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The Nun's Priest's Tale The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the 14th century Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. The 625 line poem is a beast fable and a mock epic, which may have existed before Chaucer, but was at the very least popularized by him.
The Nuremberg Raid (book) The Nuremberg Raid (subtitled: 30-31 March 1944) is a book by the British military historian Martin Middlebrook describing the RAF Bomber Command attack on the German city of Nuremberg on the night of 30-31 March 1944.
The Nursery "Alice" The Nursery "Alice" is a shortened version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five" with twenty of Tenniel's illustrations from the original book colored and enlarged.
The Nurture Assumption The Nurture Assumption is a book written by Judith Harris with the foreword by Steven Pinker. Its answer to "Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do" is that "Parents Matter Less Than You Think and Peers Matter More".
The Nutcracker The Nutcracker (, Castilian: Cascanueces, ), Op. 71, is a fairy-ballet in two acts, three tableaux, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891–1892, and based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (), a story by E.
The Nutcracker Suite The Nutcracker Suite consists of both an adaptation for acoustic guitar of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and the Balkan Dreams Suite, a suite of songs based on melodies and ideas of Bela Bartok. Sparks won the 1993 National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship playing his solo guitar arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite".
The Nutty Professor The Nutty Professor, starring Jerry Lewis, was filmed from October 9-December 17, 1962. Written, produced, and directed by Lewis, it was released by Paramount Pictures on June 4, 1963, and proved to be one of the comedian's most popular films.
The Nylons The Nylons are an a cappella group founded in 1979 in Canada, best known for their covers of The Turtles' "Happy Together", Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", and The Tokens' version of the traditional "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd "The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd" was written by Sir Walter Raleigh in response to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". It could be considered a criticism, or at least a negative reaction to the original poem, as the nymph is in fact rejecting the shepherd in question quite harshly, and includes many lines that are directly connected to propositions made in Marlowe's poem.
The olympian society North Carolina's own, The Olympian Society, is a collaboration of each member's passion to experiment with and create music. While drawing heavily from influences such as Beloved, Jimmy Eat World, Thrice and more, they are staying true to their desire to bring a new and fresh approach to "the scene".
The O'Debra Twins The O'Debra Twins, Diane Destiny O'Debra and Tanya Tammy Tina Tiny Dancer Hyphen O'Debra, are comic performance artists who have been performing in the Art Stars community since 2002. They host SHOW & TELL, an anything-goes weekly open mic at The Bowery Poetry Club since June of 2003.
The O'Higgins The O'Higgins is the title of the person who is identified as the most senior member of the O'Higgins Sept or Clan. Currently formal recognition of this title is not possible as the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland in Dublin has stopped the practice of granting courtersy recognition to Chiefs of the Name and the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains has not taken over this role.
The O'Jays The O'Jays is a popular Philadelphia soul group, originally consisting of Walter Williams, Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, William Powell and Eddie Levert. They formed the group in Canton, Ohio in 1958 (see 1958 in music) while attending high school.
The O'Reilly Factor The O'Reilly Factor is a United States television talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by commentator Bill O'Reilly, who discusses current political and social issues with guests from opposing ends of the political spectrum. The show premiered in 1996 along with the Fox News Channel.
The Oarsman The Oarsman is Venice High School's official student newspaper. The paper gained some national publicity in 2003 when a story on teacher Jacqueline Domac's "quasi-spousal" relationship with then minor age actor Edward Furlong was censored by school principal Janice Davis.
The Oath of Judges Order 2000 The Oath of Judges Order 2000 is order issued by then Chief Executive of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf in January 2000. It required the judges to take a fresh oath of office swearing allegiance to military rule.
The Oath of Leo III The Oath of Leo III is a painting by the workshop of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. The painting was part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
The Objectivist The Objectivist was a monthly Objectivist magazine published from January 1966 to September 1971, as the successor to The Objectivist Newsletter. Properly, it was mainly a change in format from the 4-page Newsletter to the now 16-page Objectivist.
The Objectivity of the Sociological and Social-Political Knowledge (book) The Objectivity of the Sociological and Social-Political Knowledge, know also as Objectivity of Social Science and Social Policy is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist. The original edition was published in German, but various translations to English exist.
The Observer (Bristol Community College) The Observer is a monthly student college newspaper that serves the main campus of Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. The Observer is considered by the BCC Handbook as a student club, at the main campus.
The Obsidian Chronicles The Obsidian Chronicles are a trilogy by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It centers around a boy named Arlian and his quest for vengeance against the dragons that destroyed his hometown and killed his family, and against the man who sold him into slavery, the mysterious and ruthless Lord Dragon.
The Obsidian Trilogy The Obsidian Trilogy is a three-book fantasy series, chronicling the journey of Kellen Tavadon in relation to the third war between the Light and the Endarkened, co-written by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. The series began with The Outstretched Shadow, released in 2003, continued in 2004 with To Light a Candle and reached its conclusion in 2006 with When Darkness Falls.
The Obvious The OBViOUS is a pop rock band started in the late 1990s by mr christopher with the goal of creating American/UK pop rock for the Asian market, specifically China and Japan. Their first CD was released in China in 1998, followed by a promotional radio station/university tour.
The Occult History of the Third Reich The Occult History of the Third Reich, starring Patrick Allen and directed by Dave Flitton is an English language 1991 four part History Channel documentary regarding the occult influences and history of the Nazi Era, (pre, during and post) in Germany.
The Occult Review The Occult Review was a British illustrated monthly magazine containing articles & correspondence by many notable occultists of the day, including Aleister Crowley, Meredith Starr, Arthur Edward Waite, W.L.
The Ocean (film) THE OCEAN is a 2007 horror film directed by Dante Tomaselli and stars Margot Kidder, Vincent Pastore, Judith O Dea. The tale of creeping terror centers on Cathy (Margot Kidder), a psychic who travels to Puerto Rico to be with her estranged family after the drowning deaths of her daughter's husband and son.
The Ocean (song) "The Ocean" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their 1973 album Houses of the Holy. "The Ocean" refers to the sea of fans seen from the stage at Led Zeppelin concerts, to whom this song was dedicated.
The Ocean Blue The Ocean Blue, formed in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1986, is a band that combines synthesizer-based New Wave hooks with "bluesy" saxophone solos and high tinsel guitars to produce a truly unique sound. Its core-original members included David Schelzel on lead vocals/guitar, Steve Lau on keyboards/saxophone, Bobby Mittan on bass guitar and Rob Minnig on drums and vocals.
The Ocean Group The Ocean Group is a production company located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that specializes in localizing anime into English, including doing translation, dubbing and subtitling. As of 2005 the group has also started providing DVD authoring services to some of their clients.
The Ocean Waves The Ocean Waves (海がきこえる Umi ga Kikoeru, also commonly known as I Can Hear the Sea), is a Television Movie Anime made by Studio Ghibli. It was directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and was based on the novel I can hear the sea by Saeko Himuro.
The Octals Founded in 1996, The Octals are Dickinson College's oldest and only all-male a cappella group. They perform two major concerts each academic year, at the end of each semester, and perform at a variety of functions both on-campus and in the community.
The October Country The October Country is a 1955 collection of twenty macabre short stories by Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories published elsewhere.
The Octopus Project (software) The octopus project is a software package for density-functional theory (DFT) [1,2], and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) [3,4]. Both these methods have enjoyed a steady increase of their popularity ever since they were born, in the sixties and eighties respectively.
The Odd Angry Shot The Odd Angry Shot is an Australian movie based on Australian soldiers and their experiences during the Vietnam War. It follows the departure and tour of duty of an SAS reconnaissance team and avoids much of the political comment on Australia’s involvement in Vietnam; a theme that became more popular in the 1980’s when Hollywood began to explore the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam War.
The Odd Couple (film) The Odd Couple is a 1968 film written by Neil Simon, based on his play of the same name, and directed by Gene Saks. It is the story of two divorced men who decide to live together, even though their personalities cause distinctive clashes, Felix Ungar, is a neurotic neatfreak, and Oscar Madison is the complete opposite, a sloppy, fun-loving character.
The Oddball Couple The Oddball Couple was an animated half hour Saturday morning show that ran on the ABC TV network from September 6th, 1975 to September 3rd, 1977. The show was a production of DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and was an animated homage to the Neil Simon play-turned movie-turned hit TV series The Odd Couple, which was ironic because this series premiered the very same year that the show it paid homage to was cancelled.
The Odyssey (TV series) The Odyssey was a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-95 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha (credited as Ashley Rogers), Tony Sampson as Keith/Flash, Andrea Nemeth as Medea/Sierra Jones, Mark Hildreth as Finger, Janet Hodgkinson as Val Ziegler (Jay's mother), and Devon Sawa as Yudo.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is an epic poem by the Greek poet and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis based on Homer's Odyssey. It is divided into 24 rhapsodies (see rhapsody) as is the original Odyssey and consists of 33,333 17-syllable verses.
The ODESSA File (film) The ODESSA File is a 1974 film adaptation of the thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, about a struggle between a young German reporter and the ODESSA, an organization for ex-Nazis. The film stars Jon Voight and was directed by Ronald Neame, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The Off-Beats The Off-Beats (previously known as "The Misfits") was a series of animated shorts appearing on the Nickolodeon television series 'KaBlam!, featuring the lives of a clique of nerdy individuals, each having their own quirks.
The Office The Office is the name of two television situation comedy shows created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. The first was the UK version, which was initially broadcast on BBC Two on 9 July 2001 and ran for two seasons and a pair of Christmas specials.
The Office of the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils The Office of the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils (行政立法兩局非官守議員辦事處) or UMELCO Office was an office for Unofficial Members of both Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong established in 1963. Its purpose was to promote close relationship of the two Councils and invite them to put forward their views on public interest or lodge individual complaints again the departments of Hong Kong Government.
The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc (or ODMP) is a web-based non-profit organization dedicated to honoring American Law Enforcement and Corrections Officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty, going as far back to the early days of America's existence all the way to present day. It was established in 1996 by James Madison University student Chris Cosgriff.
The Official Album of Disneyland and Walt Disney World (1991 CD) The Official Album of Disneyland and Walt Disney World (1991 CD) was the official album for Disneyland and Walt Disney World in 1991. Originally released as "The Music Of Disneyland Walt Disney World And Epcot Center" in 1988.
The Official Bootleg The Official Bootleg is a live album by Rudess/Morgenstein Project, made up of Jordan Rudess and Rod Morgenstein, released in 2001. The album is made up of tracks recorded during live shows taking place from April 1997 to February 1999.
The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader is a companion book to Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's 2004 documentary film. The book includes the film's complete screenplay, extensive sources that aim to support facts presented in the film, articles, letters, photos, and cartoons about the influential documentary.
The Official Fuzzy Warbles Collector's Album The Official Fuzzy Warbles Collector's Album is a CD box set of rarities from XTC guitarist and frontman Andy Partridge. The box set brings together the eight previously released "Fuzzy Warbles" volumes and includes an exclusive ninth disc entitled "Hinges".
The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards is an annual contest put forth by Lucasfilm and AtomFilms to showcase and acknowledge the growing genre of fan films made by, for, and about fans of the Star Wars saga. The inaugural contest in 2002 was the first time Lucasfilm had officially sanctioned the genre.
The Official UK Charts Company The Official UK Charts Company (OCC), previously called the Chart Information Network (CIN) compiles various "official" UK record charts, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, and the UK Official Download Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers, who it claims cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week.
The Official West Ham United Dream Team In preparation for their 2003 book The Official West Ham United Dream Team (ISBN 978-0600608356) writers Adam Ward and Dave Smith quizzed around 500 West Ham United fans as to who would be in their all time Hammers Eleven, selecting their teams in a 4-4-2 formation as well as choosing their favourite managers, goals and games. Adverts appeared in the club programme and on the official website.
The Offroaders Simon Bush and Lyndsay Mottram aka The Offroaders are fictional characters played by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse in the hit BBC comedy sketch show The Fast Show, which ran for four series between 1994 and 2000.
The Offspring (TNG episode) "The Offspring" is a third-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, in which the android Data, creates a "child" of his own. The episode was directed by Jonathan Frakes, who also portrayed Commander William Riker.
The Offspring's eighth studio album The Offspring's eighth studio album is currently scheduled to be released sometime in 2007. It will be their first studio album in nearly four years since 2003's Splinter and also the very first to feature Atom Willard as the replacement of longtime drummer Ron Welty.
The Ohio Express The Ohio Express was a Bubblegum pop/garage band that fronted for Kasenetz and Katz's Super K Productions studio musicians working out of New York, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine ("Yummy Yummy Yummy").
The Ohio State University Marching Band The Ohio State University Marching Band (often called The Best Damn Band in the Land or TBDBITL by fansDirector Dr. Jon Woods claims, "Supposedly at a pep rally one year, Woody stood up after the band played a song and said, 'That's the best damn band in the land!
The Ohio Valley in Kentucky The Ohio Valley is a sub region in Kentucky running 658 miles long including parts of 25 counties and across five regions of the state. Over 45% of Kentucky's population live in counties the border the Ohio River, altohugh those counties are only 16% of the state's land area.
The Ohsees The Ohsees (Formerly OCS, Orinoka Crash Suite, Oronoka Crash Suite) began as a way for John Dwyer (of Coachwhips, Pink and Brown, Landed, Yikes, Burmese, The Hospitals, etc.) to release his instrumental, experimental home recordings.
The Oi Group The Oi Group is an advocacy organisation that provides industrial & employment law support to employers throughout Australia. Founded in 1996 and based in Melbourne, the group began as an industrial & employment law support organisation for both employers and employees.
The Okinawan Karate Club of Dallas The Okinawan Karate Club of Dallas, located in north Dallas (Farmers Branch), teaches traditional Okinawan Shorin Ryu karate as taught by Eizo Shimabukuro O'Sensei and Okinawan Shudokan karate as taught by the late Walter Todd Sensei. Okinawan weapons (kobudo) are also practiced.
The Oklahoman The Oklahoman is the largest statewide newspaper in Oklahoma and is the only daily newspaper for the Oklahoma City Metro area. The successful ownership of the paper by the Gaylord family built a multi-billion dollar fortune.
The Old Apartment "The Old Apartment" is a song by Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies. It was the band's first American hit, and appears on the albums Born on a Pirate Ship, Rock Spectacle and Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001.
The Old Capital The Old Capital (translated English title of the Japanese Koto 古都, which refers to the city Kyoto 京都) is a novel by Yasunari Kawabata originally published in 1962. It was first translated into English in 1987 by J.
The Old Castle's Secret The Old Castle's Secret is a Donald Duck story written by Carl Barks in June 1948. Besides having status as one of Barks' best stories, The Old Castle's Secret is also notable for being Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie's first treasure hunt with their uncle, Scrooge McDuck.
The Old Catholic Church in Italy The Old Catholic Church in Italy or Chiesa Vetero-Cattolica in Italian, is an Old Catholic Church united with or in communion with the Anglican Communion. So Italians from the Old Catholic Church can go to an Anglican Church anywhere else (or even an Old catholic church anywhere else that is in the Anglican Communion.
The Old Dark House The Old Dark House is a 1932 horror film directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, produced just one year after their success with Frankenstein. In spite of the presence of Karloff, The Old Dark House was largely ignored at the American box office, although it was a huge hit in Whale's native England where the audience was more in tune with the director's distinctive, ironic sense of black humour.
The Old Dead Tree The Old Dead Tree is a French gothic metal band from the city of Paris founded in 1997. Their first major album release in 2003 was entitled The Nameless Disease and was informed by and centred around the suicide of the band's drummer, Frédéric Guillemot.
The Old Front Line The Old Front Line (ISBN 0-85052-936-0) is a military history book by English poet John Masefield, first published in 1917. The book is a description of the battlefield front-line from which the British Army attacked on the first day on the Somme, 1 July, 1916, and as such is perhaps the first battlefield guide of the First World War.
The Old Guitarist The Old Guitarist is a picture by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1903, just after the suicide death of Picasso's close friend, Casagemas. Picasso's “Blue Period” spanned the years of 1901–1904, and was followed by his “Rose Period”.
The Old Gum Tree The Old Gum Tree at Glenelg North, South Australia was the location of the reading of the Proclamation by Governor John Hindmarsh creating the colony of South Australia on December 28, 1836. Each year a ceremony is held on the anniversary of that day by the Governor, who reads out Hindmarsh's original speech.
The Old Head "The Old Head" is the eighth episode of television series Prison Break. It was first aired on October 24, 2005 after a three-week hiatus due to Fox's broadcast of the Major League Baseball playoffs in the United States.
The Old Home Guard "The Old Home Guard" is a song written by Robert and Richard Sherman for the 1971, Walt Disney musical film production Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It is sung by the members of the British Home Guard as they swear to defend England's shores.
The Old Law The Old Law is a seventeenth-cenutry tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger. It was first published in 1656, but is generally thought to have been written about four decades earlier.
The Old Manor The Old Manor is a stone-built medieval hall built between the between 13th and the 15th centuries, situated in Norbury, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. The manor has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1987.
The Old Manse The Old Manse is a house famous for its American literary associations. It is located beside the Old North Bridge over the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts, and now owned and operated as a nonprofit museum by the Trustees of Reservations.
The Old Market Autonomous Zone The Old Market Autonomous Zone, or A-Zone, was founded in 1995, in Winnipeg, Canada. Its name is derived from "Old Market Square," the historic Exchange District in Winnipeg's downtown core areacombined with Hakim Bey]'s notion of a "Temporary Autonomous Zone" (or TAZ).
The Old Masters Box Three The Old Masters Box Three is a box set by Frank Zappa, consisting of the albums Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury and Zoot Allures. Unlike its predecessors, it did not feature a "Mystery Disc", and a sampler was not issued.
The Old Masters Box Two The Old Masters Box Two is a box set by Frank Zappa, consisting of the albums Uncle Meat, Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Chunga's Revenge, Fillmore East, June 1971 and Just Another Band From L.A..
The Old Mill The Old Mill is a 1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937. The film depicts the natural community of animals populating an old abandoned windmill in the country, and how they deal with a violent thunderstorm that nearly destroys their habitat.
The Old New Land The Old New Land (or Altneuland in the original German) is a utopian novel published by Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902. Outlining Herzl’s vision for a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, Altneuland became one of Zionism’s establishing texts.
The Old Patagonian Express The Old Patagonian Express (1979) is a written account of a journey taken by novelist Paul Theroux. Starting out from his home town in Massachusetts, via Boston and Chicago, Theroux travels by train across the North American plains and into the humid jungles of Central America.
The Old Regime and the Revolution L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution or The Old Regime and the French Revolution. The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution — the so-called "Ancien Régime" — and investigates the causes and forces that brought about the Revolution.
The Old Straight Track The Old Straight Track is a book by Alfred Watkins that was first published in 1925 describing ley lines in the United Kingdom. The full title is "The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones".
The Old Town, Aarhus The Old Town in Aarhus, Denmark is an open-air village museum consisting of 75 historical buildings collected from 20 townships in all parts of the country. In 1914 the museum opened for the first time as the worlds’ first open-air museum of its kind and till this day it remains one of just a few top rated Danish museums outside Copenhagen serving some 3.
The Old Wives' Tale The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age.
The Old Woman The Old Woman known also as Hewla is a fictional antagonist in David Gemmell's White Wolf, the first book of Skilgannon the Damned. Though she is not directly an antagonist to Skilgannon, her manoveurings in the story darken his path.
The Olden Domain The Olden Domain is Borknagar's second studio album, and their first to feature English lyrics. It would also mark the beginning of the band's transition to the progressive, melodic black metal sound featured on later records.
The Oldie The Oldie is a monthly magazine launched in 1992 by Richard Ingrams, who for 23 years was the editor of Private Eye. It carries general interest articles, humour and cartoons, and has an eclectic list of contributors, including Miles Kington, Ned Sherrin (who reviews memorial services), Beryl Bainbridge, Rosie Boycott, Thomas Stuttaford and Edward Enfield.
The Olive Branch The Olive Branch is a magazine of Seeds of Peace written and edited by youth from across the world. It chronicles issues relating to and events concerning youth in conflict areas such as Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan among many others..
The Olivia Tremor Control The Olivia Tremor Control was an Athens, Georgia indie rock band in the mid- to late 1990s which, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant Six projects. The band was founded by the remnants of the group Synthetic Flying Machine (Jeff Mangum, Bill Doss, and Will Cullen Hart) in 1994 and disbanded in early 2000.
The Olympics (band) The Olympics were a doo-wop group formed in 1957 by lead singer Walter Ward. The group included Eddie Lewis (tenor), Charles Fizer (tenor), Walter Hammond (baritone) and Melvin King (bass) and except for Lewis were friends in a L.
The Omar Khayyam Show Spike Milligan made wrote and performed in three series of the radio comedy program The Idiot Weekly for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1958-1962. Six episodes were remade by the BBC in 1963 as The Omar Khayyam Show.
The Omega Concern The Omega Concern was a not-for-profit company owned by Alex Lifeson which manufactured the Omega Stand, a type of stand for acoustic guitars invented and used by Lifeson on stage for songs during which he needed to quickly switch between both acoustic and electric guitars.
The Omega Glory "The Omega Glory" is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast March 1, 1968 and repeated July 26, 1968. It is episode #52, production #54, written by Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Vincent McEveety.
The Omega Man (counterfeiter) "The Omega Man" is the name given to a counterfeit coin producer who signed his creations with a minute Greek letter omega. He is believed to have created over 20,000 fake 1907 ultra high-relief US$20 gold Double Eagle coins.
The Omega Sessions The Omega Sessions is an EP recorded in the early days of hardcore punk and reggae pioneers Bad Brains in 1980. It contains five early versions of songs that eventually appeared on later releases, including a reading of "I Against I," which would not be released in its official format for another six years.
The Omen The Omen is a 1976 suspense/horror film directed by Richard Donner and starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Stephens, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern. It is the first film in the Omen series.
The Omni Group The Omni Group is a company that develops software for the Mac OS X platform. The Omni Group was informally founded as a NEXTSTEP consulting company in 1989 by Wil Shipley, who immediately brought on Ken Case and Tim Wood.
The OMAC Project The OMAC Project is a six issue comics limited series written by Greg Rucka with art by Jesus Saiz and published by DC Comics in 2005. The series was collected, along with Countdown to Infinite Crisis and Wonder Woman #219, in a trade paperback in November 2005.
The One (album) The One is an album by Elton John released in 1992, with music by Elton John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin. The album contains 11 songs and was recorded at Studio Guillame Tell in Paris, produced by Chris Thomas and managed by John Reid.
The One (magazine) The One was a video game magazine in the UK covering 16-bit home gaming during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Published by EMAP, and with a promotional "Issue Zero" in October 1989 before issue 1 in November 1989, it initially covered computer games aimed at the Atari ST, Amiga, and PC markets.

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