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Shipovnik
Shipochnik (Шиповник, "dog rose") was a Saint Petersburg publishing house founded in 1906, a principal venue of Russian Silver Age literature through its literary-artistic almanac, which issued 26 books from 1907 to 1917.
Shipping (fandom)
Shipping (fandom): fan support for a romantic pairing ('ship') between fictional characters or real people, from 'relationshippers' coined in 1990s X-Files fandom; hosted on AO3 and Tumblr, measured by Fandometrics, and divided by anti/pro-shipper conflicts.
Shipping container
A shipping container is a standardized reusable steel box built to ISO dimensions for moving goods by ship, rail, and truck; the modern intermodal system began in 1956.
Shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction
Shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction, also called pro-ship vs anti-ship discourse, is an online fandom dispute since the mid-2010s over taboo content (rape, incest, minors) in shipping fanfiction, pitting anti-shippers who police such content against pro-shippers opposing censorship, with documented harassment and AO3 governance debates.
Shipping Forecast
The Shipping Forecast is a marine weather bulletin for the sea areas around the British Isles, produced by the Met Office and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1924.
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was a pressurized water reactor plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, the first US commercial nuclear station, producing power from 1957 to 1982.
Shiprock
Shiprock (Tsé Bit'a'í, the rock with wings) is a sacred volcanic neck on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico, a 30-million-year-old minette breccia plug about 600 m high with six radiating dikes; climbing has been banned since 1970.
Shiprocket
Shiprocket, legally Bigfoot Retail Solutions Private Limited, is an Indian e-commerce enablement and courier-aggregation platform founded in New Delhi in 2011 and listed on the NSE and BSE in 2026.
Ships of opportunity
Ships of opportunity are ordinary commercial, cruise, fishing, or research vessels that carry scientific instruments on their normal routes, turning regular trade lines into platforms for ocean and climate observation since the 1950s.
Ships of the Royal Navy
Ships of the Royal Navy is a reference work by J. J. Colledge listing every fighting ship of the Royal Navy from the fifteenth century to the present.
Ships sunk by aircraft
Ships sunk by aircraft is an overview article covering the weapons, tactics, and statistics of air attack on shipping, from Taranto in 1940 through World War II.
Shipshaw hydroelectric plant
The Shipshaw hydroelectric plant (centrale de Shipshaw) is a run-of-river generating station on the Saguenay River in Saguenay, Quebec, owned by Rio Tinto Alcan and rated at 1,145 MW.
Shipworm
Shipworms (Teredinidae) are wood-boring marine bivalve molluscs, over 70 species, that digest wood via gill bacterial symbionts; notorious pests of ships, dikes, and piers, including Teredo navalis and the giant Kuphus polythalamius.
Shipwreck
A shipwreck is the destruction or sinking of a ship at sea, or the damaged remains of a vessel that has sunk or run aground.
Shipwrecks of Isle Royale
Shipwrecks of Isle Royale: ten National Register-listed Lake Superior wrecks (Algoma, America, Kamloops, Emperor, Monarch, and others) lost near Isle Royale National Park along the hazardous Passage Island shipping passage, now managed dive sites.
Shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boat yard, is an industrial facility with dry docks and fabrication equipment where ships are constructed, repaired, and converted.
Shiqiao Group (狮桥集团)
Shiqiao Group (狮桥集团), formally Lionbridge Financing Leasing (China) Co., Ltd., is a Chinese company founded in 2012 that finances heavy trucks for owner-operators and runs a trucking platform.
Shiqu baoji
Shiqu baoji (石渠宝笈) is the Qing imperial catalog of the court's Chinese paintings and calligraphy, compiled by Hanlin scholars under the Qianlong emperor and recording more than 8,300 works.
Shiqu Pavilion and the Shiqu Conference
The Shiqu Conference (石渠閣會議) was a scholarly assembly held at the Shiqu Pavilion in 51 BC, where Emperor Xuan of Han personally ruled on debates over the Five Classics.
Shir Ashian Tepe
Shir Ashian Tepe is a prehistoric site near Damghan in north-eastern Iran, excavated by Erich F. Schmidt in the 1930s and dated to the mid-late fifth millennium BCE.
Shir Ghazi Khan
Shir Ghazi Khan (Shīr Ghāzī Khān) was khan of Khiva from 1715 to 1727, remembered for massacring Peter I's expedition of 1717 and for the madrasa in Khiva that bears his name.
Shir HaKavod
Shir HaKavod (שיר הכבוד), known as Anim Zemirot, is a medieval Hebrew liturgical hymn from twelfth-century Germany, sung in Ashkenazi synagogues on Shabbat and holidays.
Shir Kuh
Shir Kuh (شیرکوه, Lion Mountain) is a 4,050–4,055 m ultra-prominent peak in Yazd Province, central Iran, 40 km southwest of Yazd; the province's highest point, a Jurassic granite batholith summit.
Shir, Syria
Shir (Tall Shir) is a Late Neolithic settlement site in western Syria, about 12 km northwest of Hama, occupied between 7000 and 6200/6100 BC and excavated by the German Archaeological Institute from 2005.
Shira
Shira, the last unfinished novel of Hebrew writer S. Y. Agnon, follows a Jerusalem lecturer torn between his wife and a nurse, published posthumously in 1971.
Shira Haas (שירה האס)
Shira Haas (שירה האס), Israeli actress born 1995, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated for Esty in Netflix's Unorthodox; also Ruchami in Shtisel, Ophir winner for Noble Savage and Asia, and Ruth Bat-Seraph in Captain America: Brave New World.
Shira Piven
Shira Piven, born 1961, American director of theater, film, and TV; sister of Jeremy Piven, daughter of Byrne and Joyce Piven; directed Welcome to Me, Fully Loaded, and The Performance, adapted from Arthur Miller.
Shirabe
Shirabe (調べ) is the melodic, musical quality of a Japanese poem, especially a tanka, covering how its syllable pattern and rhythm sound when read aloud.
Shirahama Aquarium
Shirahama Aquarium (白浜水族館), Kyoto University Shirahama Aquarium, is a university-run aquarium in Shirahama, Wakayama, opened 1930; Japan's third oldest at one site, showing about 500 local species, mostly invertebrates.
Shirakaba-ha
Shirakaba-ha (白樺派, "White Birch school") was a Japanese literary coterie formed around the magazine Shirakaba, founded in 1910 by Mushanokōji Saneatsu, Shiga Naoya, and Arishima Takeo.