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Sun Bowl

Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas): annual college football bowl game, first held January 1, 1935, tied for second-oldest bowl after the Rose Bowl; ACC vs Pac-12 legacy tie-ins, played at UTEP's Sun Bowl Stadium, operated by the Sun Bowl Association.

Sun Bowl (stadium)

Sun Bowl Stadium is a college football stadium in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1963, home of the UTEP Miners and the annual Sun Bowl game.

Sun Ce

Sun Ce (孙策) was a Chinese warlord of the Eastern Han dynasty who conquered the Jiangdong region and, dying in 200, passed his domain to his brother Sun Quan.

Sun Chaser

Sun Chaser is a Philippine animated web series by Bernard Badion and Bobby Pontillas about teen Jordan Santos becoming the Spirit Guardian; pilot on YouTube June 2026, Annecy Animation du Monde 2025 winner.

Sun Chen

Sun Chen (孫綝), courtesy name Zitong, was an Eastern Wu strongman of the Three Kingdoms period who deposed emperor Sun Liang and was executed by Sun Xiu.

Sun Cheng

Sun Cheng (孙程) was an Eastern Han eunuch who led the palace coup that destroyed the Yan faction and enthroned Emperor Shun in 125, becoming the first of nineteen enfeoffed marquises.

Sun Cheng's coup

Sun Cheng's coup (孙程政变) was a palace coup in which the eunuch Sun Cheng and fellow eunuchs killed the favorites of the dead Emperor An and enthroned Emperor Shun.

Sun Chengzong

Sun Chengzong (孙承宗) was a Ming dynasty Grand Secretary and general who spent four years rebuilding the defenses beyond Shanhaiguan and died resisting the Qing at Gaoyang in 1638.

Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian

Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian is a 1942 book telling the life story of the Hopi chief Don C. Talayesva, edited by Yale anthropologist Leo W. Simmons.

Sun Chuanfang

Sun Chuanfang (孙传芳), courtesy name Xinyuan, was a Zhili-clique warlord of the Beiyang government who commanded a five-province alliance until Shi Jianqiao shot him dead in Tianjin in 1935.

Sun Chuanting

Sun Chuanting (孙传庭, 1593–1643) was a Ming dynasty official and field commander who captured the rebel king Gao Yingxiang and died in battle against Li Zicheng at Tongguan in 1643.

Sun Chuo

Sun Chuo (孫綽, courtesy name Xinggong, 314–371) was an Eastern Jin dynasty scholar-official, writer, and calligrapher, the leading representative of the xuanyan school of metaphysical poetry.

Sun City Agreement

The Sun City Agreement is the 2002 political settlement from the Inter-Congolese Dialogue at Sun City, South Africa, a central step in ending the Second Congo War.

Sun Country Airlines

Sun Country Airlines is a Minnesota-based hybrid low-cost carrier founded in 1982 by former Braniff pilots and flight attendants, headquartered in Minneapolis and second only to Delta there.

Sun cross

Sun cross (sun wheel, solar cross, wheel cross): a cross inside a circle, common in Neolithic and Bronze Age European artifacts and associated with the sun; distinct from the Celtic cross and used by both pagan practitioners and far-right groups.

Sun Dance

The Sun Dance, known as Naxpike to some nations, is an annual renewal and sacrifice ceremony of Plains Indian nations such as the Sioux, held each summer.

Sun Dance songs

Sun Dance songs are the ritual songs of the Sun Dance, the major annual ceremony of the Indigenous peoples of the North American Great Plains.

Sun dog

A sun dog, or mock sun, is a bright, colored spot of light about 22° to the sun's side, formed by refraction in atmospheric ice crystals.

Sun Drop

Sun Drop, also marketed as Sundrop, is a caffeinated citrus soft drink made with orange juice concentrate and long popular in the Carolinas and Tennessee, reaching national distribution in 2011.

Sun En rebellion

The Sun En rebellion (孙恩起义) was a Daoist-led rising in the lower Yangtze region of China's Eastern Jin dynasty, begun in 399 and continued by Lu Xun until 411.

Sun Fengji

Sun Fengji (孙逢吉, 1135–1199) was a Song dynasty official and scholar from Suichuan, Jiangxi, who served Emperors Xiaozong and Guangzong and compiled the fifty-juan encyclopedia Zhiguan fenji.

Sun Fire

Sun Fire was a brand of server computers sold by Sun Microsystems from 2001, spanning SPARC and x86-64 systems, and phased out after Oracle's 2010 acquisition.

Sun Fu (Song dynasty civil official)

Sun Fu (孙傅), courtesy name Boye, was a Song dynasty civil official who headed the Bureau of Military Affairs and died in Jin captivity in 1128 after refusing to accept a new dynasty.

Sun Fu (Song dynasty Confucian scholar)

Sun Fu (孙复, 992–1057) was a Song dynasty Confucian scholar who taught at Mount Tai and wrote an influential commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Sun Fu (Song dynasty official and historian)

Sun Fu (孫甫, 998–1057), courtesy name Zhihan, was a Song dynasty official and Tang historian who served Emperor Renzong and wrote the Tang Shi Ji.

Sun Fuming

Sun Fuming (孙福明, born 1974, Tieling, Liaoning) is a Chinese heavyweight judoka; Olympic gold at +72 kg in Atlanta 1996, bronze at +78 kg in Athens 2004, and world champion at Osaka 2003.

Sun God Tablet

The Sun God Tablet, also called the Tablet of Shamash, is a limestone tablet from Sippar, dated about 860-850 BC, recording King Nabu-apla-iddina's re-endowment of Shamash's cult.

Sun Group

Sun Group is an Indian media conglomerate in Chennai founded in 1993 by Kalanithi Maran (95.35% owner): 37 TV channels in 7 languages, 69 FM stations, Sun Direct DTH, Sun Pictures, and Sunrisers cricket franchises; distinct from Shiv Khemka's SUN Group.

Sun Guoting

Sun Guoting (Qianli) was a Tang dynasty calligrapher, active in the late 7th century, whose cursive-script Shu pu (Treatise on Calligraphy) is a foundational work of Chinese calligraphy theory.

Sun Gym gang

Sun Gym gang: Miami bodybuilders led by Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal who kidnapped and extorted Marc Schiller (1994) and murdered Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton (1995); death sentences commuted to life in 2024; basis of Pain & Gain.