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O.S. Max
O.S. Max is aJapanese model engine manufacturer. The company was founded in 1936 by machinist Shigeo Ogawa (or in more traditional Japanese, "Ogawa Shigeo," hence the name) for the production of model steam engines. At the suggestion of American buyer Paul Houghton, Ogawa tooled up for his first g..

OSM
The three letter acronym OSM can refer to: Open Source Matters, a team of developers who create the Joomla CMS (Content Management System)Montreal Symphony OrchestraThe Office of Surface Mining, part of the United States Department of the InteriorThe Office of Spectrum Management, part of the Nation..

Osmaci
Osmaci }} Osmaci (Serbian Cyrillic: Осмаци) is a municipality located in eastern Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The municipality was created from part of the territory of the pre-war municipality of Kalesija that was assigned to Republika Srpska by the Dayton Agreement (th..

Osman
Osman may refer to: Osman I, the founder of Ottoman EmpireOsman II, an Ottoman sultanOsman III, an Ottoman sultanUthman (Osman in Turkish transcription), the 3rd caliph.A fictional merchant in the role-playing game Skies of Arcadia. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of..

Osmanabad district
Osmanabad district is an administrative district of the state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarters are located at Osmanabad where the sitting MLA is Dr. Padmasinha Patil. The district occupies an area of 7512.4 km² of which 241.4 km² is urban area and has a population of 1,486,586 of..

Osmaneli
Osmaneli is a district of Bilecik Province of Turkey. Situated on a hillside at a point where the Karasu, flowing down from Kandilli Dag, enters the Sakarya, this small town was known in antiquity as Leukai and more recently as Lefke. South of the town is a narrow and very beautiful river gorge wit..

Osmani
Osmani or Usmani or Othmani or Uthmani (Arabic: عثمانی) is a common Muslim family name. Origin The name signifies ancestry from Hazrat Uthman (Arabic: عثمان بن عفان), third Khalifa of Islam. Osmanis in South Asia Osmani signifies Arab ancestry in South Asia. Osmani is a multie..

Osmania Medical College
Osmania Medical College is a premier medical college in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the oldest medical schools in the world #redirect [[Template:fact]]. In 2003 and 2005, Osmania Medical College was ranked among the top ten medical colleges in India by India Today magazine#redi..

Osmania University
This article is about the Indian University. For the phenomenon pertaining to the Osmonds see that article. Osmania University is situated in the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, India. Founded in 1917 by the VIIth Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawwab Mir Osman Ali Khan, Osmania University is the sev..

Osmaniye Province
Osmaniye is a new Turkish province which is located in southeastern Turkey. It was created in 1997 out of the eastern part of Adana Province plus a small part of Gaziantep Province. It covers an area of 3,320 km² and has a population of 458,782 (2000 census}. The capital of the province is Osma..

Osmani International Airport - Sylhet
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Osmani Urrutia
Osmani Urrutia Ramírez (also spelled Osmany) (born June 29, 1976 in Jobabo Village, Las Tunas Province, Cuba) is one of the best Cuban baseball players today. He plays right field for the Las Tunas Magos of the Cuban National Series and for the Cuban national baseball team. Career in Cuba Playin..

Osmanthus
Osmanthus (Osmanthus) is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, mostly native to warm temperate Asia (from the Caucasus east to Japan) but one species (O. americanus) in North America (southeastern United States, Texas to Virginia). They range in size from shrubs t..

Osmanville
Osmanville is a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. Its postal code is 14170. The INSEE code is 14480. ..

Osmanya alphabet
The Osmanya alphabet is a script for the Somali language invented between 1920 and 1922 by the Sultan of Obbia's brother, Cismaan Yuusuf Keenadiid. In 1961 it was made official in Somalia, along with the Latin alphabet. However, since 1972, only the Latin alphabet has been official, and use of O..

Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium
Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Nasr City, Egypt. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of El Moqawloun el Arab. The stadium holds 60,000 people. ..

Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII
The Last Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan in his older days Usman Ali Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung (April 8, 1886 – February 24, 1967) also named Fath Jang Nawwab Mir Osman Ali Khan Asif Jah VII,was the last Nizam of Hyderabad. He was popular among his subjects as A'la-Hadrat. H..

Osman Arslan
Osman Arslan is the The First President of the High Court of Appeals of Turkey. External links () [Osman Arslan at the official High Court of Appeals site]() [Osman Arslan at the official High Court of Appeals site] High Court of Appeals justices Osman Arslan |..

Osman Birsen
Osman Birsen, born 1945 inAnkara, Turkey is Turkish high ranking civil servant for finance and currently the CEO of the Istanbul Stock Exchange. After finishing the high school at Ankara Deneme Lisesi, he studied Economics and Finance at the University of Ankara and graduated in 1968. During his ed..

Osman Cleander Baker
Osman Cleander Baker (1812-1871) was an American biblical scholar and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Born in Marlow, New Hampshire, on 30 July 1812, Baker died in Concord, New Hampshire on 20 December 1871 aged 59. Elected bishop in 1852, he was also a distinguished scholar who in 1871 ..

Osman Digna
Osman Digna (c.1836-1900) was a follower of the Mahdi in Sudan. His birthplace is unknown. Both Suakin and Rouen, France were said to be the town where he was born. When he was called Osman Ali, Osman Digna lived in Alexandria, Egypt, where he dealt in the selling of slaves. After the English fo..

Osman Djikic
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Osman Ertuğ
--> Mr. Osman Ertuğ is the de facto ambassador of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to the United States of America. As the TRNC is not recognized as sovereign, his title is officially that of Representative of the Turkish Cypriot Community in Washington DC. Mr. Ertuğ serv..

Osman Gradaščević
Osman Gradaščević (died 1812) was a Bosniak nobleman at the turn of the 18th century. Osman Gradaščević was the captain of the Ottoman military captaincy of Gradačac, which he was in control of since 1765. During his rule he was one of the most powerful and richest captains in Bosnia. He was..

Osman Hadžić
Osman Hadžić is a popular Bosniak folk singer. Contents 1 Biography2 Discography3 External Links3.1 Music Videos Biography Osman Hadžić was born on September 9, 1966 in Cazin, Bosnia and Herzegovina to Bosniak parents. He was the first-born child of 7. Discography Note:..

Osman Hamdi Bey
Osman Hamdi Bey, (1842 İstanbul - 24 February 1910 İstanbul) was a prominent and pioneering Turkish painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is considered as the pioneer of the profession of museum curatorship in Turkey, and is the founder of İstanbul Archaeology Museum an..

Osman Hussain
Hussain Osman after his arrest by Italian police Osman Hussain (or Hamdi Isaac or Hussain Osman) is suspected of having placed a faulty or mock explosive at the Shepherd's Bush tube station during the failed 21 July 2005 London bombings. Born in Ethiopia, Hussain is a naturalized British citi..

Osman I
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Osman II
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Osman III
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Osman Kebir
Osman Kebir, also known as Osman Mohammad Yusuf, is the governor of the North Darfur province of Sudan. He has been governor for several years. He has publicly denied that the Janjaweed had any link to the government. In October 2004, he accused numerous international organizations and observers of..

Osman Kulenović
Osman Kulenović was a Croatian-Bosniak born in Rajnovići, Sandžak on December 15, 1889. Osman Kulenović served as vice-president of the NDH government for a short period of time (April 1941 - November 1941). Then he was replaced by his brother, Dzaferbeg Kulenovic. However, he kept worked with ..

Osman Larussi
Osman Larussi was an British man who was possibly one of the hostagetakers in the 2004 Beslan school crisis. Born in Algeria, Larussi was in his mid-30s and lived in London where he is thought to have attended the Finsbury Park Mosque until 2001, when he left for Chechnya with Yacine Benalia and Ka..

Osmán Morote Barrionuevo
Osmán Morote Barrionuevo was one of Efraín Morote's sons. At one point in his life, he became the Shining Path's second-in-command. His two siblings also became members of the Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency in Peru. He was arrested by the Peruvian police on June 11, 1988, on terrorism charges..

Osman Nuri Pasha
Osman Nuri Pasha (otherwise known as Osman al-Ghazi or Osman the Conqueror) (1837? - 1900) was a field-marshall of the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Amasia in Asia Minor. He was educated for the army at the Turkish military academy. When Serbia made war on the Ottoman empire in 1876, he was p..

Osman Nuri Topbaş
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Osman Nuri Topbas (born 1942) is a Turkish writer who lives in Istanbul. He has received both a traditi..

Osman Özköylü
Osman Özköylü (born August 26, 1971 in Aydin) is a Turkish football player. He played mostly for Aydınspor, Trabzonspor and Samsunspor. He played for Turkey national football team and was a participant at the 2000 UEFA European Championship. ..

Osman Pazvantoglu
Osman Pazvantoğlu, also spelt Osman Passvan-Oglou, (1758–27 January 1807, Vidin) was a Turkish pasha and from 1794 a governor of the Vidin district of the Ottoman Empire. Having gathered a large army of mercenaries, he rebelled against the Ottoman sultan Selim III. He minted his own coin and ..

Osman Sabri
Osman Sabri or Osman Sabrî, (1905-1993), was a Kurdish poet, writer and journalist. He was born in Narînç or Narinc around Adiyaman in present-day south-eastern Turkey. He and his family were involved in the revolt lead by Shaikh Said Piran, and as a result he was imprisoned in Denizli in 1928 an..

Osman Sagar
Osman Sagar is an artificial lake in the Indian province of Hyderabad, created by the damming of the river Musi in 1920. It is a common tourist destination, and is popularly known as "Gandipet". It is also used as one of the drinking water sources for the city. ..

Osman Şirin
Osman Şirin is the Deputy First President of the High Court of Appeals of Turkey. External links () [Osman Şirin at the official High Court of Appeals site]() [Osman Şirin at the official High Court of Appeals site] High Court of Appeals justices Osman Arsla..

Osman Türkay
Osman Türkay (born in Kyrenia on February 16, 1927 and died in 2001) an is a Cypriot poet of international stature and a nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. After completing his studies at a private school in Kyrenia, he went to London where he read philosophy and studied journali..

Osman Đikić
Osman A. Đikić was a Bosniak author, poet, and dramatist. Some of his most famous works include Pobratimstvo 1900, Muslimanskoj mladeži 1902, Ašiklije 1903, Zlatija 1906, Stana 1906, and Muhadžir 1909. External Links [Reference] ..

Osmap
Osmap is a standard for storing map data in XML tags. It's goal is to be very simple and easy to use, compared to other data storage techniques such as Gis or OGC. The standard defines the tags and attributes of many elements, which fall into three categories: shape, line, and object. A key point..

Osmar dos Santos
Osmar Barbosa dos Santos (born October 20, 1968 in Marilia) is a Brazilian middle distance runner who competes mostly over 800 metres. He started competing internationally around year 2000, and won a bronze medal at the 2004 World Indoor Championships. Achievements 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championsh..

Osmaston
Osmaston could be Osmaston, Derby, Derbyshire, EnglandOsmaston, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred you here, you might want to g..

Osmaston, Derby
Osmaston is a suburb of the City of Derby, England. It lies about 4 km south of the city centre. ..

OSME
The Ornithological Society of the Middle East was formed in April 1978 as a successor to the Ornithological Society of Turkey and was expanded in 2001 to cover the Caucasus and central Asia. Its aims are as follows: To collect, collate and publish ornithological data on birds of the Middle East, t..

Osmel Sousa
Osmel Sousa is a Venezuelan businessman and (as of March 2006) the president of the Miss Venezuela Organization. Formerly an advertising draftsman, Osmel Sousa joined the Venezuelan Committee of Beauty in 1969. Sousa continued working with that committee when, in 1970, Ignacio Font Coll reconstitut..

Osmeña
The Osmeña family is a prominent political family in the Philippines based in Cebu: John Osmeña, Philippine SenatorSergio Osmeña, former President of the PhilippinesSergio Osmeña, Jr., Philippine SenatorSergio Osmeña III, Philippine SenatorJohn Gregory Osmeña, Cebu Vice Governor This is a �..

Osmeriformes
Osmeriformes is an order of ray-finned fish that includes various kinds of smelts, noodlefishes, and the odd-looking barreleyes. The order consists of fourteen families with about 240 species total. Characteristics of the order include the maxilla in the gape of the mouth, radii absent from the sc..

Osmeterium
Second or third instar caterpillar of Papilio glaucus showing osmeterium The osmeterium is a fleshy organ found in the larvae (caterpillars) of Swallowtail butterflies. They are believed to emit pheromones. Normally hidden, this forked structure can be everted when the caterpillar is threatene..

Osmington
Osmington is a village in south west Dorset, England, situated on the Jurassic Coast four miles north east of Weymouth. The village has a population of 609 (2001)1. Contents 1 History2 Economy3 See also4 References5 External links History There is evidence of Bronze Age..

Osmington Mills
Osmington Mills is a small village on the coast between Ringstead Bay to the east and the town of Weymouth to the west, in Dorset, southern England. The picturesque village is popular with holidaymakers. Although the coastline here is rocky, fossils may be found in the cliffs and the geology of par..

Osmington White Horse
The Osmington White Horse is a figure sculpted into the chalk hills just north of Weymouth called the South Dorset Downs, in the parish of Osmington. The figure is of King George III, who regularly visited Weymouth, and made it 'the first resort', riding on his horse, and can be seen for miles arou..

Osmín Aguirre y Salinas
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas was President of El Salvador 21 October 1944 - 1 March 1945. ..

Osmiotroph
Osmiotrophs obtain energy by absorption of organic material from the environment and exhibit extracellular digestion of organic nutrients. They are found primarily in many types of Basal eukaryotes, particularly to the Kingdom Fungi and Kingdom Protista. ..

Osmiridium
Osmiridium is an alloy of osmium and iridium with a trace of platinum and rhodium, found naturally or man-made. Occurrence Osmiridium is very rare, but it can be found in mines of other platinum group metals. It can be isolated by adding a piece to aqua regia, which has the ability to dissolve gold..

Osmium
|- ! colspan="2" style="background:#ffc0c0; color:black" | References |} For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Osmium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. A hard brittle blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, osmium..

Osmium(VIII) oxide
The chemical compound osmium tetroxide (OsO4), also known as osmium tetraoxide, osmium(VIII) oxide, or osmic acid, is an oxide of the element osmium. The compound is noteworthy for its many uses, despite the rarity of osmium. Contents 1 Physical properties2 Structure3 Synthesis..

Osmium (album)
The 1970 debut album by the funk band Parliament, led by George Clinton. The 'yodeling' that arguably uniquely identifies one of De La Soul's early hits, Potholes In My Lawn (which eventually appeared on De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising), comes from this album's Little Old Country Boy. ..

Osmium (disambiguation)
Osmium may refer to: Osmium, the chemical elementOsmium (band), a heavy metal bandOsmium (album), the debut album of Parliament This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the ..

Osmoconformer
An osmoconformer is a marine invertebrate that regulates its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater. These animals keep their body fluids isotonic to the external environments. These animals thus do not have to actively adjust their internal osmotic state. Marine ..

Osmolal gap
Osmolal Gap is the difference between measured serum osmolality and calculated serum osmolality. It is typically calculated as: OG = measured serum osmolality - (2 X serum sodium + serum glucose + serum urea) Where: 2 X serum sodium + serum glucose + serum urea = the calculated serum osmolality a..

Osmole (unit)
In chemistry, the osmole (Osm) is a non-SI unit of measurement that defines the number of moles of a chemical compound that contribute to a solution's osmotic pressure. Osmolarity is a measure of the osmoles of solute per litre of solution, while the osmolality is a measure of the osmoles of sol..

Osmometer
An osmometer is a device for measuring the osmotic strength of a solution, colloid, or compound. There are several different techniques employed in osmometry: Vapor pressure osmometers determine the concentration of osmotically active particles that reduce the vapor pressure of a solution. Freezi..

Osmond
Osmond iron was iron made by a particular process starting in (or by) the 13th century. It was later used as the raw material for iron wire. Osmond, Nebraska, a city located in Pierce County, Nebraska. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with..

Osmond, Nebraska
Osmond is a city in Pierce County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 796 at the 2000 census. Geography Osmond is located at [42°21′33″N, 97°35′52″W] (42.359300, -97.597699)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city h..

Osmond Borradaile
Osmond H. Borradaile (17 July 1898 – 23 March 1999) was a Canadian cinematographer. In 1982, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. External links [New York Times biography] ..

Osmond Drengot
Osmond Drengot (c.985 – 1 October 1018) was one of the first Norman adventureres in the Mezzogiorno. He was the son of a petty, but rich, lord of Carreaux, near Avesnes-en-Bray in the region of Rouen. Carreaux gives his family the alternate name of de Quarrel. In 1016, Osmond took part in a ..

Osmond Esmonde
Sir Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmonde, Bt. (died 22nd July 1936) was an Irish diplomat and Cumann na nGaedhael Party politician. Esmomde was first elected to the 4th Dáil in the 1923 general election as Cumann na nGaedhael TD for the Wexford constituency. He did not conest the June 1927 general electi..

Osmond Ezinwa
Osmond Ezinwa (born November 22, 1971) is a former sprinter from Nigeria. Together with Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu and Davidson Ezinwa he won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics. He is the younger twin brother of Davidson Ezinwa. Personal bes..

Osmond Fisher
Reverend Osmond Fisher (November 17, 1817, Osmington, Dorset, England – July 12, 1914, Huntingdon, England) was an English geologist. He worked on the the geomorphology of Norfolk, as well as the stratigraphy and invertebrate fossils of Dorset. He had published The Physics of the Earth’..

Osmond Ingram
Osmond Kelly Ingram (4 August 1887 – 16 October 1917) was a sailor in the United States Navy during World War I. Born to Robert L. Ingram and his wife Naomi Elizabeth Lea in Pratt City, Alabama, Ingram entered the Navy 24 November 1903. His ship, Cassin, was attacked by the German submarine U..

Osmond iron
Osmond iron (also spelt osmund and also called osborn) was wrought iron made by a particular process. This is associated with the first European production of cast iron in furnaces such as Lapphyttan in Sweden.N. Björkenstam, 'The Blast Furnace in Europe during the Medieval Times: part of a new sy..

Osmond Studios
Osmond Studios was the television production studio built in Orem, Utah by the The Osmonds in 1977.[link][link] It housed the Osmond's production company, Osmond Productions. The studio was where many of the Donny & Marie television series and The Osmond Family Show, were produce..

Osmophobia
Osmophobia or olfactophobia refers to a fear or aversion to smells or odors. The phobia generally occurs in chronic migraine sufferers who may have odor triggered migraines. One study found as many as 25% of migraine sufferers had some degree of osmophobia. See also MigrainePhobia Related links..

Osmoreceptor
An osmoreceptor is a sensory receptor primarily found in the hypothalamus of most homeothermic organisms that detects changes in osmotic pressure. Osmoreceptors can be found in several structures, including the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT) and the subfornical organ (SFO). ..

Osmoregulation
Osmoregulation is the active regulation of the osmotic pressure of bodily fluids to maintain the homeostasis of the body's water content; that is it keeps the body's fluids from becoming too dilute or too concentrated. Osmotic pressure is a measure of the tendency of water to move into one solution..

Osmorhiza
''This article is about the North American herb. For the European herb, see Cicely. Osmorhiza is a genus of North American perennial herbs, known generally as Sweet Cicely or Sweetroot. Osmorhiza longistylis was used by Native Americans to treat digestive disorders and as a wash for wounds. The ..

Osmose Productions
Osmose Productions is a European independent record label started in France in 1991 by Hervé Herbaut. They specialize mainly in death metal, black metal and gothic metal bands. Many of the groups who began under the label would move on to sign with larger labels, such as Nuclear Blast, Century Med..

Osmosis
Osmosis is the diffusion of a liquid (most often assumed to be water, but it can be any liquid solvent) through a partially-permeable membrane from a region of low solvent potential to a region of high solvent potential. The selectively-permeable membrane must be permeable to the solvent, but not to..

Osmosis (solitaire)
Osmosis (also known as Treasure Trove) is a solitaire game played with a deck of 52 playing cards where the object, like many solitaire games, is to put the cards into foundations, although not in numberical order. Game play consists of a tableau with four piles of four cards each (one face-up ca..

Osmosis Jones
Osmosis Jones (2001) is a part animated, part live action film whose title character is Osmosis Jones, an anthropomorphic white blood cell. Unusually for this genre, the live action characters and cartoon characters never meet. The live action characters are people as they appear in the real world..

Osmosis Records
Osmose Productions is a European independent record label started in France in 1991 by Hervé Herbaut. They specialize mainly in death metal, black metal and gothic metal bands. Many of the groups who began under the label would move on to sign with larger labels, such as Nuclear Blast, Century Med..

Osmotherley
redirect [[Template:Infobox England place]] Osmotherley is an English village and civil parish, situated in the Hambledon hills in North Yorkshire. It is likely that Osmotherley means the clearing or 'ley' (pronounced lee), belonging to a Viking called 'Asmund' or a Saxon called 'Osmund', There ..

Osmotherley Friends Meeting House
Osmotherley Friends Meeting House is situated in the village of Osmotherley in North Yorkshire, England. The meeting house is a traditional stone building, built in around 1723, it is owned and maintained by Darlington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It has been co..

Osmotic pressure
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Osmotic pressure or Osmotic potential is the hydrostatic pressure produced by a solution in a space divided by a..

Osmotic shock
Osmotic shock is a condition that inhibits cellular activity. This occurs when the concentration of either salts, substrates or any solute in the supernatant is so high that it draws water out of the cells. This also inhibits the transport of substrates and cofactors into the cell thus “shocking�..

Osmotic stress technique
The osmotic stress technique is a method for measuring the effect of water on biological molecules, particularly enzymes. Just as the properties of molecules can depend on the presence of salts, pH, and temperature, they can depend significantly on the amount of water present. In the osmotic stres..

Osmotrophy
Osmotrophy is the uptake of dissolved organic compounds by osmosis for nutrition. Organisms that use osmotrophy are osmotrophs. Some mixotrophic microorganisms use osmotrophy to derive energy. References Further reading , DOI:[10.1017/S0025315400002861] See also autotrophyheterotrophyz..

Osmo Soininvaara
Osmo Heikki Kristian Soininvaara (born 2 September 1951 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician. He served as Minister of Health on Social Services in Lipponen's second cabinet between 14 April 2000 and 19 April 2002. He was the leader of the Finnish Green League party from 2001 to 2005. Soininvaara ..

Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Osmo Tapio Räihälä (born January 15, 1964) is a Finnish composer of contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various chamber music line-ups, two concertos (one for mallet instruments and a viola concerto) as well as for symphony orchestra. His best known work is the orches..

Osmo Vänskä
The conductor Osmo Vänskä (born 28 February 1953 Sääminki, Finland) started his musical career as principal clarinetist of the Helsinki Philharmonic. After studying conducting at the Sibelius Academy, he won the 1982 Besançon Young Conductor's Competition. He became principal guest conductor of..

OSMP
The Open Source Metaverse Project, or OSMP, is a massively multi-participant shared virtual world online platform. This platform is free and open source software co-founded in 2004 by Hugh Perkins and Jorge Lima. OSMP is loosely modeled on the World Wide Web borrowing ideas from existing worlds su..

Osmund
St. Osmund (d. 3 December 1099) was an early nobleman and member of the English clergy; he eventually served as Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Salisbury. Osmund held an exalted position in Normandy, his native land, and according to a late fifteenth-century document was the son of Henry, Count of S�..

Osmunda
Osmunda is a genus of primarily temperate-zone ferns. One of these, the Cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea) forms huge clonal colonies in swamp areas. These ferns form massive rootstocks with densely-matted, wiry roots. This root mass is an excellent substrate for many epiphytal plants. They are o..

Osmundaceae
The Osmundaceae family of ferns is the only family of the order Osmundales, which in turn is the only order in the class Osmundopsida. This is an ancient and fairly isolated group, often known as the "flowering ferns" because of the striking aspect of their ripe sporangia. The sporangia are borne ..

Osmund Bopearachchi
Monnaies Gréco-Bactriennes et Indo-Grecques, by Osmund Bopearachchi, 1991. Osmund Bopearachchi is an historian and numismatist who has been specializing in the coinage of the Indo-Greek and Greco-Bactrian kingdoms. Originally from Sri Lanka, he finished his studies in France. In 1983 he join..

Osmund of Sussex
Osmund (fl.760–772) was a King of Sussex, apparently reigning jointly with Oswald, Ælfwald, and Oslac. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version D, Osmund was reigning in Sussex when Archbishop Cuðberht died in 760, so his rule commenced before that event. He issued a charter [..

Osmund Saddler
Osmund Saddler is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the video game, Resident Evil 4. A powerful religious figure, he was responsible for spreading a deadly plague that turned an entire village into mindless automatons under his control. Saddler's many underlings include village chief..

Osmussaar
Osmussaare (Estonian, Odensholm in Swedish is an island 7.5km (4.7 miles) off Estonia in Noarootsi commune, Lääne county. It is 4.7 km² (1,160 acres) in area. There are no permanent inhabitants on the island. The island is named after the Viking's chief god Odin, who, as the legend goes, is buri..

Osmussaare
Osmussaare, also known as Odensholm, is an island off Sweden. It was populated by a Swedish minority that fled the onslaught of the Red Army during WW2. Nowadays it is a nature reserve; the Swedish landowners were unable to reclaim their land and property and were subsequently compensated elsewhere..

Osmylidae
Osmylidae are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera. This family contains around 150 species. Osmylids are found all over the world except from North America. They are fairly small with wingspans ranging from 1,4 to 3 cm. The two subfamilies Eidoporisminae and Porisminae each contain ..

OS MasterMap
OS MasterMap is Ordnance Survey's flagship digital product, launched in November 2001. It is a database that records every fixed feature of Great Britain larger than a few metres in one continuous digital map. Every feature is given a unique TOID (TOpographical IDentifier), a simple identifier that ..

Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes (Portuguese for The Mutants) was an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that arose out of Tropicalia movement of the late 1960s. Contents 1 History1.1 Influence1.2 2006 Reunion2 Discography2.1 Albums2.2 Singles2.3 EPs3 External links..

Os Mutantes (album)
Os Mutantes is the debut album by the Brazilian tropicalia band Os Mutantes. The album was originally released in 1968 (see 1968 in music) and reissued in 1992 on Polydor Records. The album was influenced by traditional Brazilian folk music and tropicalia, as well as American bands such as The Be..

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