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Second Song
Second Song is the second studio album by Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts (also the TV on the Radio song from 2011). Released 18 September 2026 on Reprise, it is counted as Young's 50th studio album, seven tracks, 42:12, recorded at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, produced by Lou Adler and the Volume Dealers.
Second Sons
Second Sons is season 3, episode 8 of Game of Thrones, aired May 19, 2013, directed by Michelle MacLaren. It follows Daenerys recruiting the Second Sons mercenary company, the Tyrion-Sansa wedding, Melisandre and Gendry, and Sam killing a White Walker.
Second Sons (group)
Second Sons Canada is a Canadian men's organization founded in 2024 by Jeremy MacKenzie and other Diagolon network streamers, described by researchers as an Active Club group.
Second Sophistic
The Second Sophistic was the revival of classical Greek prose oratory in the Greek-speaking East under Roman rule, about 60 to 230 CE, flourishing in Athens and Asia Minor.
Second sound
Second sound is a wave-like propagation of temperature and entropy in superfluids, predicted in 1938 and first observed in superfluid helium II by Vasilii Peshkov in 1944.
Second Spanish Republic
The Second Spanish Republic, proclaimed 14 April 1931 after municipal elections, governed Spain until its 1939 defeat; the July 1936 military coup opened the Spanish Civil War.
Second Strife of Princes
The Second Strife of Princes (제2차 왕자의 난) was an armed 1400 fight between Joseon princes Yi Bang-gan and Yi Bang-won in Gaeseong, won by Bang-won, who became King Taejong.
Second Sudanese Civil War
The Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005) pitted the Government of Sudan against John Garang's SPLM/A, ending with the January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, power- and oil-wealth sharing, the 2011 South Sudan referendum, and independence in July 2011.
Second Sui campaign against Goguryeo
The Second Sui campaign against Goguryeo (隋第二次徵高句麗) was Emperor Yang's 613 invasion, abandoned when Yang Xuangan's rebellion forced him to lift the siege of Liaodongcheng.
Second Sui invasion of Goguryeo
The Second Sui invasion of Goguryeo (第二次隋徵高句麗) was Emperor Yang of Sui's second campaign against Goguryeo, launched in 613 and abandoned mid-siege when the minister Yang Xuangan rebelled.
Second Swinney government
Second Swinney government: John Swinney's second Scottish Government, formed after the 7 May 2026 Holyrood election. SNP-led, no absolute majority; streamlined cabinet of eight Cabinet Secretaries and eleven ministers, with independence and the constitution held directly by the First Minister.
Second Taifa period
The Second Taifa period (الطوائف الثانية) was the fragmentation of al-Andalus into new small taifa principalities after the collapse of Almoravid rule, beginning around 1144.
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (八二三炮战)
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (八二三炮战), August 23 to October 23, 1958: Mao's PRC bombarded Quemoy with nearly 50,000 shells on day one; the U.S. escorted ROC supply convoys under the 1954 defense treaty until the October 6 ceasefire.
Second Takaichi cabinet
The Second Takaichi cabinet was the 105th cabinet of Japan, headed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of the Liberal Democratic Party from February to September 2026.
Second Temple (בית המקדש השני)
The Second Temple (בית המקדש השני), known as Zerubbabel's Temple, was the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, dedicated in 516 BCE and rebuilt by Herod the Great.
Second Temple Judaism
Second Temple Judaism is the Jewish religion from the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple (538–515 BCE) to its destruction by Rome in 70 CE, centered on Temple worship and the priesthood.
Second Temple period
The Second Temple period, also called the Post-exilic period, is the roughly six centuries of Jewish history between the return from exile in 538 BCE and 70 CE.
Second Thomas Shoal
Second Thomas Shoal (Ayungin Shoal; Ren'ai Jiao 仁爱礁) is a low-tide elevation reef in the Spratly Islands, South China Sea, occupied by the Philippines via the grounded warship BRP Sierra Madre since 1999 and contested by China, with a 2024 provisional resupply arrangement.
Second Toughest in the Infants
Second Toughest in the Infants is Underworld's 1996 techno album (Rick Smith, Karl Hyde, Darren Emerson), peaking at UK #9, going gold, and tied to Trainspotting's Born Slippy.NUXX.
Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645)
Second Treaty of Brömsebro (Second Peace of Brömsebro, Freden i Brömsebro), signed 13 August 1645 between Sweden and Denmark-Norway, ended the Torstenson War: Denmark ceded Gotland, Ösel, Jämtland, Härjedalen and Bremen-Verden, pledged Halland for 30 years, and lost Sound toll revenue.
Second Treaty of Buffalo Creek
Second Treaty of Buffalo Creek (Treaty with the New York Indians, 1838): US treaty of January 15, 1838 trading Green Bay and New York lands for 1,824,000 acres west of Missouri; secured by fraud, modified by the 1842 Seneca treaty.
Second Triumvirate
Second Triumvirate (43-32 BCE): legal three-man magistracy of Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, created by the Lex Titia, marked by proscriptions, Philippi, Lepidus's fall, and Actium.
Second Turkic Khaganate
The Second Turkic Khaganate was a Turkic nomadic state founded in 682 when Ashina Qutlugh, titled Ilterish Qaghan, rebelled against Tang rule; it fell in the 740s.
Second United Front
The Second United Front was the 1937 alliance between China's Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party to resist Japan's invasion, which held until the end of World War II in 1945.
Second urbanization of the Ganges plain
The second urbanization of the Ganges plain (द्वितीय नगरीकरण) was the growth of towns in the middle Gangetic basin from the 6th to 3rd century BC.
Second Usurpation
The Second Usurpation (ವೀರ ನರಸಿಂಹನ ಅಧಿಕಾರ ಪಲ್ಲಟ) was the 1505 seizure of the Vijayanagara throne by Vira Narasimha, who deposed and assassinated Immadi Narasimha, ending the Saluva dynasty.
Second variation
The second variation is the second-order term in the expansion of a functional under small perturbation, playing the role of the second derivative test in the calculus of variations.
Second Vatican Council
The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, was an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church convoked by Pope John XXIII, meeting from 1962 to 1965.
Second Vienna Award
The Second Vienna Award was a territorial arbitration by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on 30 August 1940 that transferred Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
Second virial coefficient
The second virial coefficient, B(T), measures the net effect of interactions between pairs of molecules in a real gas or solution, introduced by Kamerlingh Onnes in 1901.