Oesel
Americannoun
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The sea approaches to Leningrad were threatened as German naval and Luftwaffe parties battered their way onto the stubbornly defended Estonian Islands, Oesel, Vormsi and Moon.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a fossilized marine scorpion recently found on the island of Oesel in the Baltic Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
In some parts of the Esthonian island of Oesel the cake has not the form of a boar, but bears the same name, and on New Year's Day is given to the cattle.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
On 12 October the Germans landed a force on the island of Oesel, and within a week had overrun that and the other islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga.
From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
From a German communiqué:— "Our naval forces had encounters with Russian destroyers and gungoats north of Oesel."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 by Various
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