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Swallowed Star (吞噬星空)
Swallowed Star (吞噬星空, The Legend of Spacewalker) is I Eat Tomatoes' 2010-2012 Qidian sci-fi web novel, 1,544 chapters, about Luo Feng in virus-ravaged Earth, with a Tencent donghua, films, games, and sequel Origin Continent.
Swallowing
Swallowing (deglutition) moves food and liquid from mouth to stomach in four phases using six cranial nerves and over 30 muscles; its disorder, dysphagia, affects up to 68% of long-term care residents and is assessed by VFSS and FEES.
Swallows and Amazons
Swallows and Amazons is Arthur Ransome's 1930 children's adventure novel about the Walker and Blackett children sailing and camping on Wild Cat Island in the Lake District; the first of twelve books published 1930-1947, based on the Altounyan children.
Swallowtail butterfly
Swallowtail butterfly, Papilionidae (Latreille, 1802), a butterfly family of about 580 species; sister to all other butterflies, Early Cretaceous origin, osmeterium defense, Apiaceae and other host plants.
Swallowtail Butterfly (スワロウテイル) (1996 film)
Swallowtail Butterfly (スワロウテイル, Suwarōteiru), also SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY/燕尾蝶, is Shunji Iwai's 1996 Japanese drama about immigrants in the fictional near-future city Yen Town, starring Chara, Hiroshi Mikami, and Ayumi Ito, with a hit YEN TOWN BAND soundtrack and a 2026 4K re-release.
Swami
Swami (स्वामी) is a Marathi historical novel by Ranjit Desai, first published in 1962, portraying Madhavrao Peshwa I, the fourth Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, and his wife Ramabai.
Swami and Friends
Swami and Friends is R.K. Narayan's 1935 first novel, published by Hamish Hamilton with Graham Greene's help, set in fictional Malgudi circa 1930, following schoolboy Swaminathan, Mani, and Rajam under British colonial rule.
Swami Avdheshanand Giri (स्वामी अवधेशानंद गिरि)
Swami Avdheshanand Giri (स्वामी अवधेशानंद गिरि) is an Indian Dashanami sannyasin who has led the Juna Akhara, the largest sadhu order at the Kumbh Mela, since 1998.
Swami Haridas
Swami Haridas (स्वामी हरिदास) was a 16th-century North Indian Vaishnava devotional poet and master of dhrupad singing who settled at Vrindavan; tradition credits him with 128 dhrupads and a famous, though unproven, link to Tansen.
Swami Prasad Maurya (स्वामी प्रसाद मौर्य)
Swami Prasad Maurya (स्वामी प्रसाद मौर्य), born 1954, is a five-time UP MLA and non-Yadav OBC leader, ex-BSP and BJP minister, ex-SP general secretary, and founder of the Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj Party in 2024.
Swami Rama (स्वामी राम)
Swami Rama (स्वामी राम), born Brij Keshore Kumar, was an Indian yogi who founded the Himalayan Institute in 1971 and demonstrated apparent voluntary control of heart rhythm and brain waves.
Swami Samarth (श्री स्वामी समर्थ)
Swami Samarth, also called Shri Swami Samarth Maharaj, was a 19th-century Indian guru venerated as an avatar of Dattatreya who lived at Akkalkot, Maharashtra, from around 1856 until his death in 1878.
Swami Shraddhananda
Swami Shraddhananda (स्वामी श्रद्धानन्द), born Munshiram in 1856, was an Indian educationist and Arya Samaj missionary who founded the Gurukul at Kangri and led the shuddhi campaign.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Vedantin monk and direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna who introduced Hinduism to the West at the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
Swaminarayan
Swaminarayan, also known as Sahajanand Swami, was an Indian religious leader who from 1801 led a Krishna-centered bhakti community in Gujarat that became the Swaminarayan sampradaya.
Swaminarayan Akshardham (Delhi)
Swaminarayan Akshardham is a Hindu temple and cultural complex in New Delhi, India, opened in 2005 on the banks of the Yamuna river by the BAPS organization.
Swamp
A swamp is a wetland dominated by woody trees or shrubs, distinguished from marshes by vegetation; major types are forested and shrub swamps, including mangrove swamps, with flood-protection and nutrient-removal functions.
Swamp Angel
The Swamp Angel was an 8-inch Parrott rifle the Union Army mounted in a marsh battery and used to shell Charleston, South Carolina, in August 1863.
Swamp People
Swamp People is a History Channel reality series (2010–present) following Cajun alligator hunters in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin during alligator season; 17 seasons, record-setting ratings, and academic critique of its gendered portrayal of Cajun culture.
Swamp pop
Swamp pop is a rock 'n' roll subgenre from Acadiana (south Louisiana) and East Texas, blending New Orleans R&B, country, and Cajun/Black Creole music; created by teenagers in the mid-to-late 1950s, named by Bill Millar around 1970.
Swamp rabbit
The swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus), also called the cane cutter, is the largest cottontail rabbit, living in swamps, marshes, and floodplains of the south-central United States and swimming readily.
Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing, also the Saga of the Swamp Thing and La Cosa del Pantano, is a DC Comics plant elemental carrying scientist Alec Holland's consciousness, created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson in 1971 and famously retconned by Alan Moore in 1984.
Swamp Thing (2019 TV series)
Swamp Thing is a 2019 American horror series by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, streamed as a DC Universe original and canceled six days after its May 31, 2019 premiere.
Swampland (physics)
The swampland, in theoretical physics, is the set of effective field theories that cannot be completed into any consistent quantum theory of gravity, named by Cumrun Vafa in 2005.
Swampland program
The swampland program is a theoretical physics research program, proposed by Cumrun Vafa in 2005, identifying effective field theories that cannot couple to quantum gravity.
Swampman
Swampman is a thought experiment introduced by Donald Davidson in 1987, in which lightning turns a tree into an exact replica of him that cannot mean anything.
Swamps and tall-herb fens in the British National Vegetation Classification system
Swamps and tall-herb fens are NVC vegetation types S1–S28, also called British Plant Communities Volume 4 wetland communities, covering reed-beds, sedge swamps and tall-herb fens used in SSSI and Annex I habitat assessment.
Swamy Ra Ra (స్వామిరారా)
Swamy Ra Ra (స్వామిరారా) is a 2013 Telugu crime comedy directed by debutant Sudheer Varma, starring Nikhil Siddharth and Swati Reddy in a hunt for a stolen Ganesh idol; released 23 March 2013, a box-office success.
Swan
Swan (genus Cygnus): large long-necked water birds; seven species including Mute, Whooper, Bewick's, Tundra, Trumpeter, Black, and Black-necked Swans; white Northern Hemisphere species pair for life, feed on aquatic vegetation, and include the invasive North American Mute Swan.
Swan & Legend
SWaN & Legend is a Leesburg, Virginia-based venture capital firm that invests in multi-stage consumer-sector companies, founded by Fred Schaufeld and Tony Nader after selling NEW to Asurion in 2008.