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Old Man of the Lake
Old Man of the Lake: 30-foot hemlock log floating upright in Oregon's Crater Lake since 1896; carbon dated beyond 450 years; traveled 62.1 miles in 1938; tied up at Wizard Island in 1988 before storms hit.
Old Man of the Mountain
The Old Man of the Mountain was a 40-foot granite face profile on Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, the state emblem until its collapse in 2003.
Old Man's War
Old Man's War is John Scalzi's 2005 Tor Books military SF debut about 75-year-old John Perry, who joins the Colonial Defense Force, gets a cloned young body, and fights aliens; first of a seven-novel, Hugo-winning series.
Old Manor House
Old Manor House, Walton-on-Thames: Grade I listed 14th-century timber-framed hall-and-cross-wings house on Manor Road, Surrey, also called Bradshaw's House after John Bradshaw, reputed signer of Charles I's death warrant.
Old Master
Old Master: informal term for prominent pre-modern European artists, roughly 1300-1800, and their paintings; covers Renaissance, Baroque, Dutch Golden Age; also a major auction category, $1.2 billion in 2025 sales.
Old Mervs
Old Mervs: Australian indie rock duo from Kojonup, Western Australia, of David House (guitar, vocals) and Henry Carrington-Jones (drums); debut album Old Mervs (2025) topped the ARIA Australian chart, second album Carparks released 2026.
Old Mission Capital
Old Mission Capital LLC is a Chicago proprietary trading and market-making firm founded in 2008, best known as one of the largest and most active ETF market makers.
Old Mon script
The Old Mon script is a writing system for the Mon language, first attested in 6th-century Dvaravati inscriptions in Thailand and ancestral to the Burmese script.
Old money
Old money, also known as old rich, is wealth inherited across multiple generations of a family, together with the status culture around it, contrasted with new money.
Old Monk
Old Monk: Indian dark rum brand launched December 1954 by Ved Rattan Mohan at Mohan Meakin, Ghaziabad; molasses-based, spice- and vanilla-infused, traditionally 7-year oak vatted, 42.8% ABV; peak 8 million cases, 2026 FSSAI ruling reclassified three variants as rum-flavoured spirit.
Old Montreal
Old Montreal (Vieux-Montréal) is Montreal's historic district, founded 1642, declared a Quebec historic district in 1964. Covers Notre-Dame Basilica, Place Jacques-Cartier, rue Saint-Paul, and current pedestrianization and PHI Contemporary projects.
Old Mortality
Old Mortality is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published on 2 December 1816 as part of Tales of My Landlord, set in Scotland in 1679.
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard is an English nursery rhyme, Roud 19334, about an old woman and her talented dog. Sarah Catherine Martin's 1805 Comic Adventures, published by John Harris, became the definitive fourteen-verse version.
Old Mutual
Old Mutual is a pan-African financial services group incorporated in South Africa and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, serving about 15 million customers in 12 countries from a business founded in Cape Town in 1845.
Old Navy
Old Navy is Gap Inc.'s value-priced family clothing retailer, opened in Colma, California on March 19, 1994 from the Gap Warehouse prototype. First retailer to $1 billion in sales within four years; fiscal 2025 net sales $8.7 billion across 1,200+ North American stores.
Old New Year (Старый Новый год)
The Old New Year (Старый Новый год) is an informal holiday on January 14, corresponding to January 1 in the Julian calendar, celebrated in post-Soviet countries.
Old Norse
Old Norse, the North Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland (c. 700–1350), ancestor of Icelandic and the mainland Scandinavian languages, written in runes and roman-alphabet manuscripts, language of the Eddas and sagas.
Old Norse poetry
Old Norse poetry: medieval Scandinavian verse in two modern types, anonymous eddic poems of the Poetic Edda (Codex Regius) and attributed skaldic verse in dróttkvætt metre, established in Norway ca 850 and preserved mostly as quotation in prose.
Old Norse religion
Old Norse religion: the pre-Christian religion of Viking Age Scandinavia, also called forn sidr (ancient custom), known from the Eddas, sagas, rune stones, and archaeology; replaced by Christianity c. 900–1100 and revived today as Heathenry/Ásatrú.
Old North Church
Old North Church (Christ Church in the City of Boston), built 1723–1740 at 193 Salem Street, Boston, is the city's oldest standing church, a Wren-style Georgian Episcopal church where two lanterns on April 18, 1775 signaled British troops before Paul Revere's ride.
Old Nubian legal documents from Qasr Ibrim
The Old Nubian legal documents from Qasr Ibrim are a corpus of medieval land deeds and inheritance records written in Old Nubian, found at Qasr Ibrim in medieval Nobadia.
Old Oak Common railway station
Old Oak Common railway station is a station under construction in west London that will serve as the London interchange for High Speed 2, opening between 2029 and 2033.
Old Order Mennonite
Old Order Mennonites are conservative, plain, horse-and-buggy Mennonite groups in the United States and Canada that separated from the Mennonite Church between 1872 and 1901, rejecting Sunday schools and revival meetings.
Old Oswestry
Old Oswestry (Caer Ogyrfan, Yr hen Ddinas) is a large multivallate Iron Age hillfort on a glacial mound north of Oswestry, Shropshire, with five rampart rings, unique western entrance hollows, reuse in Wat's Dyke, WWI trenches, and Scheduled Monument status since 1934.
Old Palace at Assur
Old Palace at Assur (Alter Palast): royal palace of ancient Assur, first built under Šamši-Adad I (c. 1815–1782 BC), rebuilt over millennia, burial place of Assyrian kings, excavated by Andrae 1903–1914.
Old Persian
Old Persian is the Old Iranian language of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions of the 6th to 4th centuries B.C.E., ancestor of Middle Persian and modern Persian (Farsi).
Old Phrygian inscriptions
The Old Phrygian inscriptions, also called Paleo-Phrygian, are 395 texts in the Phrygian language and native alphabet from central Anatolia, dated about 800 to 330 BC, mostly found at Gordion.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot's 1939 Faber & Faber light-verse collection published under the pseudonym Old Possum, names cats such as Macavity, Mr Mistoffelees and Old Deuteronomy and became the source of Lloyd Webber's Cats.
Old Post Office (Washington, D.C.)
Old Post Office, Washington, D.C.: 1899 Richardsonian Romanesque federal building at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW with a 315-foot clock tower; former Post Office Department headquarters, later Trump International Hotel, now Waldorf Astoria Washington D.C.
Old Prussian language
Old Prussian (Prūsiskan) is an extinct West Baltic language, related to Lithuanian and Latvian, spoken by the Baltic Prussians until roughly the seventeenth or early eighteenth century.