The irregular shape often let the tree escape widespread harvest for building timbers, and also led the early settlers to endow the Coast Live Oak with mystical qualities.

Silky Oak is a valuable timber and was one of Australia ’ s best known cabinet timbers.

Oak groves were especially sacred to her.

The first large-scale separation of uranium isotopes was achieved by the United States in large gaseous diffusion separation plants at Oak Ridge Laboratories, which were established as part of the Manhattan Project.

In just one of these 108 larger designations, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, there were for example at least " 167 known contaminant release sites " in one of the three subdivisions of the site.

Major John Dudley suggested Oak City, Utah or Jemez Springs, New Mexico but both were rejected.

Both the laboratory and the nearby city of Oak Ridge were built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in less than a year on isolated farmland in the mountains of East Tennessee.

Giant calutron plants developed at Lawrence's laboratory were used at Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Site X during World War II to Enriched_uranium # Enrichment_methods | purify uranium for use in the first atomic bomb.

Oak galls were used for centuries as the main ingredient in manuscript ink, harvested at a specific time of year.

In the March 8, 2002 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Science, Rusi P. Taleyarkhan and colleagues at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) reported that acoustic cavitation experiments conducted with deuterated acetone () showed measurements of tritium and neutron output that were consistent with the occurrence of fusion.

The results were so startling that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory asked two independent researchers, D.

Among the real ales brewed by Eldridge Pope Limited were Royal Oak and Hardy's Ale ; these were chiefly associated with the era of Denis Edwin Holliday, head brewer at Eldridge Pope Limited throughout the 1960s and 70s.

During the First World War, a number of barracks and voluntary hospitals were set up around the city, and in 1917 a German bomber crash-landed near Broad Oak Road.

They were located on the west side of Chicago at 4052 W. Grand Ave ( a former Jewel opened in 1957 to celebrate the chain's 25th anniversary ), Oak Lawn, Arlington Heights and Chicago Heights.

In 1974, Osco's headquarters were relocated from Franklin Park, Illinois to a new facility at 1818 Swift Drive in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Although ' American Stores ' food divisions retained an operating presence in their geographical locations and other centralized marketing, merchandising and other staff functions were relocated between 1992 and 1998 from Oak Brook, Illinois to Salt Lake City to occupy the then-new American Stores Tower, pharmacy operations were relocated to Scottsdale Arizona with certain pharmacy systems-related resources continuing to operate from the Chicago area after being relocated to 3030 Cullerton Drive in Franklin Park, Illinois, the location that previously served as Osco Drug's divisional headquarters prior to its relocation to its new purpose-built office facilities at 1818 Swift Drive in Oak Brook, Illinois ' Windsor Office Park during the early 1970s.

The morning after the battle, 28 August, rebels were hanged at the Oak of Reformation and outside the Magdalen Gate.

Three of the eight remaining " big ships " were burnt: the Royal Oak, the new Loyal London and the Royal James.

Twenty-three British pilots were killed while training at the base and are honored at DeSoto County's Oak Ridge Cemetery, which is located in the town of Arcadia.

Mark Finnan in his book Oak Island Secrets noted that many Masonic markings were found on Oak Island and pointed out that the shaft or pit and its mysterious contents seemed to replicate aspects of a Masonic initiation rite involving a hidden vault containing a sacred treasure.

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

For a time, a narrow-gauge railway carried curious travelers from the steamship wharf in Oak Bluffs to Edgartown, running along tracks laid on what is now Joseph Sylvia State Beach.

He laid out along the main street which was the pre-existing Nine Mile Road, new cross streets named in alphabetical order after plants, beginning from the west: Ash, Beech, Cedar, Daisy, Elm, Fern, Grove, Holly, Ivy, Juniper, Kalmia, Linden, Maple, Oak, Pine, Quince, Rose, and Spruce.

Commandaria, by law is aged for at least four years in Oak Barrels but this can take place outside the above designated area within Cyprus under strict control and under the conditions laid down in Cypriot legislation.

The younger Meigs was laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown in Washington, D. C.

He was laid to rest at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River.

Before his appointment at Charter Oak, Klonoski was the president of the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium ( 1998 – 2008 ), building the organization, creating multiple course delivery infrastructures, and structuring the financial foundation to pilot a virtual high school for Connecticut.

The supposed tradition that the original oak was associated with a witch named Sarah or Sally is without foundation, and is likely to have arisen as a means of explaining what may have been a variant and local pronunciation of the name as ' Sally ' Oak.

Among its most significant foundation supporters are Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute, The John Merck Fund and the Oak Foundation.

The foundation of Firehouse # 1 can be found between Penngrove Church and the Old Eagle School lot on Oak Street.

Its largest communities are, in descending order of population ( 2000 census ), Baton Rouge, Slidell, Hammond, Shenandoah ( CDP ), Baker, Bogalusa, Zachary, Mandeville, Merrydale ( CDP ), Gardere ( CDP ), Denham Springs, Covington, Oak Hills Place ( CDP ), and Lacombe ( CDP ).

The township contains these two cemeteries: Covington Memorial Gardens and Oak Grove.

New Deal programs made important contributions to the city's infrastructure and artistic legacy, including such key improvements as Vulcan's tower and Oak Mountain State Park.

In Waterfall Road is Christ Church, a building of stone which has a tower and spire and was built in 1862 by Sir Gilbert Scott, In the grounds stands the Minchenden Oak, said to be the largest oak tree in England, and perhaps 800 years old.

* Barre Volunteer Fire Company – A Volunteer Fire Department located on 4709 Oak Orchard Rd with a loud 1953 Federal Enterprises Single Tone Low Pitched 10-Horsepower Single Phased Siren that is mounted on top of a red tower.

* The Mondrian, a tower in the Cityplace neighborhood of Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas, named for the artist

To commemorate this, each year on Oak Apple Day ( 29 May ), an oak branch is mounted on the top of the church tower to symbolise the historical allegiance.

WTVS broadcasts its digital signal from the same tower as WMYD Channel 20 and WWJ-TV Channel 62 at 8 Mile and Meyers Road in Oak Park, Michigan at a height of 1073 feet ( 327 m ).

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.

Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".

An important ecological site, Toledo sits within the borders of a sandy oak savanna called the Oak Openings Region that once took up over.

* Golden Oak at Walt Disney World Resort A concept high-end resort living community within the Walt Disney World resort

Oak Ridge became a " secret city " that within two years housed more than 75, 000 residents.

Sudden Oak Death ( Phytophthora ramorum ) is a water mould that can kill oaks within just a few weeks.

Dubbed " The Inkwell ," this small beach is central to Oak Bluffs and within short walking distance to many of the homes of the more notable black families.

Oak wilt ( Ceratocystis fagacearum ), a vascular disease, attacks Chinkapin oak and usually kills the tree within two to four years.

Its carriage washing and servicing facilities were developed within the district, and with the major locomotive workshops at Old Oak Common, there was the first inward rush of both employment and immigrants to the district.

The previous decade saw several planned communities approved for development within the City, including the JP Ranch Development ( approximately 375 homes ), Calimesa Springs Development ( approximately 270 homes ), Summerwind Ranch at Oak Valley ( 5, 000 homes + of commercial space ), and Mesa Verde ( 3, 800 homes approximately, and 20 acres of commercial space ).

All available land within Oak Park has now been developed, with the remaining vacant land owned by the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District.

Although Oak View is located within the Ojai Valley, the town itself is located within the boundaries of the Ventura Unified School District.

Live Oak is located within Suwannee County, which is surrounded on three sides by the Suwannee River made famous by Stephen Foster.

Service within Oak Park and to other suburbs is also provided by the suburban bus system Pace.

The smaller of the two is spanned by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Bridge, which lies wholly within Oak Bluffs, and the larger by the American Legion Bridge, the midpoint of which is the boundary between Oak Bluffs and Edgartown.

The area that was to become Oak Park existed within Royal Oak Township, and was first settled in 1840, but remained sparsely populated for many decades following.

The village is located within Burr Oak Township.

The Village of Burr Oak is located within the township.

Ballwin is home to many schools within Parkway School District, including Claymont, Hanna Woods, Henry, Oak Brook, and Sorrento Springs elementary schools, and Parkway West High School.

The unincorporated community of Whitmore Lake lies within the northern portion of the township, on its border with Green Oak township in Livingston County.

Oak Valley ( 2010 population 3, 483 ) is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Deptford Township.

Oak Valley is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Deptford Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, in the United States.