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Sun Quan's Proclamation as Emperor
Sun Quan's Proclamation as Emperor (孙权称帝) was Sun Quan's 229 accession as emperor, founding Eastern Wu and making a covenant with Shu to divide the realm.
Sun Ra
Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount, 1914-1993), aka Le Sony'r Ra, American jazz bandleader and Afrofuturism founder who claimed Saturn origins, led the Arkestra for nearly 60 years, ran El Saturn Records, and recorded 100-200+ albums.
Sun Records
Sun Records is the Memphis independent label founded by Sam Phillips in February 1952 at 706 Union Avenue, birthplace of rockabilly through Elvis Presley's 1954 sessions; sold to Shelby Singleton in 1969, now owned by Primary Wave.
SUN RGB-D
SUN RGB-D is a benchmark dataset of 10,335 RGB-D images of indoor scenes with dense 2D and 3D annotations, introduced by Princeton University researchers at CVPR 2015.
Sun Ru
Sun Ru (孙儒) was a Tang-dynasty soldier and warlord from Henan who served Qin Zongquan, seized Yangzhou in 888, and warred with Yang Xingmi until his execution in 892.
Sun Ru's rebellion
Sun Ru's rebellion (孙儒之乱) was a late Tang campaign in which Sun Ru, fighting Yang Xingmi for the Huai region, was destroyed by plague and defeated.
Sun sensor
A sun sensor is a spacecraft attitude sensor that measures the Sun's direction in the spacecraft's body frame, providing the Sun vector used for attitude determination, safe-mode recovery, and fault detection.
Sun Sentinel
The South Florida Sun Sentinel is a daily newspaper in Deerfield Beach, Florida, serving Broward and Palm Beach counties. It won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Sun Shenxing
Sun Shenxing (孙慎行), 1565–1636, was a late-Ming Confucian scholar-official from Wujin, Jiangsu, who served as Minister of Rites, played a central part in the Red Pill case of 1620, and developed the doctrine of shen du.
Sun Shiyi
Sun Shiyi (孙士毅, 1720–1796) was a Qing dynasty official and general from Renhe, Zhejiang, who rose to Wenyuan Pavilion Grand Secretary and led the expedition that briefly restored the Lê king in Annam.
Sun Shuwei
Sun Shuwei (孙淑伟, born 1976) is a Chinese former diver who won the men's 10 meter platform gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, China's first male platform champion.
Sun sign astrology
Sun sign astrology, or star signs, judges people by the zodiac sign of the Sun at birth. Invented as a newspaper format after R. H. Naylor's 1930 Princess Margaret horoscope, it is scientifically unsupported but widely popular.
Sun Sike
Sun Sike (孙思克), 1628 to 1700, was a Qing dynasty general who long guarded the Gansu frontier and fought Wang Fuchen's revolt in the 1670s.
Sun Simiao
Sun Simiao (孙思邈) was a Tang-dynasty physician, alchemist, and scholar who declined all office under the Sui and Tang and wrote the Qianjin fang, the great medical encyclopedia, dying in 682.
Sun tanning
Sun tanning is UV-induced skin darkening from increased melanin triggered by DNA damage; a tan signals skin injury, provides only SPF 2-4, and sunbed tanning raises melanoma risk (IARC group 1 carcinogen).
Sun Television
Sun Television (サンテレビジョン, Sun TV) is Hyogo Prefecture's only commercial terrestrial TV station, opened 1 May 1969 in Kobe. An independent station in the JAITS group, it is known for Sun TV Box Seat Hanshin Tigers baseball relays since 1969 and earthquake-disaster reporting after the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake.
Sun temple (Egyptian)
Dedicated to the sun god Ra, the Egyptian sun temple was a Fifth Dynasty royal sanctuary. Six were known from sources, but only two have been excavated.
Sun Temple of Niuserre
The Sun Temple of Niuserre is a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian temple to the sun god Re at Abu Ghurab near Cairo, built by King Niuserre around 2420 BC.
Sun Temple of Nyuserre
The Sun Temple of Nyuserre, called Shesepibre, is a Fifth Dynasty sun temple at Abu Ghurab, Egypt, built by King Nyuserre for the god Ra.
Sun Temple of Userkaf
The Sun Temple of Userkaf, called Nekhenre, meaning "Stronghold of Re", was the first sun temple built in Egypt, constructed by the Fifth Dynasty king Userkaf at Abu Ghurab near Abusir.
Sun Temple, Modhera
The Sun Temple at Modhera is a Hindu temple dedicated to Surya at Modhera, Gujarat, India, built in 1026–27 CE under Chaulukya king Bhima I, with a large stepped tank.
Sun Tiantian
Sun Tiantian (孙甜甜, b. 1981, Zhengzhou) is a retired Chinese tennis player; with Li Ting she won women's doubles gold at Athens 2004, China's first Olympic tennis medal, and the 2008 Australian Open mixed doubles title.
Sun TV (சன் டிவி) (India)
Sun TV (சன் டிவி) is the flagship Tamil general entertainment channel of Sun TV Network, launched April 14, 1993 by Kalanithi Maran, becoming 24-hour in 1995 and, per company reports, India's most watched channel.
Sun TV Network
Sun TV Network Limited (சன் டிவி நெட்வொர்க் லிமிடெட்), Chennai-based Indian media conglomerate founded by Kalanithi Maran; Sun TV launched April 14, 1993; 37 channels in 7 languages, 69 FM stations, SunRisers Hyderabad IPL franchise.
Sun Tzu (孙子)
Sun Tzu (孙子, Sun Wu), legendary Chinese general of Wu, name attached to The Art of War, a thirteen-chapter Warring States military classic; authorship disputed, earliest witness the 1972 Yinqueshan bamboo slips.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Sun Valley, Idaho is a resort city in the Wood River Valley adjoining Sun Valley Resort, North America's first destination ski resort, opened by Union Pacific in December 1936 with the world's first chairlift on Proctor Mountain.
Sun Wanrong
Sun Wanrong (孙万荣) was a Khitan leader who rebelled at Yingzhou against Empress Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, defeating a 170,000-strong army before being killed by his own slave.
Sun Wei
Sun Wei (孙玮) was a Ming dynasty official from Weinan who rose to Minister of Revenue and head of the censorate under the Wanli and Tianqi emperors.
Sun Weishi
Sun Weishi (孙维世, 1921–1968), adopted daughter of Zhou Enlai, was China's first female stage director and the leading Chinese exponent of the Stanislavski system, directing Paul Korchagin, The Government Inspector, and Uncle Vanya before dying in detention during the Cultural Revolution.
Sun Weiyong
Sun Weiyong (孙伟勇, born 1965) is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Entive, an integrated-stove maker in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, that listed on the Shenzhen ChiNext board in December 2020.