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Soslan Ramonov
Soslan Ramonov (Сослан Людвикович Рамонов), born 1991 in Tskhinvali, is a retired Russian Ossetian freestyle wrestler, 2016 Rio Olympic champion and 2014 world champion at 65 kg, retired June 2022.
Sosnowiec
Sosnowiec, a city with county rights in Poland's Silesian Voivodeship, unofficial capital of the Dąbrowa Basin; chartered 10 June 1902, coal-mining and railway boomtown, now about 183,000 residents.
Soso Pavliashvili
Soso Pavliashvili (Сосо Павлиашвили), born 1964 in Tbilisi, is a Georgian-born estrada singer and composer who won the 1989 Yurmala Grand Prix and released thirteen albums.
Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145
Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 was a Nigerian domestic flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt that crashed on landing on 10 December 2005, killing 108 of 110 aboard.
Sossina Haile
Sossina M. Haile is an American materials scientist and chemist, professor at Northwestern University since 2015, known for solid acid fuel cells and solar thermochemical fuel production.
Sosso kingdom
The Sosso kingdom was a Soninke state that dominated former Ghana territory under Sumanguru Kante before its defeat by Sundiata Keita of Mali in 1235.
SOST (gene)
SOST (sclerostin, DAND6, VBCH), gene at 17q21.31 encoding the osteocyte-secreted Wnt inhibitor sclerostin; loss-of-function causes sclerosteosis and van Buchem disease, and anti-sclerostin antibody romosozumab treats osteoporosis.
Sost (site)
Sost (Pic de Montlas) is an ancient marble quarry site in the commune of Sost, Hautes-Pyrenees, France, recorded in Pleiades as place 246659, dated 30 BC to AD 640, with marble still quarried nearby by OMYA SAS.
Sosthenes Sohtun
Sosthenes Sohtun is an Indian politician from Meghalaya, a National People's Party member of the Legislative Assembly for Jirang and a cabinet minister holding the Community and Rural Development portfolio.
Sostomagus
Sostomagus (also Sextomagus), a Roman road station on the voie d'Aquitaine in Gallia Narbonensis, identified with Castelnaudary, Aude, France; 38 Roman miles east of Toulouse, over a Gaulish Volcae Tectosages oppidum.
Sostra
Sostra: Roman road station and castellum on the Oescus–Philippopolis road (Via Traiana) near Lomets, Bulgaria, in the Osam valley; fort of AD 147 under Antoninus Pius, destroyed by Huns in the 5th century.
Sostratus of Cnidus
Sostratus of Cnidus (Sostratos of Knidos), son of Dexiphanes, was a Greek architect and diplomat from Cnidus who served the first Ptolemies and is credited with the Pharos of Alexandria.
Søstrene Grene
Søstrene Grene is a Danish family-owned retail chain founded in Aarhus in 1973, selling home interior, hobby, party, and food products at low prices under its own brands.
Sōsuke Aizen (藍染惣右介)
Sōsuke Aizen (藍染惣右介) is the main antagonist of the first half of Tite Kubo's Bleach, a former Fifth Division captain whose Zanpakutō Kyōka Suigetsu casts Complete Hypnosis on all five senses; he later fuses with the Hōgyoku.
Sosuke Genda
Sosuke Genda (源田 壮亮), born 1993 in Oita, Japan, is the shortstop of NPB's Saitama Seibu Lions, a seven-time Golden Glove winner, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist, and 2023 World Baseball Classic champion with Samurai Japan.
Sosurim of Goguryeo
Sosurim of Goguryeo (소수림왕, personal name Gu-bu) was the seventeenth king of Goguryeo, reigning from 371 to 384 after his father Gogukwon was killed fighting Baekje.
SOSUS
SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) was a US Navy network of cabled hydrophone arrays on the ocean floor that detected and tracked Soviet submarines during the Cold War.
Sosus of Mauretania
Sosus was a king of Mauretania in North Africa who ruled from about 80 to 49 BC and was the father of his successor, Bocchus II.
Sosyete Koukouy
Sosyete Koukouy ("Society of Fireflies") is a Haitian Creole literary and cultural organization founded in 1965 as the literary branch of the Mouvman Kreyòl, now centered in Miami.
Sosylus of Sparta
Sosylus of Sparta, also called Sosylus of Lacedaemon, was a Greek historian who lived in Hannibal's camp, taught him Greek, and wrote a seven-book account of his campaigns.
Sota (robot)
Sota is a tabletop-sized communication robot developed by Vstone in Osaka, Japan, announced in 2015 and used in banks, city halls, shops, and research studies.
Sōta Fujii (藤井聡太)
Sota Fujii (藤井聡太, born 2002), Japanese professional shogi player, JSA player no. 307, 9-dan; youngest ever professional (2016) and in October 2023 the first player to hold all eight major titles, with 37 title wins.
Sotades
Sotades of Maronea was a Greek satirical poet at the Alexandrian court of Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC, namesake of the Sotadean meter.
Sotagliflozin
Sotagliflozin, sold as INPEFA, is an oral drug inhibiting both SGLT2 and SGLT1, approved in the US in 2023 to lower cardiovascular death and heart failure hospitalization risk in adults.
Sotalia
Sotalia is a genus of small Neotropical dolphins with two recognized species: the riverine tucuxi and the coastal Guiana dolphin, or costero, found from the Caribbean to South America and in the Amazon River.
Sotalia fluviatilis
Sotalia fluviatilis, the tucuxi or gray river dolphin, a Delphinidae dolphin endemic to the Amazon basin (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru), separate from marine Sotalia guianensis; IUCN Endangered since 2020, declining.
Sotalia guianensis
Sotalia guianensis, the Guiana dolphin or costero, is a small coastal delphinid of the western Atlantic from southern Brazil to Honduras; separate from the tucuxi, IUCN Near Threatened, threatened by gillnet bycatch.
Sotalol
Sotalol (Betapace, Sotylize) is a racemic Class II/III antiarrhythmic, beta-blocker and I_Kr blocker approved in the US in 1992 for ventricular arrhythmias and AF rhythm control, with QT-prolongation and torsades risk requiring monitored initiation.
Sotatercept
Sotatercept (Winrevair, ACE-011) is a first-in-class activin signaling inhibitor, a fusion protein approved in the United States in March 2024 to improve exercise capacity in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Sōtatsu (Mercurian crater)
Sōtatsu is a large impact crater on Mercury, named for Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, approved 1976, about 156-165 km across, first imaged by Mariner 10 and seen close-up by MESSENGER in 2011.