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Saxe-Coburg
Saxe-Coburg (Sachsen-Coburg), also Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, an Ernestine Wettin duchy centered on Coburg, consolidated in 1826 under Ernst I, ruled in personal union with Gotha until 1918, famed for its marriage policy linking it to European thrones including Britain (Windsor from 1917); its Free State joined Bavaria in 1920.
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha), Ernestine duchy 1826–1918 of two separated territories, Coburg and Gotha; its house supplied royal dynasties to Belgium, Britain, Portugal, and Bulgaria.
Saxegothaea
Saxegothaea, Prince Albert's yew (Mañio), a monospecific podocarp conifer genus of Chile and Argentina; sole species Saxegothaea conspicua, a Near Threatened Valdivian rainforest tree with yew-like foliage and multi-scaled seed cones.
Saxhorn
Saxhorn: family of conical-bore valved brass instruments patented by Adolphe Sax (1843 patent, 1845 saxotromba claims), soprano to contrabass, used in military and brass bands; ancestors of euphonium, tenor horn, baritone, flugelhorn.
Saxi/Batuque Oil Field
Saxi/Batuque is a pair of oil fields in Block 15 offshore Angola, discovered in 2000 and brought on stream in 2008 through the Saxi Batuque FPSO as the Kizomba C project.
Saxicola
Saxicola (stonechats) is a genus of small insectivorous Muscicapidae birds across Eurasia and Africa, with 13–15 recognized species, an Asian origin in the late Miocene, and S. stejnegeri recently confirmed as a distinct species.
Saxifraga
Saxifraga (saxifrages), largest genus of Saxifragaceae, about 375 arctic-alpine herbs of the Northern Hemisphere, Andes, and Ethiopian mountains; North American origin around 74 Ma, lime-secreting hydathodes, and confirmed carnivory in S. candelabrum.
Saxifragaceae
Saxifragaceae, the saxifrage family (Juss., 1789), is a family of perennial herbs in the eudicot order Saxifragales, with about 640 species in roughly 33-40 genera, highest diversity in western North America, and type genus Saxifraga.
Saxifragales
Saxifragales is an order of eudicot flowering plants, sister to rosids in the superrosids, with about 2,400 species in 15 families including Saxifragaceae, Crassulaceae, Paeoniaceae, and Hamamelidaceae; origin dated to ~107 Ma.
Saxitoxin
Saxitoxin (STX), a paralytic shellfish toxin alkaloid from marine dinoflagellates and freshwater cyanobacteria, blocks voltage-gated sodium channels, causing paralytic shellfish poisoning; 57 analogues, no antidote, CWC-controlled.
Saxo Grammaticus
Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish historian active around 1200 whose Gesta Danorum, a sixteen-book Latin history of Denmark, is the most important literary monument of medieval Denmark.
Saxon (band)
Saxon is an English heavy metal band formed in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, one of the leading bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal alongside Iron Maiden.
Saxon (vehicle)
The Saxon, also known as the GKN Saxon, is a British 4x4 wheeled armored personnel carrier built by GKN Sankey and used by the British Army from 1983.
Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig), German learned society founded 1846 as Royal Saxon Society of Sciences; Leipzig academy with three Classes, 138 full members, and over 20 long-term humanities research projects.
Saxon era
The Saxon era (Polish: czasy saskie) is the period 1697–1763 when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was ruled in personal union with Saxony by August II the Strong and August III.
Saxon house
A Saxon house is a timber building of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) England, from the fifth to eleventh centuries, surviving mainly as postholes, beam slots, and pits.
Saxon Seats
The Saxon Seats (German Stühle, Hungarian székek, Latin sedes) were the self-governing administrative territories of the Transylvanian Saxons, whose autonomy, grounded in the 1224 Andreanum, lasted until 1876.
Saxon Sharbino
Saxon Sharbino (born 1999, Lewisville, Texas) is an American actress known for Amelia Robbins in Fox's Touch (2013) and Kendra Bowen in Poltergeist (2015); also Freakish, Trust Me, and the founder of Draped AI.
Saxon Switzerland
Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz) is the German sandstone hill country along the Elbe southeast of Dresden, named by painters Zingg and Graff; its 1990 national park covers 9,344 ha with 1,135 climbable sandstone peaks.
Saxonia (locomotive)
The Saxonia was a steam locomotive built in 1838 by engineer Johann Andreas Schubert near Dresden for the Leipzig–Dresden Railway, the first working locomotive manufactured entirely in Germany.
Saxons
Saxons: Germanic peoples of northwestern Europe, both the continental Saxons conquered and Christianized by Charlemagne (Saxon Wars, 772-804) and the Anglo-Saxons who migrated to Britain, reshaping the early English gene pool.
Saxony
Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen) is an eastern German federal state of about 4 million people with capital Dresden, refounded in 1990; Europe's largest semiconductor location (Silicon Saxony) and a leading ZEW-ranked business location.
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt), German federal state, capital Magdeburg; reestablished 1990 from GDR districts Halle and Magdeburg; population 2.12 million, lowest state GDP per capita, AfD won 43.8% in 2026 election.
Saxophone
Saxophone: a woodwind instrument with a brass body and single reed, invented by Adolphe Sax and patented in Paris on 21 March 1846 as an eight-member family; central to jazz, peripheral in the orchestra.
Say Anything (band)
Say Anything: Los Angeles pop-punk/emo band formed in 2000 by Max Bemis, known for ...Is a Real Boy (2004), In Defense of the Genre, and the 2019 farewell album Oliver Appropriate.
Say Anything...
Say Anything... is a 1989 American romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It stars John Cusack and Ione Skye, and features a memorable boombox scene.
Say Emirate
The Say Emirate was a polity at Say, on the Niger River, at the edge of the Sokoto Caliphate, divided between French and British spheres in 1898.
Say I Do
Say I Do is a 2020 Netflix reality series from the Queer Eye team in which Jeremiah Brent, Thai Nguyen, and Gabriele Bertaccini plan surprise dream weddings for couples in under a week; one season of 8 episodes premiered July 1, 2020.
Say It Ain't So
"Say It Ain't So" is a 1994 song by Weezer from the Blue Album, written by Rivers Cuomo about his stepfather's alcoholism, produced by Ric Ocasek at Electric Lady Studios, and released as the album's final single in 1995.
Say My Name
"Say My Name" is best known as Destiny's Child's 1999 Columbia single from The Writing's on the Wall, a Rodney Jerkins-produced Hot 100 number one and two-time Grammy winner; other works of the same title include a Jenika Snow mafia romance novel, a J.Phlip EP, and songs by Tove Styrke and The Belair Lip Bombs.