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Shulgovka
Shulgovka (Shulhivka, Шульгівка) is a Scythian royal barrow near Novomykolaivka, Ukraine, excavated by N. I. Veselovsky 1889–1891; it gives its name to a type of single-edged Scythian sword, with finds lost in WWII.
Shulin
Shulin (樹林) is a district of southwestern New Taipei City, Taiwan, on the Dahan River plain, with 176,724 residents, three TRA rail stations, a red rice yeast wine heritage, and major projects including the Tucheng–Shulin MRT line and the 50,000-seat New Taipei Dome.
Shulme
Shulme (Šulme) was a Gutian king of the later 22nd century BC, known only from the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a 6-year reign.
Shulmu-beli
Šulmu-beli was a high official of the Neo-Assyrian Empire who served as deputy of the palace herald under King Sargon II, with twelve surviving letters.
Shulü Ping
Shulü Ping (述律平), Khitan name Yueliduo, was the empress of Yelü Abaoji, founder of the Liao dynasty. She ruled as regent after his 926 death, chose his successor, and died in 953 in confinement.
Shulü Regency and the Rebellion of Her Brothers
Shulü Regency and the Rebellion of Her Brothers (述律后摄政与诸弟之乱) covers two early Liao succession struggles: the rebellion of Abaoji's brothers and Empress Shulü Ping's regency from 926.
ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz
ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (SchUM, שום): German serial UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2021, four medieval Jewish components, criteria ii, iii, vi, Taqqanot ShUM 1220.
Shuma-Gorath
Shuma-Gorath, also called the Lord of Chaos, is a Marvel Comics extra-dimensional Elder God created by Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner, debuting in Marvel Premiere #10 (1973); the name comes from Robert E. Howard, and rights issues forced the film rename Gargantos.
Shumai (烧卖)
Shumai (烧卖, shāomài, Cantonese siu maai) is an open-topped Chinese steamed dumpling; the Cantonese pork-and-shrimp dim sum form differs from northern mutton shaomai sold by liang in Hohhot.
Shumei Tech (北京数美时代科技有限公司) (ISHUMEI)
Shumei Tech (北京数美时代科技有限公司), branded ISHUMEI, is a Beijing-based software company founded in 2015 selling online risk control as a service through its Tianwang and Tianjing products.
Shumei Wanwu (数美万物)
Shumei Wanwu (数美万物), branded MathMagic, is a Chinese AI startup founded in 2024 by former ByteDance vice president Ren Lifeng that connects generative AI 3D models to physical manufacturing.
Shuming Nie
Shuming Nie is a chemist and bioengineer known for 1997 single-molecule SERS detection and 1998 quantum-dot bioconjugates, and now works on cancer nanomedicine at Illinois.
Shūmon aratame
Shūmon aratame (宗門改) was the Edo shogunate's religious inquisition, established after the 1637 Shimabara rebellion, under which every household registered with a Buddhist temple to prove it was not Christian.
Shumway Capital
Shumway Capital is a Greenwich, Connecticut investment firm founded by former Tiger Management manager Chris Shumway, which returned all external hedge fund capital in 2011.
Shun Chong Fung
Shun Chong Fung (1943–2021) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer at ExxonMobil whose catalyst regeneration techniques were applied to most of the world's catalytic reforming units.
Shun Fujimoto
Shun Fujimoto (藤本俊, born 1950, Hiroshima), Japanese artistic gymnast; won 1976 Montreal Olympic team gold after breaking his kneecap on floor, scoring 9.70 on rings.
Shun Oguri (小栗旬)
Shun Oguri (小栗旬), born 1982 in Tokyo, is a Japanese actor and director known for Hana Yori Dango, Crows Zero, the Gintama films, NHK taiga drama lead The 13 Lords of the Shogun, Godzilla vs. Kong, and as president of Tristone Entertainment since 2023.
Shun-Ichi Murahashi
Shun-Ichi Murahashi (村橋俊一), born in 1937, is a Japanese organic chemist and Osaka University professor emeritus known for the Murahashi coupling, ruthenium oxidation chemistry, and the 2010 Japan Academy Prize.
Shun‐ichiro Karato
Shun-ichiro Karato (唐戸 俊一郎), born 1949 in Fukuoka, Japan, is a Japanese-born geophysicist and Adolph Knopf Professor at Yale known for laboratory studies of water in mantle minerals.
Shun'ichi Amari
Shun'ichi Amari is a Japanese mathematician who founded information geometry, treating families of probability distributions as curved spaces, and pioneered neural network theory with the natural gradient method.
Shun'ichi Iwasaki
Shun'ichi Iwasaki (岩崎俊一, born 1926 in Fukushima Prefecture) is a Japanese electrical engineer who invented perpendicular magnetic recording at Tohoku University in 1977, honored with the Japan Prize in 2010.
Shunbei Oil and Gas Field
Shunbei Oil and Gas Field (顺北) is an ultra-deep fault-controlled oil and gas field in the central Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China, discovered in 2016 and operated by Sinopec.
Shund
Shund (שונד) is the Yiddish term for trashy popular fiction and theater, the label around which Yiddish literary criticism's central battles were fought from the 1880s.
Shunet ez-Zebib
Shunet ez-Zebib, known as the Fort of Khasekhemwy, is a large mudbrick funerary cult enclosure at Abydos in Upper Egypt, built by King Khasekhemwy around 2700 BCE.
Shung-Wu Lee (李雄武)
Shung-Wu Lee (李雄武) is a Taiwan-born electrical engineer at Illinois known for radar scattering and stealth technology, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Shunga (春画)
Shunga (春画), "spring pictures", is Japanese erotic art: explicit paintings, prints and books, mostly Edo-period ukiyo-e by artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai. Older names include makura-e and warai-e; it was banned in 1722 yet flourished until Meiji-era suppression.
Shunga Empire
Shunga Empire: ancient Indian dynasty founded by Pushyamitra Shunga after he killed the last Maurya king Brihadratha around 187 BCE; ruled from Pataliputra and Vidisha, patronized Vedic ritual and Buddhist art, ended under Devabhuti when the Kanvas took over around 73 BCE.
Shunga–Indo-Greek wars
The Shunga–Indo-Greek wars were a series of clashes in which the Shunga dynasty of northern India resisted Yavana (Indo-Greek) armies that attacked Madhyamika, Saketa, and threatened Pataliputra.
Shungiku Uchida
Shungiku Uchida (内田春菊) is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, and actress born in 1959 in Nagasaki Prefecture, known for Minami-kun no Koibito and the autobiographical novel Fatherfucker.
Shungite (шунгит)
Shungite (шунгит) is a black, noncrystalline, carbon-rich mineraloid rock from Karelia, Russia, containing about 98 percent carbon, named after the village of Shunga and used in water treatment.