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  Oberon (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oberon, also Auberon, King of the Fairies, is most famous as a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in the mid-1590s.
Oberon's status as king of the elves comes from the character of Alberich (elbe "elves" reix, rex "king"), a sorcerer in the legendary history of the Merovingian dynasty.
Thus Oberon appears in a 13th century french courtly fantasy that is based on a shred of 9th century fact.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oberon_(mythology)   (586 words)

  
 Oberon (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oberon (oe'-bur-on) is the outermost of the major moons of the planet Uranus.
The name "Oberon" and the names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by Herschel's son John Herschel in 1852 at the request of William Lassell, who had discovered Ariel and Umbriel the year before ([1]).
Oberon is composed of roughly 50% water ice, 30% silicate rock, and 20% methane-related carbon/nitrogen compounds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oberon_(moon)   (253 words)

  
 OBERON - LoveToKnow Article on OBERON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Webers opera, Oberon, to the words of J. Planch, was first produced at Covent Garden on the 12th of April 1826.
With Oberon in the character of guardian of the treasure should be compared Andvari, the dwarf of Scandinavian legend, who, in the shape of a pike, was seized by Loki and made to give up his treasure and the magic ring by which he could create more gold.
This ring, the Andvaranautr, with the curse of Andvari upon it, caused the misfortunes of the Volsungs and the Burgundian Nibelungs, and is known in German romance as the Ring of the Nibelungen.
94.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OB/OBERON.htm   (301 words)

  
 Oberon operating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oberon is an operating system, originally developed as part of the NS32032-based Ceres workstation project; it is written entirely in the Oberon programming language.
The user interface is neither a GUI nor quite a command line interface, being instead tied closely to naming conventions in Oberon (the language).
The Oberon OS is available for several other hardware platforms, generally in no cost versions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oberon_operating_system   (244 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Merle Oberon
Oberon's career went on to greater heights partly as a result of her relationship with and later marriage to director Alexander Korda, who had persuaded her to take the name under which she became famous.
Merle Oberon was scarred for life, but skilled lighting technicians prevented her injuries being spotted by cinema audiences.
Merle Oberon divorced Sir Alexander Korda in 1945, to marry cinematographer Lucien Ballard.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Merle-Oberon   (1304 words)

  
 Welcome to Oberon
Oberon has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the State and shows a healthy rate of growth and activity in economic, cultural, social and recreational development.
Oberon's natural beauty, altitude and climate, as well as the proximity to the world heritage listed Jenolan Caves and greater Blue Mountains national parks system also contribute to the continuing growth of the area.
Oberon Council recognises the importance of supporting the community by facilitating the maintenance of this rate of growth wherever possible.
www.oberon.nsw.gov.au   (133 words)

  
 Business Wire: Oberon Software Secures $8 Million in First Rou... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oberon Software's ability to attract the investment of these three firms is a clear sign that the company is among the more promising in today's technology industry.
Oberon's Prospero is a proven solution, certified by the application partners themselves, and customers in a wide variety of industries have already benefited by choosing it as their integration solution.
Oberon Software, Inc. (www.oberon.com), headquartered in Cambridge, MA, pioneered a new category of application software known as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) by being the first company to successfully introduce to the ERP market, innovative integration solutions for the rapid collaboration of software applications from multiple vendors.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20303794&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (822 words)

  
 Oberon, A Moon Of Uranus
Oberon [O-buh-ron] is a moon of Uranus that is characterized by an old, heavily cratered, and icy surface.
This image of Oberon shows several large impact craters towards the center of the picture.
This is the highest resolution image of Oberon taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
www.solarviews.com /eng/oberon.htm   (230 words)

  
 About Oberon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oberon is a Creator Being who initiated and breathed this physical dimension, the physical universe, into existence.
Oberon was not alone in this task and had a team of collaborators - as is the norm with other creator teams of the zillions of universes that have been designed and brought into being.
Oberon is on a mission, has the teams in place to achieve it and now is keen to see who steps forward without fear to help supervise and uplift the rest of humanity.
www.karinya.com /oberon   (980 words)

  
 CAWeb - CAW Clergy - Oberon Zell-Ravenheart
Oberon is also an initiate in the Egyptian Church of the Eternal Source, a Priest in the Fellowship of Isis, and an initiate in several different Traditions of Witchcraft.
Oberon was born Timothy Zell on November 30, 1942, in St Louis, Missouri--a Sagittarian with Aquarius rising.
Oberon is the author of numerous published articles on history, Gaian thealogy, magic, shamanism, mythology, anomalies, dinosaurs, archaeology, cosmology, and related topics, and has been interviewed and quoted extensively in many books on New Age religious movements, Paganism and the occult.
www.caw.org /clergy/oberon/index.html   (1138 words)

  
 Oberon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Uranus IV Oberon ("OH buh ron") is the outermost of Uranus' large satellites and the second largest:
Oberon is the King of the Fairies and husband of Titania in Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream.
Oberon and Umbriel appear quite similar though Oberon is 35% larger.
seds.lpl.arizona.edu /nineplanets/nineplanets/oberon.html   (231 words)

  
 Oberon --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In this poem Oberon is a dwarf-king, living in the woodland, who by magic powers helps the hero to accomplish a seemingly impossible task.
In the legendary history of the Merovingian dynasty Oberon is a magician, the brother of Merowech (Mérovée).
In the legendary history of the Frankish Merovingian Dynasty, Oberon is a magician, the brother of King Merowech...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056637?tocId=9056637   (730 words)

  
 Pondus Snickeri & Butik
Han litade dock i OBERONS fall inte endast på noga inpassning utan lade in en 1 mm tjock plåt av nickelstål i OBERONS hålkrabb och ned till blykölen.
OBERON återbördades ännu en gång till Stockholm 1977, denna gång från Limhamn av Thomas Larsson och bröderna Hans och Bengt Wahrolen.
OBERON är alltså idag mera än äkta kryssare än hon var 1901, trots detta används hon mest som kryssare och har tagit ägarfamiljen (2 vuxna och 3 barn) på många och långa färder runt Sveriges kuster.
www.pondussnickeri.a.se /www.pondussnickeri.a.se/oberon.html   (656 words)

  
 Cetus Links: 16604 Links on Objects and Components / Oberon-2 / Component Pascal
Oberon is the successor of the popular Pascal and Modula-2 family of programming languages.
A few years later, the Oberon language was extended with additional object-oriented features to result in the programming language Oberon-2.
Differences between Oberon and Oberon-2 (H. Mössenböck, N.
www.cetus-links.org /oo_oberon.html   (487 words)

  
 Oberon SES Home Page
Oberon SES is currently in the process of extending the headquarters.
Oberon SES is the accredited primary land rescue unit for Oberon and district, and is also an accredited vertical rescue unit.
Many of Oberon SES's volunteers are or were avid bushwalkers, canyoners and cavers, and there are still plenty of social walks and adventures to be enjoyed.
oberon.ses.nsw.gov.au   (1166 words)

  
 ETH Oberon home page
Oberon is also the name of a programming language in the Pascal/Modula tradition.
The Oberon project was launched in 1985 by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht.
The Oberon system is available free of charge and no registration is required for downloading the material.
www.oberon.ethz.ch   (443 words)

  
 LiSP - Oberon
Oberon enjoys cool summers, balmy autumns, cold, crisp winters with occasional snow falls and lush springs.
The scenery is varied, ranging from beautiful rolling countryside to pine forests and the magnificent cliffs, gorges and waterfalls of Kanangra Boyd National Park and the granite boulders of Evans Crown.
Dine at local restaurants, picnic at Lake Oberon, fish for the wily trout, fossick for gemstones, seek forest mushrooms, bushwalk and abseil in a spectacular landscape.
www.lisp.com.au /oberon   (211 words)

  
 Active Oberon for .net Homepage
Active Oberon for.net is an evolution of the programming language Oberon in the context of the new Microsoft.net technology.
Active Oberon for.net was developed at the ETH Zürich in the group of Prof.
Oberon is a member of the Pascal language family.
www.oberon.ethz.ch /lightning   (455 words)

  
 EDM/2 - A Discussion of Oberon
Oberon was developed in the late Eighties by Professors Wirth and Gutnecht at ETHZ (Zurich Technical University).
The original Oberon OS could fit in under 200Kbytes, and was written in 12,227 lines of code (to be exact - excluding kernel, display and floating point written in assembler).
Oberon actually removed several features that were present in Modula (WITH, FOR [I said it was minimalist!], enumerated types and subrange types) but added type extension (inheritance) and type inclusion (e.g., that a SHORTINT is included in an INTEGER).
www.edm2.com /0608/oberon.html   (1279 words)

  
 Oberon
Oberon took the fact that Scott was the son of Highfather of the New Gods in stride.
Oberon is efficient, hard-working, trustworthy, feisty, argumentative, and stubborn.
For all his bravado, when confronted with a woman as brazen as she is, Oberon shies away.
www.mykey3000.com /cosmicteams/profiles/oberon.html   (561 words)

  
 BYTE.com
Oberon/F is based on Oberon 2, language successor to Pascal and Modula 2, and includes a compiler and debugger for this language.
Oberon 2 is a strongly typed, compiled language that supports both modular and object-oriented programming as well as Eiffel-like precondition and postcondition testing using ASSERT statements.
The Oberon 2 programmer expects to catch 90 percent o f the errors at compile time and most of the remainder by careful choice of preconditions.
www.byte.com /art/9501/sec14/art3.htm   (1650 words)

  
 The Oberon Council: News: Press Release
The Oberon Council discussed the potential impacts of Windpower Generators/Wind Farms in the local area at the September Meeting.
They propose installing up to 100 wind generators on approximately 15 rural properties between Oberon and Black Springs.There are already 3 wind monitoring towers in the rural area of Oberon, two installed by Wind Corporation Australia Pty Ltd, at Black Springs and Edith and one installed by Southern Cross Windpower Ltd at Essington.
That a public notification plan, incorporating a public meeting, be developed to inform, listen to and discuss with the Oberon community the future of wind energy development in the Oberon Shire.
www.oberon.nsw.gov.au /news/pages/1404.html   (291 words)

  
 Sea and Sky: Oberon
Oberon was discovered in 1787 by the British astronomer, Sir William Herschel, who also discovered Uranus.
Oberon is very similar to Umbriel in composition, although Oberon is about 35% larger.
Oberon has no detectable atmosphere and no magnetic field.
www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3h6.html   (250 words)

  
 The Oberon Home
The Oberon, named for one of the moons of Uranus, is an 800 square foot home.
The Oberon IV is affordable by many who otherwise wide up in dumpy apartments or trailers.
This and other Oberon plans would also be ideal for a retirement home.
www.monolithicdome.com /gallery/homes/oberon   (300 words)

  
 Oberon a Software knowledge company for DSP, embedded, realtime, engineering business.
Welcome to Oberon Data och Elektronik AB Oberon is a company with a network of other companies and specialized individuals.
Oberon´s part in this cooperating network is Oberon's excellent knowledge of software and hardware engineering, especially for the Texas Instruments DSP series.
Oberon worked in conjunction with other companies developing road surfacing measurement software for a number of years and in 1996 Oberon was proud to present its own road surface measurement system, AXON1, a profilometer.
www.oberon.se   (237 words)

  
 TCS - Oberon Confederation:
Of all the Bandit Kingdoms in the Periphery, the Oberon Confederation alone is self- sufficient.
Though Oberon seems to be approaching the stage that Circinus reached two centuries ago--that of a viable nation-state supported in part by piracy--Grimm appears to be seeking the respectability that standard interstellar trade will bring.
Oberon Vl is a warm, temperate world rich in natural re- sources, particularly gold and coal.
www.magpage.com /~flynnmj/history/bandits5.html   (602 words)

  
 Adding Persistence to the Oberon-System (ResearchIndex)
Abstract: Oberon and Oberon-2 [MöW91] are general purpose programming languages in the tradition of Pascal and Modula-2.
Oberon [WiGu89] is also a modular, single-threaded operating system for single-user operation of workstations.
One missing point of Oberon is the existence of database functionality such as persistence or recovery.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /27170.html   (318 words)

  
 Oberon FAQ (language)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The programming language Oberon is the result of aconcentrated effort to increase the power of Modula-2 andsimultaneously to reduce its complexity.
While some people complain about Oberon's minimalistic support of object oriented programming, others feel that this is one of Oberon's strengths, that the language does not institutionalize aparticular approach to OOP (see the Comp.object FAQ list for an examination of several variations on the object oriented paradigm).
At this point it is worth noting that the ETH supports Oberon for Windows but does not consider the Intel chips to be an intresting research topic (the answer to the Intel problem is to have more registers).
www.cs.caltech.edu /~cs140/140a/Oberon/language_faq.html   (1212 words)

  
 Oberon on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oberon e-Enterprise To Integrate With Vignette's Flagship e-Business Applications.
Oberon Software and Hyperion Join Forces to Deliver Best-of-Breed ERP Integration With Packaged Analytic Applications.
Oberon Software Secures $8 Million in First Round Financing; Funding from Charles River, Matrix, Sigma enhance company's leadership in burgeoning Enterprise Application Integration market.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Oberon.asp   (255 words)

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