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Sammy's Children's Day (初三的六一儿童节)
Sammy's Children's Day (初三的六一儿童节, Chusan's Liuyi Children's Day) is a 2026 Hong Kong BL crime drama, 9 episodes on GagaOOLala, adapted from She Xie Dian Dian's novel, starring He Changxi and He Yanzhao in 1980s Kowloon Walled City.
Samni (crater on Rhea)
Samni is a 101.40-km-diameter impact crater on Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon, centered at -47.70° latitude, 90.70° longitude; IAU-approved April 23, 2010, named for a Kachin (Burma) primeval god.
Samnite Sanctuary at Pietrabbondante
Samnite Sanctuary at Pietrabbondante: major Italic cult and political center of the Pentri Samnites on Monte Saraceno, Molise, Italy; Oscan inscriptions, theatre-Temple B complex (c. 120-90 BCE), abandoned after the Social War.
Samnite Wars
The Samnite Wars (343–290 BC) were three conflicts between Rome and the Samnite tribes of the Apennines, featuring the Caudine Forks disaster, Rome's adoption of the manipular legion, and Rome's eventual conquest of central Italy.
Samnites
Samnites: Oscan-speaking confederation of four Apennine tribes (Hirpini, Caudini, Caraceni/Carricini, Pentri) who fought Rome in three wars (343–290 BC), won at the Caudine Forks, and were finally absorbed after 82 BC.
SAMO
SAMO© was the street-writing project of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Diaz (later Shannon Dawson), spraying cryptic aphorisms signed "same old shit" plus a copyright symbol on Lower Manhattan walls from 1978 to 1980, ending with "SAMO IS DEAD".
Samo Lives
Samo Lives is an upcoming American biographical drama by Julius Onah about painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Basquiat, Antony Starr as Andy Warhol, and Jeffrey Wright as Gérard Basquiat; filmed in New York and New Jersey in 2025, releasing December 2026.
Samoa
Samoa (Independent State of Samoa), a Polynesian Pacific island nation of about 200,000 people with capital Apia; independent from New Zealand in 1962; Fa'a Samoa culture, 2025 election won by FAST under La'auli Schmidt.
Samoa Airways
Samoa Airways, formerly Polynesian Airlines, is the state-owned flag carrier of Samoa, headquartered in Apia. Created in 2017, it ended international jet services in 2022 and now flies regional routes.
Samoa Broadcasting Corporation
Samoa Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), Samoa's state broadcaster operating AM/FM radio and television, established 2003 and privatized in 2008; its TV business became TV1, while state broadcasting continues as MCIT's Broadcasting Services Division (Radio 2AP, TV9).
Samoa Islands
Samoa Islands: volcanic archipelago in the central South Pacific, split between independent Samoa and the US territory of American Samoa; Samoa Islands marine ecoregion of Central Polynesia, fringing coral reefs, ocean management under the Samoa Ocean Strategy.
Samoa Joe
Samoa Joe, American professional wrestler (ring name) of ROH, TNA, WWE, and AEW; 645-day ROH World Champion, NXT and multiple-time US Champion, two-time AEW World Champion, Coquina Clutch finisher.
Samoa national rugby union team
Manu Samoa, the Samoa men's national rugby union team, first played in 1924 as Western Samoa. Debut World Cup 1991 (beat Wales, Argentina; quarter-finals 1991, 1995); Brian Lima played five World Cups; qualified for 2027.
Samoan crisis
The Samoan crisis was an 1887 to 1889 standoff among the United States, Germany, and Britain over Samoa, ended when a cyclone wrecked six warships at Apia in 1889.
Samoan Islands
The Samoan Islands, also called the Samoan archipelago, are a 485-km volcanic chain in Polynesia split at 171°W by the 1899 Tripartite Convention into independent Samoa and the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
Samoan language
Samoan (gagana Sāmoa, [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmua]) is the largest Polynesian language, official in Samoa and American Samoa, with about half a million speakers. It has formal T-language and colloquial K-language registers, a chiefly respect register, a 17-letter alphabet, and a declining but significant speaker base in New Zealand.
Samoan literature
Samoan literature: oral tradition in Gagana Sāmoa plus written work in Samoan and English by Samoan writers at home and in diaspora; from the 1839 O le Sulu Samoa newspaper to Albert Wendt, Sia Figiel, Tusiata Avia and Selina Tusitala Marsh.
Samoan oral literature
Samoan oral literature is the body of performed verbal art in the Samoan language, chiefly oratory (lāuga), night storytelling (fāgogo), song (pese), ceremonial chant, and ancient narratives that remain in living use.
Samoan tālā
The Samoan tālā is the currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene. It replaced the Samoan pound in 1967 and is pegged to a basket of four currencies.
Samoan tatau
Samoan tatau (tātatau) is the indigenous tattooing tradition of the Sāmoan Islands, applied by master tattooists called tufuga tā tatau using hand-tapped tools; the English word tattoo derives from tatau.
Samoana
Samoana is a genus of about 23 partulid tree snail species across Pacific archipelagoes, defined by distinct epiphallus and penis genital anatomy, with the western outlier Samoana fragilis in the Marianas and eastern radiations in Samoa, Society, Austral, and Marquesas Islands.
Samoans
Samoans: Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan islands (Samoa and American Samoa). Fa'a Samoa, their 3,000-year-old culture, centers on aiga, matai chiefs, alofa, tautua, and fa'aaloalo; largest Pacific group in New Zealand.
Samoas
Samoas (FEOW ecoregion 823) is a freshwater ecoregion of the Oceanic Islands type covering the Samoan archipelago in both Samoa and American Samoa, delineated for its endemic fish fauna including Kuhlia salelea and Stiphodon hydroreibatus.
Samodiva (folklore)
Samodiva (самодива, plural samodivi), also called samovila or vila, is a female forest and mountain spirit of Bulgarian folklore: a beautiful winged woman whose power lies in her garment, who heals or sickens humans and dances men to death.
Samodiva Mons
Samodiva Mons, a large shield volcano on Venus in Quadrangle V-29 (Devana Chasma), ~240 km across at 13.6°N, 291.0°E, mapped from Magellan data with three evolutionary stages and dike swarms.
Samogitia
Samogitia (Lithuanian: Žemaitija, literally "Lowland") is a historical and ethnographic region of western Lithuania, first recorded in 1219 and known for its distinct dialect, culture, and long-preserved identity.
Samora Machel
Samora Moisés Machel (1933–1986), Mozambican revolutionary, first president of independent Mozambique from 1975, led FRELIMO from 1970 and died in the disputed 1986 Mbuzini Tupolev Tu-134 crash.
Samori Ture
Samori Ture was a West African state builder who founded and ruled an empire and led resistance to French conquest until his capture in 1898.
Samori Ture's Wars of Resistance
Samori Ture's Wars of Resistance were the Wassoulou Empire's armed resistance to French colonial conquest in West Africa, fought from 1882 until Samori Ture's capture by Captain Gouraud in 1898.
Samos (Σάμος)
Samos (Σάμος), Greek island in the eastern Aegean nearest Turkey; home of ancient Samos city (Pythagoreion), the Heraion of Hera, and Eupalinos' tunnel; UNESCO site since 1992; struck by Mw 7.0 quake in 2020.