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O'Cahan
O'Cahan is the name of a significant clan in Ulster. It has been angiclized to O'Kane and Kane. They are descended from Eogan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages. In the late Middle Ages, they were the primary sept under the O' Neill Clan of Ulster, holding the privilege of inaugurating the Chief o..

O'Callaghan Properties
A multi-division property development company founded in 1969 by Managing Director Owen O'Callaghan, a former Quantity Surveyor from Ovens, Co. Cork. The company is headquartered at its premises in Cork city centre at 21 Lavitts Quay. O'Callaghan Properties have been responsible for some of Cork a..

O.C. and Stiggs
O.C. and Stiggs is a 1987 film directed by Robert Altman, based on two characters featured in a series of stories published in National Lampoon. The film stars Daniel Jenkins and Neil Barry as the title characters. Other members of the cast include Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Martin Mull, Dennis Hop..

Oca
The oca or oka is the Quechuan word for a perennial plant grown in the central and southern Andes for its starchy edible tuber, used as a root vegetable. Its leaves and young shoots can be eaten as a green vegetable as well. Introduced to Europe in 1830 as a competitor to the potato and to New Zea..

OCA
OCA can mean: Observatoire de la Côte d'Azurthe Olympic Council of AsiaCanada's Office of Consumer AffairsOnline Crash AnalysisOpen Content Allianceoptimal currency areaOregon Citizens AllianceOrganization of Chinese AmericansOrthodox Church in AmericaOxford Capacity Analysisthe Oracle Certified As..

OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
The OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey (ODAS) was a European scientific project to search for asteroids. The project was started in October 1996 and was discontinued in April 1999. The project was operated out of the Schmidt telescope near Nice, France. The project was the joint work of the Observatoire de la ..

Ocacia
Ocacia is an international smooth jazz studio and performance group. Ocacia is known for their socially conscious lyrics. The music is characterized by some as "escapist" in the usage of space, chords and ethnic overtones. The chord structure has an absences of "thirds" and is similar to other Afr..

Ocado
Ocado Logo Ocado is an internet based grocery retailer in the United Kingdom which sells both name-brand goods and Waitrose own brand goods. Despite the frequent use of the Waitrose name in connection with Ocado, the business is more or less independent, being less than 40% owned by the John L..

OCAL
The word OCAL refers to different things: OCAL is an abbreviation for On-Line Cryptanalytic Aid Language. ["OCAS: On-line Cryptanalytic Aid System", D.J. Edwards, MAC-TR-27, MIT Project MAC, May 1966. Sammet 1969, p.642].Open Clip Art Library This article was originally based on material ..

Ocala, Florida
Ocala is a city in Marion County, Florida, United States. The population was 45,943 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 48,901.[link] It is the county seat of Marion County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Contents 1 Geograph..

Ocala, Silver Springs and Park Street Railroad
Florida state law chapter 3805, approved June 7, 1887, incorporated the Ocala, Silver Springs and Park Street Railroad Company, owned by C. M. Brown, John F. Dunn, Frederick R. Freeman, Daniel A. Miller, F. Brigham Bishop, Hugh E. Miller, George H. McMaster and Edwin Spencer, to construct or operate..

Ocala Broadcasting Tower
Ocala Broadcasting Tower is a 416.6-metre guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and television programs in Ocala, Florida, USA. Ocala Broadcasting Tower was built in 1986. Its geographical coordinates are: [29°16′6″N, 82°4′50″W]. External link [FCC inform..

Ocala Demands
The Ocala Demands was a platform for economic and political reform that was later adopted by the People's Party. In December, 1890, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, more commonly known as the Southern Farmers' Alliance, its affiliate the Colored Farmers' Alliance, and the Farmers..

Ocala Historic Commercial District
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Ocala Historic District
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Ocala National Forest
The Ocala National Forest is the second largest National Forest in Florida and covers approximately 607 square miles (389,000 acres) in central Florida. It is located three miles east of Ocala, Florida, 16 miles southeast of Gainesville, Florida, and 18 miles northwest of Orlando, Florida. The Ocal..

Ocala Street and Suburban Railroad
The Ocala Street and Suburban Railroad Company was incorporated on July 21, 1888 under the general incorporation laws of Florida. They were granted the exclusive right to operate a street railroad in Ocala, Florida by a town ordinance passed September 18, 1889. Florida state law chapter 4268, appro..

Ocalea
In Greek mythology, Ocalea (or Ocaleia) was the wife of Abas and mother of the twins Proetus and Acrisius. ..

Ocalea (genus)
Ocalea is a genus of the rove beetle family Staphylinidae. The group has representatives on the mainland of Europe, in Great Britain, in North America (British Columbia and perhaps other locations), and in New Zealand. ..

OCaml
Objective Caml (OCaml) is a general-purpose programming language descended from the ML family, created by Xavier Leroy, Jérôme Vouillon, Damien Doligez, Didier Rémy and others in 1996. OCaml is an open source project managed and principally maintained by INRIA. OCaml shares the functional and ..

Ocampa
Ocampa is the fictional home planet of the Ocampans, a fictional race of elf-like humanoids in the science fiction television series [[Star Trek: Voyager]]. Originally surface dwellers and the dominant species of their homeworld, the Ocampans exhibited phenomenal mental powers far in excess of any ..

Ocampo
Ocampo could mean: Places named Ocampo Mexico* Ocampo, Chihuahua* Ocampo, Coahuila* Ocampo, Durango* Ocampo, Guanajuato* Ocampo, Michoacán* Ocampo, Tamaulipas Philippines* Ocampo, Camarines Sur Mars (planet)* Ocampo (crater) People named Ocampo Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the Interna..

Ocampo, Camarines Sur
Ocampo is a 4th class municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 36,316 people in 6,615 households. Barangays Ocampo is politically subdivided into 25 barangays. AyuganCabariwanCagmanabaDel RosarioGatboGuinabanHanawanHibagoL..

Ocampo (municipality)
Ciudad Ocampo is a municipality of the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico. Founded on May 19 1749 as Villa of Santa Barbara, the town later became known as Ciudad Ocampo in 1869. The credit for the founding of Santa Barbara is given to Don José Escandón y Helguera. It is at the southern border of the M..

Ocaña
Ocaña may refer to: Ocaña, Colombia, a city in Norte de Santander, ColombiaOcaña, Spain, a town in Toledo Province, Spain See also: Ocana, France, Corse-Sud department, FranceBattle of Ocana This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same tit..

Ocaña, Colombia
For alternate uses see Ocaña. Ocaña is a city in Norte de Santander, Colombia. ..

Ocaña, Spain
See also Ocaña, a city in Colombia Ocaña, a town an municipality of central Spain, in the province of Toledo; on the extreme north of the tableland known as the Mesa de Ocaña, with a station on the railway from Aranjuez to Cuenca. Pop. (1900) 6616. The town is surrounded by ruined walls, ..

OCAP
OCAP may stand for: Ontario Coalition Against PovertyOpenCable Application Platform ..

Ocarina
A tenor and an alto ten-hole ocarina. The ocarina, sometimes called the sweet potato, is an ancient flute-like wind instrument. It is one of the oldest musical instruments on Earth[[Citing sources citation needed]]. It usually is made up of an oval-shaped enclosed space..

Ocauçu
Ocauçu is a municipality/county in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its coordinates are [22°26′20″S, 49°59′22″W]. The population in 2004 is 4,089, the area is 301.39 km² The elevation is 551 m. ..

O Canada
"O Canada" is the national anthem of Canada. The music was composed by Calixa Lavallée, who may have been inspired by the similar "March of the Priests" from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. The French lyrics were written by Sir Adolphe Basile Routhier, while the official English version is a revisi..

O Canada! (Disney)
O Canada! is a Circle-Vision 360° movie. It is an attraction at the Canada Pavilion of the Epcot World Showcase, at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. It showcases many images of Canada's cities and sights, including Quebec, Ontario, Vancouver and Vancouver Harbor, the Ottawa River, and more. ..

O Captain! My Captain!
"O Captain! My Captain" is a poem by Walt Whitman. It was written in homage to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln after his assassination in 1865, and was first published the same year in an appendix attached to the latest version of Whitman's continually expanding anthology, Leaves of Grass. The..

O Carinae
O Carinae (O Car) is a star in the constellation Carina. O Carinae is an orange K-type giant with a mean apparent magnitude of +5.60. It is approximately 598 light years from Earth. It is classified as a semiregular variable star and its brightness varies by 0.2 magnitudes. ..

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