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Sejo Kalač
Sejo Kalač, full name Sead Kalač, is a Montenegrin folk and pop-folk singer who rose to major popularity in the early 2000s with hits such as "Ala, ala".
Sejo of Joseon (이유)
Sejo of Joseon (이유, Yi Yu, 1417–1468), seventh Joseon king reigning 1455–1468, seized the throne through the 1453 Gyeyujeongnan coup, deposed Danjong, restored six-board direct rule, began the Gyeongguk Daejeon, and founded the line of all later Joseon kings.
Sejo's strengthening of royal power
Sejo's strengthening of royal power (세조의 왕권 강화) was King Sejo of Joseon's concentration of government control in the king's own hands after seizing the throne in 1453.
Sejong City
Sejong City is a planned special self-governing city in northeastern South Chungcheong Province, launched in 2012 to move administrative functions from Seoul, targeting 500,000 residents by 2030.
Sejong Sillok
The Sejong Sillok (세종실록) is the section of the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty recording King Sejong's reign from 1418 to 1450, compiled in 163 volumes between 1452 and 1454.
Sejong the Great (세종대왕)
Sejong the Great (세종대왕; 1397–1450), fourth king of Joseon (r. 1418–1450), created the Korean alphabet Hunminjeongeum (Hangul), promulgated 1446, advanced astronomy, agriculture, music, and law, and is one of two Korean monarchs called the Great.
Sejong the Great-class destroyer
The Sejong the Great class (세종대왕급 구축함), also KDX-III, is a class of Aegis guided-missile destroyers of the Republic of Korea Navy, first commissioned in 2008.
Sejrø Bugt, Nekselø Bugt and Saltbæk Vig
Sejrø Bugt, Nekselø Bugt and Saltbæk Vig (Ramsar site 157, Danish no. 18) is a 44,111 ha coastal wetland in northwestern Zealand, Denmark, designated 2 September 1977, important for moulting greylag geese, sea ducks, and rare ferns and orchids.
Seka (actress)
Seka, also known as Dorothea Hundley Patton, is a retired American pornographic actress. She was a recognized star of the Golden Age of adult cinema, appearing in over 200 films.
SEKAI NO OWARI (group)
SEKAI NO OWARI (世界の終わり) is a four-member Japanese band formed in 2007, known internationally as End of the World, whose 2022 single "Habit" won the Japan Record Award.
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan is an American preventive cardiologist and human geneticist who co-founded and led Verve Therapeutics, a gene-editing company acquired by Eli Lilly in 2025.
Seken Munesan'yō
Seken Munesan'yō (世間胸算用), translated as Worldly Mental Calculations, is a 1692 collection of twenty linked stories by Ihara Saikaku, all set on New Year's Eve.
Seker (crater on Ganymede)
Seker is a 103-km-wide impact crater on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, centered at 39.16 S, 345.38 W; IAU-approved in 1988 and named for the Egyptian god of the dead at Memphis.
Sekgoma II
Sekgoma II was the king of the Bamangwato people of the Bechuanaland Protectorate in present-day Botswana, reigning from 1923 to 1925 as son and successor of Khama III.
Sekhar Kammula (శేఖర్ కమ్ముల)
Sekhar Kammula (శేఖర్ కమ్ముల), born 1972 in Hyderabad, is a Telugu film director, screenwriter, and producer; Howard University MFA graduate whose Dollar Dreams won a National Film Award, known for Anand, Happy Days, Fidaa, Love Story, and Kuberaa.
Sekhem-ankh-Ptah
Sekhem-ankh-Ptah, also written Ptah-sekhem-ankh, was an Egyptian official of the Fifth Dynasty, around 2465 to 2323 BC, known from a Giza mastaba and a Saqqara chapel now in Boston.
Sekhemka
Sekhemka was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official whose painted limestone statue, made around 2400 BC, sold at auction in 2014 for a record £15.76 million.
Sekhemkare (prince)
Sekhemkare was a prince of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of King Khafre who served as chief justice and vizier and was buried in tomb G 8154 at Giza.
Sekhemkare Amenemhat Sonbef
Sekhemkare Amenemhat Sonbef is a ruler of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, dated to about 1800–1796 BC, whose identity and name forms are debated.
Sekhemkhet
Sekhemkhet, also known as Sekhemket, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Third Dynasty who succeeded Djoser and reigned about six years, known for the unfinished Buried Pyramid at Saqqara.
Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep
Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep, also known as Sobekhotep I, was a pharaoh of the early Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1800 BC.
Sekhemre Shedwaset
Sekhemre Shedwaset, also written Sekhemre Shedwast, is an Egyptian king of the Second Intermediate Period known only from the Turin King List, probably of the Theban 16th Dynasty.
Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef
Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef, numbered Intef VII or Intef V in modern scholarship, was a Theban Seventeenth Dynasty king of Egypt known only from a coffin in the Louvre.
Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef
Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef, also known as Antef V, was a king of Egypt's Theban 17th Dynasty around the 1570s BC, succeeded by his brother Nubkheperre Intef.
Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw
Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw, known as Khabaw, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 13th Dynasty, dated to about 1775 BC, with a reign of roughly two to three years.
Sekheperenre
Sekheperenre was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, recorded in the Turin King List with a reign of about two months.
Sekhmet
Sekhmet (sḫmt, "the powerful one"), also spelled Sakhmet, is the ancient Egyptian lioness-headed Eye of Ra governing war, pestilence, and healing; her priests were physicians, and Amenhotep III erected hundreds of appeasement statues. Distinguishable from Bastet and Hathor, with whom she merged.
Sekhoji Angre
Sekhoji Angre (सेखोजी आंग्रे), also known as Jayasingrao Angre, was the eldest son of Kanhoji Angre and chief admiral of the Maratha navy from 1729 to 1733.
Sekhukhune District Municipality
Sekhukhune District Municipality (DC47) is a Category C district municipality in south-eastern Limpopo, South Africa, established December 2000, seat Groblersdal, comprising Elias Motsoaledi, Ephraim Mogale, Fetakgomo-Tubatse, and Makhuduthamaga local municipalities.
Sekhukhune I
Sekhukhune I was a Pedi king who took the throne by force in 1861, displacing his half-brother Mampuru II, and resisted the Boers and British until his capture in 1879.