The bark of the White Oak is dried and used in medical preparations.

The distinctive bark of the Chestnut Oak.

Cork is an impermeable, buoyant material, a prime-subset of bark tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber ( the Cork Oak ), which is endemic to southwest Europe and northwest Africa.

The Cork Oak is unrelated to the " cork trees " ( Phellodendron ), which have corky bark but are not used for cork production.

Such wild foods that were harvested were White Oak acorns, American Chestnuts, Shag bark Hickory nuts, may apples, beach nuts and Solomon seal.

The center of the village was nearly parallel to Biddle Avenue between Oak and Eureka streets near the river and its sandy beach, which was a welcome feature to the local tribesmen, as their main mode of transportation to the fort in Detroit was by birch bark canoe.

File: Burr on Oak at Kilbirnie. JPG |< center > Quercus robur bark with a large burl and lichen.

The bark resembles the White Oak.

It is a very variable medium to large tree, usually semi-evergreen, sometimes nearly completely so, and often with marked hybrid vigour ; its bark is thick and fissured but never as thick as that of the Cork Oak.

These include ' Ambrozyana ', evergreen except in severe winters, originating from the Mlyňany Arboretum in Slovakia, home of the late Count Ambrozy ; ' Diversifolia ', with the leaves are extremely deeply cut leaving a narrow strip down the centre, and very corky bark ; ' Fulhamensis ' ( Fulham Oak ), raised at Osborne's nursery in Fulham c. 1760 ; and ' Lucombeana ' ( Lucombe Oak ), raised by William Lucombe at his nursery in Exeter c. 1762.

* Oak red, a coloring matter formed from the oak bark tannins

* 505: Oak bark ( Quercus robur ) is chopped in small pieces, placed inside the skull of a domesticated animal, surrounded by peat and buried in earth in a place where lots of rain water runs past.

Quercitron is a yellow natural dye obtained from the bark of the Eastern Black Oak ( Quercus velutina ), a forest tree indigenous in North America.

The bark in some species is thick, resembling that of the Cork Oak, but is not thick enough for commercial cork production.

The Elfin Oak is a 900-year-old tree stump in Kensington Gardens in London, carved and painted to look as though elves, gnomes and small animals are living in its bark.

* Cork leather: made from the bark of Cork Oak trees

The young bark of the Shumard Oak is light grey, very smooth, and very reflective.

Shumard Oak bark darkens and develops ridges and furrows as it ages.

The major isotope of berkelium, berkelium-249, is synthesized in minute quantities in dedicated high-flux nuclear reactors, mainly at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, and at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.

Californium-252, with a half-life of about 2. 64 years, is the most common isotope used and is produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Russia.

The highest point in Concord is above sea level on Oak Hill, just west of the hill's summit in neighboring Loudon.

It also gave impetus to the never-ending treasure hunts conducted on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, in Suffolk County, Long Island in New York where Gardiner's Island is located, Charles Island in Milford, Connecticut ; the Thimble Islands in Connecticut and on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

It is frequently traced to the symbolism of evergreen trees in supposed " pre-Christian winter rites ", especially with the story of the Donar Oak and Saint Boniface.

However, there is also a ditheistic theme within traditional Wicca, as the Horned God has dual aspects of bright and dark-relating to day / night, summer / winter-expressed as the Oak King and the Holly King, who in Wiccan myth and ritual are said to engage in battle twice a year for the hand of the Goddess, resulting in the changing seasons.

Headrick, who is now regarded as the " Father of Disc Golf ", designed and installed the first standardized target course in what was then known as Oak Grove Park in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

In the center is a crest containing the Old Avery Oak.

In the lower left corner is part of the Avery Oak and in the lower right is part of the Fairbanks House.

The Pedunculate or English Oak Quercus robur does not grow in Palestine ; and the wood of other species is not sufficiently airtight to be used in wine casks,

A tree planted in 1860 to replace it died in 2004 and was in turn replaced ; the sapling that had been chosen to become the official Oak of Guernica is also sick so the tree will not be replaced until the earth around the site has been restored to health.

" Heart of Oak " is the official march of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.

* In Finland, the month of Tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name also means Oak, it can be inferred that the oak tree is the heart of grand forest with many valuable trees as opposed to the typical Arctic forests which are typically pine and spruce.

Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob calls Allon Bachuth ( אלון בכות ), " Oak of Weepings " ( Genesis 35: 8 ).

Almost all of the of the U. S. federal government / NASA owned property that makes up the JPL campus is today located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, California, on the northwest border of Pasadena, with a La Cañada Flintridge address ( 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011 ).

Oak is a heavy, durable timber that can be easily worked by adze and axe when green ( wet / unseasoned ).

* 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The UK National Shrine is located at the Catholic church at Crediton, Devon, which has a bas-relief of the felling of Thor's Oak, by sculptor Kenneth Carter.

Sherwood Forest is home to the famous Major Oak, which, according to local folklore, was Robin Hood's principal hideout.

It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria.

Whidbey Island is divided economically into two different regions: the northern end of the island ( encompassing Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island Naval Air Station ), and the remainder of the island ( encompassing Coupeville, Greenbank, Freeland, Langley, Clinton and the smaller communities in-between ).

The economy of the northern end of Whidbey Island is strongly influenced by the presence of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Oak Harbor ( N. A. S.

* Nara-Scrub Oak, used by Kawada Taiko to make their " Hi-Tech Taikos " which are constructed from staves, also used for Bachi.

The beer houses also tended to avoid the traditional pub names like The Crown, The Red Lion, The Royal Oak etc.

These include the Otto Erdesz ' cutaway ' viola, which has one shoulder cut out to make shifting easier ; the ' Oak Leaf ' viola, which has two extra bouts ; viol-shaped violas such as Joseph Curtin's ' Evia ' model, which also utilizes a moveable neck and a maple-veneered carbon fibre back, to reduce weight: violas played in the same manner as cellos ( see vertical viola ); and the eye-catching " Dalí-esque " shapes of both Bernard Sabatier's violas in fractional sizes-which appear to have melted-and David Rivinus ' ' Pellegrina ' model violas.

Amongst the deciduous varieties, Garry oak ( from which Oak Harbor takes its name ) are seen more frequently in the northern portion of the island and Pacific madrone is also notably present.

There is also a nine-hole walking course ( no electric carts allowed ) called Oak Trail, designed for young golfers.

" Oak " may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus.

There are also some rare species of oak trees which are widely unknown: Scarlet Oak ( Quercus coccinea ), Chinkapin Oak ( Quercus muehlenbergii ), and Post Oak ( Quercus stellata ).

The wood of the deciduous Pedunculate Oak and Sessile Oak accounts for most of the European oak production, but evergreen species, such as Holm oak and Cork oak also produce valuable timber.

Oak Wilt, caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum ( a fungus closely related to Dutch Elm Disease ), is also a lethal disease of some oaks, particularly the red oaks ( the white oaks can be infected but generally live longer ).

Quercus kelloggii, the California Black Oak, also known as simply black oak, or Kellogg oak, is an oak in the red oak section ( Quercus sect.

Brookhaven is also responsible for the design of the SNS accumulator ring in partnership with Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

This cheese also is manufactured in Canada by the Oak Grove Cheese Company in New Hamburg, Ontario.

TVA also provided much of the electricity needed for uranium enrichment at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as required for the Manhattan Project.

A road called Beulah Boulevard, which also runs south, becomes State Route 89A, and travels through Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona.

Oak Bluffs enjoys a reputation as one of the more active night-life towns on the island for both residents and tourists, and is also a " wet " town.

Other popular attractions include the annual Grand Illumination ( see also here ) in Oak Bluffs ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Society which screens independent and world cinema all year long ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival which runs its Summer Film Series and Cinema Circus every Wednesday in July and August, the second week in August, The Run & Shoot Filmworks Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival < http :// www. mvaaff. com > which showcases the works of independent and established African-American filmmakers and its winter festival in March ; Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival in September, Katama Farm in Edgartown ; and the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs, the oldest carousel in the United States.