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So-called Caesareum of Cyrene

So-called Caesareum of Cyrene: Roman monumental complex at Cyrene, Libya, a Hellenistic gymnasium converted under Augustus to honor Julius Caesar, later the Flavian forum with basilica, restored under Hadrian.

So-called Central Church in Apollonia

So-called Central Church (Central Basilica) in Apollonia, Cyrenaica, Libya: a three-aisled Late Antique basilica, main church of the city, mentioned by Synesius of Cyrene, with warm-water baptistery, deliberately destroyed with undermined columns.

So-called East Church in Apollonia

So-called East Church in Apollonia: fifth-century Christian transept basilica at Apollonia (Cyrenaica, Libya), port of Cyrene; largest church of the city, excavated in the early 1920s, with clover-leaf baptistery and Noah mosaic, deliberately destroyed around the Arab conquest of AD 642.

So-called Oratory of Phalaris

So-called Oratory of Phalaris (Oratorio di Falaride), late 2nd-early 1st century BC Roman podium temple on Agrigento's San Nicola hill, built over the ekklesiasterion; name is legendary, dedication unknown.

So-called Palace of the Dux

The so-called Palace of the Dux is a large late-antique residential complex in Apollonia, Libya, excavated by Richard Goodchild and identified by him as a Byzantine governor's palace.

So-called Residential Insula in Apollonia

So-called Residential Insula in Apollonia, an excavated building complex (1954-55) west of the East Church at Apollonia, Cyrenaica, Libya; once read as a temple of Isis, now seen by Kenrick (2013) as a small production centre, possibly for wine fermentation.

So-called Roman Baths in Apollonia

So-called Roman Baths in Apollonia (Casa delle Cisterne Refrigeranti), a coastal bath complex at Apollonia, Cyrenaica, Libya, used from the 4th century BC to the 7th century AD as villa, baths, and perhaps cisterns; its unfinished caldarium typifies the Cyrenaican hot-room design.

So-called Roman Gymnasium at Syracuse

The so-called Roman Gymnasium at Syracuse is a Roman complex on the Via Elorina in Syracuse, Sicily, with an elevated quadriporticus, a temple, and a small theater.

So-called Temple of Aphrodite

The so-called Temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in southwest Turkey is a marble Ionic temple of the goddess, converted into the Cathedral of St. Michael around AD 500.

So-called Temple of Cybele

So-called Temple of Cybele, a Roman-period temple on the acropolis of Cyrene, probably built in the second century CE, converted to a cistern after the 262 CE earthquake and destroyed in 365 CE; its Cybele dedication is a modern, uncertain label.

So-called Temple of Hercules

So-called Temple of Hercules: ruins at the 8th mile of Rome's Via Appia, once linked to Martial's account of Domitian's Hercules sanctuary, now identified as an emporion or market complex.

So-called Temple of the Dioscuri

So-called Temple of the Dioscuri (Tempio dei Dioscuri), Agrigento: a Greek Doric temple in the Sanctuary of the Chthonian Deities, its Castor-and-Pollux name a convention; four re-erected columns of the original 34 symbolize Agrigento.

So-called Theatre 3

So-called Theatre 3 (Teatro 3) is a Roman theatre on the acropolis ridge of Cyrene, Libya, conventionally numbered 3; semicircular orchestra, nearly identical to Theatre 2, possibly built after Theatre 2 was destroyed in the AD 262 earthquake.

So-called Villa on the Lake

So-called Villa on the Lake: a late Republican Roman villa on the Alban lake near Rome, with a 200-m two-level Doric portico and opus reticulatum cistern, later absorbed into Domitian's villa.

So-called Villa Selene

So-called Villa Selene (Villa Silene, Silin), a second-century CE Roman coastal villa near Al Khoms, Libya, west of Lepcis Magna; discovered 1974 under sand dunes, famed for mosaics of Amphitrite, circus races, and Nilotic pygmies.

So-called West Church in Apollonia

The so-called West Church, or Western Basilica, is a Byzantine three-aisled church at Apollonia, Cyrenaica, Libya, excavated in 1958 and 1959 and published in 1960.

So-called West Gate of Apollonia

So-called West Gate of Apollonia: main western gate in the Hellenistic walls of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Libya, port of Cyrene. Sixth-century Byzantine mortuary chapel, western basilica, and official rooms cluster around it; the gate tower is unchanged since 1958.

So-yeon Schröder-Kim

So-yeon Schröder-Kim (Kim So-yeon), born 1970, is a South Korean interpreter and translator, fifth wife of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (married 7 May 2018), former NRW.INVEST Seoul representative, dismissed by NRW.Global Business in 2023 after attending a Russian embassy reception.

So-yo-cho

So-yo-cho (租庸調) was the triad of taxes at the heart of Japan's ritsuryo system: a grain rent, a cloth payment, and a tribute of local products.

So, I Can't Play H!

So, I Can't Play H! (だから僕は、Hができない。) is a Japanese ecchi-comedy light novel series by Pan Tachibana, 11 volumes in Fujimi Fantasia Bunko (2010–2013), with a 5-volume manga by Sho Okagiri and a 12-episode 2012 anime by feel.

Soacha

Soacha, a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, directly south of Bogotá; also called Soacha-Cundinamarca. Seventh most populous Colombian city, 808,288 census inhabitants, major migrant destination, TransMilenio corridor and Metro Line 3 terminus.

Soad Hosny

Soad Hosny (سعاد حسني), the "Cinderella of Egyptian cinema", was an Egyptian actress and singer (born 1942 or 1943, Cairo; died June 2001, London) who starred in more than 83 films from 1959 to 1991, including Khalli Balak min Zouzou.

Soaked in Bleach

Soaked in Bleach (2015) is Benjamin Statler's docudrama about private investigator Tom Grant, hired by Courtney Love before Kurt Cobain's 1994 death, arguing homicide; criticized, disputed by experts and police.

Soaking (sexual practice)

Soaking is slang for penetrative sex without thrusting, framed as a premarital-sex loophole among Latter-day Saints and BYU students. It went viral on TikTok in 2020-2021 and via TV shows, but researchers call it largely a rumor; it carries normal STI and pregnancy risks.

Sōami

Sōami (相阿弥), also called Shinso, was a Japanese painter and garden designer of the Muromachi period, the last of the three Ami advisors to the Ashikaga shoguns.

Soamsawali (โสมสวลี)

Princess Soamsawali (โสมสวลี), Krom Muen Suddhanarinatha, Thai princess, first wife of King Vajiralongkorn (married 1977, divorced 1993), mother of Princess Bajrakitiyabha, and UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for HIV prevention in Asia Pacific.

Soap

Soap is a cleaning substance made of fatty acid salts through saponification, lifting dirt and microbes so water can rinse them away, a key public health tool.

SOAP

SOAP, originally Simple Object Access Protocol, is an XML-based messaging protocol standardized by the W3C, used to exchange structured information between software over HTTP and other protocols.

Soap (TV series)

Soap (1977–1981) is Susan Harris's ABC satirical sitcom parodying daytime soap operas, following the Tate and Campbell families, starring Billy Crystal as Jodie Dallas, and spinning off Benson.

Soap made from human corpses

Soap made from human corpses refers to the World War II claim that Nazi Germany made soap from murdered Jews, uncorroborated except for a small experimental operation at Danzig.