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oriori: (from the article "New Zealand literature") ...addition, there are pao (gossip songs), poi (songs accompanying a dance performed with balls attached to flax strings, swung rhythmically), oriori (songs composed for young children of chiefly or warrior ...
orisha: (from the article "African religions") ...primordial beings and first ancestors, rather than to Amma. In Nigeria the Yoruba hold that the Almighty Creator, Olorun, oversees a pantheon of secondary divinities, the orisha. ...
Oriskany, Battle of: (August 6, 1777), in the American Revolution, battle between British troops and American defenders of the Mohawk Valley, which contributed to the failure of the British campaign in the North. ... [2 Related Articles]
Orissa: state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the east and by the states of West ... [11 Related Articles]
orissi: one of the principal classical dance styles of India; others include bharata-natya, kuchipudi, kathak, kathakali, and manipuri. It is indigenous to Orissa, eastern India, and follows the principles of the ... [2 Related Articles]
Oristano: town and archiepiscopal see, western Sardinia, Italy, near the mouth of the Tirso River, northwest of the city of Cagliari. It was founded in the 11th century BC by the ...
Oritse: (from the article "Itsekiri") In traditional Itsekiri religion, Oritse is the supreme deity and creator of the world. Among the other deities are Umale Okun, god of the sea, and Ogun, god of iron ...
orixa: (from the article "Christianity") ...roots sunk deep into the religions of African slaves transplanted to the New World. Afro-Brazilian rites often centre on possession by a supernatural being, called an orixa. ...
Oriya language: Indo-Aryan language of the eastern group spoken mainly in the state of Orissa, India. Oriya is one of the 14 regional languages recognized by the Indian constitution. A direct descendant ... [3 Related Articles]
Orizaba: city, west-central Veracruz estado (state), east-central Mexico. It lies in a fertile, well-drained, and temperate valley of the Sierra Madre Oriental, over which towers Citlaltepetl (also called ...
Orjasaeter, Tore: Norwegian regional poet who worked in the tradition of the ballad and of folk and nature lyrics.
Orkan, Wladyslaw: Polish poet and writer who eloquently portrayed the people of the Tatra Mountains.
Orkney Basin: (from the article "Europe") ...rise to deformation, metamorphism, and the orogeny of the Caledonian belt. In the Late Silurian, early land plants and the first freshwater fish appeared in lakes on the belt. The ...
Orkney Islands: group of more than 70 islands and islets-only about 20 of which are inhabited-in Scotland, lying about 20 miles (32 km) north of the Scottish mainland, across the strait known ... [1 Related Articles]
Orkneyinga saga: (from the article "saga") ...related to the lives of the kings of Norway are Foereyinga saga, describing the resistance of Faeroese leaders to Norwegian interference during the first part of the 11th century, and ...
Orlam: (from the article "Khoekhoe") Most Khoekhoe are either Nama or Orlams, the latter term denoting remnants of the "Cape Hottentots" together with many of mixed ancestry. The main Nama groups are the Bondelswart, Rooinasie, ...
Orlando: the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys and brother of Oliver in Shakespeare's As You Like It. He is the object of Rosalind's tutelage regarding the ... [1 Related Articles]
Orlando: city, seat (1856) of Orange county, central Florida, U.S. It is situated in a region dotted by lakes, about 60 miles (95 km) northwest of Melbourne and 85 miles (135 ... [2 Related Articles]
Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele: Italian statesman and prime minister during the concluding years of World War I and head of his country's delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. [3 Related Articles]
orle: (from the article "heraldry") ...used as a mark of difference, and in English heraldry since the mid-18th century a bordure compony (alternating sections of two tinctures) has been used to signify bastardy. The orle ...
orle gemel: (from the article "heraldry") ...field is seen within and around the orle, giving it the appearance of a shield with the middle cut out (voided, in heraldry). The tressure, much used in Scottish heraldry, ...
Orleanais: one of the generalites ("generalities") into which France was divided before the Revolution of 1789. It comprised not only the territory of the original countship and the ...
Orleanist: any of the constitutional monarchists in 18th- and 19th-century France who favoured the Orleans branch of the house of Bourbon (the descendants of Philippe, duke d'Orleans, younger brother of Louis ... [2 Related Articles]
Orleans: capital of Loiret departement and of the Centre region, north-central France, south-southwest of Paris. The city stands on the banks of the Loire River in a fertile valley on the ... [4 Related Articles]
Orleans: county, northern Vermont, U.S., bordered to the north by Quebec, Can., and to the west by the Green Mountains. It consists mostly of a piedmont region that rises in the ...
Orleans: county, northwestern New York state, U.S., comprising a lowland region that is bordered by Lake Ontario to the north. It is intersected by the New York State Canal System (and ...
Orleans Channel: (from the article "Palmer, Nathaniel") ...Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and English explorer Edward Bransfield also claimed to have been the first to sight it in 1820. On these and subsequent voyages Palmer discovered the Gerlache Strait ...
Orleans process: (from the article "vinegar") Despite its ancient origin, the technology of vinegar production advanced slowly, improvements consisting principally of better methods of aeration. The Orleans process, best-known of the old methods, used a barrel ...
Orleans, Charles, duc d': last, and one of the greatest, of the courtly poets of France, who during exile in England also earned a reputation for his poems in English. He was the son ... [2 Related Articles]
Orleans, Charles, duc d': King Francis I's favourite son and a noted campaigner, who twice took Luxembourg from the Holy Roman emperor Charles V's forces (1542 and 1543). There were plans for marrying him ...
Orleans, Council of: (from the article "Clovis I") ...at the time of his baptism, Avitus of Vienne (now in France) praises his faith, humility, and mercy. Significantly, in the year of his death, Clovis summoned the bishops to ...
Orleans, duc d': (from the article "Bourbon, House of") Secondly, in France, the July Revolution of 1830 overthrew the "legitimate" Bourbon monarchy and transferred the throne to Louis-Philippe, head of the collateral line of Orleans. Odious enough already because ...
Orleans, Ferdinand-Louis-Philippe-Charles-Henri, duc d': son of Louis-Philippe of France, who succeeded to the title of duc d'Orleans when his father became king (1830).
Orleans, Gaston, duc d', duc d'Anjou: prince who readily lent his prestige to several unsuccessful conspiracies and revolts against the ministerial governments during the reign of his brother, King Louis XIII (ruled 1610-43), and the minority ... [5 Related Articles]
Orleans, Henri-Robert-Ferdinand-Marie-Louis-Philippe, Count d': French aristocrat who, as the great grandson of Louis-Philippe, the last king of France, sought to reestablish an elective French monarchy and claim the throne; although he spent most of ...
Orleans, Jean d': (from the article "Charles VII") ...Paris and in Guyenne, in the southwest. In 1444, negotiations finally brought a general truce, but no permanent peace was concluded, and hostilities were resumed in 1449; the King's cousin, ...
Orleans, kingdom of: (from the article "France") ...Seine valley its centre. Its first capital, Soissons, was returned to Austrasia following the death of Chilperic I; its capital was later moved to Paris, which had been controlled by ...
Orleans, Louis I, duc d': younger brother of King Charles VI and first in the second dynasty of dukes of Orleans. He initiated the power struggle with the dukes of Burgundy that became the dominating ... [2 Related Articles]
Orleans, Louis, duc d': son of Philippe II, duc d'Orleans; he became governor of Dauphine (1719), commander of infantry (1721), and chief of the Conseil d'Etat. The death of his wife, Auguste-Marie-Jeanne, princess of ... [2 Related Articles]
Orleans, Louis-Philippe, duc d': son of Duke Louis; he was appointed lieutenant general (1744) and governor of Dauphine (1747).
Orleans, Louis-Philippe-Joseph, duc d': Bourbon prince who became a supporter of popular democracy during the Revolution of 1789.
Orleans, Louis-Philippe-Robert, duc d': pretender to the French throne during the Third Republic.
Orleans, Philippe I de France, duc d': first of the last Bourbon dynasty of dukes of Orleans; he was the younger brother of King Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715), who prevented him from exercising political influence but tolerated ... [2 Related Articles]
Orleans, Philippe I, duc d': the only member of the first dynasty of dukes of Orleans.
Orleans, Philippe II, duc d': regent of France for the young King Louis XV from 1715 to 1723. [7 Related Articles]
Orleans, Siege of: (Oct. 12, 1428-May 8, 1429), siege of the French city of Orleans by English forces, the military turning point of the Hundred Years' War between France and England. [4 Related Articles]
Orleans, Territory of: (from the article "Louisiana") Louisiana was subsequently divided into the Territory of Orleans, which consisted essentially of the state within its present boundaries, and the Territory of Louisiana, which included all the vast area ...
Orlers, Jan Janszoon: (from the article "Rembrandt van Rijn") ...the figures in scenes depicted in his history paintings, drawings, and etchings. It is not clear whether Rembrandt completed his course of study at the Latin School. His first biographer, ...
Orley, Bernard van: Flemish painter of religious subjects and portraits and designer of tapestries. [3 Related Articles]
Orlice Mountains: mountain range, a subgroup of the Sudeten mountains in northeastern Bohemia, Czech Republic, forming part of the frontier with Poland for a distance of 25 miles (40 km). The mountains ... [1 Related Articles]
Orlon: (from the article "industrial polymers, major") ...Charles H. Fisher at U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratories. In 1950, after R.C. Houtz had discovered spinning solvents that could dissolve polyacrylonitrile, DuPont introduced its trademarked Orlon, the first acrylic ...
Orlov diamond: rose-cut gem from India, one of the Romanov crown jewels; it is shaped like half an egg, with facets covering its domed surface, and the underside is nearly flat. It ...
Orlov, Aleksey Fyodorovich, Prince: military officer and statesman who was an influential adviser to the Russian emperors Nicholas I (reigned 1825-55) and Alexander II (reigned 1855-81) in both domestic and foreign affairs.
Orlov, Aleksey Grigoryevich, Count: military officer who played a prominent role in the coup d'etat that placed Catherine II the Great on the Russian throne. [1 Related Articles]
Orlov, Fyodor Grigoryevich, Graf: Russian army officer and statesman, the younger brother of Grigory and Aleksey Orlov.
Orlov, Grigory Grigoryevich, Graf: military officer and lover of Catherine II, empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. He organized the coup d'etat that placed Catherine on the Russian throne and subsequently was her ... [4 Related Articles]
Orlov, Nikolay Alekseyevich, Knyaz: Russian diplomat notable for his humanitarian interest in his country's internal affairs.
Orly: (from the article "building construction") ...architect Max Berg and the engineers Dyckerhoff & Widmann; its ribbed dome spanned 65 metres (216 feet), exceeding the span of the Pantheon. More spectacular were the great airship hangars ...
Orm: Augustinian canon, author of an early Middle English book of metrical homilies on the Gospels, to which he gave the title Ormulum, "because Orm made it." The work (dated on ... [2 Related Articles]
Orman, Suze: In 1999 American financial adviser Suze Orman released her latest material-spiritual tome, The Courage to Be Rich, in which she described money's "energy force"-positive thoughts will attract ...
Ormandy, Eugene: Hungarian-born American conductor who was identified with the Late Romantic and early 20th-century repertoire. [1 Related Articles]
Ormea, Carlo Vincenzo Ferrero di Roasio, marchese d': Piedmontese statesman who as minister under both Victor Amadeus II and Charles Emmanuel III played a leading role in the internal and external affairs of the Piedmontese-Sardinian kingdom.
Ormen Lange: (from the article "Norway") One of the most serious problems facing the Stoltenberg government was the question of pollution in the gas and oil industries. The world's longest undersea pipeline, Langaled, from the Ormen ...
Ormoc: chartered city, western Leyte, Philippines. The city lies at the head of Ormoc Bay, an inlet of the Camotes Sea. It serves the only commercial sugarcane district in the eastern ...
ormolu: (from French dorure d'or moulu: "gilding with gold paste"), gold-coloured alloy of copper, zinc, and sometimes tin, in various proportions but usually containing at least 50 percent copper. Ormolu is ... [2 Related Articles]
ormolu mount: (from the article "furniture") ...the marquetry decoration gained first importance. Commodes and other pieces were decorated with marquetry of floral or geometrical patterns, or sometimes with lacquer decoration, again combined with ormolu mounts. The ...
Ormond Beach: city, Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S. It lies on the Atlantic Ocean and the Halifax River (a lagoon separated from the Atlantic by barrier beaches), adjacent to Daytona Beach to ... [1 Related Articles]
Ormonde: (from the article "Ireland") ...was reasserted and strengthened by the creation of three new Anglo-Irish earldoms: Kildare, given to the head of the Leinster Fitzgeralds; Desmond, given to the head of the Munster Fitzgeralds; ...
Ormonde, earls and dukes of: (from the article "Kilkenny") ...It was burned in 1175 but was rebuilt in the late 12th and early 13th century by William Marshal. In 1391 the 3rd earl of Ormonde bought the castle. Thereafter ...
Ormonde, James Butler, 12th earl and 1st duke of: Anglo-Irish Protestant who was the leading agent of English royal authority in Ireland during much of the period from the beginning of the English Civil War to the Glorious Revolution ... [1 Related Articles]
Ormonde, James Butler, 2nd duke of: Irish general, one of the most powerful men in the Tory administration that governed England from 1710 to 1714.
Ormonde, Piers Butler, 8th earl of, Earl Of Ossory: leading member of the Butler family in Ireland; he claimed the earldom in 1515, seized the estates, and revived the Butler influence.
Ormonde, Thomas Butler, 10th earl of: Irish nobleman who sided with the English in the rebellions in the mid-16th century. [1 Related Articles]
Ormosia: (from the article "Fabales") ...within the legumes are also variable, ranging from the size of a pinhead to that of a baseball. Legume seeds are sometimes quite colourful; the Abrus precatorius (jequirity bean) and ...
Ormsby-Gore, William George Arthur, 4th Baron Harlech: British politician and scholar who was active in promoting education in the British colonies. [1 Related Articles]
Ormskirk: (from the article "West Lancashire") Ormskirk, the administrative and agricultural centre, in the southwest, preserves much of its medieval market town character. Its street market is said to date back 700 years. A brass foundry ...
ornament: in architecture, any element added to an otherwise merely structural form, usually for purposes of decoration or embellishment. Three basic and fairly distinct categories of ornament in architecture may be ... [7 Related Articles]
ornamental: (from the article "Sapindales") Other species of Anacardiaceae are also grown as ornamentals. Cotinus coggygria (smoke tree), from southern Europe to central China, is a shrub with purplish foliage and large diffuse inflorescences that ...
ornamental horticulture: (from the article "horticulture") Ornamental horticulture consists of floriculture and landscape horticulture. Each is concerned with growing and marketing plants and with the associated activities of flower arrangement and landscape design. The turf industry ...
ornamentation: in music, the embellishment of a melody, either by adding notes or by modifying rhythms. In European music, ornamentation is added to an already complete composition in order to make ... [3 Related Articles]
ornate tinamou: (from the article "tinamou") ...ground, raises the rump, spreads the terminal feathers like a fan, and exhibits the sharply marked underparts. Courting birds have also been observed chasing each other around on the ground. ...
ornate umbrellabird: (from the article "umbrellabird") The three species are black and 38-50 cm (15-20 inches) long. All spend most of their lives in the canopies of tall trees. In the ornate umbrellabird (C. ornatus) of ...
Orne: (from the article "Basse-Normandie") region of France encompassing the northwestern departements of Orne, Calvados, and Manche. It is bounded by the regions of Haute-Normandie to ...
Orne River: river, Basse-Normandie region, northern France. It is 94 miles (152 km) long and flows through Orne and Calvados departements to empty into the English Channel 8 miles (13 km) north-northeast ...
Ornes, German Emilio: Dominican journalist who served as publisher of the newspaper El Caribe and was a longtime campaigner for press freedom in Latin America (b. 1919?, Puerto Plata, Dom.Rep.--d. April 14, 1998, ...
Ornish, Dean: In an age when medical science was combating heart disease with costly high-tech interventions, American physician Dean Ornish was something of a throwback. His simple, inexpensive program of lifestyle changes--which ...
ornithine: (from the article "metabolism") The reaction is catalyzed by carbamoyl phosphate synthetase. The carbamoyl moiety of carbamoyl phosphate (NH₂CO&singlehorzbond;) is transferred to ornithine, an amino acid, in a reaction catalyzed by ornithine transcarbamoylase; the ...
ornithine transcarbamoylase: (from the article "metabolism") ...is catalyzed by carbamoyl phosphate synthetase. The carbamoyl moiety of carbamoyl phosphate (NH₂CO&singlehorzbond;) is transferred to ornithine, an amino acid, in a reaction catalyzed by ornithine transcarbamoylase; the products are ...
ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency: (from the article "metabolic disease") ...in a given individual, with the resultant appearance of symptoms of disease in various degrees. Such females are known as manifesting heterozygotes. Examples of X-linked disorders include ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency ...
ornithischian: any member of the large taxonomic group of herbivorous dinosaurs comprising Triceratops and all dinosaurs more closely related to it than to birds. The ornithischians (meaning "bird-hipped") are one of ... [6 Related Articles]
ornithochory: (from the article "seed and fruit") Most ornithochores (plants with bird-dispersed seeds) have conspicuous diaspores attractive to such fruit-eating birds as thrushes, pigeons, barbets (members of the bird family Capitonidae), toucans, and hornbills (family Bucerotidae), all ...
Ornithodoros: (from the article "acarid") ...dog tick (D. variabilis). Relapsing fever, an important bacterial disease throughout the world, is transmitted to humans by certain species of soft ticks (Argasidae) of the genus ...
Ornithogalum: genus of plants in the family Hyacinthaceae, consisting of about 100 species of bulbous herbs, native to Eurasia and Africa. The leaves are grouped at the base of the plant, ...
Ornitholestes: small, lightly built carnivorous dinosaur found as fossils from the Late Jurassic Period (146 million to 161 million years old) in North America. Ornitholestes is known from a nearly complete ...
ornithology: a branch of zoology dealing with the study of birds. Most of the early writings on birds are more anecdotal than scientific, but they represent a broad foundation of knowledge, ... [6 Related Articles]
Ornithomimosauria: (from the article "dinosaur") Ornithomimids were medium-size to large theropods. Almost all of them were toothless, and apparently their jaws were covered by a horny beak; they also had very long legs and arms. ...
Ornithomimus: ostrichlike dinosaurs found as fossils in Mongolian, European, and North American deposits dating from 65 million to 125 million years ago (Early and Late Cretaceous periods).
ornithopod: any member of the group of ornithischian dinosaurs characterized by a two-legged (bipedal) stance, from which the group's name, meaning "bird-foot," is derived. [3 Related Articles]
ornithopter: machine designed to fly by the flapping of its wings in imitation of birds. The wooden bird said to have been made about 400 BC by Archytas of Tarentum is ... [3 Related Articles]
Ornithoptera victoriae: (from the article "arthropod") ...and spiders do not weigh more than 100 grams (0.22 pound). The beetle Goliathus regius measures 15 centimetres (5.9 inches) in length and 10 centimetres in width, while the butterfly ...
ornithosuchian: (from the article "archosaur") ...extinct Triassic groups such as phytosaurs, aetosaurs, prestosuchids, rauisuchids, and poposaurs. All were carnivorous except the armoured, herbivorous aetosaurs. The second archosaurian branch, the Ornithosuchia, includes birds and all archosaurs ...