure].
	Leg In general, a leg is any of the parts of an animal's body that support the rest of the body above the ground, and are used for locomotion. Anatomists often use "leg" to refer to the portion from the knee down, and use "thigh" for the knee up. Legs mostly come in even-numbered quantities that are characteristic of some taxonomy groups:
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	Legendary creature A legendary creature is a mythology or folklore creature. Some — such as the dragon or the griffin — have their origin in traditional mythology and have at one time been believed to be real creatures. Others were based on real creatures, originating in garbled accounts of travellers' tales; such as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, which supposedly grew tethered to the earth.
	Legionary Called miles or legionarius in Latin, the Rome legionary was a Roman citizenship under 45 years of age. The soldier enlisted in a Roman legion for twenty-five years of service, a change from the early practice of enlisting only for the duration of a military campaign.
	Legionella Legionella is a Gram negative bacterium, including species that cause legionellosis or Legionnaires' disease, most notably L. pneumophilia . Legionella are common in many environments, with at least 48 species and 70 serogroups identified. The side-chains of the cell wall carry the bases responsible for the somatic antigen specifity of these organisms.
	Legislature A legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to adopt laws. Legislatures are known by many names, the most common being parliament and congress, although these terms also have more specific meanings. In parliamentary systems of government, the legislature is formally supreme and appoints the executive branch.
	Lego Lego is a line of toys manufactured by LEGO Group, a privately-held company based in Denmark. Its flagship product, also commonly referred to as Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures , and other pieces which can be assembled and connected in myriad combinations.
	Legume The term legume has two closely related meanings in botany, a situation encountered with many botanical common names of useful plants, whereby an applied name can refer to either the plant itself, or to the edible fruit. Thus, "legume" can be: * The common name for plant species in the Family Fabaceae;
	Lehigh River The Lehigh River, a tributary of the Delaware River, is a 103 mile long river located in eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. The river flows in a highly winding course through valleys between ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. Its lower course forms the heart of the Lehigh Valley, an historically important anthracite coal and steel-producing region of Pennsylvania.
	Leibnitz Leibnitz is a town in the Austrian province of Styria and at the 2001 census had a population of approximately 6,892. It is located to the south of the city of Graz, between the Mur and Sulm rivers. The town is capital of the Leibnitz, which extends to about 681 km, within which more than 75,000 people live.
	Leicester Leicester is the largest city in the English East Midlands owned by Sejni Pattani. It is the traditional county county town of Leicestershire, and, since 1997, has been a self-governing unitary authority. It lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest, England.
	Leicestershire Leicestershire is a landlocked county in central England. It takes its name from the heavily populated Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire.
	Leiden Media:Nl-Leiden.ogg is a city and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands. It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk. It is located on the Old Rhine, close to the cities of The Hague and Haarlem.
	Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt was an England essayist and writer. He was born at Southgate, London, Middlesex, where his parents had settled after leaving the USA. His father, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lawyer, and his mother, a merchant's daughter, had been forced to come to Britain because of their loyalist sympathies in the American War of Independence.
	Leiomyoma A leiomyoma is a benign smooth muscle neoplasm that is not premalignant. They can occur in any organ, but the most common forms occur in the uterus and the esophagus.
	Leiopelmatidae Leiopelmatidae, or New Zealand primitive frogs, belong to the suborder Archaeobatrachia. Their belonging to this suborder suggests they are an ancient family. Only four species are known, or believed to belong to the family. Furthermore, as the common name suggests, they are only found in New Zealand.
	Leipzig Leipzig [] is the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony in Germany with a population of 502,000. The name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the linden trees stand". It is situated at the confluence of the Rivers Pleie, White Elster and Parthe.
	Leishmania Leishmania is a genus of trypanosome protozoa, and is the parasite responsible for the disease leishmaniasis. It is spread through sandfly of the genus Phlebotomus in the Old World, and of the genus Lutzomyia in the New World. Their primary hosts are vertebrates; Leishmania commonly infects hyraxes, canids, rodents, and humans.
	Leishmaniasis Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by parasites that belong to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain species of sand fly, including flies in the genus Lutzomyia in the New World and Phlebotomus in the Old World. The disease was named in 1901 for the Scotland pathologist William Boog Leishman.
	Leisure Leisure is one's discretionary time spent in non-compulsory activities, time spent away from cares and toils. Because leisure time is free from compulsory activities such as employment, running a business, household chores, education, day-to-day stress, eating, and sleeping, it is often referred to as "free time".
	Leland Stanford Amasa Leland Stanford was an United States business tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University. He was born in Watervliet, New York, one of eight children of Josiah and Elizabeth Phillips Stanford. Stanford's ancestors settled in the Mohawk Valley of New York around 1720.
	Lemming Lemmings are small rodents, usually found in or near the Arctic. Together with the voles and muskrats, they make up the subfamily Arvicolinae , which forms part of the largest mammal radiation by far, the superfamily Muroidea, which also includes the rats, mouse, hamsters, and gerbils.
	Lemna Lemna is a genus of free-floating aquatic plants from the duckweed family. The duckweeds have been classified as a separate family, the Lemnaceae, but some researchers consider the duckweeds members of the Araceae. Lemna species grow as simple free-floating Thallus on or just beneath the water surface.
	Lemnaceae Lemnaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. It is also known as the "duckweed family", as it contains the duckweeds. These plants are very simple, lacking a stem or leaves, but consisting of a small blade-like structure floating on or just under the water surface, with or without simple rootlets.
	Lemnos Lemnos, an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. The island, part of the prefecture of Greece of Lesbos Prefecture, is of considerable size: the area has been estimated at 1 E8 m. A great part is mountainous, but some very fertile valleys exist.
	Lemon The lemon is a hybrid citrus tree of cultivated origin. The fruit are used primarily for their juice, though the pulp and Peel are also used, primarily in cooking or mixing. Lemon juice is about 5% citric acid, which gives lemons a Basic taste#Sourness taste and a pH of 2 to 3.
	Lemon balm Lemon Balm , not to be confused with Bee Balm, Monarda species, is a perennial plant herb in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean region. It grows to 70-150 cm tall. The leaf have a gentle lemon scent, related to mint.
	Lemon curd Lemon curd is a custard-like dessert sauce made with eggs, lemon juice and zest, sugar, and butter. It goes well with scones, short breads, and muffins, and can be used as a filling for cakes or tarts. It may also be spread on bread or toast. The Netherlands liquer advocaat is sometimes added during making.
	Lemon drop A lemon drop is a sugary, lemon-flavored candy that is typically Food coloring yellow and often shaped like a miniature lemon. They can be sweet or have a more sour flavor. The term "lemon drop" is also occasionally applied to lemon-flavored throat lozenges. There is also a popular cocktail known as a lemon drop which usually contains vodka, lemon juice, and sugar.
	Lemon meringue pie Lemon meringue pie is a type of baked pie, usually served for dessert, made with a pastry base usually shortcrust or shortbread pastry, lemon curd filling and a fluffy meringue topping. Lemon meringue pie is typically prepared with a bottom pie crust, but with no upper crust: i.e.
	Lemon mint Lemon mint also called purple horse mint or lemon beebalm, is, as the names imply, a member of the mint family, which has a citrus smell when crushed, reminiscent of the fruit of the actual lemon plant, and which has purple flowers that prove irresistible to both bees and hummingbirds.
	Lemon shark The lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris, is a well studied shark belonging to the family Carcharhinidae.
	Lemon sole The lemon sole is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is native to shallow seas around Northern Europe, where it lives on stony bottoms down to about 200 m. It grows up to 65 cm in length and about 3 kg in weight. It is a popular food fish.
	Lemonade Lemonade is a soft drink that is made with lemons. In the United States and Canada, lemonade refers to an uncarbonated mixture of lemon juice, sugar, and water. The addition of grenadine makes for the traditional variant called Pink Lemonade. Lemonade, in its uncarbonated form, is among the oldest of commercial soft drinks, dating at least back to the 17th century.
	Lemur Lemurs are members of a class of primates known as prosimians and make up the infraorder Lemuriformes. This type of primate was the evolutionary predecessor of monkeys and apes. The term "lemur" is derived from the Latin word lemures, which means "spirits of the night".
	Lemuridae Lemuridae is one of the four family of lemurs and are part of a class of primates known as prosimians. These animals are the evolutionary predecessors of monkeys and apes . Genus Lemur has only one member: Lemur catta, or the Ring-tailed Lemur.
	Lena Horne *Songs by Burke and Van Heusen *At the Sands *Lena on the Blue Side *Lovely & Alive *Lena Goes Latin *Sings Your Requests *Here's Lena Now! *Feelin' Good *Lena in Hollywood *Merry from Lena *Soul *Lena & Gabor *Nature's Baby *Lena and Michel *Lena: A New Album
	Lena River The Lena in Siberia is the 10th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest drainage basin. Rising at the height of 1640 metre at its source in the Baikal Mountains south of the Central Siberian Plateau, 20 kilometre west of Lake Baikal, the Lena flows northeast, being joined by the Kirenga River and the Vitim River.
	Lend-Lease ---- Lend-Lease was the major United States program 1941-1945 which enabled the United States to supply Britain, the Soviet Union, China and other Allies of World War II with vast amounts of materiel . The supplies were given away with no repayment, so the U.S.
	Leninism Leninism refers to various related Political science and economics theories elaborated by Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin, and by other theorists who claim to be carrying on Lenin's work. Leninism builds upon and elaborates the ideas of Marxism, and serves as the philosophical basis for Communism and the pre-Stalin government of the Soviet Union.
	Lennox Robinson Esm Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Ireland dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre. Robinson was born and raised in County Cork in a Protestant and Unionist family. His father was a middle-class stockbroker who in 1892 decided to become a clergyman in the Church of Ireland.
	Lens cover Lens cover, is a protective mask for the Camera and Camcorder lens. It is a standard for cameras and camcorders. With the advancedment of mobile phones, they too are starting to include lens covers. One of the first phones to use lens covers, are the Sony Ericsson W800 and the Sony Ericsson K750.
	Lensman The Lensman series is a serial science fiction space opera by E. E. Smith. The series is significant because it was the first set of science fiction novels conceived as a series. It was also the original source which introduced many innovative concepts into science fiction, and a variety of ideas newly introduced in the series later were taken and used to solve non-fictional problems.
	Lent In Western Christianity, Lent is the period from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. In Eastern Christianity, the period before Easter is known as Great Lent to distinguish it from the Winter Lent, or Advent . This article discusses Lent as understood and practiced in Western Christianity, except where noted.
	Lentibulariaceae Lentibulariaceae is a family of carnivorous plants containing three genera, Genlisea, the corkscrew plants, Pinguicula, the butterworts, and Utricularia, the bladderworts. The genera Polypompholyx and Biovularia were formerly regarded as fourth and fifth members of this family.
	Lenticel A lenticel is either *One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying Biological tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth, or