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Shikoku Aquarium
Shikoku Aquarium (四国水族館) is a public aquarium in Utazu, Kagawa, Japan, opened March 20, 2020 at the foot of the Great Seto Bridge; themed on Shikoku's waterscape with a 650,000-liter Watatsumi main tank, four signature tanks, six zones, and mascot Shuko-kun.
Shikoku Basin
Shikoku Basin (四国海盆), an inactive back-arc basin on the northern Philippine Sea Plate south of southwest Japan; formed by seafloor spreading about 30–15 Ma, bounded by the Kyushu-Palau Ridge, and now subducting at the Nankai Trough.
Shikoku Electric Power
Shikoku Electric Power (四国電力) is a Japanese electric utility, one of nine regional utilities established in 1951, headquartered in Takamatsu and supplying electricity to Shikoku's four prefectures.
Shikoku Facula
Shikoku Facula (四国) is a 285-km-wide bright region (facula) on Titan, centered at 10.4S, 164.1W, IAU-approved in 2006 and named for the Japanese island; it is bright in radar and visible light and contains a possible 35-km impact crater.
Shikoku Mura
Shikoku Mura (四国村), or Shikoku Mura Museum, is an open-air museum at Yashima, Takamatsu, Kagawa, founded 1976 by Tatsuo Kato, with 33 relocated Edo–Taisho buildings from all four Shikoku prefectures, a Tadao Ando gallery, and a vine bridge.
Shikoku Tachibana-wan power station
Shikoku Tachibana-wan power station (橘湾発電所, Tachibanawan Hatsudensho) is a 700 MW coal-fired power plant operated by Shikoku Electric Power in Anan, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, since June 2000.
Shikong Dian dong (时空电动) (Time EV)
Shikong Dian dong (时空电动) is a Hangzhou-based electric vehicle startup founded by Chen Feng in 2013, known for battery swapping and ride-hailing EVs built with Dongfeng.
Shikotan (色丹島)
Shikotan (色丹島, Шикотан) is a 250.6 km² island lying 73.3 km east of Hokkaido's Nemuro Peninsula; Japan claims it, but Russia has administered it since 1945.
Shiksa
Shiksa (Yiddish shikse) is an often disparaging word for a non-Jewish woman, from Hebrew sheqetz "abomination"; male counterpart sheygetz; central to the blonde-shiksa trope in American Jewish popular culture.
Shiksha Mandal
Shiksha Mandal is a 2022 Hindi MX Player crime thriller web series, 9 episodes directed by Syed Ahmad Afzal, starring Gulshan Devaiah, Gauahar Khan, and Pavan Raj Malhotra, dramatizing the Madhya Pradesh medical entrance exam scam.
Shikun & Binui
Shikun & Binui (שיכון ובינוי, Hebrew for Housing and Construction) is an Israeli infrastructure and real estate group headquartered at Airport City, tracing to Solel Boneh in 1920 and active in about twenty countries.
Shikwa
Shikwa (شکوہ, "The Complaint") is a long Urdu poem by Muhammad Iqbal, recited at Lahore in 1909, in which a Muslim asks God why the community is humiliated.
Shila Amzah
Shila Amzah, full name Nur Shahila Amir Amzah, is a Malaysian singer-songwriter who broke into the Chinese market by winning the Asian Wave contest in Shanghai in 2012.
Shiladitya I
Shiladitya I (शिलादित्य) was a powerful king of the Maitraka dynasty in the late 6th or early 7th century, a Shaiva who extended Maitraka rule into Malwa and Rajasthan.
Shiladitya of Valabhi
Shiladitya of Valabhi (शीलादित्य), known as Shiladitya I, was a Maitraka king whose kingdom in Gujarat expanded into Malwa and Rajasthan in the early seventh century.
Shilahara dynasty
The Shilahara dynasty (शिलाहार वंश) was a medieval Indian royal house that ruled the Konkan coast in three branches, largely as feudatories, from about 800 to 1265.
Shilajit (शिलाजीत)
Shilajit (शिलाजीत), also called mineral pitch or mumie, is a Himalayan rock resin used in Ayurveda as a rasayana rejuvenator; rich in fulvic acid, it has small clinical trials on testosterone, bone density, and fatigue, plus heavy-metal contamination concerns.
Shilen Patel
Shilen Patel is a Tampa, Florida entrepreneur and family-office principal who has been majority owner and chairman of West Bromwich Albion since February 2024, the first Indian American to own an English top-league club.
Shilha language
Shilha (Taclḥiyt, Tachelhit, Tashelhiyt) is the largest Amazigh (Berber) language of Morocco, spoken by about 5-6 million people in the Souss, High Atlas and Anti-Atlas region; ISO 639-3 shi, written in Tifinagh, Arabic and Latin.
Shilhaha
Shilhaha, also written Silhaha, was an early ruler of Elam of the Sukkalmah dynasty around 1880 BC, later invoked by Elamite kings as a legitimizing ancestor.
Shilhak-Inshushinak
Shilhak-Inshushinak (Šilḫak-Inšušinak) was king of Anshan and Susa, son of Shutruk-Nahhunte, who led campaigns against Mesopotamia and rebuilt Susa from about 1150 to 1120 BC.
Shilhina-hamru-Lagamar
Shilhina-hamru-Lagamar was an Elamite royal figure of the Shutrukid dynasty, attested only in a later king's inscription as ruler after Hutelutuš-Inšušinak, around the end of the 2nd millennium BC.
Shiliemen
Shiliemen (失烈门) is the name of two unrelated Mongol figures: a grandson of Ögedei Khan named heir to the khaganate and banished after Möngke took the throne, and a late Yuan chancellor.
Shilin Academy
The Shilin Academy (士林馆) was a Confucian lecture academy founded by Emperor Wu of Liang in 541 to gather scholars for lecturing on the classics.
Shilin Guangji
Shilin Guangji (事林广记) is a Chinese encyclopedia of everyday practical knowledge compiled in the late Southern Song by Chen Yuanjing, and repeatedly enlarged by printers through the early Ming.
Shilka (Amur)
Shilka (Amur) is FEOW freshwater ecoregion 619, a Palearctic temperate upland rivers ecoregion covering the Shilka River drainage in Russia and Mongolia, with one endemic fish.
Shill
A shill is a person who bids, buys, praises, or recommends something while secretly working for the seller, so paid promotion passes as independent behavior.
Shillelagh
A shillelagh, or shillalah, is a traditional Irish walking stick made from blackthorn, oak, or holly, with a knobbed head that served as a weapon in Irish faction fights.
Shilling
Shilling: historic British coin and unit of account worth 12 pence, 20 to the pound; first struck as the testoon about 1504, re-valued at 5p in 1971, demonetised 1990; also the currency of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Somalia.
Shilling (British coin)
The British shilling, nicknamed "bob", was a sterling coin worth 12 pre-decimal pence, one twentieth of a pound. Introduced under Henry VII as the testoon, it circulated until demonetisation on 31 December 1990.