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22,211 | # Oelde
**Oelde** (`{{IPA|de|ˈœldə|-|De-Oelde.ogg}}`{=mediawiki}) is a town in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near Beckum.
## Geography
### Division of the town {#division_of_the_town}
Oelde consists of 5 districts:
- Oelde
- Stromberg
- Lette
- Sünninghausen
-... | 345 | Oelde | 0 |
22,213 | # Operator (mathematics)
In mathematics, an **operator** is generally a mapping or function that acts on elements of a space to produce elements of another space (possibly and sometimes required to be the same space). There is no general definition of an *operator*, but the term is often used in place of *function* wh... | 798 | Operator (mathematics) | 0 |
22,213 | # Operator (mathematics)
## Examples
### Analysis (calculus) {#analysis_calculus}
From the point of view of functional analysis, calculus is the study of two linear operators: the differential operator $\frac{\ \mathrm{d}\ }{ \mathrm{d} t }$, and the *Volterra operator* $\int_0^t$.
### Fundamental analysis operator... | 592 | Operator (mathematics) | 1 |
22,270 | # Off topic
In the context of mailing lists, discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, newsgroups, and wikis a contribution is **off-topic** if it is not within the bounds of the current discussion, and **on-topic** if it is.
Even on very specialized forums and lists, off-topic posting is not necessarily... | 106 | Off topic | 0 |
22,290 | # Open-source license
**Open-source licenses** are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development. Intellectual property (IP) laws restrict the modification and sharing of creative works. Free and open-source licenses use these ex... | 917 | Open-source license | 0 |
22,290 | # Open-source license
## Types
Open-source licenses are categorized as copyleft or permissive. Copyleft licenses require derivative works to include source code under a similar license. Permissive licenses do not, and therefore the code can be used within proprietary software. Copyleft can be further divided into str... | 446 | Open-source license | 1 |
22,290 | # Open-source license
## Types
### Permissive
Permissive licenses, also known as academic licenses, allow recipients to use, modify, and distribute software with no obligation to provide source code. Institutions created these licenses to distribute their creations to the public. Permissive licenses are usually short... | 399 | Open-source license | 2 |
22,290 | # Open-source license
## Types
### Copyleft
Copyleft licenses require source code to be distributed with software and require the source code to be made available under a similar license. Like the permissive licenses, most copyleft licenses require attribution. Most, including the GPL, disclaim implied warranties.
C... | 875 | Open-source license | 3 |
22,290 | # Open-source license
## Enforcement
Free and open-source software licenses have been successfully enforced in civil court since the mid-2000s. In a pair of early lawsuits---Jacobsen v. Katzer in the United States and Welte v. Sitecom in Germany---defendants argued that open-source licenses were invalid. Sitecom and ... | 694 | Open-source license | 4 |
22,290 | # Open-source license
## Use in proprietary software {#use_in_proprietary_software}
Open-source licenses allow other businesses to commercialize covered software. Work released under a permissive license can be incorporated into proprietary software. Permissive licenses permit the addition of new terms, including pro... | 277 | Open-source license | 5 |
22,298 | # Open Source Initiative
The **Open Source Initiative** (**OSI**) is a California public benefit corporation \"actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software\".
## Governance
The OSI is a California public-benefi... | 648 | Open Source Initiative | 0 |
22,298 | # Open Source Initiative
## History
As a campaign of sorts, \"open source\" was launched in 1998 by Christine Peterson, Jon \"maddog\" Hall, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, and others.
The group adopted the Open Source Definition for open-source software, based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines. ... | 564 | Open Source Initiative | 1 |
22,317 | # History of Oman
`{{History of Oman}}`{=mediawiki} Oman is a site of pre-historic human habitation, stretching back over 100,000 years . The region was impacted by powerful invaders, including other Arab tribes, Portugal and Britain. Oman, at its height, held territory that ranged from the Persian Gulf all the way so... | 749 | History of Oman | 0 |
22,317 | # History of Oman
## Conversion to Islam {#conversion_to_islam}
Oman was exposed to Islam in 630, during the lifetime of Muhammad; consolidation took place in the Ridda Wars in 632.
In 751 Ibadi Muslims, a moderate branch of the Kharijites, established an imamate in Oman. Despite interruptions, the Ibadi imamate sur... | 765 | History of Oman | 1 |
22,317 | # History of Oman
## Late 19th and early 20th centuries {#late_19th_and_early_20th_centuries}
When Sultan Sa\'id bin Sultan Al-Busaid died in 1856, his sons quarrelled over the succession. As a result of this struggle, the empire ---through the mediation of Britain --- was divided in 1861 into two separate principali... | 509 | History of Oman | 2 |
22,317 | # History of Oman
## World War II {#world_war_ii}
Upon the outbreak of World War II, the sultan of Oman declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939. During the war, Oman had a strategic role in the defence of the United Kingdom\'s trade routes. Oman was never attacked during the war. In 1943, the Royal Air Force es... | 1,052 | History of Oman | 3 |
22,320 | # Politics of Oman
The **Politics of Oman** takes place in the context of a unitary absolute monarchy, where the Sultan of Oman is both head of state and head of government. The Sultan is hereditary, who appoints a cabinet to assist him. The sultan also serves as the supreme commander of the armed forces and prime min... | 380 | Politics of Oman | 0 |
22,320 | # Politics of Oman
## The Shura Council {#the_shura_council}
In November 1991, Sultan Qaboos replaced the 10-year-old State Consultative Council with the Consultative Assembly (*Majlis al-Shura*) to systematize and broaden public participation in government. The Assembly has 94 elected members and exercises some legi... | 450 | Politics of Oman | 1 |
22,322 | # Telecommunications in Oman
Oman Telecommunication Company (\[Omantel\]) has a monopoly in the landline telephone and internet access markets. Its arm Omanmobile offers mobile services. The Omani government owns 70% of Omantel after 30% was listed for the public in 2005. In 2005 Qatar Telecommunication Company (Qtel)... | 355 | Telecommunications in Oman | 0 |
22,330 | # Octal
**Octal** (**base 8**) is a numeral system with eight as the base.
In the decimal system, each place is a power of ten. For example:
: $\mathbf{74}_{10} = \mathbf{7} \times 10^1 + \mathbf{4} \times 10^0$
In the octal system, each place is a power of eight. For example:
: $\mathbf{112}_8 = \mathbf{1} \t... | 365 | Octal | 0 |
22,330 | # Octal
## Usage
### By Europeans {#by_europeans}
- It has been suggested that the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word for \"nine\" might be related to the PIE word for \"new\". Based on this, some have speculated that proto-Indo-Europeans used an octal number system, though the evidence supporting this is... | 591 | Octal | 1 |
22,330 | # Octal
## Usage
### `{{anchor|\nnn}}`{=mediawiki}In computers {#in_computers}
Octal became widely used in computing when systems such as the UNIVAC 1050, PDP-8, ICL 1900 and IBM mainframes employed 6-bit, 12-bit, 24-bit or 36-bit words. Octal was an ideal abbreviation of binary for these machines because their word ... | 795 | Octal | 2 |
22,330 | # Octal
## Conversion between bases {#conversion_between_bases}
### Decimal to octal conversion {#decimal_to_octal_conversion}
#### Method of successive Euclidean division by 8 {#method_of_successive_euclidean_division_by_8}
To convert integer decimals to octal, divide the original number by the largest possible po... | 855 | Octal | 3 |
22,330 | # Octal
## Conversion between bases {#conversion_between_bases}
### Octal to hexadecimal conversion {#octal_to_hexadecimal_conversion}
The conversion is made in two steps using binary as an intermediate base. Octal is converted to binary and then binary to hexadecimal, grouping digits by fours, which correspond each ... | 219 | Octal | 4 |
22,330 | # Octal
## Real numbers {#real_numbers}
### Fractions
Due to having only factors of two, many octal fractions have repeating digits, although these tend to be fairly simple:
+:--------------------------------------------:+:-------------------:+
| Decimal base\ | |
... | 411 | Octal | 5 |
22,336 | # Oberkommando des Heeres
The ***Oberkommando des Heeres*** (`{{literal translation|Upper Command of the Army}}`{=mediawiki}; abbreviated **OKH**) was the high command of the Army of Nazi Germany. It was founded in 1935 as part of Adolf Hitler\'s rearmament of Germany. OKH was *de facto* the most important unit within... | 519 | Oberkommando des Heeres | 0 |
22,336 | # Oberkommando des Heeres
## List of commanders {#list_of_commanders}
### Commander-in-Chief of the Army {#commander_in_chief_of_the_army}
The Commander-in-Chief of the Army (*Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres*) was the head of the OKH and the German Army during the years of the Nazi regime.
### Chief of General Staff of... | 499 | Oberkommando des Heeres | 1 |
22,356 | # List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
This is the complete list of women\'s Olympic medalists in athletics.
## Women\'s events {#womens_events}
### 100 metres
### 200 metres {#metres_1}
### 400 metres {#metres_2}
### 800 metres {#metres_3}
### 1500 metres {#metres_4}
### 5000 metres {#metres_5}
### ... | 526 | List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women) | 0 |
22,360 | # Lists of Olympic medalists
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22,362 | # Ordered pair
In mathematics, an **ordered pair**, denoted (*a*, *b*), is a pair of objects in which their order is significant. The ordered pair (*a*, *b*) is different from the ordered pair (*b*, *a*), unless *a* = *b*. In contrast, the *unordered pair*, denoted {*a*, *b*}, always equals the unordered pair {*b*, *a... | 403 | Ordered pair | 0 |
22,362 | # Ordered pair
## Informal and formal definitions {#informal_and_formal_definitions}
In some introductory mathematics textbooks an informal (or intuitive) definition of ordered pair is given, such as
> For any two objects `{{mvar|a}}`{=mediawiki} and `{{mvar|b}}`{=mediawiki}, the ordered pair `{{math|(''a'', ''b'')}... | 347 | Ordered pair | 1 |
22,362 | # Ordered pair
## Defining the ordered pair using set theory {#defining_the_ordered_pair_using_set_theory}
If one agrees that set theory is an appealing foundation of mathematics, then all mathematical objects must be defined as sets of some sort. Hence if the ordered pair is not taken as primitive, it must be define... | 1,303 | Ordered pair | 2 |
22,362 | # Ordered pair
## Defining the ordered pair using set theory {#defining_the_ordered_pair_using_set_theory}
### Quine--Rosser definition {#quinerosser_definition}
Rosser (1953) employed a definition of the ordered pair due to Quine which requires a prior definition of the natural numbers. Let $\N$ be the set of natura... | 425 | Ordered pair | 3 |
22,362 | # Ordered pair
## Defining the ordered pair using set theory {#defining_the_ordered_pair_using_set_theory}
### Cantor--Frege definition {#cantorfrege_definition}
Early in the development of the set theory, before paradoxes were discovered, Cantor followed Frege by defining the ordered pair of two sets as the class of... | 372 | Ordered pair | 4 |
22,371 | # Oliver Lieb
**Oliver Lieb** (born 1969 in Frankfurt, Germany) is an electronic music producer and DJ. He has recorded under more than a dozen aliases with over 200 productions and remixes in various genres such as trance, house and techno. He has also produced tracks for other artists.
## Career
Lieb began his mus... | 285 | Oliver Lieb | 0 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
The **Ohio River** (*Ohi:yo\'*) is a 981 mi river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its mouth on the Mississippi River in Cairo, Illinois. It is the third largest river by... | 771 | Ohio River | 0 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
## History
### Precolumbian
The river had great significance in the history of the Native Americans, as numerous prehistoric and historic civilizations formed along its valley. For thousands of years, Native Americans used the river as a major transportation and trading route.
In the five centuries bef... | 834 | Ohio River | 1 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
## History
### Exploration and settlement {#exploration_and_settlement}
#### `{{anchor|John Howard and John Peter Salling, 1742}}`{=mediawiki}John Howard and John Peter Salling (1742) {#john_howard_and_john_peter_salling_1742}
John Howard, a pioneer from Virginia, led a party of five---John Peter Salling... | 1,229 | Ohio River | 2 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
## History
### Free states border {#free_states_border}
Because the river is the southern border of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, it was part of the border between free states and slave states in the years before the American Civil War. One antebellum slave trader reported that they kept slaves chained tw... | 895 | Ohio River | 3 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
## Economy
The Ohio River is extensively industrialized and populated. Regular barge traffic carries cargoes of oil, steel and other industrial goods produced in the region. Major cities located along the northern and southern banks of the river include Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Louisville, Kentucky; Eva... | 738 | Ohio River | 4 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
## Geography and hydrography {#geography_and_hydrography}
### List of major tributaries {#list_of_major_tributaries}
The largest tributaries of the Ohio by discharge volume are: `{{Columns-start}}`{=mediawiki}
- Tennessee River 70575 cuft/s
- Cumberland River 37250 cuft/s
- Wabash River 35350 cuft... | 372 | Ohio River | 5 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
## Geography and hydrography {#geography_and_hydrography}
### Drainage basin {#drainage_basin}
The Ohio\'s drainage basin covers 203,940 mi2, encompassing the easternmost regions of the Mississippi Basin. The Ohio drains parts of 14 states in four regions.
- Northeast
- New York: a small area of... | 301 | Ohio River | 6 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
## Geology
thumb\|upright=1.5\|Glacial Lake Ohio
From a geological standpoint, the Ohio River is young. Before the river was created, large parts of North America were covered by water forming a saltwater lake about 200 miles across and 400 miles in length. The bedrock of the Ohio Valley was mostly set ... | 389 | Ohio River | 7 |
22,388 | # Ohio River
## Cities and towns along the river {#cities_and_towns_along_the_river}
Along the banks of the Ohio are some of the largest cities in their respective states:`{{NoteTag|Cities and towns of pop. at least 25,000 and among the 10 largest in the state, and whose municipal boundary comes within less than a mi... | 606 | Ohio River | 8 |
22,391 | # Oland (Frisian island)
**Oland** (`{{IPA|de|ˈoːlant|-|De-Oland.ogg}}`{=mediawiki}; *Øland*, North Frisian: *Ualöönist*) is a small Hallig of the North Frisian Islands which is connected by a narrow-gauge railway to the mainland and to Hallig Langeneß. In 2019, the population was estimated, unofficially, to be 16 peo... | 207 | Oland (Frisian island) | 0 |
22,400 | # Ouida
**Maria Louise Ramé** (1 January 1839 -- 25 January 1908), going by the name **Marie Louise de la Ramée** and known by the pseudonym **Ouida** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|iː|d|ə|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Ouida.wav
}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|WEE|də}}`{=mediawiki}), was an English novelist. Ouida wrote more than ... | 314 | Ouida | 0 |
22,400 | # Ouida
## Career
left\|thumb\|upright=1.1\|Caricature of Ouida (*Punch*, 20 August 1881) She moved into the Langham Hotel, London, in 1867. There, according to the hotel promotional materials, she wrote in bed, by candlelight, with the curtains drawn to keep out daylight and surrounded by purple flowers. She ran up ... | 580 | Ouida | 1 |
22,400 | # Ouida
## Literary career {#literary_career}
During her career, Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, children\'s books and collections of short stories and essays. Her work had several phases.
In 1863, when she was 24, she published her first novel, *Held in Bondage*. (She later claimed to have written her well-receive... | 635 | Ouida | 2 |
22,400 | # Ouida
## Filmography
- *Moths* (1913, based on the novel *Moths*)
- *Strathmore*, directed by Francis J. Grandon (1915, based on the novel *Strathmore*)
- *The Little Dutch Girl*, directed by Émile Chautard (1915, based on the novel *Two Little Wooden Shoes*)
- *Under Two Flags*, directed by J. Gordon Edwar... | 282 | Ouida | 3 |
22,400 | # Ouida
## Radio broadcasts {#radio_broadcasts}
- *Moths* was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996, and repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2023. The play was directed by Janet Whitaker. The script was written by Chrys Salt. Lady Dolly was played by Nicola Pagett, and Vere by Teresa Gallagher | 51 | Ouida | 4 |
22,403 | # October 26
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22,412 | # Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies
The **Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies** (**OANA**) is an association of news agencies from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) member states in the Asia-Pacific region. It was previously known as the **Organization of Asian N... | 74 | Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies | 0 |
22,422 | # Olney Hymns
The ***Olney Hymns*** `{{IPAc-en|ˈ|oʊ|n|i}}`{=mediawiki} were first published in February 1779 and are the combined work of curate John Newton (1725--1807) and his poet friend William Cowper (1731--1800). The hymns were written for use in Newton\'s rural parish, which was made up of relatively poor and u... | 438 | Olney Hymns | 0 |
22,422 | # Olney Hymns
## Newton\'s and Cowper\'s personal backgrounds {#newtons_and_cowpers_personal_backgrounds}
John Newton was an only child, and was a self-educated sea captain, at one time captaining slave ships. Newton\'s conversion occurred during a violent storm at sea on 10 March 1748. He describes the event in his ... | 377 | Olney Hymns | 1 |
22,422 | # Olney Hymns
## The hymns in more detail {#the_hymns_in_more_detail}
The *Olney Hymns* are in part an expression of Newton\'s and Cowper\'s personal religious faith and experience, and a reflection of the principal tenets of the Evangelical faith: the inherent sinfulness of man; religious conversion; atonement; acti... | 1,033 | Olney Hymns | 2 |
22,443 | # Offa of Angel
**Offa** (nickname for Wulf) is a semi-legendary king of the Angles in the genealogy of the kings of Mercia presented in the *Anglo-Saxon Chronicle*. He is the son of Wermund and the father of Angeltheow. His name is also mentioned in the Old English poem *Widsith*. He has been identified with **Uffo**... | 538 | Offa of Angel | 0 |
22,446 | # October 7
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22,452 | # Ogden Nash
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22,459 | # Ole Rømer
**Ole Christensen Rømer** (`{{IPA|da|ˈoːlə ˈʁœˀmɐ|lang}}`{=mediawiki}; 25 September 1644 -- 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, first demonstrated that light travels at a finite speed. Rømer also invented the modern thermometer showing the temperature between two fixed points, namely t... | 762 | Ole Rømer | 0 |
22,459 | # Ole Rømer
## Rømer and the speed of light {#rømer_and_the_speed_of_light}
The determination of longitude is a significant practical problem in cartography and navigation. Philip III of Spain offered a prize for a method to determine the longitude of a ship out of sight of land, and Galileo proposed a method of esta... | 1,023 | Ole Rømer | 1 |
22,459 | # Ole Rømer
## Inventions
In addition to inventing the first street lights in Copenhagen, Rømer also invented the meridian circle, the altazimuth, and the passage instrument (also known as the *transit instrument*, a type of meridian circle whose horizontal axis is not fixed in the east-west direction).
## Ole Rømer... | 356 | Ole Rømer | 2 |
22,472 | # Ophiuchus
**Ophiuchus** (`{{IPAc-en|ˌ|ɒ|f|i|ˈ|juː|k|ə|s}}`{=mediawiki}) is a large constellation straddling the celestial equator. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek `{{wikt-lang|grc|ὀφιοῦχος}}`{=mediawiki} (`{{grc-transl|ὀφιοῦχος}}`{=mediawiki}), meaning \"serpent-bearer\", and it is commonly represented as a ma... | 370 | Ophiuchus | 0 |
22,472 | # Ophiuchus
## Features
### Stars
The brightest stars in Ophiuchus include α Ophiuchi, called Rasalhague (\"head of the serpent charmer\"), at magnitude 2.07, and η Ophiuchi, known as Sabik (\"the preceding one\"), at magnitude 2.43. Alpha Ophiuchi is composed of an A-type (bluish-white) giant star and a K-type main... | 621 | Ophiuchus | 1 |
22,472 | # Ophiuchus
## Features
### Deep-sky objects {#deep_sky_objects}
Ophiuchus contains several star clusters, such as IC 4665, NGC 6633, M9, M10, M12, M14, M19, M62, and M107, as well as the nebula IC 4603-4604.
M9 is a globular cluster which may have an extra-galactic origin. M10 is a fairly close globular cluster, on... | 514 | Ophiuchus | 2 |
22,472 | # Ophiuchus
## History and mythology {#history_and_mythology}
There is no evidence of the constellation preceding the classical era, and in Babylonian astronomy, a \"Sitting Gods\" constellation seems to have been located in the general area of Ophiuchus. However, Gavin White proposes that Ophiuchus may in fact be re... | 607 | Ophiuchus | 3 |
22,472 | # Ophiuchus
## Zodiac
Ophiuchus is one of the 13 constellations that cross the ecliptic. It has sometimes been suggested as the \"13th sign of the zodiac\". However, this confuses zodiac or astrological signs with constellations. The signs of the zodiac are a 12-fold division of the ecliptic, so that each sign spans ... | 215 | Ophiuchus | 4 |
22,490 | # Oxbridge
**Oxbridge** is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most prestigious universities in the United Kingdom. The term is used to refer to them collectively, in contrast to other British universities, and more broadly to describe characteristics reminiscent ... | 910 | Oxbridge | 0 |
22,490 | # Oxbridge
## Related terms {#related_terms}
Other portmanteaus have been coined that extend the term *Oxbridge*, with different degrees of recognition:
The term *Loxbridge* is also used referring to the golden triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge. It was also adopted as the name of the Ancient History confere... | 199 | Oxbridge | 1 |
22,499 | # Off spin
**Off spin** is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an **off spinner**. Off spinners bowl with their right-arm and a finger spin action. Their normal delivery is called an **off break**, which spins from left to right (from the bowler\'s perspective) when the ball b... | 368 | Off spin | 0 |
22,499 | # Off spin
## Comparison with other types of spin bowling {#comparison_with_other_types_of_spin_bowling}
Off spin contrasts with leg spin, in which the ball spins from leg to off and which is bowled with a very different action (wrist spin). Off spin is generally considered less difficult to play than leg spin, as of... | 641 | Off spin | 1 |
22,507 | # Oliver North
**Oliver Laurence North** (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, North was a National Security Council staff member during the Iran--Contra affair,... | 456 | Oliver North | 0 |
22,507 | # Oliver North
## U.S. Marine Corps career {#u.s._marine_corps_career}
### Vietnam
North served as a platoon commander during the Vietnam War, where during his combat service, he was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal with Combat V, and two Purple Heart medals. At the time of his being awarded the Silver Sta... | 610 | Oliver North | 1 |
22,507 | # Oliver North
## Iran--Contra affair {#irancontra_affair}
North came into the public spotlight as a result of his participation in the Iran--Contra affair, a political scandal during the Reagan administration, in which he claimed partial responsibility for the sale of weapons through intermediaries to Iran, with the... | 758 | Oliver North | 2 |
22,507 | # Oliver North
## Politics
In the 1994 election, North unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as the Republican Party candidate in Virginia. Republican senator John Warner of Virginia endorsed Marshall Coleman, a Republican who ran as an independent, instead of North. North lost, garnering 43 percent of vote... | 606 | Oliver North | 3 |
22,507 | # Oliver North
## Media and books {#media_and_books}
### Film, television, radio, and videogames {#film_television_radio_and_videogames}
North became increasingly known for his media career and appearances. In 1991, he appeared on the first season of *The Jerry Springer Show*. From 1995 to 2003, North was host of hi... | 536 | Oliver North | 4 |
22,507 | # Oliver North
## Personal life {#personal_life}
In 1967, North married Betsy Stuart; they have four children. Although raised in the Roman Catholic faith of his mother, North has long attended Protestant or evangelical services with his wife and children. The Norths live in McLean, Virginia.
Betsy North died on Nov... | 102 | Oliver North | 5 |
22,529 | # Onomatopoeia
**Onomatopoeia** (or rarely **echoism**) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Common onomatopoeias in English include animal noises such as *oink*, *meow*, *roar*, and *chirp*, among other sounds such as *be... | 778 | Onomatopoeia | 0 |
22,529 | # Onomatopoeia
## Comics and advertising {#comics_and_advertising}
Comic strips and comic books make extensive use of onomatopoeia, often being visually integrated into the images, so that the drawing style emphasizes the sound. Popular culture historian Tim DeForest noted the impact of writer-artist Roy Crane (1901-... | 456 | Onomatopoeia | 1 |
22,529 | # Onomatopoeia
## Examples in media {#examples_in_media}
- James Joyce in *Ulysses* (1922) coined the onomatopoeic *`{{Not a typo|tattarrattat}}`{=mediawiki}* for a knock on the door. It is listed as the longest palindromic word in *The Oxford English Dictionary*.
- *Whaam!* (1963) by Roy Lichtenstein is an early... | 328 | Onomatopoeia | 2 |
22,529 | # Onomatopoeia
## In linguistics {#in_linguistics}
A key component of language is its arbitrariness and what a word can represent,`{{clarify|date=May 2017}}`{=mediawiki} as a word is a sound created by humans with attached meaning to said sound. It is not possible to determine the meaning of a word purely by how it s... | 682 | Onomatopoeia | 3 |
22,529 | # Onomatopoeia
## In other languages {#in_other_languages}
### Japanese
The Japanese language has a large inventory of ideophone words that are symbolic sounds. These are used in contexts ranging from day-to-day conversation to serious news. These words fall into four categories:
- : mimics sounds made by living ... | 485 | Onomatopoeia | 4 |
22,536 | # October 5
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22,538 | # Orient House
**Orient House** (*بيت الشرق* *bayt ʾal-šarq*, *האוריינט האוס*) is a building located in Jerusalem that served as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1980s and 1990s.
Built in 1897 by Ismail Musa Al-Husseini, it has been owned by the Al-Husseini family since. Original... | 619 | Orient House | 0 |
22,554 | # October 13
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22,555 | # October 15
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22,571 | # October 22
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22,580 | # OSGi
**OSGi** is an open specification and open source project under the Eclipse Foundation.
It is a continuation of the work done by the **OSGi Alliance** (formerly known as the **Open Services Gateway initiative**), which was an open standards organization for software founded in March 1999. The foundation origin... | 790 | OSGi | 0 |
22,580 | # OSGi
## Life-cycle {#life_cycle}
A Life Cycle layer adds bundles that can be dynamically installed, started, stopped, updated and uninstalled. Bundles rely on the module layer for class loading but add an API to manage the modules in run time. The life cycle layer introduces dynamics that are normally not part of a... | 277 | OSGi | 1 |
22,580 | # OSGi
## Services
### Standard services {#standard_services}
The OSGi Alliance has specified many services. Services are specified by a Java interface. Bundles can implement this interface and register the service with the Service Registry. Clients of the service can find it in the registry, or react to it when it ... | 800 | OSGi | 2 |
22,580 | # OSGi
## Related standards {#related_standards}
- MHP / OCAP
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
- DPWS
- ITU-T G.hn
- LonWorks
- CORBA
- CEBus
- EHS (KNX) / CECED CHAIN
- Java Management Extensions
## Projects using OSGi {#projects_using_osgi}
- Adobe Experience Manager `{{En dash}}`{=mediawiki} ... | 541 | OSGi | 3 |
22,592 | # Official Monster Raving Loony Party
The **Official Monster Raving Loony Party** (**OMRLP**) is a political party established in the United Kingdom in 1982 by the musician David Sutch, also known as Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, or simply Lord Sutch. It is notable for its deliberately bizarre policies and... | 628 | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 0 |
22,592 | # Official Monster Raving Loony Party
## History
### Post-Sutch {#post_sutch}
Sutch\'s funeral -- organised by his lifetime friend, the session drummer and former Rolling Stones member Carlo Little -- was attended by members of the OMRLP and Raving Loony Green Giant Party, including Stuart Hughes, who with Freddie Za... | 519 | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 1 |
22,592 | # Official Monster Raving Loony Party
## Electoral performance {#electoral_performance}
In 1987, the OMRLP won its first seat on Ashburton Town Council in Devon, as Alan \"Howling Laud\" Hope was elected unopposed. He subsequently became deputy mayor and later mayor of Ashburton in 1998 (mainly opposed by the local C... | 1,258 | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 2 |
22,592 | # Official Monster Raving Loony Party
## Electoral performance {#electoral_performance}
### 2010 William Hill branding {#william_hill_branding}
For the 2010 general election, the OMRLP used the description \"Monster Raving Loony William Hill Party\", which was met with criticism by some members, with John Cartwright,... | 72 | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 3 |
22,592 | # Official Monster Raving Loony Party
## Membership
The statement of accounts for the period 1 January to 31 December 2008 outlines membership at 1,354, made up of 173 paying members and 1,181 \"lifetime but non-paying\". It currently costs £15 per year for membership, which includes a party rosette, a certificate of... | 728 | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 4 |
22,600 | # Optical brightener
**Optical brighteners**, **optical brightening agents** (**OBAs**), **fluorescent brightening agents** (**FBAs**), or **fluorescent whitening agents** (**FWAs**), are chemical compounds that absorb light in the ultraviolet and violet region (usually 340-370 nm) of the electromagnetic spectrum, and... | 640 | Optical brightener | 0 |
22,655 | # Ossian
thumb\|upright=1.2\|*Ossian Singing*, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787
**Ossian** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɒ|ʃ|ən|,_|ˈ|ɒ|s|i|ən}}`{=mediawiki}; Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: *Oisean*) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as *Fingal* (1761) and... | 561 | Ossian | 0 |
22,655 | # Ossian
## Reception and influence {#reception_and_influence}
The poems achieved international success. Napoleon and Diderot were prominent admirers, and Voltaire was known to have written parodies of them. Thomas Jefferson thought Ossian \"the greatest poet that has ever existed\", and planned to learn Gaelic so as... | 317 | Ossian | 1 |
22,655 | # Ossian
## Authenticity debate {#authenticity_debate}
thumb\|upright=1.2\|*Ossian Evoking ghosts on the Edge of the Lora*, by François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801
There were immediate disputes of Macpherson\'s claims on both literary and political grounds. Macpherson promoted a Scottish origin for the material, and w... | 794 | Ossian | 2 |
22,655 | # Ossian
## Translations and adaptations {#translations_and_adaptations}
One poem was translated into French in 1762; by 1777, the whole corpus was translated. In the German-speaking states, Michael Denis made the first full translation in 1768--1769, inspiring the proto-nationalist poets Klopstock and Goethe, whose ... | 497 | Ossian | 3 |
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