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Sankarism
Sankarism: leftist, anti-colonial, Pan-African ideology inspired by Thomas Sankara's 1983–1987 revolution in Burkina Faso; term coined after his death, popularized by Sankarist parties from 2000.
Sankashū
Sankashū (山家集, "Collection of a Mountain Hermitage") is the most important personal waka anthology of the Japanese poet Saigyō, one of the medieval Six Poet Anthologies.
Sankebetsu brown bear incident (三毛別羆事件)
Sankebetsu brown bear incident (三毛別羆事件), also Rokusensawa or Tomamae bear incident: December 9–15, 1915 attacks by a 2.7 m, 340 kg brown bear on a Hokkaido pioneer settlement, killing 7 (including a fetus) and injuring 3; Japan's worst bear attack, recorded by Kimura Moritake and Yoshimura Akira.
Sanket J. Bulsara
Sanket J. Bulsara, born 1976, is an American judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President Biden in 2024.
Sankey diagram
The Sankey diagram, also called a Sankey plot, is a flow diagram whose band widths are proportional to the quantities flowing, named after Captain Matthew Sankey.
Sankey Viaduct
The Sankey Viaduct, known locally as the Nine Arches, is a nine-arched brick and sandstone railway viaduct built by George Stephenson in 1830 near Earlestown, England.
Sankha bhasma
Sankha bhasma (Shankha bhasma, conch shell ash) is an Ayurvedic calcined conch-shell preparation, mainly calcium carbonate in calcite form (about 39% calcium), used as an antacid and digestive remedy for hyperchlorhydria, sprue, and colic.
Sankhapala
Sankhapala (सङ्खपाल) is a Thera of the fifth-century Pali commentarial tradition, at whose instance Buddhadatta wrote the Uttara-vinicchaya and Buddhaghosa the Visuddhimagga, though the identification remains uncertain.
Śāṅkhāyana
Śāṅkhāyana (शाङ्खायन), identified as Suyajña, is a Ṛgvedic ritual authority of the sūtra period to whom the Śāṅkhāyana school ascribes its Śrauta-sūtra, Gṛhya-sūtra, and Āraṇyaka, including the Kauṣītakī Upanishad.
Sankin-kōtai
Sankin-kōtai (参勤交代, alternate attendance) was the Tokugawa shogunate system requiring daimyo to alternate yearly residence between Edo and their domains, with families held in Edo as hostages; formalized 1635, relaxed 1862, it built Japan's highways and national market.
Sankissa Mound
The Sankissa Mound is a protected archaeological mound at Sankisa, Uttar Pradesh, India, marking where Buddhists believe Gautama Buddha descended from the Heaven of the Thirty-Three.
Sankofa
Sankofa is an Akan (Twi) Adinkra symbol from Ghana meaning "go back and get it," tied to the proverb that it is not wrong to retrieve what you forgot; shown as a backward-looking bird with an egg or a heart spiral, and widely adopted in the African diaspora.
Sankore
Sankore, often called the University of Sankore, was the mosque and scholarly quarter of Timbuktu, Mali, a leading center of Islamic learning that declined after the Moroccan invasion of 1591.
Sankore mosque-college
The Sankore mosque-college, often called the University of Sankore, was a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, around which independent schools taught from the 14th to 16th centuries.
Sankranthiki Vasthunam (సంక్రాంతికి వస్తున్నాం)
Sankranthiki Vasthunam (సంక్రాంతికి వస్తున్నాం) is a 2025 Telugu action comedy directed by Anil Ravipudi, starring Venkatesh, Aishwarya Rajesh, and Meenakshi Chaudhary; released 14 January 2025, it grossed ₹255.48 crore worldwide and streams on ZEE5.
Sankt petersburg
Sankt Petersburg (Saint Petersburg) is a 2004 German card-drafting, engine-building board game by Bernd Brunnhofer set in Tsar Peter the Great's Russia; Deutscher Spiele Preis 2004 winner, reissued in 2014 and again in 2026.
Sankuru (district)
Sankuru District (District du Sankuru), chief town Lusambo, was an administrative district of Kasaï-Oriental in the central DR Congo; suppressed 1932, recreated 1933, it became Sankuru Province in 2015.
Sankuru (landform)
Sankuru River (Lubilash, Lubilanji), a 1,210 km right-bank tributary of the Kasai River in DR Congo, rising near Kamina, flowing north then west, with 2,500 m³/s average flow and navigable routes to Lusambo.
Sanlam
Sanlam is a Johannesburg-listed South African financial services group founded in 1918 as a life insurer, now the largest insurer in Africa, serving 96 million clients across 29 countries.
Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature
The Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature (Sanlamprys vir Jeuglektuur) is a biennial South African prize, sponsored by Sanlam since 1980, for unpublished youth novels in Afrikaans, English, and African languages.
Sanli yizong
The Sanli yizong (三禮義宗) is a lost compendium of ritual doctrine on the Three Rites compiled by the Liang-dynasty scholar Cui Ling'en, a standard authority for roughly four centuries.
Şanlıurfa
Şanlıurfa (Urfa) is a province in Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region, population 2,237,745 (2024), 13 districts, home of Göbeklitepe, GAP irrigation agriculture, and Turkey's first IGCAT 2029 Gastronomy City candidate.
Sanlorenzo
Sanlorenzo is an Italian luxury yacht shipyard founded in 1958 near Florence and headquartered in Ameglia, building made-to-measure motor yachts from 24 to 74 meters.
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Sanlúcar de Barrameda: town in Cádiz, Andalusia, on the Guadalquivir mouth facing Doñana. Historic port of Columbus and Magellan; home of Manzanilla wine, Sanlúcar langostinos, and Spain's oldest active beach horse races (since 1845).
Sanlun school (Three Treatises)
The Sanlun school (三論宗), or Three Treatises school, was a Chinese Buddhist Mādhyamaka school founded by the monk Ji Cang (549–623) during the Sui dynasty.
Sanmen nuclear power plant
The Sanmen nuclear power plant (三门核电站) is a nuclear station in Sanmen county, Zhejiang province, China, whose Unit 1 became the world's first commercial AP1000 reactor in 2018.
Sanmenxia Dam (三门峡大坝)
The Sanmenxia Dam (三门峡大坝), also called Sanmenxia Hydropower Station, is the first large dam on the Yellow River's main stem, built in Henan Province from 1957 and completed in 1960.
Sanmenxia Shi
Sanmenxia (三门峡市), prefecture-level city in western Henan at the Henan-Shanxi-Shaanxi Yellow River junction; named for the three gorges legend, built around the 1960 Sanmenxia Dam; 1.995 million people, 2025 GDP 170.26 billion yuan.
Sanmina
Sanmina is an American electronics manufacturing company founded in Silicon Valley in 1980 and headquartered in San Jose, California, serving industrial, medical, and defense customers.
Sanming
Sanming (三明) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian, China, formed in 1956-1960 around a heavy industry base. Known for 77.12% forest cover, the nationally promoted Sanming healthcare reform model, Hakka heritage, Shaxian snacks, and Taining Danxia geopark; 2025 GRP 251.2 billion yuan.