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Old Tucson Studios Old Tucson Studios is a movie studio and theme park just west of Tucson, Arizona, adjacent to the Tucson Mountains and close to the western portion of Saguaro National Park. Built in 1939 for the movie Arizona, the studio was opened to the public in 1960.
Old Tunes "Old Tunes" refers collectively to several audio cassettes rumored to have been privately released by Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada between 1995 and 1996. Neither Boards of Canada nor Warp Records have confirmed or denied the existence of the Old Tunes tapes (comprising of "A Few Old Tunes", "Old Tunes Volume 1" and "Old Tunes Volume 2").
Old Tupi language Old Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who lived close to the sea. It belongs to the Tupi-Guarani language subfamily, and enjoyed a brief period of literacy, in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries.
Old Tyresö Old Tyresö (Gamla Tyresö) is a district of Tyresö Municipality in Sweden. It consists of the eastern half of the municipality, containing the Tyresö Strand and Raksta areas, the long Brevik peninsula, and the vast forest in the south.
Old Union Station (Toronto) Toronto’s first Union Station was built by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1858 at a location just west of the present Union Station trainshed. Union Station consisted of three wooden structures and was initially shared with the Northern Railway of Canada and the Great Western Railway, although both railways soon built their own stations along the Toronto waterfront.
Old University of Chicago The University of Chicago, now known as the Old University of Chicago, was a Baptist college founded in 1857 by Stephen Douglas. It eventually failed in 1886, and was succeeded by the present University of Chicago, created with funds from John D.
Old US-27 (between Grayling, MI and Indian River, MI) Old 27 is the former alignment of the old US 27 that was bypassed by I-75 but was retained for property access. Interstate highways do not feature driveways or other ways to directly access property along the roadway.
Old Vanderburgh County Courthouse The Old Vanderburgh County Courthouse, often simply called the "Vanderburgh County Courthouse," was once the center of Vanderburgh County government. Construction started in the Spring of 1888, was completed in November of 1890, and was ready for occupancy by county government in early 1891.
Old Vero Beach Community Building The Old Vero Beach Community Building (also known as the Vero Beach Service Center or Vero Beach Physical Arts Center) is a historic site in Vero Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 2146 14th Avenue.
Old Vienna Old Vienna was a brand of beer bottled by City Brewing, and later, Koch Beverage Company, beginning in the 1806's in Wapakoneta, Ohio. City Brewing was owned by Karl Kolter and his son Charles, who immigrated from Wallhalben, Germany, to Ohio in the mid-1800s.
Old Virginia Brick Old Virginia Brick is a manufacturer of bricks headquartered in Salem, Virginia, in the Roanoke Valley. The company was founded in 1890 and is best known for its wood moulded bricks manufactured at the Salem plant.
Old Wan Chai Post Office The Old Wan Chai Post Office is the oldest surviving post office in Hong Kong. This L-shaped building situated at the junction of Wan Chai Gap Road and Queen's Road East, was erected between 1912 and 1913, and opened on March 1, 1915 as the Wan Chai Post Office.
Old Weird America Old Weird America was a term coined by music writer Greil Marcus. He used it to describe the often eerie country, blues and folk music featured on the Anthology of American Folk Music, and on Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes.
Old Well The Old Well is a small, neoclassical rotunda located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It marks the site of the original well on campus and has become the most enduring symbol of the University, acting as essentially an unofficial logo of the university.
Old Welsh language Old Welsh (Hen Gymraeg) is the label attached to the Welsh language from the time it developed from the Brythonic language, generally thought to be in the period between the middle of the 6th century and the middle of the 7th century, until the early 12th century when it developed into Middle Welsh.
Old West Austin Historic District The Old West Austin Historic District is a residential area west of downtown Austin, Texas noted for its collection of historically-significant residential homes. The oldest and best-known, Woodlawn, was built in 1853, and the family of resident Elisha Pease subdivided much of its surrounding land to create the neighborhood of Old Enfield.
Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts The Old West Church at 131 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts, is a historic church at the edge of Beacon Hill, built in 1806 to designs by architect Asher Benjamin. It was here that the phrase "no taxation without representation" was first coined.
Old Wethersfield Old Wethersfield, or Old Wethersfield Historic District is a section of Wethersfield, Connecticut bounded by Hartford, railroad tracks, I-91, and Rocky Hill. It was added to the list of Registered Historic places in Hartford County in 1970.
Old Witch Boneyleg Old Witch Boneyleg is a 1978 anthology of 13 witch-themed fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
Old Wives Lake Old Wives Lake (50° 07’ N, 106° 00’ W) is a shallow saline lake in south central Saskatchewan, Canada, about 35 km southwest of Moose Jaw. The lake is fed by the Wood River but seasonal water relatively flattened the terrain as a result in significant mudflats.
Old Woman Mountains The Old Woman Mountains are located south of the town of Essex, California, and north of Danby Dry Lake. The range reaches an elevation of 3720 feet at the northeastern end (Mercury Mountain), and lies in San Bernardino County in the Mojave Desert.
Old World The Old World consists of those parts of Earth known to Europeans, Asians, and Africans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia, and Africa (collectively known as Africa-Eurasia), plus surrounding islands. The term is in distinction from the New World, meaning the Americas.
Old World flycatcher The Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae is a large family of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World. These are mainly small arboreal insectivores, many of which, as the name implies, take their prey on the wing.
Old World flying squirrel Commonly referred to as simply the Old World flying squirrels, the genus Pteromys is distributed across temperate Eurasia and Japan. Although there are a host of flying squirrel genera in Asia (particularly southern Asia), Pteromys is the only one present in Europe.
Old World monkey The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. From the point of view of superficial appearance, they are unlike apes in that most have tails (the family name means "tailed ape"), and unlike the New World monkeys in that their tails are never prehensile.
Old World porcupine The Old World porcupines are large representatives of the terrestrial rodent mammals, distinguished by their spiny covering from which they take their name. They range over the south of Europe, the whole of Africa, India and the Malay Archipelago as far east as Borneo.
Old World ROM Old World ROM Macintosh computers are the Macintosh models that use a Macintosh Toolbox ROM chip, usually in a socket (but soldered to the motherboard in some models). All Macs prior to the iMac use Old World ROM, while the iMac and all subsequent models are New World ROM machines.
Old World warbler The Old World Warblers, family Sylviidae, are a group of more than 280 small insectivorous passerine bird species. The largely southern warbler family Cisticolidae is traditionally often included in the Sylviidae.
Old World Wisconsin Old World Wisconsin, America's largest outdoor museum of rural life, is located in Wisconsin, 35 miles (56 km) south west of Milwaukee, in the Kettle Moraine State Forest, near the village of Eagle. Farmsteads and settlements representing German, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Yankee, and African-American pioneers are present.
Old Wounds Old Wounds is an episode of The New Batman Adventures. Originally airing 1998-10-03, the episode was the seventeenth of the series and tells how and why Dick Grayson left the role of Robin after the end of the original series.
Old Xaverians Football Club The Old Xaverians Football Club was established in 1923 by alumni of Jesuit school Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia. The Club is one of Australia's most successful sporting clubs competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.
Old Yellow Top Old Yellow Top was reported to be a Sasquatch like creature that was sighted several times around the town of Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. Descriptions of the creature by eye witnesses closely resemble that of a Sasquatch, however, it has yellow/blonde patch of hair on its head, which is what has given it its name.
Old-house borer The old-house borer (Hylotrupes bajulus) is a species of wood-boring beetle in the family Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles). Contrary to its name, it is more often found in new houses; this is in part because new home construction may use wood infected with the beetle's eggs.
Old-School Board Although old school deck may refer to any type of skateboard that is no longer fashionable, it now used to refer to the type of skateboard that was popular through the early and mid 1980s. These boards have a very small nose and a very large and usually square shaped tail.
Old-time music Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots in the folk music of many countries, most notably: England, Scotland, Ireland, and the African continent. This musical form developed along with various North American folk dances, such as square dance.
Old-Timers' Day Old-timers day generally refers to the tradition in Major League Baseball of a team, especially the New York Yankees, devoting the afternoon preceding a weekend afternoon game to celebrate the baseball-related accomplishments of its former players who have since retired. The pattern has been copied intermittently by other sports but, due to the lack of day games (and total games, overall), it is not a regular feature of the season as it is in baseball.
Oldboy Oldboy (Hangul:올드보이) is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook based on a Japanese manga of the same name, written by Minegishi Nobuaki and Tsuchiya Garon. The film can be described as a psychological thriller, utilizing many elements of film noir to examine the nature of sin and morality.
Oldbury and Halesowen (UK Parliament constituency) Oldbury and Halesowen was a parliamentary constituency in the West Midlands, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Oldbury, Shropshire Oldbury in Shropshire is a small village a mile south of Bridgnorth, believed to be much older than Bridgnorth. The village is linked to the town by the modern B4363, though the original route linking the two is now cut in half by the by-pass (A458).
Olde English (sketch comedy) Olde English is a sketch comedy troupe formed in the Fall of 2002. Their work is characterized by their clever and absurd outlook on life, and their often over-the-top dramatizations of otherwise mundane situations.
Olde English 800 Olde English 800 (commonly referred to as OE, Olde E, or Eight Ball) is a brand of malt liquor produced by the Miller Brewing Company (owned by SABMiller). It is available in a variety of serving sizes but is best known for its forty ounce (1.
Olde English District The Olde English District is a region of South Carolina encompassing Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Union and York counties as well as the communities of Camden, Clover, Fort Mill, Lake Wylie, Pageland, Rock Hill, and Woodruff.
Olde Cheshire Cheese The Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street is one of a number of pubs in London to have been rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666. While there are several older pubs which have survived because they were beyond the reach of the fire, or like The Tipperary on the opposite side of Fleet Street because they were made of stone, this pub continues to attract interest due to the curious lack of natural lighting inside which generates its own gloomy charm.
Oldenburg (district) Oldenburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Diepholz, Vechta, Cloppenburg and Ammerland, the city of Oldenburg, the district of Wesermarsch and the city of Delmenhorst.
Oldenburg Baby The Oldenburg Baby was the name given by German media to Tim, a child born with Down Syndrome at the Städtische Frauenklinik (city gynaecological clinic) in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany on 6 July, 1997. Tim was born prematurely (in the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy) as the result of a failed late-term abortion procedure, which he survived despite not receiving medical attention for several hours after his unexpected live birth.
Oldenburger MĂĽnsterland The Oldenburger MĂĽnsterland is the southern, predominantly Catholic portion of the former Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, now a part of Lower Saxony in Germany. It comprises the modern day counties of Cloppenburg and Vechta, an area with over 600 years of shared history and tradition.
Older Dryas The Older Dryas was a somewhat variable cold, dry Blytt-Sernander period of North Europe, roughly equivalent to Pollen zone 1c. It is named after an indicator genus, the alpine/tundra plant Dryas, which flourished during the penultimate stadial of the Pleistocene.
Older Than You "Older Than You" was the third single by Eskimo Joe, from their second album A Song Is a City. The single features not only the track "Older Than You", but three tracks recorded live for Triple J's – Live At The Wireless, which was broadcast June 14, 2004, including a stunning live version of "From the Sea".
Older versions of cartoon characters Since the 1970s, just as animation studios have "re-imagined" famous and well-known cartoon characters either as babies, children or even younger teenagers, they have also occasionally presented young cartoon characters either as teenagers (The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show), pre-teens (All Grown Up!), or even merely increasing their age by a year (Disney's Doug).
Olderfleet The ruins of Olderfleet Castle (more correctly a four-storey tower house supposedly built by the Scots Bisset family in the 13th Century) stand on the Curran Point to the south of Larne Harbour in Larne Lough, Northern Ireland. Larne Lough was formerly called Olderfleet.
Oldest Dryas The Oldest Dryas was a climatic period, which occurred during the coldest stadial after the Weichselian glaciation in north Europe. In the Alps, the oldest Dryas corresponds to the Gschnitz stadial of the Wurm glaciation.
Oldest House in the USA The title of oldest house in the United States of America is claimed by the owners of a structure located at 215 East De Vargas Street on the eastern side of Old Santa Fe Trail in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was supposedly built around 1646.
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a 1989 first novel by Allan Gurganus which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for eight months. It won the Sue Kaufman Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and sold over four million copies.
Oldest people The longest unambiguously documented lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875-1997), who was aged 122 years and 164 days at the time of her death. Jeanne Calment met Vincent Van Gogh when aged 14, and in 1988 this led to her, at age 113, becoming noticed by the media.
Oldfield Park railway station Oldfield Park railway station is a suburban railway station in the city of Bath in BANES, England. It is located on the London-Bristol and Bristol-Southampton trunk routes and is 16 km (10 miles) south east of Bristol Temple Meads.
Oldham (UK Parliament constituency) Oldham was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Oldham, in the historic county of Lancashire and the modern region of North West England. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Oldham Advertiser The Oldham Advertiser is a weekly newspaper which serves the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Established in 1982, it is owned by Guardian Media Group and distributed by Greater Manchester Weekly Newspaper Group.
Oldham C.C. Oldham Cricket Club are a cricket team, based at The Pollards in the Watersheddings area of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, who currently run teams at First, Second, Under 18, Under 15, Under 13 and Under 11 levels in the Central Lancashire League.
Oldham Central and Royton (UK Parliament constituency) Oldham Central and Royton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Oldham and Royton districts in the north-west of Greater Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Oldham East (UK Parliament constituency) Oldham East was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Oldham in the north-east of Greater Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Oldham East and Saddleworth (UK Parliament constituency) Oldham East and Saddleworth is a constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Oldham Mumps railway station Oldham Mumps Railway Station is the main railway station of the town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The station is a primary station located on the Oldham Loop Line 12 km (7½ miles) north east of Manchester Victoria operated and managed by Northern Rail.
Oldham pru Oldham PRU is an expulsion school located on broadbent road of ripponden road, near waterhead. Pupils who attend the school are there because they have either been expelled from a mainstream school, or to improve behaviour whilst still attending mainstream.
Oldham Riots The Oldham Riots were a short but intense period of violent rioting which occurred in the town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, in May 2001. They were the worst racially-motivated riots in the United Kingdom for fifteen years prior, briefly eclipsing the sectarian violence seen in Northern Ireland.
Oldham Sixth Form College Oldham Sixth Form College is a government funded college of further education in Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. Opened in 1992 as a specialist centre for advanced level study, the Principal of the college is Nick Brown OBE.
Oldham Werneth railway station Oldham Werneth railway station is a small railway station on the Oldham Loop Line, 10 km (6ÂĽ miles) north east of Manchester Victoria. The station is situated on Featherstall Road South, Werneth, in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.
Oldham West (UK Parliament constituency) Oldham West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Oldham in the north-west of Greater Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Oldies Oldies is a generic term commonly used in the United States and Canada to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on Top 40 music from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Oldies are typically from R&B, pop and rock music genres.
Oldland Common Oldland Common is a small village situated in South Gloucestershire, England, on the outskirts of Bristol (grid reference ST67414,71732). It is approximately half way between the centre of Bristol and the city of Bath.
Oldřich Duras Oldřich Duras (October 30, 1882, Pchery (hamlet Humny) in Bohemia – January 5, 1957, Prague) was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century. FIDE awarded him the title of International Grandmaster in 1950, when the title was first introduced.
Oldman Formation The Oldman Formation is the middle member of the Judith River Group, a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. The formation is widely recognized as bearing a great number of well preserved dinosaur skeletons, as well as other fossils.
Oldman River valley parks system The Oldman River valley parks system is a continuous collection of eight urban parks in the Oldman River valley of Lethbridge, Alberta. The parks were created in the 1980s as part of the city's Urban Parks Project.
Oldrich Vasicek Ayushak 23:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)Oldrich Vasicek (1941-) a Czech mathematician, received his master's degree in math from the Czech Technical Institute, 1964, and a doctorate in probability theory from Charles University four years later, at the time the tanks of the Soviet Union arrived in Prague to enforce the Brezhnev doctrine.
Oldschool jungle Oldschool jungle is the name given to a style of electronic music that incorporates influences from genres including breakbeat hardcore, techno, rare groove and reggae/dub/dancehall. There is significant debate as to whether Jungle is a separate genre from drum and bass as some use the terms interchangeably.
Oldsmobile 442 The Oldsmobile 442 (pronounced four-four-two) was a muscle car produced by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors. It was introduced as an option package for F-85 and Cutlass models sold in the United States beginning with the 1964 model year.
Oldsmobile 88 The Oldsmobile 88 was a full-size car sold by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors and produced from 1949 until 1999. From 1950 to 1974 the 88 was the division's top-selling line, particularly the entry-level models such as the 88 and Dynamic 88.
Oldsmobile 98 The Oldsmobile 98 (formerly Series 90 Custom Cruiser) was a full-size automobile sold by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors in the United States. The name first appeared in 1941 and was used again after American consumer automobile production resumed post-World War II.
Oldsmobile Achieva The Oldsmobile Achieva was introduced in 1992 and was a front-wheel drive compact car based on the GM N platform with Pontiac Grand Am, Buick Skylark, Oldsmobile Cutlass, and Chevrolet Malibu. The Achieva replaced the Cutlass Calais during its final model year in 1991, which was also on the GM N platform.
Oldsmobile Aurora The Oldsmobile Aurora was a luxury car made by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors and launched in 1995. It was a luxurious 4-door sedan riding on the same Cadillac-derived G platform as the 2-door Buick Riviera.
Oldsmobile Bravada The Bravada was a mid-size luxury SUV from the Oldsmobile marque of General Motors. There have been two different vehicles to bear this model name, the first and second-generation GMT330, and the 2002 to 2004 GMT360.
Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais The Oldsmobile Calais, renamed the Cutlass Calais for 1988, was a compact car produced by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors from 1985 through 1991. In part, it was intended to replace the Omega in Oldsmobile's lineup.
Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera The Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera was a mid-size car produced from 1982 through 1996 at the Oklahoma City plant, the Saint Therese Assembly plant (until 1991) Framingham, Massachusetts and Doraville, Georgia plant for the Oldsmobile division of General Motors. It shared the front-wheel drive GM A platform, which was based on the earlier X platform, with the very similar Buick Century, Pontiac 6000 and Chevrolet Celebrity, during those years.
Oldsmobile Firenza The Oldsmobile Firenza was a compact car produced by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors from 1982 to 1988. It was based on the front-wheel drive GM J platform, which was shared with the Buick Skyhawk, Cadillac Cimarron, Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunbird.
Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds Following the success of Hurst components in Oldsmobile's 442 models, Oldsmobile, in collaboration with Hurst Performance of Warminster, Pennsylvania, produced special-edition performance versions of the Cutlass Supreme, the Hurst/Olds.
Oldsmobile Intrigue The Oldsmobile Intrigue was a mid-size sedan manufactured from 1998 through 2002 by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors. The Intrigue's design cues were first seen in 1995 with the Oldsmobile Antares concept car.
Oldsmobile Omega The Oldsmobile Omega was a compact car sold from 1973 through 1984 by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors. There were two generations of Omegas, both based on popular Chevrolet models, and both using General Motors' X-body architecture:
Oldsmobile Park Oldsmobile Park is a baseball stadium in Lansing, Michigan, and home field of the Lansing Lugnuts minor league baseball team. The stadium is situated in the heart of downtown Lansing in the Stadium District on a relatively narrow strip of land between and below two streets of the Capitol Loop making for a unique urban feel.
Oldsmobile Series 60 The Series 60 was a model range of automobiles from General Motors Oldsmobile Division during the 1940s. In Oldsmobile's naming convention, the Series 60 occupied the entry level position for Oldsmobiles sold in the United States during the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s.
Oldsmobile Silhouette The Oldsmobile Silhouette and its siblings, the Pontiac Trans Sport (and later, the Pontiac Montana) and Chevrolet Lumina APV (and later, the Chevrolet Venture), were a trio of minivans that débuted in late 1989 as 1990 models. Upon the demise of the Oldsmobile division in 2004, it was replaced by the newly designed Buick Terraza the following year, in 2005.
Oldsmobile Starfire The Oldsmobile Starfire was a rear-wheel drive subcompact car produced from 1975 to 1980. The Starfire name was previously used on the 98 convertible from 1954 to 1957 and on a special edition of the 88 from 1961 to 1966.
Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser The Vista Cruiser was a station wagon built by the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors from 1964 to 1977, which was based on the Oldsmobile Cutlass/F-85 model, but had a slightly longer wheelbase than the cars it was based upon.
Oldswinford The name Oldswinford is now used for a small area of Stourbridge, close to the parish church. Originally, it was an extensive ancient parish, covering the whole of the former Municipal Borough of Stourbridge, except Pedmore.
Oldtown, Dublin Oldtown (An tSeanbhaile in Irish) is one of a network of rural villages in North Fingal, which function as local centres, servicing the agricultural hinterland within the County. The R122 runs through the village linking Naul to St.
Oldtown, Maryland Oldtown is a small city in Allegany County, Maryland along the North Branch Potomac River. It was established in 1741 and named "Old Town" because it was the former site of an ancient Native American village.
Olduvai Gorge Museum The Olduvai Gorge Museum is located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Northern Tanzania on the edge the of Olduvai Gorge. The Museum was Founded by Mary Leakey and is now under the jurisdiction of the Tanzanian Government's Department of Cultural Antiquities.
Olduwan Olduwan (earlier spelled Oldowan or sometimes Oldawan) is an anthropological designation for an industry of stone tools used by prehistoric hominans of the Lower Paleolithic. The Olduwan is the very first stone tool assemblage in prehistory.
Oldway Mansion Oldway Mansion is a large house and gardens in Paignton, Devon in the United Kingdom. It is used today as offices by Torbay Council and BBC Radio Devon, but was built originally as a private residence by Isaac Merritt Singer.
Ole Anderson Alan Rogowski, better known by his ring name Ole Anderson, is a retired professional wrestling performer and a promoter. He held numerous NWA World Tag Team Championships with Gene Anderson who was portrayed as his brother.
Ole Andreas Bachke Ole Andreas Bachke (1830-1890) was the Norwegian Minister of Justice 1879-1880, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1880-1881, Minister of Justice 1880-1882, Ministry of Auditing 1882-1884, and acting Prime Minister in 1884.
Ole Anton Qvam Ole Anton Qvam (1834-1904) was the Norwegian Minister of Justice 1891-1893, 1898-1899 and 1900-1902, Minister of the Interior 1899-1900, as well as head of the Ministry of Auditing, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Justice in 1900, and Norwegian prime minister in Stockholm 1902-1903.

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