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sesame: erect, annual plant (Sesamum indicum) of numerous types and varieties belonging to the family Pedaliaceae, cultivated since antiquity for its seeds, which are used as food and flavouring and from ...
Seshachalam Hills: hill ranges of the eastern Ghats, southern Andhra Pradesh state, southeastern India. Formed during Precambrian time (about 3.8 billion to 540 million years ago), the ranges contain sandstone and shale ...
Seshego: town, Northern province, South Africa. It lies directly northwest of Pietersburg. Until 1974 Seshego was the capital of the nonindependent black state of Lebowa, which was abolished in 1994. The ...
Sesostris I: king of Egypt (reigned 1908-1875 BC) who succeeded his father after a 10-year coregency and brought Egypt to a peak of prosperity.
Sesostris II: 12th-dynasty king of Egypt (reigned 1844-37 BC) who devoted himself to the peaceful exploitation of Nubia, Egypt's territory to the south, and initiated the development of the Fayyum, a great ...
Sesostris III: 12th-dynasty king of Egypt (reigned 1836-18 BC) who completely reshaped Egypt's government and extended his dominion in Nubia, the land immediately south of Egypt.
Sessa Aurunca: town and episcopal see, Caserta provincia, Campania regione, southern Italy, on a lava deposit of the extinct Roccamonfina volcano, north-northwest of Naples. The town is on the site of the ...
Sesshu: artist of the Muromachi period, one of the greatest masters of the Japanese art of sumi-e, or monochrome ink painting. Sesshu adapted Chinese models to Japanese artistic ideals and aesthetic ...
Sessions, Roger: American composer of symphonic and instrumental music who played a leading part in educating his contemporaries to an appreciation of modern music.
Sesson Shukei: original name Satake Heizo Japanese artist who was the most distinguished and individualistic talent among the numerous painters who worked in the style of Sesshu, the 15th-century artist considered the ...
sestina: elaborate verse form employed by medieval Provencal and Italian, and occasional modern, poets. It consists, in its pure medieval form, of six stanzas of blank verse, each of six lines-hence ...
Sesto San Giovanni: town, Milano province, Lombardia (Lombardy) region, northern Italy. A northeastern industrial suburb of Milan, it has blast furnaces, foundries, glassworks, and aircraft assembly plants and manufactures railway and electrical equipment. ...
set theory: branch of mathematics that deals with the properties of well-defined collections of objects, which may or may not be of a mathematical nature, such as numbers or functions. The theory ...
Sete Lagoas: city, central Minas Gerais estado (state), eastern Brazil. Sete Lagoas lies in the highlands near the Espinhaco Mountains. It is a commercial centre for an agricultural region ...
Seth: ancient Egyptian god, patron of the 11th nome, or province, of Upper Egypt.
Seth, Vikram: Indian poet, novelist, and travel writer known for his verse novel The Golden Gate (1986) and his epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993).
Seti I: Egyptian king of the 19th dynasty who reigned from 1290 to 1279 BC. His father, Ramses I, reigned only two years, and it was Seti who was the real founder ...
Seti II: king of Egypt (reigned 1204-1198 BC).
Setif: town, northeastern Algeria, near the Wadi Bou Sellam. As ancient Sitifis, it became important when the Roman emperor Nerva established a veterans' colony there in AD 97. Sitifis became the ...
Seto: city, Aichi ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan, northeast of Nagoya. Seto, established about 1230, is known for its porcelain (Seto ware). Since the Meiji period (1868-1912), the pottery industry has ...
Seto Great Bridge: a series of suspension bridges spanning the Inland Sea (Seto-naikai) between the islands of Honshu and Shikoku, Japan. The double-tiered rail and vehicular roadway is a network of six bridges, ...
Seto ware: ceramics manufactured in Seto by one of the so-called Six Ancient Kilns of Japan. It was first produced in the later Kamakura period toward the close of the 13th century. ...
Seto-guro ware: Japanese ceramic ware created at Mino during 1573-96. A black ware, it stands in contrast to the contemporary pure-white Shino ware. Seto-guro ("black Seto") was produced by a process that ...
Seton Hall University: private, coeducational institution of higher education in South Orange Village, New Jersey, U.S. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic church, specifically the Diocese of Newark, and offers more than ...
Seton, Anya: American author of best-selling, exhaustively researched, romantic historical and biographical novels.
Seton, Ernest Thompson: naturalist and writer who was an early practitioner of the modern school of animal-fiction writing.
Seton, George Seton, 5th Lord: one of the most loyal supporters and friends of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann: first native-born American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic church. She was the founder of the Sisters of Charity, the first American religious society.
Setouchi: industrial region, southern Japan. Setouchi includes the southern portion of Chugoku chiho (region) on the island of Honshu, the northern part of Shikoku, and many nearby industrial areas on islands ...
Settat: city, central Morocco. Situated on the coastal plain immediately south of Casablanca, the city is the largest market centre in the fertile Chaouia coastal plain. Settat city's most notable features ...
settee: an upholstered seat with back and arms (sometimes upholstered), designed for two or more people in a sitting or reclining position. The earliest surviving types, dating back to the 17th ...
setter: any of three sporting dogs used in pointing birds. Setters are derived from a medieval hunting dog, the setting spaniel, that was trained to find birds and then to set ...
Setthathirat I: sovereign of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang who prevented it from falling under Burmese domination and whose reign was marked by notable achievements in domestic and foreign affairs.
setting: in literature, the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.
settle: long wooden bench with backrest and arms, designed to seat several people. Originating in Europe in the 10th century, it was apparently derived from the chest, a resemblance often retained, ...
settlement: in law, a compromise or agreement between litigants to settle the matters in dispute between them in order to dispose of and conclude their litigation. Generally, as a result of ...
Settlement, Act of: (June 12, 1701), act of Parliament that, since 1701, has regulated the succession to the throne of Great Britain.
settling: in soil mechanics, refers to sedimentation; i.e., the settling out of solid particles from suspension in water. The velocity of settling depends on the size, shape, and density of the ...
Setubal: city, capital, and concelho (municipality), Setubal district, southwestern Portugal, southeast of Lisbon, on the northern shore of the deep estuary formed by the Sado, Marateca, and Sao Martinho rivers.
Seurat, Georges: painter, founder of the 19th-century French school of Neo-Impressionism whose technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours became known as Pointillism. Using this techique, ...
Sevagram: town, eastern Maharashtra state, western India. Originally called Segaon, the village was given its present name (Hindi: Village of Service) by Mohandas Gandhi, the Indian nationalist leader. In 1936 he ...
Sevan, Lake: lake in Armenia, with an area of 525 sq mi (1,360 sq km). Lying at 6,250 ft (1,905 m) above sea level in a mountain-enclosed basin, it drains by the ...
Sevareid, Eric: American broadcast journalist, an eloquent commentator and scholarly writer with Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) News (1939-77) who pioneered a new journalism by introducing opinion and analysis in news reports.
Sevastopol: ', city and seaport, Crimea, southern Ukraine, in the southwestern Crimean Peninsula on the southern shore of the long, narrow Akhtiarskaya Bay, which forms a magnificent natural harbour. West of ...
Sevastopol, Siege of: (Oct. 17, 1854-Sept. 11, 1855), the major operation of the Crimean War (1853-56), in which 50,000 British and French troops (joined by 10,000 Piedmontese troops during 1855), commanded by Lord ...
Seven Against Thebes: in Greek mythology, the seven champions who were killed fighting against Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, the king of that city. The twins Eteocles and Polyneices, who had been ...
Seven Days' Battles: (June 25-July 1, 1862), series of American Civil War battles in which a Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee drove back General George B. McClellan's Union forces and thwarted ...
Seven Hills of Rome: group of hills on or about which the ancient city of Rome was built. The original city of Romulus was built upon Palatine Hill (Latin: Mons Palatinus). The other hills ...
Seven Holy Founders: saints Bonfilius, Alexis Falconieri, John Bonagiunta, Benedict dell'Antella, Bartholomew Amidei, Gerard Sostegni, and Ricoverus Uguccione, who founded the Ordo Fratrum Servorum Sanctae Mariae ("Order of Friar Servants of St. Mary"). ...
Seven Oaks Massacre: (1816), destruction of the Hudson's Bay Company's Red River Settlement (q.v.) in what is now Manitoba, Canada, by agents of the rival North West Company.
Seven Pines, Battle of: (May 31-June 1, 1862), in the American Civil War, two-day battle in the Peninsular Campaign, in which Confederate attacks were repulsed, fought 6 miles (10 km) east of the Confederate ...
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove: a group of Chinese scholars and poets of the mid-3rd century AD who banded together to escape from the hypocrisy and danger of the political world of government officialdom to ...
Seven Sisters: consortium of seven highly prestigious private institutions of higher education in the northeastern United States. At the time of the consortium's inception, all of its members were women's colleges.
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: the heroes of a famous legend that, because it affirmed the resurrection of the dead, had a lasting popularity in all Christendom and in Islam during the Middle Ages. According ...
Seven Weeks' War: (1866), war between Prussia on the one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other. It ended in a Prussian victory, which meant the ...
Seven Wise Masters: ("The Book of Sindbad"), a cycle of stories, presumably Indian in origin, that made its way through Middle Persian and Arabic into Western lore. In the frame story, an Oriental ...
Seven Wonders of the World: preeminent architectural and sculptural achievements of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, as listed by various observers. The best known are those of the 2nd-century-BC writer Antipater of Sidon and ...
Seven Years' War: (1756-63), the last major conflict before the French Revolution to involve all the great powers of Europe. Generally, France, Austria, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia were aligned on one side against ...
Seven, Group of: Toronto-centred group of Canadian painters devoted to landscape painting (especially of northern Ontario subjects) and the creation of a national style. A number of future members met in 1913 while ...
Seveners: in Islam, minority subsect within the Isma'ilite (q.v.) sect of Shi'ites.
Sevenoaks: district occupying the westernmost portion of the administrative and historic county of Kent, England, southeast of London. It is a predominantly rural area with a rolling landscape. Much of the ...
Seventeen Article Constitution: 604), code of moral precepts for the ruling class, issued by the regent Shotoku Taishi, which set the fundamental spirit and orientation for the subsequent Chinese-based centralized reforms. Written at ...
seventeenth parallel: the provisional military demarcation line established in Vietnam by the Geneva Accords (1954). The line did not actually coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along ...
Seventh-day Adventist: member of the largest organized modern denomination of Adventism, a millennialist Christian sect founded in the United States in the 19th century. See Adventist.
Severance, Caroline Maria Seymour: American reformer and clubwoman who was especially active in woman suffrage and other women's issues of her day.
Severian Of Gabala: bishop of Gabala (now Latakia, Syria), theologian and orator, principal opponent of the eminent 4th-century Greek Orthodox church father and patriarch of Constantinople, John Chrysostom.
Severing, Carl: German politician who was a leading member of the Social Democratic Party during the Weimar Republic and longtime minister of interior of Prussia (1920-26; 1930-32).
Severini, Gino: Italian painter who synthesized the styles of Futurism and Cubism.
Severinus: pope who was forced to wait one and a half years for consecration because he declined to endorse the Byzantine emperor Heraclius's statement of faith, the Ecthesis, which propounded Monothelitism-i.e., ...
Severn River: river, northwestern Ontario, Canada. It rises in the Finger Lake region of western Ontario and flows northeast for about 610 miles (980 km) through Severn Lake to Hudson Bay. Discovered ...
Severn, River: Britain's longest river from source to tidal waters (about 180 miles [290 km]). The Severn rises near the River Wye on the northeastern slopes of Plynlimon (Welsh: Pumlumon), Wales, and ...
Severnaya Zemlya: archipelago, Krasnoyarsk kray (region), northern Russia. It lies in the Arctic Ocean between the Kara Sea (west) and Laptev Sea (east). Severnaya Zemlya lies immediately north of Cape Chelyuskin, the ...
Severnye Uvaly: range of hills on the Russian Plain, western Russia. The hills form the watershed between the left-bank tributaries of the Volga River and of the Sukhona, Yug, Vychegda, and Pechora ...
Severocesky: kraj (region), northwestern Czech Republic. It is the smallest of the country's regions. Severocesky is bounded on the north by Germany and Poland, on the east by Vychodocesky kraj, on ...
Severodvinsk: city and seaport of Archangelsk oblast (province), northwestern Russia. It lies on the shore of the White Sea's Gulf of Dvina, at the western edge of the Northern Dvina River ...
Severomoravsky: kraj (region), northeastern Czech Republic. It is bordered by Jihomoravsky kraj to the south, Vychodocesky kraj to the west, Poland to the north, and Slovakia to the east. The Hruby ...