Old Japanese language (from the article "Japanese language") ...of Ancient Matters"). If the history of the language were to be split in two, ...
Old Javanese language (from the article "Austronesian languages") Fairly abundant palm-leaf manuscripts and inscriptions on stone or various metals constitute the textual record ...
Old Khmer language (from the article "Austroasiatic languages") ...Asia at the time. Both Austroasiatic groups modified these alphabets in their own way, to ...
Old Kingdom (from the article "Egypt, ancient") The Old Kingdomburial site at Saqqarah
Old Kingdom (from the article "epigraphy") ...These documents begin with the oldest known Hittite text, the inscription of the early ruler ...
Old Kipchak language (from the article "Turkic languages") The "Middle Turkic" period, which began in the 13th century, embraces several regional written languages: ...
Old Korean language (from the article "Korean language") ...Several hundred words of early Middle Korean were written with phonograms in the vocabularies compiled ...
Old Kutani ware (from the article "Kutani ware") Japanese porcelain made in Kaga province (now in Ishikawa prefecture). The name "Old Kutani" refers ...
old law (from the article "Roman law") When the Byzantine emperor Justinian I assumed rule in AD 527, he found the law ...
Old Library (from the article "Venice") The Campanile stands close to the 21 bays of the Old Library (1529, also called ...
Old Lithuanian language (from the article "Indo-European languages") ...inflected for case at all. In some languages, to be sure, nouns have begun fusing ...
old maid simple card game popular with young children. It takes its name from a 19th-century specially ... [1 Related Articles]
Old Malay language (from the article "Austronesian languages") ...Three stone inscriptions associated with the Indianized state of Srivijaya in southern Sumatra and bearing ...
Old Man Coyote (from the article "primitive culture") ...reflected the varying sources of the original religions of the pre-horse tribes. Some elements, however, ...
Old Man of Hoy (from the article "Hoy") ...is a lofty island-its name means "High Island"-with a spectacularly indented coastline of red sandstone ...
Old Man of Storr (from the article "Skye") ...of 3,257 feet (993 metres) above sea level-dominate the landscape in south-central Skye. North of ...
old man of the Nemda Mountain, the (from the article "Finno-Ugric religion") ...signs of the worship of tribal chiefs, for example, in the forest sanctuary worship of ...
Old Marseille, Museum of (from the article "Marseille") Marseille has several museums, including a very popular Children's Museum. The Museum of Old Marseille ...
Old Mon language (from the article "Austroasiatic languages") ...and several Mon communities in Thailand. The oldest inscriptions, dating from the 6th century, are ...
Old Mongolian language (from the article "Mongolian languages") The history of the Mongolian language, both spoken and written, consists of three periods. The ...
Old Montreal (from the article "Montreal") ...life among the most advanced in the Western Hemisphere. Similar change has spread throughout the ...
Old Museum (from the article "Western architecture") Schinkel's next major work in Berlin, the Old (Altes) Museum (1823-33), is important as an ...
Old National Gallery art museum in Berlin, Ger., noted for its collection of 19th-century European painting and sculpture.
Old Norse language classical North Germanic language used from roughly 1150 to 1350. It is the literary language ... [8 Related Articles]
Old North Arabian language (from the article "Arabia, history of") ...graffiti on rock, scattered widely through the peninsula. In all this material, only a handful ...
Old Norwegian language (from the article "biblical literature") ...Vulgate and all somewhat free. The earliest and most celebrated is that of Genesis-Kings in ...
Old Nubian language (from the article "Nubian languages") Documents in Old Nubian, which appears to be the ancestor of modern Central Nubian, date ...
Old Order Amish Mennonite Church (from the article "Amish") member of a Christian group in North America, primarily the Old Order Amish Mennonite Church. ...
Old Ottoman language (from the article "Turkic languages") The "Middle Turkic" period, which began in the 13th century, embraces several regional written languages: ...
Old Paphos (from the article "Paphos") town, southwestern Republic of Cyprus. Paphos was also the name of two ancient cities that ...
Old Persian language (from the article "cuneiform") ...because almost only among the Persians was cuneiform used primarily for monumental writing, and the ...
Old Philharmonic Pitch (from the article "pitch") After about 1760 the conventional pitch rose, reaching a' = 440 by about 1820. By ...
Old Point Comfort historic spit and point, part of the city of Hampton, southeastern Virginia, U.S. It lies ...
Old Port (from the article "Marseille") Marseille lies in a sheltered depression surrounded by hills, which have inhibited the development of ...
Old Procurators' Offices (from the article "Venice") ...San Marco, a vast paved and arcaded square. Napoleon called the piazza the finest drawing ...
Old Prussian language West Baltic language extinct since the 17th century; it was spoken in the former German ... [2 Related Articles]
Old Raadsaal (from the article "Bloemfontein") ...on Naval Hill. The city contains the national Court of Appeal, the province's oldest Dutch ...
Old Red Sandstone thick sequence of Devonian rocks (formed from 416 million to 359.2 million years ago) that ... [6 Related Articles]
Old River (from the article "Atchafalaya River") distributary of the Red and Mississippi rivers in Louisiana, U.S. It branches southwest from the ...
Old Roman chant repertory of liturgical melodies written in Rome between the 11th and the 13th century and ...
Old Royal Naval College (from the article "Greenwich") The Old Royal Naval College is located on the site of a 15th-century riverbank house ...
Old Russian (from the article "Russian language") Russian and the other East Slavic languages (Ukrainian, Belarusian) did not diverge noticeably from one ...
Old Russian literature (from the article "Russian literature") The conventional term "Old Russian literature" is anachronistic for several reasons. The authors of works ...
Old Saint Peter's Basilica first basilica of St. Peter's in Rome, a five-aisled basilican-plan church with apsed transept at ... [4 Related Articles]
Old Saxon language earliest recorded form of Low German, spoken by the Saxon tribes between the Rhine and ... [1 Related Articles]
Old Saxon literature (from the article "Old Saxon language") ...its preservation of the voiceless stops (p, t, k ) common to all Germanic languages; in ...
Old Saybrook town (township), Middlesex county, southern Connecticut, U.S. It lies on Long Island Sound at the ...
Old Scandinavian language (from the article "Scandinavian languages") About 125 inscriptions dated from AD 200 to 600, carved in the older runic alphabet ...
Old School Presbyterian Church (from the article "Hodge, Charles") ...of the day, though he remained firmly resistant to newer trends of thought. Hodge continued ...
Old South Arabian language (from the article "Arabia, history of") ...Thamudic, and Safaitic); despite close connections between this group and Arabic, the latter cannot be ...
Old Southwark (from the article "Southwark") Old Southwark, known traditionally as The Borough, was a market town from early Saxon times. ...
old squaw duck (from the article "anseriform") Long-tailed, or old squaw, ducks (Clangula hyemalis ) have been caught in fishing nets more than ...
Old State Capitol (from the article "Springfield") In the Old State Capitol (1837-53; rebuilt in the 1960s as a state historic site), ...
Old State House (from the article "Boston") ...mainland to the north and west. To the east, Town Cove indented Boston's harbour front ...
old style type (from the article "typography") The first of these is called in most places old face-though Americans sometimes call it ...
Old Swan House (from the article "Shaw, Norman") ...and Wispers (1876), both in Sussex, and Adcote (1876-81) in Shropshire. His London town houses ...
Old Testament Biblical Literature. [49 Related Articles]
Old Text school (from the article "Confucianism") ...popularity, his worldview was not universally accepted by Han Confucian scholars. A reaction in favour ...
Old Tom (from the article "gin") United States producers sometimes age their gins, imparting pale-golden colour. Dutch gins may have similar ...
Old Town (from the article "Brussels") Seen from the air, the historic Old Town of Inner Brussels has the shape of ...
Old Town (from the article "Prague") The economic expansion of the community was reflected in the topography of the city. A ...
Old Town (from the article "Edinburgh") Edinburgh Castle, 443 feet (135 metres) above sea level, dominates the city. Archaeological excavations have ...
Old Town (from the article "Richmond") ...in New York Harbor. The borough is linked to Brooklyn by the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (see ...
Old Turkic language (from the article "Turkic languages") The literary languages of the "Old Turkic" period may be divided into Old Turkic proper, ...
Old Uighur language (from the article "Turkic languages") The literary languages of the "Old Turkic" period may be divided into Old Turkic proper, ...
Old Vic theatre in the Greater London borough of Lambeth. It was formerly the home of a ... [8 Related Articles]
Old Vic (from the article "Old Vic") The company's theatre building opened in 1818 as the Royal Coburg and produced mostly popular ...
Old World avocet (from the article "avocet") Four species occur discontinuously in temperate and tropical regions worldwide. The Old World avocet (R. ...
Old World flamingo (from the article "flamingo") ...large colonies on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of tropical and subtropical America. There are ...
Old World fruit bat any of more than 180 species of large-eyed fruit-eating or flower-feeding bats widely distributed from ... [3 Related Articles]
Old World harvest mouse (from the article "harvest mouse") The single species of Old World harvest mouse (Micromys minutus ) lives from Great Britain and ...
Old World monkey (from the article "primate") ...fissural pattern is seen in its simplest form in the marmosets, but in the larger ...
Old World painted snipe (from the article "painted snipe") The Old World painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis ) ranges from Africa to Australia and Japan and ...
Old World porcupine (from the article "porcupine") ...but their tails range from short to long, with some being prehensile. The quills, or ...
Old World rabbit (from the article "lagomorph") ...Brachylagus , Bunolagus , Poelagus , Nesolagus ). The most ...
Old World red fox (from the article "fox") ...or so species classified as "true" foxes (genus Vulpes ), especially the red, ...
Old World swallowtail butterfly (from the article "community ecology") ...parasitically on that plant. In North America there are two groups of these butterflies that ...
Old World viper (from the article "viper") any of more than 200 species of venomous snakes belonging to two groups: pit vipers ...
Old World water shrew (from the article "water shrew") In addition to the North American and elegant water shrews, there are several species of ...
Old World Wisconsin (from the article "Waukesha") ...is the seat of Carroll College (1846) and the two-year University of Wisconsin-Waukesha (1966). The ...
Old Xiang language (from the article "Xiang language") Chinese language that is spoken in Hunan province. The two major varieties of Xiang are ...
Old Zurich War (from the article "Toggenburg Succession") ...control the shore of the lake. A meeting of the Swiss confederates in 1437 authorized ...
old-man cactus usually Cephalocereus senilis, a columnar species of cactus (family Cactaceae), native to central Mexico. Because ...
old-man's-beard (from the article "beard lichen") ...eaten by wild animals or collected as fodder. In the past it was used as ...
Oldcastle, Sir John distinguished soldier and martyred leader of the Lollards, a late medieval English sect derived from ... [2 Related Articles]
Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van lawyer, statesman, and, after William I the Silent, the second founding father of an independent ... [6 Related Articles]
Oldenburg former German state, successively a countship, a duchy, a grand duchy, and a Land (state) ...
Oldenburg city, Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany. Situated at the junction of ... [1 Related Articles]
Oldenburg dynasty (from the article "Denmark") ...The joint crown was offered to Erik's nephew Christopher III, but his reign did little ...
Oldenburg, Claes Swedish-born American Pop-art sculptor, best known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects. [5 Related Articles]
older Population I (from the article "Stellar populations") ...of less than 250 days and of relatively early spectral type (earlier than M5e) were ...
Oldfield, Barney American automobile-racing driver, whose name was synonymous with speed in the first two decades of ...
Oldfield, Brian (from the article "athletics") Some athletes have turned to a style in which the putter spins one and a ...
Oldham (from the article "Oldham") urban area and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. The historic town of ...
Oldham urban area and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. The historic town of ...
Oldham, Estelle (from the article "Faulkner, William") ...centres and live instead in what was then the small-town remoteness of Oxford, where he ...
Oldham, John pioneer of the imitation of classical satire in English. [1 Related Articles]
Oldham, Richard Dixon British geologist and seismologist who discovered evidence for the existence of the Earth's core. [1 Related Articles]
oldhamite (from the article "meteorite") ...from parent bodies that formed under highly chemically reducing conditions. As a result, they contain ...
Oldman River river in southern Alberta, Canada, one of the major headstreams of the South Saskatchewan River. ...
Oldowan industry toolmaking tradition characterized by crudely worked pebble (chopping) tools from the early Paleolithic, dating to ... [5 Related Articles]
Oldrich of Rozmberk (from the article "Czechoslovak region, history of") ...Some moderate Catholics cooperated with the Utraquist majority, headed by Hynek Ptacek of Pirkstejn; a ...
Oldroyd, James Gardner (from the article "solids, mechanics of") The theory of such materials came under intense development in the 1950s after the British ...
Olds, James (from the article "nervous system, human") In a fundamental discovery made in 1954, Canadian researchers James Olds and Peter Milner found ...
Olds, Ransom Eli American inventor and automobile manufacturer, designer of the three-horsepower, curved-dash Oldsmobile, the first commercially successful ... [3 Related Articles]
Olds, Robin brigadier general (ret.), U.S. Air Force was a World War II ace fighter pilot who ...
Olds, Sharon American poet best known for her powerful, often erotic, imagery of the body and her ...
Oldsmobile (from the article "Olds, Ransom Eli") American inventor and automobile manufacturer, designer of the three-horsepower, curved-dash Oldsmobile, the first commercially successful ...
Olduvai Beds (from the article "Olduvai Gorge") The Olduvai fossil beds accumulated in a lake basin between 4 and 9 miles (7 ...
Olduvai Gorge paleoanthropological site in the eastern Serengeti Plain, within the boundaries of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area ... [11 Related Articles]
Olduvai Hominid 13 (from the article "Homo habilis") ...into a gully. Some of the teeth survived, but the cranium was broken into many ...
Olduvai Hominid 16 (from the article "Homo habilis") ...gully. Some of the teeth survived, but the cranium was broken into many small fragments; ...
Olduvai Hominid 24 (from the article "Homo habilis") Since 1964 more material has been discovered, not only at Olduvai but at other African ...
Olduvai Hominid 62 (from the article "Homo habilis") ...discovery was reported from Olduvai Gorge in 1986. A jaw with teeth and skull fragments ...
Olduvai Hominid 7 (from the article "Homo habilis") Apart from the original discovery of the jaw, cranial, and hand bones from a juvenile ...
Olduvai Hominid 9 (from the article "Homo erectus") ...the more convincing evidence for the existence of H. erectus in Africa came with the ...
Oleaceae the olive family, belonging to the order Lamiales and named for the economically important olive ... [1 Related Articles]
Oleacinacea (from the article "gastropod") ...woodland snails of eastern North America (Polygyridae), plus a Neotropical group (Thysanophoridae) and a relict ...
Oleaciniidae (from the article "gastropod") ...(Polygyridae), plus a Neotropical group (Thysanophoridae) and a relict group of Asia (Corillidae). Superfamily Oleacinacea Carnivorous (Oleaciniidae) ...
Olean city, Cattaraugus county, western New York, U.S. It lies along the Allegheny River at the ...
Oleana (from the article "Potter") Potter county was organized in 1804 and named for James Potter, a general in the ...
oleander any of the ornamental evergreen shrubs of the genus Nerium, belonging to the dogbane family ...
oleaster small deciduous tree of Eurasia, about 4.5 to 6 m (15 to 20 feet) high. ...
olecranon (from the article "ulna") ...or trochlear, notch-which articulates with the trochlea of the humerus (upper arm bone) to form ...
olecranon fossa (from the article "humerus") ...elbow joint, and two projections (epicondyles). The capitulum laterally articulates with the radius; the trochlea, ...
olefin any unsaturated hydrocarbon containing one or more pairs of carbon atoms linked by a double ... [23 Related Articles]
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