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Original Sin (comics)
Original Sin is Marvel's 2014 crossover event by Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato, in which Uatu the Watcher is murdered and his stolen eye unleashes the Marvel Universe's secrets, leading Nick Fury to become the Unseen.
Original Sin (Tapper and Thompson book)
Original Sin (President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again), 2025 Penguin Press book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson based on 200-plus post-election interviews arguing Biden's 2024 reelection bid concealed cognitive decline; a #1 bestseller drawing both praise and criticism.
Original Six
Original Six: the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs, the NHL's entire membership from 1942-43 to 1966-67 before 1967 expansion.
Original six frigates of the United States Navy
The original six frigates (United States, Constellation, Constitution, Congress, Chesapeake, President) were the U.S. Navy's first warships, authorized by the Naval Act of 27 March 1794; only USS Constitution survives.
Original Skin
Original Skin is an autobiographical one-woman play by South African writer Phillippa Yaa de Villiers about being a mixed-race child adopted by a white family in apartheid South Africa.
Original video animation
Original video animation (OVA, also OAV, オリジナル・ビデオ・アニメーション) is Japanese anime released direct to home video instead of TV or theaters; it began with Dallos in December 1983 and spawned OAD and ONA variants.
Originalism
Originalism is a theory of constitutional interpretation holding that the U.S. Constitution means what it did at adoption, chiefly via original public meaning; its rival is living constitutionalism, and Scalia, Gorsuch, and the Federalist Society champion it.
Origincell Biological Cryo Equipment (上海原能细胞生物低温设备有限公司)
Origincell Biological Cryo Equipment (上海原能细胞生物低温设备有限公司), also called Shanghai Origincell Biological Cryo Equipment Co., is a Shanghai company founded in 2017 that makes automated deep-cryogenic storage equipment for biological samples.
Origins (Imagine Dragons album)
Origins is the fourth studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons, released November 9, 2018 on Interscope/KIDinaKORNER. Sister album to Evolve; debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 91,000 units, RIAA Platinum, Metacritic 59.
Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal
The Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal, also called Architecture of the Taj Mahal, describes the mausoleum Shah Jahan built at Agra for Mumtaz Mahal, completed in 1648.
Origins of baseball
Origins of baseball: evolution of the sport from medieval English and European bat-and-ball games (stool ball, trap ball, rounders) to the 1845 Knickerbocker rules; debunks the Doubleday-Cooperstown and rounders-descent myths.
Origins of Japan
Origins of Japan: population history of the Japanese archipelago through Jomon hunter-gatherers, Yayoi rice-farming migrants from the Korean peninsula, and a Kofun-period East Asian influx, forming the tripartite ancestry of modern Japanese.
Origins of Judaism
Origins of Judaism, also called ancient Hebrew religion, is the scholarly study of how the Iron Age worship of Yahweh in ancient Israel and Judah became Judaism.
Origins of rock and roll
Origins of rock and roll: the 1950s American genre from 1940s rhythm and blues, blues, gospel, country and pop; Alan Freed popularized the term ca. 1954, leading to rock music by the mid-1960s.
Origins of the Ainu
Origins of the Ainu: indigenous people of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kurils, formed from Hokkaido Jomon ancestry plus Siberian Okhotsk (Lower Amur) input, with Ainu culture emerging from Satsumon and Okhotsk cultures in the 12th to 14th centuries.
Origins of the American Civil War
Origins of the American Civil War: the territorial slavery conflict after the Mexican-American War, breakdown of the Second Party System, the 1860 election, secession of eleven slave states, and the slavery-versus-states'-rights historiography.
Origins of the Druze
The origins of the Druze (نشأة الدروز) lie in a missionary movement that arose in Cairo in 1017 under the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim, whose preachers proclaimed divine power in his human form.
Origins of the Six-Day War
Origins of the Six-Day War: how the 1948 armistice lines, the Jordan River water dispute, Syrian border clashes, and the May 1967 crisis, including the UNEF withdrawal and Straits of Tiran blockade, led to the June 5-10, 1967 war.
Origins of the War of 1812
The origins of the War of 1812 lay in British trade restrictions, the impressment of American sailors, and frontier conflict, leading Congress to declare war in June 1812.
OriHime
OriHime is a telepresence, or avatar, robot developed by OryLab in Japan, which a remote operator speaks and moves through to attend work, school, or cafés.
Orihime Inoue (井上織姫)
Orihime Inoue (井上織姫) is a BLEACH character, Ichigo Kurosaki's classmate and later wife, wielding Shun Shun Rikka, six hairpin spirits that reject events for defense, healing, and attack.
Orihuela
Orihuela, in Valencian Oriola, is a municipality in the province of Alicante, Spain, capital of the comarca of Vega Baja del Segura on the river Segura.
Oríkì
Oríkì is the oral praise poetry of the Yorùbá people of West Africa, performed by stringing together praise names for people, lineages, towns, deities, and even animals and plants.
ORiN
ORiN (Open Resource Interface for the Network) is a middleware specification giving software a standard interface to factory automation equipment like industrial robots and PLCs.
Orin itan
Orin itan (Yorùbá for "history songs," from orin, song, and ìtàn, history) is a secular genre of Yorùbá traditional music, the song form associated with preserving historical narrative.
Orinda D. Evans
Orinda D. Evans, born 1943, is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Orinoco
Orinoco: major South American river draining 1,212,000 km² of Colombia and Venezuela, discharging 33,000 m³/s (third largest worldwide), linked to the Amazon via the Casiquiare, with 1,002 fish species.
Orinoco Belt
The Orinoco Belt, Spanish Faja Petrolífera del Orinoco, is a huge deposit of heavy and extra-heavy crude oil north of Venezuela's Orinoco River, the largest known hydrocarbon accumulation.
Orinoco Delta & Coastal Drainages
Orinoco Delta & Coastal Drainages, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 309, covers the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela plus coastal rivers of northwestern Guyana; a 22,000 km2 tidal wetland with four endemic fishes, the Warao people, and the Delta del Orinoco Biosphere Reserve.
Orinoco Flow
Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) is a 1988 Enya song, lead single of Watermark, written with lyricist Roma Ryan and producer Nicky Ryan, recorded at Orinoco Studios, London, on a Roland D-50 pizzicato preset; it spent three weeks at UK number one.