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Oan
Ōan (応安) was a Japanese era of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Jōji and before Eiwa and lasting from 1368 to 1375. Reigning Emperors were Chōkei in the south and Go-Kōgon and Go-En'yū in the north. Southern Court Equivalents ShōheiKentokuBunchū ..

OANA
OANA (Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies) is an association of news agencies from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) member states in the Asia-Pacific region. It was formed in 1961 on UNESCO's initiative. It provides a news wire service containing art..

Oana Ban
Oana Mihaela Ban (born January 11, 1986 in Cluj-Napoca) is a retired Romanian gymnast. Ban first rose to prominence as one of Romania's top junior world-class gymnasts. She competed in her first Romanian national championships in 1998, winning the floor exercise event in the junior division. The ..

Oana Pantelimon
Women's Athletics Bronze 2000 High jump Oana-Manuela Musunoi Pantelimon (born September 27, 1972 in Tecuci) is a Romanian athlete competing in high jump. She won a bronze metal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with a personal best jump of 2.02 metres. Sharing this surprise medal with Kajsa B..

Oanda Corporation
OANDA is a financial services provider of currency conversion. External Links [OANDA in Press] ..

Oankali
The Oankali are a race of intelligent extraterrestrial aliens in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis book trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago, also published in an omnibus edition under the title Lilith's Brood). After the near-extinction of humanity in a nuclear war, the Oankali arrive in an organ..

Oannes
Oannes was the name given by the 3rd century BC Babylonian writer Berossus to a mythical being who taught mankind wisdom. Berossus describes Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man. He is described as dwelling in the Persian Gulf, and rising out of the waters in the d..

O and P class destroyer
General Characteristics "O and P" class Displacement: 1,540 tons (standard), 2,400 tons (design full), 2,625 tons (wartime full) Length: 345 feet o/a Beam: 35 feet Draught: 13.5 feet Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000&..

O antiphons
In the Roman Catholic tradition, the O Antiphons are prayed each morning at Mass from December 17 to December 23 inclusive. The hymn O Come Emmanuel, or, as Catholics recite in Latin, Veni Emmanuel is a lyrical paraphrase of these antiphons. Each one is a name of Christ, one of his attributes mentio..

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