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- American journalist, biographer, and charity worker.
- Sancerre
- town, Cher departement, Centre region, central France, on a hilltop overlooking the Loire River, about 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Bourges. It is at the centre of a small ...
- Sanches Neto, Miguel
- (from the article "Literature") Miguel Sanches Neto's 2005 collection of poems, Venho de um pais obscuro e outros poemas, was dedicated "to Miguel Sanches Neto, in memoriam," which gave a broad hint of the ...
- Sanches, Francisco
- physician and philosopher who espoused a "constructive skepticism" that rejected mathematical truths as unreal and Aristotle's theory of knowledge as false. [1 Related Articles]
- Sanchez Cerro, Luis M.
- (from the article "Haya de la Torre, Victor Raul") ...foreign-owned enterprises, and an end to exploitation of Indians. Haya de la Torre returned to Peru to run as the Aprista candidate for president. Peru's oligarchy threw its support behind ...
- Sanchez Coello, Alonso
- painter who was one of the pioneers of the great tradition of Spanish portrait painting. The favourite portrait painter of King Philip II, he introduced into Spanish portraiture a specifically ...
- Sanchez Cotan, Juan
- painter who is considered one of the pioneers of Baroque realism in Spain. A profoundly religious man, he is best known for his still lifes, which in their visual harmony ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sanchez de Lozada, Gonzalo
- (from the article "Bolivia") In the 1993 presidential election, Sanchez de Lozada and the MNR won a plurality, and, in order to ensure his selection by Congress, he formed an alliance with the Solidarity ...
- Sanchez Ferlosio, Rafael
- (from the article "Literature") ...who lived in Malaga, received the National Prize for Poetry for her book Matar a Platon. The Cervantes Prize, considered the top Spanish-language literary prize, was awarded to Rafael Sanchez ...
- Sanchez Hernandez, Fidel
- El Salvadoran politician and military man (b. July 7, 1917, El Divisadero, El Salvador-d. Feb. 28, 2003, San Salvador, El Salvador), as president of El Salvador (1967-72), led the country ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sanchez Vilella, Roberto
- Puerto Rican politician who, as governor of Puerto Rico (1964-69), helped modernize the U.S. commonwealth (b. 1913--d. March 25, 1997).
- Sanchez, Amparo
- (from the article "Performing Arts") From Europe there was more interesting fusion work from Spanish singer Amparo Sanchez, leader of the band Amparanoia. Her album Rebeldia con alegria mixed Cuban rhythms with songs by her ...
- Sanchez, Anibal
- (from the article "Baseball") ...May 28 Barry Bonds hit his 715th career home run, surpassing the mark of Babe Ruth and moving him into second place on the all-time list, behind Hank Aaron, who ...
- Sanchez, Cristina
- (from the article "bullfighting") ..."beautiful spectator." In fact, some critics of bullfighting hold toreras in special disdain. Some say the young attractive bullfighters, such as Cristina Sanchez, who in 1996 became ...
- Sanchez, Daniel
- (from the article "Billiard Games") Spain's Daniel Sanchez won the annual Union Mondial de Billard (UMB) world championship in Lugo, Spain, in June. The surprise runner-up was Jean-Paul De Bruijn of The Netherlands. The victory ...
- Sanchez, Florencio
- (from the article "Uruguay") ...spiritual over materialistic values, as well as resisting cultural dominance by Europe and the United States, continues to influence young writers. Outstanding among Latin American playwrights is Florencio Sanchez; his ...
- Sanchez, Freddy
- (from the article "Baseball") Joe Mauer of Minnesota won the AL batting title with a .347 average. He was the first catcher to take a batting title since Ernie Lombardi of the Boston Braves ...
- Sanchez, Luis Alberto
- Peruvian politician and author (b. Oct. 12, 1900, Lima, Peru--d. Feb. 6, 1994, Lima), was a prolific man of letters who wrote more than 70 volumes of history, biography, literary ...
- Sanchez, Ricardo
- U.S. ex-convict turned poetic dean of Chicano literature, a genre that featured writings fraught with descriptions of misery and embittered cries for social justice (b. March 29, 1941--d. Sept. 3, ...
- Sanchez, Salvador
- Mexican professional boxer, world featherweight (126 pounds) champion, 1980-82.
- Sanchez, Sonia
- American poet, playwright, and educator who was noted for her black activism.
- Sanchi
- historic site, west-central Madhya Pradesh state, central India, just west of the Betwa River. On a flat-topped sandstone hill, rising 300 feet (90 m) above the surrounding country, stands the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Sanchi sculpture
- early Indian sculpture that embellished the 1st-century-BC gateways of the Buddhist relic mound called the Great Stupa (stupa No. 1) at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, which is one of the most ... [4 Related Articles]
- Sancho Garcia
- (from the article "Sancho III Garces") ...Barcelona, Berenguer Ramon I, to accept him as overlord. Gascony did likewise, giving him direct sovereignty over Labourd. As a consequence of his marriage (1010) to Munia, daughter of Count ...
- Sancho I
- king of the Spanish state of Leon from 956, a younger son of Ramiro II.
- Sancho I
- second king of Portugal (1185-1211), son of Afonso I. [1 Related Articles]
- Sancho I Garces
- king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 905. He expanded his kingdom south of the Ebro River and maintained its independence in spite of the sack of his capital in 924 by ... [2 Related Articles]
- Sancho II
- king of Castile from 1065 to 1072, the eldest son of Ferdinand I. [4 Related Articles]
- Sancho II
- fourth king of Portugal, son of Afonso II and of Urraca, who was the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile. [2 Related Articles]
- Sancho II Garces
- king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 970, Count of Aragon, and a son of Garcia I (or II). He was defeated by the Moors in 973 and 981 when allied with ...
- Sancho III
- king of Castile from 1157 to 1158, the elder son of the Spanish emperor Alfonso VII. [1 Related Articles]
- Sancho III Garces
- king of Pamplona (Navarre) from about 1000 to 1035, the son of Garcia II (or III). [9 Related Articles]
- Sancho IV
- king of Castile and Leon from 1284 to 1295, second son of Alfonso X. Though ambitious and ruthless, he was also an able politician and a cultivated man. [3 Related Articles]
- Sancho IV
- king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 1054 to 1076, son of Garcia III (or IV). [1 Related Articles]
- Sancho Ramirez
- king of Aragon from 1063 to 1094 and of Pamplona (or Navarre; as Sancho V Ramirez) from 1076 to 1094, the son of Ramiro I of Aragon. [1 Related Articles]
- Sancho VI
- king of Navarre (Pamplona) from 1150 and son of Garcia IV (or V) the Restorer. [1 Related Articles]
- Sancho VII
- king of Navarre (Pamplona) from 1194 to 1234, the son of Sancho VI. [1 Related Articles]
- Sanchuniathon
- ancient Phoenician writer. All information about him is derived from the works of Philo of Byblos (flourished AD 100). Excavations at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) in Syria in 1929 revealed ...
- Sancroft, William
- archbishop of Canterbury, leader of a group of seven bishops who were imprisoned for opposing policies of the Roman Catholic king James II.
- Sancti Spiritus
- city, central Cuba. Founded in 1516 on the Tuinicu River, the settlement was moved to the banks of the Yayabo River in 1524. It is the oldest city of interior ... [1 Related Articles]
- sanctification
- (from the article "grace") in Christian theology, the spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine favour in the salvation of sinners, and the divine influence operating in man for his regeneration and sanctification. The English ...
- sanction
- in the social sciences, a reaction (or the threat or promise of a reaction) by members of a social group indicating approval or disapproval of a mode of conduct and ... [22 Related Articles]
- Sanctuary
- (from the article "Trois Freres") ...discovered in 1914, and most of the pictures of animals, together with a couple of therianthropes (half-human, half-animal figures), are located on the walls of a deep interior chamber known ...
- sanctuary
- (from the article "guerrilla warfare") If a guerrilla force is to survive, let alone prosper, it must control safe areas to which it can retire for recuperation and repair of arms and equipment and where ...
- sanctuary
- in religion, a sacred place, set apart from the profane, ordinary world. Originally, sanctuaries were natural locations, such as groves or hills, where the divine or sacred was believed to ... [2 Related Articles]
- sanctuary knocker
- in architecture, knocker on the outer door of a Christian church. The sanctuary knocker could be a simple metal ring, which accounts for its other name of sanctuary ring, or ...
- Sanctus
- (from the article "Gregorian chant") ...of psalms, of early Glorias attests to their ancient origin. Later Gloria chants are neumatic. The melodies of the Credo, accepted into the mass about the 11th century, resemble psalm ...
- Sancy diamond
- fiery stone of Indian origin that is shaped like a peach pit and weighs 55 carats. It has a long history and has passed through many royal families. Purchased in ...
- Sancy Hill
- (from the article "Auvergne") ...extensive ash and lava remains of three powerful volcanoes of the Quaternary Period (within the past 1.8 million years). They reach 6,184 feet (1,885 metres) at the summit of the ...
- sand
- mineral, rock, or soil particles that range in diameter from 0.02 to 2 millimetres (0.0008-0.08 inch). Most of the rock-forming minerals that occur on the Earth's surface are found in ... [15 Related Articles]
- sand beach
- (from the article "coastal landforms") A wave-dominated coast is one that is characterized by well-developed sand beaches typically formed on long barrier islands with a few widely spaced tidal inlets. The barrier islands tend to ...
- sand bluestem
- (from the article "bluestem") ...as turkeyfoot, in reference to its forked flower cluster. Little bluestem (A. scoparius), 0.5 to 1.5 m tall, is found in drier prairie areas. Both species are good hay and ...
- sand boa
- (from the article "boa") Subfamily Erycinae includes 10 Asian, Indian, and African species of sand boa (genus Eryx) and the West African earth python (Charina reinhardtii), in addition ...
- sand casting
- (from the article "metallurgy") Sand-casting is widely used for making cast-iron and steel parts of medium to large size in which surface smoothness and dimensional precision are not of primary importance.
- Sand Creek Declaration
- (from the article "Disciples of Christ") In 1889 several rural churches in Illinois issued the Sand Creek Declaration, withdrawing fellowship from those practicing "innovations and corruptions." In 1904 a separate "preacher list" issued unofficially by some ...
- Sand Creek Massacre
- (Nov. 29, 1864), controversial surprise attack upon a surrendered, partially disarmed Cheyenne Indian camp in southeastern Colorado Territory by a force of about 1,200 U.S. troops, mostly Colorado volunteers, under ... [1 Related Articles]
- sand dollar
- any of the invertebrate marine animals of the order Clypeastroida (class Echinoidea, phylum Echinodermata) that has a flat, disk-shaped body. They are close relatives of sea urchins and heart urchins. ... [2 Related Articles]
- sand dune
- any accumulation of sand grains shaped into a mound or ridge by the wind under the influence of gravity. Sand dunes are comparable to other forms that appear when a ... [11 Related Articles]
- sand flat
- (from the article "boundary ecosystem") ...matter derived from nearby seaweed or sea-grass beds. A beach near the high-tide level may be so unstable that few animals are able to live in it, but a little ...
- sand flea
- any of several terrestrial crustaceans of the family Talitridae (order Amphipoda) that are notable for their hopping ability. The European sand flea (Talitrus saltator), which is about 1.5 centimetres (0.6 ... [2 Related Articles]
- sand fly
- any insect of the family Phlebotomidae (sometimes considered part of the family Psychodidae) of the order Diptera. The aquatic larvae live in the intertidal zone of coastal beaches, in mud, ... [2 Related Articles]
- sand food
- (from the article "Lennoaceae") ...scales. The plant's domelike head is covered at maturity with small, starlike flowers, violet with yellow throats. Two species of Pholisma occur in southwestern North America: sand ...
- sand fulgurite
- (from the article "fulgurite") a glassy silica mineral (lechatelierite or amorphous SiO2) fused in the heat from a lightning strike. Fulgurite is a common mineral with two varieties. Sand fulgurites, the more common, are ...
- Sand Hills
- region of grass-covered, stabilized sand dunes in the High Plains of north-central Nebraska, U.S. Extending 265 miles (425 km) across Nebraska and a portion of southern South Dakota, it covers ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sand Island
- (from the article "Midway Islands") ...northwest of Honolulu. The islands, near the western end of the Hawaiian archipelago, comprise a coral atoll with a circumference of 15 miles (24 km), enclosing two main islands, Eastern ...
- sand lance
- any of about 18 species of marine fishes of the family Ammodytidae (order Perciformes). Sand lances are slim, elongated, usually silver fishes especially abundant in northern seas. Although eel-like in ...
- sand love grass
- (from the article "love grass") Plains love grass (E. intermedia), sand love grass (E. trichodes), and weeping love grass (E. curvula) are forage species in southern North America. Weeping love grass, native to South Africa, ...
- sand martin
- (from the article "martin") ...(order Passeriformes). In America the name refers to the purple martin (Progne subis) and its four tropical relatives-at 20 cm (8 inches) long, the largest American swallows. The sand martin, ...
- sand painting
- type of art that exists in highly developed forms among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest and in simpler forms among several Plains and California Indian tribes. ... [2 Related Articles]
- sand quillwort
- (from the article "quillwort") ...are aquatic. Their stiff, dark green, recurved, spiky leaves grow around a stumpy corm. Italian quillwort (I. malinverniana) has longer, spiraling leaves that float on the water surface. Sand quillwort ...
- sand rat
- either of two species of gerbils in the genus Psammomys.
- Sand River
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...the United States, the Peninsular gneisses and Sargur supracrustals of southern India, the English River gneisses of Ontario in Canada that form a narrow strip between greenstone-granite belts, the Sand ...
- Sand River and Bloemfontein conventions
- (1852 and 1854, respectively), conventions between Great Britain and the Voortrekkers, or Afrikaners who made the Great Trek in South Africa; it guaranteed their right to govern themselves without the ... [3 Related Articles]
- sand shark
- any of about three species of sharks of the genera Carcharias and Odontaspis in the family Odontaspididae. Sand sharks are found in shallow water, usually at or near the bottom, ... [1 Related Articles]
- sand sheet
- (from the article "sedimentary rock") Sandstones occur in strata of all geologic ages. Much scientific understanding of the depositional environment of ancient sandstones comes from detailed study of sand bodies forming at the present time. ...
- sand shrimp
- (from the article "shrimp") The common European shrimp, or sand shrimp, Crangon vulgaris (Crago septemspinosus), occurs in coastal waters on both sides of the North Atlantic and grows to about 8 centimetres (3 inches); ...
- sand skink
- (from the article "skink") ...are found from Southeast Asia to northern Australia. Mabuyas (Mabuya), with about 105 species, are ground dwellers and are distributed worldwide in the tropics. Sand skinks (
- Sand Springs
- city, Tulsa county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S., near a spring in the Osage Hills. First settled in 1933 by Creek Indians, who called it Adams Springs after U.S. President John Quincy ...
- sand stargazer
- (from the article "stargazer") fish of two related families, Uranoscopidae (electric stargazers) and Dactyloscopidae (sand stargazers), both of the order Perciformes. Stargazers habitually bury themselves in the bottom. They have tapered bodies and big, ...
- sand wasp
- any of a group of wasps in the subfamily Bembicinae (family Crabronidae, order Hymenoptera) that are solitary, stout-bodied insects about 2 to 2.5 cm (about 0.8 to 1 inch) long. [1 Related Articles]
- sand wedge
- (from the article "Sarazen, Gene") It was Sarazen who invented the golf club known as the sand wedge. This specialized club allows golfers to more easily hit out of sand traps (bunkers). The introduction of ...
- Sand, George
- French Romantic writer, known primarily for her so-called rustic novels. [7 Related Articles]
- Sand, Karl
- (from the article "Carlsbad Decrees") ...foreign minister Klemens, Prince von Metternich, to take advantage of the consternation caused by recent revolutionary outrages-especially the murder of the dramatist August Kotzebue by Karl Sand, a member of ...
- sand-lime brick
- (from the article "brick and tile") Sand-lime brick is a product that uses lime instead of cement. It is usually a white brick made of lime and selected sands, cast in molds and cured. Production is ...
- sandae togam gug
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...popular tastes. These performers included all the miscellaneous stage arts in their repertoire and created from the various court dances and masked plays a type of folk masked play usually ...
- Sandage, Allan Rex
- U.S. astronomer who discovered the first quasi-stellar radio source (quasar), a starlike object that is a strong emitter of radio waves. He made the discovery in collaboration with the U.S. ... [2 Related Articles]
- sandai-hiho
- (from the article "Nichiren Buddhism") ...and that, inasmuch as all men partake of the Buddha-nature, all men are manifestations of the eternal. He devised three ways of expressing this concept, known as the
- Sandakan
- city and port, eastern Sabah, East Malaysia, northeastern Borneo. It is located on an inlet of the Sulu Sea, near the mouth of the Kinabatangan River, on the heavily indented ... [1 Related Articles]
- sandal
- type of footwear consisting of a sole secured to the foot by straps over the instep, toes, or ankle. The oldest known example of a sandal, dating from about 2000 ... [1 Related Articles]
- sandalwood
- any semiparasitic plant of the genus Santalum (family Santalaceae), especially the fragrant wood of the true, or white, sandalwood, Santalum album. The approximately 10 species of Santalum are distributed throughout ... [4 Related Articles]
- sandarac
- brittle, faintly aromatic, translucent resin, usually available in the form of small, pale yellow, dusty tears; it is used as incense and in making a spirit varnish for coating paper, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sandawe
- a people living near Kondoa, Tanzania, between the Bubu and Mponde rivers, and speaking one of the three branches of the Khoisan languages. [1 Related Articles]
- Sandawe language
- (from the article "Khoisan languages") A traditional linguistic classification of the Southern African Khoisan languages divides them into three effectively unrelated groups: Northern, Central, and Southern. Sandawe of Tanzania has a distant relationship to the ...
- Sanday, William
- New Testament scholar, one of the pioneers in introducing to English students and the Anglican world the mass of work done by continental scholars in biblical criticism, particularly through his ...
- sandbank model
- (from the article "comet") ...and meteor showers was interpreted by assuming that the cometary nucleus was an aggregate of dust or sand grains without any cohesion. (This conception of the cometary nucleus became known ...
- sandbar
- submerged or partly exposed ridge of sand or coarse sediment that is built by waves offshore from a beach. The swirling turbulence of waves breaking off a beach excavates a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sandberg, Inger
- (from the article "children's literature") ...as has Karin Anckarsvard, whose Doktorns pojk' (1963; Eng. trans., Doctor's Boy, 1965) is a quietly moving tale of small-town life in the horse-and-buggy days. The Sandbergs, Inger and Lasse, ...
- Sandberg, Lasse
- (from the article "children's literature") ...Karin Anckarsvard, whose Doktorns pojk' (1963; Eng. trans., Doctor's Boy, 1965) is a quietly moving tale of small-town life in the horse-and-buggy days. The Sandbergs, Inger and Lasse, have advanced ...
- Sandberg, Ryne
- (from the article "Chicago Cubs") ...Famers are infielder Ernie Banks ("Mr. Cub"), who spent his entire career (1953-71) with the team, hitting 512 home runs; outfielder Billy Williams (1959-74); second baseman Ryne Sandberg (1982-94, 1996-97); ...
- sandbox tree
- either of two species of large trees (Hura crepitans and H. polyandra) in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). They are among the largest trees of tropical America and are interesting for ...
- sandbur
- any grass of the genus Cenchrus (family Poaceae), consisting of about 20 to 25 species native to warm, sandy areas of North America, North Africa, Asia, Europe, and the South ... [2 Related Articles]
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