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Senedjemib Mehi
Senedjemib Mehi was a vizier of ancient Egypt during the late Fifth Dynasty, serving under kings Djedkare Isesi and Unas, and the son of the vizier Senedjemib Inti.
Seneferankhre
Seneferankhre, whose nomen was Pepi, is a poorly attested Egyptian king conventionally placed in the Sixteenth Dynasty of the Second Intermediate Period, known chiefly from scarab seals.
Senegal
Senegal, West African country (République du Sénégal) at Africa's westernmost point, capital Dakar. Independent from France in 1960; stable electoral democracy rated Free in 2025; population 18.9 million, GDP $37 billion, new oil and gas production, high debt, and acute climate vulnerability.
Senegal - Gambia
Senegal - Gambia, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 509, spans the Senegal, Gambia, Saloum, Casamance, and Gebe river basins across six West African countries, with Nilo-Sudanian fauna, low endemism, and vulnerable conservation status.
Senegal national football team
Senegal national football team, the Lions de la Teranga; four World Cups (2002, 2018, 2022, 2026), 2002 quarter-final debut with a 1-0 win over France, AFCON champions 2022, 2025 title stripped by CAF.
Senegal River
The Senegal River (fleuve Sénégal) is a 1,790 km West African river rising in Guinea and flowing to the Atlantic at Saint-Louis; its basin is managed by the 1972 OMVS, whose Diama and Manantali dams supply irrigation, hydropower, and flood control.
Senegal River Basin Development Authority
The Senegal River Basin Development Authority, known in French as the OMVS, is an intergovernmental organization created in 1972 by Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal to jointly develop the Senegal River basin.
Senegalese Democratic Party
The Senegalese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Sénégalais) is a Senegalese political party founded by Abdoulaye Wade in 1974, which governed Senegal from 2000 to 2012.
Senegalese diaspora
The Senegalese diaspora is the population born in Senegal or descended from Senegalese migrants living abroad, estimated at 750,000 people in 2024, with remittances nearing 10% of GDP.
Senegalese groundnut crisis
The Senegalese groundnut crisis is the prolonged decline of Senegal's peanut sector, once about 80 percent of exports at independence in 1960, now about 2 percent of GDP.
Senegalese literature
Senegalese literature is the writing produced in Senegal, mostly in French alongside Wolof and other national languages, drawing on oral traditions in Wolof, Pulaar, and Serer and on Arabo-Islamic heritage.
Senegalia senegal
Senegalia senegal (gum arabic tree, formerly Acacia senegal) is a nitrogen-fixing Sahelian acacia supplying about 90% of traded gum arabic, formed schizogenously in inner secondary phloem and harvested after dry-season tapping.
Senegambia Confederation
Senegambia Confederation (Confédération de la Sénégambie), a 1982–1989 political union of Senegal and The Gambia created after Senegal's 1981 intervention against a coup, with integrated forces and joint institutions, dissolved in 1989 over sovereignty disputes.
Senekerim-Hovhannes
Senekerim-Hovhannes, also rendered Senekʿerim-Yovhannēs, was the last king of Vaspurakan around Lake Van, ruling 1003 to 1021 before ceding his kingdom to Emperor Basil II for Sebasteia.
Senenmut
Senenmut, also written Senmut, was a commoner-born court official of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who administered the households of Queen Hatshepsut and Princess Neferure and became Great Steward of Amun.
Sener
Sener (Sener Grupo de Ingeniería) is a private Spanish engineering and technology group founded in 1956 by Enrique de Sendagorta, active in space, defense, and infrastructure.
Senescence
Senescence: stable cell-cycle arrest of stressed cells (Hayflick limit, ~50 divisions, p53/p21 and p16/pRB pathways, SASP) and organismal aging; beneficial in development and tumor suppression, targeted by senolytics like dasatinib plus quercetin.
Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype (SASP)
Senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), also called senescence messaging secretome: the pro-inflammatory mix of cytokines (IL-6, IL-8), growth factors, and proteases secreted by senescent cells, driving inflammaging, cancer effects, and targeted by senomorphic drugs.
Seneschal
Seneschal: medieval household and estate officer, from Frankish siniskalk "oldest servant"; French sénéchal, English steward or senescallus. Chief Capetian court officer until 1191, royal justice of southern sénéchaussées, and manager of English lords' estates.
Senet
Senet, an ancient Egyptian board game whose name means 'passing,' was played on 30 squares (3x10) from the First Dynasty to at least the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty. No written rules survive; by the New Kingdom it symbolized the ba's passage through the afterlife, and boards spread to the Levant, Cyprus, and Nubia.
Senewosret-Ankh (High Priest of Ptah)
Senewosret-Ankh, also rendered Senwosretankh, was Chief Priest of Ptah and Overseer of Works at Memphis in the 12th Dynasty, buried at Lisht South near Senusret I's pyramid.
Senex Energy
Senex Energy is an Australian natural gas producer based in Brisbane that develops onshore gas fields in Queensland's Surat Basin, selling gas into Australia's east coast domestic market.
Senfronia Thompson
Senfronia Thompson is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives representing Northeast Houston, first elected in 1973 and the longest-serving woman in Texas legislative history.
Senga Whittingham
Senga Whittingham is an Australian immunologist who spent 25 years at WEHI and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, defining autoimmune hepatitis, Down syndrome immunodeficiency, and Sjögren's diagnostics.
Sengalam
Sengalam (செங்களம், Red battlefield) is a 2023 Tamil political drama web series directed by S. R. Prabhakaran for ZEE5, released 24 March 2023 with 9 episodes starring Kalaiyarasan, Vani Bhojan, and Sharath Lohitashwa, set in Virudhunagar.
Sengbao
Sengbao (僧苞) is the name of an early fifth-century Chinese Buddhist monk, a minor figure of the Chang'an translation academy led by Kumarajiva from 401 to 413.
Sengcan
Sengcan (僧璨), who died in 592 or 606, is traditionally the Third Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, between Huike and Daoxin, and the poem Xinxin Ming is attributed to him.
Sengchou
Sengchou (僧稠) was a Chinese Buddhist meditation master of the Northern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties, remembered as the foremost dhyana teacher of his age.
Sengdao
Sengdao (僧导, 362–457) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and disciple of Kumārajīva who founded the Shouchun lineage of the Chengshi School with over 1,000 students.
Sengga
Sengga (僧伽) was a Buddhist monk from Central Asia (628–710) who settled at Sizhou, founded Puguangwang Temple, and was venerated as a manifestation of Guanyin.