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Shalom Harlow
Shalom Harlow (born 1973, Oshawa, Ontario) is a Canadian model and actress, scouted at a Cure concert, VH-1 Model of the Year 1995, famous for McQueen's SS1999 robot spray-paint finale, later an actress and 2018 comeback.
Shalom Nagar (שלום נגר)
Shalom Nagar (שלום נגר), Yemenite-born Israeli prison guard who hanged Adolf Eichmann on June 1, 1962, Israel's only judicial execution; identity kept secret for about thirty years before his 2004 interview; died 2024.
Shalva Dadiani
Shalva Dadiani (1874–1959) was a Georgian playwright, novelist, actor, and translator, one of the organizers of modern Georgian drama; his classic comedy Gushindelni premiered in 1917.
Shalwar kameez
Shalwar kameez (salwar kameez), the national dress of Pakistan: loose drawstring trousers plus a long tunic, often with a dupatta, worn by men and women across South Asia with Persian and Mughal roots and named variants like Patiala and Peshawari.
Shalya
Shalya is the king of Madra in the Mahabharata. He fought for the Kauravas after being tricked, serving as Karna's charioteer before being slain by Yudhishthira.
Sham (でっちあげ)
Sham is a 2025 Japanese courtroom drama directed by Takashi Miike, based on a real 2003 Fukuoka case in which a teacher accused of abusing a student was largely exonerated.
Sham 69
Sham 69, English punk band formed 1975 in Hersham, Surrey by Jimmy Pursey; five consecutive UK top 20 singles including "If the Kids Are United" and "Hurry Up Harry"; broke up 1980 amid gig violence; major influence on Oi! and street punk.
Sham election
Sham election: a predetermined or manipulated vote held by authoritarian regimes to legitimize rule, gather information, and control elites; distinct from competitive authoritarian elections, with examples in North Korea, Belarus, Venezuela, Myanmar, and Russia.
Sham feeding
Sham feeding is a diagnostic procedure in which a person chews appetizing food and spits it out without swallowing, testing whether the vagus nerves are intact.
Sham Mailankody
Sham Mailankody is an Indian-trained medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York who leads clinical trials of CAR T-cell therapies for multiple myeloma.
Sham marriage
Sham marriage, or marriage of convenience, is a legally valid marriage lacking genuine relationship, typically for immigration advantage. UK law defines it statutorily; enforcement, burden of proof, and criticism of the genuine/sham binary distinguish the concept.
Sham Shui Po
Sham Shui Po (深水埗) is a dense, historic district in northwestern Kowloon, Hong Kong, once the center of the textile industry, home to Shek Kip Mei Estate, fabric and electronics markets, and about 431,000 residents.
Sham Singh Attariwala
Sham Singh Attariwala (ਸ਼ਾਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਅਟਾਰੀਵਾਲਾ) was a general of the Sikh army who served Maharaja Ranjit Singh and fell fighting the British at Sobraon in 1846.
Shama Deshpande
Shama Deshpande, born Shama Gosavi, is an Indian actress, daughter of Marathi film star Raja Gosavi, whose career spans Hindi films like Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000) and television since 1977.
Shama Haider
Shama Haider, born in Pakistan in 1948, is a Democratic New Jersey assemblywoman from the 37th district and one of the first two Muslim women elected to the state legislature.
Shama Obaed
Shama Obaed Islam (শামা ওবায়েদ ইসলাম), born 1973, is a BNP politician, State Minister for Foreign Affairs, and MP for Faridpur-2 in Bangladesh's 13th Parliament, daughter of former BNP secretary general K M Obaidur Rahman.
Shama Sikander (शमा सिकंदर)
Shama Sikander (शमा सिकंदर), born 1981 in Makrana, Rajasthan, is an Indian actress and producer famous as Pooja Mehta in Yeh Meri Life Hai (2003–2005), later in Sexaholic, Maaya, and Bypass Road; married James Milliron in 2022.
Shamail Nadwi
Shamail Nadwi, also known as Mufti Shamail Nadwi, is an Indian Islamic scholar, mufti, and author who founded the Markaz al-Wahyain teaching platform and debated Javed Akhtar in 2025.
Shamal
The Shamal, Arabic for "north," is a hot, dry, dusty northwesterly wind over Iraq, Kuwait, and the Persian Gulf, lasting one to five days and rarely exceeding 30 mph.
Shaman King (シャーマンキング)
Shaman King (シャーマンキング) is Hiroyuki Takei's shonen manga about shaman Yoh Asakura competing in the once-every-500-years Shaman Fight; serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1998-2004, completed in Kodansha's 35-volume edition, adapted to anime in 2001 and 2021.
Shaman King (シャーマンキング) (2021 TV series)
Shaman King (シャーマンキング), 2021 TV anime: Bridge's 52-episode complete retelling of Hiroyuki Takei's manga, premiered April 1, 2021 on TV Tokyo, streamed on Netflix; praised for fidelity and music, criticized for rushed pacing and static fights.
Shamanism
Shamanism, also known as Sjaman, is a contested category of religious practice in which a ritual specialist communicates with spirits, often to heal or divine.
Shamanism in Goryeo
Shamanism in Goryeo (고려 무속) was the indigenous Korean shamanic belief and ritual of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), practiced alongside Buddhism and Confucianism, with shamans leading state rites such as the Palgwanhoe.
Shamar Joseph
Shamar Joseph (born 1999) is a West Indian cricketer, a right-arm fast bowler famous for bowling the West Indies to a Test win in Australia in 2024.
Shamash
Shamash (Akkadian Šamaš; Sumerian Utu), the Mesopotamian sun god of justice, truth, and divination, worshipped at Sippar and Larsa, consulted by kings through extispicy from ca. 2600 BCE onward.
Shamash Gate
The Shamash Gate is a monumental city gate of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital near modern Mosul, Iraq, built under Sennacherib and destroyed at the city's fall in 612 BC.
Shamash Patera
Shamash Patera, not Shamshu Patera, is a 112.98 km volcanic patera on Jupiter's moon Io at 35.5 degrees south, 152.5 degrees west, IAU-named in 1979 for the Assyro-Babylonian sun god and an observed hot spot.
Shamash-hazir
Shamash-hazir (Šamaš-ḫāzir), son of Kimannum, was the manager of Hammurabi's royal domain at Larsa in the 18th century BC, known from an archive of 313 tablets.
Shamash-ibni
Shamash-ibni (Šamaš-ibnī) was the Chaldean sheikh, or tribal leader, of Bit-Dakkuri in southern Babylonia, imprisoned and replaced by the Assyrians in 678 BC under Esarhaddon.
Shamash-mudammiq
Shamash-mudammiq, whose name means "Shamash shows favor," was the fourth Babylonian king of the Dynasty of E, overthrown by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari II around 900 BC.