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Oslo School of Architecture and Design The Oslo School of Architecture and Design was established as an independent school in 1961, after having been a part of the National College of Art and Design from 1945. In 2001 the school moved into a new building in central Oslo.
Oslo String Quartet Oslo String Quartet was formed in 1991 and comprises Geir Inge Lotsberg and Per Kristian Skalstad (violins), Are Sandbakken (viola), and Øystein Sonstad (cello). It was among the 1994 prize winners of the London International String Competition, which is among the most prestigious string quartet competitions internationally.
Oslo University College Oslo University College (OUC), Norwegian: Høgskolen i Oslo (HiO) is the largest state university college in Norway, with more than 11,000 students and approx. 1100 employees Facts about OUC was established August 1] [[1994 when the Norwegian college system was restructured and 18 smaller colleges in the Oslo area merged.
Oslofjord The Oslofjord (Oslofjorden) is a bay in the south-east of Norway, stretching from Langesund in the south to Oslo at the head. The bay is divided into the inner (indre) and outer (ytre) Oslofjord at the point of the 17 km long and narrow Drøbaksundet.
Oslofjordtunnel Oslofjordtunnel or Oslo Fjord Tunnel is a subsea road tunnel under Oslo Fjord that connects Hurum municipality in the county of Buskerud, Norway to the Akershus county on eastern side of the fjord. The Oslofjordtunnel is one of the longer underwater tunnel of its kind in Northern Europe.
Oslograben Oslograben or Oslo Graben is a rift valley in southeastern Norway that includes the capital city Oslo. It is surrounded by the Scandinavian Mountains on its west and north side, and borders the northernmost point of the Skagerrak to its south.
Osman Ali Atto Osman Hassan Ali Atto (also Ato) is a Somali warlord, affiliated with the Somali National Alliance. He is a member of the Somali Hawiye clan, sub-clan Habar Gedir (sub-clan Sa'ad, lineage Reer Hilowle) and was born in 1945.
Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII Osman Ali Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung (April 8, 1886 – February 24, 1967) also named Fath Jang Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Asif Jah VII, was the last Nizam (or ruler) of the Princely State of Hyderabad in Southern India. He ruled Hyderabad between 1911 and 1948, when it was merged with the Dominion of India.
Osman Hamdi Bey Osman Hamdi Bey, (1842 Ä°stanbul - 24 February 1910 Ä°stanbul) was a prominent and pioneering Turkish painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is considered as the pioneer of the profession of museum curatorship in Turkey, and is the founder of Ä°stanbul Archaeology Museum and of the Ä°stanbul Academy of Fine Arts ((TR)Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi, today Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts).
Osman Hussain Osman Hussain (also Hussain Osman or Hamdi Isaac) is suspected of having placed an explosive at the Shepherd's Bush tube station during the failed 21 July 2005 London bombings. Born in Ethiopia, Hussain is a naturalized British citizen married to Yeshshiemebet Girma.
Osman I Osman I (1258–1326) (Ottoman: عثمان بن أرطغرل, Turkish:Osman Gazi or Osman Bey or I.Osman) was born in 1258 and inherited the title bey (chief) from his father, Ertuğrul, as the ruler of the village of Söğüt in 1281.
Osman II Osman II (also known as Genç Osman – meaning Young Osman – in Turkish) (Ottoman Turkish عثمان ثانى ‘Osmān-i sānī) (November 3, 1604 – May 20, 1622) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death on 20 May 1622.
Osman Lins Osman Lins (July 5, 1924, Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil – July 8, 1978, São Paulo, Brazil) was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. He is considered to be one of the leading innovators of Brazilian literature in the mid 20th century.
Osman Pazvantoğlu Osman Pazvantoğlu (also spelled Osman Passvan-Oglou or Pasvanoglu, Pazvan Oglu/Oğlu; 1758—January 27, 1807, Vidin) was an ethnic Bosniak Ottoman soldier, a governor of the Vidin district after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule. He is also remembered as the friend of Rigas Feraios, a Greek revolutionary poet, whom he tried to rescue from the Ottoman authorities in Belgrade.
Osmani Urrutia Osmani Urrutia RamĂ­rez (also spelled Osmany) (born June 29, 1976 in Jobabo Village, Las Tunas Province, Cuba) is one of the best Cuban baseball players today. He plays right field for the Las Tunas Magos of the Cuban National Series and for the Cuban national baseball team.
Osmanthus Osmanthus (Osmanthus) is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, mostly native to warm temperate Asia (from the Caucasus east to Japan) but one species (O. americanus) in North America (southeastern United States, Texas to Virginia).
Osmar dos Santos Osmar Barbosa dos Santos (born October 20, 1968 in Marilia) is a Brazilian middle distance runner who competes mostly over 800 metres. He started competing internationally around year 2000, and won a bronze medal at the 2004 World Indoor Championships.
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas Osmín Aguirre y Salinas (25 december 1889 - 17 juli 1977) was President of El Salvador 21 October 1944 - 1 March 1945. A Colonel in the Salvadoran Army, Aguirre led two successful coups against the Salvadoran government: once in 1931 (installing General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez in power) and again in 1944 (installing himself in power).
Osmel Sousa Osmel Sousa is a Venezuelan-CubanZiegler, Ulf Erdmann (April, 2001) "In the Theater of the Dolls - Venezuelan exhibition on the beauty pageant" Art in America 89(4):59. impresario and (as of August 2006) the president of the Miss Venezuela Organization.
Osmiotroph Osmiotrophs obtain energy by absorption of organic material from the environment and exhibit extracellular digestion of organic nutrients. They are found primarily in many types of Basal eukaryotes, particularly to the Kingdom Fungi and Kingdom Protista.
Osmium Osmium (IPA: ) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. A hard brittle blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, osmium is one of the densest natural elementsThe two competitors for densest natural element are osmium and iridium.
Osmo Soininvaara Osmo Heikki Kristian Soininvaara (born 2 September 1951 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician. He served as Minister of Health on Social Services in Lipponen's second cabinet between 14 April 2000 and 19 April 2002.
Osmo Tapio Räihälä Osmo Tapio Räihälä (born January 15, 1964) is a Finnish composer of contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various chamber music line-ups, three concertos (one for mallet instruments, a viola concerto and a cello concerto) as well as for symphony orchestra.
Osmo Vatres Osmo Vatres (May 20th, 1957-) was born in village Ribijoc near Zepa and Rogatica, from father Jakup and mother Hadzira. He begins primary education in Vratar and continues four years of secondary school in Borika and afterwards attends high school in Rogatica where begin his first social activities as secretary of Municipal conference association in Rogatica and becomes the president of local mountaineering association.
Osmo Vänskä The conductor Osmo Vänskä (born 28 February 1953 Sääminki, Finland) started his musical career as principal clarinetist of the Helsinki Philharmonic. After studying conducting at the Sibelius Academy, he won the 1982 Besançon Young Conductor's Competition.
Osmoconformer An osmoconformer is a marine invertebrate that regulates its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater. These animals keep their body fluids isotonic to the external environments.
Osmond Ezinwa Osmond Ezinwa (born November 22, 1971) is a former sprinter from Nigeria. Together with Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu and Davidson Ezinwa he won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics.
Osmond Fisher Reverend Osmond Fisher (November 17, 1817, Osmington, Dorset, England – July 12, 1914, Huntingdon, England) was an English geologist. He worked on the geomorphology of Norfolk, as well as the stratigraphy and invertebrate fossils of Dorset.
Osmond iron Osmond iron (also spelt osmund and also called osborn) was wrought iron made by a particular process. This is associated with the first European production of cast iron in furnaces such as Lapphyttan in Sweden.
Osmophile In biology, osmophillic organisms are extremophiles that are able to grow in the same manner as halophillic (salt-loving) organisms because both environments tend to have low water activities (aW). High sugar concentrations represent a growth-limiting factor for many micro-organisms, yet osmophiles protect themselves against this high osmotic pressure by the synthesis of compatible solutes such as alcohols and amino acids.
Osmoreceptor An osmoreceptor is a sensory receptor primarily found in the hypothalamus of most homeothermic organisms that detects changes in osmotic pressure. Osmoreceptors can be found in several structures, including the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT) and the subfornical organ (SFO).
Osmoregulation Osmoregulation is the active regulation of the osmotic pressure of bodily fluids to maintain the homeostasis of the body's water content; that is it keeps the body's fluids from becoming too dilute or too concentrated. Osmotic pressure is a measure of the tendency of water to move into one solution from another by osmosis.
Osmosis Osmosis is the net movement of water molecules across a semipermeable membrane from a region of low solute potential to an area of high solute potential (or equivalently, from a region of high solvent potential to a region of low solvent potential). The partially permeable membrane must be permeable to the solvent, but not to the solute, resulting in a pressure gradient across the membrane.
Osmosis (solitaire) Osmosis (also known as Treasure Trove) is a solitaire game played with a deck of 52 playing cards where the object, like many solitaire games, is to put the cards into foundations, although not in numerical order.
Osmosis Jones Osmosis Jones (2001) is a part animated, part live action film whose title character is Osmosis Jones, an anthropomorphic white blood cell. Unusually for this genre, the live action characters and cartoon characters never meet.
Osmotic stress technique The osmotic stress technique is a method for measuring the effect of water on biological molecules, particularly enzymes. Just as the properties of molecules can depend on the presence of salts, pH, and temperature, they can depend significantly on the amount of water present.
Osmund Faremo Osmund Faremo (born November 23 1921 in Hylestad, died April 16 1999) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to serve in the Norwegian Parliament from his home region Aust-Agder in 1965, and held the seat until 1985.
Osmunda claytoniana Osmunda claytoniana (Interrupted Fern) is a fern native to eastern North America and eastern Asia. In eastern North America it occurs from southern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec (up to the tree line), east to Newfoundland and south through the Appalachian mountains down to Georgia and west to the Mississippi River.
Osmunda japonica Osmunda japonica (Japanese Royal Fern or Japanese flowering fern; syn. Osmunda nipponica Makino) is a fern in the genus Osmunda native to eastern Asia, including Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, and the far east of Russia on Sakhalin.
Osmundaceae The Osmundaceae family of ferns is the only family of the order Osmundales, an order in the class Polypodiopsida or in some classifications the only order in the class Osmundopsida. This is an ancient and fairly isolated group, often known as the "flowering ferns" because of the striking aspect of their ripe sporangia.
OsnabrĂĽck OsnabrĂĽck is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, some 80 km NNE of Dortmund, 45 km NE of MĂĽnster, and some 100 km due west of Hanover. It lies in a valley penned between the Wiehengebirge and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest, which is a series of parallel ridges running SE towards Bielefeld and beyond to Detmold, that makes the generally pretty area attractive to bicycle riders, amongst others.
OsnabrĂĽck (district) OsnabrĂĽck is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Emsland, Cloppenburg, Vechta and Diepholz, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (districts Minden-LĂĽbbecke, Herford, GĂĽtersloh, Warendorf and Steinfurt) and the city of OsnabrĂĽck.
Osnabruck Township, Ontario Osnabruck is a historical township in eastern Ontario, third of the original eight "Royal Townships" established along the Saint Lawrence River in Upper Canada. It was named after a title formerly held by Prince Frederick, son of George III, who at one time was Prince-Bishop of OsnabrĂĽck in Lower Saxony.
Osnaburg Osnaburg was a coarse type of plain textile fabric, named for the city of OsnabrĂĽck (from which it may have been first imported into English-speaking countries). Originally made from flax yarns, it has been made from either flax, tow or jute yarns, sometimes flax or tow warp with mixed or jute weft, and often entirely of jute.
Osney Osney, Osney Island, or Osney Town is a riverside community in the west of the city of Oxford, located off the Botley Road, just west of the city's main railway station. It lies on an island surrounded by the River Thames, known in Oxford as the Isis.
Osney Abbey Osney Abbey or Oseney Abbey was a house of Augustinian canons at Osney, west of Oxford, England. It was founded as a priory in 1129, becoming an abbey around 1154 and being dissolved in 1539, the last abbot Robert King becoming the first Bishop of Oxford.
Osogovo Osogovo (Bulgarian and Macedonian Cyrillic: Осогово) or Osogovska Planina (Осоговска планина or Осоговска Планина) is a mountain between southwestern Bulgaria (Kyustendil Province) and northeastern Republic of Macedonia, (Kočani and Kriva Palanka municipallities). It is about 110 km long and 50 km wide, the highest peak being Ruen (Руен) at 2251 m, which constitutes the main orthographic knot on the very border between Bulgaria and the Repunlic of Macedonia.
Osogovo Bay Osogovo Bay (Osogovski Zaliv o-so-'gov-ski 'za-liv) is bounded by the south coast of Rugged Island, by Astor Island, and by the west coast of the Byers Peninsula south of Laager Point, Livingston Island, Antarctica.
Osomatsu-kun is a manga series by Fujio Akatsuka which ran in Bessatsu ShĹŤnen Sunday from 1962 to 1967. It has been adapted into two different anime series of the same name, the first in 1966, produced by Studio Zero, and the latest in 1988, which was produced by Pierrot and aired across Japan on Fuji Television and the anime satellite television network, Animax.
Osonye Tess Onwueme Osonye Tess Onwueme is a Nigerian playwright and also a professor of Cultural Diversity and English at the University of Wisconsin. In 1985 she won the Drama Prize from the Association of Nigerian Authors and has won several honors since then.
Osorkon I The son of Shoshenq I and his chief consort, Karomat A, Sekhemkheperre Osorkon I was the second king of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty and ruled around 922 BC-887 BC. He succeeded his father Shoshenq I who probably died within 2-3 years of his successful 925 BC campaign against the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Osorkon II Usermaatre Setepenamun Osorkon II was a pharaohOsorkon (II) Usermaatre of the Twenty-second Dynasty] of [[Ancient Egypt and the son of Takelot I and Queen Kapes. He ruled Egypt around 872 BC to 837 BC from Tanis, the capital of this Dynasty.
Osorkon III Usermaatre Setepenamun Osorkon III Si-Ese was the famous Crown Prince and High Priest of Amun Osorkon B, son of Takelot II by his chief consort, Kamama-Merytmut II. Prince Osorkon B is best attested in his Chronicle—which consists of a series of texts documenting his activities at Thebes—on the Bubastite Portal at Karnak.
Osorkon the Elder Akheperre Setepenre Osorkon the Elder was the fifth king of the twenty-first dynasty of Egypt and was the first pharaoh of Libyan extraction in Egypt. He is also sometimes known as "Osochor," following Manetho's Aegyptiaca.
Osowa Osowa is a neighborhood (in the past village suburb) of Gdańsk, Poland, located about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north-west from the center of the city. Mainly filled with family houses, Osowa Lake with sandy beaches and a water sport centers is also found there.
Ospedale degli Innocenti The Ospedale degli Innocenti ('Hospital of the Innocents') was a children's orphanage in Florence, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, who received the commission in 1419. It is regarded as a notable example of early Italian Renaissance architecture.
Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center (Abbreviation: OMMC) is a non-profit tertiary, general and training hospital in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It is the laboratory hospital of medical and nursing students of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, one of the Philippines' most prestigious universities.
Osprey The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is a medium-large raptor which is a specialist fish-eater with a worldwide distribution. It occurs in all continents except Antarctica, but in South America only as a non-breeding migrant.
Osprey class coastal minehunter Osprey-class coastal minehunters are designed to find, classify, and destroy moored and bottom naval mines from vital waterways. They use sonar and video systems, cable cutters and a mine detonating device that can be released and detonated by remote control.
Osprey Publishing Osprey Publishing is a British publishing company which specialises in publishing books of a military nature. They publish a line of popular series of small books illustrated with plates of uniforms, military aircraft, tanks and so on.
Ospreys (rugby team) The Ospreys (Welsh: Y Gweilch), formerly the Neath-Swansea OspreysThe Ospreys is the brand name of the team, since they now have more associates than just Neath and Swansea. The official name of the company behind the team is still Neath-Swansea Ospreys (see also Ospreys Outrage!
Osram OSRAM is one of the two largest lighting manufacturers in the world and is part of Siemens AG. This international company, with its headquarters in Munich (Germany), employs more than 38,000 people throughout the world.
Osroene Osroene (also spelled Osrohene, Osrhoene; Syriac: ܡܠܟܘܬܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܥܣܪܐ ܥܝܢܶܐ ), also known by the name of its capital city, Edessa (modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey), was an Assyrian kingdom that observed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to 244 AD. <Ref>The Revival of Spiritual Healing, by Barsom J.
Ossee Schreckengost Ossee Freeman Schreckengost (also played under name of Ossee Schreck, born Schrecongost) (April 11, 1875 – July 9, 1914) was a Major League Baseball catcher and first baseman. Schreckengost was born in New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Osseo Area School District 279 Osseo Area School District 279 is a school district in Hennepin County, Minnesota providing free public education from the primary level to the secondary level in the following areas: Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Maple Grove, Osseo, Plymouth, Corcoran, Dayton and Hassan. District 279 is the fifth largest district in Minnesota, with a student population of 22,000 The superintendent is Susan K.
Osseointegration Osseointegration is the direct structural and functional connection between living bone and the surface of a load-bearing artificial implant, typically made of titanium. It is a property virtually unique to titanium, and has enhanced the science of medical bone, and joint replacement techniques.
Ossetia Ossetia (Ossetic: Ирыстон (Iryston); Russian: Осетия, (Osetiya); Georgian: ოსეთი (Oset'i)) is an ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians, an Iranian people who speak the Ossetic language (an Indo-Iranian language). The Ossetic-speaking area south to the main Caucasus ridge is within the de jure borders of Georgia but is largely under the control of the Russian-backed de facto government of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia.
Ossetian Military Road The Ossetian Military Road (, ) is a highway constructed, between 1854 and 1889, by Imperial Russian authorities in the Caucasus. Approximately 270 km long, it runs through the Rioni and Ardon river valleys and links Kutaisi, Georgia with Alagir, Russian Federation, crossing the Greater Caucasus crest through the Mamison Pass.
Ossetian-Ingush conflict The Ingush-Ossetian Conflict refers to the inter-ethnic conflict in Prigorodny District, part of Russian federal subject of Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, which started in 1989 and developed into a full scale ethnic war in 1991 between local Ingush and Ossetian military units. According to Helsinki Human Rights Watch, the campaign of ethnic-cleansing was orchestrated by the Ossetian militants during the events of October and November of 1992 which resulted in death of more than 600 Ingush civilians and approximately 60,000 Ingush ihnabitants expelled from Prigorodny District.
Ossetra Ossetra (Osetra or Asetra) caviar comes from the Ossetra sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), weighing 50-400 pounds, and which can live up to 50 years. Ossetra caviar color ranges from warm brown to green-gray to dark blue to jet black or even albino or white.
Ossett School Ossett School & Sixth Form College is the only high school in Ossett, a town in the county of West Yorkshire, UK. Over the last five years, its results have improved significantly and it is now consistently near the top of the league tables for comprehensive schools in the Wakefield district.
Ossewabrandwag The Ossewabrandwag ("Oxwagon Sentinel") (OB) was a nationalist Afrikaner organization in South Africa, founded in Bloemfontein on February 4, 1939. It opposed South African entry into World War II on the British side, and created a paramilitary group called Stormjaers (or storm troopers), modelled on the Nazi SA, which carried out sabotage against Jan Smuts' government.
Ossi Väänänen Ossi Väänänen (born August 8, 1980, Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenseman. He was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft as their second-round pick, #43 in total.
Ossian Ossian is the narrator, and supposed author, of a cycle of poems which the Scottish poet James Macpherson claimed to have translated from ancient sources in the Scots Gaelic. He is based on OisĂ­n, son of Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill, a character from Irish mythology.
Ossie Asmundson Oscar Ingolfur "Ossie" Asmundson (Born November 17, 1908 in Red Deer, Alberta - November 2, 1964) was a Professional Hockey Right Winger who played 6 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Eagles, New York Americans and Montreal Canadiens.
Ossie Bluege Oswald Louis "Ossie" Bluege (October 24, 1900 - October 14, 1985) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Washington Senators from 1922 to 1939. He was a member of the Senators' 1924 World Series championship team, the franchise's only title before moving to Minnesota in 1961.
Ossie Clark Raymond "Ossie" Clark (June 9, 1942–August 6, 1996) was an English fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era. As a result, Ossie is now extremely well renowned for his vintage designs, the contemporary fashion era being characterised by past influences and a retro feel to design.
Ossie Ocasio Osvaldo Ocasio, (born August 12, 1955), better known as Ossie Ocasio and nicknamed Jaws, is a Puerto Rican who was a boxer and world Cruiserweight champion. He got his peculiar nickname after accidentally biting another boxer during a sparring session.
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Ossification of temporal bone The temporal bone is ossified from eight centers, exclusive of those for the internal ear and the tympanic ossicles: one for the squama including the zygomatic process, one for the tympanic part, four for the petrous and mastoid parts, and two for the styloid process. Just before the close of fetal life [Fig.
Ossification of the sphenoid Until the seventh or eighth month of fetal life the body of the sphenoid consists of two parts: one in front of the tuberculum sellæ, the presphenoid, with which the small wings are continuous; the other, comprising the sella turcica and dorsum sellæ, the postsphenoid, with which are associated the great wings, and pterygoid processes.
Ossification of tibia The tibia (a bone in the Human Body) is ossified from three centers : one for the body and one for either extremity. Ossification begins in the center of the body, about the seventh week of fetal life, and gradually extends toward the extremities.
Ossining (Metro-North station) The Ossining Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Ossining, New York via the Hudson Line and is one of four express stations on that line south of Croton-Harmon seeing most trains minus peak hour trains to/from Poughkeepsie. Trains leave for New York City every 25 to 35 minutes on weekdays.
Ossobuco Ossobuco alla milanese (sometimes 'osso buco') is a dish from Milan, capital of Lombardy, of braised veal shanks. It is invariably served with gremolata—a mix of anchovies, garlic and citrus peel—over risotto alla milanese, a saffron risotto.
Ostad Elahi Ostad Nur Ali Elahi (September 11, 1895 - 1974), born in Jeyhounabad, a small village in western Iran, was a contemporary philosopher, jurist, and musician. His father, Hajj Nematollah (1871-1919), was a charismatic mystic and prolific poet who was widely revered as a saint.
Ostallgäu Ostallgäu is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Oberallgäu, Unterallgäu, Augsburg, Landsberg, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and by the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Ostan (Geography) An Ostan is an official geographical subdivision located inside Iran; it is parallel to province in English. As of 2006, Iran has 30 Ostans and each Ostan has a markaz-e ostan, the capital city, and several Shahrestan.
Ostap Bender Ostap Bender (Russian: Остап Бендер; also Ostap-Suleyman-Berta-Maria-Bender-Bei, Bender-Zadunaysky, Ostap Ibragimovich) is a misanthropic con man and antihero who first appeared in the novel The Twelve Chairs (January 1928 - Russian: "Двенадцать стульев"), written by Russian writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. The self-described "great combinator", Ostap Bender searches in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy era in order to find a diamond treasure which was hidden into one of twelve chairs.
Ostap Veresai Ostap Mykytovych Veresai (, 1803-1890) was a renowned minstrel and kobzar from Poltava province, Ukraine. He, like no other, helped in the popularity of kobzar art not only in his country, but also outside its borders.
Ostara (band) Ostara is a music group "described in the musical press as a neo-folk / pop music hybrid" founded by Richard Leviathan] (born Richard Levy) and [[Timothy Jenn as a change of name and stylistic direction from their previous band, Strength Through Joy. Jenn left the band in 2001; current members are Leviathan, Stu Mason, Tim Desmond, and x Bronski Beat/Communards bassist Dave Renwick.
Ostara (magazine) The magazine Ostara (full title: Ostara, BriefbĂĽcherei der Blonden und Mannesrechtler, English Ostara, letter collection of fair-haired and male's laws) was founded in 1905 by the mystic Lanz von Liebenfels in Vienna. According to von Liebenfels, the magazine was published in 100.
Ostaszewo Ostaszewo is a village in Poland, in the Ciechanow District, 100 km north of Warsaw. It is composed of five parts: Ostaszewo Wielkie, Ostaszewo Panki, Ostaszewo Wloski, Ostaszewo Wola Rancza and Ostaszewo Czernie.
Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) (English: Eastern Germany Broadcasting - Brandenburg) was the public broadcaster for Brandenburg in eastern Germany from 12 October 1991 until 30 April 2003. ORB's headquarters were in Potsdam and the organisation was part of the ARD.
Oste The Oste [] is a river in northern Lower Saxony, Germany with a length of 153 km, left tributary of the Elbe. It flows through the districts of Harburg, Rotenburg, Stade and Cuxhaven and empties into the Elbe river near Otterndorf.
Osteitis fibrosa cystica Osteitis fibrosa cystica, also known as Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone, is characterized by increased osteoclastic resorption of calcified bone with replacement by fibrous tissue. It may be caused by primary hyperparathyroidism or other causes of the rapid mobilization of mineral salts.
Ostend Ostend (Dutch: Oostende, French & German: Ostende) is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. It comprises the villages of Mariakerke, Stene and Zandvoorde, and the city of Ostend proper – the largest at the Belgian coast.
Ostend Company The Ostend Company was a private company established in 1717 to trade with the Indies. The success of the Dutch, English and French East India Companies led the merchants and shipowners of Ostend in the Austrian Netherlands to desire to establish direct commercial relations with the Indies.
Ostensible authority In law, ostensible authority refers to the apparent authority of an agent (usually a company director) of a company as it appears to others,Hely-Hutchison v Brayhead Ltd [1968] 1 QB 549 at 583 and it can operate both to enlarge actual authority and to create authority where no actual authority exists.See First Energy (UK) Limited v Hungarian International Bank [1993] BCLC 1409 The law relating to companies and to ostensible authority are in reality only a sub-set of the rules relating to apparent authority and the law of agency generally, but because of the prevalence of the issue in relation to corporate law (companies, being artificial persons, are only ever able to act at all through their human agents), it has developed its own specific body of case law.
Ostensive definition An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples. This type of definition is often used where the term is difficult to define verbally, either because the words will not be understood (as with children and new speakers of a language) or because of the nature of the term (such as colors or sensations).
Osteoblast An osteoblast (from the Greek words for "bone" and "germ" or embryonic) is a mononucleate cell that is responsible for bone formation. Osteoblasts produce osteoid, which is composed mainly of Type I collagen.

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