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Ottawa: Algonkian-speaking Indians whose territory included what is now part of the Ottawa River, the French River, Georgian Bay, northern Michigan, and adjacent areas. According to tradition, the Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi (qq.v.) were formerly one tribe, having migrated from the ...
Ottawa: city, seat (1831) of La Salle county, north-central Illinois, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois rivers, about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Chicago. The site was inhabited by Illinois Indians when it was visited ...
Ottawa: city, seat (1864) of Franklin county, eastern Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Marais des Cygnes River. Ottawa was founded in 1864 near the Ottawa Indian Baptist Mission, which had been established in 1837 on lands given (1832) to the ...
Ottawa: capital of Canada, southeastern Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa, Gatineau, and Rideau rivers. Its metropolitan area lies astride the Ontario-Quebec border.
Ottawa Agreements: trade policies, based on the system of imperial preference, negotiated between the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations in 1932. See imperial preference.
Ottawa River: river in east central Canada, the chief tributary of the St. Lawrence River. It rises in the Laurentian Plateau of western Quebec and flows swiftly westward to Lake Timiskaming and then southeastward, forming for most of its course the Quebec-Ontario ...
Ottendorfer, Anna Sartorius Uhl: publisher and philanthropist who helped establish a major German-American newspaper and contributed liberally to German-American institutions.
otter: any of 13 species of semiaquatic mammals, noted for their playful behaviour, that belong to the weasel family. The lithe and slender body has short legs, a strong neck, and a long flattened tail that helps propel the animal gracefully ...
otter shrew: any of three species of amphibious and carnivorous tropical African insectivores that are not "true" shrews (family Soricidae). All are nocturnal and den in cavities and burrows in stream banks; tunnel entrances are underwater. Otter shrews have small eyes and ...
otterhound: dog breed first described in the 14th century. Developed in England to hunt otters on both land and water, it resembles a rough-coated bloodhound and has a large head, pendulous ears, and a dense, shaggy, water-resistant coat. Its webbed feet ...
Ottingen-Schrattenhofen faience: German tin-glazed earthenware made in Bavaria in the 18th and 19th centuries. The factory was first established at Ottingen in 1735 and two years later was moved to Schrattenhofen. The ware is characteristic of much produced in Bavaria-e.g., cylindrical beer ...
Otto: first king of modern Greece (1832-62), who governed his country autocratically until he was forced to become a constitutional monarch in 1843. Attempting to increase Greek territory at the expense of Turkey, he failed and was overthrown.
Otto: insane king of Bavaria, younger son of King Maximilian II.
Otto I: duke of Saxony (as Otto II, 936-961), German king (from 936), and Holy Roman emperor (962-973), who consolidated the German Reich by his suppression of rebellious vassals and his decisive victory over the Hungarians. His use of the church as ...
Otto II: duke of Bavaria and also a leading noble in Saxony, the most implacable opponent of the German king Henry IV.
Otto II: German king from 961 and Holy Roman emperor from 967, sole ruler from 973, son of Otto I and his second wife, Adelaide.
Otto III: German king and Holy Roman emperor who planned to recreate the glory and power of the ancient Roman Empire in a universal Christian state governed from Rome, in which the pope would be subordinate to the emperor in religious as ...
Otto IV: German king and Holy Roman emperor, candidate of the German anti-Hohenstaufen faction, who, after rivalling against two Hohenstaufen kings, was finally deposed.
Otto Of Freising: German bishop and author of one of the most important historico-philosophical works of the Middle Ages.
Otto, Kristin: German swimmer, the first female athlete to win six gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
Otto, Nikolaus August: German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source.
Otto, Rudolf: German theologian, philosopher, and historian of religion, who exerted worldwide influence through his investigation of man's experience of the holy. Das Heilige (1917; The Idea of the Holy, 1923) is his most important work.
ottoman: deeply upholstered seat of any shape, with or without a back, introduced into Europe in the late 18th century from Turkey, where, piled with cushions, it was the central piece of domestic seating. One of the early versions was designed ...
Ottoman court carpet: floor covering handwoven under the earlier Ottoman sultans of Turkey. Extremely fine, handsome carpets-of wool pile on a foundation of silk or wool, having floral patterning, often with schemes of large or small circular medallions-and comparable prayer rugs were made ...
Ottoman Empire: empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia. One of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries, it spanned more than 600 years and came to an end only in 1922, when it was replaced ...
Ottonian art: painting, sculpture, and other visual arts produced during the reigns of the German Ottonian emperors and their first successors from the Salic house (950-1050). As inheritors of the Carolingian tradition of the Holy Roman Empire, the German emperors also assumed ...
ottrelite: manganese-rich variety of the silicate mineral chloritoid (q.v.).
Ottumwa: city, seat (1844) of Wapello county, southeastern Iowa, U.S., on the Des Moines River, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Oskaloosa. It was laid out in 1843 during a land rush when the region was opened to settlers. Originally ...
Ottweiler porcelain: true, or hard-paste, German porcelain produced in the Rhineland from 1763 onward. The factory was started by Etienne-Dominique Pelleve, a porcelain maker from Rouen, France, under the patronage of Prince Wilhelm Heinrich of Nassau-Saarbrucken. The Ottweiler factory was situated within ...
Otway, Thomas: English dramatist and poet, one of the forerunners of sentimental drama through his convincing presentation of human emotions in an age of heroic but artificial tragedies. His masterpiece, Venice Preserved, was one of the greatest theatrical successes of his period.
Otztal Alps: eastern segment of the Central Alps lying mainly in the southern Tirol (western Austria) and partly in northern Italy. The mountains are bounded by the Rhaetian Alps and Reschenscheideck Pass (Italian Passo di Resia, west-southwest), the Inn River valley (north), ...
Ou Mountains: range forming the backbone of northeastern Honshu, Japan, and extending for 310 miles (500 km) south from Aomori ken (prefecture) to Fukushima ken. Geologically, dominant Tertiary sediments are occasionally interrupted by intrusions of the basement granitic and gneissic core. These ...
Ou River: river in northern Laos, one of the 12 principal tributaries of the Mekong River; it is 236 miles (380 km) long. The Ou River rises on the Chinese frontier north of Muang Ou Nua and flows south and southwest through ...
Ouachita Geosyncline: a linear trough in the Earth's crust in which rocks of the Paleozoic Era (from 225,000,000 to 570,000,000 years ago) were deposited along the southern margin of North America, from Mississippi to eastern Mexico. Most of the belt is overlain ...
Ouachita Mountains: a rugged range of large hills that continues the Ozark Plateau in the United States. The Ouachita Mountains extend approximately 225 miles (360 km) east to west from Little Rock, Ark., to Atoka, Okla., and north to south, approximately 50-60 ...
Ouachita orogeny: a mountain-building event that resulted in the folding and faulting of exposed strata in the Ouachita Geosyncline in the southern portion of the United States in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and the Marathon uplift region of West Texas. The deformation is Late ...
Ouachita River: river rising in the Ouachita Mountains of west-central Arkansas, U.S., and flowing in a generally southeasterly direction to join the Red River in Louisiana after a course of 605 miles (973 km). The lower 57 miles (92 km) of the ...
Ouaddai: historic and cultural region in eastern Chad, central Africa. The chief town of the region is Abeche. The region's area of savanna grasslands roughly corresponds to the formerly independent Ouaddai Muslim sultanate (see Wadai, Kingdom of).
Ouagadougou: capital and largest town of Burkina Faso, West Africa. It was the capital of the historic Mossi kingdom of Wagadugu (founded in the 15th century) and the seat of the morho naba ("great king") of the Mossi ...
Ouarzazate: town, south-central Morocco. It lies on the Saharan side of the High Atlas Mountains and is situated in the valley of the River Ouarzazate near its juncture with the River Draa. The town originated as a military post during the ...
Oud, Jacobus Johannes Pieter: Dutch architect notable for his pioneering role in the development of modern architecture.
Oudenaarde: municipality, East Flanders province, west-central Belgium. It lies along the Scheldt (Schelde) River south of Ghent. A prosperous tapestry-making centre in the Middle Ages, its industry declined in the 15th century with the success of the Gobelin tapestry weavers (trained ...
Oudenaarde, Battle of: (July 11, 1708), victory over the French won by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy during the War of the Spanish Succession; it eventually led to the Allied (Anglo-Dutch-Austrian) recapture of Ghent and Bruges, which had been ...
Oudinot, Nicolas-Charles, Duke De Reggio: general, administrator, and marshal of France in the Napoleonic Wars whose career illustrates the opportunities to rise in the French army after the Revolution.
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste: French Rococo painter, tapestry designer, and illustrator, considered one of the greatest animal painters of the 18th century.
Oudtshoorn: town, Western Cape province, South Africa. It is located about midway between Cape Town (west) and Port Elizabeth (east) on the banks of Grobbelaars River. First settled in 1847, it was named (in 1863) after a baron who died in ...
Oued, el-: town, largest of the Souf Oases in northeastern Algeria. It lies 50 miles (80 km) west of the Tunisian border. Surrounded by the sand dunes of the Grand Erg (sand dunes) Oriental, the Souf Oases extend for 25 miles (40 ...
Oueme River: river rising in the Atacora massif in northwestern Benin. It is approximately 310 miles (500 km) in length and flows southward, where it is joined by its main affluent, the Okpara, on the left bank and by the Zou on ...
Ouenza: town, northeastern Algeria. It lies near the eastern border with Tunisia. The nearby Mount Ouenza (4,226 feet [1,288 m]) is the site of extensive iron-ore deposits, making the town one of Algeria's leading mining centres. Pop. (1987 prelim.) mun., 36,096.
Ouessant Island: a rocky island, Finistere departement, off the western tip of Bretagne, western France. The island, about 5 miles (8 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide, has an area of 6 square miles (15 square km). ...
Ouezzane: city, north-central Morocco. It lies at the southwestern edge of the Rif Mountains. Ouezzane is situated on the northern slope of Mount Bouhelal, at an elevation of 1,066 feet (325 m). It was founded in 1727 as a religious community ...