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Subway (restaurant)
Subway, founded 1965 as Pete's Super Submarines by Fred DeLuca and Dr. Peter Buck in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the world's largest sub sandwich franchise, with nearly 37,000 outlets in over 100 countries; owned by Roark Capital since 2024, its U.S. unit count is shrinking.
Subway (underpass)
A subway, also called a pedestrian underpass, is a walkway carrying pedestrians beneath a road or railway, common in British English to avoid crossing vehicle traffic.
Subway Builder
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game by Colin Miller and Borough Studio (Redistricter, LLC), released October 9, 2025 and on Steam July 17, 2026, simulating millions of census-based commuters with a gravity model and rRAPTOR routing in real cities.
Subway Surfers
Subway Surfers, 2012 endless runner by Kiloo and SYBO of Denmark, three-lane swipe gameplay with Jake and Tricky; over 4.5 billion downloads, 150 million monthly players, sequel Subway Surfers City released February 26, 2026.
Subway to Sally
Subway to Sally is a German folk and medieval rock band formed in 1990, known for mixing metal guitars with bagpipes, fiddle, and German lyrics.
SubwayTakes
SubwayTakes, also Subway Takes, is a 2023 vertical-video talk show by Kareem Rahma and Andrew Kuo filmed on the New York subway, where guests give a take and Rahma answers 100% agree or disagree; Emmy-nominated, 750M+ YouTube views.
Subwoofer
A subwoofer is a loudspeaker designed to reproduce the lowest audio frequencies, roughly 20 to 200 Hz, carrying bass in home theater and studio systems.
Subword regularization
Subword regularization is a training technique for neural language models that tokenizes each training sentence with a randomly sampled subword segmentation, introduced by Taku Kudo in 2018.
Succès de scandale
Succès de scandale, a French loan phrase meaning "success of scandal," denotes success of a work from notoriety rather than merit; examples include Sargent's Madame X, Portnoy's Complaint, and Anti-Oedipus.
Success
Success, the attainment of valued goals, is studied through goal-setting field experiments, McClelland's achievement motivation, and well-being research showing ambition predicts career success but only weakly life satisfaction.
Success Academy Charter Schools
Success Academy Charter Schools: NYC charter network founded 2006 by Eva Moskowitz, 59 lottery-admission K-12 schools, SUNY-authorized, top state test results, expanding to Miami with Ken Griffin backing.
Success Eduan
Success Eduan (born 2004, Manchester) is a British sprinter, 200m and 4x100m relay specialist; 2025 World Relays gold, 2026 British 200m champion (22.43 PB), 2026 European relay champion.
Success is counted sweetest
"Success is counted sweetest" is a twelve-line 1859 poem by Emily Dickinson, first published anonymously in 1864, which argues that success is best understood by those who never attain it.
Success Kid
Success Kid (also I Hate Sandcastles) is a meme from Laney Griner's 2007 photo of 11-month-old son Sammy on a Florida beach; in 2015 the family's GoFundMe for the father's kidney transplant passed $86,000 in a week.
SuccessFactors
SuccessFactors is a cloud-based human capital management software suite founded in 2001 as an early HR cloud provider, acquired by SAP in 2012 for about $3.4 billion.
Succession (TV series)
Succession: HBO satirical black comedy-drama (2018-2023) created by Jesse Armstrong about the Roy family fighting over media empire Waystar Royco; four seasons, three Best Drama Emmys, inspired partly by the Murdochs, ending with Tom Wambsgans as successor.
Succession crises of the late Bahri Mamluk sultanate (1341–1382)
The succession crises of the late Bahri Mamluk sultanate (فوضى 1341–1382) were four decades of contested rule over Egypt and Syria, ending Bahri rule in 1382.
Succession crisis after Himiko's death
The succession crisis after Himiko's death (卑弥呼の死と壱与の擁立) was the violent 248 dispute over who would rule Yamatai, Japan, after the shaman-queen Himiko died, with over one thousand slain.
Succession crisis of 1210–1211
The succession crisis of 1210–1211 was the contest for the Delhi Sultanate after Qutbuddin Aibak's death, in which Iltutmish, backed by Delhi's nobles, defeated Aram Shah.
Succession crisis of 1421–1422
The succession crisis of 1421–1422 (أزمة 1421) was the Mamluk amirs' struggle over the throne of Egypt and Syria after Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh died in 1421.
Succession crisis of 1682
The succession crisis of 1682 was the Moscow throne struggle after childless Tsar Fyodor III died, ending in the streltsy uprising and dual tsars Ivan V and Peter I.
Succession crisis of 1725
The succession crisis of 1725 (Восшествие Екатерины I) followed Peter I's death without a named heir; Menshikov's faction and the Guards proclaimed Catherine I empress.
Succession crisis of 1825
The Succession crisis of 1825 (Междуцарствие 1825 года) followed Alexander I's death in November 1825, when Constantine's secret renunciation brought Nicholas I to the throne and sparked the Decembrist uprising.
Succession crisis of Athirajendra (1070)
The succession crisis of Athirajendra (அதிராஜேந்திரனின் வீழ்ச்சி) was the death in 1070 of the Chola king Athirajendra amid instability, ending the direct male line and opening the throne to Kulottunga I.
Succession crisis over Liu Ruyi (戚夫人与赵王如意之争)
The succession crisis over Liu Ruyi (戚夫人与赵王如意之争) was Emperor Gaozu of Han's failed attempt to depose Crown Prince Liu Ying and install Ruyi, son of his favorite consort Qi Furen.
Succession Dispute of Shulü Ping and Yelü Bei
The Succession Dispute of Shulü Ping and Yelü Bei was the contest over the Khitan-Liao throne after Emperor Taizu's death in 926, when Empress Shulü enthroned Yelü Deguang over crown prince Yelü Bei.
Succession Edict of 1521 (Brother-to-Brother Succession)
The Succession Edict of 1521 (兄终弟及诏) was a Ming edict issued after the Zhengde Emperor died sonless, invoking brother-to-brother succession to enthrone the Jiajing Emperor.
Succession law in non-Commonwealth monarchies
Succession law in non-Commonwealth monarchies is the constitutional and statutory rules deciding who inherits a throne, ranging from Jordan's agnatic primogeniture to Qatar's designated-heir system.
Succession law reform
Succession law reform is the amendment, by legislation, of rules determining who inherits a throne, replacing male-preference primogeniture with equal primogeniture, as in the UK's 2013 Act.
Succession of al-Mansur
The succession of al-Mansur (تولي المنصور) was the concealed 946 transfer of Fatimid caliphal power from the dying al-Qa'im to his son Isma'il, titled al-Mansur bi'llah.