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Sumeet Saigal
Sumeet Saigal is a former Indian Bollywood actor and producer who appeared in more than 30 Hindi films from 1987 to 2002, then founded the distribution company Sumeet Arts.
Sumeet Vyas (सुमीत व्यास)
Sumeet Vyas (सुमीत व्यास), born 1983, is an Indian actor, writer, and director known as Mikesh in TVF's Permanent Roommates and Chandan in Tripling, and for films including English Vinglish and Veere Di Wedding.
Sumela Monastery
Sumela Monastery, also known as Panagia Soumela, is a ruined Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, built into a rock cliff in Trabzon Province, Turkey.
Sumenu
Sumenu was an ancient Egyptian locality in the Theban province of Upper Egypt, a major cult center of the crocodile god Sobek, second only to Shedet.
Sumer
Sumer (Akkadian šumeru; native eme-gi7) was the earliest recognized civilization, in southern Mesopotamia (Biblical Shinar), home of cuneiform writing, Uruk, Ur, city-states, sexagesimal math, and irrigation-based urban life from c. 5500 BCE.
Sumer is icumen in
"Sumer is icumen in", also known as the Summer Canon, is a medieval English round from the 13th century, often cited as the earliest known English song with surviving music.
Sumer–Elam war
The Sumer–Elam war was an Early Dynastic raid by Enmebaragesi of Kish against Elam around 2700 BC, plundering Elam's weapons in the first war in recorded history.
Sumerian disputations
Sumerian disputations, also called Sumerian debates, are eight Sumerian poems in which non-human entities such as seasons, animals, and tools argue over which is superior.
Sumerian King List
The Sumerian King List is an ancient Mesopotamian text recording, in succession, the cities and rulers that held kingship over southern Mesopotamia from primeval times to the Dynasty of Isin.
Sumerian language
Sumerian (Emegir) is an extinct, ergative, agglutinative language isolate of southern Mesopotamia (Iraq), written in cuneiform from c. 3400-3300 BCE, spoken until about 1900 BCE, then used liturgically until the 1st century CE.
Sumerian Records
Sumerian Records is an American independent metal and hard rock label founded in 2006 by Ash Avildsen, based in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., known for Asking Alexandria, Periphery, Body Count, and the 'Sumeriancore' metalcore tag.
Sumerian religion
Sumerian religion, also known as Sumerian mythology, is the polytheistic belief system of the ancient Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia, in present-day southern Iraq, attested from the late fourth millennium BCE.
Sumerian temple economy
The Sumerian temple economy was the Early Dynastic system in which Sumerian temples administered land, livestock, workshops, and dependent workforces, with the city's deity as nominal owner.
Sumerian Temple Hymns
The Sumerian Temple Hymns are a collection of 42 hymns praising the temples of major deities in 36 cities of ancient Mesopotamia, attributed to Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkade.
Sumerla Tholi
Sumerla Tholi is a 90-km-wide tholus, a domical volcanic hill, on Venus at 13.8S, 252.2E, named by the IAU in 2000 for an East Slavic underworld goddess.
Sumerpur Mound
Sumerpur Mound (Jain temple mounds at Sumerpur, Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh): centrally protected ASI site of Jain temple mounds with broken bricks and three kheras, Lakhanpur, Mirzapur, Itara; notified 27 December 1920; distinct from Sumerpur, Rajasthan.
Sumeru (Genshin Impact)
Sumeru, also called the Nation of Wisdom, is the fourth released nation in Genshin Impact, added in Version 3.0 (August 24, 2022). Dendro nation under Archon Nahida (Buer), split into rainforest and desert, governed by the Sumeru Akademiya.
Sumeru Equity Partners
Sumeru Equity Partners is a technology-focused growth capital and private equity firm based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2014 by a team spun out of Silver Lake Sumeru.
Sümeyye Erdoğan
Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar (born 1985, Istanbul), daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is a Turkish activist and founding vice president of KADEM, the Women and Democracy Association, married to drone engineer Selçuk Bayraktar.
Sumgait
Sumgait (Sumqayıt) is an industrial city on Azerbaijan's Absheron Peninsula, 30 km from Baku, founded 1944, city status 22 November 1949; population about 325,000-341,000, chemical and metallurgical industries, Sumgait Industrial Park, and a documented industrial pollution legacy.
Sumgin (Martian crater)
Sumgin is an impact crater on Mars in the western Nereidum Montes, near the northern rim of the Argyre basin, approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.
Sumhuram
Sumhuram, also known as Sumharam, was a fortified port town founded as a colony of the kingdom of Hadramawt at Khor Rori in Dhofar, Oman, exporting frankincense.
Sumida Aquarium
Sumida Aquarium (すみだ水族館), opened May 22, 2012, is an ORIX-operated public aquarium on floors 5-6 of Tokyo Solamachi at Tokyo Skytree, known for its 7-meter Big Schale jellyfish tank, indoor penguin pool, and ADA Nature Aquarium displays.
Sumidagawa
Sumidagawa (隅田川) is a 23.5-kilometer river in eastern Tokyo that flows from the Arakawa into Tokyo Bay, and the name of a body of linked literary works.
Sumidawara
Sumidawara (炭俵, "A Sack of Charcoal") is a 1694 Japanese haikai anthology compiled by Bashō-school poets Shida Yaba, Koizumi Kōku, and Ikeda Rigyū, sixth of the Bashō Seven Major Anthologies.
Sumika Minamoto
Sumika Minamoto (源 純夏), born 1979 in Tokushima, Japanese sprint freestyle swimmer; 2000 Sydney Olympic bronze in the 4×100 m medley relay, first Japanese woman finalist in an Olympic sprint swim event, later a lifesaving club founder.
Sumikko Gurashi (すみっコぐらし)
Sumikko Gurashi (すみっコぐらし) is a San-X character franchise launched September 2012 about shy corner-dwelling characters like Shirokuma, Penguin?, and Tonkatsu, spanning films from 2019, games, and a 2027 fifth movie.
Sumiko Inouye
Sumiko Inouye is a molecular biologist and biochemist at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, known for her work on bacterial msDNA, discovered in 1984.
Sumin (musician)
SUMIN (수민), born Park Su-min in 1991, is a South Korean R&B singer-songwriter and producer; debut 2015, albums Your Home and dinnermode, MINISERIES with Slom, Korean Music Award winner, BTS and Red Velvet producer.
Sumio Iijima
Sumio Iijima (飯島 澄男), born in 1939, is a Japanese physicist and electron microscopist who discovered carbon nanotubes at NEC in 1991 and won the Kavli Prize.