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.onion

.onion, also called an onion site or onion address, is a special-use top-level domain identifying anonymous onion services reachable only through the Tor network, not resolvable via DNS.

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.org

.org is a generic top-level domain created in 1985, operated since 2003 by the nonprofit Public Interest Registry, and unrestricted in registration despite its association with noncommercial organizations.

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'O sole mio

'O sole mio ("My sunshine") is a Neapolitan song of 1898, lyrics by Giovanni Capurro, music by Eduardo di Capua with Alfredo Mazzucchi recognized as co-composer in 2002. Famous through Caruso's 1916 recording, Elvis Presley's "It's Now or Never", and its 1920 Olympic anthem role.

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"Omaha" the Cat Dancer

"Omaha" the Cat Dancer is an adults-only erotic comic series by Reed Waller and later Kate Worley, running from 1978 into the 1990s and helping inspire the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

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@onefive (ワンファイブ)

@onefive (ワンファイブ) is a four-member Japanese idol group formed in 2019 by former Sakura Gakuin members KANO, SOYO, GUMI, and MOMO under Amuse and avex, with the concept "Japanese Classy Crush" and a 2027 Nippon Budokan goal.

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*OCCOH intermediate in CO2 reduction

OCCOH is a hydrogenated carbon monoxide dimer intermediate in electrochemical CO2 reduction on copper, the first experimentally confirmed species on the C–C bond-forming route to ethylene and ethanol.

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*Oscincium

Oscincium (Oscineium) was a Roman mutatio, a horse-change road station in Aquitania on the Bordeaux–Toulouse road, recorded in the Itinerarium Burdigalense (333 CE) and identified with Houeillès, Lot-et-Garonne, France; Barrington Atlas 14 F4.

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O

O (Latin letter O, omicron) is the fifteenth English letter, from Phoenician ayin via Greek omicron; encoded U+004F/U+006F, extended by many diacritic forms, and confusable with zero and Cyrillic О.

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Ó

Ó (ó), Latin letter O with acute accent, Unicode U+00D3/U+00F3 in Latin-1 Supplement. Used in Spanish, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian, Icelandic and other languages to mark stress, vowel quality, or length.

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Ö

Ö/ö, the letter o with two dots (U+00D6/U+00F6, LATIN LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS), used in German, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish and other languages as umlaut or diaeresis.

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O (Cirque du Soleil)

O by Cirque du Soleil ("O" at Bellagio) is a permanent aquatic circus show in Las Vegas, premiered October 19, 1998, directed by Franco Dragone, on a 1.5-million-gallon pool stage with hydraulic lifts; its 25th anniversary fell in October 2023.

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O (Cyrillic)

O, also known as Cyrillic o, is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet derived from Greek omicron and ultimately the Phoenician sign ayin, typically representing the vowel /o/.

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O Alienista

O Alienista is an 1881 satirical novella by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, about the physician Simão Bacamarte, whose asylum in Itaguaí commits anyone he judges irrational.

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O Amor Natural

O Amor Natural is a 1992 posthumous collection of 40 erotic poems by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, published five years after his death.

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O Ateneu

O Ateneu (Crônica de saudades) is an 1888 Brazilian novel by Raul Pompeia, in which the narrator Sérgio recalls his years at a prestigious Rio de Janeiro boarding school.

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O Auto da Compadecida

O Auto da Compadecida is a 2000 Brazilian comedy-drama film by Guel Arraes, adapted from Ariano Suassuna's 1955 play and a 1999 TV Globo miniseries, starring Matheus Nachtergaele and Selton Mello; Brazil's most-seen film of 2000.

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O Beijo no Asfalto

O Beijo no Asfalto is a three-act play by Nelson Rodrigues, written in 1960 and first staged in 1961 as one of his Rio tragedies.

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O Boticário

O Boticário is a Brazilian cosmetics and beauty-retail group founded by Miguel Krigsner in 1977 in Curitiba, Paraná, and grown into one of the world's largest beauty retailers by store count.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the Coen brothers' 2000 Odyssey-inspired comedy set in 1937 Mississippi, starring George Clooney, whose T Bone Burnett-produced roots soundtrack sold 8 million copies and won the Grammy Album of the Year.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)

The O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack is a 2000 compilation of Depression-era roots music produced by T Bone Burnett, winning the 2002 Grammy Album of the Year.

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O C'mon All Ye Faithful

O C'mon All Ye Faithful (A Derren Brown Christmas) is The Simpsons' first Disney+ exclusive, a double-length Christmas special, episodes 778-779, released December 17, 2024, written by Carolyn Omine, with Derren Brown, Patti LaBelle, and Pentatonix guest starring.

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O Canada

O Canada is Canada's national anthem: music by Calixa Lavallée, French lyrics by Adolphe-Basile Routhier (1880), English lyrics based on Robert Stanley Weir's 1908 version, official since the 1980 National Anthem Act, revised for gender neutrality in 2018.

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O Capital Group

O Capital Group is a Moroccan family investment holding company created in 2021 through a merger, chaired by Othman Benjelloun, with a 35.5% stake in Bank of Africa.

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O Captain! My Captain!

Whitman's 1865 elegy "O Captain! My Captain!" (O Captain! My Captain!) for assassinated Abraham Lincoln; ship-of-state metaphor, conventional rhyme unusual for Whitman, his most popular poem, later famous via Dead Poets Society.

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O Cheiro do Ralo

O Cheiro do Ralo (Drained) is a 2006 Brazilian dark comedy by Heitor Dhalia, adapted from Lourenço Mutarelli's 2002 novel, starring Selton Mello as pawn shop owner Lourenço; low-budget, FIPRESCI-winning, Sundance 2007.

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O Come, All Ye Faithful

O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles): 18th-century Latin Christmas hymn attributed to copyist John Francis Wade (c.1740–1743), translated by Frederick Oakeley in 1841, tune long called the Portuguese Hymn.

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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (Veni, veni Emmanuel) is an Advent hymn drawn from the seven Great O Antiphons, translated by John Mason Neale in 1851.

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O Coração Disparado

O Coração Disparado is a 1978 book of poems by Brazilian writer Adélia Prado. It is her second collection and won the Prêmio Jabuti in the Poesia category.

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O Cortiço

O Cortiço (The Tenement) is an 1890 naturalist novel by the Brazilian writer Aluísio Azevedo, tracing the rise and decline of a tenement in Rio de Janeiro.

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O Cruzeiro

O Cruzeiro was a Brazilian weekly illustrated magazine published in Rio de Janeiro from 1928 by Assis Chateaubriand's Diários Associados, a pioneer of Brazilian photojournalism.