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Ouida: English novelist, known for her extravagant melodramatic romances of fashionable life.
Ouidah: town, southern Benin, West Africa. It lies along the Gulf of Guinea. The town was the main port of the Kingdom of Abomey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Portuguese, ... [2 Related Articles]
Ouija board: in occultism, a device ostensibly used for obtaining messages from the spirit world, usually employed by a medium during a seance. The name derives from the French and German words ...
Ouimet, Francis: American amateur golfer whose success did much to remove the British upper-class stigma from the game and to popularize it in the United States. [1 Related Articles]
Oujda: city, extreme northeastern Morocco. It lies near the Moroccan-Algerian border. Founded in 944 by Zanatah Imazighen (Berbers), the city was fought over by Imazighen, Arabs, and Turks and destroyed and ...
Ould Salek, Mustapha: (from the article "Daddah, Moktar Ould") ...In July 1978 dissatisfaction with the costly attempt by Mauritania to annex part of former Spanish Sahara resulted in his ouster by a military coup d'etat led by Lieutenant Colonel ...
Ouled Nail: (from the article "Djelfa") ...salt lakes), and the Sahara (south). The town was founded in 1852 as a French military post on a geometric plan. It serves as an important livestock market centre for ...
Ouled Riah: (from the article "Pelissier, Aimable-Jean-Jacques, duc de Malakoff") ...notoriety for killing an entire local population by gassing them in caves, a tactic of irregular warfare employed by the French on several occasions during the Algerian campaign. In June ...
Oultre Jourdain: (from the article "Jordan") ...and slowly returned to the old Bedouin way of life. With the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem was extended east of the ...
Oulu: city, west-central Finland, at the mouth of the Oulu River on the Gulf of Bothnia. During the European Middle Ages a trading post was located on the site. In 1590 ... [1 Related Articles]
Oum al-Bouaghi: town, northeastern Algeria. The town is situated in the high plains of the Tell Atlas about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Constantine city. This extensive high-plains region receives about ...
Oum er-Rbia River: chief river of central Morocco, rising in the Middle Atlas (Moyen Atlas) mountains and flowing generally westward for 345 miles (555 km) to the Atlantic Ocean near Azemmour. Although not ... [1 Related Articles]
Oumarou, Seyni: (from the article "Niger") ...sq km (459,286 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 14,226,000 | Capital: Niamey | Head of state and government: President Mamadou Tandja, assisted by Prime Ministers Hama Amadou and, ...
Oun Kham: ruler of the Lao principality of Luang Prabang (1872-94), whose troubled reign ended with the establishment of a French protectorate over Laos.
OUN-B: (from the article "Ukraine") ...conspiratorial underground. The split became permanent after a congress held in Krakow in February 1940, when the Melnyk and Bandera factions developed into separate organizations (OUN-M and OUN-B, respectively) differing ...
OUN-M: (from the article "Ukraine") ...in the conspiratorial underground. The split became permanent after a congress held in Krakow in February 1940, when the Melnyk and Bandera factions developed into separate organizations (OUN-M and OUN-B, ...
ounce: unit of weight in the avoirdupois system, equal to 116 pound (437 12 grains), and in the troy and apothecaries' systems, equal to 480 grains, or 112 pound. The avoirdupois ...
Oundjian, Peter: (from the article "Performing Arts") ...also was named principal conductor of Milan's La Scala opera company; Kent Nagano, who made his debut in September as the director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra; and Toronto-born conductor ...
Oundle: town, East Northamptonshire district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England, on the River Nene. The manor was granted to the feudal landowner John, earl of Bedford, after the dissolution ... [1 Related Articles]
Oundle School: (from the article "Sanderson, Frederick William") English schoolmaster whose reorganization of Oundle School had considerable influence on the curriculum and methods of secondary education.history of OundleOundle...of ...
Ouologuem, Yambo: Sudanese writer who was highly acclaimed for his first novel, Le Devoir de violence (1968; Bound to Violence), which received the Prix Renaudot. With this work, Ouologuem became the first ... [1 Related Articles]
Our Bodies, Ourselves: book, first published in 1970 and periodically revised and updated, a groundbreaking publication in its expressed goal of dispelling widespread ignorance about the female body and women's health issues. Noting ...
Our Lady in Bohemia: (from the article "Pribram") Pribram's other major industry is tourism. On the nearby height of Svata Hora ("Holy Mountain") stands the Baroque monastery of Our Lady in Bohemia and its shrine, which has long ...
Our Lady of Good Tidings: (from the article "Tinos") ...discovery of an icon of the Panayia (Virgin Mary) in 1822 by a nun named Pelagia, Tinos became a Greek Orthodox place of pilgrimage. The Church of Panayia Evangelistria (Our ...
Our Lady of Kazan: (from the article "Vatican City State") ...its efforts to create unity among the Christian faithful, including those in the Russian Orthodox Church, with which relations appeared to have warmed. The return of the much-venerated icon of ...
Our Lady of Lourdes, Basilica of: (from the article "Lourdes") ...was declared to have miraculous qualities, and Lourdes has since become a major pilgrimage centre. More than 5,000,000 pilgrims, many of them sick or disabled, visit the site annually. The ...
Our Lady of Montesa: (from the article "Mercedarian") In 1318 Pope John XXII decreed that the leader of the order should be a priest, an action that caused lay knights to leave the Mercedarians and join a military ...
Our Lady of Pilar de Ouro Preto, church of: (from the article "Latin American architecture") ...Minas Gerais beginning in the 18th century. The discovery of gold and diamonds in these highlands created an economic force that was independent of the coasts and that produced a ...
Our Lady of the Angels, Basilica of: (from the article "Cartago") ...The earthquake of 1910 was particularly destructive. In 1963-65 a series of eruptions from Irazu Volcano released floodwaters and mud slides onto the city, causing serious damage. The Basilica of ...
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic University: (from the article "Paraguay") ...nine-tenths of the population is literate, though functional literacy is probably lower. The two oldest universities-the public National University of Asuncion (1890) and the private Our Lady of the Assumption ...
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Daughters of: (from the article "Chevalier, Jules") In 1881 Chevalier sent missionaries to the South Pacific islands of Micronesia and Melanesia. Then, with Marie-Louise Hartzer, he cofounded the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart at ...
Our Lady on the Mount, Cathedral of: (from the article "Viborg") ...the city, which became the seat of the High Court for Jutland in 1919. It is now a commercial centre that manufactures beer, textiles, and machinery. Historical buildings include the ...
Our Lady, Cathedral of: (from the article "Antwerp") The old city, within the arc once formed by the 16th-century fortifications, has many narrow, winding streets and old buildings. This area contains the Cathedral of Our Lady, begun in ...
Our Lady, Church of: (from the article "Munich") ...that still stand are three of the seven town gates-Karls, Sendlinger, and Isar, all dating from the 14th century. Other medieval buildings include Munich's cathedral, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our ...
Our Lady, Church of: (from the article "Western architecture") ...of architectural development in the Gothic period are untidy and have a strong regional flavour. During this period in Germany, large buildings showing northern French characteristics are few. The church ...
Our Ukraine: (from the article "Ukraine") ...as the largest and most popular bloc. Overall the PR won just over 8 million votes, or 34.37% of the total. The BYT finished in second place with 7.16 million ...
Oura Roman Catholic Church: (from the article "Nagasaki") ...Christians, including 26 martyrs-6 Franciscan missionaries and 20 Japanese laypeople-who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. The martyrs were canonized by the Vatican in 1862, and the Oura Roman Catholic ...
Ouray: town, seat (1877) of Ouray county, southwestern Colorado, U.S. Located in a steep valley of the San Juan Mountains at an elevation of 7,760 feet (2,365 metres), the town was ...
Ourense: provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is the only landlocked province in Spain. Ourense is bounded by ...
Ourense: city, capital of Ourense provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Galicia, northwestern Spain. Ourense is situated along the eastern bank ...
Ourinhos: city, south-central Sao Paulo estado (state), Brazil. It lies at 1,568 feet (478 metres) above sea level along the Paranapanema River, near the border of Parana state. ...
Ourique, Battle of: (from the article "Afonso I") By victory in the Battle of Ourique (1139) he was able to impose tribute on his Muslim neighbours; and in 1147 he further captured Santarem and, availing himself of the ...
Ouro Preto: city, southeastern Minas Gerais estado (state), Brazil. It occupies a hilly site on the lower slopes of the Oro Preto Mountains, a spur of the Espinhaco Mountains, ... [1 Related Articles]
Ouro Preto Protocol: (from the article "Mercosur") Mercosur's goals include the harmonization of the economic policies of its members and the promotion of economic development. The Ouro Preto Protocol (1994) established Mercosur's present organizational structure and gave ...
Ouroboros: emblematic serpent of ancient Egypt and Greece represented with its tail in its mouth continually devouring itself and being reborn from itself. A Gnostic and alchemical symbol, Ouroboros expresses the ...
Oury, Gerard: French actor and filmmaker (b. April 29, 1919, Paris, France-d. July 20, 2006, St. Tropez, France), directed a series of phenomenally successful comic films. Oury studied acting and played primarily ...
Ouse, River: river in England, draining the East Midlands at the Fens. It rises 5 miles (8 km) west of Brackley, Northamptonshire, and flows past Buckingham, Bedford, Huntington, and St. Ives to ...
Ouse, River: river in north-central England, draining the central Pennines (via its tributaries) and the Vale of York. It is formed by the confluence of the Swale and Ure rivers east of ...
Ousmane, Mahamane: (from the article "Niger") ...who set up a single-party dictatorship, was toppled in a coup in 1974. There followed a military dictatorship headed first by Seyni Kountche (until his death in 1987) and then ...
Ouspensky, P. D.: (from the article "Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch") ...and an associate. Performers from the institute appeared in Paris in 1923 and in four U.S. cities the following year and brought considerable attention to Gurdjieff's work. A disciple named ...
out: (from the article "baseball") The defense must collect outs to prevent the offense from scoring. There are a variety of ways in which the defense may "put out" or "force out" offensive players. A ...
Out Islands: the islands of The Bahamas apart from New Providence Island. Extending eastward off the Florida coast to just north of Hispaniola, the group encompasses some 3,000 islands and rocks with ... [1 Related Articles]
out-of-band signaling: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") Despite the simplicity of the in-band method, this type of signaling presented a number of problems. First, because the in-band signals by necessity fell within the bandwidth of speech signals, ...
out-of-control conclusion: (from the article "statistics") ...is within the control limits, the process can be continued under the assumption that the quality standards are being maintained. If the value of the sample mean is outside the ...
Outachi Plateau: (from the article "Togo") ...of six geographic regions. The low-lying, sandy beaches of the narrow coastal region are backed by tidal flats and shallow lagoons, the largest of which is Lake Togo. Beyond the ...
Outardes River: river in Cote-Nord ("North Shore") region, east-central Quebec province, Canada, rising in the Otish Mountains and flowing southward for 300 miles (480 km) through Lake Pletipi to the St. Lawrence ...
Outback: in Australia, any inland area remote from large centres of population. Generally, the term is applied to semiarid inland areas of eastern Australia and to the arid centre of the ... [3 Related Articles]
outboard motorboat: (from the article "Evinrude, Ole") Evinrude began work on this project in 1906 and by 1909 had developed a one-cylinder power plant rated at 1.5 horsepower. Subsequent outboard motors followed his transmission design, which used ...
outbreeding: (from the article "heredity") Two other important exceptions are inbreeding (mating with relatives) and enforced outbreeding. Both can shift the equilibrium proportions expected under Hardy-Weinberg calculations. For example, inbreeding increases the proportions of homozygotes, ...
outcaste: in the Hindu caste system, an individual or group that has been thrown out of caste, usually for some ritual offense. The outcasting may be temporary or permanent. In the ...
Outcault, Richard Felton: American cartoonist and creator of the "Yellow Kid," a comic cartoon series that was influential in the development of the comic strip. [2 Related Articles]
outcrop: (from the article "dating") ...society is to be understood, as the information at a single location may be relatively insignificant by itself. Similarly, in geologic studies, vast quantities of information from widely spaced outcrops ...
Outdoor Life Network: (from the article "Ice Hockey") The NHL hardly made a complete comeback, however, as it suffered exceedingly poor television ratings all season. The NHL play-offs were carried by the Outdoor Life Network (OLN), a cable ...
Outer Banks: chain of barrier islands extending southward more than 175 miles (280 km) along the coast of North Carolina, U.S., from Back Bay, Virginia, to Cape Lookout, North Carolina. From north ...
Outer Carpathian Depressions: (from the article "Czech Republic") In the east the Outer Carpathian Depressions, known to geographers as the Moravian-Silesian Beskids, include the valleys of the upper Oder and Morava rivers and the headstreams of the Dyje. ...
Outer Carpathian Mountains: (from the article "Carpathian Mountains") The Carpathians extend in a geologic system of parallel structural ranges. The Outer Carpathians-whose rocks are composed of flysch-run from near Vienna, through Moravia, along the Polish-Czech-Slovak frontier, and through ...
Outer Eastern Carpathians: (from the article "Carpathian Mountains") Compared with the Outer Western Carpathians, the Outer Eastern Carpathians, which are their continuation, are higher and show a more compact banded structure. The highest mountain group is the Chernogora ...
Outer Greenbelt: (from the article "Cologne") ...around the Innenstadt. The first is just outside the Ringstrassen and includes (from north to south) zoological and botanical gardens, the Stadtgarten, and the Volksgarten. The second, the Outer Greenbelt, ...
outer hair cell: (from the article "ear, human") The outer hair cells contain both actin and myosin, the same contractile proteins that make up muscles, and this allows the cells to contract rhythmically in response to tonal stimuli. ...
Outer Hebrides: islands in Scotland, off the northwestern coast of the Scottish mainland. They constitute the Western Isles council area. Lewis, the northern part of the island of Lewis and Harris, lies ... [1 Related Articles]
outer Helmholtz plane: (from the article "electrochemical reaction") ...potential change between the bulk of metal and the bulk of electrolyte into two parts: first, that between the metal surface and the first ionic layer at the distance of ...
Outer London: (from the article "Greater London at a glance") ...and Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, the City of Westminster, and the City of London. The 19 boroughs of Outer London are ...
outer planet: (from the article "solar system") ...planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars-have rocky compositions and densities greater than 3 grams per cubic cm. (Water has a density of 1 gram per cubic cm.) In contrast, the four ...
Outer Seven: (from the article "European Free Trade Association") ...for this broke down in November 1958, the "outside" group, then composed of Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (later known as the Outer Seven), decided ...
Outer Shrine: (from the article "Ise") ...Omikami, the sun goddess and traditional progenitor of the Japanese imperial family. The Sacred Mirror, one of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan (Sanshu no Jingi), is preserved there. The ...
Outer Space Committee: (from the article "space law") ...and uncivilized lands are not viable in space territories and that countries cannot extend the boundaries of their dominion indefinitely into the space regions above them. In 1959 a permanent ...
Outer Space Treaty: (1967), international treaty binding the parties to use outer space only for peaceful purposes. In June 1966 the United States and the Soviet Union submitted draft treaties on the uses ... [7 Related Articles]
outer sulcus: (from the article "ear, human") ...lower margin of the stria is the spiral prominence, a low ridge parallel to the basilar membrane that contains its own set of longitudinally directed capillary vessels. Below the prominence ...
Outer Western Carpathians: (from the article "Slovakia") The Outer Western Carpathians to the north extend into the eastern Czech Republic and southern Poland and contain the Little Carpathian (Slovak: Male Karpaty), Javorniky, and Beskid mountains. Located roughly ...
Outer Zone: (from the article "Japan") ...southwestern mountain arc, and the general trend of highlands and lowlands is roughly convex toward the Sea of Japan. The region is divided into the Inner Zone, formed by complex ...
outer-belt asteroid: (from the article "asteroid") Only one known concentration of asteroids, the Hungaria group, occupies the region between Mars and the inner edge of the main belt. The orbits of all the Hungarias lie outside ...
outer-sphere reaction: (from the article "coordination compound") Two limiting mechanisms of electron transfer, commonly designated outer-sphere and inner-sphere mechanisms, have been recognized. Outer-sphere electron transfer occurs without dissociation or disruption of the coordination sphere of either complex-i.e., ...
outfield: (from the article "baseball") Baseball is a contest between two teams of 9 or (if a designated hitter is allowed to take the pitcher's turn at bat) 10 players each. The field of play ...
outfielder: (from the article "baseball") The three outfielders are positioned so as to best be able to catch or field balls that are batted over or through the infield. The three outfield positions are left ...
outflow: (from the article "weather forecasting") ...that the inflow near the ground is more or less balanced by a circulation upward and outward aloft. Indeed, for a cyclone to intensify, which would require a lowering of ...
outflow channel: (from the article "Mars") Large flood channels, termed outflow channels, are observed incised into the Martian surface in several areas. The channels are generally tens of kilometres across and hundreds of kilometres long. Most ...
Outhine Bounyavong: (from the article "Lao literature") ...Lao literature, history, and culture: Pakian Viravong, Duangdeuan Viravong, and Dara Viravong (pseudonyms Pa Nai, Dauk Ket, and Duang Champa, respectively). An equally important writer was Outhine Bounyavong, Maha Sila ...
Outjo: town, northwestern Namibia. The town is situated on a cluster of low hills at an elevation of 4,135 feet (1,260 metres). It lies within an arid region that has accessible ...
OutKast: Rap duo OutKast, which helped put Atlanta, Ga., on the hip-hop map in the 1990s, topped the charts in fall 2003 with the double album Speakerboxxx /The Love Below, which ... [1 Related Articles]
OutKast: American rap duo, formed in 1992, that put Atlanta, Ga., on the hip-hop map in the 1990s and redefined the G-Funk (a variation of gangsta rap) and Dirty South (often ... [2 Related Articles]
OutKast: Rap duo OutKast, which helped put Atlanta, Ga., on the hip-hop map in the 1990s, topped the charts in fall 2003 with the double album Speakerboxxx /The Love Below, which ... [1 Related Articles]
outlaw music: movement of American country music in the 1970s spearheaded by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings (b. June 15, 1937, Littlefield, Texas, U.S., -d. February 13, 2002, Chandler, Arizona, ). Sometimes ...
outlawry: act of putting a person beyond the protection of the law for his refusal to become amenable to the court having legal jurisdiction. In the past, this deprivation of legal ... [2 Related Articles]
outlawry of war movement: (from the article "Levinson, Salmon Oliver") lawyer who originated and publicized the "outlawry of war" movement in the United States.
outlet glacier: (from the article "glacial landform") ...are much thinner, they may be controlled by any substantial relief existing in the area. In this case, their borders may be lobate on a scale of a few kilometres, ...
outlier: (from the article "Washington") ...from Oregon, consist of uplifted plateaus and ranges in the southeast corner of the state. Gentle slopes and broad valleys descend from 6,000-foot (1,800-metre) heights to the Columbia Basin. Outliers ...
outlier: (from the article "statistics") Sometimes data for a variable will include one or more values that appear unusually large or small and out of place when compared with the other data values. These values ...
outlier: (from the article "Mesoamerican Indian languages") The map gives the approximate geographic distribution of the 21 language groupings and isolates of Mesoamerica. None of the extinct undocumented languages is indicated. Except for some outliers, separate languages ...
outline drawing: (from the article "drawing") With the aid of this modest basic vocabulary, one can distill comprehensible images from a variety of linear phenomena. The simple outline sketch-Greek legend has it that the first "picture" ...
Outokumpu: (from the article "Precambrian time") ...the period from 1.9 to 1.7 billion years ago. A major lineament across southern Finland consists of the suture zone on which occur ophiolite complexes representing the remains of oceanic ...
outpatient department: (from the article "clinic") ...a general clinic or only a particular division of the work; e.g., the psychiatric clinic, neurology clinic, or surgery clinic. The entire activity when connected with a hospital is called ...