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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: OIL
 oil - in Venezuela
 Oil Crisis (1973-4)
oil paints - contrast with tempera
Oil Rivers - name for the Niger delta
Oise - crossed by Germans in 1940
Ojeda, Alonso de - and Venezuela
Ojukwu, Odumegwu - and Biafra
Okello, Tito - in exile with Obote
- and Obote's return to power
Okinawa - battle in 1945
Oklahoma - and the run
- and statehood in 1907
Oklahoma City - origin as tented town
O-Kuni - and kabuki
Olaf - king in southern Sweden
Olaf I - king of Norway
Olaf II - king of Norway
Olaf IV - and the Scandinavian kingdoms
Old Bailey
Old Believers - and Russian Orthodoxy
Oldcastle, John - Lollards
Old Codgers
Old Comers - or Pilgrim Fathers
Old Contemptibles
Old Czechs - political party
Oldenburg - annexed by France in 1810
Old English - or Anglo-Saxon
- and Beowulf
Old English - in Ireland
Old Hundredth
Old Ironsides - the frigate Constitution
Old King Cole
- and Colchester
Old Kingdom - in ancient Egypt
Old Moore's Almanack
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Riley
Old Parr
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Sarum - as a rotten borough
- and earl of Chatham
Old Style (OS) - in the calendar
Old Trafford
Olduvai Gorge - and homo habilis
Old Vic
 O'Leary family - Travellers
Oleg - Viking leader in Russia
oligarchy - as system of rule
- in ancient Greece
Oliva, peace of - and ducal Prussia
Olivares, duke of - favourite of Philip IV
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