Sir Phelim O’Neill was an Irish Roman Catholic rebel who initiated a major revolt (1641–52) against English rule in Ireland. Elected a member of the Irish Parliament in 1641, O’Neill appeared to be a supporter of King Charles I. Nevertheless, on Oct. 22, 1641, he seized the strategically important

the Troubles: The formation of Northern Ireland, Catholic grievances, and the leadership of Terence O’Neill: …prime minister of Northern Ireland, Terence O’Neill, not only reached out to the nationalist community but also, in early 1965, exchanged visits with Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Seán Lemass—a radical step, given that the republic’s constitution included an assertion of sovereignty over the whole island. Nevertheless, O’Neill’s efforts were seen…

Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. was an American politician who served as a Democratic representative from Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–87) and as speaker of the House (1977–86). He was a tireless advocate for social causes, and he frequently expressed his belief that it is the

Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. was an American politician who served as a Democratic representative from Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–87) and as speaker of the House (1977–86). He was a tireless advocate for social causes, and he frequently expressed his belief that it is the

Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. was an American politician who served as a Democratic representative from Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–87) and as speaker of the House (1977–86). He was a tireless advocate for social causes, and he frequently expressed his belief that it is the

Turlough Luineach O’Neill, earl of Clanconnell was the earl of Clanconnell and the chief of Tyrone, successor to his cousin Shane O’Neill. Making professions of loyalty to Elizabeth I of England, he sought to strengthen his position by alliance with the O’Donnells, MacDonnells, and MacQuillans.

Sir Owen Morgan Edwards: …and life abroad, such as O’r Bala i Geneva (1889; “From Bala to Geneva”). His major work in English was Wales (1901). Edwards also published inexpensive reprints of Welsh classics. As chief inspector of Welsh education (1907–20), he tirelessly worked to secure the study of Welsh culture in the Welsh…

Willie O’Ree is the first Black hockey player to play in a National Hockey League (NHL) game. He debuted with the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens at the Montreal Forum on January 18, 1958. William O’Ree was raised in a large family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was the youngest of

Willie O’Ree is the first Black hockey player to play in a National Hockey League (NHL) game. He debuted with the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens at the Montreal Forum on January 18, 1958. William O’Ree was raised in a large family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was the youngest of

Tony O’Reilly is an Irish rugby union player and business executive who reached notable heights in both fields. He played 29 Test (international) matches for Ireland and set British Lions (now the British and Irish Lions) records for tries scored while on tour in South Africa (1955) and New Zealand

Bill O’Reilly is an American conservative political commentator, television and radio personality, and author who was best known for hosting the Fox News Channel (FNC) program The O’Reilly Factor and, prior to that, coanchoring the syndicated tabloid television news program Inside Edition. O’Reilly

Pecos Bill: Created by journalists, primarily Edward O’Reilly in Century magazine, the Pecos Bill character was based on little authentic oral tradition and no historical prototype. He is said to have been born in Texas about 1832 and raised by coyotes after his parents lost him near the Pecos River. As…

Women’s Trade Union League: …leaders Mary Kenney O’Sullivan and Leonora O’Reilly and settlement workers Lillian Wald and Jane Addams helped found the WTUL, and by 1904 the organization had branches in Chicago, New York City, and Boston. From the outset the organization had a strong reformist agenda, working in the tradition of social settlements…

William Joseph O’Reilly was an Australian cricketer, one of the finest leg-spin bowlers of the 20th century, taking 774 wickets in his career of first-class cricket (1927–46), including 144 wickets in 27 Test (international) matches. The son of a schoolteacher, O’Reilly grew up in isolated rural

Web 2.0: …conferences, first organized by publisher Tim O’Reilly in 2004. The term’s popularity waned in the 2010s as the features of Web 2.0 became ubiquitous and lost their novelty.

Tony O’Reilly is an Irish rugby union player and business executive who reached notable heights in both fields. He played 29 Test (international) matches for Ireland and set British Lions (now the British and Irish Lions) records for tries scored while on tour in South Africa (1955) and New Zealand

Bill O’Reilly is an American conservative political commentator, television and radio personality, and author who was best known for hosting the Fox News Channel (FNC) program The O’Reilly Factor and, prior to that, coanchoring the syndicated tabloid television news program Inside Edition. O’Reilly

William Joseph O’Reilly was an Australian cricketer, one of the finest leg-spin bowlers of the 20th century, taking 774 wickets in his career of first-class cricket (1927–46), including 144 wickets in 27 Test (international) matches. The son of a schoolteacher, O’Reilly grew up in isolated rural

Elvis Costello: …his wife, and he married Cait O’Riordan, the bassist of the British band the Pogues, the following year.

Clonmacnoise: …of Clonmacnoise, and two 12th-century towers still survive and are protected as part of a national monument. An annual pilgrimage to Clonmacnoise is held on September 9, the feast of St. Ciaran. Attesting to the city’s historic and religious importance, Pope John Paul II visited the town during his trip…

Ted Cruz: …surprisingly strong challenge from Democrat Beto O’Rourke. Trump campaigned for Cruz, who narrowly won the hotly contested election. In 2019 the U.S. House of Representatives impeached Trump over allegations that he withheld aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country into opening a corruption investigation into Joe Biden (in…

Sonic Youth: …a collaboration with polymath musician Jim O’Rourke (b. January 18, 1969, Chicago, Illinois). After helping to produce NYC Ghosts and Flowers (2000), a paean to avant-garde composers like John Cage, O’Rourke became a full-time member of Sonic Youth, appearing on tour and handling production duties for Murray Street (2002) and…

dam: Rise of environmental and economic concerns: …the dam, known today as O’Shaughnessy Dam in honour of the city engineer who oversaw its construction, was a defeat for the Sierra Club and landscape preservationists, who continued to use it as a symbol and rallying cry for mid-20th-century environmental causes.

Arthur O’Shaughnessy was a British poet best known for his much-anthologized “Ode” (“We are the music-makers”). O’Shaughnessy became a copyist in the library of the British Museum at age 17 and later became a herpetologist in the museum’s zoological department. He published four volumes of verse—An

Arthur O’Shaughnessy was a British poet best known for his much-anthologized “Ode” (“We are the music-makers”). O’Shaughnessy became a copyist in the library of the British Museum at age 17 and later became a herpetologist in the museum’s zoological department. He published four volumes of verse—An

cholera: Development of treatments: William Brooke O’Shaughnessy, a young British physician, reported in The Lancet (1831) that, on the basis of his studies, he “would not hesitate to inject some ounces of warm water into the veins. I would also, without apprehension, dissolve in that water the mild innocuous…

William Henry O’Shea and Katharine O’Shea: In 1867 he married Katharine, sixth daughter of the Rev. Sir John Page Wood of Rivenhall Place, Essex. The O’Sheas had one son, Gerard, and two daughters. It is not clear when O’Shea became aware of the existence of intimate relations between his wife and Parnell, though he and…

William Henry O’Shea and Katharine O’Shea: William Henry O’Shea was the only son of a Roman Catholic solicitor in Dublin. Educated at Oscott and at Trinity College, Dublin, he became a cornet of the 18th Hussars in 1858 and was retired as captain in 1862. In 1867 he married Katharine, sixth…

William Henry O’Shea and Katharine O’Shea were husband and wife from 1867 to 1890. Their relationship with the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell led to a divorce scandal that terminated Parnell’s career and divided Irish nationalist opinion. William Henry O’Shea was the only son of a

Manifest Destiny: Origin of the term: John L. O’Sullivan, the editor of a magazine that served as an organ for the Democratic Party and of a partisan newspaper, first wrote of “manifest destiny” in 1845, but at the time he did not think the words profound. Rather than being “coined,” the…

Mary Kenney O’Sullivan was an American labour leader and reformer who devoted her energies to improving conditions for factory workers in many industries through union organizing. Mary Kenney at an early age went to work as an apprentice dressmaker. Later she worked in a printing and binding

Maureen O’Sullivan was an Irish-born American actress who had a distinguished performing career that extended from the 1930s until the mid-1990s, but was perhaps best remembered for her film portrayal of the scantily clad Jane opposite Johnny Weissmuller in his title role as Tarzan in a half dozen

Timothy O’Sullivan was an American photographer best known for his Civil War subjects and his landscapes of the American West. O’Sullivan was an apprentice at Mathew Brady’s daguerreotype studio in New York City at the time the Civil War broke out. During the Civil War he photographed on many

Conservative Party of Canada: …was replaced as leader by Erin O’Toole, who staked out a moderate position in the 2021 snap federal election, in which the Conservatives once again narrowly won the popular vote but dropped two seats as the Liberals achieved a plurality in the House of Commons to preserve minority rule.

Maureen O’Toole: A First and Last Chance: Maureen O’Toole came out of retirement at age 38 to compete for the United States in the first women’s water polo event ever held at the Olympics, at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia. A winner of numerous awards and medals from the age of…

Peter O’Toole was an English-born stage and film actor whose range extended from classical drama to contemporary farce. O’Toole grew up in Leeds and was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He was a reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post in his teens and made his amateur stage

Peter O’Toole was an English-born stage and film actor whose range extended from classical drama to contemporary farce. O’Toole grew up in Leeds and was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He was a reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post in his teens and made his amateur stage

M.I.A.: … nomination for the song “O, Saya,” a collaboration with Indian composer A.R. Rahman for the Slumdog Millionaire (2008) soundtrack, and her single “Paper Planes” garnered a surprise Grammy Award nomination for record of the year. M.I.A., who was nine months pregnant and due to deliver on the day of…

O, the Oprah Magazine, former monthly American women’s magazine created by celebrity talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and published by Hearst Magazines. Through a combination of motivational stories, inspirational quotes, book reviews, and intimate celebrity interviews, the oversized magazine built on

tear gas: or CN, and o-chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile, or CS. CN is the principal component of the aerosol agent Mace and is widely used in riot control. It affects chiefly the eyes. CS is a stronger irritant that causes burning sensations in the respiratory tract and involuntary closing of the eyes, but its effects…

cresol: …formula but having different structures: ortho- (o-) cresol, meta- (m-) cresol, and para- (p-) cresol.

Japanese music: Offstage music: For example, a huge ō-daiko barrel drum with two tacked heads signals the beginning of a program, in keeping with the sounds given by the same drum from a tower over the entrance of very early Kabuki theatres. Other drums, bells, gongs, and clappers are used to reinforce stage…

Irtysh River, major river of west-central and western Asia. With a length of 2,640 miles (4,248 km), it is one of the continent’s longest rivers. The Irtysh and the Ob River, of which the Irtysh is the principal tributary, together constitute the world’s seventh longest river system. The Irtysh

Argun River, river rising in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, on the western slope of the Greater Khingan Range, where it is known as the Hailar River. Its length is 1,007 miles (1,620 km), of which about 600 miles (965 km) form the boundary between China and Russia. Near Luoguhe, the

Ordos Plateau, plateau in the southern section of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, northern China. The Ordos fills the area inside the great northern bend of the Huang He (Yellow River) and is bounded by the borders of Shaanxi province and of the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia, a frontier

harai: Great purification ceremonies called ō-harai are held regularly twice a year, on June 30 and December 31, and at times of national disasters to purge the entire country from sins and impurities.

sarin, synthetic organophosphate compound that is highly toxic to the nervous system. Exposure to sarin—which is colourless, odourless, and tasteless—can cause death within minutes. Sarin was developed in Germany in 1938 by the chemical and pharmaceutical company IG Farben, initially for use as a

percussion instrument: Idiophones: …area, while the percussion board o-le-polotu of Samoan and Tongan chiefs accompanies solo songs. Slit drums can be huge. Made from a tree trunk, living slit drums in Vanuatu are carved with the faces of ancestors, and in New Guinea roofed drum houses are built over large horizontal slit drums…

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa: …were in Japan, notably the O-Museum (1999), on a mountainside in Nagano. As with much of the duo’s work, the museum’s design was an elegant synthesis of the cerebral and the lyrical, and the closeness of their collaboration precluded attempts to assign responsibility for each element. Another major commission was…

psilocybin, hallucinogenic principle that occurs in any of various psilocybin mushrooms, including the two Mexican species Psilocybe mexicana and P. cubensis (formerly Stropharia cubensis). Psilocybin produces a hallucinogenic experience similar to the effects of mescaline and LSD (lysergic acid

Kiskunfélegyháza: The Ó-templom is a Baroque church (1744–52), and the main square is an example of a Hungarian type of Art Nouveau current at the end of the 19th century. The city lies on the main road and rail lines from Budapest to Szeged and is an…

tsuzumi: … are the ko-tsuzumi and the ō-tsuzumi, found in the music of Noh and Kabuki theatres. Although the ko-tsuzumi and the ō-tsuzumi are quite similar in appearance, the manner in which they are played and the sound and tone they produce are quite distinct. Both heads of the smaller ko-tsuzumi are…

stellar classification: Class O includes bluish white stars with surface temperatures typically of 25,000–50,000 K (although a few O-type stars with vastly greater temperatures have been described); lines of ionized helium appear in the spectra. Class B stars typically range from 10,000 K to 25,000 K and…

Yama-no-kami: Chief among them is Ō-yama-tsumi-no-mikoto, born from the fire god who was cut into pieces by his angry father Izanagi (see Ho-musubi). Another prominent mountain deity is Ko-no-hana-saku-ya-hime—wife of the divine grandchild Ninigi and mother of two mythological princes, Fireshade and Fireshine—who resides on Fuji-yama. A widespread tradition connected…

O. Henry: The O. Henry Prize, given annually to outstanding short stories, was established in his honour in 1919.

O. Henry: …Houston Post, Postscripts (1923) and O. Henry Encore (1939), were published. Foreign translations and adaptations for other art forms, including films and television, attest his universal application and appeal. The O. Henry Prize, given annually to outstanding short stories, was established in his honour in 1919.

O. Henry: The O. Henry Prize, given annually to outstanding short stories, was established in his honour in 1919.

O. Henry: …seven fugitive stories and poems, O. Henryana (1920), Letters to Lithopolis (1922), and two collections of his early work on the Houston Post, Postscripts (1923) and O. Henry Encore (1939), were published. Foreign translations and adaptations for other art forms, including films and television, attest his universal application and appeal.…

Premonstratensian, a Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1120 by St. Norbert of Xanten, who, with 13 companions, established a monastery at Prémontré, Fr. The order combines the contemplative with the active religious life and in the 12th century provided a link between the strictly

Augustinian: …the Augustinian Hermits is the Augustinian Recollects (O.A.R.), formed in the 16th century by friars who desired a rule of stricter observance and a return to the eremitic ideals of solitude and contemplation. In 1588 the monastery at Talavera de la Reina in Spain was designated for the Recollects, and…

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, British order of knighthood instituted in 1917 by King George V to reward both civilian and military wartime service, although currently the honour is bestowed for meritorious service to the government in peace as well as for gallantry in wartime. In

Melvin Van Peebles: …in which he appeared included O.C. and Stiggs (1985), Boomerang (1992), The Hebrew Hammer (2003), and Peeples (2013). With the comedy Identity Crisis (1989), he ended a 16-year hiatus from screen directing, and he later wrote and directed Le Conte du ventre plein (2000; Bellyful) and Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008);…

The O.C., American television drama series that aired on the Fox network for four seasons (2003–07) and was particularly popular with teenagers and young adults. The O.C. depicted the lives of a group of teenagers and their families who lived in Newport Beach, a wealthy community in Orange county,

St. John of the Cross: …of the contemplative order of Discalced Carmelites. He is a patron saint of mystics and contemplatives and of Spanish poets.

Trappist, member of the reformed branch of Roman Catholic Cistercians founded by Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé in France in 1664. The order follows the Rule of St. Benedict and consist of both monks and nuns; the nuns are known as Trappistines. To generate income, most Trappist monasteries

Carmelite: …Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel; White Friars; O.Carm.) is engaged primarily in preaching and teaching. The Discalced Carmelite Fathers (Order of Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel; O.C.D.) is active in parishes and in foreign missions, having become primarily a pastoral and devotional order. Both branches…

Carthusian, an order of monks founded by St. Bruno of Cologne in 1084 in the valley of Chartreuse, north of Grenoble, Fr. The Carthusians, who played an important role in the monastic-reform movement of the 11th and 12th centuries, combine the solitary life of hermits with a common life within the

Carmelite: …order became the order of Discalced Carmelite Nuns (O.D.C.). In spite of opposition and difficulties of many kinds, St. Teresa succeeded in establishing not only convents but also, with the cooperation of Juan de Yepes (later St. John of the Cross), a number of friaries that followed this stricter observance.…

Franciscan: Orders: …into three independent branches: the Friars Minor (O.F.M.), the Friars Minor Conventual (O.F.M. Conv.), and the Friars Minor Capuchin (O.F.M. Cap.). The Second Order consists of cloistered nuns who belong to the Order of St. Clare (O.S.C.) and are known as Poor Clares (P.C.). The Third Order consists of religious…

Capuchin, an autonomous branch of the first Franciscan order of religious men, begun as a reform movement in 1525 by Matteo da Bascio. The lives of its early members were defined by extreme austerity, simplicity, and poverty, and, though this has been to some extent mitigated, the order remains

Roman Catholicism: From the late Middle Ages to the Reformation: …papal relaxation and exemptions (the Conventuals)—were an open sore for 60 years, vexing the papacy and infecting the whole church. New expressions of lay piety and heresy challenged the authority of the church and its teachings, leaving the papacy itself vulnerable to disintegration.

O.J. Simpson trial, criminal trial of former college and professional football star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. It was one of the most notorious criminal trials in American history. On the night of June 12,

Tombstone: …the gun battle at the O.K. Corral in 1881 between the Earp and Clanton families. The boom days quickly ended in 1911 with floodwaters in the mines, labour strikes, and low silver prices. Tombstone was the county seat from 1881 to 1931. Now a tourist centre, it retains a pioneer…

Order of Merit, British honorary institution founded by Edward VII in 1902 to reward those who provided especially eminent service in the armed forces or particularly distinguished themselves in science, art, literature, or the promotion of culture. The order is limited to only 24 members, although

Oblates of Mary Immaculate, (O.M.I.), one of the largest missionary congregations of the Roman Catholic Church, inaugurated at Aix-en-Provence, Fr., on Jan. 25, 1816, as the Missionary Society of Provence by Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod. By preaching to the poor, especially in rural areas,

mechanics’ institute: In Cincinnati the Ohio Mechanics’ Institute opened in 1829. In France, Baron Charles Dupin founded several institutes before 1826, beginning at La Rochelle and Nevers.

Dominican, one of the four great mendicant orders of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by St. Dominic in 1215. Its members include friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay Dominicans. From the beginning the order has been a synthesis of the contemplative life and the active ministry. The members live

Benedictine, member of any of the confederated congregations of monks, lay brothers, and nuns who follow the rule of life of St. Benedict (c. 480–c. 547) and who are spiritual descendants of the traditional monastics of the early medieval centuries in Italy and Gaul. The Benedictines, strictly

Poor Clare: …came to be called the Urbanist Poor Clares or officially the Order of St. Clare (O.S.C.), whereas those communities who continued to observe the stricter rule of St. Clare (as revised in 1253) became known as the Primitives.

Servite, a Roman Catholic order of mendicant friars—religious men who lead a monastic life, including the choral recitation of the liturgical office, but do active work—founded in 1233 by a group of seven cloth merchants of Florence. These men, known collectively as the Seven Holy Founders, left

Bridgettine, a religious order of cloistered nuns founded by St. Bridget of Sweden in 1344 and approved by Pope Urban V in 1370. Bridget believed that she was called by Christ to found a strictly disciplined religious order that would contribute to the reform of monastic life. She went to Rome to

Trinitarian, a Roman Catholic order of men founded in France in 1198 by St. John of Matha to free Christian slaves from captivity under the Muslims in the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. St. Felix of Valois has been traditionally considered as cofounder, but recent critics have questioned his

human genetic disease: Molecular oxygen: Molecular oxygen (O2), although essential for life, must be counted among the environmental toxins and mutagens. Because of its unusual electronic structure, O2 is most easily reduced not by electron pairs but rather by single electrons added one at a time. As O2…

ozone, (O3), triatomic allotrope of oxygen (a form of oxygen in which the molecule contains three atoms instead of two as in the common form) that accounts for the distinctive odor of the air after a thunderstorm or around electrical equipment. The odor of ozone around electrical machines was

metabolism: Incomplete oxidation: …coenzyme A; the four-carbon compound oxaloacetate; and the five-carbon compound α-oxoglutarate. The first, acetate in the form of acetyl coenzyme A, constitutes by far the most common product—it is the product of two-thirds of the carbon incorporated into carbohydrates and glycerol; all of the carbon in most fatty acids; and…

Carlos the Jackal: …network, which he dubbed the Organization of the Armed Arab Struggle (OAAS) in 1978. Carlos married Magdalena Kopp, a West German member of the OAAS, in 1979, and her arrest by French police in 1982 triggered a series of reprisals. Throughout the spring and summer of that year, France was…

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), intergovernmental specialized agency associated with the United Nations (UN). Established in 1947 by the Convention on International Civil Aviation (1944), which had been signed by 52 states three years earlier in Chicago, the ICAO is dedicated to

Oadby and Wigston, borough (district), administrative and historic county of Leicestershire, England. Both Oadby and Wigston, formerly villages lying outside the city of Leicester, have been engulfed by the outward spread of the city’s suburbs. They lie to the southeast and south, respectively, of

Moreau River: …Moreau basin was inundated by Oahe Dam, a major flood-control unit of the Missouri River basin project, and is now part of Lake Oahe. The river was named for an early French trader.

tunnels and underground excavations: Machine-mined tunnels: The Oahe mole was partly inspired by work on a pilot tunnel in chalk started under the English Channel for which an air-powered rotary cutting arm, the Beaumont borer, had been invented. A 1947 coal-mining version followed, and in 1949 a coal saw was used to…

Oahu, island, Honolulu county, Hawaii, U.S. It is separated from the islands of Kauai (northwest) and Molokai (southeast) by the Kauai and Kaiwi channels, respectively. Oahu, which is of volcanic origin, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands, occupying an area of 597 square miles (1,546

Austria: Economy: …the Republic of Austria, the Österreichische Industrieverwaltungs-Aktiengesellschaft (ÖIAG; Austrian Industrial Administration Limited-Liability Company). In 1986–89 ÖIAG was restructured to give it powers to function along the lines of a major private industry, and it was renamed Österreichische Industrieholding AG. During the 1990s, particularly after Austria joined the EU in 1995,…

oak, (genus Quercus), genus of about 450 species of ornamental and timber trees and shrubs in the beech family (Fagaceae), distributed throughout the north temperate zone and at high altitudes in the tropics. Acorns provide food for small game animals and are used to fatten swine and poultry; the

beech: …timber trees in the family Fagaceae native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The pale red-brown wood is durable underwater and is valued for indoor use, tool handles, and shipping containers. The nuts provide forage for game animals, are used in fattening poultry, and yield an edible…

African American literature: Paul Laurence Dunbar: …his first volume of poetry, Oak and Ivy. Though not the first Black American to write poetry in so-called Negro dialect, Dunbar was by far the most successful, both critically and financially. Deeply ambivalent about his white readers’ preference for what he called “a jingle in a broken tongue,” Dunbar…

gall wasp: The so-called oak apple, a round, spongy, fruitlike object about 2.5 to 5 cm (1 to 2 inches) in diameter, is caused by the larvae of the gall wasp Biorhiza pallida. About 30 such larvae may develop in a single “apple,” or gall. The marble gall, a…

Oak Bay, district municipality, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on southeastern Vancouver Island. It is an eastern residential suburb of Victoria, the provincial capital, and is a popular retirement community, with one of the highest percentages of persons over age 65 in Canada. Inc. 1906.

T-Bone Walker was an American musician and songwriter who was a major figure in modern blues. He was the first important electric guitar soloist in the blues and one of the most influential players in the idiom’s history. The son of musical parents, Walker grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he led

Glenview, village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, located 20 miles (30 km) north of downtown, and lies on the north branch of the Chicago River. Illinois and later Potawatomi Indians were early inhabitants of the area, which was visited by French explorers

Oak Harbor, town, Island county, northwestern Washington, U.S., on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. It was settled in 1849 by seafaring men, and its first industry was shipbuilding. Dutch immigrants arrived in 1890 and began developing the rich farmland; their presence on the island is celebrated in