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People

Saint Lucy of Syracuse, also known as Saint Lucia, Santa Lucia, or Saint Lukia, (traditional dates 283-304) was a rich young Christian martyr who is venerated as a Saint by Catholic and Orthodox Christians. ... Shannon Claire Spruill (born July 17, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and valet. ... Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American actor, comedian and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy, a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. ... Lucy Booth (April 28, 1868 – July 18, 1953) was the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth. ... Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879-December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and womens rights advocate. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Lucy Alexis Liu (Chinese: 劉玉玲 Liú Yùlíng, born December 2, 1968 in Queens, New York) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress. ... Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called Maud by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874–April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. ... A Vietnamese American (Vietnamese: người Mỹ gốc Việt) is a resident of the United States who is of Vietnamese descent. ... Houston redirects here. ... Official language(s) No official language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Largest metro area Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Lucy Yang filling in on Eyewitness News on June 30,2007. ... Chinese Americans (Chinese language: 美籍華人 or 華裔美國人) are Americans of Chinese descent. ... WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Music

Liberation is an album by The Divine Comedy. ... The Good Son is the sixth album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music). ... Lucy was the follow-up to 1993s self titled debut by Candlebox. ... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a song written mainly by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) in 1967, and recorded by The Beatles for their album Sgt. ... Not to be confused with Hanson Brothers or The Hanson Brothers. ... LucyTuning is a form of meantone temperament, in which the fifth is of size 600+300/π (= approximately 695. ... Lower-case pi The mathematical constant Ï€ is a real number which may be defined as the ratio of a circles circumference (Greek περιφέρεια, periphery) to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, and which is in common use in mathematics, physics, and engineering. ... John Harrison John Harrison (March 24, 1693–March 24, 1776) was an English clockmaker, who designed and built the worlds first successful chronometer (maritime clock), one whose accuracy was great enough to allow the determination of longitude over long distances. ...

Fiction

Lucy (1990) is a short novel by Jamaica Kincaid. ... Battle Frontier Brains top to bottom: Brandon, Anabel, Tucker, Lucy, Spencer, Noland, and Greta. ... Lucille Ball as Lucy, Vivian Vance as Ethel on an episode of I Love Lucy Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 - April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian and star of I Love Lucy. ... I Love Lucy is a television situation comedy starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and featuring Vivian Vance and William Frawley. ... Betty Spaghetty is a bendable rubber doll from the Ohio Art Company. ... Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. ... Lucy is an unknown girl who is the subject of William Wordsworths Lucy poems. ... Adventures in Odyssey, commonly abbreviated AIO or simply Odyssey, is an Evangelical Christian-themed radio drama/comedy series created by Phil Lollar and Steve Harris for Focus on the Family in 1987. ... A list of characters from ToHeart2. ... Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the 2005 film Lucy Pevensie is one of the major characters from C. S. Lewiss The Chronicles of Narnia. ... Book cover Lucy van Pelt is a character in the syndicated comic strip Peanuts, written and drawn by Charles Schulz. ... This article is about the book. ... Sweeney Todd is a fictional villain/antihero. ... Lucy Lucy ) is a fictional character from the anime and manga series Elfen Lied. ... Better Days is the second album by American blues artist Susan Tedeschi, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). ... Lucy Camden-Kinkirk is a fictional character on the American television series 7th Heaven. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Physical Anthropology

  • Lucy, a robot baby orang-utan which was the subject of an artificial life experiment by Steve Grand
  • Lucy, a fossilized hominid of the species Australopithecus afarensis
  • Lucy Temerlin, a chimpanzee who was taught American sign language

Physical anthropology, often called biological anthropology, studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. ... Steve Grand is an English computer scientist. ... Lucy (Amharic ድንቅነሽ dinqneš, you are wonderful) is the common name of AL 288-1, the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered on November 30, 1974 by the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE; director: Maurice Taieb, co-directors: Donald Johanson and Yves Coppens) in the Awash Valley of Ethiopias Afar... Lucy Temerlin was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, and raised by Maurice K. Temerlin, Ph. ...

Other

  • BPM 37093, a white dwarf star 50 light-years from Earth, nicknamed "Lucy"
  • Lucy (XM), a radio station on channel 54 of XM Satellite Radio's satellite lineup
  • Lucy Pinder (born 1983), model
  • W. Lucy & Co., a large British switchgear and lighting manufacturer
  • Lucy spy ring, a WWII espionage ring
  • Lucy tuning, a microtuning system for music derived from pi
  • Lucy, a codeword for LSD
  • Lucy, a single or "loose" cigarette
  • Lucy, a 90 ton elephant building built in New Jersey.

BPM 37093 is a white dwarf star 50 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus, for which enough evidence has been gathered to infer that it consists of crystalline carbon, confirming previous theoretical predictions. ... Lucy is located on channel 54 on xm satellite radio and channel 838 on DIRECTV. The Killers of Alternative Lucy is all about the most important and well known songs in the history of Alternative Music. ... Lucy Katherine Pinder (b. ... W. Lucy & Co. ... In World War II espionage, the Lucy spy ring was an anti-German operation which operated in Switzerland. ... LucyTuning is a form of meantone temperament, in which the fifth is of size 600+300/π (= approximately 695. ... Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ... Two unlit filtered cigarettes. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ...

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Australopithecus afarensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1511 words)
Lucy was only 3 feet 8 inches (1.1 m) tall, weighed 29 kilograms (65 lb) and looked somewhat like a Common Chimpanzee, but the observations of her pelvis proved that she had walked upright and more in the manner of humans.
One of the most striking characteristics possessed by Lucy was that she had a small skull, bipedal knee structure, and molars and front teeth of human (rather than great ape) style and relative size, but a small skull and small body.
Lucy's genetic forebears were tree dwelling apes, but in Lucy's world the trees would have been much fewer, and Lucy would have been forced to find a living on the flat savanna.
Lucy (987 words)
As in a modern human's skeleton, Lucy's bones are rife with evidence clearly pointing to bipedality.
In contrast, the only damage we see on Lucy's bones is a single carnivore tooth puncture mark on the top of her left pubic bone.
Lucy was found in the highest of these -- the Kada Hadar, or KH -- member.
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