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Shurwayne Winchester
Shurwayne Winchester, born 1974 in Scarborough, Tobago, is a soca artist who won Road March in 2004 and 2005 and both International Soca Monarch divisions in 2006.
Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作, 1923–1996) was a Japanese novelist and one of Japan's first Catholic writers, best known for Silence (1966), which examines why Christianity took root poorly in Japan.
Shusha (Շուշի)
Shusha (Şuşa; Armenian Shushi, Շուշի) is a mountain city in Nagorno-Karabakh founded in 1753 by Panah Ali Khan as capital of the Karabakh khanate, occupied 1992-2020, now Azerbaijan's declared cultural capital.
Shushan Army (Imperial Guard Corps)
The Shushan Army (属珊军) was a cavalry guard corps of the Liao dynasty, raised by Empress Shulü from picked elite Fan and Han soldiers and said to number 200,000 cavalry.
Shusharra
Shusharra, also known as Tell Shemshara, is an ancient town on the Rania plain of northeastern Iraq, known for a palace archive of about 250 Akkadian tablets from the early 18th century BCE.
Shusharra archive
The Shusharra archive, also known as the Tell Shemshara archive, is a group of some 250 cuneiform tablets from around 1780 BC, found in Iraq.
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
The Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System is an ensemble of dams, canals, tunnels, and watermills on the Karun River at Shushtar, Iran, completed in the 3rd century CE.
Shushufindi Oil and Gas Field
Shushufindi Oil and Gas Field (Shushufindi-Aguarico) is a giant oil field in the Ecuadorian Amazon's Sucumbíos province, discovered in 1969 and producing over 1.3 billion barrels.
Shushun-Tarana
Shushun-Tarana was the fifth king of Awan, a dynasty of Elamite rulers of the late third millennium BC, known only from a king-list tablet found at Susa.
Shuster Treasury mission
The Shuster Treasury mission (مأموریت شوستر) was an American financial mission headed by William Morgan Shuster, appointed Treasurer-General of Iran by the Second Majlis in 1911.
Shusun Tong's establishment of court ritual
Shusun Tong's establishment of court ritual (叔孙通制礼仪) was the court ceremony Shusun Tong drew up for the founder of the Han dynasty, to correct the positions of ruler and subject.
Shut 'Em Down (album)
Shut 'Em Down is Onyx's third studio album, released June 2, 1998 on Def Jam and JMJ Records, peaking at number 10 on the Billboard 200.
Shut Eye
Shut Eye is a 2016 American dark comedy-drama streaming series created by Les Bohem for Hulu, starring Jeffrey Donovan as a fake psychic who gains real visions.
Shut In (2016 film)
Shut In (2016) is a psychological thriller directed by Farren Blackburn from a Black List script by Christina Hodson, starring Naomi Watts as a widowed child psychologist haunted by a missing patient; 5% on Rotten Tomatoes, $6.9 million US gross.
Shut Up & Sit Down
Shut Up & Sit Down is a British board game review website and YouTube channel combining game criticism with comedy, founded in 2011 by Paul Dean and Quintin Smith.
Shut Up and Dance (Black Mirror)
Shut Up and Dance is season 3, episode 3 of Black Mirror (2016), directed by James Watkins, written by Charlie Brooker and William Bridges. Kenny (Alex Lawther) is webcam-blackmailed into crimes; the twist reveals he is a pedophile. No sci-fi elements.
Shut Up and Dance (Walk the Moon song)
"Shut Up and Dance" is a 2014 pop-rock single by Walk the Moon from Talking Is Hard (RCA), written by Petricca, Maiman, Ray, Waugaman, Berger, and McMahon. It hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK chart, topped Billboard's rock chart, and was certified multi-platinum.
Shut Up, Little Man!
Shut Up, Little Man! is a 1987 series of covert San Francisco recordings of drunken neighbors Raymond Huffman and Peter Haskett, made by Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey, that became a pre-internet cult sensation inspiring comics, plays, and Devo, and the subject of Matthew Bate's 2011 Sundance documentary.
Shut Up! Cartoons
Shut Up! Cartoons was a Smosh-run YouTube animation channel by Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla, and Barry Blumberg, funded by YouTube's $100 million channel initiative, running April 30, 2012 to June 23, 2017 with series like Oishi High School Battle, Pubertina, and Smosh Babies.
Shuta (Egyptian official)
Shuta (Akkadian Šuta) was an Egyptian commissioner of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, named in Amarna letter EA 234, where the ruler of Akko protests against him.
Shutatarra
Shutatarra, also written Šutatarra or Suttarna, was a king of Kadesh on the Orontes in western Syria, flourishing around 1350 BC during the Amarna period.
Shutdown margin
Shutdown margin is the reactivity by which a nuclear reactor is, or would be, subcritical, assuming all control rods inserted except the highest-worth rod, which is assumed stuck withdrawn.
Shuten Order
Shuten Order (Shuten Kyodan) is a 2025 multi-genre adventure game by Neilo and Tookyo Games, published by Spike Chunsoft. Its murdered cult Founder, resurrected as Rei Shimobe, investigates five ministers across five genre-shifting routes on Switch and Steam.
Shuten-dōji (酒呑童子)
Shuten-dōji (酒呑童子, also 酒顛童子, 酒天童子) is the legendary oni king of Mount Ōe (or Mount Ibuki) in Japanese folklore, slain by Minamoto no Yorimitsu and his Four Heavenly Kings with poisoned divine sake.
Shuto Expressway
The Shuto Expressway (首都高速道路), also called the Metropolitan Expressway, is a toll expressway network serving Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, first opened in 1962 and expanded for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Shūto Machino (町野修斗)
Shūto Machino (町野修斗), born 1999, is a Japanese striker at Borussia Mönchengladbach; formerly of Shonan Bellmare and Holstein Kiel, whom he helped to their first Bundesliga promotion, and a Japan international at the 2022 and 2026 World Cups.
Shutruk-Nahhunte
Shutruk-Nahhunte, also written Šutruk-Nakhunte, was king of Elam around 1185–1155 BC who raided Babylon and carried the stele of Hammurabi and the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa.
Shutruk-Nahhunte II
Shutruk-Nahhunte II (Šutruk-Naḫḫunte II) was king of Elam from about 717 to 699 BC, of the first Neo-Elamite Dynasty, who fought Assyrian expansion and was succeeded by his brother Hallušu.
Shutrukid dynasty
The Shutrukid dynasty, also written Sutrukid or Šutrukid, ruled Elam from Susa around 1210–1100 BCE, founded by Shutruk-Nahhunte and ending the Kassite kingdom of Babylon.
Shuttarna I
Shuttarna I (Šuttarna I) was an early king of Mitanni, son of Kirta, known only from a cylinder seal and probably ruling in the late sixteenth century BCE.