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Øverland
Overland or Øverland or variants may refer to: Places * Overland, Missouri, a city in the United States * Overland Park, Kansas, a city in the United States * Overland Corner, South Australia, a settlement in Australia * Overland Lake (Nevada), a glacial lake in the United States * Øverland, Bærum, an area in Norway People * Øverland (surname), a Norwegian surname * Amanda Overland, Canadian short track speed skater * Kevin Overland, Canadian speedskater * Simon Overland, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police (Australia) since March 2009 * Steve Overland, British singer and musician * Volkert Overlander, Dutch noble and merchant Transport *Overland Trail, stagecoach line * Overland train, oversized off-road vehicle * Overland Track, Australian hiking trail Companies * Overland Automobile, the original name of the American company Willys-Overland * Overland Custom Coach, Canadian custom vehicle manufacturer * Overland Airways, Nigerian airline Trains * The Overland Lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øverland, Bærum
Øverland is an area in Bærum, Norway. Named after the local farm, Øverland is also known as a recreational area and for its arboretum. It has lent its name to the river Øverlandselva. Geography The area is located north of Haslum, west of Hosle and south of Bærumsmarka. The river Øverlandselva runs past Øverland farm, whence the river got its name. A bridge over it was mentioned as early as 1594 by Jens Nilssøn, and it is considered a part of the so-called Pilgrim's Route. The river continues south through Haslum before turning southwest near Løkeberg, ultimately emptying into the lake Engervannet at Blommenholm. The southernmost section has formerly been called Løkebergelva. History and usage The name of the area is taken from the farm Øverland. Historic spellings of the name include ''Efraland'' and ''Øfraland'', used around the fourteenth century, as well as ''Offuerlandt'' (1578), ''Øffueland'' (1594) and ''Øffverland'' (1723). The farm was owned by the Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øverland (surname)
Øverland is a Norwegian surname. As of 2013, 1,543 people in Norway have this surname. Notable people Notable people with this surname include: * Arnulf Øverland Ole Peter Arnulf Øverland (27 April 1889 – 25 March 1968) was a Norwegian poet and artist. He is principally known for his poetry which served to inspire the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway during Wor ..., Norwegian author * Erling Øverland, Norwegian businessperson * Indra Øverland, Norwegian specialist on energy politics * Jon Terje Øverland, Norwegian alpine skier * Margrete Aamot Øverland, Norwegian resistance member during the Second World War * Randi Øverland, Norwegian politician References {{surname, Øverland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland, Missouri
Overland is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 16,062 at the 2010 census. History The area south of the King's Road to St. Charles was first settled in the early 1820s, when travelers westward from St. Louis would stop overnight at what became known as "The Overland Park". Daniel Boone, noted frontiersman, constructed a single room cabin here, near the current location of Lake Sherwood and Wyland Elementary School. In time, businesses were established and a one-room subscription school, the Buck School, was built in 1846. In 1867, the Ritenour School District was organized. In 1919, the town's name was shortened to "Overland", to avoid postal confusion with the city of Overland Park, Kansas. The town was incorporated as a fourth class city in 1939 with a mayoral-city council government. In the 1990s, the city voters approved a change to a third class city. In 2007, the city voted to move to a mayor-council-administrator form of government. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Transcontinental Railroad
North America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the " Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. The rail line was built by three private companies over public lands provided by extensive US land grants.Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, §2 & §3 Building was financed by both state and US government subsidy bonds as well as by company issued mortgage bonds.Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, §5 & §6 The Western Pacific Railroad Company built of track from the road's western terminus at Alameda/ Oakland to Sacramento, California. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California (CPRR) constructed east from Sacramento to Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. The Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) built from the road's eastern terminus at the Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland Storage
Overland Storage is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sphere 3D Corp. It has acquired Tandberg Data shortly before being acquired by Sphere 3D itself. The two subsidiaries were later rebranded under the common Overland-Tandberg brand. History It was founded in 1980 as "Overland Data" in San Diego, California, and is a provider of data protection appliances for midrange and distributed enterprises. Overland’s products include NEO SERIES tape libraries, REO SERIES disk-based appliances with Virtual Tape Library (VTL) capabilities, Snap SAN storage area network-based appliances and SnapServer network-attached storage-based appliances. Overland sells its products through leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers. Overland originally manufactured IBM-compatible 9-track tape drives. In January 2000, Overland acquired Tecmar and its line of small system tape drives including the WangTek and WangDAT brands. Following smaller acquisitions of dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland (video Game)
''Overland'' is a strategy video game by Finji. It was released in September 2019 for iOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, October 2019 for macOS platforms. Gameplay The player navigates a survivor, a dog, and their car, through turn-based tactical scenarios in a post-apocalyptic world. The objective of the game is to reach California on an across the country road trip. There are currently 7 biomes: the East Coast, the Woodlands, the Grasslands, the Mountains, the Desert, the Basin, and the Reef. Development Inspirations for the game include '' X-COM'', ''The Banner Saga'', and '' Dead of Winter: A Cross Roads Game''. ''Overland'' was released on September 19, 2019, for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One platforms. Early version of the game were available through Itch.io. The developer also plans an iOS release. Reception Accolades The game was nominated for the Matthew Crump Cultural Innovation Award at the SXSW G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland With Kit Carson
''Overland with Kit Carson'' is a 1939 American Western serial film directed by Norman Deming and Sam Nelson and starring Bill Ellott, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske and Bobby Clack. Plot When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out. Cast * Bill Elliott as Kit Carson * Iris Meredith as Carmelita González * Richard Fiske as Lieutenant David Brent * Bobby Clack as Andy Gardner * Trevor Bardette as Arthur Mitchell - Trapper * LeRoy Mason as John Baxter - Trapper * Olin Francis Trapper Pierre * James Craig as Tennessee - Trapper * Francis Sayles as Dr. Parker * Kenneth MacDonald as Winchester - Trapper * Dick Curtis as Drake - Henchman * Richard Botiller as Natchez - Henchman (as Richard Botiller) * Hal Taliaferro as Jim Stewart * Flo Campbell as Stewart * John Tyrrell as Captain Gilbert (Chs. 8-10) * Francisco Marán as Don José Gonzalez (as Francisco Moran) * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland Monthly
The ''Overland Monthly'' was a monthly literary and cultural magazine, based in California, United States. It was founded in 1868 and published between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. History The ''Overland Monthly'' was founded in 1868 by Anton Roman, a Bavarian-born bookseller who moved to California during the Gold Rush. He had recently published the poems of Charles Warren Stoddard and a collection of verse by California writers called ''Outcroppings''. The magazine's first issue was published in July 1868, edited by Bret Harte in San Francisco, and continued until late 1875. Roman, who hoped his magazine would "help the material development of this Coast", was originally concerned that Harte would "lean too much toward the purely literary". Harte, in turn, was skeptical at first that there would be enough quality content provided from local authors. The first issue included contributions from the "Golden State Trinity": Harte, St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland (magazine)
''Overland'' is an Australian literary and cultural magazine, established in 1954 and published quarterly in print as well as online. History ''Overland'' was established in 1954, under the auspices of the Realist Writers Group in Melbourne, with Stephen Murray-Smith as the first editor-in-chief. It was initially formed by anti-Stalinist members of the Communist Party of Australia and other members of the 1950s New Left. Editors The magazine has been edited by: * Stephen Murray-Smith, 1954–1988 * Barrett Reid, 1988–1993 * John McLaren, Spring 1993 – Autumn 1997 * Ian Syson, Winter 1997 – Summer 2002 * Nathan Hollier and Katherine Wilson, Autumn 2002 – Spring 2004 * Nathan Hollier, 2005–2006 * Jeff Sparrow, 2007–2014 * Jacinda Woodhead, 2015–2019 * Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, since 2019 Description ''Overland'' describes itself as "Australia’s only radical literary magazine", which publishes fiction, poetry, non-fiction and art. It says it "continues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land And Overland
The ''Land and Overland'' trilogy is a group of three science fantasy novels by Northern Irish writer Bob Shaw. The trilogy consists of the books ''The Ragged Astronauts'' (published in 1986), ''The Wooden Spaceships'' (1988) and ''The Fugitive Worlds'' (1989). In the United Kingdom, all three novels were originally published by Victor Gollancz. ''The Ragged Astronauts'' won the BSFA Award for best Novel in 1987. The setting for the trilogy is a pair of planets, ''Land and Overland'', which orbit about a common centre of gravity, close enough to each other that they share a common atmosphere. Plot ''The Ragged Astronauts'' Land is a strictly feudal society that undergoes a peak energy crisis (the trees that provide energy and hard materials are scarce), and is undergoing a process of cultural decay. Much of the human population of Land travels to Overland via hot-air balloon to escape airborne creatures called the Ptertha. Translations * Russian: ("Astonauts in Rags") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford And Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition
The 1955-56 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition was a publicity effort by Land Rover in support of the 1956 Land Rover Series I Station Wagons. The station wagons were very different from the previous Tickford model, being built with bolt-together aluminium panels. The journey was undertaken by six Oxford & Cambridge university students from London to Singapore. The Expedition was inspired by the earlier 1954 Oxford and Cambridge Trans-Africa Expedition, developed by Adrian Cowell. Team members All members were from either Oxford University or Cambridge University, and all had just finished their degrees when they set out on the expedition, with the exception of Nigel Newbery, who had one year left, and was the only Oxford student. The expedition members and their roles on the expedition were as follows: * Antony "B.B." Barrington Brown - Cameraman * Adrian Cowell - Business Manager * Patrick Murphy - Navigator and Chef * Nigel Newbery - Quartermaster and Mechanic * He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland Relief Expedition
The Overland Relief Expedition, also called the Alaska Relief Expedition or Point Barrow-Overland Relief Expedition, was an expedition in the winter of 1897–1898 by officers of the United States Revenue Cutter Service to save the lives of 265 whalers trapped in the Arctic Ocean by ice around their ships near Point Barrow, Alaska. Background In 1892, the government began a project of importing reindeer from Siberia to Alaska, and teaching the natives how to raise the animals in order to have a steady and dependable food supply. The reindeer were obtained by Captain Michael Healy, who was known and trusted by the Siberian natives. Sheldon Jackson, the General Superintendent of Alaska, used his influence in the United States Congress to raise funds to purchase and care for the animals, and was placed in overall charge of training the herders.Noble, p 3 The project started with seventeen reindeer. From 1892 to 1906, cutters would cruise up the Siberian coast and barter with Chukchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
