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Sheep farming in New Zealand
Sheep farming in New Zealand is the pastoral raising of sheep for meat and wool. Peaking at 70.3 million in 1982, the national flock now numbers 23–26 million.
Sheep farming in Wales
Sheep farming in Wales (amaethyddiaeth defaid): dominant upland livestock sector, 8.81 million sheep and lambs in 2025, peak 11.8 million in 1999; 66% of farms are LFA cattle and sheep farms; tied historically to the Welsh woollen industry and PGI Welsh Lamb.
Sheep in the Box (箱の中の羊)
Sheep in the Box (箱の中の羊, Hako no Naka no Hitsuji) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2026 Japanese drama, in Competition at Cannes, about a couple (Haruka Ayase, Daigo) welcoming a humanoid replica of their dead son.
Sheep milk
Sheep milk (ewe milk), from Ovis aries, is a high-fat, high-protein dairy milk (about 7.3% fat, 5.9% protein) used almost exclusively for cheese such as manchego and feta; over 80% of world production comes from the Mediterranean and Balkans.
Sheep milk cheese
Sheep milk cheese, including pecorino, feta, Manchego, and Roquefort, is made from ewe milk whose high fat, protein, and solids content yields more cheese per litre than cow or goat milk, centered on the Mediterranean.
Sheep on the Hillside: Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass
"Sheep on the Hillside: Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass" (山坡羊·潼关怀古) is a 1329 sanqu by Chinese poet Zhang Yanghao, famed for the couplet "In rise, the people suffer; in fall, the people suffer."
Sheep pox and goat pox
Sheep pox and goat pox (SGP) are contagious viral diseases of sheep and goats caused by sheeppox virus and goatpox virus, genus Capripoxvirus. Not zoonotic; endemic in Africa, Middle East, Asia; EU Category A disease with 2024–2025 outbreaks in Greece and Bulgaria.
Sheep shearing
Sheep shearing, the annual removal of wool fleece using blade or machine shears; mechanized by the Wolseley company from 1887; Jack Howe's 1892 hand-shearing record of 321 sheep in a day stood until 1950; governed by welfare codes on timing and cold stress.
Sheep–goat hybrid
Sheep–goat hybrid, or geep, the rare offspring of sheep (2n=54) and goats (2n=60), with 57 chromosomes; embryos usually die by 6–8 weeks, documented live cases in Botswana, New Zealand, Germany, Namibia.
Sheepdog (film)
Sheepdog is a 2024 American drama written, directed by, and starring Steven Grayhm as veteran Calvin Cole, court-ordered into trauma therapy; with Virginia Madsen and Vondie Curtis-Hall, released theatrically January 16, 2026, focusing on post-traumatic growth.
Sheepeater Indian War
The Sheepeater Indian War of 1879 was a short US Army campaign in central Idaho against the Tukudika, a Shoshone band, Idaho's last Indian war.
Sheepshead (card game)
Sheepshead, the American form of German Schafkopf, is a five-player trick-taking card game with a 32-card deck, queens-jacks-diamonds trump, 120 card points, and 61 needed to win; it is Wisconsin's tavern card game, official in Milwaukee since 1983.
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
Sheepshead Bay is a waterfront neighborhood on the Atlantic coast in southern Brooklyn, New York City, named for the sheepshead fish once abundant in its waters.
Sheer Heart Attack
Sheer Heart Attack is a 1974 studio album by Queen. It was the band's third record and its first to reach the US Top 20.
Sheerness power station
Sheerness power station is a two-unit natural-gas-fired power station near Hanna, Alberta, with a capacity of 800 MW, converted from coal between 2020 and 2021.
Sheet bend
The sheet bend, also known as the weaver's knot, is a knot for joining two ropes of different diameters, valued for tying quickly and untying easily.
Sheet metal
Sheet metal is metal formed into thin, flat pieces, thicker than foil and thinner than plate, typically 0.005 to 0.249 inches, cut and bent into everyday products.
Sheet molding compound
Sheet molding compound (SMC) is a ready-to-mold composite sheet of chopped glass fibers in a thermosetting resin, cut into layers and compression molded into finished parts. Used in automotive body panels since the early 1970s.
Sheet music
Sheet music: notated music printed or handwritten on unbound sheets or bound volumes, from Petrucci's 1501 Venice prints through movable type, engraving, lithography, offset printing, and today's digital score libraries and tablet readers.
Sheet pile
A sheet pile is a long structural section, usually steel, with interlocking edges driven into the ground to form continuous walls that resist earth pressure and water.
Sheet resistance
Sheet resistance, also called surface resistivity or sheet resistivity, is the resistance of a thin uniform film across a square of any size, quoted in ohms per square.
Sheetal Thakur
Sheetal Thakur (शीतल ठाकुर), also Sheetal Thakur Massey, born 1991 in Dharamshala, is an Indian actress known for Bambukat (2016) and Hindi streaming titles like Broken But Beautiful, and the wife of actor Vikrant Massey.
Sheetz
Sheetz, Inc. is a family-owned American chain of convenience stores and fuel stations founded by Bob Sheetz in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1952, known for its made-to-order food.
Sheetz–Wawa rivalry
The Sheetz–Wawa rivalry is the competition between family-owned Pennsylvania convenience store chains Sheetz, of Altoona, and Wawa, of Delaware County, whose once-separate territories increasingly overlap in central Pennsylvania and beyond.
Shefali Jariwala
Shefali Jariwala was an Indian actress and model best known as the "Kaanta Laga girl" of the 2002 remix video; she died in Mumbai in 2025, aged 42.
Shefali Shah (शेफाली शाह)
Shefali Shah (शेफाली शाह), born 1972, Indian actress of Satya, Monsoon Wedding, Gandhi My Father, and DCP Vartika Chaturvedi in Emmy-winning Delhi Crime; National Award winner and memoirist.
Shefayim Water Park
Shefayim Water Park (פארק המים שפיים), Israel's first water park, opened 1984 on Kibbutz Shefayim near Netanya; about 60 dunams, 31 slides in 8 complexes, wave pool, Olympic pool, toddlers' area, daily visitor caps.
Sheffer sequence
A Sheffer sequence, also called a Sheffer polynomial or poweroid, is a polynomial sequence in umbral calculus that includes the Hermite, Laguerre, and Charlier polynomials.
Sheffer stroke
The Sheffer stroke, or NAND, is a binary logical connective false only when both inputs are true, named for Henry M. Sheffer, who published it in 1913.
Sheffield
Sheffield, South Yorkshire's largest city and historic "Steel City", is a Core Cities Group borough of about 582,000 people beside the Peak District, famed for cutlery and steelmaking and now a £2.01 billion visitor economy.