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Old Stock Exchange, Copenhagen
The Old Stock Exchange (Børsen) is a 17th-century Dutch Renaissance building on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, built for King Christian IV and known for its dragon-tail spire.
Old Stone Church
The Old Stone Church is the historic First Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, Ohio, whose 1855 Romanesque Revival building is the oldest surviving building on Public Square.
Old Straight Road
Old Straight Road (also Straight Road, Lost Road, Lost Straight Road) is Tolkien's Arda concept: the route by which Elves alone sail to Valinor after Númenor's Downfall made the world round, developed in his time-travel stories.
Old Style and New Style dates
Old Style and New Style dates are the labels historians use to distinguish Julian calendar dates from Gregorian ones, including the change of year start in 1752.
Old Summer Palace
The Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuanmingyuan, was the Qing dynasty's principal imperial garden-palace compound in northwest Beijing, looted and burned by Anglo-French troops in October 1860.
Old Swiss Confederacy
The Old Swiss Confederacy (Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft) was a loose alliance of Alpine valley communities from 1291, growing to 13 cantons within the Holy Roman Empire, independent by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, ended by the French conquest of 1798.
Old Tales Retold
Old Tales Retold (故事新编, Gushi xinbian) is a 1936 collection of eight short stories by the Chinese writer Lu Xun that retells ancient myths in modern vernacular prose.
Old Technology
Old Technology most prominently names "OLD TECHNOLOGY," a 2026 electropop single by Slayyyter from WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, produced by Yakob on Records/Columbia; also a UK experimental label run by Dan Bean and Surgeon.
Old Temple of Athena Polias at Athens
The Old Temple of Athena Polias (Archaios Neos) was the late-sixth-century BC Archaic temple on the Athenian Acropolis housing the olive-wood cult statue of Athena, burned by Persians in 480 BC; its ruins and fate remain debated.
Old Testament
The Old Testament is the first section of the Christian Bible, comprising the books Christians share with the Hebrew Bible plus, in some traditions, additional deuterocanonical books.
Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament
Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament are Hebrew Bible passages, such as Isaiah 7:14 and Psalm 110:1, presented as fulfilled in Jesus.
Old Text Book of Documents
The Old Text Book of Documents (古文尚书) is a recension of the Shang shu, said to have been found in the wall of Confucius's residence.
Old Time Rock and Roll
Old Time Rock and Roll is a 1978 Bob Seger song from Stranger in Town, written by George Jackson and Thomas E. Jones III, peaking at No. 28, made iconic by Tom Cruise's Risky Business dance and later jukebox honors.
Old Tjikko
Old Tjikko is a Norway spruce (Picea abies) located on Fulufjället, Dalarna Province, Sweden. Its root system is dated to about 9,500 years, making it a notable living clone.
Old Tom Morris
Old Tom Morris (Thomas Mitchell Morris, 1821-1908), Scottish golfer, greenkeeper, and course designer; won four of the first eight Open Championships, laid out Prestwick, and shaped the Old Course at St Andrews.
Old Town Hall (near Carlisle)
Old Town Hall (near Carlisle): the Grade I listed 1668-9 former town hall on Market Place, Carlisle, with a 1717 clock-tower extension, facing the 1682 Market Cross, now housing the Tourist Information Centre.
Old Town Hall (near South Shields)
The Old Town Hall in South Shields is a small Grade I listed building of 1768 standing at the center of the Market Place, the town's civic center until 1910.
Old Town Lunenburg
Old Town Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1995, criteria iv and v), the best surviving planned British colonial settlement in North America, founded 1753 on Charles Morris's intact grid plan with 404 mostly wooden buildings.
Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches
Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches (Ciudad Vieja de Ávila y sus iglesias extramuros), UNESCO World Heritage serial site in Castile and León, Spain, inscribed 1985: intact 2,516 m medieval walls, four Romanesque extra-muros churches, 2007 extension adding three churches and three convents.
Old Town of Cáceres
Old Town of Cáceres (Ciudad Vieja de Cáceres), a 9-ha walled medieval ensemble in Extremadura, Spain, UNESCO World Heritage since 1986 under criteria iii and iv, with Almohade walls, about 30 Muslim-period towers including the Torre del Bujaco, and Gothic-Renaissance noble palaces.
Old Town of Corfu
Old Town of Corfu (Kerkyra): fortified historic center on Corfu island at the Adriatic entrance, UNESCO-listed 2007 under criterion (iv); Venetian 1386–1797, then French, British (1815–1864) and Greek rule; Old and New Fortresses, neoclassical fabric, 70 ha property.
Old Town of Ghadamès
Old Town of Ghadamès (غدامس), Libya's 'Pearl of the Desert', a mud-brick oasis town 650 km southwest of Tripoli, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, danger-listed 2016–2025, with women's rooftop terraces and covered streets.
Old town of Kuldīga
Old town of Kuldīga (Goldingen), Latvia: UNESCO World Heritage site since 2023 (criterion v), a well-preserved 13th–20th century urban settlement and former ducal residence of Courland and Semigallia, 84.33 ha with 88.85 ha buffer zone.
Old Town of Lijiang
The Old Town of Lijiang (丽江古城) is a historic Naxi town in northwest Yunnan, China, with over 800 years of history, inscribed by UNESCO in 1997.
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof, Bavaria: UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006 (criteria ii, iii, iv), 182.8 ha on the Danube with 984 historic buildings, 12th-century Stone Bridge, seat of the Perpetual Imperial Diet 1663-1806.
Old Town Road
Old Town Road: Lil Nas X's country-trap single, built on a $30 YoungKio beat sampling Nine Inch Nails; removed from Billboard's Hot Country chart, then a Billy Ray Cyrus remix spent a record 19 weeks at Hot 100 No. 1.
Old Town, Chicago
Old Town, also known as the Old Town Triangle District, is a historic Chicago neighborhood known for its Victorian streets and The Second City comedy theater.
Old Town, Edinburgh
The Old Town, also called Auld Toun, is the medieval core of Edinburgh, Scotland, stretching along a ridge from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood, linked by the Royal Mile.
Old Trafford
Old Trafford, known as the Theatre of Dreams, is a football stadium in Manchester, England, and home of Manchester United since its opening in 1910.
Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Old Trafford Cricket Ground (Emirates Old Trafford), Talbot Road, Manchester: Lancashire CCC's home since 1864, established 1857, England's second Test venue from 1884, site of Laker's 19 wickets in 1956.