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Sakakah: oasis, northwestern Saudi Arabia. It lies on an old caravan route from the Mediterranean Sea coast to the central and southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Sakakah lies north of ...
sakaki: low-spreading, flowering evergreen tree (Cleyera japonica, or ochnacea) used in Shinto to demarcate or decorate sacred spaces. The tree, which grows in warm areas of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and mainland ...
Sakakura Junzo: architect who was one of the first to combine 20th-century European architecture with elements from the traditional Japanese style.
Sakalava: a Malagasy people living in the western third of Madagascar. The Sakalava live in a sparsely populated area of vast plains, grasslands, and rolling foothills.
Sakamoto Ryoma: noted imperial loyalist whose effort to forge the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance (1866) between those two large feudal domains, or hans, was critical in setting the stage for the Meiji Restoration (1868).
Sakata: city, Yamagata ken (prefecture), northern Honshu, Japan, on the Mogami River. A prosperous commercial and fishing port during the Muromachi period (1338-1573), it later developed as a seaport for the ...
Sakcagoz: village in the Southeastern Taurus Mountains some 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Gaziantep, south-central Turkey. Archaeologists first took note of Sakcagoz as the site of a Late Hittite slab ...
Sakdal Uprising: brief peasant rebellion in the agricultural area of central Luzon, Philippines, on the night of May 2-3, 1935. Though quickly crushed, the revolt of the Sakdals (or Sakdalistas) warned of ...
sake: Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice. Sake is light in colour, is noncarbonated, has a sweet flavour, and contains up to 18 percent alcohol.
Sakel, Manfred J.: Polish neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who introduced insulin-shock therapy for schizophrenia.
Saker, Alfred: missionary who established the first British mission in the Cameroons and who was, in the opinion of David Livingstone, the most important English missionary in West Africa. Saker founded the ...
Sakha: one of the major peoples of eastern Siberia, numbering some 380,000 in the late 20th century. In the 17th century they inhabited a limited area on the middle Lena River, ...
Sakha: republic in far northeastern Russia, in northeastern Siberia. The republic occupies the basins of the great rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean-the Lena, Yana, Indigirka, and Kolyma-and includes the New ...
Sakha language: member of the Turkic subfamily of the Altaic language family, spoken in northeastern Siberia (Sakha republic), in northeastern Russia. Because its speakers have been geographically isolated from other Turkic languages ...
Sakhalin: oblast (province), extreme eastern Russia, composed of Sakhalin Island and the chain of the Kuril Islands. The present oblast was formed in 1947 after southern Sakhalin and the Kurils were ...
Sakhalin Island: island at the far eastern end of Russia. It is located between the Tatar Strait and the Sea of Okhotsk, north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido. With the Kuril ...
Sakharov, Andrey Dmitriyevich: Soviet nuclear physicist, an outspoken advocate of human rights, civil liberties, and reform in the Soviet Union as well as for rapprochement with noncommunist nations. In 1975 he was awarded ...
saki: any of seven species of arboreal South American monkeys having long nonprehensile furred tails. The "true" sakis of the genus Pithecia are approximately 30-50 cm (12-20 inches) ...
Saki: Scottish writer and journalist whose stories depict the Edwardian social scene with a flippant wit and power of fantastic invention used both to satirize social pretension, unkindness, and stupidity and ...
Saki: city, north-central Azerbaijan. It is situated on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Range. Saki, one of the oldest cities in Azerbaijan, was a trading centre on the road ...
sakia: mechanical device used to raise water from wells or pits. A sakia consists of buckets fastened to a vertical wheel or to a rope belt about the wheel, which is ...
sakkos: outer liturgical vestment worn by bishops of the Eastern Orthodox church. It is a short, close-fitting tunic with half sleeves, buttoned or tied with ribbons on the sides, and usually ...
Sakmann, Bert: German medical doctor and research scientist who in 1991, together with German physicist Erwin Neher, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research into basic cell function and ...
Sakonnet River: inlet of the Atlantic Ocean extending approximately 14 miles (23 km) north to Mount Hope Bay, southeastern Rhode Island, U.S. Although called a river, the Sakonnet is actually a saltwater ...
Sakuma Zozan: early and influential proponent of Westernization in Japan whose slogan Toyo no dotoku, seiyo no geijutsu ("Eastern ethics, Western techniques") became the basis of the Japanese modernization effort in the ...
Sakurada Jisuke I: kabuki dramatist who created more than 120 plays and at least 100 dance dramas.
Sakyamuni: (Sanskrit: "Sage of the Sakyas"), epithet applied to Gautama Buddha. See Buddha and Buddhism.
Sal Island: northeasternmost island of Cape Verde, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 miles (640 km) off the coast of western Africa. It has an area of 83 square miles (216 square ...
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield: city and port, Monteregie region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It lies on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, at the east end of Lake Saint-Francois (St. Francis), which ...
salad: any of a wide variety of dishes that fall into the following principal categories: green salads; vegetable salads; salads of pasta, legumes, or grains; mixed salads incorporating meat, poultry, or ...
Saladin: Muslim sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and the most famous of Muslim heroes. In wars against the Christian Crusaders, he achieved great success ...
Salado Formation: evaporite deposit that occurs in the region of the Guadalupe Mountains of western Texas, U.S., and is a major world source for potassium salts. In the Delaware Basin it reaches ...
Salado River: river in northeastern Mexico. It rises in the Sierra Madre Oriental in Coahuila state and flows generally east-northeastward for some 175 miles (280 km) into the lake created by the ...
Salado River: river in northeastern Buenos Aires province, Argentina. It rises at Lake El Chanar, which lies at an elevation of 130 feet (40 m) above sea level on the border of ...
Salaj: judet (county), northwestern Romania. The Western Carpathian Mountains of Romania, including the Ses Mountains, rise above settlement areas in the valleys. The county is drained northwestward by the Somes River ...
Salalah: town, southern Oman, on the coast of the Arabian Sea. The town is located in the only part of the Arabian Peninsula touched by the Indian Ocean monsoon and thus ...
Salam, Abdus: Pakistani nuclear physicist who was the corecipient with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in formulating the electroweak theory, which ...
Salama: city, central Guatemala. It lies between the Chuacus Mountains and the Minas Mountains on the Salama River, a tributary of the Chixoy, at 3,084 feet (940 m) above sea level. ...
Salamanca: city, south-central Guanajuato estado ("state"), central Mexico. It lies on the Lerma River at an elevation of 5,647 feet (1,721 m) above sea level.
Salamanca: provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Castile-Leon, western Spain. Salamanca is bounded by Portugal (west) and the provinces of Zamora and Valladolid (north), Avila (east), and Caceres (south); ...
Salamanca: city, capital of Salamanca provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Castile-Leon, western Spain. The city lies at an elevation of 2,552 feet (778 m) above sea level on ...
Salamanca, University of: state institution of higher learning at Salamanca, Spain. It was founded in 1218 under Alfonso IX, but its real beginnings date from 1254, when, under Alfonso X, grandson of the ...
salamander: any member of a group of about 400 species of amphibians that have tails and that constitute the order Caudata. The order comprises 10 families, among which are newts and ...
Salamis: island and town, nomos (department) of Attiki, Greece. The island lies in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, west of the city of Piraeus. The town (the present combined ...
Salamis: principal city of ancient Cyprus, located on the east coast of the island, north of modern Famagusta. According to the Homeric epics, Salamis was founded after the Trojan War by ...
Salamis, Battle of: (480 BC), battle in the Greco-Persian Wars in which a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the ...
Salan, Raoul: French military officer who sought to prevent Algeria from gaining independence from France. In 1961-62 he led an organization of right-wing extremists, the Organisation de l'Armee Secrete (OAS; Secret Army ...
Salandra, Antonio: Italian statesman who was premier at the beginning of World War I (1914-16).
salat: the daily ritual prayer enjoined upon all Muslims as one of the five Pillars of Islam (arkan al-Islam). There is disagreement among Islamic scholars as to whether some passages about ...
Salatiga: kotamadya (municipality), Jawa Tengah provinsi ("province"), Java, Indonesia. The city lies 35 miles (56 km) north-northeast of Yogyakarta, at the foot of Mount Merbabu. At an elevation of 1,916 ...
Salavat: city, Bashkortostan, western Russia, on the Belaya (White) River. It was founded in 1948 as a major oil centre of the Volga-Urals oil field, and the city has a large ...
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira: economist who as prime minister governed Portugal for 36 years (1932-68).
Salcedo: city, northern Dominican Republic. It lies in the fertile Cibao Valley between the mountain chains of the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Septentrional. Salcedo serves as a commercial centre for ...
Salchow, Ulrich: Swedish figure skater who established a record by winning 10 world championships for men (1901-05, 1907-11-he did not compete in 1906). At the 1908 Games in London, he won the ...
Saldanha Bay: deep, essentially landlocked harbour of the Atlantic Ocean, situated on the southwest coast of South Africa. Named after the early 16th-century Portuguese navigator Antonio de Saldanha, the bay is both ...
Saldanha, Joao Carlos de Saldanha, Duke de: Portuguese military officer and statesman who was prominent in Portugal's turbulent politics for half a century.
Sale: coastal city, southeastern Victoria, Australia. It lies along the Thomson River near the latter's junction with the Macalister. Sale is the major regional centre for East Gippsland, an irrigated area ...
Sale: old walled city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. It lies at the mouth of the Wadi Bou Regreg, opposite Rabat. Founded in the 10th century, it reached its zenith ...
Sale: site of paleoanthropological excavation near Rabat, Morocco, known for the 1971 discovery of a cranium belonging to the human genus (Homo). Tentatively dated to 400,000 years ago, the site contained ...
Salekhard: city and administrative centre of Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrug (district), Tyumen oblast (province), Russia, in northwestern Siberia. It lies on the Poluy River at its entrance to the Ob River.
Salem: town, north-central Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It is on the Tirumanimuttar River near Attur Gap between the Kalrayan and Pachamalai hills. Situated at the junction of the Bangalore, Tiruchchirappalli, ...
Salem: city, Columbiana county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Youngstown. It was settled in 1801 by Quakers from Salem, N.J., and was laid out in 1806. Before ...
Salem: county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It comprises a coastal lowland bounded by Delaware to the west (the Delaware River constituting the border), Oldmans Creek to the north, the Maurice River ...
Salem: city, seat (1694) of Salem county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies along the Salem River near the latter's confluence with the Delaware River, 34 miles (55 km) southwest of ...
Salem: capital of Oregon, U.S., and the seat (1849) of Marion county. It lies along the Willamette River, 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Portland. Methodist missionaries, led by Jason Lee, ...
Salem: city, seat (1851) of Dent county, southeast-central Missouri, U.S., situated in the Ozark Mountains between the Current and Meramec rivers. Established in 1845 on the site of an inn and ...
Salem: city, seat (1823) of Marion county, south-central Illinois, U.S. It lies about 70 miles (115 km) east of St. Louis, Missouri. It was first settled about 1811, soon after the ...
Salem: town (township), Rockingham county, southeastern New Hampshire, U.S., just west of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The town includes the communities of Salem, Salem Depot, and North Salem. Originally a part of Haverhill, ...
Salem: city, Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on Salem Bay Harbor (an inlet of Massachusetts Bay), 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Boston. Salem was incorporated as a town ...
Salem witch trials: (May-October 1692), in American history, a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted "witches" to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in the town of ...
Salerno: city, capital of Salerno provincia, Campania regione, southern Italy. It lies west of the mouth of the Irno River on the Gulf of Salerno, southeast of Naples. The Roman colony ...
Salerno, University of: institution of higher learning in Salerno, Italy. Much of the historic interest of the university derives from an antecedent medical school in Salerno that was the earliest and one of ...
sales tax: levy imposed upon the sale of goods and services. A sales tax levied on the manufacture, purchase, sale, or consumption of a specific type of commodity is known as an ...
Salesbury, William: Welsh lexicographer and translator who is noted particularly for his Welsh-English dictionary and for translating the New Testament into Welsh.
Salesian: member of either of two Roman Catholic religious congregations, one of men and one of women, devoted to the Christian education of youth, especially the less privileged.
Salford: city and metropolitan borough in the west-central part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, historic county of Lancashire, England. It lies immediately west of the city of Manchester.