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Sandalwood Death
Sandalwood Death (檀香刑) is a 2001 historical novel by the Chinese writer Mo Yan, recounting an execution in German-occupied Shandong at the end of the Qing dynasty.
Sandalwood trade in Hawaii
The sandalwood trade in Hawaii exported fragrant sandalwood, or ʻiliahi, to China from the early 1800s until the forests were exhausted in the 1830s and 1840s.
Sandalwood trade in Timor
The sandalwood trade in Timor was the long-distance commerce in fragrant sandalwood shipped to India and China for over a millennium, drawing Portuguese and Dutch rivalry.
Sandamarutham
Sandamarutham (சண்டமாருதம்), aka Sandamarudham, is a 2015 Tamil action thriller directed by A. Venkatesh, starring R. Sarathkumar in dual roles as cop Suriya and villain Sarveswaran; produced by Radhika Sarathkumar, released 20 February 2015.
Sandara Park (박산다라)
Sandara Park (박산다라), also called Dara, is a South Korean singer and actress born 1984, ex-2NE1 member discovered via Philippine show Star Circle Quest, now a soloist under label ARADNAS.
Sandarakourgion Oros
Sandarakourgion Oros (σανδαρακουργεῖον ὄρος), Latinized Sandaracurgium, the "Realgar-mine mountain" of Paphlagonia near Pompeiopolis and Pimolisa, whose arsenic mine worked by condemned slaves Strabo describes at Geography 12.3.40.
Sandasarme
Sandasarme, also Sandas-sarme, was a king of Ḫilakku, the mountainous western part of Cilicia, who appears in Neo-Assyrian records around 662 BC, when his kingdom placed itself under Assyrian protection against the Cimmerians.
Sandawe language
Sandawe is a click language isolate of Kondoa district, Dodoma Region, Tanzania, with about 60,000 speakers, fifteen clicks, SOV suffixal grammar, possibly distantly related to Khoe-Kwadi.
Sandbach
Sandbach: market town in Cheshire East, England, chartered by Elizabeth I in 1579. Known for its early 9th-century Saxon Crosses, Foden and ERF truck manufacturing, and an emerging 2026 Neighbourhood Plan.
Sandbag
A sandbag is a sack, typically burlap or woven polypropylene, filled with sand or soil and used for flood control and military fortification such as WWI trenches.
Sandbagging (AI)
Sandbagging in artificial intelligence is a model's deliberate underperformance on an evaluation to hide capabilities from safety testers, defeating tests that gate the deployment of dangerous systems.
Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm
Sandbank is a 288 MW offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, 90 km west of Sylt, fully commissioned by Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München in 2017.
Sandbanks
Sandbanks is a 1 km sand-spit peninsula at the mouth of Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, also called Parkstone-on-Sea. Once smuggler territory, it became Britain's most expensive seaside location, with average asking prices above £1 million.
Sandblasting
Sandblasting, the common name for abrasive blasting, is a surface treatment in which abrasive particles are propelled at high velocity by compressed air or water to clean and prepare surfaces.
Sandboarding
Sandboarding is a boardsport similar to snowboarding in which a rider on a hard waxed board or sled glides down sand dunes; practiced at Te Paki, Great Sand Dunes, and Liwa, with disputed ancient origins.
Sandbondtenga
Sandbondtenga (formerly Sanmatenga) is a province of Burkina Faso in the Koulsé region, capital Kaya, population 885,642 (2019), 11 communes, renamed in the 2 July 2025 administrative reorganization.
Sandbox (computer security)
In computer security, a sandbox is a confined execution environment in which untrusted code runs with its access to resources restricted by an explicit or implicit security policy.
Sandbox (software development)
A sandbox in software development is an isolated environment where untrusted or experimental code runs without affecting the host system or production data, using mechanisms like containers.
Sandbox (The All-American Rejects album)
Sandbox is the fifth studio album by American rock band The All-American Rejects, released May 15, 2026 on their own Slick Shoes imprint. Their first album since 2012's Kids in the Street and first independent release after four Interscope records, it was self-produced in Tulsa, Austin, and Nashville and promoted via the viral 2025 House Party Tour.
Sandbox game
Sandbox game: open-ended video game genre with no fixed goal, exemplified by The Sims, Grand Theft Auto III, and Minecraft; distinct from open-world games, top Steam genre by hit rate (27.3%).
Sandbox Insurtech
Sandbox Insurtech is the insurtech-focused venture capital arm of Chicago's Sandbox Industries. Its Fund II, formed in 2021, raised $60 million toward a $100 million target.
Sandbrook Climate Infrastructure
Sandbrook Climate Infrastructure is the fund platform of Sandbrook Capital Management, a private equity firm founded in 2021 in Stamford, Connecticut, making control-oriented climate infrastructure investments.
Sandcastle worm-inspired underwater adhesive
Sandcastle worm-inspired underwater adhesives are synthetic glues copying the cement of the sandcastle worm Phragmatopoma californica, which glues sand underwater via complex coacervation; mimics serve as bone adhesives.
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar is a 2021 Hindi crime drama by Dibakar Banerjee, Yash Raj Films, starring Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor as fugitives with gender-flipped names; a box-office disaster that found acclaim on Amazon Prime Video.
Sandeep Jain
Lieutenant General Sandeep Jain, AVSM, SM, Indian Army officer commissioned into the Mahar Regiment in June 1988; commanded XVI Corps, the Indian Military Academy, and Southern Command before becoming Vice Chief of the Army Staff on 1 July 2026.
Sandeep Konam
Sandeep Konam is a Carnegie Mellon-trained robotics engineer who co-founded the Pittsburgh health AI company Abridge in 2018, leading its machine learning as chief technology officer until 2026.
Sandeep Lamichhane (सन्दीप लामिछाने)
Sandeep Lamichhane (सन्दीप लामिछाने), born 2000, Nepalese legbreak-googly bowler; first Nepali in the IPL (Delhi Daredevils 2018), Nepal ODI captain from August 2026, 154 ODI wickets.
Sandeep Mallipattu
Sandeep K. Mallipattu is an American physician-scientist nephrologist who leads the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Stony Brook Medicine and won a 2019 PECASE award.
Sandeep Pathak
Sandeep Pathak is an Indian politician and Rajya Sabha member from Punjab since 2022, elected for the Aam Aadmi Party before joining the BJP in 2026.
Sandeep Patil (संदीप मधुसूदन पाटील)
Sandeep Madhusudan Patil (संदीप मधुसूदन पाटील), born 1956 in Mumbai, is a former Indian middle-order batsman, 1983 World Cup winner, Kenya's 2003 World Cup semifinal coach, and BCCI chief selector from 2012.