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Suedas

Suedas, also Sesciacum, an ancient Gallic place name identified with modern Saix, France, listed on Barrington Atlas Map 14 (Caesarodunum-Burdigala); also a variant spelling of Suidas, the Byzantine lexicographer.

Suede (band)

Suede (the London Suede in the US) are an English rock band formed in London in 1989 by Brett Anderson and Mat Osman; their 1993 debut was the fastest-selling in UK history, won the Mercury Prize, and launched Britpop.

SuedLink

SuedLink is a pair of high-voltage direct-current underground transmission lines under construction in Germany, carrying wind power about 1,200 kilometers from Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg with 4 gigawatts of capacity.

SUEK

SUEK, the Siberian Coal Energy Company, is a Russian coal, heat, and power company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia's largest coal producer and exporter.

Suella Braverman

Suella Braverman, full name Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman, is a British politician who twice served as Home Secretary before leaving the post in 2023 and joining Reform UK in 2026.

Suemniut

Suemniut, also written Suemnut, was a royal cup-bearer or steward of Egypt's 18th Dynasty under Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, known for his Theban tomb TT 92.

Sueños Music Festival

Sueños Music Festival is an annual two-day Latin music festival in Chicago's Grant Park over Memorial Day weekend since 2022, founded by the creators of Baja Beach Fest.

Suerie Moon

Suerie Moon is an American-trained scholar of global health governance and access to medicines, Co-Director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva since 2016.

Suess (Martian crater)

Suess is a 71.90-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 66.88°S, 181.51°E, approved by the IAU in 1973 and named for Austrian geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914).

Suessa Aurunca

Suessa Aurunca (Suessa), ancient Campanian town at modern Sessa Aurunca, Italy; capital of the Aurunci after 337 BC, Latin colony from 313 BC, later Colonia Iulia Felix Classica Suessa; birthplace of Lucilius.

Suessula

Suessula, ancient Campanian city near modern Cancello/Acerra, Italy; member of the Capuan league, civitas sine suffragio 338 BC, Sullan colony, Roman forum and basilica, abandoned in the Middle Ages.

Suet

Suet is the raw, hard kidney and loin fat of cattle and sheep, from which tallow is rendered; used in Christmas pudding, suet pastry, mincemeat, bird fat balls, and industrial rendering.

Suetonius

Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, c. AD 70–after 122), Roman biographer and Hadrian's secretary; author of The Twelve Caesars (De vita Caesarum), Julius Caesar to Domitian, thematic imperial biographies from imperial archives.

Suez (السويس)

Suez (السويس) is Egypt's Red Sea port city at the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, an urban governorate and oil-industrial hub with Shell operations since 1919, SUMED Port 55 km south, and New Suez City under development.

Suez Canal (قناة السويس)

The Suez Canal (قناة السويس) is a sea-level waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas, opened in 1869 after ten years of construction.

Suez Canal Authority (هيئة قناة السويس)

The Suez Canal Authority (هيئة قناة السويس) is the Egyptian state authority that owns, operates, and maintains the Suez Canal, created after Egypt nationalized the canal in 1956.

Suez Canal Company

The Suez Canal Company (Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez) was the Franco-Egyptian company that built the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, and operated it until Egypt nationalized it in 1956.

Suez Canal expansion (2015)

The Suez Canal expansion of 2015, marketed by Egypt as the New Suez Canal, added a 35-kilometer parallel channel and widened bypasses, opening on 6 August 2015.

Suez Canal University

Suez Canal University (جامعة قناة السويس) is an Egyptian governmental university headquartered in Ismailia, established by presidential decree in 1976, serving the Canal governorates and Sinai with 20 faculties.

Suez Canal Zone

The Suez Canal Zone was the area of Egypt beside the Suez Canal where Britain kept a military garrison under the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, evacuated in 1954 and 1956.

Suez Crisis

Suez Crisis: 1956 confrontation after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company; Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt in October 1956 but withdrew under US and UN pressure, ending British great-power pretensions.

Suez Crisis vetoes in the United Nations Security Council

The Suez Crisis vetoes were the first vetoes cast by Britain in the UN Security Council, on 30 October 1956, when Britain and France blocked resolutions calling for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt.

Suez Governorate

Suez Governorate (محافظة السويس) is an urban governorate of Egypt at the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, with the port city of Suez as its capital.

Suezmax

Suezmax is a size class of crude oil tanker, the largest that can transit the Suez Canal fully laden, generally 120,000 to 200,000 tonnes deadweight.

SUF system FeS cluster assembly, SufB

SufB, the SUF system FeS cluster assembly scaffold protein (E. coli P77522, 495 aa), accepts sulfur from SufE at Cys254 and builds Fe-S clusters at the SufB-SufD interface under oxidative stress and iron starvation.

SUF system FeS cluster assembly, SufD

SufD (SUF system FeS cluster assembly, SufD, IPR011542) is a sulfur mobilization system protein forming the SufBC2D Fe-S cluster scaffold with SufB and SufC; it enables iron entry during assembly and derives from duplication of ancestral sufB.

Sufentanil

Sufentanil is a synthetic opioid analgesic of the fentanyl family, roughly 10 times as potent as fentanyl, used in general anesthesia and epidural labor analgesia.

SuFEx click polymerization

SuFEx click polymerization uses sulfur(VI) fluoride exchange, a click reaction reported by K. Barry Sharpless in 2014, to build high-molecular-weight polymers through robust sulfate, sulfonate, or sulfamide linkages.

Suffering

Suffering is severe distress experienced in response to pain, loss, or illness, distinct from pain itself. Key frameworks include Eric Cassell's personhood model, Cicely Saunders' total pain, experientialist versus objectivist theories, and clinimetric measurement instruments.

Suffering from Success

Suffering from Success is DJ Khaled's seventh studio album, released October 22, 2013 on Cash Money/Republic; titled after his doctor's remark on his stress disorder; features No New Friends with Drake, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne.