Oglethorpe University
an institution under the control of the Southern Presbyterian Church, situated at Atlanta, Ga. The first university of this name was founded in 1835, but the stress of the Civil War and Reconstruction period proved too great for its resources and it was forced to close its place. Among the graduates from 1835- 1872 were many theologians, governors of the state and more famous than all, Sidney Lanier, the poet. The endowment of the present institution is about $1,000,- 000 which is under the control of a board of directors, every member of which must be a Presbyterian.
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Oglio
a river of Northern Italy which rises in the Alps, drains Lake Iseo, and falls into the Po; length, 150 miles. United States 'Senator from New York;
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Ogyges
said to have been the first King of Attica and Bœotia, in the 18th century B. C. In his reign is stated to have occurred the great deluge that covered the whole of Greece. That event has been placed as occurring 260 years before that of Deucalion; viz., about 1764 B. C.
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Ohiggin O'Higgins
HARVEY J., an American writer, born in London, London, Ont., in 1876. He studied in the University of Toronto from 1893 to 1897. He wrote "The Smoke Eaters" (1905); "The Beast and the Jungle" (with Judge Ben B. Lindsey) (1910); "The Dummy" (1913), and "Mr. Lazarus" (1916); "From the Life" (1919).
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Ohio
ARMY OF THE, a division of the Federal army in the Civil War; organized in 1861-1862 by General Buell; afterward came under the command of General Rosecrans and was called the Army of the Cumberland. A second department of the Ohio was formed, and was also in 1865 incorporated in the Army of the Cumberland.
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Ohio (River of the United States)
a river of the United States, caled by the French explorers, after its Indian name, la Belle Rivière (The Beautiful River), next to the Missouri the largest affluent of the Mississippi. It is formed by the union of the Allegheny and Monongahela at Pittsburgh, Pa., and flows W. S. W. 950 miles, with a breadth of 400 to 1,400 yards, draining, with its tributaries, an area of 214,000 square miles. In its course it separates the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois from the States of West Virginia and Kentucky. The principal towns on its banks are Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville (where there are rapids of 22 feet in a mile, with a steamboat canal), Evansville, New Albany, Madison, Portsmouth, Covington, and Cairo. The river's principal affluents are the Tennessee, Cumberland, Wabash, Kentucky, Great Kanawha, Green, Muskingum and Scioto. It is usually navigable from Pittsburgh.
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Ohio Northern University
an institution under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church situated at Ada, Ohio. Two normal schools consoli- Ad dated in 1885 under the name of the Ohio Normal University. This institution was purchased by the Methodists in 1898, and re-chartered under the name of the Ohio Northern University. It is a coeducational institution, having a preparatory, normal, and college department. The college is in session all but four weeks in the year. In 1915 two new buildings were erected, bringing the total value of the grounds and buildings close to a million dollars. In 1919 there were 480 students and 28 instructors. President, A. E. Smith. OHIO, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Athens, O.; founded in 1804; reported at the close of 1900: Professors and instructors, 96; students, 3,957; president, Alston Ellis, Ph.D.
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Ohio Wesleyan University
a coeducational institution in Delaware, O.; founded in 1844 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 78; number of students, 1,250; president, J. W. Hoffman, D.D. The university includes a college of liberal arts, a school of music, oratory, business, medicine, etc.
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Ohm
om, Georg Simon (1787-1854), a professor of physics in the University of Munich. He was born at Erlangen and died at Munich. He is noted as a student of galvanic currents. His researches led to the formulation of what is known as Ohm's Law, namely, that the strength of the current is directly proportional to the electro-motive force and inversely proportional to the resistance. Doubling the force of the battery gives twice the current. If internal resistance be disregarded, doubling the length of the conducting wire gives half the current. In more exact from the latter statement becomes: doubling the resistance divides the current by two. Ohm has been honored delicately by giving his name to the unit of electrical resistance. An ohm of resistance is that offered by about thirty-nine feet of No. 24 copper wire; or, stated more exactly, it is the resistance offered by a column of mercury at zero centigrade for a length of 106.3 centimetres and a mass of 14.4521 grams.
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Ohm
or OHMAD, in electromagnetics, the unit of resistance. It is 10° C. G. S. units of resistance, and is the same as the value of one earth-quadrant per second.
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Ohm's Law
in electricity, a law enunciated by Professor Ohm, in 1827, for determining the quantity of electromotive force in a voltaic battery. It is that the intensity of the current in a voltaic current is equal to the electromotive force divided by the resistance.
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Ohnet
GEORGES, a French novelist; born in Paris, France, April 3, 1848; studied law, and after practicing some time as an advocate took to journalism, and later to literature proper. Under the general title of "The Battle of Life" he published a series of novels dealing wih social questions, which enjoyed great popularity. The first of this cycle of romances was "Serge Panine" (1881), quickly followed by "The Ironmaster" (1882), "Countess Sarah" (1883), "Lise Fleuron" (1884), "The Great Maalpit" (1885), "Will" (1888), "In Deep Abyss." Died 1918.
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Oil Cake
the marc or refuse after oil is pressed from flax, rape, mustard, cotton, or hemp seed; or from cocoanut pulp. Used for cattle feed or manure.
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Oil City
a city in Venango co., Pa.; at the junction of Oil creek and the Allegheny river and on the Erie, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and Pennsylvania railroads; about 70 miles N. of Pittsburgh. It received its name from the extensive petroleum oil wells and oil industries located here. The city has a public hospital, public library, electric street railroads, electric lights, high school, daily daily and weekly newspapers, and National, State, and private banks. Besides large oil refineries, it has pipe works, iron foundries, engine and boiler works, wagon works, etc. Pop. (1910) 15,657; (1920) 21,274.
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