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OGERMANN, CLAUS
Claus Ogerman, born Klaus Ogermann (1930–2016), was a German arranger, conductor, and composer who moved to the United States in 1959 and arranged for Sinatra and Jobim.
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open multimedia container format maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation and the native file and stream format for codecs such as Vorbis, Theora, and Opus.
OGG1
OGG1 (8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase, HMMH/MUTM/HOGG1), gene at 3p25.3, is the human bifunctional glycosylase/AP lyase that excises 8-oxoG oxidative DNA lesions via base excision repair and modulates inflammatory transcription.
Oggu Katha
Oggu Katha (ఒగ్గు కథ) is a Telangana folk ballad tradition in which hereditary priests narrate the legends of Mallanna, Beerappa, and Yellamma to the oggu drum.
Oggy and the Cockroaches
Oggy and the Cockroaches (Oggy et les cafards) is a French non-dialogue slapstick cartoon created in 1997 by Jean-Yves Raimbaud at Xilam, starring a blue cat harassed by roaches Joey, Dee Dee, and Marky, with over 700 episodes, a 2013 film, and a ninth season due by 2028.
Oggy Oggy
Oggy Oggy is a French CGI preschool animated series by Xilam Animation, a spin-off of Oggy and the Cockroaches and Netflix's first French animated original, streaming on Netflix from August 24, 2021 to October 2023 in non-dialogue seven-minute episodes.
Ogham
Ogham (ogam) is Ireland's earliest writing system, an alphabet of 1-5 strokes and notches along a stem-line, devised for Primitive Irish in the 4th century CE and used mainly for names on memorial stones in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Man.
Oghul Qaimish
Oghul Qaimish was the wife of Güyük Khan and regent of the Mongol Empire from 1248 until Möngke's election in 1251; she was executed in 1252.
Oghuz
The Oghuz, also known as Ghuzz, were a Turkic tribal confederation based around the Aral Sea and Syr Darya from the 8th century, whose tribes supplied the ruling houses of the Seljuk Empire.
Oghuz capture of Sultan Sanjar
The Oghuz capture of Sultan Sanjar (أسر السلطان سنجر على يد الأوغوز) was the 1153 defeat and imprisonment of the Seljuk sultan by rebellious Oghuz Turkmen near Balkh.
Oghuz Khagan
Oghuz Khagan (Oğuz Kağan), legendary ancestor of the Oghuz Turks and hero of the Oghuz Khagan Epic, transmitted in Oghuz-nama versions; oldest copy is the Uyghur-script Paris manuscript, with identity debated between Modu (Mete Khan) and the Scythians.
Oghuz languages
Oghuz (Southwestern Turkic) languages: a branch of Common Turkic including Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Gagauz, Qashqai, Khorasani Turkish, and Salar; agglutinative, vowel-harmonic, largely mutually intelligible, spread from the Aral region to Anatolia after the Seljuk migration.
Oghuz migration
The Oghuz migration was the westward movement of Oghuz Turkic tribes from Central Asia toward the Middle East and Eastern Europe between the 9th and 11th centuries.
Oghuz Rebellion against the Seljuks
The Oghuz Rebellion against the Seljuks was the 1153 uprising of Oghuz tribes near Balkh who defeated Sultan Ahmad Sanjar's army and took him prisoner.
Oghuz Turks
The Oghuz Turks, or Ghuzz, were a Turkic tribal confederation that migrated from Central Asia into Iran and Anatolia between the 8th and 11th centuries, founding the Seljuq empire.
Oghuz Yabghu state of Jand
The Oghuz Yabghu state of Jand (غزهای جند) was a 10th-century Oghuz Turkic polity on the lower Syr Darya, ruled by a yabghu and broken by the Seljuqs in 1043–44.
Oghuzname
Oghuzname (Oğuznâme, Oğuznamə) is the shared name for the epics and chronicles recounting the legendary history of the Oghuz Turks, centered on their mythical ancestor Oghuz Khan.
Ogie Alcasid
Ogie Alcasid (Herminio Jose Lualhati Alcasid Jr.), Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, comedian, and It's Showtime host; 1989 debut with "Nandito Ako"; OPM organization president 2010–2016; husband of Regine Velasquez.
Ogier (crater on Iapetus)
Ogier is a 100-km-diameter impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 42.5 latitude, 275.1 longitude, IAU-approved in 1982 and named for a Dane in Charlemagne's army in The Song of Roland.
Ogilvie Mountains
Ogilvie Mountains (Ogilvie Range): mountain range in Yukon, Canada, extending into Alaska, crossed by the Dempster Highway; named for surveyor William Ogilvie; Proterozoic-Triassic sedimentary rocks, restricted Pleistocene ice caps, endemic collared lemming.
Ogilvie syndrome
Ogilvie syndrome, or acute colonic pseudo-obstruction, is massive colonic dilatation without mechanical obstruction, first described by Sir Heneage Ogilvie in 1948; treated with supportive care, neostigmine, or colonoscopy.
Ogiso dynasty
The Ogiso dynasty was the first line of paramount kings of the Benin kingdom, then called Igodomigodo, in what is now southern Nigeria, ruling roughly the 10th to 12th centuries.
Ogive
An ogive is a pointed arch of two intersecting arcs, and by extension a Gothic vault rib, a bullet's curved nose profile, or a cumulative frequency curve.
OGK-2
OGK-2, formally PJSC Second Generating Company of the Electric Power Wholesale Market, is Russia's largest thermal power generation company by capacity, with 17,608 MW across 12 regions, controlled by Gazprom Energoholding.
Oglaf
Oglaf is an Australian NSFW sex-comedy webcomic by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne, running weekly at oglaf.com since 2008, parodying fantasy tropes with recurring characters such as Ivan, Mistress, and the cumsprites.
OGLE-2003-BLG-235L
OGLE-2003-BLG-235L (MOA-2003-BLG-53L) is a 0.63-solar-mass K dwarf about 5,800 pc away hosting OGLE-2003-BLG-235L b, a 2.6-Jupiter-mass gas giant at 4.3 AU, the first definitive planet found by microlensing (2003).
OGLE-2005-BLG-071L
OGLE-2005-BLG-071L is an M dwarf about 3.2 kpc away whose microlensing event revealed OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, a 3.8-Jupiter-mass gas giant at 3.6 AU, the second planet found by microlensing (2005).
OGLE-2005-BLG-390L
OGLE-2005-BLG-390L is an M-dwarf star about 21,500 light-years away in Sagittarius; its planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, 5.5 Earth masses at 2.6 AU, was found in 2005 by gravitational microlensing, the third microlensing planet and then the lowest-mass known around a main-sequence star.
OGLE-2006-BLG-109L
OGLE-2006-BLG-109L is a ~0.5-solar-mass star about 1,510 pc away with two microlensing-discovered giant planets, b (0.727 Jupiter masses, 2.3 AU) and c (0.27 Jupiter masses, 4.6 AU), a scaled-down Solar System analog found in 2008.
OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L
OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L is a G-type star about 13,100 light-years away with two cold giant planets, b (0.145 Jupiter masses) and c (0.86), found by microlensing in 2012 and likely in mean-motion resonance.