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Origin of Batman
Batman is a DC Comics character who fights crime in Gotham City. His origin story, which appeared in 1939, details Bruce Wayne witnessing the murder of his parents.
Origin of birds
Origin of birds: birds evolved from maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs, established by Ostrom's 1976 Archaeopteryx work and Gauthier's 1986 cladistics; feathers and flight-related traits predate birds, with flight origin still debated.
Origin of language
Origin of language: how human linguistic communication first arose. Key theories are vocal, gestural, and multimodal origins; the innateness versus usage-based debate; and timing disputes from Neanderthal ancestors to Homo sapiens.
Origin of replication
Origin of replication (ori): DNA sequence where replication begins, from the Jacob-Brenner-Cuzin replicon model. Bacteria use one origin (E. coli oriC, 245 bp); yeast origins share an 11 bp ACS; metazoan origins are epigenetic, ~50,000 in humans.
Origin of Symmetry
Origin of Symmetry (オリジン・オブ・シンメトリー) is Muse's second studio album, released 18 June 2001 on Mushroom/Taste Media; produced by David Bottrill and John Leckie, it peaked at UK No. 3, took its title from Michio Kaku's Hyperspace, and was delayed in the US until 2005.
Origin of the Albanians
The origin of the Albanians, or Albanian ethnogenesis, traces Albanians to a West Balkan Bronze and Iron Age population, first recorded in the eleventh century.
Origin of the Basques
The origin of the Basques concerns how the Euskara-speaking people of the western Pyrenees came to differ from their neighbors, showing genetic continuity since the Iron Age.
Origin of the cosmic-ray knee and ankle
The origin of the cosmic-ray knee and ankle concerns two bends in the cosmic-ray energy spectrum, at 3 to 4 PeV and about 5 EeV.
Origin of the Moon
The origin of the Moon is explained by the giant impact hypothesis, the consensus since 1984: a Mars-sized body struck Earth about 4.5 billion years ago.
Origin of the Palestinians
Origin of the Palestinians: ancestry of the Arabic-speaking people of historic Palestine. Traces Canaanite substrate, Arabization and Islamization, HLA genetic affinities with Jews and neighbors, and the modern al-Filastiniyyin identity.
Origin of the Snow White tale
Origin of the Snow White tale (ATU 709): first full variants 1782–1833 in Germany and Russia, Musäus' Richilde first printed; Grimm Sneewittchen 1810 manuscript to 1857 standard version, Marie Hassenpflug as presumed storyteller.
Origin of the spliceosome
The origin of the spliceosome is traced to group II introns, self-splicing mobile ribozymes that invaded eukaryotic genes at the origin of eukaryotes, likely via mitochondria.
Origin of Wallace Fard Muhammad
The origin of Wallace Fard Muhammad, also W.D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam who appeared in Detroit in 1930 and disappeared in 1934, remains disputed and unresolved.
Origin of water on Earth
The origin of water on Earth, also called the origin of the oceans, is the unsolved question of how Earth acquired its water, with asteroids the leading source.
Origin OS
Origin OS is an Android-based mobile operating system developed by Chinese smartphone maker vivo, first unveiled in November 2020 as the successor to Funtouch OS.
Origin Quantum
Origin Quantum (本源量子) is a Chinese superconducting quantum computing company in Hefei, founded in 2017 as a spinoff from the University of Science and Technology of China's quantum information lab.
Origin recognition complex, subunit 2
ORC2 (ORC2L) is the subunit 2 of the human origin recognition complex, the six-protein eukaryotic DNA replication initiator that binds origins, recruits Cdc6 and MCM2-7, and forms the pre-replicative complex.
ORIGIN trial
ORIGIN trial (Outcome Reduction with an Initial Glargine Intervention), NCT00069784: 2x2 factorial RCT in 12,537 dysglycemic adults at high cardiovascular risk; insulin glargine and 1 g/day omega-3 both neutral for cardiovascular outcomes, cancer, and mortality over 6.2 years.
Origin Ventures
Origin Ventures is a Chicago-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Bruce Barron and Steven Miller, best known for leading Grubhub's Series A in 2007.
Origin Wukong
Origin Wukong (本源悟空) is a 72-qubit superconducting quantum computer developed by Origin Quantum of Hefei, China, launched in January 2024 and accessible worldwide through the company's cloud platform.
Origin: Spirits of the Past (銀色の髪のアギト)
Directed by Keiichi Sugiyama, Origin: Spirits of the Past (Gin'iro no Kami no Agito) is a 95-minute Japanese science fiction film produced by GONZO and released in 2006.
Original Celtics
Original Celtics, New York Celtics, early professional basketball team (1914-41) based in New York; barnstormed 193-11-1, won ABL titles 1926-27, pioneered post play and zone defense; unrelated to Boston Celtics.
Original character
Original character (OC, OFC, OMC) is fandom slang for a fictional character invented by an author, artist, or player rather than taken from an existing canon, used in fanfiction, art, and role-play, with related Mary Sue criticism and partial copyright protection for character expression.
Original design manufacturer
An original design manufacturer (ODM) is a company that designs and manufactures products sold under another company's brand, especially laptops, smartphones, and servers, mainly in Taiwan and China.
Original equipment manufacturer
An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is a company whose products or components are built into another company's finished product; the term is defined in opposite ways across industries.
Original Film
Original Film is the Los Angeles production company co-founded by Neal H. Moritz and Bruce Mellon in the early 1990s, behind Fast & Furious, Sonic the Hedgehog, Jump Street, Prison Break, and The Boys; distinct from Ori Eisen's Original Films.
Original jurisdiction
Original jurisdiction is a court's power to hear a case first, rather than on appeal. Covers the U.S. Supreme Court's Article III original jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. §1251, state supreme courts, and foreign apex courts.
Original Kart
Original Kart (OK) is the CIK-FIA's top direct-drive kart racing class, using 125 cc engines with no clutch or starter, 16000 RPM limit and 145 kg minimum weight; FIA Karting World and European Championship class since 2016.
Original position
The original position is John Rawls's hypothetical social contract situation in A Theory of Justice (1971), where parties behind a veil of ignorance choose principles of justice, yielding his two principles including the difference principle.
Original sin
Original sin is the Christian doctrine that Adam's first transgression affects all humanity; traditions differ on whether people inherit guilt, a corrupted nature, or a tendency to sin.