Olds
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- OldsmobileOldsmobileOldsmobile was a brand of American automobile produced for most of its existence by General Motors. It was founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1897. In its 107-year history, it produced 35.2 million cars, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan factory...
, a brand of automobile manufactured in the US from 1897 - 2004
People
- F. E. OldsF. E. OldsF. E. Olds was a manufacturer of musical instruments founded by Frank Ellsworth Olds in Los Angeles, California in the early 1900s. The company made its name making top-quality brass instruments, especially trombones, cornets, and trumpets....
(Frank Ellsworth Olds, 1861-1928), founder of American brass musical instrument manufacturing company - James OldsJames OldsJames Olds was an American psychologist who co-discovered the reward center of the brain with Peter Milner while he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 1954...
(1922-1976), psychologist and neuroscientist - Leland OldsLeland OldsLeland Olds was an American economist. Olds was interested in labor, development of public electric power, and ecology....
(1890-1960), chairman of the Federal Power Commission under FDR - Lewis P. OldsLewis P. OldsLewis P. Olds was a North Carolina lawyer and politician who served as North Carolina Attorney General in 1869-1870.In 1868, he was offered the presidency of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kemp P. Battle wrote, "As there was no treasury in sight from which a salary could be drawn,...
, North Carolina lawyer - Ransom E. OldsRansom E. OldsRansom Eli Olds was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894, and his first gasoline powered car in 1896...
(1864-1950), a pioneer of the American automobile industry - Sharon OldsSharon Olds-Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad...
(1942- ), American poet - Members of three generations of the same family:
- Edson Baldwin Olds, Ohio lawyer and CopperheadCopperheadCopperhead may refer to:Snakes:* Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America.* Agkistrodon piscivorus, a.k.a. the cottonmouth, another venomous pit viper species found in North America....
- Robert OldsRobert OldsRobert Olds was a general officer in the United States Army Air Forces, theorist of strategic air power, and proponent of an independent United States Air Force. Olds is best known today as the father of Brig. Gen...
, aerial warfare pioneer and USAAF general - Robin OldsRobin OldsRobin Olds was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 16 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general....
, American fighter pilot
- Edson Baldwin Olds, Ohio lawyer and Copperhead
Locations
- Olds, Alberta, Canada
- Olds CollegeOlds CollegeOlds College is an Alberta public post-secondary institution located in Olds, Alberta, established in 1913 as Olds Agricultural College. The College opened its first satellite campus in Calgary in 2006 in partnership with the Calgary Stampede Board....
- Olds College
- Olds, IowaOlds, IowaOlds is a city in Henry County, Iowa, United States. The population was 249 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Olds is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, United States