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Offa
One of the most powerful kings in Anglo-Saxon England. He became king of Mercia (757-96) after seizing power during a civil war. He extended his rule over most of S England and married his daughters to the rulers of Wessex and Northumbria. Eager to form European diplomatic ties, Offa signed a commercial treaty with Charlemagne (796) and allowed the pope to increase his control over the English church. He built Offa's Dyke to divide Mercia from Welsh lands.
OSHA
Agency of the U.S. Department of Labor. Formed in 1970, it is charged with ensuring that employers furnish their employees with a working environment free from recognized health and safety hazards. It enforces occupational safety and health standards, develops regulations, conducts investigations and workplace inspections, and issues citations and penalties for noncompliance.
Oslo
City (metro. area pop., 1997 est.: 494,000), capital of Norway. It lies at the N end of Oslo Fjord and constitutes a separate county. It was founded by King Harald III Hardraade c.1050. Haakon V built the Akershus fortress c.1300. After it was destroyed by fire in 1624, King Christian II of Denmark-Norway built a new town farther west and called it Christiania. It grew in the 19th cent., partly by absorbing neighboring towns, and replaced Bergen as Norway's largest and most influential city. It was renamed Oslo in 1925 and developed rapidly after World War II. It is the country's principal commercial, industrial, and transportation center, and its harbor is the largest and busiest in Norway.
Asch
Polish-U.S. novelist and playwright. Much of his writing concerns the experience of Jews in Eastern European villages or as immigrants in the U.S. (to which he himself emigrated in 1914). It includes the play The God of Vengeance (1907) and the novels Mottke the Thief (1916), Uncle Moses (1918), Judge Not (1926), and Chaim Lederer's Return (1927). In later, more controversial works, he explored the common heritage of Judaism and Christianity. His career was outstanding both for output and impact, and he is one of the best-known writers in modern Yiddish literature.
ASCII
Standard data-transmission code used to represent both text (letters, numbers, punctuation marks) and noninput device commands (control characters). It converts information into standardized digital formats that allow computers to communicate with each other and to process and store data efficiently. Standard ASCII uses groups of seven-digit bits, and can represent 128 characters. Extended ASCII, which uses an 8-bit encoding system, can represent 256 characters, incl. many useful characters not available in standard ASCII, such as letters with accents. Extended ASCII is the industrywide standard for encoding text on personal computers. See also EBCDIC, Unicode.
ash
Any tree of the genus Fraxinus, in the olive family. The genus includes ...
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