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sandwich board: advertising sign consisting of two placards fastened together at the top with straps supported on the shoulders of the carrier, or sandwich man. The sandwich board was a popular form ...
Sandwich glass: glass made by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company at the village of Sandwich, Mass., 1825-88. The factory was established by Deming Jarves and produced glass of different types, including ...
Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Baron Montagu Of Saint Neots: English admiral who brought Charles II to England at the Restoration in 1660 and who subsequently fought in the Second and Third Dutch Wars.
Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Baron Montagu Of Saint Neots: British first lord of the Admiralty during the American Revolution (1776-81) and the man for whom the sandwich was named.
Sandwip Island: island situated in the Meghna Estuary, southeastern Bangladesh. The easternmost island of the Ganges Delta, it is 25 miles (40 km) long and 3-9 miles (5-15 km) wide. It is ...
Sandys, Duncan: British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations.
Sandys, George: English traveler, poet, colonist, and foreign service career officer who played an important part in the development of English verse, especially of the heroic couplet. A journal of his travels ...
Sandys, Sir Edwin: a leading Parliamentary opponent of King James I of England and a founder of the colony of Virginia. His activities in Parliament prepared the way for the Parliamentarian movement that ...
Saneyev, Viktor: Soviet athlete who dominated the triple jump during the late 1960s and '70s. He won four Olympic medals, including three golds.
Sanfilippo's syndrome: rare hereditary (autosomal recessive) metabolic disease characterized by severe mental retardation. There are three varieties, each caused by a defect in a different enzyme involved in the breakdown of mucopolysaccharides, ...
Sanford: city, seat (1913) of Seminole county, east-central Florida, U.S., on the St. Johns River and Lake Monroe, about 20 miles (30 km) northeast of Orlando. Permanent settlement dates from 1836, ...
Sanford, Edward T: associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1923-30).
Sanford, Maria Louise: American educator remembered for the innovation and inspiration she brought to her teaching.
sang de boeuf: a glossy, rich, bloodred glaze often slashed with streaks of purple or turquoise used to decorate pottery, particularly porcelain. The effect is produced by a method of firing that incorporates ...
Sang-kan River: river in Shansi and Hopeh provinces, China. The Sang-kan River rises just south of Ning-wu, near the Great Wall of China, on the eastern slope of the Kuan-ts'en Shan (mountains), ...
Sangallo Family: outstanding family of Florentine Renaissance architects. Its most prominent members were: Antonio da Sangallo the Elder; his older brother Giuliano da Sangallo; Antonio (Giamberti) da Sangallo the Younger, the nephew ...
Sangamon Interglacial Stage: major division of Pleistocene time and deposits in North America (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Sangamon Interglacial follows the Illinoian ...
Sangamon River: river in central Illinois, U.S. It rises near Ellsworth in McLean county and flows briefly southeast. It then curves southwest, bending around Decatur, where a dam impounds Lake Decatur, and ...
Sangareddi: town, administrative headquarters of Medak district, Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, on the Deccan Plateau near the Manjra River. The town has mainly an agricultural economy (rice, sugarcane, and oilseeds) ...
Sanger, Eugen: German rocket propulsion engineer whose projected "antipodal bomber," with a range far greater than that made possible by its fuel capacity alone, greatly interested the major Western governments and the ...
Sanger, Frederick: English biochemist who was twice the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He was awarded the prize in 1958 for his determination of the structure of the insulin molecule. ...
Sanger, John and George: circus impresarios who were the proprietors of one of the largest and most important English circuses in the 19th century.
Sanger, Margaret: founder of the birth-control movement in the United States and an international leader in the field. She is credited with originating the term birth control.
sangha: Buddhist monastic order, traditionally composed of four groups: monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen. The sangha is a part-together with the Buddha and the dharma (teaching)-of the Threefold Refuge, a basic ...
Sangha River: tributary of the Congo River, formed by the Mambere and Kadei headstreams at Nola, southwestern Central African Republic. The Sangha River flows 140 miles (225 km) south to Ouesso in ...
Sanghar: town, Sind province, southern Pakistan. The town is connected by road with the cities of Hyderabad, Karachi, and Sukkur. Sanghar is a market town and has several cotton-textile factories. The ...
Sangihe Islands: archipelago off the northeastern tip of Celebes (Sulawesi), Indonesia. The islands extend northward from Celebes for about 160 miles (260 km) and have a total area of 408 square miles ...
Sangli: city, southern Maharashtra state, western India. It lies along the Krishna River, east of Kolhapur on the Pune-Bangalore railway. The city is the former capital (1761-1947) of Sangli state. Its ...
Sangoan industry: sub-Saharan African stone tool industry of Acheulian derivation (see Acheulian industry) dating from the Late Pleistocene Epoch (about 130,000 to 10,000 years ago). It is more or less contemporaneous with ...
Sangre de Cristo Mountains: segment of the southern Rocky Mountains, extending south-southeastward for about 250 miles (400 km) from Poncha Pass, in south-central Colorado, U.S., to the low divide southwest of Las Vegas, N.M., ...
Sangrur: city, in southeastern Punjab state, northwestern India. The city was founded in the 17th century and became the capital of the former independent state of Jind. In 1948 it became ...
Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson: American writer and editor, noted in her day for her stories and books that mingled Christian devotion with homely wisdom.
sanguine: chalk or crayon drawing done in a blood-red, reddish, or flesh colouring. The pigment employed is usually a chalk or clay containing some form of iron oxide. Sanguine was used ...
sanhedrin: any of several official Jewish councils in Palestine under Roman rule, to which various political, religious, and judicial functions have been attributed. Taken from the Greek word for council (synedrion), ...
Sanibel Island: barrier island, Lee county, southwestern Florida, U.S., about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Fort Myers. It lies between the Intracoastal Waterway (north) and the Gulf of Mexico (south) and ...
sanidine: alkali feldspar mineral, a high-temperature form of potassium aluminosilicate (KAlSi₃O₈) that sometimes occurs in surface rocks. Sanidine forms colourless or white, glassy, transparent crystals in acidic volcanic rocks.
sanidinite facies: one of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of metamorphic rocks, the rocks of which form under the most intense conditions of contact metamorphism-either at the contacts of ...
sanitary landfill: method of controlled disposal of refuse on land. The method was introduced in England in 1912 (where it is called controlled tipping) and involves natural fermentation brought about by microorganisms. ...
Sanj: city, central Niigata ken (prefecture), north-central Honshu, Japan. It lies in the deltaic lowlands of the Shinano River, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Niigata city. ...
Sanjar: in full Mu'izz Ad-din Sanjar Seljuq prince of Khorasan from c. 1096 to 1157, whose fame almost eclipses that of the "Great Seljuqs" because of the length of his reign, ...
Sanjo Sanetomi: radical court noble who was instrumental in the Meiji Restoration (1868), which ended the 264-year domination of Japan by the Tokugawa family and reestablished ruling authority with the emperor. After ...
Sanjo, Go-: 71st emperor of Japan, whose abdication in favour of his son, Kidahito (the emperor Shirakawa), established a precedent for government by retired emperor, thereby contributing to the decline of the ...
Sanka: (Japanese: Mountain Cave), outcaste group of people in Japan. The Sanka are sometimes called the Japanese Gypsies, wandering in small bands through the mountainous regions of Honshu. They are not ...
Sankara: philosopher and theologian, most renowned exponent of the Advaita Vedanta school of philosophy, from whose doctrines the main currents of modern Indian thought are derived. He wrote commentaries on the ...
Sankaran Nair, Sir Chettur: Indian jurist and statesman who, despite his independent views and outspokenness, attained high government positions rarely open to Indians in his time. He simultaneously opposed the extreme Indian nationalist movement ...
sankin kotai: system inaugurated in 1635 in Japan by the Tokugawa shogun (hereditary military dictator) Iemitsu by which the great feudal lords (daimyo) had to reside several months each year in the ...
Sankt Gallen: canton, northeastern Switzerland, bounded north by Lake Constance (Bodensee); east by the Rhine Valley, which separates it from the Austrian Vorarlberg Bundesland (federal state) and from Liechtenstein; south by the ...
Sankt Gallen: town, capital of Sankt Gallen canton, northeastern Switzerland, in the Steinach Valley, just south of Lake Constance (Bodensee). In 612 the Celtic missionary St. Gall founded a hermitage on the ...
Sankt Michael: basilican church in Hildesheim, Ger., that was built between 1010 and 1033 under Bishop Bernward, famous teacher and confidant of the Holy Roman emperor Otto III. The church is one ...
Sankt Polten: city, Niederosterreich Bundesland (federal state), northeastern Austria. It lies along the Traisen River between the foothills of the Alps and the Danube River, west of Vienna. Once the site of ...
Sankt Veit: town, Karnten Bundesland (federal state), southern Austria. It lies along the Glan River north of Klagenfurt. Sankt Veit was the capital of the duchy of Karnten (Carinthia) until 1518. Its ...
Sankt Wolfgang: town, Oberosterreich Bundesland (federal state), central Austria. It lies on the east shore of Wolfgang (Aber) Lake in the Salzkammergut lake region, west of Bad Ischl. A cog, or rack, ...
Sankuru River: main tributary of the Kasai River (itself a tributary of the Congo River) in Congo (Kinshasa), central Africa. About 750 miles (1,200 km) long, it begins in the western highlands ...
Sanliurfa: city, southeastern Turkey. It lies in a fertile plain and is ringed by limestone hills on three sides. The city is very old and controls a strategic pass to the ...
Sanlucar de Barrameda: port city, Cadiz provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. It lies on the south bank of the Guadalquivir River estuary, north of Cadiz city. Built ...
Sanmicheli, Michele: Mannerist architect, especially noted for his original treatment of military fortifications.
Sannar Dam: dam impounding the Blue Nile River for irrigation at the town of Sannar in The Sudan. Completed in 1925, it is 9,925 feet (3,025 m) long with a maximum height ...
Sannazzaro, Jacopo: Italian poet whose Arcadia was the first pastoral romance and, until the rise of the Romantic movement, one of the most influential and popular works of Italian literature.
Sanniquellie: town, north-central Liberia, located at the intersection of roads from Monrovia and Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). A rural administrative centre among the Mano and Malinke (Mandingo), Sanniquellie has secondary schools ...
Sanno Ichijitsu Shinto: in Japanese religion, the syncretic school that combined Shinto with the teachings of the Tendai sect of Buddhism. Shinto-Buddhist syncretism developed from the Japanese concept that Shinto deities (kami) were ...
sannyasi: in Hinduism, a religious ascetic, one who has renounced the world, having achieved the fourth ashrama, or stage, of life. The name sannyasi also specifically designates an ascetic who pays ...
Sano: city, southern Tochigi ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated on the northern edge of the Kanto Plain, on the Watarase River, a tributary of the ...
Sanron: school of Japanese Buddhism derived, by way of China, from the Indian Madhyamika school. See Madhyamika.
sans serif: in printing, a style of roman letter stripped of its serif-i.e., such embellishments as the vertical line at the end of the top right and lower left curved segments of ...
sansculotte: in the French Revolution, a label for the more militant supporters of that movement, especially in the years 1792 to 1795. Sansculottes presented themselves as members of the poorer classes ...
Sansevieria: genus of ornamental foliage plants in the family Agavaceae, with more than 50 species variously known as bowstring hemp, snake plant, and leopard lily, native primarily to tropical Africa. They ...
Sansi: nomadic criminal tribe originally located in the Rajputana area of northwestern India but expelled in the 13th century by Muslim invaders and now living in Rajasthan state as well as ...
Sansin: in Korean religion, a guardian spirit residing in mountains, whose cult has been closely associated with mountain tigers and is still fostered in Korean Buddhist temples. In early indigenous religion ...
Sanskrit language: (Sanskrit samskrta: "prepared, cultivated, purified, refined"), Old Indo-Aryan language, the classical literary language of the Hindus of India. Vedic Sanskrit, based on a dialect of northwestern India, dates from as ...
Sanskrit literature: body of writings produced by the Aryan peoples who entered the Indian subcontinent from the northwest, probably during the 2nd millennium BC. It developed as the vehicle of expression for ...
Sansom, William: writer of short stories, novels, and travel books who is considered particularly acute in his dissections of London life and scenes.
Sansovino, Andrea: Italian architect and sculptor whose works reflect the transition from early to High Renaissance.
Sansovino, Jacopo: sculptor and architect who introduced the style of the High Renaissance into Venice. In 1502 he entered the Florence workshop of the sculptor Andrea Sansovino and as a sign of ...
Sant'Ambrogio Basilica: basilica in Milan, Italy, that is an outstanding example of Lombard Romanesque architecture. Although the church was originally built between 379 and 386, the earliest portions of the present structure ...
Sant'Angelo Bridge: ancient Roman bridge, probably the finest surviving in Rome itself, built over the Tiber by the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138 AD) to connect the Campus Martius with his mausoleum (later ...
Sant'Antioco Island: volcanic island in the Mediterranean Sea, situated just off the southwestern coast of Sardinia, Italy. It has an area of 42 square miles (108 square km), composed for the most ...