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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: ET 2026-07-22) JULIE (MRS. WILLIAM FA- VERSHAM), an American actress, born in New York, in 1871. She first appeared on the stage in 1896 in London, and was leading lady with Sir George Alexander for five years. She later was engaged by Charles Frohman and ap- Faverpeared as co-star with William sham for many years. She was married to Mr. Faversham in 1902. Author of "The Squaw Man." She died April 8, 1921.
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Oppeln
a town of Prussian Silesia, on the Oder, 51 miles S. E. of Breslau. Since 1816, when it was erected into a seat of government for Upper Silesia, the town has been much beautified both with new edifices and with parks and gardens. Its church of St. Adalbert was founded in 995; and there is an old castle on an island in the Oder. The manufactures before the World War included pottery, cigars, cement, beer, leather, etc., and there was a consider able trade in grain and cattle.
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Oppenheim (E PHILLIPS English novelist He)
E. PHILLIPS, English novelist. He was born in 1866, and received his education at Leicester, Eng. He started writing in his teens and his work has achieved popularity in the United States and in Europe. His books include: "Enoch Stone"; "A Man and His Kingdom"; "A Millionaire of Yesterday"; "The Survivor"; "The World's Great Snare "; " The Master Mummer "; " Anna the Adventuress "; " Mysterious Mr. Sabin "; " The Traitor "; " A Prince of Sinners "; " Mr. Wingrave "; " A Maker of History "; " The Secret "; " Conspirators "; " The Missioner "; " Jeanne of the Marshes "; " The Illustrious Prince "; " The Missing Delora "; " The Falling Falling Star"; "Havoc"; "The Lighted Way"; "The Mischief Maker"; "The Game of Liberty"; "People's Man"; "Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo"; "The Double Traitor"; "The Hillman"; "The Wicked Marquis"; "The Curious Quest." E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
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Oppenheim (JAMES an American novelist)
JAMES, an American novelist and short story writer, born at St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota, in 1882. After studying for a time at Columbia University he became in 1905 the superintendent of the Hebrew Technical Schools for Girls in New York City. He resigned this position in 1907 to give himself entirely to literary work. His best known novels are "Doctor Rast" (1909); "Wild Oats" (1910); "Idle Wives" (1914). Besides novels he has written several volumes of poetry such as "War and Laughter" (1916); "The Book of Self" (1917).
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Opper
FREDERICK BURR, American artist, born in Madison, O., 1857; left school at fourteen to work in village newspaper office. Came to New York, worked there in a store, then, having sold some humorous sketches, " Wild Oats, " took up illustrating as a profession. Was on art staff of Frank Leslie's three years; with " Puck " eighteen years, which he left to go on the New York " Journal. " Has illustrated for Bill Nye, Mark Twain, Dunne ( Mr. Dooley); is widely known from his " " Happy] Hooligan, " " Alphonse and Gaston," and other "funny sheet" sketches.
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Oppianus
A Greek poet of Cilicia. He wrote some poems celebrated for their sublimity and elegance. Caracalla gave him a piece of gold for every verse in one of his poems. Oppian died of the plague in the thirtieth year of his age. 2026 Editor's Note: Modern scholarship distinguishes between the author of this text and a later Greco-Syrian poet known as Pseudo-Oppian , who lived during the reign of Caracalla. The original Oppian of Anazarbus actually composed his work during the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. While the page attributes the gold-per-verse reward from Caracalla to the Cilician poet, that emperor was actually the patron of the author of the hunting epic Cynegetica. (Ed: BR 2026-07-19)
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Opposition
in astronomy, the situation of two heavenly bodies when they are diametrically opposed to each other, or when their longitudes differ by 180°. Thus there is always an opposition of sun and moon at every full moon; also the moon, or a planet, is said to be in opposition to the sun when it passes the meridian at midnight. In logic, opposition of judgments is the relation between any two which have the same matter, but a different form, the same subject and predicate, but a different quantity, quality or relation. There are five kinds of opposition, viz., contradictory, contrary, inconsistent, subaltern, and subcontrary. In rhetoric, figure a whereby two things are joined which seem incompatible. OPSONIN. A substance which is believed to exist in the blood, and whose function it is to stimulate the phagocites in their attack upon harmful bacteria, possibly by rendering these foreign micro-organisms more readily absorbable. The opsonic index is the ratio between the power of absorbing bacteria possessed by the blood under healthy conditions and that possessed under pathological conditions. In other words, the higher the opsonic index, the greater is the resistance of the body to disease. It has been found that the opsonic index can in certain diseases be raised by injecting into the blood dead bacteria of the species producing the disease.
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Optic Nerve
in anatomy, the nerve of sight, proceeding from the optic lobes or corpora quadrigemina to the eye, terminating in an expansion called the retina. The inner portion of the fibers of the two optic nerves decussates at the commissure, passing to the opposite eye, while the outer portion continues its course to the eye of the same side, which has been supposed to assist in the production of single vision, although it is more probable that the latter is the result of a mental act. The closest relations exist between the optic nerve, its disk, the retina, and the choroid, as regards the cerebral and intraocular circulation, particularly seen in the course of cerebro-spinal disease. OPTIC NEURITIS. Condition of the optic nerve brought about by inflammation showing two distinct phases, namely, retrobulbar neuritis in which the nerve fibers behind the eye are affected, and papillitis, where the seat of inflammation is in the optic disk. The condition is often the result of brain disease, acute fevers, and syphilis, affecting the vision in common with other subjective symp-dian provinces, recognizes and regulates toms.
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