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On Feudalism (Fengjian lun)
On Feudalism (封建论) is an essay by the mid-Tang writer Liu Zongyuan (773–819) holding that enfeoffment arose from circumstance and was inevitably replaced by appointed officials.
On Golden Pond (1981 film)
On Golden Pond is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Mark Rydell, starring Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Jane Fonda as a family reconciling at a lake.
On Grief and Reason
On Grief and Reason: Essays is Joseph Brodsky's second essay collection, published in 1995, including his Nobel lecture and essays on Frost, Hardy, and Rilke.
On Guitar (album)
On Guitar (オン・ギター) is a 1978 guitar instrumental/model-performance album by Japanese fusion guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka, released November 25, 1978 on Invitation/Victor, with fusion covers like Breezin' and an original Rainbow.
On Happiness Road (幸福路上)
On Happiness Road (幸福路上) is a 2017 Taiwanese 2D hand-drawn animated feature by director Sung Hsin-yin, following Lin Shu-chi from 1970s childhood to adulthood; Golden Horse Best Animated Feature and Tokyo Anime Award Grand Prize winner.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is the sixth Eon James Bond film, Peter Hunt's directing debut, and George Lazenby's only outing as 007, with Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Blofeld at Piz Gloria.
On Heroes and Tombs
On Heroes and Tombs is a 1961 novel by the Argentine writer Ernesto Sábato, interweaving a Buenos Aires family story with the death of General Juan Lavalle.
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History is an 1841 book by Thomas Carlyle collecting six London lectures of May 1840, the classic statement of the Great Man theory of history.
On Liberty
On Liberty is an 1859 essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill on how far society may justifiably exercise authority over the individual, known for its harm principle.
On Life
On Life (О жизни) is a philosophical treatise by Leo Tolstoy, written in 1886–87, arguing that true life lies in rational consciousness rather than bodily existence, expressed in love.
On Macedonian Matters
On Macedonian Matters (Za makedonckite raboti) is a 1903 book by Krste Petkov Misirkov proposing a standard literary Macedonian and a program for the Macedonian national movement.
On Moonlight Bay
On Moonlight Bay is a 1951 Warner Bros. Technicolor musical comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae as 1917 Indiana sweethearts, adapted from Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories and followed by the 1953 sequel By the Light of the Silvery Moon.
On My Block
On My Block is a Netflix coming-of-age comedy-drama (2018-2021, 4 seasons, 38 episodes) created by Lauren Iungerich, Eddie Gonzalez, and Jeremy Haft, following teens Monse, Ruby, Jamal, and Cesar in fictional Freeridge, South Central Los Angeles; spin-off Freeridge was cancelled in 2023.
On My Mind (Alex Warren and Rosé song)
"On My Mind" is a 2025 pop ballad duet by Alex Warren featuring Blackpink's Rosé (ROSÉ), released June 27, 2025 on Atlantic Records and added to You'll Be Alright, Kid; it peaked at No. 37 in the UK and No. 60 on the Billboard Hot 100.
On My Soul
On My Soul is the title of several songs, chiefly Bruno Mars's 2026 track from The Romantic and Tobe Nwigwe and Nas's 2023 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts single featuring Jacob Banks, plus tracks by Meek Mill and Moneybagg Yo.
On Nature (Parmenides)
On Nature (Peri Physeos) is the philosophical poem of Parmenides of Elea, written in Greek dactylic hexameters in the late sixth or early fifth century BC.
On New Democracy
On New Democracy (新民主主义论) is a 1940 political treatise by Mao Zedong, first delivered as a lecture in Yan'an, setting out New Democracy: a coalition-led, mixed-economy stage before socialism.
On Physical Lines of Force
On Physical Lines of Force is an 1861–1862 paper by James Clerk Maxwell modeling electromagnetic phenomena and first proposing that light is an electromagnetic wave.
On Pre-Islamic Poetry
On Pre-Islamic Poetry (Fī al-shiʿr al-jāhilī, في الشعر الجاهلي) is a 1926 book by the Egyptian scholar Taha Hussein arguing that most poetry attributed to pre-Islamic Arabian poets was composed after Islam.
On Protracted War
On Protracted War (论持久战) is a lecture series by Mao Zedong delivered in Yanan in 1938, arguing China would defeat Japan through a protracted war.
On Raglan Road
On Raglan Road: Irish poem by Patrick Kavanagh (1946, first titled Dark-haired Miriam Ran Away) about Hilda Moriarty, set to the air Fáinne Geal an Lae and made famous by Luke Kelly of The Dubliners.
On Revolution
On Revolution is Hannah Arendt's 1963 political-theory classic (Viking Press) comparing the American, French, and Russian revolutions, contrasting American constitutional freedom with the French Revolution's failure on the social question, and proposing council democracy.
ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor, doing business as onsemi, is an American semiconductor manufacturer based in Scottsdale, Arizona, created from Motorola's spin-off in 1999 and grown through acquisitions including Fairchild Semiconductor.
On Socialist Realism
On Socialist Realism (Что такое социалистический реализм?) is a 1959 pamphlet by the Soviet critic Andrei Sinyavsky, published anonymously under the pseudonym Abram Tertz, criticizing socialist realism.
On Stranger Tides
On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers's 1987 historical fantasy novel about puppeteer John Chandagnac, renamed Jack Shandy, press-ganged into Blackbeard's voodoo-driven quest for the Fountain of Youth; it inspired Monkey Island and the 2011 Pirates of the Caribbean film.
On Style
On Style is the conventional English title of two ancient Greek rhetorical treatises, one lost by Theophrastus and one surviving treatise on four styles attributed to Demetrius.
On Swift Horses
On Swift Horses is a 2024 queer romantic drama directed by Daniel Minahan, adapted from Shannon Pufahl's 2019 novel, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva, and Sasha Calle; released by Sony Pictures Classics April 25, 2025.
On Target (Greaney novel)
On Target (2010) by Mark Greaney is the second Gray Man thriller, following ex-CIA assassin Court Gentry, hired by Russian arms merchant Sidorenko to kill Sudan's President Abboud while the CIA offers amnesty for a kidnapping.
On the 6
On the 6, Jennifer Lopez's debut studio album (June 1, 1999, Work Records), named for the Bronx 6 subway line; Top 10 Billboard debut, over 8 million copies, singles including If You Had My Love.
On the Absence of Sorrow and Joy in Music (Sheng wu aile lun)
On the Absence of Sorrow and Joy in Music (声无哀乐论) is an essay on music by Ji Kang of Cao Wei, arguing that emotion belongs to the listener, not the tones.