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Oswald (2027 TV series)
Oswald (2027 TV series), also called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series, is a Jon Favreau three-part Disney+ live-action/2D-animated comedy miniseries premiering February 17, 2027, reviving Disney's pre-Mickey 1927 rabbit character with Sergio Pablos' SPA Studios animation.
Oswald (TV series)
Oswald (TV series), also called Oswald the Octopus, is a 2001-2003 Nick Jr. animated preschool show created by Dan Yaccarino about a blue octopus, his pet Weenie, and friends Henry and Daisy in Big City, with 26 episodes voiced by Fred Savage.
Oswald Avery
Oswald Avery (1877–1955) was a Canadian-born American bacteriologist at the Rockefeller Institute who spent 35 years studying pneumococcus and whose 1944 paper identified DNA as the hereditary transforming substance.
Oswald Balzer
Oswald Marian Balzer (1858–1933) was a Polish historian of law, the first professor of the chair of Polish legal history at the University of Lwów from 1887.
Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham)
Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin of Fox's Gotham (2014-2019), played by Robin Lord Taylor: a thin, mother-raised underworld climber who rises from Fish Mooney's flunky toward kingpin, distinct from the comic Penguin and the later Oz Cobb version.
Oswald de Andrade
Oswald de Andrade (José Oswald de Sousa de Andrade, 1890–1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and essayist who led Brazilian modernism and wrote the 1928 Manifesto Antropófago.
Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.
Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard, Jr. (1916–2004) was an American radio physicist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, known for over-the-horizon radar, meteor-burst communication, and ionospheric sounding.
Oswald Holmberg
Oswald Holmberg (Torsten Oswald Magnus Holmberg, 1882–1969), Swedish gymnast and tug-of-war competitor; bronze at 1906 Intercalated Games, Olympic team gymnastics gold at London 1908 and Stockholm 1912; brother of Arvid and Carl Holmberg.
Oswald Hope Robertson
Oswald Hope Robertson (1886–1966) was an American physician and experimental-medicine researcher who created the first blood bank on the Western Front in 1917–1918, storing citrated blood on ice.
Oswald J. Schmitz
Oswald J. Schmitz is an ecosystem and community ecologist, the Oastler Professor at the Yale School of the Environment, known for showing that animals regulate the carbon cycle.
Oswald Joseph Reichel
Oswald Joseph Reichel (1840–1923) was an Anglican clergyman and canon lawyer who wrote A Complete Manual of Canon Law and owned A la Ronde in Devon.
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (born 1940) is a South African poet and lexicographer whose 1971 debut Sounds of a Cowhide Drum is South Africa's best-selling poetry book.
Oswald Mosley
Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), British politician and 6th Baronet, served as Conservative, Independent, and Labour MP before founding the New Party (1931) and the British Union of Fascists (1932), interned in 1940, later led the Union Movement.
Oswald Myconius
Oswald Myconius, born Oswald Geißhüsler in Lucerne, was a Swiss Protestant reformer who headed the Basel church as Antistes from 1532 and wrote the first biography of Zwingli.
Oswald of Northumbria
Oswald of Northumbria (c. 604–642), also Saint Oswald, was an Anglo-Saxon king of Bernicia and Deira who won Heavenfield, sponsored Aidan's Iona mission at Lindisfarne, and died fighting Penda at Maserfield, becoming Northumbria's royal saint and martyr.
Oswald Schmiedeberg
Oswald Schmiedeberg (Johann Ernst Oswald Schmiedeberg, 1838–1921) was a Baltic German pharmacologist who established experimental pharmacology, co-founded its first journal in 1873, and trained about 120 pupils from 20 countries.
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German philosopher of history, author of The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes, 1918/22), argued that eight autonomous cultures pass through thousand-year organic life cycles, predicted Western Caesarism, and wrote Prussianism and Socialism.
Oswald Steward
Oswald Steward is a UC Irvine neuroscientist and founding director of the Reeve-Irvine Research Center, known for discovering local protein synthesis in neurons and winning the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Oswald Teichmüller
Oswald Teichmüller (1913–1943) was a German mathematician who founded Teichmüller theory, the study of Riemann surfaces through quasiconformal mappings, and was also a committed Nazi activist.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a cartoon rabbit created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1927 for Universal Pictures, Disney's first cartoon star before Mickey Mouse; rights returned to Disney in 2006 via the Al Michaels trade.
Oswald Veblen
Oswald Veblen (1880–1960) was an American mathematician who worked on geometry and topology and built the Princeton mathematics department and the Institute for Advanced Study.
Oswald von Wolkenstein
Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/77–1445) was a Tyrolean poet, composer, and diplomat from South Tyrol, called the last of the Minnesänger; his 131 songs include 37 polyphonic settings.
Oswaldo Aranha
Oswaldo Aranha (1894–1960) was a Brazilian diplomat and politician who served as Foreign Minister and presided over the UN vote on the 1947 partition of Palestine.
Oswaldo Guayasamín
Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999) was an Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, and muralist considered the leading exponent of indigenist expressionism, known for the series Huacayñán and La Edad de la Ira.
Oswaldtwistle
Oswaldtwistle is a Lancashire town between Blackburn and Accrington, home of James Hargreaves' 1764 Spinning Jenny and a major cotton and calico-printing centre, now known for Oswaldtwistle Mills shopping village.
Oswego County
Oswego County, New York: county formed 1816 from Oneida and Onondaga Counties, seat at Oswego on Lake Ontario; 117,525 residents (2020), home to Nine Mile Point and FitzPatrick nuclear plants.
Oswego Harbor Power
Oswego Harbor Power is a 1,641 MW oil- and gas-fired steam generating station in Oswego, New York, on Lake Ontario, one of New York's largest power plants.
Oswestry
Oswestry (Croesoswallt) is Shropshire's second largest market town, near the Welsh border on the A5. Known for Old Oswestry hillfort, the 1190 market charter, Cambrian Railways headquarters, and poet Wilfred Owen's birthplace.
Oswestry Disability Index
The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a ten-section patient questionnaire measuring how low back pain limits daily functioning, first published in 1980 and available in over 30 languages.
Oświęcim
Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz) is a town of about 35,000 in southern Poland, in Małopolska, with 800 years of recorded history; it is known worldwide as the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, now the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.