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Saiga-12 (Сайга-12)
The Saiga-12 (Сайга-12) is a Russian 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun built on the Kalashnikov rifle action, developed at Izhmash in Izhevsk under Gennady Nikonov and produced from 1997.
Saigō Takamori (西郷 隆盛)
Saigō Takamori (西郷隆盛, 1828–1877), Kagoshima samurai and Meiji Restoration leader who resigned in the 1873 Korea debate and died leading the Satsuma Rebellion at Shiroyama; his seppuku legend and Ueno statue made him Japan's 'last samurai' myth.
Saigō Tsugumichi
Saigō Tsugumichi (西郷従道) was a Japanese naval officer and statesman of the Meiji period, younger brother of Saigō Takamori, who led the 1874 Taiwan expedition.
Saigon (ward)
Saigon ward is a commune-level administrative unit in central Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, created in 2025 to replace parts of the former District 1.
Saigon Execution
Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Eddie Adams showing South Vietnamese General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon; it won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize.
Saigyō (西行)
Saigyō (西行), 1118-1190, born Satō Norikiyo, Japanese late-Heian poet-monk and tanka master. Left Toba's hokumen guard at 23 to wander; famed for the Sankashū anthology and cherry-blossom poems; influenced Bashō and the Shinkokinshū tradition.
Saih Nihayda-Duqm Gas Pipeline
The Saih Nihayda-Duqm Gas Pipeline (خط غاز سيح نهيدة -الدقم) is a 221 km natural gas pipeline in Oman serving the Duqm Special Economic Zone, completed in 2021.
Saih Rawl–Sur Gas Pipeline
The Saih Rawl–Sur Gas Pipeline is a 360-kilometer, 48-inch natural gas pipeline in Oman that carries feed gas from Saih Rawl to the Oman LNG plant near Sur.
Saihan Wula Biosphere Reserve
Saihan Wula (赛罕乌拉) Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2001 in Balin Right Banner, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China; 100,446 ha of forest-grassland transition, glacial landforms, and Liao Dynasty heritage.
Saijiki
Saijiki (歳時記), also called kiyose, is a Japanese reference book collecting haiku season words (kigo) by season with commentary and example verses; it divides the year into spring, summer, autumn, winter, and New Year.
Saijo power station
Saijo power station (西条発電所) is a coal-fired thermal power station in Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, owned by Shikoku Electric Power with 750 MW across two units.
Saikano (最終兵器彼女)
Saikano (最終兵器彼女, Saishū Heiki Kanojo; She, the Ultimate Weapon) is Shin Takahashi's seinen war-romance manga serialized in Big Comic Spirits, 7 volumes, about high-schooler Chise weaponized by the JSDF, adapted as a 2002 GONZO anime and 2006 live-action film.
Saiko
Saiko is a Chilean pop-rock band formed in Santiago in 1999 by former La Ley members, fronted by vocalist Denisse Malebrán and known for "Cuando Miro en Tus Ojos".
Sail
A sail is a fabric or rigid surface arranged to catch wind and propel a vessel, the dominant means of marine propulsion until steam and diesel engines displaced it.
Sail (song)
Sail (AWOLNATION song), 2010/2011 Aaron Bruno track from Back from Earth and Megalithic Symphony; 79 weeks on the Hot 100, peaked No. 17, six-times platinum, later Diamond.
Sail Canada
Sail Canada (Voile Canada), formerly the Canadian Yachting Association (founded 1931, renamed 2012), is Canada's national governing body for sailing, based in Kingston, Ontario, running CANSail training, instructor certification, and the Canadian Sailing Team.
Sail-sur-Couzan
Sail-sur-Couzan (officially Sail-sous-Couzan), Loire, France: Forez commune under the ruined fortress of Couzan, with the Magdalenian Grotte des Fées, a Cluniac priory, and a 19th-century thermal and textile-industrial past.
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay (শৈলজানন্দ মুখোপাধ্যায়), 1901–1976, was a Bengali novelist, short-story writer, and film director, a friend of Kazi Nazrul Islam whose Kaila Kuthi stories pioneered fiction about Bengal's coal miners.
Sailboat
A sailboat, or sailing boat, is a watercraft propelled by sails, ranging from small dinghies to ocean-going tall ships, used for commerce, cruising, and racing.
Sailbuoy
The Sailbuoy is a wind-driven unmanned surface vehicle made by Offshore Sensing AS in Norway for autonomous oceanographic data collection; its SB Met was the first unmanned vessel to sail across the Atlantic.
Saildrone
Saildrone is a family of wind- and solar-powered robotic sailboats built by Saildrone, Inc. of Alameda, California, used for ocean science, hurricane research, and maritime security.
Sailendra dynasty
The Sailendra dynasty, meaning "lord of the mountain," was a royal line that ruled Central Java in the eighth and ninth centuries, patronized Mahayana Buddhism, and commissioned Borobudur.
Sailendra–Sanjaya rivalry
The Sailendra–Sanjaya rivalry (Persaingan Wangsa Sailendra dan Sanjaya) was a dynastic struggle in central Java during the 8th and 9th centuries between the Buddhist Sailendra house and the Hindu house of King Sanjaya.
Sailfin molly
Sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna, formerly Mollienesia latipinna), a livebearing poeciliid fish native from North Carolina to Mexico, tolerant of freshwater to 80 PSU salinity; male's sail-like dorsal fin, broods of 10-140 young, popular black molly aquarium fish, invasive in California and Hawaii.
Sailfish
Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus), a circumtropical billfish with a sail-like dorsal fin, once split into Atlantic and Indo-Pacific species. Real top speed about 8.3 m/s, not 35 m/s; two populations, IUCN vulnerable.
Sailfish OS
Sailfish OS, also known as Jolla OS, is a Linux-based mobile operating system developed by Finnish company Jolla, a European alternative to Android and iOS.
Sailing
Sailing is the competitive sport of racing boats powered only by wind, governed worldwide by World Sailing and contested at every modern Olympic Games since 1900.
Sailing (Christopher Cross song)
Sailing, Christopher Cross's soft rock ballad from his 1979 debut album and June 1980 single, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 30, 1980, and won Record and Song of the Year at the 1981 Grammys, part of the first Big Four sweep; it is a defining yacht rock song about art, not sailing.
Sailing at the 2026 Asian Games
Sailing at the 2026 Asian Games: 14 sailing events at Kaiyoh Yacht Harbour, Gamagori, Japan, 26 September to 3 October 2026, record 22 nations, ILCA medal races, first LA28 Olympic spots.
Sailing at the 2028 Summer Olympics
Sailing at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28), 16-28 July 2028, ten events across windsurfing, kite, dinghy, skiff, and multihull at Belmont Shore, Long Beach, and the Port of Los Angeles.