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Olaf (other)
Olaf is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch given name. Olaf may also refer to: * Olaf, Iowa, unincorporated community, US * European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) * OLAF (Organization to solve the foreigner question), a 2010 Swiss satire * Tropical Storm Olaf, several storms * Olaf (''Frozen''), a fictional character from Disney's ''Frozen'' franchise * A variant of the letter Aleph See also * St. Olaf (other) * Olave (other) * Olavi Olavi is a Finnish masculine given name from Olav/Olaf name. Notable people with the name include: *Olavi Ahonen (1923–2000), Finnish film actor * Olavi Alakulppi (1915–1990), Finnish cross country skier who competed in the 1930s *Olavi Hän ... * Olavo {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf
Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father" and ''laibaz'' "heirloom, descendant". Old English forms are attested as ''Ǣlāf'', ''Anlāf''. The corresponding Old Novgorod dialect form is ''Uleb''. A later English form of the name is ''Olave''. In the Norwegian language, ''Olav'' and ''Olaf'' are equally common, but Olav is traditionally used when referring to Norwegian royalty. The Swedish form is ''Olov'' or ''Olof'', and the Danish form is ''Oluf''. It was borrowed into Old Irish and Scots with the spellings ''Amlaíb'' and ''Amhlaoibh'', giving rise to modern version '' Aulay''. The name is Latinized as ''Olaus''. Notable people North Germanic ;Denmark * Olaf I of Denmark, king 1086–1095 *Olaf II of Denmark, also Olaf IV of Norway * Oluf Haraldsen (died c. 1143), D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf, Iowa
Olaf is an unincorporated community in Wright County, Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ..., United States. History Olaf's population was 57 in 1902, and 25 in 1925. References Unincorporated communities in Wright County, Iowa Unincorporated communities in Iowa {{WrightCountyIA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Anti-Fraud Office
The European Anti-Fraud Office (commonly known as OLAF, from the french: Office européen de lutte antifraude) is a body mandated by the European Union (EU) with protecting the Union's financial interests. It was founded on 28 April 1999, under the European Commission Decision 1999/352. Its tasks are threefold: * to fight fraud affecting the EU budget; * investigate corruption by staff of EU institutions; and * develop anti-fraud legislation and policies. OLAF achieves its mission by conducting, in full independence, internal and external investigations. It coordinates the activities of its anti-fraud partners in the Member States in the fight against fraud. OLAF supplies EU member states with the necessary support and technical know-how to help them in their anti-fraud activities. It contributes to the design of the anti-fraud strategy of the European Union, and takes the necessary initiatives to strengthen the relevant legislation. OLAF conducts administrative investig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OLAF (Organization To Solve The Foreigner Question)
OLAF was a satirical art activism project launched in 2010 by Andreas Heusser, Christoph Nüssli and Christoph Oeschger to subvert the Swiss right-wing populist party's campaign on the deportation initiative. The project consisted of the creation of the "Organization to solve the foreigner question" and series of actions and pranks performed by the fictitious representatives, Dr. Alois B. Stocher and his assistant George Klein. Art vs. Politics As Heusser and Nüssli explained in a TV interview, the goal was to use the means of art to create a "counterweight to the xenophobic, million-dollar campaign" of the Swiss People's Party. Methods like subversive affirmation, provocation and parody were used to gain the attention of the media which served as multipliers of the project. Superficially OLAF appeared to be a partner organization of the nationalist Swiss People's Party ( SVP), which wanted to automatically expel all criminal foreigners through its deportation initiative. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Storm Olaf
The name Olaf has been used for six tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific. The name is used on the modern six-year lists: * Hurricane Olaf (1985), never threatened land. * Tropical Storm Olaf (1997), made landfall twice. * Hurricane Olaf (2003), made landfall in Mexico as a tropical storm. * Tropical Storm Olaf (2009), approached Baja California. * Hurricane Olaf (2015), moved into the Central Pacific and then back into the Eastern Pacific while still tropical. * Hurricane Olaf (2021), made landfall in Baja California. The name Olaf was also used for one tropical cyclone in the Southwest Pacific: * Cyclone Olaf Cyclone Olaf was the sixth cyclone to form in the Southwest Pacific Ocean during the 2004–05 South Pacific cyclone season. Olaf was also one of three simultaneous cyclones to form during the 2004–05 season, forming 21 hours after Cyclone ... (2005), a Category 5 cyclone that affected Samoa. {{DEFAULTSORT:Olaf Pacific hurricane set index articles South Paci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf (Frozen)
Olaf is a fictional character from Disney's '' Frozen'' franchise, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Olaf is first presented in the 53rd animated film '' Frozen'' (2013) as an inanimate snowman created by Elsa and Anna in their childhood. He then reappears as a character in the film as Anna searches for her runaway sister in hopes of restoring summer. Olaf is recreated by Elsa as she accidentally plunges Arendelle into an eternal winter. Olaf helps Anna and Kristoff find Elsa and journeys with them all the way back to the kingdom, where he remains part of the sisters' lives and appears again in the 2019 film, ''Frozen II''. He is voiced by Josh Gad. Development Origins and concept The Disney studio made their first attempts to adapt Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, "The Snow Queen", as early as 1943, when Walt Disney considered the possibility of producing a biography film of the author. However, the story and the characters proved to be too symbolic and posed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac , Arabic ʾ and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez . These letters are believed to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph depicting an ox's head to describe the initial sound of ''*ʾalp'', the West Semitic word for ox (compare Biblical Hebrew ''ʾelef'', "ox"). The Phoenician variant gave rise to the Greek alpha (), being re-interpreted to express not the glottal consonant but the accompanying vowel, and hence the Latin A and Cyrillic А. Phonetically, ''aleph'' originally represented the onset of a vowel at the glottis. In Semitic languages, this functions as a prosthetic weak consonant, allowing roots with only two true consonants to be conjugated in the manner of a standard three consonant Semitic root. In most Hebrew dialects as well as Syriac, the ''aleph'' is an absence of a true ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olave (other)
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Olave may refer to: *an alternate form of the Scandinavian name Olaf * Gonzalo Olave (1983-2009), Chilean actor *Jámison Olave (born 1981), Colombian footballer * Juan Carlos Olave (born 1976), Argentine footballer See also * Olaf (other) Olaf is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch given name. Olaf may also refer to: * Olaf, Iowa, unincorporated community, US * European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) * OLAF (Organization to solve the foreigner question), a 2010 Swiss satire * Tropical S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olavi
Olavi is a Finnish masculine given name from Olav/Olaf name. Notable people with the name include: *Olavi Ahonen (1923–2000), Finnish film actor *Olavi Alakulppi (1915–1990), Finnish cross country skier who competed in the 1930s *Olavi Hänninen (1920–1992), Finnish designer *Joose Olavi Hannula (1900–1944), Finnish colonel and historian *Olavi Kuronen (1923–1989), Finnish ski jumper who competed in the 1950s *Olavi Laiho (1907–1944), the last Finn to be executed in Finland *Olavi Larkas (1913–1984), Finnish Olympic fencer and modern pentathlete *Olavi Litmanen (born 1945), Finnish former international footballer *Olavi Mäenpää (born 1950), Finnish politician and chairman of Suomen Kansan Sinivalkoiset, a far right political party *Olavi Ojanperä (1921–2016), Finnish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1950s *Olavi Paavolainen (1903–1964), Finnish essayist, journalist, travel book writer, poet, and cosmopolitan *Olavi Rove (1915–1966), Finnish gymnast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
