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	Thomas Oliver Think piece @ InternetNavigator.com (Internet Navigator)
		Thomas "Tommy" Oliver portrayed by actor Jason David Frank (adult) and Michael R. Gotto (young) is a fictional character and hero in the Power Rangers universe.
		Tommy Oliver is the only character to have worn four different colors as a Ranger.
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	www.internetnavigator.com /encyclopedia/Thomas_Oliver (3041 words)

	Paul Oliver Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture
		Paul Oliver's encyclopedia documents the results of an entirely new type of global architectural research which had developed over the last 2 -3 decades.
		It may well be possible that Paul Oliver's encyclopedia will have impacts of 'enlightenment' on the present "postmedieval myth of the profaned creator genius" still violently virulent in post modern architecture.
		In view of the humanities and particularly in regard to ethnology, Paul Oliver's encyclopedia provides a full fledged 'dictionary of architectural ethnology' including agrarian house traditions conventionally dealt with by folklore studies of various countries.
	home.worldcom.ch /~negenter/211Oliver_Vernacular.html (468 words)

	Oliver Township, Huron County, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The median income for a household in the township is $32,315, and the median income for a family is $40,536.
		As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 1,626.
		The village of Elkton is within the township.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Township,_Huron_County,_Michigan (387 words)

	Oliver Tambo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Reginald Tambo (27 October 1917 - 24 April 1993) was a South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress (ANC).
		Tambo, along with Mandela and Walter Sisulu, was a founding member of the ANC Youth League in 1943, becoming its first National Secretary and later a member of the National Executive in 1948.
		In response, Tambo was sent abroad by the ANC to mobilise opposition to apartheid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Tambo (405 words)

	Oliver North - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North became famous due to his participation in the Iran-Contra Affair, in which he was the chief coordinator of the legal sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua.
		North was assigned to the National Security Council staff of the Reagan administration in 1981, served as the United States government Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 1983 to 1986, and eventually became Deputy Director for Political-Military Affairs.
		In 1994, North unsuccessfully ran for the Senate as the Republican candidate in Virginia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_North (1161 words)

	Oliver Goldsmith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730(?)– April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1773).
		Perennially in debt, Goldsmith had a massive output as a hack writer for the publishers of London, but his few painstaking works earned him the company of Samuel Johnson, along with whom he was a founding member of "The Club".
		Goldsmith's birth date is not known for certain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith (403 words)

	Oliver Evans - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
		Oliver Evans' most famous device was the Oruktor Amphibolos, or "Amphibious Digger", built on commission from the city of Philadelphia who asked Evans to turn his talent to the problem of dredging and cleaning the city's dockyards.
		Oliver Evans wrote up proposals to mechanize stage coach lines, but failed to get backing from investors.
		Evans' first notable invention was in 1787, when he made a machine for making card teeth for carding wool.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /oliver_evans.htm (403 words)

	Oliver Close - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Close is a Community-based Housing Association housing estate of the Leyton ward, East London.
		The second stage, at Oliver Close and Auckland Road, was approved in 1967 and consisted of two 22-storey towers (containing 200 flats) called Terence Messenger and Stanley Horstead Towers This concluded the estate with five 22-storey towers and 500 flats.
		Oliver Close then underwent regeneration between 1996 to 2002 under HAT and then later Community-based Housing Association.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Close (166 words)

	Oliver Belmont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver's father was August Belmont, a Prussian Jew who came to the United States in 1837 as an agent for the Rothschilds, and accumulated enormous personal wealth.
		Oliver was a bachelor at the time of his father's death and decided to build a summer house in Newport.
		Richard Morris Hunt was the architect for Oliver's Newport mansion, Belcourt Castle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Belmont (315 words)

	Oliver Kahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Kahn (born 15 June 1969 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German football goalkeeper.
		It was not until Andreas Köpke announced his retirement at the end of the tournament that Oliver Kahn was finally given his chance as the unquestionable German number one.
		Kahn began his football odyssey in 1976, in his native town, Karlsruhe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Kahn (765 words)

	WOLCOTT - LoveToKnow Article on WOLCOTT
		Oliver's son, OLIVER WOLCOTT, jun. (1760-1833), graduated at Yale in 1778, studied law in Litchfield under Judge Tapping Reeve, and was admitted to the bar in 1781.
		EDWARD OLIVER WOLCOTT (1848-1905), a member of the same family,went to Colorado, became interested in silver mining there, was a U.S. Senator in 1889-1901, and was a prominent Republican bimetallist.
		A grandson of the second Oliver's brother Frederick was ROGER WOLCOTT (1847-1901), who graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1874.
	38.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WO/WOLCOTT.htm (766 words)

	Encyclopedia: Oliver Phelps
		Phelps died in 1809 in debtors prison in the town he sold and helped develop.
		Despite vast land holdings that were worth a fortune, economic fluctuations and slow land sales caused Phelps to get into financial difficulty.
		After the purchase, Phelps opened a land sales office in Suffield, Connecticut and another in Canandaigua.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Oliver-Phelps (766 words)

	Municipal / administrative history
		1998 - The townships of Oliver and Paipoonge amalgamate as Oliver Paigpoonge (Township).
	www.rootsweb.com /~onthunde/munadm.html (766 words)

	Oliver Evans
		Evans apparently planned to apply for a patent on the idea, but is not known to have done so.
		Evans died on 15 April 1819 at age 64.
		He promoted the idea of using the exhaust steam and several of his customers are known to have employed it.
	www.history.rochester.edu /steam/evans (766 words)

	Oliver Letwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is a member of the Conservative Party and is the son of William Letwin, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics, and conservative academic Shirley Letwin.
		During the campaign for the 2001 General Election, Letwin, as shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, expressed an aspiration to curtail future public spending by fully 20 billion pounds per annum relative to the plans of the Labour government.
		Letwin was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge and the London Business School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Letwin (647 words)

	Ariadne Oliver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver is a mystery novelist and a friend of Hercule Poirot.
		Oliver often assists Poirot in her case through her knowledge of the criminal mind.
		Books by Ariadne Oliver and by a number of other fictitious mystery writers are discussed by the characters in the novel The Clocks (1963).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ariadne_Oliver (260 words)

	Oliver Trask - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Trask is a fictional character who appeared during the first season of the FOX series The O.C. He was played by Taylor Handley.
		Oliver believes that he and Marissa are meant to be together, and he does everything he can in order to make that happen, including transferring schools, lying, and actively trying to ruin her relationship with Ryan (The Rivals, 2004).
		The portrayal of Oliver Trask, which emphasizes his deceptive and dangerous nature, is an example of how the media helps to create the stigma that surrounds those with mental illnesses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Trask (1433 words)

	Jefferson County Townships
		The township is bounded on the north by Beaver township, on the east by Rose and Oliver, on the south by Porter, and on the west by Armstrong county.
		Oliver is bounded on the north by Knox and Rose, on the east by McCalmont and Young, on the south by Perry and on the west by Beaver and Ringgold.
		The township is bounded on the north by Henderson, on the east by Clearfield county, on the south by Indiana county, and on the west by Bell township.
	www.pa-roots.com /~jefferson/history/tships.html (5157 words)

	Oliver Sipple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sipple fought in the Vietnam War, and was honorably discharged in 1970.
		Sipple was a bystander as President Ford went to speak at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on September 22.
		Sipple went to San Francisco to start a new life after the Vietnam war and made new friends, and became active in local causes, including the political campaigns of openly gay Board of Supervisors candidate Harvey Milk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Sipple (486 words)

	Oliver Reed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen.
		Reed's drinking bouts fitted in with the "social" attitude of many rugby teams in the sixties and seventies, and there are numerous anecdotes such as Reed and 36 friends drinking, in an evening, 60 gallons of beer, 32 bottles of Scotch, 17 bottles of gin, four crates of wine and one bottle of Babycham.
		Reed was often irritated that his appearances on TV chat shows concentrated on his drinking feats, rather than his latest film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Reed (520 words)

	Encyclopedia: Oliver Plunkett
		Oliver Plunkett was born in Loughcrew in County Meath, Ireland on November 1, 1625.
		Oliver Plunkett was born in Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland, in 1629 from well-to-do parents related to families recently ennobled, such as the Earls of Roscommon and Fingall, as well as Lords Louth and Dunsany.
		Oliver Plunkett was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, the first new Irish saint for almost seven hundred years, and the first of the Irish martyrs to be beatified.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Oliver-Plunkett (3408 words)

	Oliver Cromwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver was born in Huntingdon, in the county of Huntingdonshire in East Anglia.
		Oliver Cromwell descended from Catherine Cromwell (born circa 1483), an older sister of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell.
		Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599 – September 3, 1658) was an English military leader and politician.
	www.murfreesboro.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Oliver_Cromwell (3510 words)

	Farquhar Oliver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a United Farmers of Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament in the 1926 provincial election at the age of 22.
		Farquhar Oliver retired from the legislature in 1967, and died in 1989 at the age of 85.
		Oliver was re-elected as a UFO MLA in the 1929 election and was the sole (and last) United Farmers member in the legislature until 1940.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farquhar_Oliver (3510 words)

	Brown v. Board of Education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brown's daughter Linda Brown, a third grader, had to walk five blocks to her school bus stop to ride to Monroe Elementary her segregated black school two miles away, while Sumner Elementary, a white school, was only five blocks from her house.
		Brown did not, however, result in the immediate desegregation of America's public schools, nor did it mandate desegregation of public accommodations, such as restaurants or bathrooms, that were owned by private parties, which would not be accomplished until the passage of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
		Brown is undoubtedly the most famous of a group of U.S. Supreme Court cases which principally deal with the struggle of black Americans to recover the rights of citizenship expressly given to them by the Constitution of the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education (3510 words)

	Oliver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Plunkett (1629-1681), Irish saint and Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
		Oliver, British Columbia is a small town in the Okanagan Valley known as the Wine Capital of Canada.
		Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), American actor, one half of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver (294 words)

	Oliver Ellsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745– November 26, 1807), an American lawyer and politician, was a revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, and third Chief Justice of the United States.
		Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice of the United States, 1796-1800
		Ellsworth favored the three-fifths compromise on the enumeration of slaves but opposed the abolition of the foreign slave trade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Ellsworth (529 words)

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