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Obadiah (legendary exilarch in Seder 'Olam Zuṭa)
Obadiah is a legendary exilarch named once in the medieval Jewish chronicle Seder 'Olam Zuṭa, between Jesaiah and Shemaiah in its list of Babylonian Jewish leaders.
Obadiah (עֹבַדְיָה)
Obadiah (עֹבַדְיָה) is a prophet of the Hebrew Bible whose book, the shortest in the Old Testament, denounces Edom and announces the restoration of Judah, usually dated to the 6th century BCE.
Obadiah Bush
Obadiah Newcomb Bush (1797-1851), Rochester schoolmaster, abolitionist, and California Gold Rush prospector; great-great-grandfather of George H. W. Bush; died at sea returning from California in 1851.
Obafemi Awolowo
Obafemi Awolowo (1909–1987), Nigerian statesman, Premier of the Western Region 1954–1959, Action Group leader, founder of Nigeria's first free primary education program (1955), later Federal Commissioner for Finance and two-time presidential candidate; portrait on the ₦100 note.
Obafemi Martins
Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins (born 1984, Lagos) is a Nigerian former forward who starred for Inter Milan, Newcastle, Levante, and Seattle Sounders, scored 18 goals in 38 Nigeria caps, and retired in 2020.
Obaid Siddiqi
Obaid Siddiqi (1932–2013) was an Indian neurogeneticist whose Drosophila work helped found behavioral genetics; he built the Molecular Biology Unit at TIFR and NCBS, Bengaluru.
Obaiyed gas field
The Obaiyed gas field is a tight gas and condensate field in the Shushan Basin of Egypt's northern Western Desert, discovered by Shell in 1992 and producing since 1999.
Obaiyed-Amreya Northern Gas Pipeline
The Obaiyed-Amreya Northern Gas Pipeline, also called the Northern Gas Pipeline, carries natural gas about 400 km across Egypt to the national grid near Alexandria.
Obake (お化け)
Obake (お化け), also bakemono, are Japanese supernatural beings, literally "things that change" from bakeru, to transform. Distinct from but overlapping yōkai and yūrei; canonical examples include kitsune, tanuki, tsukumogami.
Obalende
Obalende (Obálendé), Lagos neighbourhood at the Lagos Island–Ikoyi boundary, named from the Yoruba 'Ibi tí Ọba lé wa dé'. Former Hausa military settlement, major bus hub, now being redeveloped as MTN's Y'ELLO Bus Park.
Obaltan (오발탄)
Obaltan (오발탄, Aimless Bullet) is Yu Hyun-mok's 1961 Korean realist drama adapted from Yi Beomseon's story about a postwar Seoul family; banned after the 1961 coup, ranked Korea's best film in 1984, digitally restored in 2016.
Oban
Oban (Gaelic an t-Òban, "the little bay") is a west-coast Scottish port town in Argyll and Bute, seafood capital and ferry gateway to the Inner Hebrides, with a working harbour handling over 13,000 vessels annually.
Oban, New Zealand
Oban is the sole settlement of Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand's third-largest island, on Halfmoon Bay 30 km south of Bluff. About 400 residents; ferry from Bluff, 20-minute flight from Invercargill; gateway to Rakiura National Park.
Obasi-Nsi Corona
Obasi-Nsi Corona is a 230-km-wide corona (volcano-tectonic ring structure) on Venus at 53.5S, 291.0E, in the Godiva quadrangle, named in 1997 for the Ekoi earth/fertility goddess of southern Nigeria.
Obatoclax
Obatoclax, also known by its development code GX15-070, is a discontinued experimental anticancer drug that inhibits BCL-2 family proteins; limited efficacy and neuropsychiatric toxicity ended its development.
Obayashi
Obayashi Corporation (株式会社大林組) is one of Japan's five super general contractors, founded in Osaka in 1892 and known for Tokyo Sky Tree and Marina Bay Sands.
Obba Babatundé
Obba Babatundé (birth name Donald Cohen), American stage and screen actor born 1950 or 1951 in New York; Tony-nominated as C.C. White in Dreamgirls, Emmy-nominated for Miss Evers' Boys, Daytime Emmy winner 2016.
OBBTree
OBBTree is a hierarchical data structure for rapid collision detection between complex polygonal models, built from tightly fitting oriented bounding boxes and presented at SIGGRAPH in 1996.
OBD-II PIDs
OBD-II PIDs (Parameter IDs) are numeric codes for requesting emissions-related diagnostic data, such as engine speed or coolant temperature, from a vehicle's on-board computer, defined by SAE J1979.
Obduction
Obduction is the tectonic process by which dense oceanic lithosphere, typically preserved as an ophiolite, is thrust onto lighter continental lithosphere instead of sinking at subduction zones.
Obeah
Obeah (also obi, obia) is a Caribbean term for African-derived spiritual work, healing, and protection, criminalized by Jamaica in 1760 after Tacky's Rebellion and still illegal in at least fourteen Anglophone Caribbean territories.
Obecabtagene autoleucel
Obecabtagene autoleucel (obe-cel, AUCATZYL, AUTO1) is an autologous CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy by Autolus, FDA-approved November 8, 2024 for adults with relapsed/refractory B-cell precursor ALL; FELIX trial showed 78% remission with low severe CRS and ICANS.
Obefazimod
Obefazimod (ABX464, SPL-464) is Abivax's oral quinoline small molecule that binds the cap-binding complex to upregulate miR-124; developed first for HIV, now in Phase 3 for ulcerative colitis.
Obeldicks study
Obeldicks: German one-year outpatient lifestyle intervention for obese children and adolescents (Datteln, Witten/Herdecke), combining nutrition, exercise, and behavior therapy; 79% success, sustained 4-year weight loss, with Obeldicks Light and Mini variants.
Obelia
Obelia (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) is a genus of thecate hydrozoan hydroids with alternating polyp and medusa stages. Only four cosmopolitan species are valid (bidentata, dichotoma, geniculata, longissima); medusae lack a velum and are microphagous filter feeders.
Obelisco de Buenos Aires
Obelisco de Buenos Aires: 67.5 m reinforced-concrete monument by Alberto Prebisch, inaugurated 23 May 1936 for the city's 400th anniversary at 9 de Julio and Corrientes; national historic monument with a public mirador since 2025.
Obelisk
Obelisk (Egyptian tekhen): a tapering monolithic stone pillar with a pyramidal cap, invented in ancient Egypt as a solar monument, later carried off to Rome and worldwide; Rome holds 13, more than Egypt.
Obelisk (biology)
Obelisks are viroid-like circular RNA agents (~1 kb, rod-shaped, encoding Oblin proteins) discovered in 2024 in human microbiomes and oceans, with no homology to known viruses; Streptococcus sanguinis is a confirmed host.
Obelisk of Axum
The Obelisk of Axum, also called the Obelisk of Aksum, is a 4th-century granite stele in Ethiopia, taken to Rome in 1937 and returned in 2005.
Obelisk of Montecitorio
The Obelisk of Montecitorio (Obelisco di Montecitorio) is an Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Psammetichus II, erected at Heliopolis and now standing in Rome's Piazza Montecitorio.