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Suwa Yorishige (Nanboku-chō period)
Suwa Yorishige (諏訪頼重, died 1335) was a Kamakura-era warrior and former Hōjō retainer who led the 1335 Nakasendai Rebellion, briefly restoring Hōjō rule in Kamakura before defeat; distinct from the Sengoku Suwa Yorishige (1516–1542).
Suwałki Gap
Suwałki Gap (przesmyk suwalski, Suvalkų koridorius): the roughly 65–104 km Polish–Lithuanian border corridor between Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and Belarus, NATO's only land route to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and its most discussed eastern-flank chokepoint.
Suwalong hydroelectric plant
Suwalong hydroelectric plant (苏洼龙水电站) is a 1,200 MW run-of-river hydroelectric plant on the Jinsha River, the upper Yangtze, at the Sichuan–Tibet border, fully commissioned in 2022.
Suwar ibn Abd Allah al-Tamimi
Suwar ibn Abd Allah al-Tamimi (سوار بن عبد الله التميمي) was a 9th-century Sunni hadith transmitter and qadi of Baghdad's al-Rusafa district, praised as trustworthy by al-Nasa'i and Abu Dawud.
Suwayd ibn Abi Kahil al-Yashkuri
Suwayd ibn Abi Kahil al-Yashkuri (سويد بن أبي كاهل) was an Arab poet of the Yashkur tribe, best known for his 'Ayniyya ode in the al-Mufaddaliyyat.
Suwon (수원)
Suwon (수원) is the capital of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, a special case city since 2022 and its most populous basic municipality with 1.23 million people, home to UNESCO-listed Hwaseong Fortress and Samsung Electronics' headquarters.
Suwon Arboretum Irwol
Suwon Arboretum Irwol (일월수목원), a public flat-terrain urban arboretum in Jangan-gu, Suwon, opened May 19, 2023 beside Irwol Reservoir; 101,500 m², about 2,016 plant species, 16 themed gardens, first Korean public arboretum with BF certification.
Suwon Samsung Bluewings (수원 삼성 블루윙즈)
Suwon Samsung Bluewings (수원 삼성 블루윙즈), Suwon-based K League club owned by Samsung's Cheil Worldwide; four K League titles, two Asian Club Championships, relegated to K League 2 in 2023.
Suxamethonium chloride
Suxamethonium chloride (succinylcholine, sux) is the only depolarizing neuromuscular blocker in clinical use: 1 mg/kg IV acts within 60 seconds for 2 to 6 minutes, hydrolyzed by pseudocholinesterase, used for rapid sequence intubation.
Suxibuzone
Suxibuzone (Danilon Equidos) is a pyrazolone NSAID prodrug of phenylbutazone, converted to phenylbutazone and oxyphenbutazone; used mainly in horses for musculoskeletal pain, with lower gastric irritation but carcinogenicity concerns in some countries.
Suyamvaram (சுயம்வரம்)
Suyamvaram (சுயம்வரம்), 1999 Tamil comedy-drama produced by Giridharilal Nagpal, filmed in 23 hours 58 minutes by 14 directors with an ensemble cast, holding Guinness records for fastest film and most stars.
Suyang Donguhoe
Suyang Donguhoe (수양동우회, Self-Cultivation Friends Society) was a reformist nationalist organization founded in Seoul in January 1926 as the Korean branch of Ahn Chang-ho's Heungsadan; it was renamed Donguhoe in 1929.
Suyang Zhang
Suyang Zhang, also known as Zhang Suyang (章苏阳), is a Chinese venture capitalist who joined IDG Capital in 1994, backing early bets on Ctrip, Tencent, and EachNet.
Suyeong
Suyeong (수영, 水營) was a naval camp of Korea's Joseon dynasty where the provincial fleet commander was stationed; one gave Busan's Suyeong District its name.
Suyun Huang
Suyun Huang is a cancer biologist and professor at VCU School of Medicine who studies how cancers spread to the brain and the RNA modification m6A in glioma.
Suyuyuq
A suyuyuq, also written suyuyuc or suyoyoc, was the governor of one of the four suyus, the great quarters into which the Inca Empire was divided.
Suyya
Suyya (सुय्य) was a hydraulic engineer and irrigation minister at the court of Avantivarman, king of Kashmir, who cleared and embanked the Vitasta river and founded Sopore.
Suyya's flood-control works
Suyya's flood-control works (सुय्य के जल-कार्य) were the drainage of a flooded Kashmir Valley and rebuilding of the Jhelum river system by engineer Suyya under King Avantivarman, 855–883 AD.
Suyyash Rai
Suyyash Rai, Indian TV actor (Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani, Bigg Boss 9) turned singer and film music composer (Loveyapa, Baaghi 4); husband of Kishwer Merchant, director of Seven and a Half Dates.
SUZ12
SUZ12 (suppressor of zeste 12, aliases JJAZ1, CHET9) is a human gene at 17q11.2 encoding a core PRC2 subunit required for EZH2 histone methyltransferase activity, H3K27me3 gene silencing, development, and linked to overgrowth syndromes and cancers.
Suzaku (satellite)
Suzaku was a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite operated by ISAS/JAXA with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and MIT. Launched July 10, 2005 as the recovery mission for the lost Astro-E, it observed for about ten years.
Suzan DelBene
Suzan K. DelBene, born 1962, is an American Democratic politician and former technology executive who has represented Washington's 1st District in the U.S. House since 2012.
Suzan Farmer
Suzan Farmer (Suzan Maxine Farmer, 1942–2017), English actress, Hammer Films scream queen; heroine of Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), wife of Ian McShane 1965–1968, TV roles in The Saint and Coronation Street.
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1963, Fort Knox, Kentucky) is an American playwright and screenwriter, first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2002, Topdog/Underdog), also a MacArthur Fellow, Obie and Tony winner, known for Rep and Rev.
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist who developed the isotropic fractionator, a method for counting brain cells, and used it to show the human brain has about 86 billion neurons.
Suzane von Richthofen
Suzane Louise von Richthofen, Brazilian convicted of planning the 2002 murder of her parents Manfred and Marísia von Richthofen in São Paulo with the Cravinhos brothers; sentenced to 39 years, in open regime since 2023, subject of films and a Netflix documentary.
Suzani (textile)
Suzani (suzani, 'of the needle'): large Central Asian embroidered textile from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, silk on cotton, chain and couching stitches, dowry tradition with regional styles such as Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent palak.
Suzani Samarqandi
Suzani Samarqandi (سوزنی سمرقندی), full name Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali Samarqandi, was a twelfth-century Persian poet born in Nasaf, known for sharp invective and qasidas praising Qarakhanid and Seljuk rulers.
Suzanna Hamilton
Suzanna Hamilton (born 1960, London) is an English actress known as Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), with roles in Tess, Brimstone and Treacle, Wetherby, Out of Africa, Casualty, and My Feral Heart.
Suzanna Son
Suzanna Son, American actress and singer-songwriter. Debut as Strawberry in Red Rocket (2021), then Chloe in The Idol and Adeline Watkins in Monster: The Ed Gein Story; Bye Bye Bye cover launched A24's label.