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Ottawa International Animation Festival The Ottawa International Animation Festival was created in Ottawa, Canada in 1976, and it celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2006 when it will be held between 20th and 24th September. Initially organized by the Canadian Film Institute on a biennial basis and with the co-operation of the Association International du Film d'Animation (ASIFA or the International Animated Film Association), the Festival organization remains in the hands of the CFI.
Ottawa International Jazz Festival The Ottawa International Jazz Festival is a multi-week festival of jazz music, featuring performers from all around the world. It is held in the summer in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and takes place at various locations throughout the city.
Ottawa Linux Symposium The Ottawa Linux Symposium is an annual Linux conference held every year since 1999 in Ottawa, Canada. It is usually directly preceded by the Desktop Developers' Conference and the Linux Kernel Summit, following typically a month after the GCC Summit.
Ottawa Local School District, Putnam County, Ohio Ottawa Local School District was a school district that served students in Ottawa, Ohio, United States. Sometime in the 1800s, Ottawa formed a local school district with Glandorf, Ottawa-Glandorf Local School District.
Ottawa municipal election, 2006 The 2006 Ottawa municipal election was held on November 13, 2006, in Ottawa, Canada, to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Public and Catholic School Boards. The election was one of many races across the province of Ontario.
Ottawa Marriott Hotel The Ottawa Marriott Hotel is a hotel located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on the north-west corner of the intersection of Queen Street and Kent Street. Upon its construction in 1972 it was the tallest building in Ottawa but as of 2006 it is now the sixth tallest.
Ottawa O-Train The O-Train was introduced in 2001 as a pilot project for light-rail service in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, which had long depended exclusively on busways for its high-grade transit service (see Ottawa Rapid Transit). The present line runs north-south on a railway line, from Bayview to Greenboro, a distance of approximately 8 km.
Ottawa Rebel The Ottawa Rebel was a team in the National Lacrosse League based in Ottawa, Ontario from 2001 until 2003. They played at the Corel Centre (now called Scotiabank Place) in nearby Kanata originally, but then part-way through the 2002 season, the Rebel moved to the Ottawa Civic Centre, which is a smaller arena, but more centrally located.
Ottawa River The Ottawa River (French: Rivière des Outaouais) defines for most of its length the border between the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It rises from its source in Lake Capimitchigama in the Laurentian mountains of central Quebec, flows west to Lake Timiskaming where it reaches the Ontario border, then flows southeast to Ottawa and Gatineau where it tumbles over the Chaudière Falls and further takes in the Rideau and Gatineau rivers.
Ottawa River Parkway The Ottawa River Parkway is a 4-lane scenic parkway along the Ottawa River in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from Carling Avenue near Connaught Avenue, in the city's western side, to near the Canadian War Museum where it becomes Wellington Street at Booth Street west of the Portage Bridge near the city's downtown.
Ottawa Safety Council The Ottawa Safety Council (OSC) is a non-profit charity based in Ottawa, Canada established in 1957 that promotes safety and protection of individuals. The OSC has a children's safety program, promotes adult crossing guards, and runs a motorcycle rider course.
Ottawa SuperEX Ottawa SuperEX (officially the Central Canada Exhibition) is an eleven-day annual exhibition that takes places every August in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the Central Canada Exhibition Association, which has operated the exhibition since 1888.
Ottawa Symphony Orchestra The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra (OSO) is an orchestra in Ottawa, Ontario, which is Canada's national capital. With around 100 musicians, the OSO is Ottawa's largest orchestra, which allows it to perform large symphonic repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Canadian composers.
Ottawa Technical High School Ottawa Technical High School, more often known as Ottawa Tech, was a high school in Ottawa, Canada that specialized in vocational programs. The school opened in 1913 as the second public secondary school in Ottawa, and was closed in 1992.
Ottawa Technology Transfer Network The Ottawa Technology Transfer Network (OTTN) on an informal collaboration among several academic Technology Transfer] offices in Ottawa to enhance the economic impact of research commercialization through the sharing of best practices; enhanced market knowledge and proactive industrial interaction. Member Institutions include:[[Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise at uOttawa, OHRI, CHEO, UOHI, Algonquin College, NCIT, OLSC and OCRI.
Ottawa Train Station Ottawa Station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is served by VIA Rail inter-city trains connecting it to Toronto and Montreal. It is adjacent to the railway station is OC Transpo’s Train rapid transit station which, despite its name, is a bus stop on the Transitway system, from which buses carry railway passengers into the city centre or into the eastern suburbs.
Ottawa Treaty The Ottawa Treaty or the Mine Ban Treaty, formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, bans completely all anti-personnel landmines (AP-mines). It has been signed/accessioned by 155 countries since 1997 while forty have yet to sign, including the People's Republic of China, Russian Federation and the United States.
Ottawa Valley The Ottawa Valley is the valley surrounding the Ottawa River for the west-east portion of its path through the Canadian Shield from Mattawa to Hawkesbury. Because of the surrounding shield, the valley is narrow at its western end, then becomes increasingly wide (mainly on the southern Ontario side of the river) as it progresses eastward.
Ottawa West Ottawa West was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1997 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1926 and from 1955 to 1999]. It covered the western part of the Ottawa area.
Ottawa West—Nepean Ottawa West—Nepean is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Its population in 2001 was 112,509.
Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981 The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 revolutionized the wine world. After the leading wine experts in France selected both white and red wine from California as superior to the very best French wines in blind taste tests, the world recognized that superior wines could be made in other parts of the world.
Ottawa Women's Training and Employment Network Ottawa Women's Training and Employment Network (OWTEN) is a long-standing group that has provided information, advice and advocacy on training, education and employment programs for women in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada)for over 11 years. The profile of their members is diverse, although there are mostly women involved in the program management and front line delivery and administration of career/employment counseling, language, employment preparation, and job skills training programs.
Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation The Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation (OCESS), unofficially known as "SpaceSim", or just "Sim" is a student-run organization within the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) that operates primarily out of Lisgar Collegiate Institute. The chief activities of the club are to educate youth about the sciences with relation to space.
Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections, 1997 Elections were held on November 10, 1997 in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. This page lists the election results for Regional Chair, Regional Council, and local mayors and councils of the RMOC in 1997.
Ottawa-Glandorf High School, Putnam County, Ohio Ottawa-Glandorf High School, or OGHS, is a high school and only high school part of the Ottawa-Glandorf Local School District. The school serves students who are in grades 9 through 12 from Ottawa, Glandorf and surrounding communities and townships.
Ottawa-Glandorf Local School District, Putnam County, Ohio Ottawa-Glandorf Local School District is headquartered in eastern Putnam County, Ohio in the United States. The district serves students from the villages of Glandorf and Ottawa as well as parts of Greensburg, Liberty, Ottawa, Pleasant and Union Townships.
Ottawa-Vanier Young Liberals The Ottawa-Vanier Young Liberals (OVYL) is a wing of the Ontario Young Liberals and Young Liberals of Canada. The OVYL was created in 2003 to as a branch of the Ottawa-Vanier Federal Liberal Association to assist in engaging the youth in the riding.
Ottawa, Kansas Ottawa is a city situated along the Marais des Cygnes River in the central part of Franklin County, located in east-central Kansas, in the central United States. The population was estimated to be 12,597 in the year 2005.
Ottawa, Ontario numbered roads Many roads in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada are numbered routes like most counties and regional municipalities in Southern and Eastern Ontario. The regional road system was created by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (RMOC) and managed by the RMOC until 2001.
Ottawa—Carleton Ottawa—Carleton was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1988. This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Carleton, Ottawa East and Russell ridings.
Ottawa—Orléans Ottawa—Orléans (formerly Gloucester—Carleton and Carleton—Gloucester) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Ottawan Ottawan were a disco band in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were fronted by lead singer Jean Patrick (b 6 April 1954) and Annette (b 1 November 1958), with Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger the main songwriters.
Ottó Bláthy Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860-1939), was a Hungarian electrical engineer, co-inventor of the electric transformer, the tension regulator, the watt meter, the alternating current (AC) electric motor, the turbogenerator and high efficiency turbogenerator.
Ottenby Ottenby is a nature reserve at the southern tip of the island of Ă–land in Sweden. Previously Ottenby was a royal game reserve stocked with fallow deer; in fact, the King Charles X Gustav of Sweden built a medieval drystone wall to confine the deer.
Ottendorf's Corps Ottendorf's Corps was raised on December 5, 1776 in eastern Pennsylvania for service with the Continental Army. As Congress directed the corps would be composed of 150 privates, serjeants and corporals included and that it be divided as follows:
Otter The otter (lutrinae) is a carnivorous aquatic or marine mammal part of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, as well as others. With 13 species in 7 genera, otters have an almost worldwide distribution.
Otter Creek Observatory Otter Creek Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Jefferson Community and Technical College and Otter Creek Park, in Meade County, Kentucky. It is located in 25 miles southwest of downtown Louisville along the Ohio River.
Otter Pops Otter Pops are a brand of frozen snacks sold in the United States. The product consists of a plastic tube filled with flavored, quick-freezing real fruit juice from concentrate, which after being frozen is sliced open.
Otter Press Otter Press is an Australian publishing group whose major releases is the American Simpsons Comics series. They began publishing in 1998 with Simpsons Comics #32, and today they have published hundreds of different Simpsons books, spanning over ten series.
Otter theorem prover Otter is an automated theorem prover developed by William McCune at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. It was the first widely distributed high-performance theorem prover for first-order logic, and pioneered a number of important implementation techniques.
Otterbein, Baltimore Otterbein is a small neighborhood of historic rowhouses in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was settled in the mid-eighteenth century by immigrants from Italy, Greece, Germany, Poland, and Eastern Europe.
Otteri Nullah The Otteri Nullah is an east-west waterway which runs through north Chennai, starting at the village of Mullam proceeding through Purasawalkam and then passing througn Buckingham and Carnatic Mills before meeting the Buckingham Canal at Basin Bridge.
Otterspool Promenade Otterspool Promenade is a riverside walk and accompanying area of parkland in the Aigburth and Grassendale districts of South Liverpool; it runs along the bank of the River Mersey from just north of Garston docks to Otterspool Park. It adjoins the former private parkland estates of Cressington Park, Fulwood Park and Grassendale Park.
Otterup municipality Otterup municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the north coast of the island of Funen in central Denmark. The municipality includes the island of Vigelsø, and covers an area of 169 km².
Ottery St Mary Ottery St Mary is a town in Devon, England, on the River Otter, about ten miles east of Exeter. It is part of a large civil parish of the same name, which also covers the villages of West Hill, Metcombe, Fairmile, Alfington, Tipton St.
Ottico Meccanica Italiana Ottica Meccanica Italiana (OMI) was an Italian company producing photogrammetric instruments. It was founded in Rome in 1926 by Umberto Nistri (1895 - 1962) From 1962 on, Raffaello Nistri (1920-1981), son of Umberto, was president of the company.
Ottie Cline Powell Ottie Cline Powell was four years old and barefoot when he wandered away from his schoolhouse in Amherst County, Virginia while out gathering firewood in November, 1890. Despite an extensive search, his body was not found until the following spring, seven miles away, on the peak of Bluff Mountain, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, elevation 3,372 feet.
Ottilia Borbáth Ottilia Borbáth (born November 26, 1946 in Târgu-Mureş, Romania) is an actress who has appeared in many films as well as appearing in TV mini serials such as the Nightmare Years and the Phantom of the Opera.
Ottilien Congregation The Ottilien Congregation, often also known as the St. Ottilien Congregation and as the Missionary Benedictines, is a congregation of religious houses within the Benedictine Confederation, the aim of which is to combine the Benedictine way of life with activity in the mission field.
Ottis Toole Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5 1947 – September 15, 1996) (sometimes spelled Otis) was an American criminal. Though he claimed to be a serial killer and cannibal, and was the suspect in several unsolved murders, he recanted and restated a number of confessions.
Ottmar Beckman Cars AB OBC (sometimes called BCS) or Ottmar Beckman Cars AB was a car manufacturer in Mantorp, Sweden. In 1974 they presented a two seated mid engined sports car called OBC Mantorp (named after the Mantorp Park race track).
Ottmar Liebert Ottmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, who leads an ensemble called Luna Negra ("Black Moon") that has gained notoriety performing as a touring band, and recording music albums in a "Nouveau Flamenco" style, mixing elements of flamenco with jazz, bossa nova, Hindu meditation music, and other genres.
Ottmar Mergenthaler Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 10, 1854 – October 28, 1899) was a German inventor, who has been called a second Gutenberg because his invention of a machine that could easily and quickly set movable type revolutionized the art of printing. Prior to Mergenthaler's invention of the linotype in 1886, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.
Otto and Vivika Heino Otto (born 1915) and Vivika (1910-1995) Heino are artists working in ceramics. They collaborated as a husband-and-wife team for thirty-five years, signing their pots Vikika + Otto, regardless of who actually made them.
Otto Aasen Otto Aasen is a Norwegian nordic skier who won the nordic combined at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1917 and 1918. For his nordic combined victories, Aasen shared the Holmenkollen medal in 1919 with Thorleif Haug.
Otto Bettmann Otto Ludwig Bettmann (October 15, 1903 - May 3, 1998), known as "The Picture Man," was the founder of the Bettmann Archive. Bettmann is considered to have "virtually invented the image resource business.
Otto Binder Otto Oscar Binder (August 26, 1911 - October 14, 1974) was a writer of American science fiction, non-fiction UFO, and comic books. He is best known for his 12-year stint at Fawcett Comics (1941 to 1953), writing stories for the characters Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family, as well as Bulletman and Bulletgirl, and many other Fawcett superheroes.
Otto Binswanger Otto Ludwig Binswanger (October 14, 1852 - July 15, 1929) was a Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist who came from a famous family of physicians; his father was founder of the Kreuzlingen Sanatorium, and he was uncle to Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966) who was a major figure in the existential psychology movement.
Otto Boehler Otto Boehler (15 October 1873 Germany- 15 October 1915 was a United States Army private awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions during the Moro Rebellion during the Philippine-American war. He was one of Young's Scouts, who won one of 6 Medals of Honor awarded for members of Young's Scouts on 16 May 1899, commanded by Captain William E.
Otto Bradfisch Otto Bradfisch (born 10 May 1903 in ZweibrĂĽcken; died 22 June 1994 in Seeshaupt) was an economist, a jurist, an SS ObersturmbannfĂĽhrer, Leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (ĹĂłdĹş) and Potsdam.
Otto Brahm Otto Brahm (born Otto Abrahamson on 5 February 1856 in Hamburg; died 28 November 1912 in Berlin) was a German drama and literary critic, theatre manager and director. His productions were noted for being accurate and realistic.
Otto Brunfels Otto Brunfels (also known as Brunsfels or Braunfels) (beleved to be born on 1488 near Mainz - December 23, 1534 in Bern, Switzerland) was a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany".
Otto de la Roche Otto or Othon de la Roche (died 1234) was a Burgundian nobleman from the castle of La Roche-sur-l'Ognon, in the Franche-Comté commune of Rigney, Doubs. He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and became the first Duke of Athens.
Otto Dempwolff Otto Dempwolff (born 25 May 1871 in Pillau, died 27 November 1938 in Hamburg) was a German linguist and anthropologist who became famous for his research into Austronesian languages. He was the first to publish a comprehensive theory about how many languages that are nowadays spoken on the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean can be traced back to one proto-language.
Otto Diels Otto Paul Hermann Diels (January 23 1876 – March 7 1954) was a German chemist. He was the son of a professor of philology at the University of Berlin, where he himself earned his doctorate in chemistry, in the group of Emil Fischer.
Otto Dix Otto Dix (December 2, 1891 - July 25, 1969) was a German painter and printmaker. Noted for his ruthless depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of war, he is one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).
Otto Donner Otto Donner (1835–1909) was a Finnish linguist and politician. He was professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of Helsinki, but also studied the Finno-Ugric languages.
Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik was a German World War II munitions and arms factory, a subsidiary of the Gustloff company. The company had two major factories in Hirtenberg near Wiener Neustadt (Hirtenberger Patronen ZĂĽundhĂĽtchen & Metallwarenfabrik) and in Rensdorf near Wuppertal (code "am").
Otto Erich Deutsch Otto Erich Deutsch (September 5, 1883 – November 23, 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is best known for his catalogue of the works of Franz Schubert (1951) - it is from this that the D numbers used to identify Schubert's pieces are drawn.
Otto Ernst Remer Otto Ernst Remer (August 18, 1912 - October 4, 1997) was a German Wehrmacht officer who played a decisive role in stopping the 1944 July 20 Plot against Hitler. After the war he co-founded the Sozialistische Reichspartei (SRP), and advanced Holocaust denial.
Otto F. Kernberg Otto F. Kernberg, was born in Vienna in 1928 and in 1939 his family left Germany to escape the Nazi regime and emigrated to Chile where he later studied biology and medicine and afterwards psychiatry and psychoanalysis with the Chilean Psychoanalytic Society.
Otto Fridolinus Fritzsche Otto Fridolinus Fritzsche also Otto Fridolin Fritzsche (September 23, 1812-March 9, 1896) was a German theologian. He was born in Dobrilugk, Germany to a minister named Friedrich Fritzsche and served at the University of Zurich as professor of theology from 1837 to his death.
Otto Glória Otto Martins Glória (* 9 January 1917 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - †4 September 1986) was a Brazilian football (soccer) coach. With his numerous titles he is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game.
Otto GmbH Otto GmbH & Co KG (formerly Otto Versand) is the world's largest mail order company, operating in more than 20 countries. The family of executive board chairman Michael Otto owns the majority of the company and separately controls US catalog company Spiegel catalog.
Otto Graham Otto Everett Graham Jr. (December 6, 1921 - December 17, 2003) was a professional American football and basketball player who played for the Cleveland Browns in both the AAFC and NFL, as well as the Rochester Royals in the NBL.
Otto Gross Dr Otto Gross (1877 - 1920) A maverick early disciple of Freud became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community. A champion of an early form of anti-psychiatry and sexual liberation, he also developed an anarchist form of depth psychology (which rejected the civilising necessity of psychological repression proposed by Freud) and adopted a similarly modified form of the proto feminist and neo-pagan theories of Johann Jakob Bachofen with which he attempted to return civilization back to a postulated 'golden age' of non-hierarchy.
Otto Gruppe Otto Gruppe (1851-1901) was a German mythographer, remembered for his Griechische Mythologie und Religion-Geschichte (1906), which summed up the nineteenth century reading of Greek mythology through surviving texts. He was also the author of a Geschichte der Klassischen Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte während des Mittelalters in Abendland und während der Neuzeit, a "history of Classical mythology and the history of religion in the Medieval West and in modern times.
Otto Hahn Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is considered a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry, and regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" by Glenn T.
Otto Hahn (ship) Otto Hahn is one of only four nuclear-powered cargo vessels ever built. Planning of a German-built trade and research vessel to test the feasibility of nuclear power in civil service began in 1960, and Otto Hahns keel was laid down in 1963 by Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG of Kiel.
Otto Harbach Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 - January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Danish immigrant parents Adolph Hauerbach and his wife Sena Olsen, and attended the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, transferring to Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was a friend of Carl Sandburg, and graduated in 1895.
Otto Höfler Otto Höfler (born 10 May 1901, died 25 August 1987, in Vienna) was an Austrian scholar of German studies. He was a student of Rudolf Much, and adopted Much's racist "Continuity Theory", based around the idea of continuity of antiquity into the present.
Otto Heinrich Warburg Otto Heinrich Warburg (October 8, 1883, Freiburg im Breisgau – August 1, 1970, Berlin), son of Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist and medical doctor. Emil Warburg was a distant relative of the illustrious Warburg family of Altona, who had converted to Christianity reportedly after a disagreement in the family; his mother was the daughter of a Protestant family of civil servants from Baden.
Otto Henry, Elector Palatine Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine, (* 10 April 1502 in Amberg; † 12 February 1559 in Heidelberg) a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1505 to 1559 and prince elector of the Palatinate from 1556 to 1559. He was a son of Elizabeth of Bavaria-Landshut and her husband Ruppert of Palatinate.
Otto I, Count of Burgundy Otto I (born between 1167 and 1171, died January 13 1200) was the Count of Burgundy from 1190 to his death and briefly Count of Luxembourg from 1196 to 1197. He was the fourth son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy.
Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Otto I of Brunswick-Lüneburg (about 1204 – 9 June 1252) was the first duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 until his death. He is called Otto the Child to distinguish him from his uncle, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
Otto I, Duke of Saxony Otto or Oddo (died 30 November 912) was a Saxon nobleman; by later authors, he is often called Otto the Illustrious. The younger son of Liudolf, Duke of Saxony and his wife Oda, Otto presumably became duke of Saxony shortly before his death, but no details are known.
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor Otto I the Great (November 23 912 – May 7 973), son of Henry I the Fowler, king of the Germans, and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duke of the Saxons, King of the Germans and arguably the first Holy Roman Emperor"the first of the Germans to be called the emperor of Italy". Arnulf of Milan, Liber gestorum recentium, I.
Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria Otto II of Bavaria (German: Otto II der Erlauchte , Herzog von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein) (Kelheim, 7 April 1206 – 29 November 1253, Landshut) was the Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine (see Palatinate). He was a son of Louis I and Ludmila of Bohemia.
Otto III of Montferrat Otto III Palaeologus (also Otho or Ottone; died 16 December 1378) was the Margrave of Montferrat from 1372 to his death, the third of the Greek Palaeologan dynasty. He was known as Secondotto, the second Otto to rule Montferrat in his own right.
Otto III, Duke of Swabia Otto III (died 28 September 1057), called the White and known as Otto of Schweinfurt, was the margrave of the Nordgau (1024 – 1031) and duke of Swabia (1048 – 1057). He was the son of Henry of Schweinfurt, margrave of the Nordgau, and Gerberga of Henneberg.
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV of Brunswick (1175 or 1176 – 19 May 1218) was one of two rival kings of the Holy Roman Empire from 1198 on, sole king from 1208 on, and emperor from 1209 on. The only king of the Welf dynasty, he was deposed in 1215.
Otto Kahler Otto Kahler (January 8 1849-January 24 1893) was an Austrian physician. Born and trained in Prague, he is best known for describing multiple myeloma, a hematological malignancy, which is called "Kahler's disease" in his honor in several countries.
Otto Kaiser Otto Kaiser (born 30 November 1924) is a leading Old Testament scholar. Born in Prenzlau, Germany, he attended the Gymnasium in Eberswalde and went to the University of Berlin to study Medicine, but also Philosophy with Nicolai Hartmann.
Otto Kern Otto Kern (February 14, 1863 – January 31, 1942) was a German linguist and former professor of philosophy at the University of Hamburg. From 1922 to 1934 was one of the two chairmen of the Society of Friends of the University of Hamburg.
Otto Kiep Otto Carl Kiep (born 7 July 1886 in Saltcoats, Scotland; died 23 August 1944 in Berlin) was the Chief of the Reich Press Office (Reichspresseamt). He became involved with the resistance against the Nazis and was executed in 1944.
Otto Knabe Franz Otto "Dutch" Knabe (June 12, 1884 - May 17, 1961) was a Major league second baseman from Carrick, Pennsylvania, who played for four different teams.Baseball Reference player page He was the player-manager for the only two season the Baltimore Terrapins and the Federal League were in existence.
Otto Kretschmer Otto Kretschmer (May 1, 1912 - August 5, 1998) was a German U-Boat commander of the Second World War, and was the most successful Ace of the Deep. From September 1939 until being captured in March 1941, he sank 47 ships for a total of 274,333 tons.
Otto Kuhler Otto Kuhler (July 31, 1894–August 5, 1977) was one of the best known industrial designers of the American railroads. According to "Trains" magazine he streamstyled more locomotives and railroad cars than Cret, Dreyfuss and Loewy combined.
Otto Lang (film producer) Otto Lang (21 January 1908 – 30 January 2006), born in Tešanj, Austria-Hungary, was a skier and pioneer ski instructor in the United States. He founded ski schools on Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and Mount Hood beginning in the 1930s, and as the director of the ski school at Sun Valley became the ski instructor for Hollywood stars.
Otto Laporte Otto Laporte (July 23, 1902 – March 28, 1971) was a German-born American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics. His name is lent to the Laporte rule in spectroscopy.
Ottawa International Jazz Festival The Ottawa International Jazz Festival is a multi-week festival of jazz music, featuring performers from all around the world. It is held in the summer in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and takes place at various locations throughout the city.
Ottawa Linux Symposium The Ottawa Linux Symposium is an annual Linux conference held every year since 1999 in Ottawa, Canada. It is usually directly preceded by the Desktop Developers' Conference and the Linux Kernel Summit, following typically a month after the GCC Summit.
Ottawa Local School District, Putnam County, Ohio Ottawa Local School District was a school district that served students in Ottawa, Ohio, United States. Sometime in the 1800s, Ottawa formed a local school district with Glandorf, Ottawa-Glandorf Local School District.
Ottawa municipal election, 2006 The 2006 Ottawa municipal election was held on November 13, 2006, in Ottawa, Canada, to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Public and Catholic School Boards. The election was one of many races across the province of Ontario.
Ottawa Marriott Hotel The Ottawa Marriott Hotel is a hotel located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on the north-west corner of the intersection of Queen Street and Kent Street. Upon its construction in 1972 it was the tallest building in Ottawa but as of 2006 it is now the sixth tallest.
Ottawa O-Train The O-Train was introduced in 2001 as a pilot project for light-rail service in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, which had long depended exclusively on busways for its high-grade transit service (see Ottawa Rapid Transit). The present line runs north-south on a railway line, from Bayview to Greenboro, a distance of approximately 8 km.
Ottawa Rebel The Ottawa Rebel was a team in the National Lacrosse League based in Ottawa, Ontario from 2001 until 2003. They played at the Corel Centre (now called Scotiabank Place) in nearby Kanata originally, but then part-way through the 2002 season, the Rebel moved to the Ottawa Civic Centre, which is a smaller arena, but more centrally located.
Ottawa River The Ottawa River (French: Rivière des Outaouais) defines for most of its length the border between the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It rises from its source in Lake Capimitchigama in the Laurentian mountains of central Quebec, flows west to Lake Timiskaming where it reaches the Ontario border, then flows southeast to Ottawa and Gatineau where it tumbles over the Chaudière Falls and further takes in the Rideau and Gatineau rivers.
Ottawa River Parkway The Ottawa River Parkway is a 4-lane scenic parkway along the Ottawa River in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from Carling Avenue near Connaught Avenue, in the city's western side, to near the Canadian War Museum where it becomes Wellington Street at Booth Street west of the Portage Bridge near the city's downtown.
Ottawa Safety Council The Ottawa Safety Council (OSC) is a non-profit charity based in Ottawa, Canada established in 1957 that promotes safety and protection of individuals. The OSC has a children's safety program, promotes adult crossing guards, and runs a motorcycle rider course.
Ottawa SuperEX Ottawa SuperEX (officially the Central Canada Exhibition) is an eleven-day annual exhibition that takes places every August in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the Central Canada Exhibition Association, which has operated the exhibition since 1888.
Ottawa Symphony Orchestra The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra (OSO) is an orchestra in Ottawa, Ontario, which is Canada's national capital. With around 100 musicians, the OSO is Ottawa's largest orchestra, which allows it to perform large symphonic repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Canadian composers.
Ottawa Technical High School Ottawa Technical High School, more often known as Ottawa Tech, was a high school in Ottawa, Canada that specialized in vocational programs. The school opened in 1913 as the second public secondary school in Ottawa, and was closed in 1992.
Ottawa Technology Transfer Network The Ottawa Technology Transfer Network (OTTN) on an informal collaboration among several academic Technology Transfer] offices in Ottawa to enhance the economic impact of research commercialization through the sharing of best practices; enhanced market knowledge and proactive industrial interaction. Member Institutions include:[[Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise at uOttawa, OHRI, CHEO, UOHI, Algonquin College, NCIT, OLSC and OCRI.
Ottawa Train Station Ottawa Station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is served by VIA Rail inter-city trains connecting it to Toronto and Montreal. It is adjacent to the railway station is OC Transpo’s Train rapid transit station which, despite its name, is a bus stop on the Transitway system, from which buses carry railway passengers into the city centre or into the eastern suburbs.
Ottawa Treaty The Ottawa Treaty or the Mine Ban Treaty, formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, bans completely all anti-personnel landmines (AP-mines). It has been signed/accessioned by 155 countries since 1997 while forty have yet to sign, including the People's Republic of China, Russian Federation and the United States.
Ottawa Valley The Ottawa Valley is the valley surrounding the Ottawa River for the west-east portion of its path through the Canadian Shield from Mattawa to Hawkesbury. Because of the surrounding shield, the valley is narrow at its western end, then becomes increasingly wide (mainly on the southern Ontario side of the river) as it progresses eastward.
Ottawa West Ottawa West was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1997 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1926 and from 1955 to 1999]. It covered the western part of the Ottawa area.
Ottawa West—Nepean Ottawa West—Nepean is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. Its population in 2001 was 112,509.
Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981 The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 revolutionized the wine world. After the leading wine experts in France selected both white and red wine from California as superior to the very best French wines in blind taste tests, the world recognized that superior wines could be made in other parts of the world.
Ottawa Women's Training and Employment Network Ottawa Women's Training and Employment Network (OWTEN) is a long-standing group that has provided information, advice and advocacy on training, education and employment programs for women in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada)for over 11 years. The profile of their members is diverse, although there are mostly women involved in the program management and front line delivery and administration of career/employment counseling, language, employment preparation, and job skills training programs.
Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation The Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation (OCESS), unofficially known as "SpaceSim", or just "Sim" is a student-run organization within the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) that operates primarily out of Lisgar Collegiate Institute. The chief activities of the club are to educate youth about the sciences with relation to space.
Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections, 1997 Elections were held on November 10, 1997 in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. This page lists the election results for Regional Chair, Regional Council, and local mayors and councils of the RMOC in 1997.
Ottawa-Glandorf High School, Putnam County, Ohio Ottawa-Glandorf High School, or OGHS, is a high school and only high school part of the Ottawa-Glandorf Local School District. The school serves students who are in grades 9 through 12 from Ottawa, Glandorf and surrounding communities and townships.
Ottawa-Glandorf Local School District, Putnam County, Ohio Ottawa-Glandorf Local School District is headquartered in eastern Putnam County, Ohio in the United States. The district serves students from the villages of Glandorf and Ottawa as well as parts of Greensburg, Liberty, Ottawa, Pleasant and Union Townships.
Ottawa-Vanier Young Liberals The Ottawa-Vanier Young Liberals (OVYL) is a wing of the Ontario Young Liberals and Young Liberals of Canada. The OVYL was created in 2003 to as a branch of the Ottawa-Vanier Federal Liberal Association to assist in engaging the youth in the riding.
Ottawa, Kansas Ottawa is a city situated along the Marais des Cygnes River in the central part of Franklin County, located in east-central Kansas, in the central United States. The population was estimated to be 12,597 in the year 2005.
Ottawa, Ontario numbered roads Many roads in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada are numbered routes like most counties and regional municipalities in Southern and Eastern Ontario. The regional road system was created by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton (RMOC) and managed by the RMOC until 2001.
Ottawa—Carleton Ottawa—Carleton was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1988. This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Carleton, Ottawa East and Russell ridings.
Ottawa—Orléans Ottawa—Orléans (formerly Gloucester—Carleton and Carleton—Gloucester) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Ottawan Ottawan were a disco band in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were fronted by lead singer Jean Patrick (b 6 April 1954) and Annette (b 1 November 1958), with Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger the main songwriters.
Ottó Bláthy Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860-1939), was a Hungarian electrical engineer, co-inventor of the electric transformer, the tension regulator, the watt meter, the alternating current (AC) electric motor, the turbogenerator and high efficiency turbogenerator.
Ottenby Ottenby is a nature reserve at the southern tip of the island of Ă–land in Sweden. Previously Ottenby was a royal game reserve stocked with fallow deer; in fact, the King Charles X Gustav of Sweden built a medieval drystone wall to confine the deer.
Ottendorf's Corps Ottendorf's Corps was raised on December 5, 1776 in eastern Pennsylvania for service with the Continental Army. As Congress directed the corps would be composed of 150 privates, serjeants and corporals included and that it be divided as follows:
Otter The otter (lutrinae) is a carnivorous aquatic or marine mammal part of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, as well as others. With 13 species in 7 genera, otters have an almost worldwide distribution.
Otter Creek Observatory Otter Creek Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Jefferson Community and Technical College and Otter Creek Park, in Meade County, Kentucky. It is located in 25 miles southwest of downtown Louisville along the Ohio River.
Otter Pops Otter Pops are a brand of frozen snacks sold in the United States. The product consists of a plastic tube filled with flavored, quick-freezing real fruit juice from concentrate, which after being frozen is sliced open.
Otter Press Otter Press is an Australian publishing group whose major releases is the American Simpsons Comics series. They began publishing in 1998 with Simpsons Comics #32, and today they have published hundreds of different Simpsons books, spanning over ten series.
Otter theorem prover Otter is an automated theorem prover developed by William McCune at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. It was the first widely distributed high-performance theorem prover for first-order logic, and pioneered a number of important implementation techniques.
Otterbein, Baltimore Otterbein is a small neighborhood of historic rowhouses in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was settled in the mid-eighteenth century by immigrants from Italy, Greece, Germany, Poland, and Eastern Europe.
Otteri Nullah The Otteri Nullah is an east-west waterway which runs through north Chennai, starting at the village of Mullam proceeding through Purasawalkam and then passing througn Buckingham and Carnatic Mills before meeting the Buckingham Canal at Basin Bridge.
Otterspool Promenade Otterspool Promenade is a riverside walk and accompanying area of parkland in the Aigburth and Grassendale districts of South Liverpool; it runs along the bank of the River Mersey from just north of Garston docks to Otterspool Park. It adjoins the former private parkland estates of Cressington Park, Fulwood Park and Grassendale Park.
Otterup municipality Otterup municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the north coast of the island of Funen in central Denmark. The municipality includes the island of Vigelsø, and covers an area of 169 km².
Ottery St Mary Ottery St Mary is a town in Devon, England, on the River Otter, about ten miles east of Exeter. It is part of a large civil parish of the same name, which also covers the villages of West Hill, Metcombe, Fairmile, Alfington, Tipton St.
Ottico Meccanica Italiana Ottica Meccanica Italiana (OMI) was an Italian company producing photogrammetric instruments. It was founded in Rome in 1926 by Umberto Nistri (1895 - 1962) From 1962 on, Raffaello Nistri (1920-1981), son of Umberto, was president of the company.
Ottie Cline Powell Ottie Cline Powell was four years old and barefoot when he wandered away from his schoolhouse in Amherst County, Virginia while out gathering firewood in November, 1890. Despite an extensive search, his body was not found until the following spring, seven miles away, on the peak of Bluff Mountain, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, elevation 3,372 feet.
Ottilia Borbáth Ottilia Borbáth (born November 26, 1946 in Târgu-Mureş, Romania) is an actress who has appeared in many films as well as appearing in TV mini serials such as the Nightmare Years and the Phantom of the Opera.
Ottilien Congregation The Ottilien Congregation, often also known as the St. Ottilien Congregation and as the Missionary Benedictines, is a congregation of religious houses within the Benedictine Confederation, the aim of which is to combine the Benedictine way of life with activity in the mission field.
Ottis Toole Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5 1947 – September 15, 1996) (sometimes spelled Otis) was an American criminal. Though he claimed to be a serial killer and cannibal, and was the suspect in several unsolved murders, he recanted and restated a number of confessions.
Ottmar Beckman Cars AB OBC (sometimes called BCS) or Ottmar Beckman Cars AB was a car manufacturer in Mantorp, Sweden. In 1974 they presented a two seated mid engined sports car called OBC Mantorp (named after the Mantorp Park race track).
Ottmar Liebert Ottmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, who leads an ensemble called Luna Negra ("Black Moon") that has gained notoriety performing as a touring band, and recording music albums in a "Nouveau Flamenco" style, mixing elements of flamenco with jazz, bossa nova, Hindu meditation music, and other genres.
Ottmar Mergenthaler Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 10, 1854 – October 28, 1899) was a German inventor, who has been called a second Gutenberg because his invention of a machine that could easily and quickly set movable type revolutionized the art of printing. Prior to Mergenthaler's invention of the linotype in 1886, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.
Otto and Vivika Heino Otto (born 1915) and Vivika (1910-1995) Heino are artists working in ceramics. They collaborated as a husband-and-wife team for thirty-five years, signing their pots Vikika + Otto, regardless of who actually made them.
Otto Aasen Otto Aasen is a Norwegian nordic skier who won the nordic combined at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1917 and 1918. For his nordic combined victories, Aasen shared the Holmenkollen medal in 1919 with Thorleif Haug.
Otto Bettmann Otto Ludwig Bettmann (October 15, 1903 - May 3, 1998), known as "The Picture Man," was the founder of the Bettmann Archive. Bettmann is considered to have "virtually invented the image resource business.
Otto Binder Otto Oscar Binder (August 26, 1911 - October 14, 1974) was a writer of American science fiction, non-fiction UFO, and comic books. He is best known for his 12-year stint at Fawcett Comics (1941 to 1953), writing stories for the characters Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family, as well as Bulletman and Bulletgirl, and many other Fawcett superheroes.
Otto Binswanger Otto Ludwig Binswanger (October 14, 1852 - July 15, 1929) was a Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist who came from a famous family of physicians; his father was founder of the Kreuzlingen Sanatorium, and he was uncle to Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966) who was a major figure in the existential psychology movement.
Otto Boehler Otto Boehler (15 October 1873 Germany- 15 October 1915 was a United States Army private awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions during the Moro Rebellion during the Philippine-American war. He was one of Young's Scouts, who won one of 6 Medals of Honor awarded for members of Young's Scouts on 16 May 1899, commanded by Captain William E.
Otto Bradfisch Otto Bradfisch (born 10 May 1903 in ZweibrĂĽcken; died 22 June 1994 in Seeshaupt) was an economist, a jurist, an SS ObersturmbannfĂĽhrer, Leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (ĹĂłdĹş) and Potsdam.
Otto Brahm Otto Brahm (born Otto Abrahamson on 5 February 1856 in Hamburg; died 28 November 1912 in Berlin) was a German drama and literary critic, theatre manager and director. His productions were noted for being accurate and realistic.
Otto Brunfels Otto Brunfels (also known as Brunsfels or Braunfels) (beleved to be born on 1488 near Mainz - December 23, 1534 in Bern, Switzerland) was a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany".
Otto de la Roche Otto or Othon de la Roche (died 1234) was a Burgundian nobleman from the castle of La Roche-sur-l'Ognon, in the Franche-Comté commune of Rigney, Doubs. He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and became the first Duke of Athens.
Otto Dempwolff Otto Dempwolff (born 25 May 1871 in Pillau, died 27 November 1938 in Hamburg) was a German linguist and anthropologist who became famous for his research into Austronesian languages. He was the first to publish a comprehensive theory about how many languages that are nowadays spoken on the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean can be traced back to one proto-language.
Otto Diels Otto Paul Hermann Diels (January 23 1876 – March 7 1954) was a German chemist. He was the son of a professor of philology at the University of Berlin, where he himself earned his doctorate in chemistry, in the group of Emil Fischer.
Otto Dix Otto Dix (December 2, 1891 - July 25, 1969) was a German painter and printmaker. Noted for his ruthless depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of war, he is one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).
Otto Donner Otto Donner (1835–1909) was a Finnish linguist and politician. He was professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of Helsinki, but also studied the Finno-Ugric languages.
Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik was a German World War II munitions and arms factory, a subsidiary of the Gustloff company. The company had two major factories in Hirtenberg near Wiener Neustadt (Hirtenberger Patronen ZĂĽundhĂĽtchen & Metallwarenfabrik) and in Rensdorf near Wuppertal (code "am").
Otto Erich Deutsch Otto Erich Deutsch (September 5, 1883 – November 23, 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is best known for his catalogue of the works of Franz Schubert (1951) - it is from this that the D numbers used to identify Schubert's pieces are drawn.
Otto Ernst Remer Otto Ernst Remer (August 18, 1912 - October 4, 1997) was a German Wehrmacht officer who played a decisive role in stopping the 1944 July 20 Plot against Hitler. After the war he co-founded the Sozialistische Reichspartei (SRP), and advanced Holocaust denial.
Otto F. Kernberg Otto F. Kernberg, was born in Vienna in 1928 and in 1939 his family left Germany to escape the Nazi regime and emigrated to Chile where he later studied biology and medicine and afterwards psychiatry and psychoanalysis with the Chilean Psychoanalytic Society.
Otto Fridolinus Fritzsche Otto Fridolinus Fritzsche also Otto Fridolin Fritzsche (September 23, 1812-March 9, 1896) was a German theologian. He was born in Dobrilugk, Germany to a minister named Friedrich Fritzsche and served at the University of Zurich as professor of theology from 1837 to his death.
Otto Glória Otto Martins Glória (* 9 January 1917 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - †4 September 1986) was a Brazilian football (soccer) coach. With his numerous titles he is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game.
Otto GmbH Otto GmbH & Co KG (formerly Otto Versand) is the world's largest mail order company, operating in more than 20 countries. The family of executive board chairman Michael Otto owns the majority of the company and separately controls US catalog company Spiegel catalog.
Otto Graham Otto Everett Graham Jr. (December 6, 1921 - December 17, 2003) was a professional American football and basketball player who played for the Cleveland Browns in both the AAFC and NFL, as well as the Rochester Royals in the NBL.
Otto Gross Dr Otto Gross (1877 - 1920) A maverick early disciple of Freud became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community. A champion of an early form of anti-psychiatry and sexual liberation, he also developed an anarchist form of depth psychology (which rejected the civilising necessity of psychological repression proposed by Freud) and adopted a similarly modified form of the proto feminist and neo-pagan theories of Johann Jakob Bachofen with which he attempted to return civilization back to a postulated 'golden age' of non-hierarchy.
Otto Gruppe Otto Gruppe (1851-1901) was a German mythographer, remembered for his Griechische Mythologie und Religion-Geschichte (1906), which summed up the nineteenth century reading of Greek mythology through surviving texts. He was also the author of a Geschichte der Klassischen Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte während des Mittelalters in Abendland und während der Neuzeit, a "history of Classical mythology and the history of religion in the Medieval West and in modern times.
Otto Hahn Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is considered a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry, and regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" by Glenn T.
Otto Hahn (ship) Otto Hahn is one of only four nuclear-powered cargo vessels ever built. Planning of a German-built trade and research vessel to test the feasibility of nuclear power in civil service began in 1960, and Otto Hahns keel was laid down in 1963 by Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG of Kiel.
Otto Harbach Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 - January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Danish immigrant parents Adolph Hauerbach and his wife Sena Olsen, and attended the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, transferring to Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was a friend of Carl Sandburg, and graduated in 1895.
Otto Höfler Otto Höfler (born 10 May 1901, died 25 August 1987, in Vienna) was an Austrian scholar of German studies. He was a student of Rudolf Much, and adopted Much's racist "Continuity Theory", based around the idea of continuity of antiquity into the present.
Otto Heinrich Warburg Otto Heinrich Warburg (October 8, 1883, Freiburg im Breisgau – August 1, 1970, Berlin), son of Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist and medical doctor. Emil Warburg was a distant relative of the illustrious Warburg family of Altona, who had converted to Christianity reportedly after a disagreement in the family; his mother was the daughter of a Protestant family of civil servants from Baden.
Otto Henry, Elector Palatine Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine, (* 10 April 1502 in Amberg; † 12 February 1559 in Heidelberg) a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1505 to 1559 and prince elector of the Palatinate from 1556 to 1559. He was a son of Elizabeth of Bavaria-Landshut and her husband Ruppert of Palatinate.
Otto I, Count of Burgundy Otto I (born between 1167 and 1171, died January 13 1200) was the Count of Burgundy from 1190 to his death and briefly Count of Luxembourg from 1196 to 1197. He was the fourth son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy.
Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Otto I of Brunswick-Lüneburg (about 1204 – 9 June 1252) was the first duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 until his death. He is called Otto the Child to distinguish him from his uncle, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
Otto I, Duke of Saxony Otto or Oddo (died 30 November 912) was a Saxon nobleman; by later authors, he is often called Otto the Illustrious. The younger son of Liudolf, Duke of Saxony and his wife Oda, Otto presumably became duke of Saxony shortly before his death, but no details are known.
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor Otto I the Great (November 23 912 – May 7 973), son of Henry I the Fowler, king of the Germans, and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duke of the Saxons, King of the Germans and arguably the first Holy Roman Emperor"the first of the Germans to be called the emperor of Italy". Arnulf of Milan, Liber gestorum recentium, I.
Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria Otto II of Bavaria (German: Otto II der Erlauchte , Herzog von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein) (Kelheim, 7 April 1206 – 29 November 1253, Landshut) was the Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine (see Palatinate). He was a son of Louis I and Ludmila of Bohemia.
Otto III of Montferrat Otto III Palaeologus (also Otho or Ottone; died 16 December 1378) was the Margrave of Montferrat from 1372 to his death, the third of the Greek Palaeologan dynasty. He was known as Secondotto, the second Otto to rule Montferrat in his own right.
Otto III, Duke of Swabia Otto III (died 28 September 1057), called the White and known as Otto of Schweinfurt, was the margrave of the Nordgau (1024 – 1031) and duke of Swabia (1048 – 1057). He was the son of Henry of Schweinfurt, margrave of the Nordgau, and Gerberga of Henneberg.
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV of Brunswick (1175 or 1176 – 19 May 1218) was one of two rival kings of the Holy Roman Empire from 1198 on, sole king from 1208 on, and emperor from 1209 on. The only king of the Welf dynasty, he was deposed in 1215.
Otto Kahler Otto Kahler (January 8 1849-January 24 1893) was an Austrian physician. Born and trained in Prague, he is best known for describing multiple myeloma, a hematological malignancy, which is called "Kahler's disease" in his honor in several countries.
Otto Kaiser Otto Kaiser (born 30 November 1924) is a leading Old Testament scholar. Born in Prenzlau, Germany, he attended the Gymnasium in Eberswalde and went to the University of Berlin to study Medicine, but also Philosophy with Nicolai Hartmann.
Otto Kern Otto Kern (February 14, 1863 – January 31, 1942) was a German linguist and former professor of philosophy at the University of Hamburg. From 1922 to 1934 was one of the two chairmen of the Society of Friends of the University of Hamburg.
Otto Kiep Otto Carl Kiep (born 7 July 1886 in Saltcoats, Scotland; died 23 August 1944 in Berlin) was the Chief of the Reich Press Office (Reichspresseamt). He became involved with the resistance against the Nazis and was executed in 1944.
Otto Knabe Franz Otto "Dutch" Knabe (June 12, 1884 - May 17, 1961) was a Major league second baseman from Carrick, Pennsylvania, who played for four different teams.Baseball Reference player page He was the player-manager for the only two season the Baltimore Terrapins and the Federal League were in existence.
Otto Kretschmer Otto Kretschmer (May 1, 1912 - August 5, 1998) was a German U-Boat commander of the Second World War, and was the most successful Ace of the Deep. From September 1939 until being captured in March 1941, he sank 47 ships for a total of 274,333 tons.
Otto Kuhler Otto Kuhler (July 31, 1894–August 5, 1977) was one of the best known industrial designers of the American railroads. According to "Trains" magazine he streamstyled more locomotives and railroad cars than Cret, Dreyfuss and Loewy combined.
Otto Lang (film producer) Otto Lang (21 January 1908 – 30 January 2006), born in Tešanj, Austria-Hungary, was a skier and pioneer ski instructor in the United States. He founded ski schools on Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and Mount Hood beginning in the 1930s, and as the director of the ski school at Sun Valley became the ski instructor for Hollywood stars.
Otto Laporte Otto Laporte (July 23, 1902 – March 28, 1971) was a German-born American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics. His name is lent to the Laporte rule in spectroscopy.
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