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Shaista Asif
Shaista Asif is an Emirati businesswoman who co-founded PureHealth, the Abu Dhabi-headquartered healthcare group, in 2006 and has served as its Group Chief Executive Officer since December 2023.
Shaista Khan
Shaista Khan (شائستہ خاں) was a Mughal noble and maternal uncle of Emperor Aurangzeb who led the campaign against Shivaji and governed Bengal from 1664 to 1688.
Shaista Khan's raid on Poona (1663)
Shaista Khan's raid on Poona was a night attack in April 1663 in which Shivaji broke into the Mughal general's quarters, wounded him, killed his son, and escaped.
Shait Tessera
Shait Tessera, a 220 km wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 54S 173.5E, IAU-approved 1997, named for the Egyptian human destiny goddess.
Shaitaan (शैतान) (2024 film)
Shaitaan (शैतान) is a 2024 Hindi supernatural horror film directed by Vikas Bahl. It stars Ajay Devgn and R. Madhavan in a story of supernatural possession.
Shaitan
Shaitan (సైతాన్) is a 2023 Telugu crime thriller web series written and directed by Mahi V Raghav, streaming on Disney+ Hotstar from June 15, 2023. Nine episodes, limited series, set in 1995 Madanapalle amid the Naxal movement, starring Rishi as Baali.
Shaitan (शैतान) (film)
Shaitan (शैतान), 2011 Hindi thriller, Bejoy Nambiar's debut, produced by Anurag Kashyap; five Mumbai friends fake a kidnapping after a hit-and-run; inspired by the Adnan Patrawala case; box office flop.
Shaitan Singh (शैतान सिंह भाटी)
Major Shaitan Singh (शैतान सिंह भाटी), 1924–1962, Indian Army officer of 13 Kumaon who led Charlie Company's last stand at Rezang La, Ladakh, on 18 November 1962 and received a posthumous Param Vir Chakra.
Shaitani Rasmein (शैतानी रस्में)
Shaitani Rasmein (शैतानी रस्में) is an Indian Hindi romantic horror fantasy TV series on Star Bharat from January 2024, adapted from Pratilipi Comics' Devil's Play, starring Naqiyah Haji and Vibhav Roy, about Nikki facing demonic wedding rituals in Bhurangarh.
Shaiva Siddhanta
Shaiva Siddhanta (சைவ சித்தாந்தம்) is the school of South Indian Shaiva philosophy that became the authoritative form of Tamil Shaivism, systematized in the thirteenth century by Meykandar.
Shaiva Siddhanta literature
Shaiva Siddhanta literature is the body of Sanskrit and Tamil scriptures and treatises defining Shaiva Siddhanta, a school rooted in twenty-eight agamas held to be revealed by Shiva.
Shaivism
Shaivism, also called Shaivam, is the family of Hindu traditions venerating Shiva as supreme deity, its earliest organized sect, the Pashupata, dating to about the second century CE.
Shājahānpur
Shahjahanpur (शाहजहांपुर), a district in Rohilkhand division, Uttar Pradesh, India; headquarters Shahjahanpur city, founded 1647 and named for Shah Jahan. Agricultural district of 4,575 sq km, 3,006,538 people (2011), known for the Kakori martyrs and the Shahjahanpur sarod gharana; distinct from Shajapur, Madhya Pradesh.
Shajar al-Durr
Shajar al-Durr (شجر الدر), also written Shajarat al-Durr, was a sultana of Egypt who rose from slavery to the throne in 1250, ending Ayyubid rule and beginning the Mamluk sultanate.
Shajara-i Turk
Shajara-i Turk, also rendered Shajara-yi Turkī, is a 17th-century dynastic history and genealogy of the Turkic peoples by Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur Khan, khan of Khiva.
Shaji Kailas (ഷാജി കൈലാസ്)
Shaji Kailas (ഷാജി കൈലാസ്), Malayalam film director born in Thiruvananthapuram, debut News (1989); known for mass action hits Commissioner, Ekalavyan, Narasimham, Aaraam Thampuran, and his 2022 comeback with Kaduva and Kaapa.
Shaji Kumar
Shaji K. Kumar is an American hematologist-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, specializing in multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis, who received the 2024 Robert A. Kyle Lifetime Achievement Award.
Shajiao C Power Station
Shajiao C Power Station (沙角C电厂) was a 1,980 MW coal-fired power station on the Pearl River estuary in Guangdong, China, which ran from 1996 until it was shut down in December 2025.
Shajing Circuit Chief Military Commission ruins
砂井路总管府故城 (Damiao ancient city), Jin-Yuan walled city in Honggor Sum, Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia; seat of the Yuan Shajing Circuit chief military commission, a Mulan post-road hub; square walls about 565 m per side, sixth-batch national heritage site (2006).
Shaka
Shaka (c. 1787–1828), Shaka Zulu, founder-king of the Zulu kingdom; son of Senzangakhona and Nandi. Built age-regiment (amabutho) military state with iklwa spear and chest-and-horns tactics; assassinated by half-brother Dingane.
Shaka Hislop
Shaka Hislop (Neil Shaka Hislop, born 1969) is a Trinidadian former goalkeeper who played for Newcastle, West Ham, Portsmouth, Reading, and FC Dallas, started T&T's first 2006 World Cup match, and is now an ESPN FC analyst.
Shaka Laka Boom Boom
Shaka Laka Boom Boom (शाका लाका बूम बूम) is an Indian Hindi children's fantasy TV series (2000–2004) about Sanju's magic pencil that brings drawings to life, first on DD National with Vishal Solanki, then remade on Star Plus with Kinshuk Vaidya, written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya.
Shaka sign
The shaka sign, also called hang loose, is Hawaii's thumb-and-pinky gesture of greeting, thanks, and aloha. Attributed to Hamana Kalili, it became Hawaii's official state gesture in 2024, the first in the U.S.
Shaka Smart
Shaka Smart, born 1977, is an American college basketball coach, head coach at Marquette since 2021 and formerly at Texas (2015-21) and VCU (2009-15). Career record 382-203, 2011 VCU Final Four, 2023 AP national coach of the year.
Shaka Triad of Hōryū-ji
The Shaka Triad of Hōryū-ji (釈迦三尊像) is a gilt-bronze Buddhist triad of 623 CE by the sculptor Tori, the main image of Hōryū-ji's Golden Hall.
Shaka Zulu (TV series)
Shaka Zulu is a 1986 South African ten-hour miniseries by Harmony Gold and the SABC, based on Joshua Sinclair's novel, starring Henry Cele as King Shaka; a major syndication hit seen by over 350 million viewers by 1992.
Shakai Taishūtō
Shakai Taishūtō (社会大衆党), translated as the Social Masses Party, was a Japanese proletarian political party formed in 1932 by a merger of two existing parties.
Shakangsham
Shakangsham, also spelled Shahkangshan or Shar Kangsum, is a 6,822 m ultra-prominent peak (1,914 m prominence) in Gêrzê County on the Central Tibetan Plateau, China, with no recorded ascents; a 2005 expedition turned back near 6,000 m after avalanches.
Shakashaka
Shakashaka is a Nikoli logic puzzle from 2008, invented by reader Guten, in which half-cell right triangles are placed so all remaining white areas form rectangles, aligned or 45 degrees; clue numbers 0-4 count adjacent triangles.
Shake It Off
Shake It Off is an uptempo pop song by Taylor Swift, released August 18, 2014 on Big Machine Records as the lead single of 1989, co-written with Max Martin and Shellback, RIAA Diamond certified and Grammy-nominated.