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Shaft's Big Score!
Shaft's Big Score! is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime action sequel directed by Gordon Parks, written by Ernest Tidyman, and starring Richard Roundtree as private eye John Shaft.
Shagamu
Shagamu (Sagamu) is a town and LGA in Ogun State, Nigeria, founded in 1872 when thirteen Remo Yoruba townlets federated; it is a kola-nut trade and industrial hub hosting Lafarge and Nestle, seat of the Akarigbo.
Shagarakti-Shuriash
Shagarakti-Shuriash (Šagarakti-Šuriaš) was the twenty-seventh Kassite king of Babylon, reigning c. 1245–1233 BC on the middle chronology, a generation before the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I captured his successor, Kaštiliašu IV.
Shaggy (musician)
Shaggy, born Orville Richard Burrell (1968, Kingston, Jamaica), is a Jamaican-American dancehall/reggae singer, US Marine veteran, and Grammy winner known for Boombastic, It Wasn't Me, Hot Shot, and his Sting collaborations.
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! is a 2006-2008 Warner Bros. Animation series on Kids' WB in which Shaggy inherits Uncle Albert's fortune and nanotech Scooby Snacks while fleeing Dr. Phibes, with Scott Menville as Shaggy.
Shaggy 2 Dope
Shaggy 2 Dope, born Joseph William Utsler in 1974 in Wayne, Michigan, is the rapper, wrestler, and Psychopathic Records co-owner of horrorcore duo Insane Clown Posse with Violent J, with solo albums F.T.F.O. and F.T.F.O.M.F.
Shaggy defense
Shaggy defense: informal legal term for categorical denial ("it wasn't me") despite overwhelming evidence, from Shaggy's 2000 song; coined by Slate's Josh Levin for R. Kelly's 2008 child-pornography trial defense.
Shaggy dog story
A shaggy dog story is a long, drawn-out joke that relies on an absurd or anticlimactic punchline, a form that first appeared in print in the 1930s.
Shaggy Rogers
Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, Scooby-Doo's cowardly, food-loving best friend in Mystery Inc., debuted September 13, 1969; voiced originally by Casey Kasem, later Matthew Lillard, with the catchphrase "Zoinks!"
Shaghab
Shaghab (شغب), known as al-Sayyida, was a Byzantine slave concubine of Caliph al-Mu'tadid and mother of Caliph al-Muqtadir, controlling the caliphate from Baghdad during his 908–932 reign.
Shagshag
Shagshag, also known as Šagšag or Sasa, was the wife of Urukagina, last ruler of Lagash, who headed a household of about 1,000 people at Girsu.
Shah (game)
Shah, also spelled shax or shaḥ, is the traditional Somali mill (alignment) board game, called jare in central and southern Somalia; twelve pieces per player on the 24-point Morris board, with jare mills capturing only after placement.
shah (site)
Shah Bet (شاه بت), at shah.bet, is a Persian-language online casino and sports betting site with live dealer blackjack, roulette, and baccarat, a demo mode, mirror domains, an app, and a ScamAdviser "Very Likely Safe" rating.
Shah (شاه)
Shah (شاه), Persian for "king," the title of Iran's monarchs from Sasanian shahanshah through Safavid, Qajar, and Pahlavi rulers until the 1979 revolution abolished the monarchy; full form padshah, "lord king."
Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi
Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi (شاہ عبد العزیز دہلوی) was an Indian Muslim scholar, son of Shah Waliullah, known for his fatwa declaring British-ruled India dar al-harb.
Shah Abdul Latif Award
Shah Abdul Latif Award is the shared name of two Pakistani honors honoring the 18th-century Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai: a national literary award and a Sindh government award.
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (c. 1689 – 1752) was a Sindhi Sufi poet whose collected verse, the Shah Jo Risalo, is the foundational classic of Sindhi literature.
Shah Alam
Shah Alam is the capital city of Selangor, Malaysia, in the Klang Valley between Kuala Lumpur and Port Klang. Formerly Sungai Renggam Plantation, it opened in 1963, became state capital in 1978, and gained city status in 2000.
Shah Alam II (علی گوہر)
Shah Alam II (علی گوہر, Ali Gohar, 1728–1806), Mughal emperor 1759–1806; defeated at Buxar 1764, granted the Diwani by the Treaty of Allahabad 1765, blinded by Ghulam Qadir in 1788, and under British protection from 1803.
Shah Begum (मनभावती बाई) (wife of Jahangir)
Shah Begum, also known as Man Bai or Manbhawati Bai, was a Kachhwaha Rajput princess, daughter of Raja Bhagwan Das, and the first wife of the future emperor Jahangir.
Shah Deniz gas field
Shah Deniz (Şah Deniz) is a giant gas and condensate field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, discovered in 1999, about 70 km southeast of Baku.
Shah Diamond
The Shah Diamond is an 88.7-carat yellowish-brown Indian diamond bearing three Persian inscriptions of its owners, presented to Tsar Nicholas I in 1829 and now held in the Kremlin's Diamond Fund in Moscow.
Shah dynasty (शाह वंश)
Shah dynasty (शाह वंश), also House of Gorkha: royal lineage ruling Nepal 1768–2008, founded in Gorkha by Dravya Shah in 1559; Prithvi Narayan Shah unified Nepal in 1768; monarchy abolished 28 May 2008 under Gyanendra.
Shah Ebrahim
Shah Ebrahim is a British clinical epidemiologist who studies heart disease and stroke, founded the British Women's Heart & Health Study, and co-edited the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Shah Faesal (شاہ فیصل)
Shah Faesal (شاہ فیصل), born 1983, is a 2010-batch IAS officer, first Kashmiri UPSC topper, who resigned in 2019, founded the JKPM, was detained under the PSA, and was reinstated in 2022, now Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Culture.
Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi
Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (شاہ غلام علی دہلوی) was a Naqshbandi Sufi master of Delhi who died in 1824, regarded as a leading Indian shaykh of his century.
Shah Hussain
Shah Hussain, also written Shah Husain or Madho Lal Hussain, was a Punjabi Sufi poet and saint of Lahore who lived from 1538 to 1599 under Akbar.
Shah Inayat Qadiri
Shah Inayat Qadiri (1643–1728), also called Enayat Shah, was a Sufi saint of the Qadiri-Shattari order in Lahore and the spiritual teacher of Bulleh Shah.
Shah Ismail Shahid
Shah Ismail Shahid (شاہ اسماعیل شہید), born Muhammad Isma'il, was an Indian Muslim reformer and grandson of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, killed at Balakot in 1831.
Shah Jahan (شاهجهان)
Shah Jahan (شاهجهان, King of the World), born Khurram, fifth Mughal emperor (r. 1628–1658), builder of the Taj Mahal for Mumtaz Mahal, mover of the capital to Shahjahanabad, deposed in the war of succession.