- Otaheite (island, French Polynesia)
Tahiti, largest island of the Îles du Vent (Windward Islands) of the Society Islands, French Polynesia, in the central South Pacific Ocean. Its nearest neighbor is Moorea, 12 miles (20 km) to the northwest. The island of Tahiti consists of two ancient eroded volcanic cones, Tahiti Nui and Tahiti
- Otaheite gooseberry (plant)
Phyllanthus: Otaheite gooseberry (P. acidus, or Cicca disticha) is a small Indian tree bearing dangling clusters of light-yellow or green, vertically ribbed, acid-sour fruits, nearly 2 cm (0.8 inch) in diameter; the fruit is used for making preserves. The long, deciduous twigs are lined with rows…
- Otakar I (king of Bohemia)
Otakar I was the king of Bohemia (1198–1230), who won both Bohemia’s autonomy from the German king and the hereditary rights to the Bohemian crown for his house of Přemysl. Initially confirmed as duke of Bohemia in 1192 by the Holy Roman emperor Henry VI, Otakar was deposed the following year but
- Otakar II (king of Bohemia)
Otakar II was the king of Bohemia (1253–78), who briefly established his crownland as the most powerful state of the Holy Roman Empire. The son of King Wenceslas I of Bohemia, Otakar was elected duke of Austria in November 1251 and succeeded his father as king of Bohemia and Moravia in September
- Ōtakine, Mount (mountain, Japan)
Abukuma Mountains: Mount Ōtakine is the highest point in the range; it rises to 3,914 feet (1,193 metres) above sea level—some 1,000 feet (300 metres) higher than the surrounding eroded surfaces, which average about 2,950 feet (900 metres) in elevation.
- Ōtakine-san (mountain, Japan)
Abukuma Mountains: Mount Ōtakine is the highest point in the range; it rises to 3,914 feet (1,193 metres) above sea level—some 1,000 feet (300 metres) higher than the surrounding eroded surfaces, which average about 2,950 feet (900 metres) in elevation.
- Otamadai (pottery style)
Japanese art: Jōmon period: The Otamadai type, produced by lowland peoples, was coloured dirt-brown with a mica additive and is somewhat more restrained in design. The Kasori E type has a salmon-orange surface. During this period a red ochre paint was introduced on some vessel surfaces, as was burnishing, perhaps…
- Otaria byronia (mammal)
sea lion: The southern, or South American, sea lion (Otaria byronia) is generally brown with a yellowish orange belly. It swims in coastal waters from northern Peru southward to Tierra del Fuego and even around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. The male is about 2.5 metres…
- Otariidae (mammal)
carnivore: There are three aquatic families: Otariidae (sea lions and fur seals), Phocidae (true, or earless, seals), and Odobenidae (the walrus). These aquatic families are referred to as pinnipeds.
- Otaru (Japan)
Otaru, city, Hokkaido, Japan, on Ishikari Bay of the Sea of Japan. Its name is a corruption of the Ainu word otarunai, meaning “sandy beach.” Otaru developed as a modern town in the late 19th century. Provided with a good natural harbour, it is now the second most important seaport after Hakodate
- Otavalo (Ecuador)
Otavalo, town, north-central Ecuador, in the highlands of the Andes Mountains at an elevation of 8,441 feet (2,573 metres). The area was densely settled by the Otavalo Indians prior to its conquest by the Incas and became a Spanish-controlled settlement in the 16th century. Largely destroyed in the
- Otavi Mountains (mountains, Namibia)
Namibia: Drainage and soils: …in the north, in the Otavi Mountains, in parts of the central and southern portions of the plateau, and in the Caprivi Strip. Water—not soil fertility—is the primary constraint on agriculture. Both in the densely populated Ovambo region in the north and in the commercial farming areas, overuse of land…
- Otbert I (Italian feudal lord)
Oberto I was a marquis of eastern Liguria and count of Luni, a powerful feudal lord of 10th-century Italy under King Berengar II and the Holy Roman emperor Otto I. His descendants, the Obertinghi, founded several famous Italian feudal clans. He was a Lombard and probably not directly descended from
- OTC deficiency (pathology)
metabolic disease: Inheritance: Examples of X-linked disorders include ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (an enzyme deficiency resulting in high blood levels of ammonia and impaired urea formation), X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (a disorder that is characterized by progressive mental and physical deterioration and adrenal insufficiency), and Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (a disorder of purine metabolism that is characterized by…
- OTC trading (trading)
over-the-counter market, trading in stocks and bonds that does not take place on stock exchanges. It is most significant in the United States, where requirements for listing stocks on the exchanges are quite strict. It is often called the “off-board market” and sometimes the “unlisted market,”
- Otcasek, Richard (American musician)
the Cars: …Massachusetts, by vocalist and guitarist Ric Ocasek, vocalist and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson. The band’s steady stream of albums from 1978 to 1987 cemented them as one of the major pillars of the new wave rock movement from the late 1970s…
- Otdeleniye po Okhraneniyu Obshchestvennoy Bezopasnosti i Poryadka (Russian police organization)
Okhranka, (1881–1917), prerevolutionary Russian secret-police organization that was founded to combat political terrorism and left-wing revolutionary activity. The group’s principal mode of operation was through infiltration of labour unions, political parties, and, in at least two cases,
- OTEC (technology)
ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), form of energy conversion that makes use of the temperature differential between the warm surface waters of the oceans, heated by solar radiation, and the deeper cold waters to generate power in a conventional heat engine. The difference in temperature
- Otechestvenofront (political party, Europe)
Austria: Authoritarianism: Dollfuss and Schuschnigg: …parties were abolished except the Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front), which Dollfuss had founded in 1933 to unite all conservative groups. In April 1934 the rump of the parliament was brought together and accepted an authoritarian constitution. The executive was given complete control over the legislative branch of government; the elected…
- Otellini, Paul (American businessman)
Intel: Expansion and other developments: Paul Otellini succeeded Barrett as Intel’s CEO in 2005, and four years later Jane Shaw replaced Barrett as chairman. She held the post until 2012, when she was succeeded by Andy Bryant. The following year Brian Krzanich became CEO. In 2019 chief financial officer Bob…
- Otello (opera by Verdi)
Otello, opera in four acts by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito) that premiered at La Scala opera house in Milan on February 5, 1887. Based on William Shakespeare’s play Othello, the opera was Verdi’s next-to-last and brought the composer to the peak of his dramatic
- Otello (opera by Rossini)
Gioachino Rossini: Italian period: …between these two comedies came Otello (1816; Othello), a setting of William Shakespeare’s play that held the stage until superseded by Giuseppe Verdi’s greater opera of the same name. La gazza ladra (1817; The Thieving Magpie), a semi-serious work, was a triumph in Milan.
- Otemanu, Mount (mountain, Bora-Bora, French Polynesia)
Bora-Bora: …miles (4 km) wide, has Mount Otemanu (Temanu; 2,385 feet [727 metres]) and twin-peaked Mount Pahia (2,159 feet [658 metres]) as its highest peaks. It is surrounded by coral reefs. On the west side of Bora-Bora is a large lagoon in which the smaller islands of Toopua and Toopua Iti…
- Otero (county, New Mexico, United States)
Otero, county, southern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the south by Texas. The terrain comprises drastic extremes, including elevations to 11,997 feet (3,656 metres) at Sierra Blanca, extensive waterless deserts, and tree-covered mountains. The county lies in the Basin and Range province, with its
- Otero Pedrayo, Ramón (Spanish scholar)
Galicia: Geography: …on Spanish philology and culture; Ramón Otero Pedrayo (1888–1976), who published much about Galician culture and wrote almost exclusively in Galician; author Camilo José Cela (1916–2002), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; painter Luis Seoane (1910–79), who promoted Galician culture while in exile in Argentina; and Urbano Lugrís (1902–73),…
- Otero y Cintron, José Vincente Ferrer de (American actor)
José Ferrer was an American actor and director best known for his Academy Award-winning performance in the title role of the film Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) and for his portrayal of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (1952). Ferrer, a graduate of Princeton University (1934), was a gifted
- Otero, Alejandro (Venezuelan artist)
Latin American art: Trends, c. 1950–c. 1970: …challenged the viewer’s perception, and Alejandro Otero’s works were sculptural and even architectural, as in his monumental stainless steel Solar Delta (1977) on the Mall in Washington, D.C. More abstract sculptures were constructed by a number of Colombians in the early 1960s; Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar and Edgar Negret made metal…
- Otero, María Adelina Isabel Emilia (American civil rights activist and educator)
Nina Otero-Warren was an American public official and activist who was a leader in the fight for women’s suffrage in New Mexico. She was also the first Hispanic woman to run (1922) for a seat in the U.S. Congress and the first female superintendent of public schools (1917–29) in Santa Fe, New
- Otero-Warren, Nina (American civil rights activist and educator)
Nina Otero-Warren was an American public official and activist who was a leader in the fight for women’s suffrage in New Mexico. She was also the first Hispanic woman to run (1922) for a seat in the U.S. Congress and the first female superintendent of public schools (1917–29) in Santa Fe, New
- Otesánek (film by Švankmajer)
Jan Švankmajer: …example, his film Otesánek (2000; Little Otik) is a dark comedy based on “The Wooden Baby” (1865) by Czech folklorist Karel Erben. The premise of the film follows that of the tale, which is about a wooden baby who comes to life and devours his parents. However, Švankmajer put a…
- Otetiani (Seneca chief)
Red Jacket was a Seneca chief whose magnificent oratory masked his schemes to maintain his position despite double-dealing against his people’s interests. His first Indian name was Otetiani, and he assumed the name Sagoyewatha upon becoming a chief. “Red Jacket” was his English name, a result of
- Otets Sergy (work by Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy: Fiction after 1880 of Leo Tolstoy: Otets Sergy (written 1898; Father Sergius), which may be taken as Tolstoy’s self-critique, tells the story of a proud man who wants to become a saint but discovers that sainthood cannot be consciously sought. Regarded as a great holy man, Sergius comes to realize that his reputation is groundless;…
- OTF metering (photography)
technology of photography: Exposure-metering systems: Such off-the-film (OTF) measurement is also used for electronic flash control (see below).
- Otfrid (German poet)
Otfrid was a monk of Weissenburg in Alsace and the first German poet known by name. Otfrid was trained in the monastery school of Fulda under Rabanus Maurus, who directed the school from 802 to 824. Otfrid’s fame rests on his Evangelienbuch (c. 870; “Book of the Gospels”), a poem of 7,416 lines,
- Otfried (German poet)
Otfrid was a monk of Weissenburg in Alsace and the first German poet known by name. Otfrid was trained in the monastery school of Fulda under Rabanus Maurus, who directed the school from 802 to 824. Otfrid’s fame rests on his Evangelienbuch (c. 870; “Book of the Gospels”), a poem of 7,416 lines,
- OTH radar
Robert Morris Page: …the first successful demonstration of high-frequency over-the-horizon (HF OTH) radar, whose propagating waves are refracted by the Earth’s ionosphere. The detection of ships, aircraft, and ballistic missiles was thereby extended out to about 3,200 km (2,000 miles), approximately 10 times the range of microwave radars, which are limited to the…
- Othello (work by Shakespeare)
Othello, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1603–04 and published in 1622 in a quarto edition from a transcript of an authorial manuscript. The text published in the First Folio of 1623 seems to have been based on a version revised by Shakespeare himself that sticks close to
- Othello (film by Burge [1965])
Laurence Olivier: …actor; Richard III (1955), and Othello (1965), a “filmed theater” version of his earlier stage triumph, directed by Stuart Burge. Olivier’s other movie directorial credits included The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), with Marilyn Monroe; the 1967 television movie version of Uncle Vanya; and Three Sisters (1970).
- Othello (fictional character)
Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice in Shakespeare’s Othello. Driven by jealousy that has been skillfully manipulated, Othello takes the life of Desdemona, his doting wife, and then his
- Othello (opera by Rossini)
Gioachino Rossini: Italian period: …between these two comedies came Otello (1816; Othello), a setting of William Shakespeare’s play that held the stage until superseded by Giuseppe Verdi’s greater opera of the same name. La gazza ladra (1817; The Thieving Magpie), a semi-serious work, was a triumph in Milan.
- Othello (film by Welles [1952])
Orson Welles: Films of the 1950s: Othello, Mr. Arkadin, and Touch of Evil: He had begun shooting Othello in 1948 in Venice. Over the next three years, Welles fitfully continued filming it on location in Italy and Morocco and in a Rome studio, stopping whenever funds ran low to take on another acting assignment. Since the actors were not always all available,…
- Othello (film by Parker [1995])
Kenneth Branagh: …as Iago in the film Othello, and in 2006 he directed the film As You Like It. He also directed and acted in the motion pictures Dead Again (1991) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994).
- Othello’s Tower (citadel, Famagusta, Cyprus)
Famagusta: …stands the citadel known as Othello’s Tower, so called because a lieutenant-governor of Cyprus (1506–08) named Christoforo Moro was allegedly the model for the title character in Shakespeare’s play Othello. Famagusta fell to the Turks after a bitter and prolonged siege in 1570–71.
- Othello, the Moor of Venice (work by Shakespeare)
Othello, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1603–04 and published in 1622 in a quarto edition from a transcript of an authorial manuscript. The text published in the First Folio of 1623 seems to have been based on a version revised by Shakespeare himself that sticks close to
- Other America, The (work by Harrington)
Michael Harrington: Shift to Trotskyism and The Other America: …1960 and in his seminal The Other America (1962), Harrington presented three arguments regarding poverty in the U.S. First, he challenged the prevailing assumption that the New Deal had practically ended poverty. His studies suggested that perhaps 50 million people still lived in deep and debilitating poverty, including various unskilled…
- Other Americas (work by Salgado)
Sebastião Salgado: …for his first photographic book, Other Americas (1986), which recorded the everyday lives of Latin American peasants. This was followed by Sahel: Man in Distress (1986), a book on the 1984–85 famine in the Sahel region of Africa, and An Uncertain Grace (1990), which included a remarkable group of photographs…
- Other Boleyn Girl, The (film by Chadwick [2008])
Andrew Garfield: Budding onscreen career and breakthrough in The Social Network: …Portman and Scarlett Johansson in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008); Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009); and Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan in the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2010). He also continued to take roles on television, starring in the
- Other Campaign, The (Mexican history)
Subcomandante Marcos: …EZLN initiative known as “The Other Campaign,” in which he led the Zapatistas on a six-month countrywide tour coinciding with the 2006 Mexican presidential race. Delegate Zero aimed to form a movement among other indigenous and resistance groups in the country and to create change outside the scope of…
- Other Country, The (poetry by Duffy)
Carol Ann Duffy: …included Standing Female Nude (1985), The Other Country (1990), The World’s Wife (1999), Rapture (2005), and Sincerity (2018). During this time she also authored such plays as Take My Husband (1982) and Little Women, Big Boys (1986). At the beginning of the 21st century, much of her work was written…
- Other Criteria (essay by Steinberg)
art criticism: Other Criteria: Rosenberg and Alloway: In the essay “Other Criteria” (1972), the American scholar and critic Leo Steinberg criticized Greenberg from an art-historical point of view, stating that in Greenberg’s “formalist ethic, the ideal critic remains unmoved by the artist’s expressive intention, uninfluenced by his culture, deaf to his irony or iconography, and…
- Other Guys, The (film by McKay [2010])
Adam McKay: …less-successful Step Brothers (2008) and The Other Guys (2010), which McKay wrote with Chris Henchy.
- Other Inquisitions, 1937–1952 (work by Borges)
Jorge Luis Borges: Life: …essays, Otras inquisiciones (1937–1952) (Other Inquisitions, 1937–1952), revealed him at his analytic best. When Perón was deposed in 1955, Borges became director of the national library, an honorific position, and also professor of English and American literature at the University of Buenos Aires. By this time, Borges suffered from…
- Other Minds (work by Austin)
epistemology: Mental and nonmental conceptions of knowledge: …in his 1946 paper “Other Minds.” Austin claimed that when one says “I know,” one is not describing a mental state; in fact, one is not “describing” anything at all. Instead, one is indicating that one is in a position to assert that such and such is the case…
- other minds, problem of (philosophy)
problem of other minds, in philosophy, the problem of justifying the commonsensical belief that others besides oneself possess minds and are capable of thinking or feeling somewhat as one does oneself. The problem has been discussed within both the analytic (Anglo-American) and the continental
- Other Ones, the (American rock group)
Grateful Dead: …2003 the band dubbed itself the Dead (dropping “Grateful” out of respect for Garcia) and added former Allman Brothers Band guitarist Warren Haynes to the lineup the following year. Personality conflicts surfaced during the 2004 tour season, however, and a four-year hiatus for the band followed. The Dead reunited in…
- Other People (novel by Amis)
Martin Amis: Babies (1974), Success (1978), Other People (1981), The Information (1995), and Night Train (1997).
- Other People’s Lives (album by Davies)
Ray Davies: Solo projects and later life: …reflected in his solo album Other People’s Lives (2006). Another solo album, Working Man’s Café, followed the next year. In 2008 Davies’s third musical, Come Dancing, was produced in London’s West End. On the album See My Friends (2010) Davies reinterpreted some of the Kinks’ best-known songs with help from…
- Other People’s Money, and How the Bankers Use It (work by Brandeis)
Louis Brandeis: …book, a volume of essays, Other People’s Money, and How the Bankers Use It (1914), dealt with the control exercised by investment bankers over American industry. His work attacking monopolies and interlocking directorates influenced the passage in 1914 of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act, which…
- Other Russia, the (political coalition, Russia)
Garry Kasparov: …of political parties that formed the Other Russia, a group held together by only one goal: ousting Putin from power. In 2007, following several protest marches organized by the coalition in which Kasparov and other participants were arrested, the Other Russia chose Kasparov as its candidate for the 2008 presidential…
- Other Side of the House, The (poetry by Dove)
Rita Dove: Subsequent poetry collections included The Other Side of the House (1988), Grace Notes (1989), Mother Love (1995), On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), American Smooth (2004), Collected Poems: 1974–2004 (2016), and Playlist for the Apocalypse (2021). In 1993 Dove was appointed
- Other Side of the Street, The (film by Bernstein [2004])
Fernanda Montenegro: …outro lado da rua (2004; The Other Side of the Street), a thriller inspired by the work of director Alfred Hitchcock, featured Montenegro as a lonely woman who believes she has witnessed a murder take place across the street from her apartment building. She received a number of best actress…
- Other Side of the Wind, The (film by Welles [2018])
Orson Welles: Later films: Chimes at Midnight, The Other Side of the Wind, and F for Fake: …also shot and partially edited The Other Side of the Wind, a satire about the movie business set on the last night of the life of director Jake Hannaford (played by Huston), a renowned filmmaker struggling to find his place in the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Hannaford’s latest production,…
- Other Side, The (poetry by Alvarez)
Julia Alvarez: …poetry, including that collected in The Other Side (1995) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004). Her nonfiction books include Something to Declare: Essays (1998), Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA (2007), and A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship (2012).
- Other Side, The (novel by Gordon)
Mary Gordon: …novels Men and Angels (1985), The Other Side (1989), Spending (1998), Pearl (2005), The Love of My Youth (2011), There Your Heart Lies (2017), and Payback (2020). The Rest of Life (1993) and The Liar’s Wife (2014) are
- Other Voices, Other Rooms (novel by Capote)
American literature: Southern fiction: …portraits of Southern eccentrics (Other Voices, Other Rooms [1948]), Truman Capote later published In Cold Blood (1965), a cold but impressive piece of documentary realism that contributed, along with the work of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer, to the emergence of a “new journalism” that used many of the…
- Other Woman, The (film by Cassavetes [2014])
Cameron Diaz: Later films: Charlie’s Angels, Shrek, and Gangs of New York: …from 2014 include the comedy The Other Woman and Annie, an adaptation of the Broadway musical.
- Other Woman, The (work by Ogot)
Grace Ogot: …as Land Without Thunder (1968), The Other Woman (1976), and The Island of Tears (1980)—give an inside view of traditional Luo life and society and the conflict of traditional with colonial and modern cultures. Her novel The Promised Land (1966) tells of Luo pioneers in Tanzania and western Kenya.
- (Other) You, The (short stories by Oates)
Joyce Carol Oates: Oates’s other short-story collections included The (Other) You (2021), in which characters contemplate regret and missed opportunities.
- Other, The (film by Mulligan [1972])
Robert Mulligan: The Other (1972) was a change of pace, a disturbing horror film that was based on Tom Tryon’s best seller about twin brothers whose family experiences a number of suspicious accidents; Uta Hagen made her big-screen debut as the boys’ grandmother.
- other-directed personality (sociology)
David Riesman: …beginning to decline, the “other-directed” individual emerges. His life is in large part shaped by “peer groups” of persons whom he resembles in age, social class, or otherwise, and he adjusts his values to conform to those of his group in a constant process of change.
- Otherhood (film by Chupack [2019])
Patricia Arquette: …tale set in 1983, and Otherhood (2019), a comedy in which three empty nesters attempt to reconnect with their adult children.
- Othman (Ottoman sultan)
Osman I was the ruler of a Turkmen principality in northwestern Anatolia who is regarded as the founder of the Ottoman Turkish state. Both the name of the dynasty and the empire that the dynasty established are derived from the Arabic form (ʿUthmān) of his name. Osman was descended from the Kayı
- Othman (Ottoman sultan)
Osman II was an Ottoman sultan who came to the throne as an active and intelligent boy of 14 and who during his short rule (1618–22) understood the need for reform within the empire. Ambitious and courageous, Osman undertook a military campaign against Poland, which had interfered in the Ottoman
- Othman, Mohamed Chande (Tanzanian jurist)
Dag Hammarskjöld: In 2017 the UN appointed Mohamed Chande Othman, a Tanzanian judge, to review the crash, and his report was released later that year. Although he was unable to reach a definitive conclusion, Othman declared that “it appears plausible that an external attack or threat may have been a cause of…
- Othniel (biblical figure)
biblical literature: The role of certain lesser judges: Othniel, a member of the tribe of Caleb, delivered the erring Israelites from eight years of oppression by Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia. The king, however, was most likely an area ruler, rather than a king of the Mesopotamian Empire. Another judge, Ehud, a left-handed Benjamite,…
- Otho (king of Greece)
Otto was the first king of the modern Greek state (1832–62), who governed his country autocratically until he was forced to become a constitutional monarch in 1843. Attempting to increase Greek territory at the expense of Turkey, he failed and was overthrown. The second son of King Louis I of
- Otho (Roman emperor)
Otho was a Roman emperor from January to April 69. Otho was born into a family that had held the consulship under Augustus. He married Poppaea Sabina, but when the emperor Nero took Poppaea for his mistress—she later became his wife—Otho was sent from Rome to govern Lusitania (58). For 10 years he
- Óthris, Óros (mountain range, Greece)
Greece: Eastern Greece: Thessalía and Attikí: …to the west is the Óthris mountain range, which continues across the narrow Oreón Channel in the northern sector of the long, narrow island of Évvoia (Euboea). Between the two spurs lie the ancient basins (formerly the site of lakes) of Thessalía (Thessaly), Tríkala, and Lárisa, drained by the Pineiós…
- Oti River (river, West Africa)
Oti River, river in West Africa, rising in the southern plain of Burkina Faso. It meanders southward, briefly flowing along the Togo-Benin border. It cuts south-southwest across northern Togo and then forms the Ghana-Togo border for about 60 miles (100 km) before continuing southward through Ghana
- Oti-Volta languages
Gur languages: …into two major subgroups, termed Oti-Volta (with some 25 languages in Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Burkina Faso) and Grusi (with a further 20 languages, some to the west and others to the east of the Oti-Volta group). The largest languages in the Oti-Volta group include Moore, the principal language of…
- otic capsule (anatomy)
human ear: Middle-ear cavity: …a part of the bony otic capsule of the inner ear. It has two small openings, or fenestrae, one above the other. The upper one is the oval window, which is closed by the footplate of the stapes. The lower one is the round window, which is covered by a…
- Otididae (bird)
bustard, any of numerous medium-to-large game birds of the family Otididae, related to the cranes and rails in the order Gruiformes. There are about 23 species, confined to Africa, southern Europe, Asia, Australia, and part of New Guinea. Bustards have rather long legs, adapted to running. They
- Otidiphaps nobilis (bird)
pigeon: …subfamily Columbinae include the chicken-sized pheasant pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis) of New Guinea. In the New World the white-winged doves and the mourning dove (Zenaida) are popular game birds; Central and South America support the terrestrial ground doves (Metriopelia) and quail doves (Geotrygon). The New World passenger pigeon is extinct.
- Otis Elevator Company (American company)
Eiffel Tower: Description and dimensions: …glass-cage machines designed by the Otis Elevator Company of the United States became one of the principal features of the building.
- Otis kori (bird)
kori bustard, (Ardeotis kori), species of large bird whose adult males are notable for being the world’s heaviest living flying animals and the largest members of the bustard family, Otididae. The birds are found in two regions in Africa, one in East Africa (spanning parts of Ethiopia, Kenya, and
- Otis tarda (bird)
bustard: The best-known bustard is the great bustard (Otis tarda), largest European land bird, the male weighing as much as 14 kg (31 pounds) and having a 120-cm (4-foot) length and a 240-cm (8-foot) wingspread. It is found in grainfields and open steppes from central and southern Europe to Central Asia…
- Otis tetrax (bird)
bustard: The little bustard (Otis tetrax) ranges from western Europe and Morocco to Afghanistan. The bustards of South Africa are known as paauw, the largest being the great paauw or kori bustard (Ardeotis kori). The Arabian bustard (A. arabs) is found in Morocco and in northern tropical…
- Otis, Elisha (American inventor)
Elisha Otis was an American inventor of the safety elevator. A descendant of a James Otis who immigrated from England to New England in 1631, the young Otis grew up in Vermont and, at age 19, moved to Troy, New York, and later to Brattleboro, Vermont, working at various jobs. From 1838 to 1845, in
- Otis, Elisha Graves (American inventor)
Elisha Otis was an American inventor of the safety elevator. A descendant of a James Otis who immigrated from England to New England in 1631, the young Otis grew up in Vermont and, at age 19, moved to Troy, New York, and later to Brattleboro, Vermont, working at various jobs. From 1838 to 1845, in
- Otis, Harrison Gray (American journalist)
Harrison Gray Otis was an American newspaper publisher who directed the Los Angeles Times from 1886 until after World War I. Otis was a descendant of the colonial political activist James Otis. He received little formal education but worked as a printer’s apprentice in his teens and studied briefly
- Otis, Harrison Gray (American politician)
Harrison Gray Otis was a Federalist political leader who championed the Hartford Convention in its opposition to mercantilist policies and the War of 1812. He was a nephew of James Otis and the son of Samuel Allyne Otis (1740–1814), who was a member of the Confederation Congress in 1787–88 and
- Otis, James (American politician)
James Otis was an American political activist during the period leading up to the American Revolution. He helped formulate the colonists’ grievances against the British government in the 1760s. Son of the elder James Otis, who was already prominent in Massachusetts politics, the younger Otis
- Otis, Johnny (American bandleader, musician, and singer)
Johnny Otis was an American bandleader, drummer, vibraphonist, singer, producer, and promoter of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. He was instrumental in furthering the careers of a number of important rhythm-and-blues performers. While growing up as part of a Greek immigrant family in Berkeley,
- Otis, Mercy (American writer and historian)
Mercy Otis Warren was an American poet, dramatist, and historian whose proximity to political leaders and critical national events gives particular value to her writing on the American Revolutionary period. She is considered by some to be the first American woman to write primarily for the public
- otitid fly (insect)
picture-winged fly, (family Otitidae), any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are small and have wings that are spotted or banded with black, brown, or yellow. They are commonly found in moist places or on flowers. Adults feed on nectar or fluids from decaying plant
- Otitidae (insect)
picture-winged fly, (family Otitidae), any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are small and have wings that are spotted or banded with black, brown, or yellow. They are commonly found in moist places or on flowers. Adults feed on nectar or fluids from decaying plant
- otitis (inflammation of the ear)
otitis, Inflammation of the ear. Otitis externa is dermatitis, usually bacterial, of the auditory canal and sometimes the external ear. It can cause a foul discharge, pain, fever, and sporadic deafness. Otitis media is due to allergy or viral or bacterial infection of the middle ear. The bacterial
- otitis externa (pathology)
otitis externa, dermatitis of the external auditory canal and sometimes also of the exposed ear. The skin on these ear parts becomes dry, scaling, and itchy, and there may be foul-smelling watery or purulent discharge, pain, fever, and intermittent deafness. Predisposing factors include excessive
- otitis media (pathology)
otitis media, inflammation of the lining of the middle ear. Otitis media is one of the most common infections in childhood, with about three-quarters of children affected by age three. There are three types of otitis media. Acute otitis media commonly develops in association with an infection of
- Otito Koro (play by Ogunde)
Hubert Ogunde: Otito Koro (performed 1965; “Truth is Bitter”) also satirizes political events in western Nigeria in 1963. An earlier play produced in 1946, The Tiger’s Empire, also marked the first instance in Yoruban theatre that women were billed to appear in a play as professional artists…