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Serampore Mission Press
The Serampore Mission Press was a Baptist printing press in Danish-ruled Bengal from 1800 to 1855, established by William Carey and known for cutting Bengali and Devanagari type.
Serang
Serang (Kota Serang), capital of Banten Province, Indonesia, on western Java; autonomous city since 2007 split from Serang Regency; 266.16 km2, 6 districts, 759,929 people (2024); former center of the Banten Sultanate.
Serani
Serani, born Craig Marsh in 1982 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a dancehall singjay, songwriter, and producer who co-founded Daseca and broke through with "No Games" (2008).
Serap Aksoy
Serap Aksoy is a Turkish-born American vector biologist at the Yale School of Public Health known for her research on the tsetse fly and sleeping sickness.
Serap Güler
Serap Güler is a German CDU politician who has served as Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office and has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021.
Serapeum
The Serapeum of Alexandria, also called Sarapeion, was a great temple of the god Serapis and one of antiquity's most famous pagan sanctuaries, demolished in 391 CE.
Serapeum archive
The Serapeum archive, also called the Serapeum papyri, is a bilingual Greek and Demotic papyrus archive found at the Serapeum of Memphis, dating from the late third to mid second century BC.
Serapeum of Alexandria
The Serapeum of Alexandria, or Sarapeion, was Alexandria's most important sanctuary, the great temple of the god Serapis, built under the Ptolemies and destroyed in AD 391.
Serapeum of Menouthis
The Serapeum of Menouthis was a temple of Serapis at Canopus, near Alexandria, built by Ptolemy III and destroyed in the fourth century under bishop Theophilus.
Serapeum of Saqqara
The Serapeum of Saqqara is the underground burial complex of the sacred Apis bulls at Saqqara, Egypt, used from Amenhotep III's reign to the Ptolemaic Period.
Seraph
Seraph (Hebrew saraph, plural seraphim, "burning ones"): six-winged celestial beings attending God's throne in Isaiah 6, singing the Trisagion; the same word elsewhere means fiery serpent, and later tradition ranks seraphim highest among angels.
Seraph of the End
Seraph of the End (終わりのセラフ, Owari no Serafu; Vampire Reign) is a dark fantasy manga by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, and Daisuke Furuya, serialized in Jump SQ since 2012, about Yuichiro Hyakuya's revenge against vampires in a post-apocalyptic world, ending with volume 37.
Seraphim Falls
Seraphim Falls is a 2006 Western, David Von Ancken's feature directorial debut, starring Liam Neeson as Confederate colonel Carver hunting Pierce Brosnan's ex-Union officer Gideon across the 1868 West; filmed in New Mexico and Oregon, released January 2007.
Seraphim I
Seraphim I (Greek Σεραφεμ ὁ Α´) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1733 to 1734, ending in deposition and exile to Mount Athos; in 1734 he canonized Mark of Ephesus.
Seraphim II
Seraphim II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1757 to 1761. Deposed, he later joined the Russian fleet, was defrocked for urging armed revolt, and died in exile in 1779.
Seraphim of Sarov (Серафим Саровский)
Seraphim of Sarov (Серафим Саровский) was a Russian Orthodox monk of Sarov, canonized in 1903 and famed for teaching the acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
Seraphim Rose
Seraphim Rose, born Eugene Dennis Rose, was an American convert to Russian Orthodoxy, hieromonk, and author who co-founded the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood and Monastery at Platina, California.
Seraphina
Seraphina (U-604 BL, CVCL_M646) is an EBV-positive human Burkitt lymphoma B-cell line from a 7-year-old Kenyan girl, distributed by Iran's National Cell Bank and used in EBV, cytogenetic, and BIM chemoresistance research.
Seraphine (League of Legends)
Seraphine, the Starry-Eyed Songstress, is a Support/Mage champion in League of Legends (patch 10.22, October 2020), a Piltover-born pop star with soul-hearing lore, K/DA marketing, and a T1 skin (2026).
Seraphs
Seraphs Montfort, 1810 (Seraphsidae) is an extinct fusiform stromboidean gastropod genus, Paleocene to Miocene, 18 species, revised by Maxwell, Rymer and Congdon in Zootaxa 2021.
Serapias
Serapias is a Mediterranean genus of terrestrial tuberous orchids (Orchidaceae), type species S. lingua, with dark red hooded flowers that pollinate by shelter imitation, offering insects a nectarless floral tube, and unusually show no pollinarium reconfiguration.
Serapion (strategos)
Serapion (Σεραπίων) was the strategos, the military governor and admiral, of Cyprus serving Cleopatra VII of Egypt, recorded in 43 BC when he supported Cassius against Dolabella without her consent.
Serapion Brothers
The Serapion Brothers (Серапионовы братья) were a literary group of young writers founded in Petrograd in 1921, named after Hoffmann and united by their defense of creative freedom.
Serapion of Vladimir
Serapion of Vladimir (Серапион Владимирский, died 1275) was a Russian churchman who served as archimandrite of the Kiev Caves Monastery and then bishop of Vladimir.
Serapis
Serapis (Sarapis), a Graeco-Egyptian god from Egyptian Osiris-Apis (wsjr-hp), created by Ptolemy I at Alexandria to unite Greek and Egyptian subjects; worshiped across the Roman world until the Serapeum's destruction in 391 CE.
Serat
Serat is a broad class of written Javanese works covering didactic treatises, mystical poems, and stories, flourishing at the Central Javanese courts in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Serat Bratayuda
Serat Bratayuda, also written Serat Baratayuda, is a Javanese verse adaptation of the Bharatayuddha, composed at the Surakarta court and attributed to Yasadipura I, a standard source for wayang plays.
Serat Centhini
Serat Centhini, also known as Suluk Tambangraras, is a Javanese encyclopedic narrative poem composed at the Surakarta court in the early 1810s, covering Javanese religion, music, food, and everyday life.
Serat Dewa Ruci
Serat Dewa Ruci is a Javanese wayang text in which Bima seeks the water of life and meets the deity Dewa Ruci, who teaches spiritual perfection.
Serat Kalatidha
Serat Kalatidha is a celebrated Javanese poem by the Surakarta court poet Ronggowarsita, written around 1860 in the Sinom meter, describing an age of madness.