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Shetland Sheepdog
Shetland Sheepdog (Sheltie), a small Collie-like herding breed from Scotland's Shetland Islands; 13-16 inches, 15-25 lb, recognized by the AKC in 1911, with a gathering herding style and a dense double coat.
Shetland UNESCO Global Geopark
Shetland UNESCO Global Geopark (Geopark Shetland), UK, designated 2009, covers 1,468 km² of Shetland Islands with nearly three billion years of geology, including the Shetland Ophiolite Complex; managed by Shetland Amenity Trust, one of two Scottish geoparks.
Shettles method
Shettles method: natural sex-selection technique from Landrum Shettles' 1970 book, claiming timing intercourse near ovulation, douches, and coital practices sway a baby's sex; controlled studies find no effect beyond chance.
Shev Jones
Shev Jones, also known as Shevrin Jones, is an American Democratic politician in the Florida Senate who served four terms in the Florida House from 2012.
Shevchenkivskyi District
Shevchenkivskyi District (Шевченківський район), central district of Kyiv created 4 April 1937, enlarged 2001; contains Golden Gate, St Sophia's Cathedral, Babi Yar, 22 universities, and over 50 embassies.
Shevchenkivskyi Hai
Shevchenkivskyi Hai (Шевченківський Гай, Shevchenko Grove) is an open-air museum in Lviv, founded in 1971, preserving over 100 monuments of folk architecture from western Ukraine's ethnographic regions.
Shevchenko (Mercurian crater)
Shevchenko is a 143.33-km impact crater on Mercury at 53.5°S, 46.2°W, photographed by Mariner 10 in 1974 and named by the IAU in 1976 after the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.
Shevchenko Scientific Society
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (Наукове товариство ім. Шевченка, NTSh) is a Ukrainian scholarly organization founded in Lviv in 1873 that served as a de facto academy of sciences.
Sheveluch
Sheveluch (Shiveluch, Шивелуч) is a 3,283 m andesitic stratovolcano, the northernmost active volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, with at least 60 large Holocene eruptions, a 1964 edifice-collapse eruption, and an ongoing lava-dome eruption since 1980/1999 including the April 2023 paroxysm.
Shewa (ሸዋ)
Shewa (ሸዋ, also Shoa) is a historical region and former kingdom of central Ethiopia whose kings, notably Menelik II, built the modern Ethiopian state and founded Addis Ababa; the province was dissolved into Amhara and Oromia zones in 1991.
Shewan branch of the Solomonic dynasty
The Shewan branch of the Solomonic dynasty was a cadet royal line that ruled Shewa in Ethiopia from 1682 until Menelik II became emperor in 1889.
Shewanella
Shewanella, genus of Gram-negative facultatively anaerobic marine rods (type species S. putrefaciens, named for J. M. Shewan); model exoelectrogen for extracellular electron transfer via the Mtr pathway and flavin shuttling; S. algae is an emergent human pathogen.
Shewanella putrefaciens
Shewanella putrefaciens, formerly Pseudomonas/Alteromonas putrefaciens, is a Gram-negative marine rod described in 1931 from butter; it spoils chilled fish via TMAO reduction and H2S, reduces iron and uranium, and is a rare opportunistic human pathogen often confused with Shewanella algae.
Sheyda
Sheyda is a 1917 romantic drama in verse by Azerbaijani playwright Huseyn Javid, published in Baku, depicting the hard life of printing workers and the idea of freedom.
Sheyh Galib
Sheyh Galib (شيخ غالب; Mehmed Esad, 1757–1799) was an Ottoman Mevlevi Sufi poet, shaykh of Istanbul's Galata Mevlevihane, best known for the allegorical mesnevi Husn u Ashk.
Sheyi Ojo
Sheyi Ojo (Oluwaseyi Babajide Ojo, born 1997, Hemel Hempstead) is an English left-footed winger, ex-Liverpool academy player (13 apps, 1 goal), with loans at Wigan, Wolves, Fulham, Reims, Rangers, Cardiff, Millwall, later Kortrijk, Maribor, and FK Aktobe.
Sheynnis Palacios
Sheynnis Palacios (Sheynnis Alondra Palacios Cornejo), Nicaraguan model crowned Miss Universe 2023 in San Salvador, the first Nicaraguan winner; previously Miss Teen Nicaragua 2016 and Miss Mundo Nicaragua 2020.
Shheem
Shheem, also known as Chhim, is a well-preserved rural archaeological site in the mountains near Sidon, Lebanon, with a Roman temple, a Byzantine basilica, and oil presses.
Shhh
Shhh is a Maldivian horror web series in the Dhivehi language, created by Amjad Ibrahim for Baiskoafu, following a newly married couple haunted in their first shared home.
SHHS study
Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS): NHLBI multi-center prospective cohort (1995–1998 enrollment, 6,441 adults 40+) using in-home polysomnography in existing cohorts to test sleep-disordered breathing's cardiovascular consequences.
Shi and Xu consort clans
The Shi and Xu consort clans (史氏、许氏外戚) were two maternal-kin families of the Western Han imperial house, tied to Emperor Xuan's grandmother and Empress Xu, who held regency posts.
Shi Anping
Shi Anping (施安平) is a Chinese venture capitalist who leads Guozhong Capital, a Shenzhen fund manager he founded in 2015 with RMB 16 billion under management.
Shi Bao
Shi Bao (石珤) was a Ming dynasty official from Gaocheng who served as Minister of Rites, Minister of Personnel, and Grand Secretary under the emperors Wuzong and Shizong.
Shi Bi
Shi Bi (史弼), courtesy name Junzuo and Mongol name Talahun, was a Yuan dynasty general from Hebei who led Kublai Khan's failed invasion of Java in 1292–1293.
Shi Chanantuo
Shi Chanantuo (实叉难陀) was a Buddhist translator-monk from Khotan who worked in Tang China under Empress Wu, translating the eighty-fascicle Avataṃsaka Sūtra at Luoyang from 695 to 699.
Shi Chaoyi
Shi Chaoyi (史朝义) was a Tang dynasty rebel leader and son of Shi Siming, whom he killed in 761; his defeat and suicide in 763 ended the An–Shi Rebellion.
Shi Chong
Shi Chong (石崇, courtesy name Jilun, 249–300) was a Western Jin official and writer famed for his immense wealth, who led the Twenty-four Friends and was executed in 300.
Shi Chong and Wang Kai's contest of wealth
Shi Chong and Wang Kai's contest of wealth (石崇王恺斗富) was a rivalry in extravagant spending between Western Jin officials Shi Chong and Wang Kai under Emperor Wu.
Shi clan regime of Jiaozhou
The Shi clan regime of Jiaozhou (交州士氏政权) was the family rule of Shi Xie and his brothers over China's southern Jiaozhou region in the late Han dynasty.
Shi Dabin
Shi Dabin (时大彬, style name Shaoshan) was a Ming dynasty potter of Yixing, Jiangsu, regarded as the founding master of the hand-formed Yixing zisha teapot.