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3 unusual facts about Omi


Imazu

Ōmi-Imazu Station, railway station on the Kosei Line of West Japan Railway Company in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Omi-Osun ruins

The Omi-Ọsun ruins are the remains of an ancient settlement of the Oke-Ila Orangun kingdom, located along the Omi-Ọsun river in southwestern Nigeria.

Ōmi, Niigata

Ōmi no take no karakai is a traditional New Years event that has been carried out since the Edo period (1603–1867).


Atmospheric ghost lights

In a Yomihon (Ehon Sayo Shigure) from the Edo period, at Minakuchi, Ōmi (now Kōka, Shiga Prefecture) there was a person who made a livelihood out of selling jōsen (candy made from the sap of Rehmannia glutinosa, boiled into a paste) who was killed by a robber.

Augustin Dontenwill

Augustin Dontenwill (June 4, 1857 – November 30, 1931) was the Roman Catholic Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) priest, who became Archbishop of Vancouver, Canada, from 1899 to 1908.

Basilica of our Lady of Perpetual Help, Labrador City

In response to Bishop Peter Sutton, OMI, request, Pope Paul VI decreed in 1976 that the church become a co-cathedral with the one at Schefferville.

Burlescombe

Text incised on slate tablet on monument: "To the memory of Elizabeth Ayshford wife of Arthur Ayshford eldest sonne of Henry Ayshford Esquier only daughter of the right honourable Charles Lord Wilmot Viscount of Atllone (i.e. Athlone, d.1644) late general of his majesties forces in the kingdome of Ireland now a privy counceller both of England Ireland. She dyed the 23th (sic) yeare of her age Anno D(omi)ni 1635 June 13.o"

Emperor Kinmei

Ōomi (Great Imperial chieftain): Soga no Iname no Sukune, also known as Soga no Iname.

Emperor Kōkaku

1782 (Tenmei 2): An analysis of silver currency in China and Japan "Sin sen sen pou (Sin tchuan phou)" was presented to the emperor by Kutsuki Masatsuna (1750–1802), also known as Kutsuki Oki-no kami Minamoto-no Masatsuna, hereditary daimyo of Oki and Ōmi with holdings in Tamba and Fukuchiyama – related note at Tenmei 7 below.

H. Rus Warne

He was born at Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1872 and attended the Ohio Mechanics Institute (OMI) in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Holy Rosary Church, Quetta

Victor Gnanapragasam OMI as apostolic vicar of the new ecclesiastical circumscription and the titular bishop of Timida.

Inhibitor of apoptosis

Activity of XIAP is blocked by binding to DIABLO (Smac) and HTRA2 (Omi) proteins released from mitochondria after pro-apoptic stimuli.

Intoxicating Hariharan

Intoxicating Hariharan is a studio album of the Indian singer and Ghazal composer Hariharan, released in the year 1996 by Indian label Omi Music.

Kanokon

:Omi is a second year student at Kouta's school who is in fact a sickle weasel with the power to control the wind.

Kosei Line

The section from Nagahara to Ōmi-Shiotsu, originally electrified with 20 kV AC, was re-electrified to 1,500 V DC on September 24, 2006 enabling DC-only EMUs used in Osaka-Kyoto region to operate, and the Special Rapid through train service from JR Kyoto Line (Tokaido Main Line) was extended beyond Ōmi-Shiotsu to Tsuruga on the Hokuriku Main Line.

Lake Hamana

From the perspective of the capital in the Kinai, Tōtōmi is more distant than the other famous lake, Chikatsu-afumi or Ōmi (now Lake Biwa), the "nearby fresh-water lake."

Optical Mechanics, Inc.

OMI mirrors are used by other telescope makers such as Obsession Telescopes.

Ottico Meccanica Italiana

OMI produced the OMI cryptograph, a cipher machine similar to the more famous German Enigma.

Shigaraki ware

In the later half of the Heian period, Sue ware production came to an abrupt decline, with production now centralizing in the Owari, Mino, Bizen, and Omi provinces.

Sōgi

He came from a humble family from the province of Kii or Ōmi, and died in Hakone on September 1, 1502.

St Peter's College, Colombo

Marcelline Jayakody OMI - Well-known Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, lyricist, author, journalist and patriot.

Toju Nakae

He taught that the highest virtue was filial piety (kō), and acted upon this, giving up his official post in 1634 in order to return to his home in Takashima, Ōmi to care for his mother.

Victor Gnanapragasam

He was parish priest at Khanewal, Diocese of Multan, from 1979–1985; Superior of the OMI Delegation in Pakistan, 1980–1982 and again parish priest in Gojra from 1982-1986.


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