* Missionary Baptists in Texas: 1820-1998, by Oran H. Griffith

He implemented the plan – codenamed " Operation Catapult " – for a British fleet, coded " Force H " and based in Gibraltar, to sail to the harbor of Mers-el-Kébir, near Oran in Algeria, where four capital ships and other vessels were stationed, in order to persuade Admiral Marcel-Bruno Gensoul to disobey orders from Vichy and have his vessels sail either to British waters or else to those of French colonies in the Far East or even to the ( still neutral ) USA with a view to preventing them from being used against the Allies.

In 1936, Oran H. Pape became the first man to die in the line of duty, and remains to date the only member of the Patrol to be murdered in the line of duty.

Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Oran and its environs were struck by disease multiple times before Camus published this novel.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

In the town of Oran, thousands of rats, initially unnoticed by the populace, begin to die in the streets.

He is a seventy-five-year-old Spaniard with a rugged face, who comments on events in Oran that he hears about on the radio and in the newspapers.

* Garcia: Garcia is a man who knows the group of smugglers in Oran.

* M. Othon: M. Othon is a magistrate in Oran.

* Raymond Rambert: Raymond Rambert is a journalist who is visiting Oran to research a story on living conditions in the Arab quarter of the town.

He now feels that he belongs in Oran and that the plague is everyone's business, including his.

* Dr. Richard: Dr. Richard is chairman of the Oran Medical Association.

* Jean Tarrou: Jean Tarrou arrived in Oran some weeks before the plague broke out, for unknown reasons.

He also keeps a diary, full of his observations of life in Oran, which Rieux incorporates into the narrative .</ br > It is Tarrou who first comes up with the idea of organizing teams of volunteers to fight the plague.

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

The ravages of the plague in Oran vividly convey the absurdist position that humans live in an indifferent, incomprehensible universe that has no rational meaning or order, and no transcendent God.

At first he insists that he does not belong in Oran, and his only thought is returning to the woman he loves in Paris.

The reason Rieux does not declare himself earlier is that he wants to give an objective account of the events in Oran.

The town Oran, which gets afflicted by pestilence and cut off from the outside world, is the equivalent of France.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

" Symbolically, Oran turns its back on life.

In 1080, he conquered the kingdom of Tlemcen ( in modern-day Algeria ) and founded the present city of that name, his rule extending as far east as Oran.

Seven of the 39 C-47s landed far from Oran from Gibraltar to Tunisia, and only ten actually delivered their troops by parachute drop.

The session got off to an inauspicious start: Greenfield nominated the government's preferred candidate for speaker, Oran McPherson, only to have one of his backbenchers, Alex Moore, nominate Independent Conservative John Smith Stewart ; Stewart spared the government embarrassment by declining the nomination.

The two agents of HCPS in South America are Andes virus ( also called Oran, Castelo de Sonhos, Lechiguanas, Juquitiba, Araraquara, and Bermejo viruses, among many other synonyms ), which is the only hantavirus that has shown ( albeit uncommonly ) an interpersonal form of transmission, and Laguna Negra virus, an extremely close relative of the previously-known Rio Mamore virus.

The Rangers only took volunteers, Darby knowing that the best man for the job was not always a volunteer, sought out men around Oran.

While claiming that the death of de Gaulle would have been justified by the " genocide " of the European population of newly independent Algeria ( a reference mainly to the Oran massacre of 1962 ) and the killing of several tens or hundreds of thousands of mostly pro-French Moslems ( harkis ) by the FLN, he claimed that while the other conspirators might admittedly have been trying to kill the head of state, he had only been attempting to capture de Gaulle so as to deliver him to a panel of sympathetic judges.

Of these, only one, Oran Pape, has been murdered.

Oran Henry Pape ( March 10, 1904 – April 30, 1936 ) was a member of the Iowa State Patrol in the United States.

After entry of US into the war, Taylor was transferred to the North Africa, where he served as a staff member of Advanced Echelon Amphibious Forces, Atlantic Fleet and in October the a staff member to the Naval Operating Base Commander in Oran, Algeria.

Oran Leo " Tony " McPherson ( April 12, 1886 – May 23, 1949 ) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta ( Canada ) for Little Bow from 1921 to 1935 as a member of the United Farmers of Alberta.

Tram projects have been launched in both Constantine and Oran, and over $ 6 billion has been earmarked for tram projects in 12 provinces throughout Algeria.

Constantine, Annaba, Tilimsen, and Oran have smaller modern airports that can accommodate jet aircraft.

However, the syndicate is soon revealed to have become a large company, and then an international syndicate, making Minderbinder the Mayor of Palermo, Assistant Governor-General of Malta, Shah of Oran, Caliph of Baghdad, mayor of Cairo, and the god of corn, rain, and rice in various pagan African countries.

We have breakfasted in Algiers, we will dine in Oran.

There is the medieval chapel of Caibeal Mheamhair, which may originally have been dedicated to St. Oran, rebuilt in the 19th century as a mausoleum for the MacLaine family.

Maghrebian placenames like Oran ( Uhran ) and Souk Ahras have the same etymological source.

Raï (), which is the Arabic word for " opinion ", is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.

On the other hand, the Oran massacre of 1962 by the FLN has also not yet been recognized by the Algerian state.

Oran is a major port, and since the 1960s has been the commercial, industrial, and educational centre of western Algeria.

However, the inherent danger of motorsport shows has been underscored by a number of devastating crashes, most famously the crash of 19-year-old driver Lucas Dumbrell at the Oran Park Raceway in 2008.

In 10 July 1833, the French forces coming from Oran go further east and occupy the locality, which has then been simply called Marsa ( i. e. port ).