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Sadleria
Sadleria (ʻamaʻu, ʻamaʻumaʻu) is a genus of six endemic Hawaiian tree ferns in Blechnaceae, base number x=33, named for Hungarian fern botanist Joseph Sadler; used by Hawaiians for thatch, kapa dye, and famine food.
Sadma (सदमा)
Sadma (सदमा, 1983) is a Hindi romantic drama by Balu Mahendra, a remake of his Tamil film Moondram Pirai, starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi; a box-office disappointment that became a classic, known for its climax and Ilaiyaraaja's music.
Sadness
Sadness: a basic human emotion triggered by loss or disappointment, expressed in face, tears, and physiology, and distinguished from clinical depression by duration, triggers, and course.
Sado (사도)
Sado (사도, The Throne) is Lee Joon-ik's 2015 Korean historical drama about Crown Prince Sado's death in a rice chest by King Yeongjo's order, starring Song Kang-ho and Yoo Ah-in, September 2015's top Korean film with 4.97 million admissions.
Sado Island Gold Mines
The Sado Island Gold Mines (佐渡島の金山) are gold and silver mines on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, worked by hand from the late 1500s and inscribed by UNESCO in 2024.
Sadoga Shima
Sadoga Shima (佐渡島), Sado Island, Japan's largest remote island in the Sea of Japan off Niigata, 855.34 km²; home of the 2024 UNESCO-listed Sado Island Gold Mines, exile history, and crested ibis reintroduction.
Sadoi Sharq
Sadoi Sharq (Садои Шарқ, "Voice of the East") is a Tajik-language monthly literary magazine published in Dushanbe by the Writers' Union of Tajikistan, founded in 1938.
Sadomasochism
Sadomasochism combines sadism and masochism, terms coined by Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) after de Sade and Sacher-Masoch; consensual forms fall under BDSM, while ICD-11 recognizes only coercive sexual sadism disorder.
Sadqay Tumhare (صدقے تمہارے)
Sadqay Tumhare (صدقے تمہارے) is a 2014–2015 Hum TV Pakistani Urdu drama serial, 27 episodes, written by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar, starring Mahira Khan and Adnan Malik; an autobiographical romance that won ten 2015 Hum Awards.
Sadr al-Din Aini
Sadr al-Din Aini (صدرالدین عینی; full name Sadriddin Saidmurodzoda Ayni, 1878–1954) was a Tajik poet, novelist, and philologist, generally credited as the founder of modern Tajik literature.
Sadr Diwani Adalat
Sadr Diwani Adalat was the chief civil and revenue court of British India, founded by Warren Hastings at Calcutta in 1772 and abolished in 1861.
Sadr-e A'zam
Sadr-e A'zam (صدراعظم) was the title of the grand vizier of Qajar Iran, who conducted the shah's government in all affairs; the office was abolished in 1858.
Sadreddinzâde Sâdik Mehmed Efendi
Sadreddinzâde Sâdik Mehmed Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: سديدق محمد افندي) was an Ottoman religious scholar who twice served as Shaykh al-Islam, in 1694–1695 and again in 1707–1708 under Ahmed III.
Sadriddin Ayni
Sadriddin Ayni (Tajik: Садриддин Айнӣ), born Sadriddin Saidmurodzoda in Bukhara in 1878, was a Tajik poet, novelist, and historian who founded modern Tajik literature and became the first president of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.
Saduktikarnamrita
The Saduktikarnamrita (सदुक्तिकर्णामृत, "nectar to the ears of good sayings") is a Sanskrit verse anthology compiled by Śrīdharadāsa in 1205 CE, collecting about 2,377 verses by 446 poets.
Sadul Singh of Bikaner
Sadul Singh (सादुल सिंह; 1902 to 1950) was Maharaja of Bikaner from 1943 to 1949, succeeding his father Ganga Singh and acceding to India at independence.
Sadula
Sadula (萨都剌, c. 1272–1355) was a Yuan dynasty poet, painter, and calligrapher of Semu descent, best known for his graceful verse and the collection Yanmen Ji.
Sadyattes
Sadyattes (Σαδυάττης) was a king of Lydia in western Anatolia, the third ruler of the Mermnad dynasty founded by Gyges, remembered for the long Lydian war against Miletus.
Sadyr Japarov
Sadyr Japarov (Садыр Жапаров, born 1968), Kyrgyz president since January 2021; freed from an 11-year kidnapping sentence in the October 2020 protests, won 79.2% of the vote, replaced the parliamentary constitution with a superpresidential one, nationalized Kumtor, and drew Not Free ratings.
SAE 304 stainless steel
SAE 304 stainless steel, also known as A2 or 18/8 stainless steel, is an austenitic chromium-nickel steel with roughly 18% chromium and 8% nickel, the most widely used stainless grade.
Sae Folk Village
Sae Folk Village (새민속촌) is a small theme park in Yecheon-eup, Yecheon, North Gyeongsang, South Korea, near Baekjeon-2-ri Senior Citizens' Center and Dongbon-ri stone pagoda; distinct from the same-named Yecheon restaurant.
SAE International
SAE International, formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers, is a US-based professional society founded in 1905 that develops and publishes technical standards for the automotive, aerospace, and commercial-vehicle industries.
SAE J1772
SAE J1772, also known as the J plug or Type 1 connector, is the North American standard for AC charging of electric vehicles, first issued in 1996.
SAE J2735
SAE J2735 is a technical standard from SAE International that defines the message set, data frames, and data elements used by vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, first issued in 2006.
SAE J2954
SAE J2954 is an SAE International standard defining interoperability, safety, and performance for wireless charging of parked light-duty electric vehicles at up to 11 kW.
SAE J3016
SAE J3016 is a recommended practice published by SAE International in 2014 that classifies vehicle automation into six levels, from Level 0, no automation, to Level 5, full automation.
SAE steel grades
SAE steel grades, also known as AISI steel grades, are four-digit designations for carbon and alloy steels maintained by SAE International, where the last digits give carbon content.
Sae Woo Nam
Sae Woo Nam was an American experimental physicist at NIST who led the Faint Photonics Group and built single-photon detectors with world-record telecom-band efficiency, honored with a 2002 PECASE.
Saeculum obscurum
Saeculum obscurum (Latin, "dark century") is a term coined by church historian Caesar Baronius for a corrupt papal era, roughly 904 to 1046, also known as the Pornocracy or Rule of the Harlots.
Saeed Ajmal (سعید اجمل)
Saeed Ajmal (سعید اجمل), Pakistani off-spin bowler, 2008-2015; famed for the doosra, world No. 1 ODI bowler, suspended in 2014 when all deliveries exceeded the 15-degree elbow limit.