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Sangri La
Sangri La (Shangri La) is an international casino brand run by Storm International, with venues in Tbilisi and formerly Yerevan and Minsk; the Yerevan casino's license was revoked in June 2026.
Sangria
Sangria (sangría) is a Spanish and Portuguese wine punch of red wine, fruit, citrus, sugar, and often brandy. EU law reserves the name for Spanish and Portuguese production; related drinks include clarea and zurra.
Sangsa byeolgok
Sangsa byeolgok, also called Sangsagok, is one of the twelve gasa, Joseon dynasty court vocal works, singing the sorrow and longing of a woman separated from her beloved.
Sangshaptak
Sangshaptak (সংশপ্তক, "victory or death") is a Bengali epic novel by Shahidullah Kaiser, published in 1965, portraying East Bengal life from British rule to the Pakistan period.
Sangster International Airport
Sangster International Airport (MBJ) is Jamaica's largest airport, east of Montego Bay, handling about 70% of the country's annual visitors and ranking among the Caribbean's busiest.
Sangu Mandanna
Sangu Mandanna (born 1987/1988, Bengaluru, India) is a British-Indian novelist in Norwich, England. Known for The Lost Girl (2012), the Mahabharata space-opera Celestial Trilogy, and the cozy fantasy bestseller The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (2022).
Sanguan (prestige offices)
Sanguan (散官) were sinecure titles in the Sui and Tang bureaucracies that carried an official's rank grade, called his benpin, without assigning any actual post.
Sanguinaria canadensis
Sanguinaria canadensis, bloodroot or red puccoon, a monotypic Papaveraceae perennial of eastern North America with red rhizome sap, toxic sanguinarine alkaloids, early-spring white flowers, and use in black salve.
Sanguinarine
Sanguinarine, also called pseudochelerythrine, is a benzophenanthridine alkaloid found in bloodroot and other Papaveraceae plants, known for intercalating DNA, killing microbes and cells, and causing epidemic dropsy from mustard oil adulteration.
Sanguisorba minor
Sanguisorba minor, salad burnet or small burnet, a Rosaceae perennial herb native from Europe to the W. Himalaya; cucumber-flavored salad herb, rangeland forage with high protein, tannins, and drought tolerance.
Sanguisorba officinalis
Sanguisorba officinalis (great burnet, di yu, 地榆) is a perennial Rosaceae herb of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, 30–150 cm tall with dark red petalless flower spikes; its dried root (Sanguisorbae Radix) is a Traditional Chinese Medicine hemostatic, and it is IUCN Least Concern.
Sanguisugabogg
Sanguisugabogg is an American death metal band formed in 2019 in Columbus, Ohio, known for savagely downtuned, groove-heavy old-school death metal and absurdist gore-themed lyrics, with albums on Century Media.
Sangulmaceae flora
Sangulmaceae flora (桑榆科植物区) is a 0.6-hectare living collection of Moraceae and Ulmaceae trees, 9 genera and over 20 species, in the South Garden of the China National Botanical Garden, Beijing, featuring northern China native trees such as mulberries, elms, hackberry, zelkova, and Pteroceltis.
Sanguo Zhi Pinghua
Sanguo Zhi Pinghua (三国志平话) is a Yuan-dynasty vernacular narrative of the Three Kingdoms, printed by the Yu family bookshop of Jian'an in 1321–1323 and the earliest surviving ancestor of the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Sanguszko Carpet
The Sanguszko Carpet is a celebrated Safavid Persian carpet of the late 16th century, taken as war booty at the 1621 Battle of Khotin and now in Japan.
Sangyeon
Sangyeon (상연; born Lee Sang-yeon, 1996) is a South Korean singer, leader and main vocalist of the boy group The Boyz, winners of Road to Kingdom in 2020.
Sangyong Jon
Sangyong Jon (전상용) is a South Korean nanomedicine researcher, a professor of biological sciences at KAIST since 2012 and director of the Center for Precision Bio-Nanomedicine, known for bilirubin nanoparticles.
Sanhaja
The Sanhaja (صنهاجة) were a large Berber tribal confederation of the Maghreb, both sedentary and nomadic, that produced the medieval Zirid, Hammadid, and Almoravid dynasties.
Sanhe Power Generation
Sanhe Power Generation Co., Ltd. (三河发电有限责任公司), also known as Guoneng Sanhe, is a coal-fired power and heating company in Yanjiao, Hebei, with four units totaling 1,300 MW.
Sanhe Yanjiao power station
Sanhe Yanjiao power station (神华国华三河发电厂) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Yanjiao, Hebei, China, built between 1999 and 2007 with four units totaling 1,300 MW that heat Beijing's Tongzhou District in winter.
Sanhe, Hebei
Sanhe (三河市) is a county-level city of Langfang, Hebei, east of Beijing; with Dachang and Xianghe it forms the North Three Counties. Its Yanjiao township sends about 200,000 daily commuters to Beijing.
Sanhedrin (סַנְהֶדְרִין)
The Sanhedrin (סנהדרין, from Greek synedrion) was the supreme judicial and legislative council of ancient Judaea, a court of 71 sages in the Jerusalem Temple, abolished around 425 CE.
Sanhedrin trial of Jesus
The Sanhedrin trial of Jesus, also called the trial before the Great Sanhedrin or synedrion, is the Gospel episode in which the Jerusalem council interrogated Jesus for blasphemy before sending him to Pilate; its form, legality, and even occurrence are disputed.
Sanhu law (mutual avoidance among recommendation officials)
The Sanhu law (三互法) was an Eastern Han appointment-avoidance rule barring intermarried families and natives of two states from supervising each other, criticized by Cai Yong in 175.
Sanhua Tang
Sanhua Decoction (三化汤) is a classical Chinese medicine formula of four herbs, first recorded by Jin-dynasty physician Liu Wansu for stroke patients with obstructed stool and urine.
Sanhwa
Sanhwa (산화) is a 1936 short story by Korean writer Yi Sang, better known as Nalgae ("Wings"), said to be Korea's first work of stream-of-consciousness fiction.
Sani Abacha
General Sani Abacha was a Nigerian Army general who seized power in a 1993 coup and ruled Nigeria as military head of state until his death in 1998.
Sania Mirza (सानिया मिर्ज़ा)
Sania Mirza (सानिया मिर्ज़ा), born 1986, Indian tennis player; first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title (2005 Hyderabad), a Grand Slam doubles title (2015 Wimbledon), and WTA doubles No. 1; six Grand Slam titles; retired 2023.
Sanibel, Florida
Sanibel, Florida: barrier-island city in Lee County, southwest Florida, incorporated 1974, known for shelling beaches, the Ding Darling refuge, the 1976 Sanibel Plan, and Hurricane Ian recovery.
Sanic
Sanic (Sanic Hegehog) is a deliberately bad MS Paint drawing of Sonic the Hedgehog, begun by YouTuber 0nyxheart's 'How 2 Draw Sanic Hegehog' on March 31, 2010, and distinct from the separate 'Gotta Go Fast' catchphrase it later paired with.