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Sarkis Mazmanian
Sarkis K. Mazmanian is an Armenian-American microbiologist at Caltech known for showing that a gut bacterium molecule suppresses inflammation and for linking the microbiome to Parkinson's disease.
Şarkı
Şarkı is a stanzaic verse form of Ottoman Divan poetry written to be set to music, with quatrains, a recurring refrain, and themes of love, wine, and festivity.
Sarkodie (rapper)
Sarkodie (Michael Owusu Addo), Ghanaian rapper from Tema who raps in Twi; debut album Makye (2009), Artiste of the Year 2010 and 2012, first Ghanaian rapper to win a BET Award (2012), founder of Sarkcess Music.
Sarlacc
Sarlacc, Star Wars fictional desert predator at the Great Pit of Carkoon on Tatooine, debuting in Return of the Jedi (1983); a mostly buried tentacled creature said to digest victims over a thousand years, later revised with a CGI beak in the 1997 Special Edition.
Šarlo Akrobata
Šarlo Akrobata (Шарло Акробата) was a Yugoslav post-punk trio from Belgrade, active from 1980 to 1981, best remembered for its songs on the compilation Paket aranžman.
SARM1
SARM1 (sterile alpha and TIR motif containing 1), also called SARM or SAMD2, is a human NAD+-cleaving enzyme on chromosome 17q11.2 that executes programmed axon degeneration after injury and is a neuroprotective drug target.
Sarma Melngailis
Sarma Melngailis, American chef and founder of Manhattan raw vegan restaurant Pure Food and Wine and One Lucky Duck; convicted of grand larceny and fraud after draining the restaurant of nearly $2 million for husband Anthony Strangis, subject of Netflix's Bad Vegan.
Sarmad
Sarmad (سرمد), fully Muhammad Sa'id Sarmad Kashani, was a Persian mystic poet of Jewish birth who settled in Mughal India and was executed by Emperor Aurangzeb in Delhi.
Sarmad Kashani
Sarmad Kashani (سرمد کاشانی) was a Persian-speaking Sufi poet and mystic of Jewish birth, born in Kashan around 1590 and executed under Aurangzeb in Delhi in 1661.
Sărmășel gas storage facility
The Sărmășel gas storage facility, commissioned in 1996, is an underground natural gas storage site at Sărmășel, Mureș County, Romania, operated by DEPOGAZ Ploiești for SNGN Romgaz.
Sarmatians
Sarmatians: a confederation of nomadic Iranian tribes (Aorsians, Alans, Roxolani, Siraces, Iazyges) related to the Scythians; by c. 200 BC they controlled land west of the Don, spoke Iranian dialects ancestral to Ossetian, and spread to the Carpathian Basin.
Sarmatism
Sarmatism (Polish: sarmatyzm) was the ideology and culture of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the late 16th century to the first partition of 1772.
Sarmiento (Mercurian crater)
Sarmiento is an impact crater on Mercury, cataloged in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, with a diameter of 145 km centered at 29.33° south, 189.55° west.
Sarmizegetusa Regia
Sarmizegetusa Regia, at Grădiștea de Munte, Romania, was the Dacian kingdom's capital from the second half of the 1st century BC; a UNESCO-listed fortress built in murus dacicus, conquered by Rome in the early 2nd century AD.
Sarmizegetusa Roman amphitheater
The Roman amphitheater of Colonia Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, capital of Dacia: an 88 x 69 m civilian elliptical building seating about 5,000, begun in wood around 108 AD, rebuilt in stone, later a fortress.
Sarnami Hindustani
Sarnami Hindustani (Sarnami, Hindostaans) is the Indo-Aryan koine language of the Indo-Surinamese Hindustani community, formed from Bhojpuri, Awadhi, and related North Indian languages after 1873 indentured migration, with about 350,000 speakers in Suriname and the Netherlands.
Sarnath (सारनाथ)
Sarnath, also known as Isipatana, is a Buddhist pilgrimage town near Varanasi, India, where the Buddha preached his first sermon and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2026.
Sarnath seated Buddha preaching
The Sarnath seated Buddha preaching is a Buddha image type showing his first sermon, its most famous 5th-century Gupta sculpture held in the Sarnath Museum.
Sarnath standing Buddha
The Sarnath standing Buddha is a Gupta-period free-standing sculpture of the Buddha in standing posture, carved at Sarnath, India, with the right hand raised in protection.
Sarnenskyi Raion
Sarnenskyi Raion (Сарненський район), a district of Rivne Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Sarny; created 17 July 2020 from former Sarnenskyi, Dubrovytskyi, Rokytnivskyi raions, covering about 6,213 km² with 212,705 residents in 11 hromadas.
Sarngadhara
Sarngadhara (सारंगधर) was a 13th- and 14th-century Indian Sanskrit physician-philosopher whose Sarngadhara Samhita, a compact Ayurvedic handbook, became one of the era's most used medical texts.
Sarngadharapaddhati
The Sarngadharapaddhati (Sanskrit: Sharngadharapaddhati) is a Sanskrit anthology of 4,689 short poems compiled by Sarngadhara in 1363, citing over 300 authors and covering ethics, yoga, and archery.
Sarngadharasamhita
Sarngadharasamhita (Śārṅgadhara Saṁhitā, शार्ङ्गधर संहिता) is a 13th-14th century Ayurvedic treatise by Sharangadhara, son of Damodara; one of the Laghutrayee, with 3 khandas, 32 chapters, about 2,600 verses, earliest pulse-examination text, and a practical pharmaceutical core.
Sarnia
Sarnia is a city of about 72,000 in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, at the mouth of the St. Clair River on Lake Huron, opposite Port Huron, Michigan.
Sarnia Refinery
The Sarnia Refinery is an oil refinery in Sarnia, Ontario, owned and operated by Imperial Oil, part of an integrated refining and chemical complex on the St. Clair River.
Sarnis
Sarnis, also Sarnae, was a Roman road station on the Verona to Tridentum road over the Brenner Pass, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with Serravalle d'Adige near Ala, Trentino, Italy.
Sarno Baths
Sarno Baths (Terme del Sarno), Pompeii Regio VIII Insula 2: six-level, nearly hundred-room bath and residential complex on the city's southern edge, excavated 1887–1890, partially rebuilt after a collapse, function and ownership still debated.
Sarocha Chankimha (ศโรชา จันคีมหา)
Sarocha Chankimha (ศโรชา จันคีมหา), known professionally as Freen, is a Thai actress and model who rose to international fame as Sam in GAP: The Series (2022), the first prime-time Thai Girls' Love series.
Sarocharu
Sarocharu (సారొచ్చారు), also spelled Sarochaaru, is a 2012 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Parasuram, starring Ravi Teja as football coach Karthik, with Kajal Aggarwal and Richa Gangopadhyay, music by Devi Sri Prasad, released 21 December 2012.
Sarod
The sarod is a fretless, plucked string instrument of Hindustani classical music, shaped from the Afghan rabab in the 19th century and known for its dark, weighty tone.