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Oceanic basin Hydrologically, an oceanic basin may be anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater, but geologically ocean basins are large geologic basins that are below sea level. Geologically, there are other undersea geomorphological features such as the continental shelves, the deep ocean trenches, and the undersea mountain ranges (for example, the mid-Atlantic ridge) which are not considered to be part of the ocean basins; while hydrologically, oceanic basins include the flanking continental shelves and shallow, epeiric seas.
Oceanic climate An oceanic climate (also called marine west coast climate and maritime climate) is the climate typically found along the west coasts at the middle latitudes of all the world's continents, and in southeastern Australia; similar climates are also found at coastal tropical highlands and tropical coasts on leeward sides of mountain ranges. Generally, they fall into Köppen climate classification Cfb or Cwb.
Oceanic Discoverer Oceanic Discoverer is an expedition cruise ship operating in Australia and Oceania. With a homeport of Cairns, Tropical North Queensland, the Oceanic Discoverer is fully registered under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) for international operation.
Oceanic Flight 815 Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, also known as Flight 815, was a fictional airline flight and crash from the television series Lost. Originally a trans-Pacific flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California, USA, the Oceanic Airlines plane suffered several instrument failures during the flight.
Oceanic languages The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, containing approximately 450 languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia.
Oceanic lightfish The oceanic lightfish, Vinciguerria nimbaria, a lightfish of the genus Vinciguerria, is found in all deep tropical and subtropical oceans and seas, from depths of 20 to 5,000 metres. Its length is between 2 and 5 centimetres.
Oceanic plateau An oceanic plateau (also submarine plateau) is an undersea large igneous province, the equivalent of continental flood basalts such as the Deccan Traps in India and the Snake River Plain in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. An oceanic plateau, as its name suggests, rises above the level of the ambient seabed.
Oceanic puffer The oceanic puffer, Lagocephalus lagocephalus lagocephalus, is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found in all tropical and subtropical oceans, at depths of between 10 and 475 m. Its length is up to 61 cm.
Oceanic Remixes and Reinterpretations Oceanic: Remixes & Reinterpretations is a compilation of remixes of songs from Isis' album Oceanic, originally released in 2002. It features many artists asked by the band to reinterpret their songs, and was initially released across a series of four 12" vinyl EPs earlier in 2004.
Oceanid In Greek and Roman mythology, the Oceanids were the three thousand children of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Each of these nymphs was the patron of a particular spring, river, ocean, lake, pond, pasture, flower or cloud.
Oceanlab Oceanlab is a vocal trance group consisting of Jonathan Grant, Tony McGuinness, Paavo Siljamäki (who also record and remix under the name Above & Beyond) and Justine Suissa, a singer who has also collaborated with other artists such as Chicane in the track "Autumn Tactics," and Armin van Buuren in "Burned with Desire," both of which were massive trance hits. Oceanlab are considered among the best trance producers of the moment, and all of their singles have been praised by DJs and trance lovers.
Oceanographic Institute of the University of SĂŁo Paulo The Oceanographic Institute of the University of SĂŁo Paulo (USP), also known as IO-USP, due to its name in Portuguese, was founded in 1946. It was originally an independent institute, sponsored by the government, but was later incorporated into the university, in 1951.
Oceanography Oceanography (from Ocean + Greek γράφειν = write), also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of physical geography that studies the Earth's oceans and seas. Oceanographers study a wide range of topics such as plate tectonics to ocean currents to marine organisms.
Oceanopapaver Oceanopapaver is the name of a plant genus established by Guillaumin in 1932 for the single species Oceanopapaver neocaledonicum Guillaumin from New Caledonia. The genus has been classified in a number of different families including Capparaceae, Cistaceae, Papaveraceae, and Tiliaceae.
Oceanos MTS Oceanos was a French built and Greek owned cruise ship which sunk off the South Africa's eastern coast in August, 1991. Launched July, 1952 by Forges Chantiers de la Gironde in Bordeaux as the Jean Laborde, it was the last of 4 sister ships built for Messageries Maritimes.
Oceans (Morning Runner song) "Oceans" is a song by English rock band Morning Runner and is featured on their debut album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now. It was released 14 August 2006 as a single from the album (see 2006 in British music).
Oceans of Fun Oceans of Fun is a tropically themed water park that opened on May 31, 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri to celebrate Worlds of Fun's 10th year anniversary. At the time it was opened it was the largest water park in the world.
Oceans of Kansas Paleontology Oceans of Kansas Paleontology is a website founded in 1996 by Michael J. Everhart, a paleontologist specializing in Cretaceous marine reptiles, mosasaurs in particular, of western Kansas,Media Relations and Marketing.
Oceans of the Mind Oceans of the Mind was a quarterly science fiction magazine published in 2001-2006. Each themed issue focused on some aspect of the future, such as space colonization, future crime, spirituality, or the military.
Oceanside (Amtrak station) Oceanside is a station on Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner passenger train route located in Oceanside, California. It is located at the Oceanside Transit Center, which is also the northern terminus of the San Diego Coaster and the southern terminus of the Metrolink Orange County Line.
Oceanside, British Columbia Oceanside is a name adopted for a group of communities on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Regional District of Nanaimo and includes the City of Parksville and the Town of Qualicum Beach as well as the unincorporated communities of Nanoose Bay, Coombs, Errington, French Creek, Bowser, Deep Bay, Qualicum Bay and a few other smaller centres.
Oceanside, New South Wales Oceanside is the a new subdivision opened up at South West Rocks, New South Wales, Australia in Kempsey Shire. The subdivision is located at the entrance to South West Rocks, around the new The Rocks Shopping Fair.
Oceansize Oceansize are a five-piece progressive rock group based in Manchester, England. Formed in 1998, Oceansize have gone on to release two full length albums; Effloresce (2003) and Everyone Into Position (2005), the EP Music For Nurses (2004), in addition to a number of minor EPs and singles.
Oceanus In the Greek and Roman world-view, Oceanus (Greek , Okeanos), was the world-ocean, which they believed to be an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Okeanos was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere (oikoumene).
Oceanus Procellarum Oceanus Procellarum (), Latin for "Ocean of Storms", is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of Earth's Moon. Its name derives from the old superstition that its appearance during the second quarter heralded bad weather.
Ocellaris clownfish The Ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) or false Percula clownfish is a popular aquarium fish. It is very closely related to the Percula clownfish and often lives in association with the sea anemone Heteractis magnifica, using them for shelter and protection.
Ocellate triplefin The ocellate triplefin, Apopterygion oculus, is a threefin blenny of the family Tripterygiidae, found around the coast of New Zealand to depths of between 14 and 186 m in reef areas of broken rock and shellgrit. Its length is up to 6.
Ocellated angelshark The ocellated angelshark, Squatina tergocellatoides, is an angel shark of the family Squatinidae found only from the Taiwan Straits in the western Pacific between latitudes 28° N and 22° N. Its length is up to 63 cm.
Ocellated frogfish The ocellated frogfish, Antennarius ocellatus, is a frogfish of the family Antennariidae, found in the western Atlantic including the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea, to depths of 150 m. Its length is up to 38 cm.
Ocellated lizard Timon lepidus, the Ocellated Lizard (Portuguese: sardĂŁo, Spanish: Lagarto ocelado) is a species of Timon, a genus of lizard sometimes regarded as a subgenus of Lacerta, both of which belong to the family of Lacertidae, the wall lizards.
Ocelot The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), also known as painted leopard, tigrillo or McNenney's wildcat, is a wild cat distributed over South and Central America and Mexico, but has been reported as far north as Texas and in Trinidad, in the Caribbean. It can be up to 100 cm (3'2") in length, plus 45 cm (1'6") tail length, and weighs 10-15 kg (about 20-33 pounds).
Ocelot Gecko The Pictus Gecko (Paroedura pictus) is a nocturnal ground dwelling gecko found in the leaf litter in forests on the island of Madagascar. It is sometimes seen in the herpetology world as the Madagascar Ground Gecko, Ocelot gecko, Malagasy fat tailed gecko, or Panther Gecko.
Ocelot Unit The Ocelot Unit (also known as the Ocelot Unit of Spetsnaz) is a fictional military forces unit commanded by Major Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. During the Virtuous Mission, the Ocelot Unit attacks Snake while he is trying to escape with Sokolov.
Ocidelus Ocidelus (or Ocodelus KJV) is a character from the apocryphal (or "deuterocanonical") First Book of Esdras. His name is given in the Codex Alexandrinus as Okeidelos; in the Codex Vaticanus and Swete, as Okailedos; in the Fritzsche edition, Okodelos; and in the King James Version and Fritzsehe as Ocodelus.
Ocilla and Irwinville Railroad The Ocilla and Irwinville Railroad began operations in 1900, operating a 10 mile line between Ocilla, GA and Irwinville, GA. It had only one locomotive and the railroad was purchased in 1903 by the Brunswick and Birmingham Railway.
Ocilla and Valdosta Railroad Chartered in 1903, the Ocilla and Valdosta Railroad had originally planned on building a railroad from Macon, GA to Valdosta, GA. In 1905 it acquired track between Broxton, GA and Hazlehurst, GA from the Broxton, Hazlehurst and Savannah Railroad.
Ockelbo-Lundgren Ockelbo-Lundgren, or Erik Lundgren as his real name was, firs became known during the 1940s when he became known as "Trollkarlen frĂĄn Ockelbo" (The Wizard from Ockelbo) when he in a Ford 38 powered by a V8 engine with eight carburettors producing 280 hp participated in several races in speeds up to 220 km/h. He was a forest farmer and car dealer.
Ocklawaha Valley Railroad The Ocklawaha Valley Railroad, originally the Ocala Northern Railroad, was a railroad running from Silver Springs Junction, Florida (east of Ocala, Florida) to Palatka, Florida, running roughly parallel to the Oklawaha River. Except for the southern most part, from Silver Springs Junction to Silver Springs, which was leased from the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (with trackage rights on the SAL main line to Ocala), the railroad never had any corporate relationship with larger railroad companies.
Ockley Ockley is an historic village in Surrey, built on Stane Street, a Roman Road stretching from Chichester to London. Situated between Dorking and Horsham, close to the Sussex/Surrey border, Ockley nestles in the shadows of Leith Hill, the highest point in South east England.
Oconee and Western Railroad Organized in 1892, the Oconee and Western Railroad was founded to take over operations of the failed Empire and Dublin Railroad. The E&D had built a line from Dublin, GA to Hawkinsville, GA and in 1896 the O&W had started to extend the line to Grovania, GA.
Oconee Nuclear Generating Station The Oconee Nuclear Station is located in Seneca, South Carolina, and has an energy output capacity of over 2,500 megawatts. It is the second nuclear power plant in the United States to have its license extended by the U.
Oconee Ranger District The Oconee Ranger District is the ranger district that serves the Oconee National Forest, one of two forests that are combined into the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. The district is spread over eight Georgia.
Oconee River The Oconee River is a river which has its origin in Hall County, Georgia, and terminates 170 miles (274 km) later where it joins the Ocmulgee River to form the Altamaha River near Lumber City at the borders of Montgomery County, Wheeler County, and Jeff Davis County. Below the northern part of the river, known as the North Oconee River, the two forks of the river converge to form what is known as the Middle Oconee River.
Oconto River Located in northeastern Wisconsin, the Oconto River is a tributary of Lake Michigan via the Bay of Green Bay. The Oconto River is 209 miles long, stretching from its headwaters, near Wabeno, Wisconsin and empties into the Bay of Green Bay in the city of Oconto.
Ocotal Ocotal is the capital of the department of Nueva Segovia in Nicaragua, Central America, located within the municipality of Ocotal. Ocotal is located 13 miles (21 kilometers) south of the Honduras border on the Pan-American Highway.
Ocotea Ocotea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. The genus includes over 200 species of evergreen trees and shrubs, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America, the West Indies, also with a few species in Africa and Madagascar, and one, Ocotea foetens (Til or Tilo), native to the islands of Macaronesia.
Ocotea usambarensis Ocotea usambarensis is a species of Ocotea (family Lauraceae), native to eastern Africa in Kenya, Tanzania, and locally in Uganda, where it occurs at 1600-2600 m altitude in high rainfall montane cloud forest. Common names include East African Camphorwood, Mkulo (Tanzania), Mwiha (Uganda), Muwong, and Maasi.
Ocotepeque Ocotepeque is a town and municipality in the Honduran department of Ocotepeque. Located 15 miles from the Honduran- El Salvadoran border as well as the Honduran- Guatemalan border, Octotepeque is on the first municipalities encountered when traveling between the countries.
Ocotillo The ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens - also called the coachwhip, Jacob's staff, and the vine cactus) is a curious, and unique desert plant of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. For much of the year, the plant appears to be an arrangement of large dead sticks, although closer examination reveals that the stems are partly green.
Octacube Octacube (by Mindscope) is a type of mind-teaser puzzle made up of eight cubes with colors on the faces. The object of the puzzle is to arrange the eight cubes into a 2x2x2 cube such that all faces show the same color and all internal colors which touch are the same color.
Octadecanoid pathway The Octadcanoid pathway is a reasonably well characterized biosynthetic pathway for the production of the phytohormone jasmonic acid (JA). JA is synthesized from alpha linolenic acid, which can be released from the plasma membrane by certain lipase enzymes.
Octahedral cluster Octahedral clusters are inorganic or organometallic hexameric cluster compounds based on an octahedral geometry. One important class of octahedral clusters are octahedral chalcohalide clusters of the type M6X12L6 where M is a metal usually of group 6 or group 7, X is a ligand and more specifically an inner ligand of the chalcohalide group such as chlorine or sulfur and L is an outer ligand.
Octahedral molecular geometry In chemistry, octahedral molecular geometry describes a molecular geometry in which 6 ligands are symmetrically arranged around a central atom in an octahedral geometry. All six ligands are chemically equivalent.
Octahedral number An octahedral number is a figurate number that represents an octahedron, or two pyramids placed together, one upside-down underneath the other. The octahedral number for n can be obtained by adding the n-1 and n square pyramidal numbers together, or by using the following formula:
Octal Debugging Technique Octal Debugging Technique, or ODT, was the name of several debugger programs originally developed for DEC hardware. Various software systems including OS/8, RT-11, RSX-11, and RSTS/E implemented ODT as did the firmware console of all of the LSI-11-family processors including the 11/03, 11/23/24, 11/53, 11/73, and 11/83/84.
Octane (film) Octane (aka Pulse in the United States) is a 2003 film by Marcus Adams. The story follows Senga Wilson, a recently divorced woman, trying to save her 15 year old daughter Natasha from a bizarre cult obsessed with blood and cars.
Octanitrocubane Octanitrocubane (C8(NO2)8) is a powerful high explosive, that, like TNT, is shock-insensitive (not readily detonated by shock). The octanitrocubane molecule has the same chemical structure as cubane (C8H8) except all eight hydrogen (H) atoms are each replaced by nitro (NO2) groups.
Octanol Octanol is a straight chain fatty alcohol with eight carbon atoms and the molecular formula CH3(CH2)7OH. Although the term octanol usually refers exclusively to the primary alcohol 1-octanol, there are other less common isomers of octanol such as the secondary alcohol, 2-octanol.
Octapod Octapod is a not for profit independent arts and new media organisation based in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Octapod supports a number of projects, community groups and creative types by providing an administrative base and important resources including a large meeting space, web hosting, zine library and project management advice.
Octatonic scale In music, a diminished scale (set 8-28, 0235689e) is a scale in which the notes of the scale ascend in alternating intervals of a whole step and a half step. Because a scale constructed in such a way has eight tones (versus seven for diatonic scales), it is sometimes called an eight-tone or octatonic scale (there are other possible eight-tone scales, but the diminished is by far the most common).
Octav Băncilă Octav Băncilă (February 4, 1872—April 3, 1944) was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. He was the brother of Sofia Nădejde, a feminist journalist, and the brother-in-law of Ion Nădejde (an atheist and socialist thinker, editor of the magazine Contemporanul).
Octave (album) The Moody Blues reformed in 1978 after a six-year hiatus to record Octave, the groups' eighth album. However, the album was the last for the group with keyboardist Mike Pinder, who departed after the album's sessions, declining an offer to tour with the group.
Octave Crémazie Octave Crémazie (April 16, 1827 – January 16, 1879) was a French Canadian poet. He has been called "the father of French-Canadian poetry" for his patriotic verse, often rhetorical in style, celebrating such subjects as Montcalm's defence of Fort Carillon in "Le drapeau de Carillon".
Octave effect Octave-effect boxes are a type of special effects unit which mix the input signal with a synthesised signal whose musical tone is an octave lower or higher than the original. The synthesised octave signal is derived from the original input signal by halving (octave-down) or doubling (octave-up) the frequency.
Octave Chanute Octave Chanute (18 February 1832 - November 23 1910) was an American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer. He provided the Wright brothers with help and advice, and helped to publicise their flying experiments.
Octave Chanute Award This award was created about 1901 by the Western Society of Engineers for papers of merit on engineering innovations. It is now called the "Chanute Flight Award" and is awarded by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
Octave illusion Discovered by Diana Deutsch in 1973, the octave illusion is an auditory illusion produced by simultaneously playing two sequences of two notes that are spaced an octave apart, high to low, and low to high, in separate stereo channels over headphones. People who are right-handed tend to hear the higher pitch as being in their right ear while the results are mixed for left-handed people.
Octave Lapize Octave Lapize (24 October 1887 in Montrouge– 14 July 1917 Toul) was a French professional road racing cyclist who is most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the Men's 100 kilometres. In addition, he is a 3-time winner of the one-day classic, Paris-Roubaix.
Octave Levenspiel Octave Levenspiel is an Emeritus professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. He is recognized by the chemical engineering community as the father of chemical reaction engineering, a branch of chemical engineering studying the application of chemical reaction kinetics to the design of chemical reactors.
Octave Mannoni Octave Mannoni (1899 – 1989) was a French psychoanalyst and author. After spending more than twenty years in Madagascar, Mannoni returned to France after World War II where he, inspired by Lacan, published several psychoanalytic books and articles.
Octave Mirbeau Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières - February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.
Octave scale An octave scale is named for the musical note that begins and ends a musical scale. However, though the notes are the same they remain an octave apart, or in other words, the end note is double the frequency of the beginning note.
Octavia (Seneca play) Octavia, a play in Latin traditionally attributed to Seneca the Younger, focuses on three days in AD 62, during which Nero divorced and exiled one wife (Claudia Octavia) and married another (Poppaea Sabina). Ferri argues that the play was actually written later in the 1st century, after the deaths of Nero and Seneca, and that it would be almost inconceivable that Seneca would have written such a dangerous play.
Octavia Boulevard Octavia Boulevard is a broad San Francisco, California, street that replaced the Hayes Valley portion of the damaged and disliked two-level Central Freeway. Once a portion of Octavia Street alongside shadowy, fenced-off land beneath the elevated U.
Octavia Hill Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912) was an English social reformer, particularly concerned with the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, specifically London, in the second half of the 19th century.
Octavia Minor Octavia Minor (69 - 11 BC), also known as Octavia the Younger or simply Octavia, was the sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus, and half sister of Octavia Thurina Major. She was one of the most prominent women in Roman history, respected and admired by contemporaries for her loyalty, nobility and humanity and for maintaining traditional Roman feminine virtues.
Octavia of the Julii Octavia of the Julii is a fictional character in the HBO/BBC2 original television series Rome, played by Kerry Condon. The basis for the character is the Roman matron Octavia Thurina Minor, but bears little actual resemblance to her life and character.
Octavin The octavin is a woodwind instrument with a conical bore and a single reed. As such it resembles a saxophone, and its range is similar to that of a soprano saxophone, but the octavin differs in three respects: first, its conical bore has a smaller taper than that of a saxophone; second, its body is made of wood, rather than metal; third, its usual shape is similar to that of a bassoon, having two parallel straight sections joined at the bottom, with the mouthpiece attached to the top of one section and a metal bell to the top of the other.
Octavio Zaya Octavio Zaya is a critic and independent curator, who was born in Las Palmas (Canary Islands), and has lived in New York since 1978. Currently an Advisor for MUSAC (Leon) he has worked on many notable independent curatorial projects including: a retrospective of Shirin Neshat (MUSAC, Leon), a group show of Contemporary Iranian Artists (Koldo Michelena, San Sebastian and Kunsforeningen, Copenhague), an exhibition of emerging international artists (with Yuko Hasegawa and Augstin Perez Rubio, MUSAC) and another project with Fernando Renes (TRANS>area, New York).
Octavo (Discworld) In the fictional Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, the Octavo is the Creator's own grimoire and thus the most powerful book of magic on the Discworld. Despite its importance, its appearance is rather plain; it is a large, yet unimpressive book bound by brown leather, with an illustration of Bel-Shamharoth on the cover.
Octavus Roy Cohen Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959) was an American author, born in South Carolina where he received his secondary education at the Porter Military Academy, and college education and the Clemson University. Between 1910 and 1912 he worked in the editorial departments of the Birmingham Ledger, the Charleston News and Courier, the Bayonne Times, and the Newark Morning Star.
Octessence The Octessence is a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe. It was made up of eight great mystical entities -- Balthakk, Cyttorak, Farallah, Ikonn, Krakkan, Raggadorr, Valtorr, and Watoomb -- who gathered to determine who amongst them was most powerful.
OctetString The commercial name OctetString refers to the former software firm based in Schaumburg, Illinois, that published OctetString Virtual Directory (VDE), a LDAP based virtual directory product focused on the identity management segment of the security software market.
Octobass The octobass is an extremely large bowed string instrument constructed about 1850 in Paris by the French luthier Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1798-1875). It has three strings and is essentially a larger version of the double bass (the specimen in the collection of the Musée de la Musique in Paris measures 3.
October 1970 (film) October 1970 is an eight-part series that played on Canadian television in October and November 2006. It is a dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada when members of the nationalist terrorist group the Front de libération du Québec abducted British Trade Commissioner James Cross and then Pierre Laporte, the Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour whom they murdered.
October 2005 in Australia and New Zealand This page deals with current events that take place in or are of interest to Australia, New Zealand, and/or the territories of those countries (such as Norfolk Island and Ross Dependency), and/or current events that involve Australians and/or New Zealanders.
October 2006 October 2006 was a month with thirty-one days, like all Octobers, that began on a Sunday. The month was marked by a nuclear test by North Korea that prompted that passing of Resolution 1718 by the United Nations Security Council.
October 2006 in Oceania * Australian Prime Minister John Howard vows to investigate claims that West Papuan dissidents are trying to manipulate Australia's asylum system. Australian Government will contest a Federal Court] ruling that granted [[native title over the Perth metropolitan area to the Nyoongar.
October Crisis The October Crisis was a series of dramatic events triggered by two terrorist kidnappings by members of the Front de libération du Québec in the province of Quebec, Canada, in October 1970, which ultimately resulted in a brief invocation of the War Measures Act by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
October Diploma The October Diploma was a constitution adopted by Habsburg Emperor Franz Josef on October 10, 1860. The Diploma attempted to increase the power of the conservative nobles by giving them more power over their own lands through a program of aristocratic federalism.
October Eleven Pictures October Eleven Pictures is an Irish Production Company based in Dublin, Ireland. It is a company dedicated to the development and encouragement of new and existing talent in the arenas of film, design and music.
October Lewis October Martinique Lewis was a member of a terrorist group dubbed the Portland Seven, some members of which attempted to travel to Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 in order to aid the Taliban. Lewis was sentenced to three years in a federal prison camp after cooperating with the government and pleading guilty to six counts of money laundering.
October Manifesto The October Manifesto () was issued on October 17 1905; October 30 in the Gregorian calendar) by Emperor Nicholas II of Russia under the influence of Count Sergei Witte as a response to the Russian Revolution of 1905. The official name of the document is The Manifesto on the Improvement of the State Order (Манифест об усовершенствовании государственного порядка).
October Moon October Moon is a 2005 independent horror film directed by Jason Paul Collum about a male homosexual relationship that turns sour. The film stars Judith O'Dea, Brinke Stevens, Sean Michael Lambrecht, Jeff Dylan Graham, and Jerod Howard.
October Palace, Kiev The October Palace () in Kiev, Ukraine was designed by architect Vikentiy Beretti in the early 1900s. Renamed as the International Center of Culture and Arts () after Ukrainian independence in 1991, the palace has been used for different purposes throughout its history.
October Project October Project is an adult-alternative pop/rock band. The original group members from 1993 through 1996, the Epic Records years, were Mary Fahl (lead vocals), Marina Belica (vocals, keyboards), David Sabatino (vocals, guitars), and husband-and-wife Emil Adler (vocals, keyboards, melodies) and Julie Flanders (lyrics).
October Revolution The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution or sometimes the November Revolution,See Adoption of the Gregorian calendar and Old Style and New Style dates. The Gregorian calendar was introduced there much later—on February 14 1918.
October surprise An October surprise is American political jargon describing a stunning news event with the potential to influence the outcome of an election, particularly one for the presidency. It is so called because Election Day in the U.
October surprise conspiracy The October Surprise Conspiracy was an alleged plot that claimed representatives of the 1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign had conspired with Islamic Republic of Iran to delay the release of 52 Americans held hostage in Tehran until after the 1980 U.S.
Octobre Octobre is a 1994 Quebec movie by filmmaker and noted independentist Pierre Falardeau. It tells a fictionalized version of the October Crisis from the point of view of the Chénier Cell, the FLQ terrorist cell who in 1970 kidnapped and executed Quebec minister and Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte.

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