Wikipedia:Top 10 Google hits, L-Z

Continuation of: Wikipedia:Top 10 Google hits, A-K

The following is an incomplete list of wikipedia articles (L-Z) which are in the top 10 results of a search on Google. For a more detailed explanation see Wikipedia:Top 10 Google hits. See also Wikipedia:Articles which are number one for one word Google searches

Contents: L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

L

1. L cut [1]
2. Lafcadio Hearn [2]
3. Lake Nyos Tragedy [3]
4. Laotian rock rat [4] (#1)
5. Larry Sanger [5] (#1)
6. Lattice C #6 [6]
7. Latin language/Phrases [appears on first page also without the / ]] [7]
8. Law of Obligations [8]
9. Lawrence v. Texas [9]
10. Leet [10]
11. Leon Schlesinger (#1 hit) [11]
12. Li Ao (#1) [12]
13. Liar paradox [13]
14. Libertarian socialism [14]
15. Liberty, Outagamie, Wisconsin [15]
16. Ligand (#3 July 20)
17. Lists of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners [16]
18. List of battles [17]
19. List of British comedians [18]
20. List of collective nouns by subject (#1 hit for 'list of collective nouns') [19]
21. List of collective nouns by collective term (#2 hit for 'list of collective nouns') [20]
22. List of compounds [21]
23. List of generic forms in British place names (#1) [22]
24. List of famous French people (#1) [23]
25. List of famous South Africans (#1) [24]
26. Lists of Incumbents (#1 with both 's', top ten as list of ....) [25]
27. List of Kansas counties (but not when searching for just Kansas counties) [26]
28. List of knots (#1) [27]
29. List of nuclear accidents (#1 with 'list of..', top ten otherwise) [28]
30. List of metro systems (#1) [29]
31. List of ologies [30]
32. List of poets (#1) [31]
33. List of restaurant chains (#1) [32]
34. List of Roman Emperors [33]
35. List of science fiction television [34]
36. List of small groups [35]
37. List of wars [36]
38. Lead azide [37]
39. Liao dynasty [38]
40. Lincoln County, New Mexico [39]
41. Lincoln County War [40]
42. Lithium salt [41]
43. Local anesthesia [42]
44. Lockheed Orion [43]
45. Logical assertion [44]
46. Logical fallacy [45]
47. London congestion charge [46]
48. London Inner Ring Road [47]
49. Long March rocket [48]
50. Lordship of Ireland [49] (#1)
51. Lord Voldemort [50]
52. Lorenzo de Medici [51]
53. Loyalty Day [52]
54. Luciano Berio [53]
55. Lulu (opera) (#1, the parentheses don't affect the search) [54]
56. luminiferous aether [55]

M

1. M. King Hubbert [56]
2. MacGuffin [57]
3. Magic Lantern (software) [58] (but not without "software")
4. main page [59]
5. Malleus Maleficarum [60]
6. Mamie Smith [61]
7. Mammal classification [62] (#5)
8. Manco Capac [63]
9. Manhattan cocktail [64]
10. Manmohan Singh (#1) [65]
11. Mantoux test [66]
12. Manzanar Japanese internment camp [67]
13. Marien Ngouabi [68]
14. Mark Jonathan Harris [69]
15. Martin v. Hunter's Lessee [70]
16. Masculism (#1) [71]
17. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority [72]
18. Master of the Queen's Music (also variants with "King's" and "Musick") [73]
19. Master shot [74]
20. Mathematics and architecture [75]
21. Maximian [76]
22. McCarthyism [77]
23. McNaghten rules (#1 hit, although that is more down to spelling) [78]
24. Measure word [79]
25. Medium shot [80]
26. Membranophone [81]
27. Mercury (element) (#1, although only with the word "element"; over 8,000 page visits since Phase III upgrade) [82]
28. Merrie Melodies (#8) [83]
29. Mesoamerican ballgame [84]
30. Metabolome (#9 July 20)
31. Meta-philosophy [85]
32. Michael Land (#8) [86]
33. Michigan Territory [87]
34. Mid-Atlantic Ridge [88]
35. Milan Vukcevich [89]
36. Milgram experiment [90]
37. Military of Guinea [91]
38. Miller's knot [92]
39. Mineral salts pyridone broth [is this a typo? Google has only 2 hits--this article and mav's page--and asks if I mean pyridine instead] [93]
40. Minstrel show (#10) [94]
41. MIRV #4 [95] (though nowhere near the top when spelled out as Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle)
42. Mixmaster anonymous remailer [96]
43. Miyazaki Hayao [97]
44. Mogul Empire [98]
45. Mohammad Atta [99]
46. Mohammed Daoud Khan [100]
47. Mohammad Najibullah [101]
48. Mohs scale of mineral hardness [102]
49. Montoneros [103]
50. Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits (#1 hit, unsurprisingly) [104]
51. Mortimer Adler [105]
52. MOS Technology (#1 hit) [106]
53. MOS Technology 6502 (#1 hit) [107]
54. MOS Technology VIC (#2) [108]
55. MOS Technology VIC-II (#1 hit) [109]
56. MPAA film rating system [110] (#1 with or without the MPAA at the beginning)
57. Mrs Craddock (#1) [111]
58. Munich Air Disaster (#1) [112]
59. Murinae [113] (#5)
60. Musical instrument classification [114]
61. Music of France [115]
62. Music of Jamaica [116]
63. Music of the United Kingdom [117]
64. Musk Duck [118]
65. My Night with Reg [119]
66. mycorrihiza [120]
67. Mycrogyria (which appears to be a typo for Microgyria, now corrected) [121]

N

1. Nadia Nyce [122]
2. Naive set theory (#1 hit) [123]
3. Nash equilibrium (#1 hit on phrase, #3 without quotes) [124]
4. National Educational Television [125]
5. National Film Preservation Board [126]
6. National Film Registry [127]
7. Natufian culture [128]
8. Natural number [129]
9. Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind [130]
10. Nawaf al-Hazmi [131]
11. Near beer [132]
12. Nelson Muntz [133]
13. Nesomyidae [134] (#2)
14. Nesomyinae [135] (#4)
15. Neutronium [136]
16. New Imperialism (#7) [137]
17. New Orleans Rhythm Kings [138]
18. New World rats and mice [139] (#1)
19. Nick LaRocca [140]
20. Nigel Lawson [141] - #1
21. Nigerian money transfer fraud [142] (#1 hit--because of its phrasing, no doubt. e.g. "nigerian 419 scam" doesn't turn up wikipedia right off)
22. Night and Fog prisoner [143]
23. Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin [144]
24. Nixon's Enemies List [145]
25. Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem [146] - #1 when searching for "sampling theorem" only
26. Nisei Japanese American [147]
27. Nitric acid [148] - #1
28. No cloning theorem [149]
29. No true Scotsman [150] - #3
30. Norman Tebbit [151]
31. Northern dynasty [152]
32. North Korea nuclear weapons program [153] [154]
33. Nortia [155]
34. Nose-picking [156]
35. Nuclear bunker buster [157]
36. Nuclear magnetic resonance (#5 20 July)
37. Nuclear weapon [158]
38. Nuclear weapon design [159]
39. Nude celebrities on the Internet (#1; over 13000 hits!) [160]
40. Numbers in Norse mythology (#1 hit) [161]

O

1. Obama Deception [162]
2. Oilbird [163]
3. Onanism [164]
4. Orchestration [165] [166]
5. Orders of magnitude [167]
6. ORDVAC [168]
7. Organ Pipes National Park [169]
8. Original Dixieland Jass Band [170]
9. OS Advocacy [171] (#1)
10. Ossip Zadkine [172]

P

1. Pablo Escobar [173]
2. Page Hamilton [174]
3. Palaeogene [175]
4. Palatalization [176] (#1)
5. Palladium operating system [177] (#1)
6. pansy violet [178]
7. Papa Jack Laine [179]
8. Pascal Lissouba (#1 hit) [180]
9. Patience Cooper (#1 hit) [181]
10. Paul Allen [182]
11. Paul Hindemith [183]
12. Pauli exclusion principle [184]
13. Peclet number [185]
14. Pencil and paper game (#1) [186]
15. Penis removal (#1) [187]
16. People's Republic of China (#3) [188]
17. Peromyscus schmidlyi [189] (#1)
18. Perspective distortion [190]
19. Petri dish [191]
20. Petromyscinae [192] (#1)
21. P.G.T. Beauregard [193]
22. Phrase structure rules [194]
23. Philip II of France (#1) [195]
24. Philip IV of France (#1) [196]
25. Phonograph cylinder (#1) [197]
26. Picometer [198]
27. Picometre [199]
28. Pioneer plaque [200]
29. The Poisoned Chocolates Case (#1) [201]
30. Plasma equilibria and stability [202]
31. Platacanthomyinae [203] (#1)
32. pluot [204]
33. Plymouth Argyle F.C. (#9) [205]
34. Politics of China [206]
35. Porajmos (#1) [207]
36. Porky Pig (#7) [208]
37. Port-Salut cheese [209]
38. PR rating [210]
39. Prefix code [211]
40. Prenylation (#3 July 20)
41. Present King of France (#1) [212]
42. Presidents of Switzerland (#1) [213]
43. Priapulida [214]
44. Prince Albert piercing [215]
45. Private Snafu (#7) [216]
46. Progressive shifting (#1) [217]
47. Project Sugita Genpaku [218]
48. Project Rastko [219]
49. Promoter July 26, 2005
50. Propaganda film [220]
51. Protein biosynthesis [221]
52. Puck (Shakespeare) [222]
53. Push printing [223]
54. Putonghua [224]
55. Pythagorean comma [225]

Q

1. Quantum entanglement [226]
2. Quantum harmonic oscillator [227]

R

1. Rachelle Waterman [228]
2. Raelism [229]
3. Rainbow flag [230]
4. Rank-into-rank (#1 hit) [231]
5. Real number [232]
6. Rebel Alliance (Star Wars) (not in top ten without (Star Wars)) [233]
7. Reciprocal piston [234]
8. Recording Artists' Coalition [235]
9. Renminbi (#2 hit) [236]
10. Repenomamus [237] (#2)
11. Revolver (album) [238]
12. Richard II of England [239] [240]
13. Richard Ramirez [241]
14. Rick D. Husband [242]
15. RijnGouweLijn [243]
16. RNA July 26, 2005
17. Rob Watson [244]
18. Robert Bunsen (over 2000 page hits!) [245]
19. Robert Guiscard [246]
20. Robots in literature (#1) [247]
21. Roland Freisler [248]
22. Ronald William Kirby (#1 hit, everyone else has Josh) [249]
23. Root mean square [250]
24. Ross McElwee [251]
25. Roundabout intersection (#1) [252]
26. Rudy Giuliani [253]
27. Rutland, Wisconsin (#1) [254]

S

1. SAMPA Chart [255]
2. Sansei Japanese American [256]
3. Saragossa, Spain (not when looking for just Saragossa) [257]
4. Satyagraha [258]
5. Scabbers [259]
6. Scat singing [260]
7. Scientific mythology [261]
8. Scrooge McDuck [262]
9. SECD machine (#2 hit) [263]
10. Second Battle of El Alamein (#1 hit) [264]
11. Security through obscurity [265]
12. Semiotic literary interpretation [266]
13. Senary [267]
14. September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack (and many subpages) [268]
15. September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties (even without the slash) [269]
16. Serbs [270]
17. Sex in science fiction (#1 hit) [271]
18. Shavian alphabet [272]
19. Shimon Peres [273]
20. Shot reverse shot [274]
21. Shrimp plant [275]
22. Sid Davis [276]
23. Sidehill Gouger [277]
24. Sie and hir (#1 hit only with "and") [278]
25. Silkworm missile (#1 hit) [279]
26. Simon Le Bon (#8) [280]
27. Six Men's Morris (#1) [281]
28. Sino Japanese War (1937-1945) (#1 hit), not top 10 without the years [282]
29. Siu Nim Tao [283]
30. Skunk weed [284]
31. Slashdotted (#1) [285]
32. Smiling Buddha [286]
33. Social guidance film [287]
34. Sodium thiopental [288]
35. Sodom [289]
36. Sodom and Gomorrah (#1)[290]
37. Sodomy (#1)[291]
38. Sodomy law (#1)[292]
39. software cracking [293]
40. Soils retrogression and degradation (#1) [294]
41. Solved board games (#1) [295]
42. Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act [296]
43. Southamptonshire [297]
44. Southern dynasty [298]
45. Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan [299] [300]
46. Space Shuttle Columbia disaster [301]
47. Spalacidae [302] (#1)
48. Statism [303] (#1)
49. Stefan Dusan [304]
50. Stephen of Hungary [305]
51. Stone, Paper, Scissors [306]
52. Stonewall riots [307]
53. Stop trick [308]
54. Stratovolcano [309]
55. Structuralist film theory (#1) [310]
56. Supermarionation [311]
57. Supreme Soviet [312]
58. Surreal number [313]
59. Sutter's Mill [314]
60. Svartalfer [315]]
61. Syagrius (#1) [316]

T

1. TACMAR (#2) [317]
2. Tape bias [318]
3. TAT-1 [319]
4. TCP/IP stack [320]
5. Tell England (#1) [321]
6. Tenerife Airport Disaster (#1) [322]
7. TerraServer-USA July 20, 2005
8. Terry Scott Taylor [323]
9. Texcoco (#2) [324]
10. Thai lunar calendar [325]
11. The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything (#1) [326]
12. The Clan McDuck [327]
13. The Book of the City of Ladies [328]
14. The Raven (journal) (#1) [329]
15. The Ring of the Nibelung [330]
16. The Simpsons/Episode List [331] [332]
17. There is no Cabal [333]
18. Thermal depolymerization [334] (#2)
19. Thermobaric weapon [335]
20. Third Council of the Lateran [336]
21. Thomas Bowdler[337]
22. Tikhon of Moscow [338]
23. Tim Chandler [339]
24. Time Indefinite [340]
25. Timeline of the Enron scandal (#1) [341]
26. Timeline of trends in music (1951-present) is in Top Ten for a search for the title or "music trends" (March 8, 2002)
27. Top 10 Google hits [342]
28. Tollund man [343]
29. Tracking shot [344]
30. Trains in the Netherlands [345]
31. transmogrification [346]
32. Transportation in the Netherlands (#1) [347]
33. Tribes in Chinese history (#1) [348]
34. Treaty of Nanjing [349]
35. Trumpet shows up searching for 20th century brass instrumentalists [350]
36. Ts'ai Lun [351]
37. Tunisian crochet [352]
38. Turkic peoples [353]
39. Twin City Rapid Transit (#1) [354]
40. Twin prime conjecture [355]
41. Tylomyinae [356] (#1)

U

1. Ugo Nespolo [357]
2. Ultramontanism [358]
3. Umm Qasr [359]
4. Underwood Dudley [360]
5. UN Security Council Resolution 242 (#1 hit, also when searched without "'s) [361]
6. Uniqueness type [362]
7. United Airlines flight 93 [363]
8. United Airlines flight 175 [364]
9. Wikipedia:Unusual articles [365] (#1 hit)
10. Ural Mountains [366]
11. US invasion of Afghanistan [367]
12. U.S. presidential election, 1932 presidential election, 1932
13. U.S. presidential election, 2004 [368]
14. Ustase (#3) [369]

V

1. V1 Flying Bomb [370]
2. Vanadium [371]
3. Van der Waals force [372]
4. Verne Winchell [373]
5. Vice President of the United States of America (strangely, the #1 hit is not this page, but the Wikipedia page President of the United States of America) [374]
6. Victor Lustig [375]
7. Victor Talking Machine Company [376]
8. Victor von Doom [377]
9. Video game console [378]
10. Viola d'amore [379]
11. Violent Femmes (album) [380]
12. Violin Concerto (Berg) (#1, the parentheses don't affect the search) [381]
13. Von Neumann architecture [382]
14. votes for deletion [383]

W

1. Walter Winterbottom [384]
2. Wandering Jew (plant) [385] (but not without "plant")
3. War of Jenkin's Ear [386]
4. Wawalag [387]
5. Waikikamukau (#4 hit) - and though the page did not exist, it could be edited! [388]
6. Western Xia [389]
7. White Australia policy [390]
8. White-tailed rat [391] (#1)
9. Why Nerds are Unpopular [392]
10. Wiki (#3 Hit) [393]
11. Wikipedia (#2 hit, main page is #1) [394]
12. WikiWiki [395]
13. Wilber Sweatman (#1 Hit) [396]
14. Wilhelm Keitel [397]
15. William Crossing (#1 hit) [398]
16. William Marshal [399]
17. William McCrea [400]
18. Wilson Flagg [401]
19. Wisconsinan glaciation [402]
20. WIPO Copyright Treaty [403]
21. Witch Hazel (Looney Tunes) (#9) [404]
22. Wood router [405]
23. World Cotton Centennial (#1 hit) [406]

X

1. Xylophone [407] (#1)

Y

1. Yedidya Yaari (#1 hit) [408]
2. Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov [409]
3. Young British Artists [410]

Z

1. Zeljko Raznatovic [411]
2. Zero sharp (#1 hit) [412]
3. Zorn's lemma (#1 hit) [413]

See also Wikipedia:List of articles frequently visited through Google.