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Olive

in botany, Olea europœa, the leaves are oblong or lanceolate, smooth OLIVE OIL OLLIVANT

Olives

MOUNT OF, or MOUNT

Olla Podrida

a dish much in favor among all classes in Spain. It is composed of a mixture of all kinds of meat, cut up fine, and stewed with various kinds of vegetables; also an incongruous mixture; a miscellaneous collection of any kind; a medley.

Ollendorf's System

a method of learning languages, invented by H. G.

Ollendorf (1803-1865), and designed for those who teach themselves.

Olmsted

FREDERICK LAW, American landscape architect; born mark. By the mediation of Russia, in Staten Island, N. Y., 1870; graduated Schleswig-Holstein was given to Denfrom Harvard, studied landscape architecture under his father and began practice in 1895. He has designed many public parks and other city improvements; was a member of the Commission mark, and the Elector Hesse was reinstated.

Olympiad

a period of four years, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned their The climate is ill adapted for agricul- time. The first Olympiad corresponds ture. Pop, about 480,000. The capital is Petrozadosk.

Oltenitza

a town in Rumania, at the junction of the Arjish with the Dan- ube, 37 miles S. E. of Bucharest. A OLTENITZA, a town in Rumania, at ube, 37 miles S. E. of Bucharest. A battle was fought here Nov. 4, 1853, and also July 29, 1854, in both of which the Russians were defeated by the Turks.

Omaha

UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational institution in Omaha, Neb.; founded in 1880 under the auspices of. the Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 73; students, 509. President, D. E. Jenkins, Ph. D.

Omega

the name for the Greek long o. It was the last letter in the Greek alphabet, as alpha was the first.

Inscriptions on tombstones, public documents, etc., very often began with these two letters, meaning, "In the name of God."

Onderdonk

FRANK SCOVILL, American educator; born in Mission Valley, Texas, in 1871. After studying at Southwestern University, he entered the Methodist Episcopal Church as minister, in 1892, and served as missionary in Mexico. From 1907 to 1914 he was missionary at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and from 1914 was superintendent of the Mexican, Italian and Bohemian missions to Texas.

Onega

a river in Russia, which, issuing from Lake Latcha, government of Olonetz, flows first N. E., then N. W., and after a course of about 270 miles, falls into the White Sea at the S. E. extremity of the Gulf of Onega.

Oneida

a lake occupying portions of Oneida, Madison, Onondaga, and Oswego cos., N. Y. It covers an area of about 100 miles, abounds in fish of an excellent quality, receives many small streams, and empties its surplus waters into the Osage river by Oneida river.

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