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Santa Susana Field Laboratory

The Santa Susana Field Laboratory is a former rocket engine and nuclear research site in the Simi Hills of Ventura County, California, now undergoing environmental cleanup.

Santa Susanna

Santa Susanna (Santa Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano) is a titular and monastic church in Rome's rione Trevi, built over the houses of St Susanna's family, rebuilt by Leo III, given its influential Maderno Baroque facade in 1603, and the US national church 1924-2017; closed since 2013.

Santa Teresa del Tuy

Santa Teresa del Tuy is a Venezuelan city in the Valles del Tuy, Miranda state, capital of Independencia municipality, founded in 1761 and named for Saint Teresa of Ávila.

Santa Trega

Santa Trega, or Santa Teg, is an Iron Age castro in A Guarda, Galicia, Spain. Its ruins are key archaeological evidence for the northwest Iberian Castro culture.

Santa's Little Helper

Santa's Little Helper is the retired racing greyhound kept as the Simpson family's pet in The Simpsons, adopted by Homer on a lost bet in the show's December 1989 premiere.

SantaCoder

SantaCoder is a 1.1 billion parameter open-access large language model for code generation, trained by the BigCode project on Python, Java, and JavaScript code and released in December 2022.

Santaji Ghorpade

Santaji Ghorpade (संताजी घोरपड़े), full name Santaji Mhaloji Ghorpade, was a Maratha general who served as senapati under Rajaram I, famed for guerrilla warfare against Aurangzeb's armies.

Santal people

Santal people (Santhal, self-designation Hor): Austroasiatic-speaking Adivasi community of eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Munda-language Santali in Ol Chiki script (1925); 1855 Santal Hul rebellion led by Sido and Kanhu Murmu; Scheduled Tribe in India.

Santalaceae

Santalaceae R.Br. (sandalwood family), the mistletoe family Viscaceae included as synonym, is a nearly cosmopolitan family of hemiparasitic flowering plants in Santalales, including Santalum sandalwoods, Viscum mistletoe, and the large genus Thesium.

Santalales

Santalales, the sandalwood and mistletoe order of parasitic eudicots, about 18 families, 160 genera, 2,200+ species; aerial parasitism evolved five times; classification revised by Nickrent 2010 and Cauz-Santos 2025.

Santaldih Thermal Power Station

Santaldih Thermal Power Station (সাঁওতালডিহি তাপবিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র) is a 500 MW coal-fired power station at Santaldih in Purulia district, West Bengal, India, owned and operated by WBPDCL.

Santali language

Santali (ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ, Santhali, ISO sat) is a Kherwarian Munda Austroasiatic language of eastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan with about 7.6 million speakers, an Eighth Schedule language since 2003, written mainly in the Ol Chiki script invented by Raghunath Murmu in 1925.

Santalum album

Santalum album, Indian sandalwood or chandan, is a Vulnerable hemiparasitic Santalaceae tree native to India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and northern Australia, prized for heartwood oil (6–10%, santalols) used in perfumery and carving.

Santamarina

Santamarina (Club y Biblioteca Ramón Santamarina), Argentine club founded 20 December 1913 in Tandil; 1985 Nacional, Argentino A 2013-14 champion, eight Primera Nacional seasons, relegated from Federal A in 2026.

Santan power station

Santan Generating Station is a natural gas-fired power plant in Gilbert, Arizona, owned by Salt River Project with nine units and 1,326 MW of capacity.

Santana (1971 album)

Santana III (1971) is the third studio album by Latin rock band Santana, released on Columbia, a Billboard number 1, the last album of the classic Woodstock-era lineup, and the record that introduced guitarist Neal Schon.

Santana (band)

Santana: American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966 as the Santana Blues Band by Carlos Santana and Gregg Rolie; Latin-rock pioneers of Woodstock 1969, Abraxas, and the nine-Grammy 1999 comeback Supernatural.

Santana and Ortiz

Santana and Ortiz (Proud-N-Powerful, formerly EYFBO and LAX) were an American pro wrestling tag team, 2011–2023, four-time Impact tag champions, Inner Circle members in AEW who never won the AEW tag titles before splitting.

Santana Chakma

Santana Chakma is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in the Government of Tripura, holding Industries and Commerce, Jail, and Welfare of OBCs portfolios.

Santana discography

Santana discography: catalog of the San Francisco Latin rock band Santana (formed 1966) plus Carlos Santana solo and guest records, from Santana (1969) and Abraxas (1970) through Supernatural (1999, 13 million US copies) to Sentient (2025).

Santana Garrett

Santana Garrett (born 1988, Ocala, Florida), also known as Santana G, Santana, and Brittany, is an American professional wrestler; former NWA World Women's and Wonder of Stardom Champion, WOW Champion, and 2016 PWI Female 50 No. 4.

Santana Lopez

Santana Lopez is a fictional character on the musical comedy-drama series Glee, portrayed by Naya Rivera, known for her coming-out storyline and marriage to Brittany Pierce.

Santana Moss

Santana Moss (Santana Terrell Moss, born 1979) is a former NFL wide receiver, not Randy Moss, who played for the New York Jets and Washington from 2001 to 2014, totaling 732 catches, 10,283 yards, 66 touchdowns, and one 2005 Pro Bowl.

Santāna Thera

Santāna Thera (सन्तान) was an Arakanese Buddhist elder who led a mission of thirty-three monks to Ceylon in 1697, restoring higher ordination under King Vimaladharmasūriya II.

Santander

Santander, capital of Cantabria in northern Spain on the Bay of Santander; about 176,000 inhabitants in 2026. Known for its port, the 1941 fire, the Palacio de la Magdalena, and the SmartSantander IoT project.

Santander Bank

Santander Bank, N.A. is an American national bank wholly owned by Spain's Banco Santander, headquartered in Boston with about 371 branches in nine eastern states.

Santarém, Pará

Santarém, Pará: major Amazonian Brazilian municipality at the Amazon–Tapajós confluence, western Pará. Second-largest urban agglomeration of Pará; 331,942 residents (2022 census); port city, soy export hub, and growing tourist destination.

Sante Gaiardoni

Sante Gaiardoni (Sante Giovanni Gaiardoni, 1939-2023), Italian track cyclist; only rider to win both the Olympic sprint and 1,000 m time trial, at Rome 1960, plus world sprint titles in 1960 and 1963.

Sante Kimes

Sante Kimes (Sante Singhrs, "the Dragon Lady"), American con artist and murderer who with son Kenneth killed Irene Silverman in 1998 to steal her Manhattan townhouse and murdered David Kazdin; convicted on circumstantial evidence, died in prison 2014.

Santé Ventures

Santé Ventures, also known as Sante Health Ventures, is an early-stage healthcare and life sciences venture capital firm founded in 2006 and based in Austin, Texas.