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S Andromeda: (from the article "galaxy") ...Milky Way Galaxy. If this was the case, it was argued, then its extraordinary brightness must indicate that M31 cannot be very far away, certainly not outside the local system ...
S band: (from the article "radar") The ASR-9 system operates at frequencies from 2.7 to 2.9 GHz (within the S band). Its klystron transmitter has a peak power of 1.3 megawatts, a pulse width of 1 ...
S Doradus: variable supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (the latter is one of two galactic companions to the Milky Way Galaxy). S Doradus (and the Large Magellanic Cloud) is visible ...
S&H Green Stamps: (from the article "trading stamp") Trading stamps appeared in the United States and Great Britain in the late 19th century. The most popular trading stamp program in the United States, S&H Green Stamps, was sponsored ...
S&P 350 Index: (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...Biographies) as German chancellor, and the DAX ended the year up 27.1%. There were substantial returns to investors who braved the EU's political and economic uncertainties. The S&P 350 Index, ...
S&P 500: in the United States, a stock market index that tracks 500 publicly traded domestic companies. It is considered by many investors to be the best overall measurement of American stock ... [2 Related Articles]
S&P/TSX Composite index: (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...Paul Martin's minority Liberal government on November 28 managed to curtail the market's year-end performance. As a broad measure of all issues traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), the ...
S&S-Arrow: (from the article "roller coaster") ...the tide when he opened the doors to Disneyland in Anaheim in July 1955 and revitalized the notion of amusement parks. Disney commissioned the Arrow Development Company (later Arrow Dynamics; ...
S'ad ad-Dawlah: (from the article "Arghun") In 1289 Arghun appointed an anti-Islamic Jew, Sa'd ad-Dawlah, first as his minister of finance and then (in June) as vizier of his entire empire. The predominantly Muslim population may ...
S'adad-Din: (from the article "Ifat") ...dominion extended eastward to the port of Zeila.) Thereafter Ifat was continually in revolt against Ethiopia. It was finally destroyed in 1415, when its last attempt at independence under Sultan ...
S-2: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The French deployed the first of their solid-fueled S-2 missiles in 1971. These two-stage IRBMs carried a 150-kiloton warhead and had a range of 1,800 miles. The S-3, deployed in ...
S-3: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The French deployed the first of their solid-fueled S-2 missiles in 1971. These two-stage IRBMs carried a 150-kiloton warhead and had a range of 1,800 miles. The S-3, deployed in ...
S-37: (from the article "Sukhoy") ...Its Su-34 fighter-bomber began replacing the Su-24, while the redesigned Su-39 ground-attack aircraft began substituting for its older Su-25 variant. Its fifth-generation, multirole, all-weather S-37 Berkut air-superiority fighter, first flown ...
S-adenosyl methionine: (from the article "organosulfur compound") ...The first known optically active sulfur compounds were sulfonium salts, prepared in 1900. A number of sulfonium salts occur in nature; some examples include S-adenosyl methionine, a key biological source ...
S-Bahn: (from the article "Berlin") Modern rapid transit systems have existed since the 19th century. Construction of the Stadt- or Schnellbahn (S-Bahn), a largely elevated and partly underground railway system, began in 1871, and building ...
s-block element: (from the article "organometallic compound") The metal in main-group organometallic compounds can be any of the elements in the s block (i.e., groups 1 and 2) or any of the heavier elements in groups 13 ...
S-class asteroid: (from the article "Asteroid taxonomic classes") ...a close flyby was Gaspra, which was observed in October 1991 by the Galileo spacecraft en route to Jupiter. Galileo's images, taken from a distance of about 5,000 km, established ...
s-Hertogenbosch: gemeente (municipality), south-central Netherlands. It is situated where the Dommel and Aa rivers join to form the Dieze and lies along the Zuidwillemsvaart (canal). [1 Related Articles]
s-orbital: (from the article "chemical bonding") As noted above, a subshell with quantum number l consists of 2l + 1 individual orbitals. Thus, an s subshell (l = 0) consists of a single orbital, which is ...
S-potential: (from the article "eye, human") ...manners, transmit their effects to bipolar and horizontal cells. The latter neurons have been studied from the point of view of their colour-coding. The potentials recorded from them were called ...
s-process: (from the article "chemical element") ...elements, have been produced by successive capture of neutrons. Two processes of neutron capture may be distinguished: the r -process, rapid neutron capture; and the s -process, slow neutron capture. ...
s-surface: (from the article "metamorphic rock") The most obvious features of metamorphic rocks are certain planar features that are often termed s-surfaces. The simplest planar features may be primary bedding(akin to the layering in sedimentary rocks). ...
S-tank: (from the article "tank") The same 105-millimetre gun was adopted for the Pz. 61 and Pz. 68 tanks produced in Switzerland, the West German Leopard 1, the Swedish S-tank, the Japanese Type 74, and ...
S-twist: (from the article "twisting") ...fibres or yarns together in a continuous strand, accomplished in spinning or playing operations. The direction of the twist may be to the right, described as Z twist, or to ...
S-type granite: (from the article "granite") ...protoliths (source rocks). These result in I-type granitoids, derived from igneous protoliths and containing moderate amounts of Al₂O₃ and high amounts of Na₂O, and S-type granitoids, derived from sedimentary protoliths ...
S-type star: (from the article "stellar classification") Supplementary classes of cool stars include R and N (often called C-type, or carbon stars: less than 3,000 K), and S, which resemble class M stars but have spectral bands ...
S.6B: (from the article "military aircraft") ...it could demonstrate its potential. Nevertheless, it was the progenitor of a series of monoplanes that won the trophy three times, giving Britain permanent possession in 1931. The last of ...
S.C. Johnson & Son: (from the article "Wright, Frank Lloyd") ...publicity from 1936 to the present. Probably Wright's most-admired work, it was later given to the state and was opened to visitors. The second important commission was the administrative centre ...
S0 galaxy: (from the article "galaxy") These systems exhibit some of the properties of both the ellipticals and the spirals and seem to be a bridge between these two more common galaxy types. Hubble introduced the ...
S4: (from the article "applied logic") ...developed by the conceptual pragmatist C.I. Lewis (1883-1964), primary author of Symbolic Logic (1932), the foundational work in this field. Of these systems, that known as S4 ...
S5: (from the article "applied logic") ...'Necessarily p' implies 'It is necessary that necessarily p' "-i.e., Lp ⊃ LLp-whereas that known as S5 adds still another axiom, that " 'Possibly p' implies 'It ...
SA: in the German Nazi Party, a paramilitary organization whose methods of violent intimidation played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. [7 Related Articles]
Sa de Miranda, Francisco de: Portuguese poet who introduced Renaissance poetic forms to Portugal. [2 Related Articles]
Sa Dec: town on the Mekong River delta, southern Vietnam. It is a river port, agricultural trading centre, and transshipment point for small craft on the left bank of the shallow Bassac ...
Sa galaxy: (from the article "galaxy") These normal spirals have narrow, tightly wound arms, which usually are visible because of the presence of interstellar dust and, in many cases, bright stars. Most of them have a ...
Sa'adah, Antun: Syrian political agitator who sought to unify Syria with neighbouring areas that he considered really parts of Syria.
Sa'adi: (from the article "Egypt") The inhabitants of the Western Desert, outside the oases, are of mixed Arab and Amazigh (Berber) descent. They are divided into two groups, the Sa'adi (not to be confused with ...
Sa'adia ben Joseph: Jewish exegete, philosopher, and polemicist whose influence on Jewish literary and communal activities made him one of the most important Jewish scholars of his time. His unique qualities became especially ... [9 Related Articles]
Sa'd ad-Din Ibrahim: On May 21, 2001, less than two hours after the defense lawyers had completed their summation, Egypt's High Security Court found Sa'd ad-Din Ibrahim, a respected university professor, guilty of ...
Sa'd ebn Zangi: (from the article "Iran") ...Zangi (reigned 1231-60), whom he mentions by name in his Bustan ("The Orchard"), a book of ethics in verse. Abu Bakr's father, Sa'd, for whom Sa'di took ...
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh: (from the article "Muhammad") ...complicit with the enemy during the Battle of the Ditch, Muhammad turned against them. The Qurayzah men were separated from the tribe's women and children and ordered by the Muslim ...
Sa'dabad Pact: (from the article "Iraq") ...countries were settled, including one over the boundary with Syria, which was concluded in Iraq's favour; Iraq thereafter possessed the Sinjar Mountains. A nonaggression pact, called the Sa'dabad Pact, between ...
Sa'dah: town, northwestern Yemen, in the mountainous Yemen Highlands. It was the original capital of the Zaydi dynasty of imams (religious-political leaders) of Yemen (AD 860-1962). The effective founder of Sa'dah ...
Sa'dawi, Nawal al-: (from the article "Literature") ...approach of his retirement. The book escaped banality not only because of its reflection on universal themes but also because of the style of the five-volume work. In her usual ...
Sa'di: Persian poet, one of the greatest figures in classical Persian literature. [4 Related Articles]
Sa'di dynasty: (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...to the Moroccan borders. This upset the balance of trans-Saharan trade, as Ghana's attempt to control the Sanhajah had done, and in 1591 finally provoked effective retaliation from the Sa'di ...
Sa'diyah: (from the article "Rifa'iyah") The Syrian branch of the order, the Sa'diyah (or Jibawiyah), was given its form by Sa'd ad-Din al-Jibawi in Damascus sometime in the 14th century. Among the Sa'diyah, ecstasy was ...
Sa'dullah Khan: (from the article "India") ...nawabs (deputies) of the Balaghat, or northern Karnataka (such as 'Abd al-Rasul Khan of Sira), but there were also far more substantial men, such as the Nizam al-Mulk and Sa'd ...
Sa'ib: Persian poet, one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets and known as the ghazel. [2 Related Articles]
Sa'ib Khathir: (from the article "Islamic arts") ...musician Jamila, around whom clustered musicians, poets, and dignitaries; the male musician Tuways, who, attracted by the melodies sung by Persian slaves, imitated their style; and Sa'ib Khathir, the son ...
Sa'id: (from the article "Najahid Dynasty") Two of Najah's sons, Sa'id and Jayyash, who had fled the capital, plotted to restore themselves to the Najahid throne and in 1081 killed 'Ali. Sa'id, supported by the large ...
Sa'id ibn Sultan: in full Sa'id Ibn Sultan Ibn Ahmad Ibn Sa'id Al-busa 'idi, also called Sa'id Imam, or Sa'id Sayyid ruler of Muscat and Oman and of Zanzibar (1806-56), who made Zanzibar ... [4 Related Articles]
Sa'id ibn Taymur: (from the article "Qaboos bin Said") ...Al Bu Sa'id dynasty, was educated at Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England, and at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, in Berkshire. He was called home in 1965 by his father, ...
Sa'id Pasha: Ottoman viceroy of Egypt (1854-63) whose administrative policies fostered the development of individual landownership and reduced the influence of the sheikhs (village headmen). [4 Related Articles]
Sa'id, Aminah al-: Egyptian journalist and writer who was one of Egypt's leading feminists and was a founder (1954) and editor (1954-69) of Hawwa' ("Eve"), the first women's magazine to ... [1 Related Articles]
Sa'idi: (from the article "Egypt") The inhabitants of the valley from Cairo up to Aswan governorate, the Sa'idis, are more conservative than the delta people. In some areas women still do not appear in public ...
Sa'igh, Tawfiq as-: (from the article "Islamic arts") ...dreams, manage to create an atmosphere that breaks up the harsh light of reality into its colourful components. Poets like the Lebanese Adonis ('Ali Ahmad Sa'id) and Tawfiq as-Sa'igh, or ...
Sa'iqah, al-: Syrian guerrilla force sponsored by the Syrian government with the purpose of promoting the interests of the Palestinian branch of the Syrian Ba'th Party. Al-Sa'iqah was founded by the party ... [1 Related Articles]
Sa'ud: son and successor of Ibn Sa'ud, and king of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964. [1 Related Articles]
Sa'ud I ibn 'Abd al-Aziz: (from the article "Saudi Arabia") ...'Abd al-Wahhab. It was the latter who virtually controlled the civil administration of the country, while 'Abd al-'Aziz himself, later in cooperation with his warlike son, Sa'ud I (1803-14), busied ...
Sa'ud II ibn Faysal: (from the article "Saudi Arabia") ...factor in Arabian politics, Faysal died. His sons disputed the succession. His eldest son, 'Abd Allah, succeeded first, maintaining himself against the rebellion of his brother Sa'ud II for six ...
Sa'ud, al-Walid ibn Talal ibn Abdulaziz as-, Prince: In what was called a modern-day fairy tale, but also might turn out to be a shrewd business move, a wealthy prince in 1994 came to the rescue of an ...
Sa'ud, House of: (from the article "Wahhabi") any member of the Muslim puritan movement founded by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab in the 18th century in Najd, central Arabia, and adopted in 1744 by the Sa'udi family.defeat at ...
sa'y: (from the article "'umrah") ...Black Stone, pray at the sacred stone Maqam Ibrahim, drink the holy water of the Zamzam spring, and touch the Black Stone again, though these ceremonies are supererogatory. The sa'y, ...
Sa, Mem de: (from the article "donatario") ...in 1549 dispatched Tome de Sousa as captain general, along with a small band of Jesuits headed by Manuel da Nobrega. Through their efforts and those of the succeeding captain ...
SA-1 Guild: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The Soviet Union committed more technical and fiscal resources to the development of guided-missile air-defense systems than any other nation. Beginning with the SA-1 Guild, developed in the immediate postwar ...
SA-10 Grumble: (from the article "rocket and missile system") A new generation of Soviet SAM systems entered service in the 1980s. These included the SA-10 Grumble, a Mach-6 mobile system with a 60-mile range deployed in both strategic and ...
SA-11 Gadfly: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...new generation of Soviet SAM systems entered service in the 1980s. These included the SA-10 Grumble, a Mach-6 mobile system with a 60-mile range deployed in both strategic and tactical ...
SA-12 Gladiator: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...SA-10 Grumble, a Mach-6 mobile system with a 60-mile range deployed in both strategic and tactical versions; the SA-11 Gadfly, a Mach-3 semiactive radar homing system with a range of ...
SA-13 Gopher: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...deployed in both strategic and tactical versions; the SA-11 Gadfly, a Mach-3 semiactive radar homing system with a range of 17 miles; the SA-12 Gladiator, a track-mobile replacement of Ganef; ...
SA-14: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...the SA-11 Gadfly, a Mach-3 semiactive radar homing system with a range of 17 miles; the SA-12 Gladiator, a track-mobile replacement of Ganef; the SA-13 Gopher, a replacement for Gaskin; ...
SA-2 Guideline: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...and the SA-10 Grumble, which were deployed in defense of fixed installations; and mobile tactical systems capable of accompanying land forces. Most of the tactical systems had naval versions. The ...
SA-3 Goa: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The SA-3 Goa, derived from the Guideline but modified for use against low-altitude targets, was first deployed in 1963-primarily in defense of fixed installations. The SA-N-1 was a similar naval ...
SA-4 Ganef: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The SA-4 Ganef was a long-range mobile system first deployed in the mid-1960s; the missiles, carried in pairs on a tracked launcher, used drop-off solid-fuel boosters and a ramjet sustainer ...
SA-5 Gammon: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The SA-5 Gammon was a high- and medium-altitude strategic missile system with a range of 185 miles; it was exported to Syria and Libya. The SA-6 Gainful was a mobile ...
SA-6 Gainful: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...in the projectile that was sensitive to the reflected energy then homed onto the target. Like active guidance, semiactive guidance was commonly used for terminal homing. In the U.S. Hawk ...
SA-7 Grail: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...advances in seeker-head technology. Small, heat-seeking, shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles first became a major factor in land warfare during the final stages of the Vietnam War, with the Soviet SA-7 Grail ...
SA-8 Gecko: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The SA-8 Gecko, first deployed in the mid-1970s, was a fully mobile system mounted on a novel six-wheeled amphibious vehicle. Each vehicle carried four canister-launched, semiactive radar homing missiles, with ...
SA-9 Gaskin: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The SA-7 Grail shoulder-fired, infrared-homing missile was first deployed outside the Soviet Union in the final stages of the Vietnam War; it also saw extensive action in the Middle East. ...
Sa-Carneiro, Mario de: poet and novelist, one of the most original and complex figures of the Portuguese Modernist movement. [1 Related Articles]
sa-ga zla-ba: (from the article "Tibet") ...Buddha over his six religious opponents through debates and the performance of miracles. During this festival, special prayers are offered daily. Prayers, fasting, and charitable donations mark sa-ga zla-ba, the ...
SA-N-1: (from the article "rocket and missile system") The SA-3 Goa, derived from the Guideline but modified for use against low-altitude targets, was first deployed in 1963-primarily in defense of fixed installations. The SA-N-1 was a similar naval ...
SA-N-3 Goblet: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...systems were mounted on a similar vehicle, each of which supported four TELs. The missiles used semiactive radar homing and were powered by a combination of solid-rocket and ramjet propulsion. ...
Sa-skya: (from the article "Sa-skya-pa") Tibetan Buddhist sect that takes its name from the great Sa-skya (Sakya) monastery founded in 1073, 50 miles (80 km) north of Mount Everest. The sect follows the teachings of ...
Sa-skya-pa: Tibetan Buddhist sect that takes its name from the great Sa-skya (Sakya) monastery founded in 1073, 50 miles (80 km) north of Mount Everest. The sect follows the teachings of ... [3 Related Articles]
Saab AB: Swedish high-technology company involved in defense, aviation, and aerospace. Its products include airplanes, missiles, electronics, and computers. Saab's headquarters are in Linkoping, Sweden. [2 Related Articles]
Saadiyat Island: (from the article "The Gulf States' Construction Boom") ...man-made archipelagoes-Palm Jebel Ali, Palm Jumeirah, and Palm Deira-and the World, which comprised some 300 small man-made islands arranged to look from the air like a map of the world. ...
Saakashvili, Mikhail: Georgian politician who was instrumental in easing Pres. Eduard Shevardnadze from office and who later became president of Georgia (2004-2007, 2008- ). [8 Related Articles]
Saale Glacial Stage: division of Pleistocene deposits and time in northern Europe (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Saale Glacial Stage followed the Holstein ... [1 Related Articles]
Saale River: left tributary of the Elbe River, 265 miles (426 km) long and draining 9,165 square miles (23,737 square km). It rises in the Fichtelgebirge, a Bavarian highland area in central ...
Saalfelden: town, west-central Austria, at the southwest foot of the Steinernes Meer (Sea of Stones) Mountains, near the Saalach River southwest of Salzburg. An old market town, it is also a ...
Saanen: popular breed of dairy goat originating in the Saanen Valley of Switzerland. The coat of the Saanen is fine and light-coloured, with white being generally preferred. In build it is ...
Saar plebiscite: (from the article "international relations") ...took this to mean that he had French support for his plan to conquer that independent African country. Just six days later the strength of German nationalism was resoundingly displayed ...
Saar River: right-bank tributary of the Moselle (German Mosel) River. It flows for 153 mi (246 km) across northeastern France into Germany and drains an area of 2,800 sq mi (7,300 sq ... [1 Related Articles]
Saar, Betye: American artist and educator, renowned for her assemblages that lampoon racist attitudes about blacks and for installations featuring mystical themes.
Saarbrucken: city, capital (1959) of Saarland Land (state), southwestern Germany. A frontier station opposite Forbach, France, it lies on the Saar River at the mouth of the Sulz ... [1 Related Articles]
Saaremaa: largest of the islands in the Muhu archipelago that divides the Baltic Sea from the Gulf of Riga. It constitutes the bulk of the Estonian county of Saaremaa (Saare). The ... [2 Related Articles]
Saarinen, Eero: Finnish-born American architect who was one of the leaders in a trend toward exploration and experiment in American architectural design during the 1950s. [5 Related Articles]
Saarinen, Eliel: architect notable for his influence on modern architecture in the United States, particularly on skyscraper and church design. His son, Eero Saarinen, was also an outstanding American architect. [4 Related Articles]
Saarland: Land (state) in the southwestern portion of Germany. It is bounded by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate to the north and east and by the countries of France ... [7 Related Articles]
Saarlouis: city, Saarland Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies along both sides of the Saar River, near the French border, northwest of Saarbrucken. Founded and named by Louis XIV of France ...