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Surmont oil sands project
The Surmont oil sands project is a steam-assisted gravity drainage bitumen operation near Fort McMurray, Alberta, developed in phases from 1997 and wholly owned by ConocoPhillips since 2023.
SURMOUNT-1 trial
SURMOUNT-1 was a phase 3 trial funded by Eli Lilly testing weekly tirzepatide for weight loss in adults with obesity, showing reductions up to 20.9% and a 94% lower risk of progression to type 2 diabetes.
Surname
A surname, also called a family name or last name, is the part of a person's name shared by relatives and handed down through generations.
Surname-i Vehbi
Surname-i Vehbi (Sûrnâme-i Vehbî) is an illustrated Ottoman festival book by poet Seyyid Vehbî recording the 1720 imperial circumcision festival held in Istanbul for Sultan Ahmed III's sons.
Surnames by country
Surnames by country: comparative surname frequency and distribution across nations, from US Census and Spain INE counts to 200-country datasets, surname-concentration differences, and national marriage surname laws such as Japan's single-surname rule and Quebec's prohibition.
Surnia
Surnia is a monotypic owl genus erected by Duméril around 1805, holding only Surnia ulula, the Northern Hawk-Owl, a diurnal boreal owl with hawk-like flight, vole diet, and irruptive movements.
Suro of Gaya
Suro of Gaya (수로왕), also called Sureung, is the legendary founder and first king of Geumgwan Gaya at Gimhae, traditionally reigning from 42 to 199 and honored as ancestor of the Gimhae Kim clan.
Suroosh Alvi
Suroosh Alvi (born 1969) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and filmmaker who co-founded Vice Media in 1994 in Montreal with Shane Smith and Gavin McInnes, hosted documentaries such as Gun Markets of Pakistan and Heavy Metal in Baghdad, and stayed through Vice's 2023 Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Surotomycin
Surotomycin (CB-183,315), a daptomycin-analog cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic for Clostridium difficile infection; membrane-disrupting, minimally absorbed; Phase 3 trials showed no benefit over vancomycin and development was discontinued.
Surplus value
Surplus value (Mehrwert), Marxian economics concept: the value workers produce beyond the cost of reproducing their labor power, appropriated by capitalists as profit; rate of exploitation S/V, rate of profit S/(C+V).
Surprise
Surprise, Arizona: a city in the northwest Phoenix metro founded in 1938 by Flora Mae Statler. Population about 175,000 (2025), groundwater-based 100-year assured water supply, Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals spring training, ratified 2040 General Plan.
Surprise S1 (万万没想到)
Surprise S1 (万万没想到) is season 1 of the Chinese web mini-comedy Unexpectedness, premiered 6 August 2013 on Youku; 15 short episodes about Wang Dachui, directed by Yi Xiaoxing, over 230 million views.
Surprise, Motherfucker!
Surprise, Motherfucker! is the Season 7 finale (Episode 12) of Showtime's Dexter, aired 16 December 2012, directed by Steve Shill, written by Scott Buck and Tim Schlattmann, ending with Debra killing LaGuerta.
Surprised by Oxford
Surprised by Oxford is a 2023 faith-based romantic drama directed by Ryan Whitaker, adapted from Carolyn Weber's memoir, starring Rose Reid and Ruairi O'Connor; released September 27, 2023, 107 minutes, 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Šurpu
Šurpu, also known as Shurpu, is a first-millennium BC Babylonian and Assyrian ritual series, over a thousand lines long, for removing curses caused by transgression.
Surra
Surra (Trypanosoma evansi infection, also El Debab, Mal de Caderas) is a WOAH-notifiable animal trypanosomosis spread mechanically by biting flies and vampire bats, first described by Griffith Evans in 1880, fatal in untreated horses and dogs, with rare human cases in India and Vietnam.
Surreal humour
Surreal humour, also called surreal comedy, is a comedy style using bizarre juxtapositions, non-sequiturs, and nonsense, rooted in Dada and Surrealism and exemplified by Monty Python and Eric André.
Surreal number
The surreal numbers, also called Conway numbers, form an ordered number system defined by John Conway around 1970 from Go endgames, containing the reals, all ordinals, and infinitesimals.
Surrealism
Surrealism, avant-garde movement founded in Paris by André Breton's 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, explored the unconscious through automatism, dreams, and chance, drawing on Freud and Marx, and remains active worldwide.
Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia
The Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia is a collective of artists and writers founded in Prague in 1934, the movement's second most prestigious group after Paris, still active today.
Surrealist Manifesto
Manifeste du surréalisme (Surrealist Manifesto), André Breton's founding text published in Paris on 15 October 1924 as preface to Poisson soluble, defining surrealism as pure psychic automatism; basis of the Surrealist movement, with Second Manifesto 1929.
Surrealistic Pillow
Surrealistic Pillow (1967) is Jefferson Airplane's second album, RCA Victor LSP/LPM-3766, recorded in Hollywood with producer Rick Jarrard. Its hits "Somebody to Love" (No. 5) and "White Rabbit" (No. 8) drove it to No. 3, and it joined the National Recording Registry in 2024.
Surrender (2025 film)
Surrender (சரண்டர்) is a 2025 Tamil crime drama, Gowthaman Ganapathy's debut, starring Tharshan, Lal, and Sujith Shanker. Released 1 August 2025, it follows a missing surrendered gun and lost election funds before a state election; it streamed on Sun NXT from 4 September 2025.
Surrender (Cheap Trick song)
Surrender is a 1978 Cheap Trick song written by Rick Nielsen for Heaven Tonight, peaking at US Number 62 as a single but becoming a rock anthem through its live At Budokan version.
Surrender (military)
Surrender (military): the unilateral act of ceasing combat and placing oneself hors de combat; distinct from capitulation, armistice, and ceasefire; governed by Geneva law, with signals, duties, perfidy rules, and Ukraine-era practice.
Surrender Dorothy
Surrender Dorothy names several unrelated films: Kevin DiNovis's 1998 black-and-white indie about a heroin addict renamed Dorothy; the 2005 Diane Keaton TV movie from Meg Wolitzer's novel; a 2016 Gina Miller-Parker drama; and a Drew Barrymore project in production.
Surrender of Abd al-Qadir
The surrender of Abd al-Qadir (عبد القادر) in December 1847 ended the Algerian amir's fifteen-year resistance to the French conquest of Algeria, at Nemours before the duc d'Aumale.
Surrender of Japan
Surrender of Japan: acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration ending Japan's WWII role, announced by Hirohito August 15, 1945 and signed aboard USS Missouri September 2, after the atomic bombings and Soviet entry, amid debate over which was decisive.
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull depicting the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781, which ended the last major Revolutionary War campaign.
Surrender of Nanyue to Han
The surrender of Nanyue to Han (南越国归汉) was the absorption of Zhao Tuo's Lingnan kingdom into Han rule, ending with the death of king Zhao Jiande and chancellor Lü Jia.