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Sobrados e Mucambos
Sobrados e Mucambos is a 1936 work of social history by Gilberto Freyre, tracing the decline of rural patriarchy in Brazil after the arrival of the Portuguese royal family in 1808.
Sobral
Sobral, Ceará, Brazil: municipality of 203,023 (2022 census) on the Acaraú River, 235 km from Fortaleza; founded as a vila in 1773, commercial hub of the northern backlands, site of the 1919 eclipse that confirmed general relativity.
Sobranie (Собрание)
Sobranie (Собрание), also known as Balkan Sobranie, is one of the world's oldest cigarette brands, registered in London in 1879 by Albert Weinberg and now owned by Japan Tobacco International.
Sobrarbe-Pirineos UNESCO Global Geopark
Sobrarbe-Pirineos UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparque Mundial UNESCO Sobrarbe-Pirineos), designated 2015, covers all 2,202 km² of the Sobrarbe comarca in Huesca, Aragon, Spain; a Pyrenean geopark with the Monte Perdido limestone massif, in the network since 2006.
Sobre los ángeles
Sobre los ángeles ("Concerning the Angels") is a 1929 book of poems by Rafael Alberti, regarded as his first surrealist work and central to modern Spanish poetry.
Sobrevivo
Sobrevivo ("I Survive") is a 1978 collection of poems by Claribel Alegría, published in Havana, winner of the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry.
Sobriety
Sobriety: abstinence from alcohol or drugs, clinically tied to recovery from alcohol use disorder (NIAAA definitions) and culturally to the sober curious movement, Dry January, temperance history, and mutual-help groups like AA and SMART Recovery.
Sobriety checkpoint
A sobriety checkpoint, also called a DUI checkpoint, is a roadblock where police stop vehicles on a systematic basis to screen drivers for impairment, without individualized suspicion.
Sobriquet
Sobriquet (variant soubriquet): a descriptive, often humorous or mocking nickname, borrowed into English in the 1640s from French soubriquet, originally "a chuck under the chin", of unknown origin.
Sōbuji rei
The Sōbuji rei (惣無事令), or order for a general peace, was a 1585 policy of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's government banning private warfare among the sengoku daimyo.
SOC 2
SOC 2 is an attestation framework from the AICPA under which a licensed CPA firm examines a service organization's controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy.
SOC Telemed
SOC Telemed, founded as Specialists On Call in 2004, is a Reston, Virginia-based provider of acute care telemedicine to U.S. hospitals, taken private in 2022.
Sóc Trăng
Sóc Trăng (Sóc Trăng) is a coastal Mekong Delta province of Vietnam, capital Sóc Trăng city, 3,311.6 km², 1.31 million people (2015), 65% Kinh, 28% Khmer, 7% Hoa; merged into Can Tho city in 2025.
Soca Baptist
"Soca Baptist" is a 1980 soca song by Trinidad and Tobago's Blue Boy, later Superblue, fusing soca with Spiritual Baptist music and winning the 1980 Road March.
Soca Monarch (Antigua)
Soca Monarch, staged commercially as the Party Monarch, is Antigua Carnival's soca singing competition, first held in 1995 and split into fast-tempo Jumpy and melodic Groovy categories.
Soca music
Soca, a Carnival dance music genre from Trinidad and Tobago created by Lord Shorty (Garfield Blackman, Ras Shorty I) in the early 1970s as the "soul of calypso", fusing calypso with East Indian rhythms; originally spelled sokah; includes groovy, chutney, power, ragga, and parang subgenres.
Socar
Socar (쏘카) is a South Korean car sharing and mobility company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Jeju City, with more than 10 million members.
SOCAR Turkey
SOCAR Turkey, also written SOCAR Türkiye, is the Turkish arm of Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company SOCAR, its largest asset being the STAR Refinery at Aliağa, opened in 2018.
SOCATA TBM
The SOCATA TBM, also called the Daher TBM, is a family of French pressurized single-engine turboprops built at Tarbes and flown since 1990, beginning with the TBM 700.
Socca (food)
Socca, also called farinata or fainá, is a thin chickpea-flour pancake from Nice, France, made of chickpea flour, water, olive oil, and salt, baked wood-fired at 280°C, gluten-free, and sold by the slice as street food.
Soccer Aid
Soccer Aid for UNICEF, founded 2006 by Robbie Williams and Jonathan Wilkes, is a UK charity football match, England XI vs Soccer Aid World XI, broadcast on ITV; it has raised over £137 million, including a record £16,462,353 in 2026.
Soccer AM
Soccer AM was a British football comedy and talk show on Sky Sports, airing Saturday mornings 1995–2023. Hosted by Helen Chamberlain, Tim Lovejoy, and later John Fendley and Jimmy Bullard, it popularised the crossbar challenge and 'bouncebackability' before Sky cancelled it in May 2023.
Soccer in the United States
Soccer in the United States, also called association football, is organized around Major League Soccer and a women's program that has won four World Cups.
Soccer mom
Soccer mom is a US informal term, coined about 1990-95, for a middle-class suburban mother who drives her children to soccer and other activities; it became a key 1996 election swing-voter label and later a cultural stereotype.
Soccer Mommy
Soccer Mommy is the indie rock project of Swiss-born, Nashville-raised singer-songwriter Sophie Allison, known for Clean (2018), Color Theory (2020), Sometimes, Forever (2022), and Evergreen (2024) on Fat Possum Records.
Soccer-specific stadium
Soccer-specific stadium (SSS): a venue built for one soccer club rather than a shared NFL or college bowl; 22 of 30 MLS stadiums are soccer-specific; GEODIS Park (30,000) is the largest, Providence Park among the oldest.
SOCCOM project
SOCCOM (Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling) is a National Science Foundation-funded US research program that has deployed biogeochemical profiling floats throughout the Southern Ocean since 2014.
Soccsksargen
Soccsksargen (Region XII) is a Philippine administrative region in south-central Mindanao comprising South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and General Santos City, with 4.46 million people (2024), an agro-based economy of PhP 550.08 billion, and Koronadal City as regional center.
Soch
"Soch" (ਸੋਚ) is a 2013 Punjabi romantic song by Harrdy Sandhu, written by Jaani and composed by B Praak, the first hit for all three.
Socha Na Tha (सोचा न था)
Socha Na Tha (सोचा ना था), 2005 Hindi romantic comedy, Imtiaz Ali's directorial debut and Abhay Deol's acting debut, produced by Dharmendra; released 4 March 2005, co-starring Ayesha Takia.