Somme River The Somme is a river in Picardy, northern France. The river is 245 km long, from its source in the high ground of the former Forest of Arrouaise at Fonsommes near Saint-Quentin, France, to the Bay of the Somme, in the English Channel. It lies in the Geology syncline which also forms The Solent.
	Sommelier A sommelier is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, commonly working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all facets of wine service. The role is more specialised and informed than that of a wine waiter. Their principal work is in the area of wine procurement, storage, and wine cellar rotation.
	Sonar SONAR  — or sonar — is a technique that uses sound propagation under water to navigation or to detect other vessels. There are two kinds of sonar — active and passive. Sonar is a subcategory of acoustic location.
	Sónar S?nar is a three-day annual music festival held in Barcelona, Spain. It is described officially as a festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. Music is by far the main aspect of the festival. The festival runs for three days and nights, usually starting on a Thursday in the third week of June.
	Sonchus Sow thistle is the common name for a number of related annual herbs in the Genus Sonchus, the ancient Greek name for these plants. All are characterized by soft, somewhat irregularly lobed leaves that clasp the stem and, at least initially, form a basal rosette. The Plant stem contains a milky sap.
	Song and Dance Song and Dance is a Musical theater by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is unique in the fact that the first act is completely sung and the second act is one big dance number. It was originally conceived as Tell Me On A Sunday with lyricist Don Black as a concert for the theatre, starring Marti Webb.
	Song Dynasty The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China from 960-1279. Its founding marked the reunification of China for the first time since the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907. The intervening years, known as the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms , were a time of division between north and south, and of rapidly changing administrations.
	Song Sparrow The Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia, is a medium-sized American sparrow. Adults have brown upperparts with dark streaks on the back and are white underneath with dark streaking and a dark brown spot in the middle of the breast. They have a brown cap and a long brown rounded tail. Their face is grey with a streak through the eye.
	Song Thrush The Song Thrush is a common European member of the Thrush family Turdidae. It is commonly found in well-vegetated woods and gardens over all of Europe south of the Arctic circle, except Iberian peninsula.They have also been introduced into Australia, although only a small population around Melbourne survives.
	Songbird A songbird or oscine is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of Passerine, in which the vocal organ is developed in such a way as to produce various sound notes, commonly known as bird song. Songbirds evolved about 50 million years ago in the western part of Gondwana that later became Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica and later spread around the world.
	Sonic boom A sonic boom is the audible component of a shock wave in air. The term is commonly used to refer to the air shocks caused by the supersonic flight of military aircraft or passenger transports such as Concorde and the Space Shuttle. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding much like an explosion; typically the shock front may approach 167 megawatts per square meter, and may exceed 200 Bel.
	Sonnet The term sonnet is derived from the Provenal word sonet and the Italian language word sonetto, both meaning little song. By the 13th century, it had come to signify a poetry of fourteen lines following a strict rhyme scheme and logical structure.
	Sonny Liston Charles "Sonny" Liston, was a boxing who became List of Heavyweight Champions, and whose life and personality were always obscure. Sonny is thought of by many to be one of the most powerful punchers in the history of the heavyweight division.
	Sonora Sonora is a mexican state in northwestern Mexico, bordering the states of Chihuahua to the east, Sinaloa to the south, and Baja California to the northwest. To the north Sonora accounts for a long stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico; to the west it borders the Gulf of California.
	Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the U.S.-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the Mexican state of Sonora. It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 120,000 square miles.
	Sooty Sooty is a United Kingdom puppet and children's book character popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries. He was originally devised and operated by Harry Corbett who bought Sooty from a stall when he was on holiday in Blackpool in 1948. Sooty, a small yellow bear with black ears, who was mute to the audience but could communicate with Harry by apparently whispering in his ear, was featured on United Kingdom TV from 1952.
	Sophia Loren Sophia Loren is an Academy Awards-winning actress widely considered to be the most famous Italy actress.
	Sophie Tucker Sophie Tucker was a singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first third of the 20th century. She was born Sophia Kalish to a Jewish family in Czarist Russia. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was an infant, and settled in Hartford, Connecticut.
	Sophocles Sophocles was one of the three great Ancient Greece tragedy, together with Aeschylus and Euripides. According to the Suda he wrote 123 plays; in the dramatic competitions of the Festival of Dionysus Only seven of his tragedies have survived complete in the medieval manuscript tradition.
	Sophora Sophora is a genus of about 45 species of small trees and shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species are native from southeast Europe across southern Asia, Australasia, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and western South America.
	Soprano In music, a soprano is a singer with a voice that ranges from, approximately, the A below middle C to "high C", two octaves above middle C. Rarely, a soprano will be able to go up to an octave above that, but it is unusual. In four part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody.
	Sorbet Sorbet is a frozen dessert made from iced fruit puree and other ingredients. The term "sherbet" is derived from the Turkish language word for "sorbet", serbat which in turn comes from Arabic language. Sorbet is a form of gelato that contains no milk, unlike ice cream.
	Sorbic acid Sorbic acid, or 2,4-hexadienoic acid, is a natural organic compound used as a food preservative. It has the chemical formula C6H8O2. It was first isolated from the unripe berries of the rowan, hence its name. Sorbic acid and its mineral salts, such as sodium sorbate, potassium sorbate and calcium sorbate, are antimicrobial agents often used as preservatives in food and drinks to prevent the growth of mold, yeast and fungi.
	Sorbonne The name Sorbonne is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris or one of its successor institutions, but this is a recent usage, and "Sorbonne" has actually been used with different meanings over the centuries. For information on the historic University of Paris, its successor institutions or the Collge de Sorbonne, please refer to those articles.
	Sorbs The Sorbs are a Slavic peoples minority indigenous to the region known as Lusatia in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. They are or were also known as Lusatians, Wends Lusatian Serbs or Serbs of Luzice.
	Sorbus The genus Sorbus is a genus of about 100-200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae. The exact number of species is disputed considerably between different authorities, due to the number of apomixis microspecies, treated by some as distinct species, by others grouped in a much smaller number of variable species.
	Sorex The genus Sorex is a group of mainly land-dwelling shrews with relatively long tails which includes many of the common shrews of Europe and North America. They are red-toothed shrews; species in this group have 32 teeth. These animals have long pointed snouts, small ears which are often not visible and scent glands located on the side of the body.
	Sorghum Sorghum is a genus of about 30 species of Poaceae raised for grain, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Africa, with one species native to Mexico. The plant is cultivated in Southern Europe, Central America and Southern Asia. Other names include Durra, Egyptian Millet, Feterita, Guinea Corn, Jowar, Juwar, kaffir corn, Milo, Shallu and Sudan Grass.
	Sorghum bicolor Sorghum bicolor is the primary Sorghum species grown for grain for human consumption and grain and foliage for animal feed. The species originalted in northern Africa and can grow in arid soils and withstand prolonged droughts. It is commonly known as sorghum. S. bicolor is usually an annual, but some cultivars perennial.
	Sorrel The common sorrel, or spinach dock, is a perennial plant herb, which grows abundantly in meadows in most parts of Europe and is cultivated as a leaf vegetable. In the Caribbean, sorrel typically refers to Jamaica Red Sorrel . A popular sorrel beverage is widely consumed which is dark red, and has a sweet, spiced flavor.
	SORT The Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions, better known as the Moscow Treaty, is a 2002 treaty between Russia and the United States limiting their nuclear arsenal to 1700-2200 operationally deployed warheads each. It was signed in Moscow on May 24, 2002. It is the latest in a long line of treaties and negotiations on mutual nuclear disarmament between Russia and the United States, which includes SALT I, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, SALT II, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
	Sort Of Sort Of is Slapp Happy's debut album.
	Sorus In ferns, a sorus is a cluster of sporangium on the edge or underside of a fertile frond. In many species, they are protected by an umbrella-like cover called the indusium. Sori occur on the sporophyte generation, the sporangia within producing haploid meiospores.
	SOS SOS is the commonly used description for the International Morse code distress signal. This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard when it was included in the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906, and became effective on July 1, 1908.
	Soubise Soubise can refer to: * Soubise, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime dpartement in France, in France * Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise, Huguenot leader * Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, peer and marshal of France
	Souk A souk is a commercial quarter in an Arab city. The term is often used to designate the market in any Arabized city. It may also refer to the weekly market in some smaller towns where neutrality from tribal conflicts would be declared to permit the exchange of surplus goods. Though each neighbourhood within the city would have a local souk selling food and other essentials, the main souk was one of the central structures of a large city.
	Soul food Soul food is an American cuisine, food typically associated with African Americans of the Southern United States United States. Many of the various dishes and ingredients included in soul food, however, are also regional fare and comprise a part of whites Cuisine of the Southern United States, as well.
	Soul Mates "Soul Mates" is an episode from the second season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. Plot synopsis Londo Mollari brings his three wives, all of whom barely tolerate him, to the station for the purpose of divorcing two of them as part of a special request.
	Sound Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a wave. Sound is characterized by the Wave#Physical description of a wave which are frequency, wavelength, period, amplitude and velocity or speed of sound.
	Sound barrier In aerodynamics, the sound barrier is the transition at transonic speeds from subsonic to supersonic travel. The Sound Barrier was once believed to be a physical barrier preventing large objects from traveling faster than sound. The term came into use during World War II when a number of aircraft started to encounter the effects of compressibility, a grab-bag of unrelated aerodynamic effects, and fell out of use in the 1950s when aircraft started to routinely "break" the sound barrier.
	Sound film A sound film is a film with synchronized, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public screening of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but it would be decades before reliable synchronization was achieved in a commercially practical way.
	Sound hole A sound hole is an opening in the upper sounding board of a string instrument musical instrument. The sound holes can have different shapes: round in flat-top guitars, f-holes in instruments from the violin family or viol families and in arched-top guitars, rosettes in lutes.
	Sound ranging Sound Ranging is a collection of techniques for generating a position estimate of a source of sound. Historically, sound ranging was developed to detect the location of far distant artillery. There are three main approaches to generating a position estimate for an artillery piece. * Using the difference in the gunfire sound arrival time at different microphones to generate the position estimate.
	Sounder Sounder is a novel by William H. Armstrong, which won the Newbery medal in 1970. It tells the story of an African-American sharecropper family in Louisiana in the 1930s who must struggle when the father is sent to prison.
	Sounding rocket A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying suborbital rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its flight. The origin of the term comes from the nautical term to take a sounding, meaning to take a measurement.
	Soup Soup is a savoury liquid food that is made by combining ingredients, such as meat, vegetables and beans in Stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of wiktionary:waterproof containers about 5,000 years ago, so soups presumably were little-known before that time.
	Soup spoon A soup spoon is a type of spoon used for eating soup. The idea of including a separate soup spoon in a table setting originated in the 18th century, when bowl shapes varied widely, deep or shallow, oval, pointed, egg-shaped or circular. Spoon shapes became more standardized in 19th century silverware.
	Sour Cherry The Sour Cherry or Morello Cherry, is a species of Prunus in the subgenus Cherry, native to much of Europe and southwest Asia. It is closely related to the Wild Cherry from which sweet cherries derive, but has a fruit which is more acidic, and so is useful primarily for culinary purposes.
	Sour mash Sour mash is not a type or flavor of whiskey as is commonly thought. Rather, it is the name for a process in the distilling industry, similar to the making of sourdough bread. It was developed by Scottish people chemist Dr. James C. Crow, while he was working at the Old Oscar Pepper Distillery in Woodford County, Kentucky, Kentucky.
	Source The word source has more than one meaning, this page links to pages describing all of the meanings:
	Source code Source code is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. In modern programming languages, the source code which constitutes a program is usually in several text files, but the same source code may be printed in a book or recorded on tape .
	Sourdough Sourdough is a symbiosis culture of lactobacillus and yeasts used to leavening agent bread. Sourdough bread has a distinctive taste, due mainly to the lactic acid and acetic acid produced by the lactobacilli. Sourdough bread is made by using a small amount of "starter" dough, which has the yeast culture, and mixing it with new flour and water.
	Soursop The Soursop, Guanbana, Graviola, Sirsak, Corao-da-ndia, Guyabano or Corossol is a broadleaf flowering evergreen tree native to the Caribbean, Central America and South America, from Brazil north to the West Indies. It is a distant relative of the pawpaw.
	Sourwood Sourwood or Sorrel Tree is the sole species in the genus Oxydendrum, in the family Ericaceae. It is native to eastern North America, from southern Pennsylvania south to northwest Florida and west to southern Illinois; it is most common in the lower chain of the Appalachian Mountains.
	Sous The Sous is a region in southern Morocco. Geologically, it is the alluvial basin of the Oued Sous, separated from the Sahara by the Anti-Atlas mountains. The natural vegetation in the Sous is savanna dominated by the Argan, a local endemic tree found nowhere else; part of the area is now a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve to protect this unique habitat.
	Sousaphone The sousaphone is a type of tuba often used in a marching band. It is named after John Philip Sousa, the famous march composer and conductor. The sousaphone was developed in the 1890s by J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc. at the request of Sousa, who was unhappy with the tubas used at that time by the Marine band.
	Sousse Sousse, is a city of Tunisia. Located 140 km south of Tunis, the city has 220,000 inhabitants. It is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. The name may be of Berber origin: similar names are found in Libya and in the south of Morocco.
	South South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. South is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of North and at right angles to East and West. By Western society Norm, the bottom side of a map is South.
	South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of the African continent. It borders the countries of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Lesotho is an enclave entirely surrounded by South African territory. South Africa has experienced a significantly different evolution from other nations in Africa as a result of two facts.
	South America South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere and, mostly, the Southern Hemisphere, bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest.
	South American Sea Lion Otaria redirects here. If you are looking for the continent in Magic the Gathering, see Dominaria#Otaria. The South American Sea Lion or Southern Sea Lion is a sea lion found on the Chilean, Peruvian, Uruguayan and Argentina coasts. They are perhaps the archetypal sea lion in appearance - they have a very large head with an upturned snout.
	South Australia South Australia is a States and territories of Australia of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent and with a total land area of 1 E11 m square kilometre , it is the fourth largest of Australia's states and territories.
	South Carolina South Carolina is a U.S. state in the U.S. Southern States region of the United States. The Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. It was the first state to secede from the Union to found the Confederate States of America.
	South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km. It is the largest sea body after the five oceans. The minute South China Sea Islands, collectively an archipelago, number in the hundreds.
	South Dakota South Dakota is a Midwestern U.S. state in the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Sioux Native Americans in the United States tribes. South Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889. North Dakota was admitted on the same day.
	South Island The South Island is one of the two major Islands of New Zealand of New Zealand, the other being the North Island. The Maori name for the South Island, Te Wai Pounamu, meaning "The Water/s of Greenstone" , possibly evolved from Te Wahi Pounamu which means "The Place Of Greenstone".
	South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is an East Asian state on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. To the north, it is bordered by North Korea , with which it was a single country called Korea until 1945. To the west, across the Yellow Sea, lies People's Republic of China, and to the southeast, across the Korea Strait, lies Japan.
	South Platte River The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River and itself a major river of the American West, located in the U.S. states of Colorado and Nebraska. It drains much of the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, as well as much of the populated region known as the Colorado Front Range and Colorado Eastern Plains.
	South Pole When not otherwise qualified, the term South Pole normally refers to the Geographic South Pole – the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole. Other "South Poles" described in this article include the Ceremonial South Pole, the South Magnetic and Geomagnetic Poles, and the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.
	South Vietnam South Vietnam is the commonly used name for the former Vietnamese country that existed from 1954 to 1976 in the portion of Vietnam that lay south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. North Vietnam was situated to the north of the 17th parallel. The division of Vietnam occurred during the Geneva Conference , after the Viet Minh fought to end almost 100 years of French Indochina in Indochina.