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Seitokai Yakuindomo (生徒会役員共)
Seitokai Yakuindomo (生徒会役員共) is Tozen Ujiie's four-panel gag manga about the student council of Ousai Academy, a former girls' school turned coed (28 boys, 524 girls). Serialized 2007–2021 in Magazine SPECIAL and Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 22 volumes, with TV anime in 2010 and 2014 and films in 2017 and 2021.
Seiuemon Inaba
Seiuemon Inaba, also known as Inaba Seiuemon, was a Japanese engineer who founded FANUC, the world's largest maker of numerical controls and industrial robots, and led it until 1995.
Seiun Sky (セイウンスカイ)
Seiun Sky (セイウンスカイ), Japanese grey Thoroughbred racehorse and sire (1995–2011), dual 1998 classic winner of the Satsuki Sho and Kikuka Sho; 7 wins from 13 starts, rival of Special Week and King Halo, bred by Nishiyama Stud.
Seiurus
Seiurus (Swainson, 1827) is a monotypic wood-warbler genus containing only the Ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla; the two waterthrushes formerly placed here were moved to the genus Parkesia in 2008 after genetic studies.
Seiwa Genji
The Seiwa Genji (清和源氏) is the Minamoto clan line descended from Emperor Seiwa, regarded as a distinguished warrior house that supplied the shoguns of the Kamakura, Muromachi, and Tokugawa governments.
Seix
Seix, Ariège, Occitanie, France: Pyrenean commune known for marble quarries (Vert d'Estours green-veined marble, griotte d'Estours, Escalirous white marble, Pont-de-la-Taule site) and Salau tungsten mineralization.
Seixal
Seixal is a Portuguese municipality in Setúbal District on the southern Tagus estuary, Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Known for its pebble-derived name, 1403 Corroios tide mill, cork and steel industry, and 198,254 residents in 2025.
Seiya Suzuki (鈴木 誠也)
Seiya Suzuki (鈴木 誠也), born 1994, is a Japanese right fielder for the Chicago Cubs after nine NPB seasons with the Hiroshima Carp; two-time Central League batting champion, 2020 Olympic gold medalist, and 2025 32-HR, 103-RBI MLB season.
Seiya Tsutsumi (堤聖也)
Seiya Tsutsumi (堤聖也, born 1995) is a Japanese professional boxer who won the WBA bantamweight title in October 2024, upsetting defending champion Takuma Inoue while remaining undefeated.
Seiya Uyeda (上田誠也)
Seiya Uyeda (上田誠也) was a Japanese geophysicist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, who led Japanese work in plate tectonics and later electromagnetic earthquake-prediction research.
Seiza (正座)
Seiza (正座) is the Japanese kneeling posture with buttocks on the heels. Formalized in samurai etiquette and tea ceremony, it spread generally in the Edo period and was named "correct sitting" only in the Meiji era.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day is a 1956 novella by Saul Bellow following failed actor Tommy Wilhelm through a single day of financial and spiritual reckoning in New York City.
Seizō Katsunuma
Seizō Katsunuma (勝沼精蔵, 1886–1963) was a Japanese hematologist who founded the Japanese Society of Hematology and served as Nagoya University's third president from 1949 to 1959.
Seizure
Seizure: transient episode of abnormal synchronous electrical brain activity lasting seconds to minutes. Classified by ILAE 2017 as focal, generalized, or unknown onset; epilepsy requires two or more unprovoked seizures.
Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs
The seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs was Iran's landing on three Persian Gulf islands on 30 November 1971, claimed by the UAE ever since.
Seizure of Alamut
The Seizure of Alamut (تصرف الموت) was Hasan-i Sabbah's 1090 capture of the Alamut fortress in northern Iran by infiltration, founding the Nizari Ismaili state.
Seizure of the Smyrtos
Seizure of the Smyrtos: UK Royal Marines and NCA boarding of the sanctioned shadow-fleet tanker Smyrtos (IMO 9389100, ex-Myrtos) in the English Channel on 14 June 2026, the first such UK seizure, with its Indian master charged under Russia sanctions regulations.
Sejakpur Mound
Sejakpur Mound (Ancient Site/Mound in village), a centrally protected microlithic site in Sayla taluka, Surendranagar, Gujarat, notified 1951, ASI Rajkot Circle; Late Stone Age tools found 1957-58; reported untraceable since 2009.
Sejal Saglani
Sejal Saglani is a pediatric respiratory physician and Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, known for research on severe childhood asthma and preschool wheeze.
Sejanus
Lucius Aelius Sejanus (Seianus), Praetorian prefect under Tiberius, concentrated the guard in one camp, ruled Rome as the emperor's partner, and was executed 18 October 31 CE.
Sejarah Melayu
Sejarah Melayu, also known as Sulalatus Salatin, is a Malay court chronicle recounting the rise and fall of the Malacca Sultanate, drafted in 1612 at the exiled Johor court.
Seji kenbunroku
Seji kenbunroku (世事見聞録) is a seven-volume 1816 critique of late-Edo Japanese society by an anonymous samurai writing as Buyō Inshi, denouncing corruption across every social class.
Sejlflod
Sejlflod is an excavated Iron Age village and cemetery in Himmerland, northern Jutland, Denmark, occupied from 500 BC to about 1100 AD. Its cemetery of almost 300 oak-coffin inhumation graves from the 4th-5th centuries AD represents a whole village population and is interpreted as fused family grave clusters.
Sejm
Sejm (Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), lower chamber of Poland's parliament: 460 deputies, 4-year proportional terms, dominant in legislation, sole controller of the Council of Ministers, veto override by three-fifths majority.
Sejm and Senate of the Second Polish Republic
The Sejm and Senate of the Second Polish Republic (Sejm i Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) were interwar Poland's bicameral parliament, created by the 1921 March Constitution and dissolved in 1939.
Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Belarusian: Сойм) was the estate-representative assembly of the nobility, emerging in the late 15th century and merged with Poland's Sejm in 1569.
Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Sejm Walny (General Sejm) was the bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of Poland and, after 1569, of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, taking final shape at Piotrków in 1493 and ending with the third partition of 1795.
Sejmik
A sejmik was a local assembly of the nobility in Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that elected deputies to the Sejm and passed binding local resolutions.
Sejmiki
Sejmiki, or sejmiki ziemskie, were provincial assemblies of the nobility in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that elected deputies to the Sejm and managed local affairs.
Sejny Uprising
The Sejny Uprising (Powstanie sejneńskie) was an August 1919 insurrection by Poles of the Suwałki region against Lithuanian control of Sejny, ending in a Polish victory.