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  1. Opus
    [magazine] Opus is a student newspaper published at the University of Newcastle, Australia by the Newcastle University Students` Association (NUSA). Opus was founded in 1954 by then economics lecturer Cyril Renwick, at what was then the Newcastle University College of the University of New S...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(magaz

  2. Opus
    [band] Opus is a pop-rock group from Graz, Austria. Formed in 1973, the group remains active today. The band is especially well known for its 1985 single release, "Live Is Life." ==History== In 1985 Opus released "Live Is Life," which topped the charts in many countries; it was a #1 hit in C...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(band)

  3. Opus
    [comic strip] Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed for a period of five years, 2003 to 2008. It was Breathed`s fourth comic strip, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland. Set in Bloom County, the strip documented the adventures of Breathed`s popular character Op...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(comic

  4. Opus
    A musical composition or set of compositions or an artistic work - usually on a grand scale. See also Magnum Opus.
    Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of

  5. OPUS
    Octal Program Updating System
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  6. Opus
    Work – a way to record composers` works by giving them opus numbers
    Found on http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundex

  7. opus
    A job, task or work. Various uses of the word occur in the following design and building terms: - opus caementicium - a mixture of mortar and stone - concrete - opus craticium - a cheaper form of facing or wall where a crude lattice framework of timber was filled in with roughly laid masonry using whatever building materials were to hand. - opus in…
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  8. opus
    a Californian wine Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  9. Opus
    O'pus noun ; plural Opera . [ Latin See Opera .] A work; specif. (Mus.) , a musical composition. » Each composition, or set of pieces, as the composer may choose, is called an opus , and they are numbered...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/27

  10. Opus
    • (n.) A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. Opus
    in ancient Greece, the chief city of the Locri Opuntii. Its site may have been at modern Atalándi or at Kiparíssi. Homer in his Iliad mentioned Opus, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/25

  12. opus
    opus (s), opera (pl) 1. A creative work, especially a musical composition numbered to designate the order of a composer's works.2. A piece of music written by a particular musician and given a number relating to the order in which it was published; for example, Opus 57, quartet.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. opus
    opus, op. Work.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  14. opus
    opus (ō'pus) [Lat.,=work], in music, term used in cataloging a composer's works, designating either a single composition or a group published together or considered a unit. Opus numbers assigned by the composer are of greater value than those assigned by the publisher. Beethoven was the fi...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08367

  15. Opus
    In music, a prefix, used with a figure, to indicate the numbering of a composer's works, usually in chronological order. It was at first a publisher's rather than a composer's device and in the early 18th century was used only for instrumental composers. Later in that century it began to become more general, being used for Haydn but not...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  16. Opus
    (project, product) A Honeywell operating system promised as a sop to customers after canning Multics in 1985. Opus was to provide everything Multics had and more, plus total compatibility with the Level 6/DPS6 operating system. Opus was a code name, the system was officially named VS3 (short for HV...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/Opus

  17. Opus
    [content management system] Opus is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database. ==History== Opus is short for Opus Publishing System. Opus is also the peng...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(conte

  18. Opus
    [mythology] In Greek mythology, Opus was a son of Zeus and Protogeneia, the daughter of Deucalion. Opus was a king of the Epeians and father of Cambyse or Protogeneia. Opus II was a son of Locrus or Zeus by Cambyse and thus a grandson of Opus the first. From him, a portion of the Locri derived their name Opuntii. (see Opus, Locris) ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(mytho

  19. Opus
    [play] Opus is a 2006 play written by Michael Hollinger == Plot == The play involves the Lazara Quartet, a foursome at the top of their field but with a sudden need to replace violist Dorian, who was just fired. Dorian is a mix of an emotionally unstable man who needs medication and a musica...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(play)

  20. Opus
    [former Yugoslav band] Želimir Vasić Milan Matić Vladan Dokić Zoran Dašić Opus (Serbian Cyrillic: Опус) was a former Yugoslav symphonic rock band. ==Band history== The band was formed in Belgrade in 1973 by Miodrag "Mive" Okrugić (a former YU grupa member, keyboards), Miodrag "Bat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(forme

  21. Opus
    [codec] Opus (originally Harmony) is a low-delay wideband codec intended for applications such as VoIP that will eventually be royalty-free. Opus incorporates technology from the speech-oriented SILK codec and the low-latency CELT codec. Development for the codec is coordinated by the IETF u...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(codec

  22. Opus
    [classical record magazine] Opus was an American magazine that featured critical reviews of classical music recordings. Based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the magazine ran {linktext|bimonthly} from November/December 1984 to March/April 1988, publishing 21 issues. James R. Oestreich was its e...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(class

  23. Opus
    Convenient method of numbering a composer
    Found on http://www.classicalworks.com/html/gloss



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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