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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

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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]

[edit] O

  1. Obligate aerobe [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]

[edit] 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]

[edit] Q

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

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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]

[edit] X

[edit] Y

  1. Yedidya Yaari (#1 hit) [407]
  2. Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov [408]
  3. Young British Artists [409]

[edit] Z

  1. Zeljko Raznatovic [410]
  2. Zero sharp (#1 hit) [411]
  3. Zorn's lemma (#1 hit) [412]

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