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Shaunae Miller Uibo
Shaunae Miller-Uibo, born 1994 in Nassau, is a Bahamian sprinter, two-time Olympic 400m champion (Rio 2016 dive finish, Tokyo 2020) and 2022 world champion, wife of decathlete Maicel Uibo.
Shaunaka
Shaunaka (शौनक) is a traditional Vedic sage of ancient India, head of the hermitage at Naimisharanya, to whom the Shaunaka recension of the Atharvaveda is attributed.
Shaunmusiq
Shaunmusiq, also billed with Ftears as ShaunMusiQ & Ftears, is a South African amapiano and Bacardi producer-DJ duo from Pretoria known for the 2023 double-platinum hit "Bhebha".
Shaurya (शौर्य)
Shaurya (शौर्य) is a 2008 Hindi courtroom drama directed by Samar Khan, starring Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, and Javed Jaffrey, adapted from A Few Good Men and set in an Indian Army court martial.
Shaurya (शौर्य) (missile)
Shaurya (शौर्य) is an Indian canister-launched, nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile developed by DRDO, flying at Mach 6 to 7, with the advanced 2020 version ranging up to 1,800 km.
Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani (शौर्य और अनोखी की कहानी)
Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani (शौर्य और अनोखी की कहानी), a StarPlus Hindi drama, aired 21 December 2020 to 24 July 2021 in 186 episodes, starring Karanvir Sharma and Debattama Saha as a chauvinist professor and ambitious student.
Shaurya Doval
Shaurya Doval, son of NSA Ajit Doval, is an Indian investment banker (GE Capital, Zeus Capital, Greater Pacific Capital) and founding director of the New Delhi think tank India Foundation, co-created with Ram Madhav.
Shaushgamuwa
Shaushgamuwa, also spelled Saušgamuwa, was king of Amurru, a Hittite vassal kingdom in Syria, in the late 13th century BC under the Hittite great king Tudhaliya IV.
Shaushtatar
Šauštatar, also written Sauštatar, was a king of Mitanni who flourished in the fifteenth century BC and is remembered for reducing Assyria and carrying the doors of Assur's temple to Waššukanni.
Shavarsh Karapetyan
Shavarsh Karapetyan (Շավարշ Կարապետյան), born 1953, Soviet Armenian finswimmer, 17-time world champion, who saved 20 people from a trolleybus sunk in Lake Yerevan in 1976, ending his career.
Shavasana (शवासन)
Shavasana (शवासन, śavāsana), or Corpse Pose, also called Mrtasana, is yoga's supine relaxation posture held 3–10 minutes at the end of practice; documented in 13th-century haṭhayoga texts and shown to lower heart rate and blood pressure.
Shave and a Haircut
Shave and a Haircut ("two bits") is a seven-note American musical couplet, earliest documented in Charles Hale's 1899 At a Darktown Cakewalk, used as a comic cadence, call-and-response ending, and door-knock recognition signal.
Shave biopsy
A shave biopsy is a skin biopsy technique that slices a thin layer off a lesion with a blade, the most commonly used skin biopsy method.
Shaven women
Shaven women (les femmes tondues): women punished by forced head shaving for adultery, sexual offenses, or wartime collaboration, from biblical and medieval law through nineteenth-century Iran to Liberation-era France and Spain.
Shavian alphabet
Shavian (Shaw's alphabet, Proposed British Alphabet): a 48-letter phonemic alphabet for English designed by Kingsley Read under George Bernard Shaw's will, published in the 1962 Androcles and the Lion, encoded in Unicode U+10450–1047F.
Shaving
Shaving: cutting body hair at the skin surface with a razor. Covers technique, the regrowth myth, pseudofolliculitis barbae, and razor history from Egyptian and Bronze Age razors to Gillette's safety razor and electric shavers.
Shavit
Shavit (שביט, "comet") is an Israeli three-stage solid-propellant launch vehicle built by Israel Aerospace Industries, used since 1988 to launch Ofeq reconnaissance satellites from Palmachim.
Shavit 2 (שביט 2)
Shavit 2 (שביט 2), Hebrew for Comet 2, is an Israeli three-stage solid-fuel rocket built by Israel Aerospace Industries, introduced in 2007 to launch Ofeq reconnaissance satellites from Palmachim Airbase.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan since December 2016 and prime minister from 2003; led economic liberalization after Karimov's death, reelected 2021 and 2023 after a 2023 referendum reset term limits.
Shavkat Rakhmonov
Shavkat Rakhmonov (Шавкат Рахмонов), "Nomad", Kazakh UFC welterweight born 1994, undefeated at 19-0 with 8 KO and 10 submission wins; beat Ian Machado Garry at UFC 310, sidelined since December 2024 by knee surgery.
Shavo Odadjian
Shavo Odadjian (Armenian: Շավո Օդաջյան), born Shavarsh Odadjian in Yerevan in 1974, is an Armenian-American bassist and co-founder of the Grammy-winning band System of a Down.
Shavon Revel
Shavon Revel Jr. (born 2002) is a Dallas Cowboys cornerback from East Carolina, drafted 76th overall in 2025 after a September 2024 torn ACL; 2023 Second-Team All-AAC with 12 pass breakups.
Shavukaru (షావుకారు)
Shavukaru (షావుకారు) is a 1950 Telugu drama directed by L. V. Prasad, the debut production of Vijaya Studios, starring N. T. Rama Rao in his first hero role and Sowcar Janaki in her film debut; released 7 April 1950.
Shavuot (שָׁבֻעוֹת)
Shavuot, also called the Feast of Weeks, is a Jewish festival on 6 Sivan, seven weeks after Passover, marking the wheat harvest and the giving of the Torah.
Shaw Brothers Studio
Shaw Brothers Studio (邵氏兄弟), Hong Kong film company founded 1958 by Run Run Shaw; built Clearwater Bay's Movietown, largest private studio worldwide, produced over 800 films and martial-arts classics like King Boxer (1972) before declining against Golden Harvest by 1985.
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications Inc., also known as Shaw Cable, was a Canadian telecommunications and broadcasting company founded by JR Shaw in 1966 and headquartered in Calgary; Rogers acquired it in 2023.
Shaw House
Shaw House, Newbury: Grade I listed Elizabethan mansion built 1581 for Thomas Dolman, a Royalist stronghold in the 1644 Second Battle of Newbury, later a school, restored and reopened to the public in 2006.
Shaw Oil and Gas Field
Shaw is an oil and gas field in the UK Central North Sea, discovered in 2009 and producing oil since May 2017, operated by Repsol Sinopec.
Shaw Prize in Astronomy
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy is an annual US$1.2 million research prize established in 2002 by Run Run Shaw in Hong Kong, first presented in 2004 for significant astronomical discoveries.
Shawar
Shawar (شاور) was the vizier of Fatimid Egypt, restored by Nur al-Din's army in 1164 and executed in Cairo in 1169 after Shirkuh's final victory.