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Saint Joseph's University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. The university's undergraduate programs are run by its ...
Saint Kilda: cluster of three small Atlantic islands in the Outer Hebrides group, Western Isles council area, Scotland, situated 110 miles (180 km) from the mainland. The islands, which escaped glaciation during ...
Saint Kitts and Nevis: state composed of two islands of the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Their combined area is 104 square miles (269 square kilometres). The capital is Basseterre on the ...
Saint Laurent, Louis: Canadian statesman and jurist who, as Liberal prime minister in 1948-57, helped to maintain Canadian unity and to bring about reforms.
Saint Laurent, Yves: French fashion designer noted for his popularization of women's trousers for all occasions.
Saint Lawrence: county, northern New York state, U.S., bordered to the northwest by Ontario, Can., the St. Lawrence River constituting the boundary. Lowlands in the northwest rise to a central plateau region ...
Saint Lawrence Islands National Park: national park covering an area of mainland, islands, and islets in southeastern Ontario province, Can., on the St. Lawrence River between Kingston and Brockville. The small mainland reservation, called Mallorytown ...
Saint Lawrence River and Seaway: hydrographic system of east-central North America. It connects the North River (source of the St. Louis River, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, which flows into Lake Superior) with Cabot ...
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of: body of water covering about 60,000 square miles (155,000 square km) at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It fringes the shores of half the provinces of Canada and ...
Saint Leger: one of the English Triple Crown races and, with the Derby, the Two Thousand Guineas, the One Thousand Guineas, and the Oaks, one of the Classic horse races. The race ...
Saint Leger, Sir Anthony: English lord deputy of Ireland from 1540 to 1548, 1550 to 1551, and 1553 to 1556. Considered by many historians to be the most able 16th-century English viceroy of Ireland, ...
Saint Louis: city, adjacent to but independent of St. Louis county, east-central Missouri, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Mississippi River (bridged there at several points) opposite East St. ...
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch: morning daily newspaper published in St. Louis, Mo., one of the most prestigious newspapers in the United States and a dominant voice of the lower Middle West.
Saint Louis University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in St. Louis, Mo., U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church. The university comprises the colleges of arts ...
Saint Louis Zoo: zoo in St. Louis, Mo., U.S. It was one of the first zoos in the world to exhibit animals in naturalistic settings and the site of the first zoo tissue ...
Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway Company: railroad with lines in nine southern and central U.S. states before it merged with Burlington Northern, Inc.
Saint Lucia: island state in the Caribbean Sea. The second largest of the Windward group in the Lesser Antilles, it is located about 24 miles (39 kilometres) south of Martinique and some ...
Saint Lucia Game Reserve: sanctuary on the northeastern coast of KwaZulu/Natal province, South Africa. It encompasses Lake St. Lucia, a shallow, H-shaped lagoon and estuary system. Established in 1897, the reserve has an area ...
Saint Margaret's Church: church in the London borough of Westminster, since 1614 the official church of the House of Commons. It stands near Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.
Saint Martin: island at the northern end of the Leeward group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The island is hilly and receives about 45 inches (1,140 mm) of rain ...
Saint Martinville: city, seat (1811) of St. Martin parish, southern Louisiana, U.S. It lies on Bayou Teche, about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Lafayette. Originally known as Poste des Attakapas (for ...
Saint Mary's: county, southern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a tidewater peninsula bordered by the Patuxent River to the northeast, Chesapeake Bay to the east, the Potomac River to the south, and ...
Saint Mary's City: historic district and village, St. Mary's county, southern Maryland, U.S., on St. Mary's River 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Leonardtown, the county seat. Established in 1634 by colonists led ...
Saint Marylebone: neighbourhood of the City of Westminster, London. Formerly (until 1965) part of the metropolitan borough of St. Marylebone, it is located to the south and west of Regent's Park and ...
Saint Marys River: outlet for Lake Superior, forming part of the boundary between Michigan, U.S., and Ontario, Can. Flowing east, then south, for 70 miles (110 km) into Lake Huron, it is an ...
Saint Michael and Saint George, The Most Distinguished Order of: British order of knighthood founded in 1818 by the Prince Regent, later King George IV, to commemorate the British protectorate over the Ionian islands (now in Greece) and Malta, which ...
Saint Michael's Mount: granite island about 400 yards (365 metres) offshore in Mount's Bay on the English Channel, in the western part of the county of Cornwall, England. At low tide only, a ...
Saint Moritz: town, or Gemeinde (commune), Graubunden canton, southeastern Switzerland. Saint Moritz lies in the Oberengadin (Upper Inn Valley) and is surrounded by magnificent Alpine peaks. The town consists ...
Saint Nicholas Day: feast day (December 6) of St. Nicholas, patron saint of Russia and Greece, of a number of cities, and of sailors and children, among many other groups. Little is known ...
Saint Olaf College: private coeducational institution of higher learning in Northfield, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Named for Olaf II, the ...
Saint Patrick's Day: feast day (March 17) of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken ...
Saint Paul: city, capital of Minnesota, U.S., and seat of Ramsey county. Situated in the southeastern part of the state, St. Paul is at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River ...
Saint Paul River: river rising in southeastern Guinea, western Africa. Its source is in the mountains east of Macenta, and its upper reach (the Diani, or Nianda, River) forms part of the border ...
Saint Paul's Cathedral: in London, cathedral of the Anglican bishop. It is located within the central City of London, atop Ludgate Hill and northeast of Blackfriars.
Saint Paul's School: one of the major public (i.e., privately endowed) schools in England. It was founded in 1509 by John Colet, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Originally ...
Saint Peter Port: chief town, resort, parish, and capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands, located on the east coast of the island of Guernsey where a narrow valley reaches the sea between moderately high ...
Saint Peter's Basilica: present basilica of St. Peter's in Rome, begun by Pope Julius II in 1506 and completed in 1615 under Paul V. It is designed as a three-aisled Latin cross with ...
Saint Peter's College: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. The college ...
Saint Petersburg: city, Pinellas county, west-central Florida, U.S. It is situated at the southern tip of Pinellas Peninsula on Tampa Bay, about 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Clearwater and 20 miles ...
Saint Petersburg: city, extreme northwestern Russia. A major industrial and cultural centre and an important port, it lies about 400 miles (640 kilometres) northwest of Moscow and only about 7° south of ...
Saint Petersburg porcelain: pottery ware produced from 1744 to the present day by the principal Russian factory, the Imperial Porcelain Factory (from 1925, the M.V. Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory), in St. Petersburg. It ...
Saint Petersburg State University: coeducational state institution of higher learning in St. Petersburg, founded in 1819 as the University of St. Petersburg. During World War II the university was evacuated to Saratov. The university's ...
Saint Stephen: town, Charlotte county, southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, on the St. Croix River at the head of navigation, 71 miles (114 km) west of St. John.
Saint Stephen's Cathedral: cathedral in Vienna that was burned out in the course of the Battle of Vienna in April 1945 and was reconstructed by 1952. Saint Stephen's was established in 1147; only ...
Saint Stephen's Crown: greatly venerated crown of Hungary, the symbol of Hungarian nationhood, without which no sovereign was truly accepted by the Hungarian people. It is made from an 11th-century jeweled circlet of ...
Saint Swithin's Day: (July 15), one of the several days from which, in folklore, the weather for a subsequent period is dictated. In popular belief, if it rains on St. Swithin's Day, it ...
Saint Thomas: city, seat of Elgin county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on Kettle Creek, just north of Lake Erie. Founded in 1817 as Sterling, it was renamed after Colonel Thomas Talbot, who made ...
Saint Thomas: chief island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the eastern Caribbean, situated 40 miles (64 km) east of Puerto Rico. With an area of 32 square miles (83 square km), ...
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: (Feb. 14, 1929), mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic during ...
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: island nation lying within the Lesser Antilles, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It consists of the island of Saint Vincent and of the northern Grenadine Islands, which stretch southward toward ...
Saint Vincent de Paul, Daughters of Charity of: see Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Daughters of.
Saint Vincent, Cape: cape, southwesternmost Portugal, forming with Sagres Point a promontory on the Atlantic Ocean. To the Greeks and Romans it was known, from the presence of a shrine there, as the ...
Saint Vincent, Gulf: triangular inlet of the Indian Ocean, on the southeast coast of South Australia, between Yorke Peninsula to the west and the mainland. About 90 mi (145 km) long and 45 ...
Saint-Acheul: locality near Amiens in the Somme River valley, Somme departement, Picardie region, northern France. Saint-Acheul is the type locality at which a number of distinctive early Paleolithic hand axes were ...
Saint-Affrique: town, Aveyron departement, Midi-Pyrenees region, southern France. The town is situated about 60 miles (96 km) northwest of Beziers on the southeastern coast and about 6 miles (10 km) from ...
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux: town and spa, Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, at the junction of the Elnon River with the canalized Scarpe River. It is situated 22 miles (35 km) southeast of ...
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux ware: tin-glazed earthenware and porcelain made in the French town of that name in the 18th and 19th centuries. The factory was begun in 1718 by Pierre-Joseph Fauquez of nearby Tournai ...
Saint-Amand-Montrond: town, Cher departement, Centre region, central France. The town, which is situated some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Bourges, grew up around a monastery founded by St. Amand, a ...
Saint-Amant, Antoine Girard, Sieur de: one of the most original and interesting of French early 17th-century poets and one of the first members of the French Academy.
Saint-Andre, Andre Jeanbon: French Protestant clergyman who became a member of the Committee of Public Safety that ruled France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793-94).
Saint-Andre, Jacques d'Albon, seigneur de: (lord of) favourite of King Henry II of France, who made him successively member of the royal council, marshal of France, premier gentleman of the chamber, governor of Lyonnais, and ...
Saint-Andrew's-cross: (Ascyrum hypericoides), plant, of the family Hypericaceae, native to southeastern North America and Central America, sometimes cultivated for its four-petaled yellow flowers. It reaches 75 cm (2.5 feet) and has ...
Saint-Arnaud, Armand-Jacques Leroy de: army officer and later marshal of France who was minister of war under Napoleon III and commander in chief of the French forces in the Crimean War.
Saint-Barthelemy: island at the northern end of the Windward group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It constitutes a commune and, together with Saint Martin, forms an arrondissement of ...
Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire: village, Loiret departement, Centre region, north-central France, on the right bank of the Loire River, 25 miles (40 km) east of Orleans by road. The splendid Romanesque basilica is the ...
Saint-Brieuc: town, capital of Cotes d'Armor departement, Brittany region, northwestern France. It is situated on a promontory between the ravines of the Gouet River and its tributary the Gouedic, near Saint-Brieuc ...
Saint-Cesaire: paleoanthropological site in southwestern France where in 1979 the remains of a young adult male Neanderthal were found buried in a small pit. The skeleton was recovered during archaeological salvage ...
Saint-Cloud: town, Hauts-de-Seine departement, Ile-de-France region, northern France. It is a western residential suburb of Paris, located on the left bank of the Seine River. ...
Saint-Cloud porcelain: soft-paste porcelain made in the town of Saint-Cloud, Fr., from the last quarter of the 17th century until 1766. Pierre Chicaneau began the manufacture, which passed by marriage to the ...
Saint-Cyr: French national military academy at Coetquidan, founded in Fontainebleau in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1808 Napoleon moved it to the town of Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole near Versailles, on the site of ...
Saint-Denis: city, Seine-Saint-Denis departement, Paris region, France. The city is a northern suburb of Paris and lies on the right bank of the Seine. Until the mid-19th century, when industries developed ...
Saint-Denis: town, capital of the French overseas departement of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean. The town lies in a basin at the mouth of the Saint-Denis River on the north ...
Saint-Denis, Louis Juchereau de: French-Canadian explorer and soldier, leader of a 1714 expedition from French-held Natchitoches, in the Louisiana Territory, to the Spanish town of San Juan Bautista (modern Villahermosa) on the Rio Grande.
Saint-Denis, Michel: French director, producer, teacher, and theatrical innovator who was influential in the development of the British theatre for 40 years.
Saint-Die: town, Vosges departement, Lorraine region, northeastern France, on the Meurthe River, southeast of Nancy. A bishop's see, it grew up around the monastery of Saint-Deodatus, or Dieudonne (7th century), from ...
Saint-Dizier: town, Haute-Marne departement, Champagne-Ardennes region, northeastern France, on the Marne River and the Canal de la Marne a la Saone, northeast of Troyes. On the site of the Roman Desiderii ...