Sunset Boulevard: Cast:

Library of Congress Classification: …Congress Classification Schedules, compiled by Nancy B. Olson, was published independently in 1975. In place of standard subdivisions, each class may incorporate divisions for literary form and geography. Terminology may be explicit, exact, scientific, or popular, depending on the situation. There is no attempt to give mnemonic (memory) aids, and…

George Sidney: Later work: …Presley’s army induction; it starred Ann-Margret and Dick Van Dyke. Ann-Margret also appeared in Viva Las Vegas (1964), a hugely popular Presley musical; the singer played a cash-strapped race-car driver who takes a job in a casino to earn money. In 1967 Sidney directed his last feature film, the musical…

Poland: Transitioning from communism: …included one government headed by Jan Olszewski, which fell as a result of a clumsy attempt to produce a list of former high-ranking communist collaborators, and another led by Poland’s first woman prime minister, Hanna Suchocka, which was unexpectedly defeated by a somewhat frivolous no-confidence vote. The centrist Freedom Union…

Olsztyn, city, capital of Warmińsko-Mazurskie województwo (province), northeastern Poland. It lies along the Łyna River in the Masurian lake district. The city serves as a trade centre, with major rail and road connections, for the lake district. The Museum of Warmia and Mazury and a university are

Olt, județ (county), south-central Romania. It is bounded on the south by Bulgaria. The sub-Carpathian Mountains lie in the northern portion of the county, overlooking settlement areas in intermontane valleys and lowlands. The eastward-flowing Danube River and the southeastward-flowing Olt and

Olt Defile, defile in south-central Romania. The defile was cut into the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians) by the Olt River. It was particularly important during the Roman occupation (1st century bc to the 2nd century ad), when the Romans built a road and a line of fortifications along the

Olt River, river, rising close to the headwaters of the Mureş River, in the Ciuc Depression, east central Romania, at an elevation of 5,900 feet (1,800 m); it flows generally southwest and then south for 420 miles (670 km), entering the Danube at Turnu-Măgurele. The river exits from the Ciuc

Bela Lugosi was a Hungarian-born motion-picture actor who was most famous for his sinister portrayal of the elegantly mannered vampire Count Dracula. At age 12 Lugosi ran away from home and began working odd jobs, including stage acting. He studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts and

Poltava, city, east-central Ukraine. It lies along the Vorskla River. Archaeological evidence dates the city from the 8th to the 9th century, although the first documentary reference is from 1174, when it was variously known as Oltava or Ltava. Destroyed by the Tatars in the early 13th century, it

Romania: Relief: …the Olt River and the Oltenian Plateau to the west. The whole region is covered by deposits of loess, on which rich black chernozem soils have developed, providing a strong base for agriculture. The Danube floodplain is important economically, and along the entire stretch of the river, from Calafat in…

Micronesia: History: Bailey Olter suffering an incapacitating stroke in July 1996, just after he had been reelected and just before a series of natural disasters swept the islands. Typhoons, flooding, and mudslides caused widespread destruction in 1996 and again in 1997, and in 1998 a prolonged drought…

African dance: Dance formations: The Olu Kanaanwa dance for unmarried Igbo girls is done in unison in a circular formation, from which each dancer breaks away to perform individually in the centre. Among Ijo women, the dance starts in a loosely knit semicircular line from which virtuoso performers move out…

Ogun: Major tourist attractions are Olumo rock, which according to tradition provided refuge for early Egba settlers; the Ake, the residence of the alake (the traditional ruler of Egbaland), built in 1854 and noted for its collection of antiquities and relics; and the Centenary Hall, all in Abeokuta. There are…

Iwo: …of the Iwo kingdom, the oluwo (“king”), whose palace now incorporates a modern building and the local government offices, still retains important social and traditional functions and is an adviser to the local government. Within the town, many of the traditional Yoruba compounds with their rectangular courtyards have been replaced…

Ana María Matute: Her novel Olvidado Rey Gudú, a massive allegorical folk epic that spans four generations in the story of rulers, gnomes, witches, and other creatures in the mythical medieval kingdom of Olar, was published in 1996. Among her later works are Aranmanoth (2000) and Paraíso inhabitado (2008; “Uninhabited…

bullying: Policies and prevention: The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, a “whole-school” approach involving school- and classroom-level training and monitoring, is among the most widely used school intervention programs, and it has been shown to significantly reduce bullying, primarily in European contexts. Reviews of various prevention programs, however, find that the…

bullying: …by Norwegian researcher and psychologist Dan Olweus says:

Olybrius was the Western Roman emperor from April to November 472. Before he became head of state, Olybrius was a wealthy senator; he married Placidia, the daughter of Valentinian III (Western emperor 425–455). Gaiseric, king of the Vandals, a Germanic people who maintained a kingdom in North

History of film: Germany and Italy: …Olympic Games in Berlin for Olympia (1938).

Olympia, ruined ancient sanctuary, home of the ancient Olympic Games, and former site of the massive Statue of Zeus, which had been ranked as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Olympia is located near the western coast of the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece, 10 miles (16 km) inland

Olympia, oil painting by groundbreaking French artist Édouard Manet, created in 1863. The painting aroused shock and controversy when it was first exhibited but came to be considered a masterpiece of modern art. During the 1860s, Manet was France’s most notorious artist. Two years after the furor

Olympia, city, capital of Washington, U.S., seat (1852) of Thurston county, on Budd Inlet and Capitol Lake (at the south end of Puget Sound), at the mouth of the Deschutes River, 29 miles (47 km) southwest of Tacoma. Laid out in 1851 as Smithfield, it became the site of a U.S. customs house and was

Western sculpture: Early Classical (c. 500–450 bce): …are the works of the Olympia Master, an unidentified artist who decorated the pediments and frieze of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. In the east pediment, which shows men and women preparing for a chariot race, his figures display the sobriety and calm characteristic of the early Classical period.…

Maurice Girodias: …and in 1953 he founded Olympia Press. He quickly built a reputation for publishing books of merit that were censored or banned in other countries, including Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and various works by Miller, Samuel Beckett, J.P. Donleavy, Lawrence Durrell, Jean Genet, Nikos Kazantzakis, William S.

Olympic Games, athletic festival that originated in ancient Greece and was revived in the late 19th century. Before the 1970s the Games were officially limited to competitors with amateur status, but in the 1980s many events were opened to professional athletes. Currently, the Games are open to

Jan Baptista van der Noot: …and main poetical work, the Olympiados epic, he described in clear, unadorned language his dream of an allegorical journey toward his divine love, Olympia. Van der Noot interpolated numerous sonnets in the work, and their German translations are the earliest known instances of the pure sonnet in that language.

Hadrian: Policies as emperor: …brought to completion the massive temple of Olympian Zeus that the Peisistratid tyrants had begun more than five centuries before. He created the Panhellenion, a federation of Greeks that was based at Athens, which gave equal representation to all Greek cities and thereafter played a conspicuous part in the history…

Western architecture: The Archaic period (c. 750–500 bce): …colossal Doric temple of Olympian Zeus at Acragas, begun in about 500 bce and left unfinished a century later. To carry the weight of the massive entablature, the outer columns were not freestanding but were half-columns engaged against (that is, partially attached to) a continuous solid wall. An earlier Sicilian…

Olympias was the wife of Philip II of Macedonia and mother of Alexander the Great. She had a passionate and imperious nature, and she played important roles in the power struggles that followed the deaths of both rulers. The daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus, Olympias apparently was

Berlin Olympic Stadium, stadium built for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, part of a sport complex originally called the Reich Sports Field (German: Reichssportfeld), that is now used for international football matches. The Nazis were determined to make the 1936 Berlin Olympics a memorable

Olympic, British luxury liner that was a sister ship of the Titanic and the Britannic. It was in service from 1911 to 1935. To compete with the Cunard Line for the highly profitable transatlantic passenger trade, the White Star Line decided to create a class of liners noted more for comfort than

Olympic Airlines, Greek airline, formerly known as Olympic Airways, founded on April 6, 1957, by the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis (1906?–75) but, from 1975, wholly owned by the Greek government. Services from Greece into western Europe began in 1957, and by 1980 services extended throughout

Olympic Airlines, Greek airline, formerly known as Olympic Airways, founded on April 6, 1957, by the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis (1906?–75) but, from 1975, wholly owned by the Greek government. Services from Greece into western Europe began in 1957, and by 1980 services extended throughout

Olympic Airlines, Greek airline, formerly known as Olympic Airways, founded on April 6, 1957, by the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis (1906?–75) but, from 1975, wholly owned by the Greek government. Services from Greece into western Europe began in 1957, and by 1980 services extended throughout

measurement system: Greeks and Romans: …and 24 fingers equaled 1 Olympic cubit. The coincidence with the Egyptian 24 digits equaling 1 small cubit suggests what is altogether probable on the basis of the commercial history of the era, that the Greeks derived their measures partly from the Egyptians and partly from the Babylonians, probably via…

In 1914, when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held its 20th anniversary meeting in Paris, the Olympic flag was displayed for the first time. The design had been conceived by the French educator Pierre, baron de Coubertin, who developed the modern Olympic movement. It has been claimed that

How Does the Olympic Torch Stay Lit?: In 2000 the Olympic torch spent three minutes submerged in the Coral Sea.

Olympic Games, athletic festival that originated in ancient Greece and was revived in the late 19th century. Before the 1970s the Games were officially limited to competitors with amateur status, but in the 1980s many events were opened to professional athletes. Currently, the Games are open to

What do Paris, Helsinki, Atlanta, Beijing, and Tokyo have in common? They all have hosted the Olympics. As the foremost international sporting event, the Olympic Games have been held in cities around the world—though certain regions, notably Africa, have yet to play host. The next edition of the

In 1914, when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held its 20th anniversary meeting in Paris, the Olympic flag was displayed for the first time. The design had been conceived by the French educator Pierre, baron de Coubertin, who developed the modern Olympic movement. It has been claimed that

marmot: …young every year, but the Olympic marmot (M. olympus) of the Olympic Mountains in the United States bears young every other year.

Are Olympic Medals Made of Gold?: … podium and get a gold medal placed around their necks, the moment—and the medal—is priceless. But the reality is that the gold medal is not worth much more than the silver medal around the neck of the second-place finisher.

Olympic Mountains, segment of the Pacific mountain system of western North America. They extend across the Olympic Peninsula south of the Juan de Fuca Strait and west of Puget Sound in northwestern Washington, U.S. The mountains began to form about 35 million years ago when the Juan de Fuca Plate

Olympic National Park, ecologically diverse area occupying much of the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington, U.S. Originally established as a national monument in 1909 and redesignated a national park in 1938, it preserves the Olympic Mountains and their magnificent forests and wildlife. It

Seoul: Cultural life: Olympic Park, to the east of the Sports Complex, is an expansive green space containing more of the facilities built for the 1988 Olympics as well as a sculpture park, an Olympics museum, the Korean National University of Physical Education, and an earthen fortress from…

Washington: Relief and drainage: In the northwest the Olympic Peninsula borders the Pacific Ocean south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Dense rainforests extend along the western slopes of the rugged Olympic Mountains, which rise to 7,965 feet (2,428 meters) on Mount Olympus.

ProCon Debates: Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs and Technologies Be Allowed in Sports?; Are the Olympic Games Worth the Cost to Their Host Countries and Cities? ProCon Issue in the News: Ryan James Wedding was not accused of doping during his snowboarding career, but the Canadian Olympian is now

Montreal: Cultural life: …Summer Games, has a sports stadium (Big O) seating more than 70,000 spectators; Montreal Tower, an inclined structure 540 feet (165 metres) tall with three observation floors that are accessible via cable car; Montreal Biodome, in which four separate ecosystems have been re-created; and a sports and fitness complex containing…

How Does the Olympic Torch Stay Lit?: In 2000 the Olympic torch spent three minutes submerged in the Coral Sea.

The Olympic Truce: The creation of the Ekecheiria, the Olympic truce, lies within the traditional story of the founding of the ancient Olympic Games. Two warring kings of the area around Olympia, Iphitos and Cleomenes, joined with the Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus in an agreement to hold the Games…

Olympic Valley, winter sports area in Placer county, northeastern California, U.S. It lies just northwest of Lake Tahoe. Olympic Valley, the focus of a state recreation area, was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, under its former name, Squaw Valley. It has ice-skating and rock-climbing

Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games: …were dropped, but a separate Olympic Village for Eastern bloc countries was created in Otaniemi. The Games themselves, however, were friendly, and by the end of the competition Soviet officials had opened their village to all athletes. The Helsinki Games marked the return of German and Japanese teams to Olympic…

Origins of the Olympic Winter Games, The first organized international competition involving winter sports was introduced just five years after the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896. This competition, the Nordic Games, included only athletes from the Scandinavian countries and was held

The decision to use the atomic bomb: The military situation in the Pacific: The first phase, code-named Olympic, was scheduled for late October 1945, with a landing on Kyushu, defended by an estimated 350,000 Japanese troops backed by at least 1,000 kamikaze planes. Olympic entailed the use of nearly 800,000 American assault troops and an enormous naval fleet. The scale of the…

There are few international events more highlighted and discussed than the biennial Olympics, the world’s foremost sports competition. But is hosting the Olympic Games really worth the cost to their host city and country? The Olympic Games were first held in 776 bce at the sacred site of Olympia,

Olympic Games, athletic festival that originated in ancient Greece and was revived in the late 19th century. Before the 1970s the Games were officially limited to competitors with amateur status, but in the 1980s many events were opened to professional athletes. Currently, the Games are open to

The use of performance-enhancing drugs among athletes competing in the Olympic Games is not new—as early as 1904, American runner Thomas Hicks was given doses of strychnine during the marathon at the Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. He ended up winning the race after the first-place finisher

With qualifications beginning on August 6, 2016, artistic gymnastics is a highly anticipated international sport. Artistic gymnastics is a separate Olympic sport from rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline, with events including floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal

Olympic athletics begins in Rio de Janeiro with the preliminary competitions. The popular sport known widely as track and field has especially high stakes this Olympic Games as returning champions and world-record breakers prepare to defend their titles. Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt is the favorite

Basketball has been played at the Olympic Games for 80 years and is the rare team spectator sport that maintains its popularity when played at the Games. Although arguably as popular (or more popular) worldwide, baseball lasted just 16 years as an official Olympic sport (although it has been added

In September 2015 the International Olympic Committee announced five candidate cities for the 2024 Summer Olympics: Rome, Hamburg, Paris, Budapest, and Los Angeles. However, hosting the Olympics has lost some of its luster. Of the five cities, Hamburg withdrew its bid in November 2015 after a

Cycling has been a part of the Olympic Games since the first modern Summer Olympics in 1896. Though there are four different cycling disciplines included as events—road, track, mountain bike, and bicycle motocross (BMX)—the only style of competition to be featured is racing (that means there are no

Three equestrian disciplines are featured at the Rio Olympics in both team and individual events: dressage, jumping, and eventing (the equine triathlon). Each discipline has its roots in the military. In fact, until 1948 only military officers were allowed to compete in equestrian Olympic events.

Whether you call it football or soccer, one thing is certain: it is the world’s most popular sport. According to some estimates, there are at least three billion football fans worldwide. The final of the 2018 men’s World Cup was watched by more than 3.5 billion TV viewers, while the women’s

Fighting sports were among the first contests to be included in the ancient Olympic Games. Only footraces predated wrestling, which was introduced in 708 BCE, and boxing made its debut as an event 20 years later. In 648 BCE pankration, an ancient precursor to modern mixed martial arts, became an

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro welcome back two sports to the Games: golf and rugby. Both sports earned enough votes at the 121st International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Copenhagen in 2009 to beat out baseball, karate, roller sports, squash, and softball for the two coveted

Tennis, badminton, and table tennis are the three racket sports featured during the Summer Olympics. Though all three have different origins and rules, the racket sports are bonded by their use of the handy projectile hitter that gives the grouping its name. Similar games have been played since

For decades, athletes have run, jumped, skated, and skied their way into Olympic history. The rest of us watch with wonder, stunned by their unbelievable achievements, left struggling to grasp the reality of their physical feats. To us, many Olympians seem like anomalies in the human continuum,

Volleyball was introduced to the Olympic Games in 1964, but before it became a competitive worldwide sport, it was a simple game developed at a Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) community center. In the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1895, William Morgan decided to create a new indoor

Dio Chrysostom: In Olympicus the sculptor Phidias explains the principles he followed in his famous statue of Zeus, one passage being supposed by some to have suggested the German dramatist Gotthold Lessing’s Laocoon. In On Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Dio compares the treatment of the story of Philoctetes…

Sylvanus Olympio was a nationalist politician and the first president of Togo who was the first presidential victim of a wave of military coups that occurred in Africa in the 1960s. A leader of the Committee of Togolese Unity after World War II, Olympio was elected president of the first

Olympiodorus The Younger was a Neoplatonist philosopher who is famous for having maintained the Platonic tradition in Alexandria after the Byzantine emperor Justinian had suppressed the Greek Academy at Athens and other pagan schools in ad 529. Olympiodorus’ extant works include lucid and valuable

Timaeus: The Olympionikai (“Victors at Olympia”) was a synchronic list of victors in the Olympic Games, the kings and ephors of Sparta, the archons (magistrates) of Athens, and the priestesses of Hera at Argos. Timaeus’s work established the practice of dating by the Olympic Games that became…

Olympique de Marseille, French professional football (soccer) club founded in 1899 and based in Marseille. Established as a general sports club that originally focused on rugby, Olympique de Marseille won the first of 10 French Cup trophies in 1924 and its first French top-division (known as Ligue

Michael Essien: …in 2003 Essien transferred to Olympique Lyonnais in Lyon, France. He helped lead the team to league championships in both the 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons, and in 2005 he was named France’s Player of the Year. Essien’s continued progression made him one of the most-coveted players in the world, and…

Carl Spitteler: …Prize) was the poetic epic Der olympische Frühling (1900–05; revised 1910; “The Olympic Spring”), in which he found full scope for bold invention and vividly expressive power. The last years of his life were given up to rewriting his first work. Tighter in composition than the early version and, like…

Mount Olympus, mountain peak, the highest (9,570 feet [2,917 metres]) in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Gulf of Thérmai (Modern Greek: Thermaïkós) of the Aegean Sea and lies astride the border between Macedonia (Makedonía) and Thessaly (Thessalía). It is also designated as Upper

Angela Bassett: …Service in the action thriller Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and its sequel London Has Fallen (2016). Her other films include Lee’s crime dramedy Chi-Raq (2015) and the action adventure Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018). Bassett also played the mother of the character T’Challa (the Black Panther) in the Marvel Cinematic

Olympus Mons, volcano on the planet Mars, the highest point on the planet and the largest known volcano in the solar system. Centered at 19° N, 133° W, Olympus Mons consists of a central edifice 22 km (14 miles) high and 700 km (435 miles) across. Around its perimeter an outward-facing cliff

Mount Olympus, mountain peak, the highest (9,570 feet [2,917 metres]) in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Gulf of Thérmai (Modern Greek: Thermaïkós) of the Aegean Sea and lies astride the border between Macedonia (Makedonía) and Thessaly (Thessalía). It is also designated as Upper

Olympic National Park: …found on the highest peak, Mount Olympus (7,965 feet [2,428 metres]), and on others. In all, there are some 250 glaciers in the park, although most are small and localized. The ocean shore section contains scenic beaches, islets, and points; three Indian reservations (of the Makah, Quileute, and Hoh tribes)…

Cyprus: Relief: The range’s summit, Mount Olympus (also called Mount Troodos), reaches an elevation of 6,401 feet (1,951 metres) and is the island’s highest point.

Demosthenes: Leader of the democratic faction: …three stirring speeches (the “Olynthiacs”) to elicit aid for Olynthus, but the city fell the following year without significant help from Athens. Finally, Philip and the Athenians agreed in April 346 to the Peace of Philocrates; Demosthenes, partly to gain time to prepare for the long struggle he saw…

Olynthus, ancient Greek city situated on the Chalcidice Peninsula of northwestern Greece. It lay about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) inland from the Gulf of Torone of the Aegean Sea. A Thracian people called the Bottiaeans inhabited Olynthus until 479 bce, when Persian forces killed them and handed the town

Lena River: Physiography: …after the junction with the Olyokma River, and the width of the river reaches 1 mile (1.6 km). From the mouth of the Vitim to the Olyokma, the river skirts the Patom Plateau, on the right bank, forming an enormous bend; the width of the valley increases in places to…

Timothy Olyphant is an American actor who has appeared in a wide range of roles but is best known for portraying two lawmen on television: Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood (2004–06) and Deadwood: The Movie (2019) and U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in Justified (2010–15) and the miniseries Justified:

Timothy Olyphant is an American actor who has appeared in a wide range of roles but is best known for portraying two lawmen on television: Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood (2004–06) and Deadwood: The Movie (2019) and U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in Justified (2010–15) and the miniseries Justified:

Nicola Olyslagers is the first Australian woman to jump 2 meters (6 feet 6.74 inches) in the high jump. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (held in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic), the track-and-field athlete earned a silver medal and set a personal best record with a jump of 2.02 meters (6

Nicola Olyslagers is the first Australian woman to jump 2 meters (6 feet 6.74 inches) in the high jump. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (held in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic), the track-and-field athlete earned a silver medal and set a personal best record with a jump of 2.02 meters (6

om, in Hinduism and other religions chiefly of India, a sacred syllable that is considered to be the greatest of all the mantras, or sacred formulas. The syllable om is composed of the three sounds a-u-m (in Sanskrit, the vowels a and u coalesce to become o), which represent several important

Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer who mesmerized Arab audiences from the Persian Gulf to Morocco for half a century. She was one of the most famous Arab singers and public personalities of the 20th century. Umm Kulthum’s birth was registered as May 4, 1904, although some early profiles suggested

Deepika Padukone: Model, actress, and producer: …and her doppelganger, Sandy, in Om Shanti Om. Her Hindi debut was followed by successful films such as Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008; “Watch Out Beauties”), costarring Ranbir Kapoor, Love Aaj Kal (2009; “Love These Days”) opposite Saif Ali Khan, and Housefull, (2010) featuring an ensemble cast led by Akshay Kumar.…

Johan Ludvig Heiberg: Theoretically, he argued in Om Vaudevillen (1826; “About Vaudeville”), vaudeville as a genre was a synthesis of words and music that subsumed in its poetic realism both the lyrical and the epic and thus marked the highest form of comedy-drama. Besides his vaudeville pieces, Heiberg’s most frequently performed plays…

Tibet: Plant and animal life: …grow mainly in hilly regions), ’om-bu (bushlike trees with red flowers that grow near water), khres-pa (strong durable forest trees used to make food containers), glang-ma (a willow tree used for basketry), and rtsi-shings (the seeds of which are used for making varnish). Fruit-bearing trees and certain roots are used…

Rem Koolhaas: In 1975 he formed the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp (at that time Koolhaas’s wife), with offices in Rotterdam and London.

Rhoma Irama is an Indonesian popular musician who was in large part responsible for the creation of dangdut dance music, a blend of Indonesian, Indian, Middle Eastern, and Western styles that amassed a tremendous following in Indonesia in the late 20th century. Born to a lower-middle-class family

Omagh, town, Fermanagh and Omagh district, western Northern Ireland. Situated on the River Strule, Omagh is a market, shopping, and light-manufacturing centre for the district. Traditional crafts (such as table linens and crochet lace) continue to be produced in the town. It is also a major

Omagh, former district (1973–2015) within the former County Tyrone, now in Fermanagh and Omagh district, western Northern Ireland, made up of rolling lowlands and hills. It was bordered by the former districts of Strabane to the north, Magherafelt and Cookstown to the east, Dungannon to the south,

Omagh bombing, terrorist attack in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on August 15, 1998, in which a bomb concealed in a car exploded, killing 29 people and injuring more than 200 others. The Omagh bombing, carried out by members of the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA, or New IRA), was