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OLIN Olin may refer to:
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* OLIN, American landscape architecture firm
* Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
* Olin College, an undergraduate engineering college in Massachusetts
* Olin Corporation, a chem ...
, American landscape architecture firm
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Olin Business School
The Olin Business School is the business school and one of seven academic schools at Washington University in St. Louis. The school offers undergraduate, master's, doctoral, and executive programs.
Olin has more than 20,000 alumni across the w ...
at Washington University in St. Louis
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Olin College
Olin College of Engineering, officially Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, is a private college focused on engineering and located in Needham, Massachusetts. Its endowment had been funded primarily by the defunct F. W. Olin Foundation. T ...
, an undergraduate engineering college in Massachusetts
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Olin Corporation
Olin Corporation is an American manufacturer of ammunition, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide. The company traces its roots to two companies, both founded in 1892: Franklin W. Olin's Equitable Powder Company and the Mathieson Alkali Works. Acciden ...
, a chemical corporation with a history of producing chemicals and ammunition
* Olin Edirne, the former name of Turkish basketball team
Eskişehir Basket
Eskişehir Basket was a professional basketball team based in the city of Eskişehir in Turkey. Their home arena was the Anadolu Üniversitesi Sport Hall with a capacity of 5,000 seats. Founded in 2006, the club played in the highest tier Basket ...
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F. W. Olin Foundation, a foundation endowed by Franklin W. Olin
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John M. Olin Foundation
The John M. Olin Foundation was a conservative American grant-making foundation established in 1953 by John M. Olin, president of the Olin Industries chemical and munitions manufacturing businesses. Unlike most other foundations, it was char ...
, a foundation endowed by John M. Olin
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Preston and Olin Institute The Preston and Olin Institute was a Methodist academy for boys in Blacksburg, Virginia which operated from 1851 to 1872. They chose the name Preston for Colonel William Ballard Preston, of nearby Smithfield Plantation, a well-known Montgomery Co ...
, a defunct Methodist boys' school now a part of
Virginia Tech
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...
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Olin, Iowa
Olin is a city in Jones County, Iowa, United States. The population was 651 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Olin is named for D. A. Olin, general superintendent of the Chi ...
, a small city in the United States
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Olin, North Carolina
Olin is an unincorporated community located in Olin Township, Iredell County, North Carolina, United States. The community is north of Statesville. The Olin post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail ...
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Olin, Poland
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Olin's Covered Bridge
Olin's Bridge, or Olin Bridge, or Olin-Dewey Road Bridge is a covered bridge that carries Dewey Road over the Ashtabula River in Plymouth Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The bridge, one of currently 16 drivable bridges in the ...
, the only bridge in Ashtabula county, Ohio named for a family
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Olin Observatory
Olin Observatory is an astronomical observatory in New London, Connecticut (USA), owned and operated by Connecticut College. It is part of the F.W. Olin Science Center. The observatory hosts public stargazing events, and is also used for undergr ...
, an astronomical observatory in New London, Connecticut
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Olin Olin may refer to:
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* OLIN, American landscape architecture firm
* Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
* Olin College, an undergraduate engineering college in Massachusetts
* Olin Corporation, a chem ...
, a character on the TV series ''General Hospital''
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Gerald Olin
''1408'' is a 2007 American psychological horror film based on Stephen King's 1999 short story. It was directed by Mikael Håfström, written by Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackso ...
, character in the 2007 film ''1408'' portrayed by
Samuel L. Jackson
* The Reverend Olin Blitch, lead bass-baritone role in the opera
Susannah
''Susannah'' is an opera in two acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote the libretto and music while a member of the piano faculty at Florida State University. Floyd adapted the story from the Apocryphal tale of Susannah and the ...
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Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Sessions Floyd (June 11, 1926September 30, 2021) was an American composer primarily known for his operas. These stage works, for which he wrote not only the music but also the librettos, typically engage with themes from the American So ...
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Nahui Ollin
Nahui Ollin is a concept in Aztecs, Aztec/Mexica cosmology with a variety of meanings. Nahui translates to "four" and Ollin translates to "movement" or "motion." Ollin was primarily portrayed in Aztec codices as two interlaced lines which are eac ...
'', also spelled Ōlīn, a concept in Aztec mythology potentially related to
Tōnatiuh
In Mesoamerican culture, Tonatiuh (Nahuatl: ''Tōnatiuh'' "Movement of the Sun") is an Aztec sun deity of the daytime sky who rules the cardinal direction of east. According to Aztec Mythology, Tonatiuh was known as "The Fifth Sun" and was gi ...
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''Olin'' (spider), a spider genus in the family Trochanteriidae
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Olin Palladium Award The Olin Palladium Award (formerly the Palladium Medal Award) was established by The Electrochemical Society (ECS) in 1950 and is presented every 2 years to recognize outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of all types of electro ...
, an award given by the
Electrochemical Society
The Electrochemical Society is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of electrochemistry solid-state science and related technology. The Society membership comprises ...
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Olin Raschig process
The Olin Raschig process is a chemical process for the production of hydrazine. The main steps in this process, patented by German chemist Friedrich Raschig in 1906 and one of three reactions named after him, are the formation of monochloramine f ...
, an industrial process for manufacturing hydrazine
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