For an exploration of the role and history of “third places” (a. k.a hangouts) The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg is wonderful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Recommended Reading] Reference

Hanseatic cities, and finally Mecklenburg and Oldenburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

My father, like his ancestors, lived in Essen, Oldenburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light] Reference

Mr. GOLDSMITH: He was born in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1913.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inextinguishable Symphony] Reference

Only a few years ago (April, 1888), at Oldenburg, a workman named.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

From Portsmouth the Emperor and the Duchess of Oldenburg go away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference

I exchanged it for a Claes Oldenburg piece: a biscuit cast in iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collector: Sudarshan Shetty] Reference

Oldenburg, with a provision made by subsequent laws in regard to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

(Forty-eight years later Oldenburg named one of its streets for him.).    From Wordnik.com.  [We Remember - Gertrud C. Reyersbach, 1907 - 1999] Reference

Dutchess of Oldenburg is regarded as excellent in Buffalo and Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple Growing] Reference

There's a short length of shoelace from a Claes Oldenburg soft sculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Couple stole more than other artists' ideas] Reference

"I don't want to go out there cheering for any other team," Oldenburg said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Cooley's Redskins fantasy football preview] Reference

Essen is a town of considerable trade in grain, in fine Oldenburg horses and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light] Reference

According to this version Otto was Count of Oldenburg in the year 990 or 967.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850] Reference

Oldenburg line, which had been on the throne of Denmark for over four hundred years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denmark] Reference

LAMB: And when you went to Oldenburg, what part of the st -- the country is that in?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inextinguishable Symphony] Reference

He came from a medical family of Oldenburg, Germany, and first pursued a medical degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meyer, Julius Lothar] Reference

And Helmut was one of the very last students to be asked to leave his public school in Oldenburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inextinguishable Symphony] Reference

At 10: 50 a.m. the battleship Oldenburg took Moltke in tow and the main fleet turned back for home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

Oldenburg is renowned for his outsized sculptures that reference consumer goods with wit and humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recipients Of National Medal Of Arts And National Humanities] Reference

Scheer reached the swept channels through the minefields and Moltke cast off her tow from Oldenburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

In spite of the shabby treatment, when the search got sticky, Oldenburg agreed to stay on until Dec. 31.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thanks, But No Thanks] Reference

Sometimes, as in the Thurgau, Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, and Tyrol, the trees are beaten to make them bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference

No sooner had she heard of Napoleon's wishes than she induced her daughter to marry the Duke of Oldenburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

This was a good day's ride away and also in Hanover, fifteen kilometres from the big military town of Oldenburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

Homes in Oldenburg (ph), Missouri, they are, indeed, under water, but the downtown area may actually have been saved.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2008] Reference

If the Oldenburg horn is still preserved at Copenhagen, its date might doubtless be determined by the style of the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850] Reference

There is a possibility that the Redskins may place Oldenburg on injured reserve, but nothing official has been announced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westbrook makes the team, Bartel released] Reference

Denmark; but, having as its Duke the King of Denmark, as long as he belonged to the elder line of the house of Oldenburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference

Baden, Weimar, Gotha, Oldenburg, Schwerin, and Strelitz, and more than twenty of the petty sovereigns in which Germany abounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

We were there two weeks and then we were split into small parties and I was slated with my two friends for a place called Oldenburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

But Cooley and Oldenburg both said they'll willingly overvalue teammates, so maybe this isn't the most objective advice in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Cooley's Redskins fantasy football preview] Reference

I kind if hope that his dress ends up looking like a Claes Oldenburg toilet paper roll or something -- now that would have a wow factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 11 Recap: Idaho? You Da Ho!] Reference

He is descended from Michael Romanof, elected Tsar in 1613, after the extinction of the House of Rurik, and also from the Oldenburg family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference