Ozma

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Ozma has several meanings:

• Ozma is the name invented by L. Frank Baum for Princess Ozma, ruler of his fictional land of Oz, and later given to his own granddaughter. The name has permeated popular culture and been used for several different things.
• Ozma of Oz is the title of the third book in L. Frank Baum's Oz series.
• Ozma is an Internationally renown psychic and metaphysician who resides part time in Scottsdale, Arizona and is a teacher of The Secret. Ozma was featured on Unsolved Mysteries in 1997 and Strange Universe and was a guest on the Art Bell Show and numerous other TV and Radio programs. Her name Ozma in Arabic means God's Servant and of God or from God The Great Protector.
• Ozma is a rock band from Pasadena, California.
• Ozma was a side project of Mike Metlay and DAC Crowell that released several experimental electronica albums on Atomic City Records.
• Project Ozma in the 1960s was a pioneering SETI experiment led by Frank Drake.
• Ozma is the name of a 1989 album by the Melvins.
• Ozma is also the name of a superboss in the game Final Fantasy IX.
• Ozma is also the name of the Ra-seru of thunder in the game Legend of Legaia.
• The Ozma Problem is a philosophical problem which asks whether "handedness" is a property of the observer or a property that can only emerge from inferences about the physical world.
• DJ Ozma is a Japanese pop singer notoriously known for a performance during which his dancers seemed to strip nude on stage.
• Ozma Wars is a 1979 arcade game and the second ever vertical fixed shooter.

[edit] See also

• Osma