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Sokoto flag-bearer patents (wathiqas)
The Sokoto flag-bearer patents, known in Arabic as wathiqas, were letters of authority issued by Usman dan Fodio granting followers flags to wage war and found emirates.
Sokrates T. Pantelides
Sokrates T. Pantelides (S. T. Pantelides) is a theoretical physicist and computational materials scientist at Vanderbilt University, known for first-principles studies of defects in semiconductors and oxides.
Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Σωκράτης Παπασταθόπουλος)
Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Σωκράτης Παπασταθόπουλος), Greek centre-back born 1988 in Kalamata; played for AEK Athens, Genoa, Milan, Werder Bremen, Dortmund, Arsenal, Olympiacos, and Real Betis; 89 Greece caps, 2014 World Cup goal.
Sokushinbutsu (即身仏)
Sokushinbutsu (即身仏), meaning "Buddha in this very body," are mummified Japanese Buddhist ascetics venerated as Buddhas in temples, chiefly around the Dewa Sanzan mountains, from 1683 to 1903.
Sokwanele
Sokwanele (Zvakwana, "Enough!") is a Zimbabwean civic action support group formed after the disputed 2002 election, using non-violent underground protest, graffiti, ballot-spoiling campaigns, and GPA monitoring.
Sokyryany Raion
Sokyryany Raion (Сокирянський район) was a district of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Sokyryany in historical Bessarabia; abolished in the July 2020 reform that cut Ukraine's raions from 490 to 136.
Sol (Roman mythology)
Sol is the ancient Roman sun god, fully identified with Greek Helios, worshipped from the Republic (Sol Indiges, Quirinal and Circus Maximus shrines) through Aurelian's official cult of AD 274 until Christianity displaced it.
Sol Bamba
Sol Bamba (Souleymane Bamba), Ivorian centre-back born in France; played for PSG, Hibernian, Leicester, Leeds (captain), Cardiff (2018 Premier League promotion); 46 Ivory Coast caps; died 2024 aged 39 at Adanaspor.
Sol Burstein
Sol Burstein (1922–2002) was an American mechanical and nuclear engineer who led Wisconsin Electric's Point Beach nuclear plants and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
Sol Campbell
Sol Campbell (Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell, born 1974) is an English former centre-back; Tottenham captain who moved to Arsenal on a free transfer in 2001, won two Premier League titles including the Invincibles season, and earned 73 England caps.
Sol Daurella Comadrán
Sol Daurella Comadrán is a Spanish businesswoman, born in Barcelona in 1966, who chairs Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, the world's largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, and has been a Banco Santander director since 2015.
Sol de Janeiro
Sol de Janeiro is an American premium body care and fragrance brand founded in New York in 2015, best known for its Brazilian Bum Bum Cream and numbered Cheirosa scents.
Sol do Cerrado
Sol do Cerrado is a large photovoltaic solar complex operated by Brazilian mining company Vale in Jaíba, Minas Gerais, with 17 plants totaling 766 MWp.
Sol Invictus
Sol Invictus (Deus Sol Invictus, Unconquered Sun): the Roman sun cult elevated by Aurelian in 274 CE after Elagabalus's failed Emesa cult; temple on the campus Agrippae, festival Nativitas Solis Invicti on 25 December, debated links to Christmas and Mithras.
Sol Kerzner
Sol Kerzner (Solomon Kerzner, 1935–2020) was a South African resort developer who built Sun City in apartheid-era Bophuthatswana, founded Sun International, and developed the Atlantis and One&Only resort brands.
Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) was an American artist, founder of Conceptual art and Minimalism, creator of over 1,200 instruction-based wall drawings and open-cube 'structures', and author of 'Paragraphs on Conceptual Art'.
Sol Pais
Sol Pais, 18, a Miami Beach Senior High student from Surfside, Florida, flew to Denver on April 15, 2019, bought a shotgun, and made threats before the Columbine 20th anniversary; Denver-area schools closed and she was found dead near Mount Evans on April 17.
Sol Plaatje
Sol Plaatje (Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876–1932) was a South African journalist, linguist, and writer who served as the founding general secretary of the SANNC, renamed the ANC in 1923.
Sol Sherry
Sol Sherry (1916–1993) was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine whose work on the fibrinolytic enzyme system laid the foundation for streptokinase and other clot-dissolving drugs.
Sol Spiegelman
Sol Spiegelman (1914–1983) was an American molecular biologist who pioneered DNA–RNA hybridization, synthesized infectious viral RNA in a test tube, and led Columbia's Institute of Cancer Research.
Sol Star
Sol Star, born Solomon Star, was a Bavarian-born Jewish merchant who co-founded Deadwood, South Dakota, ran a hardware business with Seth Bullock, and served as mayor.
Sol-gel synthesis
Sol-gel synthesis is a wet-chemistry method that converts metal alkoxide precursors into a colloidal sol and then a solid gel, producing oxides, glasses, films, and aerogels near ambient temperature.
Sol–gel auto-combustion synthesis
Sol–gel auto-combustion synthesis is a solution-based combustion method that converts a gel of metal nitrates and organic fuel into fine, homogeneous oxide and ceramic nanopowders.
Sol–gel process
The sol–gel process is a wet-chemical method for making solid inorganic materials, chiefly metal oxides, from metal alkoxide precursors via hydrolysis and condensation, forming sols that gel into oxide networks.
Sol–gel transition
The sol–gel transition, or gelation, is the point at which a liquid sol of polymers or colloids becomes a gel, first described by Flory in 1941.
Sola Aoi (蒼井そら)
Sola Aoi (蒼井そら, 苍井空), born 1983, Japanese AV idol turned mainstream actress, singer, and Ebisu Muscats first leader, famous in China as "Teacher Cang" with over 19 million followers.
Sola Busca tarot
The Sola Busca tarot (Tarocchi Sola Busca) is the oldest complete 78-card tarot deck, engraved around 1491 in Ferrara and hand-colored in Venice, the first copperplate-engraved tarot with fully illustrated minor arcana, a source for Rider-Waite-Smith imagery, now at the Pinacoteca di Brera.
Sola fide
Sola fide, also known as justification by faith alone, is the Protestant doctrine that God declares sinners righteous through faith in Christ alone, apart from works.
Sola l 2
Sola l 2, formerly Lyc e 2, is the beta-fructofuranosidase (EC 3.2.1.26) allergen of tomato, the second officially recognized tomato allergen, a 50 kDa glycoprotein whose IgE binding is driven by cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants.
Sola Monova
Sola Monova (Сола Монова), the pseudonym of Yulia Valeryevna Solomonova, is a Russian poetess and film and theater director from Vladivostok known for her huge social media poetry audience.