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Sardinella lemuru
Sardinella lemuru, the Bali sardinella (lemuru), is a small schooling pelagic herring of the tropical Indo-West Pacific, 15-100 m depth, supporting major fisheries in the Bali Strait and the Philippines; long misidentified as S. longiceps.
Sardines as food
Sardines as food: small oily clupeid fish (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinops sagax) eaten fresh or canned; Codex reserves the name for pilchardus; rich in omega-3 and vitamin D; Pacific stock overfished with directed fishery closed 2025-26.
Sardinia
Sardinia (Sardegna, Sardigna) is a Mediterranean island and one of five special-statute autonomous regions of Italy, with 1.56 million residents (2024), 377 municipalities, broad fiscal autonomy, and fast-growing tourism.
Sardinia et Corsica
Sardinia et Corsica, also Provincia Sardinia et Corsica, the Roman province uniting Sardinia and Corsica, occupied in 238 BC and organized as a province in 227 BC, alternating between senatorial and imperial rule.
Sardinia Radio Telescope
The Sardinia Radio Telescope is a 64-meter fully steerable radio telescope near Cagliari, Sardinia, operated by INAF. Built from 2003 to 2010, it was inaugurated in 2013.
Sardinian brook salamander
Sardinian brook salamander (Euproctus platycephalus, tritone sardo), a newt endemic to Sardinian mountain streams and caves at 50–1800 m; Endangered, threatened by introduced trout and chytrid fungus.
Sardinian language
Sardinian (limba sarda) is a conservative Romance language of Sardinia, descended from Latin introduced after the 3rd-century BC Roman conquest, with Logudorese and Campidanese varieties, endangered by Italian language shift.
Sardinian literature
Sardinian literature is the multilingual literary writing of the island of Sardinia, in Sardinian and the languages of its rulers, crowned by Grazia Deledda's 1926 Nobel Prize.
Sardinian pika
Sardinian pika (Prolagus sardus), also called Pika Sarde, an extinct lagomorph endemic to Corsica and Sardinia; last seen around 1774, sole member of family Prolagidae, an insular giant.
Sardinian tophets
Sardinian tophets are the open-air sanctuaries of Phoenician and Punic Sardinia, at Tharros, Sulcis, Nora, and Bithia, where urns holding cremated infant remains were buried from the 7th century BC.
Sardinian traditional dress
Sardinian traditional dress is the folk costume of Sardinia, Italy, with as many as 400 village-specific outfits of wool, silk, and silver jewelry, now worn at festivals.
Sardis
Sardis (Lydian Sfard, Greek Sardeis), ancient capital of Lydia at modern Sart, Manisa, Turkey; seat of Gyges to Croesus, birthplace of coinage, Persian satrapal capital, and site of the largest known ancient synagogue, excavated by Harvard-Cornell since 1958.
Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe
Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe, a UNESCO World Heritage site (2025) in Manisa, Türkiye: the Lydian capital Sardis plus Bin Tepe, a necropolis of 115-plus royal tumuli including the vast tomb of Alyattes.
Sardis bilingual inscription
The Sardis bilingual inscription is a marble funerary stele from Sardis in Lydia bearing Lydian and Aramaic texts, found in 1912 and now in the İzmir Archaeology Museum.
Sardjito
Sardjito (1889–1970) was an Indonesian physician and bacteriologist who saved the smallpox vaccine during the 1946 burning of Bandung and became the first rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada.
Sardoba Reservoir
The Sardoba Reservoir is an off-channel irrigation reservoir in Sirdaryo region, Uzbekistan, built from 2010 to 2017, whose dam failed on 1 May 2020, flooding both Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Sardonicism
Sardonicism is bitter, scornful, mocking humor, from Greek sardonios gelos via Latin Sardonius risus and French sardonique; linked folk-etymologically to a Sardinian plant and surviving medically as risus sardonicus, the tetanic grin.
Sarduri I
Sarduri I, also rendered Sarduris I, was a king of Urartu in the mid-9th century BC, son of Lutipri, who founded the dynasty ruling from Tushpa near Lake Van.
Sarduri II
Sarduri II (Sardur II, Sarduris II) was king of Urartu at the height of its power, until his defeat by Tiglath-pileser III in 743 BC.
Sarduri III
Sarduri III, also rendered Sardur III, was a king of Urartu in the third quarter of the 7th century BC, the last externally attested Urartian king.
Sarduri IV
Sarduri IV was a late king of Urartu, the iron-age Kingdom of Van, attested in Biainian royal inscriptions; his reign and chronology remain disputed by scholars.
Sardurihinili
Sardurihinili, the modern Çavuştepe, is an Urartian fortress-temple complex in Van Province, eastern Turkey, founded by King Sarduri II in the mid-8th century BC near Tushpa.
Sare Jahan se Accha (سارے جہاں سے اچھا)
Sare Jahan se Accha, formally Tarana-e-Hindi, is an Urdu patriotic song written by Muhammad Iqbal in 1904 that became a rallying cry against British rule.
Sarecycline
Sarecycline (Seysara) is a narrow-spectrum, once-daily oral tetracycline-class antibiotic approved by the FDA in October 2018 for inflammatory lesions of non-nodular moderate to severe acne vulgaris in patients aged 9 and older, dosed 60-150 mg by weight.
Sareee
Sareee (Sari Fujimura, サリー, "Sun Goddess" 太陽神), Japanese joshi wrestler born 1996, Diana debut 2011, WWE NXT as Sarray 2021-2023, 2024 Tokyo Sports Women's MVP, first Marigold World Champion, and 5th IWGP Women's Champion.
Sareisa
Sareisa is an ancient city of the Gordyaei, whom the ancients called Carduchi, named by Strabo among three cities near the Tigris in northern Mesopotamia; its location remains unconfirmed.
Sarek
Sarek is the Vulcan ambassador and Spock's father in Star Trek, introduced in TOS's "Journey to Babel" (1967) and played by Mark Lenard, later James Frain in Discovery and Ben Cross in the 2009 film; husband of Amanda Grayson and Perrin, afflicted by Bendii Syndrome in TNG.
Sarek National Park
Sarek National Park, a 197,000-hectare high-alpine park in Jokkmokk, Norrbotten, Sweden, established 24 May 1909; nearly 100 glaciers, peaks to 2,089 m, part of the Laponia World Heritage Site since 1996.
Sarekat Islam
Sarekat Islam (SI) was a Muslim mass organization in the Dutch East Indies, founded by H. Samanhudi in 1912 and transformed under Tjokroaminoto into the first Indonesian mass political movement.
Sarel J Fleishman
Sarel J Fleishman, also known as Sarel Jacob Fleishman, is a computational structural biologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.