king of Bohemia (1198-1230), who won both Bohemia's autonomy from the German king and the hereditary rights to the Bohemian crown for his house of Premysl.
city, Hokkaido, Japan, on Ishikari Bay of the Sea of Japan. Its name is a corruption of the Ainu word otarunai, meaning "sandy beach." Otaru developed as a modern town ...
town, north-central Ecuador, in the Andean highlands at an elevation of 8,441 feet (2,573 m). It was originally settled by the Otavalo Indians, later conquered by the Incas, and became ...
county, southern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the south by Texas. The terrain comprises drastic extremes, including elevations to 11,997 feet (3,656 m) at Sierra Blanca, extensive, waterless deserts, and ...
tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1603-04 and published in 1622 in a quarto edition from a transcript of an authorial manuscript. The text published in the ...
in philosophy, the object of the commonsensical belief that others besides oneself possess minds and are capable of thinking or feeling somewhat as one does oneself. The philosophical problem arising ...
river in West Africa, rising in the southern plain of Burkina Faso. It meanders southward, briefly flowing along the Togo-Benin border. It cuts south-southwest across northern Togo and then forms ...
American political activist during the period leading up to the American Revolution. He helped formulate the colonists' grievances against the British government in the 1760s.
American bandleader, drummer, vibraphonist, singer, producer, and promoter of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Otis was instrumental in furthering the careers of a number of important rhythm-and-blues performers.
any species of insect belonging to the family Otitidae (order Diptera). The wings are spotted or banded with black, brown, or yellow. These small flies are common in moist places. ...
dermatitis of the external auditory canal and sometimes also of the exposed ear. The skin on these ear parts becomes dry, scaling, and itchy, and there may be foul-smelling watery ...
inflammation of the lining of the middle ear and one of the most common infections in childhood. In its acute form, it commonly develops in association with an infection of ...
town, north-central Namibia. Otjiwarongo town (at an elevation of 4,790 feet [1,460 m]) is located in a generally flat, semiarid region of varied grasses, scrub bush, and thorn trees. Sheep ...
Belgian lawyer and bibliographer who, with Henri-Marie Lafontaine, devised the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system of subject groups for library collections.
North American Indian people of the Chiwere branch (including the Missouri and Iowa) of the Siouan linguistic family. In their historic past the Oto, together with the Iowa and the ...
a phylum, or stock, of American Indian languages made up of the following language families and groups: Oto-Pamean, Popolocan, Mixtecan, Zapotecan, Chinantecan, and Manguean. The Tlapanec and Huave language groups ...
medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. Traditionally, treatment of the ear was associated with that of the eye in medical ...
Middle American Indian population living in the central plateau region of Mexico. The Otomi peoples speak at least four closely related languages, all called Otomi. A rather large number of ...
ear disorder characterized by the growth of excess bone in the middle ear in the region of the oval window. It is at the oval window that the footplate of ...
town and archiepiscopal see, Lecce province, Puglia (Apulia) region, southeastern Italy, on the east coast of the Salentine Peninsula (the "heel" of Italy), on the Strait of Otranto (40 miles ...
county, central New York state, U.S., comprising a rugged upland region bordered by the Unadilla River to the west and the Susquehanna River to the southwest. Originating in Otsego Lake ...
capital, Shiga Prefecture (ken), southern Honshu, Japan, on the shore of Lake Biwa. A castle town established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 16th century, it is situated at the junction ...
Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababcc. It originated in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and was developed by Tuscan poets for religious verse and ...
city, seat (1831) of La Salle county, north-central Illinois, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois rivers, about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Chicago. The ...
city, seat (1864) of Franklin county, eastern Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Marais des Cygnes River. Ottawa was founded in 1864 near the Ottawa Indian Baptist Mission, which had ...
Algonkian-speaking Indians whose territory included what is now part of the Ottawa River, the French River, Georgian Bay, northern Michigan, and adjacent areas. According to tradition, the Ottawa, Ojibwa, and ...
capital of Canada, southeastern Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa, Gatineau, and Rideau rivers. Its metropolitan area lies astride the Ontario-Quebec border.
trade policies, based on the system of imperial preference, negotiated between the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations in 1932. See imperial preference.
river in east central Canada, the chief tributary of the St. Lawrence River. It rises in the Laurentian Plateau of western Quebec and flows swiftly westward to Lake Timiskaming and ...
any of 13 species of semiaquatic mammals, noted for their playful behaviour, that belong to the weasel family. The lithe and slender body has short legs, a strong neck, and ...
any of three species of amphibious and carnivorous tropical African insectivores that are not "true" shrews (family Soricidae). All are nocturnal and den in cavities and burrows in stream banks; ...
dog breed first described in the 14th century. Developed in England to hunt otters on both land and water, it resembles a rough-coated bloodhound and has a large head, pendulous ...
German tin-glazed earthenware made in Bavaria in the 18th and 19th centuries. The factory was first established at Ottingen in 1735 and two years later was moved to Schrattenhofen. The ...
first king of modern Greece (1832-62), who governed his country autocratically until he was forced to become a constitutional monarch in 1843. Attempting to increase Greek territory at the expense ...
duke of Saxony (as Otto II, 936-961), German king (from 936), and Holy Roman emperor (962-973), who consolidated the German Reich by his suppression of rebellious vassals and his decisive ...
German king and Holy Roman emperor who planned to recreate the glory and power of the ancient Roman Empire in a universal Christian state governed from Rome, in which the ...
German king and Holy Roman emperor, candidate of the German anti-Hohenstaufen faction, who, after rivalling against two Hohenstaufen kings, was finally deposed.
German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source.
German theologian, philosopher, and historian of religion, who exerted worldwide influence through his investigation of man's experience of the holy. Das Heilige (1917; The Idea of the Holy, 1923) is ...
deeply upholstered seat of any shape, with or without a back, introduced into Europe in the late 18th century from Turkey, where, piled with cushions, it was the central piece ...
floor covering handwoven under the earlier Ottoman sultans of Turkey. Extremely fine, handsome carpets-of wool pile on a foundation of silk or wool, having floral patterning, often with schemes of ...
empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia. One of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries, it spanned more than 600 years and came ...
painting, sculpture, and other visual arts produced during the reigns of the German Ottonian emperors and their first successors from the Salic house (950-1050). As inheritors of the Carolingian tradition ...
city, seat (1844) of Wapello county, southeastern Iowa, U.S., on the Des Moines River, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Oskaloosa. It was laid out in 1843 during a ...
true, or hard-paste, German porcelain produced in the Rhineland from 1763 onward. The factory was started by Etienne-Dominique Pelleve, a porcelain maker from Rouen, France, under the patronage of Prince ...
English dramatist and poet, one of the forerunners of sentimental drama through his convincing presentation of human emotions in an age of heroic but artificial tragedies. His masterpiece, Venice Preserved, ...
eastern segment of the Central Alps lying mainly in the southern Tirol (western Austria) and partly in northern Italy. The mountains are bounded by the Rhaetian Alps and Reschenscheideck Pass ...
range forming the backbone of northeastern Honshu, Japan, and extending for 310 miles (500 km) south from Aomori ken (prefecture) to Fukushima ken. Geologically, dominant Tertiary sediments are occasionally interrupted ...
river in northern Laos, one of the 12 principal tributaries of the Mekong River; it is 236 miles (380 km) long. The Ou River rises on the Chinese frontier north ...
a linear trough in the Earth's crust in which rocks of the Paleozoic Era (from 225,000,000 to 570,000,000 years ago) were deposited along the southern margin of North America, from ...
a rugged range of large hills that continues the Ozark Plateau in the United States. The Ouachita Mountains extend approximately 225 miles (360 km) east to west from Little Rock, ...
a mountain-building event that resulted in the folding and faulting of exposed strata in the Ouachita Geosyncline in the southern portion of the United States in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and the ...
river rising in the Ouachita Mountains of west-central Arkansas, U.S., and flowing in a generally southeasterly direction to join the Red River in Louisiana after a course of 605 miles ...
historic and cultural region in eastern Chad, central Africa. The chief town of the region is Abeche. The region's area of savanna grasslands roughly corresponds to the formerly independent Ouaddai ...
capital and largest town of Burkina Faso, West Africa. It was the capital of the historic Mossi kingdom of Wagadugu (founded in the 15th century) and the seat of the ...
town, south-central Morocco. It lies on the Saharan side of the High Atlas Mountains and is situated in the valley of the River Ouarzazate near its juncture with the River ...
municipality, East Flanders province, west-central Belgium. It lies along the Scheldt (Schelde) River south of Ghent. A prosperous tapestry-making centre in the Middle Ages, its industry declined in the 15th ...
(July 11, 1708), victory over the French won by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy during the War of the Spanish Succession; it eventually led to the ...
general, administrator, and marshal of France in the Napoleonic Wars whose career illustrates the opportunities to rise in the French army after the Revolution.
town, Western Cape province, South Africa. It is located about midway between Cape Town (west) and Port Elizabeth (east) on the banks of Grobbelaars River. First settled in 1847, it ...
town, largest of the Souf Oases in northeastern Algeria. It lies 50 miles (80 km) west of the Tunisian border. Surrounded by the sand dunes of the Grand Erg (sand ...
