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Souphanouvong
Souphanouvong, known as the "Red Prince," was a Lao prince and engineer who led the Pathet Lao and became the first President of Laos in 1975.
Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes
Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes were the two names of an American salad-bar buffet chain founded in San Diego in 1978, which closed all 97 locations in 2020.
Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales (Milton Supman, 1926–2009) was an American comedian famous for live, pie-throwing children's television from Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York, with puppets like White Fang and Pookie, the 1965 wallet-money incident, and later What's My Line? work.
Souq (company)
Souq.com, Arabic for market, was a Dubai-based e-commerce company founded in 2005 that became the Arab world's largest online marketplace before Amazon bought it in 2017.
Sour (album)
Sour is Olivia Rodrigo's debut album, released May 21, 2021 on Geffen Records. Written by Rodrigo and produced by Dan Nigro, it topped charts in 17 countries and won three Grammys.
Sour (cocktail)
Sour (cocktail): a mixed drink of base spirit, citrus juice, and sugar, shaken and served cold; also called the sour family. Classic 2:1:1 ratio; first printed in Jerry Thomas's 1862 guide; includes Whiskey Sour, Daiquiri, Margarita, Pisco Sour, Sidecar.
Sour beer
Sour beer, also known as sour ale, is beer defined by high organic acid content from fermentation with bacteria such as Lactobacillus, giving a distinctly acidic taste.
Sour cream
Sour cream: cultured dairy product made by fermenting pasteurized, homogenized cream (18-20% fat in the US) with lactic acid bacteria to about 0.6% lactic acid; distinct from crème fraîche and German Saure Sahne.
Sour crude
Sour crude is crude oil containing more than 1% sulfur, which gives it a rotten-egg smell and requires special refining compared with low-sulfur sweet crude.
Sour Grapes (2016 film)
Sour Grapes is a 2016 American documentary directed by Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas about wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan, billionaire Bill Koch, and Burgundy winemaker Laurent Ponsot.
Sour Patch Kids
Sour Patch Kids, also Mars Men, Very Bad Kids (France), Maynards Sour Patch Kids (UK/Canada): sour-then-sweet gummy candy created in Canada in the late 1970s, renamed in 1985, owned by Mondelēz International.
Soura (Syria)
Soura (Sura, Greek Soura) was a Roman-Byzantine fortified town on the Middle Euphrates near al-Hammam, 25 km west of Raqqa, Syria; a Strata Diocletiana fort garrisoned by Legio XVI Flavia Firma, sacked in 540 and rebuilt under Justinian, distinct from Lycian Sura.
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly, "Dada", Indian cricketer born 1972 in Calcutta; captain 2000-2005 who rebuilt India after the 2000 match-fixing scandal, won the 2001 Australia series, reached the 2003 World Cup final, and later served as BCCI president 2019-2022.
Source (game engine)
Source is a 3D game engine by Valve, successor to the GoldSrc engine behind Half-Life, that debuted with Counter-Strike: Source in 2004 and introduced real-world physics and shader-based rendering.
Source (journalism)
Source (journalism): the person, document, or origin supplying facts for a news story, also called 新闻来源. Covers attribution levels, anonymous-source rules, verification, and ethics codes from AP, Washington Post, and SPJ.
Source 2
Source 2 is Valve Corporation's 3D game engine, successor to Source, announced at GDC 2015 after a 2014 Dota 2 tools alpha. It uses Vulkan, 64-bit rendering, and the in-house Rubikon physics engine, powering Dota 2, Half-Life: Alyx, Counter-Strike 2, Deadlock, and s&box.
Source code
Source code is the human-readable statements and instructions written in a programming language such as C, Java, or Python, from which software is authored and licensed.
Source Code
Source Code is a 2011 science fiction thriller directed by Duncan Jones and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, whose soldier relives the last eight minutes before a Chicago train bombing.
Source criticism
Source criticism is a set of methods for judging the authenticity, origin, and credibility of historical sources, divided into external criticism of a source's genuineness and internal criticism of its value as testimony.
Source Donor Inc.
Source Donor Inc., doing business as Parachute, is a Delaware-incorporated plasma-donation company based in Austin, Texas, led by President Joshua Grosbard and funded through repeated SEC Form D offerings since 2021.
Source follower
A source follower, also called the common-drain amplifier, is a single-transistor amplifier whose output at the FET source follows the gate input with gain just below one, making it a standard buffer and impedance-matching stage.
SOURCE Global
SOURCE Global, formerly Zero Mass Water, was a Scottsdale, Arizona company founded by Cody Friesen that made Hydropanels, solar devices producing drinking water from air; it raised about $270 million before going effectively defunct in 2025.
Source imaging
Source imaging, or electrophysiological source imaging (ESI), reconstructs 3D maps of brain currents from EEG or MEG with millisecond resolution, used clinically to localize epileptic foci.
Source lines of code
Source lines of code, or SLOC, is a count of the lines in a program's source code, used to measure software size and as an input to cost-estimation models.
Source Music (쏘스뮤직)
Source Music (쏘스뮤직) is a Seoul girl-group label founded in 2009 by So Sung-jin, acquired by Big Hit/HYBE in July 2019; former home of GFRIEND, now LE SSERAFIM's label within HYBE's multi-label system.
Source protection
Source protection keeps confidential sources' identities safe through reporter's privilege and shield laws. Covers Branzburg v. Hayes, US state laws, the PRESS Act, Canada's 2017 JSPA, and UK section 10.
Source rock
A source rock is a fine-grained sedimentary rock, typically a shale or mudstone, containing enough organic matter to generate and expel oil or gas when heated by burial.
Source routing
Source routing is a packet-forwarding technique where the sender specifies the packet's path, carried in the packet itself, spanning IPv4 options, Token Ring, DSR, and Segment Routing.
Source term estimation
Source term estimation (STE) infers the location, timing, and strength of an atmospheric pollutant release from measured concentrations, used in nuclear accident response and greenhouse gas accounting.
Source-available software
Source-available software is software whose source code is published under licenses with restrictions, such as bans on competing hosted services, that fail the Open Source Definition.