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Soshangane kaZikode

Soshangane kaZikode (uSoshangane kaZikode), born Soshangana Nxumalo, was a Nguni chief who founded the Gaza Empire in southern Africa, ruling it from 1825 until his death in 1858.

Soshanguve (So-Sha-Ngu-Ve) is a large township about 30-35 km north of Pretoria, Gauteng, in City of Tshwane Region 1. Formerly Mabopane East, renamed 1977 when Bophuthatswana became independent; 403,162 people at the 2011 census, about 906,000 by 2024.

Soshi kaimei

Soshi kaimei (창씨개명) was a Japanese colonial policy, issued by Governor-General Minami Jiro in 1939 and enforced in 1940, requiring Koreans to adopt Japanese-style clan names in their household registers.

Soshi kaimei and shrine worship compulsion

Soshi kaimei and shrine worship compulsion (창씨개명 및 신사참배 강요 사건) refers to Japan's forced adoption of Japanese surnames and Shinto shrine worship in colonial Korea.

Sosibius (minister)

Sosibius (Sosibios) was a Ptolemaic courtier who directed internal and external policy for Ptolemy III and IV. He was a key figure in the Fourth Syrian War.

Sosibius (son of Sosibius)

Sosibius, son of the powerful minister Sosibius, was a Ptolemaic courtier and body-guard of the child king Ptolemy V who helped overthrow Agathocles and was forced from office by Tlepolemus.

Sosie Bacon

Sosie Ruth Bacon, American actress and producer born 1992 in New York, daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick; known for 13 Reasons Why, Mare of Easttown, and as Dr. Rose Cotter in Smile (2022), her first un-auditioned lead.

Sosimerasib

Sosimerasib, sold as Jilemei, is an oral small-molecule KRAS G12C inhibitor developed in China and conditionally approved in February 2026 for previously treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Soslan Andiyev

Soslan Andiyev (Сослан Петрович Андиев, 1952-2018), Soviet freestyle wrestler from Vladikavkaz; dominant super-heavyweight of the 1970s with Olympic golds 1976 and 1980, four world titles, and FILA Hall of Fame induction in 2006.

Oct 20, 2026

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.

Sep 21, 2026

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.

Sep 27, 2026

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.

Oct 22, 2026

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.