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Shōsetsu Shinchō
Shōsetsu Shinchō (小説新潮, "Novel Shinchō") is a monthly Japanese fiction magazine published by Shinchosha in Tokyo since 1947, known for opening the "intermediate novel" genre between serious literature and mass entertainment.
Shōsetsu Subaru
Shōsetsu Subaru (小説すばる, "Novel Subaru") is a Japanese monthly entertainment novel magazine published by Shueisha in Tokyo since 1987, carrying serialized novels and debut works.
Shōsetsuka ni Narō (小説家になろう)
Shōsetsuka ni Narō (小説家になろう, Narō) is Japan's largest web novel posting site, launched April 2004 and run by HinaProject Inc., with about 1.34 million works, 2.98 million users, 9,000+ published books, and over 200 anime adaptations by 2026.
Shosha Negi Kannushi Hatto
The Shosha Negi Kannushi Hatto (諸社禰宜神主法度), also called Jinja jōmoku, is a five-article ordinance issued by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1665 to regulate shrines and shrine priests throughout Japan.
Shoshana (film)
Shoshana (2023), Michael Winterbottom's UK-Italian historical thriller formerly titled Promised Land, dramatizes the romance between Zionist writer Shoshana Borochov and British policeman Thomas Wilkin in Mandate-era Tel Aviv, premiering at TIFF 2023.
Shoshana Bean
Shoshana Bean (born 1977, Olympia, Washington) is an American Broadway actress and retro-soul singer: first Elphaba replacement in Wicked, 2026 Tony winner for The Lost Boys, and 2025 Grammy winner for Hell's Kitchen.
Shoshana Levy
Shoshana Levy (1939–2022) was an Israeli-born American immunologist who identified the tetraspanin family of cell-surface proteins in 1990, best known for their role in cancer metastasis.
Shoshana Shendelman
Shoshana Shendelman is a scientist and biotechnology executive who founded Applied Therapeutics in New York in 2016 and served as its chief executive until December 2024.
Shoshana Strook
Shoshana Strook (Strock), daughter of Israeli National Missions Minister Orit Strook, publicly accused her parents and a brother of ritual child sexual abuse in 2025 and was found dead in northern Israel in March 2026.
Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff, American scholar and Harvard Business School professor emerita, coined "surveillance capitalism" in her 2015 "Big Other" article and 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism; earlier wrote In the Age of the Smart Machine (1988).
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, American fashion designer and founder of the Shoshanna brand (1998), known for pioneering swimwear sold as separates with lingerie-inspired sizing; Manhattan-raised UCLA graduate, Elizabeth Arden Style Director, philanthropist.
Shoshannah Stern
Shoshannah Stern (born 1980) is an American deaf actress, writer, and director from Walnut Creek, California, known for Jericho, Weeds, Supernatural, cocreating This Close, and directing Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025).
Shoshenq (High Priest of Amun)
Shoshenq was High Priest of Amun at Thebes in Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, the eldest son of King Osorkon I, appointed to the office around 924 BC.
Shoshenq A
Shoshenq A, also written Sheshonq A, was a Great Chief of the Ma, a Libyan chieftain of Egypt's late Twenty-first Dynasty and grandfather of Shoshenq I.
Shoshenq D (High Priest of Ptah)
Shoshenq D, also written Sheshonq D, was a son of Pharaoh Osorkon II who served as High Priest of Ptah at Memphis in the 22nd Dynasty.
Shoshenq I
Shoshenq I, also transliterated Sheshonq I and known in the Bible as Shishak, was a pharaoh of Libyan descent who founded Egypt's Twenty-Second Dynasty, reigning about 943 to 923 BCE.
Shoshenq II
Shoshenq II, also written Sheshonq II and bearing the throne name Heqakheperre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-second Dynasty, probably a co-regent who died around 883 BC.
Shoshenq III
Shoshenq III, also spelled Sheshonq III, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty whose nearly 39-year reign, c. 837–798 BC, saw Egypt divided with rival kings at Thebes.
Shoshenq IV
Shoshenq IV, also spelled Sheshonq IV, was a poorly documented pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Twenty-second (Tanite) Dynasty, the eighth king between Shoshenq III and Pami, reigning around 786–773 BC.
Shoshenq V
Shoshenq V, also spelled Sheshonq V, throne name Aakheperre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-second Dynasty, son of Pimay, whose 37-year reign ended the Tanite line.
Shoshenq VI
Shoshenq VI, also written Sheshonq VI and formerly known as Shoshenq IV, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Twenty-third Dynasty, usually counted as its fourth king, reigning around 804–798 BC and succeeded by Osorkon III.
Shōshimin Series (小市民シリーズ)
Shōshimin Series, also known as Shōshimin, is a mystery novel series by Honobu Yonezawa. It follows two high school students who solve small cases, and it was adapted into a 22-episode anime.
Shoshone
Shoshone (Newe) are Native Americans of the Great Basin, Rocky Mountains, and northern Plains, divided into Western, Northern, and Eastern groups; their Central Numic Uto-Aztecan language has about 5,000 speakers and is endangered, with major reservations at Wind River and Fort Hall.
Shoshone Falls
Shoshone Falls, the Niagara of the West, is a 212-foot waterfall on the Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho, carved by the Bonneville Flood, seasonally reduced by irrigation diversions, and home to a 1907 hydroelectric plant.
Shoshong
Shoshong is a village in Botswana, founded in 1850 by Chief Sekgoma as the Bangwato capital, a major trade hub until Khama moved to Palapye around 1889.
Shōsōin five-stringed biwa
The Shōsōin five-stringed biwa (Raden Shitan no Gogen Biwa) is an eighth-century Tang-dynasty lute preserved in Nara, Japan, and is the only surviving five-stringed biwa in the world.
Shot (filmmaking)
Shot (filmmaking): a single continuous camera recording, the basic unit of film; shots form scenes and sequences. Described by scale (extreme long shot to extreme close-up), angle, movement, and duration.
Shot (pellet)
Shot, traditionally known as lead shot, consists of small spherical pellets loaded many at a time into shotshells, sized from fine birdshot for birds to buckshot for deer.
Shot at Dawn Memorial
Shot at Dawn Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire: Andy DeComyn's 2001 statue of blindfolded Private Herbert Burden with 306 stakes honoring WWI soldiers executed for desertion or cowardice, pardoned in 2006.
Shot Caller (film)
Shot Caller (2017) is an American prison crime drama written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as stockbroker Jacob "Money" Harlon, who joins a white supremacist gang after a DUI manslaughter sentence and is later forced to arrange an arms deal; Saban Films released it August 18, 2017.