All articles starting with S

Sam's Town

Sam's Town (2006) is The Killers' second album, the follow-up to Hot Fuss. Recorded in Las Vegas at the Palms with Flood and Alan Moulder, it shifted from new wave to Springsteen-style heartland rock, hit No. 1 in the UK, No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and was later reappraised as underrated.

Sama-Bajau

Sama-Bajau (Bajau, Bajo, Badjao): Austronesian maritime people of the Philippines, Borneo, and eastern Indonesia, historically boat-dwelling sea nomads, now largely settled and many stateless.

Samachar Darpan

Samachar Darpan (সমাচার দর্পণ, "Mirror of News") was a Bengali weekly newspaper founded in 1818 at Serampore, considered the first sustained newspaper in an Indian language.

Samad al-Shan

Samad al-Shan is a complex of cemeteries in Sharqiya, Oman, the type site of the Samad Late Iron Age culture, dated to about 300 BCE–300 CE.

Samad Behrangi

Samad Behrangi (صمد بهرنگی, 1939–1968) was an Iranian teacher and short story writer of Azerbaijani background, best known for the children's folktale The Little Black Fish.

Samad bey Mehmandarov

Samad bey Mehmandarov (Səməd bəy Mehmandarov) was an Azerbaijani general of artillery who served Russia for four decades, then built Azerbaijan's first national army as Minister of War.

Samadhi

Samadhi (समाधि) is deep meditative absorption in Indian traditions: the eighth limb of Patanjali's yoga, right concentration in Buddhism, and nirvikalpa realization in Vedanta, marked by single-pointed, distraction-free mind.

Samael

Samael (סמאל), the major Jewish name of Satan from the amoraic period onward: a post-biblical angel appearing as accuser, tempter, angel of death, guardian of Esau/Rome, and in Kabbalah Lilith's consort over the sitra ahra.

Samael (group)

Samael is a Swiss extreme-metal band from Sion, Valais, founded by brothers Vorph and Xy, whose 1991 debut Worship Him made them early black-metal standard-bearers outside Scandinavia.

Oct 15, 2026

Samah-Dahra Oil Pipeline

The Samah-Dahra Oil Pipeline is an operating crude oil pipeline in Libya, running from the Samah oilfield to the Dahra oilfield and on toward the Es Sider export terminal.

Samaire Armstrong

Samaire Rhys Armstrong, American actress and fashion designer born 1980 in Tokyo; known as Anna Stern on The O.C., Emily on Entourage, Juliet Darling on Dirty Sexy Money, and creator of the NARU clothing line.

Samaje Perine

Samaje Perine, NFL running back (Cincinnati Bengals, No. 34), Oklahoma record-setter with 427-yard NCAA single-game rushing game; ten seasons with Washington, Bengals, Miami, Denver, and Kansas City.

Samajwadi Party (समाजवादी पार्टी)

Samajwadi Party (समाजवादी पार्टी, SP), Indian regional party founded 4 October 1992 by Mulayam Singh Yadav, based in Uttar Pradesh; bicycle symbol; led by Akhilesh Yadav since 2017; won 37 Lok Sabha seats in 2024.

Samak-e Ayyar

Samak-e Ayyar (سمک عیار), also romanized Samak-i ʿAyyār, is the oldest extant Persian popular prose romance, compiled in the 12th century and telling of the ayyar Samak and prince Khurshid-shah.

Samalian language

Samʾalian, also spelled Sam'alian, is the Northwest Semitic language of the Iron Age kingdom of Sam'al at Zincirli in the northern Levant, known chiefly from royal and mortuary inscriptions of the eighth century BC.

Samalog

Samalog (sammenlagt) is the Norwegian-origin speed skating scoring system converting race times to 500m-equivalent points (1000m/2, 1500m/3, 5000m/10, 10,000m/20), summed to three decimals; lowest total wins Allround and Sprint titles.

Oct 21, 2026

Samambaia

Samambaia (RA XII) is an administrative region of Brazil's Federal District, about 25 km from Brasília, officialized 25 October 1989, built by resettling squatters, with roughly 193,000 inhabitants, a metro link, and an industrial district.

Saman

Saman is Ayu Utami's debut Indonesian novel, published April 1998 by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, days before Soeharto's fall. It follows four women and an ex-priest, won the Jakarta Arts Council novel contest, and sparked the sastra wangi movement.

Saman Darkan

Saman Darkan is a Dubai-based technology executive who co-founded Kitopi, a managed cloud kitchen platform, in 2018, and serves as its Chief Technology and Product Officer.

Saman Ghoddos (سامان قدوس)

Saman Ghoddos (سامان قدوس), born 1993 in Malmö, is an Iranian attacking midfielder for Kalba FC and Iran; ex-Östersund, Amiens, and Brentford, 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Saman Kunan (สมาน กุนัน)

Saman Kunan (สมาน กุนัน), aka Ja Sam, was a former Thai Navy SEAL diver, 38, who died 6 July 2018 delivering oxygen tanks in the Tham Luang cave rescue, the operation's first and only fatality.

Saman Zonouz

Saman Zonouz is an associate professor at Georgia Tech whose cybersecurity research protects power grids and industrial control systems, earning him a 2015 PECASE award at Rutgers.

Sămănătorul

Sămănătorul, also spelled Semănătorul (meaning "the sower"), was a weekly literary magazine published in Bucharest from 1901 to 1910, the center of the traditionalist current sămănătorism.

Oct 10, 2026

Samaṇḍaka

Samaṇḍaka (समण्डक) was a wandering ascetic-teacher of the Buddha's time, known through sixteen dialogues with Sāriputta in the Sāmaṇḍakasaṃyutta (SN 39) of the Pali Canon.

Oct 21, 2026

Samanea

Samanea (Benth.) Merr., a Fabaceae genus of Central and South American trees with 3 accepted species; its rain tree (S. saman, syn. Albizia saman) is a nitrogen-fixing shade tree up to 60 m tall with an 80 m crown.

Oct 21, 2026

Samanea saman

Samanea saman (rain tree, cow-tamarind; synonym Albizia saman), a Fabaceae tree native from Central America to Venezuela and Ecuador, widely planted in the tropics for shade, timber, and fodder, invasive in Fiji and Hawaii, and a model plant for nyctinastic leaf movement.