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Oyu Tolgoi underground

The Oyu Tolgoi underground is a block-caving copper mine beneath the Oyu Tolgoi open pit in Mongolia's South Gobi Desert, which began production in March 2023.

Oz (TV series)

Oz (1997–2003) is Tom Fontana's HBO prison drama, the network's first one-hour series, set in Oswald State Correctional Facility's experimental Emerald City unit, six seasons, 56 episodes, starring Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, and J.K. Simmons.

Oz Clarke

Oz Clarke, British wine critic, broadcaster and writer based in London; former RSC actor-singer who became the BBC Food and Drink wine expert in 1984 and the most-recognised UK wine critic (Wine Intelligence 2015, 18.2%).

Oz Perkins

Oz Perkins, also known as Osgood Perkins, is an American filmmaker and former actor who directs horror films like Longlegs (2024), and is the son of actor Anthony Perkins.

Oz the Great and Powerful

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) is Sam Raimi's Disney prequel to The Wizard of Oz, starring James Franco as Oscar Diggs with Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams; 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, $493.3 million worldwide.

Ozagrel

Ozagrel (ozagrel sodium; brands Xanbon, Katalclot) is a thromboxane A2 synthase inhibitor antiplatelet drug approved in Japan for post-SAH vasospasm and acute cerebral thrombosis, used for ischemic stroke in Japan, China, and Korea.

Ozaki Kōyō

Ozaki Kōyō (尾崎紅葉), real name Ozaki Tokutarō, was a Japanese novelist and haiku poet of the Meiji period who led the Ken'yūsha society and left the popular serial Konjiki Yasha unfinished at his death in 1903.

Ozaki procedure

The Ozaki procedure, also called aortic valve neocuspidization (AvNeo), is a cardiac operation that rebuilds the aortic valve from the patient's own pericardium, developed by Shigeyuki Ozaki in 2007.

Ozan Çolakoğlu

Ozan Çolakoğlu is a Turkish arranger, producer, and composer born in 1972 in Adana, who has shaped Turkish pop through his work with Tarkan and Hande Yener since 1992.

Ozan Kabak

Ozan Muhammed Kabak (born 2000, Ankara) is a Turkish centre-back for TSG Hoffenheim and Turkey. Galatasaray academy product sold to Stuttgart then Schalke, loaned to Liverpool and Norwich, Hoffenheim regular since 2022.

Ozan Musluoğlu

Ozan Musluoğlu is a Turkish jazz double bassist, composer, and bandleader in Istanbul, known for his albums Coincidence through Nine and for his years with Athena.

Ozanimod

Ozanimod (Zeposia, RPC1063) is an oral S1P1/S1P5 receptor modulator approved in 2020 for relapsing multiple sclerosis and 2021 for ulcerative colitis, dosed 0.92 mg daily after titration.

Ozark (TV series)

Ozark is a Netflix crime drama (2017–2022, 4 seasons, 44 episodes) created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams, starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as the Byrdes, who launder $500 million for a cartel; filmed mostly in Georgia, 45 Emmy nominations, 4 wins.

Ozark Highlands

Ozark Highlands, a level-3 EPA ecoregion of the Ozark Plateau spanning southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma, and southeast Kansas; karst limestone plateau with spring-fed, clear, high-gradient streams, high fish endemism, and oak-hickory-pine woodland.

Ozark International Raceway

Ozarks International Raceway (OIR) is a 3.97-mile, 19-turn FIA Grade 3 road course in Gravois Mills, Missouri, opened in 2022 by J.R. Pesek with Multimatic, with 1,200 feet of elevation change per lap.

Ozark Jubilee

Ozark Jubilee (aka Country Music Jubilee, Jubilee USA) was ABC-TV's weekly live country music variety show, broadcast from the Jewell Theatre, Springfield, Missouri, January 22, 1955 to September 24, 1960, hosted by Red Foley, produced by Si Siman, with 297 episodes.

Ozarkodina

Ozarkodina (Branson & Mehl, 1933) is an extinct conodont genus, family Spathognathodontidae, ranging Ordovician to Late Triassic; its Silurian–Devonian species are key biostratigraphic index fossils, later split into Wurmiella, Zieglerodina, and others.

Ozarks

The Ozarks, also called the Ozark Plateaus or Ozark Highlands, are a dissected forested highland region of the central United States, covering southern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas.

Ozbaal (king of Byblos)

Ozbaal, also known as Uzbaal, was king of Byblos, a Phoenician city, in the early 4th century BC, known from his silver coinage and his mother Batnoam's sarcophagus inscription.

Özbeg Khan

Özbeg Khan (Uzbeg, Özbek; 1282–1341), Golden Horde khan 1313–1341, first of its unbroken line of Muslim khans as Sultan Muhammad Özbeg; founded New Sarai, backed Moscow at Tver, hosted Ibn Battuta.

Özdemir Asaf

Özdemir Asaf (real name Halit Özdemir Arun; 1923, Ankara–1981, Istanbul) was a Turkish poet, translator, and publisher best known for short, paradoxical verses and the book Yalnızlık Paylaşılmaz (1978).

Ozen-Zhetybay-Aktau Oil Pipeline

The Ozen-Zhetybay-Aktau Oil Pipeline is a heated crude oil pipeline in Kazakhstan, opened in 1966 to link the Uzen and Zhetybay oil fields with the Caspian port of Aktau.

Ozenmunaigas

Ozenmunaigas (Kazakh: Өзенмұнайгаз) is a Kazakhstani oil and gas production company wholly owned by KazMunayGas, which develops the Uzen and Karamandybas fields and produced about 5 million tonnes of oil in 2024.

Ozenoxacin

Ozenoxacin (Xepi, Ozanex) is a nonfluorinated quinolone topical antibiotic, 1% cream, FDA approved December 2017 for impetigo due to S. aureus or S. pyogenes in patients 2 months and older, applied twice daily for 5 days.

Ozero Srednye Kuyto

Ozero Srednye Kuyto (Keski-Kuittijärvi), the largest of Karelia's three Kuyto lakes in the Kem River basin: 275.7 km², 41.8 km long, 34 m deep, reservoir since 1956, with Kalevala on its northern shore.

Özgür Özel

Özgür Özel, born 1974, Turkish pharmacist-politician; Manisa MP since 2011, CHP leader from November 2023 beating Kılıçdaroğlu 812-536, led the 2024 local election win, re-elected 2025, later founded Yeni Parti after a court annulled his leadership.

Ozgur Sahin

Ozgur Sahin (Özgür Şahin) is a physicist and biophysicist, professor at Columbia University, known for bacterial spore actuators, evaporation-driven engines, and the 2023 hydration solids theory.

Ozhivudivasathe Kali

Ozhivudivasathe Kali (An Off-Day Game) is a Malayalam short story by Unni R., first published in 2003 and adapted into a 2015 film that won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Film.

Ozi: Voice of the Forest

Ozi: Voice of the Forest is a 2023 CGI animated family film directed by Tim Harper about an orphaned orangutan influencer fighting deforestation; produced by GCI Film, Appian Way, and Mike Medavoy, premiered at Annecy 2023.

Ozidi

Ozidi is an oral epic of the Ijo people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, telling how a warrior's son, trained in magic, avenges his father's murder.