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Sekhukhune Wars

The Sekhukhune Wars were campaigns fought in 1876 and 1879 against Sekhukhune I of the Bapedi, first by the South African Republic and then by Britain.

Sekhukhune's resistance

Sekhukhune's resistance was the armed defense of the Bapedi kingdom in the eastern Transvaal, led by King Sekhukhune I against the South African Republic in 1876 and British forces in 1878–1879.

Sekirei (セキレイ)

Sekirei (セキレイ) is a Japanese manga series by Sakurako Gokurakuin about 108 modified human warriors and their human partners, adapted into an anime in 2008.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, also known as Sekiro, is a 2019 action-adventure game by FromSoftware, published by Activision, set in Sengoku-era Japan and directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki.

Sekishū-banshi

Sekishū-banshi (石州半紙) is a hand-made Japanese paper made from kozo in the Iwami region of Shimane Prefecture, strong enough to survive more than 3,000 folds.

Oct 10, 2026

Sekisui House

Sekisui House, Ltd. is Japan's largest manufacturer of prefabricated housing, founded in 1960 by Sekisui Chemical Company and operating in Japan, the United States, and Australia.

Sekiya family

The Sekiya family (関家) is the founding family of Disco Corporation, started by Mitsuo Sekiya in 1937 and led today by grandson Kazuma Sekiya, president since 2009.

Sekkan seiji (摂関政治) was the political system of mid-Heian Japan, roughly the late 9th to 11th centuries, in which the Fujiwara clan monopolized the regent posts of sesshō and kanpaku and directed the government.

Sep 24, 2026

Sekkan-ke (five regent houses)

The Sekkan-ke (五摂家), or five regent houses, were the Fujiwara houses of Konoe, Takatsukasa, Kujō, Ichijō, and Nijō, which supplied Japan's regents from 1252 to 1868.

Sep 24, 2026

Sekkanke

Sekkanke (摂関家) was the Fujiwara branch holding the offices of regent and chief adviser to the emperor as a hereditary monopoly from the ninth century.

Sep 23, 2026

Sekkizhar

Sekkizhar (சேக்கிழார்) was a 12th-century Tamil poet and chief minister to the Chola emperor Kulottunga II who composed the Periya Puranam, the twelfth book of the Tirumurai, on the 63 Nayanmar saints.

Sekkyō

Sekkyō-bushi (説経節) was a Japanese chanted narrative art of the late medieval and early modern periods, performed with puppets to shamisen accompaniment, peaking in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Sekmem campaign

The Sekmem campaign was a military expedition led by Egyptian king Senusret III against the Levantine town of Sekmem, usually identified with Shechem, around the 1830s BC.

Oct 21, 2026

Sekmet Mons

Sekmet Mons is a large shield volcano in Kawelu Planitia, Venus, at 44.5°N 240.5°E, IAU-named in 1985 for the Egyptian war goddess, with ~2 km relief and extensive lobate lava plains.

Seko Fofana

Seko Fofana, full name Seko Mohamed Fofana, is an Ivorian central midfielder born in Paris in 1995 who won the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.

Sekondi-Takoradi

Sekondi-Takoradi, the Twin-City and Oil City, is the capital of Ghana's Western Region and its third largest city, a port and railway hub governed by the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly with 245,382 residents (2021 census).

Sekou (singer)

Sekou (Sekou Sylla, born 2004) is a British baritone singer from Leicester blending retro-soul, R&B, and pop; debut single "Better Man" (2023), youngest BRIT Rising Star nominee, mixtape In a World We Don't Belong (2025–2026).

Seksan Prasertkul

Seksan Prasertkul (เสกสรรค์ ประเสริฐกุล; born 1949) is a Thai political scientist and writer who led the 1973 student uprising that toppled Thailand's military regime, later becoming a Thammasat University professor and National Artist in Literature.

Sektor Gaza

Sektor Gaza (Сектор Газа) is a Russian rock group founded in Voronezh in 1987 by Yuri Klinskikh, known as Khoy, and dissolved after his 2000 death.

Seku Amadu

Seku Amadu, also known as Ahmadu Lobbo, was a Fulani Islamic reformer who founded the Massina Empire in present-day Mali, ruling from 1818 until 1845.

Sep 24, 2026

Seku Amadu's conquest of Jenne

Seku Amadu's conquest of Jenne was the capture of the merchant city of Jenne in the Inner Niger Delta by the Fulani jihad forces of Seku Amadu around 1819.

Seku Watara

Seku Watara, also spelled Sékou Ouattara, was a Dyula merchant-warrior who took power in the trading town of Kong in 1710 and founded the Ouattara dynasty.

Sekula

Sekula is a German electronic music artist from Cologne who works across drum & bass, dubstep, trap, and future bass, appearing regularly at German festivals such as ParookaVille since 2017.

Oct 15, 2026

Sel-Sync

Sel-Sync (Selective Synchronous recording) is an Ampex tape recording technique from the mid-1950s in which the record head doubles as a playback head, enabling synchronized overdubs.

Oct 21, 2026

SEL1L

SEL1L (Hrd3, SEL1L1) is a single-pass ER membrane adaptor gene on human 14q31 that stabilizes the HRD1 E3 ligase and recruits misfolded substrates in the conserved SEL1L-HRD1 ERAD pathway; biallelic variants cause ENDI neurodevelopmental syndrome.

SeL4

seL4 is an open source, capability-based microkernel of the L4 family, first proven functionally correct in 2009 and running 2 to 10 times faster than other microkernels in benchmarks.

Sela (Edom)

Sela, known in Arabic as as-Sila or Qalʻat as-Salaʻ, is a precipitous sandstone outcrop in the Tafilah district of southern Jordan, fortified as an Edomite stronghold.

Sela inscription

The Sela inscription, also written Sela' or as-Sila', is a Neo-Babylonian cuneiform rock inscription and relief of Nabonidus, last king of Babylon, carved on a cliff in southern Jordan.