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Ontology language (computer science) Ontology languages are formal languages used to construct ontologies. They allow the encoding of knowledge about specific domains and often include reasoning rules that support the processing of that knowledge.
Ontology library (computer science) Ontology Libraries are storage areas for ontologies. There is no one ontology language, therefore ontology libraries are usually restricted to plain text files or some XML storage format, mostly plain files again.
Ontology media Ontology, according to new technological platforms, is a dictionary of related objects, classes and functions and communication between this elements. Contemporary ontology is based on the formal languages as well as Ontology Inference Layer (OIL).
Ontonagon Indian Reservation The Ontonagon Indian Reservation is the homeland of a branch of the Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe. It is located in northeastern Ontonagon Township, in northeastern Ontonagon County, on the south shore of Lake Superior, about 20 km northeast of the village of Ontonagon, Michigan, USA.
Ontonagon River The Ontonagon River (pronounced ahn-TAHN-uh-guhn) is a river flowing to Lake Superior on the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. The main stem of the river is 25 mi (40 km) longThe American Rivers Outstanding Rivers List, Second Edition, May 1991.
Ontong Java Atoll Ontong Java Atoll is the northernmost tract of land in the Solomon Islands and an outlying part of the province of Malaita. It is sometimes referred to as Lord Howe Atoll which is not to be confused with Lord Howe Island which is east of Australia.
Ontong Java Plateau The Ontong Java Plateau is a huge undersea plateau located in the Pacific Ocean, lying north of the Solomon Islands. The plateau covers an area of approximately 2,000,000 km², or roughly the size of Alaska, and reaches a thickness of up to 30 km.
Ontos The Ontos, officially the Rifle, Multiple 106 mm, Self-propelled, M50, was a light anti-tank vehicle developed in the US in the 1950s. It mounted six M40 106 mm recoilless rifles as its main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against single targets to guarantee a kill.
Ontotheology Ontotheology means the ontology of God and/or the theology of being. It refers to a tradition of philosophical theology first prominent among medieval scholastics such as Anselm, Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas.
OnTheLine OnTheLine was the successor of AOL Keyword: PlugIn, an Internet based (but only on America Online) location for teenagers to communicate. Originally a service provided on America Online, the community grew and moved away from America Online into its own portal service for teens, serviced by a staff of 20 teen volunteers.
OnTV OnTV was a Pay TV operator in the late 70s and early 80s that operated in major markets such as Los Angeles and Chicago. Instead of working via cable or satellite signals though, OnTV broadcast over a UHF band with a scrambled signal.
Onueke Onueke is the ancestral headquarters of Ezaa people, one of the most populous clans in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. Ezaa people live in virtually all the three senatorial zones of Ebonyi State and beyond, but especially in Ezza North, Ezza South, Onicha, Ishielu and Ohaukwu Local Government Areas.
Onuf's nucleus Onuf's nucleus is an area in the sacral spinal cord involved in the maintenance of urinary and faecal continence, as well as muscular contraction during orgasm. It contains motor neurons, and is the origin of the pudendal nerve.
Onur Air Onur Air (Onur Air Taşımacılık AŞ) is a low-cost airline based in İstanbul, Turkey. As well as operating package flights between Turkey and a number of Western European Countries, it also operates a no-frills scheduled service between İstanbul and 12 other Turkish cities, using a flat fare structure.
Onward and Upward Onward and Upward is an episode of Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon, directed by John K, animation directed by Bob Jaques, story by Vincent Waller, storyboard by Vincent Waller, Eddie Fitzgerald, Fred Osmond and Ray Morelli.
Onward Muslim Soldiers Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (ISBN 0-89526-100-6) published in October 2003 is a topical nonfiction book by popular counter-terrorism author Robert Spencer, who has described the book as an "in-depth study of the doctrine of jihad and how it is exploited today by terrorists to justify what they’re doing and to recruit and motivate new terrorists"
Onyanko Club Onyanko Club (おニャン子クラブ, meaning Kitten Club) was a large Japanese pop idol group in the 1980s with a new approach to the idol formula. There were 54 members in rotation, in addition to several subgroups such as Nyangilas, Ushirogami Hikaretai, and Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi, the latter two of which provided most of the soundtrack to the popular 80s anime series High School!
Onycha Onycha, or Blatta Byzantina, is the fingernail-like operculum, or closing flap, of certain snails, including Onyx marinus, Strombus lentiginosus, and Unguis odoratus. It is the upper part of a shell called by the Latins Conchylium.
Onychectomy Onychectomy is the act of surgically removing the claws, most often of a household cat, though occasionally of other animals such as circus lions or dancing bears. This process involves amputating the entire distal phalanx, or end bone, of the animal's toes, under anaesthesia, and is popularly known as declawing.
Onychogryposis Onychogryposis, also called "ram's-horn nail", is a thickening and increase in curvature of the nail. It is usually the result of injury to the matrix, sometimes coupled with a long term fungal infection, which causes the nail to grow more thickly.
Onychomancy Onychomancy or variously onuchomancy, onychomantia, onycomancy, onymancy (from Greek onychos, 'fingernail', and manteia, 'fortune-telling') is an ancient form of divination using fingernails. It consists of watching the reflection of sunlight on the oiled fingernails of an unpolluted boy, then interpreting the symbols that appear.
Onychoprion Onychoprion, the brown-backed terns, are a genus of seabirds in the tern family. Although the genus was first described in 1832 by Johann Georg Wagler the four species in the genus were until recently retained in the larger genus Sterna, the genus that most terns are in (Bridge et al.
Onyx (interception system) Onyx is a Swiss intelligence gathering system, similar in concept to the UKUSA's ECHELON system, but at a much smaller scale. The costs of the system are not public, but the amount of 100 million Swiss francs has been mentioned several timesValérie de Graffenried, Onyx et ses «grandes oreilles».
Onyx (racing team) Onyx was a motor racing team and later Formula One constructor from Britain, founded by Mike Earle and Jo Chamberlain. Prior to entering Formula One, Onyx ran March Formula Two cars, taking over responsibility for the works F2 team towards the end of the formula's existence.
Onyx (wrestler) Kyle McNeely (born in Jamaica, Queens, New York) is an American professional wrestler known by the ring name of Onyx. He is best known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a member of The Elite Guard.
Onyx River The Onyx River is a meltwater stream which flows westward through the Wright Valley from Wright Lower Glacier to Lake Vanda, during a few months of the Antarctic summer. The Onyx River is one of the many sites studied by the US Antarctic Program of the National Science Foundation.
Onyx Sports Cars Onyx Sports Cars Ltd is a UK kit car manufacturer. They produce the Onyx Mongoose, a mid-engined machine made for the Rover K engine from a Rover Metro or Rover 200 Series, and the Onyx Firefox, a two seated open sports car made using the Rover K engine in front wheel drive position.
Onyx Von Trollenberg Onyx Von Trollenberg is a fictional character in the American animated television series Trollz. She is a member of the BFFL (Best Friends For Life), a group of teenage girls who are able to utilize the ancient magic known as the "Power of the Five".
Onyxia Wipe Onyxia Wipe is a popular sound clip recorded from a session of World of Warcraft that was widely circulated around the internet, and spawned several longstanding Warcraft-related memes. The sound is of a guild named "Wipe Club" on the server "Chromaggus" attempting to take on Onyxia, a difficult boss.
Onze d'Or The Onze d'Or (alternative name Onze Mondial European Footballer of the Year is a football award handed out by French magazine Onze Mondial at the end of the year since 1976. The readers select the Onze de Onze (an ideal team of the season) and among those players they choose the top three, who receive the Onze d'Or, Onze d'Argent and Onze de Bronze respectively.
Onze Unidos Onze Unidos (Portuguese for "Eleven United", Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Unzi Unidus) is a football (soccer) club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Maio Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the island of Maio Island.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost The Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost (Our Lady of Consolation) church, simply known as the Troostkerk, is a basilica in Vilvoorde, Belgium. The history of the church and its Carmelite monastery (the oldest in Western Europe) go back for 800 years.
ON musical artist == ON is one man project based in Serbia, Belgrade, in hood of Visnjicka banja. It was formed in early summer of 1995, and it consists one-and-only-allways-to-be member by the name of ON (aka Vladimir Petkovic).
ONA Group The ONA Group is a large Moroccan industrial and financial conglomerate, or holding company. The company is active in the sectors of banking, insurance, fishing industry, food industry, retailing, tourism, information technology and mining.
ONCE ONCE (pronounced ), or Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (National Organization of the Spanish Blind), is a Spanish foundation founded on December 13 1938 to raise funds with which to provide services for the blind and persons with serious visual impairment.
ONE Campaign The ONE Campaign, a part of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty movement (the largest anti-poverty coalition in the world), also known as Make Poverty History, is dedicated to the goal of energizing people in the United States to lobby Congress to increase humanitarian aid by 1% of the federal budget, specifically with the aim of fighting AIDS and extreme poverty in the developing world.
ONE Financial ONE Financial is a privately held company founded in 2001 by Jeffrey O'Brien. The firm specializes in structured investment products, specifically principal protected notes (also known as guaranteed linked notes).
Ooberman Ooberman are a band with strong indie, folk and progressive influences first formed in 1997. They split up in 2003, shortly after the release of their second album Hey Petrunko, but announced their reformation in April 2006 years===
Oobie Oobie (Chicago, Illinois) is an R&B singer signed to Lil' Jon's BME Recordings in conjunction with TVT Records. After appearing on several Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz albums she was set to release her debut album Oobaybi in 2003.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) (3 November 1921 - 16 September 1993) was an Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse.
Oodles the talking poodle Oodles The Talking Poodle is a character seen in an episode of Rugrats named "Spike The Wonder Dog". The basic plot of the episode consisted of Angelica placing a microphone in Spike's collar tricking the babies into thinking spike can talk.
Oodnadatta, South Australia Oodnadatta, South Australia () is located in the heart of the desert 112 m above sea level, 1,011 km north of Adelaide. It can be reached by a track from Coober Pedy or via the Oodnadatta Track from Marree to Marla.
Oog in Al Oog in Al is a residential area in the west of the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, the Merwede Canal and the Leidsche Rijn river form the area's limits, rendering it a man-made island in the shape of a triangle.
Oogtar the Caveboy Oogtar the Caveboy is a fictional character created for the Super Mario World cartoon, based on the video game of the same name. Oogtar (played by John Stocker) was among a group of Flintstones-like cavepeople living in Dinosaur Land, yet the actual game did not have any cavepeople.
Ooh La La (song) "Ooh La La" is an electronic–dance song written by British group Goldfrapp for their third album Supernature (2005). It heavily samples one hit wonder Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" (1970).
Ooh, Aah & You Ooh, Aah & You is a series of short programs for children which air during the Playhouse Disney line up. The episodes feature two muppet-like monkey puppets, a blue one named "Ooh," and a red one named "Aah.
Oohnasty.com Oohnasty.com is a site created to discuss and dissect the depths of 80s and 90s pop culture and nostalgia - the very stuff that many British youths grew up with and remember fondly & with a sense of humour.
Oochy Woochy "Oochy Woochy" is a song by Graham Coxon and was featured on his second solo album, The Golden D. In late 2000 the song was released as a promotional single from that album in the United Kingdom with another album track, "That's When I Reach for My Revolver", serving as the B-side (see 2000 in British music).
Ooid In geology, ooids are small (< 2 mm) spheroidal "coated" (layered) grains, usually composed of calcium carbonate, but sometimes made up of iron or phosphate minerals. Ooids usually form on the sea floor, most commonly in shallow tropical seas, for example on the Bahama Platform, or in the Persian Gulf.
Ooka Shohei ; (March 6,1909 - December 25,1988) was a Japanese novelist, literary critic, and translator of French literature active in Showa period Japan. ĹŚoka belongs to the group of postwar writers whose World War II experiences at home and abroad figure prominently in their works.
Ookie Spookie 'Ookie Spookie'/'Ooky Spooky' is an as-of-yet unreleased album by the Dark Cabaret/Darkwave artist Voltaire. However, details about the album are not yet final, and the websites belonging to Projekt Records and Voltaire contradict one another.
Ookla the Mok Ookla the Mok is a character in the Ruby-Spears cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian, created by Steve Gerber. Ookla is a humanoid lion creature with yellow, pupil-less eyes and fangs that cannot articulate any words, but only onomatopoeia that sounds like "Argh.
Oola Oola (Irish: Uibhla, from the egg shaped hills/Drumlins) is a small town or village in County Limerick, Republic of Ireland, near Limerick in the midwest of Ireland. The main N24 road from Limerick to Waterford passes through the town and the town of Tipperary is also nearby on the same road.
Ooline Ooline (Cadellia pentastylis) is a medium to large tree with bright green leaves and rough tile-pattern bark. It has rain-forest origins dating from the Pleistocene Era when much of Australia was wetter than it is today.
Oology Oology, or oölogy is the branch of zoology that deals with the study of eggs, especially birds' eggs. It can also be applied to the hobby of collecting wild birds' eggs (which is now illegal in many jurisdictions).
Oolong (Dragon Ball) Oolong (or as he might prefer, Oolong the Terrible) is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga and the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z anime series who provides comic relief. He is loosely based on the character Zhu Bajie from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Oolong (rabbit) Oolong (July 28, 1994 – January 7, 2003) (named after the oolong variety of tea) was the name of a rabbit owned by photographer Hironori Akutagawa, of Hokkaidō, Japan. This domestic rabbit has become a well known Internet phenomenon since 2001 through Akutagawa's own home site.
Oolong, New South Wales Oolong was a very minor railway station on the Sydney to Melbourne main line. Its original reason for being was as a crossing loop, but when the line was duplicated in the 1920s, the station was retained for its sidings.
Oom-pah Oom-pah or Umpapa is an onomatopoeic name for a type of Germanic music (especially Bavarian music) typically involving brass instruments. It is often associated with beer halls and is played by a band, as opposed to solo.
Oombulgurri, Western Australia Oombulgurri (, postcode: 6740), also written as Umbulgara, is an Aboriginal community in the eastern Kimberley, with a population of 300. The nearest town is Wyndham, which is 45 km to the southeast; the nearest major town is Kununurra, which is 120 km to the southeast.
Oomoto Oomoto (大本, literally "foundation"), also known as Omoto-kyo (大本教) or similar Omoto, is a Japanese religion, often categorized as a new Japanese religion and offshoot of Shinto. The religion was founded, in 1892, by Nao Deguchi.
Oompa-Loompa Oompa-Loompas are dwarves in Roald Dahl's fictional books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. They come from Loompaland and are the only people Willy Wonka will allow to work in his factory due to the risk of industrial espionage.
Oompas Oompas are chewy candies that come in a wide variety of flavors: Green Apple, Cherry, Lemon, Orange, Grape, and Strawberry, though they were previously similar to today's peanut butter M&M's, and for a time, were available in a chocolate and strawberry (instead of peanut butter) variety. They are sold by Nestlé under their The Willy Wonka Candy Company brand.
Oona King Oona Tamsyn King (born October 22, 1967, in Sheffield) is a British politician. She was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green & Bow from 1997 until the 2005 election, when her seat was taken by Respect candidate George Galloway.
Oona O'Neill Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin (May 13, 1926 – September 27, 1991) was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and his second wife, writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth wife of actor Charlie Chaplin.
Oonoonba, Queensland Oonoonba () is a suburb of Townsville that is approximately 6 kilometres from the centre of the central Townsville business district. It is predominatly a residential area that was once isolated away from Urban Townsville.
Oops-Leon Oops-Leon is the name given by particle physicists to what was thought to be a new subatomic particle "discovered" at Fermilab in 1976. The E288 collaboration, a group of physicists led by Leon Lederman who worked on the E288 particle detector, announced that a particle with a mass of about 6.
Oorlans Oorlans (also: Oorlands, Oorlams) is a West Germanic, Low Franconian linguistic entity spoken worldwide by less than 1 million people and is spoken in the Republic of South Africa. It is considered an Afrikaans-based creole language by some observers.
Oort cloud The Oort cloud, alternatively termed the Ă–pik-Oort Cloud, is a postulated spherical cloud of comets situated about 50,000 to 100,000 AU from the Sun. This is approximately 2000 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto or roughly one light year, almost a quarter of the distance from the Sun to Proxima Centauri, the star nearest the Sun.
Oosgrens-Afrikaans Oosgrens-Afrikaans ("Afrikaans of the eastern border") is a dialect of Afrikaans, which is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. Oosgrens-Afrikaans is the basis of standard Afrikaans and is spoken in several provinces of Eastern South Africa, including Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Limpopo.
Oosik Oosik is a term used in Alaska to describe the baculum (penile bone) of walruses, seals, sea lions, and polar bears. Sometimes as long as 60 cm (2 ft), it can be polished and used as a handle for knives and other tools.
Oost Gelre Oost Gelre is a municipality in the Achterhoek, in the eastern Netherlands. On January 1, 2005, the municipalities Groenlo and Lichtenvoorde merged and formed the new municipality Oost Gelre, which was called Groenlo until May 19th, 2006.
Oostakker Oostakker, formerly spelled Oostacker, is one of the smaller former municipalities which were merged into Ghent (from which it is only two miles), the capital of the Belgian province of East Flanders. The hamlet s mainly known for its Roman Catholic shrine of the Virgin Mary.
Oostakker Basilica The origins of this place of pilgrimage can be traced back to 1873, when the Marquise of Courtebourne-de Nédonchel had a Lourdes grotto built in the gardens of her château at Slotendries. People from Ghent and other nearby locations asked to be allowed to visit the grotto and pray there, and in 1874 Pieter De Rudder was miraculously healed of a compound fracture.
Oostanaula River The Oostanaula River (pronounced "oo-stuh-NA-luh") is a principal tributary of the Coosa River, about 45 mi (70 km) long, in northwestern Georgia in the United States. Via the Coosa and Alabama Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mobile River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.
Oosterschelde [image of the Scheldt delta showing the Oosterschelde estuary (i)]The Oosterschelde (Eastern Scheldt) is an estuary in Zeeland, the Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south. In Roman times it was the major Scheldt mouth.
Oosterschelde (ship) The Oosterschelde is a three masted schooner from the Netherlands, built in 1918. She is the largest restored Dutch freightship and the only remaining Dutch three masted topsailschooner, of which there were hundreds in the early 20th century.
Oosterscheldekering The Oosterscheldekering (Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier), between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, is the largest of the 13 ambitious Delta works series of dams, designed to protect a large part of the Netherlands from flooding. The construction of the Delta Works was in response to the North Sea Flood of 1953.
Oosterzele Oosterzele is a municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders, in Belgium. The municipality comprises the towns of Balegem, Gijzenzele, Landskouter, Moortsele, Oosterzele proper and Scheldewindeke.
Ootacamund Ooty , short for Ootacamund (the official name is Udagamandalam, sometimes abbreviated to Udhagai), is a city, a municipality and the district capital of The Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Ootla ootla (Kannada:ಓತ್ಲ) is a Kannada slang word with a broad meaning which generally converges to procrastination and goofing off. It is used in many contexts to signify wasting time and doing work which is not required.
Ooty Radio Telescope The Ooty Radio Telescope near Ootacamund (Ooty) was set up by TIFR radio astronomers, in the picturesque Nilgiri Hills of South India in 1970. Designed and built in India, the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) is an off-axis parabolic cylinder 530 m long and 30 m wide operating at a nominal frequency of 326.
Oowekyala language Oowekyala (also Wuikala, Rivers Inlet, Wuikenukv, Oweekeno, Wikeno, Owikeno, Oowekeeno, Oweekano, Awikenox, Oowek'yala, Oweek'ala) is a dialect (or a sublanguage) of Heiltsuk-Oowekyala, a Northern Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) language spoken around Rivers Inlet in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, spoken by the Wuikinuxv people, whose government is the Wuikinuxv Nation.
Ooze (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Ooze is a type of creature, or "creature type". This category includes such monsters as slimes, jellies, deadly puddings, and similar mindless, amorphous blobs.
Oozlum bird The Oozlum bird is a particularly rare mythical creature, supposedly able to carry out many fantastic things, including being able to fly backwards and flying in ever-decreasing circles until it manages to fly up itself, disappearing completely, adding to its rarity.
OOAK OOAK stands for "one of a kind", an acronym that is widely used on the Internet by artists who make original items such as jewelry, fashion dolls, reborn baby dolls, weapons, sculptures, and clothing.
OODA Group OODA Group is an art collaborative based in the mid-western United States. The name applies to various collaborative efforts including visual art, music, comics and writing, however the group is most recognized for their installation pieces.
OOIOO OOIOO is perhaps the best known side project of Japanese rockers Boredoms. An all-female group founded by Boredoms drummer (and sometimes trumpeter and vocalist) Yoshimi P-We, OOIOO shares much of the musical style of the better-known Boredoms.
OOM Gallery OOM Gallery is located in Birmingham Great Britain and houses the extensive archives of multimedia artist Pogus Caesar. As a contemporary venue OOM Gallery displays photography, photomontages, films and has regular online exhibitions.
OOPArt OOPArt, acronym for out-of-place artifact, is a term coined by American zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for a historical, archaeological or paleontological object found in a very unusual, or even impossible, location.
OOPic The OOPic is an Object Oriented Programmable Integrated Circuit. Created by Savage Innovations, this PIC microcontroller comes with an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that supports programming in syntaxes based on the BASIC, Java and C programming languages.
Op art Op art, also known as optical art, is used to describe some paintings and other works of art which use optical illusions. Op art is also referred to as geometric abstraction and hard-edge abstraction, although the preferred term for it is perceptual abstraction.
Op cit Op cit (Latin, short for "opus citatum"/"opere citato", meaning "the work cited/from the cited work". ) is the term used to provide an endnote or footnote citation to refer the reader to an earlier citation.
Op Hoop van Zegen Op Hoop van Zegen (Dutch for "Trusting Our Fate in the Hands of God"), is a Dutch play about a fishermen's tragedy. It is still staged, and remains the most popular play by Dutch dramatist Herman Heijermans.
Op:l Bastards Op:l Bastards was formed by Timo Kaukolampi, Vilunki 3000 (real name: Mikko Viljakainen) and Tuomo Puranen from Helsinki, Finland. Kaukolampi and Vilunki had earlier played in the garage rock band Larry and the Lefthanded.
Opa-opa Opa-Opa is the main character from the bizarre Fantasy Zone series of video games created by Sega. It is best described as a small red and green spaceship shaped like an egg placed sideways, equipped with a pair of small wings and legs, twin laser cannons and an infinite supply of small bombs.
Opabinia Opabinia was a highly unusual extinct animal found in early Cambrian fossil deposits. Its sole species, Opabinia regalis, is known from only two fossil beds: the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, and the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan shales of Yunnan, China.
Opah Opah (also known colloquially as moonfish, sunfish, kingfish, and Jerusalem haddock) are large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic Lampriform fish comprising the small family Lampridae (also spelled Lamprididae). There are only two known species in a single genus: Lampris (from the Greek lamprid-, "brilliant" or "clear").
Opal The mineraloid opal is amorphous SiO2·nH2O; hydrated silicon dioxide, the water content sometimes being as high as 20% but is usually between three and ten percent. Opal ranges from colorless through white, milky blue, gray, red, yellow, green, brown and black.
Opal City Opal City is a fictional city set in the DC Universe. Created by James Robinson and Tony Harris in 1994, "the Opal" has been established as the home of several DC Comics characters, most notably several super-heroes who have operated under the name of Starman.

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