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Sun Chuanting
Sun Chuanting (孙传庭, 1593–1643) was a Ming dynasty official and field commander who captured the rebel king Gao Yingxiang and died in battle against Li Zicheng at Tongguan in 1643.
Sun Chuo
Sun Chuo (孫綽, courtesy name Xinggong, 314–371) was an Eastern Jin dynasty scholar-official, writer, and calligrapher, the leading representative of the xuanyan school of metaphysical poetry.
Sun City Agreement
The Sun City Agreement is the 2002 political settlement from the Inter-Congolese Dialogue at Sun City, South Africa, a central step in ending the Second Congo War.
Sun Country Airlines
Sun Country Airlines is a Minnesota-based hybrid low-cost carrier founded in 1982 by former Braniff pilots and flight attendants, headquartered in Minneapolis and second only to Delta there.
Sun cross
Sun cross (sun wheel, solar cross, wheel cross): a cross inside a circle, common in Neolithic and Bronze Age European artifacts and associated with the sun; distinct from the Celtic cross and used by both pagan practitioners and far-right groups.
Sun Dance
The Sun Dance, known as Naxpike to some nations, is an annual renewal and sacrifice ceremony of Plains Indian nations such as the Sioux, held each summer.
Sun Dance songs
Sun Dance songs are the ritual songs of the Sun Dance, the major annual ceremony of the Indigenous peoples of the North American Great Plains.
Sun dog
A sun dog, or mock sun, is a bright, colored spot of light about 22° to the sun's side, formed by refraction in atmospheric ice crystals.
Sun Drop
Sun Drop, also marketed as Sundrop, is a caffeinated citrus soft drink made with orange juice concentrate and long popular in the Carolinas and Tennessee, reaching national distribution in 2011.
Sun En rebellion
The Sun En rebellion (孙恩起义) was a Daoist-led rising in the lower Yangtze region of China's Eastern Jin dynasty, begun in 399 and continued by Lu Xun until 411.
Sun Fengji
Sun Fengji (孙逢吉, 1135–1199) was a Song dynasty official and scholar from Suichuan, Jiangxi, who served Emperors Xiaozong and Guangzong and compiled the fifty-juan encyclopedia Zhiguan fenji.
Sun Fire
Sun Fire was a brand of server computers sold by Sun Microsystems from 2001, spanning SPARC and x86-64 systems, and phased out after Oracle's 2010 acquisition.
Sun Fu (Song dynasty civil official)
Sun Fu (孙傅), courtesy name Boye, was a Song dynasty civil official who headed the Bureau of Military Affairs and died in Jin captivity in 1128 after refusing to accept a new dynasty.
Sun Fu (Song dynasty Confucian scholar)
Sun Fu (孙复, 992–1057) was a Song dynasty Confucian scholar who taught at Mount Tai and wrote an influential commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals.
Sun Fu (Song dynasty official and historian)
Sun Fu (孫甫, 998–1057), courtesy name Zhihan, was a Song dynasty official and Tang historian who served Emperor Renzong and wrote the Tang Shi Ji.
Sun Fuming
Sun Fuming (孙福明, born 1974, Tieling, Liaoning) is a Chinese heavyweight judoka; Olympic gold at +72 kg in Atlanta 1996, bronze at +78 kg in Athens 2004, and world champion at Osaka 2003.
Sun God Tablet
The Sun God Tablet, also called the Tablet of Shamash, is a limestone tablet from Sippar, dated about 860-850 BC, recording King Nabu-apla-iddina's re-endowment of Shamash's cult.
Sun Group
Sun Group is an Indian media conglomerate in Chennai founded in 1993 by Kalanithi Maran (95.35% owner): 37 TV channels in 7 languages, 69 FM stations, Sun Direct DTH, Sun Pictures, and Sunrisers cricket franchises; distinct from Shiv Khemka's SUN Group.
Sun Guoting
Sun Guoting (Qianli) was a Tang dynasty calligrapher, active in the late 7th century, whose cursive-script Shu pu (Treatise on Calligraphy) is a foundational work of Chinese calligraphy theory.
Sun Gym gang
Sun Gym gang: Miami bodybuilders led by Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal who kidnapped and extorted Marc Schiller (1994) and murdered Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton (1995); death sentences commuted to life in 2024; basis of Pain & Gain.
Sun Hao
Sun Hao (孙皓, 242–283), grandson of Sun Quan, was the fourth and last emperor of Eastern Wu, enthroned at 23 and reigning until Wu surrendered to Jin in 280.
Sun hat
A sun hat is a hat designed to shade the head, face, ears, and neck from solar ultraviolet radiation, with styles such as broad-brimmed, bucket, and legionnaire hats.
Sun Haven
Sun Haven is a fantasy farming sim RPG by Pixel Sprout Studios, Early Access June 2021, full release March 2023, up to 8-player co-op, seven races, magic, and four towns, often compared to Stardew Valley.
Sun He (Song dynasty official)
Sun He (孙何), courtesy name Hangong, was a Song dynasty official and 992 examination champion who rose to drafter of imperial edicts under emperors Taizong and Zhenzong, dying in office in 1004.
Sun He (Wu imperial prince)
Sun He (孙和, 224–253), courtesy name Zixiao, was a Wu imperial prince, son of Sun Quan, deposed as heir and posthumously honored as Emperor Wen.
Sun Hongbin
Sun Hongbin (孙宏斌) is a Chinese real estate developer, founder and chairman of Sunac China Holdings, a Tianjin-based developer listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Sun Hung Kai Properties
Sun Hung Kai Properties (新鸿基地产) is Hong Kong's leading property developer, co-founded by Kwok Tak-seng in 1963 and led since 2014 by Raymond Kwok of the Kwok family.
Sun Hur
Sun Hur is a Korean-born structural biologist and immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who studies how the immune system distinguishes self from non-self RNA.
Sun Jiagan
Sun Jiagan (孫嘉淦; 1683–1753), courtesy name Xigong, was a Qing dynasty official from Xingxian, Shanxi, who rose to Minister of Personnel and Associate Grand Secretary.
Sun Jiajun
Sun Jiajun (孙佳俊), Chinese swimmer born 2000 in Yichang, Hubei; Paris 2024 Olympic gold medalist in the men's 4x100 medley relay, 2018 Youth Olympic double gold medalist, and Asian record holder in the short-course 50 butterfly and 50 breaststroke.