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- American illustrator, writer, and businesswoman remembered largely for her creation and highly successful marketing of Kewpie characters and Kewpie dolls.
- O'Neill, Shane
- Irish patriot, among the most famous of all the O'Neills. [4 Related Articles]
- O'Neill, Sir Phelim
- Irish Roman Catholic rebel who initiated a major revolt (1641-52) against English rule in Ireland.
- O'Neill, Thomas Philip, Jr.
- ("TIP"), U.S. politician (b. Dec. 19, 1912, Cambridge, Mass.--d. Jan. 5, 1994, Boston, Mass.), was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat who exerted considerable political clout as a longtime representative (1953-87) from ...
- O'Reilly, Bill
- (from the article "Colbert, Stephen") ...show, The Colbert Report, and took on the guise of a self-important conservative commentator, a persona meant to parody certain cable-news personalities, most notably Bill O'Reilly. During ...
- O'Reilly, Edward
- (from the article "Pecos Bill") Created by journalists, primarily Edward O'Reilly in Century magazine, the Pecos Bill character was based on little authentic oral tradition and no historical prototype. He is said to have been ...
- O'Reilly, Tim
- (from the article "Web 2.0") ...analogy with common computer software naming conventions to indicate a new, improved version. The term had its origin in the name given to a series of Web conferences, first organized ...
- O'Reilly, Tony
- Irish rugby union player and business executive who reached notable heights in both fields. He played 29 Test (international) matches for Ireland and set British Lions (now the British and ...
- O'Reilly, William Joseph
- Australian cricketer, one of the finest leg-spin bowlers of the 20th century, taking 774 wickets in his career of first-class cricket (1927-46), including 144 wickets in 27 Test (international) matches.
- O'Rourke's Tower
- (from the article "Clonmacnoise") ...Dowling (Doolin). Clonmacnoise became a bishopric, and in 1568 the diocese was merged with that of Meath. The ruins of the churches, known as the Seven Churches of Clonmacnoise, and ...
- O'Shaughnessy Dam
- (from the article "dam") ...200,000 kilowatts of hydroelectric power-outweighed the costs to be exacted by the inundation of the valley. Approved by the U.S. Congress in 1913, the construction of the dam, known today ...
- O'Shaughnessy, Arthur
- British poet best known for his much-anthologized "Ode" ("We are the music-makers").
- O'Shaughnessy, William Brooke
- (from the article "cholera") ...a German working at the Institute of Artificial Mineral Waters in Moscow during the 1831 outbreak. Hermann believed that water should be injected into the victims' veins to replace lost ...
- O'Shea, Katharine
- (from the article "O'Shea, William Henry and Katharine") ...son of a Roman Catholic solicitor in Dublin. Educated at Oscott and at Trinity College, Dublin, he became a cornet of the 18th Hussars in 1858 and was retired as ...
- O'Shea, Tessie
- British music-hall entertainer of the 1930s and '40s who gained new popularity on the stage and screen in the 1960s (b. March 13, 1914--d. April 21, 1995).
- O'Shea, William Henry
- (from the article "O'Shea, William Henry and Katharine") William Henry O'Shea was the only son of a Roman Catholic solicitor in Dublin. Educated at Oscott and at Trinity College, Dublin, he became a cornet of the 18th Hussars ...
- O'Shea, William Henry and Katharine
- husband and wife from 1867 to 1890, whose relationship with the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell led to a divorce scandal that terminated Parnell's career, divided Irish public opinion, ...
- O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney
- American labour leader and reformer who devoted her energies to improving conditions for factory workers in many industries through union organizing.
- O'Sullivan, Maureen
- Irish-born American actress (b. May 17, 1911, Boyle, County Roscommon, Ire.--d. June 22, 1998, Scottsdale, Ariz.), had a distinguished performing career that extended from the 1930s until the mid-1990s, but ...
- O'Sullivan, Ronnie
- (from the article "Billiard Games") ...Ltd. found other corporate sponsors to keep prize funds high. A deal was signed with Eurosport for 200 hours of coverage over three years, which would bring the game to ...
- O'Sullivan, Timothy
- American photographer best known for his Civil War subjects and his landscapes of the American West. [2 Related Articles]
- O'Toole, Peter
- Irish stage and film actor whose range extends from classical drama to contemporary farce.
- O-chi-na Ch'i
- (from the article "Kansu") The area within Kansu's jursidiction has undergone several changes since 1950. In 1954 Kansu annexed the province of Ningsia. In 1956 the A-la-shan-yu Ch'i and O-chi-na Ch'i banners in northwestern ...
- o-daiko
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...small room on stage right with a view of the drama through a bamboo curtain. The music consists of special samisen and vocal pieces and a great variety of percussion ...
- o-harai
- (from the article "harai") ...much more extensive purification periods in which they must regulate the body (bathing, diet, abstention from stimulants), heart, environment, and soul. Great purification ceremonies called o-harai are held regularly twice ...
- o-le-polotu
- (from the article "percussion instrument") ...it is said to emit the sounds "uh-ah-uh-ah." Split-bamboo percussion tubes, doubling as rattles, are indigenous to the same area, while the percussion board o-le-polotu of Samoan ...
- O-lun-ch'un
- (from the article "Heilungkiang") ...Range. They are believed to have come from the north side of the Amur River during the 15th and 16th centuries. Hunters originally, they became the earliest farmers of Heilungkiang. ...
- O-templom
- (from the article "Kiskunfelegyhaza") ...wine) with some industry (printing, clothing, food-processing). The town itself was destroyed by the Turks in the 16th century; its restoration as a Magyar town dates from the mid-18th century. ...
- o-tsuzumi
- (from the article "tsuzumi") The two most commonly used tsuzumi are the ko-tsuzumi and the o-tsuzumi, found in the music of Noh and Kabuki theatres. Although the ko-tsuzumi and the o-tsuzumi are quite similar ...
- O-type star
- (from the article "Space densities of stars") Class O includes bluish white stars with surface temperatures typically of 25,000-50,000 K (although a few O-type stars with vastly greater temperatures have been described); lines of ionized helium appear ...
- O-yama-tsumi-no-mikoto
- (from the article "Yama-no-kami") ...two kinds: (1) gods who rule over mountains and are venerated by hunters, woodcutters, and charcoal burners and (2) gods who rule over agriculture and are venerated by farmers. Chief ...
- O.K. Corral
- (from the article "Tombstone") ...whom were Wyatt Earp, John H. "Doc" Holliday, and Johnny Ringo, whereupon Tombstone gained a reputation for lawlessness. Feuds were common, the most notable being the gun battle at the ...
- O.M.I. College of Applied Science
- (from the article "mechanics' institute") ...had moved to Boston, founded the Boston Mechanics' Institute in 1826, but its reliance on lectures doomed it. Claxton tried again, founding the Boston Mechanics' Lyceum in 1831. In Cincinnati ...
- Oadby and Wigston
- borough (district), administrative and historic county of Leicestershire, England. Both Oadby and Wigston, formerly villages lying outside the city of Leicester, have in recent years been engulfed by the outward ...
- Oahe Dam
- (from the article "World's largest dams") ...where it receives several north-bank tributaries (including Thunder Butte Creek and the Little Moreau River), to the Missouri River south of Mobridge. The lower Moreau basin was inundated by Oahe ...
- Oahe mole
- (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...since 1960 have been rapidly adopted for many of the world's tunnels as a means of increasing speeds from the previous range of 25 to 50 feet per day to ...
- Oahu
- island, Honolulu county, Hawaii, U.S. It is separated from the islands of Kauai (northwest) and Molokai (southeast) by the Kauai and Kaiwi channels, respectively. Oahu, which is of volcanic origin, ... [2 Related Articles]
- oak
- any of about 450 species of ornamental and timber trees and shrubs constituting the genus Quercus in the beech family (Fagaceae), distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and at high ... [9 Related Articles]
- oak apple
- (from the article "gall wasp") The so-called oak apple, a round, spongy, fruitlike object about 2.5 to 5 cm (1 to 2 inches) in diameter, is caused by the larvae of the gall wasp Biorhiza ...
- Oak Bay
- district municipality, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on southeastern Vancouver Island. It is an eastern residential suburb of Victoria, the provincial capital, and is a popular retirement community, with one of ...
- Oak Harbor
- town, Island county, northwestern Washington, U.S., on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. It was settled in 1849 by seafaring men, and its first industry was shipbuilding. Dutch immigrants arrived in ...
- oak moss
- (Evernia prunastri), species of fruticose (branched, bushy) lichen valued in perfumery for its heavy, oriental fragrance and as a fixative base. It grows in mountainous areas throughout much of the ...
- Oak Park
- village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, located about 10 miles (16 km) west of downtown. The area was originally inhabited by Potawatomi, Sauk, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Oak Ridge
- city, Anderson and Roane counties, eastern Tennessee, U.S. It lies in a valley between the Cumberland and Great Smoky mountains, about 20 miles (30 km) west of Knoxville, and is ... [2 Related Articles]
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- (from the article "nuclear engineering") In the late 1940s, as the many potential peaceful uses of nuclear energy became evident, two schools of reactor technology were established, one in Tennessee at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...
- Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology
- (from the article "nuclear engineering") In 1950 Clinch College was succeeded by the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology (ORSORT). The participants were again selected from academic, government, and industry sectors. In addition to lectures ...
- oak treehopper
- (from the article "treehopper") The buffalo treehopper, Stictocephala (or Ceresa) bubalus, 6 to 8 mm (0.2 to 0.3 inch) long, is harmful to young orchard trees, especially apple trees. The oak treehoppers, Platycotis vittata ...
- oak wilt
- (from the article "wilt") Oak wilt, caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum, is a serious disease in the eastern half of the United States. All oaks (Quercus) are susceptible, as are Chinese, European, and ...
- Oak, Synod of the
- (from the article "Severian Of Gabala") Encouraged by an imperial and ecclesiastical faction hostile to Chrysostom's strict moral reforms, Severian served as prosecutor and judge of the patriarch at the Synod of the Oak, July 403. ...
- Oakes, John Bertram
- American newspaper editor (b. April 23, 1913, Elkins Park, Pa.-d. April 5, 2001, New York, N.Y.), was the editorial-page editor for the New York Times from 1961 to 1976; he ...
- Oakeshott, Michael
- (from the article "ideology") Such people are not unsympathetic to political theories, such as Locke's, but they argue that their value resides in the facts that are derived from experience. Michael Oakeshott in England ...
- Oakham
- (from the article "Rutland") Rutland is a rural upland area. It contains many villages and the historic market towns of Oakham and Uppingham, each with a famous school. Oakham also has a large 14th-century ...
- Oakland
- city, seat (1873) of Alameda county, west-central California, U.S. It lies on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco. The city site is located on a flat ... [1 Related Articles]
- Oakland
- town, seat (1872) of Garrett county, extreme western Maryland, U.S., in the Allegheny Mountains near the West Virginia border. Laid out in 1849, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad decided ...
- Oakland Athletics
- (from the article "Baseball") ...The Twins were in first place only once all season-on the final day. The Tigers, however, earned the wild-card berth for having the best record of any second-place team in ...
- Oakland Raiders
- (from the article "Super Bowl") The NFL's other defeat in court benefited individual owners. In 1980 Al Davis, the managing general partner of the Oakland Raiders, successfully sued the NFL for not allowing him to ...
- Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
- (from the article "building construction") ...perimeter from which two layers of radial cables were tightly stretched to a small tension ring in the middle-the double layer of cables gave the roof stability against vertical movement. ...
- oakleaf hydrangea
- (from the article "hydrangea") ...hydrangea (H. paniculata 'Grandiflora'), growing to a height of 9 m, is a common landscape hydrangea, with tapering flower clusters, opening white and fading to pink, then to bronze. Oakleaf ...
- Oakley, Annie
- American markswoman who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, where she was often called "Little Sure Shot." [3 Related Articles]
- Oakley, Kenneth
- English physical anthropologist, geologist, and paleontologist best known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content.
- Oakover River
- (from the article "De Grey River") river in northwestern Western Australia. It rises as the Oakover River in the Robertson Range, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Marble Bar, and flows north. Midway in its course, ...
- Oaks
- one of the English Classic horse races (along with the Derby, Saint Leger, Two Thousand Guineas, and One Thousand Guineas), an event for three-year-old fillies, established in 1779, and run ...
- Oakville
- town, regional municipality of Halton, southeastern Ontario, Canada, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Toronto. Oakville is situated on Lake Ontario at the mouth of Oakville Creek. It was founded ...
- Oamaru
- town and port, southeastern South Island, New Zealand. Its name comes from a Maori term meaning "place of sheltered fire." It was established as a grazing run in 1853. Situated ...
- Oannes
- in Mesopotamian mythology, an amphibious being who taught mankind wisdom. Oannes, as described by the Babylonian priest Berosus, had the form of a fish but with the head of a ... [2 Related Articles]
- oar
- (from the article "ship") Oars and sailspart of early naval ship designnavyThe most ancient warships were many-oared galleys, each ship requiring a large number ...
- oarfish
- (species Regalecus glesne), large, long, sinuous fish of the family Regalecidae (order Lampridiformes), found throughout the tropics and subtropics in rather deep water. A ribbon-shaped fish, very thin from side ... [1 Related Articles]
- Oas
- (from the article "Romania") ...offer some magnificent scenery. This portion of the Carpathians is bounded on the eastern side by a zone of softer flysch. For some 250 miles (400 km) on the western ...
- oasis
- fertile tract of land that occurs in a desert wherever a perennial supply of fresh water is available. Oases vary in size, ranging from about 1 hectare (2.5 acres) around ... [6 Related Articles]
- Oasis
- (from the article "Britpop") ...19, 1963Sheffield, Eng.) and had its biggest hit with the single Common People-but it was essentially about Oasis and Blur. What the two bands had in common ...
- Oasis Club
- (from the article "Bradley, Edward Riley") ...cowboy and fought Indians and was briefly a miner before he turned to gambling, which became a lifelong passion. Before the turn of the century, he opened a gambling casino ...
- Oastler, Richard
- industrial reformer known in the north of England as the "Factory King," who from 1831 conducted a campaign for shorter working hours that was in part responsible for the Ten ...
- oat grass
- any of the perennial plants of two genera of grasses, Arrhenatherum and Danthonia (family Poaceae). Approximately six species of tall grasses, native to temperate Europe and Asia, constitute the genus ...
- oat plant
- (from the article "oats") edible starchy grain of the oat plant (species Avena sativa), a cereal widely cultivated in the temperate regions of the world. The flowering and fruiting structure, or inflorescence, of the ...
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist noted for her vast literary output in a variety of styles and genres. Particularly effective are her depictions of violence and evil in modern ... [2 Related Articles]
- Oates, L. E. G.
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...and dog teams, using the Axel Heiberg Glacier route, arrived back at Framheim Station at Bay of Whales with little difficulty, Scott's man-hauling polar party-Scott, E.A. Wilson, H.R. Bowers, L.E.G. ...
- Oates, Titus
- renegade Anglican priest who fabricated the Popish Plot of 1678. Oates's allegations that Roman Catholics were plotting to seize power caused a reign of terror in London and strengthened the ... [4 Related Articles]
- oath
- sacred or solemn voluntary promise usually involving the penalty of divine retribution for intentional falsity and often used in legal procedures. It is not certain that the oath was always ... [7 Related Articles]
- oatmeal
- (from the article "cereal processing") Some breakfast cereals require cooking; others are packaged ready-to-eat. Roasted and rolled oatmeal, eaten as porridge, requires brief boiling. Cooking time of these processed cereals has been greatly reduced, and ...
- oats
- edible starchy grain of the oat plant (species Avena sativa), a cereal widely cultivated in the temperate regions of the world. The flowering and fruiting structure, or inflorescence, of the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Oaxaca
- estado (state), southern Mexico. It is bounded by the states of Puebla and Veracruz to the north and Chiapas to the east, by the Pacific Ocean to ... [3 Related Articles]
- Oaxaca
- city, capital of Oaxaca estado (state), southern Mexico, lying in the fertile Oaxaca Valley, 5,085 feet (1,550 metres) above sea level. The city site, which has been ... [1 Related Articles]
- Oaxaca Basin
- (from the article "Mexico") ...farmers. Farther northeast is the Mesa del Sur, with numerous stream-eroded ridges and small isolated valleys some 4,000-5,000 feet (1,200-1,500 metres) above sea level. The picturesque Oaxaca Valley is the ...
- Oaxaca, Benito Juarez Autonomous University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") Oaxaca was the home of two of Mexico's most famous presidents, Porfirio Diaz and Benito Juarez (a Zapotec from the nearby village of Guelatao). The Benito Juarez Autonomous University of ...
- ob
- (from the article "nutritional disease") In the 1990s research with genetically obese laboratory animals led to the discovery of the ob gene in mice and humans. Under the direction of this gene, adipose (fat) tissue ...
- OB Association
- (from the article "star cluster") The chief distinguishing feature of the members of a stellar association is that the large majority of constituent stars have similar physical characteristics. An OB association consists of many hot, ...
- Ob River
- river of central Russia. One of the greatest rivers of Asia, the Ob flows north and west across western Siberia in a twisting diagonal from its sources in the Altai ... [4 Related Articles]
- Ob River Basin
- (from the article "Khanty and Mansi") western Siberian peoples, living mainly in the Ob River basin of central Russia. They each speak an Ob-Ugric language of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic languages. Together they numbered ...
- Ob River Basin Culture
- (from the article "Stone Age") ...Siberian culture on one hand and with the Aral Sea region on the other. Throughout the Neolithic and Bronze Age times, two cultural branches were evident: the middle Ural (or ...
- Ob, Gulf of
- large inlet of the Kara Sea indenting northwestern Siberia, between the peninsulas of Yamal and Gyda, in north-central Russia. The gulf forms the outlet for the Ob River, the delta ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ob-Ugrian
- (from the article "Finno-Ugric religion") ...subsequent Tatar domination in eastern Russia (1236-1552) gave added significance to the Arab-Islamic tradition. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Volga Finns, the Permians, the Ob Ugrians, and the ...
- Ob-Ugric languages
- division of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, comprising the Mansi (Vogul) and Khanty (Ostyak) languages; they are most closely related to Hungarian, with which they make up ... [2 Related Articles]
- oba
- (from the article "African dance") At the crowning of an oba (king) in Yorubaland, for example, the ruler leads a procession through the town as he dances with upright carriage and dignified step, his gestures ...
- Obadiah
- (from the article "biblical literature") The Book of Obadiah, the fourth book of the Twelve (Minor) Prophets, contains only 21 verses. Nothing is known about the prophet as a person or about his times. It ...
- Obadiah, Book of
- the fourth of 12 Old Testament books that bear the names of the Minor Prophets, in the Jewish canon treated as one book, The Twelve. Obadiah, with only one chapter ... [1 Related Articles]
- Obafemi Awolowo University
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife) was founded in 1961. One of Nigeria's major universities, it is located north of the town; it operates a teaching hospital and ...
- Obaid, Thoraya
- On Jan. 1, 2001, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid became the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the first Saudi national to head a UN agency. The UNFPA, ...
- Obaku
- one of the three Zen sects in Japan, founded in 1654 by the Chinese priest Yin-yuan (Japanese Ingen); it continues to preserve elements of the Chinese tradition in its architecture, ... [4 Related Articles]
- Obama Nfubea, Ricardo Mangue
- (from the article "Equatorial Guinea") Area: 28,051 sq km (10,831 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 507,000 | Capital: Malabo | Chief of state: President Brig. Gen. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | Head of government: ...
- Obama, Barack
- American politician who on Nov. 4, 2008, was elected the 44th president of the United States, defeating Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republican candidate. Obama was the first African American ... [9 Related Articles]
- Obama, Michelle
- American attorney and university administrator and the wife of Barack Obama, Democratic U.S. senator who became president-elect of the United States in 2008. [1 Related Articles]
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