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Sewadjtu
Sewadjtu, fully Sankhenre Sewadjtu, was a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, the 29th ruler of his dynasty per the Turin King List, reigning about 1675–1672 BC.
Sewage
Sewage, also known as municipal or domestic wastewater, is the spent water supply of a community, roughly 99% water, collected by sewerage systems and treated before discharge.
Sewage pump
A sewage pump is a pump that moves raw wastewater containing solids, rags, and grit from lower to higher elevation, typically from a wet well into a pressurized force main.
Sewage sludge
Sewage sludge is the semi-solid residue of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, containing organic matter, nutrients, and microorganisms; treated sludge applied to land is called biosolids.
Sewage sludge treatment
Sewage sludge treatment, also called sludge treatment, is the set of processes that reduce volume, destroy pathogens, and prepare sewage sludge for land application, landfilling, or incineration.
Sewage treatment
Sewage treatment, also known as wastewater treatment, removes pollutants from wastewater from homes and businesses before release into local waterways, protecting public health and clean water.
Sewall Wright
Sewall Wright was an American geneticist who laid the mathematical foundations of population genetics and is credited with the inbreeding coefficient, F-statistics, and the shifting balance theory of evolution.
Sewall Wright Award
Sewall Wright Award: annual American Society of Naturalists prize (1991–2021) honoring a senior active investigator promoting conceptual unification of the biological sciences; renamed the ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in 2022.
Sewamono
Sewamono (世話物) is a category of kabuki and jōruri puppet plays that depicts the daily lives of Edo-period commoners, in contrast to the historical jidaimono genre.
Sewanee: The University of the South
Sewanee: The University of the South, also called Sewanee, is a private Episcopal liberal arts university and seminary on a 13,000-acre Domain in Tennessee, opened in 1868.
Seward Highway
The Seward Highway is a 127-mile highway in south-central Alaska running from Anchorage south to Seward on Resurrection Bay, completed in 1951 and holding the federal All-American Road designation.
Seward Mountains
Seward Mountains: a mountain group rising to about 1,350 m southeast of the Buttress Nunataks, George VI Sound, Palmer Land, Antarctica; surveyed by the BGLE in 1936 and named for palaeobotanist Sir Albert Charles Seward.
Seward Peninsula
Seward Peninsula: large peninsula of northwestern Alaska jutting toward Russia across the Bering Strait; site of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, the Nome gold rush of 1898-1910, and continuous permafrost tundra.
Seward, Alaska
Seward, Alaska: home-rule city (incorporated 1912, founded 1903) at the head of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula; Alaska's ice-free rail-connected deep-water port, devastated by the 1964 M9.2 earthquake, now a cruise and Coast Guard port.
Sewell Mining Town
Sewell Mining Town (Campamento Sewell, Ciudad de las Escaleras) is an abandoned Chilean copper company town on Cerro Negro in the Andes, built from 1905 by Braden Copper for El Teniente, peaking at 15,000 residents and inscribed by UNESCO in 2006.
Sewer and drainage tunnels
Sewer and drainage tunnels are underground civil-engineering tunnels built to convey, store, or transfer sewage and stormwater, ranging from Bazalgette's London sewers of the 1860s to the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
Sewer Peak
Sewer Peak is a reef surf break at the top of Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz County, California, inside Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. A powerful left-right reef favoring SW/W swells and low tide, it is the most competitive Pleasure Point section, best October through May for intermediate and advanced surfers.
Sewer system failures and overflows
Sewer system failures and overflows occur when wastewater networks fail to convey sewage to treatment, releasing untreated waste through combined and sanitary sewer overflows, backups, or collapses.
Sewerage
Sewerage, also called a sewage system, is the entire infrastructure that collects, treats, and disposes of wastewater, as distinct from the individual sewers that make it up.
Seweweekspoortpiek
Seweweekspoortpiek (Seven Weeks Defile Peak) is a 2,325 m summit in the Klein Swartberg, Western Cape, South Africa; the province's highest point and a Cape Fold Belt ultra with 1,545 m prominence.
Sewing
Sewing: the craft of joining fabric with needle and thread, by hand or machine. Covers stitches, lockstitch machines, tools, history from 45,000-year-old eyed needles to Howe and Singer, and prices.
Sewing Circle (Hollywood)
The Sewing Circle was the informal, allusive name for Hollywood actresses thought to be lesbian or bisexual, roughly the 1910s to 1950s; traced to Alla Nazimova or Marlene Dietrich, popularized by Axel Madsen's 1995 book, with Garbo, Dietrich, and Bankhead named.
Sewing guilds
Sewing guilds are formal organizations of needleworkers regulating training, quality standards, pricing, and membership, with medieval origins and modern descendants like the American Sewing Guild, founded in 1978.
Sewing machine
Sewing machine: a machine that stitches fabric with thread using a needle and lockstitch mechanism. Also known as the lockstitch sewing machine; patented by Elias Howe in 1846, commercialized by Singer from 1851, and governed by household safety standards such as IEC 60335-2-28.
Sewing machine needle
Sewing machine needle: the steel needle carrying upper thread through fabric to form machine stitches. Key parts are shank, groove, eye, and scarf; household standard is system 130/705 H, sized in Nm blade diameter.
Sewing needle
Sewing needle: hand or machine implement with a shaft, point, and eye for thread. Bone eyed needles date to the late Pleistocene; modern needles use the 130/705 H system, sized by blade diameter.
Sewing terminology
Sewing terminology: the vocabulary of stitches, seams, fabric grain, pattern instructions, and finishes in sewing and quilting, codified by ASTM D5646/D4965, Bureau of Standards circular 283, and pattern-company glossaries.
Sex (2024 film)
Sex (2024) is a Norwegian drama by Dag Johan Haugerud, first of the Sex Dreams Love trilogy, about two married chimney sweeps questioning sexuality and gender; it won the Nordic Council Film Prize 2024 and three Berlinale awards.
Sex (book)
Sex (book) refers to Sex, the Image Comics comic book series by Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski (2013-2016), about retired superhero Simon Cooke in Saturn City; six collected volumes, mature readers rating, distinct from Sex Criminals.
Sex (disambiguation)
Sex (disambiguation): the word sex covers biological classification by gamete type (male/female, anisogamy), sexual activity and health, legal or certificated sex, and older usage overlapping gender; definitions remain scientifically contested, with intersex variations (DSD) complicating a strict binary.