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Sapulpa: city, seat (1907) of Creek county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S. In 1886 the Frisco Railroad reached the site that the railroad men called Sapulpa, the name of a Creek Indian family ...
sapwood: outer, living layers of the secondary wood of trees, which engage in transport of water and minerals to the crown of the tree. The cells therefore contain more water and ...
Saqalibah: in medieval Muslim Spain, Slavs, or people from the Black Sea coast north of Constantinople. Later, by extension, the term came to designate all foreign slaves in the military.
Saqqarah: part of the necropolis of the ancient city of Memphis, Egypt, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Cairo and west of the modern Arab village of Saqqarah. The site extends ...
Sar Mountains: mountain range in western Macedonia, one of the most rugged and impassable in the Balkans, extending northeast-southwest for about 47 miles (75 km). A southern continuation along the Albanian frontier, ...
Sara: cluster of peoples living on the fringe of the southern Sudan, especially in the northwestern regions of the Central African Republic and the south-central area surrounding Sarh, south of Lake ...
Sara Buri: town, central Thailand, northeast of Bangkok. Sara Buri (locally called Pak Phrieo) is on the south bank of the Pa Sak River. Its economy is based on textile, metalworking, food-manufacturing, ...
Sara Lee Corporation: major American producer of frozen baked goods, fresh and processed meats, coffee, hosiery and knitwear, and household and shoe-care products. It is headquartered in Chicago.
sarabande: originally, a dance considered disreputable in 16th-century Spain, and, later, a slow, stately dance that was popular in France. Possibly of Mexican origin or perhaps evolved from a Spanish dance ...
Saracen: in the Middle Ages, any person-Arab, Turk, or other-who professed the religion of Islam. Earlier in the Roman world, there had been references to Saracens (Greek: Sarakenoi) by late classical ...
Saracoglu, Sukru: statesman who served as prime minister of the Turkish republic from 1942 to 1946.
Sarada script: writing system used for the Kashmiri language by the educated Hindu minority in Kashmir and the surrounding valleys. It is taught in the Hindu schools there but is not used ...
Saragat, Giuseppe: statesman and founder of the Socialist Party of Italian Workers (PSLI), who held many ministerial posts from 1944 to 1964, when he became president of the Italian Republic (1964-71).
Sarah: in the Old Testament, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Sarah was childless until she was 90 years old. God promised Abraham that she would be "a mother of ...
Saraikela: city, southern Bihar state, northeastern India. The city is a road and agricultural-trade centre located on an undulating plain with copper, iron-ore, asbestos, and limestone deposits. Saraikela was the capital ...
Sarajevo: capital and cultural centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies in the narrow valley of the Miljacka River at the foot of Mount Trebevic. The city retains a strong Muslim ...
Saramacca: creole language, based on English, spoken by Bush Negroes in the Guianas. See Sranantonga.
Saramago, Jos: Portuguese novelist and man of letters who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Saran: city, east-central Kazakstan. A major centre of coal mining in the Qaraghandy coal basin, it was established in 1946 near the Saran coal deposit and became a city in 1954. ...
Saranac Lake: village and year-round resort, astride the Essex-Franklin county line, northeastern New York, U.S. It is situated on small Flower Lake near the Saranac and St. Regis chain of lakes, in ...
Sarandon, Susan: American film actress who transcended the early roles of her career, when she often played characters who were highly sensual but little else, to become a performer of considerable versatility ...
sarangi: short-necked fiddle used throughout South Asia, particularly for folk and classical Hindustani music. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) long, its roughly rectangular, slightly waisted body and broad, fretless neck ...
Sarangpur: city, northwestern Madhya Pradesh state, central India, just east of the Kali Sindh River. Sarangpur is located on an ancient site. It has a number of Jaina and Hindu ruins, ...
Saransk: city and capital of Mordvinia, in western Russia. It lies along the upper Insar River and on the western flank of the Volga River uplands. The city was founded in ...
Sarapeum: either of two temples of ancient Egypt, dedicated to the worship of the Greco-Egyptian god Sarapis (Serapis). The original elaborate temple of that name was located on the west bank ...
Sarapion, Saint: Egyptian monk, theologian, and bishop of Thmuis, Lower Egypt, in the Nile River delta.
Sarapis: Greco-Egyptian deity of the sun first encountered at Memphis, where his cult was celebrated in association with that of the sacred Egyptian bull Apis (who was called Osorapis when deceased). ...
Sarapul: city and centre of Sarapul rayon (sector) of Udmurtia, in western Russia. It is a port on the Kama River. Founded in the 16th century as a Russian stronghold on ...
Sarasate, Pablo de: celebrated Spanish violin virtuoso and composer.
Sarasin, Jean-Francois: French author of elegant verse, best known for the mock epic Dulot vaincu ("Dulot Defeated"), for the epic fragments Rollon conquerant ("Roland in Conquest") and La Guerre espagnole ("The Spanish ...
Sarasota: city, seat (1921) of Sarasota county, west-central Florida, U.S. It lies along Sarasota Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico), about 60 miles (95 km) south of Tampa. Sarasota, ...
Sarasvati: Hindu goddess of learning and the arts. She is first referred to in literature as the personification of the sacred river, the Sarasvati, and is also identified with Vac, the ...
Saratoga: county, eastern New York state, U.S., bounded by the Hudson River to the northeast and east and the Mohawk River to the southeast. Other waterways include Snook Kill and Great ...
Saratoga Springs: city, Saratoga county, east-central New York, U.S. It lies in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, west of the Hudson River, 30 miles (48 km) north of Albany. Possessing numerous ...
Saratoga, Battles of: in the American Revolution, closely related engagements in the fall of 1777 that are often called the turning point of the war in favour of the Americans. The failure of ...
Saratov: city and administrative centre of Saratov oblast (province), western Russia. The city lies along the middle course of the Volga River and was founded in 1590 as ...
Saratov: oblast (province), western Russia. With an area of 38,700 square miles (100,200 square km), the oblast lies in the basin of the middle Volga River, which bisects it north-south. Saratov ...
Sarawak: historic region that is now a state of Malaysia. It comprises the northwestern part of the island of Borneo and is bounded by the sultanate of Brunei and Sabah (Malaysia) ...
Sarazen, Gene: prominent American professional golfer of the 1920s and '30s. His double eagle-i.e., his score of three strokes under par-on the par-five 15th hole in the last round of the 1935 ...
Sarcee: North American Plains Indian people of Athabascan linguistic stock who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries near the upper Saskatchewan and Athabaska rivers. They probably moved southward to this ...
Sarcocystis: genus of sporozoan parasites (phylum Protozoa) that are found in the heart and skeletal muscles of mammals (cattle, pigs, sheep, and man), birds, and reptiles. Infected muscle tissue contains white, ...
sarcodine: any protozoan of the superclass (sometimes class or subphylum) Sarcodina. These organisms have streaming cytoplasm and use temporary cytoplasmic extensions called pseudopodia in locomotion (called amoeboid movement) and feeding. Sarcodines ...
sarcoidosis: systemic disease of unknown cause that is characterized by the formation of granulation (scarlike) tissue. Sarcoidosis often disappears spontaneously within two or three years but may progress to involve more ...
sarcoma: tumour of connective tissue (also called mesodermal, or mesenchymal, cells). This form of cancer is relatively rare in adults but is one of the more common malignancies among children; it ...
sarcophagus: stone coffin. The original term is of doubtful meaning; Pliny explains that the word denotes a coffin of limestone from the Troad (the region around Troy) which had the property ...
sard and sardonyx: translucent, light- to dark-brown varieties of the silica mineral chalcedony, historically two of the most widely used semiprecious stones. Sard and its close relative carnelian have been used in engraved ...
Sarda River: river rising in the Himalayas and flowing south-southeast along the India-Nepal border to join the Ghaghara River after a course of about 300 miles (480 km). In its upper course, ...
sardana: communal dance intimately bound up with Catalan national consciousness. It is danced by men and women who join hands alternately in a closed circle. As they dance to the music ...
Sardanapalus: legendary king of Assyria. He apparently represents an amalgamation of the characters and tragic fates of three Assyrian rulers: Ashurbanipal (q.v.; ruled 668-627 BC); his brother, Shamash-shum-ukin; and the last ...
Sardica, Council of: (342/343), an ecclesiastical council of the Christian Church held at Sardica, or Serdica (modern Sofia, Bulg.). It was convened by the joint emperors Constantius II (Eastern, sympathetic to the Arian ...
sardine: any of certain food fishes of the herring (q.v.) family, Clupeidae, especially members of the genera Sardina, Sardinops, and Sardinella; the name sardine can also refer to the common herring ...
Sardinia: kingdom of the house of Savoy from 1720, which was centred on the lands of Piedmont (in northwestern Italy) and Sardinia. In 1718, by the Treaty of London among the ...
Sardinia: island and regione of Italy, second in size only to Sicily among the islands of the western Mediterranean. It lies 120 miles (200 km) west of the mainland of Italy, ...
Sardinian language: Romance language spoken on the Italian-ruled island of Sardinia; it is most similar to Vulgar Latin of all the modern Romance languages. Major dialects of Sardinian are Logudorian, spoken in ...
Sardis: ruined capital of ancient Lydia, near present Izmir, Turkey. Strategically located on a spur at the foot of Mount Tmolus (Boz Dag), it commanded the central plain of the Hermus ...
Sardou, Victorien: playwright who, with Emile Augier and Alexandre Dumas fils, dominated the French stage in the late 19th century and is still remembered as a craftsman of bourgeois drama of a ...
Sarduy, Severo: novelist, poet, critic, and essayist, one of the most daring and brilliant writers of the 20th century.
Sarek National Park: park in Norrbotten lan (county), northwestern Sweden, encompassing most of the Sarek mountain range. It was established in 1909, with the setting aside of an area of 746 square miles ...
Sarekat Islam: the first nationalist political party in Indonesia to gain wide popular support. Founded in 1912 the party originated as an association of those Muslim merchants who wanted to advance their ...
Sargasso Sea: area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. It lies between the parallels 20° N and ...
Sargassum: genus of brown algae (150 species) adapted for a free-floating tropical environment even though many species grow attached to rocks along the coast. The Sargasso Sea, a free-floating mass of ...
Sargeant, Winthrop: influential American music critic noted for his fine writing and conservative tastes.
Sargent, John Singer: Italian-born American painter whose elegant portraits provide an enduring image of Edwardian-age society. The wealthy and privileged on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean came to his studio in London ...
Sargent, Sir John Philip: British statesman and educator who served as the principal educational adviser to the government of India from 1938 to 1948.
Sargent, Sir Malcolm: English conductor who, as Britain's self-styled "ambassador of music," toured throughout the world.
Sargeson, Frank: novelist and writer of short stories whose ironic, stylistically diverse works made him the most widely known New Zealand literary figure of his day.
Sargodha: city, Punjab province, Pakistan. The city is a grain and cash crop market connected by road with Lahore and Mianwali and by rail with Faisalabad (formerly Lyallpur) and Lahore. Industries ...
Sargon: ancient Mesopotamian ruler (reigned c. 2334-2279 BC), one of the earliest of the world's great empire builders, conquering all of southern Mesopotamia as well as parts of Syria, Anatolia, and ...
Sargon I: ruler of Assyria during the old Akkadian period. Little is known in detail of Assyria during the time of Sargon, but clearly the Assyrian trading colony in Cappadocia, known from ...
Sargon II: one of Assyria's great kings (reigned 721-705 BC) during the last century of its history. He extended and consolidated the conquests of his presumed father, Tiglath-pileser III.
Sarh: city, southern Chad, central Africa, on the Chari River. It is named for the dominant ethnic group, the Sara, and is the country's fourth largest city. Its warm and seasonally ...
sari: principal outer garment of women of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of a piece of often brightly coloured, frequently embroidered, silk, cotton, or, in recent years, synthetic cloth five to seven ...
Sari: city and capital, Mazandaran ostan (province), northern Iran. Founded during the Sasanid period (AD 224-651), it became the capital of Tabarestan (7th-9th century) after the Arab conquest of the region. ...
sarinda: Indian folk instrument of the fiddle family. It has a heart-shaped wooden body, a short fretless neck, lateral pegs inserted in a cubed pegbox, and three horsehair or gut strings.
Sariska Wild Life Sanctuary: wildlife preserve in Alwar district, Rajasthan state, northwestern India, established in 1955 with an area of 190 sq mi (492 sq km) in Sariska Forest. Acacia forests cover the arid ...
Sarit Thanarat: field marshal and premier in a military government of Thailand from 1958 to 1963.