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3 unusual facts about SoMa


Bergama Raid

A platoon of irregular and a few regular Turkish forces from Soma, Kınık, Balıkesir, Kaşıkçı, Turanlı, Ayvalık and Kozak assembled in the vicinity of Bergama.

Gaokerena

In Persian and Iranian legends, the mighty Gaokerena was a mythic Haoma plant that had healing properties when eaten and gave immortality to the resurrected bodies of the dead.

Soma, Manisa

The country's largest wind farm, the Soma Wind Farm with 119 wind turbines and an installed total capacity of 140.4 MW is located here.


A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona

SOMA was established in 2007, and is one of the schools located at the Mesa, Arizona campus of the larger A.T. Still University, which operates a main campus in Kirksville, Missouri.

Adaptive reuse

Formerly-industrial areas such as the Meatpacking District in New York City, Callowhill in Philadelphia and SoMa in San Francisco are being transformed into residential neighborhoods through this process.

Aidin Vilayet

# The Sanjak of Sarukhan, subdivided into the kazas of Manisa, Alashehir, Kula, Ak Hissar, Salykhly (Salihli), Gordiz, Demirji, Eshme, Kyrkaghach, Soma, and Kassaba.

Allá

Recordings took place in and around Chicago, at Clava Studios, Engine Music, (Tortoise's) John McEntire's Soma Electronic Studios & others, as well as at Tambourine Studios in Sweden, where Jorge laid down the string and horn arrangements alongside arranger Patrik Bartosch (Eggstone, The Cardigans).

Allegra Huston

When Huston was four, her mother died in a car accident and she was subsequently brought up by filmmaker John Huston (1906–87), her mother's estranged husband (Soma was his fourth wife).

Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona

Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona was born in Bellpuig, Catalonia, the son of Fernando Folch de Cardona Anglesola y Requesens, 2nd Duke of Soma, 2nd count of Oliveto, 3rd count of Palamós, 3rd count of Trivento, 3rd count of Avellino, 6th barón of Bellpuig, Calonge, Liñola and Uxafavá, and Great Admiral of Naples.

Autumn owls

In April 2012, Autumn Owls spent three weeks in Chicago recording their debut full-length with producer Brian Deck (Califone, Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine) at Engine and Soma Studios.

Cycling in San Francisco

Most of the bike lanes are located in relatively flat neighborhoods close to the center of the city, including SoMa, the Mission, Haight-Ashbury, and the Richmond.

Dead Can Dance

Gerrard teamed with Pieter Bourke (Snog, Soma) to issue Duality in April 1998.

Evan Cole

In 2010, Evan Cole opened another H.D. Buttercup store in the SOMA neighborhood (South of Market, San Francisco) of San Francisco.

Gods of Luxury

The lyrics for Soma Holiday were taken from the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel, Brave New World.

Gonur Tepe

He also found what appears to be the boiler for the ritual drink soma, which is mentioned in the Rigveda and also in the Avesta as haoma.

Japan National Route 6

Major cities and villages it passes through include: Kashiwa, Toride, Tsuchiura, Ishioka, Mito, Hitachi, Iwaki, Tomioka, Ōkuma, Sōma, Watari, Iwanuma

Jivya Soma Mashe

Jivya Soma Mashe (born 1934) is an artist of the Maharashtra state in India, who popularised the Warli tribal art form.

Mandala 6

Deities addressed besides Indra and Agni include the Vishvadevas, Pusan, the Asvins, Ushas (Dawn), the Maruts, Dyaus and Prthivi (Heaven and Earth), Savitar, Brhaspati and Soma-Rudra.

Nazir Jairazbhoy

In 1967, credited as "Soma", he played sitar on the Incredible String Band's album The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion.

NewDealDesign

Starting in small offices in the SOMA district of San Francisco, NewDealDesign’s first products were a PC for the computer maker MicronPC and a ViewSonic 36” Rear-projection television.

Proto-Slavic borrowings

Common Slavic *xъmelь, common hop (Humulus lupulus)' < Turkic (cf. Chuvash xӑmla, hop-plant < *qumlaγ) < Iranian (cf. Ossetian xumællæg, hop-plant < *xaum-ala-ka, from *xauma, soma/haoma);

Soma San Diego

In 1994, SOMA moved to a former warehouse on Metro Street, just south of the University of San Diego.

Somalamma

Indra and Agni are portrayed as consuming Soma in copious quantities.

The High Spirits

The group's first hit was a raveup of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "(Turn on Your) Love Light," recorded on May 7, 1965 and issued on Soma Records.

The South of the Slot

The title of the story refers to a location in San Francisco, which real estate speculators now call SOMA, the South of Market.

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World society uses thought-terminating clichés in a more conventional manner, most notably in regard to the drug soma as well as modified versions of real-life platitudes, such as, "A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away".

Weismann barrier

A controversial theory of Edward J. Steele's suggests that endogenous retroviruses carry new versions of V genes from soma cells in the immune system to the germ line cells.

Yaletown

During the latter years of the dot com boom, these streets housed Vancouver's "multimedia gulch" similar to the SOMA area of San Francisco.


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