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Outlast (2023 TV series)

Outlast (2023 TV series), Netflix reality survival competition from Aggregate Films and BBC Studios LA, drops 16 survivalists in Alaska for $1 million; only rule: win as a team. Two Alaska seasons plus Outlast: The Jungle in Panama.

Outlast 2

Outlast 2 (Red Barrels, April 25, 2017) is a survival horror game starring cameraman Blake Langermann, who searches the Arizona cult town of Temple Gate for his wife Lynn; no weapons, camcorder night vision, Metascore 75.

Outlaw

Outlaw: a person formally placed outside the protection of the law by court order, chiefly in medieval English law (utlah, waiver for women). Punishment for evading justice; loss of legal rights, wolf's-head lore, Magna Carta clause 39.

Outlaw country

Outlaw country: 1970s American country music movement led by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson against Nashville's producer-controlled system; named via 'Ladies Love Outlaws'; landmark album Wanted! The Outlaws, country's first platinum LP.

Outlaw King

Outlaw King (2018) is a Netflix historical action-drama directed by David Mackenzie, starring Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce. It premiered at TIFF 2018, runs 137 minutes, and depicts Bruce's outlaw years from 1304 to Loudoun Hill (1307).

Outlaw motorcycle club

An outlaw motorcycle club, or biker gang, is a motorcycle club outside mainstream motorcycling sanction that emerged in the United States after World War II.

Outlaw Star

Outlaw Star (星方武侠アウトロースター) is a 1998 Sunrise space western anime, 26 episodes on TV Tokyo, following outlaw Gene Starwind, the bio-android Melfina, and the grappler-armed ship XGP-15AII to the Galactic Leyline.

Outlaws (band)

The Outlaws: Tampa, Florida Southern rock band (also 'Florida Guitar Army'), formed 1972, triple-guitar attack and country harmonies, first act signed to Arista by Clive Davis; hits 'Green Grass & High Tides' and 'There Goes Another Love Song'.

Outlaws Motorcycle Club

The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, also known as Outlaws MC, is an American outlaw motorcycle club founded in 1935 in McCook, Illinois, one of the oldest in the United States.

Outlawz

Outlawz (The Outlawz, originally Outlaw Immortalz) was an American hip hop group formed in late 1995 by Tupac Shakur and Yaki Kadafi, featured on the Makaveli album and Still I Rise, with albums Ride wit Us or Collide wit Us and Novakane.

Outlet store

Outlet store: a manufacturer- or brand-run shop selling discounted goods, originally surplus factory stock and now mostly made-for-outlet lower-quality merchandise, often clustered in outlet malls; also called factory store or factory outlet.

Outlet works

Outlet works are the structures and equipment in a dam through which controlled releases of reservoir water are made, via gates, conduits, and valves, distinct from spillways.

Outlier

An outlier is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a sample, which may signal an error, fraud, or a real extreme value.

Outliers (book)

Outliers: The Story of Success is Malcolm Gladwell's 2008 Little, Brown book arguing success depends on context, birth timing, and culture; it popularized the disputed 10,000-hour rule from Ericsson's deliberate-practice research.

Outline (list)

Outline (list): a hierarchical list showing a subject's structure, equivalent to a taxonomy tree with one parent per node. Contrasted with faceted classification; exemplified by the Library of Congress Classification Outline, DDC, and Ranganathan's Colon Classification.

Outline of a Theory of Civilization

Outline of a Theory of Civilization (文明論之概略, Bunmeiron no gairyaku) is an 1875 treatise by Fukuzawa Yukichi comparing Western civilization with Japan after the Meiji Restoration and urging Westernization.

Outline of academic disciplines

The outline of academic disciplines, also called branches of knowledge, lists the fields of teaching and research, from broad branches like the natural sciences down to named subfields like criminology.

Outline of ancient India

Outline of ancient India: overview of subcontinent history from the Indus (Harappan) civilization, 2600-1900 BC, through the Vedic age to the Early Historic period, covering cities, religions, trade, population genetics, and historiography.

Outline of BDSM

BDSM, also called kink, is consensual erotic practice combining bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism. Key facts: 40-70% fantasy prevalence, SSC and RACK consent models, minimal psychopathology differences, FetLife as largest community network.

Outline of cardiology

Outline of cardiology: the medical specialty of heart and vascular disorders. Covers subspecialties (interventional, electrophysiology, heart failure), history since 1895-1905, ABIM training requirements, and WHO cardiovascular disease burden data.

Outline of chemistry

The outline of chemistry, also known as the list of basic chemistry topics, is an overview of the discipline: its five classical branches, core principles like stoichiometry, neighboring fields, and recent developments.

Outline of Chinese History

Outline of Chinese History (Guoshi dagang) is a one-volume general history of China by Qian Mu, written during the War of Resistance and published in 1940.

Outline of culture

Outline of culture: a topical guide to culture as socially shared thought, feeling, and behavior (Tylor's 1871 definition), covering elements such as material culture, norms, and symbols, taxonomies like Hofstede's dimensions, measurement instruments, and the disciplines that study culture.

Outline of entertainment

The Outline of entertainment, also known as List of basic entertainment topics, is an outline covering the field of entertainment, its major forms, industry, and audience theory.

Outline of health sciences

Outline of health sciences: the disciplines studying health and disease, from basic biomedical and clinical sciences to epidemiology, public health, and health policy, with research methods, workforce gaps, and digital health developments.

Outline of Imperial Constitution

The Outline of Imperial Constitution (钦定宪法大纲) was a constitutional outline promulgated by the Qing government on 27 August 1908, the first official constitutional document in Chinese history.

Outline of India

Outline of India: the Republic of India (Bharat), a South Asian federal parliamentary republic of 28 states and 8 union territories, world's most populous country (1.46 billion, 2025), fifth-largest economy, HDI 0.685 (rank 130/193).

Outline of industry

The Outline of industry is a topical outline covering how industry is defined, classified, and measured, along with its role in jobs, productivity, and development.

Outline of lichens

Outline of lichens: symbiotic fungus-alga or fungus-cyanobacterium associations forming a thallus; about 20,000 species, crustose/foliose/fruticose forms, Schwendener's 1868 dual hypothesis, basidiomycete yeasts, bioindicators, and modern ecosystem redefinition.

Outline of linguistics

Outline of linguistics: the systematic study of language, covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, plus applied, cognitive, historical, educational, and computational branches, institutional history, methods, and replication debates.