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The European Anti-fraud Office, known by the French acronym OLAF, is responsible for combating fraud against the EU.

"Lou, authors like Olaf Stapledon, who was a historian, knew that history has its ups and downs." "Steve, you know a return to Dark Ages is not impossible."

The German government said it is offering $354 million in immediate relief and billions of euros to fix collapsed houses, streets and bridges, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

To me, Olaf Stapledon's sci-fi writing epitomized the creativity of the British in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Olaf Stapledon wrote sci-fi about humanity being still essentially an ape, as evolution would unfold as a two-billion-year rollercoaster ride. It was written in 1930, before major pollution and thermonuclear weapons. Will humankind really have time to still evolve?

Historians, as Olaf Stapledon, acknowledge the ups and downs of history, and he, as other sci-fi writers, expounds on that very theme.

Olaf Stapledon takes his reader of the book Star Maker on a long astral journey through the universe with visits in strange farflung worlds.

In Olaf Stapledon's book Star Maker, the Earthling protagonist befriends the creature Bvalltu from another world. They and others travel through the stars astrally, as they discover different beings.

In his book Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon speculated that some advanced civilizations elsewhere in this universe do not survive their experimentations with technology of advanced physics.

It is now the 26th of November of 2013. I am undecided if I am more like Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel R. Delany, Olaf Stapledon, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, or Larry Niven, but I prefer these scenarios depicted as futurology. Somewhere amongst them is the near truth.

And then all hundred and one of us trooped across the grass and onto the platform and got our diplomas from Mr. Halvorson, the superintendent of schools, and he said my name into the microphone―Tollefson, John Olaf―and there is was, the terrible secret of my middle name, revealed, and I slunk back to my seat and people whispered, 'Hey, Ole.'