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Sutneria
Sutneria (Zittel, 1884) is an extinct genus of small Upper Jurassic ammonites in Aspidoceratidae, type species S. platynota, used as index fossil for the Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian boundary.
Sutoku's exile and the Hōgen settlement
Sutoku's exile and the Hōgen settlement (崇徳上皇の配流) followed the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156 in Kyoto, after which retired Emperor Sutoku was exiled to Sanuki and his leading warriors executed.
Sutong Bridge
The Sutong Bridge (苏通长江公路大桥) is a cable-stayed bridge over the Yangtze River between Nantong and Changshu in Jiangsu, China, opened in 2008 with a record 1,088 m main span.
Sutorminskoye Oil and Gas Field
Sutorminskoye field (Суторминское месторождение) is a large, mature oil and gas-condensate field near Muravlenko in West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1975 and operated by Gazprom Neft-Noyabrskneftegaz.
Sutra (literary form)
A sutra (Sanskrit sūtra, "thread") is a terse, rule-like prose statement packing maximum meaning into minimum words, arising late in the Vedic period to codify ritual, grammar, law, and philosophy.
Sutra (सूत्र)
Sūtra (सूत्र), Sanskrit for "thread," names both a single aphorism and a genre of compact Hindu manuals, composed mostly in the second half of the first millennium BCE and often unintelligible without commentary.
Sutrakritanga
The Sutrakritanga (Sūtrakṛtāṅga) is the second of the twelve Anga scriptures of the Śvetāmbara Jain canon, teaching Jain doctrine, monastic conduct, and refutations of rival schools.
Sutralankara
The Sūtrālaṅkāra (सूत्रालङ्कार) is a Sanskrit Buddhist collection of ninety moral tales, generally attributed to Aśvaghoṣa and translated into Chinese in the early fifth century.
Sutrium
Sutrium (Etruscan Suthri; Greek Soutorion), ancient town of southern Etruria at modern Sutri, Italy, on the Via Cassia. Latin colony from 383 BC, Colonia Coniuncta Iulia Sutrina; rock-cut amphitheater, 64-tomb necropolis, and mithraeum.
Sutro Baths
Sutro Baths, opened by Adolph Sutro in San Francisco on March 14, 1896, was the world's largest indoor swimming pool complex, with seven pools, a glass bathhouse over three acres; it burned in 1966.
Sutro Tower
Sutro Tower is a 977-foot three-legged telecommunications tower on Mount Sutro in San Francisco, completed in 1973, that transmits TV and radio signals for the Bay Area.
Sutro Tunnel
The Sutro Tunnel is a drainage and access tunnel in Nevada, promoted by Adolph Sutro and built between 1869 and 1878 to serve the silver mines of Virginia City and Gold Hill.
SutroVax
SutroVax, Inc. was a Foster City, California biotechnology company spun out of Sutro Biopharma in 2015 to develop next-generation pneumococcal vaccines on a cell-free protein synthesis platform; it continues as Vaxcyte.
Suttantaprija Ind
Suttantaprija Ind, recorded as Oknha Suttantaprichea In, was a Cambodian Buddhist monk, poet, and scholar of Battambang known for the 550-stanza poem Niras Nokor Wat, published posthumously in 1934.
Suttavibhaṅga
The Suttavibhaṅga, also called the Vibhaṅga, is the first division of the Theravada Vinaya Pitaka, containing the Pātimokkha rules with commentary, in monks' and nuns' halves.
Sutter family
Sutter family: six brothers (Brian, Darryl, Duane, Brent, Rich, Ron) from Viking, Alberta, the only family with six NHL-playing brothers; 4,994 regular-season games, 2,936 points, six playing Stanley Cups, plus Darryl's two Cups coaching Los Angeles.
Sutter Hill Ventures
Sutter Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm in Palo Alto, California, founded in 1964 and regarded as the oldest Silicon Valley venture firm still operating.
Sutter's Fort
Sutter's Fort, also called New Helvetia, is John Sutter's 1839 adobe fort in Sacramento, California, now a reconstructed state historic park, end of the California Trail, and California Historical Landmark.
Sutter's Mill
Sutter's Mill: sawmill at Coloma, California, on the South Fork of the American River, where James W. Marshall found gold on January 24, 1848, starting the California Gold Rush; also called Marshall Gold Discovery site.
Sütterlin
Sütterlin (Sütterlinschrift, also called deutsche Schrift) is a German cursive handwriting script designed by Berlin graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin in 1911, used in German schools until a 1941 ban.
Sutton Coldfield
Royal Sutton Coldfield: town in north east Birmingham, England, chartered by Henry VIII in 1528 via Bishop Vesey, absorbed into Birmingham in 1974, home to 900-hectare Sutton Park and a £20 million Pride in Place regeneration programme.
Sutton Courtenay
Sutton Courtenay is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire on the Thames' south bank near Abingdon, probably a royal center of early Wessex and the burial place of George Orwell.
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster (Sutton Lenore Foster, born 1975), American Broadway actress, singer, and dancer; two-time Tony winner for Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) and Anything Goes (2011), star of TV Land's Younger and the 2022 Music Man revival.
Sutton Hoo
Sutton Hoo is a Suffolk, England Anglo-Saxon royal burial ground, famous for the undisturbed early 7th-century Mound 1 ship burial excavated in 1939 by Basil Brown for Edith Pretty, yielding the helmet, gold shoulder clasps and 263 finds, now in the British Museum.
Sutton Hoo helmet
The Sutton Hoo helmet is an early 7th-century Anglo-Saxon iron and tinned copper alloy helmet from the Mound 1 ship burial in Suffolk, excavated in 1939, twice reconstructed, and held by the British Museum, with close Vendel and Valsgärde parallels.
Sutton Place, Manhattan
Sutton Place is a small upscale residential neighborhood in Midtown East, Manhattan, between 53rd and 59th Streets along the East River. Also a historic street name; fashionable since the 1920s socialite enclave of Vanderbilt and Morgan townhouses.
Sutton Place, Surrey
Sutton Place is a grade I listed Tudor country house near Guildford, Surrey, built in the 1520s for Sir Richard Weston and later home to J. Paul Getty.
Sutton United F.C.
Sutton United F.C. ("The U's") is an English football club formed 5 March 1898 in Sutton, London, playing at Gander Green Lane. Famous for FA Cup giant-killings, it reached the Football League for the first time in 2021 and was relegated back to the National League in 2024.
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Sutton-in-Ashfield, a market and industrial town in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire; largest of the district's three town centres. Known for hosiery and coal mining, population 14,866 in 1901.
Sutton, England
Sutton, south-west London: administrative centre of the London Borough of Sutton in former Surrey. Population about 209,600 (2021), a London Plan Opportunity Area with 5,000 homes and 3,500 jobs planned by 2041.