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Surprise
Surprise, Arizona: a city in the northwest Phoenix metro founded in 1938 by Flora Mae Statler. Population about 175,000 (2025), groundwater-based 100-year assured water supply, Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals spring training, ratified 2040 General Plan.
Surprise S1 (万万没想到)
Surprise S1 (万万没想到) is season 1 of the Chinese web mini-comedy Unexpectedness, premiered 6 August 2013 on Youku; 15 short episodes about Wang Dachui, directed by Yi Xiaoxing, over 230 million views.
Surprise, Motherfucker!
Surprise, Motherfucker! is the Season 7 finale (Episode 12) of Showtime's Dexter, aired 16 December 2012, directed by Steve Shill, written by Scott Buck and Tim Schlattmann, ending with Debra killing LaGuerta.
Surprised by Oxford
Surprised by Oxford is a 2023 faith-based romantic drama directed by Ryan Whitaker, adapted from Carolyn Weber's memoir, starring Rose Reid and Ruairi O'Connor; released September 27, 2023, 107 minutes, 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Šurpu
Šurpu, also known as Shurpu, is a first-millennium BC Babylonian and Assyrian ritual series, over a thousand lines long, for removing curses caused by transgression.
Surra
Surra (Trypanosoma evansi infection, also El Debab, Mal de Caderas) is a WOAH-notifiable animal trypanosomosis spread mechanically by biting flies and vampire bats, first described by Griffith Evans in 1880, fatal in untreated horses and dogs, with rare human cases in India and Vietnam.
Surreal humour
Surreal humour, also called surreal comedy, is a comedy style using bizarre juxtapositions, non-sequiturs, and nonsense, rooted in Dada and Surrealism and exemplified by Monty Python and Eric André.
Surreal number
The surreal numbers, also called Conway numbers, form an ordered number system defined by John Conway around 1970 from Go endgames, containing the reals, all ordinals, and infinitesimals.
Surrealism
Surrealism, avant-garde movement founded in Paris by André Breton's 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, explored the unconscious through automatism, dreams, and chance, drawing on Freud and Marx, and remains active worldwide.
Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia
The Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia is a collective of artists and writers founded in Prague in 1934, the movement's second most prestigious group after Paris, still active today.
Surrealist Manifesto
Manifeste du surréalisme (Surrealist Manifesto), André Breton's founding text published in Paris on 15 October 1924 as preface to Poisson soluble, defining surrealism as pure psychic automatism; basis of the Surrealist movement, with Second Manifesto 1929.
Surrealistic Pillow
Surrealistic Pillow (1967) is Jefferson Airplane's second album, RCA Victor LSP/LPM-3766, recorded in Hollywood with producer Rick Jarrard. Its hits "Somebody to Love" (No. 5) and "White Rabbit" (No. 8) drove it to No. 3, and it joined the National Recording Registry in 2024.
Surrender (2025 film)
Surrender (சரண்டர்) is a 2025 Tamil crime drama, Gowthaman Ganapathy's debut, starring Tharshan, Lal, and Sujith Shanker. Released 1 August 2025, it follows a missing surrendered gun and lost election funds before a state election; it streamed on Sun NXT from 4 September 2025.
Surrender (Cheap Trick song)
Surrender is a 1978 Cheap Trick song written by Rick Nielsen for Heaven Tonight, peaking at US Number 62 as a single but becoming a rock anthem through its live At Budokan version.
Surrender (military)
Surrender (military): the unilateral act of ceasing combat and placing oneself hors de combat; distinct from capitulation, armistice, and ceasefire; governed by Geneva law, with signals, duties, perfidy rules, and Ukraine-era practice.
Surrender Dorothy
Surrender Dorothy names several unrelated films: Kevin DiNovis's 1998 black-and-white indie about a heroin addict renamed Dorothy; the 2005 Diane Keaton TV movie from Meg Wolitzer's novel; a 2016 Gina Miller-Parker drama; and a Drew Barrymore project in production.
Surrender of Abd al-Qadir
The surrender of Abd al-Qadir (عبد القادر) in December 1847 ended the Algerian amir's fifteen-year resistance to the French conquest of Algeria, at Nemours before the duc d'Aumale.
Surrender of Japan
Surrender of Japan: acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration ending Japan's WWII role, announced by Hirohito August 15, 1945 and signed aboard USS Missouri September 2, after the atomic bombings and Soviet entry, amid debate over which was decisive.
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull depicting the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, which ended the last major Revolutionary War campaign.
Surrender of Nanyue to Han
The surrender of Nanyue to Han (南越国归汉) was the absorption of Zhao Tuo's Lingnan kingdom into Han rule, ending with the death of king Zhao Jiande and chancellor Lü Jia.
Surrender of the Xiongnu Rizhu King to Han
The surrender of the Xiongnu Rizhu King to Han was the defection of the Rizhu King Xianxian Chan to the Han dynasty during the Shenjue era.
Surrender of Ziying
The Surrender of Ziying (子婴出降) was the surrender of Ziying, the last Qin ruler, to rebel leader Liu Bang at Xianyang in 207 BC, ending the Qin dynasty.
Surrender/Encore
Surrender/Encore is a pair of connected nightlife venues, the Encore Beach Club dayclub and Surrender Nightclub, at the Encore resort in Las Vegas, opened in 2010.
Surrey
Surrey, England, is a county south-west of London with 1,203,108 residents at the 2021 Census, its 12 councils due to become two unitary councils in 2027.
Surrey County Cricket Club
Surrey County Cricket Club, founded in 1845, is an English first-class county club based at The Oval in Kennington, south London, with 23 County Championship titles.
Surrey Satellite Technology
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is a British small satellite manufacturer in Guildford, England, founded in 1985 as a University of Surrey spin-out and wholly owned by Airbus since 2009.
Surrey Six massacre
Surrey Six massacre: October 19, 2007 shooting of six men, four gang-affiliated and two bystanders, in a Balmoral Tower apartment in Surrey, BC, tied to the Red Scorpions-UN gang conflict; convictions ran from 2009 to 2020.
Surrey, British Columbia
Surrey, British Columbia: a city in Metro Vancouver on the south side of the Fraser River, bordering the US. Second most populous BC municipality (568,322 in 2021), largest by land area, incorporated 1879, named after Surrey, England.
Surri
Surri was a usurper who seized the throne of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Patina around 831 BC and was strangled to death by Assyrian forces.
Surrogacy
Surrogacy (代孕) is an arrangement in which a woman carries a child for intended parents. Legal status varies worldwide: commercial surrogacy legal in parts of the US, Georgia, Colombia; altruistic-only in Canada, UK, India; banned entirely in China, France, Germany, Italy.