All articles starting with O

Owls Do Cry

Owls Do Cry is the first novel by New Zealand writer Janet Frame, published in 1957, tracing twenty years in the life of the Withers family.

Own goal: a football goal a defending player scores into their own net, credited to that defender (o.g.); governed by IFAB Law 10, blocked from restarts, adjudicated by panels like the Premier League's Goal Accreditation Panel.

OwnBackup

OwnBackup, later Own Company, was a cloud data protection company for SaaS data, founded in 2015 and acquired by Salesforce in 2024 for about $1.9 billion.

ownCloud

ownCloud is an open-source file sync and share platform for self-hosted and enterprise cloud storage, announced in 2010 by Frank Karlitschek and developed since 2011 by the German company ownCloud GmbH, which Kiteworks acquired in 2023.

Owned-and-operated station

An owned-and-operated station, or O&O, is a broadcast station owned directly by its network, which holds the FCC license, unlike independently owned affiliates that carry network programming under contract.

Oct 10, 2026

Owner earnings

Owner earnings is a measure of a business's true economic profitability, defined by Warren Buffett in 1986 as reported earnings plus non-cash charges minus maintenance capital expenditures.

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Owner of a Lonely Heart: 1983 Yes single from 90125, written by Rabin, Anderson, Squire, and Horn, produced by Trevor Horn; Yes's only US Hot 100 number one (January 1984), UK #28.

Ownership

Ownership, in law and philosophy, is the legal right to use, possess, and give away a thing, tangible or intangible; usually analyzed as a bundle of rights (possession, control, enjoyment, exclusion, disposition) with exclusion the key stick, contrasted across common law and civil law.

Ownership (Rust)

Ownership is Rust's compile-time rules for managing memory, where each value has exactly one owner and is freed when that owner goes out of scope, letting Rust guarantee memory safety without a garbage collector.

Ownership type

An ownership type is a type annotation recording which object or context owns an object, so a compiler can statically restrict how references to it are shared, with uses in concurrency and memory management.

Owney Madden

Owney Madden (Owen Vincent Madden, 1891-1965), English-born Hell's Kitchen Gopher Gang leader, Prohibition bootlegger, Cotton Club owner, boxing fixer of Primo Carnera, and later Hot Springs, Arkansas gambling boss.

Owning Manhattan

Owning Manhattan is a Netflix reality series (2024) following broker Ryan Serhant and his SERHANT. agency's agents chasing luxury Manhattan listings; two seasons of eight episodes, Season 2 released December 5, 2025.

Oct 21, 2026

Owo

Owo (Ọ̀wọ̣) is a historic Yoruba city and LGA headquarters in Ondo State, Nigeria, center of the Owo Kingdom ruled by the Olowo, midway between Ile-Ife and Benin, famed for 15th-century terracotta and ivory art and the annual Igogo festival.

Owo ivories

Owo ivories are carved elephant-ivory regalia made for the Olowo, king of the Yoruba city-state of Owo in Nigeria, chiefly from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

Sep 21, 2026

Owsei Temkin

Owsei Temkin (1902–2002) was an American historian of medicine who directed the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and wrote The Falling Sickness, a history of epilepsy.

Owsley Stanley

Owsley Stanley (Augustus Owsley Stanley III, 1935–2011), nicknamed Bear, was the first large-scale underground LSD chemist, producing about 1.25 million doses 1965–1967, and the Grateful Dead's early sound engineer who conceived the 1974 Wall of Sound and left over 1,300 concert recordings.

Owu Kingdom

Owu Kingdom was a Yoruba city-state of southwestern Nigeria, one of the earliest and most important in southern Yorubaland, destroyed in the Owu War of the 1820s.

Sep 24, 2026

Owu War

The Owu War (ogun Owu) was a 19th-century Yoruba war in which Ife, Ijebu, and Oyo forces destroyed the flourishing Owu kingdom in what is now southwestern Nigeria.

Ox

Ox (plural oxen): a bovine trained as a draft animal, usually a castrated adult male, not a breed. Descended from the aurochs, tamed by 6,000 BCE; yoked for plowing, carts, and transport worldwide.

Ox (牛) (zodiac)

The Ox (牛, niu) is the second animal of the Chinese zodiac, paired with the earthly branch Chou; recent Ox years include 2009, 2021, and 2033.

Sep 25, 2026

Ox-hide tax (niupi)

The ox-hide tax (牛皮稅) was a Five Dynasties levy under which households surrendered ox hides for armor making, becoming a land surtax under Later Zhou in 952.

OX/ZEO process

The OX/ZEO process, or oxide–zeolite process, is a bifunctional catalytic route that converts synthesis gas directly into hydrocarbons such as light olefins, developed by Xinhe Bao and Xiulian Wang.

Sep 19, 2026

OX7GEN

OX7GEN, the alias of Aditya Ashok, is a Mumbai-born, Goa-based electronic musician and drummer who led India's drum & bass scene before shifting toward house and techno.

Oxa (musician)

Oxa, also known as Cleiton Sia, is a Brazilian musical theater actor and singer based in Germany. They are known for roles in Tarzan and MJ: Das Musical.

Oxacillin

Oxacillin is a semisynthetic, penicillinase-resistant penicillin of the isoxazolyl series, once sold as Prostaphlin, used to treat penicillinase-producing staphylococcal infections and used in testing for methicillin resistance (MRSA).

Oct 21, 2026

Oxadiargyl

Oxadiargyl (RP 020630), a pre-emergence oxadiazolone PPO-inhibiting herbicide (HRAC E) for rice, sunflower, and sugarcane; formula C15H14Cl2N2O3, CAS 39807-15-3; not EU-approved, used in Australia and China.