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Sauve qui peut

Sauve qui peut, also released as Every Man for Himself and Slow Motion, is a 1980 French-Swiss drama directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, and Isabelle Huppert.

Sauvenière

Sauvenière, a village in Gembloux, Province of Namur, Belgium, in the Hesbaye on the Bavay-Cologne Roman road; recorded in 946, Roman villas at Arlansart and Baudecet, commune merged into Gembloux in 1965.

Sauvie Island

Sauvie Island, historically Wapato Island, is the largest island in the Columbia River at its confluence with the Willamette near Portland, Oregon; once home to four Chinookan villages, depopulated by the 1830s malaria epidemic, later an HBC dairy managed by Laurent Sauvé.

Sauvignon blanc

Sauvignon blanc is a French white wine grape, parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, known for grassy, gooseberry aromas from methoxypyrazines; key styles are Loire, Bordeaux, and Marlborough, New Zealand.

Sauyr Zhotasy (mountain, China)

Sauyr Zhotasy, also called Muz Tau (ice mountain), is a 3,840 m border peak, the highest summit of the Sauyr Range on the Xinjiang-Kazakhstan frontier, notable for 3,250 m prominence and absence of a documented main-summit ascent.

Sava

Sava: 945 km river in South Eastern Europe, largest Danube tributary by discharge (~1,700 m³/s at Belgrade), basin of 97,713 km² shared by Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro; governed by the 2004 FASRB and ISRBC.

Sava di Baronissi

Sava di Baronissi is a hamlet of Baronissi in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy, known for a Roman villa beneath the church of Sant'Agnese.

Sava Kovačević

Sava Kovačević (Сава Ковачевић) was a Montenegrin Partisan commander killed at the Battle of the Sutjeska in 1943 and named a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

Sava Petrović

Sava Petrović (Сава Петровић), born around 1702, was a Serbian Orthodox metropolitan who ruled Montenegro as prince-bishop from 1735 to 1781, securing Russian aid and making the Petrović family's rule hereditary.

Sava Region

Sava (SAVA) region of northeast Madagascar, made up of the Sambava, Antalaha, Vohemar, and Andapa districts. Capital Sambava; about 24,000 km2; the world's leading vanilla-producing area, supplying roughly 80% of global natural vanilla.

Sava Tekelija

Sava Tekelija (Сава Текелија), a Serbian nobleman and jurist from southern Hungary, became the first Serb doctor of law and founded the Tekelijanum in Pest in 1838.

Savacou

Savacou: A Journal of the Caribbean Artists Movement was a Caribbean cultural and literary journal published in fifteen issues between 1970 and 1979, edited by Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Andrew Salkey, and Kenneth Ramchand.

Savage (Mercurian crater)

Savage is a roughly 93-km-wide impact crater on Mercury near the equator in quadrangle H-09, with a volcanic-filled floor and lobate scarps; IAU-named in 2013 for Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage.

Savage Arms

Savage Arms, also known as Savage Arms Company, is an American firearms manufacturer founded in Utica, New York, in 1894, best known for the Model 99 and Model 110 rifles.

Savage Beauty

Savage Beauty is a South African Netflix drama created by Lebogang Mogashoa, produced by Quizzical Pictures. Two six-episode seasons (May 2022, June 2024) follow Zinhle Manzini's revenge on the Bhengu family over toxic skin-lightening tests.

Savage Dragon

Savage Dragon is an ongoing Image Comics superhero series by Erik Larsen, featuring the green, fin-headed amnesiac Dragon, later his son Malcolm Dragon. Launched via a 1992 miniseries and ongoing since 1993, it runs in real time and is among the longest-running creator-owned comics.

Savage Garden

Savage Garden were an Australian pop duo of Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones, formed in Queensland in 1994. Two albums, two US number-one singles (Truly Madly Deeply, I Knew I Loved You), ten 1997 ARIA Awards, tens of millions sold, split in 2001.

Savage Grace

Savage Grace (2007) is Tom Kalin's drama, starring Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, and Eddie Redmayne, adapted from Robins and Aronson's book about the Baekeland family, heirs to the Bakelite fortune, ending in Barbara Baekeland's 1972 murder by her son Antony.

Savage House (film)

Savage House is a 2026 British period comedy-drama written and directed by Peter Glanz, starring Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy as debt-ridden nobles hosting the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in 1740s England; 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, $571,131 gross.

Savage Imperial Death March

Savage Imperial Death March is a collaborative album by sludge band the Melvins and grindcore band Napalm Death, released April 10, 2026 on Ipecac Recordings with eight tracks; an earlier six-song version appeared in 2025 via Amphetamine Reptile Records.

Savage Land

Savage Land (Marvel Comics): fictional tropical prehistoric jungle in Antarctica, home of Ka-Zar, Shanna, Zabu, and dinosaurs; created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appearing in X-Men #10 (1965), distinct from other 'lost world' settings.

Savage Love

Savage Love is Dan Savage's weekly sex and relationship advice column, launched in 1991 in Seattle's The Stranger, syndicated worldwide, known for the 'Hey Faggot' opener, coinages like pegging and monogamish, and the Savage Lovecast podcast.

Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)

Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) is a 2020 song by Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo on Columbia Records, built on Jawsh 685's TikTok-viral instrumental Laxed (Siren Beat); its BTS remix topped the Billboard Hot 100.

Savage Mark II

The Savage Mark II is a bolt-action .22 rimfire rifle made by Savage Arms in Lakefield, Ontario, sold in many variants and known for accuracy at a low price.

Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah is Ken Russell's 1972 British biographical drama of sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Sophie Brzeska, written by Christopher Logue from H.S. Ede's 1931 biography, starring Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, and Helen Mirren.

Savage Model 99

The Savage Model 99 is an American hammerless lever-action rifle with a rotary spool magazine, produced by Savage Arms from 1899 until the late 1990s in over a dozen cartridges.

Savage Son

Savage Son is a 2020 thriller by Jack Carr, third in the James Reece (Terminal List) series, adapting Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" as a Russian mafia and spymaster hunt the recovering Navy SEAL.

Savages (2012 film)

Savages is a 2012 American crime thriller directed by Oliver Stone, based on Don Winslow's novel about Laguna Beach marijuana growers whose girlfriend is kidnapped by a cartel.

Savages (band)

Savages (Jehnny Beth, Gemma Thompson, Ayşe Hassan, Fay Milton) were a London post-punk band formed 2011; albums Silence Yourself (2013) and Adore Life (2016), two Mercury nominations, hiatus 2017.

Savaiʻi

Savaiʻi is Samoa's largest and westernmost island, a 75-km-long basaltic shield volcano rising to 1,858 m, with 45,175 residents (2021 census, 22% of Samoa) and historic eruptions including Matavanu 1905–1911.