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Ocyropsis
Ocyropsis (Mayer, 1912) is a genus of lobate comb jellies, family Ocyropsidae, with five valid species including O. crystallina and O. maculata; tentacle-less ctenophores that eat small fish and euphausiids.
OD (video game)
OD (OD - KNOCK) is an upcoming horror game by Hideo Kojima's Kojima Productions, published by Xbox Game Studios, announced at The Game Awards 2023; Jordan Peele collaborates, starring Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier.
Oda
Oda, called Oda the Good, was archbishop of Canterbury from 941 or 942 until 958, and earlier bishop of Ramsbury. He was reportedly of Danish descent.
Oda clan (織田氏)
The Oda clan, also known as the Oda family (織田氏, Oda-shi), was a Japanese samurai family that rose from deputy governors of Owari Province and produced the unifier Oda Nobunaga.
Oda Nobuhide
Oda Nobuhide (織田信秀), called the Tiger of Owari, was a Sengoku warlord of Owari Province and the father of Oda Nobunaga, Japan's first great unifier.
Oda Nobunaga (織田信長)
Oda Nobunaga (織田信長, 1534–1582), Japanese warlord of Owari and first of the three unifiers ending the Sengoku Period; tenka fubu regime, methodical arquebus tactics, Honnō-ji death 1582.
Oda Nobunaga's entry into Kyoto
Oda Nobunaga's entry into Kyoto, known in Japanese as jōraku, was the warlord's 1568 occupation of the capital at the head of some 50,000 troops, installing Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th shogun.
Oda Oil and Gas Field
Oda is an oil field in the southern Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 2011 and producing since 2019 through a subsea tieback to the Ula field.
Oda regime
The Oda regime (織田政権) was the military government built by warlord Oda Nobunaga from about 1568 to 1582, the first of Japan's three unifier regimes.
Ōdachi (大太刀)
Ōdachi (大太刀), also called nodachi, is a traditionally made Japanese sword with a blade of about 90 cm or longer, far exceeding the standard katana.
Odaenathus
Odaenathus (أذينة), a leading citizen of Palmyra, defeated the Persian king Shapur I, recovered Rome's eastern provinces, and was assassinated with his son Hairan in 267.
Odahuttidavaru (ಒಡಹುಟ್ಟಿದವರು)
Odahuttidavaru (ಒಡಹುಟ್ಟಿದವರು, "Siblings") is a 1994 Kannada family drama directed by Dorai-Bhagavan, starring Dr Rajkumar and Ambareesh as farming brothers, the only film pairing the two stars; Rajkumar won a Karnataka State Best Actor award.
Odair José
Odair José is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, born in 1948, a founding figure of brega-romântico and one of Brazil's best-selling artists of the 1970s.
Odakkuzhal
Odakkuzhal (ഓടക്കുഴൽ, "the bamboo flute") is a 1950 collection of sixty Malayalam poems by G. Sankara Kurup, and in 1965 it became the first work to win the Jnanpith Award.
Odakyu Electric Railway
Odakyu Electric Railway (小田急電鉄) is a Japanese private railway company operating commuter and limited-express services from Shinjuku in Tokyo to Kanagawa Prefecture and the tourist destinations of Hakone and Enoshima.
Odalis Reve
Odalis Revé (Odalis Revé Jiménez), Cuban judoka born 1970 in Sagua de Tánamo; 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion in women's middleweight -66 kg, beating Emanuela Pierantozzi; four world medals; first Latin American woman Olympic judo champion.
Odalisque
An odalisque, originally a female servant in an Ottoman household, became in European art the name for a painting of a reclining nude in an imagined harem.
Odanacatib
Odanacatib (MK-0822) was an investigational oral, once-weekly cathepsin K inhibitor Merck developed for osteoporosis and abandoned in September 2016 after a trial showed increased stroke risk.
Odantapuri
Odantapuri (ओदन्तपुरी) was a Buddhist monastic university of the Pala period at modern Bihar Sharif, founded by Gopala and serving as the model for Tibet's Samye monastery.
Odantapuri monastery
Odantapuri (ओदंतपुरी) was a Buddhist monastic university, or mahavihara, at Bihar Sharif in Bihar, India. Founded by Gopala around 750, it was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khalji around 1200.
Odas elementales
Odas elementales (Elementary Odes) is a 1954 collection of 68 poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda praising ordinary objects, foods, and feelings, published by Editorial Losada in Buenos Aires.
OData
OData (Open Data Protocol) is an OASIS and ISO-standard application-level protocol for RESTful APIs, in which services describe their data model so generic clients can query and edit the data over HTTP.
Odawa
The Odawa, also spelled Ottawa and called Odaawaa in Anishinaabemowin, are an Indigenous people of the northern Great Lakes, known as fur-trade middlemen and for Pontiac's War of 1763.
Odawara
Odawara (小田原市, Odawara-shi) is a city in western Kanagawa, Japan, gateway to Hakone. Hojo castle town, Tokaido post station, site of the 1590 siege by Hideyoshi; population about 186,000.
Odawara Castle (小田原城)
Odawara Castle (小田原城), a Japanese castle in Odawara, Kanagawa; mid-15th-century Ōmori origin, Hōjō clan seat from about 1500, 9 km sōgome, Hideyoshi's 1590 siege, 1960 concrete keep.
Odayil Ninnu
Odayil Ninnu (ഓടയിൽ നിന്ന്; From the Gutter) is a 1942 Malayalam novel by P. Kesavadev following Pappu, a rickshaw puller who endures poverty and humiliation while keeping his dignity.
ODB (wrestler)
ODB (Jessica Nora Kresa, born 1978) is an American professional wrestler, four-time TNA Knockouts Champion and Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Eric Young, inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2026.
Odd elasticity
Odd elasticity is a generalization of elasticity in which stress need not derive from a strain energy, so cyclic deformation can yield net work in active solids.
Odd Fellows
The Odd Fellows are fraternal orders and friendly societies originating in 18th-century England among workers of assorted trades, named 'odd' for lacking guild membership. Main bodies: the IOOF (Baltimore, 1819, founded by Thomas Wildey) and Manchester Unity (1810), motto Friendship, Love and Truth.
Odd Future
Odd Future, abbreviated OFWGKTA, is an American hip-hop collective from Los Angeles formed around Tyler, the Creator, whose members included Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt.