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As a name: Lara State Anthem Location within Venezuela Created (given current status) 1901 State capital Barquisimeto Area 19,800 km² Population (2005 est. ... Lara is a semi-rural township in the state of Victoria in Australia. ... Moorabool St, Geelongs main street, during Christmas. ... Lara is a district of Antalya city, Turkey. ... Antalya (formerly known as Adalia; from Pamphylian Greek: Αττάλεια Attália) is a large town and tourist destination, situated on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. ...

  • Lara is a common Arabic surname.
  • Lara is a common Spanish surname.
  • Lara is a common given female name of Russian origin, a diminutive of the name Larisa (also spelt Larissa).
  • Lara in Latin means Famous.
  • Lara in Greek means Cheerful.

As a family name: Languages Arabic and other minority languages Religions Islam, Christianity, Druzism and Judaism An Arab (Arabic: , arabi) is a member of a complexly defined ethnic group who identifies as such on the basis of one or more of either genealogical, political, or linguistic grounds. ... Larissa can refer to: Larissa, a city in Greece; Larissa Prefecture, an administrative division of Greece, centered on the city Larissa; AEL 1964, a football club from Larissa; Larissa, a Greek mythological figure. ... Larissa can refer to: Larissa, a city in Greece; Larissa Prefecture, an administrative division of Greece, centered on the city Larissa; AEL 1964, a football club from Larissa; Larissa, a Greek mythological figure. ...

As a given name: Brian Charles Lara (born May 2, 1969) (nicknamed, The Prince of Port-of-Spain or simply The Prince) was a record-breaking cricketer, the greatest batsman of his generation, and one of the greatest cricketers ever. ... A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... Ambassador Martha I. Lara is a prominent Mexican career diplomat and politician. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... OCCs lawn surrounding the Art Building OCCs Art Building OCCs Plant Nursery Orange Coast College Sailing Base OCCs Social Science Forum OCCs Free Speech Zone Orange Coast College (OCC), founded in 1948, is a community college providing two-year associate of arts degrees, and lower...

Other Lara Logan (born March 29, 1971) is a television journalist for CBS News in the United States. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... CBS News logo, used from Sept. ... Lara Flynn Boyle Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an American actress born in Davenport, Iowa, of mostly Irish descent and raised in the working-class suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. ... Lara Fabian (born Lara Crokaert January 9, 1970 in Etterbeek, Belgium) is an international Belgian-Canadian francophone singer, known for her vocal prowess and skilled technique. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Lara Sacher (right) with co-star Damien Bodie in a 2005 episode of Neighbours Lara Sacher (born 2 November 1986) is an Australian actress who plays Serena Bishop on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. ... Lara Liang Veronin (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Liáng Xīn Yí, born 2 May 1988 in California, United States), a Russian-Taiwanese-American student from the Taipei American School class of 2006, is the lead female vocalist in the popular Taiwanese band Nan Quan Ma Ma (南拳媽媽), whose second album, Nan... Nan Quan Ma Ma (南拳媽媽) is Taiwanese music group. ... Lara, Jor-El, and Superman. ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ... Lara Croft is a fictional British video game character and the heroine of the Tomb Raider series of video games, movies, and comic books. ... For the movie staring Angelina Jolie, see Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. ... Lara was a Naiad, daughter of the river Almon in Roman mythology. ... A head of Minerva found in the ruins of the Roman baths in Bath Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ... Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is an English Academy Award-winning film actress. ...



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Planet Lara - Lara Croft Picture and Pics Archive, Wallpaper Downloads and more (986 words)
The story follows the beautiful Lara Croft as she battles to stop a traitor from the mysterious 'order of light' unleashing the demon of the underground upon the world causing the apocalypse!
Planet Lara Interactive, the forums and community will continue to be run and managed and we look forward talking to you all over there about future projects and features.
It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve the Lara Croft and Tomb Raider community and we hope you look forward to seeing more from us in the future, be it inside or outside of the Tomb Raider arena.
Game Studies - Lara Croft: Feminist Icon or Cyberbimbo? On the Limits of Textual Analysis (5610 words)
Lara Croft is by no means the first gun-toting action heroine and the iconography of her representation conforms to conventions deployed from Annie Get Your Gun onwards, but also has forerunners in comic book heroines such as Tank Girl.
Lara is the perfect "object" of desire in what he describes as the equivalence between his look and her performance: she is unwittingly consumed and incorporated through this look.
Lara too has "a beautiful surface that is appealing and charming to man [which] masks either an "interior" that is mechanical or an "outside" that is deceitful" (1996).
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