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Shodha (ಶೋಧ)
Shodha (ಶೋಧ) is a 2025 Kannada suspense thriller web series on ZEE5, directed by Sunil Mysuru, starring Pawan Kumar as a Madikeri lawyer who denies his returned wife; adapted from Hindi series Khoj Parchaiyo Ke Uss Paar.
Shodra
Shodra (Chodra, Koul-Shodra) is a chess-like 8x8 board game of the Soyot people of eastern Russia, derived from the Chaturanga family; winning requires checkmating the Noyion and capturing all enemy pawns, documented by Murray 1913 and playable in Ludii.
Shoe size
A shoe size, also called footwear size, is a number indicating the length and sometimes the width of the foot a shoe should fit, using several incompatible systems.
Shoe-banging incident
The shoe-banging incident: Nikita Khrushchev allegedly banged a shoe on his desk at the UN General Assembly on 12 October 1960 during a clash with Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong; no photo or video of the banging exists and eyewitnesses dispute it.
Shoebill
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), also called whale-headed stork, a Vulnerable solitary African swamp bird, sole member of Balaenicipitidae, related to pelicans and hamerkop, hunting lungfish with a foot-long bill.
Shoegaze
Shoegaze (shoegazing) is a late-1980s British indie rock genre named for performers staring at their effects pedals, defined by walls of distorted, reverberant guitar and buried vocals, with My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive, and Lush as core acts.
Shoeing
Shoeing (farriery): fitting horseshoes to equine hooves for protection, correction, and grip, done by farriers. Covers shoe types, glue-on vs nailed attachment, gait biomechanics evidence, barefoot alternatives, and UK regulation.
Shoelace formula
The shoelace formula, also known as Gauss's area formula or the surveyor's formula, is a mathematical algorithm that computes a simple polygon's area from its vertices' coordinates.
Shoeless Joe (novel)
Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella's 1982 first novel (working title Dream Field), has Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella build a ballpark that summons the ghostly 1919 Black Sox; adapted as Field of Dreams (1989).
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe Jackson (Joseph Jefferson Jackson, 1887–1951), American MLB outfielder with a .356 career average; banned for life over the 1919 Black Sox fix, acquitted, reinstated by MLB in May 2025.
Shoemaking
Shoemaking, also called shoe manufacture, is the craft and industry of making footwear by joining an upper of leather or fabric to a sole and heel.
Shōen system
The shōen system (荘園) was Japan's arrangement of private, tax-exempt estates held by nobles and temples, lasting from about the 8th to the 16th century.
Shoes (Vincent van Gogh)
Shoes (1888) is Vincent van Gogh's Arles oil painting of worn peasant shoes on the Yellow House's red-tile floor, possibly Patience Escalier's or the artist's own; Met 1992.374, tied to the Heidegger–Schapiro shoe-painting debate.
Shoes on the Danube Bank
Shoes on the Danube Bank (Cipők a Duna-parton) is a 2005 Holocaust memorial in Budapest: sixty pairs of cast iron shoes by Can Togay and Gyula Pauer marking where Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews into the Danube in 1944–45.
Shoeshine
Shoeshine (Sciuscià) is Vittorio De Sica's 1946 Italian neorealist film about two Roman shoeshine boys, Pasquale and Giuseppe, whose friendship is destroyed after a juvenile prison term; it won an honorary Academy Award in 1948.
Shoetopia
Shoetopia is a Delhi-based, digitally native women's footwear brand founded in 2013, selling boots, heels, sandals, and flats at Rs. 499–899 through Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, AJIO, and Nykaa Fashion.
Shofar
The shofar (שופר) is a ritual wind instrument made from the naturally hollow horn of a kosher animal, sounded in Jewish liturgy on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Shogakukan (小学館)
Shogakukan (小学館) is a major Japanese general publisher founded 8 August 1922 by Oga Takeo in Tokyo, origin of grade-level learning magazines, Weekly Shonen Sunday, and the Shueisha spinoff; group ranked among Japan's two publishing powers.
Shogakukan Manga Award (小学館漫画賞)
The Shogakukan Manga Award (小学館漫画賞) is Shogakukan's annual manga prize, founded in 1955 and among Japan's oldest, with children, shōnen, shōjo, and general categories, a bronze Minori statuette, and 1,000,000 yen per winner.
Shogaol
Shogaol is a pungent phenolic compound found in ginger, formed when gingerols lose water during heating, drying, or acidic processing and becomes abundant in dried ginger.
Shogen (糸数尚玄) (actor)
Shogen (尚玄), full name Shogen Itokazu (糸数尚玄), is a Japanese actor and producer born 1978 in Okinawa, known for Bloody Snake Under the Sun, Gensan Punch, Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist, and Lone Samurai.
Shoggoth
Shoggoth: Lovecraft's amorphous protoplasmic slave-creature, first named in Fungi from Yuggoth (1929-30) and detailed in At the Mountains of Madness (1936); bred by Elder Things, rebelled, now a Cthulhu Mythos and AI-meme icon.
Shoghi Effendi (شوقی افندی ربانی)
Shoghi Effendi Rabbani (1897–1957), born in Acre and educated at Oxford, was Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in London, leaving no successor.
Shogi (将棋)
Shogi (将棋), Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy game on a 9x9 board with 20 pieces per side, unique for piece drops of captured pieces and promotion of most pieces; governed by the Japan Shogi Association.
Shogi Puzzle
Shogi puzzle, chiefly tsume shogi (詰将棋), is a shogi checkmate puzzle where every attacking move must check, the defense resists longest, and the unique solution uses all pieces in hand.
Shogo Miyata
Shogo Miyata (宮田 将吾, born 2003, Osaka) is a Japanese short track speed skater with Nippon Express; Youth Olympic mixed relay gold 2020, Beijing 2022 and Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympian, 2025 World Tour 1500m silver. Not the boxer, gymnast, or baseball player of similar names.
Shogo Sakata (坂田 将吾)
Shogo Sakata (坂田 将吾) is a Japanese voice actor from Kumamoto Prefecture affiliated with Aoni Production; born 1998, debuted 2018; known as Aki Hayakawa in Chainsaw Man, Johnny Joestar in Steel Ball Run, and Sensei in Blue Archive.
Shogun
Shogun names several games: the 1986 Milton Bradley Gamemaster territory game (later Samurai Swords/Ikusa), the 2006 Queen Games Wallenstein reimplementation with a Cube Tower, a 1987 Ravensburger chess-like video game, Shogun Chess, and a card game.
Shōgun (1980 miniseries)
Shōgun (将軍), NBC's 1980 five-night miniseries adapted from James Clavell's novel, starring Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, and Yoko Shimada; filmed entirely in Japan, it drew record audiences, won three Emmys, and differs from the 2024 FX remake in subtitles and viewpoint.
Shōgun (2024 TV series)
Shōgun (将軍) is FX's 2024 ten-episode adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 novel, created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, starring Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, and Anna Sawai; set in 1600 Japan, it won a record 18 Emmys and a second season is in production.