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Oscar Aguirregaray Oscar Aguirregaray (born 25 October 1959 in Artigas) was a Uruguayan soccer player who played for Nacional, Defensor Sporting, Internacional de Porto Alegre, Palmeiras, and Peñarol. In 2006 he was head coach of Club Atlético River Plate in Uruguay along side Pablo Bengoechea.
Oscar Albuquerque Oscar Albuquerque is the president of Pro Soccer International, LLC, an ownership group which holds the rights to American Indoor Soccer League teams in Chicago and Rockford, IL. He is a former professional indoor soccer player.
Oscar Almgren Oscar Almgren (November 9, 1869 – May 13, 1945) was a Swedish prehistoric archaeologist, whose work on Nordic types of brooches (Original title: "Nordisk och jämförande fornkunskap") published in 1897 is still influential today.
Oscar Andrews Oscar Andrews (born 24 July 1876 in Liverpool, England; died 30 October 1956 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) was an Irish cricket and field hockey player. When playing cricket he was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.
Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815 - September 5, 1866) emigrated from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1834. He along with his children operated a series of liquor and cigar stores in Manhattan, New York and Jersey City, New Jersey.
Oscar Asche John Stanger Heiss Oscar Asche, better known as Oscar Asche (26 January 1871 – 23 March 1936), was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, directed, and acted in the record-breaking musical Chu Chin Chow, both on stage and film, and for acting in, directing, or producing many Shakespeare plays and successful musicals.
Oscar Ălvarez Oscar Alvarez has held numerous positions in Honduran government, most notably his recent position as Minister of Public Security for the Republic of Honduras, which he held from January 27 2002 until November 14, 2005.
Oscar Baumann Oscar Baumann (June 25, 1864 - October 12, 1899} was an Austrian cartographer with a keen interest in ethnography. He attended classes on natural history and geography at the University of Vienna, and in 1885 was part of an Austrian exploratory expedition of the Congo Basin.
Oscar Bjornson Oscar Ferdinand Bjornson (born February 14, 1906 in Glenboro, Manitoba, died August 13, 1972) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969.
Oscar Bonavena Oscar Natalio Bonavena (September 25, 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – May 22, 1976 near Reno, Nevada, United States) was a professional boxer. He earned the nickname "Ringo" for The Beatles haircut that he sported.
Oscar Browning Oscar Browning (January 17, 1837–October 6, 1923) was an English writer, historian and educational reformer, born in London, the son of a merchant, William Shipton Browning. He was educated at Eton College where he was a pupil of William Johnson (later "Cory").
Oscar Camenzind Oscar Camenzind (born on September 12, 1971 in Schwyz, Switzerland) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. In 1998 he won the World Road Championship and the Giro di Lombardia, in 2000 he won the Tour de Suisse and he won Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2001.
Oscar Castro-Neves Oscar Castro-Neves (born May 5, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro) is a guitarist, arranger, and composer who is considered a founding figure in Bossa nova. He was born as one of triplets and formed a band with his brothers in his youth.
Oscar Cox Oscar Alfredo Cox was responsible for the introduction of football in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1901. A sport he learned a few years earlier while in Switzerland studying "Humanities" in the "La Villa" college of Lausanne.
Oscar Cullmann Oscar Cullmann (25 February, 1902, Strasbourg - 16 January, 1999, Chamonix) was a Christian theologian in the Lutheran tradition. He is best known for his work in the ecumenical movement, being in part responsible for the establishment of dialogue between the Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions.
Oscar D. Skelton Oscar Douglas Skelton (July 13, 1878 - January 1941) was a professor and author. He was the author of two books in the Chronicles of Canada series: The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Times and The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways.
Oscar Eckenstein Oscar Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 1921) was an Anglo-German rock-climber and mountaineer. He was one of the few people who readily climbed with Aleister Crowley, with whom he made an early expedition to K2.
Oscar ElĂas Biscet Oscar ElĂas Biscet-Gonzalez (born July 20, 1961) in Havana, Cuba he is a prominent Christian anti-abortion activist currently living in Cuba. He is the founder of the Lawton Foundation, an illegal group in Cuba whose stated objective is to promote human rights.
Oscar Enrique Sánchez Oscar Enrique Sánchez Rivas (born ?), popularly known as El Conejo (the rabbit) is a Guatemalan football coach and former inside forward, who played the majority of his career for the club CSD Comunicaciones, and represented the Guatemala national football team at the Olympic Games and in four FIFA World Cup qualification processes.
Oscar Espinosa Chepe Oscar Manuel Espinosa Chepe (born November 29, 1940) is a Cuban independent economist and dissident. He was one of approximately 75 dissidents arrested, tried and convicted as part of what has been widely described as a massive crackdown by the Cuban government.
Oscar Forman Oscar Forman born 16 January 1982 in Adelaide, Australia is a basketball player who currently plays for the New Zealand Breakers in the Australian National Basketball League. Forman played for the Adelaide 36ers from 2001 until 2006, winning a championship in 2002, before moving to the Breakers at the end of the 2005-2006 season.
Oscar GalĂndez Ă“scar GalĂndez (born May 6, 1971 in RĂo Tercero, CĂłrdoba, Argentina) is a triathlete. He competed at the first Olympic Triathlon, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, obtaining the twenty-eighth place with a total time of 1:50:59.
Oscar Gamble Oscar Charles Gamble (born December 20 1949, in Ramer, Alabama) is a former outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball. He played for 17 seasons, from 1969 to 1985, on seven different teams: the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees on two separate occasions, as well as the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres, and Texas Rangers.
Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey The Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey chronicles the history of American whiskey from Colonial days through the 1960s. Rare documents, advertising posters, whiskey bottles, and other artifacts, including several moonshine stills, are all on display.
Oscar Goldman Oscar Goldman is a fictional character created by Martin Caidin and introduced in his 1972 novel Cyborg. In the 1970s, he was portrayed by Richard Anderson in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman television series which were based upon Cyborg.
Oscar González Guerrero Oscar González Guerrero, born January 17, 1926 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist mostly known for his co-creations Hermelinda Linda and Zor y Los Invencibles. He founded along with his son and daughter-in-law, Susana Romero, ¡Ka-Boom!
Oscar González Loyo Oscar González Loyo, born April 11th, 1959 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist mostly known for his creation Karmatrón y Los Transformables and founder along with his father and wife, Susana Romero, of ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio in 1994.
Oscar González Marcos Oscar González Marcos (born 1982-11-12 in Salamanca) — commonly known as Oscar — is a Spanish professional football (soccer) player. He currently plays for Real Zaragoza as a central midfielder and wears the number 5 shirt.
Oscar Grimes Oscar Ray Grimes, Jr. (April 13, 1915 - May 19, 1993) was a utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1938-1942), New York Yankees (1943-1946[start]) and Philadelphia Athletics (1946[end]).
Oscar Gutierrez Óscar Gutiérrez Rubio (born December 11, 1974), better known by the ring name Rey Misterio, Jr., or by the more popular spelling, Rey Mysterio, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand currently taking time off after having knee surgery.
Oscar Hahn Oscar Hahn was born on 6 July 1938 in the city of Iquique, Chile. Known in Chile as one of the writers of the Generation of the 70s (also known as the "Dispersed" or "Decimated Generation"), Hahn studied at the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago during his youth.
Oscar Hartzell Oscar Hartzell (1876–1943) was an American con man who convinced many people in North America to join him in a fraudulent lawsuit against the British government. The original idea did not originate with him, but rather was a continuation of a previous scam.
Oscar HenrĂquez Oscar Eduardo HenrĂquez [en-RE-kayz] (born January 28, 1974 in La Guaira, Vargas State, Venezuela) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played for the Houston Astros (1997), Florida Marlins (1998) and Detroit Tigers (2002).
Oscar Homolka Oscar Homolka (August 12, 1898 - January 27, 1978) was an Austrian Jewish film and theatre actor. Holmoka's strong European accent, stocky appearance, bushy eyebrows and rather Slavic-sounding name led many to believe he was Eastern European or Russian, but he was born in Vienna.
Oscar Charleston Oscar McKinley Charleston (October 14 1896 - October 5 1954) was an American center fielder and manager in baseball's Negro Leagues from 1915 to 1945. Baseball historian Bill James has ranked him as the fourth best player in the sport's history.
Oscar Christian Gundersen Oscar Christian Gundersen (1908-1991) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Justice 1945-1951 and 1951-1952, Minister of Trade and Shipping 1962-1963, and Minister of Justice again 1963-1965.
Oscar J. Friend Oscar Jerome Friend (1897-1963) was primarily a pulp fiction author in various genres including horror, Westerns, science fiction, and detective fiction. As a writer he worked with both Wonder Stories and Startling Stories.
Oscar Janiger Oscar Janiger (born February 8, 1918; died August 14, 2001) was a University of California Irvine Psychiatrist who was best known for his LSD research, which lasted from 1954 to 1962. Nine hundred people took small doses (2 micrograms per kilogram of bodyweight) of LSD and recorded their experiences.
Oscar Judd Thomas William Oscar Judd (February 14, 1908 - December 27, 1995) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1941-1945) and Philadelphia Phillies (1945-1948). A native of London, Ontario, Canada, the left-hander stood 6'0" and weighed 180 lbs.
Oscar Keller Oscar Edward Keller (July 30, 1878 – November 21, 1927) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Helenville, Wisconsin, July 30, 1878; attended the public schools and the University of Wisconsin at Madison; moved to Minnesota in 1901 and settled in St. Paul; employed as a billing clerk and later engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the city council of St.
Oscar Kiss Maerth Oscar Kiss Maerth is the author of The Beginning Was the End (1969), a pseudo-scientific book that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes. According to Maerth, this diet increased the apes' brain size, sex drive, aggression, psychic ability, and eventually caused insanity.
Oscar Larson Oscar John Larson was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Uleaborg, Finland, May 20, 1871; immigrated in 1876 to the United States with his parents, who settled in Calumet, Michigan; attended the public schools; was graduated from the Northern Indiana Normal School (now Valparaiso University) in 1891 and from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1894; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Calumet in 1894; prosecuting attorney for Houghton County 1899 – 1904; moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1907 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925); was not a candidate for reelection in 1924; resumed the practice of law; died in Duluth, August 1, 1957; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Oscar López Hernández Oscar López Hernández (born May 11 1980, Cerdanyola, Barcelona), commonly referred to as Oscar López is a Spanish/Catalan footballer who currently plays as a defender for Gimnà stic de Tarragona. He has previously played for FC Barcelona, Lazio and Real Betis.
Oscar Levant Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 - August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.
Oscar Levertin Oscar Ivar Levertin (July 17, 1862 – September 22, 1906) was a Swedish poet, critic and literary historian. Levertin was a dominant voice of the Swedish cultural scene from 1897, when he started writing influential high-profile essays and reviews in the daily paper Svenska Dagbladet.
Oscar Levy Oscar Levy (1867 – August 13, 1946) was a German-Jewish physician and writer, now known as a scholar of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works he first saw translated systematically into the English language. His was a paradoxical life, of self-exile and exile, and of writing on and (as often taken) against Judaism.
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Baron Oscar Luigi ScĂ lfaro ['skalfaro] (born in Novara, September 9, 1918) is an Italian politician and magistrate, member of the Christian Democracy, President of the Italian Republic from 1992 to 1999 and senator for life.
Oscar Marion American slave and Revolutionary War militiaman, Oscar Marion was the servant of General Francis Marion (1732-1795), the legendary "Swamp Fox." In December of 2006, Oscar Marion was recognized as an "African American Patriot" in a ceremony at the U.
Oscar Mathisen Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen (October 4, 1888 – April 10, 1954) was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation (Norway became independent in 1905).
Oscar Mathisen Award Since 1959, the Oscar Mathisen Award (also known as the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Award, the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy, and sometimes the Skating Oscar) is awarded annually for outstanding speed skating performance of the season. The award was introduced by Oslo Skøiteklub (Oslo Skating Club, OSK) to commemorate the legendary Norwegian speed skater Oscar Mathisen (1888-1954).
Oscar MĂguez Omar Oscar Miguez (December 5, 1927 – August 19, 2006) was a Uruguayan footballer. He was part of the Uruguay team in the 1950 and 1954 World Cups, where he played as a striker, and is Uruguay's all-time record World Cup goalscorer with eight goals.
Oscar Milani Oscar Milani was born in Rosario, Argentina, where he studied medicine and music. A Bariloche Foundation scholarship holder, he went to Buenos Aires to specialize; harpsichord, chamber music, and interpretation on early keyboard instruments.
Oscar Millard English writer Oscar Millard (1908 - 1990) found success in Hollywood when he collaborated on the screenplay to the 1949 hit Come to the Stable, a comedy about nuns. He fared better the following year when he picked up an Academy Award nomination for the gritty war movie The Frogmen.
Oscar Montelius Oscar Montelius (9 September, 1843–4 November, 1921) was a Swedish archaeologist who refined the concept of seriation, a relative chronological dating method. Seriation is the procedure of working out a chronology by arranging material remains of a cultural tradition in the order that produces the most consistent patterning of their cultural traits.
Oscar Munoz Oscar Munoz is an American magician, 1999 winner of the "Gold Cups" award from the International Brotherhood of Magicians organization. He is also a charter member and past head of "Ring 269" in Texas.
Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture. He was a pioneer in the exploration of the constructive possibilities of reinforced concrete.
Oscar Ortiz (tennis) Oscar Ortiz (born May 9, 1973 in Mexico City) is a former tennis player from Mexico, who turned professional in 1991. The lefthander represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the second round.
Oscar party An Oscar party is any of the various parties, usually held by entertainment-media corporations, immediately following the broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony. Some sponsors, such as Vanity Fair magazine, are known for holding such a party year after year, and the influence of the sponsor can be roughly measured by the caliber of the stars that attend their party.
Oscar P. Austin Private First Class Oscar Palmer Austin (1948-1969) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded his nation's highest military honor — the Medal of Honor — for heroism and sacrifice of his own life in Vietnam in February 1969. The destroyer USS Oscar Austin, the first ship of the highly advanced Flight IIA subclass of the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer, commissioned in 2000, is named after him.
Oscar Phelps Austin Oscar Phelps Austin was an American statistician, born in Newark, Illinois, and educated in public schools. The earlier years of his life were spent in journalism, and he served as reporter, editor, and Washington correspondent for metropolitan dailies.
Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius (born November 221986 in Pretoria, Gauteng Province) is a South African Paralympic athlete. Known as "The Fastest Thing On No Legs", Pistorius is the double amputee world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres events.
Oscar RamĂrez Oscar RamĂrez Hernández (Born 8 December 1964), nicknamed "El Machillo" (The Blondie), was a Costa Rican international soccer player, whose great career is often considered as epical in his native country. Oscar played for the two most important teams in his country, LD Alajuelense and Deportivo Saprissa, becoming a star and an idol for both team's fans.
Oscar Reutersvärd Oscar Reutersvärd (1915 Stockholm–2002), "the father of the impossible figure", was an artist who pioneered the art of impossible objects. These are objects such as what was later renamed the Penrose triangle, which appear solid on the page, but cannot be built.
Oscar Riquelme Oscar Riquelme is a South American artist, previously working in Austin, Texas but now in New York City. His clean, precise style produces paintings that are accessibly attractive, but layered over social and political commentary.
Oscar Robertson Oscar Palmer Robertson (born November 24, 1938 in Charlotte, Tennessee) is an American former NBA player and is considered by many to be one of the greatest basketball players in history. Coaching legend Red Auerbach described Robertson as the most versatile player he had ever seen play.
Oscar Robertson Trophy The Oscar Robertson Trophy is given out annually to outstanding men's college basketball players by the United States Basketball Writers Association. The trophy is considered to be the oldest of its kind and has been given out since 1959.
Oscar Ruggeri Oscar Alfredo Ruggeri (born January 26, 1962 in Corral de Bustos, Argentina) is a former football player. Nicknamed "El Cabezon" ("The Big-Headed One"), Ruggeri is one of the most successful defenders ever to come out of Argentina.
Oscar S. Gifford Oscar Sherman Gifford (October 20, 1842 - January 16, 1913) was an American lawyer of Canton, South Dakota. He served six years in the United States House of Representatives, first as the non-voting delegate from the Dakota Territory, then as a full member of the House from South Dakota.
Oscar Sevilla Oscar Sevilla Ribera (born 29 September 1976, in Ossa de Montiel, Spain), nicknamed el niño, is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He is a climber with a pedigree in stage races, having finished in the top ten of the Tour de France and Vuelta a España several times.
Oscar Shaw Oscar Shaw (born “Oscar Schwartz” October 11, 1887, in Philadelphia, PA, died March 6, 1967, in Little Neck, NY), was a stage and screen actor and singer. Here is a brief chronology of some of his shows and movies:
Oscar Schlömilch Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch (1823–1901) was a German mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He took a doctorate at the University of Jena in 1842, and became a professor at Dresden Polytechnic in 1849.
Oscar Schmidt Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 9, 1958 in Natal, Brazil), known as Oscar Schmidt, Oscar Schmidt Becerra in Spain, where he played for FĂłrum Valladolid for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons, and simply Oscar or MĂŁo Santa (Holy Hand).
Oscar Stanage Oscar Harland Stanage (March 17, 1883 – November 11, 1964) was a Major League Baseball catcher. Born in Tulare, California, Stanage played fourteen seasons in the major leagues, primarily with the Detroit Tigers.
Oscar Straus (politician) Oscar Solomon Straus (December 23 1850 – May 3 1936) was United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. Straus was the first Jew to serve as a Presidential Cabinet Secretary.
Oscar Temaru Oscar Temaru or Oscar Manutahi Temaru (born November 1, 1944, at Faa'a on the island of Tahiti) is the former president (président de la Polynésie française) of French Polynesia (a French dependency with broad powers of self-rule).
Oscar Troplowitz Oscar Troplowitz (1863-1918) was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur who purchased Beiersdorf AG, which was then a laboratory and chemist's shop in Hamburg from Paul Carl Beiersdorf in 1890. Troplowitz soon expanded the company into selling brand-name merchandise as well.
Oscar Tschirky Oscar Tschirky (1866 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland - November 7, 1950, in New Paltz, New York) was maître d'hôtel of Delmonico's Restaurant and subsequently the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York, United States. He was widely known as "Oscar of the Waldorf" and produced a large cookbook (or at least had his name on it) despite not being a chef.
Oscar Unzaga Oscar Unzaga (de la Vega) (1916 - 1959) was a Bolivian political figure and rebel. He, most significantly, founded the Bolivian Socialist Falange movement in 1937, and ran for President in the 1956 elections, when his party became the main opposition movement to the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR).
Oscar V. Peterson Oscar Verner Peterson (August 27, 1899 – May 13, 1942) was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Oscar Vega Oscar Vega Sánchez (born June 27, 1965 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Ălava) is a former boxer from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was eliminated in the first round of the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) by Argentina's Remigio Molina on points (4:14).
Oscar Vicente Scavone Oscar Vicente Scavone, born on July 2 1955 in AsunciĂłn, Paraguay, is a successful Paraguayan businessman and, just recently, ended a two-year mandate as president of one of the nation's premier soccer teams, Club Olimpia. Club Olimpia was founded in 1902 by Dutchmen William Paats, and is extremely popular among the Paraguayans, having won three Copa Libertadores, as well as numerous national tournaments.
Oscar Wilde (film) Oscar Wilde is a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by William Kirby, from a screenplay by Jo Eisinger, based on a play Oscar Wilde by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes.
Oscar Wilde (play) The play Oscar Wilde, written by Leslie & Sewell Stokes, is based on the life of the legendary Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character.
Oscar Williams Oscar Williams (December, 1900 - October 10, 1964) was an American anthologist and poet. Among his influential anthologies are Master Poems of the English Language, Immortal Poems of the English Language, The Pocket Book of Modern Verse, and the Little Treasury Poetry Series, which were used in colleges and high schools around the U.
Oscar Willis Layne Oscar Willis Layne (1918-) is a Panamanian cyclist born in Panama City, Panama of barbadian parents. He is the winner of three gold medals, from the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1938, 1946 and 1950.
Oscar Wirth Oscar RaĂşl Wirth Lafuente (born November 5, 1955 in Santiago) is a retired football goalkeeper from Chile, who played for Cobreloa (Chile), Rot-WeiĂź Oberhausen (West Germany) and Real Valladolid (Spain) during his professional career. He represented Chile at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, wearing the number one jersey.
Oscar Zariski Oscar Zariski (born Ascher Zaritsky 24 April 1899 in Kobrin, Poland (today Belarus), died 4 July 1986 (Brookline, Massachusetts)) was a Belarusian-American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
Oscarito Oscarito (August 16 1906 in Málaga Spain - August 4 1970 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil) is the stage name of Brazilian actor and comedian Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Imaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz. Oscarito was born to a family of circus comedians.
Oscarsborg Fortress Oscarsborg festning is a coastal fortress in the Oslofjord, close to the small city of Drøbak. The fortress is situated on two small islets in the fjord and was military territory until 2003 when it was made a publicly available resort island.
Oscarsteatern Oscarsteatern or "Oscars" (in English: The Oscar Theatre) is one of Stockholm's finest private theatres and the most well-known musical theatre in Sweden. It's located at Kungsgatan 63 in central Stockholm.
Osceola Osceola (1804 – January 20, 1838) was a war chief of the Seminole Indians in Florida. Osceola led a small band of warriors (never more than 100) in the Seminole resistance during the Second Seminole War when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands.
Osceola County Highway 521 Osceola County Road 523, which is mostly named Canoe Creek Road, is the primary route between the city of Saint Cloud, Florida, USA, in northern Osceola County, and the ghost town of Kenansville in the county's lower reaches. The county road crosses Florida's Turnpike via two overpasses but offers no access to the freeway itself.
Osceola County Road 523 Osceola County Road 523, also known as Canoe Creek Road, is a county road in Osceola County, Florida. It connects the city of Saint Cloud to the near ghost-town of Kenansville in the lower reaches of the county.
Osceola Parkway The Osceola Parkway, signed as County Road 522 since around 2003 (and originally planned as State Road 424), is a 12 mile long toll road extending east-west across the northern boundary of Osceola County, Florida, USA roughly paralleling the border with Orange County. It connects Florida's Turnpike with the Walt Disney World Resort, and is maintained by Osceola County.
Oscilla Oscilla, a word applied in Latin usage to small figures, most commonly masks or faces, which were hung up as offerings to various deities, either for propitiation or expiation, and in connection with festivals and other ceremonies. It is usually taken as the plural of oscillum (diminutive of os), a little face.
Oscillation Oscillation is the variation, typically in time, of some measure as seen, for example, in a swinging pendulum. The term vibration is sometimes used more narrowly to mean a mechanical oscillation but sometimes is used to be synonymous with oscillation.
Oscillator (CA) In a cellular automaton, an oscillator is a pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of generations. Thus the evolution of such a pattern repeats itself indefinitely.
Oscillatory universe The oscillatory universe is the hypothesis, attributable to Richard Tolman from 1934, that the universe undergoes an infinite series of oscillations, each beginning with a big bang and ending with a big crunch. After the big bang, the universe expands for a while before the gravitational attraction of matter causes it to collapse back in and undergo a bounce.
Oscillococcinum Oscillococcinum is a homeopathic medicine believed to relieve influenza-like symptoms. Four clinical studies have shown Oscillo (for short) to reduce the duration and severity of fever, chills, and body aches and pains.
Oscillon In physics, an oscillon is a soliton-like phenomenon that results from vibrating a plate with a large number of small uniform particles placed freely on top. When the sinusoidal vibrations are of the correct amplitude and frequency a small peak, referred to as an oscillon, can be formed by locally disturbing the particles.
Oscar Albuquerque Oscar Albuquerque is the president of Pro Soccer International, LLC, an ownership group which holds the rights to American Indoor Soccer League teams in Chicago and Rockford, IL. He is a former professional indoor soccer player.
Oscar Almgren Oscar Almgren (November 9, 1869 – May 13, 1945) was a Swedish prehistoric archaeologist, whose work on Nordic types of brooches (Original title: "Nordisk och jämförande fornkunskap") published in 1897 is still influential today.
Oscar Andrews Oscar Andrews (born 24 July 1876 in Liverpool, England; died 30 October 1956 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) was an Irish cricket and field hockey player. When playing cricket he was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.
Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815 - September 5, 1866) emigrated from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1834. He along with his children operated a series of liquor and cigar stores in Manhattan, New York and Jersey City, New Jersey.
Oscar Asche John Stanger Heiss Oscar Asche, better known as Oscar Asche (26 January 1871 – 23 March 1936), was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, directed, and acted in the record-breaking musical Chu Chin Chow, both on stage and film, and for acting in, directing, or producing many Shakespeare plays and successful musicals.
Oscar Ălvarez Oscar Alvarez has held numerous positions in Honduran government, most notably his recent position as Minister of Public Security for the Republic of Honduras, which he held from January 27 2002 until November 14, 2005.
Oscar Baumann Oscar Baumann (June 25, 1864 - October 12, 1899} was an Austrian cartographer with a keen interest in ethnography. He attended classes on natural history and geography at the University of Vienna, and in 1885 was part of an Austrian exploratory expedition of the Congo Basin.
Oscar Bjornson Oscar Ferdinand Bjornson (born February 14, 1906 in Glenboro, Manitoba, died August 13, 1972) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969.
Oscar Bonavena Oscar Natalio Bonavena (September 25, 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – May 22, 1976 near Reno, Nevada, United States) was a professional boxer. He earned the nickname "Ringo" for The Beatles haircut that he sported.
Oscar Browning Oscar Browning (January 17, 1837–October 6, 1923) was an English writer, historian and educational reformer, born in London, the son of a merchant, William Shipton Browning. He was educated at Eton College where he was a pupil of William Johnson (later "Cory").
Oscar Camenzind Oscar Camenzind (born on September 12, 1971 in Schwyz, Switzerland) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. In 1998 he won the World Road Championship and the Giro di Lombardia, in 2000 he won the Tour de Suisse and he won Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2001.
Oscar Castro-Neves Oscar Castro-Neves (born May 5, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro) is a guitarist, arranger, and composer who is considered a founding figure in Bossa nova. He was born as one of triplets and formed a band with his brothers in his youth.
Oscar Cox Oscar Alfredo Cox was responsible for the introduction of football in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1901. A sport he learned a few years earlier while in Switzerland studying "Humanities" in the "La Villa" college of Lausanne.
Oscar Cullmann Oscar Cullmann (25 February, 1902, Strasbourg - 16 January, 1999, Chamonix) was a Christian theologian in the Lutheran tradition. He is best known for his work in the ecumenical movement, being in part responsible for the establishment of dialogue between the Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions.
Oscar D. Skelton Oscar Douglas Skelton (July 13, 1878 - January 1941) was a professor and author. He was the author of two books in the Chronicles of Canada series: The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Times and The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways.
Oscar Eckenstein Oscar Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 1921) was an Anglo-German rock-climber and mountaineer. He was one of the few people who readily climbed with Aleister Crowley, with whom he made an early expedition to K2.
Oscar ElĂas Biscet Oscar ElĂas Biscet-Gonzalez (born July 20, 1961) in Havana, Cuba he is a prominent Christian anti-abortion activist currently living in Cuba. He is the founder of the Lawton Foundation, an illegal group in Cuba whose stated objective is to promote human rights.
Oscar Enrique Sánchez Oscar Enrique Sánchez Rivas (born ?), popularly known as El Conejo (the rabbit) is a Guatemalan football coach and former inside forward, who played the majority of his career for the club CSD Comunicaciones, and represented the Guatemala national football team at the Olympic Games and in four FIFA World Cup qualification processes.
Oscar Espinosa Chepe Oscar Manuel Espinosa Chepe (born November 29, 1940) is a Cuban independent economist and dissident. He was one of approximately 75 dissidents arrested, tried and convicted as part of what has been widely described as a massive crackdown by the Cuban government.
Oscar Forman Oscar Forman born 16 January 1982 in Adelaide, Australia is a basketball player who currently plays for the New Zealand Breakers in the Australian National Basketball League. Forman played for the Adelaide 36ers from 2001 until 2006, winning a championship in 2002, before moving to the Breakers at the end of the 2005-2006 season.
Oscar GalĂndez Ă“scar GalĂndez (born May 6, 1971 in RĂo Tercero, CĂłrdoba, Argentina) is a triathlete. He competed at the first Olympic Triathlon, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, obtaining the twenty-eighth place with a total time of 1:50:59.
Oscar Gamble Oscar Charles Gamble (born December 20 1949, in Ramer, Alabama) is a former outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball. He played for 17 seasons, from 1969 to 1985, on seven different teams: the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees on two separate occasions, as well as the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres, and Texas Rangers.
Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey The Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey chronicles the history of American whiskey from Colonial days through the 1960s. Rare documents, advertising posters, whiskey bottles, and other artifacts, including several moonshine stills, are all on display.
Oscar Goldman Oscar Goldman is a fictional character created by Martin Caidin and introduced in his 1972 novel Cyborg. In the 1970s, he was portrayed by Richard Anderson in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman television series which were based upon Cyborg.
Oscar González Guerrero Oscar González Guerrero, born January 17, 1926 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist mostly known for his co-creations Hermelinda Linda and Zor y Los Invencibles. He founded along with his son and daughter-in-law, Susana Romero, ¡Ka-Boom!
Oscar González Loyo Oscar González Loyo, born April 11th, 1959 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist mostly known for his creation Karmatrón y Los Transformables and founder along with his father and wife, Susana Romero, of ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio in 1994.
Oscar González Marcos Oscar González Marcos (born 1982-11-12 in Salamanca) — commonly known as Oscar — is a Spanish professional football (soccer) player. He currently plays for Real Zaragoza as a central midfielder and wears the number 5 shirt.
Oscar Grimes Oscar Ray Grimes, Jr. (April 13, 1915 - May 19, 1993) was a utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1938-1942), New York Yankees (1943-1946[start]) and Philadelphia Athletics (1946[end]).
Oscar Gutierrez Óscar Gutiérrez Rubio (born December 11, 1974), better known by the ring name Rey Misterio, Jr., or by the more popular spelling, Rey Mysterio, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand currently taking time off after having knee surgery.
Oscar Hahn Oscar Hahn was born on 6 July 1938 in the city of Iquique, Chile. Known in Chile as one of the writers of the Generation of the 70s (also known as the "Dispersed" or "Decimated Generation"), Hahn studied at the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago during his youth.
Oscar Hartzell Oscar Hartzell (1876–1943) was an American con man who convinced many people in North America to join him in a fraudulent lawsuit against the British government. The original idea did not originate with him, but rather was a continuation of a previous scam.
Oscar HenrĂquez Oscar Eduardo HenrĂquez [en-RE-kayz] (born January 28, 1974 in La Guaira, Vargas State, Venezuela) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played for the Houston Astros (1997), Florida Marlins (1998) and Detroit Tigers (2002).
Oscar Homolka Oscar Homolka (August 12, 1898 - January 27, 1978) was an Austrian Jewish film and theatre actor. Holmoka's strong European accent, stocky appearance, bushy eyebrows and rather Slavic-sounding name led many to believe he was Eastern European or Russian, but he was born in Vienna.
Oscar Charleston Oscar McKinley Charleston (October 14 1896 - October 5 1954) was an American center fielder and manager in baseball's Negro Leagues from 1915 to 1945. Baseball historian Bill James has ranked him as the fourth best player in the sport's history.
Oscar Christian Gundersen Oscar Christian Gundersen (1908-1991) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Justice 1945-1951 and 1951-1952, Minister of Trade and Shipping 1962-1963, and Minister of Justice again 1963-1965.
Oscar J. Friend Oscar Jerome Friend (1897-1963) was primarily a pulp fiction author in various genres including horror, Westerns, science fiction, and detective fiction. As a writer he worked with both Wonder Stories and Startling Stories.
Oscar Janiger Oscar Janiger (born February 8, 1918; died August 14, 2001) was a University of California Irvine Psychiatrist who was best known for his LSD research, which lasted from 1954 to 1962. Nine hundred people took small doses (2 micrograms per kilogram of bodyweight) of LSD and recorded their experiences.
Oscar Judd Thomas William Oscar Judd (February 14, 1908 - December 27, 1995) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1941-1945) and Philadelphia Phillies (1945-1948). A native of London, Ontario, Canada, the left-hander stood 6'0" and weighed 180 lbs.
Oscar Keller Oscar Edward Keller (July 30, 1878 – November 21, 1927) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Helenville, Wisconsin, July 30, 1878; attended the public schools and the University of Wisconsin at Madison; moved to Minnesota in 1901 and settled in St. Paul; employed as a billing clerk and later engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the city council of St.
Oscar Kiss Maerth Oscar Kiss Maerth is the author of The Beginning Was the End (1969), a pseudo-scientific book that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes. According to Maerth, this diet increased the apes' brain size, sex drive, aggression, psychic ability, and eventually caused insanity.
Oscar Larson Oscar John Larson was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Uleaborg, Finland, May 20, 1871; immigrated in 1876 to the United States with his parents, who settled in Calumet, Michigan; attended the public schools; was graduated from the Northern Indiana Normal School (now Valparaiso University) in 1891 and from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1894; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Calumet in 1894; prosecuting attorney for Houghton County 1899 – 1904; moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1907 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925); was not a candidate for reelection in 1924; resumed the practice of law; died in Duluth, August 1, 1957; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Oscar López Hernández Oscar López Hernández (born May 11 1980, Cerdanyola, Barcelona), commonly referred to as Oscar López is a Spanish/Catalan footballer who currently plays as a defender for Gimnà stic de Tarragona. He has previously played for FC Barcelona, Lazio and Real Betis.
Oscar Levant Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 - August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.
Oscar Levertin Oscar Ivar Levertin (July 17, 1862 – September 22, 1906) was a Swedish poet, critic and literary historian. Levertin was a dominant voice of the Swedish cultural scene from 1897, when he started writing influential high-profile essays and reviews in the daily paper Svenska Dagbladet.
Oscar Levy Oscar Levy (1867 – August 13, 1946) was a German-Jewish physician and writer, now known as a scholar of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works he first saw translated systematically into the English language. His was a paradoxical life, of self-exile and exile, and of writing on and (as often taken) against Judaism.
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Baron Oscar Luigi ScĂ lfaro ['skalfaro] (born in Novara, September 9, 1918) is an Italian politician and magistrate, member of the Christian Democracy, President of the Italian Republic from 1992 to 1999 and senator for life.
Oscar Marion American slave and Revolutionary War militiaman, Oscar Marion was the servant of General Francis Marion (1732-1795), the legendary "Swamp Fox." In December of 2006, Oscar Marion was recognized as an "African American Patriot" in a ceremony at the U.
Oscar Mathisen Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen (October 4, 1888 – April 10, 1954) was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation (Norway became independent in 1905).
Oscar Mathisen Award Since 1959, the Oscar Mathisen Award (also known as the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Award, the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy, and sometimes the Skating Oscar) is awarded annually for outstanding speed skating performance of the season. The award was introduced by Oslo Skøiteklub (Oslo Skating Club, OSK) to commemorate the legendary Norwegian speed skater Oscar Mathisen (1888-1954).
Oscar MĂguez Omar Oscar Miguez (December 5, 1927 – August 19, 2006) was a Uruguayan footballer. He was part of the Uruguay team in the 1950 and 1954 World Cups, where he played as a striker, and is Uruguay's all-time record World Cup goalscorer with eight goals.
Oscar Milani Oscar Milani was born in Rosario, Argentina, where he studied medicine and music. A Bariloche Foundation scholarship holder, he went to Buenos Aires to specialize; harpsichord, chamber music, and interpretation on early keyboard instruments.
Oscar Millard English writer Oscar Millard (1908 - 1990) found success in Hollywood when he collaborated on the screenplay to the 1949 hit Come to the Stable, a comedy about nuns. He fared better the following year when he picked up an Academy Award nomination for the gritty war movie The Frogmen.
Oscar Montelius Oscar Montelius (9 September, 1843–4 November, 1921) was a Swedish archaeologist who refined the concept of seriation, a relative chronological dating method. Seriation is the procedure of working out a chronology by arranging material remains of a cultural tradition in the order that produces the most consistent patterning of their cultural traits.
Oscar Munoz Oscar Munoz is an American magician, 1999 winner of the "Gold Cups" award from the International Brotherhood of Magicians organization. He is also a charter member and past head of "Ring 269" in Texas.
Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture. He was a pioneer in the exploration of the constructive possibilities of reinforced concrete.
Oscar Ortiz (tennis) Oscar Ortiz (born May 9, 1973 in Mexico City) is a former tennis player from Mexico, who turned professional in 1991. The lefthander represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the second round.
Oscar party An Oscar party is any of the various parties, usually held by entertainment-media corporations, immediately following the broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony. Some sponsors, such as Vanity Fair magazine, are known for holding such a party year after year, and the influence of the sponsor can be roughly measured by the caliber of the stars that attend their party.
Oscar P. Austin Private First Class Oscar Palmer Austin (1948-1969) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded his nation's highest military honor — the Medal of Honor — for heroism and sacrifice of his own life in Vietnam in February 1969. The destroyer USS Oscar Austin, the first ship of the highly advanced Flight IIA subclass of the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer, commissioned in 2000, is named after him.
Oscar Phelps Austin Oscar Phelps Austin was an American statistician, born in Newark, Illinois, and educated in public schools. The earlier years of his life were spent in journalism, and he served as reporter, editor, and Washington correspondent for metropolitan dailies.
Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius (born November 221986 in Pretoria, Gauteng Province) is a South African Paralympic athlete. Known as "The Fastest Thing On No Legs", Pistorius is the double amputee world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres events.
Oscar RamĂrez Oscar RamĂrez Hernández (Born 8 December 1964), nicknamed "El Machillo" (The Blondie), was a Costa Rican international soccer player, whose great career is often considered as epical in his native country. Oscar played for the two most important teams in his country, LD Alajuelense and Deportivo Saprissa, becoming a star and an idol for both team's fans.
Oscar Reutersvärd Oscar Reutersvärd (1915 Stockholm–2002), "the father of the impossible figure", was an artist who pioneered the art of impossible objects. These are objects such as what was later renamed the Penrose triangle, which appear solid on the page, but cannot be built.
Oscar Riquelme Oscar Riquelme is a South American artist, previously working in Austin, Texas but now in New York City. His clean, precise style produces paintings that are accessibly attractive, but layered over social and political commentary.
Oscar Robertson Oscar Palmer Robertson (born November 24, 1938 in Charlotte, Tennessee) is an American former NBA player and is considered by many to be one of the greatest basketball players in history. Coaching legend Red Auerbach described Robertson as the most versatile player he had ever seen play.
Oscar Robertson Trophy The Oscar Robertson Trophy is given out annually to outstanding men's college basketball players by the United States Basketball Writers Association. The trophy is considered to be the oldest of its kind and has been given out since 1959.
Oscar Ruggeri Oscar Alfredo Ruggeri (born January 26, 1962 in Corral de Bustos, Argentina) is a former football player. Nicknamed "El Cabezon" ("The Big-Headed One"), Ruggeri is one of the most successful defenders ever to come out of Argentina.
Oscar S. Gifford Oscar Sherman Gifford (October 20, 1842 - January 16, 1913) was an American lawyer of Canton, South Dakota. He served six years in the United States House of Representatives, first as the non-voting delegate from the Dakota Territory, then as a full member of the House from South Dakota.
Oscar Sevilla Oscar Sevilla Ribera (born 29 September 1976, in Ossa de Montiel, Spain), nicknamed el niño, is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He is a climber with a pedigree in stage races, having finished in the top ten of the Tour de France and Vuelta a España several times.
Oscar Shaw Oscar Shaw (born “Oscar Schwartz” October 11, 1887, in Philadelphia, PA, died March 6, 1967, in Little Neck, NY), was a stage and screen actor and singer. Here is a brief chronology of some of his shows and movies:
Oscar Schlömilch Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch (1823–1901) was a German mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He took a doctorate at the University of Jena in 1842, and became a professor at Dresden Polytechnic in 1849.
Oscar Schmidt Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 9, 1958 in Natal, Brazil), known as Oscar Schmidt, Oscar Schmidt Becerra in Spain, where he played for FĂłrum Valladolid for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons, and simply Oscar or MĂŁo Santa (Holy Hand).
Oscar Stanage Oscar Harland Stanage (March 17, 1883 – November 11, 1964) was a Major League Baseball catcher. Born in Tulare, California, Stanage played fourteen seasons in the major leagues, primarily with the Detroit Tigers.
Oscar Straus (politician) Oscar Solomon Straus (December 23 1850 – May 3 1936) was United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. Straus was the first Jew to serve as a Presidential Cabinet Secretary.
Oscar Temaru Oscar Temaru or Oscar Manutahi Temaru (born November 1, 1944, at Faa'a on the island of Tahiti) is the former president (président de la Polynésie française) of French Polynesia (a French dependency with broad powers of self-rule).
Oscar Troplowitz Oscar Troplowitz (1863-1918) was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur who purchased Beiersdorf AG, which was then a laboratory and chemist's shop in Hamburg from Paul Carl Beiersdorf in 1890. Troplowitz soon expanded the company into selling brand-name merchandise as well.
Oscar Tschirky Oscar Tschirky (1866 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland - November 7, 1950, in New Paltz, New York) was maître d'hôtel of Delmonico's Restaurant and subsequently the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York, United States. He was widely known as "Oscar of the Waldorf" and produced a large cookbook (or at least had his name on it) despite not being a chef.
Oscar Unzaga Oscar Unzaga (de la Vega) (1916 - 1959) was a Bolivian political figure and rebel. He, most significantly, founded the Bolivian Socialist Falange movement in 1937, and ran for President in the 1956 elections, when his party became the main opposition movement to the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR).
Oscar V. Peterson Oscar Verner Peterson (August 27, 1899 – May 13, 1942) was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Oscar Vega Oscar Vega Sánchez (born June 27, 1965 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Ălava) is a former boxer from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was eliminated in the first round of the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) by Argentina's Remigio Molina on points (4:14).
Oscar Vicente Scavone Oscar Vicente Scavone, born on July 2 1955 in AsunciĂłn, Paraguay, is a successful Paraguayan businessman and, just recently, ended a two-year mandate as president of one of the nation's premier soccer teams, Club Olimpia. Club Olimpia was founded in 1902 by Dutchmen William Paats, and is extremely popular among the Paraguayans, having won three Copa Libertadores, as well as numerous national tournaments.
Oscar Wilde (film) Oscar Wilde is a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by William Kirby, from a screenplay by Jo Eisinger, based on a play Oscar Wilde by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes.
Oscar Wilde (play) The play Oscar Wilde, written by Leslie & Sewell Stokes, is based on the life of the legendary Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character.
Oscar Williams Oscar Williams (December, 1900 - October 10, 1964) was an American anthologist and poet. Among his influential anthologies are Master Poems of the English Language, Immortal Poems of the English Language, The Pocket Book of Modern Verse, and the Little Treasury Poetry Series, which were used in colleges and high schools around the U.
Oscar Willis Layne Oscar Willis Layne (1918-) is a Panamanian cyclist born in Panama City, Panama of barbadian parents. He is the winner of three gold medals, from the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1938, 1946 and 1950.
Oscar Wirth Oscar RaĂşl Wirth Lafuente (born November 5, 1955 in Santiago) is a retired football goalkeeper from Chile, who played for Cobreloa (Chile), Rot-WeiĂź Oberhausen (West Germany) and Real Valladolid (Spain) during his professional career. He represented Chile at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, wearing the number one jersey.
Oscar Zariski Oscar Zariski (born Ascher Zaritsky 24 April 1899 in Kobrin, Poland (today Belarus), died 4 July 1986 (Brookline, Massachusetts)) was a Belarusian-American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
Oscarito Oscarito (August 16 1906 in Málaga Spain - August 4 1970 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil) is the stage name of Brazilian actor and comedian Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Imaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz. Oscarito was born to a family of circus comedians.
Oscarsborg Fortress Oscarsborg festning is a coastal fortress in the Oslofjord, close to the small city of Drøbak. The fortress is situated on two small islets in the fjord and was military territory until 2003 when it was made a publicly available resort island.
Oscarsteatern Oscarsteatern or "Oscars" (in English: The Oscar Theatre) is one of Stockholm's finest private theatres and the most well-known musical theatre in Sweden. It's located at Kungsgatan 63 in central Stockholm.
Osceola Osceola (1804 – January 20, 1838) was a war chief of the Seminole Indians in Florida. Osceola led a small band of warriors (never more than 100) in the Seminole resistance during the Second Seminole War when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands.
Osceola County Highway 521 Osceola County Road 523, which is mostly named Canoe Creek Road, is the primary route between the city of Saint Cloud, Florida, USA, in northern Osceola County, and the ghost town of Kenansville in the county's lower reaches. The county road crosses Florida's Turnpike via two overpasses but offers no access to the freeway itself.
Osceola County Road 523 Osceola County Road 523, also known as Canoe Creek Road, is a county road in Osceola County, Florida. It connects the city of Saint Cloud to the near ghost-town of Kenansville in the lower reaches of the county.
Osceola Parkway The Osceola Parkway, signed as County Road 522 since around 2003 (and originally planned as State Road 424), is a 12 mile long toll road extending east-west across the northern boundary of Osceola County, Florida, USA roughly paralleling the border with Orange County. It connects Florida's Turnpike with the Walt Disney World Resort, and is maintained by Osceola County.
Oscilla Oscilla, a word applied in Latin usage to small figures, most commonly masks or faces, which were hung up as offerings to various deities, either for propitiation or expiation, and in connection with festivals and other ceremonies. It is usually taken as the plural of oscillum (diminutive of os), a little face.
Oscillation Oscillation is the variation, typically in time, of some measure as seen, for example, in a swinging pendulum. The term vibration is sometimes used more narrowly to mean a mechanical oscillation but sometimes is used to be synonymous with oscillation.
Oscillator (CA) In a cellular automaton, an oscillator is a pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of generations. Thus the evolution of such a pattern repeats itself indefinitely.
Oscillatory universe The oscillatory universe is the hypothesis, attributable to Richard Tolman from 1934, that the universe undergoes an infinite series of oscillations, each beginning with a big bang and ending with a big crunch. After the big bang, the universe expands for a while before the gravitational attraction of matter causes it to collapse back in and undergo a bounce.
Oscillococcinum Oscillococcinum is a homeopathic medicine believed to relieve influenza-like symptoms. Four clinical studies have shown Oscillo (for short) to reduce the duration and severity of fever, chills, and body aches and pains.
Oscillon In physics, an oscillon is a soliton-like phenomenon that results from vibrating a plate with a large number of small uniform particles placed freely on top. When the sinusoidal vibrations are of the correct amplitude and frequency a small peak, referred to as an oscillon, can be formed by locally disturbing the particles.
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