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Sojitz (双日株式会社)
Sojitz, also known as Sojitz Corporation (双日株式会社), is a Japanese general trading company, or sogo shosha, formed in 2004 from the merger of Nichimen and Nissho Iwai and trading in seven divisions.
Sōjō Henjō
Sōjō Henjō (僧正遍昭, 816–890) was an early Heian-period Japanese Buddhist monk and waka poet, counted among the Six Poetic Immortals and known for Hyakunin Isshu poem 12.
Sojourner (rover)
Sojourner, also known as Mars Sojourner, was NASA's six-wheeled solar-powered rover deployed by the Mars Pathfinder lander on July 4, 1997, the first wheeled vehicle operated on another planet.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Van Wagenen, c. 1797-1883), New York-born abolitionist and women's rights orator; won the 1828 case recovering her son Peter; the famous 'Ain't I a Woman?' refrain comes from Gage's 1863 version, not the 1851 transcript.
Soju (소주)
Soju (소주) is a clear Korean spirit made by distilling fermented grain or diluting neutral ethanol, first documented around 1375 and described as Korea's national drink.
Sok Daejeon
Sok Daejeon (속대전, Continued Great Code) is a Joseon dynasty legal code promulgated in 1746 under King Yeongjo, supplementing the fifteenth-century Gyeonggukdaejeon as basic law.
Sōka
Sōka (草加市, Sōka-shi) is a city in southeastern Saitama Prefecture, Japan, bordering Tokyo's Adachi Ward. Incorporated 1958 with 34,878 people; now over 250,000 residents, known for Edo-period Nikkō Kaidō post-town history and Sōka senbei rice crackers.
Soka Gakkai (創価学会)
Soka Gakkai (創価学会), or Value-Creation Society, is a Japanese lay Nichiren Buddhist movement founded in 1930, centered on chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and affiliated with the Komeito political party.
Soka Gakkai International (創価学会インタナショナル)
Soka Gakkai International (創価学会インタナショナル) is a global association of lay Nichiren Buddhist organizations founded in Guam in 1975 under Daisaku Ikeda, linking Soka Gakkai groups worldwide.
Sokal affair
The Sokal affair (1996): NYU physicist Alan Sokal published the nonsense parody "Transgressing the Boundaries" in Social Text, then revealed the hoax in Lingua Franca, sparking the science-wars debate.
Sōkechi ire
Sōkechi ire were the written survey regulations of 1594 issued under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Taikō kenchi, fixing uniform units of measurement and grading land by yield across Japan's provinces.
Sokhna Port
Sokhna Port, also written Ain Sokhna or El Sokhna, is a deep-water commercial port on Egypt's Red Sea coast, 40 km south of the Suez Canal's southern entrance.
Sokho
Sokho, also spelled Socho or Sokoh, was an ancient Judean border town overlooking the Valley of Elah, named in the Bible as the Philistine muster point before David fought Goliath.
Sokhondinskiy Biosphere Reserve
Sokhondinskiy Biosphere Reserve (Сохондинский заповедник) is a Russian zapovednik in Zabaykalsky Krai around Mount Sokhondo, established 1973, a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1985, at the taiga-steppe junction near Mongolia.
Sokhta Koh
Sokhta Koh, also rendered Sotka Koh, is a fortified Harappan coastal settlement about eight miles north of Pasni in Balochistan, Pakistan, discovered by George F. Dales in 1960.
Sokka
Sokka is a main character in the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, a Southern Water Tribe warrior and Katara's brother who serves as Team Avatar's non-bending strategist.
Sokmiingok
Sokmiingok (속미인곡), the "Continued Song of Longing," is a Korean gasa poem written by Jeong Cheol around 1589 as a sequel to his Samiingok, voicing two women's longing for their lovers.
Soknopaiou Nesos
Soknopaiou Nesos, known in Arabic as Dime es-seba, is the archaeological site of a Greco-Egyptian town in the northern Fayyum, Egypt, founded under the Ptolemies and famous for its papyri.
Soko
Soko (Sökö), also called California Stud or Canadian Stud, is a Finnish-popular Five Card Stud poker variant adding two hands, the four-straight and four-flush, ranked above one pair and below two pairs.
Soko (singer)
Soko (Stéphanie Sokolinski), French singer-songwriter and actress born 1985 in Bordeaux; MySpace hit "I'll Kill Her" (2007), albums I Thought I Was an Alien, My Dreams Dictate My Reality, Feel Feelings, two César nominations.
Soko J-22 Orao
The Soko J-22 Orao is a twin-engined subsonic ground-attack and reconnaissance aircraft developed jointly by Yugoslavia and Romania, built by SOKO and still flown by Serbia.
SOKO Kitzbühel
SOKO Kitzbühel (Murder in the Mountains) was an Austrian-German crime series, an ORF/ZDF co-production and SOKO 5113 spin-off, aired 2001-2021 on ORF 1 in 20 seasons, succeeded by SOKO Linz.
Sokoban (倉庫番)
Sokoban (倉庫番, Sōkoban, warehouse keeper) is a 1982 Thinking Rabbit puzzle game by Hiroyuki Imabayashi: push-only crate puzzles, PSPACE-complete, NP-hard, and the template for the box-pushing puzzle genre.
Sokodomo
Sokodomo (소코도모) is the stage name of South Korean rapper Yang Seung-ho, born in 2000, who debuted in 2019 and is signed to Standard Friends.
Sokol
Sokol, Slavic for falcon: the Czech gymnastics movement (160,000 members, 1,000+ units) and a common club name, notably PFC Sokol Saratov, a Russian football club founded 1930, top-flight in 2001-02.
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was an Ottoman Grand Vizier who governed the empire in fact from 1565 to 1579. He served under three successive sultans, including Suleyman the Magnificent.
Sokolova Mohyla
Sokolova Mohyla (Соколова Могила) is a Bronze Age kurgan near Kovalivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, excavated in 1974 by G.T. Kovpanenko; it held an unlooted 1st-century AD Sarmatian priestess burial with gold jewelry, silk, and imports.
Sokoto (city)
Sokoto, capital of Sokoto State in northwestern Nigeria on the Sokoto River, founded 1809 as capital of the Sokoto Caliphate of Usman dan Fodio, seat of the Sultan, fell to Britain in 1903, state capital since 1976.
Sokoto (landform)
Sokoto (landform): the Sokoto River, a left-bank tributary of the Niger in semi-arid northwestern Nigeria, and the Sokoto Plains; 193,000 km2 Sokoto-Rima basin, 700 to 900 mm rain, Bakolori and Goronyo dams, shrinking floodplain.
Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate, also called the Fulani Empire, was Africa's largest pre-colonial state, formed by Usman dan Fodio's 1804 jihad against the Hausa states, ruled from Sokoto and Gwandu through thirty emirates, and conquered by Britain in 1903.