Orbiting with Ospreys and Ossuarys and OCD

ABC Wednesday is a word meme with participants from around the world. This fabulous meme was created and hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt who hails from Great Britain. Over time, others have joined in to help host this wonderful and informative meme. We are now in our seventh round-some of the participants have been with this from the very first round; others have joined in along the way. Each week we are taken across the globe to see the varied and exciting contributions people have taken the time to discover and capture. We start with the letter, "A" and each week we post something in regards to the next letter of the alphabet. This week's letter is, "O".
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Ossuary 

(image from: commons.wikimedia.org)

I never heard of an ossuary before! An ossuary is a site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. I was in the dictionary looking for the spelling of something else and saw this word and was intrigued enough to type it in a Google search, and boy was I floored! Talk about off the charts! It would seem that the necessity for this kind of burial practice came from things like the plague, that would wipe out a good deal of the population in a small amount of time. Such as the catacombs below Paris hat are lined with skeletal remains. This practice is seen as a sacred practice even if it may seem macabre to you. Perhaps one of the most well known ossuary is the Sedlac Ossuary. A Google search of images from this church is mind boggling (the images and the level of creativity with skeletal remains). Do check it out. You will be intrigued and fascinated.

OCD

OCD for Office of Civil Defense! Although, I'm sure the FIRST thing you thought of was OCD for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, right? But, in so many places in the good ol' USA, there are those sirens to warn us of danger. Growing up in Hawaii, it was a signal for tsunami warnings and for a Japanese invasion (or any other invasion). Most of my best friends were Japanese, but they were my friends and fellow Americans. We all feared another invasion from Japan. So strange, that we harbored those fears.

OVATE

Ovate: egg shaped. And, these are! They are in progress of becoming faux eggs of the rusticated kind.

ORBIT

(image from nasa.gov)

These days, when you hear the word, Orbit, you think of Orbitz instead! Funny how branding a product can influence our culture.