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Oddworld: Soulstorm

Oddworld: Soulstorm is a 2021 2D stealth puzzle-platformer by Oddworld Inhabitants, a reimagining of Abe's Exoddus and sequel to New 'n' Tasty, known for its 2.9D visuals, crafting system, and mixed reviews (Metacritic 67-73).

Ode

Ode: lyric poem of elevated style formally addressing a person, event, or thing not present; from Greek aeidein (to sing). Three types: Pindaric (strophe-antistrophe-epode), Horatian, and Irregular; examples include Keats's 1819 odes.

Ode in Russian poetry

The ode in Russian poetry is a solemn lyric genre of praise, introduced by Trediakovsky in 1734, perfected by Lomonosov, and transformed by Derzhavin's satirical Felitsa of 1782.

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats's 1819 ekphrastic ode in five ten-line stanzas, addresses an imagined Greek vase and ends with "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," first published in Annals of the Fine Arts.

Ode on Melancholy

"Ode on Melancholy" is a three-stanza lyric by John Keats, one of his five great odes of 1819, arguing that melancholy is inseparable from joy.

Ode to a Nightingale

"Ode to a Nightingale" (Keats's "Ode to the Nightingale") is a May 1819 lyric ode by John Keats, published July 1819 in the Annals of the Fine Arts and in his 1820 collection; eight ten-line pentameter stanzas on mortality versus the bird's immortal song. Not Joseph Warton's 1770 ode of the same title.

Ode to Aphrodite

The Ode to Aphrodite, Sappho fragment 1, is a prayer poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos and her only poem preserved intact from antiquity.

Ode to Billie Joe (song)

"Ode to Billie Joe" is Bobbie Gentry's 1967 Capitol debut single, a Southern Gothic story-song about a Mississippi family's casual dinner talk of Billie Joe McAllister's suicide off the Tallahatchie Bridge; it topped the Hot 100 for four weeks and entered the National Recording Registry.

Ode to Billy Joe (film)

Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 American drama film directed by Max Baer Jr., adapted from Bobbie Gentry's 1967 song, starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor.

Oct 3, 2026

Ode to Daughter of Great Tang (大唐女儿行)

Ode to Daughter of Great Tang (大唐女儿行), also known as Li Ge Xing (骊歌行) or Court Lady, is a 2021 Chinese Tang Dynasty romance comedy drama by Huanyu, starring Li Yitong and Xu Kai, 55 episodes on iQiyi and Tencent.

Ode to Joy

Ode to Joy, or An die Freude, is Beethoven's choral setting of Schiller's 1785 poem in the Ninth Symphony finale; adopted as the European anthem in 1972 without the poem's lyrics, it is also the Olympics' unofficial hymn since 1936.

Ode to Joy (Wilco album)

Ode to Joy is Wilco's eleventh studio album, released October 4, 2019 on dBpm Records. An 11-song, 42:34 set recorded at The Loft in Chicago, produced by Jeff Tweedy and Tom Schick, it won a 2021 Grammy for its special edition package.

Ode to My Father (국제시장)

Ode to My Father (국제시장, Gukjesijang) is a 2014 South Korean drama by Yoon Je-kyoon starring Hwang Jung-min, following Deok-soo from the 1950 Hungnam evacuation through West German mining and the Vietnam War; it drew 14.25 million viewers and won the Daejong Best Film award.

Ode to the Motherland

Ode to the Motherland (祖国颂) is a 1957 Chinese chorus with lyrics by Qiao Yu and music by Liu Chi, written as a documentary film theme song.

Ode to the West Wind

"Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, an 1819 lyric written near Florence in terza rima sonnet units and published with Prometheus Unbound in 1820; its speaker asks the autumn wind, destroyer and preserver, to carry his words as a prophecy of spring and renewal.

Ode to Young China

Ode to Young China (Shaonian Zhongguo shuo) is a 1900 political essay by Liang Qichao contrasting an old, stagnant China with a hopeful "Young China" renewed by youth.

Ode to Youth

Ode to Youth (Polish: Oda do młodości, originally Do młodości) is an ode by Adam Mickiewicz written in Kaunas in December 1820, considered the manifesto of Polish Romanticism.

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', also called the Immortality Ode, is an eleven-stanza irregular Pindaric ode begun March 1802, completed 1804, published 1807, on pre-existence and lost childhood vision.

Odeal

Odeal (Hillary Dennis Udanoh) is a British-Nigerian R&B/Afrobeats singer-producer from London, born in Germany and raised across Spain, Nigeria, and the UK; MOBO-winning independent artist behind "Miami" and "Soh-Soh."

Oct 15, 2026

Odebrecht

Odebrecht is a Brazilian engineering and construction group founded in 1944, once the largest builder in Brazil, and central to the Operation Car Wash corruption investigation begun in 2014.

Oded Abramsky

Oded Abramsky is an Israeli neurologist and neuroimmunologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for establishing neuroimmunology as a discipline and pioneering stem cell therapy trials in multiple sclerosis and ALS.

Sep 21, 2026

Oded Béjà

Oded Béjà is an Israeli microbiologist and professor at the Technion in Haifa whose metagenomics research discovered proteorhodopsin phototrophy in ocean bacteria, heliorhodopsins, and viral photosynthesis genes.

Oded Fehr (עודד פהר)

Oded Fehr (עודד פהר), Israeli actor born 1970 in Tel Aviv, known as Ardeth Bay in The Mummy films, Carlos Oliveira in Resident Evil, and roles in House of David and Star Trek.

Oded Galor

Oded Galor is an economist at Brown University, the Herbert H. Goldberger Professor, who founded Unified Growth Theory and wrote The Journey of Humanity, published in 31 languages.

Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich is an Israeli computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for zero-knowledge proofs and secure computation, winner of the 2021 Israel Prize.

Sep 21, 2026

Oded Rechavi

Oded Rechavi is an Israeli biologist and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University who studies transgenerational inheritance of acquired traits through small RNA molecules in C. elegans.

Oded Regev (computer scientist)

Oded Regev is a theoretical computer scientist and professor at New York University's Courant Institute, known for introducing the Learning with Errors problem in 2005.

Oded Schramm

Oded Schramm (1961–2008) was an Israeli mathematician at Microsoft Research who invented stochastic Loewner evolution, the one-parameter family of random curves describing two-dimensional random shapes, and won the Ostrowski Prize in 2007.