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5 unusual facts about Ophir


Lequios

The Lequios is a group of Hebrews who settled around Ophir, which the Spaniards considered the Philippine islands to be, before it's colonization.

Notholithocarpus

Currently the largest known tanoak specimen is on private timberland near the town of Ophir, Oregon.

Ophir, Colorado

Ophir was the site of the world's first commercial system to generate and transmit alternating current electricity, the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant.

The historic town of Ophir is a Home Rule Municipality located in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

Vanoil Energy

In Kenya, through its subsidiary Avana Petroleum, Vanoil has a 10% participating interest in a 5,110 km2 (1.3 million acre) exploration area, Block L9, awarded to Avana and its partners Dominion Petroleum (now Ophir, operator of the area) and Flow Energy (now FAR - ASX:FAR) in 2011.


Adi Ophir

Professor Ophir teaches philosophy at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University.

Analyzing seminal works by modern and postmodern philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, Marx, Sartre, Arendt, Foucault, and Derrida, Ophir submits that to be moral is to care for others, and to be committed to preventing their suffering and distress.

Philip Deidesheimer

Deidesheimer studied at the mining academy of Freiberg, Germany (see Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg), and was mining in Georgetown, California prior to being hired by W. F. Babcock, a trustee of the Ophir Mine in April 1860.

Shaike Ophir

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Ophir occasionally guest-starred in American TV shows such as Shirley Temple's Storybook and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.


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