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Sendeyo
Sendeyo, also spelled Senteu or Sendo, was a Maasai laibon and prophet who fought a 1890 to 1902 succession war against his brother Lenana for their father Mbatian's leadership.
Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan is an American economist and behavioral scientist, the Peter de Florez Professor at MIT, known for work on discrimination, scarcity, and machine learning.
Sendhil Ramamurthy
Sendhil Ramamurthy (Sendhil Amithab Ramamurthy), American actor born 1974 in Chicago, known for Mohinder Suresh in Heroes, Jai Wilcox in Covert Affairs, Bloodwork in The Flash, Mohan in Never Have I Ever, and Nefertari Cobra in One Piece.
Sendmail
Sendmail is a mail transfer agent, the software that routes electronic mail, written by Eric Allman at UC Berkeley in the early 1980s and distributed with BSD Unix.
Sendraka dynasty
The Sendraka dynasty (सेंद्रक) was a line of feudatory chiefs who served the Rashtrakutas, Kadambas, and Western Chalukyas of Badami between the 6th and 8th centuries.
Seneb
Seneb was a high-ranking dwarf official of Egypt's Old Kingdom who served as a funerary priest of the kings Khufu and Djedefre, with a tomb at Giza and a famous family statue in Cairo.
Senebhenas
Senebhenas was a queen consort of Sobekhotep III, a 13th Dynasty Egyptian king of the Second Intermediate Period, and appears beside him on an altar on Sehel Island.
Senebkay
Woseribre Senebkay was a pharaoh of the Abydos Dynasty of ancient Egypt, reigning around 1650 BC during the Second Intermediate Period, known from his tomb found at South Abydos in 2014.
Senebmiu
Senebmiu, throne name Sewahenre, was a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's late Thirteenth Dynasty around 1650 BC, known chiefly from the damaged Turin King List and a few inscribed objects.
Senebsen
Senebsen was a queen consort of ancient Egypt's 13th Dynasty, attested as the wife of the pharaoh Neferhotep I, who reigned around 1741 to 1730 BC.
Senebsumai
Senebsumai was an ancient Egyptian official who served as overseer of the treasury in the 13th Dynasty, and is regarded as the period's most important treasurer.
Senebtisi
Senebtisi, alternatively Sithapi, was a Middle Kingdom Egyptian woman buried around 1850 BC at Lisht with rich funerary equipment now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Senec
Senec (SENEC GmbH) is a German manufacturer of home battery storage systems based in Leipzig, founded in 2009 and wholly owned by the utility EnBW since 2018.
Seneca
Seneca (Onödowá'ga') are an Iroquoian nation of western New York, largest member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy; the Seneca Nation of Indians, constitution 1848, governs Allegany, Cattaraugus, and three smaller territories.
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was a two-day 1848 meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, generally treated as the first women's rights convention in the United States.
Seneca Lake (New York)
Seneca Lake is the largest and deepest of New York's 11 Finger Lakes, a glacial lake about 35 miles long and 200 m deep holding over half the region's water, feeding Geneva's drinking supply and a major wine trail.
Seneca Myths and Folk Tales
Seneca Myths and Folk Tales is a 1923 collection of Seneca oral narratives compiled by Arthur C. Parker and published by the Buffalo Historical Society.
Seneca people
Seneca (Onödowá'ga', People of the Great Hill): largest nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy in western New York; 1848 elected constitution, Cattaraugus and Allegany territories, key treaties of Canandaigua, Big Tree, Buffalo Creek and the 1842 Compromise.
Seneca Polytechnic
Seneca Polytechnic, formerly Seneca College (founded 1967, Toronto, rebranded 2023), is a public Ontario polytechnic offering certificates to master's degrees, co-op programs, campuses including Newnham, King, and Seneca@York, led by President David Agnew.
Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 1 BCE–65 CE), Roman Stoic philosopher, Nero's tutor and advisor, author of the Moral Letters, Essays, Natural Questions, and Latin tragedies; exiled to Corsica, died by forced suicide in 65.
Seneca Village
Seneca Village was a free Black community founded in 1825 on Manhattan land later taken for Central Park; its roughly 225 to 350 mostly African American property owners, with Irish and German neighbors, were displaced by eminent domain by 1857.
Senecan tragedy
Senecan tragedy is the body of ten Latin verse tragedies written in the first century AD by the Stoic philosopher Seneca, Nero's tutor, which shaped Renaissance drama across Europe.
Senecio
Senecio (groundsels, ragworts) is a huge, cosmopolitan genus of Asteraceae, tribe Senecioneae, with about 1,250-1,500 accepted species, established by Linnaeus in 1753, many species containing hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
Senecio retrorsus
Senecio retrorsus DC., also called Grass Stagger's Weed or Dunsiektebossie, is a pyrrolizidine-alkaloid-containing ragwort in Asteraceae native from Zimbabwe to South Africa, poisonous to livestock and assessed Least Concern by SANBI.
Senecio vulgaris
Senecio vulgaris, common groundsel or old-man-in-the-spring, is a petal-less-flowered annual Asteraceae weed native from Macaronesia to China, toxic from pyrrolizidine alkaloids, and the first weed found resistant to triazine herbicides.
Senectus Tesserae
Senectus Tesserae is a 1,400-km-wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 50°N, 292°E, named for the Roman goddess of old age and adopted by the IAU in 1997.
Sened-i Ittifak
The Sened-i Ittifak (سند اتحاد, "Deed of Agreement") was an 1808 compact between Ottoman provincial notables and the central government, ratified by Sultan Mahmud II.
Senedd
Senedd (Senedd Cymru, Welsh Parliament) is Wales's devolved legislature, renamed from the National Assembly for Wales in 2020. Since 2026 it has 96 Members from 16 constituencies under a closed list system; Plaid Cymru won the 2026 election with 43 seats.
Senedj
Senedj, also written Sened and known as Sethenes by Manetho, was the fifth king of Egypt's Second Dynasty around 2780–2770 BC, known almost entirely from later king lists.
Senedjemib Inti
Senedjemib Inti was a 5th Dynasty Egyptian official who served King Djedkare Isesi as chief justice and vizier and as overseer of all royal works, known from his inscribed mastaba at Giza.