League

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Contents 1 Measurement 2 Countries 3 Groups of people 4 French Ligues (translated "Leagues") 5 Sports 6 Fiction, music, and entertainment 7 Other uses 8 See also

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The term League may refer to:

[edit] Measurement

• League (unit), an obsolete unit of length of an hour's walk: usually equal to three miles.
• Roman league, one of the Ancient Roman units of measurement, approximately 1.5 miles

[edit] Countries

• League of Nations
• Leagues of Inner Mongolia
• Holy League (1538)
• Peloponnesian League
• Catholic League, multiple meanings
• Arab League
• Lombard League
• Delian League

[edit] Groups of people

• The LEAGUE (nonprofit), a nonprofit, school and web-based program for service learning.
• League of Women Voters
• League of the Public Weal, a French alliance of feudal nobles organized in 1465
• League of Spiritual Discovery, a Baltimore-based arts and politics group
• League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, a regional autonomist political party in Serbia
• Catholic League (French), created by Henry I, Duke of Guise in 1576 and bent upon extirpating Protestantism in France
• League Against Cruel Sports, a UK animal welfare campaign
• Urban League, a civil rights organization based in New York City

[edit] French Ligues (translated "Leagues")

These are factions of street politics, not political parties running for office.

• Far right leagues in France, which include the
  • Ligue des Patriotes, which is French for "League of Patriots"
  • Antisemitic League of France

[edit] Sports

• Sports league
• League system
• Rugby League

[edit] Fiction, music, and entertainment

• The League also listed as TheLeagueTv, a popular internet series about two hitmen. The series won BusinessWeek's Best of 2008 award for comedy.
• League of Nobles in the Dune prequel series written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• Justice League of America, a popular American superhero team and comic book published by DC Comics
• The Red-Headed League, 1892 story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• A League of Their Own, 1992 film which tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, 1919 novel, sequel to the 1903 play/novel The Scarlet Pimpernel
• The League of Gentlemen (film), a 1959 movie directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870.
• 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a 2007 film starring Lorenzo Lamas
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1999 graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) 2003 film adaptation of the novel
• La Lega, an Italian song
• Solarian League, a fictional star nation in David Weber's Honorverse
• Terran League, a fictional confederation of planets populated by those descended mainly from old Earth Asians, in David Weber's 1992 book Path of the Fury.

[edit] Other uses

• League Collegiate Wear, a college apparel company

[edit] See also

• Alliance
• Confederation

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