Ottoman Empire
. See Turkey
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Ottumwa
a city and county-seat of Wapello co., Ia.: on Des Moines river, and on the Burlington Route the Wabash, and other railroads; 75 miles W. of Burlington. The city has a United States Government Building, Normal School, business college, Hawkeye Hospital, court house, National and State banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It is in a rich coal region, and contains oil and starch mills, iron works, meatpacking plant, and numerous other industries. Pop. (1910) 22,012; (1920) 23,003.
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Otway
THOMAS, an English dramatist; born in Trotton, Sussex, in 1652; educated at Winchester, and at Christ Church, Oxford; served as cornet in the Low Countries; was an unsuccessful actor, and finally wrote for the stage. Of his many plays, one tragedy, "Venice Preserved," is among the best remembered of the Restoration drama, and keeps his name familiar in literary allusion. "The Orphan" ranks next in critical esteem. He died in 1685.
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Oudenarde
a town of Belgium, on the Scheldt, 37 miles W. of Brussels. It has a fine Gothic town hall (1535) and two interesting churches. Margaret of Parma was born here. In 1706 Oudenarde was taken by Marlborough; and an attempt made by the French to retake it brought on the famous battle of Oudenarde, the third of Marlborough's four victories, which was gained, on great July 11, 1708, with the aid of Prince Eugene, over the French under the Duke of Burgundy and Marshal Villars. Pop. about 7,500. The town was occupied by the Germans early in the World War (1914-1918). An American division, the 91st was here engaged in attacks on the German forces when the armistice was declared.
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Oudh
a province and town of British India, separated on the N. from Nepal by the lower ranges of the Himalaya, whence it gradually slopes, a great plain watered by the Gumti, Gogra, and Rapti rivers, to the Ganges; area 24,158 square miles. Pop. province, about 13,000,000. Town, 23,000, mostly Hindus, though the dominant native race for centuries has been Mohammedan. The Brahmans are the most numerous class, about oneeighth of the whole population. Oudh is believed to have been one of the oldest seats of Aryan civilization in India. After being the center of a long native Hindu dynasty it was subjugated by the ruler of Kanauj, and in 1194 was made subject to the Mussulman empire of Delhi. In 1732-1743 it became virtually an independent state, and the dynasty of the Nawabs lasted till the annexation of the province by the British in 1856. During the mutiny of 1857 Oudh was the centers of rebellion and the highly dramatic events.
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Oudinot
CHARLES NICOLAS, Duke of Reggio and Marshal of France; born in Bar-le-Duc, in 1767. He entered the army when 19 years of age, and when the Revolution broke out held the rank of captain. He embraced the popular cause, and rising to the rank of general, accompanied Massena into Italy as one of his staff officers, in 1799. His fortunes from this time were linked with those of Napoleon till the capitulation of Paris, March 31, 1814, when he became Bourbonist. In that character he a headed the army that invaded Spain in 1823, and was resident at Madrid some months as governor. He succeeded Marshal Moncey as governor of the Invalides in 1842, and died in 1847. His son, CHARLES NICOLAS-VICTOR OUDINOT, Duke of Reggio (1791-1863), was a general in the French army. He first distinguished himself in Algeria, and was general the French expedition against Rome 1849.
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Our Mutual Friend
a novel by Charles Dickens, published in nineteen installments during 1864-65. This is one of Dickens' most entertaining stories, although, so far as plot goes, one of the most improbable. The story is based on the assumption by two simple old people of characters wholly foreign to their true nature in order that they may teach to a warmhearted but ambitious girl the fact that wealth brings oftentimes temptations and evils in its train. Many interesting personalities appear in the course of the story. Jenny Wren, the doll's dressmaker; Silas Wegg, who "dropped into poetry"; Pleasant Rider-hood, always twisting up her hair; the Golden Dustman; Lizzie Hexam, and the Veneerings are people whom everyone wishes to know.
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Ouse
a river of England, York co., formed by the junction of the Swale and Ure, and after a S. E. course of 60 miles, unites with the Trent to form the estuary of the Humber. It is navigable for large vessels 45 miles, or to York. OUSE (GREAT) rises near Brackley, Northampton county, and after a N. E. course of 160 miles, two-thirds of which is navigable, enters the Wash at Lynn Regis. OUSE (LITTLE) or BRANDON RIVER, falls into the Great Ouse, at the junction of the river Stoke, and the New Bedford and Wisbeach canal.
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Outcrop
in mining and geology, a term used by miners, but now adopted by shed geologists, for the exposure of any porgeneral of tion of a stratum which comes out upon Rome in the surface, or for the part of the stratum thus exposed.
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Outing Cloth
a general name for soft, loosely woven cotton textiles finished with a nap. Outing cloth is often striped, checked, or figured in the loom. It is used for men's shirts, women's and children's undergarments and dressing sacques, and for a variety of domestic purposes. Outing cloth is known by many names. Outing flannel, flannelette, tennis flannel, domett, and guinea cloth are some of them.
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Outlawry
the act of outlawing; the state of being being outlawed; the putting a man out of the protection of the law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection, as a punishment for contempt in refusing to appear when called into court. Formerly any one might kill an outlawed person without incurring any penalty, but now the wanton killing of an outlaw is considered as murder. In England criminal " ( the outlawry has been in abeyance since " Folle 1859; civil outlawry was abolished in ( 1873), 1879. In the U. S. civil outlawry is unknown, and criminal outlawry has been obsolete since the Revolution.
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