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Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is a not-for-profit wholesale generation and transmission cooperative incorporated in Virginia in 1948, serving 11 member distribution cooperatives that supply about 1.5 million people across Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.
Old Dominion Freight Line
Old Dominion Freight Line is a large American less-than-truckload motor carrier headquartered in Thomasville, North Carolina, founded in 1934 with a single truck and now operating 260 service centers.
Old Dominion University
Old Dominion University (ODU), a public R1 doctoral research university in Norfolk, Virginia, founded 1930 as the Norfolk Division of William and Mary, independent college 1962, university 1969, EVMS integrated 2024.
Old Dongola
Old Dongola (Arabic Dunqula al-ʿAjūz, Old Nubian Tungul) is an archaeological site in northern Sudan that was the capital of the medieval kingdom of Makuria until 1364.
Old Durham
Old Durham: presumed Roman villa and bath-house site east of Durham City, England, 2nd-4th centuries AD, found in 1939 during sand quarrying; the northernmost high-status rural estate centre known in the Roman empire.
Old East Slavic literature
Old East Slavic literature (древнерусская литература), also called Old Russian or medieval Russian literature, is the literature of Kievan and Muscovite Rus written between the 11th and 17th centuries.
Old English
Old English, also known as Anglo-Saxon, is a Germanic language spoken in England from the 5th to 11th centuries, representing the earliest stage of English.
Old English Bulldog
Old English Bulldog: the extinct English bull-baiting dog (used until the 1835 ban) and the modern Olde English Bulldogge, David Leavitt's 1971 re-creation from English Bulldog, American Bulldog, Bullmastiff, and pit bull stock, UKC-recognized in 2014.
Old English Christian poetry
Old English Christian poetry is the body of religious verse composed in Anglo-Saxon England from roughly the seventh to eleventh centuries, adapting biblical narrative to the native alliterative tradition.
Old English elegy
An Old English elegy is a short reflective poem in which a solitary speaker laments loss, exile, and transience; the elegies survive chiefly in the tenth-century Exeter Book.
Old English grammar
Old English grammar: the inflectional system of Anglo-Saxon (c. 450–1150), with four cases, three genders, strong and weak verbs, and freer word order than Modern English, later lost in the shift to analytic structure.
Old English heroic poetry
Old English heroic poetry is the body of secular Old English verse celebrating the Germanic heroic age, most famously Beowulf, composed in alliterative, unrhymed lines by Christian poets.
Old English homilies
Old English homilies are vernacular prose sermons of Anglo-Saxon England, written for laypeople who could not understand Latin, chiefly by Ælfric of Eynsham and Wulfstan of York.
Old English Latin alphabet
Old English Latin alphabet: the Latin alphabet adapted by Anglo-Saxon scribes for Old English, adding thorn, eth, ash, wynn, and yogh; introduced via Irish missionaries, written in Insular minuscule, and separately encoded in Unicode.
Old English literature
Old English literature (c. 650-1066): writing of Anglo-Saxon England in Old English and Latin, from Cædmon's Hymn and Beowulf's single Cotton manuscript to Alfredian prose and rare surviving poetry codices.
Old English riddle
An Old English riddle is a short Old English poem, spoken in the voice of an object or creature, that invites the reader to name it; about 95 survive.
Old English Sheepdog
Old English Sheepdog (Bobtail), a large British herding and droving breed from west England with a shaggy coat and bear-like gait; AKC-recognized, Dulux mascot, now a UK vulnerable native breed.
Old Etonians
Old Etonians are former pupils of Eton College, founded by Henry VI in 1440. The alumni body includes 20 British prime ministers and has long dominated British elite positions.
Old Etonians F.C.
Old Etonians F.C., amateur football club for former Eton College pupils, formed from scratch sides by Arthur Kinnaird and instituted 1878; won the FA Cup in 1879 and 1882, the last all-amateur winner, now in the Arthurian League.
Old Europe (archaeology)
Old Europe (archaeology): Marija Gimbutas's term for the Neolithic and Copper Age cultures of southeastern Europe, Bulgaria and Romania, c. 6200–3300 BC, and her contested goddess-centered interpretation of them.
Old Faithful
Old Faithful, a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park's Upper Geyser Basin, Wyoming, erupts boiling water up to 184 feet every 54 minutes to about two hours.
Old Faithful Historic District
Old Faithful Historic District, Yellowstone National Park: NRHP-listed 1982 concession complex around Old Faithful Inn (1904, Robert Reamer), Old Faithful Lodge, stores, and cabins in the Upper Geyser Basin.
Old Faithful Inn
Old Faithful Inn is a 1904 log hotel in Yellowstone National Park, designed by Robert Reamer, the world's largest log structure and the model for National Park Rustic architecture, a National Historic Landmark since 1987.
Old Farmer's Almanac
The Old Farmer's Almanac, founded by Robert B. Thomas in 1792 and published by employee-owned Yankee Publishing in Dublin, New Hampshire, is North America's oldest continuously published annual, mixing long-range weather forecasts with astronomy, tides, and planting charts.
Old fashioned (cocktail)
The old fashioned is a whiskey cocktail of spirit, sugar, water, and bitters, matching the 1806 definition of "cocktail"; IBA spec 45 ml bourbon or rye, sugar cube, Angostura, stirred over ice, orange garnish.
Old Firm
Old Firm: collective name for Celtic and Rangers of Glasgow and their derby, founded 1872 and 1887; 436 meetings since 1888, 1939 record league crowd, 1971 Ibrox disaster, 2012 liquidation, 2026 away-fan ban.
Old Florida State Capitol
The Old Florida State Capitol, now the Florida Historic Capitol Museum, served as Florida's statehouse in Tallahassee from 1845 to 1977 and reopened in 1982 as a museum.
Old Folks at Home
"Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River," "Way Down Upon the Swanee River") is an 1851 Stephen Foster blackface minstrel song, published under E. P. Christy's name, Florida's state song since 1935 with lyrics revised in 2008.
Old Fort Bent (historical)
Old Fort Bent (Bent's Old Fort, originally Fort William): adobe trading post built 1833 by the Bent brothers and Ceran St. Vrain on the Santa Fe Trail in Colorado; abandoned 1849, reconstructed 1976.
Old Fox (オールド・フォックス 11歳の選択)
Old Fox (老狐狸) is a 2023 Taiwanese drama directed by Hsiao Ya-chuan, produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, set in 1989 Taipei's stock boom; an 11-year-old boy is torn between his honest father and a cunning landlord. It won four Golden Horse Awards including Best Director.