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Definition: Oswald |
OswaldNoun1. United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Oswald" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "God rules". |
Date "Oswald" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963), (alias Alek J. Hidell or O.H. Lee) a somewhat enigmatic figure, was the alleged assassin of U. S. President John F. Kennedy. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
This photo, which shows Oswald with a rifle, handgun, and leftist newspapers was taken on March 31, 1963 by his wife, Marina. The Warren Commission tagged the photo as exhibit 133-A. Since Oswald's death, there have been questions on the photo's authenticity. The House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970s concluded that the photo was real, although some still refuse to accept this verdict.Oswald was a former United States Marine who had served as an air flight controller. During his military career Oswald scored as a "sharpshooter" in December 1956, on two ocasions achieving 48 and 49 out of 50, during rapid fire at a 200- yard distant target, but failed to attain a marksmanship badge. Skeptics doubt the likelihood of Oswald being able to fire shots so accurately and rapidly with the weapon and from the position he was said to use to kill Kennedy.
After his military career, Oswald lived in the USSR from 1959 - 1962 in Minsk, where he married a Soviet national, Marina (née Nichilayeva) Oswald. (After Oswald's death, Marina remarried and changed her name to Marina Oswald Porter.) A staunch Marxist, he at one time tried to renounce his American citizenship, but later changed his mind and returned to the USA, bringing Marina and their infant daughter.
In the summer of 1963, Oswald was the secretary of the New Orleans chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. On August 9, while Oswald distributed "Hands Off Cuba" and "The Crime Against Cuba" leaflets on the streets of New Orleans, he was harassed by anti-Castro Cuban exiles. Police arrested Oswald for disturbing the peace. The arrest caught the attention of William Stuckey, a local reporter who hosted a radio show on WDSU called "Latin Listening Post." Oswald was a guest on the radio program on August 17 and August 21.
In March 1963, Oswald (using the false name Alek J. Hidell) purchased a rifle and handgun that was later linked to the events of November 22, 1963.
Rifle:
6.5x52mm Mannlicher-Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle
Serial number C2766
Western Cartridge 160 grain ammunition
Side-mounted Ordinance Optics 4 x 18 scope
Handgun:
.38 Special Smith & Wesson Victory revolver 2.25" bbl
Serial number V510210
Converted from .38 S&W, shortened from 5" bblAccording to the controversial Warren Commission report on the John F. Kennedy assassination, Oswald shot Kennedy from a window on the sixth floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository, where he was employed, as the President's motorcade passed through Dallas's Dealey Plaza at about 12:30 pm on November 22. Texas Governor John Connally was wounded at the same time. After leaving the scene, Oswald allegedly shot and killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald was arrested in a movie theater at about 1:50 pm, first as a suspect in the shooting of Tippit, and was then charged with assassinating Kennedy.
While in custody, Oswald denied the shooting, telling reporters "I didn't shoot anyone" and "I'm just a patsy".
Oswald was shot and killed by Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas, while being transferred to county jail, two days after the president's assassination, and before being brought to trial. Many alternative theories of the assassination contend that he acted on behalf of others, or even that Oswald was not the actual assassin.
The Warren Commission created by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination, concluded that Oswald did assassinate Kennedy and that he acted alone. The proceedings of the commission were secret, and its files have yet to be released to the public, further fuelling speculation about the assassination. A later investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, during the late 1970s, concluded that President Kennedy had been assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.
In October 1981, Oswald was subject to an exhumation undertaken by British writer Michael Eddowes (with Marina Oswald Porter's support). They sought to prove or disprove a thesis developed in a 1975 book, Khrushchev Killed Kennedy (The book was republished in 1976 in Britain as November 22: How They Killed Kennedy and in America a year later as The Oswald File.) The thesis of the trio of books was that when Oswald went to the Soviet Union, he was swapped with a Soviet clone. Eddowes's support for his thesis was a claim that the corpse buried in 1963 in the Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas did not have a scar that resulted from surgery conducted on Oswald years before. The final results of the exhumation found that the corpse they studied was Oswald's. The finding was based on dental records.
Psychology of Oswald
Before the age of 18, Oswald had lived in 22 different residences and attended 12 different schools. When Oswald was 14 years old, a psychologist diagnosed him as having "personality pattern disturbance".See also: John F. Kennedy assassination
External Links
- Lee Harvey Oswald Research Page
- J. Lee Rankin's evidence on Oswald's Marine-corps shooting grade (borderline marksman-sharpshooter, not especially good in Corps terms)
- Analysis of the backyard photo concluding it fradulent
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lee Harvey Oswald."
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Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley , November 16, 1896 - December 3, 1980) was a British politician, founder of the British Union of Fascists. He was also the 6th baronet of a title established in 1720.He had a privileged upbringing, educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He fought on the Western Front during World War I. A transfer to the Royal Flying Corps ending his war career following a crash in 1916.
Mosley became an Conservative MP for Harrow in 1918, the youngest member of the British House of Commons. He soon distinguished himself as an orator and political player, albeit marked with extreme self-confidence. He resigned from the Conservatives in 1922 as a consequence of his disagreement with the government over the Irish policy and their use of the Black and Tans to suppress the Irish population.
He retained his seat as an Independent MP for Harrow (1922-24). He then switched to Labour (1924 and 1929-31), being rewarded with the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1929. He resigned in 1930 following the rejection of his radical economic policy ideas. He quickly founded the radical New Party but when that failed, following meetings with Mussolini and other Fascists, he created the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932.
The British Union of Fascists was a union of numerous smaller extreme nationalist parties, Mosley instituted a black uniform, gaining the party the nickname blackshirts. The BUF was anti-Communist and protectionist, claimed membership was as high as 50,000, and the Daily Mail was an early supporter. Among his followers was the novelist Henry Williamson.
The party became the victim of Communist and Jewish violence especially in London. The government was sufficiently concerned to pass the Public Order Act of 1936, which was intended to destroy the movement but failed. In the London County Council elections in 1937 the Movement scored high votes in its east London strongholds. The BUF was completely banned in May 1940 and Mosley and 740 other senior Fascists were interned for much of WW II. Mosley was released in 1943.
After the war he made a number of attempts to return to politics (1947, 1959, 1966), but never successfully. He became noted for his advocacy of Britain's entry into the European Economic Community.
His first wife was Lady Cynthia Curzon, second daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India. They had three children. He married his mistress Diana Guinness née Mitford in 1936, in the home of Nazi chief Joseph Goebbels; Adolf Hitler was one of the guests. He and the second Lady Mosley had two sons. A noted philanderer, Mosley had numerous affairs, during his first marriage to Lady Cynthia, with her sister Lady Alexandra Metcalfe as well as her stepmother, Lady Curzon.
External links
- Report of a Mosley speech from 1934
- BBC report on MI5 surveillance of Mosley
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Oswald Mosley."
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St Oswald, King of Bernicia AD 604-642. Son of Æthelfrith of Bernicia, King of Northumbria.He is considered to have been Bretwalda in the years 633-641. He died AD 642 at Maserfield.
When his brothers were killed by the British King Cadwalla, he gathered an army and marched against him. The day before the battle, he made his soldiers construct a wooden cross. Oswald knelt down, holding the cross in position until enough earth had been thrown in the hole to make it stand firm. He then prayed and asked his army to join in. He defeated Cadwalla, recovered his father's throne. He was killed by the King of Mercia at the battle of Maserfield. His feast day is August 9th.
He married Cyneburh of Wessex. With her he had:
'\'This is a stub.''
- Æthelwald, King of Deira
Preceded by:
Edwin of DeiraList of British monarchs Succeeded by:
Oswiu of NorthumbriaSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Oswald of Bernicia."
Synonym: OswaldSynonym: Lee Harvey Oswald (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: blackening scale (physics), blackening scale Oswald (physics), Linke and Oswald blue scale (geography). |
Crosswords: Oswald |
| Specialty definitions using "Oswald": Gilded Chamber ♦ Matilda ♦ Oswald's Well. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Why? The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison) What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary) Lee Harvey Oswald. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) I'll have a Harvey Oswald. (First Kid; writing credit: Tim Kelleher) Your swiss-cheesed brain probably doesn't remember, butthe first time around, Oswald killed Jackie, too. (Quantum Leap; writing credit: Ya'ackov Lazar; Jonathan Paz) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Oswald Kolle: Liebe als Gesellschaftsspiel? (1972) Lee Harvey Oswald (1970) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964) Mit Oswald in der Oper (1956) Doctor Oswald (1935) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Oswald Bumke. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Photograph of the affidavit charging Lee Harvey Oswald with the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Composite photograph consisting of three photographs of Jack Ruby with dogs, seated with men at table and with young dancer, and one photograph of four Western Union telegrams congratulating Ruby for shooting Oswald. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Innsbruck, Tyrol / entwurf: Oswald Haller, Innsbruck. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Oswald Chambers | Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. |
| The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. | |
| When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.'' | |
| Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. | |
| We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. | |
| Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | An investigation continued into the June 2000 killing of Oswald Monzon Lima, the Secretary General of a fuel drivers' union. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Schieffer | Now, what happened when Oswald was shot, I was assigned to go to the City Hall where they were going to take him, from the county jail to the City Hall. And, so I was at the other place when Oswald was shot. |
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| "Oswald" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oswald" is used about 295 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 295 | 16,921 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Oswald" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Oswald | Last name | 4,000 | 3,361 |
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| "Oswald" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "God rules". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Oswald." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Oswald | Male | English | N/A |
| Osvaldo | Male | Italian | Oswald |
| Osvaldo | Male | Portuguese | Oswald |
| Osvaldo | Male | Spanish | Oswald |
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Expressions using "Oswald": Lee Harvey Oswald ♦ Oswald Spengler ♦ Oswald Veblen. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Oswald"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | Освальд. (various references) | |
Welsh | Oswallt. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ansu-, os. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Oswald" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arwald, ostwald, Oswalds, Oswold, Sowaidi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: woalds. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-l-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: awols, loads, waldo, woads, woald, wolds. | |
-2 letters: ados, alow, also, awls, awol, dals, daws, dols, dows, lads, laws, load, lows, olds, owls, slaw, slow, soda, sola, sold, wads, woad, wold. | |
-3 letters: ado, ads, als, awl, dal, daw, dol, dos, dow, lad, las, law, low, ods, old, owl, sad, sal, saw, sod, sol, sow. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-l-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: wadmols, waldoes. | |
+2 letters: dayglows, disallow, dowsabel, lowlands, oldsquaw, sallowed, shadblow, snowland, wadmolls, warlords. | |
+3 letters: agalwoods, blowhards, disallows, disavowal, downfalls, downhauls, downlands, downloads, downplays, downscale, dowsabels, floodways, lacewoods, latewoods, leadworks, leadworts, loanwords, moldwarps, oldsquaws, playdowns, plowheads, plowlands, saddlebow, shadblows, shadowily, shallowed, snowlands, swallowed, swordplay, swordtail, woodlands, woodlarks, wordplays, workloads. | |
+4 letters: aardwolves, blackwoods, boardwalks, clampdowns, codswallop, dayflowers, deathblows, disallowed, disavowals, downscaled, downscales, earlywoods, lancewoods, landowners, lowercased, lowlanders, lowliheads, saddlebows, sandalwood, shadowless, shadowlike, smallsword, snowballed, splashdown, swordplays, swordtails, wallboards, warlordism, wholesaled. | |
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