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GW

GW may refer to:

Gaming

 * Games Workshop, a British manufacturer of miniature wargames (founded 1975)
 * Guild Wars, an episodic series of online role-playing games (from 2005)
 * GW, a fictional domotic artificial intelligence in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001)

Periodicals

 * GateWorld, a Stargate fan news blog (published from 1999)
 * Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper (from 1989)
 * Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, a German catalogue of incunabula (from 1925)
 * Golden Words, a Canadian satirical student newspaper (from 1967)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

 * Ghost Whisperer, a CBS television series (ran 2005–2010)
 * Ghostwriter, someone hired to author texts credited to another

Calendar

 * Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays

Places

 * Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 country code)
 * Gawok railway station, Indonesia (station code)
 * George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York, U.S.
 * George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., U.S.
 * George Washington University Hospital

Physics

 * GW approximation, an estimate of a many-body electron system's self-energy
 * Gigawatt (GW), a unit for measuring power—equal to 109 watts
 * Gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves
 * The prefix on names of gravitational wave observations

Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

 * Game week, a fixture shorthand used in sports such as Fantasy football (association)
 * .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau
 * GW-BASIC, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language
 * Global warming, the ongoing climatic event
 * Grothendieck-Witt ring, of a mathematical field; see
 * GW, the human gene MASTL

People with the initials GW

 * George Washington (1732–1799), first president of the United States
 * Gene Wilder (1933–2016), American actor and comedian
 * George W. Bush (born 1946), forty-third president of the United States

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HM

HM or hm may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * HM (magazine), a Christian hard rock magazine
 * Hidden Machine, a type of item in Pokémon

Businesses, groups, organizations

 * H&M, a Swedish clothing company
 * Hindustan Motors, an automobile manufacturer of India
 * Air Seychelles (IATA airline code )

People

 * Henry Molaison, aka Patient H.M., a man with anterograde amnesia
 * His or Her Majesty, a form of address for various monarchs
 * Home Minister, an interior minister
 * Hospital corpsman, in the United States Navy
 * Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary's postnominal initials

Other uses

 * Heard Island and McDonald Islands (ISO 3166 digram and FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code )
 * .hm, the Internet country code top-level domain ostensibly for the above
 * Hectometre, an SI unit of length
 * Hindley–Milner type system, in mathematics

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HN

HN or Hn may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * French horn (musical score notation: Hn.)
 * HN, a numbering system for Royal Doulton Figurines, e.g. HN211
 * Headline News, former name of the HLN TV network
 * Hacker News, a social news website

Businesses and organizations

 * Equair (former IATA code: HN), a former Ecuadorian airline
 * HeavyLift Cargo Airlines (former IATA code: HN), a former Australian cargo airline
 * Hutchinson and Northern Railway (reporting mark: HN), Kansas, US

Places

 * Heilbronn (vehicle registration), a city in Germany
 * Herceg Novi (car plates: HN), a town in Montenegro
 * Honduras (ISO 3166-1 country code)
 * Hunan, a province of China
 * Thesprotia (vehicle plate code: ΗΝ), regional unit of Greece

Science and technology

 * .hn, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Honduras
 * Harmonic number, in mathematics

Other uses

 * Hospitalman, a US Navy hospital corpsman rate
 * $⟨hn⟩$, a two-letter combination used in some languages
 * Reduction of /hn/ to /n/ in Old/Middle English

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HT

HT, Ht, hT, or ht may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

 * Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic political organisation
 * Hrvatski Telekom, a Croatian telecom company
 * HaparandaTornio Bandy or HT Bandy, a Swedish-Finnish bandy club
 * HT Media, Indian news media company
 * Hindustan Times, newspaper owned by HT Media
 * The TA airline designator of several airlines
 * Aeromist-Kharkiv
 * Air Horizont
 * Tianjin Air Cargo

Medicine

 * Hematocrit, Ht, a blood test that measures the volume percentage of red blood cells

Electronics and computing

 * HT (vacuum tube), the high-tension power supply for vacuum tube circuits
 * Handie-Talkie, a Motorola portable radio transceiver
 * Handheld transceiver or walkie-talkie
 * Horizontal tab, a control character in several character sets
 * Hyper-threading (HT or HTT), Intel name for multithreading
 * HyperTransport, computer processor interconnection technology

Other uses in science and technology

 * Hectotesla (hT), an SI unit of magnetic flux density
 * HT, a type of sulfur mustard war gas

Other uses

 * Haiti (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
 * .ht, Internet country code for Haiti
 * Haitian Creole language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code)
 * Hanshin Tigers (Japan), a Nippon Professional Baseball team
 * Hat tip, "HT", "H/T" or "h/t", one form of acknowledging online someone who brought something to the author's attention
 * Hull Maintenance Technician, abbreviated HT, a US Navy occupational rating

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Io

Io most commonly refers to:
 * Io (moon), a moon of Jupiter
 * Io (mythology), daughter of Inachus in Greek mythology, and lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow

Io, IO, iO, I/O, i/o, or i.o. may also refer to:

Fictional elements

 * Scylla Io, one of Poseidon's Marine Generals in the Saint Seiya series
 * A Dungeons & Dragons dragon deity
 * Io Otonashi, a main character in the Japanese manga series Place to Place (Acchi Kocchi)

Gaming

 * iO, a 2014 video game by Gamious
 * IO Interactive, a Danish computer game developer

Music

 * IO (German band), a German band
 * Io (English band), an English band
 * I_o (musician), an American DJ and record producer (1990–2020)
 * i/o (Peter Gabriel album), 2023

Theatre and opera

 * Io (opera), an unfinished acte de ballet (opera) by Jean-Philippe Rameau
 * iO Theater (ImprovOlympic), a theater in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to improvisational comedy
 * IO West, a Los Angeles theater associated with the Chicago iO

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

 * EO (original Polish title: IO), a 2022 Jerzy Skolimowski film
 * Io (film), a 2019 Netflix film
 * iO Digital Cable Service, a service offered by Cablevision
 * International Organization, a peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire field of international affairs

Business and economics

 * Industrial and organizational psychology, the field of psychology that studies work, academic, and other organizational issues
 * Industrial organization, the field of economics that studies the strategic behavior of firms, the structure of markets and their interactions
 * Insertion order, a business document specifying the inventory goal of an advertising campaign
 * Integrated operations, a term used in the petroleum industry describing new work processes and ways of working that have been facilitated by modern information and communication technologies
 * Interest-only, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) or mortgage-backed security

Language

 * i.o., in illo ordine, Latin phrase meaning "respectively" ("in that order")
 * Io (princely title), a particle of a title used by Moldavian and Wallachian Princes-regnant
 * Ido language (ISO 639-1 language code IO), a constructed language
 * Indirect object, the object that is the recipient of an action (by a verb)
 * Yo, also referred to as Io

Mythology

 * Io (mythology), daughter of Inachus in Greek mythology, and lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow
 * Io, an alternate spelling of the nereid Ino, later known as Leukothea, who in the Odyssey gave Odysseus a veil that allowed him to breathe underwater
 * Io Matua Kore, in some Māori traditions the supreme god

People

 * Io Murota (室田 伊緒), Japanese shogi player
 * Io Sakisaka (咲坂 伊緒), Japanese manga artist
 * Io Shirai (born 1990), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Iou Kuroda (黒田 硫黄), Japanese manga artist
 * iO Tillett Wright (born 1985), American artist, director, photographer, writer, film maker, activist, and actor

Places on Earth

 * British Indian Ocean Territory, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
 * Io (island), an uninhabited islet near Crete, Greece
 * Io, Norway, a village in Alver, Norway
 * Mount Iō (disambiguation), name of several mountains in Japan
 * Indian Ocean

Astronomy

 * Io (moon), a moon of Jupiter
 * 85 Io, an asteroid

Biology and medicine

 * Io (gastropod), a genus of freshwater snail in the family Pleuroceridae
 * Io (plant), a genus of plant in the tribe Senecioneae
 * Automeris io, a moth species in North America
 * Aglais io, the European peacock butterfly
 * Intraosseous infusion, the medical process of introducing medication directly into the bone marrow
 * Hawaiian hawk (io)
 * Immuno-oncology, another term for cancer immunotherapy

Computing

 * .io, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the British Indian Ocean Territory
 * Io (programming language), a pure object-oriented programming language
 * IO.SYS, a system file in Microsoft DOS and Windows 95, 98 and ME
 * Indistinguishability obfuscation, a cryptographic tool to obscure computer code
 * Input/output, the collection of interfaces that different functional units of an information processing system use to communicate with each other

Other uses in science and technology

 * Ionium (symbol Io), a claimed chemical element that was later realized to be thorium-230
 * Iodine monoxide (symbol IO)
 * Image orthicon tube, a TV camera used between 1946 and 1968
 * Infinitely often, a mathematics term sometimes written "i.o."; see an example in set-theoretic limit

Other uses

 * Bureau of International Organization Affairs, in the U.S. Department of State
 * Government Printing Bureau (Macau), known in Portuguese as the Imprensa Oficial or "IO"
 * Indonesian Airlines (IATA airline designator IO)
 * Investigating Officer, a member of law enforcement in the United Kingdom who heads an investigation
 * Mitsubishi Pajero iO, a mini SUV model produced by Mitsubishi Motors
 * IO (Oral-B), a series of electric toothbrushes by Oral-B

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Dio Chrysostom

Dio Chrysostom (Δίων Χρυσόστομος Dion Chrysostomos), Dio of Prusa or Cocceianus Dio (c. 40 – c. 115 AD), was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD. Eighty of his Discourses (or Orations; Λόγοι) are extant, as well as a few letters, a mock essay Encomium on Hair, and a few other fragments. His sobriquet Chrysostom comes from the Greek, which literally means "golden-mouthed".

Life
He was born at Prusa (now Bursa), in the Roman province of Bithynia (now part of northwestern Turkey). His father, Pasicrates, seems to have bestowed great care on his son Dio's education. At first he lived in Prusa, where he held important offices, composed speeches and other rhetorical and sophistical essays, and studied philosophy. The Stoic and Platonist philosophies, however, appear to have had the greatest charms for him, particularly the stoicism of Musonius Rufus.

He went to Rome during Vespasian's reign (69–79 AD), by which time he seems to have got married and had a child. He became a critic of the Emperor Domitian, who banished him from Rome, Italy, and Bithynia in 82 for advising one of the Emperor's conspiring relatives. He claims that, on the advice of the Delphic oracle, he put on the clothes of a beggar, and with nothing in his pocket but a copy of Plato's Phaedo and Demosthenes's On the False Embassy, he lived the life of a Cynic philosopher, undertaking a journey to the countries in the north and east of the Roman empire. He thus visited Thrace, Mysia, Scythia, and the country of the Getae, giving orations.

He was a friend of Nerva, and when Domitian was murdered in 96 AD, Dio used his influence with the army stationed on the frontier in favour of Nerva. Under Emperor Nerva's reign, his exile was ended, and he was able to return home to Prusa. He adopted the surname Cocceianus, reflecting Nerva's nomen, Cocceius. Dio addressed his four Orations on Kingship to Nerva's successor, Trajan, and appears to have known the Emperor personally, claiming "I am perhaps as well acquainted with your character as anyone." He knew Apollonius of Tyana and Euphrates of Tyre. In his later life Dio had considerable status in Prusa, and Pliny the Younger reports that he was involved in a lawsuit about a civic building project around 111. He probably died a few years later.

Writings
Dio Chrysostom was part of the Second Sophistic school of Greek philosophers which reached its peak in the early 2nd century during the Antonine period. He was considered one of the most eminent of the Greek rhetoricians and sophists by the ancients who wrote about him, such as Philostratus, Synesius, and Photius. This is confirmed by the eighty orations of his which are still extant, and which were the only ones known in the time of Photius. These orations appear to be written versions of his oral teaching, and are like essays on political, moral, and philosophical subjects. They include four orations on Kingship addressed to Trajan on the virtues of a sovereign; four on the character of Diogenes of Sinope, on the troubles to which men expose themselves by deserting the path of Nature, and on the difficulties which a sovereign has to encounter; essays on slavery and freedom; on the means of attaining eminence as an orator; political discourses addressed to various towns which he sometimes praises and sometimes blames, but always with moderation and wisdom; on subjects of ethics and practical philosophy, which he treats in a popular and attractive manner; and lastly, orations on mythical subjects and show-speeches. He argued strongly against permitting prostitution. Two orations of his (37 and 64) are now assigned to Favorinus. Besides the eighty orations we have fragments of fifteen others, and there are extant also five letters under Dio's name.

He wrote many other philosophical and historical works, none of which survives. One of these works, Getica, was on the Getae, which the Suda incorrectly attributes to Dio Cassius.

Editions
Editions and translations of the full oeuvre
 * Hans von Arnim, Dionis Prusaensis quem uocant Chrysostomum quae exstant omnia (Berlin, 1893–1896).
 * Trans. J. W. Cohoon, Dio Chrysostom, I, Discourses 1–11, 1932. Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library:
 * Trans. J. W. Cohoon, Dio Chrysostom, II, Discourses 12–30, 1939.
 * Trans. J. W. Cohoon & H. Lamar Crosby, Dio Chrysostom, III, Discourses 31–36, 1940.
 * Trans. H. Lamar Crosby, Dio Chrysostom, IV, Discourses 37–60, 1946.
 * Trans. H. Lamar Crosby, Dio Chrysostom, V, Discourses 61–80. Fragments. Letters, 1951.
 * Winfried Elliger, Dion Chrysostomos, Sämtliche Reden. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und erläutert (Zürich, 1967).

Editions, translations and commentaries of single works
 * C. Bost-Pouderon, Dion Chrysostome. Trois discours aux villes (Orr. 33–35) (Salerne, 2006).
 * C. Bost–Pouderon (ed.), Dion de Pruse dit Dion Chrysostome. Oeuvres (Or. XXXIII–XXXVI (Paris, CUF, 2011).
 * Gustav Adolf Lehmann et al., Armut – Arbeit – Menschenwürde. Die Euböische Rede des Dion von Prusa [Discourse 7], introduction, critical edition, commentary, translation, and essays (Tübingen 2012).
 * Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (ed), Dio von Prusa. Der Philosoph und sein Bild [Discourses 54–55, 70–72], introduction, critical edition, commentary, translation, and essays by E. Amato et al. (Tübingen, 2009).
 * Anna Nieschler, Der Borysthenitikos des Dion von Prusa. Einleitung und Kommentar [Discourse 36], introduction and commentary (Stuttgart, 2024), ISBN 978-3-515-13681-5.

Texts of Dio

 * Complete works at LacusCurtius (English translation complete; some items in Greek also)

Secondary material

 * Dio Chrysostom at Livius.Org
 * Introduction to the Loeb translation at LacusCurtius

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states/mockups

The following is a mockup created to test out the images of the USA highlighting the state, and the state's close-up image with scalebar and capital. Created by Wapcaplet. Comments welcome.

 State nickname: Lone Star State  Other U.S. states Capital Austin Area - Total - Land - Water - % water Ranked 2nd 696,241 km² 678,907 km² 17,333 km² 2.5% Population - Total (2000) - Density Ranked 2nd 20,851,820 30/km² Admittance into Union - Order - Date 28th December 29, 1845 Time zone Central: UTC-6/-5 Mountain: UTC-7/-6 All but some part of western TX in Central Latitude Longitude 25°50'N to 36°30'N 93°31'W to 106°38'W Width Length Elevation -Highest -Mean -Lowest 1,065 km 1,270 km 2,667 meters 520 meters 0 meters ISO 3166-2: US-TX

Texas (old Spanish Tejas) is a state of the United States of America.

The state name derives from a Caddo word meaning friends or allies, and was mistakenly applied to the people and their location by Spanish explorers.

The state flower is the bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis); the state motto is "Friendship." The state nickname is The Lone Star State, after the single star on the state flag. The state tree is the pecan and the state bird is the mockingbird.

Texas (area 690,000 km2) is the second largest state in size after Alaska and has historically been portrayed as larger than life, especially in cowboy films and oil wells.

Location
Texas is bordered to the west by New Mexico, to the north by Oklahoma (across the Red River), and to the east by Louisiana (across the Sabine River) and Arkansas. To the south west Texas borders Mexico (across the Rio Grande), the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. To the south east Texas has a shore of the Gulf of Mexico.

Texas is located in the south center of the United States. Depending on who you talk to (and which part of Texas they are from), Texas is part of the US South or the US Southwest. Texas shares some cultural elements with both regions, with more similarites to the South in the east of the state, and more similarities to the Southwest in the west.

History
Texas was part of the Spanish colony of New Spain; see Spanish Texas for details.

After Mexican independence in 1821 Texas was a part of Mexico. See Mexican Texas.

Also see Texas Revolution.

The Republic of Texas (1836-1845)
Texas was the first sovereign nation (other than aboriginal nations) to be annexed by the United States. (The other was the Kingdom of Hawaii.) The area now known as Texas was called The Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1845.

Important dates:

 * 1519. Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, a Spanish explorer, was probably the first European to map the Texas coast.
 * 1528 - 1534. Álvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, another Spanish explorer, spent six years visiting Texas for trade.
 * 18 February 1685. Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle established Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay, thus laying claim to Texas by France.
 * 1700 - 1799. Spain established Catholic missions in Texas throughout the 18th century.
 * 3 January 1823. Stephen F. Austin began a colony of 300 families in the Brazos River region. This group is now known as the "Old Three Hundred".
 * 26 June 1832. The Battle of Velasco resulted in the first casualties of the developing Texas Revolution.
 * 1832 - 1833. The "Conventions" of 1832 and 1833 were triggered by rising unrest at the policies of the ruling Mexican government. Among the policies that most irritated the Texians were the Mexican ban on slavery, the forcible disarmament of Texian settlers, and the expulsion of illegal immigrants from the United States of America. The example of the Centralista forces' suppression of dissidents in Zacatecas also inspired fear of the Mexican government.
 * Texas Revolution Early in 1835, Stephen F. Austin announced that war with Mexico was necessary to secure Texian freedom.
 * 2 October 1835. Texians fought a Mexican Cavalry detachment at the town of Gonzales, which began the actual revolution.
 * 28 October 1835. At the "Battle of Concepcion", 90 Texians defeated 450 Mexicans.
 * 2 March 1836. The "Convention of 1836" signed the Texas "Declaration of Independence", making an attempt at a clear break from Mexican rule.
 * 6 March 1836. Approximately 190 Texians, led by William B. Travis, were besieged at the Alamo in San Antonio by the Mexican army (numbering 4,000 to 5,000). The thirteen-day siege resulted in the deaths of all of its defenders, including Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Travis.
 * 27 March 1836. By the order of Santa Anna, the Mexicans executed James Fannin and nearly 400 Texians in the Massacre at Goliad.
 * 21 April 1836. General Santa Anna, having defeated the Texas rebellion, while conducting mopping up operations advanced to San Jacinto in pursuit of the fleeing rebels. Led by Sam Houston, independence was won in one of the most decisive battles in history when Texians defeated Mexican forces of Santa Anna at the "Battle of San Jacinto". The entire Mexican force of 1,600 men was killed or captured by Houston's army of 800, with only nine fatal casualties. Santa Anna was among the captives.
 * 14 May 1836. The treaty of Velasco was signed by Republic of Texas Officials and General Santa Anna.
 * 1836. Five cities served as temporary capitals of Texas (Washington-on-the-Brazos, Galveston, Harrisburg, Velasco, and Columbia) before Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837.
 * 5 March 1842. A Mexican force of over 500 men, led by Rafael Vasquez, invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution. They soon headed back to the Rio Grande after briefly occupying San Antonio.
 * 11 September 1842. San Antonio was captured again by 1400 Mexican troops, led by Adrian Woll. They retreated, as before, but with prisoners this time.
 * 29 December 1845. President James K. Polk followed through on a campaign platform promising to annex Texas, and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.
 * 1 February 1861. Following a 171 to 6 vote by the "Secession Convention", Texas seceded from the Union. Sam Houston was one of the voters who opposed secession.
 * 30 March 1870. The United States Congress readmitted Texas into the Union.
 * 20 January 2001. George W. Bush is inagurated. Born in New Haven, Connecticut he was raised in Midland, Texas.

Law and Government
Its capital is Austin, also known as the "Live Music Capital of the World." The Capitol is loosely modeled after the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, except that it is built of pink granite and its dome is topped by a statue of the "Goddess of Liberty", holding aloft a five-point Texas star. The capitol building is taller than the national capitol, but less massive.

See: List of Texas Governors

Geography
Texas has five major topographic regions: 1) The Coastal Plain, from the Gulf of Mexico inland to about San Antonio and just southeast of Austin. 2) The Balcones, a hilly rocky area in east central Texas. 3) The Great Plains region extends into northern Texas, inluding the Llano Estacado and the Panhandle high planes. 4) The North Central Plains. 5) The Trans Pecos Desert.

Texas is divided into 254 counties; See: List of Texas counties

Economy
Texas was lagely rural before World War II with cattle ranching, oil, and agriculture as its main industries. In 1926 San Antonio was the largest city in Texas with over 120,000 people.

After World War II, Texas has become increasingly industralized. Its economy (circa 2000) is largely based on information technology, with Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex being the largest IT labor market in the United States, oil and natural gas, energy exploration and energy trading, agriculture, and manufacturing. Major cities include Houston, Brownsville, McAllen, Tyler, Odessa and Midland. Other important cities include El Paso, Eagle Pass, and Laredo; these are very important because of their location at the borderline with Mexico, making them important trade points.

The state passed New York in the 1990s to become the second largest state in population after California largely due to the availability of jobs, low cost of living, high living standard, lack of a state income tax, low taxation of business, limited government (the state legislature of Texas meets only once every two years), warm weather, and friendly people.

Demographics
As of 2000, the population of the state is 20,851,820.

Texas has a large number of Spanish speaking people some of whom have recently immigrated from Mexico, Central America, and South America but includes others, known as Tejanos, whose ancestors have lived in Texas since before independence from Mexico. Unlike other United States states which border Mexico, the culture of Texas gradually merges into that of Mexico producing a vibrant border region.

Texas has been largely fortunate in avoiding the racial and ethnic problems found in many southern states and large cities of the northeast. Much of this is because Texas's immigrant population and cultural connections with Mexico are considered to have a highly positive influence on the area's economy.

But Texas' diversity comes from more than its Hispanic residents. Frontier Texas was also settled by Germans, Poles, Swedes, Norwegians, Czechs, and French, and their influence can still be noted in the names of towns, styles of architecture, genres of music, and variety of foods.

Important Cities and Towns
See: List of cities in Texas

Well, I think it's better than the small map that is on the articles now, but the addition of these relatively large images makes the table somewhat cluttered. A simpler format for the table (or eliminating the table entirely) might reduce this problem; the state images could conceivably be made smaller, but 280 pixels in width was chosen as a good fit for the existing table size, and it'd be hard to make the maps much smaller without illegibility. There's certainly room for improvement. Comments? -- Wapcaplet 12:48 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

 * The table looks a little....um....long. Maybe you can have the maps moved out of the table and listed next to the geography section. --Jiang

True. I personally think the tables in these articles can be simplfied (and turned into more appropriate structures, such as lists; this is discussed on meta). I suppose most of what I'm interested in having comments on is the images themselves. A few things to note:

 * The red-on-white colors for the USA map were chosen to be consistent with the U.S. county articles (See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Counties/mockups). The primary goal of this map is to show the state's location within the U.S. (though Alaska and Hawaii don't really follow this rule, due to scale problems).
 * A yellow background, instead of white, is used for the state close-up. The primary goal for this image is to illustrate the geography and political boundaries of the state (whereas with the counties, the overriding goal was to show the location of the county).
 * The scale bar is auto-generated based on data tediously collected by me from the original state outline images. The subdivisions (red/white boxes) within the scale bars is kind of a hack, and I am not sure it is wholly appropriate (since it seems to be a carry-over from print media, where people can hold a ruler up to it and measure scale on the map; on the screen, it's mostly there to just give a sense of perspective.)

Other things I considered doing with the state close-up:

 * Showing time zone information (which would be irrelevant for many states, which only occupy one time zone, but could be important for larger states such as Texas which occupy more than one time zone)
 * Showing bodies of water, lakes, rivers, etc. This would necessitate a tremendous amount of extra work, since the original maps were the same outline maps used for counties, and do not show bodies of water.
 * Similarly, showing adjoining states
 * Showing location of other important cities

These things I deemed too complex; if someone would like to add them, that'd be great! But it seems like something that would be better handled when we get some proper Wikipediatlas software and markup.

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Oscar Levant

Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian, and actor. He had roles in the films Rhapsody in Blue (1945), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), An American in Paris (1951), and The Band Wagon (1953). He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for recordings featuring his piano performances. He was portrayed by Sean Hayes in the Broadway play Good Night, Oscar, written by Doug Wright. Levant appeared as himself in the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945).

Early life
Levant was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1906, to Orthodox Jewish Max, a watchmaker, and Annie, who emigrated from Russia. Levant's parents were married by his mother's father, who was a rabbi.

Levant moved to New York in 1922. He began studying under Zygmunt Stojowski. In 1925, Levant appeared with Ben Bernie in a short sound film, Ben Bernie and All the Lads, made in New York City with the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system. In the 1920s, Levant recorded with the Ben Bernie Orchestra.

Career
Levant traveled to Hollywood in 1928, where his career took a turn for the better. During his stay, he met and became friends with George Gershwin. From 1929 to 1948, Levant composed the music for more than twenty movies. During this period, he also wrote or co-wrote numerous popular songs that made the hit parade, the most noteworthy being "Blame It on My Youth" (1934), now considered a standard.

Levant began composing seriously around 1932. He studied under Arnold Schoenberg and impressed Schoenberg sufficiently to be offered an assistantship (which he turned down, considering himself unqualified). These formal studies led to a request by Aaron Copland to play at the Yaddo Festival of contemporary American music on April 30 of that year. Successful, Levant began composing a new orchestral work, a sinfonietta.

Levant made his debut as a music conductor in 1938 on Broadway, filling in for his brother Harry in sixty-five performances of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s The Fabulous Invalid. In 1939, he was again working on Broadway as composer and conductor of The American Way, another Kaufman and Hart production. He was a talented pianist and was well known for his recorded works of Gershwin, and numerous classical composers. During a time in the 1940s, he was the highest paid concert pianist in the United States.

Also, at this time, Levant was becoming known to American audiences as one of the regular panelists on the radio quiz show Information Please. Originally scheduled as a guest panelist, Levant proved so quick-witted and popular that he became a regular fixture on the show in the late-1930s and 1940s, along with fellow panelists Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran and moderator Clifton Fadiman. "Mr. Levant," as he was always called, was often challenged with musical questions, and he impressed audiences with his depth of knowledge and facility with a joke. Kieran praised Levant as having a "positive genius for making offhand cutting remarks that couldn't have been sharper if he'd honed them a week in his mind. Oscar was always good for a bright response edged with acid." Examples include "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin," "I think a lot of [conductor/composer Leonard] Bernstein—but not as much as he does," and (after Marilyn converted to Judaism when she married playwright Arthur Miller), "Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.”  Levant appeared in feature films, starting from the 1920s until the mid-50s, often playing a pianist or composer. He had supporting roles in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; An American in Paris (1951), starring Gene Kelly; and The Band Wagon (1953), starring Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Oscar Levant regularly appeared on NBC radio's Kraft Music Hall, starring singer Al Jolson. He not only accompanied Jolson on the piano with classical and popular songs, but often joked and ad-libbed with Jolson and his guests. This included comedy sketches. Their individual ties to George Gershwin—Jolson introduced Gershwin's "Swanee"—undoubtedly had much to do with their rapport. Both Levant and Jolson appeared as themselves in the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945).

In the early 1950s, Levant was an occasional panelist on the NBC radio and television game show Who Said That?. Levant hosted a talk show on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles from 1958 -1960, The Oscar Levant Show, which was later syndicated. It featured his piano playing along with monologues and interviews with guests such as Fred Astaire and Linus Pauling. Full recordings of only two shows are known to have survived, one with Astaire, who paid to have a kinescope recording of the broadcast made so that he could assess his performance.

Personal life
Levant married actress Barbara Woodell in 1932. The couple divorced in 1933. In 1939, Levant married singer and actress June Gale; they had three daughters, Marcia, Lorna, and Amanda.

Levant talked publicly about his neuroses and hypochondria. Levant became addicted to prescription drugs and was committed to psychiatric hospitals by his wife.

Death
In August 1972, Levant died of a heart attack at his Beverly Hills, California, home at the age of 65. Levant's body was discovered by his wife, June, when she called to him for an interview with Candice Bergen, who was then working as a photojournalist. Bergen had shot photos of Levant on a previous visit, one of which was published in her memoir, Knock Wood.

Levant is interred in the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Legacy
Actor John Garfield used Levant as a model when creating the character of troubled genius Mickey Borden in the 1938 film Four Daughters. Levant was the inspiration for the neurotic, womanizing pianist Henry Orient in Nora Johnson's novel The World of Henry Orient (1964).

In April 2023, a play about Levant's life written by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright premiered on Broadway. The play, Good Night, Oscar, premiered at the Belasco Theatre and starred Sean Hayes, who received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance. Good Night, Oscar was a fictionalized version of a true event in Levant's life, when he was given a four-hour furlough from a psychiatric hospital to allow him to appear on The Tonight Show.

Filmography

 * Ben Bernie and All the Lads (1925) as himself (a De Forest phonofilm)
 * The Dance of Life (1929) as Jerry Evans
 * Night Parade (1929) as Ann Pennington's piano accompanist (uncredited)
 * In Person (1935)
 * Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) (composed music for film's opera)
 * Rhythm on the River (1940) as Billy Starbuck
 * Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941) as Dick Rayburn aka Oscar
 * Rhapsody in Blue (1945) as himself
 * Humoresque (1946) as Sid Jeffers
 * You Were Meant for Me (1948) as Oscar Hoffman
 * Romance on the High Seas (1948) as Oscar Farrar (first Doris Day film)
 * The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) as Ezra Millar
 * An American in Paris (1951) as Adam Cook, bohemian pianist
 * O. Henry's Full House (1952) as Bill Peoria (The Ransom of Red Chief)
 * The I Don't Care Girl (1953) as Charles Bennett
 * The Band Wagon (1953) as Lester Marton, based on Adolph Green
 * The Cobweb (1955) as Mr. Capp

Television

 * The Oscar Levant Show (1958–1960, TV series)
 * Jack Benny Program (1958, TV Series) as himself
 * The Tonight Show hosted by Jack Paar (early 1960's)
 * The Joey Bishop Show (1964, TV series) as himself
 * Merv Griffin Show (1965, TV series) as himself

Theatre

 * Burlesque (1927) – musical play – performer
 * Ripples (1930) – musical – co-composer
 * Sweet and Low (1930) – musical revue – songwriter
 * The Fabulous Invalid (1938) – musical play – replacement conductor
 * The American Way (1939) – musical play – conductor and composer

Quotations
Another example of his repartée:
 * "It's not what you are; it's what you don't become that hurts."

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Prusa

Prusa may refer to:

 * Prusa i3, a 3D printer
 * Prūsa, the name for Prussia in Old Prussian
 * Prusa (Bithynia), ancient city of Anatolia
 * Prusias ad Mare, ancient city of Anatolia

title: Prusa


text:
JM

JM may refer to:

Places

 * Jamaica (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code JM)
 * Jay Em, Wyoming, a community in the United States

Businesses and organizations

 * Jack's Mannequin, a piano rock band
 * Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami, an Islamic terrorist group active in Central Asia
 * Air Jamaica (1968-2015, IATA code JM)
 * Jambojet (IATA code JM)
 * Jaysh Muhammad, an Iraqi insurgency group
 * Jerónimo Martins, a Portuguese company
 * Johnson Matthey, a British chemicals and metals company
 * Joseph Magnin Co.

Other uses

 * A shortened form of James
 * Fender Jazzmaster, an American guitar model
 * Juris Master, a degree similar to the Master of Laws
 * Just Muslim, a religious denomination
 * , the official symbol for the Musashino Line in Japan

title: JM


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KE

KE, ke, and variations may refer to:

Language

 * Ke (kana), the romanisation of the Japanese kana け and ケ
 * Small ke (ヶ), a Japanese character, a small form of ke (ケ)

People

 * Ke (surname) (kē, 柯), a transliteration of a common Chinese surname
 * Ké, stage name of New York singer/songwriter/actor Kevin Grivois

Places

 * Kenya (ISO 3166 code KE)
 * County Kildare, Ireland
 * Košice, Slovakia

Biology and medicine

 * In toxicology, a Key Event or KE is an element in a chain of biological events (or adverse outcome pathway) that eventually leads to adverse effects.
 * KE family, medical name for a family of Pakistani origin exhibiting a severe speech disorder
 * Kinetic energy penetrator or KE penetrator, a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour
 * Elimination rate constant, a value used in pharmacokinetics to calculate the rate at which drugs are removed from the system
 * The Chinese name of Lithocarpus glaber, the Japanese oak, a tree species

Computing and the internet

 * .ke, internet top-level domain for Kenya
 * Knowledge engineering, in computer science and in cognitive science

Physics

 * Coulomb constant (ke), in physics
 * Kinetic energy, in physics

Other uses

 * Ke (unit), a traditional Chinese unit of decimal time lasting either 14.4 minutes or 15 minutes
 * Korean Air (IATA airline designator KE)
 * Operation Ke, the successful Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal in the Second World War
 * KE Adventure Travel LTD is a worldwide tour operator based in Keswick, United Kingdom.
 * The model name for the first generation Mazda CX-5.

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KH

KH, kh,  Kh or  kH may refer to:

Places

 * Cambodia (Kampuchea, Kambuja, Srok Khmer), a sovereign state with ISO 3166-2 alpha code KH
 * .kh, the Internet country code top-level domain for Cambodia
 * Kutná Hora District, Czech Republic (vehicle plate code)
 * Kyustendil, Bulgaria (vehicle plate code)
 * Bad Kreuznach, Germany (vehicle plate code)
 * Borehamwood, Great Britain (vehicle plate code)
 * Evrytania, Greece (vehicle plate code)

Science and technology

 * KH (hardness), a measure of the hardness of water (calcium carbonate concentration)
 * Kh factor, a constant used in electrical metering
 * Henry's law, constant (KH, in thermodynamics
 * Kelvin–Helmholtz instability, a phenomenon of fluid mechanics
 * Key Hole (KH), series of imaging satellites used by various United States agencies
 * Khornerstone, a computer benchmark used in periodicals such as UNIX Review
 * Kurepa hypothesis, in mathematical set theory
 * Potassium hydride, chemical formula KH
 * Missiles etc. designated Kh-nn, Originally X-nn with Latin X for experimental, later interpreted as Cyrillic X transcribed as Kh (or sometimes H) see List of NATO reporting names for air-to-surface missiles.

Other uses

 * Kata'ib Hezbollah, part of the armed forces of Iraq
 * Kh (digraph), in English transliteration from numerous foreign languages, usually represents, but sometimes
 * Khouria, an Arabic title of honor for the wife of a priest
 * Kingdom Hall
 * Kingdom Hearts, a Disney and Square Enix video game series
 * Kingdom Hearts (video game), the first game in the series
 * A knight of the Royal Guelphic Order (KH)
 * The King's Hospital, school in Ireland
 * Kh (tramcar), the class of double axled high-floor tramcars
 * Kamal Haasan (born 1954), Indian actor, often abbreviated as simply KH

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KI

Ki or KI may refer to:

Music

 * Ki (album), a 2009 album by Devin Townsend Project
 * Ki, a 1979 album by Kitarō
 * "Ki", a song from the album Minecraft – Volume Beta by C418

Businesses and organizations

 * Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag, a Faroese semi-professional football club
 * Communist Initiative, Marxist–Leninist organization in Austria
 * Karolinska Institute, Swedish university
 * Kenyon Institute, a British research institute in Jerusalem
 * Adam Air (2002–2008), an Indonesian airline
 * Kiwanis International, service club

Language

 * Ki language, a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon
 * Ki (kana), a Japanese syllabic character
 * Ki (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing
 * Gikuyu language, ISO 639-1 code:ki

Names

 * Ki (Korean surname), a Korean surname
 * Ki or Qi (surname)
 * Ki or Ji (surname)

Places

 * Kangaroo Island, South Australia
 * Ki Monastery, in India
 * Kiawah Island, South Carolina, United States
 * King Island (Tasmania), Australia
 * Kings Island, Ohio, United States, amusement park owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company
 * Kiribati
 * .ki, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code top level domain for Kiribati
 * Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation

Religion and metaphysics

 * Ki (goddess)
 * Qi, or ki in Japanese, a vital force according to Chinese culture that forms part of any living thing

Biology and chemistry

 * Ti (plant), also called Kī
 * Ki, an equilibrium constant for a chemical reaction or process "i":
 * dissociation constant applicable to process, abbreviated as "i".
 * a measure of the binding affinity of a ligand to a biomolecule
 * Potassium iodide, chemical formula KI
 * Gene knockin or Knock-in, a genetic engineering method
 * Ki Database, a database of biochemical information

Computing

 * Ki (prefix symbol), the prefix symbol of the binary unit prefix kibi
 * Ki, International Electrotechnical Commission standard symbol for number 1024
 * K-I algorithm, Kittler and Illingworth iterative algorithm for image segmentation thresholding
 * Ki (or Ki), the unique cryptographic key of each cell phone's SIM card

Other uses

 * Knowledge integration, in epistemology
 * Grover C. Winn (1886–1943), nicknamed "Ki", American lawyer and politician

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LC

LC or Lc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Library of Congress Classification, a system of library classification

Gaming and play

 * Lego Chess, a Lego-based chess video game
 * Lego City, a theme of Lego
 * Lego Creator, a theme of Lego
 * Lego Creator (video game), a Lego video game
 * Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto), a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto computer and video game series

Music

 * LC (album), 1981 album by The Durutti Column
 * Lacuna Coil, an Italian gothic metal band
 * Living Colour, an American hard rock band formed in New York
 * Los Campesinos!, a British indie-rock band formed in Cardiff

In other media

 * Licensed Companion, from the In Death novels of J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
 * Shop LC, a 24/7 American shopping television channel

Government agencies

 * Irish Land Commission (or simply Land Commission), a rent fixing commission by the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881
 * Library of Congress, the de facto United States national library
 * Liquor Control, including the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission
 * Local Council (Uganda), a form of local elected government within the districts of Uganda
 * Technical Department of the Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany) in charge of research and development (LC, but more often referred to as C-amt)
 * Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway, a state-operated commuter rail service in the Kanpur-Lucknow region of India

Religious organizations

 * Latin Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church
 * Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious order of priests
 * Liberty Counsel, a legal organization dedicated to advancing specific religious freedoms

Schools

 * Lafayette College, a private college in Easton, Pennsylvania, US
 * Laguna College, a non-sectarian, private school in San Pablo City, Laguna
 * Launceston College (Tasmania), a public senior-secondary school in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
 * Letran College in Manila, Philippines
 * Lewis and Clark Community College, a community college in Godfrey, Illinois, US
 * Lomagundi College, an independent, boarding school in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
 * Loomis Chaffee, a coeducational boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut, US
 * Lynchburg College, a private liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Virginia, US
 * Lynden Christian Schools, a private school in Lynden, Washington, US

Other businesses and organizations

 * Latvian Way, a political party of Latvia
 * LC Perú, a Peruvian airline
 * Lean Cuisine, a brand of microwaveable meals
 * LendingClub, NYSE ticker symbol LC
 * Lotta Continua, a former far-left extra-parliamentary organization in Italy
 * Varig Logística (IATA airline designator LC)

Economics and finance

 * Letter of credit, a document issued to provide a payment undertaking
 * Local currency, also referred to as Local Currency Unit or LCU

People

 * Lorne Cardinal, stage and television actor
 * Leonora Carrington, Mexican painter/surrealist
 * Liz Claiborne, fashion designer
 * Les Claypool, bassist best known for his work with Primus
 * Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist
 * Laveranues Coles, New York Jets wide receiver
 * Lauren Conrad, fashion designer and former reality TV star on The Hills and Laguna Beach
 * Le Corbusier, architect, and a series of furniture designed by same

Places

 * Las Cruces, New Mexico, US
 * LC, Swansea, a Leisure Centre in Wales
 * Leicester, a city in the United Kingdom
 * Lewis Center, Ohio, United States
 * Little Compton, Rhode Island, US
 * Lučenec, a town in Slovakia
 * Saint Lucia, ISO 3166-1 country code

Biology and medicine

 * × Laeliocattleya, a genus of orchids
 * Langerhans cell, a tissue-resident macrophage
 * Lethal concentration, a means to quantitatively indicate a gas or aerosol hazard
 * Lignocellulose
 * Locus coeruleus, a noradrenergic nucleus in the brain stem
 * Long COVID, a term for aftereffects occurring after recovering from and presumed to be caused by COVID-19

Ecology

 * Least Concern, a World Conservation Union "Red List of Threatened Species" category

Electronics and computing

 * .lc, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia
 * Macintosh LC family, a range of personal computers manufactured by Apple in the early 1990s
 * Macintosh LC, the first computer in the Macintosh LC family
 * LC-type optical fiber connector
 * LC circuit, in electronics, a circuit with an inductor and a capacitor
 * Linear cryptanalysis, a form of cryptanalysis
 * Lines of code
 * Logic cell, in Field-programmable gate arrays
 * Libera Chat, an IRC network

Vehicles

 * Toyota Land Cruiser, an SUV built by Toyota Motor Corporation
 * Lexus LC, a grand tourer built by Toyota Motor Corporation
 * Geely LC, a hatchback car
 * Landing craft, used to convey infantry and vehicles to shore in an amphibious assault

Other uses in science and technology

 * Launch Complex, a rocket launch site
 * Leading coefficient, in mathematics
 * Leeuwin Current, a warm ocean current
 * Liquid chromatography, an analytical chemistry technique
 * Liquid crystal, a phase of matter with properties between a solid and a liquid state, commonly used in displays

Other uses

 * Law corporation, a special type of limited liability corporation available for single attorneys in California
 * Leaving Certificate, the final course in the Irish secondary school system
 * Letter case, used in orthography and typography to denote the difference between capital and non-capital letters
 * Lower case lettering
 * Level crossing, on some maps, an intersection of a railway line and road at the same level
 * Loc. cit. (loco citato), in citations, used to repeat a citation, including the page to which the citation refers
 * Long course, an Olympic-size swimming pool
 * Lord Chancellor, a senior functionary in the government of the United Kingdom

title: LC


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LK

LK or lk may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

 * Air Luxor, IATA airline code
 * Marking of Latin Kings (gang)
 * Luckin Coffee, Chinese coffee house chain (former NASDAQ ticker lk)

Science and technology

 * System LK, in mathematics, the classical sequent calculus
 * LK (spacecraft), a Soviet lunar lander

Other uses

 * LK (index mark code), county Limerick, Ireland, vehicle registration
 * LK I, a German light tank prototype of the World War I
 * LK II, a German light tank of World War I
 * LK-700, a Soviet direct ascent lunar lander program proposed in 1964
 * The LK, a Swedish indie band
 * Sri Lanka (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code LK)
 * .lk, Internet top-level domain for Sri Lanka
 * En-LK, Sri Lankan English

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LR

LR or Lr may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

 * Avianca Costa Rica, an airline, IATA airline code LR
 * Lenoir–Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina
 * Lenong Regiment, an infantry regiment of the South African Army
 * The Republicans (France) (Les Républicains), a political party in France
 * Lloyd's Register, a technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society

Places

 * Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika, LR)
 * Liberia (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code LR)
 * .lr, the Internet country code top-level domain for Liberia
 * Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Science, technology and mathematics

 * LR parser, a type of parser in computer science
 * Lexical resource, a database consisting of one or several dictionaries
 * Link register, a special purpose register in computer architecture
 * Adobe Lightroom, photography software program
 * L(R) (pronounced L of R), in set theory
 * Lawrencium, symbol Lr, a chemical element
 * .22 Long Rifle, a type of rimfire ammunition
 * Limiting reagent, the reactant that is completely consumed in a chemical reaction

Other uses

 * Legislative route, a U.S. highway defined by laws passed in a state legislature
 * Latvijas Radio, a public radio broadcaster in Latvia
 * Light rail, a type of rail-based passenger transport

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LS

LS may refer to:

Businesses

 * LS Group, a Korean company
 * Jet2.com (IATA code: LS), a British airline

Latin

 * Lewis and Short (abbr. "L&S"), authors of the 1879 work A Latin Dictionary
 * Lectori Salutem (L.S.), Latin for 'Greetings Reader' and used as opening words to a letter
 * locus sigilli, Latin for 'place of the seal', used in notarized and legal documents; see:  Seal (contract law)

Organizations

 * Liberal Party of Croatia (Liberalna stranka or LS), a Croatian political party active from 1998–2006
 * Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia, 1989), formerly known as the Liberal Party and abbreviated as LS
 * Liberals of Serbia, a defunct political party in Serbia
 * Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Massachusetts, US
 * Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India
 * Loyola Schools, the college unit of the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines

Places

 * Lesotho (ISO 3166-1 country code: LS), a country in southern Africa
 * LS postcode area, UK, covering Leeds
 * County Laois, Ireland

Astronomy

 * Light-second (ls), a unit of length in astronomy equivalent to the distance light travels in one second
 * Local Supercluster (LS) or Virgo Superclaster, our galaxy supercluster

Biology and medicine

 * Lung surfactant, a lipoprotein complex
 * Legius syndrome, also known as Neurofibromatosis 1-like syndrome, a genetic disorder
 * Lichen sclerosus, a skin disease
 * Linnean Society of London, postnominal LS
 * Live sand, in aquaria, sand populated with bacteria and organisms to aid in dissolving organic wastes

Computing and electronics

 * ls, a command specified by POSIX and by the Single UNIX Specification; used for listing files
 * .ls, the internet top-level domain for Lesotho
 * Link-state routing protocol, used in packet-switching networks
 * Location Services, a component of Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager software
 * LS, a low-power Schottky version of a 7400 series chip

Engineering

 * Land Surveyor

Mathematics

 * Least squares, a regression analysis
 * Löwenheim–Skolem theorem, a theorem in first-order logic dealing with the cardinality of models

Physics

 * LS coupling, interaction between quantum numbers

Transportation

 * LS, a generic trim of Chevrolet vehicles
 * LS, a model prefix on sailplanes made by Rolladen-Schneider Flugzeugbau GmbH
 * LS 90, a Czech and Slovak train protection system
 * Lexus LS, the flagship, full-size sedan made by Lexus
 * Lincoln LS, a model of car made from 2000 to 2006
 * GM LS engine, a V-8 engine in General Motors cars

Other uses

 * La Salle (disambiguation), several places and educational institutions
 * Latvian lats (Ls or ℒ𝓈), former currency of Latvia
 * LaVeyan Satanism, a religious group
 * Leading Seaman, a junior non-commissioned rank in several navies
 * Logistics Specialist, a rating in the United States Navy
 * Long snapper, a special teams player in American football
 * Lost Souls (online game), a MUD, or text-based online role-playing game
 * Sudanese pound, currency of Sudan, abbreviated to LS or £Sd
 * Syrian pound, currency of Syria, abbreviated to LS or £S

title: LS