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Oskaloosa
Oskaloosa is the name of two American cities: Oskaloosa, Iowa (population 10,938) Oskaloosa, Kansas (population 1,165) This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred yo..

Oskaloosa, Iowa
Oskaloosa is a city in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. The population was 10,938 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Mahaska County[Geographic references#6GR6]. William Penn University is located in Oskaloosa. Vennard College is located in the connected municipality of Univer..

Oskaloosa, Kansas
Oskaloosa is a city in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States. The population was 1,165 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Jefferson County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Geography Oskaloosa is located at [39°12′57″N, 95°18′50″W] (39.215849, -95.313800)[..

Oskaloosa College
Oskaloosa College was a liberal arts college based out of Oskaloosa, Iowa. The college was founded in 1857, and was affiliated with the Disciples of Christ Christian Church. It operated until the first part of the 20th century. The school is considered the forerunner of Drake University in Des Mo..

Oskar, Freiherr von Redwitz
Oskar, Freiherr von Redwitz (1823-1891), German poet, was born at Lichtenau, near Ansbach, on 28 June 1823. Having studied at the universities of Munich and Erlangen, he was apprenticed to the law in the Bavarian State service (1846-49). He next (1849-50) studied languages and literature at Bonn, ..

Oskari Tokoi
Oskari Tokoi Antti Oskari Tokoi (April 15, 1873, Perho, Finland- April 4, 1963, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States) was a Finnish politician. Tokoi was born as Oskari Hirvi in 1873 in Perho, Kannus in Central Ostrobothnia. In 1891 he moved to America where he worked as a miner and g..

Oskarshamn Municipality
This page deals with both Oskarshamn Municipality and the urban area (tätort) Oskarshamn Oskarshamn Municipality (Kommun) Oskarshamn in Kalmar County Map outlining municipalities of Sweden Coat of arms Municipal facts Seat Oskarshamn [] County Kalmar County Province ..

Oskars Bartulis
Oskars Bartulis (born January 21, 1987 in Riga, Latvia) is a major junior ice hockey defencemen who currently plays for the Moncton Wildcats. Contents 1 Playing Career2 Awards3 Records4 Career Statistics5 International Play5.1 International Statistics6 Reference..

Oskar Adler
Oskar Adler (1875–1955) was an Austrian violinist, physician and esoteric savant. A close friend of Arnold Schoenberg from their schooldays, Adler taught him the rudiments of music, gave him his first grounding in philosophy, and played chamber music with him. Though self-taught, Adler for ma..

Oskar Anderson
Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson (2 August 1887, Minsk, Belarus — 12 February 1960, Munich, Germany) was a German mathematician. He was most famously known for his work on mathematical statistics. Life Anderson was born from a German family in Minsk, but soon moved to Kazan (Russia), on the edge..

Oskar Backlund
Johan Oskar Backlund (April 28 1846 – August 29 1916) was a Swedish-Russian astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Jöns Oskar Backlund, however even contemporary Swedish sources give "Johan". In Russia, where he spent his entire career, he is known as Oskar Andreevich Baklund (Оскар..

Oskar Barnack
Oskar Barnack (November 1, 1879 – January 16, 1936) was a German precision mechanic. Between 1913 and 1914 he was head of development of the camera company Leitz in Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany. He was the driving force behind the making of the first mass-marketed 35mm camera. The onset of World Wa..

Oskar Baum
See also Baum. Oskar Baum (January 21, 1883, Pilsen - March 20, 1941, Prague) was a Czech music educator ([Musikpädagoge]), writer. Literary works External links http://www.aktion-patenschaften.de/autoren/b02.htm (German) ..

Oskar Becker
Oscar Becker (1889-1964) Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian of mathematics. Becker studied mathematics at Leipzig. His dissertation under Otto Hölder and Karl Rohn(11914) was “On the Decomposition of Polygons in non-intersecting trangles on the Basis of the Axioms of Connection an..

Oskar Böhme
Oskar Böhme (February 24, 1870 - 1938?) was a German composer and trumpeter. Life Oskar Böhme, a son of Wilhelm Böhme, also a trumpeter, was born in Potschappel, a small town near Dresden, Germany. For much of his early career, after studying trumpet and composition in the Leipzig Conservatory o..

Oskar Braaten
Oskar Braaten (October 25 1881 - July 17 1939) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright, born in Oslo (then Kristiania). Braaten is best-known for his popular plays and novels depicting the life of factory workers and other low class women alongside Akerselva in Oslo, published 1906-1937. Though bo..

Oskar Davičo
Oskar Davičo (1909-1989) was a popular Serbian novelist and poet. External links ()[Works] ..

Oskar Dirlewanger
Oskar Dirlewanger as an SS-Oberführer, 1944. Oskar Dirlewanger (September 26, 1895-June 7, 1945) was a World War II officer with the Schutzstaffel (SS). He commanded the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger unit. Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger was an infantry soldier in World War I and won both the Iron Cros..

Oskar Ewald
Osk(c)ar Ewald, born Oskar Friedländer, or Friedländer Oszkár (November 11, 1881, Búrszentgyörgy/Sankt Georgen, Hungary (now Borský Svätý Jur, Senica District, Slovakia) - September 25, 1940, near Oxford, Oxfordshire) was a Hungarian-Austrian philosopher. Literary works Nietzsches Lehre in ..

Oskar Fehr
Oskar Fehr (October 9, 1871–1959) was a German ophthalmologist. Among his medical specialties were swimming pool conjunctivitis, tumours of the eye, and retinal detachment. He was an internationally renowned eye surgeon. Fehr was born in Braunschweig to a Jewish family. He studied in Heidelber..

Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) was an abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. He made over 50 short films, and painted c. 900 canvases which are in museums, galleries and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 (1947), which is part of the United States National Film R..

Oskar Forss
Oskar Forss is a co-founder and drummer (1987-1993) of Swedish heavy metal band Therion. Therion Christofer Johnsson | Kristian Niemann | Johan Niemann | Petter Karlsson List of Therion members Discography Albums: Of Darkness... | Beyond Sanctorum | [[Symphony_Masses:_Ho_Drakon_Ho_Megas|S..

Oskar Grippenberg
Oskar-Ferdinand Kazimirovich Grippenberg (Russian: Оскар Казимирович Гриппенберг) (1838 - ?) was a Russian military leader. He was commanding general of the Russian Second Army during the Russo-Japanese War. External link [The Russo-Japanese War: Primary Causes of ..

Oskar Halecki
Oskar Halecki (1891 in Vienna - 1973 near New York) Polish historian, social and Catholic activist. As a historian, Halecki was an expert on medieval history of Poland and Lithuania, and history of Byzantine Empire. Halecki was one of the founders of Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of Ameri..

Oskar Heil
Oskar Heil (1908-1994) was a twentieth-century electrical engineer and inventor. Field-effect transistor Heil is sometimes mentioned as an inventor of an early transistor-like device, based on several patents that were issued to him. [JFETS: THE NEW FRONTIER] states: "Field-effect tra..

Oskar Heinroth
Oskar Heinroth (1st March 1871 – 31st May 1945) was a German biologist who was one of the first to apply the methods of comparative morphology to animal behaviour, and was thus one of the founders of ethology. His extensive studies of behaviour in the Anatidae (ducks and geese) showed that in..

Oskar Hertwig
Oskar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hessen - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist. He was the brother of zoologist Richard Hertwig (September 23, 1850, Friedberg - October 3, 1937, Schlederloh/Munich). The Hertwig brothers were the most eminent scholars of Ernst Haeckel. They were..

Oskar Johansson
Oskar Johansson is a Canadian athlete who competed in Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He finished 15th. ..

Oskar Kaufmann
Das Renaissance-Theater([de]), Berlin Das Theater der Freien Volksbühne([de]) am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Villa Konschewski([de]), Volksbühne, Hundekehlesee([de]), Berlin, for Pemmeranian paper fabricant Dr. Moritz Konschewski Stadttheater B..

Oskar Kellner
Oskar (Oscar) Johann Kellner (May 13, 1851, Tillowitz, Upper Silesia - September 12, 1911, [Karlsruhe]) was a German agricultural scientist (Agrikulturchemiker, Tierphysiologe). Works die Ernährung der landwirtschaftlichen Nutztiere, 1905Grundzüge der Fütteringslehre, 1907 External lin..

Oskar Klein
Oskar Klein (September 15 1894 - February 5 1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist. Klein was born in Danderyd outside Stockholm, son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr. Gottlieb Klein and Antonie (Toni) Levy. He became a student of Svante Arrhenius at the Nobel Institute at a young age, and w..

Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture
The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture at Stockholm University, dedicated to the memory of the Swedish physicist Oskar Klein (1894-1977), is held annually since 1988 by a prominent physicist, who also receives the Oskar Klein Medal. The arrangement are sponsored by the University and the Nobel Committee ..

Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (March 1, 1886-February 22, 1980) was an Austrian artist and poet of Czech origin, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. Kokoschka's early career was marked by intense portraits of Viennese celebrities. He served in the Austrian army in World War I ..

Oskar Körner
Oskar Körner (January 4, 1875 - November 9, 1923) was a businessman who participated in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch. As the Nazis tried to cross over the Ludwig Bridge to get to them center of the city the police were waiting for them fully armed. When the Nazis tried to talk their way out by ..

Oskar Kuhn
Oskar Kuhnis a German palaeontologist. Among his books are Paläozoologie in Tabellen (1940), Lehrbuch der Paläozoologie (Textbook of Paleontology) (1949), Die Deszendenztheorie Grundlegung der Ganzheitsbiologie (1951), Lebensbilder und Evolution fossiler Saurier, Amphibien und Reptilien. (1961) ..

Oskar Lafontaine
Oskar Lafontaine Oskar Lafontaine (born September 16, 1943 in Saarlouis-Roden) is a left-wing German politician and a leading member of the Left Party. He is of French descent. Lafontaine's views and remarks have made him a polarizing figure in German politics; most Germans are either fond of..

Oskar Lange
Oskar Lange monument at the Wrocław University of Economics Oscar Ryszard Lange (born July 27, 1904 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland - died October 2, 1965 in London, United Kingdom) was a Polish economist and diplomat. He is probably most known for his work On the Economic Theory of Socialism..

Oskar Lesser
Asteroids discovered: 1 62 Erato September 14 1860 with W. J. Förster Oskar Lesser was a German astronomer who co-discovered asteroid 62 Erato with Wilhelm Julius Foerster on September 14, 1860 in Berlin. This was the first co-discovery on record. ..

Oskar Maria Graf
Oskar Maria Graf (born July 22 1894 in Berg, Bavaria ; died June 28 1967 in New York) was a German author. He wrote several socialist-anarchist novels and narratives about life in Bavaria, mostly autobiographical. In the beginning Graf wrote under his real name Oskar Graf. Since 1918 he edited hi..

Oskar Merikanto
Oskar Merikanto (August 5, 1868 - February 17, 1924) was a Finnish musician and composer. He was born of Swedish parents, his father, originally Frank Mattsson, changing the family name to be more Finnish. He was notable for his variety of talents - he gave concerts all around Finland, performing ..

Oskar Messter
Oskar Messter (November 21, 1866–December 6, 1943) was a German inventor and film tycoon in the early years of cinema. He was born in Berlin, where his father had founded a company selling and manufacturing optical equipment in 1859. Messter built and sold his first movie projector in 1896, o..

Oskar Minkowski
Oskar Minkowski (January 13 1858, Kaunas, Lithuania - July 18 1931, Sanatorium Fürstenburg an der Havel, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany was a famous scientist of German, Jewish and Polish descent. He held a professorate at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. H..

Oskar Morgenstern
Oskar Morgenstern (January 24, 1902 - July 26, 1977) was a German born economist who, working with John von Neumann, helped found the mathematical field of game theory. Morgenstern was born in Görlitz, Germany. In 1944, he and von Neumann co-wrote Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, recognized..

Oskar Nedbal
Oskar Nedbal, 1901, portrait by Šechtl and Voseček studios Oskar Nedbal (March 26, 1874 – December 24, 1930) was a Czech violist, composer, and conductor of classical music. Nedbal was born in Tábor, in south Bohemia. He was principal conductor with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 1896..

Oskar Negt
Oskar Negt (born August 1 1934 in Kapkeim) is a philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory. External links [Homepage UNI Hannover] ..

Oskar Omdal
Lieutenant Oskar Omdal (c. 1890 – December 25, 1927) was a pilot in the Norwegian Navy. He died along with Frances Wilson Grayson and Brice Goldsborough as they were flying to Nova Scotia to prepare to cross the Atlantic Ocean to set the record for the first woman to cross. In 1923 Omdal and..

Oskar Panizza
Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza (12 November 1853 – 28 September 1921) was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor. He is best known for his provocative tragicomedy, Das Liebeskonzil (The Love Council,1894), for whic..

Oskar Perron
Oskar Perron (7 May 1880 – 22 February 1975) was a German mathematician. He made numerous contributions concerning differential equations and partial differential equations. Is also famous for his encyclopedic book on continued fractions Die Lehre von den Kettenbrüchen. See also Perron�..

Oskar Potiorek
Oskar Potiorek Oskar Potiorek (1853 – 1933) was an Austrian general who served as the Austro-Hungarian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1911 and 1914. Potiorek was a co-passenger in the car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Countess Sophie Chotek when th..

Oskar Sala
Oskar Sala (June 18 1910 - February 26 2002) was a 20th century German composer and a pioneer of electronic music. He played an instrument called the trautonium, a predecessor to the synthesizer. Sala was a pupil of Friedrich Trautwein, the inventor of the trautonium, and studied with Paul Hindemi..

Oskar Sandberg
Oskar Sandberg (born 13 January 1980 in Falun, Sweden), is a key contributor to the Freenet Project, and a post graduate student at the Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden. Oskar collaborated with Ian Clarke to design the new "darknet" model employed in Freenet 0.7, their work was p..

Oskar Schindler
Born April 28, 1908 Zwittau-Brinnlitz, Austria-Hungary Died October 9, 1974 Hildesheim, Germany Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 – October 9, 1974) was an Austrian industrialist who saved his Jewish workers from the Holocaust. He saved up to 1,200 employed Jews by having them work ..

Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer (September 4, 1888 - April 13, 1943) was a German sculptor associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is "Triadisches Ballett," in which the ac..

Oskar Seidlin
Oskar Seidlin (February 17, 1911 — December 11, 1984); German-born American literary scholar, poet, and writer of children’s stories. He is also said to have co-authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Dieter Cunz and Richard Plant (1910–1998) under th..

Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (July 31, 1896 — June 24, 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Sima was frequently cast as the comic villain whose machinations get everyone into trouble. External link ..

Oskar Skogly
Oskar Skogly (1908-1988) was Norwegian Minister of Local Government Affairs in 1963. ..

Oskar Spate
Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate (London, England 1911 - Canberra, Australia 2000) was a geographer best known for his role in strengthening geography as a discipline in Australia and the Pacific. Spate was born to a German father and English mother in the Bloomsbury district of England. During the Fi..

Oskar Stark
Oskar Viktorovich Stark (Russian: Оскар Викторович Старк) (August 16, 1846 — November 13, 1928) was a Russian naval commander and admiral. ..

Oskar Strnad
Oskar Strnad ([štŕna:t]) (October 26, 1879, Vienna - September 3, 1935, Bad Aussee) was an Austrian architect, designer, stage designer and craftsman. Contents 1 Works2 References3 See also4 External links Works 1914 - The Austrian pavillon of the Werkbund Exposit..

Oskar Ursinus
Carl Oskar Ursinus (March 11 1877 – July 6 1952) was a pioneer of German aviation and is remembered mainly for his contributions to sailplane designs and the sport of gliding. He has been nicknamed the Rhönvater ("Rhön father") because he founded Germany’s first gliding club at the Was..

Oskar Victorovich Stark
Rear-Admiral Oskar Victorovich Stark was the explorer of Peter the Great Bay and the Far Eastern seas (the straight in Peter the Great Bay and the bay in the Tatar Straight are named after Stark). Stark was also the commander of the Port Arthur Squadron of the Imperial Russian fleet in 1904. Port ..

Oskar Vogt
Oskar Vogt was a German physician and neurologist (April 6, 1870 in Husum - July 30,1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau). He was married to the important French neurologist Cecile Vogt-Mugnier (March 27, 1875 - May 4, 1962). Vogt studied medicine at Kiel and Jena, obtaining his doctorate at Jena in 1894...

Oskar von Hindenburg
Oskar von Hindenburg (January 31, 1883 – February 12, 1960) was the politically powerful son and aide-de-camp to Field Marshal and President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia, (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Hindenburg followed his father into the German Army. Initiall..

Oskar von Hutier
Oskar von Hutier (August 27, 1857-December 5, 1934) was one of Germany's most successful and innovative generals of World War I. Hutier spent the first year of the war as a divisional commander in France, performing well but not distinguishing himself until the spring of 1915, when he was transfer..

Oskar von Miller
Oskar von Miller (born 7 May 1855 in Munich, died 9 April 1934 in Munich) was a German engineer and founder of the Deutsches (German) museum. Born into an Upper Bavarian family from Aichach and was the son of the first supervisor of the royal ore foundry Ferdinand von Miller (1813-1887) in Munich..

Oskar Werner
Oskar Werner Oskar Werner (November 13, 1922 – October 23, 1984) was an Austrian actor. Born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer in Vienna, he started off his career as a stage actor, starring in the Shakespearean repertoire, until his film debut in Der Engel mit der Posaune in 1948. Contents ..

Oskelaneo, Quebec
Oskélanéo is a town is northern Quebec, Canada. ..

Osker
Osker were a Los Angeles melodic pop punk band who formed in 1998 and split in february 2002, ultimately due to the departure of their drummer and inability to bounce back from the problems that arose as a consequence. The line up originally consisted of Devon Williams on vocals and guitar and Dav..

Oski
Oski or Oski the Bear (named after the "Oski Wow-Wow" yell) is the official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley and was introduced in 1941. Up till 1941, actual live bears were used as mascots. Nowadays, the bear's activities are overseen by the Oski Committee, which also appoints a ne..

Oskowo (PKP station)
Oskowo Location City/Town Oskowo District Address Adjacent stations Preceding station(s) Cewice Following station(s) Kostroga Info Water tower present Never existed Locomotives depot present Never existed Platforms in use 2 Station building present Pulled down..

Oskytel
Oskytel (???-c971) was Archbishop of York between 958–c971, Prior to which he had been Bishop of Dorchester. There is an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 970 or 971, which says: This year died Archbishop Oskytel; who was first consecrated diocesan bishop at Dorchester, and afterwa..

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