Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book,...
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Look up octavo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Octavo is a technical term describing the format of a book. Octavo may also refer to: pseudonym of...
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"Octavo Día" (English: Eighth Day) is a song written and performed by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. The song was released as a promotional single...
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The Blue Octavo Notebooks (sometimes referred to as The Eight Octavo Notebooks) is a series of eight notebooks written by Franz Kafka from late 1917 until...
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Paper size (redirect from Royal Octavo)
eighthed into octavos. Before the adoption of the ISO standard system in 1967, France had its own paper size system. Raisin format is still in use today for...
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Love in a Cold Climate is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1949. The title is a phrase from George Orwell's novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying...
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El octavo mandamiento is a Mexican telenovela that premiered on Cadenatres on 8 August 2011, and concluded on 12 February 2012. The telenovela is created...
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are quarto and octavo, which are both also printing formats, involving two and three folds in the sheet respectively. Famous folios (in both senses) include...
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(St Petersburg, in octavo); La théorie complete de la construction et de la manteuvre des vaisseaux (St Petersburg, 1773, in octavo). Eclaircissements...
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Saeculo exeunte (redirect from Saeculo Exeunte Octavo)
Saeculo exeunte is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII in which he honors Portugal at the celebration of its 800th anniversary. A large part of the encyclical...
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2024 Copa Libertadores final stages (category August 2024 sports events in South America)
(in Spanish). beIN Sports. 29 April 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024. "Pautas de sorteo para Octavos de Final" [Draw guidelines for the Round of 16] (in Spanish)...
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Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (category Television shows set in the United Kingdom)
magical knowledge of the Octavo. Trymon knows there is no point in deposing the Archchancellor until he learns how to control the Octavo, which is growing increasingly...
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Obelisk (redirect from Obelisk making technology in ancient Egypt)
(series of articles in Platner's A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 1929) History of the obelisk of Arles (in French) Octavo Edition of Domenico...
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What Makes Sammy Run? (category Novels set in the 1930s)
the rise and fall of Sammy Glick, a Jewish boy born in New York's Lower East Side who, very early in his life, makes up his mind to escape the ghetto and...
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The Blue Notebooks (section Usage in popular media)
against the war. The album features readings from Franz Kafka's The Blue Octavo Notebooks and Czesław Miłosz's Hymn of the Pearl and Unattainable Earth...
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Unseen University (redirect from Octavo (Discworld))
University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. Located in the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, the UU...
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classic work. Octavo, original cloth over marbled boards, illustrated. Karen McCreadie (November 2008). George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon: A...
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Villette (novel) (category Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2023)
and Shirley. In 1842 Charlotte Brontë, at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a pensionnat (boarding...
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Carl Linnaeus (category 18th-century writers in Latin)
Published in 1740, this small octavo-sized pamphlet was presented to the State Library of New South Wales by the Linnean Society of NSW in 2018. This...
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Aldine Press (category 1494 establishments in Europe)
introduction of italics. The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and intended for portability...
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Octavo, the most powerful book of magic on the Discworld, readjusts reality to prevent the loss of one of its eight spells. The spell had lodged in Rincewind's...
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2024 Copa Sudamericana final stages (category August 2024 sports events in South America)
tournaments] (in Spanish). Futbolred. 29 April 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024. "Pautas de sorteo para Octavos de Final" [Draw guidelines for the Round of 16] (in Spanish)...
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Cadence of Hyrule (category Articles using Video game reviews template in single platform mode)
unit with each player using one Joy-Con to move. In the Kingdom of Hyrule, a mysterious man named Octavo uses a magical lute to put Hyrule's king, as well...
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José Burgos (category All Wikipedia articles written in Philippine English)
of mutineer sergeant Bonifacio Octavo revealed that a man named Zaldua had been recruiting people for an uprising. Octavo testified that this man claimed...
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complex known as the Alhambra in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Shortly after completing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828, Washington Irving travelled...
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president from 2015 to 2019. "Fernando Clavijo, octavo presidente del Gobierno de Canarias". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 7 July 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2018...
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Anne Boleyn (category Marquesses in the Peerage of England)
Weir 2010, p. 436 Crónica del rey Enrico Octavo de Ingalaterra [Chronicle of King Henry VIII of England] (in Spanish). Translated by Hume, Martin. London:...
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Atlas (mythology) (category Kings in Berber mythology)
Fabricati Figura: Duisburg, 1595 (PDF). Translated by Sullivan, D. Oakland, CA: Octavo. ISBN 978-1-891788-26-0. LCCN map55000728. OCLC 48878698. Archived from...
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