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- (from the article "anorthosite") ...granite, but the complexes in which it occurs are, nevertheless, often of immense size. For instance, about 155,000 square km (60,000 square miles) of eastern Canada is underlain by anorthosite, ...
- Saguenay River
- river in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, south central Quebec province, Canada. It drains Lac-Saint-Jean into the St. Lawrence River at Tadoussac, about 120 miles (190 km) northeast of Quebec city. Flowing east-southeast, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saguia el-Hamra
- northern geographic region of Western Sahara, northwest Africa. Stretching between Cape Bojador and the de jure Moroccan border, its area is about 31,660 square miles (82,000 square km). After Spain ... [1 Related Articles]
- saguna
- (from the article "nirguna") ...Hindu philosophy of Vedanta, raising the question of whether the supreme being, Brahman, is to be characterized as without qualities (nirguna) or as possessing qualities (saguna).
- Sagunto
- town, Valencia provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Valencia, eastern Spain, at the foot of the Penas de Pajarito, on the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saha equation
- (from the article "Saha, Meghnad N.") Indian astrophysicist noted for his development in 1920 of the thermal ionization equation, which, in the form perfected by the British astrophysicist Edward A. Milne, has remained fundamental in all ...
- Saha Pracha Thai Party
- (from the article "Thanom Kittikachorn") ...democracy and appointed a commission to write Thailand's eighth constitution since the revolution of June 1932. It was adopted in June 1968, and elections were held in February 1969. Thanom's ...
- Saha, Meghnad N.
- Indian astrophysicist noted for his development in 1920 of the thermal ionization equation, which, in the form perfected by the British astrophysicist Edward A. Milne, has remained fundamental in all ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sahagun de Fox, Martha
- (from the article "Mexico") However, the events that sparked the greatest controversy-and deprived the government of political oxygen for an extended period-were repeated comments by Martha Sahagun de Fox suggesting that she aspired to ...
- Sahagun, Bernardino de
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...that have been planned deliberately for a special purpose. One that is unique and continues to be of the greatest value to historians is the work of the 16th-century Spanish ...
- Sahaj-Dhari
- (from the article "Sikhism") The Sahaj-Dharis are one of two groups of Sikhs that do not wear uncut hair. They also reject other injunctions of the Rahit, and they do not ...
- sahaja
- (from the article "Vaisnava-Sahajiya") member of an esoteric Hindu cult centred in Bengal that sought religious experience through the world of the senses, specifically human sexual love. Sahaja (Sanskrit: "easy" or "natural") as a ...
- Sahajayana
- (from the article "Hinduism") ...taught that giving up the world was not necessary for release from transmigration and that one could achieve the highest state by living a life of simplicity in one's own ...
- Sahakyan, Bako
- (from the article "Azerbaijan") ...the participation in future talks of representatives from the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. In a ballot not recognized as legal by the international community, former security service head Bako Sahakyan was ...
- Sahand, Mount
- (from the article "Iran") ...Iran, emits gas and mud at sporadic intervals. In the north, however, Mount Damavand has been inactive in historical times, as have Mount Sabalan (15,787 feet [4,812 metres]) and Mount ...
- Sahaptin
- linguistic grouping of North American Indian tribes speaking related languages within the Penutian family. They traditionally resided in what are now southeastern Washington, northeastern Oregon, and west-central Idaho, U.S., in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sahaptin languages
- (from the article "Penutian languages") ...phylum consists of 15 language families with about 20 languages; the families are Wintun (two languages), Miwok-Costanoan (perhaps five Miwokan languages, plus three extinct Costanoan languages), Sahaptin (two languages), Yakonan ...
- Sahara
- largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometres) from east to west and between 800 and 1,200 miles from north ... [27 Related Articles]
- Saharan Atlas
- part of the chain of Atlas Mountains, extending across northern Africa from Algeria into Tunisia. The principal ranges from west to east are the Ksour, Amour, Ouled-Nail, Zab, Aures, and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Saharan desert ant
- (from the article "Life Sciences") When Saharan desert ants (Cataglyphis fortis) forage, they return home in a straight line, though their outbound route in search of food is typically circuitous across flat desert with no ...
- Saharan languages
- group of languages that constitutes one of the major divisions of Nilo-Saharan languages. Saharan languages are spoken mainly around Lake Chad-which is located at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saharan Taouratine Series
- (from the article "Africa") ...and in Arabia, Mesozoic continental formations covered large areas. During the Triassic the Saharan Zarzaitine Series, containing dinosaur and other reptilian fossil remains, was deposited. The Saharan Taouratine Series, containing ...
- Saharanpur
- town, northwestern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, situated at the junction of several roads and rail lines. Saharanpur was founded about 1340 and is named for Shah Haran Chishti, a ...
- Saharawi
- (from the article "Morocco") ...km (274,461 sq mi), including the 252,120-sq-km (97,344-sq-mi) area of the disputed Western Sahara annexation | Population (2007 est.): 31,704,000, of which Western Sahara 480,000 (excluding 150,000 Saharawi refugees living ...
- Sahariya
- (from the article "Rajasthan") ...Chittaurgarh, Dungarpur, Banswara, Udaipur, and Sirohi and are famous for their skill in archery. The Grasias and nomadic Kathodis live in the Mewar region. Sahariyas are found in the Kota ...
- Saharsa
- town, northeastern Bihar state, northeastern India. The town is a major rail and road hub and has an electric power station. It was constituted a municipality in 1961.
- Sahba', Wadi al-
- (from the article "Arabian Desert") ...from deposits left during the Pleistocene Epoch (1,800,000 to 10,000 years ago) by ancient river systems now represented by such wadis as Al-Rimah-Al-Batin, Al-Sahba', and Dawasir-Jawb, which carried vast loads ...
- Sahel
- semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to The Sudan. It forms a transitional zone between the arid Sahara (desert) to the north and the belt ... [9 Related Articles]
- Sahel savanna woodlands
- (from the article "Western Africa") North of the Sudan zone are the more sparsely populated Sahel savanna woodlands, where the dry season is more than eight months and cultivation is restricted to valley floors. Low, ...
- Sahel-Saharan States, Community of
- (from the article "Libya") In June Libya hosted the eighth summit conference of the heads of state and governments of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States. Talks focused on regrouping subregional African economic groups, a ...
- Sahelanthropus tchadensis
- (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...of the Toumai cranium, which had been claimed to be the earliest hominin in the fossil record. The nearly complete cranium was discovered in Chad in 2001 and was first ...
- Saheth-Maheth
- (from the article "Gonda") ...include grains, oilseeds, and sugarcane; oilseed crushing is important, and sugar and alcohol are produced. Northeast of Gonda is Balrampur, which houses a college of Gorakhpur University. Saheth-Maheth, northwest, was ...
- Sahgal, Nayantara
- Indian journalist and novelist whose fiction presents the personal crises of India's elite amid settings of political upheaval.
- Sahibdin
- an outstanding Indian artist of the Mewar school of Rajasthani painting (see Mewar painting). He is one of the few Rajasthani artists whose name is known, and his work dominated ...
- Sahid Minar
- (from the article "Calcutta") ...of Gothic-style architecture with statuary on top; the Indian Museum is in an Italian style; and the General Post Office, with its majestic dome, has Corinthian columns. The beautiful column ...
- Sahidic
- (from the article "Coptic language") ...a text of the Gospel According to John and of the Acts of the Apostles, as well as a number of Gnostic documents. Akhmimic was spoken in and around the ...
- Sahil, Al-
- coastal plain in the eastern Mediterranean littoral of Tunisia that includes a sandy coast with large bays and lagoons of the Mediterranean and is situated between the sea and the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sahiwal
- city, east-central Punjab province, east-central Pakistan. The city was founded in 1865 and named for Sir Robert Montgomery, then lieutenant governor of the Punjab. It is connected by rail and ...
- Sahl at-Tustari
- (from the article "Salimiyah") school of Muslim theologians founded by the Muslim scholar and mystic Sahl at-Tustari (d. AD 896). The school was named after one of his disciples, Muhammad ibn Salim (d. AD ...
- Sahle Selassie
- ruler (1813-47) of the kingdom of Shewa (Shoa), Ethiopia. He was the grandfather of Emperor Menilek II (reigned 1889-1913) and the great-grandfather of Emperor Haile Selassie I. His name means ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sahlins, Marshall
- (from the article "economic systems") ...deserve attention. The first concerns their level of subsistence, long deemed to have been one of chronic scarcity and want. According to the still controversial findings of the anthropologist Marshall ...
- Saho
- people of the coastal plains of southern Eritrea. Traditional Saho culture involved considerable mobility, because people needed to move their herds of camels, sheep, goats, and, more recently, cattle from ...
- saho no mai
- (from the article "bugaku") repertoire of dances of the Japanese Imperial court, derived from traditional dance forms imported from China, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. The dances comprise two basic forms: saho no mai ...
- Saho-Afar languages
- related but distinct languages spoken by several peoples, most of whom inhabit the coastal plains of southern Eritrea and Djibouti. Saho and Afar are generally classified as Eastern Cushitic languages ...
- Sahrawardi Mosque
- (from the article "Baghdad") ...century) and the Mustansiriyyah madrasah (an Islamic law college built by the caliph al-Mustansir in 1233), both restored as museums, and the Sahrawardi Mosque (1234). The Wastani ...
- Sahu
- (from the article "India") ...that Maratha power was on the decline. But a recovery was effected in the early 18th century, in somewhat changed circumstances. A particularly important phase in this respect is the ...
- Sahuayo
- city, northwestern Michoacan estado (state), west-central Mexico. It lies on the central plateau, at 5,085 feet (1,550 m) above sea level, south of Lake Chapala. Although the climate is temperate, ...
- Sahul Shelf
- stable structural shelf or platform of the ocean floor, extending from the northern coast of Australia to the island of New Guinea. A continental shelf, it was once above sea ... [3 Related Articles]
- Sahure
- (from the article "Egypt, ancient") The first two kings of the 5th dynasty, Userkaf and Sahure, were sons of Khentkaues, who was a member of the 4th-dynasty royal family. The third king, Neferirkare, may also ...
- sahw
- (from the article "hal") ...his association with God dims his sight of other things. The overpowering sense of the beloved in this state destroys the mystic's ability to distinguish between physical pain and pleasure. ...
- Sai Ong Hue
- ruler (1700?-35) of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang which, during his reign, was divided into two rival kingdoms at Vientiane and Luang Prabang.
- SAIC
- (from the article "Business Overview") ...in India and other emerging markets. India could soon become the fastest-growing car market, and India's Tata Motors was close to rolling out a $2,500 "people's car." China's state-owned SAIC ...
- Saicho
- posthumous name Dengyo Daishi monk who established the Tendai sect of Buddhism in Japan. [6 Related Articles]
- Said, Edward
- Palestinian American academic, political activist, and literary critic who examined literature in light of social and cultural politics and was an outspoken proponent of the political rights of the Palestinian ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saida
- city, northwestern Algeria, on the southern slopes of the Tell Atlas and the northern fringe of the High Plateaus (Hauts Plateaux). The city's site has been of military importance since ...
- Saidpur
- city, northwestern Bangladesh. A jute-processing and export centre, it is a major railway terminus containing large railway workshops. Crops grown in the vicinity include rice, jute, wheat, eggplants, potatoes, onions, ...
- Saietta, Ignazio
- (from the article "Black Hand") Among the most notorious of Black Handers was Ignazio Saietta, known to residents of Manhattan's "Little Italy" as Lupo (the "Wolf"); in 1920 he was finally apprehended by federal authorities ...
- Saifi, Amari
- (from the article "Algeria") ...also enjoyed an uneasy calm. By October, however, a new round of attacks and ambushes had begun, despite the army's successes in Kabylia and in eastern Algeria. In late October ...
- Saifuddin, Omar Ali
- (from the article "Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, Haji Hassanal") Hassanal Bolkiah was the eldest son of Sultan Sir Haji Omar Ali Saifuddin. He was educated privately and later attended the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Royal ...
- saifuku
- (from the article "shozoku") ...falls to the ankles and is coloured white, light blue, or (for high dignitaries) purple. Over this are worn two or more layers of kimono-type garments, the most formal of ...
- saiga
- medium-sized hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla) that lives in herds in treeless steppe country. Once common from Poland to western Mongolia, it has been greatly reduced by ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saigo Takamori
- a leader in the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate who later rebelled against the weaknesses he saw in the Imperial government that he had helped to restore. Although his participation ... [5 Related Articles]
- Saigon River
- river in southern Vietnam that rises near Phum Daung, southeastern Cambodia, and flows south and south-southeast for about 140 miles (225 km). In its lower course it embraces Ho Chi ...
- Saigon, Treaty of
- (June 1862), agreement by which France achieved its initial foothold on the Indochinese Peninsula. The treaty was signed by the last precolonial emperor of Vietnam, Tu Duc, and was ratified ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saigyo
- Japanese Buddhist priest-poet, one of the greatest masters of the tanka (a traditional Japanese poetic form), whose life and works became the subject matter of many narratives, plays, and puppet ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saijo
- city, Ehime ken (prefecture), Shikoku, Japan, in the Kamo River delta. A castle town in the 17th century, it served later as a local administrative and commercial centre. The construction ...
- Saiki
- city, Oita ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, facing Saiki Bay. It developed as a castle town on the small delta of the Banjo River during the Muromachi era (1338-1573) and came ...
- sail
- (from the article "Edaphosaurus") ...3.5 metres (11.5 feet) long, with a short, low skull and blunt conical teeth. The head was very small in comparison with the massive barrel-like body. More distinctive, however, was ...
- sail
- (from the article "energy conversion") ...Persian millwright of AD 644, although windmills may actually have been used earlier. These mills, erected near what is now the Iran-Afghanistan border, had a vertical shaft with paddlelike sails ...
- sail
- an extent of fabric (such as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a ship through water. [6 Related Articles]
- sailboard
- (from the article "windsurfing") sport that combines aspects of sailing and surfing on a one-person craft called a sailboard.
- sailcloth
- (from the article "canvas") stout cloth probably named after cannabis (Latin: "hemp"). Hemp and flax fibre have been used for ages to produce cloth for sails. Certain classes are termed sailcloth or canvas synonymously. ...
- Sailer, Anton
- Austrian Alpine skier who, in the 1956 Olympic Winter Games held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, was the first to sweep the gold medals in the Alpine competition, which at that ... [1 Related Articles]
- sailfin molly
- (from the article "molly") ...and attractive, mollies are popular aquarium fish ranging from about 5 to 13 cm (2 to 5 inches) long. Well-known species include the molly (P. sphenops), which is normally grayish, ...
- sailfish
- (genus Istiophorus), valued food and game fish of the family Istiophoridae (order Perciformes) found in warm and temperate waters around the world. The sailfish has a long, rounded spear extending ...
- Sailing (Yachting)
- In summer 2007 the America's Cup completed its three-year course of almost continuous competition, with a spectacular final series between defending Alinghi of Switzerland and challenger Emirates Team New Zealand. ... [20 Related Articles]
- sailing canoe
- (from the article "canoeing") ...of the Boy Scouts, designed a series of canoes with sails in the 1870s, and thereafter his and MacGregor's canoes followed a separate course of development from the paddled canoe. ...
- sailing craft
- (from the article "ship") The move to the pure sailing ship came with small but steadily increasing technical innovations that more often allowed ships to sail with the wind behind them. Sails changed from ...
- sailplane
- (from the article "airplane") ...are usually used for flight training and have the capability to fly reasonable distances when they are catapulted or towed into the air (see photograph), but they lack the dynamic ...
- Saimaa Canal
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...the first, the Trollhatte Canal, connects the Gotaalv (river) upward from Goteborg with Lake Vanern and with the Finnish lakes and connecting canals; the second, the Saimaa Canal, in southeast ...
- Saimaa, Lake
- lake in southeastern Finland. It lies just northwest of the Russian border and is northeast of Helsinki. It has an area of 443 sq mi (1,147 sq km) and is ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saimei
- (from the article "Japan") ...in 663, by a T'ang-Silla army at the mouth of the Kum River. Japan withdrew entirely and gave up any further intervention on the Korean peninsula. The Japanese ruler of ...
- Sainsbury of Drury Lane, Alan John Sainsbury, Baron
- British grocer who changed British food-shopping habits when he built the grocery business begun by his grandparents into a chain of supermarkets modeled on large American self-service stores; he served ...
- Sainsbury, Sir Robert James
- British grocer and arts patron (b. Oct. 24, 1906, London, Eng.-d. April 2, 2000, London), was joint manager of Sainsbury's grocery business with his older brother, Alan (later Lord Sainsbury), ...
- Saint
- (from the article "Saint CRU") as a title with a personal name, see under personal name (e.g., Cyprian, Saint). As a part of a place-name or other proper name, see under Saint as below or ...
- saint
- a holy person believed to have a special relationship to the sacred as well as moral perfection or exceptional teaching abilities. The phenomenon is widespread in the religions of the ... [18 Related Articles]
- Saint Abb's
- (from the article "Saint Abb's Head") ...convent founded by Ebba, a Northumbrian princess who escaped shipwreck there. The convent was burned by Norsemen in the 9th century. About 1098 King Edgar established a priory in the ...
- Saint Abb's Head
- promontory on the North Sea in the Scottish Borders council area, historic county of Berwickshire, southeastern Scotland. It is located about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. ...
- Saint Albans
- (from the article "Saint Albans") town and city (district), administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England, in the valley of the River Ver about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of London.
- Saint Albans
- town and city (district), administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England, in the valley of the River Ver about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of London.
- Saint Albans
- city, seat of Franklin county, northwestern Vermont, U.S., 24 miles (39 km) north of Burlington. St. Albans town (township), surrounding the city, is on St. Albans Bay of Lake Champlain. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint Albans Cathedral
- (from the article "Saint Albans") ...later founded on the alleged site of his martyrdom, and the town of St. Albans grew up around the abbey. Offa of Mercia about 793 founded a Saxon abbey church ...
- Saint Albans Raid
- (Oct. 19, 1864), in the American Civil War, a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory; the incident put an additional strain on what were already tense relations between the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Albans, battles of
- (May 22, 1455, and Feb. 17, 1461), battles during the English Wars of the Roses. The town of St. Albans, situated on the old Roman Watling Street and lying 20 ... [4 Related Articles]
- Saint Albans, Charles Beauclerk, 1st duke of, Baron Heddington, earl of Burford
- illegitimate son of Charles II, the elder of two illegitimate sons born to Nell Gwyn, an English actress.
- Saint Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of, 1st Baron Jermyn of Saint Edmundsbury
- courtier, favourite of Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England. It was rumoured, falsely, that he became her husband after the king's execution (1649).
- Saint Albert
- city, central Alberta, Canada, immediately northwest of Edmonton, on the Sturgeon River, in a mixed-farming district. The settlement developed around a mission that was built in 1861 by Father Albert ...
- Saint Andrew
- (from the article "belfry") ...where a flat countryside heightens the dramatic impact of towers. The Halles (Market Hall) and belfrey at Brugge (late 13th century) is typical. Medieval England's best example is the church ...
- Saint Andrew's cross
- (from the article "cross") ...commissa, in the form of the Greek letter tau, sometimes called St. Anthony's cross; and crux decussata, named from the Roman decussis, or symbol of the numeral 10, also known ...
- Saint Andrew's Monastery
- (from the article "Gregory I, Saint") ...contemplative purity and the public duty to serve others in the "pollution" of worldly affairs. Renouncing secular life, Gregory established, on family property on the Caelian Hill, a monastery dedicated ...
- Saint Andrews
- (from the article "Fundy, Bay of") The bay covers some 3,600 square miles (9,300 square km). Its shores are indented by numerous coves and several large deepwater harbours, the main ones at Saint John and St. ...
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