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Sarenput I
Sarenput I, also known as Sirenput, was the nomarch and governor of Elephantine under Senusret I in the early 12th Dynasty, known for his monumental rock-cut tomb QH36 at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan.
Sarenput II
Sarenput II was a nomarch of the 1st nome of Upper Egypt at Elephantine during Egypt's 12th Dynasty, known from his rock-cut tomb QH31 at Qubbet el-Hawa.
Sarepta
Sarepta (Sarafand, Lebanon), Phoenician coastal city between Sidon and Tyre; excavated by James B. Pritchard 1969-1974, the main excavated Phoenician homeland site, with pottery and purple-dye industries, Tanit-Ashtart shrine, and inscriptions.
Sarepta inscriptions
The Sarepta inscriptions are Phoenician texts from Sarepta, south of Sidon in Lebanon, found in University of Pennsylvania excavations of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Sarepta kiln workshops
The Sarepta kiln workshops are Iron Age Phoenician pottery kilns and workshops at Sarepta, Lebanon, excavated by the University of Pennsylvania under James B. Pritchard from 1969 to 1974.
Sarepta Tanit inscription
The Sarepta Tanit inscription (KAI 285) is a disputed Phoenician dedication naming the goddess Tanit, excavated at Sarepta, Lebanon, and possibly the earliest evidence of her worship in the Phoenician homeland.
Sarfaraz Ahmed (سرفراز احمد)
Sarfaraz Ahmed (سرفراز احمد), also spelled Sarfraz Ahmed, Pakistani wicketkeeper-batter born 1987 in Karachi; captained Pakistan to the 2006 U19 World Cup and 2017 Champions Trophy, led 100 internationals, retired March 2026, later Test head coach.
Sarfaraz Khan
Sarfaraz Khan, born Mirza Asadu'llah, was a Nawab of Bengal of the Nasiri dynasty who ruled Murshidabad for 13 months before being killed at the Battle of Giria in 1740.
Sarfaraz Khan (cricketer)
Sarfaraz Naushad Khan (born 1997, Mumbai) is an Indian Test cricketer and Mumbai middle-order batter, Harris Shield record-holder (439 in 2009), Ranji Trophy run machine, and Chennai Super Kings signing for IPL 2026.
Sarfarosh (सरफ़रोश)
Sarfarosh (सरफ़रोश) is a 1999 Hindi action thriller, John Matthew Matthan's debut, starring Aamir Khan as ACP Ajay Singh Rathod and Naseeruddin Shah as ghazal singer Gulfam Hassan; it named Pakistan and the ISI as villains and won a 2000 National Film Award.
Sarfira
Sarfira (2024) is a Hindi biographical drama directed by Sudha Kongara, a remake of her Tamil film Soorarai Pottru, based on G. R. Gopinath's memoir; Akshay Kumar stars as Vir Mhatre, who dreams of a low-cost airline.
Sarfraz Ahmad
Sarfraz Ahmad is an Indian politician of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha who has represented Jharkhand in the Rajya Sabha since 2024, after earlier terms in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
SARG04
SARG04, proposed in 2004 by Scarani, Acín, Ribordy, and Gisin, is a quantum key distribution protocol using BB84 states but a modified sifting rule to resist photon number splitting attacks.
Sargam (सरगम) (1979 film)
Sargam (सरगम), 1979 Hindi musical romance directed by K. Viswanath, a remake of Telugu Siri Siri Muvva, starring Rishi Kapoor and Jaya Prada in her Hindi debut; Laxmikant-Pyarelal won a Filmfare for its music.
Sargam (സർഗം) (1992 film)
Sargam (സർഗം) is a 1992 Malayalam musical drama written and directed by Hariharan, starring Vineeth, Manoj K. Jayan, and Rambha, with music by Bombay Ravi; it won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film and three Kerala State Awards.
Sargasso
Sargasso is a term for the floating brown algae of the genus Sargassum, by extension the Sargasso Sea, the Caribbean literary journal founded in 1984, and other works.
Sargasso Sea
The Sargasso Sea, within the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, is the only sea without a land boundary, bounded by the Gulf Stream, North Atlantic, Canary, and Equatorial Currents and covered in holopelagic Sargassum.
Sargassum
Sargassum is a genus of over 500 species of brown seaweed that floats by gas-filled pneumatocysts; holopelagic forms live only in the Atlantic's Sargasso Sea, and since 2011 the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has caused record Caribbean inundations.
Sargenai
Sargenai (Sargėnai) is a pre-WWII-excavated Iron Age burial ground in Kaunas, Lithuania, part of the Central Lithuanian Grave Fields Culture, known for 43 eye fibulae and a grave with about 220 bronze scrap pieces (5 kg).
Sargent Icefield
Sargent Icefield is an icefield on the eastern coast of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, feeding outlet glaciers including Ultramarine, Nellie Juan, and Princeton.
Sargent Shriver
Sargent Shriver (1915–2011), American public servant and Kennedy in-law; first Peace Corps Director (1961–1966), first OEO Director leading the War on Poverty, Ambassador to France, 1972 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and Special Olympics leader.
Sargento Getúlio
Sargento Getúlio is a 1971 novel by the Brazilian writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro, told as a sergeant's interior monologue while transporting a political prisoner across Sergipe.
Sargo-class submarine
The Sargo-class submarine was a class of ten United States Navy diesel-electric fleet submarines built between 1937 and 1939, named for the lead boat USS Sargo (SS-188).
Sargocentron rubrum
Sargocentron rubrum, the redcoat or red squirrelfish (basionym Sciaena rubra, Forsskål 1775), is a nocturnal Holocentridae reef fish of the Indo-West Pacific with red and white stripes and a venomous cheek spine, established in the Mediterranean as a Lessepsian migrant.
Sargodha (سرگودھا)
Sargodha (سرگودھا) is a city and district in central Punjab, Pakistan, founded in 1903 as a Lower Jhelum Canal Colony market town. Known as Pakistan's Citrus Capital, it had 4,334,448 district residents in 2023 and hosts Pakistan's largest PAF airbase.
Sargodha District
Sargodha District, Punjab, Pakistan (Punjabi/Urdu: Sargodha); administrative district headquartered at Sargodha City, 4,334,448 people (2023 census), seven tehsils, and Pakistan's leading kinnow citrus-producing region between the Jhelum and Chenab rivers.
Sargon Boulus
Sargon Boulus (سركون بولص, 1944–2007) was an Iraqi Assyrian poet, a leading figure of the Arabic prose poem, and a prolific translator of world poetry.
Sargon I
Sargon I (Šarru-kīn I) was a king of Assyria, the 35th ruler in the Assyrian King List, son of Ikunum and father of Puzur-Aššur II, reigning about 1917–1878 BC.
Sargon II
Sargon II (Sharru-kin), Neo-Assyrian king 721–705 BC, took the throne by coup, fought Merodach-baladan II in Babylonia, built the capital Dur-Sharrukin at Khorsabad, and died in battle in 705 BC.
Sargon II's campaign against Ashdod
Sargon II's campaign against Ashdod, also known as the Capture of Ashdod (712 BC), was the Assyrian suppression of a revolt in Ashdod in 711 BC.