All articles starting with O

Old Tree, Bamboo and Rock

Old Tree, Bamboo and Rock (窠木竹石图) is an ink-on-silk hanging scroll by the Yuan artist and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322), held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Old Trees and Monkeys

Old Trees and Monkeys (Koboku enkō-zu) is a pair of 16th-century ink-on-paper hanging scrolls by the Japanese painter Hasegawa Tōhaku, showing monkeys playing on withered trees.

Old Trees, Level Distance

Old Trees, Level Distance (樹色平遠圖) is a Northern Song handscroll attributed to the painter Guo Xi, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Old Turkic script (Orkhon, Yenisei, Turkic Runiform): eighth-century alphabetic script for Old Turkic, likely from Sogdian; earliest Turkic writing, deciphered by Thomsen in 1893, Unicode U+10C00–U+10C4F.

Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings

The Old Village of Hollókő is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Hungary, a preserved Palóc farming village with a medieval castle, listed in 1987.

Old Vinyl Factory

The Old Vinyl Factory is a redevelopment in Hayes, London, on the site of the Gramophone Company's 1907 record factory, later EMI's principal vinyl pressing plant.

Old Walled City of Shibam

Old Walled City of Shibam, Yemen: 16th-century fortified mud-brick tower city in Wadi Hadramaut, nicknamed the Manhattan of the desert; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982, in Danger since 2015.

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Old Well (老井)

Old Well (老井) is a 1987 Chinese drama directed by Wu Tianming from Zheng Yi's novel, starring cinematographer Zhang Yimou as well-digger Sun Wangquan; it won the 2nd Tokyo International Film Festival Grand Prix and 1988 Golden Rooster best picture.

Old West Town

Old West Town: frontier-era American settlements and their modern counterparts, including preserved towns like Deadwood and Tombstone, ghost towns like Calico and Jerome, movie-set towns like Pioneertown, and Wild West theme parks such as High Chaparral in Sweden.

Old Wives

Old Wives Lake (Cree Notekeu, "old woman") is a large shallow saline lake in southern Saskatchewan near Moose Jaw, in a closed internal-drainage basin, a migratory bird sanctuary and hemispheric shorebird reserve formerly named Johnstone Lake.

Old World

The Old World is the part of the world consisting of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the continents known to Europeans before Columbus reached the Americas; the term arose in the Age of Discovery.

Old World Landowners

Old World Landowners (Старосветские помещики) is an 1835 short story by Nikolai Gogol about an elderly Ukrainian landowning couple, published in his collection Mirgorod and ending in decline and death.

Old World monkey

Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae), about 132 species in Africa and Asia, with two premolars, downward nostrils, and tails; subfamilies Cercopithecinae (cheek pouches) and Colobinae (leaf-eating stomachs); split from apes 24–28 million years ago.

Old world screwworm

Old world screwworm, wound myiasis caused by Chrysomya bezziana larvae, an obligate mammal parasite of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; distinct from the American Cochliomyia hominivorax, controlled by insecticides and sterile insect technique.

Old World sparrow

Old World sparrows (Passeridae): house sparrow, Eurasian tree sparrow, snowfinches. Small brown seed-eating passerines native to Eurasia and Africa, unrelated to New World sparrows (Passerellidae), widely introduced.

Old World vulture

Old World vultures: 16 Accipitridae vulture species of Africa and Eurasia, convergent with New World vultures; obligate scavengers now among the most threatened bird groups due to poisoning, diclofenac, and belief-based use.

Old Yeller (film)

Old Yeller (1957) is Walt Disney's live-action drama directed by Robert Stevenson, adapted from Fred Gipson's Newbery Honor novel about a Texas frontier boy (Tommy Kirk) and his loyal dog Spike; it grossed over $8 million, holds a 100% Tomatometer, and is in the National Film Registry.

Old Yiddish biblical epic

The Old Yiddish biblical epic was a genre of rhymed vernacular verse by Ashkenazi Jewish poets, retelling biblical stories in German epic form from the late 1300s to the early 1600s.

Old Yiddish epic

Old Yiddish epic is a body of narrative verse in the Ashkenazi Jewish vernacular, spanning roughly 1382 to 1730 in biblical and secular branches, including Dukus Horant and the Shmuel-bukh.

Old York

Old York: traditional name for York, Maine (earlier Agamenticus, Gorgeana), used by sea captains after 1664 to distinguish it from New York. Home of the Old York Gaol museum and the Old York Historical Society.

Old-fashioned doughnut

Old-fashioned doughnut: a chemically leavened cake-style ring doughnut (sour cream or buttermilk batter), fried at lower temperature (365–375°F) for a craggy, crackled crust distinct from yeast doughnuts.

Old-growth forest

Old-growth forest: late-successional forest with old trees, large dead wood, and multi-layered canopies; no universal definition (BC uses 250 years). Rare in EU (<3% of forest) and US (<7% of forested landscape); key for biodiversity and carbon.

Old-system Higher Schools

Old-system higher schools (旧制高等学校, kyūsei kōtō gakkō) were Japanese male-only institutions, created under the 1894 Higher School Order and abolished in 1950, that in practice prepared students for the imperial universities.

Old-time music

Old-time music: pre-1940s American fiddle-and-banjo string-band dance music, rooted in Anglo-Irish melody and African-American rhythm, distinct from bluegrass (no solo breaks), recorded as 'hillbilly' music in the 1920s and sustained today by jams and festivals.

Oldberry Castle (United Kingdom)

Oldberry Castle, also called Oldbury Castle, is a slight univallate Iron Age hillfort on a promontory above the River Barle near Dulverton, Somerset, scheduled as monument 1006168 since 1961.

Oldboy (2013 film)

Oldboy (2013) is Spike Lee's American reinterpretation of Park Chan-wook's 2003 Korean thriller and the Garon Tsuchiya manga, starring Josh Brolin as Joe Doucett, held captive 20 years; it flopped with $2.2 million gross and mixed reviews.

Oldboy (올드보이) (2003 film)

Oldboy (올드보이) is Park Chan-wook's 2003 South Korean mystery thriller about Oh Dae-su, imprisoned 15 years without explanation. Based on Tsuchiya Garon's manga; won the 2004 Cannes Grand Prix; stars Choi Min-shik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung.

Oldbury Camp

Oldbury Camp is the name of several English Iron Age hillforts: the lowland 'Toot' at Oldbury-on-Severn, South Gloucestershire; the 51.5ha multivallate fort on Oldbury Hill, Kent; a 2.8ha univallate fort at Hartshill, Warwickshire; and a hillfort on Cherhill Down, Wiltshire.

Oldcoates

Oldcoates: site of a Scheduled Roman villa at Styrrup with Oldcotes, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, found in May 1870 during construction of St Helen's Church, with tessellated pavements and a 20 by 17 ft principal room.