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Serena Williams career statistics
Serena Williams career statistics: American tennis player, 23 Grand Slam singles titles (Open Era record), 73 WTA singles titles, 858-156 singles record, 319 weeks at No. 1, 14 Grand Slam doubles titles with Venus Williams.
Serenade
Serenade (sérénade; Serenade, Ständchen; serenata): evening music sung or played outdoors, originally by a lover at a window, later a multi-movement light orchestral genre from Mozart's serenatas to Brahms, Dvořák, Britten, and Stravinsky.
Serenay Sarıkaya
Serenay Sarıkaya is a Turkish actress and model known for the television series Medcezir, Fi, Şahmaran, and Aile, and for the Netflix series Kimler Geldi Kimler Geçti.
SERENDIP
SERENDIP, a UC Berkeley SETI program begun in 1976 and directed by Stuart Bowyer, searches radio telescope data for artificial narrowband signals while piggybacking on other observers' projects.
Serendipity
Serendipity is the making of a valuable discovery by accident and sagacity, coined by Horace Walpole in 1754 from the fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip."
Serendipity (film)
Serendipity is a 2001 American romantic comedy directed by Peter Chelsom, in which John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale play two strangers in New York who leave their reunion to fate.
Serendipity locus alpha
Serendipity locus alpha (sry-α, CG17957) is a Drosophila melanogaster gene expressed only at the blastoderm stage in all somatic cells during cellularization; its 95 bp promoter contains conserved motifs, including an E-box, regulated by daughterless.
Serengeti
Serengeti: Tanzanian savanna ecosystem and national park (1,476,300 ha, World Heritage 1981) famed for the ~1.3-million-wildebeest annual migration; also called Serengeti National Park, part of the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem.
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park, a TANAPA-managed park in northern Tanzania established in 1951 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, protects 1,476,300 ha of savannah and the Great Migration of about two million wildebeest, gazelles, and zebras.
Serengeti Park
Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen, a 220-hectare safari and amusement park in Hodenhagen, Lower Saxony, Germany, founded by the Sepe family in 1974; drive-through safari, about 2,000 animals, rides, lodges, and Europe's largest safari park.
Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biosphere Reserve
Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biosphere Reserve, Tanzania, UNESCO MAB site designated 1981 combining Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area, 3,836,814 ha, home to the wildebeest migration and Maasai pastoralists.
Serenidad
Serenidad is a book of poems by the Mexican poet Amado Nervo, first published in Madrid in 1914, marking his turn away from Modernismo toward plainer, confessional verse.
Serenity (2005 film)
Serenity is a 2005 American space western written and directed by Joss Whedon, starring Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and continuing his canceled television series Firefly.
Serenity (2019 film)
Serenity (2019) is a neo-noir thriller written and directed by Steven Knight, starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, about a fisherman offered $10 million to kill his ex-wife's husband; filmed entirely in Mauritius, it flopped critically and commercially.
Serenity Prayer
The Serenity Prayer, or Prayer of serenity, is a Christian invocation attributed to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, best known through its adoption by Alcoholics Anonymous in 1942.
Sereno Watson
Sereno Watson (1826–1892) was an American botanist who served on the Fortieth Parallel survey and curated Harvard's Gray Herbarium from 1874 until his death.
Serenoa
Serenoa (saw palmetto, Serenoa repens) is a monotypic palm genus native to the southeastern United States, a creeping, spiny-petioled shrub palm whose blue-black fruit is used in prostate supplements despite weak clinical benefit.
Serent Capital
Serent Capital is a growth-focused private equity firm founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an office in Austin, Texas, investing in founder-led B2B software and technology-enabled services companies.
Seres Group
Seres Group Co., Ltd. is a Chinese new energy vehicle maker whose core brand is AITO, developed with Huawei and taken under full control in 2026.
Seres Therapeutics
Seres Therapeutics, formerly Seres Health, is a Cambridge, Massachusetts microbiome therapeutics company that brought the first oral FDA-approved microbiome drug, VOWST, to market in 2023.
Serethor
Serethor was a royal woman of Egypt's First Dynasty, known only from a funerary stela found in a subsidiary grave within Pharaoh Den's complex at Abydos.
Seretse Khama
Seretse Khama (1921–1980), Bangwato chieftain-designate exiled by Britain over his 1948 marriage to Ruth Williams; founded the Bechuanaland Democratic Party and served as Botswana's first President, 1966–1980.
SEREX
SEREX (serological analysis of recombinant cDNA expression libraries) is a tumor immunology method that screens tumor cDNA expression libraries with patient serum to identify tumor antigens like NY-ESO-1.
SERF magnetometer
A SERF (spin-exchange relaxation-free) magnetometer is an optical atomic magnetometer with sub-femtotesla sensitivity and no cryogenic cooling, first demonstrated at Princeton in 2002 and used for magnetoencephalography.
Serfdom
Serfdom: the legal bondage of European peasants to seignorial lords, distinct from slavery. Originating from the late Roman colonate, it declined in the medieval West, intensified as the 'second serfdom' in eastern Europe, and ended in Russia in 1861.
Serfdom in Russia
Serfdom in Russia, also known as Russian serfdom (krepostnoe pravo), was the system binding most Russian peasants to the land until Alexander II abolished it in 1861.
Serfoji I
Serfoji I (सरफोजी), also written Sarabhoji I, was a Maratha ruler of Thanjavur who reigned from 1712 to 1728, won the Marava war, and created the Sivaganga zamindari.
Serfoji II
Serfoji II (सरफोजी द्वितीय) was Raja of Thanjavur in South India from 1798 to 1832, ceding administration to the British and fostering the Tanjore Renaissance.
Serg Bell (Сергей Михайлович Белоусов)
Serg Bell, born Sergey Belousov in Leningrad in 1971, is a Soviet-born, Singapore-based serial entrepreneur best known for founding the cyber protection company Acronis, along with Parallels, Acumatica, and Runa Capital.
SerGa
SerGa (СерьГа) is a Russian rock group founded in Moscow in 1994 by Sergei Galanin, formerly of Brigada S, known for the song «А что нам надо?» and about 17 studio albums.