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Suqian power station
Suqian power station, also known as Suqian Guodian power station, is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Suqian, Jiangsu, China, with at least 1,370 MW.
Suquamish people
The Suquamish (dxʷsəqʷəbš, "people of the clear salt water") are a Coast Salish, Lushootseed-speaking tribe on the Port Madison Reservation in Kitsap County, Washington, party to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, with 1,515 members led by Chairman Leonard Forsman.
Sūr Dās
Sūr Dās (सूरदास) was a sixteenth-century North Indian devotional poet who composed Braj Bhasha lyrics addressed especially to Krishna, lyrics usually considered the finest expressions of that language.
Sur de Texas-Tuxpan Gas Pipeline
The Sur de Texas-Tuxpan Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto Sur de Texas-Tuxpan) is an offshore natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico running from near Brownsville, Texas, to Tuxpan, Mexico.
Sur del Alto Parana Biosphere Reserve
Sur del Alto Paraná Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Sur del Alto Paraná), a UNESCO MAB site in Alto Paraná department, Paraguay, designated 5 June 2026; 172,564 ha of Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest with core areas Ñacunday National Park and Moisés Bertoni Scientific Monument.
Sur Empire
The Sur Empire, also known as the Suri Dynasty, was an Afghan-ruled state in northern India founded by Sher Shah Suri, holding power from 1540 to 1555.
Sur Independent power plant
The Sur Independent power plant is a 2,000 MW gas-fired combined cycle power station in Sur, Oman, owned by Phoenix Power and the largest in the Sultanate.
Sur land-revenue system
The Sur land-revenue system (نظامِ اراضی شیر شاہ) was a measurement-based land assessment introduced by Sher Shah Suri, later the direct forerunner of Akbar's revenue system.
Sur Singh
Sur Singh (सूर सिंह) was the Rathore Raja of Marwar, a Rajput kingdom under Mughal suzerainty, who died in the Deccan in 1619 on campaign with Prince Khurram.
Sura
Sura (सुर) was a minister of Kashmir in the ninth century who helped Avantivarman, founder of the Utpala dynasty, take the throne in about 855 AD.
Sura (landform)
Sura (Сура) is a right tributary of the Volga in Russia, 841 km long with a 67,500 km² basin, rising on the Volga Upland and entering the Cheboksary Reservoir at Vasilsursk; distinct from India's Suru River.
Sura (சுரா) (film)
Sura (Tamil: சுறா) is a 2010 Tamil action comedy, Vijay's 50th film, directed by S. P. Rajkumar, produced by Sangili Murugan, with Tamannaah and Vadivelu; released 30 April 2010 by Sun Pictures, it flopped, costing theatre owners about Rs 10 crore and triggering a boycott of Vijay's films.
Surabaya
Surabaya (Kota Pahlawan), capital of East Java, Indonesia; major port city and core of Gerbangkertosusila metro; 2025 GRDP IDR 830.54 trillion, 5.87% growth, HDI 85.65.
Sūradāsa
Sūradāsa (Surdas) was a sixteenth-century Brajbhāṣā poet devoted to Krishna, remembered as the foremost of the Vallabha tradition's eight poets and known for the Sūrsāgar.
Surah (سورة)
A surah (سورة, plural suwar) is one of the 114 self-contained recitation units of the Quran, each with its own name, verse count, and fixed place in the sequence.
Suraiya
Suraiya (Suraiya Jamal Sheikh, 1929–2004), Indian Hindi-Urdu film actress and singing star of the 1940s–50s; starred in Anmol Ghadi, Pyar Ki Jeet, Mirza Ghalib; highest-paid Indian actor at 20; retired 1963.
Suraj ka Satvan Ghoda
Suraj ka Satvan Ghoda (सूरज का सातवाँ घोड़ा; The Sun's Seventh Horse) is a 1952 Hindi novella by Dharamvir Bharati, a landmark of experimental Hindi fiction.
Suraj Mal (सूरज मल)
Suraj Mal (सूरज मल), also called Maharaja Suraj Mal, was the Jat king of Bharatpur who ruled from the 1730s until 1763 and turned his small state into a major northern Indian power.
Suraj N. Gupta
Suraj N. Gupta, also Suraj Narayan Gupta, was an Indian-born theoretical physicist who created the Gupta–Bleuler formalism in 1950 and quantized the gravitational field in 1952.
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari (सूरज पे मंगल भारी)
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari (सूरज पे मंगल भारी) is a 2020 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Abhishek Sharma for Zee Studios, starring Manoj Bajpayee as 1990s wedding detective Madhu Mangal Rane, Diljit Dosanjh as Suraj Singh Dhillon, and Fatima Sana Shaikh; first post-lockdown Hindi theatrical release, streaming on ZEE5.
Suraj Sharma (सूरज शर्मा)
Suraj Sharma (सूरज शर्मा), born 1993 in New Delhi, is an Indian actor who won the Life of Pi (2012) title role from 3,000 auditionees without prior acting experience, later appearing in Million Dollar Arm, Homeland, Phillauri, Wedding Season, and Gulmohar.
Suraj Venjaramoodu (സുരജ് വെഞ്ഞാറമൂട്)
Suraj Venjaramoodu (സുരജ് വെഞ്ഞാറമൂട്), born Suraj Vasudevan in 1976, is a Malayalam actor and former mimicry comedian with over 250 films, winner of the 2013 National Film Award for Best Actor for Perariyathavar and the 2019 Kerala State Best Actor award.
Suraj Venjaramoodu filmography
Suraj Venjaramoodu (സുരാജ് വെഞ്ഞാറമൂട്), Malayalam actor and comedian, about 290 films from 2001; comedy phase, then serious roles from Perariyathavar (2015); National and Kerala State Best Actor winner; Tamil debut Veera Dheera Sooran 2 (2025).
Suraj Yengde
Suraj Milind Yengde, Indian Dalit scholar from Nanded, Maharashtra, author of Caste Matters (2019) and Caste: A Global Story (2025), co-editor of The Radical in Ambedkar, Harvard Kennedy School and University of Pennsylvania academic.
Surajkund (सूरजकुंड)
Surajkund (सूरजकुंड, Surya Kund) is a 10th-century masonry rainwater-harvesting reservoir at Lakharpur in Faridabad district, Haryana, India, attributed to the Tomar king Surajpal and now the site of an annual international crafts fair.
Surakarta (city)
Surakarta (Solo, Surakarta Hadiningrat), city in Central Java, Indonesia; seat of the Kasunanan royal court founded 1746 after the move from Kartasura; divided from Yogyakarta by the 1755 Giyanti Treaty; population about 529,000.
Surakarta (game)
Surakarta (also dam-daman, Roundabouts) is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Java, Indonesia, played on a 6×6 grid with eight corner loops; pieces capture only by traveling through at least one loop, and the goal is capturing all 12 enemy pieces.
Surakarta Sunanate
The Surakarta Sunanate (Kasunanan Surakarta Hadiningrat) is one of the two successor courts of Mataram created by the 1755 Giyanti partition, ruled by a Susuhunan at Surakarta, Central Java.
Suraksha Diagnostic
Suraksha Diagnostic, also known as Suraksha Diagnostics, is a Kolkata-headquartered integrated diagnostics chain founded in 1992, one of eastern India's largest, listed on the BSE and NSE since December 2024.
Sural nerve
Sural nerve: purely sensory lower-leg cutaneous nerve formed mainly by union of the medial sural cutaneous and peroneal communicating nerves; standard site for nerve conduction studies, nerve biopsy, and graft harvesting.