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Old 100th
Old 100th (Old Hundredth), a Long Metre hymn tune attributed to Louis Bourgeois from the 1551 Genevan Psalter (Psalm 134), later the tune of Kethe's Psalm 100 and Thomas Ken's Doxology.
Old 97's
The Old 97's are an American rock band formed in 1992 in Dallas, Texas, fronted by Rhett Miller and known as pioneers of the 1990s alternative country movement.
Old age
Old age: the later stage of human life, WHO threshold 60 years; not a disease in ICD-11, renamed 'Ageing associated decline in intrinsic capacity'; 1 billion people 60+ in 2019 rising to 2.1 billion by 2050.
Old Alton Bridge
Old Alton Bridge, also known as Goatman's Bridge, is an iron Pratt through-truss bridge built in 1884 over Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas, now open only to hikers and horseback riders.
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1995, criteria ii and iv, 443 ha) pairing Edinburgh's organic medieval Old Town with the planned neoclassical Georgian New Town built 1767-1890 from James Craig's 1767 plan.
Old Arabic
Old Arabic is the umbrella term for the varied varieties of Arabic recorded before Islam, in inscriptions, papyri, and Greek, Latin, and cuneiform transcriptions, including the earliest dated one from 267 CE.
Old Aramaic
Old Aramaic is the earliest attested stage of the Aramaic language, known from inscriptions of the Aramean states of Syria from about 900 to 600 BC.
Old Assyrian eponymate
The Old Assyrian eponymate, also called the limmu system, named each year after a yearly official at Assur, dating the trade archives at Kültepe from Erishum I's reign onward.
Old Assyrian limmu list
The Old Assyrian limmu list, also called the Kültepe Eponym List, is a cuneiform text naming the officials who gave their names to Assyrian years, c. 2000–1800 BCE.
Old Assyrian period
The Old Assyrian period, also known as Old Assyria, was the era when Assur was an independent city-state whose merchants traded tin and textiles to Anatolia.
Old Assyrian trade archive
The Old Assyrian trade archive, also called the Cappadocian or Kültepe tablets, is a corpus of about 23,500 cuneiform tablets found at Kültepe, Turkey, the ancient city of Kanesh.
Old Assyrian trade network
The Old Assyrian trade network was a system of Assyrian merchant colonies in central Anatolia, centered at Kanesh, selling tin and textiles for silver and gold.
Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablets
The Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablets are the earliest substantial Akkadian versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh, written on clay around 1900–1600 BC, chiefly the Pennsylvania and Yale tablets.
Old Babylonian house archives of Ur
The Old Babylonian house archives of Ur are private family and business cuneiform tablet collections found in houses at Ur, Iraq, from the 19th and 18th centuries BC.
Old Babylonian mathematical tablets
Old Babylonian mathematical tablets are cuneiform tablets carrying mathematics in Mesopotamia from roughly 2000 to 1600 BC, mostly written in scribal schools as table texts and problem texts.
Old Babylonian royal inscriptions
Old Babylonian royal inscriptions are building, votive, and commemorative cuneiform texts carved by kings of the early second millennium BC, including Hammurabi, on bricks, tablets, prisms, and stone objects across Babylonia.
Old Babylonian school tablets
Old Babylonian school tablets, also called edubba tablets, are clay exercise tablets made by students in Babylonian scribal schools, preserving how scribes learned cuneiform, Sumerian, and arithmetic.
Old Babylonian treaty texts
Old Babylonian treaty texts are diplomatic agreements of the early second millennium BC in which rulers of Mari, Babylon, and Eshnunna bound themselves by oaths sworn before the gods.
Old Bailey
The Old Bailey, formally the Central Criminal Court, is a criminal courthouse in the City of London handling the most serious offenses, opened by King Edward VII in 1907.
Old Bay Seasoning
Old Bay Seasoning is a Baltimore-created Chesapeake Bay spice blend, invented in 1939 by German-Jewish immigrant Gustav Brunn, originally sold as Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning and renamed for the Old Bay Line steamship; McCormick has owned it since 1990.
Old Bedford River
The Old Bedford River is a straight, 21-mile artificial drainage channel in the Fens of eastern England, cut between Earith and Salter's Lode and completed in 1637.
Old Believer literature
Old Believer literature is the writing of the Old Believers, opponents of Patriarch Nikon's 17th-century church reform, from the 1660s Schism into the 20th century.
Old Believers
The Old Believers, also called Starovery, are Russian religious dissenters who rejected Patriarch Nikon's 1650s liturgical reforms as apostasy, dividing into priestly and priestless branches.
Old Believers in Belarus
Old Believers in Belarus are communities of Russian Old Believers, adherents of the old Orthodox rite who fled persecution and settled in Belarus from the 17th century onward.
Old Blenheim Bridge
Old Blenheim Bridge was a wooden covered bridge with a 210-foot single span over Schoharie Creek in North Blenheim, New York, destroyed by flooding in 2011.
Old Book of Tang
The Old Book of Tang (旧唐书), compiled under Liu Xu, is a standard history of the Tang dynasty and the model for later official annals.
Old Bouleuterion/Metroon
Old Bouleuterion/Metroon: late 6th-century BC council house on the west side of the Athenian Agora housing the Boule of 500, later the state archive and sanctuary of the Mother of the Gods, replaced c. 150 BC by the Hellenistic Metroon.
Old Boy (オールドボーイ) (manga)
Old Boy (オールドボーイ, Rūzu Senki Old Boy) is a Japanese seinen manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, serialized 1996–1998 in Weekly Manga Action, about Shinichi Goto, imprisoned ten years without explanation; it won a 2007 Eisner Award and inspired Park Chan-wook's 2003 film Oldboy.
Old boy network
Old boy network: an informal system of favoritism among people of a privileged shared background, especially British public school alumni; variants include old school tie and old girls' network, with documented effects on hiring, pay, and elite recruitment.
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar (Stari Most), UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2005; 16th-century Ottoman arch bridge by Mimar Hajruddin, destroyed 9 November 1993, rebuilt 2004 as a symbol of reconciliation.