Oku
YASUKATA, COUNT, a Japasection known as the Kickapoo lands; nese soldier. He was born in 1846 in the and on Aug. 6, 1901, the Kiowa, Comprovince of Chikuzen, and during the reanche, Apache, and Wichita reservations, representing over 3,000,000 bellion of 1877 warmly espoused the imacres. In June, 1890, the country known as No perial cause, winning distinction in sev eral battles. In the Chinese war of Man's Land was attached to Oklahoma 1894-1895 he commanded the Fifth Army by Act of Congress, being created into Beaver county. Division, and afterward helped in reorty. In 1896 Greer county, ganizing military affairs. During the in the extreme S. W. portion of the Terri- Russo-Japanese war he distinguished tory, was given to Oklahoma by decision himself as general in command of the of the Supreme Court. In 1907, with Second Army at Kinchow, Telissu, Liao- INDIAN TERRITORY, it was admitted to Yang and Mukden. Three years after being made general he was in 1906 OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND named chief of the general staff, an office MECHANICAL COLLEGE, an instituwhich he held for six years, becoming tion maintained by State and Federal field-marshal at the close. appropriations to encourage the study of
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Okuma
COUNT, a Japanese statesscientific agriculture and electrical and engineering. It is situated man 1837;; born took in part Kinshiu in the province Japanese, Japan revolu-, in .. of and over in twenty 1914-1915 - three tion In 1873 of 1868 he, was and through a it rose to office. addition to the university Finance, and held appointed that post Minister till 1881 of, where courses in home economics, science when through a disagreement with the and literature are given in addition to those already mentioned there are also premier, Marquis Ito, he resigned. In 1888 he became Minister for Foreign a summer school, a cotton school and a Affairs, but efforts to push the revision secondary school. The latter gives a of the treaties with foreign nations made three year course admitting to the unihim unpopular, and he had to resign. In 1881 he organized the Progressive
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Olaf
or ST. OLAF, one of the most celebrated of the Norwegian kings, son of Harald , chief of the district of Gränland; born about 995. He was a friend of the Normans, and fought as an ally of Ethelred's in England. He afterward established himself on the throne of Norway, and was a zealous supporter of landed in Norway with an army, Olaf fled to Russia, and in attempting to recover his dominions he was defeated and slain at the battle of Siklestad (1030). Since 1164 he has been honored as patron saint of Norway. The order of St. Olaf, a Norwegian order given in reward for services rendered to king and country or to art and science, was founded in 1847. ÖLAND. See OELAND.
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Old Bailey
until 1903 an English which the sittings of the Central Crimcourt or sessions house in London, in inal Court were held for the trial of offenses within its jurisdiction. The judges of this court are the lord mayor, the lord chancellor, the judges, aldermen, recorder, and common serjeant of London . But of these the recorder, serjeant, and recorder, the the judge of the sheriff's court are in most cases the actually presiding judges. Here were tried in 1660, after the Restoration, the surviving judges of Charles I.; and Milton's clasts" and "First Defense" were in the "Iconosame year burned at the Old Bailey by the common hangman. The patriot Lord William Russell was tried here in 1683, Jack Sheppard in 1724, Jonathan Wild in 1725, the poet Savage in 1727, Dr. Dodd in 1777, Bellingham, the assassin of the statesman Perceval, in 1812, the Cato street conspirators Bailey adjoins Newgate Prison, between in 1820. The Old Holborn Viaduct and Ludgate Hill, where the Central Criminal Court now stands.
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Old Curiosity Shop
a novel by Charles Dickens, published in weekly installments in Master Humphrey's Clock during 1840-41. Little Nell and her grandfather are the central figures of the story, although Dick Swiveller, Quilp, and the Marchioness come in for a share of attention.
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Old Dominion
Virginia. In colonial days acts of Parliament relating to the Virginian settlements (which at that time included all the British dominions in North America) always designated them as the "Colony and Dominion of Virginia." In the maps of the time this colony was described as "Old Virginia," in contradistinction to the New England settlements, which were called "New Virginia."
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Old Forge
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna co. It is on the Lackawanna river and on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western railroad. It is the center of an important anthracite region and its principal industries are region the mining and shipping of coal. There are also silk mills. It has an excellent . high school, and other public buildings Pop. (1910) 11,324; (1920) 12,237.
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Old Grimes
the title of an old and well known song by the Honorable Albert G. Greene of Rhode Island . The first verse of the song was not written by Mr. Greene. Its authorship is unknown. In 1822 or 1823 Mr. Greene, then a young man, was attending a law school at Litchfield. A small barber shop in the town was kept by a fugitive slave from Virginia, who had taken the name of his former master, William Grimes. Mr. Greene was in the habit of turning off rhymes at short notice on any and every subject, and when the negro asked for some verses the young student took the old verse beginning, "Old Grimes is dead," and added thereto, humorously mingling praises of the old man's virtues with descriptions of his clothing. The song was published in a Providence newspaper in 1823. Old Grimes is dead, that good old man We ne'er shall see him more He used to wear an old brown coat All buttoned down before. He lived in peace with all mankind, In friendship he was true; His coat had pocket-holes behind, His pantaloons were blue. 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: BR 2026-07-22)
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