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Old Castile

(Encyclopedia)Old Castile, Spain: see Castile.

Old Catholics

(Encyclopedia)Old Catholics, Christian denomination established by German Catholics who separated themselves from the Roman Catholic Church when they rejected (1870) the decrees of the First Vatican Council, especi...

Old Faithful

(Encyclopedia)Old Faithful, geyser: see Yellowstone National Park. ...

Old Ironsides

(Encyclopedia)Old Ironsides: see Constitution, ship. ...

Old Lyme

(Encyclopedia)Old Lyme līm [key], residential and resort town (1990 pop. 6,535), New London co., SE Conn., on Long Island Sound, at the mouth of the Connecticut River; settled c.1655, inc. 1855. Its noteworthy old...

Old Northwest

(Encyclopedia)Old Northwest: see Northwest Territory. ...

Old Pretender

(Encyclopedia)Old Pretender: see Stuart, James Francis Edward. ...

Old Sarum

(Encyclopedia)Old Sarum sârˈəm [key], site of a former city, Wiltshire, S England, just N of Salisbury (New Sarum). Excavations and scanning technologies have revealed remains of a British Iron Age fort, the Rom...

Old Testament

(Encyclopedia)Old Testament, Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible (see New Testament). The designations “Old” and “New” seem to have been adopted af...

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