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Southwestern Athletic Conference
Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), NCAA Division I HBCU athletic conference founded 1920 in Houston, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Twelve member schools; FCS football champion plays the MEAC champion in the Celebration Bowl instead of the FCS playoffs.
Southwestern Australia
Southwestern Australia, the Southwest Australia Ecoregion or Floristic Region, is a Mediterranean-climate biodiversity hotspot in Western Australia with over 8,000 plant species, over 4,000 endemic, and highly endemic freshwater fish threatened by salinisation and declining rainfall.
Southwestern Branch of the Russian Geographical Society
The Southwestern Branch of the Russian Geographical Society was a learned society established in Kyiv in 1873 for geographic and ethnographic research on Ukraine, dissolved in 1876 under the Ems Ukase.
Southwestern Electric Power Company
Southwestern Electric Power Company, known as SWEPCO, is an American Electric Power utility headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, serving 556,100 customers in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas since 1912.
Southwestern Energy
Southwestern Energy was an American independent natural gas company headquartered in Spring, Texas, known for discovering the Fayetteville Shale and operating in Appalachia and Haynesville.
Southwestern Krai
The Southwestern Krai (Russian: Юго-Западный край) was a territory of the Russian Empire from 1832 to 1917, made up of the Kyiv, Podolia, and Volhynia governorates of Right-Bank Ukraine.
Southwestern Public Service Company
Southwestern Public Service Company is a vertically integrated electric utility serving the Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico, headquartered in Amarillo, Texas, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Xcel Energy.
Southwestern United States
The Southwestern United States, or U.S. Southwest, is an arid region centered on Arizona and New Mexico, defined by desert landscapes and a shared Spanish and Indigenous history.
Southwick
Southwick, West Sussex: village on the Adur coastal plain, site of a large early Roman courtyard villa or "mini-palace" begun c. AD 70/80, occupied to c. AD 350, excavated by Winbolt in 1931-32 and now a scheduled monument under modern buildings.
Southwire
Southwire, founded by Roy Richards Sr. in Carrollton, Georgia in 1950, is a family-owned maker of wire and cable whose SCR continuous-casting technology produces over half the world's copper rod.
Souvanna Phouma
Souvanna Phouma was a Laotian prince who served as prime minister of the Kingdom of Laos across four terms between 1951 and 1975, leading the neutralist faction in the civil war.
Souvenir
Souvenir (French "to remember"): a small keepsake bought or kept to recall a place, event, or person. From Old French suvenir c.1100; English use from 1775; central to tourism, worth billions yearly.
Souvlaki (album)
Souvlaki is Slowdive's second album, released 1 June 1993 on Creation Records. Recorded across three studios after roughly 40 scrapped songs, with Brian Eno guesting, it became a shoegaze classic despite poor initial reviews.
Souvlaki (σουβλάκι)
Souvlaki (σουβλάκι), also called kalamaki in Athens, is Greek skewered grilled meat in pita, distinct from rotisserie gyros; first modern shop opened 1924 in Nikaia by refugee Isaak Meraklidis; Greece's most consumed fast food, now 4-6 euros.
Souza (footballer, born 2006)
Souza (João Victor de Souza Menezes, born 2006, Mauá, Brazil) is a Brazilian left-back from Santos's academy who joined Tottenham Hotspur in January 2026 and moved on loan to Porto in August 2026; a Brazil under-17 international at the 2023 U-17 World Cup.
Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center
Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) is a maximum-security state prison for men in Lancaster, Massachusetts, opened in 1998 and run by the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
Souzy
Souzy is the Pleiades gazetteer name for a large Gallo-Roman villa at Souzy-la-Briche in the Essonne department of France, with geometric mosaics dated to Late Antiquity.
Sovereign
Sovereign: the holder of supreme authority within a territory, originally the absolute monarch (Bodin, Hobbes), later the state or people; in constitutional monarchies the titled sovereign reigns but does not rule.
Sovereign (British coin)
British gold coin first struck 1489 under Henry VII, revived 1817 as 22-carat £1 coin with Pistrucci's St George reverse; withdrawn from circulation in WWI, revived 1957 as a bullion coin still struck today.
Sovereign (film)
Sovereign is a 2025 American crime thriller written and directed by Christian Swegal, starring Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, and Dennis Quaid. Inspired by the 2010 West Memphis police shootout involving sovereign citizens Jerry and Joseph Kane, it premiered at Tribeca on June 8, 2025 and opened July 11 via Briarcliff Entertainment.
Sovereign AI
Sovereign AI is the practice of governments directing state-backed capital and policy toward artificial intelligence infrastructure, models, and data treated as national strategic assets, concentrated in the Middle East and East Asia.
Sovereign citizen movement
Sovereign citizen movement: anti-government extremists, also called freemen on the land, claiming immunity from US law via strawman and redemption theories and UCC filings; courts uniformly reject these pseudolegal arguments as frivolous.
Sovereign default
A sovereign default, also known as national bankruptcy or a sovereign debt crisis, is a state's failure to pay its debt on time, or a restructuring on worse terms.
Sovereign Gold Bond
A Sovereign Gold Bond is a Government of India security denominated in grams of gold, issued by the Reserve Bank of India, paying fixed annual interest.
Sovereign Identity
Sovereign Identity (Partido Identidad Soberana) is a far-right, anti-establishment political party in Uruguay, founded by lawyer Gustavo Salle in 2022 and winning two Chamber seats in the 2024 election.
Sovereign immunity
Sovereign immunity: the rule that states, their property, officials, and serving heads of state are shielded from foreign courts without consent. Covers jurisdictional versus execution immunity, the 1952 US shift to the restrictive theory, the 1976 FSIA and its exceptions, and the 2004 UN Convention.
Sovereign immunity in the United States
Sovereign immunity in the United States bars suits against the federal government, states, and foreign states without consent, shaped by the Eleventh Amendment, Hans, Seminole Tribe, Alden, and the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, also known as the Knights of Malta, is a Catholic religious order recognized in 1113 that retains sovereign status without territory.
Sovereign Mtn.
Sovereign Mountain (K'dalkitnu Dghelaya, Mount Sentry) is the 8,849-foot high point of the Talkeetna Mountains in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, South-Central Alaska, with 5,849 feet of prominence and 43.9 miles of isolation.
Sovereign People's Party (Costa Rica)
Sovereign People's Party (Partido Pueblo Soberano, PPSO), Costa Rican party founded 3 September 2022 around Rodrigo Chaves; its candidate Laura Fernández won the 2026 presidency with 48.3% and the party took 31 of 57 Assembly seats, the first single-party legislative majority since 1990.