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Oswaldo Peraza Oswald José Peraza [pay-RAH-za] (born October 19, 1962 in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Baltimore Orioles (1988). He batted and threw right-handed.
Oswalt Kolle Oswalt Kolle (born October 2 1928) is a German sex educator, who became famous during the 1960s for his numerous books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into all major languages, while his films found an audience of 140 million worldwide.
Oswego East High School Oswego East High School, or OEHS, is a public four-year high school located in Oswego, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Oswego Community Unit School District 308, which also includes Oswego High School.
Oswego High School (Illinois) Oswego High School, or OHS, is a public four-year high school located in Oswego, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Oswego Community Unit School District 308, which also includes Oswego East High School.
Oswell Blakeston Oswell Blakeston was the pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher (1907 - 1985), a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry, made some experimental films, and wrote extensively on film theory. He was also a poet, and wrote in non-fiction areas including travel, cooking and pets.
Oswestry Rural Oswestry Rural is a geographically large civil parish in the borough of Oswestry, Shropshire, England. It is situated south of Oswestry itself, and extends from the border with Wales in the west, all the way to the eastern border of the district with North Shropshire.
Osymyso Osymyso (real name Mark Nicholson) is a musician and DJ from the United Kingdom who specializes in the genres of bastard pop and breakbeat. He has been making music since 1994, but he released his first album, Welcome to the Pailindrome, in 1999.
OS Duraisamy Gounder OS Duraisamy Gounder (commonly known as OSD or Maniyakarar) is from a wealthy, landowning, agricultural community. As a seasoned politician and well polished man ,he held the Member of Legislative Council (MLC) positions at the State(TN,India) Assembly in MGR Cabinet.
OS-9 OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user, Unix-like operating systems, developed in the 1980s, originally by Microware Systems Corporation for the Motorola 6809 microprocessor. It is currently owned by RadiSys Corporation.
OS-tan The OS-tans are an Internet phenomenon on Futaba Channel; the OS-tan or simply OS Girls are the personification of several operating systems by various amateur Japanese artists. Although a pure fan creation, the appearance of each OS Girl is generally consistent across artists.
OS/2 High Performance File System HPFS or High Performance File System is a file system created specifically for the OS/2 operating system to improve upon the limitations of the FAT file system. It was written by Gordon Letwin and others at Microsoft and added to OS/2 version 1.
OS/360 OS/360 (Operating System/360) was a batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360 mainframe computer, announced in 1964. OS/360 was amongst the earliest operating systems to make direct access storage devices a prerequisite for its operation.
OS/8 OS/8 was the primary operating system used on the Digital PDP-8 minicomputer. OS/8 was originally called MS/8 and, for a brief time, PS/8 ("Programming System/8") before Digital settled on the name OS/8 in 1971.
OSAPAC The OSAPAC Committee (Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee) is composed of English and French representatives from across the province of Ontario who advise the Ministry of Education on the acquisition of provincial software licenses for publicly funded schools in Ontario, Canada.
OSC Bremerhaven OSC Bremerhaven is a German sports club based in Bremen, in the federal state of the same name, and was founded in 1972 as Olympischer Sport-Club Bremerhaven in a merger of various local football clubs including ATS Bremerhaven, which has roots going back to 1859, Polizei Sportverein, TuS Bremerhaven 93, and the Judo-Klub. They are the largest sports club in the city, claiming some 4500 members, but football is not their primary focus.
OSCAR McMaster OSCAR McMaster is a web-based electronic medical record (EMR) system developed for academic primary care clinics. The name is derived from where it was created and an acronym; OSCAR stands for Open Source Clinical Application and Resource and McMaster refers to McMaster University, where it was developed.
OSCC Olympic Security Command Centre (OSCC) was formed in 1995 to plan for and conduct security of the 2000 Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games. The OSCC was commanded by Assistant Commissioner Paul McKinnon of the NSW Police.
OSCE Minsk Group The OSCE Minsk Group was created in 1992 by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE, now Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)) to encourage a peaceful, negotiated resolution to the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media functions as a watchdog on media developments in all 56 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The Representative provides early warning on violations of freedom of expression and promotes full compliance with OSCE principles and commitments regarding freedom of expression and press freedom.
OSEKtime OSEK, an acronym for Offene Systeme und deren Schnittstellen fĂĽr die Elektronik in Kraftfahrzeugen (German: "Open Systems and their interfaces for the Electronics in Motor vehicles"), is a small, static operating system for microcontrollers, mainly used in automotive engine control units.
OSGi The OSGi Alliance (formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative) is an open standards organization founded in March 1999. Over the past few years it has specified a Java-based service platform that can be remotely managed.
OSI model The Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model (OSI Reference Model or OSI Model for short) is a layered, abstract description for communications and computer network protocol design, developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnection initiative. It is also called the OSI seven layer model.
OSI protocols The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) protocols are a family of information exchange standards developed jointly by the ISO and the ITU-T from 1977 onwards. The OSI model describes seven 'layers' of interconnection: the physical layer, the data link layer, the network layer, the transport layer, the session layer, the presentation layer, and the application layer.
OSIRIS OSIRIS is the name of two entirely separate astronomical instruments, and also a proposed space mission. The duplication of names is coincidental, though partly driven by two teams trying to make acronyms using similar words.
OSMP The Open Source Metaverse Project, or OSMP, is a massively multi-participant shared virtual world online platform. This platform is free and open source software co-founded in 2004 by Hugh Perkins and Jorge Lima.
OSNAZ OSNAZ (Russian: [voiska] osobogo naznacheniya, ОСНАЗ = [войска] особого назначения, "special purpose [detachments]") were special forces troops within the KGB (its predecessors and its successor, Federal Security Service) and the MVD.
OSS Detachment 101 Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services operated in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. On January 17, 1946, it was awarded a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation by Dwight Eisenhower, who wrote, "The courage and fighting spirit displayed by its officers and men in offensive action against overwhelming enemy strength reflect the highest tradition of the armed forces of the United States".
OSS Watch OSS Watch is the UK's advisory service for issues relating to open source software in the Further Education and Higher Education sectors. It provides briefing materials about the legal, social, technical and economic aspects of open source software via its website, and organises and attends conferences and workshops.
OSType OSType (also known as FourCC or ResType) is the name of a four-byte sequence commonly used as an identifier in Mac OS. While the bytes can have any value, they are usually characters from the ASCII or Mac OS Roman character sets.
OSU College of Medicine and Public Health The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health is the medical school at The Ohio State University and is located in Columbus, Ohio. The college is considered one of the top medical schools in the United States as indicated by rankings in US News and World Report.
OSUNY OSUNY (Ohio Scientific Users of New York) was a legendary dial-up bulletin board that was run by sysop Frank Roberts in the Southern Westchester (914) area code during the late 70s and early 80s. Named for the Ohio Scientific computer it originally ran on, it attracted a large group of hackers, telephone phreaks, engineers, computer programmers, and other technophiles.
OSV Hannover OSV Hannover is a German football club based in the Oststadt district of Hanover, Lower Saxony, founded in 1923 as Freie Sportvereinigung Hannover Ost. The club was dissolved in 1933 in the course of the Nazi regime's politically motivated reorganization of sport and football clubs throughout the country and re-constituted as Oststädter Sportverein Hannover.
OSVDB Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) is an independent and open source database created by and for the community. The goal of the project is to provide accurate, detailed, current, and unbiased technical information on security vulnerabilities.
OSx86 OSx86 is a collaborative hacking project to run Apple's Mac OS X operating system on non-Apple personal computers. A portmanteau of OS X and x86, the effort started soon after the June 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference announcement that Apple would be transitioning their personal computers from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors.
Ot (Cyrillic) Ot (Ѿ, ѿ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, a ligature of the letters Omega and Te. It was sometimes used in Old Slavic (including Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic) to spell the preposition отъ 'from'.
Ota Gyuichi Ota Gyuichi (Ōta Gyūichi, 太田牛一, 1527-1613) was a retainer and noted author of the japanese clans of Toyotomi and Oda throughout the Sengoku Period of the 16th century to the Azuchi-Momoyama Period of the 17th century. Gyuichi primarily served very loyally under Oda Nobunaga, composing a well-known biography of the latter, the Shincho-ko ki.
Ota Šik Ota Šik (September 11 1919 – August 22 2004) was a Czech economist and politician. He was the man behind the New Economic Model (economy liberalization plan) and was one of the key figures in the Prague Spring.
Otafest Otafest is an annual anime convention held in mid-May (previously held in July and September), at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The first Otafest was held 1998 and it has expanded each year.
Otago in the 2006 Air New Zealand Cup Otago are in Pool B for the first round of the 2006 Air New Zealand Cup and start their campaign against Counties Manukau on the 29 July. Otago has a challenge for the Ranfurly Shield against holders Canterbury on the 2 September.
Otago Museum The Otago Museum is a museum situated in Dunedin. It is Otago's largest cultural and heritage institution, with a collection of over two million artefacts and specimens from the fields of natural science and human history.
Otago Peninsula The Otago Peninsula is a long, rugged indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand. Volcanic in origin, it forms one wall of the collapsed crater that now forms Otago Harbour.
Otago Polytechnic Students' Association Otago Polytechnic Students' Association is an independent organisation founded in the 1960s that all Otago Polytechnic students become members of when they enrol. OPSA is all about providing for its members - OPSA is run by students for students.
Otago Settlers Museum The Otago Settlers Museum is a regional history museum in Dunedin, New Zealand covering the territory of the old Otago Province, New Zealand from the Waitaki River south. It is New Zealand's oldest and most extensive history museum.
Otago University Tramping Club The Otago University Tramping Club (OUTC) is a large student club at the University of Otago for the pursuit of outdoor activities, mainly tramping, mountaineering and climbing. Club members are also known to go mountain biking, kayaking and skiing.
Otaheite gooseberry The Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus), also called Malay gooseberry, Tahitian gooseberry, country gooseberry, star gooseberry, West India gooseberry or simply gooseberry tree, is the only tree with edible fruit in the Phyllanthaceae family. Despite its name, the plant does not resemble the gooseberry, except for the acidity of its fruits.
Otahuhu Otahuhu is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand under the local governance of the Auckland City Council. It is located 14 kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, on a narrow isthmus between an arm of the Manukau Harbour to the west and the Tamaki River estuary to the east, and as such is an important part of Auckland's southern transportation approaches for both road and rail, containing a major bus terminus.
Otahuhu Train Station Otahuhu Train Station is located on the Eastern and Southern Lines of the Auckland Railway Network. It has an Island platform layout and can be reached by pedestrian overbridges from Saleyards Road and Titi Street.
Otakar Nemecky Otakar Nemecky was a Czechoslovakian Nordic skier who competed in Nordic combined and Cross-country skiing in the 1920's. He won three medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with golds in the 18 km and nordic combined (1925) and a silver in the nordic combined (1927).
Otake Risuke Otake Risuke (born 10th March 1926) is a Japanese martial artist. Known by the title Ōtake Risuke Minamoto no Takeyuki (大竹利典源健之), he is the incumbent (as of 2006) shihan (Teaching Master) of Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū martial art, which he learned as a disciple of the previous teaching master Hayashi Yazaemon (1892-1964) from the time he entered the school at the age of 16, in 1942.
Otaki, New Zealand Otaki is a town in the Kapiti Coast District of the North Island of New Zealand, situated half way between the capital city Wellington, 70 kilometres to the southwest, and Palmerston North, 70 kilometres to the northeast. It marks the northernmost point of the Wellington Region.
Otaki, Saitama Ōtaki (大滝村; -mura) was a village located in Chichibu District, Saitama, Japan. On April 1, 2005, the village merged with Arakawa and Yoshida into the expanded city of Chichibu, Saitama and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Otakou The settlement of Otakou lies within the boundaries of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. It is located 25 kilometres from the city centre at the eastern end of Otago Peninsula, close to the entrance of Otago Harbour.
Otaku no Video is a comedy anime spoofing the life and culture of otaku, or Japanese media fans, as well as the history of Gainax, its creators. It is noted for its mix of conventional documentary film styles (with actual film, no less), with a more traditional anime storytelling fashion.
Otanes Otanes (Old Persian Utâna): Persian nobleman, one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius I the Great become king (29 September 522 BC). Several years later, he added the Greek island Samos to the Achaemenid empire.
Otani Kozui Count Otani Kozui (大谷 光瑞 Ōtani Kōzui; Buddhist name: 鏡如 Kyōnyo 1876-1948) was the 22nd Abbot of the West Honganji Monastery of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist sect in Kyoto, Japan. He is known for expeditions to Buddhist sites in Central Asia, such as Subashi.
Otar Iosseliani Otar Iosseliani (Georgian ოთარ იოსელიანი; born February 2 1934 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian-French film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the USSR, inducing Ioseliani to migrate to France in 1982.
Otara Otara is a suburb of Manukau city, one of the cities which make up the Auckland conurbation in the North Island of New Zealand. It is sited close to the head of the Tamaki River, actually an arm of the Hauraki Gulf which extends south towards the Manukau Harbour.
Otauli Rahimjon Otaev (Otauli) (born in 1949 in Chipon village of Turkistan district of Chimkent province) is a famous writer, translator, publicist and critic. In 1973 he graduated from the philology department of Tashkent State University (present Uzbekistan National University).
Otavalo Otavalo is a largely indigenous town in Imbabura Province, Ecuador, well known for its Saturday market. The town, which is in a valley, is surrounded by the peaks of Imbabura, Cotacachi, and Mojanda volcanoes.
Otavio Juliano Otavio Juliano (born 1972 in SĂŁo Paulo) is a Brazilian filmmaker. His first major work was Third World California, about the appalling conditions experienced by undocumented immigrants living within an Indian reservation in the California desert.
Otawara, Tochigi Ōtawara (大田原市; -shi) is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan which is in the northern part of the Kantō region north of Tokyo. Otawara is northeast of Utsunomiya which is the capital of Tochigi Prefecture.
Otay River The Otay River is a river in southern San Diego County, California. The 25-mile long river begins at San Miguel Mountain, flows through Upper and Lower Otay reservoirs and then through the San Ysidro section of San Diego, just a couple of miles north of the Mexican border, and empties into San Diego Bay.
Oteai The Oteai (大手合) was a tournament used in Japan, by the Nihon Ki-in and Kansai Ki-in, to determine the ranking of its go professionals on the dan scale. It was instituted in the 1920s soon after the Ki-in was set up in 1924.
Otelia B. Mahone Otelia Butler Mahone (August 1,1835-February 11, 1911) was a nurse and the wife of Confederate Major General William Mahone, who was a civil engineer, teacher, railroad builder, and Senator in the United States Congress. A "character" in her own right, strong-willed Otelia Butler Mahone became almost as well-known in Virginia as her famous husband.
Otelia Cromwell Otelia Cromwell (April 8, 1874 - April 25, 1972) is the first African-American graduate of Smith College. The college later began the tradition of canceling afternoon and evening classes in her honor every November as a venue to talk about race and diversity.
Otemae University Otemae University (Japanese: 大手前大学 Ōtemae Daigaku) is a liberal arts oriented school which began in 1946. It is located in the Kansai region of Japan and has three campuses, one in Itami, one in Osaka, and a women's university in Nishinomiya.
Otesánek Otesánek, also known as Little Otik or Greedy Guts, is a 2000 film by Czech couple Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. The movie is a surreal-comedic live action/stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in a poor apartment building in the Czech Republic.
Otey Clark William Otis Clark (born May 22, 1915 in Boscobel, Wisconsin) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox in 1945. The 30-year-old rookie stood 6'1 1/2" and weighed 190 lbs.
Otfrid of Weissenburg Otfrid of Weissenburg (German: Otfrid von WeiĂźenburg) (c. 800 - after 870) was a monk at Weissenburg (modern-day Wissembourg in Alsace) and the author of a gospel harmony in rhyming couplets now called the Evangelienbuch.
Othón P. Blanco Núñez de Cáceres Othón Pompeyo Blanco Núñez de Cáceres (born March 7, 1868 in Padilla, Tamaulipas - died October 18 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican Marine and the founder of the city of Chetumal who served as under-secretary of the the Mexican navy from 1941 to 1946.
Othello (1965 film) Othello is a 1965 movie based on the Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman. It was simply a filmed version of a performance by the actors for the National Theatre, staged by John Dexter, from 1964-66.
Othello (owarai) Othello (オセロ, osero), is a female Japanese comedy duo (kombi) who, once famous for their manzai act, are now both popular television talents and appear frequently on Japanese variety shows. The two comedians, Tomoko Nakajima (中島知子, born on 26 August, 1971), and Nahomi Matsushima (松嶋尚美, born on 2 December, 1971) are sometimes known as black and white othello, respectively, perhaps because Nakajima has a much darker skin than Matsushima.
Othello Khanh Othello Khanh (born 22 October 1964 in Paris, France) is a film director, producer and screenwriter. Starting his career in France in the early 1980s, Khanhbecame one of France's youngest and most successful TV and commercial directors.
Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer to, that which is other than the concept being considered.
Other (Doctor Who) The Other is a fictional character in the expanded universe of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A legendary figure in Time Lord history, the Other does not appear in the television series itself, but is mentioned several times in the spin-off media based on the programme.
Other Backward Class The Other Backward Classes (or OBCs) in India are a group of castes officially recognized as having been traditionally subject to exclusion. The Constitution of India recognizes the need to extend positive discrimination to this section.
Other Minds Other Minds is a San Francisco based non-profit organization, founded in 1992 by Charles Amirkhanian and Jim Newman, devoted to presenting, preserving, and helping build a community around a varied, open-ended approach to new music, as represented particularly by such artists as Meredith Monk, Muhal Richard Abrams, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Margaret Leng Tan, Henry Brant, Conlon Nancarrow, Robert Ashley, Lou Harrison, and scores of others, all of whom have been featured artists at the annual Other Minds Festivals. In 2002 Other Minds inaugurated a free internet webradio service called radiOM.
Other postemployment benefits Other postemployment benefits (or OPEB) is an accounting concept created by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) by pronouncements designed to address expenses that entities may or may not be legally bound to pay, but pay as a moral obligation.
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the control of a small number of corporations, which Brandies alleged were working in concert to prevent competition.
Other Practices of FGC Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is prohibited in many western countries, however some forms of FGC were and still are performed for "medical reasons" in some non African countries. From the late 19th century until the 1950s, clitorecdomies, removal of the clitoris and infibulation's, were practiced in Western countries to control female sexuality, prevent female masturbation and help improve hygiene.
Other Rangers and Ranger-like allies An "Other Ranger" is an unofficial designation for several characters in the Power Rangers franchise. It is a term for a Power Ranger that does not fit into the normal color designations of red, blue, yellow, black, pink, green, or white.
Other Ranks Other Ranks (ORs) in the British Army, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force (and in the armies and air forces of many other Commonwealth countries) are those personnel who are not commissioned officers. In the Royal Navy, these personnel are called ratings.
Other Red Other Red is a "private program that helps small manufacturers around the world market specific products that are tied to a donation of 10% of the retail price to helping orphaned children in Kenya, Africa." Despite the similar name, it is in no way related to Product Red.
Other Side of the World "Other Side of the World" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and is the opening track on her debut album, Eye to the Telescope. It was released 9 May 2005 as the second single from that album and became her first UK Top 20, charting at #13 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2006 in British music).
Other Songs Other Songs is a novel written in 2003 by Jacek Dukaj, Polish science fiction writer and published in Poland by Wydawnictwo Literackie. The novel is a mixture of fantasy, alternate history and science fiction.
Other vampire slayers Various vampire slayers have appeared and have been mentioned in the Buffyverse, outside of the television shows Buffy and Angel. For more information regarding the slayer mythos and other slayers, see the origin behind the Vampire Slayers in the First Slayer article, and the TV Show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Other World The Otherworld in Celtic mythology is the realm of the dead, the home of the deities, or the stronghold of other spirits and beings such as the SĂ­dhe. Tales and folklore describe it as existing over the western sea, or at other times underground (such as in the SĂ­dhe mounds) or right alongside the world of the living, but invisible to most humans.
Other World Kingdom The Other World Kingdom (OWK) is a large commercial BDSM facility and resort, which has been created in a large farm located in Černá, Czech Republic in 1996. It is well known for the large size of its amenities and for the parties it organizes.
Otherism Otherism is a contemporary design movement founded by Ezri Tarazi and a group of other designers and thinkers in 2005. It is based on a new agenda for style and form that is inclusive to the other in a manner of feeling responsible to the "Other" as an important part of the existence.
Otherkin Otherkin is a subculture made up of people who consider themselves non-human or having a connection to a mythical archetype in some way, usually believing to be mythological or legendary creatures. The otherkin community grew out of the elven online community of the early-to-mid-1990s, with the earliest recorded use of the term otherkin appearing in early 1996.
Otherness of childhood The otherness of childhood is a phrase being used to argue that there are substantial differences between the lived worlds of children and adults. These differences are suggested to emerge form complex outcomes of divergent states of physical, neurological, emotional, affective and experiential being between children's and adults' lives.
Others (Night Watch) The Others are a fictional group of people with supernatural abilities in Sergey Lukyanenko's Watches novel tetralogy (Night Watch, Day Watch, Dusk/Twilight Watch and Final Watch). They also appear in the Night Watch and Day Watch movies.
Others group of artists Others was a group of avant-garde artists in New York formed after the outbreak of World War I. Poet Alfred Kreymborg and artist Man Ray founded the group, centered an artist colony called Grantwood, just outside Ridgefield, New Jersey.
Otherside "Otherside" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Released in 2000, it was the third single from the album Californication, and is a song that confronts the battles ex-junkies have with their demons.
OtherSpace "Otherspace" is also in the Star Wars Expanded Universe an obscure third dimension, parallel the normal universe ("Realspace") and hyperspace; it is described as filled with lifeless planets and appearing "as a storm-gray expanse of nothing, with some small swirls of colored gases and stars that look like shining holes of darkness". It is inhabited solely by the remnants of the Charon and their biological warships, who seek only to exterminate all life, including themselves.
Otherware Otherware, sometimes called requestware, is a collective term referring to software that is not distributed as freeware, shareware or commercial software. Usually, otherware requests the user to do something other than paying to the software author; therefore, it may be considered a type of freeware.
Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi Othman Ahmed Othman Al Omairah (also transliterated as Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi) is a citizen of either Yemen or Saudi Arabia, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
Othmar Karas Othmar Karas (born 24 December 1957 in Ybbs an der Donau, Lower Austria) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, vice-chair of the EPP-ED group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Othmar Schoeck Othmar Schoeck (Brunnen, Switzerland, September 1 1886 – March 8 1957) was a Swiss composer who studied briefly at the Leipzig Conservatory with Max Reger, in 1907/08, but spent his whole career in Zürich. He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs] and [[song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas (mosty notably his one-act Penthesilea, premiered in Dresden, 1927, and revived at the Lucerne Festival, 1999) and instrumental compositions including two string quartets and concertos for violin (for Stefi Geyer, dedicatee also of Béla Bartók's first concerto), cello and horn.
Othniel Othniel Ben Kenaz (Hebrew עָתְנִיאֵל בֶּן קְנַז "lion of God", Standard Hebrew ʻOtniʼel Ben Qənaz, Tiberian Hebrew ʻOṯnîʼēl Ben Qənaz) is the first of the Judges. His wife Achsah was the daughter of Caleb (Josh.

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