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Solomon kaDinuzulu
Solomon kaDinuzulu (Nkayishana Maphumzana Solomon Zulu, also known as Phumuzuzulu kaDinuzulu) was king of the Zulu nation from 1913 to 1933 and founded the first Inkatha movement in the 1920s.
Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane is a fictional Puritan adventurer created by Robert E. Howard, debuting in "Red Shadows" (Weird Tales, August 1928); a God-driven avenger with sword, pistols, and a ju-ju staff, adapted in comics and a 2010 film.
Solomon Kane (film)
Solomon Kane (2009) is a dark fantasy film by Michael J. Bassett based on Robert E. Howard's Puritan avenger, starring James Purefoy. A $40 million France-UK-Czech co-production that earned $19.6 million overseas and reached the US only on video in 2012.
Solomon Kullback
Solomon Kullback (1907–1994) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst who helped break Japan's Red and Purple cipher machines and later gave his name to the Kullback–Leibler divergence, standard in statistics and machine learning.
Solomon Lefschetz
Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972) was a Moscow-born, Paris-raised American mathematician who founded algebraic topology, proved the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, and as Princeton professor and Annals of Mathematics editor built a famous mathematics center.
Solomon link
The Solomon link is a mechanically interlocked molecule in which two molecular rings are entwined twice, a doubly interlocked [2]catenane named for the Solomon's knot motif and inherently chiral.
Solomon Lutnick
Solomon Lutnick (1928–1979), American historian of the American Revolution at Queens College, author of The American Revolution and the British Press, 1775–1783; father of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; also researched Edward Gibbon.
Solomon Mahlangu
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu (1956-1979), South African Umkhonto we Sizwe cadre; convicted of murder under common purpose for the 1977 Goch Street shootout and hanged 6 April 1979; ANC martyr honored by SOMAFCO, Order of Mendi, and scholarship fund.
Solomon Mikhoels
Solomon Mikhoels (Shloyme Vovsi), 1890–1948, Soviet Yiddish actor and artistic director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, wartime chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, murdered on Stalin's orders in January 1948.
Solomon Mutswairo
Solomon Mutswairo (1924–2005) was a Zimbabwean novelist, poet, and academic who wrote Feso (1956), the first published Shona novel, and wrote the lyrics of the Zimbabwean national anthem.
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup (born c. 1808) was a free New York carpenter kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841, enslaved twelve years in Louisiana, rescued 1853; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave, edited by David Wilson, inspired the 1984 Gordon Parks and 2013 Steve McQueen films.
Solomon of Hungary
Solomon of Hungary (Hungarian: Salamon; 1052–1087) was king of Hungary from 1063 to 1074, a son of Andrew I who lost the throne to his cousins at the battle of Mogyoród.
Solomon Oliver, Jr.
Solomon Oliver, Jr. (born 1947) is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio from 1994 to 2021.
Solomon R. Benatar
Solomon R. Benatar, known as Solly, is a South African physician, pulmonologist, and bioethicist who is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim was an American mining magnate who founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937. He amassed a major collection of non-objective painting.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim New York, Museum of Non-Objective Painting: modern and contemporary art museum on Fifth Avenue in Frank Lloyd Wright's 1959 spiral building, run by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation alongside Venice, Bilbao, and Abu Dhabi sites.
Solomon Schechter
Solomon Schechter (1847–1915) was a Talmud scholar who brought the Cairo Genizah manuscripts to Cambridge and, from 1902, led the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, shaping Conservative Judaism.
Solomon Sea
Solomon Sea: marginal sea of the southwest Pacific between eastern Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, part of the Coral Sea, about 720,000 sq km; main pathway carrying roughly 20 Sv of South Pacific water to the equator.
Solomon Tesfaye
Solomon Tesfaye is a consultant physician and Professor of Diabetes Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, known for research on the causes and treatment of diabetic neuropathy.
Solomon Thomas
Solomon Thomas (born 1995, Chicago) is an NFL interior defensive lineman, Stanford star taken third overall by the 49ers in 2017; later Raiders, Jets, Cowboys, traded to Titans in 2026; mental health advocate.
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, known as Sol T. Plaatje (1876–1932), was a South African journalist and novelist, first secretary-general of the South African Native National Congress, later the ANC.
Solomon W. Golomb
Solomon W. Golomb (1932–2016) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer at the University of Southern California who founded shift-register sequence theory and created Golomb coding, Golomb rulers, and polyominoes.
Solomon's paradox
Solomon's paradox is the finding that people reason more wisely about others' social problems than their own, named after King Solomon. Grossmann and Kross (2014) showed self-distancing eliminates the asymmetry; a 2023 meta-analysis found d = 0.317.
Solomon's Pools
Solomon's Pools (Birak al-Marji', Burak Suliman): three stepped ancient reservoirs southwest of Bethlehem, Palestine, heart of an aqueduct system supplying Jerusalem for about 2,000 years; oldest parts late 1st century BC, Lower Pool Mamluk or Roman.
Solomon's Temple (בית המקדש הראשון)
Solomon's Temple, also called the First Temple, was the temple in Jerusalem described in the Hebrew Bible as built by King Solomon and destroyed by the Babylonians in 587/6 BCE.
Solomonia Saburova
Solomonia Saburova (Соломония Сабурова), venerated as Sophia of Suzdal, was the first wife of Grand Prince Vasily III of Moscow, forcibly tonsured as a nun in 1525 after a childless marriage.
Solomonic dynasty
Solomonic dynasty: Ethiopian royal house founded by Yekuno Amlak in 1270 after overthrowing the Zagwe, claiming descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba via the Kebra Nagast; it ruled, by its own claim, until Haile Selassie's 1974 deposition.
Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference
Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference, also called Solomonoff induction, is a mathematical framework for sequence prediction presented by Ray J. Solomonoff in 1964 that initiated algorithmic information theory.
Solomun
Solomun (Mladen Solomun, born 1975, Travnik, Bosnia) is a Hamburg-based DJ, producer, and Diynamic Music co-founder known for deep house and melodic techno, the Solomun+1 Pacha residency since 2013, albums Dance Baby and Nobody Is Not Loved, and GTA Online appearances.
Solon (Σόλων)
Solon (Σόλων), Athenian statesman, poet, and lawgiver, archon in 594/3 BCE. His seisachtheia cancelled debts and ended debt slavery; he created four property classes and shaped Athenian law.