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Oregon State Beavers bowl game history This is a list of bowl games that the Oregon State University American football team, the Oregon State Beavers, have appeared in. The Beavers have played in 13 bowl games total, not including the Gotham Bowl in which they were invited to play at in 1960 but no opponent was able to be found for them.
Oregon State Board of Higher Education The Oregon State Board of Higher Education is the statutory governing board for the Oregon University System. The board is composed of eleven members appointed by the Oregon Governor and confirmed by the Oregon State Senate.
Oregon State Capitol Foundation The Oregon State Capitol Foundation is a charitable foundation and an agency of the Oregon Legislative Assembly established in 1997 to preserve the historical integrity of the capitol and its immediate adjacent areas, to provide recognition for its individuals and events that have historic import. It makes recommendation to the Oregon Legislative Administration Committee on renovations, repairs, acquisitions, exhibits, events, other special projects, and other activities.
Oregon State Office of Degree Authorization Oregon State Office of Degree Authorization authorizes schools to offer academic degree, validates individual claims of degrees, enforces the closure of substandard or fraudulent degree programs, and policy for publicly funded postsecondary programs and locations. The ODA website tracks suspected diploma mills and unaccredited schools both inside and outside of Oregon.
Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), the first state prison in Oregon, United States, was originally located in Portland in 1851. In 1866 it was moved to a 26-acre site in Salem and enclosed by a reinforced concrete wall averaging 25 feet in height.
Oregon State Treasurer The Oregon State Treasurer is a constitutional officer within the executive branch of the state's government, elected by statewide vote to serve a four year term. As chief financial officer for the state, the office holder heads the Oregon State Treasury, and with the Governor and Secretary of State, serves on the Land Board.
Oregon State University College of Engineering Oregon State University's College of Engineering is a college within Oregon State University made up of eight departments: Mechanical; Civil, Construction, and Environmental; Electrical and Computer ; Industrial and Manufacturing ; Bioengineering; Nuclear; Chemical; and Computer Science.
Oregon Student Assistance Commission The Oregon Student Assistance Commission (OSAC), established by the Oregon Legislature in 1959, is primarily charged with administering student financial aid programs, and through its Office of Degree Authorization, authorizing and regulating the granting of degrees by institutions within the U.S.
Oregon Supreme Court The Oregon Supreme Court is the highest state court in the Oregon judicial department. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States.
Oregon Tax Court The Oregon Tax Court has jurisdiction in questions of law that regard state tax laws. Examples of matters that would come before this court include income taxes, corporate excise taxes, property taxes, timber taxes, cigarette taxes, local budget law, and property tax limitations.
Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail was one of the key overland migration routes on which pioneers traveled across the North American continent in wagons in order to settle new parts of the United States of America during the 19th century. The Oregon Trail helped the United States implement its cultural goal of Manifest Destiny, that is, to build a great nation spanning the North American continent.
Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar The Oregon Trail half dollar commemorative coin was minted to honor the migration of settlers to the west prior to the California Gold Rush, which began in 1849. In 1926, the Oregon Trail Memorial Association, Inc.
Oregon Treaty The Oregon Treaty, officially known as the Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains, and also known as the Treaty of Washington, is a bilateral treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846 in Washington, D.C.
Oregon University System The Oregon University System (OUS) consists of seven public, four-year universities in the State of Oregon administered by the Chancellor of the OUS, who serves at the will and pleasure of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. The current Acting Chancellor is George Pernsteiner, formerly Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Vice President of Finance and Administration at Portland State University and Associate Vice Chancellor at OUS.
Oregon Vortex The Oregon Vortex is a roadside attraction in Gold Hill, Oregon in the United States. It is notable for its presumed paranormal properties, which are caused by a fascinating and convincing optical illusion of the gravity hill type.
Oregon wine The state of Oregon has established an international reputation for its production of wine. Oregon has several different growing regions within the state's borders which are well-suited to the cultivation of grapes; two additional regions straddle the border between Oregon and the state of Washington.
Oregon's 1st congressional district Oregon's 1st congressional district is a United States Congressional District that represents the northwest corner of Oregon and includes some of the Portland metropolitan area. It includes Clatsop, Columbia, Washington, and Yamhill counties, and part of Multnomah county.
Oregon's 2nd congressional district Oregon's 2nd congressional district is the largest of Oregon's five United States Congressional Districts, and is the seventh largest district in the nation. The district covers roughly two-thirds of the state, east of the Willamette Valley.
Oregon's 4th congressional district Oregon's 4th congressional district is a United States Congressional District that represents the southern half of Oregon's coastal counties, including Coos, Curry, Douglas, Lane, and Linn counties and most of Benton and Josephine counties.
Oregon's 5th congressional district Oregon's 5th congressional district is a United States Congressional District that represents Oregon's central coast through Salem, north to the southern Portland suburbs, and east to the summit of Mount Hood. It includes Lincoln, Marion, Polk, and Tillamook counties, and part of Benton, Clackamas, and Multnomah counties.
Oregon-California Trails Association The Oregon-California Trails Association is an interdisciplinary organization based at Independence, Missouri, United States. OCTA is dedicated to the preservation and protection of overland emigrant trails and the emigrant experience.
Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway The Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway is a short line railroad that began in 1904 as the Oregon and Southeastern Railroad (O&SE). The line ran 18 miles (29 kilometers) between the towns of Cottage Grove and Wildwood.
Oregonia, Ohio Oregonia is an unincorporated community of Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States, on the east shore of the Little Miami River about five miles northeast of Lebanon and six miles south of Waynesville.
Oreino (Lasithiou) Oreino is a small village in Lasithi perfecture on Crete. It is situated 29 kilometers north east of Ierapetra, 40 of Sitia (50 kilometers via Makrigilos), and lies 10 kilometers from the sea (Mavros Kolimbos-Aghios Panteleimon settlements).
Oreithyia In Greek mythology, Oreithyia was the daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and his wife, Praxithea. She was abducted by Boreas, the north wind, while she was dancing by the Ilissus River, or perhaps gathering flowers on the banks of the Cephissos river, and carried off to Thrace, and therefore did not die when the other daughters of her father either were sacrificed so that Athens could win a war against Eleusis or killed themselves.
Orel (movement) The Orel movement (from the Czech word for eagle) is a Moravia based Czech youth movement and gymnastics organization which emerged between 1902-1909 as Church-supported competitor of the anti-Roman-Catholic organization Sokol.
Orel Hershiser Orel Leonard Hershiser IV (born September 16, 1958 in Buffalo, New York) is a former professional right-handed pitcher and is currently an analyst for "Baseball Tonight" on ESPN. In 1988, he won both the Cy Young Award and the World Series MVP with the L.
Oreland, Pennsylvania Oreland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, just outside of the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia, with a ZIP code of 19075. The population was 5,509 at the 2000 census.
Orelie-Antoine de Tounens Orelie-Antoine de Tounens (1825-1878) was a French lawyer and adventurer who assumed the title of King of Araucania and Patagonia. It is disputed whether Tounens was a self-proclaimed king or was elected by a group of loncos (Mapuche tribal leaders).
Orelius Orelius is the name of an extremely popular character on the world of Dolera, in the online role-playing game Tibia. He is Scorchin's RL (real-life friend/aquaintance), and has had many friends on Dolera who have quit.
Orell Gessner Füssli Orell Gessner Füssli was a bookshop in Zürich, Switzerland at the end of the 18th century. It specialized in disseminating literature of the French Enlightenment by means of written orders through the publishing house Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), which was known to print banned books.
Orem model of nursing The Orem model of nursing was developed between 1959 and 2001 by Dorothea Orem and is also known as the 'Self Care' Model of Nursing. It is particularly used in rehabilitation and primary care settings where the patient is encouraged to be as independent as possible.
Oren Ambarchi Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and percussionist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1969, he has been performing live since 1986.
Oren E. Long Oren Ethelbirt Long (March 4, 1889 - May 6, 1965), was the tenth Territorial Governor of Hawai'i and served from 1951 to 1953. A member of the Hawai'i Democratic Party, Long was appointed to the office after the term of Ingram M.
Oren Smadja Oren Smadja (born June 20, 1970) was the second Israeli athlete to win an Olympic medal, only one day after Yael Arad won the first ever Olympic medal for Israel in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal in men's Judo under 71 kilogram.
Orenburg shawl The Orenburg region of Russia is famous for its shawls, known as Orenburg shawls/scarves or wedding ring shawls, finely knit lace shawls which have been created in the region for over 300 years. In the English-speaking world they are often called "wedding ring shawls," because, although the shawls are quite large, a shawl knit in the traditional fashion can be pulled through a wedding ring because the knitting is so fine.
Orenco, Oregon Orenco is a former company town in Washington County, Oregon, United States, located between Hillsboro and Aloha. The former community of Orenco now forms the Orenco neighborhood in Hillsboro, which is the site of the Orenco Station housing development.
Orenda OE600 The Orenda OE600 is a 600 hp-class 8-cylinder V-block aircraft engine intended to re-introduce piston power to aircraft normally powered by the famous Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprop. The piston engine offers much better fuel economy and altitude performance, which Orenda Aerospace felt would be attractive for older aircraft who's engines were reaching the end of their lifespan.
Oreodont Sometimes called a prehistoric "ruminating hog," the oreodont was a sheep-sized, cud-chewing plant-eater with a short face, tusk-like canine teeth, heavy body, long tail, short feet, and four-toed hooves.
Oreoglanis Oreoglanis is a genus of catfish of the family Sisoridae (the sucker catfish). These are small (standard length less than 120 mm), flattened catfish which live in fast-flowing streams in China, mainland Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.
Oreoglanis macronemus Oreoglanis macronemus is a species of sisorid catfish. It is known only from four preserved specimens collected from the Xiangkhoang Plateau, northern Laos, by an expedition led by Jean Théodore Delacour in the mid 1920s and misidentified as Euchiloglanis sp.
Oreochromis niloticus The Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus is a cichlid fish of African origin which is native from Syria into east Africa through the Congo to Liberia. It is a species of high economic value and is widely introduced outside its natural range; probably next to O.
Oreochromis urolepis hornorum Oreochromis urolepis hornorum is a cichlid that grows to over 20 cm in length and is considered a useful food fish in Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar, where it may have been introduced by man. It is colloquially known as the "Wami tilapia" and often by an obsolete scientific name, Tilapia hornorum.
Oreopithecus bambolii The Swamp Ape (Oreopithecus bambolii) is a prehistoric primate species from the Miocene epoch whose fossils have been found in Italy (Tuscany and Sardinia) and in East Africa. To date, over 50 individuals have been discovered from the Tuscan mines of Monte Bamboli, Baccinello, Montemassi, Casteani, and Ribolla, making Oreopithecus one of the best-represented fossil apes.
Oreshak Oreshak (Орешак) is a village, situated in the middle part of the Balkan Mountains in the municipality of Troyan, Lovech Province, Bulgaria. It is also a famous ethnographic complex very close to the Troyan Monastery — one of the biggest monasteries in Bulgaria.
Orest Kiprensky Orest Adamovich Kiprensky ( -) was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably Alexander Pushkin's portrait (1827), which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror flatters me".
Orest Miller Orest Fedorovich Miller (4 August 1833 - 1 June 1889) was a famous Russian folklorist, professor in Russian literature, of German origin. He is author of the book "Илья Муромец и богатырство киевское" ("Ilya Muromets and the Kievan bogatyrs" )
Oreste Oreste ('Orestes') (HG 48/102, HWV A11) is an opera by George Frideric Handel in three acts. The libretto was anonymously adapted from Giangualberto Barlocci’s L’Oreste (1723, Rome), which was in turn adapted from Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris.
Oreste Baratieri Oreste Baratieri (né Oreste Baratter, November 13, 1841-August 7, 1901) was an Italian general and governor of Eritrea who led the Italian army to a disastrous defeat in the First Italo-Abyssinian War's Battle of Adowa.
Orestes (mythology) Orestês, (English /ɔ'ɹɛsti:z/ Greek ) in Greek legend, was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various legends connected with his madness and purification.
Orestes Brownson Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was a New England intellectual and activist, preacher and labor organizer. Brownson is best remembered as a publicist, a career which spanned his affiliation with the New England Transcendentalists, through his subsequent conversion to Catholicism.
Orestes Cendrero Orestes Cendrero was a Spanish naturalist and professor of biology at the Instituto General y Técnico de Santander. He was a colombophile (studied pigeons), and was editor of the pigeon scientific journal: Boletín Colombófilo Español.
Orestes Kindelán Orestes Kindelán Olivares (born May 7, 1964 in Palma Soriano, Cuba) is the most prolific home run hitter in the history of post-revolutionary Cuban baseball, and one of the offensive stars of the Cuban national baseball team, which won numerous World Cups and two Olympic gold medals during his tenure.
Orestes Matacena Orestes Matacena (born August 29, 1941 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American actor and comedian. Although seen most of the time in small roles, Matacena is well known for playing sinister mobsters, such as Niko from The Mask.
Oresund Region The Oresund Region (Øresundsregionen in Danish or Öresundsregionen in Swedish) is a transnational region in southern Scandinavia located by the shores of the Oresund strait. The eastern part is constituted by Skåne County in Sweden and the western part is located on the Danish island of Zealand, connected by the Oresund Bridge.
Oreti Beach Oreti Beach is the central bay of three lying on the Foveaux Strait coast of Southland, New Zealand, the others being Te Waewae Bay and Toetoes Bay. Twenty-six kilometres in length, the bay lies between the town of Riverton and the outflow of the Aparima River in the northwest, and the estuary of the New (or Oreti) River in the southeast.
Orewa Orewa, a town in the North Island of New Zealand lies on the Hibiscus Coast, 30 kilometres north of Auckland city, and close to the base of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. The town has a population of 6000, and many people arrive to take holidays there.
Orewa Speech The Orewa Speech is a controversial speech delivered by the leader of the New Zealand National Party Don Brash to the Orewa Rotary Club on 27 January 2004. It addressed the theme of race relations in New Zealand, particularly the special status of Māori, New Zealand's indigenous ethnic group.
Orexin Orexins, also called hypocretins, are the common names given to a pair of highly excitatory neuropeptide hormones that were simultaneously discovered by two groups of researchers in rat brains. Masashi Yanagisawa and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, coined the term orexin to reflect the orexigenic (appetite-stimulating) activity of these hormones.
Orfeón Orféon is a record label from Mexico, which has released a large number of recordings for the Latin American market since at least the 1950s. During the 1960s, the label signed American rockers Bill Haley & His Comets and the band had numerous regional hits on the label; they also hosted a musical television series, Orfeón a Go-Go which was sponsored by the label.
Orfeh Orfeh is an American singer and Broadway actress from New York City. She originated the role of Annette in the Broadway hit Saturday Night Fever, as well as starring in Footloose and the Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm.
Orfeo Angelucci Orfeo Angelucci (aka Orville Angelucci) was born near Trenton, NJ in 1912 and died in California on July 24, 1993. He was one of the most unusual of the mid-1950s contactees who followed in the footsteps of George Adamski and Truman Bethurum.
Orfeo ed Euridice Orfeo ed Euridice (French version: Orphée et Eurydice; English translation:Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. More specifically, the work belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing.
Orff Schulwerk The Orff Schulwerk or Orffschulwerk (or simply the Orff-Approach) is an approach to Music Education for children. It was developed by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982), while he was music director of a school of dance and music known as the GĂĽnther-Schule, in Munich.
Orff's Carmina Burana in popular culture Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936, based on a selection of lyrics from the medieval Carmina Burana. The work is very popular and has frequently been incorporated (particularly, the famous "O Fortuna" movement) into works of popular culture.
Orford Park Orford Hall and surrounding lands were donated to Warrington Council in December 1916. William Beamont, a local historian and the first Mayor of Warrington lived in the hall for some 23 years, until his death in 1889.
Orford, Tasmania Orford is an attractive coastal hamlet situated on the east coast of Tasmania, some 73 kilometres northeast of Hobart. The village is centred around the mouth of the Prosser River, on the southern margin of a substantial coastal inlet called Prosser Bay.
Orfordness transmitting station The Orfordness transmitting station is a medium-wave broadcasting facility owned by VT Communications at Orford Ness, UK (). Its facilities are leased to international broadcasters, especially the BBC World Service.
Orfordville, Wisconsin Orfordville is a village in Rock County, Wisconsin, USA at the intersections of Highway 11, Highway 213, and the Wisconsin and Southern Railway. Orfordville as is the home of the Parkview School District's high school, Parkview High School some times referred to as Orfordville-Parkview.
Organ care system The Organ Care System is a medical device designed by Transmedics to allow donor organs to be maintained for longer periods of time prior to transplant. The system dispenses with the traditional method of preserving organs through freezing, replacing it with keeping them in an environment and temperature similar to that of the human body.
Organ culture Organ culture is a development from tissue culture methods of research, the organ culture is able to accurately model functions of an organ in various states and conditions by the use of the actual in vitro organ itself.
Organ donation Organ donation is the removal of specific tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting or grafting them into other persons. Organs and tissues are removed in procedures similar to surgery, and all incisions are closed at the conclusion of the surgery.
Organ hypertrophy Organ hypertrophy is the increase of the size of an organ or in a select area of the tissue. It should be distinguished from hyperplasia which occurs due to cell division increasing the number of cells while their size stays the same; hypertrophy occurs due to an increase in the size of cells, while the number stays the same.
Organ repertoire Because the organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in existence, written organ repertoire spans a time period almost as long as that of written music itself. Because the organ was found almost exclusively in the western churches from the Middle Ages until the emergence in the Romantic era of large concert hall instruments, a significant portion of organ repertoire is sacred in nature.
Organ scholar An organ scholar is a young man or woman who is employed as a part-time assistant organist in a cathedral or collegiate church. As organ scholar is usually a university student or young person preparing to enter university.
Organ Symphony This page lists the best known Symphonies for solo Organ and Symphonies for Orchestra and Organ. There are also organ concertos by composers such as George Frederic Handel, Francis Poulenc, and David Briggs that obviously aren't listed here.
Organ tablature Organ tablature is a form of musical notation used by the north German Baroque organ school, although there are also forms of organ tablature from other countries such as Italy, Spain, and England. Portions of Johann Sebastian Bach's OrgelbĂĽchlein are written in tablature, as are a great deal of the surviving manuscripts of the organ works of Dieterich Buxtehude and other north German organ composers of the Baroque era.
Organ theft Organ theft is the supposed practice of stealing people's organs (presumably while they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol) via amateur surgery, and then selling them on a supposed black market for use in organ transplants.
Organ transplant An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. Organ donors can be living, or deceased (previously referred to as cadaveric).
Organ trio An organ trio, in a jazz context, is group of three jazz musicians, typically consisting of a Hammond organ player, a drummer, and either a jazz guitarist or a saxophone player. Organ trios were a popular type of jazz ensemble for club and bar settings in the 1950s and 1960s, performing a blues-based style of jazz that incorporated elements of R&B.
Organa Organa was Kubrat’s maternal uncle. He was regent over the tribe of the Onogur Bulgars from 617 to 630 in place of his nephew for the time he was growing up as a hostage in the Byzantine Empire and there is information that he accompanied him on his trip to Constantinople.
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Organic (military) In military terminology, organic refers to a military unit that is a permanent part of a larger unit and (usually) provides some specialised capability to that parent unit. For instance, the US Marine Corps incorporates its own aviation units (distinct from the US Air Force) that provide it with fire support, electronic warfare, and transport.
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (OBC) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original primary research and review articles. It is published every two weeks by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Organic architecture Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition. Architects Gustav Stickley, Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Bruce Goff, Rudolf Steiner, Bruno Zevi, Imre Makovecz and most recently Anton Alberts are all famous for their work with organic architecture.
Organic certification Organic certification is a certification process for producers of organic food and other organic agricultural products. In general, any business directly involved in food production can be certified, including seed suppliers, farmers, food processors, retailers and restaurants.
Organic composition of capital The organic composition of capital (OCC) is a concept created by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy and used in Marxian economics as a theoretical alternative to neo-classical concepts of factors of production, production functions, capital productivity and capital-output ratios.
Organic compound An organic compound is any member of a large class of chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon and hydrogen; therefore, carbides, carbonates, carbon oxides and elementary carbon are not organic (see below for more on the definition controversy for this word). The study of organic compounds is termed organic chemistry, and since it is a vast collection of chemicals (over half of all known chemical compounds), systems have been devised to classify organic compounds.
Organic Consumers Association Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is a consumer protection and organic agriculture advocacy group based in Finland, Minnesota. It was formed in 1998 in the wake of the mass backlash by organic comsumers against the U.
Organic Crop Improvement Association The Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) is a member-owned, nonprofit organization, which provides research, education and certification services to organic growers, processors and handlers around the world.
Organic electronics Organic electronics, or plastic electronics, is a branch of electronics that deals with conductive polymers, or plastics. It is called 'organic' electronics because the molecules in the polymer are carbon-based, like the molecules of living things.
Organic farming Organic farming is a form of agriculture which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, plant growth regulators, and livestock feed additives. As far as possible organic farmers rely on crop rotation, crop residues, animal manures and mechanical cultivation to maintain soil productivity and tilth, to supply plant nutrients, and to control weeds, insects and other pests.
Organic farming methods Organic farming methods combine scientific knowledge and modern technology with traditional farming practices based on thousands of years of agriculture. The distinguishing principle is an avoidance of synthetic inputs, such as manufactured fertilizers and pesticides, and for this reason, organic methods are easiest to describe by contrasting them with conventional, agrichemical-based methods.
Organic feeding disorders Organic feeding disorders are created when there are changes in an organism which directly or indirectly affect the organism's need to survive, or the need for nourishment. For example, when someone becomes ill, their body is naturally not as hungry as it was before.
Organic food Organic food is produced according to legally regulated standards. For crops, it means they were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives.
Organic gardening Organic gardening is a form of gardening that uses substantial diversity in pest control to reduce the use of pesticides and tries to provide as much fertility with local sources of nutrients rather than purchased fertilizers. The term may have ironically arisen as a response to the effects observed in farming during the first half of the twentieth century and the evolving science of organic chemistry.
Organic growth Organic growth is the rate of business expansion through increasing output and sales as opposed to mergers, acquisitions and take-overs. Typically, the organic growth rate also excludes the impact of foreign exchange.
Organic horticulture The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. Horticulture is also sometimes defined simply as “agriculture minus the plough (or plow).
Organic chemistry Organic chemistry is a specific discipline within chemistry which involves the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of chemical compounds consisting of primarily carbon and hydrogen, which may contain any number of other elements, including nitrogen, oxygen, halogens as well as phosphorus, silicon and sulfur. Robert T.
Organic law An organic law or fundamental law is a law or system of laws, that forms the foundation of a government, corporation or other organization's body of rules. A constitution is a particular form of organic law for a sovereign state.

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