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Swedish Sea Rescue Society
The Swedish Sea Rescue Society (Sjöräddningssällskapet) is a volunteer non-profit that performs most sea rescue around Sweden, founded in 1907 and funded without state support.
Swedish Sign Language
Swedish Sign Language (svenskt teckenspråk, STS) is Sweden's deaf community's independent visual language, recognized by the Riksdag on 14 May 1981, the world's first such recognition, and given minority-language-equal status by the 2009 Language Act, with about 30,000 users.
Swedish Sign Language family
The Swedish Sign Language family groups Swedish, Portuguese, Finnish, Finland-Swedish, Cape Verdean, and Eritrean Sign Language, spread via deaf education from 1809 Sweden; no proto-language is reconstructed and Swedish Sign Language is Threatened.
Swedish slave trade
The Swedish slave trade, also called slavery in Sweden, was Sweden's participation in trading enslaved Africans through Cabo Corso in the 1650s and Saint Barthélemy after 1784.
Swedish Social Democratic Party
Swedish Social Democratic Party (Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti, SAP, Socialdemokraterna): Sweden's oldest and largest party, founded 1889; governed almost continuously 1932–1976, built the Swedish welfare state, led by Magdalena Andersson, won 28.1% in 2026.
Swedish Space Corporation
The Swedish Space Corporation, also known as Svenska Rymdaktiebolaget, is a Swedish state-owned space company founded in 1972 that operates the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna.
Swedish Textile Workers' Union
Svenska Textilarbetareförbundet, the Swedish Textile Workers' Union, was an LO-era union founded 9 April 1898, based in Norrköping, with 40,000 members by 1942; it merged into Beklädnadsarbetarnas förbund in 1972.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU), founded 1977, is Sweden's sectoral university for agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine, with main campuses in Alnarp, Uppsala and Umeå, four faculties, and about 4,251 full-time students.
Swedish Vallhund
Swedish Vallhund (Västgötaspets), also called Swedish Cattledog or Viking dog: a small long-and-low Swedish spitz-type cattle-herding breed, rescued from extinction in the 1940s, recognized by the SKK in 1943 and AKC in 2007.
Swedish War of Liberation
Swedish War of Liberation (Befrielsekriget, 1521-1523): Gustav Vasa's rebellion against Christian II after the Stockholm Bloodbath; ended the Kalmar Union and made Gustav king on 6 June 1523.
Swedish West India Company
The Swedish West India Company (Svenska Västindiska Kompaniet) was a Swedish chartered trading company, founded in 1785, that administered the Caribbean colony of Saint Barthélemy.
Swee Ching Tan
Swee Ching Tan is a materials scientist at the National University of Singapore whose lab turns ambient humidity into electricity and drinking water using superhygroscopic hydrogels.
Swee Lay Thein
Swee Lay Thein is a Malaysian-born hematologist at the US National Institutes of Health whose work on fetal hemoglobin enabled CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease.
Sweeney 2
Sweeney 2 (1978) is a British crime film, the second Sweeney! spin-off from The Sweeney TV series, directed by Tom Clegg, starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman as Flying Squad detectives hunting a Malta-based bank robbery gang.
Sweeney Mountains
Sweeney Mountains: mountain group about 40 mi long in eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, 30 mi north of the Hauberg Mountains at 75°06'S 69°15'W. Discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1947-48 and named for Mrs. Edward C. Sweeney.
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd, the "Demon Barber of Fleet Street," is a fictional London barber and murderer first appearing in an 1846 penny dreadful, best known today through Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 Sondheim-Wheeler musical thriller based on Christopher Bond's play and the 1846 penny dreadful The String of Pearls; it won eight Tonys including Best Musical.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is Tim Burton's 2007 film adaptation of the 1979 Sondheim musical, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, released December 21, 2007, rated R, with a Metascore of 83.
Sweeney!
Sweeney! (1977) is a British crime film spin-off of the ITV series The Sweeney, directed by David Wickes, starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman as Flying Squad detectives in an oil-conspiracy plot; X-rated, Euston/EMI, followed by Sweeney 2.
Sweeny Hub
Sweeny Hub is a Phillips 66 natural gas liquids and refining complex in Old Ocean, Texas, with fractionation, Clemens Caverns storage, and the Freeport LPG Export Terminal.
Sweep algorithm
The sweep algorithm is a cluster-first, route-second heuristic for the capacitated vehicle routing problem, grouping customers by polar-coordinate angle around the depot; Gillett and Miller popularized it in 1974.
Sweeping Promises
Sweeping Promises: American post-punk duo of Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug, formed in Boston in 2019, based in Lawrence, Kansas; albums on Feel It and Sub Pop, including You Say I Romanticize (2026).
Sweeps (The Bear)
Gary "Sweeps" Woods, played by Corey Hendrix, is a supporting character in FX's The Bear; a utility player at the Original Beef who becomes its sommelier, with a backstory as a Cubs farm-team player.
Sweet & Sour (새콤달콤) (film)
Sweet & Sour (새콤달콤, Saekomdalkom) is a 2021 South Korean Netflix original romantic comedy directed by Lee Gye-byeok, starring Jang Ki-yong, Chae Soo-bin, and Krystal, adapted from Kurumi Inui's novel Initiation Love, released June 4, 2021.
Sweet and sour
Sweet and sour is a sauce and cooking style combining sugar with vinegar or fruit, common in East and Southeast Asian cuisine since the Tang dynasty.
Sweet Anita
Sweet Anita (born 1990) is an English Twitch streamer and YouTuber with Tourette syndrome and coprolalia who went viral in October 2018 with profanity-laden Overwatch clips, now has about 1.8 million Twitch followers, and was a named victim of the 2023 Twitch deepfake scandal.
Sweet Baby Inc.
Sweet Baby Inc. is a narrative development and consulting company in Montreal, founded in 2018, whose credits include Alan Wake 2 and God of War Ragnarök.
Sweet Baby James
Sweet Baby James is James Taylor's 1970 Warner Bros. breakthrough album, produced by Peter Asher, containing "Fire and Rain"; it peaked at US No. 3, UK No. 6, and launched the singer-songwriter era.
Sweet Bean Paste (あん) (novel)
Sweet Bean Paste (あん, An) is Durian Sukegawa's 2013 Poplar-sha novel about Sentaro, a dorayaki maker, and Tokue, a woman confined by Japan's leprosy laws; adapted by Naomi Kawase for Cannes 2015 and translated into 24 languages.
Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare
Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is a 2024 Netflix documentary, from the Tortoise podcast Sweet Bobby, about Kirat Assi, catfished for years by her cousin Simran Bhogal impersonating Bobby Jandu.