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Su Nuraxi di Barumini (Italy)
Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardinia's only UNESCO World Heritage site (1997), is the pre-eminent nuraghe complex: a basalt dry-stone Bronze Age tower, four-towered bastion, and hut village occupied to the 3rd century CE.
Su Pollard
Su Pollard (born 1949, Nottingham) is an English actress and singer, best known as chalet maid Peggy Ollerenshaw in the BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi! (1980–1988), with the 1986 UK number two hit "Starting Together".
Su Qin
Su Qin (蘇秦), courtesy name Jizi, was a Warring States political strategist from Luoyang who, per the Records of the Grand Historian, united six states against Qin and served as their chief minister.
Su Qin's Vertical Alliance
Su Qin's Vertical Alliance (苏秦合纵) is the traditional account of the strategist Su Qin uniting six states against Qin in 333 BC, now considered largely a later fabrication.
Su Qing (writer)
Su Qing (苏青, born Feng Heyi, 1914 or 1917 – 1982) was a Chinese novelist and essayist ranked alongside Zhang Ailing among the best-selling women writers of 1940s occupied Shanghai.
Su Qiqiang
Su Qiqiang (苏启强) is a Chinese software entrepreneur who co-founded the accounting software firm Yonyou with Wang Wenjing in Beijing in 1988, then founded Federal Software in 1994.
Su Ryon Shin
Su Ryon Shin is a biomedical engineer and Assistant Professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, known for conductive hydrogels, biosensors, and biohybrid robots.
Su Shi
Su Shi (苏轼), also known as Su Dongpo, was a Song dynasty statesman and writer who rose to Hanlin Academician and was twice exiled in the factional struggles of his age.
Su Shi's circle
Su Shi's circle (蘇門, the Su gate) was the literary group around Northern Song poet Su Shi, centered on the Four Scholars and peaking in the Yuanyou era (1086–1094).
Su Shunqin
Su Shunqin (苏舜钦, 1008–1048), courtesy name Zimei, was a Song dynasty poet, calligrapher, and official who built Suzhou's Canglang Pavilion, the city's oldest extant classical garden.
Su Shunqin Jinyuan院 case
The Su Shunqin Jinyuan院 case was a 1044 Song dynasty scandal in which official Su Shunqin was dismissed for funding a feast with proceeds from sold scrap paper.
Su Song
Su Song (苏颂), courtesy name Zirong, was a Song dynasty statesman, astronomer, and pharmacologist who served five emperors and directed the water-driven astronomical clock tower completed in 1092.
Su Song's astronomical clock tower
Su Song's astronomical clock tower, Shui Yun Yi Xiang Tai, was a 40-foot water-powered clock tower built in Kaifeng around 1088, regarded as ancient China's astronomical clock high point.
Su Tempiesu
Su Tempiesu, a Nuragic sacred spring (fonte sacra) at Orune, Nuoro, Sardinia; Late Bronze Age water temple, 13th century BC, with preserved double-pitched roof, bronze sword votives, and UNESCO tentative listing.
Sự tích Hồ Gươm
Sự tích Hồ Gươm is a Vietnamese legend in which Lê Lợi receives a divine sword to expel Ming invaders and returns it to a Golden Turtle.
Sự tích trầu cau
Sự tích trầu cau, also called Tân Lang truyện, is a Vietnamese legend explaining the custom of chewing betel and the use of betel and areca in wedding gifts.
Su Tong
Su Tong (苏童) is the pen name of Chinese writer Tong Zhonggui, born in 1963, whose novella Wives and Concubines was adapted into Raise the Red Lantern.
SU Ursae Majoris
SU Ursae Majoris is a dwarf nova in Ursa Major, discovered in 1908, that gives its name to cataclysmic variables showing superoutbursts with periodic brightness modulations called superhumps.
SU Ursae Majoris star
SU Ursae Majoris is a dwarf nova in the constellation Ursa Major, discovered in 1908, and the prototype of the SU UMa subtype of cataclysmic variable stars.
Su Wei
Su Wei (苏威) was a Sui dynasty chief minister under Emperors Wen and Yang, son of the fiscal official Su Chuo, who drafted most of the early Sui laws.
Su Wu
Su Wu (蘇武) was a Western Han dynasty diplomat sent as envoy to the Xiongnu who, held captive for about nineteen years, refused to submit and returned to serve in the capital.
Su Wu's detention by the Xiongnu
Su Wu's detention by the Xiongnu (苏武牧羊) was the nineteen-year captivity of the Han envoy Su Wu, who herded rams before returning in 81 BCE.
Su Xuelin
Su Xuelin (蘇雪林) was a Chinese writer and scholar, among the first generation of modern Chinese women writers, known for the novel Jixin and Qu Yuan studies.
Su Xun
Su Xun (苏洵, 1009–1066) was a Song dynasty essayist from Meizhou, father of Su Shi and Su Zhe, whose prose Ouyang Xiu presented to the court.
Su Yiming
Su Yiming (苏翊鸣), born 2004 in Jilin, is a Chinese snowboarder and former child actor; Olympic big air and slopestyle champion (Beijing 2022, Milano Cortina 2026) with four Olympic medals and first Chinese Olympic snowboarding champion.
Su Yu
Su Yu (粟裕) was a Chinese revolutionary military commander who rose to first among the ten grand generals of the People's Liberation Army, commanding the Huaihai campaign.
Su Yung
Su Yung (Vannarah Riggs, born 1989, Seattle) is an American professional wrestler, the "Undead Bride", a two-time IMPACT Knockouts Champion (2018, 2020) also known as Susie and Susan, active since 2007.
Su Zengfu (Supor Group)
Su Zengfu (苏增福), born 1941, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Supor Group in Yuhuan, Zhejiang, in 1994, building China's largest cookware maker before selling control to France's Groupe SEB in 2006–07.
Su Zhe
Su Zhe (苏辙) was a Song dynasty statesman and essayist who rose to Vice Director of the Chancellery and, with his father and brother, formed the "Three Sus."
SU-100 (СУ-100)
The SU-100 was a Soviet World War II tank destroyer carrying a 100 mm D-10S gun on the T-34 chassis, developed in 1944 as successor to the SU-85.