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Soil-borne wheat mosaic virus
Soil-borne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV), a furovirus, infects wheat, rye, barley, and triticale via Polymyxa graminis zoospores; bipartite ssRNA genome, type member of Furovirus, first described 1919, controlled mainly by resistant cultivars.
Soil–structure interaction analysis
Soil–structure interaction (SSI) analysis is an engineering method modeling how soil deformation and stiffness modify a structure's seismic response, using direct or substructure methods, notably for nuclear power plants.
Soilent Green
Soilent Green is an American sludge, death metal, and grindcore band from New Orleans, Louisiana, formed in 1988 and known for blending grindcore with bluesy Southern rock.
Soiling
Soiling, also called encopresis or fecal incontinence, is the passage of faeces into clothing or inappropriate places after the age of expected continence, usually from constipation with overflow leakage, treatable with laxatives and behavior modification.
Soilwork
Soilwork (Inferior Breed) is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg formed in 1995 by Björn "Speed" Strid and Peter Wichers; twelve albums from Steelbath Suicide (1998) to Övergivenheten (2022), including the first melodeath double album.
Soin-gook Theme Park
Soin-gook Theme Park (소인국테마파크, Soingook) is a miniature theme park in Seogwipo, Jeju, South Korea, with over 100 landmark miniatures from about 30 countries, dinosaur fossils, and a free train; it relocated to 347 Hwasunseodong-ro.
Soini Nikkinen
Soini Nikkinen (Soini Mikael Nikkinen), Finnish javelin thrower (1923–2012); 12th at London 1948, 8th at Helsinki 1952, 1954 European bronze, and world record 83.56 m in 1956.
Soitec
Soitec is a French semiconductor materials company near Grenoble that makes silicon-on-insulator wafers, founded in 1992 to industrialize the Smart Cut process, and once held solar-cell efficiency records.
Sojan Badiar Ghat
Sojan Badiar Ghat (সোজন বাদিয়ার ঘাট) is a 1933 Bengali narrative poem by Jasimuddin about the love of Sojan, a Muslim, and Dulali, a Hindu girl.
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.