Lear
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Lear or Leir can refer to:
- Leir of BritainLeir of BritainLeir is a legendary ancient king of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. His story is told in a modified form by William Shakespeare in the play King Lear. In the drama, some names are identical to those of the legend Leir is a legendary ancient king of the Britons, as recounted by...
, a legendary king of the Britons - King LeirKing LeirKing Leir is an anonymous Elizabethan play about the life of the ancient Celtic king Leir of Britain. It was published in 1605 but was entered into the Stationers' Register on 15 May 1594...
, an anonymous play based on the legend of Leir of Britain, published in 1605 - King LearKing LearKing Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, also based on the legend of Leir of Britain - Learjet aircraft series
- Lear Corporation, an automotive supplier
- King Lear (baseball)King Lear (baseball)Charles Bernard "King" Lear was a professional baseball pitcher who played two seasons of Major League Baseball. He played for the Cincinnati Reds for 17 games during the 1914 Cincinnati Reds season and 40 games during the 1915 Cincinnati Reds season.-Biography:Lear was born in Greencastle,...
, the nickname of major league baseball player Charles Barnard Lear - LirLirLer or Lir is a sea god in Irish mythology. His name suggests that he is a personification of the sea, rather than a distinct deity. He is named Allód in early genealogies, and corresponds to the Llŷr of Welsh mythology...
(Irish) or LlŷrLlyrLlŷr is a figure in Welsh mythology, the father of Brân, Brânwen and Manawydan by Penarddun. The Welsh Triads mention he was imprisoned by Euroswydd; the Second Branch of the Mabinogi names Euroswydd as the father of Penarddun's younger two sons, Nisien and Efnisien. Llŷr corresponds to Lir in...
(Welsh), mythological gods of the sea - Children of LirChildren of LirThe Children of Lir is an Irish legend. The original Irish title is Clann Lir or Leannaí Lir, but Lir is the genitive case of Lear. Lir is more often used as the name of the character in English...
, an Irish legend - The Yiddish King LearThe Yiddish King LearThe Yiddish King Lear was an 1892 play by Jacob Gordin, and is generally seen as ushering in the first great era of Yiddish Theater, in which serious drama gained prominence over operetta.Gordin, a respected intellectual and...
, an 1892 play - Lear (play)Lear (play)Lear is a 1971 three-act play by the British dramatist Edward Bond. It is an epic rewrite of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The play was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, featuring Harry Andrews in the title role...
, a 1971 Edward Bond play - Lear (opera)Lear (opera)Lear is an opera in two acts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear.-Background and performance history:...
, an opera by Aribert Reimann - LeirLeir (Marvel Comics)Leir is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. He is one of the Celtic gods of Avalon, god of lightning and the spear. For ages, enmity existed between the gods of Avalon and the gods of Asgard.Leir is based on Lir in Celtic mythology....
, a fictional character in the Marvel universe - The Last LearThe Last LearThe Last Lear is an Indian film, in the English language, directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film won the National Award of India for Best Feature Film in English in 2007. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah and Jisshu Sengupta. Shefali Shah won the...
, a 2007 Indian play
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- Alan W. LearAlan W. LearAlan William Lear was a Scottish writer of science fiction and horror, whose credits included the 1984 BBC Radio 4 play Why Not Take All of Me?...
- Alexander Theobald Van LearAlexander Theobald Van LearAlexander Theobald Van Laer was an American painter, born at Auburn, New York.He studied at the Art Students League of New York and in Holland under George Poggenbeck.Examples of his landscapes include:* February Snow...
- Amanda LearAmanda LearAmanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....
, singer - Ben LearBen LearBenjamin Lear was a United States Army General.Ben Lear was born in Hamilton, Ontario on May 12, 1879. His military service began in 1898, when he enlisted with the 1st Colorado Infantry, USV, for the Spanish-American War as a First Sergeant...
- Bill LearBill LearWilliam Powell Lear was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets...
, engineer, businessman and inventor - Charles Barnard Lear (see King Lear (baseball)King Lear (baseball)Charles Bernard "King" Lear was a professional baseball pitcher who played two seasons of Major League Baseball. He played for the Cincinnati Reds for 17 games during the 1914 Cincinnati Reds season and 40 games during the 1915 Cincinnati Reds season.-Biography:Lear was born in Greencastle,...
) - Edward LearEdward LearEdward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.-Biography:...
, author and artist - Eliot LearEliot LearEliot Lear is a longtime member of the Internet Engineering Task Force and author of several Request for Comments. He is a consulting engineer for Cisco Systems after working for Silicon Graphics as an Internet Architect. Mr...
- Erin LearErin LearErin Lear is an American actress. By age six she was acting on TV 's Unsolved Mysteries , and at eleven playing Tommy Lee Jones’ daughter in Cobb ....
- Evelyn LearEvelyn LearEvelyn Lear is an American soprano and opera singer.During her career between 1959 and 1992, Evelyn Lear appeared in more than forty operatic roles, appeared with every major opera company in the US and won a Grammy Award in 1966...
- Frances LearFrances LearFrances Lear was an activist, magazine publisher and writer. She was the wife of television producer Norman Lear. After her 1985 divorce, Lear used her $112 million settlement to start Lear's, a magazine targeting women over 35. The magazine folded six years later...
, magazine publisher - Jonathan LearJonathan LearJonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.-Biography:...
, philosopher - Les LearLes LearLeslie Lear was a National Football League and Canadian Football League player and coach as well as a owner and trainer of Thoroughbred race horse.-Football:...
- Louise LearLouise LearLouise Lear , is a BBC Weather presenter, appearing on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Red Button and BBC Radio...
- Moya LearMoya LearMoya Marie Olsen Lear was an American businesswoman and the wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear. Her father was vaudeville genius John "Ole" Olsen, whose Depression-era show Hellzapoppin was the longest running Broadway hit in history.Her mother was Lillian, a strong and practical woman...
- Nicholas LearNicholas LearNicholas Lear was a Quartermaster in the Union Navy and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.-Medal of Honor citation:...
, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient - Norman LearNorman LearNorman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude...
, television writer and producer - Tobias LearTobias LearTobias Lear is best known as the personal secretary to President George Washington. Lear served Washington from 1784 until the former-President's death in 1799...
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- Liga de Escritores y Artistas RevolucionariosLiga de Escritores y Artistas RevolucionariosThe Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios was a Mexican association of revolutionary artists and writers. It was established in the house of its first president Leopoldo Méndez in 1933 in due to the disbanded "Sindicato de Trabajadores Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores" , and was defined as...
(LEAR), Mexican association of revolutionary artists and writers - Low Energy Ion RingLow Energy Ion RingThe Low Energy Ion Ring is a particle accelerator at CERN used to accelerate lead ions from the LINAC 3 to the Proton Synchrotron to provide lead ions for collisions within the Large Hadron Collider .-History:...
(LEIR), an ion pre-accelerator of the Large Hadron ColliderLarge Hadron ColliderThe Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature....
at CERN- Low Energy Antiproton RingLow Energy Antiproton RingThe Low Energy Anti-Proton Ring was an experiment at CERN designed to decelerate and store antimatter, to study the properties of antimatter and to create atoms of antihydrogen. The experiment was constructed in 1982 and operated until 1996, when it was converted into the Low Energy Ion Ring,...
(LEAR), the former (up to 2005) name and function of LEIR
- Low Energy Antiproton Ring
- RapeseedRapeseedRapeseed , also known as rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rappi, rapaseed is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae...
in its Low Erucic Acid Rapseed (LEAR) form