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Shuttarna II
Shuttarna II (Šuttarna II) was a king of Mitanni in the late 15th or early 14th century BC, when Mitanni ranked among the Great Powers alongside Egypt.
Shuttarna III
Shuttarna III (Šuttarna III) was a claimant to the throne of Mitanni, also called Hanigalbat, who ruled briefly around 1330 BC with Assyrian backing after King Tushratta was murdered.
Shutter (2008 film)
Shutter (2008) is an American supernatural horror film directed by Masayuki Ochiai, remaking the 2004 Thai film; Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor play newlyweds haunted by spirit photography in Tokyo. It grossed $48.6 million worldwide but scored 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Shutter (ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ) (2004 film)
Shutter (ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ) is a 2004 Thai supernatural horror film by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom about ghostly figures in photographs after a hit-and-run; fifth-highest grossing Thai film of 2004, remade in Hollywood and India.
Shutter Island
Shutter Island: Dennis Lehane's 2003 psychological thriller about U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigating Ashecliffe Hospital in Boston Harbor in 1954, basis for Martin Scorsese's 2010 film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, and Mark Ruffalo.
Shutter Island (film)
Shutter Island is a 2010 Martin Scorsese psychological thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a U.S. marshal investigating a 1954 disappearance at a remote island hospital for the criminally insane.
Shutter speed
Shutter speed, or exposure time, is how long a camera's film or sensor is exposed to light. One of the exposure triangle's three controls with aperture and ISO. Fast speeds like 1/250 s freeze motion; slow speeds blur it; video uses 1/48 s at 24 fps.
Shutterfly
Shutterfly, also known as Shutterfly.com, is an American online service where customers upload photos to create photo books, cards, and gifts. It was founded in 1999 and taken private by Apollo Global Management in 2019.
Shutterstock
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK), American stock content licensing platform founded 2003, New York; 800 million images, 450,000+ contributors, $989.9M 2025 revenue; Giphy owner; January 2025 merger-of-equals agreement with Getty Images.
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were two modified Boeing 747s, NASA 905 and NASA 911, used from 1977 to 2012 to ferry Space Shuttle orbiters piggyback.
Shuttle Landing Facility
The Shuttle Landing Facility is an airport at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, built in 1974 to land the Space Shuttle and now operated commercially by Space Florida.
Shuttle run test
The shuttle run test is a field exercise test in which participants run between two markers at audio-paced speeds rising in stages until exhaustion, estimating aerobic capacity or agility.
Shuttle system (storage)
A shuttle system is an automated storage and retrieval system in which shuttle carts run on rails within rack levels, moving totes and pallets while lifts handle vertical movement.
Shuttle walk test
The shuttle walk test is a field exercise test in which patients walk between cones at audio-paced speeds, measuring exercise capacity in chronic heart and lung disease.
Shuttle-C
Shuttle-C was a proposed unmanned, expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle NASA studied in the late 1980s and early 1990s, using Space Shuttle hardware with a cargo carrier in place of the orbiter.
Shuttlecock
Shuttlecock: the feathered or synthetic projectile of badminton, descended from battledore and shuttlecock; 16 feathers, 4.74–5.50 g, high drag, steep descent.
Shutur-Nahhunte (son of Indada)
Shutur-Nahhunte, son of Indada, was a late Neo-Elamite ruler of the late seventh and early sixth centuries BC, known from the Izeh valley reliefs in Iran.
Shuvee Etrata
Shuvee Etrata (Shuvee Chrisna Villanueva Etrata, born 2001) is a Filipino actress, model, host, and content creator from Bantayan Island, Cebu, known as 'Island Ate ng Cebu', a TikTok star turned GMA Sparkle artist, PBB Celebrity Collab housemate, and Veshdita in Encantadia Chronicles: Sang'gre.
Shuvinai Ashoona
Shuvinai Ashoona (ᓱᕕᓂ ᐊᓱᓇ, born 1961) is an Inuit graphic artist from Kinngait, Nunavut, whose drawings blend Arctic life, mythology, and fantasy, shown at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Shuwardata
Šuwardata, also Suwardata, was a Canaanite ruler of the mid-14th century BC, probably master of Gath and nearby Keilah, known from four Amarna letters to the Egyptian king.
Shuweihat S1 power plant
Shuweihat S1 is a gas-fired power and desalination complex at Jebel Dhanna, about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi, delivering 1,500 MW and 100 million gallons of water daily from 2005.
Shuweihat S2 power plant
The Shuweihat S2 power plant is a gas-fired combined-cycle power and seawater desalination plant about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi city, completed in 2011.
Shuweihat S3 power plant
Shuweihat S3 is a 1,600 MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant at the Shuweihat complex in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and ADWEA's first independent power project.
Shuyu Ci
Collected Ci of Li Qingzhao, also known as Shuyu Ci (漱玉词), is a collection of ci lyrics by Song-dynasty poet Li Qingzhao, lost by the 14th century and later reconstructed.
SHV Holdings
SHV Holdings is a Dutch family-owned holding company founded in Utrecht in 1896 as the Steenkolen Handels-Vereeniging, a coal trading association, now spanning seven companies in energy and more.
Shwaas (श्वास)
Shwaas (श्वास, "Breath") is a 2004 Marathi drama directed by Sandeep Sawant about a grandfather consenting to surgery that blinds his grandson. It won the National Award for Best Feature Film and was the first Marathi film sent to the Oscars.
Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
Shwachman-Diamond syndrome is a rare inherited disorder, usually autosomal recessive and caused by SBDS gene mutations, marked by bone marrow failure, exocrine pancreatic dysfunction causing malabsorption and poor growth, and risk of leukemia.
Shwedagon Pagoda (ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီတော်)
Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as Shwe Dagon, is a 326-foot gilded Buddhist stupa on Singuttara Hill in Yangon, Myanmar, enshrining relics of four Buddhas including eight hairs of Gotama Buddha.
Shwesandaw Pagoda (Pagan)
Shwesandaw Pagoda (ရွှေဆံတော် ဘုရား) is a large Buddhist stupa at Old Bagan in Myanmar, built by King Anawrahta in 1057 after his conquest of Thaton.
Shweshwe
Shweshwe, also called isishweshwe or seshoeshoe, is a discharge-printed cotton cloth, originally indigo with white patterns, worn across southern Africa and manufactured by Da Gama Textiles in the Eastern Cape.