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Ouabain
Ouabain is the familiar name of g-strophanthin, a poisonous cardiac glycoside. Ouabain is found in the ripe seeds of African plants Strophanthus gratus and Acokanthera ouabaio. K-strophanthin is found in the ripe seeds of Strophanthus kombé. Ouabain blocks the Na+/K+-ATPase in higher concentrati..

Ouachita
Ouachita refers to more than one feature of the United States: Ouachita MountainsOuachita RiverOuachita Parish, LouisianaOuachita County, ArkansasOuachita Baptist UniversityOuachita RailroadOuachita National Forest This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associat..

Ouachita Baptist University
Ouachita Baptist University is an American university offering undergraduate education. Contents 1 Location2 Brief history3 Academics4 Athletics5 Beliefs6 Notable alumni7 External link Location Ouachita Baptist University is a private liberal arts university lo..

Ouachita County, Arkansas
Ouachita County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population was 28,790. The county seat is Camden. The county was formed on November 29, 1842 and named for the Ouachita River. The county is a Democratic Party stronghold and the home of the Pryor family, which in..

Ouachita Electric Cooperative
Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corporation is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Camden, Arkansas, with a district office in Hampton, Arkansas. The Cooperative was organized in 1938. The Cooperative serves portions of five counties in the state of Arkansas, in a territ..

Ouachita Hills College
Ouachita Hills College is a missionary training college in southwest Arkansas. As a tutorial center of Griggs University, it offers a small number of students degrees in Religion, Theology and Education. Students enrolled in the college program spend part of each day in practical work programs. Th..

Ouachita Mountains
Ouachita Mountains The Ouachita Mountains are a mountain range located in west central Arkansas and east central Oklahoma. The range's subterranean roots may extend as far as central Texas, or beyond it to the current location of the Marathon Uplift. The Ouachita (pronounced "wah-shi-tah") Mou..

Ouachita National Forest
The Ouachita National Forest is a National Forest that lies in the western portion of Arkansas and portions of eastern Oklahoma. The Ouachita National Forest is the oldest National Forest in the southern United States. The forest encompasses more than 1.6 million acres (6,500 km²) including mos..

Ouachita National Recreation Trail
Ouachita National Recreation Trail is a 223 mile long, continuous hiking trail through the Ouachita Mountantains. The trail is primarily a hiking and backpacking trail, but about 2/3 of the trail are available to mountain bikers. The trail's western end is at Talimena State Park in southwestern O..

Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Ouachita Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Monroe and As of 2000, the population was 147,250. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent parishes2 Demographics3 Cities and towns4 External link Geography The parish has a total area of 1..

Ouachita Railroad
The Ouachita Railroad Company (AAR reporting mark OUCH) is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas. OUCH operates a 26.2 mile line in Arkansas and Louisiana from El Dorado (where it interchanges with Union Pacific) to Lille, Louisiana. OUCH traffic generally consists ..

Ouachita River
The Ouachita River (pronounced WAH-shi-tah) is a 605 mile long river that runs through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Louisiana. The Ouachita River begins in the Ouachita Mountains near Mena, Arkansas. The river flows generally southeast into Louisiana where it joins the Red River. The river has ..

Ouadane
Ouadane (Arabic: وادان) is a town in north western Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau, north east of Chinguetti. It was founded in 1147 and soon became an important caravan and trading centre. A Portuguese trading post was established in 1487, but the town declined from the sixteenth cent..

Ouadda
Ouadda is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Haute-Kotto. ..

Ouaddaï
Ouaddaï may refer to: Ouaddaï PrefectureOuaddaï RegionOuaddai KingdomOuaddai plateau redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..

Ouaddai Kingdom
The Ouaddai Kingdom (1635-1912) was originally a non-Muslim kingdom, located to the east of Lake Chad in present-day Chad. It emerged in the sixteenth century as an offshoot of the state of Darfur (in present-day Sudan) to the northeast of the Baguirmi Empire. In 1635, the Maba and other small group..

Ouaddaï Prefecture
This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions. Ouaddaï is one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the east of the country, Ouaddaï covers an area of 76,240 square kilometers and has a population of 543,900 (as of 1993). Its ..

Ouaddaï Region
Ouaddaï is one of the 18 regions of Chad (Decrees N° 415/PR/MAT/02 and 419/PR/MAT/02), and its capital is Abéché. It is composed by the former Ouaddaï Prefecture. Its main ethnic groups are the Arabs and the Maba. The economy is based on subsistence agriculture and breeding. The region's presen..

Ouagadougou
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Ouagadougou Airport
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Ouaguenoun
Ouaguenoun is a district east of Tizi Ouzou. Its central town is Tikobain. ..

Ouahigouya
Ouahigouya is the most important town in northern Burkina Faso. It is situated 182km north-west of Ouagadougou. The city was founded in 1757 as the capital of Yatenga, but was destroyed in 1825 and repeatedly attacked from the 1870s to the 1890s, until the French began rebuilding around a fort from..

Ouaka
Ouaka is one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It covers an area of 49,900 km² and has a population of 224,076 (2003 census), giving a population density of under 5 inhabitants/km². The capital is Bambari. Administrative Divisions of the Central African Republic ..

Oualata
Oualata (Arabic: ولاته) is a town in south east Mauritania. It is believed to have been first settled by an agro-pastoral people akin to the Mandé Soninke who lived along the rocky promontories of the Tichitt-Oualata and Tagant cliffs of Mauritania. There, they built what are among the oldest ..

Ouallah
Ouallah is a town located on the island of Mohéli in the Comoros. ..

Ouanary
Ouanary is a town in north-east French Guiana lying exactly on the mouth of Oiapoque river, in the Saint-Georges commune. A road from St-Georges de l'Oyapock to nearby Régina is existing. ..

Ouane Rattikone
General Ouane Rattikone was a Lao military and political figure from the Second Indochina War. He is remembered as one of the largest drug dealers in history and the key player in the 1967 Opium War. ..

Ouangani
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Ouango
Ouango is a town located in the Central African Republic prefecture of Mbomou. ..

Ouani
Ouani is a town located on the island of Anjouan in the Comoros. ..

Ouara
Ouara is a town in eastern Chad, lying near Abéché. Formerly the royal centre of Ouaddaï, it is still home to a ruined palace, mosque and city wall. ..

Ouara Department
Ouara is one of four departments in Ouaddaï, a region of Chad. Its capital is Abéché. Departments of Chad Aboudeïa · Assoungha · Baguirmi · Barh Azoum · Barh El Gazel · Barh Köh · Barh Sara · Barh Signaka · Batha Est · Batha ..

Ouargaye
Ouargaye is a city located in the province of Koulpélogo in Burkina Faso. It is the capital of Koulpélogo Province. ..

Ouargla
Ouargla (Arabic: ورقلة ) is a capital city of Ouargla province, northern Algeria. It is home to a flourishing oil industry, as well as one of Algeria's universities. The city had a population of 129,402 in 1998 (census figures). ..

Ouargla Province
Ouargla (Arabic: ورقلة ) is a wilaya in southern Algeria. Its capital is Ouargla. ..

Ouarkaye
Ouarkaye is a town approximately 200 kilometres west of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. ..

Ouarkziz crater
Ouarkziz is a meteor crater in Algeria. It is 3.5 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 70 million years (Cretaceous or younger). The crater is exposed to the surface. External links [Earth Impact Database] Coordinates: [29°0′42″N, 7°33′8″W] ..

Ouarzazate
--> Ouarzazate (Arabic, ورزازات, Warzāzāt) (called The door of the desert) is a city in southern Morocco, situated at the crossroads of the roads of Marrakech and Agadir. It hosts the biggest movie studio in the world. Several historical movies were shot on those studios (e.g. Asterix et C..

Ouati Keita
Ouati Keita was the third mansa of the Mali Empire, following the death of his brother, Wali Keita (c. 1270). His father, Sundiata Keita, was the empire's legendary founder. He ruled for only four years before his own death (c. 1274), at which point his brother Khalifa Keita assumed the throne. L..

Ouazebas
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