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- (from the article "Salish") ...In winter a band would occupy a river village; in summer it would travel, living at campsites, fishing, and gathering wild plant foods. Tribes toward the centre of the culture ...
- Sanquhar Declaration
- (from the article "Cameron, Richard") Cameron returned at the end of the year, and, on June 22, 1680, he and his friends, including Donald Cargill, Thomas Douglas, and David Hackston, issued the Sanquhar Declaration, calling ...
- Sans egal
- (from the article "bagatelle") Sans egal is a French form of the game. Two players take part, one using the red balls and one using the white. The leader plays at the black, forfeiting ...
- Sans Sault Rapids
- (from the article "Mackenzie River") Where the Mountain River joins the Mackenzie from the west there is a fast-water section known as Sans Sault Rapids; the river drops about 20 feet within a few miles. ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Sans Souci
- (from the article "Christophe, Henry") ...capital at Cap-Haitien. In August 1820 he suffered a paralytic stroke. When his condition was learned, revolts broke out. In despair over his failure to pacify the country, he shot ...
- 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Sanseki
- (from the article "Fujiwara Yukinari") Japanese calligrapher, known as one of the Sanseki ("Three Brush Traces"), in effect the finest calligraphers of the age. The others were Ono Tofu and Fujiwara Sukemasa, and the three ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sansevieria trifasciata
- (from the article "angiosperm") ...(Figure 10), long flat leaves in the same plane as the stem are formed (Iris; Iridaceae); if short-lived (Figure 10), flat leaves with short cylindrical tips develop (snake plant, Sansevieria ...
- 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 ... [27 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [12 Related Articles]
- Sanskritization
- (from the article "Hinduism") The development of Hinduism can be interpreted as a constant interaction between the religion of the upper social groups, represented by the Brahmans, and the religion of other groups. From ...
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Sant
- (from the article "Sikhism") ...were people who sought spiritual guidance. In its earliest stage Sikhism was clearly a movement within the Hindu tradition; Nanak was raised a Hindu and eventually belonged to the Sant ...
- Sant'Abbondio, Church of
- (from the article "Como") ...Maria Maggiore (14th-18th century), a fine example of the fusion of Gothic and Renaissance styles; the Broletto, or Communal Tower (1215; facade rebuilt 1435), the former city hall; and the ...
- Sant'Agnese in Agone
- (from the article "Borromini, Francesco") ...to the late 16th-century oval church of S. Anna dei Palafrenieri was Borromini's personal project. His attempt to integrate a five-bay front and two towers with the existing oval dome ...
- Sant'Agostino
- (from the article "Rome") Of the scores of churches in the Campus Martius of historical, architectural, and artistic interest, S. Agostino (1479-83) is the most Roman, the church to which would-be mothers come and ...
- Sant'Agostino
- (from the article "Piero della Francesca") ...Sansepolcro, and a "Madonna del Parto" in the chapel of the cemetery at Monterchi. In 1454 a burgher of Sansepolcro, Agnolo di Giovanni di Simone d'Angelo, commissioned an altarpiece for ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Sant'Andrea
- (from the article "Correggio") ...arriving before the death in 1506 of the famed early Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna. It has traditionally been said that he completed the decoration of Mantegna's family chapel in the ...
- Sant'Andrea della Valle
- (from the article "Bernini, Gian Lorenzo") ...to control the environments of his statuary led Bernini to concentrate more and more on architecture. Of the churches he designed after completing the Cornaro Chapel, the most impressive is ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sant'Angelo, Mount
- (from the article "Sorrento") ...on a peninsula separating the Bay of Naples, which it faces, from the Gulf of Salerno, south-southeast of Naples. The backbone of the peninsula is formed by the Lattari Mountains, ...
- Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri
- (from the article "Borromini, Francesco") ...lantern of the church's dome himself. Borromini's personality is apparent in these projects, though Maderno's style dominates them. A facade to be attached to the late 16th-century oval church of ...
- Sant'Anna, Sergio
- (from the article "Brazilian literature") ...sometimes take the form of political allegory, as in the collection Seminario dos ratos (1977; "Seminar of Rats"; Eng. trans. Tigrela and Other Stories); Sergio Sant'Anna, a novelist whose stories ...
- Sant'Antioco
- (from the article "Sant'Antioco Island") The chief town and port, on the northeast coast, is Sant'Antioco, site of the Phoenician and Roman city of Sulcis (Sulci), destroyed by the Saracens in the European Middle Ages. ...
- Sant'Antioco Island
- volcanic island in the Mediterranean Sea, situated just off the southwestern coast of Sardinia, Italy. It is composed for the most part of rocky and uneven terrain and rises to ...
- Sant'Antonio, Battle of
- (from the article "Garibaldi, Giuseppe") ...Garibaldi took command of a newly formed Italian Legion at Montevideo, the first of the Redshirts, with whom his name became so closely associated. After he won a small but ...
- Sant'Apollinare in Classe
- (from the article "campanile") ...variously dated from the 6th to the 10th century, were plain round towers with a few small, round-arched openings grouped near the top. Typical examples of this type stand beside ...
- Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
- (from the article "Ravenna") ...king Theuderic (d. 526), the most impressive is his mausoleum. This two-storied structure is capped by a single-slab limestone dome that is 36 feet (11 metres) in diameter. The Basilica ...
- Sant'Elia, Antonio
- Italian architect notable for his visionary drawings of the city of the future. [2 Related Articles]
- Sant'Elmo, Castel
- (from the article "Naples") ...the San Martino Hill is surmounted by a former Carthusian monastery-now an important museum of paintings and objects concerned with the history of Naples-and by the massive abutment of Castel ...
- Sant'Ignazio
- (from the article "Borromini, Francesco") ...towers with the existing oval dome prefigured his S. Agnese in Agone (in Piazza Navona) in its placement of plastic volumes in space. Equally significant was his transformation of Maderno's ...
- Sant'Ivo della Sapienza
- (from the article "Borromini, Francesco") ...the supporting metal cage for a barrel vault in the Palazzo Pamphili in Piazza Navona; the precise brickwork of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri; and his inventive domes and ...
- Santa Ana
- city, seat (1889) of Orange county, southern California, U.S. It lies at the base of the Santa Ana Mountains, on the Santa Ana River. It was explored by the Spaniard ...
- Santa Ana
- (from the article "Los Angeles") The many days of sun and comparative lack of rain add to a sense of physical well-being. Blasts of Santa Ana winds, usually hot and dry, streak through the mountain ...
- Santa Ana
- city, western El Salvador. Santa Ana is situated in a basin between mountains at an elevation of 2,182 feet (665 metres). It is located on the Inter-American Highway, a section ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santa Ana Mountains
- segment of the Coast Ranges (see Pacific mountain system), southern California, U.S. The range extends for about 25 miles (40 km) from the Santa Ana River southward along the Orange-Riverside ...
- Santa Ana Volcano
- , mountain peak in southwestern El Salvador. The highest peak in the country, it rises to 7,749 feet (2,362 metres). The volcano has been active since the 16th century and ...
- Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de
- army officer and statesman who was the storm centre of Mexico's politics during such events as the Texas revolt (1836) and the Mexican-American War (1846-48). [13 Related Articles]
- Santa Barbara
- town, northwestern Honduras. It lies in the hot lowlands near the Ulua River and west of Lake Yojoa. It was founded in 1761 by settlers from Gracias. Santa Barbara is ...
- Santa Barbara
- city, seat (1850) of Santa Barbara county, southwestern California, U.S. It lies along the Pacific coast at the base of the Santa Ynez Mountains, facing the Santa Barbara Channel. It ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santa Bibiana
- (from the article "painting, Western") The little church of Santa Bibiana in Rome harbours three of the key works that ushered in the High Baroque, all executed in 1624-26: Gian Lorenzo Bernini's facade and the ...
- Santa Catalina Island
- one of the Channel Islands, 22 miles (35 km) off the Pacific coast of California, U.S. The largest of the Santa Catalina group of the Channel Islands, it is 22 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Santa Catarina
- southern coastal estado (state) of Brazil, bounded to the north by the state of Parana, to the south by the state of Rio Grande do Sul, to the east by ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santa Catarina River
- (from the article "Guadalupe") city, central Nuevo Leon estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It lies 672 feet (205 m) above sea level on the Santa Catarina River, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Monterrey, ...
- Santa Catarina, Serra de
- (from the article "Guimaraes") city, northwestern Portugal. Guimaraes lies at the foot of the Serra de Santa Catarina (2,018 feet [615 m]), northeast of the city of Porto. Founded in the 4th century, Guimaraes ...
- Santa Catharina System
- (from the article "Gondwana") ...is particularly cited in this regard. The rock strata that contain this evidence are called the Karoo (Karroo) System in South Africa, the Gondwana System in India, and the Santa ...
- Santa Chiara
- (from the article "Vittone, Bernardo Antonio") ...within structures might also be illusionistically achieved or enhanced by skillful painting or by the manipulation of lighting through cleverly placed windows. A prime example is the Church of Santa ...
- Santa Chiara
- (from the article "Naples") Overlooked from the west by Palazzo Pignatelli (where the painter Edgar Degas resided while in Naples) and with the 18th-century ornate Neapolitan obelisk Guglia dell'Immacolata at its centre, this square ...
- Santa Clara
- city, central Cuba. It lies at 367 feet (112 m) above sea level amid hills of coral rock. Founded in 1689 by families fleeing constant pirate threats in coastal Remedios, ...
- Santa Clara
- (from the article "Silicon Valley") ...city in northern California. Electronics, computers, and computer software made the region's wealth, but much of that wealth was absorbed by real estate: by 2000 the median price of a ...
- Santa Clara
- city, Santa Clara county, west-central California, U.S. It lies along the Guadalupe River in the Santa Clara Valley, about 48 miles (77 km) southeast of San Francisco and immediately adjacent ...
- Santa Clara University
- private coeducational institution of higher learning in Santa Clara, California, U.S., affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. It offers a variety of undergraduate programs as well ...
- Santa Clara Valley
- (from the article "San Jose") ...east of Sacramento. In 1864 the coming of the railroad from San Francisco gave San Jose improved trade connections and enabled the produce of nearby farms to be readily shipped ...
- Santa Clarita
- city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. Situated along the Santa Clara River in the Santa Clarita valley between the San Gabriel and Santa Susana mountains, it lies 35 miles ...
- Santa Claus
- legendary figure who is the traditional patron of Christmas in the United States and other countries, bringing gifts to children. His popular image is based on traditions associated with Saint ... [2 Related Articles]
- Santa Claus
- town, Spencer county, southwestern Indiana, U.S. It lies 38 miles (61 km) east-northeast of Evansville. Laid out in 1846, it was jocularly called Santa Claus after the preferred name, Santa ...
- Santa Coloma de Gramenet
- city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The city, a northern industrial suburb of Barcelona, produces metallurgical ...
- Santa Costanza
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...building, round, polygonal, or cruciform in design, gathered considerable momentum in the West as well as in the East in the course of the 4th and 5th centuries. The deconsecrated ...
- Santa Croce
- church of the Franciscans in Florence, one of the finest examples of Italian Gothic architecture. It was begun in 1294, possibly designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, and was finished in ... [7 Related Articles]
- Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
- (from the article "Rome") There is similar lack of record regarding St. Helena's acquisition of the True Cross, which is at Sta. Croce in Gerusalemme. This basilica was built into the palace in which ...
- Santa Cruz
- provincia (province), southern Argentina, lying within the region known as Patagonia and extending westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Andean cordillera on the Chilean frontier. It ...
- Santa Cruz
- city, seat (1850) of Santa Cruz county, west-central California, U.S. It lies on the north shore of Monterey Bay, at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and is about ...
- Santa Cruz
- (from the article "Manila") ...of 14 districts. The districts developed from the original fortress city of Intramuros (Within Walls) and the 13 villages located outside its walls. The districts of Tondo, Santa Mesa, Binondo, ...
- Santa Cruz
- city, east-central Bolivia, situated in the hot, tropical lowlands at 1,365 feet (416 metres) above sea level. Founded by Spaniards from Paraguay in 1561 at what is now San Jose ...
- Santa Cruz citadel
- (from the article "Oran") ...ravine on a hill. The newer city, called La Ville Nouvelle and built by the French after 1831, occupies the terraces on the east bank of the ravine. La Blanca ...
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of the Canary Islands, Spain. It consists of the western members of the Canary Islands, specifically ...
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- port city, capital of the island of Tenerife and of Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Santa Cruz del Quiche
- town, northwestern Guatemala. It lies in the southwestern Chuacus Mountains at an elevation of 6,631 feet (2,021 metres) above sea level. It was founded in 1539. The University of San ...
- Santa Cruz Formation
- (from the article "Miocene Epoch") In Argentina the Santa Cruz Formation of Middle Miocene time provides an excellent record of the unusual Miocene fauna of South America. Marsupial carnivores, aberrant endentates (mammals resembling anteaters, armadillos, ...
- Santa Cruz Island
- second largest of the Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean about 600 miles (965 km) west of mainland Ecuador. It is roughly circular in shape, has a central volcanic ... [2 Related Articles]
- Santa Cruz Islands
- volcanic group of islands in the country of Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean, 345 miles (555 km) east of Guadalcanal. The main islands are Nendo (also called Ndeni Island or ...
- Santa Cruz Islands, Battle of
- (from the article "Halsey, William F., Jr.") ...of the Japanese capital. Consistent successes led to his appointment in October 1942 as commander of the South Pacific force and area. During the next two months, he played a ...
- Santa Cruz River
- (from the article "Argentina") ...through the arid land. The Colorado and Negro rivers, the largest in the south-central part of the country, produce major floods after seasonal snow and ice melt in the Andes. ...
- Santa Cruz water lily
- (from the article "water lily") ...South American genus Victoria, comprising two species of giant water lilies. The leaf margins of both the Amazon, or royal, water lily (V. amazonica, formerly V. regia) and the Santa ...
- Santa Cruz y Espejo, Francisco Javier Eugenio de
- (from the article "Latin American literature") ...American novel. In these early novels, one encounters at every turn the Neoclassical conviction that society would be reformed by a combination of informed individual choice and state regulation. Francisco ...
- Santa Cruz, Alvaro de Bazan, Marques de
- the foremost Spanish naval commander of his day. He was prominent in many successful naval engagements in a century that saw Spain rise to the zenith of its power and ...
- Santa Cruz, Andres de
- (from the article "Argentina") ...independence of neighbouring Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay, which continued to pursue their destinies as independent states rather than as parts of a Buenos Aires-controlled federation. General Andres de Santa Cruz, ...
- Santa Elena Peninsula
- peninsula in western Ecuador that is the northernmost extension of the west-coast desert of South America. It is bounded by the Gulf of Guayaquil on the south and by Santa ...
- Santa Fe
- provincia (province) of lowland plains, northeastern Argentina, bounded to the east by the Parana River. Much of the province lies within the northern reaches of the Pampa, ...
- Santa Fe
- county, a scenic area of northern New Mexico, U.S. The northeastern portion is in the Sangre de Cristo range of the Southern Rocky Mountains, featuring Santa Fe Baldy and Lake ...
- Santa Fe
- capital of New Mexico, U.S., and seat (1852) of Santa Fe county, in the north-central part of the state, on the Santa Fe River. It lies in the northern Rio ... [2 Related Articles]
- Santa Fe
- city, capital of Santa Fe provincia (province), northeastern Argentina. It lies on a channel of the Parana River, at the mouth of the Salado River, opposite the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Santa Fe Baldy
- (from the article "Santa Fe") county, a scenic area of northern New Mexico, U.S. The northeastern portion is in the Sangre de Cristo range of the Southern Rocky Mountains, featuring Santa Fe Baldy and Lake ...
- Santa Fe Institute
- (from the article "Gell-Mann, Murray") In 1984 Gell-Mann cofounded the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit centre located in Santa Fe, N.M., that supports research concerning complex adaptive systems and emergent phenomena associated with complexity. In ...
- Santa Fe Island
- one of the Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 600 mi (965 km) west of Ecuador. Situated halfway between San Cristobal and Santa Cruz islands, it is south ...
- Santa Fe Trail
- in U.S. history, famed wagon trail from Independence, Mo., to Santa Fe, N.M., an important commercial route (1821-80). Opened by William Becknell, a trader, the trail was used by merchant ... [4 Related Articles]
- Santa Fede, Armata della
- (from the article "Italy") ...Parthenopean Republic was the work of bands of peasants organized by Fabrizio Cardinal Ruffo, a faithful adherent of the king. Ruffo's bands quickly disposed of the weak democratic militia. Their ...
- Santa Gertrudis
- breed of beef cattle developed in the 20th century by the King Ranch in Texas. It originally resulted from crossing Brahman bulls of about seven-eighths pure breeding and purebred Shorthorn ... [2 Related Articles]
- Santa Giulia
- (from the article "Italy") ...to work without pay on the lord's demesne, an area whose produce went entirely to the lord. These estates, mostly royal or ecclesiastical, could be huge, as were, for example, ...
- Santa Hermandad
- constabulary created in the late 15th century by the Catholic Monarchs (Ferdinand and Isabella) to maintain law and order throughout Spain. See hermandad. [2 Related Articles]
- Santa Isabel
- island, central Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Guadalcanal. About 130 miles (209 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) across at its widest point, ...
- Santa Isabel, Mount
- (from the article "Bioko") ...in 1979. Volcanic in origin, it is parallelogram-shaped with a north-south axis, embracing 779 square miles (2,017 square km), and rises sharply from the sea with its highest point being ...
- Santa language
- (from the article "Mongolian languages") ...period, various dialects began to develop into separate languages. The outlying languages-which today survive as Moghol in Afghanistan; Daur in the east; and Monguor (Tu), Bao'an (Bonan), and Santa (Dongxiang) ...
- Santa Lucia Hill
- (from the article "Santiago") ...by the Picunche Indians, who were placed under the rule of the Spanish settlers. The original city site was limited by the two surrounding arms of the Mapocho River and ...
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