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Ojukwu, Odumegwu (Nigerian politician)
Nigerian military leader and politician, who was head of the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian civil war....
OK Computer (album by Radiohead)
...the parochial issues of mid-1990s Britpop. Driving rockers such as “Bones” were skillfully offset by forlorn ballads such as “High and Dry.” The widely acclaimed OK Computer (1997) was nothing short of a premillennial version of Pink Floyd’s classic album Dark Side of the Moon (1973): huge-sounding and chillingly......
OK Go (American music group)
...though not less arresting, and “centre framing,” which places images in the middle of the screen, became the norm. Still, bizarre or clever concepts remained front and centre, as in OK Go’s “Here It Goes Again” (2006), in which the choreographed cavorting of band members on treadmills becomes a fluid modern dance....
Oka (Quebec, Canada)
...Palabora, S.Af., mined for copper and apatite (calcium phosphate, used as a fertilizer), plus by-products of gold, silver, and other metals; Jacupiranga, Brazil, a major resource of rare earths; Oka, Que., Can., a niobium-rich body; and the Kola Peninsula of Russia, mined for apatite, magnetite, and rare earths....
Oka (Nigeria)
town, Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria, in the Yoruba Hills, on roads from Owo and Ikare. An agricultural market centre (yams, cassava [manioc], corn [maize], rice, palm oil and kernels, okra, and pumpkins) for the local Yoruba people, it is also a collecting point for cocoa, palm produce, tobacco, and cotton. Pop. (latest e...
Oka (cheese)
...kg). It keeps well for several weeks or longer if securely wrapped. Port Salut is widely imitated; American versions tend to be milder, and those from Denmark are generally stronger than the French. Oka cheese, first made at a Trappist monastery at the village of Oka in Quebec, is a popular Canadian version....
Oka Asajirō (Japanese biologist)
biologist who introduced the theory of evolution to the Japanese public and whose researches into the taxonomical and morphological (relating to form) structures of the leech and tunicate (coated with layers) and freshwater jellyfish contributed to understanding of the subject....
Oka Glacial Stage (Pleistocene deposits and time, northern Europe)
major division of Pleistocene deposits and time in northern Europe (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 2,600,000 years ago and ended about 11,700 years ago). The Elsterian followed the Cromerian Interglacial Stage and preceded the Holstein Interglacial St...
Oka River (river, Russia)
river in western Russia. It is the largest right-bank tributary of the Volga. Rising in the Central Russian Upland, it flows 932 miles (1,500 km), first north in a rather narrow, winding valley to Kaluga, then sharply eastward across a broad lowland to join the Volga at Nizhny Novgorod. The area of its ...
Oka-Akoko (Nigeria)
town, Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria, in the Yoruba Hills, on roads from Owo and Ikare. An agricultural market centre (yams, cassava [manioc], corn [maize], rice, palm oil and kernels, okra, and pumpkins) for the local Yoruba people, it is also a collecting point for cocoa, palm produce, tobacco, and cotton. Pop. (latest e...
Okada Beisanjin (Japanese painter)
Japanese painter who worked in the bunjin-ga, or literati, style that originated in China and appealed to intellectuals....
Okada Eiji (Japanese actor)
Japanese actor who starred in such films as the Japanese Woman in the Dunes, the French Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and the U.S. The Ugly American (b. June 13, 1920--d. Sept. 14, 1995)....
Okada Keisuke (prime minister of Japan)
Japanese admiral and prime minister who attempted to moderate extremist military influence in the government....
Okada Tamechika (Japanese painter)
Japanese painter of the late Tokugawa period (1603–1867) whose talent and efforts contributed a great deal to the revival of the traditional Yamato-e (paintings stressing Japanese themes and techniques as against the Kara-e, a style under strong Chinese influence)....
Ōkagami (Japanese literary work)
...by no means the earliest literary work describing warfare, and other writings, mainly historical in content, were graced by literary flourishes uncommon in similar Western works. Ōkagami (c. 1120?; “The Great Mirror”; Eng. trans. Ōkagami), the most famous of the “mirrors” of Japanese history, undo...
Okakura Kakuzō (Japanese art critic)
art critic who had great influence upon modern Japanese art....
Okakura Tenshin (Japanese art critic)
art critic who had great influence upon modern Japanese art....
Okamoto Keiji (Japanese drama critic)
Japanese dramatist and drama critic who wrote nearly 200 historical Kabuki dramas....
Okamoto Kidō (Japanese drama critic)
Japanese dramatist and drama critic who wrote nearly 200 historical Kabuki dramas....
Okanagan (people)
...the Northwest Coast Indians. The Northern Plateau Salish include the Shuswap, Lillooet, and Ntlakapamux (Thompson) tribes. The Interior Salish live mostly in the Upper Columbia area and include the Okanagan, Sinkaietk, Lake, Wenatchee, Sanpoil, Nespelim, Spokan, Kalispel, Pend d’Oreille, Coeur d’Alene, and Flathead peoples. Some early works incorrectly denote all Salishan groups a...
Okanogan Highlands (region, Washington, United States)
The Okanogan Highlands, in the northeast, are an extension of the Rocky Mountains. Their north-south ranges, with summits that rise to more than 7,000 feet (2,100 metres), are separated by glaciated trenches. Most of the state’s metallic ores are found in this region....
Okanoyama Graphic Art Museum (museum, Nishiwaki City, Japan)
...solutions to architectural problems. Among his innovative structures of this period are the Kita-Kyūshū City Museum of Art (1974), the Fujimi Country Clubhouse in Ōita (1974), the Okanoyama Graphic Art Museum (1982–84), and the Civic Centre for Tsukuba (1983). He also designed the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (1986). He wrote many books on architecture....
okapi (mammal)
cud-chewing hoofed mammal that is placed along with the giraffe in the family Giraffidae (order Artiodactyla). Found in the rainforests of the Congo region, the okapi was unknown to science until about 1900. Its neck and legs are shorter than those of the giraffe, and the shoulder height of females, which are larger than males, is about 1.5 m (5 feet). The coat is sleek and deep...
Okapia johnstoni (mammal)
cud-chewing hoofed mammal that is placed along with the giraffe in the family Giraffidae (order Artiodactyla). Found in the rainforests of the Congo region, the okapi was unknown to science until about 1900. Its neck and legs are shorter than those of the giraffe, and the shoulder height of females, which are larger than males, is about 1.5 m (5 feet). The coat is sleek and deep...
Okāra (Pakistan)
city, Punjab province, east-central Pakistan. In 1869 it became the headquarters of the tahsil (subdivision) of Okāra, supplanting Gugera as headquarters. A flourishing industrial and commercial trade centre, Okāra is situated on the Sāhiwāl-Lahore road and railway 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Sāhiwāl. There are several textile, ...
Okara, Gabriel (Nigerian author)
Nigerian poet and novelist whose verse had been translated into several languages by the early 1960s....
Okara, Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain (Nigerian author)
Nigerian poet and novelist whose verse had been translated into several languages by the early 1960s....
Okarito brown kiwi (bird)
...spotted kiwi (A. oweni); the great spotted kiwi (A. haasti); the Okarito brown kiwi (A. rowi), also called the Rowi kiwi; and the brown kiwi (A. mantelli), also called the North Island brown kiwi....
Okavango (area, Namibia)
geographic region, northeastern Namibia. It is separated mostly by the Okavango River from Angola on the north, includes the western part of Namibia’s Caprivi Strip to the northeast, and is bounded by Botswana on the southeast and by the Owambo (Ovamboland) region on the west....
Okavango River (river, Africa)
fourth longest river system in southern Africa, running basically southeastward for 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from central Angola, where it is known as the Kubango, to the Kalahari (desert) in northern Botswana, where the river terminates in an immense inland delta known as the Okavango Swamp. The river...
Okavango Swamps (region, Botswana)
The Okavango Marshes east of the Kalahari desert in Botswana are perhaps the best example of marshes formed in an interior, closed basin that has no drainage. Other basins without outlets like that of the Great Salt Lake in Utah have accumulated too much salt for marsh growth....
Ōkawa (Japan)
city, Fukuoka ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, on the mouth of the Chikugo-gawa (Chikugo River). It was a fishing port known as Wakatsu during the Tokugawa era (1603–1867), when it also served as a market for agricultural produce and lumber. In the mid-19th century, Dutch techniques of woodworking and cabinetmaking were introduced, and woodworking ha...
Okawa Isao (Japanese businessman)
Japanese businessman (b. 1926, Osaka, Japan—d. March 16, 2001, Tokyo, Japan), was chairman of the Sega Corp. from 1984 until his death. Okawa was involved with a number of Japanese technology companies. He founded CSK Corp., a computer services company that was Sega’s largest shareholder, and served on the boards of several other companies, including the ASCII Corp. and Bellsystem 24...
Ōkawa Shūmei (Japanese political theorist and writer)
ultranationalistic Japanese political theorist whose writings inspired many of the right-wing extremist groups that dominated Japanese politics during the 1930s. Ōkawa personally organized and participated in many of the major rightist attempts at direct action, and during World War II he helped shape much of the Japa...
Okaya (Japan)
city, central Nagano ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan, on the western shore of Lake Suwa. Okaya was a small village until the establishment of its first large silk-reeling factory in 1875. After World War II many of the war-damaged silk mills were converted to factories pr...
Okayama (prefecture, Japan)
city and prefecture (ken), western Honshu, Japan, bordering the Inland Sea, includes numerous offshore islands. Okayama prefecture has a predominantly agricultural economy. Rice, grapes, peaches, igusa (rushes for tatami mats), cotton, and other cash crops are grown in the south, where farm techniq...
Okazaki (Japan)
city, south-central Aichi ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It is located in the Mikawa Plain, on the Yahagi River, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Nagoya. It developed around Okazaki Castle after its construction in 1455. During the Tokugawa period (1603...
Okazaki (Japanese painter)
Japanese painter of the Edo (Tokugawa) period who was an early practitioner of the genre known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”). Among other subjects, these pictures provided scenes from the pleasure quarter, or entertainment district, of such cities as Edo or Ōsaka. Ando’s styl...
Okazaki Genshichi (Japanese painter)
Japanese painter of the Edo (Tokugawa) period who was an early practitioner of the genre known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”). Among other subjects, these pictures provided scenes from the pleasure quarter, or entertainment district, of such cities as Edo or Ōsaka. Ando’s styl...
Okazaki Gorōnyūdō (Japanese swordsmith)
Japanese swordsmith. Masamune was appointed chief swordsmith by the emperor Fushimi in 1287. He founded the Sōshū school of swordmaking, in which blades were made entirely of steel and hardened throughout. It marked an important advance in metallurgical technique that was significantly ahead of the technical level in Europe or elsewhere in Asia....
OKB imeni P.O. Sukhogo (Russian design bureau)
Russian aerospace design bureau that is the country’s second most important producer of jet fighters (after the design bureau MiG). Sukhoy is part of a giant, partially state-owned conglomerate of design bureaus and production plants known as AVPK Sukhoy (Aviation Military-Industrial Complex Sukhoy). Headquarters are in Moscow....
OKB Sukhoy (Russian design bureau)
Russian aerospace design bureau that is the country’s second most important producer of jet fighters (after the design bureau MiG). Sukhoy is part of a giant, partially state-owned conglomerate of design bureaus and production plants known as AVPK Sukhoy (Aviation Military-Industrial Complex Sukhoy). Headquarters are in Moscow....
OKB-1 (Soviet design bureau)
...of Defense code name SS-2) and R-5M (SS-3). In 1950 the department was upgraded to an experimental design bureau (OKB), and in 1956 it formally separated from NII-88 and became the independent OKB-1....
OKB-155 (Russian design bureau)
Russian aerospace design bureau that is the country’s major producer of jet fighter aircraft. It developed the family of technologically advanced MiG aircraft, including the Soviet Union’s first jet fighter. The MiG design bureau is part of the state-owned multifirm aerospace complex VPK MAPO...
OKB-156 (Russian design bureau)
Russian aerospace design bureau that is a major producer of civilian passenger airliners and military bombers. As a Soviet agency, it developed the U.S.S.R.’s first commercial jetliner and the world’s first supersonic passenger jet. Headquarters are in Moscow....
OKB-51 (Russian design bureau)
Russian aerospace design bureau that is the country’s second most important producer of jet fighters (after the design bureau MiG). Sukhoy is part of a giant, partially state-owned conglomerate of design bureaus and production plants known as AVPK Sukhoy (Aviation Military-Industrial Complex Sukhoy). Headquarters are in Moscow....
OKB-52 (Russian design bureau)
After an early career in 1944–53 designing copies of the German V-1 “buzz bomb,” Chelomey formed a new design bureau known as OKB-52, in Reutov, outside of Moscow, in 1955. There he began working on a series of advanced naval cruise missiles. In 1959 he initiated development of new rockets and spacecraft for the emerging Soviet space program....
Oke, John Beverly (Canadian American astronomer)
...although a few adherents remain. For most astronomers, the redshift controversy was settled definitively in the early 1980s when American astronomer Todd Boroson and Canadian American astronomer John Beverly Oke showed that the fuzzy halos surrounding some quasars are actually starlight from the galaxy hosting the quasar and that these galaxies are at high redshifts....
Okeechobee, Lake (lake, Florida, United States)
lake in southeastern Florida, U.S., and the third largest freshwater lake wholly within the country (after Lake Michigan and Iliamna Lake, Alaska). The lake lies about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of West Palm Beach at the northern edge of the Everglades. A remnant of the prehistoric Pamlico Sea, which onc...
Okeechobee Waterway (waterway, Florida, United States)
Fort Myers is the western terminus of the cross-state Okeechobee Waterway, linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico via Lake Okeechobee. Tourism is a mainstay of the city’s economy, and the area has a large retiree population. The flower industry, especially chrysanthemums, azaleas, and poinsettias, is also important, as are vegetable farming, fishing, and manufacturing (including....
O’Keeffe, Georgia (American painter)
American painter, best known for her large-format paintings of natural forms, especially flowers and bones, and for her depictions of New York City skyscrapers and architectural and landscape forms unique to northern New Mexico....
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (wildlife preserve, Georgia, United States)
In 1937, 371,445 acres (150,319 hectares) of swampland, almost all in Georgia, were set aside as the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, with headquarters at Waycross, Ga. The swamp’s name probably is derived from the Seminole Indian word for “trembling earth,” so-called because of the floating islands of the swamp....
Okefenokee Swamp (swamp, United States)
swamp and wildlife refuge in southeastern Georgia and northern Florida, U.S. It is a shallow, saucer-shaped depression approximately 25 miles (40 km) wide and 40 miles (65 km) long and covers an area of more than 600 square miles (1,550 square km). Lying about 50 miles (80 km) inland from the Atlantic coast, the Okefenokee Swamp is bounded on the east by the low, sandy Trail Ridge, which prevents ...
Okefinokee Swamp (swamp, United States)
swamp and wildlife refuge in southeastern Georgia and northern Florida, U.S. It is a shallow, saucer-shaped depression approximately 25 miles (40 km) wide and 40 miles (65 km) long and covers an area of more than 600 square miles (1,550 square km). Lying about 50 miles (80 km) inland from the Atlantic coast, the Okefenokee Swamp is bounded on the east by the low, sandy Trail Ridge, which prevents ...
Okeghem, Jean de (Flemish composer)
composer of sacred and secular music, one of the great masters of the Franco-Flemish style that dominated European music of the Renaissance....
Okehampton (England, United Kingdom)
town (“parish”), West Devon borough, administrative and historic county of Devon, England. It lies on the northern edge of the wild heathland known as Dartmoor. There was originally a Saxon settlement on the site, but this was abandoned after the ...
Okehazama, Battle of (Japanese history)
...en route by the Oda family. After his father’s death Ieyasu was sent to the Imagawa family and spent 12 years there under detention. When, in 1560, Oda Nobunaga destroyed the Imagawa family in the Battle of Okehazama, launching him on his course of unification, Ieyasu was finally released. Ieyasu returned to Okazaki in Mikawa and brought this province under his control. As Oda’s a...
Okello, John (Zanzibaran revolutionary)
Although the revolution was carried out by only about 600 armed men under the leadership of the communist-trained “field marshal” John Okello, it won considerable support from the African population. Thousands of Arabs were massacred in riots, and thousands more fled the island. Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume, leader of the ASP, was installed as president of the People’s Republic o...
Okello, Tito (Ugandan military officer)
Ugandan military officer who helped oust Idi Amin in 1979 and who briefly ruled Uganda following the 1985 military coup that overthrew Pres. Milton Obote (b. 1914--d. June 3, 1996)....
O’Kelly, Seán T. (president of Ireland)
one of the early leaders of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin (“We Ourselves” or “Ourselves Alone”). He served two terms as president of Ireland from June 1945 to June 1959....
O’Kelly, Seán Thomas (president of Ireland)
one of the early leaders of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin (“We Ourselves” or “Ourselves Alone”). He served two terms as president of Ireland from June 1945 to June 1959....
Oken, Lorenz (German naturalist)
German naturalist, the most important of the early 19th-century German “nature philosophers,” who speculated about the significance of life, which they believed to be derived from a vital force that could not be understood totally through scientific means. He elaborated Wolfgang von Goethe’s theory that the vertebrate skull formed gradually from the fusion of vertebrae. Altho...
Okene (Nigeria)
town, Kogi state, south-central Nigeria. It lies at the intersection of roads from Lokoja, Kabba, Ikare, Ajaokuta, and Anchi. Originally founded on a hill near the present site, it now lies in the valley of the Ubo River, which is a minor tributary of the Niger River. The town is a major trade centre for t...
Okenfuss, Lorenz (German naturalist)
German naturalist, the most important of the early 19th-century German “nature philosophers,” who speculated about the significance of life, which they believed to be derived from a vital force that could not be understood totally through scientific means. He elaborated Wolfgang von Goethe’s theory that the vertebrate skull formed gradually from the fusion of vertebrae. Altho...
OKH (German military)
...the time for carrying out the invasion of the U.S.S.R. and was to prove the more serious because in 1941 the Russian winter would arrive earlier than usual. Nevertheless, Hitler and the heads of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH, or German Army High Command), namely the army commander in chief Walther von Brauchitsch and the army general staff chief Franz Halder, were convinced that the Red Army...
Okha (India)
town, western Gujarat state, west-central India. It is a port at the western tip of the Kathiawar Peninsula, between the Gulf of Kachchh (Kutch) and the Arabian Sea. The town contains an automobile-assembly plant, and a large chemical plant is located at Mithapur, 5 miles (8 km) southwest. Fishing and sa...
Okhlopkov, Nikolay Pavlovich (Soviet theatrical director)
Soviet experimental-theatrical director and producer. He was one of the first modern directors to introduce productions in the round on an arena stage in an effort to restore intimacy between the actors and the audience....
Okhotsk Atka mackerel (fish)
...(Pleurogrammus monopterygius), which is common in the North Pacific and has considerable sporting and commercial fishing value, spends the major part of its life in the open sea. The related Okhotsk Atka mackerel (P. azonus) has been observed in the upper layers of the ocean in calm weather and is usually captured in purse seines. At night it descends to the bottom....
Okhotsk microplate (geology)
...which separates the Eurasian Plate from the subducting Pacific Plate. (Some geologists argue that this portion of the Eurasian Plate is actually a fragment of the North American Plate called the Okhotsk microplate.) A part of the subduction zone measuring approximately 190 miles (300 km) long by 95 miles (150 km) wide lurched about 65 feet (20 metres) to the southeast and thrusted upward by......
Okhotsk, Sea of (sea, Pacific Ocean)
northwestern arm of the Pacific Ocean, bounded on the west and north by the east coast of Asia from Cape Lazarev to the mouth of the Penzhina River, on the east and southeast by the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands, on the s...
Okhotskoye More (sea, Pacific Ocean)
northwestern arm of the Pacific Ocean, bounded on the west and north by the east coast of Asia from Cape Lazarev to the mouth of the Penzhina River, on the east and southeast by the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands, on the s...
Okhrana (Russian police organization)
(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...
Okhranka (Russian police organization)
(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...
Okhtyrka (city, Ukraine)
city, northeastern Ukraine, on the Vorskla River. It was founded in 1641 as a fortress protecting the southern frontiers of Muscovy from raids of the Crimean Tatars. It was rebuilt in a different place in 1654 and incorporated in 1703. It has a notable cathedral (1758) designed by the imperial architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli,...
Okhwang (Korean religion)
The religion’s belief centres on Okhwangsangje, or “Great Lord of Okhwang (Heaven).” Poch’ŏngyo professes the four principles of one mind, coexistence, forgiveness, and conquest of disease. By practicing one mind, adherents are led to God through the unity of mind and body and thus conquer disease. By dissolving divine and human anger, coexistence and forgiveness...
Okhwangsangje (Korean deity)
deity of the Korean religion known as Poch’ŏngyo....
oki (Japanese music)
Generally speaking, the oki represents all kinds of introductory instrumental sections (aigata, or in this case maebiki) or vocal parts (maeuta) before the entrance of the dancer. The ......
Oki Islands (islands, Japan)
archipelago, Shimane ken (prefecture), Japan, lying in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Honshu. The largest island is Dōgo; the three smaller isles (Chiburi, Nishino, Nakano) are collectively known as Dōzen. The four islands have a combined coastline of 223 miles (359 km) and an area of 134 square miles...
Oki-Daitō Island (island, Pacific Ocean)
...miles (350 km) east of Okinawa. North Daitō (Kita-Daitō) and South Daitō (Minami-Daitō) islands are the largest of the group and lie close to one another, while the smaller Oki-Daitō Island lies about 93 miles (150 km) south of them. North and South Daitō have a combined area of 15.7 square miles (40.5 square km). They are coral islands and have steep c...
Oki-Shottō (islands, Japan)
archipelago, Shimane ken (prefecture), Japan, lying in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Honshu. The largest island is Dōgo; the three smaller isles (Chiburi, Nishino, Nakano) are collectively known as Dōzen. The four islands have a combined coastline of 223 miles (359 km) and an area of 134 square miles...
Okie From Muskogee (song by Haggard)
...he wrote, including “Mama Tried,” “The Bottle Let Me Down,” and “If We Make It Through December,” that in part reflects his difficult youth; he also wrote “Okie From Muskogee” (1969), his best-known recording, a novelty song that became controversial for its apparent attack on hippies. His repertoire ranged from early jazz and country song...
Okiek (people)
a Kalenjin-speaking people of the Southern Nilotic language group inhabiting southwestern Kenya. “Okiek,” a Kalenjin word, and “Dorobo,” derived from a Maasai term, are both sobriquets meaning “hunter.” They refer in a derogatory manner to those who keep no cattle, and hence who are “poor” according to the pastoralists of the same area. Eithe...
Okigbo, Christopher (Nigerian poet)
Nigerian poet who is one of the best and most widely anthologized African poets....
Okin, Susan Moller (New Zealand philosopher)
Liberal feminists—e.g., Susan Moller Okin—pointed out the many ways in which gender discrimination defeats women’s aspirations, and they defended reforms designed to make women’s equality a social and political reality. Noting that differences in the ways in which girls and boys are raised served to channel women and men into different and unequal social roles, they adv...
okina (Japanese ritual play)
...is the concluding work. Kyōgen, humorous sketches, are performed as interludes between plays. A program may begin with an okina, which is essentially an invocation for peace and prosperity in dance form....
Okina (Japanese spacecraft)
...Kaguya comprised three spacecraft launched together and then deployed once in lunar orbit: the Selene orbiter proper, the Ouna (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) Radio (VRAD) satellite, and the Okina radio relay satellite. (Okina and Ouna are the elderly couple who adopt Kaguya in the legend.)...
Okinagatarashi-Hime No Mikoto (empress of Japan)
semilegendary empress-regent of Japan who is said to have established Japanese hegemony over Korea....
Okinawa (Japan)
city, Okinawa ken (prefecture), Japan. It is situated in the central part of Okinawa Island and was designated as a new city in 1974. Originally occupying a region of agriculture and forestry, the city, after World War II, became the location fo...
Okinawa (prefecture, Japan)
ken (prefecture), Japan, in the East China Sea. The prefecture is composed of the Ryukyu Islands. Okinawa Island is the largest in the Ryukyu Islands archipelago, being about 70 miles (112 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide and with an area of 463 square miles (1...
Okinawa, Battle of (World War II)
...(1,220 km) from Tokyo. The Americans took four weeks to defeat the Japanese forces and suffered nearly 30,000 casualties. On April 1, 12 days before he became president, the United States invaded Okinawa, located just 350 miles (560 km) south of the Japanese home island of Kyushu. The battle of Okinawa was one of the fiercest of the Pacific war. The small island was defended by 100,000......
Okinawa habu (snake)
The Okinawa habu (Trimeresurus flavoviridis) is a large, aggressive snake found on the Amami and Okinawa groups in the Ryukyu Islands, often in human dwellings. It is usually about 1.5 m (5 feet) long and is marked with bold, dark green blotches that may merge to form a wavy, longitudinal band. Its venom is not especially potent but sometimes causes disability or death....
Okinawa Island (island, Japan)
ken (prefecture), Japan, in the East China Sea. The prefecture is composed of the Ryukyu Islands (q.v.). Okinawa Island is the largest in the Ryukyu Islands archipelago, being about 70 miles (112 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide and with an area of 463 square miles (1,199 square km). Before Okinawa became a prefecture during the early part of the Meiji period (1868–1912),......
Okinawa islands (island group, Japan)
...(east). With a total land area of 1,193 square miles (3,090 square km), the Ryukyus consist of 55 islands and islets divided into three major groups: the Amami island chain in the north, the central Okinawa islands, and the Sakishima islands in the south. Administratively, the Ryukyus are part of Japan, the Amami group constituting a southern extension of Kyushu’s Kagoshima prefecture......
Okinawa Trough (oceanic deep, Pacific Ocean)
...shallow; almost three-fourths of the sea is less than 650 feet (200 metres), and its average depth is only 1,145 feet (350 metres). Extending alongside the Ryukyu Islands is the deeper part, the Okinawa Trough, with a large section more than 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) deep and a maximum depth of 8,912 feet (2,716 metres). The western edge of the sea is a continuation of the shelf that extends......
Okinawan Eagle, the (Japanese boxer)
Japanese professional boxer, World Boxing Association (WBA) junior flyweight world champion....
Okipa (Mandan ceremony)
Mandan religion included many ceremonies and rituals that were performed by the various societies. The Okipa was the most complex of these; a four-day ritual requiring lengthy preparation and self-sacrifice by participants, it was an elaboration of the Sun Dance common to many Plains tribes. The Okipa had at least three equally important purposes: to commemorate the tribe’s divine salvation...
Ōkita Saburo (Japanese economist)
Japanese economist and government official who was instrumental in developing the plan that doubled Japan’s national income in less than 10 years during the 1960s....
Oklahoma (state, United States)
constituent state of the United States of America. It borders Colorado and Kansas to the north, Missouri and Arkansas to the east, Texas to the south and west, and New Mexico to the west of its Panhandle region. In its land and its people, Oklahoma is a state of cont...
Oklahoma! (musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein)
After a period of less successful writing for films he teamed with Richard Rodgers in creating Oklahoma! (1943; winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 1944), Carousel (1945), and South Pacific (1949; Pulitzer Prize in 1950), combining bright tunes with relatively sophisticated stories—a blend then unfamiliar to the stage......
Oklahoma! (film by Zinnemann [1955])
American musical film, released in 1955, that was based on the Broadway musical (1943) written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II....