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Oyna
Oyna (Oyina), meaning "mirror," was the first journal published in the Uzbek language, a weekly founded and edited in Samarkand by the Jadid reformer Mahmudxoʻja Behbudiy from 1913 to 1915.
Oyo constitutional system (Alaafin, Oyo Mesi, Ogboni)
The Oyo constitutional system was the constitution of the Oyo Empire in southwestern Nigeria, balancing the Alaafin's power against the seven Oyo Mesi kingmakers and the judicial Ogboni society.
Oyo Empire
The Oyo Empire, also known as the Oyo Kingdom, was the largest Yoruba kingdom in southwest Nigeria, an empire from the 17th century until its collapse in 1836.
Oyo Mesi
The Oyo Mesi (Oyomesi) was the council of seven hereditary chiefs of the Oyo Empire, headed by the Bashorun, that elected and could depose the Alaafin.
Oyo Rooms
Oyo Rooms, also known as OYO Hotels & Homes, is an Indian-founded hospitality company founded by Ritesh Agarwal in 2013 that brands and manages budget hotels in over 35 countries.
Oyo State
Oyo State, a South-West Nigerian state created 3 February 1976 from the Western State with capital Ibadan, nicknamed the Pace Setter; 33 LGAs, 28,454 km², Yoruba heartland named for the Oyo Empire, governed by Seyi Makinde since 2019.
Oyo tribute from Dahomey
The Oyo tribute from Dahomey was an annual payment of captives, guns, and cowries that the Oyo Empire levied after conquering Dahomey in 1730, until King Ghezo ended it.
Oyo-Dahomey wars
The Oyo-Dahomey wars were military campaigns between the Oyo Empire and the Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1720s and 1730s, ending with Dahomey reduced to a tribute-paying vassal of Oyo.
Oyo, Oyo State
Oyo is a city in Oyo State, Nigeria, seat of Oyo West LGA, about 45 km north of Ibadan, population 736,072 (GeoNames). It is the seat of the Alaafin and the refounded capital of the historic Oyo Empire, whose old capital Oyo Ile collapsed in the 1830s.
Oyot Oil and Gas Field
The Oyot Oil and Gas Field is an offshore oil and gas field in Nigeria in concession block OML 70, distinct from the similar Oyo field in OML 120.
Oyster
Oysters are saltwater bivalve mollusks, including Crassostrea gigas and Ostrea edulis, that form reefs, filter up to 50 gallons of water daily, support major aquaculture, and are the focus of large restoration programs.
Oyster bar
Oyster bar: a restaurant or counter specializing in oysters, raw on the half shell. Descends from 19th-century American oyster cellars; over 850 existed in New York by 1874; survivors include Union Oyster House (1826).
Oyster Bay, New York
Oyster Bay, New York: hamlet in Nassau County, Long Island, named in 1639 by David deVries for its oysters, settled 1653, a Revolutionary War spy hub and Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House site.
Oyster buy-boat
An oyster buy-boat is a Chesapeake Bay workboat that traveled to the oyster beds to buy oysters directly from oystermen, then carried the catch to market or processing houses.
Oyster card
The Oyster card is a contactless smart ticket used on Transport for London services such as the Tube, buses, and trams, introduced in 2003 and holding pay as you go credit or season tickets.
Oyster cracker
Oyster cracker: small round salted American soda cracker, also called water, Philadelphia, or Trenton cracker, served with oyster stew, chowder, and soup; credited to Adam Exton (Trenton, NJ, 1847) with a competing Westminster 1828 claim.
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station was a boiling water reactor at Forked River, New Jersey, that operated from 1969 to 2018 and was the oldest operating commercial nuclear plant in the United States.
Oyster farming
Oyster farming (bivalve aquaculture of Crassostrea gigas, C. virginica, and relatives) cultivates oysters from hatchery spat through bottom, rack-and-bag, cage, and suspended grow-out. Farmed since it overtook wild harvest in 1952, it now yields about 6 million tonnes a year, with China producing roughly 85%.
Oyster festival
An oyster festival is a civic event celebrating a town's oyster industry with shucking and eating contests, tastings, and music, held mostly in September and October.
Oyster ground customs and harvest-rights traditions
Oyster ground customs are the folk laws by which coastal communities marked out seabed, decided who could harvest oysters, and enforced those rules, from the Thames estuary to Chesapeake Bay.
Oyster industry of the Chesapeake Bay
The oyster industry of the Chesapeake Bay harvests the Eastern oyster, peaking in the 1880s as the world's largest fishery before collapsing to about 4% of 1884 levels.
Oyster pail
Oyster pail: the folded single-piece paperboard takeout box patented by Frederick Weeks Wilcox in Chicago in 1894 for carrying oysters, later adopted by American Chinese restaurants after World War II and given its pagoda graphic at Fold-Pak in the 1970s.
Oyster reef restoration
Oyster reef restoration rebuilds oyster reef habitat using shell, rock, cultch, and hatchery seed. Key efforts include the Chesapeake Bay 10-tributary program and the Billion Oyster Project; restored reefs boost oyster production 21-fold versus degraded habitat.
Oyster sauce
Oyster sauce (蚝油, ho yeow) is a thick dark-brown Cantonese condiment made from concentrated oyster extract with sugar, salt, and starch; invented accidentally by Lee Kum Sheung in Nanshui, Guangdong, in 1888, now led commercially by Lee Kum Kee.
Oyster toadfish
The oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau) is a bottom-dwelling fish of the western Atlantic coast of the United States, living in oyster reefs and known for the male's foghorn-like boatwhistle mating call.
Oyster Wars
Oyster Wars: violent Chesapeake Bay conflicts, roughly 1860s to 1960s, among oyster dredgers, tongers, Maryland and Virginia watermen, and the Maryland Oyster Police, ending with the 1958 Potomac River Compact.
Oysters as food
Oysters as food covers bivalve molluscs eaten raw or cooked, prized for briny flavor shaped by their water and rich in zinc and vitamin B12.
Oysters Rockefeller
Oysters Rockefeller: broiled oyster appetizer created in 1899 by Jules Alciatore at Antoine's, New Orleans, during a snail shortage; rich green herb-butter sauce named for John D. Rockefeller; original recipe still secret.
Oyu Tolgoi
Oyu Tolgoi (Оюу Толгой, "Turquoise Hill") is a large copper and gold mine in Mongolia's South Gobi region, jointly owned by Rio Tinto and the Mongolian government.
Oyu Tolgoi Investment Agreement
The Oyu Tolgoi Investment Agreement is a 30-year contract signed in 2009 between Mongolia, Ivanhoe Mines, and Rio Tinto for the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine.