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- painter, sculptor, and engraver who opposed Mannerism in art and was later one of the leading proponents of Neoclassicism in Germany. He allied himself with the Neoclassical archaeologist and art ... [1 Related Articles]
- Oesling
- (from the article "Luxembourg") The northern third of Luxembourg, known as the Oesling (Osling), comprises a corner of the Ardennes Mountains, which lie mainly in southern Belgium. It is a plateau that averages 1,500 ...
- Oesterdam
- (from the article "Eastern Schelde") ...in 1986, the Oosterscheldedam (or Eastern Schelde Dam) at the mouth of the channel is a storm surge barrier that has transformed the channel into a tidal saltwater area. Secondary ...
- Oesterheld, Hector
- (from the article "comic strip") ...the Slippery"), a hired assassin for the CIA whose only redeeming quality is his pithy wit. The most radical of this group of Latin American cartoonists was the Argentine journalist ...
- Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph
- (from the article "Christianity") ...warning, the imminent expectation of the coming Kingdom of God awakened concrete, substantial ideas that led ever closer to social utopias. With the 18th-century German Lutheran mystic and Pietist F.C. ...
- Oeuvre, Theatre de l'
- French Symbolist theatre founded in Paris in 1893 by Aurelien Lugne-Poe and directed by him until 1929. An actor and stage manager with Andre Antoine's Theatre Libre, Lugne-Poe was introduced ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ofen, Treaty of
- (from the article "Austria") ...1250. After Hermann's death, Otakar II, prince of Bohemia (from 1253 king) and a member of the house of Premysl, married the widowed Margaret. Thereupon Hungarian forces intervened. Under the ...
- off side
- (from the article "cricket") As there are 11 players on a team and 2 of them must be the bowler and wicketkeeper, only 9 other positions can be occupied at any one time. The ...
- Off-Broadway
- in the theatre of the United States, small professional productions that have served since the mid-20th century as New York City's alternative to the commercially oriented theatres of Broadway. [6 Related Articles]
- Off-Off-Broadway
- (from the article "American literature") The centre of American drama shifted from Broadway to Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway with works such as Jack Gelber's The Connection (1959). American playwrights, collaborating with the Living ...
- off-price retailer
- (from the article "marketing") Off-price retailers offer a different approach to discount retailing. As discount houses tried to increase services and offerings in order to upgrade, off-price retailers invaded this low-price, high-volume sector. Off-price ...
- off-site facility
- (from the article "petroleum refining") The individual processing units described above are part of the process-unit side of a refinery complex. They are usually considered the most important features, but the functioning of the off-site ...
- off-the-film metering
- (from the article "photography, technology of") ...photocells behind a partly reflecting mirror), or they measure the light reflected from the film or from a specially structured first shutter blind at the beginning of, or during, the ...
- Offa
- one of the most powerful kings in early Anglo-Saxon England. As ruler of Mercia from 757 to 796, Offa brought southern England to the highest level of political unification it ... [4 Related Articles]
- Offa
- town, Kwara state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies along the railroad from Lagos and at the intersection of roads from Ilorin town, Lafiagi, and Ikirun. A traditional settlement of the Yoruba ...
- Offa of Angel
- continental Anglian ruler from whom the royal house of Anglo-Saxon Mercia claimed descent.
- Offa's Dyke
- great English earthwork extending linearly, with some gaps, from the River Severn near Chepstow to the seaward end of the Dee estuary, passing for 169 miles (270 kilometres) through the ... [5 Related Articles]
- offal
- any of various nonmuscular parts of the carcasses of beef and veal, mutton and lamb, and pork, which are either consumed directly as food or used in the production of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Offaly
- county in the province of Leinster, central Ireland. Offaly is bounded by Counties Westmeath and Meath (north), Kildare (east), Laoighis and Tipperary (south), and Galway and Roscommon (west). The River ...
- Offenbach
- city, Hessen Land (state), west-central Germany. Offenbach, a river port, lies on the left bank of the canalized Main River just southeast of Frankfurt am Main. First ...
- Offenbach, Jacques
- composer who created a type of light burlesque French comic opera known as the operette, which became one of the most characteristic artistic products of the period. [5 Related Articles]
- Offenburg
- city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It is situated in the Kinzig River valley, at the western edge of the Black Forest (Schwarzwald), southeast of Strasbourg, France. ...
- Offences against the Person Act
- (from the article "crime") ...codify the criminal law were abandoned, and instead there was a consolidation of most of the criminal law in 1861 into a number of statutes-the Larceny Act, the Malicious Damage ...
- Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, Convention on
- (from the article "criminal law") The Tokyo Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (1963) and the Hague Convention for Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (1970) recognize that states have the right ...
- offenes Ding
- (from the article "fehmic court") ...count, to whom concession of royal authority became less frequent. Now many cases from all over Germany were transferred to fehmic courts. Sessions were of two types: the
- offense
- (from the article "baseball") By measuring the changes in the delicate balance between offense and defense, statistics also reveal much of baseball's history on the playing field. Lengthening the pitching distance to 60 feet ...
- offensive huddle
- (from the article "Zuppke, Bob") American college football coach, credited with introducing (in the early 1920s) the offensive huddle, enabling the team with the ball to plan each play immediately before executing it. He inspired ...
- offensive tactics
- (from the article "tactics") In the decade following World War I, some armies accepted the superiority of the defense as a critical characteristic of modern warfare-a train of thought that caused the Maginot Line ...
- offer
- (from the article "contract") Some of the rules respecting offer and acceptance are designed to operate only when a contrary intention has not been indicated. Thus, in German law an offeror cannot withdraw his ...
- Offertory
- (from the article "Gregorian chant") ...and number of syllables for each two lines. The melody of the first line was repeated for the second line of the stanza, a new melody being given to the ...
- office
- (from the article "work, history of the organization of") Office automation represents a further mechanization of office work, a process that began with the introduction of the typewriter and the adding machine in the 19th century. The introduction of ...
- office
- (from the article "political system") ...law of the polity-that effectively controls the exercise of political power. The essence of constitutionalism is the control of power by its distribution among several state organs or offices in ...
- office building
- (from the article "Western architecture") In the United States a major effort took place in one of the most important new building types, the large office building. This building type was made necessary by the ...
- Office International d'Hygiene Publique
- (from the article "quarantine") ...most irksome restrictions of quarantine practice, but the accord reached by the 11th conference, at Paris in 1903, was the first really effective measure to be signed. Out of it ...
- office landscape
- (from the article "interior design") A rather recent innovation in office design is known as office landscape (from the German word Burolandschaft). Above, in Modes of composition, it was noted that the appearance of a ...
- office machine
- (from the article "printing") The development of industry and commerce, in the 19th and 20th centuries, accompanied by an increase in administrative activity, created a demand for an abundance of printed information at various ...
- office-bloc ballot
- (from the article "election") ...it is possible to vote a "straight ticket" for all of a party's candidates by entering a single mark, though voting for individual candidates is usually possible. Conversely, on the ...
- Official Information Act
- (from the article "New Zealand") ...an office of parliamentary commissioner for investigations (ombudsman) was established in 1962; the scope of the office's jurisdiction was enlarged in 1968 and again in 1975. In addition the Official ...
- Official Languages Act
- (from the article "Canada") ...failed to officially recognize Quebec as a distinct society. Efforts have been made at the national level to create a dual culture in Canada rather than simply to preserve two ...
- Official Nationality
- (from the article "Nicholas I") ...wholeheartedly as his own cause. Eventually the Russian wing of European reaction, represented by Nicholas I and his government, found its ideological expression in the doctrine of so-called Official Nationality.role ...
- official opposition
- (from the article "United Kingdom") The two-party system, together with uncertainty about the timing of a general election, has produced the British phenomenon of the official opposition. Its decisive characteristic is that the main opposition ...
- official scorer
- (from the article "baseball") The statistical record of a baseball game begins with the scorecard filled out by an official scorer, an employee of Major League Baseball who sits in the press box during ...
- Official Settlements Balance
- (from the article "international payment and exchange") The U.S. Official Settlements Balance reckoned an increase in non-central-bank foreign holdings of short-term dollar assets as an inflow of short-term capital into the United States; similarly an increase in ...
- offroad racing
- form of motor racing conducted over rough, unmarked, often desert terrain. An outgrowth of the post-World War II popularity of motorcycle trail racing, offroad racing involves contestants racing from checkpoint ... [1 Related Articles]
- offset printing
- in commercial printing, widely used printing technique in which the inked image on a printing plate is printed on a rubber cylinder and then transferred (i.e., offset) to paper or ... [6 Related Articles]
- offshoot
- (from the article "bulbil") in botany, tiny secondary bulb that forms in the angle between a leaf and stem or in place of flowers on certain plants. Bulbils, called offsets when full-sized, fall or ...
- offshore drilling
- (from the article "Atlantic Ocean") ...for all of the world's recoverable oil and natural gas. The value of these resources represents the vast majority of all of the Atlantic's nonrenewable resources. In the United States, ...
- offshoring
- the practice of outsourcing operations overseas, usually by companies from industrialized countries to less-developed countries, with the intention of reducing the cost of doing business. Chief among the specific reasons ...
- offside
- (from the article "football (soccer)") There were few major alterations to football's laws through the 20th century. Indeed, until the changes of the 1990s, the most significant amendment to the rules came in 1925, when ...
- Ogaden
- arid region of eastern Ethiopia. It occupies the barren plain between the Somalia-Ethiopia border and the Ethiopian Eastern Highlands (on which Harer and Dire Dawa are situated). The major river ... [6 Related Articles]
- Ogaden National Liberation Front
- (from the article "Ethiopia") ...incidents of conflict and violence continued to occur periodically, as did reports of human rights violations, particularly in the Oromiya and Somali regions. In April armed members of the Ogaden ...
- Ogaki
- city, Gifu ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Ibi River. The site was settled in prehistoric times, but the present city developed around the castle built in 1535. Since the ...
- Ogallala Aquifer
- (from the article "Great Plains") ...construction after World War II of numerous dams in the Missouri River basin, which provided flood control, hydroelectric power, and irrigation. In addition, an immense source of groundwater, the Ogallala ...
- Ogarkov, Nikolay
- (from the article "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") ...to succeed as party leader after having previously failed. Party privilege again grew under Chernenko. The military did not have things all their own way. The able, dynamic chief of ...
- Ogaryov, Nikolay
- (from the article "Herzen, Aleksandr Ivanovich") ...also bred in him an ardent commitment to the cause of the Decembrists, a revolutionary group that staged an unsuccessful uprising against the emperor Nicholas I in 1825. Herzen and ...
- Ogata Kenzan
- Japanese potter and painter, brother to the artist Ogata Korin. He signed himself Kenzan, Shisui, Toin, Shokosai, Shuseido, or Shinsho. [3 Related Articles]
- Ogata Korin
- Japanese artist of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), regarded, along with Sotatsu, as one of the masters of the Sotatsu-Koetsu school of decorative painting. He is particularly famous for his screen ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ogata, Ken
- Japanese actor was internationally acclaimed for his powerful performances in such films as Vengeance Is Mine (1979), in which he portrayed a ruthless killer, and Mishima: A Life in Four ...
- Ogbomosho
- town, Oyo state, southwestern Nigeria. It lies on the Plateau of Yorubaland (elevation 1,200 feet [366 m]) in an area of savanna and farmland and at the intersection of roads ...
- Ogburn, William Fielding
- American sociologist known for his application of statistical methods to the problems of the social sciences and for his introduction of the idea of "cultural lag" in the process of ...
- ogchu
- (from the article "Tibet") ...orchid, tsi-tog (a light pink flower that grows at high altitudes), shang-dril (a bell-shaped flower, either white, yellow, or maroon, that also grows at high altitudes), and ogchu (a red ...
- Ogden
- city, seat (1852) of Weber county, northern Utah, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Weber and Ogden rivers, just west of the Wasatch Range and east of the ...
- Ogden College
- (from the article "Western Kentucky University") ...its precursor, the Southern Normal School. In 1911 the school moved to a location atop a hill overlooking Bowling Green; it became a four-year teachers college in 1922. Western Kentucky ...
- Ogden v. Saunders
- (from the article "Johnson, William") ...Marshall's opinion in Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), he defended the regulatory power of Congress over interstate and foreign commerce; over one of Marshall's few dissents, he upheld, in Ogden v. ...
- Ogden, C.K.
- British writer and linguist who originated Basic English (q.v.), a simplified system of the English language intended as a uniform, standardized means of international communication. [3 Related Articles]
- Ogden, Peter Skene
- Canadian fur trader and a major explorer of the American West-the Great Basin, Oregon and northern California, and the Snake River country. He was the first to traverse the intermountain ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ogden, Schubert Miles
- (from the article "theism") ...that a closely similar notion arising in the mid-20th century finds its main inspiration and support in the United States, viz., in the work of process philosophers, such as Charles ...
- Ogden, William
- (from the article "McCormick, Cyrus Hall") ...fertile land rather than in the rocky, hilly East. In 1847, with further patented improvements, he opened a factory in the then small, swampy, lakeside town of Chicago in partnership ...
- Ogdensburg
- city and port, St. Lawrence county, northern New York, U.S. It lies on the St. Lawrence River, at the mouth of the Oswegatchie River and is linked to Ontario, Canada, ...
- Ogdensburg Declaration
- (from the article "Canada") ...the fall of France in the spring of 1940 totally changed the circumstances. Canada's overseas allies had fallen or were in danger of doing so, and the country immediately concluded ...
- Ogdoad of Hermopolis
- (from the article "Egyptian religion") Other numerical ordering schemas included the Ogdoad (group of eight gods) of Hermopolis, which embodied the inchoate world before creation and consisted of four pairs of male and female deities ...
- ogee clock
- clock design that originated in the United States in the 1830s, distinguished by a case the front outer edges of which are curved into an S-shape (ogee). This shape is ...
- ogeechee lime tree
- (from the article "tupelo") ...or in association with bald cypress and other swamp trees. The water tupelo typically reaches heights of 80-100 feet (24-30 m), and its trunk is conspicuously enlarged at the base. ...
- ogham writing
- alphabetic script dating from the 4th century AD, used for writing the Irish and Pictish languages on stone monuments; according to Irish tradition, it was also used for writing on ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ogier The Dane
- an important character in the French medieval epic poems called chansons de geste. His story is told in a cycle of these poems known as Geste de Doon de Mayence, ...
- Ogilby, John
- British printer who was a pioneer in the making of road atlases; as a poet and translator he is chiefly remembered for being ridiculed by Dryden in MacFlecknoe and by ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ogilvie, Albert George
- (from the article "Tasmania") The Great Depression of the 1930s had its impact on Tasmania, but the Labor premier (1934-39) Albert George Ogilvie outshone other Australian politicians in responding to the economic problems. One ...
- Ogilvy & Mather
- (from the article "Ogilvy, David") ...Ogilvy's successful ad campaigns for early clients soon garnered for the agency such major American ad accounts as General Foods and American Express. In 1966, with Ogilvy at the helm, ...
- Ogilvy, David
- British advertising executive known for his emphasis on creative copy and campaign themes, founder of the agency of Ogilvy & Mather. [1 Related Articles]
- Oginishiki
- (from the article "Wrestling") Two veteran ozeki, Takanonami and Musoyama, as well as former top division rikishi ("strong man") Oginishiki and Hamanoshima retired and accepted positions within the Japan Sumo Association.
- ogiri shosagoto
- (from the article "Kabuki") ...generally presents them in that order, separated by one or two dance plays featuring ghosts, courtesans, and other exotic creatures. It ends with a lively dance finale (
- Oglala Sioux
- (from the article "Red Cloud") Indian name Mahpiua Luta a principal chief of the Oglala Teton Dakota (Sioux), who successfully resisted (1865-67) the U.S. government's development of the Bozeman Trail to newly discovered goldfields in ...
- Oglesby, Richard James
- governor of Illinois (1865-69, 1873, 1885-89) and U.S. senator (1873-79).
- Oglethorpe University
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. The university comprises nine divisions offering undergraduate study in the humanities, business, sciences, and education. It also offers master's degree ...
- Oglethorpe, James Edward
- English army officer, philanthropist, and founder of the British colony of Georgia in America. [2 Related Articles]
- Oglio River
- (from the article "Iseo, Lake") ...feet (186 m). The lake is 15.5 miles (25 km) long with a maximum width of 3 miles (5 km), a maximum depth of 820 feet (250 m), and a ...
- Ogma
- (from the article "Ogmios") Ogmios' Irish equivalent was Ogma, whose Herculean, warlike aspect was also stressed. In Irish tradition he was portrayed as a swarthy man whose battle ardour was so great that he ...
- Ogmios
- Celtic god of Gaul identified with the Roman Hercules. He was portrayed as an old man with swarthy skin and armed with a bow and club. He was also a ...
- Ogmore Castle
- (from the article "Bridgend") ...the south. Discoveries of Bronze Age and Iron Age artifacts have been made near the village of Merthyr Mawr, and the remains of many Norman castles give further evidence of ...
- Ognissanti, Church of
- (from the article "Daddi, Bernardo") A triptych Daddi completed in 1328 for the Church of Ognissanti (now in the Uffizi, Florence) is typical of his best work. Numerous panel paintings by the artist are to ...
- Ogodei
- son and successor of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan (d. 1227), who greatly expanded the Mongol Empire. [8 Related Articles]
- Ogoja
- town, Cross River state, southeastern Nigeria, on the road from Abakaliki. A major trade centre (yams, cassava, corn [maize], rice, palm oil and kernels, kola nuts), it is mainly inhabited ...
- Ogooue River
- stream of west-central Africa, flowing in Gabon for almost its entire course and draining an area of almost 86,000 square miles (222,700 square km). It rises in Congo (Brazzaville) on ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ogot, Grace
- Kenyan author of widely anthologized short stories and novels. [1 Related Articles]
- Ogowe
- (from the article "art, African") The art of the Ogowe tribes, particularly the Mpongwe, is closely tied to death rituals. Their masks, painted white to symbolize death, represent dead female ancestors, though they are worn ...
- OGPU
- (from the article "OGPU") early security and political police of the Soviet Union and a forerunner of the KGB (q.v.).basis of KGBKGBPre-KGB Soviet security ...
- ogre
- a hideous giant represented in fairy tales and folklore as feeding on human beings. The word gained popularity from its use in the late 17th century by Charles Perrault, the ...
- ogre-faced spider
- any member of the family Dinopidae (or Deinopidae; order Araneida). One pair of eyes is unusually large, producing an ogrelike appearance. The spiders occur throughout the tropics. One genus, Dinopis, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ogun
- (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 ...
- Ogun
- state, western Nigeria, created in 1976 and comprising former Abeokuta and Ijebu provinces of former Western state, the latter carved out of former Western region in 1967. Ogun is bounded ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ogunde Concert Party
- (from the article "Ogunde, Hubert") ...playwright, actor, theatre manager, and musician, who was a pioneer in the field of Nigerian folk opera (drama in which music and dancing play a significant role). He was the ...
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