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Old German Owl The Old German Owl is actually a breed of pigeon and the originator of the short faced German Shield Owls. It was the first breed in Germany to be called Mövchen ("Little Gull") due to its resemblance to the silver gull in color and markings.
Old Globe Theatre The Old Globe Theatre, located in San Diego, California, produces about 15 plays and musicals annually, including Shakespeare, in summer and winter seasons. Plays are performed in three separate theatres in the complex, called the Simon Edison Centre for the Performing Arts:
Old Glossop Old Glossop is a Parish village and the original part of the town of Glossop in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England, about 13 miles east of Manchester. The village is to the west of the Peak District national park, and so falls into Greater Manchester's sphere of economic influence.
Old Gold Rugby Football Club Old Gold Rugby Football Club (OGRFC) is a rugby union team based in Boston, Massachusetts. Old Gold Rugby Football Club was founded in Boston, Massachusetts by a group of Boston College Alumni and has competed in New England and toured the globe since it was founded in the Fall of 1974.
Old Government House, South Australia The Old Government House of South Australia is a historical building which lies in the Belair National Park. It is a tourist attraction and is open to the public on Sundays and public holidays made by a gold coin donation.
Old Great Bulgaria Old Great Bulgaria or Great Bulgaria (Η παλαιά μεγάλη ΒουλγαĎία in Byzantine chronicles; alternative name: Onoguria/Onoghuria) was a Bulgar state, founded by Kubrat, which existed in the 7th century north of the Caucasus mountains in the steppe between the rivers Dnieper and Lower VolgaTheophanes,Op. cit.
Old Great Falls Historic District The Old Great Falls Historic District is a name for the area of Paterson, New Jersey between South Paterson and Hillcrest, Paterson. The area is a thin strip of neighborhoods and parklands around the Passaic River and Garett Mountain.
Old Guangxi Clique After the founding of the Republic of China, Guangxi served as the base for one of the most powerful warlord cliques of China: the Old Guangxi Clique. Led by Lu Rongting(陆荣廷), the clique was able to take control of neighbouring Hunan and Guangdong provinces as well.
Old Gutnish Old Gutnish was the dialect of Old Norse that was spoken on the island of Gotland. It shows sufficient differences from the Old East Norse dialects Old Swedish and Old Danish that it is considered to be a separate branch.
Old Habits Old Habits is the unreleased 5th studio album by alternative rock band Smash Mouth. The band performed what is presumably the first single from the album, "Getaway Car" in a September 2005 appearance on The Tonight Show.
Old Habits - New Beginnings Old Habits - New Beginnings is the first episode of the first season of the Comedy Central series, Strangers with Candy. The episode was written by Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris, and Mitch Rouse and was directed by Peter Lauer.
Old Hall Austerson Austerson, or Old Hall Austerson is a village and civil parish in the Crewe and Nantwich district of Cheshire, England, with a population of 145 according to the 2001 census. The village is about two miles south of Nantwich.
Old Hall Manuscript The Old Hall Manuscript (sometimes Old Hall MS) (British Library, Add. MS 57950) is the largest, most complete, and most significant source of English sacred music of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and as such represents the best source for English music of the late Medieval era.
Old Harrison County Courthouse (Texas) The Old Harrison County Courthouse is located in the center of Whetstone Square in Marshall, Texas and is one of the most famous and admired buildings in Texas. It is the signature landmark of Marshall and is frequently used to represent East Texas in travel literature.
Old Harry Rocks Old Harry Rocks at Handfast Point are a small but characteristic set of coastal landforms off Ballard Down at the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast world heritage site near Swanage in Dorset, England. The rocks are situated in the English Channel where the Purbeck Hills fall into the sea.
Old Harry's Game Old Harry's Game is a UK radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton, who also plays the cynical, world-weary (or rather, underworld-weary) Satan ("Old Harry" was one of many names for the devil. The title is a humorous play on the title of the 1982 TV series Harry's Game).
Old Hay Brook The Old Hay Brook is a stream in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Near Totley Grange the streams joins Needham's Dyke, there Needham's Dyke which flowed from within the Grange estate joins the Brook under one of the many footpaths in the neighbouring woods.
Old High St Stephen's, Inverness Old High St Stephen's Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in Inverness, the capital city of the Highlands of Scotland. The congregation was formed on 30 October 2003 by a union of the congregations of Inverness Old High and Inverness St Stephen's.
Old Hill railway station Old Hill railway station serves the Old Hill area of Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. The station is managed by Central Trains, who provide the majority of train services; Chiltern Railways also operate a small number of trains.
Old Hill Street Police Station The Old Hill Street Police Station (Chinese: 旧禧街č¦ĺŻźĺ±€) is a historic building in Singapore, and is located at Hill Street in the Museum Planning Area, within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.
Old History of the Five Dynasties The Old History of the Five Dynasties (Traditional Chinese: čŠäş”代史; pinyin Jìu WÇ”dĂ i ShÇ), originally known as the History of the Five Dynasties (五代史), was a history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history. It was written by the Song Dynasty official Xue Juzheng (薛居ćŁ), and completed in 974.
Old Home Days Old Home Days is a composition for the wind band/ensemble medium that consists of works composed by Charles Ives. They were set for wind bands/ensembles by Jonathon Elkus, a scholar who is greatly interested in Ives and his compositions.
Old House Fair (South Park) The South Park Old House Fair is an annual community event which occurs on a Saturday in the middle of each June in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego, California, centered on the intersection of 30th Street and Beech Street. The vendors at the event are comprised primarily of local businesses which feature home furnishings and other items of interest for owners of the unique Craftsman homes in the area.
Old Howard Theatre The Old Howard Theatre was a famous burlesque house located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA's erstwhile Scollay Square. Comedian Fred Allen, in his memoir Much Ado About Me, described the theatrical district around the Old Howard as Boston's Broadway.
Old Hume Highway The Old Hume Highway may be described as any part of an earlier route of the Hume Highway, which traverses Victoria and New South Wales between the cities of Melbourne and Sydney in Australia. In some places, the highway has been deviated several times since the first rough track was made between Sydney and Melbourne in the 1840s.
Old Hungarian 'Lamentations of Mary' The Old Hungarian 'Lamentations of Mary' (OHLM) (Hungarian: Ómagyar Mária-siralom) is the oldest extant Hungarian poem, copied in about 1300 into a Latin codex, similarly to the first coherent written Hungarian text (Halotti beszéd; Funeral Oration), which was written down between 1192 and 1195. Its text is a translation or adaptation of a version of the poem or rather sequence beginning Planctus ante nescia...
Old Hungarian script Hungarian Runes also known as RovásĂrás (, () or simply ) is a type of runic writing system used by the Magyars (mainly by SzĂ©kely Magyars) prior to AD 1000. The name comes from the Hungarian word for "carving," Literally, means "score".
Old Chang Kee Old Chang Kee (Chinese: č€ć›ľč®°) is an established snack chain in Singapore specialising in curry puffs and other local snacks. Established in 1956, Old Chang Kee started off as a small stall outside Rex Cinema at McKenzie Road which still exists.
Old China Trade The Old China Trade was the name given to the early commerce between China and the fledgling United States, spanning from the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 to the Treaty of Wanghsia in 1844. The Old China Trade represented the beginning of Sino-American relations, which would become vital to both countries in the following centuries.
Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian, Old Macedonian, and Old Slavic) is the first literary Slavic language, developed from the Slavic dialect of Thessaloniki (Solun) by the 9th century Byzantine missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius. It was used by them for translation of the Bible and other texts from Greek and for some of their own writings.
Old Imperialism Old Imperialism is a term given to the period of European imperialism before 1870, during which powers were motivated by 'gold, glory and gospel'. Gold referred to the wealth (precious metals and valuable merchandise) that the newly discovered lands promised to deliver, glory described the pride a monarch of Europe felt in laying claim to new land and gospel was a reference to the deisre of European powers to 'bring heathens to Christ'.
Old Irish language Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language, or, rather, the Goidelic languages, for which we possess extensive written texts. It was used from the 6th to the 10th centuries, when it gave way to Middle Irish.
Old Ironsides (1926 film) Old Ironsides is a 1926 seafaring movie starring George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, Charles Farrell, and Esther Ralston. This epic adventure film features battle scenes with sailing ships, pirates, and energetic portrayals by Beery and Bancroft.
Old Javanese language Old Javanese is the oldest phase of the Javanese language that was spoken in areas in what is now the eastern part of Central Java and the whole of East Java. It is a Western Malayo-Polynesian language and it is therefore similar to the Old Malay language.
Old Jeremiah Old Jeremiah is the name of an antique British naval gun that rests in Branion Plaza, at the heart of the University of Guelph campus. Rumoured to have seen battle during the War of 1812, Old Jeremiah was last fired in April of 1913.
Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati the cemetery is (oldest west of the Alleghenies) in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. It is located just west of Central Avenue on the north side of Chestnut Street, in the Old West End.
Old Joe The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower is a clock tower that sits in the centre of Chancellor's Court at the University of Birmingham, UK. It is a huge clock tower standing at 100m tall, built to commemorate Joseph Chamberlain, the first Chancellor of the University.
Old Jolyon Jolyon Forsyte "Old Jolyon" 1806-1892 is a character in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga. He is the patriarch of the family, as the eldest son of the late Jolyon Forsyte and the second eldest of 10 children, Aunt Ann is in fact older.
Old Junee, New South Wales Old Junee is a town community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 9 kilometres north west from Junee and 32 kilometres east from Marrar. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 355 people.
Old Justice Old Justice is a fictional DC Comics alliance of former kid sidekicks from the 1940s who banded together to promote respect for the elderly. They first appeared in Young Justice #16, January (2000), and were created by Peter David and Todd Nauck.
Old Kent Road Old Kent Road is a road in South London, England and forms part of Watling Street, the Roman road which ran from Dover to Holyhead. Chaucer's pilgrims travelled along this route from London and Southwark on their way to Canterbury.
Old Kent Road Theater Old Kent Road Theater is an Off Broadway theater group created in 2004. It's productions include "The Great Americano" which premiered at The Red Room in New York in 2004, and "Das Brat," which premiered as part of The Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2005.
Old Kent Sign Language Old Kent Sign Language (OKSL), also known as Old Kentish Sign Language, is an extinct deaf sign language thought to have existed in the United Kingdom, but now superseded by British Sign Language. Kent is the county in the south east corner of England closest to France.
Old Kingdom The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization complexity and achievement — this was the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the Nile Valley (the others being Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom). The Old Kingdom is most commonly regarded as spanning the period of time when Egypt was ruled by the Third Dynasty through to the Sixth Dynasty (2686 BC–2134 BC).
Old Korean Old Korean correponds to the Korean language from the beginning of Three Kingdoms of Korea to the latter part of the Unified Silla최기í¸, ęµě–´ě‚¬ 서설(The History of Korean Language), ě ś8회 ęµě™¸ 한ęµě–´ęµě‚¬ ě—°ě회 (8th Research Conference of Korean Language Teacher in Abroad), 2004ë…„, of which period is roughly from 1CE to 10CE. There are many theories to differentiate the Korean language histories 김í•ę·ś(1955), ęµě–´ě‚¬(History of Korean Language), ë°±ě사, 최범í›(1985) 한ęµě–´ë°śë‹¬ě‚¬ (Developing History of Korean Language) 통문관, 김ě황(1989) ěˇ°ě„ ëŻĽěˇ±ě–´ë°śě „ë Ąě‚¬ (Developing History of Joseon National Language), 김일성종합대학출íŚě‚¬, ëĄë ¬(1992) ěˇ°ě„ ë§ë Ąě‚¬ 2 (Joseon Language History 2).
Old laws relating to seamen OLD LAWS RELATING TO SEAMEN: In most legal systems legislation has interfered to protect the seaman from the consequences of that imprudence which is generally supposed to be one of his distinguishing characteristics.
Old Lake County Courthouse The old Lake County Courthouse, in Lakeport, California, served Lake County as a seat of government from 1871 until 1968. Precedent-setting trials on water rights were held here, along with the "White Cap" murder trial, a notorious episode in vigilantism held here in 1890.
Old Lake Highlands, Dallas, Texas Old Lake Highlands is a neighborhood in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas, Texas (USA), adjacent to White Rock Lake.Lake Highlands Area Improvement Association - Neighborhood & Homeowner Associations of Lake Highlands.
Old LA (Highland Park) Farmers Market The Old LA Certified Farmers Market (OLACFM) operates in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. One of the newest certified farmers markets in the Los Angeles area, the market opened in April 2006 and serves Highland Park and other neighborhoods in Northeast Los Angeles, including Mt.
Old Left The Old Left is a term used to describe classic 1930s-era Western Leninists, Trotskyists and Stalinists to differentiate them from the Marxists of the New Left who emerged between the 1960s and the 1970s. The New Left developed as a separate, typically anti-Stalinian tendency from the developing Marxist-Leninist New Communist Movement.
Old Library The Old Library at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is on the prominent corner of South Church Street and West Rosedale Avenue, marking the southwest corner of the Quad. Following the old tradition of the Quad, this 1902 building is made from serpentine rubble stone with a slate roof.
Old Little Hawk Little Hawk (Lakota: Cetancicala), (1836-1895), was a Oglala Lakota War Chief and half brother of Worm, the father of Crazy Horse (In the Lakota kinship scheme, Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tashuncauitco) was 'son' of Little Hawk).
Old Louisiana State Capital The Old Louisiana State Capital is a building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that served as the Legisature building before the current capital tower was built. It is built to both look like and function like a castle and has lead some locals to call it the Louisiana Castle or the Castle of Baton Rouge; though most people just call it the old captial building.
Old Louisville Old Louisville is a historic preservation district and neighborhood in central Louisville, Kentucky, USA. It is the third largest such district in the United States, and the largest single neighborhood featuring purely Victorian architecture.
Old Low Franconian Old Low Franconian (also Old Low Frankish) was a group of West Germanic dialects spoken in the Low countries, the most western tip of Germany and northern France. They were the descendants of the Old Frankish language, the language of the Franks.
Old man car An Old Man Car is a joking stereotypical reference to a number of cars, all of which are full size sedans, that tend to be driven by older gentlemen. It is also sometimes referred to as an 'Old Person Car' or 'OPC'.
Old master print The term old master print is used to describe works of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (European or New World). A date of about 1830 is usually taken as marking the end of the period whose prints are covered by this term.
Old media The old media or legacy media are the traditional means of communication and expression that existed before the new media of the Internet. Industries that are generally considered part of the old media are broadcast and cable television, movie and music studios, newspapers, books and most print publications.
Old Mackinac Point Light The Old Mackinac Point Light, built in Mackinaw City, Michigan, was a principal lighthouse of the Straits of Mackinac from 1892 until 1957. It housed a fourth-order Fresnel lens, and lit a pathway for lake freighters passing between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Old Main (academic) Old Main is a term often applied to the original building present on college or university campuses in the United States. The building often serves as home to administrative offices, such as president or provost.
Old Main (Pennsylvania State University) Old Main, originally called "Main Building" and first built in 1863, was the first major building of The Pennsylvania State University. Built over a six year period with limestone quarried from the land directly in front of it, the structure was designed by Hugh McAllister and contained classrooms, laboratories, offices, a chapel, and residential space for 400 students.
Old Main (University of Arkansas) Old Main, is the oldest building on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is one of the most recognizable symbols of the University (especially to alumni and residents of the state of Arkansas), and of higher education in general in Arkansas.
Old Major Old Major is the first major character described by Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is the kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change – an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx, though some elements of Old Major are directly from Vladimir Lenin.
Old Malay The Old Malay is possibly the ancestor of Malay language, including Indonesian. It was heavily influenced by Sanskrit,the lingua franca of Hinduism and Buddhism and Tamil, as most of the Malay people used to embrace Hinduism and Buddhism.
Old Man Gloom Old Man Gloom is a post-hardcore/doom metal/post-metal band originally formed in New Mexico, United States, but now based in Massachusetts. The group, formed by Aaron Turner of Isis and Santos Montano have now expanded to become a sort of supergroup in the Boston hardcore and metalcore scene.
Old Man Murray Old Man Murray (aka OMM) was a popular computer game news and review site, well-known for its highly irreverent commentary and administered by Chet Faliszek and Erik Wolpaw. Old Man Murray was perhaps the most critical of game criticism sites, and was harsh on games that were overhyped or received strong reviews elsewhere, most notably Trespasser and the King's Quest series.
Old Man of Hoy The Old Man of Hoy is a 137Â metre (450Â ft) sea stack of red sandstone perched on a plinth of igneous basalt, close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of the island of Hoy, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is a distinctive landmark seen from the Thurso to Stromness ferry and is a famous rock climb.
Old Man of Stoer The Old Man of Stoer is a 60m high sea stack of Torridonian sandstone in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland close to the marilyn Sidhean Mor, the village of Culkein and the nearby Point of Stoer. It is a popular climbing route.
Old Man of the Lake The Old Man of the Lake is the name given to a tall stump of tree, probably a hemlock, which has been bobbing vertically in Crater Lake for more than a century. Due to the extremely cold water of the lake, the tree has been rather well preserved.
Old Man of the Mountain The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the great stone face, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA that, when viewed from the correct angle, appeared to be the jagged profile of a face. The first recorded discovery of the Old Man was in 1805.
Old Martin County Courthouse The Old Martin County Court House (also known as the Court House Cultural Center) (constructed in 1915) is a historic site in Stuart, Florida, located at 80 East Ocean Boulevard. On November 7, 1997, it was added to the U.
Old Master An Old Master (or old master) is a term for a European painter of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such a painter. An Old master print is an original print (for example an engraving or etching) made by an artist in the same period.
Old McDonald Had a Farm "Old McDonald Had a Farm" is a children's song about a farmer named McDonald (or MacDonald) and the various animals he keeps on his farm. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise.
Old Men Forget Old Men Forget is a 1953 autobiography by Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, detailing his Victorian childhood, Edwardian youth, and work in literature and politics. The title is taken from a famous speech by the King in William Shakespeare's Henry V: "Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot/But he'll remember with advantages/What feats he did that day.
Old McHenry County Courthouse The Old McHenry County Courthouse, in McHenry County, Illinois, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 1, 1974. Once the courthouse in the county seat of McHenry County, Woodstock, today the courthouse is occupied by various private tenants including a restaurant and an art gallery.
Old Mill High School Old Mill Senior High School is an American public high school in Millersville, Maryland serving students in grades 9 through 12. It was occupied in 1975 and is administered by Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS).
Old Mill School Old Mill School is one of 5 public elementary schools in Mill Valley, California, along with Park, Tamalpais Valley, Edna Maguire, and Strawberry Point Schools. The main building, built in 1921, is the oldest existing public elementary school building in Mill Valley.
Old Mill, Toronto Old Mill is a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the banks of the Humber River. Historically, it was a hunting and fishing area for First Nations before European exploration of the area, and subsequent settlement.
Old Mine Road Old Mine Road is a road in New Jersey and New York said by many to be the oldest continuously-used road in the United States of America. At a length of 104 miles, it stretches from Kittatinny Point in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to the vicinity of Kingston, New York.
Old Ministry of Labour Building The Old Ministry of Labour Building (Chinese: 前劳工é¨ĺ¤§ĺަ) currently houses the Family and Juvenile Court of the Subordinate Courts of Singapore. It is located at Havelock Square in the Outram Planning Area, within the Central Area of Singapore's central business district.
Old Mobile Site The Old Mobile Site was the location of the French settlement La Mobile and the associated Fort Louis de La Louisiane from 1702 until 1712. The site is located approximately fourteen miles (22 km) northwest of Bay Minette, Alabama on the Mobile River.
Old Mother Hubbard "Old Mother Hubbard" is a nursery rhyme. Speculative claims have been made that this had to do with Thomas Cardinal Wolsey refusing Henry VIII's divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon, or even that it was referring to a large trebuchet, but those have been disputed.
Old Mother Hubbard (pet food) Old Mother Hubbard is a leader in the pet food industry with a reputation for product quality and innovation and a commitment to support independent pet stores and natural health food stores in North America. Its two flagship brands are the Wellness, brand of dog foods, cat foods, treats and supplements, and the Old Mother Hubbard line of baked dog biscuits and gourmet treats.
Old Mutual Old Mutual plc () is an international insurance company. Originally based in South Africa and focused on the South African market, it is now London based and has major assets in the United Kingdom and in the United States, where the majority of its funds under management were located before the Skandia deal mentioned below.
Old Nassau reaction The Old Nassau or Halloween Reaction, is a scientific demonstration of a clock reaction in which a solution turns orange and then black (the school colors of Princeton University), was discovered by two Princeton undergraduates researching the inhibition of the iodine clock reaction (or Landolt reaction) by Hg2+, resulting in the formation of orange HgI2. "Old Nassau" is the alma mater for Princeton, named for its historic administration building, Nassau Hall.
Old Negro Space Program The Old Negro Space Program is the name of a short mockumentary film, done in the style of a Ken Burns documentary, that lampoons the strict racial segregation in the first half of the 20th century in the United States by postulating a separate space program, run by and for blacks who had been excluded from "White NASA": "in 1957, if you were black, and you were an astronaut... you were out of work.
Old New Year The Old New Year () or the Orthodox New Year () is an informal traditional Orthodox-Slavic holiday celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. In the 20th and 21st centuries the Old New Year falls on January 13/14.
Old Norse orthography The orthography of the Old Norse language since the introduction of the Latin alphabet in Iceland is a thorny subject. In particular the names of Old Norse mythological characters often seem to have several different spellings.
Old Norse poetry Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in a number of Nordic languages, embraced by the term Old Norse, during the period from the 8th century to as late as the far end of the 13th century. A significant amount of Old Norse literature that survives was preserved in Iceland.
Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts The Old North Bridge across the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts is a historical site in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the first battle day in the Revolutionary War. Here five full companies of Minutemen and five of non-Minuteman militia occupied this hill with groups of other men streaming in, totaling about 500 against the British light infantry companies from the 4th, 10th, and 43rd Regiments of Foot under Captain Laurie, a force totaling about 115 men.
Old North Church The Old North Church, officially called Christ Church, is located at 193 Salem Street in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts and is the location of the famed "one if by land, and two if by sea" phrase. This related to Paul Revere's midnight ride on April 18, 1775 that preceded the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.
Old North State Council The Old North State Council (ONSC) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves the western Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. The council is headquartered at the Royce Reynolds Family Scout Office in Greensboro, North Carolina and operates four camps; one of which is outside the council boundaries.
Old Norwegian Old Norwegian is a term used for the old Norse language as spoken and written in Norway in the middle ages. The term old Norse language refers to the language spoken in the wider old Norse area, in addition to Norway also Iceland, Greenland and other islands in the North Sea.
Old Norwood, Chicago Old Norwood is a neighborhood in the Norwood Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is bordered by Bryn Mawr, Avondale, and Harlem Avenues, and it is home to the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, which was built in 1833 and is widely considered to be the oldest house Chicago.
Old Novgorod dialect Old Novgorod dialect (Russian: древненовгородŃкий диалект, also translated as Old Novgorodian or Ancient Novgorod dialect) is a term introduced by Andrey Zaliznyak (Đндрей Đнатольевич Зализняк) to account for the astonishingly distinct linguistic features of the East Slavic birch bark writings ("berestyanaya gramota") from the 11th to 15th centuries excavated in Novgorod and its surroundings since the middle of the 20th century, around a thousand of which have been found so far.
Old Nubian language Old Nubian is the name given to the written language used in medieval Nubia from the 8th to the 15th century AD. It is an ancient variety of the Nubian languages, which is still spoken in the area; in particular, it is probably ancestral to the modern-day Nobiin variety.
Old Oak Common Old Oak Common is an area of London in between Harlesden and Acton best known for its railway depots, particularly, Old Oak Common TMD. Further south is an open area Wormwood Scrubs Park and the well known prison.
Old Oak Common TMD Old Oak Common TMD is situated to the west of London, in Old Oak Common. The Traction Maintenance Depot is the main facility for storage & servicing of locomotives and multiple-units which utilise Paddington Station.
Old Oaken Bucket The Old Oaken Bucket is the name of the trophy that is annually awarded to the winner of the Big Ten Conference college football game between Indiana University and Purdue University. It is one of the oldest football trophies in the nation.
Old Oakland Old Oakland is a historic district in downtown Oakland, California, located on the northwest side of Broadway, between the City Center complex and the Jack London Square district, and across Broadway from Chinatown.
Old Globe Theatre The Old Globe Theatre, located in San Diego, California, produces about 15 plays and musicals annually, including Shakespeare, in summer and winter seasons. Plays are performed in three separate theatres in the complex, called the Simon Edison Centre for the Performing Arts:
Old Glossop Old Glossop is a Parish village and the original part of the town of Glossop in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England, about 13 miles east of Manchester. The village is to the west of the Peak District national park, and so falls into Greater Manchester's sphere of economic influence.
Old Gold Rugby Football Club Old Gold Rugby Football Club (OGRFC) is a rugby union team based in Boston, Massachusetts. Old Gold Rugby Football Club was founded in Boston, Massachusetts by a group of Boston College Alumni and has competed in New England and toured the globe since it was founded in the Fall of 1974.
Old Government House, South Australia The Old Government House of South Australia is a historical building which lies in the Belair National Park. It is a tourist attraction and is open to the public on Sundays and public holidays made by a gold coin donation.
Old Great Bulgaria Old Great Bulgaria or Great Bulgaria (Η παλαιά μεγάλη ΒουλγαĎία in Byzantine chronicles; alternative name: Onoguria/Onoghuria) was a Bulgar state, founded by Kubrat, which existed in the 7th century north of the Caucasus mountains in the steppe between the rivers Dnieper and Lower VolgaTheophanes,Op. cit.
Old Great Falls Historic District The Old Great Falls Historic District is a name for the area of Paterson, New Jersey between South Paterson and Hillcrest, Paterson. The area is a thin strip of neighborhoods and parklands around the Passaic River and Garett Mountain.
Old Guangxi Clique After the founding of the Republic of China, Guangxi served as the base for one of the most powerful warlord cliques of China: the Old Guangxi Clique. Led by Lu Rongting(陆荣廷), the clique was able to take control of neighbouring Hunan and Guangdong provinces as well.
Old Gutnish Old Gutnish was the dialect of Old Norse that was spoken on the island of Gotland. It shows sufficient differences from the Old East Norse dialects Old Swedish and Old Danish that it is considered to be a separate branch.
Old Habits Old Habits is the unreleased 5th studio album by alternative rock band Smash Mouth. The band performed what is presumably the first single from the album, "Getaway Car" in a September 2005 appearance on The Tonight Show.
Old Habits - New Beginnings Old Habits - New Beginnings is the first episode of the first season of the Comedy Central series, Strangers with Candy. The episode was written by Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris, and Mitch Rouse and was directed by Peter Lauer.
Old Hall Austerson Austerson, or Old Hall Austerson is a village and civil parish in the Crewe and Nantwich district of Cheshire, England, with a population of 145 according to the 2001 census. The village is about two miles south of Nantwich.
Old Hall Manuscript The Old Hall Manuscript (sometimes Old Hall MS) (British Library, Add. MS 57950) is the largest, most complete, and most significant source of English sacred music of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and as such represents the best source for English music of the late Medieval era.
Old Harrison County Courthouse (Texas) The Old Harrison County Courthouse is located in the center of Whetstone Square in Marshall, Texas and is one of the most famous and admired buildings in Texas. It is the signature landmark of Marshall and is frequently used to represent East Texas in travel literature.
Old Harry Rocks Old Harry Rocks at Handfast Point are a small but characteristic set of coastal landforms off Ballard Down at the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast world heritage site near Swanage in Dorset, England. The rocks are situated in the English Channel where the Purbeck Hills fall into the sea.
Old Harry's Game Old Harry's Game is a UK radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton, who also plays the cynical, world-weary (or rather, underworld-weary) Satan ("Old Harry" was one of many names for the devil. The title is a humorous play on the title of the 1982 TV series Harry's Game).
Old Hay Brook The Old Hay Brook is a stream in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Near Totley Grange the streams joins Needham's Dyke, there Needham's Dyke which flowed from within the Grange estate joins the Brook under one of the many footpaths in the neighbouring woods.
Old High St Stephen's, Inverness Old High St Stephen's Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in Inverness, the capital city of the Highlands of Scotland. The congregation was formed on 30 October 2003 by a union of the congregations of Inverness Old High and Inverness St Stephen's.
Old Hill railway station Old Hill railway station serves the Old Hill area of Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. The station is managed by Central Trains, who provide the majority of train services; Chiltern Railways also operate a small number of trains.
Old Hill Street Police Station The Old Hill Street Police Station (Chinese: 旧禧街č¦ĺŻźĺ±€) is a historic building in Singapore, and is located at Hill Street in the Museum Planning Area, within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.
Old History of the Five Dynasties The Old History of the Five Dynasties (Traditional Chinese: čŠäş”代史; pinyin Jìu WÇ”dĂ i ShÇ), originally known as the History of the Five Dynasties (五代史), was a history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history. It was written by the Song Dynasty official Xue Juzheng (薛居ćŁ), and completed in 974.
Old Home Days Old Home Days is a composition for the wind band/ensemble medium that consists of works composed by Charles Ives. They were set for wind bands/ensembles by Jonathon Elkus, a scholar who is greatly interested in Ives and his compositions.
Old House Fair (South Park) The South Park Old House Fair is an annual community event which occurs on a Saturday in the middle of each June in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego, California, centered on the intersection of 30th Street and Beech Street. The vendors at the event are comprised primarily of local businesses which feature home furnishings and other items of interest for owners of the unique Craftsman homes in the area.
Old Howard Theatre The Old Howard Theatre was a famous burlesque house located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA's erstwhile Scollay Square. Comedian Fred Allen, in his memoir Much Ado About Me, described the theatrical district around the Old Howard as Boston's Broadway.
Old Hume Highway The Old Hume Highway may be described as any part of an earlier route of the Hume Highway, which traverses Victoria and New South Wales between the cities of Melbourne and Sydney in Australia. In some places, the highway has been deviated several times since the first rough track was made between Sydney and Melbourne in the 1840s.
Old Hungarian 'Lamentations of Mary' The Old Hungarian 'Lamentations of Mary' (OHLM) (Hungarian: Ómagyar Mária-siralom) is the oldest extant Hungarian poem, copied in about 1300 into a Latin codex, similarly to the first coherent written Hungarian text (Halotti beszéd; Funeral Oration), which was written down between 1192 and 1195. Its text is a translation or adaptation of a version of the poem or rather sequence beginning Planctus ante nescia...
Old Hungarian script Hungarian Runes also known as RovásĂrás (, () or simply ) is a type of runic writing system used by the Magyars (mainly by SzĂ©kely Magyars) prior to AD 1000. The name comes from the Hungarian word for "carving," Literally, means "score".
Old Chang Kee Old Chang Kee (Chinese: č€ć›ľč®°) is an established snack chain in Singapore specialising in curry puffs and other local snacks. Established in 1956, Old Chang Kee started off as a small stall outside Rex Cinema at McKenzie Road which still exists.
Old China Trade The Old China Trade was the name given to the early commerce between China and the fledgling United States, spanning from the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 to the Treaty of Wanghsia in 1844. The Old China Trade represented the beginning of Sino-American relations, which would become vital to both countries in the following centuries.
Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian, Old Macedonian, and Old Slavic) is the first literary Slavic language, developed from the Slavic dialect of Thessaloniki (Solun) by the 9th century Byzantine missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius. It was used by them for translation of the Bible and other texts from Greek and for some of their own writings.
Old Imperialism Old Imperialism is a term given to the period of European imperialism before 1870, during which powers were motivated by 'gold, glory and gospel'. Gold referred to the wealth (precious metals and valuable merchandise) that the newly discovered lands promised to deliver, glory described the pride a monarch of Europe felt in laying claim to new land and gospel was a reference to the deisre of European powers to 'bring heathens to Christ'.
Old Irish language Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language, or, rather, the Goidelic languages, for which we possess extensive written texts. It was used from the 6th to the 10th centuries, when it gave way to Middle Irish.
Old Ironsides (1926 film) Old Ironsides is a 1926 seafaring movie starring George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, Charles Farrell, and Esther Ralston. This epic adventure film features battle scenes with sailing ships, pirates, and energetic portrayals by Beery and Bancroft.
Old Javanese language Old Javanese is the oldest phase of the Javanese language that was spoken in areas in what is now the eastern part of Central Java and the whole of East Java. It is a Western Malayo-Polynesian language and it is therefore similar to the Old Malay language.
Old Jeremiah Old Jeremiah is the name of an antique British naval gun that rests in Branion Plaza, at the heart of the University of Guelph campus. Rumoured to have seen battle during the War of 1812, Old Jeremiah was last fired in April of 1913.
Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati the cemetery is (oldest west of the Alleghenies) in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. It is located just west of Central Avenue on the north side of Chestnut Street, in the Old West End.
Old Joe The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower is a clock tower that sits in the centre of Chancellor's Court at the University of Birmingham, UK. It is a huge clock tower standing at 100m tall, built to commemorate Joseph Chamberlain, the first Chancellor of the University.
Old Jolyon Jolyon Forsyte "Old Jolyon" 1806-1892 is a character in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga. He is the patriarch of the family, as the eldest son of the late Jolyon Forsyte and the second eldest of 10 children, Aunt Ann is in fact older.
Old Junee, New South Wales Old Junee is a town community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 9 kilometres north west from Junee and 32 kilometres east from Marrar. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 355 people.
Old Justice Old Justice is a fictional DC Comics alliance of former kid sidekicks from the 1940s who banded together to promote respect for the elderly. They first appeared in Young Justice #16, January (2000), and were created by Peter David and Todd Nauck.
Old Kent Road Old Kent Road is a road in South London, England and forms part of Watling Street, the Roman road which ran from Dover to Holyhead. Chaucer's pilgrims travelled along this route from London and Southwark on their way to Canterbury.
Old Kent Road Theater Old Kent Road Theater is an Off Broadway theater group created in 2004. It's productions include "The Great Americano" which premiered at The Red Room in New York in 2004, and "Das Brat," which premiered as part of The Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2005.
Old Kent Sign Language Old Kent Sign Language (OKSL), also known as Old Kentish Sign Language, is an extinct deaf sign language thought to have existed in the United Kingdom, but now superseded by British Sign Language. Kent is the county in the south east corner of England closest to France.
Old Kingdom The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization complexity and achievement — this was the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the Nile Valley (the others being Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom). The Old Kingdom is most commonly regarded as spanning the period of time when Egypt was ruled by the Third Dynasty through to the Sixth Dynasty (2686 BC–2134 BC).
Old Korean Old Korean correponds to the Korean language from the beginning of Three Kingdoms of Korea to the latter part of the Unified Silla최기í¸, ęµě–´ě‚¬ 서설(The History of Korean Language), ě ś8회 ęµě™¸ 한ęµě–´ęµě‚¬ ě—°ě회 (8th Research Conference of Korean Language Teacher in Abroad), 2004ë…„, of which period is roughly from 1CE to 10CE. There are many theories to differentiate the Korean language histories 김í•ę·ś(1955), ęµě–´ě‚¬(History of Korean Language), ë°±ě사, 최범í›(1985) 한ęµě–´ë°śë‹¬ě‚¬ (Developing History of Korean Language) 통문관, 김ě황(1989) ěˇ°ě„ ëŻĽěˇ±ě–´ë°śě „ë Ąě‚¬ (Developing History of Joseon National Language), 김일성종합대학출íŚě‚¬, ëĄë ¬(1992) ěˇ°ě„ ë§ë Ąě‚¬ 2 (Joseon Language History 2).
Old laws relating to seamen OLD LAWS RELATING TO SEAMEN: In most legal systems legislation has interfered to protect the seaman from the consequences of that imprudence which is generally supposed to be one of his distinguishing characteristics.
Old Lake County Courthouse The old Lake County Courthouse, in Lakeport, California, served Lake County as a seat of government from 1871 until 1968. Precedent-setting trials on water rights were held here, along with the "White Cap" murder trial, a notorious episode in vigilantism held here in 1890.
Old Lake Highlands, Dallas, Texas Old Lake Highlands is a neighborhood in the Lake Highlands area of Dallas, Texas (USA), adjacent to White Rock Lake.Lake Highlands Area Improvement Association - Neighborhood & Homeowner Associations of Lake Highlands.
Old LA (Highland Park) Farmers Market The Old LA Certified Farmers Market (OLACFM) operates in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. One of the newest certified farmers markets in the Los Angeles area, the market opened in April 2006 and serves Highland Park and other neighborhoods in Northeast Los Angeles, including Mt.
Old Left The Old Left is a term used to describe classic 1930s-era Western Leninists, Trotskyists and Stalinists to differentiate them from the Marxists of the New Left who emerged between the 1960s and the 1970s. The New Left developed as a separate, typically anti-Stalinian tendency from the developing Marxist-Leninist New Communist Movement.
Old Library The Old Library at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is on the prominent corner of South Church Street and West Rosedale Avenue, marking the southwest corner of the Quad. Following the old tradition of the Quad, this 1902 building is made from serpentine rubble stone with a slate roof.
Old Little Hawk Little Hawk (Lakota: Cetancicala), (1836-1895), was a Oglala Lakota War Chief and half brother of Worm, the father of Crazy Horse (In the Lakota kinship scheme, Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tashuncauitco) was 'son' of Little Hawk).
Old Louisiana State Capital The Old Louisiana State Capital is a building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that served as the Legisature building before the current capital tower was built. It is built to both look like and function like a castle and has lead some locals to call it the Louisiana Castle or the Castle of Baton Rouge; though most people just call it the old captial building.
Old Louisville Old Louisville is a historic preservation district and neighborhood in central Louisville, Kentucky, USA. It is the third largest such district in the United States, and the largest single neighborhood featuring purely Victorian architecture.
Old Low Franconian Old Low Franconian (also Old Low Frankish) was a group of West Germanic dialects spoken in the Low countries, the most western tip of Germany and northern France. They were the descendants of the Old Frankish language, the language of the Franks.
Old man car An Old Man Car is a joking stereotypical reference to a number of cars, all of which are full size sedans, that tend to be driven by older gentlemen. It is also sometimes referred to as an 'Old Person Car' or 'OPC'.
Old master print The term old master print is used to describe works of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (European or New World). A date of about 1830 is usually taken as marking the end of the period whose prints are covered by this term.
Old media The old media or legacy media are the traditional means of communication and expression that existed before the new media of the Internet. Industries that are generally considered part of the old media are broadcast and cable television, movie and music studios, newspapers, books and most print publications.
Old Mackinac Point Light The Old Mackinac Point Light, built in Mackinaw City, Michigan, was a principal lighthouse of the Straits of Mackinac from 1892 until 1957. It housed a fourth-order Fresnel lens, and lit a pathway for lake freighters passing between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Old Main (academic) Old Main is a term often applied to the original building present on college or university campuses in the United States. The building often serves as home to administrative offices, such as president or provost.
Old Main (Pennsylvania State University) Old Main, originally called "Main Building" and first built in 1863, was the first major building of The Pennsylvania State University. Built over a six year period with limestone quarried from the land directly in front of it, the structure was designed by Hugh McAllister and contained classrooms, laboratories, offices, a chapel, and residential space for 400 students.
Old Main (University of Arkansas) Old Main, is the oldest building on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is one of the most recognizable symbols of the University (especially to alumni and residents of the state of Arkansas), and of higher education in general in Arkansas.
Old Major Old Major is the first major character described by Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is the kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change – an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx, though some elements of Old Major are directly from Vladimir Lenin.
Old Malay The Old Malay is possibly the ancestor of Malay language, including Indonesian. It was heavily influenced by Sanskrit,the lingua franca of Hinduism and Buddhism and Tamil, as most of the Malay people used to embrace Hinduism and Buddhism.
Old Man Gloom Old Man Gloom is a post-hardcore/doom metal/post-metal band originally formed in New Mexico, United States, but now based in Massachusetts. The group, formed by Aaron Turner of Isis and Santos Montano have now expanded to become a sort of supergroup in the Boston hardcore and metalcore scene.
Old Man Murray Old Man Murray (aka OMM) was a popular computer game news and review site, well-known for its highly irreverent commentary and administered by Chet Faliszek and Erik Wolpaw. Old Man Murray was perhaps the most critical of game criticism sites, and was harsh on games that were overhyped or received strong reviews elsewhere, most notably Trespasser and the King's Quest series.
Old Man of Hoy The Old Man of Hoy is a 137Â metre (450Â ft) sea stack of red sandstone perched on a plinth of igneous basalt, close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of the island of Hoy, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is a distinctive landmark seen from the Thurso to Stromness ferry and is a famous rock climb.
Old Man of Stoer The Old Man of Stoer is a 60m high sea stack of Torridonian sandstone in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland close to the marilyn Sidhean Mor, the village of Culkein and the nearby Point of Stoer. It is a popular climbing route.
Old Man of the Lake The Old Man of the Lake is the name given to a tall stump of tree, probably a hemlock, which has been bobbing vertically in Crater Lake for more than a century. Due to the extremely cold water of the lake, the tree has been rather well preserved.
Old Man of the Mountain The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the great stone face, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA that, when viewed from the correct angle, appeared to be the jagged profile of a face. The first recorded discovery of the Old Man was in 1805.
Old Martin County Courthouse The Old Martin County Court House (also known as the Court House Cultural Center) (constructed in 1915) is a historic site in Stuart, Florida, located at 80 East Ocean Boulevard. On November 7, 1997, it was added to the U.
Old Master An Old Master (or old master) is a term for a European painter of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such a painter. An Old master print is an original print (for example an engraving or etching) made by an artist in the same period.
Old McDonald Had a Farm "Old McDonald Had a Farm" is a children's song about a farmer named McDonald (or MacDonald) and the various animals he keeps on his farm. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise.
Old Men Forget Old Men Forget is a 1953 autobiography by Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, detailing his Victorian childhood, Edwardian youth, and work in literature and politics. The title is taken from a famous speech by the King in William Shakespeare's Henry V: "Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot/But he'll remember with advantages/What feats he did that day.
Old McHenry County Courthouse The Old McHenry County Courthouse, in McHenry County, Illinois, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 1, 1974. Once the courthouse in the county seat of McHenry County, Woodstock, today the courthouse is occupied by various private tenants including a restaurant and an art gallery.
Old Mill High School Old Mill Senior High School is an American public high school in Millersville, Maryland serving students in grades 9 through 12. It was occupied in 1975 and is administered by Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS).
Old Mill School Old Mill School is one of 5 public elementary schools in Mill Valley, California, along with Park, Tamalpais Valley, Edna Maguire, and Strawberry Point Schools. The main building, built in 1921, is the oldest existing public elementary school building in Mill Valley.
Old Mill, Toronto Old Mill is a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the banks of the Humber River. Historically, it was a hunting and fishing area for First Nations before European exploration of the area, and subsequent settlement.
Old Mine Road Old Mine Road is a road in New Jersey and New York said by many to be the oldest continuously-used road in the United States of America. At a length of 104 miles, it stretches from Kittatinny Point in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to the vicinity of Kingston, New York.
Old Ministry of Labour Building The Old Ministry of Labour Building (Chinese: 前劳工é¨ĺ¤§ĺަ) currently houses the Family and Juvenile Court of the Subordinate Courts of Singapore. It is located at Havelock Square in the Outram Planning Area, within the Central Area of Singapore's central business district.
Old Mobile Site The Old Mobile Site was the location of the French settlement La Mobile and the associated Fort Louis de La Louisiane from 1702 until 1712. The site is located approximately fourteen miles (22 km) northwest of Bay Minette, Alabama on the Mobile River.
Old Mother Hubbard "Old Mother Hubbard" is a nursery rhyme. Speculative claims have been made that this had to do with Thomas Cardinal Wolsey refusing Henry VIII's divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon, or even that it was referring to a large trebuchet, but those have been disputed.
Old Mother Hubbard (pet food) Old Mother Hubbard is a leader in the pet food industry with a reputation for product quality and innovation and a commitment to support independent pet stores and natural health food stores in North America. Its two flagship brands are the Wellness, brand of dog foods, cat foods, treats and supplements, and the Old Mother Hubbard line of baked dog biscuits and gourmet treats.
Old Mutual Old Mutual plc () is an international insurance company. Originally based in South Africa and focused on the South African market, it is now London based and has major assets in the United Kingdom and in the United States, where the majority of its funds under management were located before the Skandia deal mentioned below.
Old Nassau reaction The Old Nassau or Halloween Reaction, is a scientific demonstration of a clock reaction in which a solution turns orange and then black (the school colors of Princeton University), was discovered by two Princeton undergraduates researching the inhibition of the iodine clock reaction (or Landolt reaction) by Hg2+, resulting in the formation of orange HgI2. "Old Nassau" is the alma mater for Princeton, named for its historic administration building, Nassau Hall.
Old Negro Space Program The Old Negro Space Program is the name of a short mockumentary film, done in the style of a Ken Burns documentary, that lampoons the strict racial segregation in the first half of the 20th century in the United States by postulating a separate space program, run by and for blacks who had been excluded from "White NASA": "in 1957, if you were black, and you were an astronaut... you were out of work.
Old New Year The Old New Year () or the Orthodox New Year () is an informal traditional Orthodox-Slavic holiday celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. In the 20th and 21st centuries the Old New Year falls on January 13/14.
Old Norse orthography The orthography of the Old Norse language since the introduction of the Latin alphabet in Iceland is a thorny subject. In particular the names of Old Norse mythological characters often seem to have several different spellings.
Old Norse poetry Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in a number of Nordic languages, embraced by the term Old Norse, during the period from the 8th century to as late as the far end of the 13th century. A significant amount of Old Norse literature that survives was preserved in Iceland.
Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts The Old North Bridge across the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts is a historical site in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the first battle day in the Revolutionary War. Here five full companies of Minutemen and five of non-Minuteman militia occupied this hill with groups of other men streaming in, totaling about 500 against the British light infantry companies from the 4th, 10th, and 43rd Regiments of Foot under Captain Laurie, a force totaling about 115 men.
Old North Church The Old North Church, officially called Christ Church, is located at 193 Salem Street in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts and is the location of the famed "one if by land, and two if by sea" phrase. This related to Paul Revere's midnight ride on April 18, 1775 that preceded the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.
Old North State Council The Old North State Council (ONSC) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves the western Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. The council is headquartered at the Royce Reynolds Family Scout Office in Greensboro, North Carolina and operates four camps; one of which is outside the council boundaries.
Old Norwegian Old Norwegian is a term used for the old Norse language as spoken and written in Norway in the middle ages. The term old Norse language refers to the language spoken in the wider old Norse area, in addition to Norway also Iceland, Greenland and other islands in the North Sea.
Old Norwood, Chicago Old Norwood is a neighborhood in the Norwood Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is bordered by Bryn Mawr, Avondale, and Harlem Avenues, and it is home to the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, which was built in 1833 and is widely considered to be the oldest house Chicago.
Old Novgorod dialect Old Novgorod dialect (Russian: древненовгородŃкий диалект, also translated as Old Novgorodian or Ancient Novgorod dialect) is a term introduced by Andrey Zaliznyak (Đндрей Đнатольевич Зализняк) to account for the astonishingly distinct linguistic features of the East Slavic birch bark writings ("berestyanaya gramota") from the 11th to 15th centuries excavated in Novgorod and its surroundings since the middle of the 20th century, around a thousand of which have been found so far.
Old Nubian language Old Nubian is the name given to the written language used in medieval Nubia from the 8th to the 15th century AD. It is an ancient variety of the Nubian languages, which is still spoken in the area; in particular, it is probably ancestral to the modern-day Nobiin variety.
Old Oak Common Old Oak Common is an area of London in between Harlesden and Acton best known for its railway depots, particularly, Old Oak Common TMD. Further south is an open area Wormwood Scrubs Park and the well known prison.
Old Oak Common TMD Old Oak Common TMD is situated to the west of London, in Old Oak Common. The Traction Maintenance Depot is the main facility for storage & servicing of locomotives and multiple-units which utilise Paddington Station.
Old Oaken Bucket The Old Oaken Bucket is the name of the trophy that is annually awarded to the winner of the Big Ten Conference college football game between Indiana University and Purdue University. It is one of the oldest football trophies in the nation.
Old Oakland Old Oakland is a historic district in downtown Oakland, California, located on the northwest side of Broadway, between the City Center complex and the Jack London Square district, and across Broadway from Chinatown.
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