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Omnipotence paradox The omnipotence paradox is actually a family of related paradoxes having to do with the question of what an omnipotent being can do, especially whether or not a being that is able to perform all actions can perform an action that would limit its own ability to perform actions. If the being can perform such actions, then it can limit its own ability to perform actions and hence it cannot perform all actions.
Omnipresence Omnipresence is the ability to be present in every place at any, and/or every, time; unbounded or universal presence. It is related to the concept of ubiquity, the ability to be everywhere at a certain point in time.
OmniPeek OmniPeek is a packet analysis platform that supports an extensive and well documented plugin API. There are many plugins available for OmniPeek, several of which can be found on the WildPackets Developer Network (WPDN).
Omnis Studio Omnis Studio is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool that allows programmers and application developers to create Enterprise level and Web-based applications for Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X personal computers and servers across all business sectors.
Omniscience Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about a character's including thoughts, feelings, life and the universe etc. In monotheism, this ability is often typically attributed to God, but appears nowhere explicitly in the Bible.
Omnitel Omnitel is the largest telecommunications company in the Baltics, member of TeliaSonera group. It provides services of carrying and packaging of voice, images, data, information, transactions and entertainment.
Omnitheism Omnitheism is a neologism from the Latin omni - "all or every" and the Greek theism– defined as "belief in the existence of a God or gods". Omnitheism is the belief that every religion contains at its core an appreciation of the nature of the universe.
Omnitrans Omnitrans is the largest transit operator within San Bernardino County, California. The agency was established in 1976 through a Joint Powers Agreement and today includes 15 cities and portions of the unincorporated areas of San Bernardino County.
Omnitruncated tesseract In geometry, the omnitruncated tesseract is a uniform polychoron (or uniform 4-dimensional polytope) bounded by 80 cells: 8 great rhombicuboctahedra, 16 truncated octahedra, 24 octagonal prisms, and 32 hexagonal prisms. It is also known as the omnitruncated 16-cell.
OmniTRAX OmniTRAX of Denver, Colorado, United States, an affiliate of The Broe Companies, Inc, is a North American transportation services company. With operations in the United States and Canada, it manages and owns several railways and has owned and operated the Port of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada since August 20, 1997.
Omnivore An omnivore (from Latin: omne all, everything; vorare to devour) is a species of animal who are "... generalized feeders, with neither carnivore nor herbivore specializations for acquiring or processing food, and who are capable of consuming and do consume both animal protein and vegetation.
Omo Kibish Omo Kibish is a rock formation and archaeological site on the Omo River in Ethiopia. It and its neighbouring sites have produced some of the earliest examples of fossilised human and australopithecine remains and stone tools.
Omo National Park Omo National Park is one of the National Parks of Ethiopia. Located in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region on the west bank of the Omo River, the park covers approximately 4,068 square kilometers.
Omo remains The Omo remains are a collection of hominid bones, discovered in around the Omo river, Ethiopia by the International Paleontological Research Expedition. The bones, which include two partial skulls, four jaws, a legbone, around two hundred teeth and several other parts, were found between 1967 and 1974.
Omo Sheleko Omo Sheleko is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Kembata Alaba and Tembaro Zone, Omo Sheleko is bordered on the south by the Semien Omo Zone, on the west by the Omo River which separates it from another part of the Semien Omo Zone, on the north by the Hadiya Zone, and on the east by Kacha Bira.
Omobono Tenni Tommaso Omobono Tenni, Jul 241905 - Jun 301948, was an Italian motorcycle road racer. He was a multiple Italian Motor Cycle champion, who raced to 47 victories for Moto Guzzi from 1933 till 1948, the year he died from an accident during practice for the Swiss GP.
Omogo, Ehime was a village located in Kamiukena District, Ehime, Japan. On August 1, 2004 the village merged with the town of Kuma and two other neighboring villages to form the town of KumakĹŤgen and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OIEAHC) at Williamsburg, Virginia, United States is sponsored jointly by the College of William and Mary and Colonial Wiliamsburg. Founded in 1943, it was originally named the Institute of Early Amercian History and Culture.
Omonoia Square Omonoia Square or Omonia Square (Greek: Πλατεία Ομονοίας Plateia Omonoias or Platia Omonias) is a square in Athens. It contains a train station used by the Athens Metro and the Ilektrikos, appropriately named Omonoia Station.
Omoo Omoo was Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti.
Omophagia Omophagia or omophagy is the eating of raw flesh. The word is derived from the Greek ωμος ‘raw’ and was the name of a ritual in the worship of Dionysus, whereby a sacrificial animal would be torn apart (sparagmos) and then devoured (omophagia).
Omophorion In the Eastern Orthodox liturgical tradition, the omophorion (Greek: ; Slavonic: омофоръ, omofor) is the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority. Originally of wool, it is a band of brocade decorated with crosses and is worn about the neck and around the shoulders
Omorate Omorate (also known as Kelem) is a village in southern Ethiopia near the Kenyan border.Geographical information based on "ETHIOPIA: Poor communication hampering flood response"(IRIN) Located in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, this village has a latitude and longitude of .
Omotesando Hills Omotesando Hills was built in 2005, as the latest in a series of Tokyo urban developments by Minoru Mori. The development occupies almost the full length of Omotesando, a famous shopping and residential street in Aoyama known as Japan's Champs-Élysées.
Omotesenke Omotesenke (表千家, literally "front of the Sen house") is the name of one of the main schools of Japanese tea ceremony. The other two are Urasenke and Mushanokōjisenke, all of which originate from Rikyu Sōeki, and split up only after the 3rd generation.
Ompa Til Du Dør Ompa Til Du Dør (English: Ompa Till You Die) is the debut album of Kaizers Orchestra, released in 2001. The album won a Spellemannspris (Norwegian Grammy) for “best rock album”, as well as two Alarm-awards.
Omphale In Greek mythology, Omphale was a daughter of the river Iardanus and queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor; according to BibliothekeBibliotheke is traditionally ascribed to Apollodorus. she was the queen of Tmolus, the oak-clad mountain of Lydia; after he was gored to death by a bull, she continued to reign on her own.
Omphalitis Omphalitis is the medical term for infection of the umbilical cord stump in the neonatal newborn period. While currently an uncommon source of infection in the newborn in the United States, it has caused significant morbidity and mortality both historically and in areas where health care is less readily available.
Omphalomancy Omphalomancy is a method of determining how many children a mother may have during her lifetime, based on the belief that the shape of the navel can reveal this information. This is most commonly done with newborn infants, by noting the markings on the newborn's navel.
Omphalos (book) Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot is a book by Philip Gosse, written in 1857 (two years before Darwin's On the Origin of Species), in which he argues that the fossil record is not evidence of evolution, but rather that it is any act of creation inevitably made the world so that it would appear to be older than it is. Gosse's argument was that since living things had a cycle of reproduction and development, God must have created them in the act of developing, with trees having rings, and animals having skin, blood, and bones all making them appear older than they were.
Omphalos (theology) The omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Creation (Omphalos) by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be "functional", God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navels (omphalos is Greek for "navel"), and that therefore no evidence that we can see of the presumed age of the earth and universe can be taken as reliable. The idea has seen some revival in the twentieth century by some modern creationists, who have extended the argument to light that appears to originate in far-off stars and galaxies, although many other creationists reject this explanation(and also believe that Adam and Eve had no navels.
Omphaloskepsis Omphaloskepsis is the contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation. It is well known in the usually jocular phrase directed towards self-absorbed pursuits: "contemplating one's navel" or "navel-gazers".
Omphalotaceae The Omphalotaceae is a family in the Agaricales. It was first described by Bresinsky in 1985 as a segregate from the Tricholomataceae and validated more recently by molecular phylogentic analysis, which has determined that the Tricholomataceae are polyphyletic.
Ompompanoosuc River The Ompompanoosuc River (pronounced AHM-pahm-pan-oo-suhk) is a river, about 25 mi (40 km) long, in eastern Vermont in the United States.Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry It is a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound.
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (January 31, 1900, Serbtzi, Bulgaria - December 25, 1986, Fréjus, France) was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, alchemist, mystic, magus and astrologer . He was a disciple of Peter Deunov (Beinsa Duono), the founder of the "Universal White Brotherhood".
Omri Omri (Hebrew עָמְרִי, Standard Hebrew ʿOmri, Tiberian Hebrew ʿOmrî; short for Hebrew עָמְרִיָּה "The LORD is my life", Standard Hebrew ʿOmriyya, Tiberian Hebrew ʿOmriyyāh) was king of Israel and father of Ahab. William F.
Omrides The term Omrides refers to Omri and his descendants (particularly Ahab), who were, according to the bible, as well as a number of other archaeological remains, kings of ancient Israel. According to Israel Finkelstein Israel Finkelstein, The Bible Unearthed, the Omrides are people actually responsible for the great empire, magnificent palaces, wealth, and peace in Israel and Judah, that the bible claims were due to David and Solomon.
Omsk Omsk () is a city in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast. The population in Omsk rose from 31,000 in 1881 and 53,050 in 1900 to 1,134,016 according to the 2002 population census.
Omsorg för Alla Omsorg för Alla (in Swedish: Health Care for Everybody) is a political party in Dalarna, Sweden. It was formed in 2006 by Lars-Erik Skoglund, a highly regarded and former Social Democratic that got banned from his former party.
Omukama Omukama: often translated as "king", (O)Mukama means in Bantu (Batoro-, Banyoro- and other languages) something like "superior milkman/milkbringer". The title "Omukama" is used in the region of Uganda and neighbouring countries, especially in the kingdoms of "Bunyoro" and "Toro".
Omura Sumitada Omura Sumitada (大村純忠, 1533-June 23,1587) Japanese daimyo lord of the Sengoku period. He achieved fame throughout the country for being the first of the daimyo to convert to Christianity following the arrival of the Jesuit missionaries in the mid-16th century.
Omurice Omurice (Omu-raisu オムライス) is a contemporary Japanese dish consisting of an omelet made with fried rice. Its name is a portmanteau of the French word "omelette" and the English word "rice".
Omurtag (town) Omurtag (Омуртаг) is a town at the eastern foot of Stara Planina in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Targovishte Province. Situated at 525 m above sea level, it has 11,124 inhabitants as of September 2005.
Omurtag Pass Omurtag Pass (Omurtagov Prohod o-mur-'ta-gov 'pro-hod) is a 720m high pass between Mount Bowles and Ticha Peak in Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island, Antarctica and is part of an overland route between the Wörner Gap area and upper Kaliakra Glacier. The pass was first crossed on 24 December 2004 and is named after Khan Omurtag of Bulgaria, 814-831 AD.
Omus dejeani Omus dejeani is a species of flightless tiger beetle (Cicindelidae) that is found from British Columbia almost to northern California in dense, coastal forests. It is the largest species of the genus, at between 15-20 mm.
OM Festival The OM Festival was a summer-solstice festival that ran annually in southern Ontario for 7 years beginning in 1998 and ending in 2005. The festival featured music, dance and art, and encouraged it's attendees to participate by volunteering.
OMA PAG OMA PAG is the Presence and Availability working Group of the Open Mobile Alliance. OMA PAG has the goals of specifying enabler services to allow interoperable exchange of mobile presence and availability information.
OMAPI OMAPI is an acronym that stands for Object Management Application Programming Interface. It is currently used by ISC DHCP as an API to manipulate the internal data structure of a running server in a secure way; the allowed modifications cannot impact the functioning server.
OMAR Mine Museum Located in Kabul, Afghanistan, the OMAR Mine Museum contains a collection of 51 types of land mines out of the 53 used in Afghanistan over the years. The collection includes unexploded ordnance, cluster bombs and airdrop bombs used by the U.
OMB A-133 Compliance Supplement The OMB A-133 Compliance Supplement is a large and extensive guide created by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for auditing United States Federal assistance and Federal grants, as well as their respective recipients. It is considered to be the most important tool of an auditor for a Single Audit.
OMB Circular A-123 OMB Circular A-123 is an US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular that defines the management responsibilities for internal financial controls in Federal agencies. It was issued by OMB's Office of Federal Financial Management on 21 December 2004 and addressed to all Federal Chief Financial Officers, Chief Information Officers, and Program Managers.
OMC (band) OMC is a music group from Otara, Auckland, New Zealand which had a worldwide hit with the song "How Bizarre" in 1996. Originally the Otara Millionaires Club, the full name of the band is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Otara's status as one of the poorest suburbs of Auckland.
OMC (South Africa) OMC is the initialism under which the Olifant Manufacturing Company of South Africa was most commonly known during its existence. It was established specifically for the task of creating the Olifant tank for the South African Army.
OMDoc OMDoc (Open Mathematical Documents) is a semantic markup format for mathematical documents. While MathML only covers mathematical formulae and the related OpenMath standard only supports formulae and “content dictionaries” containing definitions of the symbols used in formulae, OMDoc covers the whole range of written mathematics.
OMF International OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before that the China Inland Mission before 1964) is a Protestant Christian missionary society, founded by English missionary Hudson Taylor on 25 June, 1865 at Brighton, England during his first furlough from China. The non-sectarian China Inland Mission was founded on principles of faith and prayer.
OMG HGB DVD ROTFL OMG HGB DVD ROTFL is a DVD by the power pop band hellogoodbye, released on November 22 2005 by Drive-Thru Records. It contains two hours of music videos, tour footage, a full 40-minute concert and a 30-minute acoustic set.
OMI Ordtech Military Industries OMI (ORDTECH Military Industries) is a Greek Defence company established in the mid-1980s, with headquarters and production facilities in the Menalon Industrial Area, in Arcadia (it should not be confused with Ordnance Technology Service Inc., a U.
OMNI (SCIP) The Omni adds Type 1 secure voice and secure data to any standard analog telephone or modem connected computer. SCIP signalling allows interoperability with other SCIP devices such as the Secure Terminal Equipment (STE) phone.
OMNI Television OMNI Television is a Canadian television brand owned and operated by Rogers Communications. It is used for the company's conventional television stations, which are licensed either as multicultural or religious stations.
OMON OMON (Russian: Отряд милиции особого назначения; Otryad Militsii Osobogo Naznacheniya, "Special Purpose Detachment of Militsiya") is a generic name for the system of special units of militsiya within the Russian and earlier the Soviet, Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del (MVD; Ministry of Internal Affairs). There is an OMON unit in every subnational entity of Russia.
OMR Gallery OMR was founded on 1983 by Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra, the actual owners and directors. The gallery is located in a spacious early-twentieth-century house in the heart of the Roma district in Mexico City.
OMX OMX AB is a Swedish-Finnish financial services company, formed in 2003 through a merger between OM AB and HEX plc. It has two divisions, OMX Exchanges, which operates seven stock exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic countries, and OMX Technology, which develops and markets systems for financial transactions used by OMX Exchanges, as well as by other stock exchanges.
OMX Copenhagen 20 The OMX Copenhagen 20 (OMXC20, formerly KFX) is the top-tier stock market index for the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, which is part of the OMX group. It is a market value weighted index that consists of the 20 most-traded stock classes.
On & On (Jennifer Holliday album) Jennifer Holliday shines on this, her her fifth album, "On & On." Since the album features strong songs, brilliant arrangements and overall production, Jennifer is free to belt out her vocals over these inspirational and uplifting songs.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is an original musical play with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane. The Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on October 17, 1965 and played for 280 performances.
On a New List of Categories On a New List of Categories is a paper by Charles Sanders Peirce, presented to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 14 May 1867 and published in its Proceedings the following year, that proposes to revise the fundamental metaphysical categories of philosophy, as previously given by Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and others. Peirce scholars generally regard this "New List" as breaking the ground for a major wing of Peirce's "architectonic", his blueprint for a pragmatic philosophy.
On a Night like This (tour) On a Night like This is a Kylie Minogue concert tour in support of her seventh studio album Light Years that began in March 2001. Having hit the headlines around the globe for her hugely successful performance at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, and having subsequently performed again at the opening ceremony of Sydney's Paralympics soon after, Minogue seized the opportunity to announce details of her new tour.
On a Wire On a Wire is a 2002 album released by The Get Up Kids on Vagrant Records. The album wasp roduced by Scott Litt, with cover artwork by Travis Millard, who also did work on their 1999 Vagrant debut, Something to Write Home About.
On A Jeune On A Jeune is a thoroughbred racehorse who ran second in the 2005 Melbourne Cup behind three-time winner, champion mare, Makybe Diva. He is also notable for running second in the 2004 South Australian Derby, behind Hard To Get
On A Night like This Tour The On a Night Like This Tour played to sell-out crowds in Australia and the United Kingdom, where she sold over 200,000 tickets and set an Australian record for a female artist. The six planned Melbourne shows were increased to twenty-two due to public demand.
On Air with Ryan Seacrest On Air with Ryan Seacrest was an American syndicated television talk show, which ran from January 12, 2004, through September 17, 2004. The show was broadcast live from a studio in the Hollywood and Highland complex in Hollywood and featured a background view of the street scene below.
On American Taxation "On American Taxation" was a speech given by Edmund Burke in the British House of Commons on April 19, 1774, advocating the full repeal of the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767. Two years after its passing, Parliament repealed five of the six established duties of this revenue tax on America.
On base percentage In baseball statistics, on base percentage (OBP) (sometimes referred to as on base average [OBA], as the statistic is rarely presented as a true percentage) is a measure of how often a batter reaches base for any reason other than a fielding error, fielder's choice, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference (the latter two are ignored as either times-on-base [TOB] or plate appearances in calculating OBP). OBP is added to slugging average to determine on-base plus slugging (OPS).
On Basilisk Station The first novel in David Weber's popular Honor Harrington series, On Basilisk Station, follows Commander Honor Harrington and Her Majesty’s light cruiser Fearless during their assignment to the Basilisk system. Though Basilisk has become a dumping ground for misfits and rejects from her home colony of Manticore, Honor is determined to discharge her duty regardless of the circumstances.
On Beauty On Beauty is a 2005 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. The novel, which takes its title from an essay by Elaine Scarry (On Beauty and Being Just), follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in America.
On Board Diagnostics On-Board Diagnostics, or OBD, in an automotive context, is a generic term referring to a vehicle's self-diagnostic and reporting capability. OBD systems give the vehicle owner or a repair technician access to state of health information for various vehicle sub-systems.
On Broadway "On Broadway" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in collaboration with the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. At the time, Weil and Mann were writing from Aldon Music, located at 1650 Broadway, NYC.
On Broadway (film) On Broadway is an independent film, shot in Boston in May 2006, starring Joey McIntyre, Jill Flint, Eliza Dushku, Mike O'Malley, Robert Wahlberg and Will Arnett. The movie is expected to be on the movie list for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
On Broadway (XM) On Broadway, XM Satellite Radio channel 28, features showtunes from both past and present shows. In spite of its name, the channel also plays songs from off-Broadway shows, as well as those from shows from countries other than the United States.
On Bullshit On Bullshit (ISBN 0-691-12294-6) is an essay by Princeton University professor emeritus Harry Frankfurt. The essay, originally published in the journal Raritan in 1986, was republished as a separate volume in 2005 and became a nonfiction bestseller.
On Cloud Seven On Cloud Seven was a football fanzine dedicated to the trials and tribulations of Hull City Association Football Club in England. The first edition hit the Hull streets in August 1989 and issue 9 emerged in December 1990, prepared bi-monthly by a collective of five editors (Gary Clipson, Catherine Redgwell, Mike Scott, Steve Weatherill and Andy Wilson) with the benefit of tremendous artwork prepared by Rob Arkell.
On Denoting On Denoting is one of the most significant and influential philosophical essays of the 20th century. It was written by Bertrand Russell and published in the philosophy journal Mind in 1905 (reprinted in Logic and Knowledge, 1956).
On Dit On Dit is a newspaper published by the Students' Association of the University of Adelaide, which appears weekly during semester time. Founded in 1932 (making it the second oldest student newspaper in Australia), its title is French, meaning "one says" or "people say".
On Down the Line On Down the Line was not quite the huge success that the previous Honky Tonk Angel had been for Patty Loveless, although it did spawn two singles which made it to #5 on the Billboard Country Singles charts, the Kostas-penned "On Down the Line" and the Matraca Berg/Ronnie Samoset co-write "I'm That Kind of Girl." Other gems are the cover of Lucinda Williams's "The Night's Too Long," and the Paul Kennerley-written "I've Got to Stop Loving You (and Start Living Again).
On Eagles' Wings On Eagles' Wings is a sacred song composed by Michael Joncas and published by the Oregon Catholic Press. It quickly proved to be quite popular as a contemplative song at Catholic masses; it is now sung in churches of virtually all denominations and was performed at many of the funerals of victims of September 11.
On Exactitude in Science "On Exactitude in Science" or "On Rigor in Science" (the original Spanish-language title is "Del rigor en la ciencia") is a one-paragraph short story by Jorge Luis Borges, about the map/territory relation, written in the form of a literary forgery.
On Fire (Lloyd Banks song) On Fire was a hit single from Lloyd Banks' 2004 album which featured 50 Cent's vocals on the chorus although 50 Cent is not officially credited as being a guest appearance on it. The single is known as Banks' signature song being that it is the only single to spawn the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 from him.
On Fire(Lloyd Banks song) "On Fire" is the first single from Lloyd Banks's debut album, The Hunger For More. Released in May 2004, the single peaked at #8 in the USA The song is produced by Kl Mil & Eminem which featured 50 Cent's vocals on the chorus although 50 Cent is not officially credited as being a guest appearance on it.
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer On First Looking into Chapman's Homer is a sonnet by English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821), written in October 1816. It tells of the author's astonishment at reading the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer as freely translated by the Elizabethan playwright George Chapman.
On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I ("On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I") is a famous paper in mathematical logic by Kurt Gödel. Dated November 17, 1930, it was originally published in German in the 1931 volume of Monatshefte für Mathematik.
On Generation and Corruption On Generation and Corruption (Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic (but not necessarily scientific in the way modern science is).
On Golden Pond On Golden Pond (1981) was a successful Broadway play written by playwright Ernest Thompson which was turned into a successful and popular movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda. The film tells the story of a summer spent by an aging couple at their summer home on Golden Pond, where they are visited by their daughter and her new husband and his son.
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius; it was first performed in Leipzig on October 2, 1913. The work opens with a slow three-bar sequence; its first theme is an exchange of cuckoo calls, first for oboe, then for divided strings.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the eleventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. First published by Jonathan Cape on April 1, 1963, it is the first novel to be written after the start of the official film series by EON Productions.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth film in the EON Productions James Bond series and the first and only film to star George Lazenby as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond, and the first and only film in which Bond settles on a single woman and marries her. Lazenby was the second official James Bond, the first having been Sean Connery, who later returned to the role in the following film, Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
On Heroes and Tombs On Heroes and Tombs (in original Spanish Sobre héroes y tumbas) is a novel by Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, first published in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana in 1961 (translated by Helen R. Lane in 1981 as On heroes and tombs.
On Intelligence On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines is a book by Palm Pilot-inventor Jeff Hawkins with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee. The book explains Hawkins' memory-prediction framework theory of the brain and describes some of its consequences.
On Interpretation Aristotle's work On Interpretation (Greek Περι Ερμηνειας or Peri Hermeneias, Latin De Interpretatione) is one of the earliest extant philosophical works in the Western tradition to treat the relationship between linguistics and logic in something that approaches a comprehensive, explicit, and formal way. The contemporary philosophical discipline of hermeneutics borrows a little from this fountainhead, but more specifically turns to the question of interpreting texts, initially concentrating on the major streams of religious liturgy, but later branching out to a far broader range of cultural alluvia.
On Liberty On Liberty is a philosophical work in the English language by 19th century philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. Composed just after the death of his wife, it is the culmination of part of a plan to record their entire philosophical conclusion.
On My Feet "On My Feet" was the second single by Mystery Jets and their first on 679 Recordings (as part of the Good and Evil sublabel). The single doesn't feature on the band's debut album, Making Dens (although the short instrumental, "Summertime Den", is based on "On My Feet"), but it is still played regularly during live sets.

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