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Shalini Passi
Shalini Passi, Delhi-based art collector, artist, and philanthropist; founder of the Shalini Passi Art Foundation and MASH India; Khoj Studios advisory board member, Kochi-Muziris Biennale patron, and star of Netflix's Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives season 3.
Shalita Grant
Shalita Grant (born 1988) is an American Juilliard-trained actress, Tony-nominated for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, known for Sonja Percy on NCIS: New Orleans, Cassidy in Search Party, and Sherry Conrad in You season 3.
Shalivahana (शालिवाहन)
Shalivahana (शालिवाहन), also Śālivāhana or Sāḷīhaṇa, is the legendary Paithan king eponymous with the Shalivahana Shaka era of 78 CE, linked in legend to the Satavahanas and a rivalry with Vikramaditya, though unattested in Southern Indian records.
Shall and will
Shall and will: English modal auxiliaries marking future time and modality. Old English sculan ('owe') and willan ('wish'); traditional first-person shall paradigm now eroded to a will-default system, with shall surviving in formal and legal use.
Shall We Dance
Shall We Dance (1937) is an RKO musical comedy, the seventh Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers pairing and their only film with a George and Ira Gershwin score, famous for the roller-skate "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" number and the Oscar-nominated "They Can't Take That Away from Me."
Shall We Dance? (2004 film)
Shall We Dance? (2004) is a Peter Chelsom romantic comedy-drama starring Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, and Susan Sarandon, remaking Masayuki Suo's 1996 Japanese film; released by Miramax on October 15, 2004, grossing $57.9 million in the US.
Shall We Dance? (Shall we ダンス?) (1996 film)
Shall We Dance? (Shall we ダンス?) is a 1996 Japanese romantic comedy-drama directed by Masayuki Suo, in which a middle-aged salaryman secretly takes up ballroom dancing and reconsiders his life.
Shallipopi
Shallipopi (born Crown Uzama) is a Nigerian singer and rapper from Benin City who broke out in 2023 with "Elon Musk" and calls his style "Afro Pluto".
Shallot
The shallot, also called the French shallot, is a bulb vegetable and variety of onion that grows in cloves, with a mild, sweet flavor favored in French cooking.
Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)
"Shallow" is a 2018 duet by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from the A Star Is Born soundtrack, written with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt; it won the Oscar for Best Original Song and topped the UK Singles Chart.
Shallow foundation
A shallow foundation, often called a spread footing, transfers structural loads to soil or rock near the ground surface, and is the most economical type when surface soils are strong.
Shallow Grave (1994 film)
Shallow Grave (1994) is Danny Boyle's debut British black comedy thriller, written by John Hodge, in which Edinburgh flatmates (Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor) keep a dead boarder's suitcase of cash; it won the 1995 BAFTA for Best British Film.
Shallow Hal
Shallow Hal is a 2001 American romantic comedy directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, in which Jack Black's hypnotized character falls for Gwyneth Paltrow's Rosemary.
Shallow trench isolation
Shallow trench isolation (STI) is a semiconductor fabrication process that etches shallow trenches around transistors, fills them with insulating oxide, and planarizes to electrically separate devices.
Shallow water equations
The shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations after Adhémar Barré de Saint-Venant, are nonlinear partial differential equations describing free-surface flows, applied to floods, tides, and tsunami modeling.
Shallum (king of Israel)
Shallum, son of Jabesh, was king of the northern kingdom of Israel for one month around 752 BC, having murdered King Zechariah before being killed by Menahem.
Shalmali Kholgade
Shalmali Kholgade, Indian singer-songwriter from Mumbai; debut "Pareshaan" in Ishaqzaade (2012) won a Filmfare Award; Bollywood hits "Balam Pichkari," "Baby Ko Bass Pasand Hai"; now an independent artist.
Shalmaneser I
Shalmaneser I (Akkadian Šulmānu-ašarēd I) was king of Assyria in the Middle Assyrian period, reigning 30 years, 1263–1234 BC; his annals record the defeat of Šattuara of Hanigalbat and the burning of 180 cities.
Shalmaneser I's reorganization of Hanigalbat
Shalmaneser I's reorganization of Hanigalbat was the defeat of the last independent Hurrian kingdom by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I and its conversion into Assyrian provinces.
Shalmaneser II
Shalmaneser II (Šulmānu-ašarēd II) was king of Assyria from 1030 to 1019 BC, a poorly documented Middle Assyrian ruler known almost entirely from the Assyrian King List.
Shalmaneser III
Shalmaneser III, also known as Šulmānu-ašarēdu III, was king of Assyria from 858 to 824 BC, whose Black Obelisk depicts the submission of Jehu, king of Israel.
Shalmaneser III's Babylonian campaign
Shalmaneser III's Babylonian campaign was an Assyrian intervention in 851 and 850 BC that aided King Marduk-zākir-šumi of Babylon against his rebellious brother Marduk-bēl-usāti, who was killed.
Shalmaneser III's campaign against Damascus
Shalmaneser III's campaign against Damascus was an Assyrian invasion of Aram-Damascus in 841 BC, in which Shalmaneser defeated Hazael but could not take the city.
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Damascus
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Damascus were Assyrian offensives fought between 853 and 838 BC, first against Hadadezer and then Hazael, ending with Damascus weakened but never conquered.
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Que
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Que, also known as his campaigns in Cilicia, were Assyrian military expeditions against Que, the Cilician plain around Adana, in 858 and 839-831 BC.
Shalmaneser IV
Shalmaneser IV (Šulmānu-ašarēdu IV) was king of Assyria from 783 to 773 BC, son of Adad-nirari III, whose power was checked by the commander-in-chief Shamshi-ilu.
Shalmaneser V
Shalmaneser V (Hebrew שַׁלְמַנְאֶ֫סֶר, Akkadian Šulmānu-ašarēdu) was king of Assyria and Babylon from 727 to 722 BC, the son of Tiglath-pileser III, remembered for the siege of Samaria.
Shalmaneser V's siege of Tyre
Shalmaneser V's siege of Tyre, also called the Assyrian siege of Tyre, was a five-year blockade in which Assyria cut the island city's fresh water rather than storm it.
Shalom (שָׁלוֹם)
Shalom (שָׁלוֹם, cognate with Arabic salām) is the Hebrew word for peace, wholeness, and well-being, from the root sh-l-m; it serves as hello and goodbye, a divine name, and a personal name.
Shalom aleichem (שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם)
Shalom aleichem (שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם), meaning "peace be upon you," is a traditional Jewish greeting and a four-stanza hymn welcoming angels, sung at the start of the Friday-night Shabbat meal.