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Sunshine Biscuits

Sunshine Biscuits, founded 1902 in Kansas City as Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company and renamed Sunshine Biscuit, Inc. in 1946, was the American baker behind Hydrox cookies, Cheez-It, and Krispy crackers and Nabisco's chief rival; acquired by Keebler in 1996, Kellogg in 2001, and now under Kellanova/Mars.

Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning is a 2008 American comedy-drama directed by Christine Jeffs, starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt as sisters who start a crime-scene cleanup business in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Sunshine Coast Biosphere Reserve

Sunshine Coast Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated June 2022 in Queensland, Australia; 2,200 square kilometers, 375,328 residents, one of five Australian biospheres, adjoining Noosa and Great Sandy reserves.

Sunshine Coast, Queensland

Sunshine Coast, Queensland: coastal region of South East Queensland about 100 km north of Brisbane, with centres Caloundra, Maroochydore, and Noosa; name adopted 1966-67; LGA population 381,957 (2025), $21 billion economy, Queensland's second most visited tourism region.

Sunshine Cruz

Sunshine Cruz (Sunshine Braden Cruz), Filipina actress and singer born 1977 in Manila; discovered in 1992 for That's Entertainment, known for Wildflower and Unbreak My Heart, ex-wife of Cesar Montano, returned to acting in 2026 after a myasthenia gravis hiatus.

Sunshine duration

Sunshine duration, or sunshine hours, is a climatological quantity defined by the WMO as the time direct solar irradiance exceeds 120 W/m², measured in hours at climate stations.

Sunshine Insurance Group

Sunshine Insurance Group (阳光保险集团) is a Chinese composite insurance group headquartered in Shenzhen, underwriting property, casualty, and life insurance and managing assets; its H shares have traded in Hong Kong since 2022.

Sunshine of Your Love

Sunshine of Your Love, the 1967 Cream song by Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, and Pete Brown, recorded at Atlantic Studios; Hendrix-inspired riff, first US Top 10 hit at No. 5 in 1968.

Sunshine on Leith (film)

Sunshine on Leith (2013) is Dexter Fletcher's British musical film, adapted by Stephen Greenhorn from his Dundee Rep stage show, set to Proclaimers songs, starring George MacKay, Peter Mullan and Jane Horrocks, grossing £4.1m in the UK.

Sunshine Protection Act

Sunshine Protection Act, U.S. bill by Marco Rubio (S. 623, 2021) and Vern Buchanan (H.R. 139, 2025) to make daylight saving time permanent, repealing the Uniform Time Act; passed Senate 2022, House 2026.

Sunshine S. Sykes

Sunshine Suzanne Sykes is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2022, appointed by President Biden.

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a 1912 collection of twelve humorous sketches by the Canadian writer Stephen Leacock, portraying life in the fictional small town of Mariposa.

Sunshine Skyway Bridge

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, formally the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, is a cable-stayed toll bridge opened in 1987 across lower Tampa Bay, Florida, between St. Petersburg and Bradenton.

Sunshower

A sunshower, also called a monkey's wedding, is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining, often forming a brief, localized shower during a hot afternoon.

Sunshu Ao

Sunshu Ao (孙叔敖) was a chancellor of the state of Chu under King Zhuang in the Spring and Autumn period, the first model official in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.

Sunspace

A sunspace, also called an attached solar greenhouse or conservatory, is a glazed space on a building's equator-facing side that collects solar energy as a buffer zone and heats the adjoining living space.

Sunspot

A sunspot is a temporary, cooler and darker region on the Sun's surface caused by strong magnetic fields, whose numbers rise and fall over an 11-year cycle.

Sunstone

Sunstone, also known as heliolite or aventurescent feldspar, is a gem variety of feldspar whose tiny reflective inclusions produce bright metallic flashes of light, an optical effect called aventurescence.

Sunstone (comics)

Sunstone is an erotic romantic comedy comic by Croatian artist Stjepan Šejić, begun as a DeviantArt webcomic in 2011 and published in print by Image Comics/Top Cow from December 2014, following the BDSM romance of Ally and Lisa.

Suntar-Khayata Range

Suntar-Khayata Range (Сунтар-Хаята), a 450 km mountain range in northeastern Siberia dividing Arctic Ocean and Sea of Okhotsk drainages; highest peak Mus-Khaya 2959 m, with about 195 glaciers covering 163 km2, the largest glaciation in Siberia.

Suntech Power

Suntech Power is a Chinese manufacturer of solar cells and modules founded in 2001 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, by Shi Zhengrong; by 2010 it was the world's largest panel maker.

Süntel Formation

Süntel Formation, Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian, about 156-151 Ma) limestone and marl unit of the Lower Saxony Basin, northern Germany; type area the Süntel ridge; yields Europasaurus and Jurassic mammals at Langenberg Quarry.

Sunthorn Phu

Sunthorn Phu (สุนทรภู่) was a Siamese court poet who served Kings Rama I to Rama IV, 1786 to 1855, and is now regarded as the national poet of Thailand.

Suntory (サントリーホールディングス株式会社)

Suntory, also known as Suntory Holdings, is a Japanese beverage and spirits company founded in Osaka in 1899 by Shinjiro Torii. Its brands include Yamazaki whisky, Jim Beam, and BOSS coffee.

SunTrust Banks

SunTrust Banks was an Atlanta-based bank holding company, the thirteenth-largest US bank with 1,160 branches in 10 states, until it merged with BB&T in 2019 to form Truist.

Sunvozertinib

Sunvozertinib (Zegfrovy, DZD9008, 舒沃哲) is Dizal's oral irreversible EGFR/HER2 kinase inhibitor for EGFR exon 20 insertion NSCLC, approved in China (2023) and by FDA (2025), with WU-KONG28 first-line phase III data.

Sunway (processor)

The Sunway SW26010 is a Chinese many-core processor with 260 cores running at 1.45 GHz; 40,960 of them powered TaihuLight, number one on the TOP500 list from 2016 to 2018.

Sunway Group

Sunway Group is a Malaysian conglomerate founded in 1974 by Jeffrey Cheah, centered on property, construction, and healthcare, and best known for building Sunway City Kuala Lumpur on 800 acres of former tin-mining land.

Sunway Lagoon

Sunway Lagoon is a multi-park theme park in Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Opened in 1992, it spans 88 acres on a former tin mine.

Sunway TaihuLight (神威·太湖之光)

Sunway TaihuLight (神威·太湖之光) is a Chinese supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, world's fastest from June 2016 through November 2017, built entirely from homegrown processors.