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Shuangliao power station
Shuangliao power station (双辽发电厂) is a coal-fired power plant in Shuangliao, Siping, Jilin province, China, owned by CHN Energy, with five coal units totaling 2,000 MW.
Shuanglu
Shuanglu (双陆, 雙陸), also ban-sugoroku or ssang-ryouk, was an ancient Chinese backgammon-like dice race game on a 2x12 board, documented in Hong Zun's Song-era Pushuang, spread to Japan and Korea, and now lost.
Shuangtai Estuary
Shuangtai Estuary (Shuangtaizi Estuary, 双台河口), a 128,000-ha Ramsar wetland (site 1441, 2004) at the Liao River mouth, Liaodong Bay, Liaoning, China; world's largest reed marsh, red beach Suaeda flats, key East Asian-Australasian Flyway stopover.
Shuangyashan
Shuangyashan (双鸭山) is a coal-mining prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang, China, on the Sanjiang Plain facing Russia across the Wusuli River; 4 districts, 4 counties, 11.7 billion tons of coal reserves, 2024 GDP 55.74 billion yuan.
Shuangyashan power station
Shuangyashan power station (双鸭山发电厂), also rendered Guodian Shuangyashan Power Plant, is a six-unit coal-fired power plant in Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China, totaling about 2,030 MW and built in two phases between 1988 and 2008.
Shuar
The Shuar are a Chicham (Jivaroan)-speaking indigenous people of southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru, related to the Achuar, Aguaruna, and Huambisa, known for the Shuar Federation (1964), tsantsa shrunken heads, and conflicts over mining and oil on their territory.
Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath (Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young) is H. P. Lovecraft's fictional fertility deity of the Cthulhu Mythos, first named in 1928, wife of Yog-Sothoth, mother of Nug and Yeb, invoked by cults but never depicted directly.
Shubarkol Komir
Shubarkol Komir (Шұбаркөл Көмір) is a Kazakh joint-stock company mining the Shubarkol deposit in the Karaganda Region since 1985, ranking third nationally for coal extraction.
Shubat-Enlil
Shubat-Enlil, earlier named Shehna, is an ancient city at Tell Leilan in northeastern Syria, made capital of Shamshi-Adad's kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia around 1806 BC.
Shubh
Shubh, born Shubhneet Singh (ਸ਼ੁਭ), is an India-born Punjabi rapper and singer based in Brampton, Ontario, who broke out with "We Rollin'" in 2021 and has over five billion streams.
Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (शुभ मंगल सावधान)
Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (शुभ मंगल सावधान) is a 2017 Hindi romantic comedy directed by R.S. Prasanna, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar, adapted from his 2013 Tamil film.
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (शुभ मंगल ज़्यादा सावधान)
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (शुभ मंगल ज़्यादा सावधान), a 2020 Hindi rom-com spin-off of Shubh Mangal Saavdhan directed by Hitesh Kewalya, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Jitendra Kumar as a gay couple seeking family acceptance; released 21 February 2020, about ₹83 crore worldwide gross.
Shubha (actress)
Shubha (ശുഭ) is an Indian actress whose Malayalam career ran from 1967 to 2000 across 79 films, with additional work in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi cinema.
Shubha Balsavar Khote
Shubha Balsavar Khote, also Shobha Khote (born 20 March 1940), Indian actress of Hindi and Marathi cinema, TV, and theatre; film debut Seema (1955); famed comedienne paired with Mehmood; starred in Ek Duuje Ke Liye; former national swimming and cycling champion.
Shubhangi Atre
Shubhangi Atre (Shubhangi Atre Poorey), Indian TV actress born 1981 in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh; MBA graduate, Miss Madhya Pradesh 2003; played Angoori Bhabhi in Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain! 2016-2025, replacing Shilpa Shinde, later in the 2026 film adaptation.
Shubhanshu Shukla (शुभांशु शुक्ला)
Shubhanshu Shukla (शुभांशु शुक्ला) is an Indian Air Force officer and ISRO astronaut who piloted Axiom Mission 4 in 2025, becoming the first Indian to visit the International Space Station.
Shubman Gill (ਸ਼ੁਭਮਨ ਗਿੱਲ)
Shubman Gill (ਸ਼ੁਭਮਨ ਗਿੱਲ), born 1999, Indian right-handed top-order batter; India Test and ODI captain, Gujarat Titans IPL captain; 2018 U-19 World Cup star, 754 runs in the 2025 Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
Shubrā al Khaymah
Shubrā al Khaymah (شبرا الخيمة), Shubra el Kheima, is a dense industrial city in Qalyubia, Egypt, at Greater Cairo's northern edge; about 1.28 million people on 30.1 km², historically a textile center, now commerce and services led.
Shūbun
Shūbun, also called Tenshō Shūbun, was a Japanese Zen monk-painter, official painter to the Ashikaga shogunate, whose ink landscapes set the standard for his era.
Shubunkin (朱文金)
Shubunkin (朱文金), a Japanese calico single-tail goldfish bred since 1892, named for "red brocade"; three forms, London, Bristol with heart-shaped tail, and American comet-type; hardy pond fish.
Shudao Investment Group
Shudao Investment Group (蜀道投资集团) is a Sichuan provincial state-owned infrastructure conglomerate created in May 2021 by merging the province's two transport investment groups, with over 1.65 trillion yuan in assets by 2025.
Shudder (streaming service)
Shudder is a subscription streaming service devoted exclusively to horror, thriller, and supernatural films and series, owned by AMC Networks, launched in 2015 and available in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Shuddh Desi Romance (शुद्ध देसी रोमांस)
Shuddh Desi Romance (शुद्ध देसी रोमांस) is a 2013 Yash Raj Films Hindi romantic comedy directed by Maneesh Sharma, written by Jaideep Sahni, starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Parineeti Chopra, and Vaani Kapoor in a Jaipur love triangle about live-in relationships and commitment-phobia.
Shudra
Shudra (शूद्र): fourth varna of the classical Hindu fourfold order, associated with labour and service. Covers Vedic origins, textual disabilities, regional variation where Shudras could be kings, and modern anti-caste politics.
Shudra Tapasvi
Shudra Tapasvi (ಶೂದ್ರ ತಪಸ್ವಿ, "The Shudra Ascetic") is a 1944 Kannada play by Kuvempu that rewrites the Shambuka episode of the Ramayana so Rama refuses to kill the low-caste ascetic.
Shudraka
Shudraka (शूद्रक) is the name given in the prologue of the Sanskrit drama Mrichchhakatika as its author, described as a kshatriya king; his historical existence is unsettled.
Shueisha
Shueisha (集英社), "gathering of intellect," is a major Tokyo publisher founded in 1926 from Shogakukan's entertainment division, known for Weekly Shonen Jump, One Piece, and Dragon Ball, and described as the world's largest manga publisher.
Shuen Hon
Shuen Hon is an American biofuels microbiologist and strain engineer at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, working on metabolically engineering thermophilic clostridia to produce ethanol from plant biomass.
Shuffle (distributed computing)
Shuffle is the all-to-all redistribution of intermediate data between map and reduce tasks in frameworks like Spark and MapReduce, enabling joins, aggregations, and sorts. Its Mapper × Reducer block count and quadratic growth make it the costliest distributed primitive.
Shuffleboard
Shuffleboard: sliding weighted discs into scoring zones, as table shuffleboard (9-22 ft boards, hand-pushed, Knock-Off to 15 points) or deck/court shuffleboard (52 ft courts, cue, 75 points); 15th-century English origins.