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Oscilloscope [Tektronix] model 475A portable analogue oscilloscope, a very typical instrument of the late [[1970s. This dual-trace, dual-sweep instrument had a horizontal bandwidth of 250 MHz, a maximum vertical sensitivity of 5 mV per division, and maximum (unmagnified) horizontal sweep speed of 10 ns per division.
Osco-Umbrian languages The Osco-Umbrian languages or Sabellic languages are a group of languages that belong to the Italic language family of the Indo-European languages. They were spoken in central and southern Italy before Latin replaced them as the power of the Romans expanded.
Osculating curve In mathematics and geometry, an osculating curve is an extension of the concept of tangent. A tangent line to a curve is the straight line that shares the location and direction of the curve, while an osculating circle to the same curve shares the location, direction, and curvature.
Osculating orbit In astronomy, and in particular in astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space is the gravitational Keplerian orbit about a central body that it would have if other perturbations were not present.
Osculum The osculum is a structure in the living sponge, a large opening to the outside through which the current of water exits after passing through the spongocoel. Water exits through the osculum at a velocity of nearly 8.
Osculum infame Osculum infame is the name of a witch’s supposed ritual greeting upon meeting with the Devil. The name means The Shameful Kiss, or The Kiss of Shame since it involved kissing the devil's backside, his other mouth.
Oscuros Los Oscuros (the Dark Ones) was a group of university students who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Second Spanish Republic against the forces of Gen. Francisco Franco after the Luftwaffe bombing of Gernika.
Oscypek Oštiepok (in Slovak, plural: oštiepky) or oscypek (in Polish; also known as oszczypek; plural: oscypki, oszczypki) is a smoked cheese from Poland and Slovakia. It is an important symbol of the cultural and culinary heritage of Poland's Podhale region in the Tatra mountains (around the town of Zakopane).
Osdorp Posse Osdorp Posse was one of the first rap groups to produce rap music in the Dutch language. ‘The Posse’ was formed in 1989 by Def-P (lead singer), King (backup vocal), IJsblok (backup vocal) and Seda (beat creator).
Ose (demon) In demonology, Ose is a Great President of Hell, ruling three legions of demons (thirty to other authors, and Pseudomonarchia Daemonum gives no number of legions). He makes men wise in all liberal sciences and gives true answers concerning divine and secret things; he also brings insanity to any person the conjurer wishes, making him/her believe that he/she is the creature or thing the magician desired, or makes that person think he is a king and wearing a crown, or a Pope.
Osečina Osečina (Serbian Cyrillic: Осечина) is a town and municipality located in the Kolubara District of Serbia. In 2002, the population of the town was 3,172, while population of the municipality was 15,135.
Osebo Osebo is the common name for the leopard character of Ashanti folk tales. According to one tale, Anansi the spider captures him along with Onini the serpent and Mmoboro the hornet to give to the sky god Nyame in exchange for his stories..
Osedax Osedax is a genus of deep-sea siboglinid polychaetes, commonly called zombie or bone-eating worms, first discovered in Monterey Bay, California, in February 2002. The worms were found living in a decaying gray whale in the Monterey Canyon, at a depth of 2,800 m (9,100 feet) using the submarine ROV Tiburon.
Oseledec theorem In mathematics, the Oseledec theorem provides the theoretical background for computation of Lyapunov exponents of a nonlinear dynamical system. The theorem states conditions for the existence of the defining limits and describes the Lyapunov exponents look.
Oseltamivir total synthesis Oseltamivir total synthesis concerns the total synthesis of the antiinfluenza drug oseltamivir marketed by Hoffmann-La Roche under the trade name Tamiflu. Its commercial production starts from the biomolecule shikimic acid harvested from Chinese star anise with a limited worldwide supply.
Oseola McCarty Oseola McCarty, the humble washerwoman from Hattiesburg, Mississippi who became The University of Southern Mississippi’s most famous benefactor, drew global attention after it was announced in July 1995 that she had established a trust through which, at her death, an estimated $150,000 of her life’s savings would be left to Southern Miss to provide scholarships for deserving students in need of financial assistance. In 1998 she was awarded an honorary degree from Southern Miss.
Osgoldcross (UK Parliament constituency) Osgoldcross was a parliamentary constituency in the Osgoldcross Rural District of West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Osgoldcross (wapentake) Osgoldcross was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It included the parishes of Adlingfleet, Badsworth, Burghwallis, Campsall, Castleford, Darrington, Kellington, South Kirkby, Owston, Pontefract, Whitgift and Womersley and parts of Featherstone, Snaith and Wragby.
Osgoldcross Rural District Osgoldcross Rural District was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was created in 1938, from 19 remaining parishes of the disbanded Pontefract Rural District after three-quarters (but only a small fraction of the area) of its population had been transferred to surrounding authorities - specifically to Castleford (which took 14,145 of the 23,981 in the district in 1931), Knottingley, and Pontefract.
Osgoode Hall Osgoode Hall is the name for a landmark building in downtown Toronto which houses the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Superior Court of Justice, and the headquarters of the Law Society of Upper Canada. The buildings also housed the Osgoode Hall Law School until 1969 when the faculty was relocated to the campus of York University in suburban Toronto.
Osgoode Hall Law School Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, is one of Canada's leading law schools, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established by The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1889, Osgoode is the largest faculty of common law in Canada and, until 1957, was the only accredited law school in Ontario.
Osgoode Township High School Osgoode Township High School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the former town of Metcalfe, which is located in the largely rural southern part of Ottawa.
Oshadhiparvata Oshadhiparvata, that is the mountain of medicinal herbs, was a mythical mountain described in the Ramayana. In one of the well known and well authenticated account stated in the Ramayana, Hanuman uprooted the mountain and flew with it to the battlefield in Lanka.
Oshanosaurus "Oshanosaurus" (meaning "Oshan lizard") is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a herbivorous dinosaur, variously identified as an ornithischian or a sauropod, which lived in what is now China.
Oshare Majo: Love and Berry Oshare Majo: Love and Berry (Fashionable Witch: Love and Berry/Love and Berry Dress Up and Dance) is a cross between an arcade game and collectible card game from Sega, targeted toward girls usually between 6 and 12 years old. The game was first shown in amusement arcades on October 30, 2004, and becoming very popular among the target market in late 2005 and through 2006.
Oshawa (electoral district) Oshawa (formerly known as Oshawa—Whitby) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1955.
Oshawa (GO Station) The Oshawa GO Station serves GO Transit commuter trains and buses and VIA Rail trains running from Toronto to Ottawa and Montréal. It is located on the western limit of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, with access to Highway 401.
Oshawa Car Assembly Oshawa Car Assembly is a major car manufacturing facility in the city of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada building various automobiles for General Motors. The factory is one of the largest car plants in the world and has won a number of awards.
Oshawa Central Collegiate Institute Oshawa Central Collegiate Institute is located in Oshawa, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. The school has students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extra-curricular activities.
Oshawa Civic Auditorium The Oshawa Civic Auditorium is a 4,025-seat multi-purpose arena in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It was opened in 1964, and was home to the Oshawa Generals ice hockey team of the Ontario Hockey League from December 1964 to October 2006.
Oshawa Civic Band The Oshawa Civic Band began life in 1870 as the band of the 34th Ontario Regiment, and was a traditional Military band. However, as time passed the band evolved into its current configuration of a traditional "British" brass band (similar to those in use by The Salvation Army), which means that all parts, except for the bass trombone and percussion, are in treble clef, and the instrumentation is made up of Eb Soprano Cornet, Solo, 1st/Repiano, 2nd and 3rd Bb Cornets, Bb Flugal Horn, Solo, 1st and 2nd Eb Tenor Horns, 1st and 2nd Baritones, Euphonium, 1st and 2nd (Tenor) Trombones, Bass Trombone, EEb and BBb bass and percussion (see the picture below).
Oshawa Dodgers The Oshawa Dodgers are an amateur baseball team operating out of Oshawa, Ontario and member of the Intercounty Baseball League. The team was founded by local amateur baseball coach Troy May and began play in the 2002 season.
Oshawa, Ontario Oshawa (estimated 2004 population 150 000; metropolitan population 296 298) is a city on Lake Ontario located approximately 60 km east of downtown Toronto in Ontario, Canada. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe.
Oshea Wilder Oshea Wilder (1784-1846) was an early pioneer to southwest Michigan. Born 16 July 1784 in Gardner, Massachusetts to Elijah and Azubah (Wells) Wilder, he initially made his living as a blacksmith before entering the military to fight in the War of 1812.
Osheaga Festival The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival is a two-day rock festival in Montreal, Quebec, that was held at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène on September 2 and 3, 2006. The two day event attracted a crowd of around 25,000 people.
Oshean The Ocean State Higher Education Economic Development and Administrative Network, OSHEAN Inc., (pronounced ocean) is a consortium of non-profit organizations that was formed to foster the development of a communications infrastructure for Rhode Island's research, educational, and public service community.
Oshidashi Oshidashi, or frontal push out, is the second-most common winning technique in the martial art of sumo. To qualify as oshidashi, the winning wrestler must push his opponent out of the dohyo, or sumo ring, from the front with his arms but without extending his arms all the way.
Oshie Oshie is a small beautiful mountainous village located in the English-speaking Northwest Province of Cameroon. The people who make up part of the semi Bantu ethnic group of Cameroon are said to have originated from Mbeitong near Ntadkon in present day Mezam Division in the Northwest Province.
Oshika Peninsula The Oshika Peninsula (牡鹿半島 Oshika-hantō, also pronounced "Ojika") is a peninsula which projects southeast into the Pacific Ocean from the coast of Miyagi Prefecture in northwest Honshū, the main island of Japan.
Oshima, Fukuoka Ōshima (大島村; -mura) is a village located in Munakata District, Fukuoka, Japan. On March 28, 2005 the village is scheduled to merge into the city of Munakata at which point the village and Munakata District will cease to exist.
Oshima, Niigata Ōshima (大島村; -mura) was a village located in Higashikubiki District, Niigata, Japan. On January 1, 2005 the village merged into the expanded city of Joetsu and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Oshimizu, Ishikawa Oshimizu (押水町; -machi) was a town located in Hakui District, Ishikawa, Japan. On March 1, 2005 the town merged with the neighboring town of Shio forming the town of Hodatsushimizu and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Oshirogo A castle game (oshirogo), in relation to high-level go played in Japan during the Edo period, was an official match played by representatives of the four go houses in the castle of the shogun. In its original intention, the two players would play in the shogun's presence.
Oshiya , or "pusher", is an informal Japanese term for a worker who stands on the platform of a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours, and pushes people onto the train. When oshiyas were first brought in at Shinjuku station, they were called , and were largely made up of students working part-time.
Oshkosh North High School Oshkosh North High School is a public school located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and is a part of the Oshkosh Area School District. As of the spring of 2006, there were 1371 students enrolled in the school ranging from 9th graders to 12 graders.
Oshkosh Truck Oshkosh Truck , is a manufacturer of specialty trucks and truck bodies for defense, industrial and fire emergency applications. It is based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and employs about 7,000 people worldwide in five countries.
Oshkosh West High School Oshkosh West High School is a public school located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and is a part of the Oshkosh Area School District. As of the spring of 2006, the school had approximately 2705 students, and the building consists of 51 rooms.
Osho (disambiguation) OshĂ´ is the Japanese reading of the Chinese he shang (ĺ’Śĺ°š), meaning high-ranking Buddhist monk or highly virtuous Buddhist monk. It is also a respectful designation for Buddhist monks in general and may be used with the suffix -san.
Osho Tapoban Osho Tapoban is an international commune and forest retreat center, located at the outskirts of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The Coordinator of the Commune is "Swami Anand Arun": an intimate disciple of Osho since his early days.
Osho-Rajneesh movement The Osho-Rajneesh movement is a new religious movement founded and inspired by the Indian guru and philosopher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh aka Osho (1931 - 1990) that has survived the guru's death. Centers and groups inspired by his teachings exist throughout the world.
Oshumi Oshumi was Japan's first ever artificial satellite put into Earth's orbit on February 111970, was launched from Kagoshima Space Centre with a Lambda 4S-5 rocket. Japan became the fourth nation after the USSR, USA and France to release an artficial satellite into successful orbit.
Oshun River The Ọṣun River (sometimes spelt Oshun flows southwards through the central Yorubaland in southwestern Nigeria into the Lagos lagoon. It is one of the several rivers ascribed in local mythology to have been women who turned into flowing waters after some traumatic event frightened or angered them.
Osian Osian (Osiyan) is an ancient town located in the Jodhpur District of Rajasthan state in western India. It is an oasis in the Thar Desert, 65 km north of the district headquarters at Jodhpur, on a diversion off the main Jodhpur – Bikaner Highway.
Osiedle Tysiąclecia Osiedle Tysiąclecia (District of a 1000-year anniversary) is a district of Katowice and one of the largest districts in Europe. It is located in the northern part of Katowice, on the land once occupied by the villages of Bederowiec, Sośnina and east Klimzowiec.
Osiel Cárdenas Osiel Cardenas, a suspected leader of the Gulf Cartel (Cartel del Golfo), was arrested on March 14, 2003 in Matamoros, Mexico. He was a mechanic in Matamoros, where he also was selling cocaine, and became a "madrina" -an informant- for the Policía Judicial Federal, he entered the Gulf's Cartel by helping Chava Gomez -then the capo-, he later took control by killing him.
Osijek-Baranja County Osijek-Baranja county (Croatian: Osječko-baranjska županija) is a county in Croatia, located in northeastern Slavonia and Baranja. Its center is Osijek; other cities include Đakovo, Našice, Valpovo, Belišće, Beli Manastir.
Osim International Osim International Limited (傲胜国际企业) was originally established in Singapore in 1980 by Ron Sim, as an electrical and household appliance company under the name of R Sim Trading. With a small start-up capital, the company was mainly involved with the marketing of household products such as knives, knife sharpeners and mobile clothes drying rods.
OsinĂłw Dolny OsinĂłw Dolny (German: Niederwutzen), is a small village located in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodship. It is the site of a border crossing, on the road connecting the Polish town of Chojna with Bad Freienwalde, Germany.
Osing The Osing are the descendants of the Majapahit princes who refused to convert to Islam in the 16th century. Their population of approximately 400,000 is centered in the province of East Java in the district of Banyuwangi.
Osiou Grigoriou monastery Osiou Grigoriou monastery (Greek: Μονή Οσίου Γρηγορίου) is an orthodox christian monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. The monastery ranks seventeenth in the hierarchy of the athonite monasteries.
Osip Aptekman Osip Vasiliyevich Aptekman (Russian: Осип Васильевич Аптекман) (March 18(30), 1849 - July 8, 1926) was a Russian revolutionary, member of the Land and Liberty, and one of the founders of the Black Repartition.
Osip Brik Osip Maksimovich Brik (January 16 1888–February 221945), Russian avant garde writer and literary critic, was one of the most important members of the Russian formalist school, though he also identified himself as one of the Futurists. Osip was one of the co-founders of the magazine LEF ("ЛЕФ", Levy front isskustva—Leftist Front for the Arts), which was also an official publication for the group with the same name, and a platform for Russian Constructivist art.
Osip Kozodavlev Osip Petrovich Kozodavlev (Russian: Осип Петрович Козодавлев) (March 29, 1754 - June 24, 1819) was a Russian statesman, politician and Minister of the Interior from March 31 of 1810 to June 24 of 1819.
Osip Mikhailovich Lerner Osip Mikhailovich Lerner was a 19th century Russian Jewish intellectual and lawyer. Originally a maskil—a propagator of the Haskala, or "Jewish Enlightenment"—he later converted to Christianity and wrote a book denouncing Jews.
Osirak Osirak, also spelled Osiraq, was a 40 MW light-water nuclear materials testing reactor (MTR) in Iraq. It was constructed by the Iraqi government at the Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, 18 km (11 miles) south-east of Baghdad in 1977.
Osirini The Osirini are a tribe of cleptoparasitic apid bees, all but one species exclusively from the Neoptropics, and laying their eggs in the nests of bees in the apid tribe Tapinotaspidini; the one exceptional genus is Epeoloides, which has one North American species and one European species, both of which attack the melittid genus Macropis.
Osiris-Dionysus The term Osiris-Dionysus is used by some historians of religion to refer to a group of deities worshipped around the Mediterranean in the centuries prior to the birth of Jesus. It has been argued that these deities were closely related and shared many characteristics, most notably being male, partly-human, born of virgins, life-death-rebirth deities and other similar characteristics.
Oskar Braaten Oskar Braaten (October 25 1881 - July 17 1939) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright, born in Oslo (then Kristiania). Braaten is best-known for his popular plays and novels depicting the life of factory workers and other low class women alongside Akerselva in Oslo, published 1906-1937.
Oskar Ewald Osk(c)ar Ewald, born Oskar Friedländer, or Friedländer Oszkár (November 11, 1881, Búrszentgyörgy/Sankt Georgen, Hungary (now Borský Svätý Jur, Senica District, Slovakia) - September 25, 1940, near Oxford, Oxfordshire) was a Hungarian-Austrian philosopher.
Oskar Heinroth Oskar Heinroth (1st March 1871 – 31st May 1945) was a German biologist who was one of the first to apply the methods of comparative morphology to animal behaviour, and was thus one of the founders of ethology. His extensive studies of behaviour in the Anatidae (ducks and geese) showed that instinctive behaviour patterns correlated with taxonomic relationships determined on the basis of morphological features.
Oskar Hertwig Oskar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hessen - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the older brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig (1850-1937).
Oskar Kaufmann Oskar Kaufmann (February 2, 1873, Újszentanna/Neu Sankt Anna (today Sântana), near Arad, Romania - September 8, 1956, Budapest) was an Hungarian-Jewish architect. He was an expert of construction and design and played an active part in Berlin since 1900.
Oskar Körner Oskar Körner (January 4, 1875 - November 9, 1923) was a businessman who participated in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch. As the Nazis tried to cross over the Ludwig Bridge to get to them center of the city the police were waiting for them fully armed.
Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture at Stockholm University, dedicated to the memory of the Swedish physicist Oskar Klein (1894-1977), is held annually since 1988 by a prominent physicist, who also receives the Oskar Klein Medal. The arrangement are sponsored by the University and the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Oskar Korschelt Oskar Korschelt (d. 1941, Sachsen) (some sources erroneously give him the name Oscar or Otto) was a German chemist and engineer who introduced the Asian strategy board game of Go to Europe, especially to Germany and Austria.
Oskar Panizza Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza (12 November 1853 – 28 September 1921) was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor. He is best known for his provocative tragicomedy, Das Liebeskonzil (The Love Council,1894), for which he served a one-year prison sentence after being convicted in Munich in 1895 on 93 counts of blasphemy.
Oskar Pfister Award The Oskar Pfister Award was established by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), with the Association of Mental Health Clergy in 1983 to honor those who have made significant contributions to the field of religion and psychiatry. The recipient delivers a lecture at an APA conference during the year of award although the 2002 lecture was delivered by Susan Larson on behalf of her late husband.
Oskar Pfungst Oskar Pfungst was a German psychologist. After formal investigation in 1907, Pfungst demonstrated that the horse Clever Hans was not actually performing intellectual tasks, but was watching the reaction of his human observers.
Oskar Potiorek Oskar Potiorek (1853 – 1933) was an Austrian general who served as the Austro-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1911 and 1914. Potiorek was a co-passenger in the car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Countess Sophie Chotek when they were assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, in an event which is seen as the start of World War I.
Oskar R. Lange Oscar Ryszard Lange (born July 27, 1904 in TomaszĂłw Mazowiecki, Poland - died October 2, 1965 in London, United Kingdom) was a Polish economist and diplomat. He is probably most known for his work On the Economic Theory of Socialism published in 1936.
Oskar Sandberg Oskar Sandberg (born 13 January 1980 in Falun, Sweden), is a key contributor to the Freenet Project, and a graduate student at the Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden. Oskar collaborated with Ian Clarke to design the new "darknet" model employed in Freenet 0.
Oskar Seidlin Oskar Seidlin (February 17, 1911 — December 11, 1984); German-born American literary scholar, poet, and writer of children’s stories. He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Dieter Cunz and Richard Plant (1910–1998, his lover) under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff (q.
Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 – October 9, 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist who saved his Jewish workers from the Holocaust. He saved as many as 1,100 Jews by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in Poland and what is now the Czech Republic.
Oskar Schlemmer Oskar Schlemmer (September 4, 1888 - April 13, 1943) was a German painter, sculptor and designer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture.
Oskar Ursinus Carl Oskar Ursinus (March 11 1877 – July 6 1952) was a pioneer of German aviation and is remembered mainly for his contributions to sailplane designs and the sport of gliding. He has been nicknamed the Rhönvater ("Rhön father") because he founded Germany’s first gliding club at the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön Mountains in 1920.
Oskar Victorovich Stark Oskar Victorovich Stark (Russian: Оскар Викторович Старк) (16 August 1846 — 13 November 1928) was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and a noted explorer of Peter the Great Bay and the Far Eastern seas (the strait in Peter the Great Bay and the bay in the Tatar Strait are named after Stark).
Oskar Werner Oskar Werner (November 13, 1922 – October 23, 1984) was an Austrian actor. Born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer in Vienna, he started off his career as a stage actor, starring in the Shakespearean repertoire, until his film debut in Der Engel mit der Posaune in 1948.
Oskar, Freiherr von Redwitz Oskar, Freiherr von Redwitz (1823-1891), German poet, was born at Lichtenau, near Ansbach, on 28 June 1823. Having studied at the universities of Munich and Erlangen, he was apprenticed to the law in the Bavarian State service (1846-49).
Oskars Kalpaks Oskars Kalpaks (January 6, 1882–March 6, 1919) was the commander of 1st Latvian Independent BattalionAlso known as "Kalpaks Battalion". English translations may vary: "Latvian Separate Battalion" (Latvian: latviešu atsevišķais bataljons), "Independence Battalion" (Latvian: neatkarības bataljons).
Osker Osker were a Los Angeles melodic pop punk band who formed in 1998 and split in February 2002, ultimately due to the departure of their drummer. The line up originally consisted of Devon Williams on vocals and guitar and Dave Benitez on bass.
Oski Oski or Oski the Bear (named after the "Oski Wow-Wow" yell) is the official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley and was introduced in 1941. Up until 1941, actual live bears were used as mascots.
Osler Library of the History of Medicine The Osler Library is Canada's foremost scholarly resource in the history of medicine, and one of the most important libraries of its type in North America. The nucleus of the Library is the collection of 8,000 rare and historic works on the history of medicine and allied subjects presented to the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University by Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919).
Osler's sign Osler's Sign is named in honor of the famous Professor William Osler, Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University is an artificially and falsely elevated blood pressure reading obtained through sphygmomanometry due to arteriosclerotic, calcified blood vessels which do not physiologically compress with pressure - therefore the blood pressure reading is higher than it truly ought to be.
Oslip Oslip is a town in Burgenland, Austria, known for its viticulture. It lies in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung administrative district (Politischer Bezirk) in the federal state (Bundesland) of Burgenland in Austria (Republik Ă–sterreich).
Oslo Accords The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), were finalized in Oslo, Norway on August 20, 1993, and subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington D.C.
Oslo City Hall The Oslo City Hall houses the City Council, City administration, and art studios and galleries. The construction started in 1931, but was paused by the outbreak of World War II, before the official inauguration in 1950.
Oslo katedralskole Oslo katedralskole (the Cathedral School of Oslo), known in Latin as Schola Osloensis is a junior college located in Oslo, Norway. The school was founded in 1153 by papal delegate Cardinal Nicholas Breakspeare, and administered by the Cathedral of Saint Hallvard.
Oslo Public Transport Administration AS Oslo Sporveier or the Oslo Public Transport Administration is a municaplly owned limited company that is reponsible for planning, marketing and organising the public transport in Oslo, Norway. The compnay does not operate any public transport, but instead either awards public service obligation (PSO) contracts or negotiates contracts with Oslo T-banedrift and Oslo Sporvognsdrift concerning the operation of Oslo T-bane and the Oslo Tramway.
Oslo ricepile experiment The Oslo ricepile experiment was an examination of the dynamics of avalanches in piles of rice, and is one of the most extensive studies of whether avalanches in granular matter are an example of self-organized criticality.
Oslo Sentralstasjon Oslo Sentralstasjon (Oslo Central Station), frequently abbreviated Oslo S, is the main railway station in Oslo and the largest railway station on the entire Norwegian railway system. It is the terminus of Drammenbanen, Gardermobanen, Gjøvikbanen, Hovedbanen and Østfoldbanen and serves express-, regional- and local train services by four companies.

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