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Selemani Mwalimu
Selemani Mwalimu (Selemani Mwalimu Abdala, "Gomez"), Tanzanian centre-forward born 2006 in Dar es Salaam; Fountain Gate youth, sold to Wydad AC in 2025, loaned to Simba SC and Young Africans, Tanzania international.
Selemon Barega
Selemon Barega Shirtaga (born 2000) is an Ethiopian distance runner, Olympic 10,000m champion at Tokyo 2020 (27:43.22), world indoor 3000m champion Belgrade 2022, world 5000m silver medallist Doha 2019, with a 5000m PB of 12:43.02.
Selen Özyurt
Selen Özyurt is a Turkish content creator whose family-vlog YouTube channel, launched in March 2022, follows her life with her husband Atakan Özyurt of the Kafalar channel and their son Aren Ata.
Selen Rupēs
Selen Rupēs is a 246-km-long lobate scarp (thrust-fault cliff) on Mercury near 8°S, 179°E, IAU-approved in January 2023 and named for the Turkish research vessel Selen.
Selena
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (1971–1995), known as Selena, the Queen of Tejano music; Mexican American Grammy-winning singer of Selena y Los Dinos, first Latina to top the Billboard 200 with a Spanish-language album, killed in 1995 by fan club president Yolanda Saldívar.
Selena (album)
Selena (album): the 1989 self-titled EMI Latin debut by Tejano singer Selena (Selena Quintanilla), first of five studio albums; peaked at number 7 on Billboard Regional Mexican Albums and included 'Besitos' and 'My Love'.
Selena (film)
Selena is a 1997 American biographical drama directed by Gregory Nava, starring Jennifer Lopez as the Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez and grossing $35 million for Warner Bros.
Selena + Chef
Selena + Chef is an HBO Max unscripted cooking series (2020–2022, four seasons, 40 episodes) in which Selena Gomez learns to cook at home via video chat with guest chefs, distinct from its spin-offs Selena + Restaurant and Home for the Holidays.
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez (born 1992, Grand Prairie, Texas), also known as Selena Marie Gomez, is an American singer, actress, and Rare Beauty founder; Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place star, Emmy- and Grammy-nominated, married to Benny Blanco.
Selena Gomez & the Scene
Selena Gomez & the Scene: American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 2008 around lead vocalist Selena Gomez, also called Selena Gomez and the Scene. Released three Hollywood Records albums (Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, When the Sun Goes Down) that each hit the Billboard 200 Top Ten; split in 2012.
Selena Gomez discography
The Selena Gomez discography includes three solo studio albums, three albums with Selena Gomez & the Scene, and 36 singles, with three consecutive US number-one albums.
Selena Gomez videography
The Selena Gomez videography lists the American actress and singer's music videos, including 32 as lead artist, and her 26 film and 31 television roles.
Selena y Los Dinos
Selena y Los Dinos: Corpus Christi Tejano family band formed by Abraham Quintanilla, fronted by Selena Quintanilla with siblings Suzette and A.B.; EMI Latin act, Grammy 1994, over 1.5 million records sold before 1995.
Selena: The Series
Selena: The Series is a Netflix biographical drama (2020-2021) about Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, created by Moisés Zamora, starring Christian Serratos, released in two nine-episode parts with family participation.
Selene (comics)
Selene (Selene Gallio), the Black Queen, is a Marvel Comics mutant psychic vampire and sorceress, an ancient X-Men villain debuting in New Mutants #9 (1983), tied to the Hellfire Club, Nova Roma, the Externals, and the 2009 Necrosha event.
SELENE (Kaguya)
SELENE, nicknamed Kaguya, was a Japanese lunar orbiter mission by JAXA, launched in 2007 to study the Moon's origin and gravity field until its 2009 impact.
Selene (Underworld)
Selene is the vampire Death Dealer protagonist of the Underworld films, portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in Underworld (2003), Evolution, Awakening, and Blood Wars; born 1383 in the timeline, turned by Viktor, mother of Eve, later a Vampire Elder.
Selene (Σελήνη)
Selene (Σελήνη), Greek Titan goddess of the moon and its personification, Roman Luna, also Mene; daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Eos, lover of Endymion, later syncretized with Artemis and Hecate.
Selenene
Selenene is the two-dimensional, monoelemental allotrope of selenium (2D Se), a group VIA Xene first synthesized in 2017 with proposed uses in photodetectors and batteries.
Selenenyl halides and electrophilic selenylation
Selenenyl halides are organoselenium(II) compounds of formula R–Se–X, the standard electrophilic reagents for adding selenium across carbon–carbon multiple bonds, with commercially available PhSeCl and PhSeBr anchoring most preparative organoselenium chemistry.
Selenga
Selenga (Селенга), transboundary river of Mongolia and Siberia, largest tributary of Lake Baikal; 1,024 km, 447,000 km² basin, ~30 km³/yr inflow, large Ramsar delta.
Selenis
Selenis: a harbor on the Libyan coast in Ptolemy's Geography (also Selinous, Selenide), and a Greek crescent-shaped child's amulet named from the moon; distinct from Selinus in Sicily and Cilicia.
Selenis Leyva
Selenis Leyva, Afro-Latina actress of Cuban and Dominican descent born 1972 in Baracoa, Cuba, raised in the Bronx; best known as Gloria Mendoza on Orange Is the New Black, later Diary of a Future President and Lopez vs Lopez.
Selenite (mineral)
Selenite, also known as satin spar in its fibrous form, is the transparent crystalline variety of gypsum, found as giant crystals almost 12 meters long at Naica, Mexico.
Selenium
Selenium is a chemical element with atomic number 34, discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius in Swedish copper mines and named after the Greek word for moon.
Selenium (software)
Selenium is an open-source umbrella project for automating web browsers, best known for its WebDriver API, started in 2004 at ThoughtWorks in Chicago by Jason Huggins.
Selenium deficiency
Selenium deficiency: insufficient intake of the essential trace element selenium, causing Keshan cardiomyopathy and Kashin-Beck disease in low-soil-selenium regions; RDA 55 mcg/day, treated with sodium selenite.
Selenium in biology
Selenium in biology: essential trace element incorporated as selenocysteine, the 21st amino acid read from UGA codons, into 25 human selenoproteins; deficiency causes Keshan disease, but trials show no supplement benefit.
Selenium yeast
Selenium yeast (selenium-enriched yeast, Se-yeast): dried non-viable Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in selenium-rich media, converting selenite mainly into selenomethionine; used as a human supplement and animal feed additive.
Selenium-binding protein
Selenium-binding protein 1 (SBP1, SELENBP1, hSP56) is a conserved human 56-kDa copper-dependent methanethiol oxidase that covalently binds selenium at cysteine 57; its loss in many cancers marks poor prognosis.