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Shuidichou (水滴筹) (Zongqing Qianwang Technology)
Shuidichou (水滴筹) is a Chinese medical-crowdfunding platform launched in Beijing in July 2016 by Shen Peng, where patients with serious illnesses raise donations from their social networks via WeChat.
Shuidonggou power station
Shuidonggou power station (水洞沟电厂), also known as the Jingneng Ningdong power plant, is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Lingwu, Yinchuan, in China's Ningxia region, operating since 2011.
Shuihu Houzhuan
Shuihu Houzhuan (水浒后传) is a 40-chapter Qing dynasty novel by Chen Chen, a sequel to Water Margin in which surviving Liangshan heroes found a state in Siam.
Shuihudi Qin Bamboo Legal Texts
The Shuihudi Qin Bamboo Legal Texts (睡虎地秦律) are Qin statutes on bamboo strips excavated in 1975 from the tomb of the legal clerk Xi at Shuihudi, Yunmeng, Hubei.
Shuikou hydroelectric plant
Shuikou hydroelectric plant (水口水电站) is a 1,400 MW hydroelectric station on the Min River in Fujian, China, the largest conventional hydropower station in East China when completed in 1996.
Shuisky family
The Shuisky family (Шуйские) was a Russian princely family, a branch of the Suzdal Rurikids, that ruled Russia in 1606 to 1610 under Tsar Vasily IV Shuisky.
Shuja Asad
Shuja Asad is a Pakistani television actor from Karachi who began as a model and comedy-sketch performer, debuted in Free Fire Academy (2021), and broke through as Barlas in Khaie (2024) before leading Dr Bahu (2026).
Shuja-ud-Daula (شجاع الدولہ)
Shuja-ud-Daula (شجاع الدولہ), 1732–1775, third Nawab of Awadh (r. 1754–75), son of Safdar Jang; defeated at Buxar 1764, restored by the Treaty of Allahabad 1765; tomb at Gulab Bari, Faizabad.
Shuja'iyya Popular Defense Forces
Shuja'iyya Popular Defense Forces (قوات الدفاع الشعبي للشجاعية), also Popular Defense Army, an Israeli-backed anti-Hamas Gaza militia founded 2025 by Rami Hilles and Ahmed Jundeya, active in eastern Gaza City's Shuja'iyya, Zaytun, and Tuffah, distinct from Sudan's Popular Defence Forces.
Shujaat Hussain
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (born 1946, Gujrat) is a Pakistani politician, PML-Q president since 2003 and briefly prime minister from 30 June to late August 2004, known for coalition politics and closeness to military rulers.
Shuji Nakamura (中村修二)
Shuji Nakamura (中村修二), born 1954, is a Japanese materials scientist at UC Santa Barbara who invented the high-brightness blue LED and shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Shuji Ogino
Shuji Ogino (荻野周二) is a Japanese-born pathologist-epidemiologist and Harvard professor who helped define molecular pathological epidemiology, studying how molecular tumor features interact with lifestyle and environment.
Shūji Terayama (寺山修司)
Shūji Terayama (寺山修司, 1935–1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, tanka poet, playwright, and filmmaker who founded the experimental theater troupe Tenjo Sajiki in 1967 and led the angura theater movement with city plays and films such as Denen ni Shisu.
Shujidingyang (Shujifa)
Shujidingyang, also known as Shujifa (输籍定样), was a Sui dynasty method for fixing every household's tax grade, proposed by Gao Jiong and adopted in 585 to stop officials manipulating tax registers.
Shujun Zhang
Shujun Zhang (张树君) is a materials scientist known for work on relaxor-PbTiO3 single crystals and ultrahigh-piezoelectricity ferroelectrics, and Chair Professor of Ceramics at City University of Hong Kong since 2025.
Shuka Saptati
Shuka Saptati, "Seventy Tales of the Parrot," is a Sanskrit story collection in which a pet parrot tells tales night after night to keep his mistress faithful until her husband returns.
Shuki Levy (שוקי לוי)
Shuki Levy, born Yehoshua Levy in Israel in 1947, is an Israeli-American composer who wrote music for more than 130 children's television shows and co-founded Saban Entertainment.
Shukra (शुक्र)
Shukra (शुक्र), also known as Shukracharya or Ushanas, is a Hindu deity identified with the planet Venus, preceptor of the asuras and one of the nine Navagrahas.
Shulamit Levenberg
Shulamit Levenberg is an Israeli tissue engineer and professor at Technion whose lab grows blood vessel networks inside engineered tissue, and who co-founded Aleph Farms, the cultivated-meat company.
Shulamite Corona
Shulamite Corona is a 275-km-diameter corona on Venus at 38.8 S, 284.3 E in Themis Regio, concentric type with plateau topography, named for a Hebrew fertility goddess, IAU-approved 1997.
Shulamith Firestone
Shulamith Firestone (1945–2012), Canadian-born radical feminist, founded Chicago Radical Women, New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists, and wrote The Dialectic of Sex (1970) and Airless Spaces (1998).
Shulba Sutras
The Shulba Sutras (शुल्ब-सूत्राणि, Sulvasutras) are first-millennium BCE Sanskrit manuals for building Vedic fire altars with cords, containing the earliest general statement of the Pythagorean theorem, without proofs.
Shulei Chou
Shulei Chou (侴术雷) is a Chinese materials scientist who works on electrode materials and electrolytes for sodium-ion batteries, and has been a professor at Wenzhou University since 2021.
Shulgi
Shulgi, also rendered Šulgi or Dungi, was the second king of the Ur III dynasty in ancient Mesopotamia, reigning 48 years from 2094 to 2047 BC.
Shulgi hymns
The Shulgi hymns, also called the Royal hymns of Shulgi, are over twenty Sumerian royal hymns praising Shulgi, second king of the Ur III dynasty.
Shulgi-simti
Shulgi-simti (Šulgi-simtī) was a wife of King Shulgi of the Third Dynasty of Ur, known almost entirely through an economic archive of cuneiform tablets from Puzriš-Dagān recording sacrificial animals.
Shulgi's calendar reform
Shulgi's calendar reform was the promotion of a unified, Nippur-based month-name calendar across the Ur III state during the 48-year reign of Shulgi of Ur, c. 2094–2047 BC.
Shulgi's campaigns against Anshan
Shulgi's campaign against Anshan was a military expedition by Shulgi of Ur against the Elamite polity of Anshan, attested by his year name for regnal year 34.
Shulgi's campaigns against Shimashki
Shulgi's campaigns against Shimashki were the expeditions of Shulgi, second king of Ur's Third Dynasty, against Kimaš, Ḫurti, and Šimaški in the Zagros mountains of western Iran around 2047 BCE.
Shulgi's road and station system reform
Shulgi's road and station system reform reorganized the highways of the Ur III state and built way-stations for royal messengers under King Shulgi of Ur, around 2088 BC.