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Sonjay Dutt
Sonjay Dutt (Retesh Bhalla, born 1982, Washington D.C.) is an Indian-American pro wrestler, TNA X Division and GFW champion, MLW J-Cup winner, and now AEW Vice President of Production and Creative Coordination.
Sonka
Sonka (Agsinnonka, Chunccajon) is the Iloko Philippine mancala game recorded in 1927 on a 2x5 board with relay sowing; it is an early variant of sungka, the two-rows-of-seven Filipino sowing game with 98 seeds.
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle is a German biogeochemist and Earth system modeller who directs the Biogeochemical Signals Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena since 2020.
Sonlicromanol
Sonlicromanol (KH176) is Khondrion's investigational redox-modulating small molecule, inhibiting mPGES-1 via metabolite KH176m, in phase 3 KHENERFIN trials for m.3243A>G mitochondrial disease (MELAS, MIDD), not approved anywhere.
Sonmunde Fluctus
Sonmunde Fluctus is a lava flow terrain on Venus, centered at 60° south, 120° east, about 400 km across and named for a Korean mountain goddess in 1997.
Sonneborn
Sonneborn is a specialty hydrochemicals business, a brand of HF Sinclair Corporation, producing high-purity white mineral oils, petrolatums, and waxes for the pharmaceutical, personal care, and food industries.
Sonnedix
Sonnedix is a private global renewable energy company and independent power producer, founded in 2009 and headquartered in London, that owns solar, wind, and battery storage projects.
sonnen
sonnen is a German manufacturer of residential and commercial battery storage systems, founded in 2010 in Wildpoldsried, Bavaria, best known for the sonnenBatterie and its sonnenCommunity virtual power plant.
Sonnet
A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in fixed rhyme schemes, invented in thirteenth-century Sicily and still among the most used closed poetic forms in English.
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 116, 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds', is Shakespeare's famous definition of constant love, printed in the 1609 quarto (misnumbered 119), widely used at weddings and in court, with a newly found 1640s manuscript adaptation.
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", is Shakespeare's most famous sonnet, published in the 1609 Thorpe quarto; it argues the beloved's beauty is immortalized in verse itself.
Sonnet sequence
A sonnet sequence, also called a sonnet cycle, is a group of sonnets by one poet on a unifying theme, each standing alone as a poem.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese is a sequence of 44 love sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written secretly during her 1845–1846 courtship with Robert Browning and published in 1850.
Sonnets pour Hélène
Sonnets pour Hélène is a two-book collection of love sonnets published in 1578 by Pierre de Ronsard, addressed to the court lady Hélène de Surgères.
Sonnets to Orpheus
Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus) is a cycle of 55 German sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke, written in 1922 and published in 1923.
Sonni Ali's conquest of Jenne
Sonni Ali's conquest of Jenne was the 1473 capture of the trading city of Jenne on the Bani River by Songhai ruler Sonni Ali after a long siege.
Sonni Ali's conquest of Timbuktu
Sonni Ali's conquest of Timbuktu was the Songhai ruler's 1468 seizure of the city from the Tuareg, followed by a sack that killed or exiled its Muslim scholars.
Sonni Ali's persecution of the scholars of Timbuktu
Sonni Ali's persecution of the scholars of Timbuktu was the killing and expulsion of Timbuktu's Muslim scholars by Songhai's king after his 1468 sack of the city.
Sonni Baru
Sonni Baru, also written Sunni Baru, was a ruler of the Songhai Empire who succeeded his father Sonni Ali in 1492 and was overthrown in 1493.
Sonni dynasty
The Sonni dynasty, also written Sunni or Si, was the ruling house of the Songhai state on the Niger River in West Africa, whose ruler Sonni Ali built the Songhai Empire by conquering Timbuktu and Djenne.
Sonninia
Sonninia (Bayle, 1878/1879) is a Middle Jurassic ammonite genus of the family Sonniniidae, ranging from the Upper Aalenian into the Lower Bajocian Sauzei Zone, known from Europe, Japan, and Alaska, and famous for extreme taxonomic oversplitting.
Sonnō jōi (尊王攘夷)
Sonnō jōi (尊王攘夷, Zunwang Rangyi), "revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians": Bakumatsu slogan from Mito school thought. Arose from the 1858 unratified Harris treaty, peaked in 1863, and turned into the anti-shogunate tōbaku movement.
Sonny & Cher
Sonny & Cher: American pop duo of Sonny Bono and Cher, formed 1964 in Los Angeles, famous for "I Got You Babe" (No. 1, 1965) and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1971–74); divorced 1975, reunited on TV in 1979 and 1987.
Sonny Aljofree
Sonny Aljofree (born 2004, Plymouth) is an English centre-back at Rotherham United; ex-Manchester United academy player, 2022 FA Youth Cup winner, with League Two loans at Accrington Stanley and Notts County.
Sonny Barger
Sonny Barger, born Ralph Hubert Barger, was an American motorcycle club leader who founded the Hells Angels' Oakland chapter in 1957 and became its de facto national leader.
Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams (Sonny William Williams, born 1985, Auckland) is a New Zealand dual-code international: 58 All Blacks Tests and two Rugby World Cups (2011, 2015), NRL premierships with the Bulldogs and Roosters, 12 Kiwis Tests, and a professional heavyweight boxing career.
Sonny Bono
Sonny Bono (Salvatore Phillip Bono, 1935–1998), American singer-songwriter, producer, and Republican politician; half of Sonny & Cher with ex-wife Cher, "I Got You Babe" (1965); later Palm Springs mayor and U.S. Representative from California's 44th district; distinct from U2's Bono.
Sonny Boy Williamson I
Sonny Boy Williamson I, born John Lee Curtis Williamson (1914–1948), was a Tennessee-born Chicago blues harmonica pioneer who made the harp a lead instrument; Rice Miller later took his name as Sonny Boy Williamson II.
Sonny Boy Williamson II
Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Miller, Rice Miller, c. 1912–1965) was a Delta blues harmonica great of King Biscuit Time radio and Chess/Checker records, distinct from the original Sonny Boy Williamson.
Sonny Chiba
Sonny Chiba, born Sadaho Maeda and known in Japan as Shinichi Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist who performed his own stunts and became Japan's leading action star of the 1970s.