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Swan Hills Oil and Gas Field
The Swan Hills oil and gas field is a Devonian reef oil field in central-northern Alberta, Canada, discovered in 1957 and located about 200 km northwest of Edmonton.
Swan Hunter
Swan Hunter, also known as Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, was a British shipbuilding company at Wallsend on the River Tyne, formed by merger in 1903.
Swan Lake (Bourne)
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, the all-male Swan Lake, is the 1995 New Adventures reimagining of Tchaikovsky's ballet with a male swan corps, premiered at Sadler's Wells, a West End and Broadway hit, and Olivier and three-Tony winner.
Swan Lake (Лебединое озеро)
Swan Lake (Лебединое озеро), Tchaikovsky's Op. 20 ballet, premiered at Moscow's Bolshoi in 1877 with Reisinger's choreography and failed; the famous 1895 Petipa-Ivanov Mariinsky revival with Drigo's revised score became the basis of most stagings.
Swan mussel
Swan mussel (Anodonta cygnea, Linnaeus 1758), a large European Unionidae freshwater mussel of ponds, lakes, and slow rivers; hermaphroditic, with parasitic glochidia on fish hosts such as Perca fluviatilis; IUCN least concern globally but near threatened in Europe.
Swan Service
The Swan Service (German: Schwanenservice) is a monumental baroque table service in hard-paste porcelain made at Meissen between 1736 and 1742 for Saxon prime minister Heinrich Graf von Brühl.
Swan song
Swan song: idiom for a person's final work or performance before retirement or death, from the ancient false legend that the mute swan sings beautifully just before dying; first expressed by Aeschylus (458 BC), used by Plato, and adopted into English in the early 19th century from German Schwanengesang.
Swan Song (memoir)
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is Charles Spencer's 2026 memoir of his sister Diana, Princess of Wales, published by Penguin; a #1 NYT bestseller alleging King Charles said 'we'll forget her soon enough' after her 1997 death.
Swang
Swang is a form of folk theatre from North India in which a performer impersonates a mythological, historical, or social character through song, dance, and dialogue.
Swangas
Swangas, also called elbows, 83s, or 84s, are 30-spoke chrome wire rims whose hubs protrude well beyond the wheel well, the defining feature of Houston's slab car culture.
Swangz Avenue
Swangz Avenue is a Ugandan record label and production house in Kampala, founded in 2008 by producer Benon Mugumbya and home to Azawi, Winnie Nwagi, and Vinka.
Swank Motion Pictures
Swank Motion Pictures, founded 1937 in St. Louis, Missouri, is the world's largest non-theatrical distributor of movies for public performance, licensing Hollywood studio films and TV shows to schools, libraries, cruise lines, and hospitals through its Movie Licensing USA division.
Swanky Tunes
Swanky Tunes are a Russian electronic dance music act from Smolensk, formed in 1998, best known for "Here We Go" from Fast & Furious 6.
Swanlaab
Swanlaab, also known as Swanlaab Venture Factory, is a Spanish-Israeli venture capital manager based in Madrid, operating in Spain since 2016 and founded by Mark Kavelaars.
Swans (band)
Swans are an American experimental rock band formed in New York in 1982 by Michael Gira, spanning no wave, noise rock and industrial; key albums Filth, Soundtracks for the Blind, To Be Kind and Birthing.
Swansea
Swansea (Abertawe), Wales' second city on Swansea Bay at the mouth of the River Tawe. Historic copper-smelting world center called Copperopolis; birthplace of Dylan Thomas; gateway to Gower, the UK's first AONB.
Swansea City A.F.C.
Swansea City A.F.C. (the Swans, Jacks), Welsh club founded 1912 as Swansea Town; Championship side, Premier League 2011-2018, 2013 League Cup winners, Swansea.com Stadium, American ownership with Snoop Dogg and Luka Modric.
Swansea East (UK Parliament constituency)
Swansea East (Dwyrain Abertawe), a UK Parliament constituency in Wales from 1918 to 2024, covering eastern Swansea; abolished in the 2023 boundary review and succeeded by Neath and Swansea East.
Swanson
Swanson is the Omaha, Nebraska food brand (founded 1899 as Jerpe Commission Company) that introduced the frozen TV Dinner in the 1950s; its name is now split between Campbell's (broths) and Conagra (frozen meals).
Swanson Analysis Systems
Swanson Analysis Services, also known as Swanson Analysis Systems, was an American engineering software company founded by John A. Swanson in 1970 to develop the ANSYS finite-element analysis program.
Swanson River Oil and Gas Field
The Swanson River oil and gas field is an onshore field on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, about 50 miles southwest of Anchorage, and was the territory's first major commercial oil discovery, made in 1957.
Swanson's law
Swanson's law is the observation that solar photovoltaic module prices fall about 20% for every doubling of cumulative shipped volume, the solar analog of Moore's law.
Swanston Street
Swanston Street is Melbourne CBD's main north-south street, about 1,200 m long, closed to cars in 1992, carrying the city's busiest tram corridor, fronting the State Library, and hosting Town Hall Station.
Swanwick Air Traffic Control Centre
The Swanwick Air Traffic Control Centre is a National Air Traffic Services facility in Hampshire, England, opened in 2002 to control en route traffic over England and Wales.
Swap (finance)
A swap, also called a financial swap or swap agreement, is an over-the-counter derivative in which two parties exchange future cash flows on a notional principal.
SWAP/Surp
SWAP/Surp (SURP) domain, InterPro IPR000061: a ~60-residue helical protein domain found only in splicing-related proteins of all eukaryotes, mediating SF3A and SF1 interactions in the U2 snRNP.
Swapan Dasgupta
Swapan Dasgupta is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party serving as Finance Minister of West Bengal, after a career as a journalist, columnist, and nominated Rajya Sabha member.
Swapmeet (band)
Swapmeet are an Australian indie rock four-piece from Adelaide on Kaurna Country: Venus O'Broin, Joshua Doherty, Maxwell Elphick, Jack Medlyn. Formerly Soursob; EP Oxalis (2024), debut album Mount Zero (2026) on Winspear.
Swapna (actress)
Swapna Khanna (born Manjari Dhody), Indian actress of Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films of the 1980s and early 1990s; Malayalam debut Sangharsham (1981); Mammootty's first heroine in Thrishna; left films after marrying Raman Khanna and runs Sangini Entertainment.
Swapna Dutt
Swapna Dutt (Swapna Dutt Chalasani, Telugu: స్వప్న దత్) is a Telugu film producer, daughter of Vyjayanthi Movies founder C. Ashwini Dutt. With sister Priyanka she revived Swapna Cinema in 2014 and produced Mahanati, Sita Ramam, and Kalki 2898 AD.