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- (from the article "Balkhash, Lake") ...to 6,000-6,300 square miles (15,500-16,300 square km). Such changes in area are accompanied by changes in the water level of about 10 feet (3 m). Jutting far out into the ...
- Sarzana
- town, Liguria region, northern Italy, on the fertile plain of the Magra River, just east of La Spezia. Mentioned as a fortress in 963 and as a town in 1084, ...
- Sarzec, Ernest de
- French archaeologist whose excavation of the mound of Tello (ancient Girsu, Arabic Tall Luh), in present-day southern Iraq, uncovered the Sumerian capital of Lagash and revealed much of what is ...
- Sasak
- largest ethnic group on Lombok, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia, constituting most of the island's population and numbering about 2,000,000 in 1977. The Sasak are of Deutero-Malay ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sasakawa, Ryoichi
- Japanese businessman, philanthropist, and suspected World War II criminal who used his vast wealth, amassed from a gambling empire, to aid international charitable organizations (b. May 4, 1899--d. July 18, ...
- Sasaki Kojiro
- (from the article "Miyamoto Musashi") Musashi's most famous encounter took place in 1612, against his arch rival Sasaki Kojiro, a swordsman whose skill was reported to be equal to his own. The contest took place ...
- Sasaki, Hideo
- American landscape architect and educator (b. Nov. 25, 1919, Reedley, Calif.-d. Aug. 30, 2000, Walnut Creek, Calif.), pioneered a collaborative approach to design. His work on the Deere & Company ...
- Sasalaguan, Mount
- (from the article "Guam") ...similar to those of the northern limestone plateau. The island rises to 1,332 feet (406 metres) at Mount Lamlam, the highest point. Other major hills are Mount Bolanos (1,207 feet ...
- Sasan
- eponymous ancestor of the Sasanian dynasty in ancient Persia. Details of his life vary, but most scholars believe he was originally a prince in the province of Persis and a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sasanian dynasty
- (AD 224-651), ancient Iranian dynasty evolved by Ardashir I in years of conquest, AD 208-224, and destroyed by the Arabs during the years 637-651. The dynasty was named after Sasan, ... [39 Related Articles]
- Sasanka
- (from the article "Harsa") ..."communication" with a statue of the Buddhist Avalokitesvara bodhisattva. He soon made an alliance with King Bhaskaravarman of Kamarupa and warred against King Sasanka of Gauda, his brother's assassin. At ...
- Sasaram
- city, administrative headquarters of Rohtas district, Bihar state, northeastern India. Located at a major road and rail junction, it is an agricultural trade centre; carpet and pottery manufacture are important. ...
- Sasebo
- city, Nagasaki ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, near the mouth of Omura-wan (Omura Bay). Originally a small village on a good natural harbour, it expanded rapidly in the late 19th century ...
- sashimi
- specialty of Japanese cuisine, fresh fish served raw. The fish, which must be utterly fresh, is sliced paper thin or alternately one-quarter to one-half inch (0.75-1.5 centimetres) thick, cubed, or ...
- Saskatchewan
- province of Canada, one of the Prairie Provinces. It is one of only two Canadian provinces without a saltwater coast, and it is the only province all of whose boundaries ... [8 Related Articles]
- Saskatchewan Glacier
- (from the article "Columbia Icefield") ...plateau section of the ice field may be seen on the skyline at the head of Athabasca Glacier, with parts visible as ice cliffs on Snow Dome, Mount Kitchener, and ...
- Saskatchewan Plain
- (from the article "Canada") To the west of the Manitoba lowland, the land rises in two steps: the Saskatchewan plain, which ranges from 1,500 to 2,100 feet (450 to 650 metres), and the Alberta ...
- Saskatchewan River
- largest river system of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, rising in the Canadian Rockies of western Alberta in two great headstreams, the North and South Saskatchewan rivers (800 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saskatchewan Roughriders
- (from the article "Football") The Saskatchewan Roughriders won the 2007 Canadian Football League (CFL) championship with a 23-19 Grey Cup victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on November 25 in Toronto. Andy Fantuz, the ...
- Saskatchewan, flag of
- Canadian provincial flag consisting of horizontal stripes of green and gold with the provincial coat of arms in the upper hoist corner and a large red lily at the fly ...
- Saskatchewan, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...and its Memorial Art Gallery have notable collections of Canadian artists, and the central display at its Western Development Museum is a pioneer village street. Saskatoon is the seat of ...
- Saskatoon
- city, south-central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. Founded in 1883 as the proposed capital of a temperance colony, its name was derived from Mis-sask-guah-too-min, a Cree Indian word ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saskin, Ted
- (from the article "Ice Hockey") There was also turmoil in the office of the National Hockey League Players' Association. Executive director Ted Saskin, his leadership already in dispute, was fired when it was alleged that ...
- SASOL process
- (from the article "coal utilization") ...hydrocarbons. Although this process was developed and used widely in Germany during World War II, owing to poor economics it was discontinued afterward. It has been in operation in South ...
- sasol sijo
- (from the article "Korean literature") ...of sijo in the first half of the Yi dynasty were members of the Confucian upper class (yangban) and kisaeng. In the latter part of the Yi dynasty, a longer ...
- Sasolburg
- town, northern Free State province, South Africa, south of Johannesburg. Established in 1954, it was built by Sasol Ltd. (the former South African Coal, Oil, and Gas Corporation Ltd.) to ...
- Sasquatch
- a large, hairy humanlike creature believed by some persons to exist in the northwestern United States and western Canada. It seems to represent the North American counterpart of the Abominable ...
- sassaby
- (genus Damaliscus), any of a few species of antelope belonging to the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla) and inhabiting sub-Saharan grasslands, floodplains, and dense brush from western to eastern Africa and ...
- Sassafras
- (from the article "Laurales") ...two species, one of which is L. nobilis (sweet bay tree, or bay laurel), a native of the Mediterranean. The leaves of the bay laurel were once formed into laurel ...
- sassafras
- (species Sassafras albidum), North American tree of the laurel family (Lauraceae), the aromatic leaf, bark, and root of which are used as a flavouring, as a traditional home medicine, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sassafras Mountain
- highest point in South Carolina, U.S., at 3,560 feet (1,085 metres). It lies in the Blue Ridge (a segment of the Appalachian Mountains) about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Sassandra River
- river in western Africa, rising as the Tienba in the highlands between Odienne and Boundiali, northwestern Cote d'Ivoire, and becoming the Sassandra 36 miles (58 km) east-northeast of Touba at ...
- Sassari
- city, Sardinia, Italy, near the north coast of the island on the edge of the limestone hills above the plain of Riu Mannu, north-northwest of Cagliari. In the 12th century, ...
- Sassarian
- (from the article "Romance languages") ...has been used mainly for folk-based verse). Other dialects of Sardinian include Campidanese (Campidanian), centred around Cagliari in the south, heavily influenced by Catalan and Italian; Sassarese (Sassarian) in the ...
- Sasser worm
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") A German teenager received a suspended sentence in 2005 for having created the Sasser computer worm, which in 2004 caused thousands of computers running Microsoft's Windows 2000 or Windows XP ...
- Sassetta
- Gothic-style painter considered to be the greatest Sienese painter of the early 15th century.
- Sassetti Chapel
- (from the article "Ghirlandaio, Domenico") ...short life, Ghirlandaio and his assistants, including his brothers Davide and Benedetto and his brother-in-law Sebastiano Mainardi, produced two major fresco cycles. The earlier was executed for the Sassetti Chapel ...
- Sassoferrato
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...throughout the 18th century, particularly in Britain. Even in Rome itself, however, a number of painters of importance succeeded in remaining more or less independent of the two main camps. ...
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- English poet and novelist, known for his antiwar poetry and for his fictionalized autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life. [2 Related Articles]
- Sassou-Nguesso, Denis
- Congolese politician who first became president in 1979 and seized power through a coup in 1997 after losing democratic elections. [5 Related Articles]
- Sastre, Alfonso
- (from the article "Spanish literature") ...("The Double Case History of Doctor Valmy") was performed in Spain for the first time in 1976; the play's political content made it too controversial to stage there during Franco's ...
- sastri
- (from the article "Smarta sect") Smarta Brahmans consider themselves orthodox and have tended to rigidly hold the traditional values of Hinduism. They are active in all branches of learning and have earned the honorary title ...
- Sastri, Pandit Ganapati
- (from the article "South Asian arts") The earliest available classical dramas are 13 plays edited in 1912 by Pandit Ganapati Sastri, who dug out their manuscripts in Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala state. These, ascribed to ...
- Sastri, Srinivasa
- in full Valangiman Sankarana-rayana Srinivasa Sastri liberal Indian statesman and founder of the Indian Liberal Federation, who served his country under British colonial rule in many important posts at home ...
- Sastri, Venkatorama
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...Jayanti festival in Melatur village in Tamil Nadu, the bhagavatha mela uses classical gesture language with densely textured Karnatak music. Its repertoire was enriched by the musician-poet Venkatarama Sastri (1759-1847), ...
- sastrugi
- (from the article "glacier") ...wind, or very hard packed and rough when high winds occur during or after snowfall. Two features are prominent: snow dunes are depositional features resembling sand dunes in their several ...
- Sasuntzi Davith
- Armenian folk epic dealing with the adventures of the Christian king David of Sasun in his defense against infidel invaders from Egypt and Persia. The epic was based on oral ...
- Sata, Ineko
- Japanese writer and feminist whose semiautobiographical works reflected her concern with class struggle; she insisted on forming her own opinions and held fast to them, which twice led to her ...
- Sata, Michael
- (from the article "Zambia") ...had been privatized when the industry was depressed had been so advantageous to foreign investors that Zambians drew proportionately little benefit from the improved market. The leader of the PF, ...
- Satakarni I
- (from the article "Satavahana Dynasty") ...areas of the western Deccan. Inscriptions found in caves, such as those at Nanaghat, Nasik, Karli, and Kanheri, commemorate the early rulers Simuka, Krishna, and Satakarni I.
- Satan
- in Judaism and Christianity, the prince of evil spirits and adversary of God. [15 Related Articles]
- satanic school
- pejorative designation for the poets John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leigh Hunt, and Lord Byron, used of them by Robert Southey in the preface to his A Vision of Judgement ...
- satanism
- worship of Satan, or the devil, the personality or principle regarded by the Judeo-Christian tradition as embodying absolute evil in complete antithesis to God. This worship may be regarded as ... [1 Related Articles]
- Satara
- town, southwestern Maharashtra state, western India, west of the confluence of the Krishna and Venna rivers, southeast of Pune (Poona). The town was named for the walls of its fort, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Satavahana Dynasty
- Indian family that, according to some interpretations based on the Puranas (ancient religious and legendary writings), belonged to the Andhra jati ("tribe") and was the first Deccanese dynasty to build ... [2 Related Articles]
- Satawaisa
- (from the article "Iranian religion") ...worship Tishtrya conquers him, driving him away "along a path the length of a race course." At this point Tishtrya causes the cosmic sea to surge and boil, and then ...
- Satawan Atoll
- (from the article "Micronesian culture") Throughout most of Micronesia the maximum independent autonomous political unit was the high island or the atoll, often subdivided into more than one polity. At the time of European contact, ...
- SATB
- (from the article "score") ...in a concerto, it customarily appears immediately above the strings. In vocal works the standard arrangement from top to bottom is soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, resulting in the often-used ...
- Satcher, David
- American medical doctor and public health administrator who was (1998-2002) the 16th surgeon general of the United States. [1 Related Articles]
- sateen
- (from the article "satin") Though originally a silk fabric, it is now made of yarns of other fibres. An all-cotton fabric woven in the satin structure is known as sateen.
- satellite
- natural object (moon) or spacecraft (artificial satellite) orbiting a larger astronomical body. Most known natural satellites orbit planets; the Earth's Moon is the most obvious example.
- satellite communication
- in telecommunication, the use of artificial satellites to provide communications links between various points on Earth. Communications satellites relay voice, video, and data signals between widely separated fixed locations (e.g., ... [18 Related Articles]
- satellite DNA
- (from the article "heredity") ...sequences), (2) families of DNA, in which one gene somehow copies itself, and the repeats are located in small clusters (tandem repeats) or spread throughout the genome (dispersed repeats), and ...
- Satellite Launch Vehicle 3
- (from the article "launch vehicle") India launched its first satellite in 1980 using the four-stage solid-fueled Satellite Launch Vehicle 3 (SLV-3), which was developed from the U.S. Scout launch vehicle first used in the 1960s. ...
- satellite observatory
- Earth-orbiting spacecraft that allows celestial objects and radiation to be studied from above the atmosphere. Astronomy from Earth's surface is limited to observation in those parts of the electromagnetic spectrum ... [4 Related Articles]
- satellite radio
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Another iPod competitor found itself in legal trouble in 2006 as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued XM Satellite Radio for marketing the Inno, a satellite-radio receiver that ...
- satellite system
- (from the article "telecommunications media") A telecommunications satellite is a sophisticated space-based cluster of radio repeaters, called transponders, that link terrestrial radio transmitters to terrestrial radio receivers through an uplink (a link from terrestrial transmitter ...
- satellite terminal
- (from the article "airport") ...become very large, and the terminal itself can become uncomfortable and unattractive to use. In order to cut down walking distances, some terminals, beginning in the 1960s, were designed on ...
- satellite triangulation
- (from the article "surveying") Efforts are now under way to extend and tie together existing continental networks by satellite triangulation so as to facilitate the adjustment of all major geodetic surveys into a single ...
- Satellite TV
- By the end of 1996, several thousand artificial satellites were circling the Earth. About 1,000 of them were in a geosynchronous orbit--that is, they were located over the Equator--at an ... [3 Related Articles]
- satellite-radio receiver
- (from the article "New Frontiers in Radio") ...hurdles to growth. Not only did it have to persuade people to pay for something that they had always received free, but it required them to buy a new, stand-alone ...
- satellite-surveillance radar
- (from the article "radar") The systems for detecting and tracking ballistic missiles and orbiting satellites are much larger than those for aircraft detection because the ranges are longer and the radar echoes from space ...
- satem language group
- (from the article "Indo-European languages") ...released as spirants, or fricatives-e.g., the ch in church, the j in jam.) The languages that change the palatal stops to spirants or affricates are known as "satem" languages, from ...
- Satie, Erik
- French composer whose spare, unconventional, often witty style exerted a major influence on 20th-century music, particularly in France. [5 Related Articles]
- satiety
- desire to limit further food intake, as after completing a satisfying meal. The hypothalamus, part of the central nervous system, regulates the amount of food desired. Eating is thought to ...
- satin
- any fabric constructed by the satin weave method, one of the three basic textile weaves. The fabric is characterized by a smooth surface and usually a lustrous face and dull ... [2 Related Articles]
- satin bowerbird
- (from the article "bowerbird") The "avenue" type consists of two close-set parallel walls of sticks, interwoven and sometimes overarching, on a circular mat of twigs. Avenues are made by the satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus); ...
- satin glass
- in the decorative arts, glass with a dull matte finish achieved by immersion in hydrofluoric or other abrasive acid. In the 19th century the process was synonymous with "frosting" and ...
- satin spar
- (from the article "satin spar") massive (noncrystalline) variety of the mineral gypsum (q.v.).for more general content related to this topicgypsum
- satinflower
- (from the article "honesty") ...or biennials that are widely grown for their disklike, papery, seedpod partitions, used in dried flower arrangements. The best-known species, also called moonflower, money plant, moonwort, or satinflower, as well ...
- satintail
- (from the article "cogon grass") ...constituting the genus Imperata (family Poaceae), native to temperate and tropical regions of the Old World. Cogon grass is a serious weed in cultivated areas of South Africa and Australia. ...
- satinwood
- (Chloroxylon swietenia), tree of the Rutaceae family native to Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka (Ceylon), or its hard yellowish brown wood, which has a satiny lustre and is used ...
- satire
- artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, parody, caricature, ... [19 Related Articles]
- Satirikon theatre
- (from the article "Raikin, Arkady Isaakovich") ...Over the years, he toured the Soviet Union and occasionally abroad but remained based in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) until 1984, when he moved his company to Moscow and reopened as ...
- satisfiability
- (from the article "metalogic") ...the truth or falsity of sentences in a formal system, but with respect to a logical calculus one speaks of validity (i.e., being true in all interpretations or in all ...
- satisfice
- (from the article "Simon, Herbert A.") Crucial to this theory is the concept of "satisficing" behaviour-achieving acceptable economic objectives while minimizing complications and risks-as contrasted with the traditional emphasis on maximizing profits. Simon's theory thus offers ...
- satkaryavada
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...of things and persons (taken as psychophysical organisms), is regarded as an evolution out of a primitive state of matter. This conception is based on a theory of causality known ...
- Satna
- city, northeastern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated on the Tons River, a tributary of the Ganges. The city formerly served as the headquarters of the British political ...
- Satnami sect
- any of several groups in India that have challenged political and religious authority by rallying around an understanding of God as satnam (from Sanskrit [1 Related Articles]
- Sato Eisaku
- prime minister of Japan between 1964 and 1972, who presided over Japan's post-World War II reemergence as a major world power. For his policies on nuclear weapons, which led to ... [2 Related Articles]
- Sato Haruo
- Japanese poet, novelist, and critic whose fiction is noted for its poetic vision and romantic imagination.
- Sato Koichi
- (from the article "graphic design") A very different vision emerged in the work of Sato Koichi, who from the 1970s created an otherworldly, metaphysical design statement. He used softly glowing blends of colour, richly coloured ...
- Sato Nobuhiro
- scientist and an early advocate of Westernization in Japan. He favoured the development of an authoritarian type of government based on Western science and political institutions.
- Sato, Shozo
- (from the article "Kabuki Goes West") Traditional Japanese popular theatre-kabuki and no-is making inroads in the West. In 2005 Kabuki Lady Macbeth, a version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, had its world premiere at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. ...
- SATOR square
- (from the article "magic square") The most familiar lettered square in the Western world is the well-known SATOR square, composed of the words SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, and ROTAS. Arranged both vertically and horizontally, the ...
- Satoraljaujhely
- (from the article "Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen") ...water, making the county a popular tourist destination. Lillafured is a well-known spa and resort. Other renowned resorts include Miskolc-Tapolca, Bogacs, and Mezokovesd. Satoraljaujhely, just north of Sarospatak, is a ...
- Satori
- in Zen Buddhism of Japan, the inner, intuitive experience of Enlightenment; Satori is said to be unexplainable, indescribable, and unintelligible by reason and logic. It is comparable to the experience ... [2 Related Articles]
- Satpura Range
- range of hills, part of the Deccan Plateau, western India, that stretches for 560 miles (900 km) across the widest part of peninsular India, through Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh states. ... [2 Related Articles]
- satra
- (from the article "Assam") The cultural life of Assam is interwoven with the activities of a number of cultural institutions and religious centres, such as the satra (seat of a religious ...
- satrap
- provincial governor in the Achaemenian Empire. The division of the empire into provinces (satrapies) was completed by Darius I (reigned 522-486 BC), who established 20 satrapies with their annual tribute. [7 Related Articles]
- Satrapi, Marjane
- In 2008 illustrator and writer Marjane Satrapi had reached a level of worldwide fame that would have seemed unlikely in the 1980s, when she nearly died, homeless, in Vienna; her ...
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