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Sola scriptura
Sola scriptura (Latin, "Scripture alone") is the Protestant doctrinal principle that the Bible is the church's only infallible authority for faith and practice, first articulated by Luther in 1519.
Solace (2015 film)
Solace is a 2015 American crime thriller directed by Afonso Poyart, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, and Colin Farrell, released in the United States in 2016.
Solace & The Vices
Solace & The Vices is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bryson Tiller, a 2025 double album split into the rap disc The Vices and the R&B disc Solace.
Solaire Direct
Solairedirect was a French solar power developer founded in 2006, known for utility-scale photovoltaic projects built to compete without subsidies; ENGIE acquired it in 2015 for about €321 million.
Solana (blockchain platform)
Solana is a proof-of-stake blockchain platform designed for high throughput and low fees, using Proof of History; founded by Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, its mainnet went live in 2020.
Solanaceae
Solanaceae, the nightshade family (nightshades), is a Solanales plant family of 103 genera and about 3,000 species, most diverse in the Neotropics; it includes potato, tomato, pepper, tobacco, and Petunia, with almost half its species in Solanum.
Solanales
Solanales, an order of lamiid flowering plants with five families (Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae, Hydroleaceae, Montiniaceae, Sphenocleaceae), about 165 genera and 3,945 species, including potato, tomato, eggplant, and morning glories.
Solange Knowles
Solange Knowles (born 1986, Houston) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and multimedia artist, sister of Beyoncé. Known for Solo Star, True, the Billboard No. 1 A Seat at the Table (first Grammy, "Cranes in the Sky"), When I Get Home, Saint Heron, and the Lena Horne Prize.
Solange Peters
Solange Peters is a Swiss medical oncologist, professor at the University of Lausanne, who led the ALEX and IPSOS lung-cancer trials and was ESMO president from 2020 to 2022.
Solanine
Solanine (α-solanine, CAS 20562-02-1) is a toxic steroidal glycoalkaloid of nightshade plants, mainly potatoes, with a solanidine aglycone; acute LOAEL 1 mg/kg body weight, heat-stable, concentrated in peel, sprouts, and green tissue.
Solann
Solann is a French neo-folk singer-songwriter, born in Paris in 1999, whose feminist songs like Rome made her a breakthrough star of the 2025 Victoires de la Musique.
Solano County, California
Solano County, California: county established February 18, 1850 as one of the original 27 California counties, named for Chief Solano (Sem Yeto); county seat Fairfield; population 453,491 (2020).
Solanum
Solanum (nightshades) is the largest genus of Solanaceae, about 1,200-1,400 species, cosmopolitan, originating in South America; includes potato, tomato, and eggplant, divided into 13 clades.
Solanum aethiopicum
Solanum aethiopicum, African or scarlet eggplant, garden eggs, bitter tomato: a Solanaceae cultigen domesticated in northeast Africa from Solanum anguivi, with Gilo, Shum, Kumba, and Aculeatum cultivar groups, grown across sub-Saharan Africa for fruits and leaves.
Solanum aviculare
Solanum aviculare (poroporo, kangaroo apple) is a diploid (2n=46) Solanum shrub native to New Zealand, eastern Australia, and New Guinea, with mauve flowers and orange berries, cultivated for solasodine steroid precursors and distinct from the tetraploid S. laciniatum.
Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara, bittersweet or woody nightshade, a toxic Solanaceae vine native to Eurasia and North Africa, invasive in North America, with red glycoalkaloid berries and EU-approved stem preparations for mild eczema.
Solanum nigrum
Solanum nigrum (black nightshade) is a hexaploid Solanaceae herb native from Europe to temperate East Asia and tropical Africa, with white flowers, dull black berries, solanine glycoalkaloids, and long use in TCM and as cooked food.
Solanum sessiliflorum
Solanum sessiliflorum, cocona, cubiu, topiro, Orinoco apple, or peach tomato: an Amazonian Solanaceae fruit crop native to western Amazonia, grown at 200–1000 m, rich in vitamin C, iron, and bioactive flavonoids, used for juices, jams, and medicine.
Solanum torvum
Solanum torvum, turkey berry, devil's fig, pea eggplant: a prickly Solanaceae shrub native from Mexico to South America and the Caribbean, naturalized pantropically, grown for small edible berries, traditional medicine, and eggplant rootstock.
Solapur (district)
Solapur District (सोलापूर जिल्हा), Maharashtra, India: a Bhima-basin district of 14,895 sq km and 4.3 million people (2011), 11 talukas, headquarters Solapur city; briefly self-governed 9–11 May 1930.
Solapur (सोलापूर)
Solapur (सोलापूर), historically called Sonnalige, is a city in southeastern Maharashtra, India, and its district headquarters, known for its textile industry, the Solapuri chadar bedsheet, and beedi production.
Solapur power station
The Solapur Super Thermal Power Station is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station owned by NTPC in Solapur district, Maharashtra, India, with units commissioned in 2017 and 2019.
Solar (model family)
Solar is a family of large language models developed by the South Korean AI company Upstage, beginning in 2023 and known for the depth up-scaling technique.
Solar (김용선) (singer)
Solar (김용선, Kim Yong-sun, born 1991) is a South Korean singer, leader and main vocalist of Mamamoo (마마무); solo releases include Spit It Out (2020), 容:FACE (2022), COLOURS (2024), and WANT (2025).
Solar Activity
Solar activity: magnetic phenomena on the Sun, including sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar wind, and solar energetic particles, varying over an 11-year solar cycle and driving space weather that affects satellites, GPS, radio, and power grids on Earth.
Solar air heater
A solar air heater is a solar thermal collector that transfers absorbed solar heat directly to air, used for space heating, ventilation preheating, crop drying, and process heat.
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a joint ESA-NASA solar observatory launched in 1995 to study the Sun from a point 1.5 million kilometers sunward of Earth.
Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer
SAMPEX, the Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, was the first NASA Small Explorer satellite, launched in 1992 to study charged particles and operated until 2004.
Solar atlas
A solar atlas is a collection of maps, datasets, and tools describing a region's solar energy resource, typically giving long-term average solar irradiance and expected photovoltaic output.
Solar birth cluster
The solar birth cluster is the star cluster where the Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago, likely with 1,000 to 10,000 members, resembling Orion's Trapezium cluster.