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Orville Carlisle
Orville H. Carlisle (1917–1988) was an American shoe store owner and pyrotechnics hobbyist in Norfolk, Nebraska whose Rock-A-Chute rockets and single-use motor founded model rocketry.
Orville Frank Tuttle
Orville Frank Tuttle (1916–1983) was an American experimental petrologist who showed that granite forms from a water-bearing melt and designed the Tuttle bomb pressure vessel.
Orville Gilbert. Brim
Orville Gilbert "Bert" Brim (1923–2016) was an American social psychologist who led the MIDUS national study of midlife well-being and headed the Russell Sage Foundation.
Orville L. Chapman
Orville L. Chapman, born Orville Lamar Chapman (1932–2004), was an American organic chemist and UCLA professor who pioneered low-temperature trapping of reactive intermediates and synthesized carpanone in one step.
Orville Peck
Orville Peck, pseudonym of Daniel Pitout, is a masked, openly gay country singer born 1988 in Johannesburg, South Africa, known for Pony (2019), Bronco (2022), Stampede (2024), and the 2026 sobriety concept album Mule.
Orville Redenbacher
Orville Redenbacher (1907-1995), American agronomist from Brazil, Indiana, Purdue 1928; with Charlie Bowman bred a 44:1 expansion popcorn hybrid, launched Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn in 1970, and became a famous TV pitchman; brand now owned by Conagra Brands.
Orville Schell
Orville Schell, American journalist and China historian, Asia Society Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations; former UC Berkeley journalism dean, author of Wealth and Power and My Old Home.
Orville Wright
Orville Wright (1871–1948) was an American aviation pioneer who, with his older brother Wilbur, made the first controlled, powered, sustained flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
Orwell Prize
The Orwell Prize is a set of annual British awards for political writing and journalism, founded by Sir Bernard Crick and first awarded in 1994 by The Orwell Foundation.
Orwell: 2+2=5
Orwell: 2+2=5 is Raoul Peck's 2025 Cannes-premiering documentary on George Orwell, linking Nineteen Eighty-Four's Newspeak and 2+2=5 to modern authoritarianism, narrated by Damian Lewis, released by Neon.
Orwellian
Orwellian: adjective from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, describing governments or systems seeking total control over people's behavior, thoughts, and language, via surveillance, Newspeak, and Doublethink.
Ory c 3
Ory c 3 (rabbit lipophilin) is a major secretoglobin allergen of Oryctolagus cuniculus, an 18-19 kDa CL2-AL glycosylated heterodimer sensitizing 77% of rabbit-allergic patients, with no IgE cross-reactivity to Fel d 1.
Oryctolagus
Oryctolagus, the European rabbit genus (Oryctolagus cuniculus), a monotypic leporid genus native to Iberia, ancestor of all domestic rabbits, IUCN Endangered from myxomatosis and RHD, invasive in Australia.
Oryol oblast
Oryol oblast (Орловская область), a Central Federal District subject of Russia formed 27 September 1937, capital Oryol; 24,652 km², about 714,000 people, industrial-agrarian economy, grain leader of the Central Federal District.
Oryon
Oryon (Qualcomm Oryon) is a custom 64-bit Arm CPU microarchitecture developed by Qualcomm from Nuvia's designs, powering Snapdragon X Elite PCs and Snapdragon 8 Elite phones.
Ōryōshi
The Ōryōshi (押領使) was an extra-codal military office of Heian Japan whose holders, often provincial governors or local landholders, led troops and maintained order in the provinces and later on estates.
Orysastrobin
Orysastrobin (オリサストロビン) is a BASF strobilurin QoI rice fungicide (FRAC 11, C18H25N5O5) controlling blast and sheath blight; introduced 2006, Japan registration expired 2020, not EU-approved.
Oryx
Oryx: genus of desert antelope (Arabian oryx, scimitar-horned oryx, gemsbok, beisa) tolerating 47°C body temperatures and months without drinking; two species went extinct in the wild and were reintroduced, Arabian oryx now Vulnerable, scimitar-horned oryx Endangered in Chad.
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake is Margaret Atwood's 2003 dystopian novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and first of the MaddAddam trilogy with The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam; it follows Snowman after an engineered plague and features transgenic creatures like pigoons.
Oryx Midstream Services
Oryx Midstream Services is a private crude oil gathering company based in Midland, Texas, whose Permian Basin assets merged into the Plains Oryx joint venture in 2021.
Oryx nome
The Oryx nome, or Ma-hedj, was the 16th province of Upper Egypt, best known for the rock-cut tombs of its governors at Beni Hassan in the Middle Kingdom.
Oryx Pipeline System
The Oryx Pipeline System is a crude oil gathering and transportation network in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, built around the Oryx Trans Permian pipeline.
Oryza
Oryza is a genus of grasses containing the two domesticated rices, Asian rice and African rice, plus wild relatives, native to the tropics and subtropics.
Oryza glaberrima
Oryza glaberrima, African rice, one of only two cultivated rice species, independently domesticated in West Africa from Oryza barthii about 2,000–3,000 years ago; hardy but low-yielding, displaced by O. sativa and used in NERICA hybrids.
Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa, Asian rice, staple cereal domesticated from Oryza rufipogon in the Yangtze valley (japonica) with indica formed by introgression; feeds over half the world's population.
Oryzalin
Oryzalin (Surflan), a dinitroaniline pre-emergent herbicide (CAS 19044-88-3) that binds plant tubulin to block microtubule assembly and cell division; patented 1969, US-registered 1974, EU approval expired 2021, also used for plant ploidy manipulation.
Oryzomys
Oryzomys (rice rats) is a Baird 1857 rodent genus, type species the marsh rice rat O. palustris; once a huge polyphyletic wastebasket genus, it was split in 2006 into ten new genera, leaving about 8 species.
Orz Boyz
Orz Boyz (囧男孩) is a 2008 Taiwanese children's coming-of-age film, the feature debut of director Yang Ya-che, about two schoolboy pranksters; it won Best Director at the 2008 Taipei Film Festival and helped mark the post-New Taiwan Cinema revival.
Orzhytya Raion
Orzhytya Raion (Оржицький район, Orzhytsia Raion) was a district in western Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Orzhytsia; created 1923, abolished 17 July 2020, territory now in Lubny Raion.
Os Ancares Lucenses y Montes de Cervantes, Navia y Becerrea Biosphere Reserve
Os Ancares Lucenses y Montes de Cervantes, Navia y Becerreá Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MaB reserve declared 27 October 2006 in eastern Lugo, Galicia, Spain; 53,664 ha across Cervantes, Navia de Suarna, and Becerreá, managed by the Diputación de Lugo.