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Sunrise Manor

Sunrise Manor, Nevada; unincorporated Clark County town and census designated place east of Las Vegas near Nellis Air Force Base; 205,618 residents (2020), created May 1957, governed by Clark County.

Sunrise Movement

The Sunrise Movement is an American youth-led climate organization founded in 2017, known for its 2018 sit-in at Nancy Pelosi's office with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and its push for the Green New Deal.

Sunrise on the Reaping

Sunrise on the Reaping, also called The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping for the film, is Suzanne Collins's 2025 fifth Hunger Games novel, a prequel about 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy in the 50th Games (Second Quarter Quell), 24 years before the original, with a Francis Lawrence film due November 20, 2026.

Sunrise Pipeline System

The Sunrise Pipeline System, also called the Permian Basin to Cushing Pipeline, is a crude oil pipeline system in Texas and Oklahoma owned by Plains All American Pipeline.

Sunrise Wind

Sunrise Wind is a 924-megawatt offshore wind farm under construction in federal waters about 30 miles east of Montauk, New York, developed by Ørsted for New York State.

Sunrise, Florida

Sunrise, Florida: Broward County city incorporated 1961 as Sunrise Golf Village, renamed 1971; home of Sawgrass Mills mall, Amerant Bank Arena, and the Florida Panthers; about 98,000 residents.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is F.W. Murnau's first American silent film for Fox, based on Sudermann's Die Reise nach Tilsit, released with a Movietone optical soundtrack, winner of three Oscars at the 1929 first Academy Awards, later ranked #11 in the BFI Sight and Sound poll.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), IPL franchise founded 2012 replacing Deccan Chargers, owned by Sun TV Network, based at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium; 2016 IPL champions, 2018 and 2024 finalists, record 287/3 total in 2024.

Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2013

Sunrisers Hyderabad's 2013 IPL debut season: formed in 2012 by Sun TV Network after Deccan Chargers ended; finished fourth with 10 wins from 16, beat KKR to qualify, lost the Eliminator to Rajasthan Royals.

Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2018

Sunrisers Hyderabad's 2018 IPL season: Kane Williamson captained after David Warner's suspension, topped the table with 18 points, reached the final, and lost by 8 wickets to Chennai Super Kings, who beat them four times.

Sunrta Corona

Sunrta Corona is a 170-km-wide corona, a ring-fractured volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 8.3N, 11.7E in the Sappho Patera quadrangle (V-20); IAU-named in 1994 for a Hindu fertility goddess, with mapped lava flows inside and outside it.

Sunrun

Sunrun Inc. is an American residential solar and home battery storage company founded in San Francisco in 2007, selling solar energy through long-term leases and power purchase agreements.

Sunsave

Sunsave is a London-based British startup, founded in 2022 by Alick Dru and Ben Graves, offering the UK's first FCA-authorized solar subscription with no upfront cost.

Sunscreen

Sunscreen is a topical US nonprescription drug product that protects skin from UVB and UVA rays; bemotrizinol was FDA-approved in June 2026 as the first new US filter in over 25 years.

Sunset

Sunset is the moment when the upper edge of the Sun's disk disappears below the horizon; atmospheric refraction means the Sun is already geometrically below it.

Sunset Beach

Sunset Beach is the name of several coastal places: the Oahu North Shore big-wave surf break (Paumalū), a 1904-platted California community annexed by Huntington Beach in 2011, a Brunswick County NC town, and parks in Vancouver, St. Catharines, and Cape Town.

Sunset Beach (TV series)

Sunset Beach: NBC daytime soap opera (January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999), Aaron Spelling's first daytime venture, created by Robert Guza Jr., set in a fictional California beach town; low US ratings, two Emmys, notable UK popularity.

Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard is a major east-west Los Angeles thoroughfare from Pacific Coast Highway to Figueroa Street, tied to Hollywood's film industry, the 1950 Billy Wilder film, the Lloyd Webber musical, and ongoing road-safety redesign campaigns.

Sunset Boulevard (film)

Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Blvd.), 1950 Billy Wilder Paramount film noir starring Gloria Swanson as faded silent star Norma Desmond and William Holden as screenwriter Joe Gillis; 11 Oscar nominations, 3 wins, 1989 National Film Registry.

Sunset Boulevard (musical)

Sunset Boulevard is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, based on Billy Wilder's 1950 film. Premiered London 1993 with Patti LuPone, Broadway 1994 with Glenn Close; Jamie Lloyd's 2024 revival with Nicole Scherzinger won the Tony for Best Revival.

Sunset Crater

Sunset Crater, also known as Sunset Crater Volcano, is a cinder cone in northern Arizona that erupted around 1085 CE, the youngest in the San Francisco Volcanic Field.

Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited is an Amtrak long-distance passenger train between Los Angeles and New Orleans, inaugurated by the Southern Pacific in the 1890s and retained by Amtrak in 1971.

Sunset Oasis

Sunset Oasis (Wahat al-Ghuroub) is a 2007 historical novel by Bahaa Taher set in Siwa Oasis under British rule, winner of the first International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Sunset Overdrive

Sunset Overdrive is a 2014 open-world traversal shooter by Insomniac Games, published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox One, set in 2027 Sunset City after a tainted energy drink mutates the population; Metacritic 81, ported to Steam in 2018.

Sunset provision

Sunset provision (sunset law): a statutory clause that makes a law, agency, program, or regulation expire automatically on a set date unless the legislature formally renews it; pioneered by Colorado in 1976, spread to 36 states by 1982.

Sunset Shimmer

Sunset Shimmer is a My Little Pony character, a unicorn pony-turned-human and former student of Princess Celestia who debuted as the villain of Equestria Girls (2013), voiced by Rebecca Shoichet, and became the spin-off's reformed lead with empathy powers.

Sunset Strip

The Sunset Strip is a roughly 1.6-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, famous since the 1920s for nightlife, the Whisky a Go Go, the 1966 curfew riots, and rock venues like the Roxy and Viper Room.

Sunset Thomas

Sunset Thomas (Diane Fowler, born 1972), American former adult film star and Nevada brothel prostitute; AVN Hall of Fame 2001, HBO Cathouse, final film Into the Sunset (2009).

Sunshine (2007 film)

Sunshine is a 2007 British science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, about astronauts on a mission to reignite the dying Sun.

Sunshine (Jungle album)

Sunshine (2026) is the fifth studio album by London band Jungle, released August 14, 2026 on Caiola/AWAL. First Jungle album as a trio with Lydia Kitto; 11 songs, 32 minutes; Metacritic 79.