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Shiromani Akali Dal (ਸ਼੍ਰੋਮਣੀ ਅਕਾਲੀ ਦਲ)
Shiromani Akali Dal (ਸ਼੍ਰੋਮਣੀ ਅਕਾਲੀ ਦਲ, SAD), Sikh political party of Punjab founded December 1920 during the Gurdwara Reform Movement; author of the 1973 Anandpur Sahib Resolution; former BJP ally (1996–2020) now in electoral decline and split.
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), founded in 1920, is the statutory body that manages the historic Sikh gurdwaras of Punjab from its seat in Amritsar.
Shironamhin
Shironamhin (শিরোনামহীন) is a Bangladeshi rock-fusion band formed in Dhaka in 1996, known for fusing rock with Bengali folk and classical instruments like the sarod and esraj.
Shiroro Dam
Shiroro Dam is a 600 MW hydroelectric dam on the Kaduna River at Shiroro Gorge in Niger State, Nigeria, commissioned in 1990 and one of the country's three major hydropower stations.
Shirou Emiya (衛宮士郎)
Shirou Emiya (衛宮士郎) is the protagonist of Fate/stay night, an adopted survivor of the Fuyuki fire whose sword-specialized Projection magecraft and Reality Marble Unlimited Blade Works develop differently across the Fate, UBW, and Heaven's Feel routes.
Shirshanka Das
Shirshanka Das is an Indian-American engineer, founder of the DataHub open-source metadata platform at LinkedIn, and co-founder and CTO of Acryl Data, its enterprise company. UCLA Ph.D., ex-PayPal, Yahoo, and LinkedIn, with Apache Gobblin involvement.
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়), born in 1935 in present-day Bangladesh, is an Indian Bengali writer of novels, short stories, and children's fiction who received the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, founded in 1946, is the Russian Academy of Sciences' oceanographic institute, whose research fleet and Mir submersibles explored the Mariana Trench, the North Pole seafloor, and the Titanic wreck.
Shirt
A shirt is an upper-body garment typically featuring a collar, a buttoned front, and long or short sleeves, covering tailored dress shirts, knit T-shirts, and polos.
Shirt of Nessus
Shirt of Nessus (Tunic of Nessus), poisoned garment of Greek myth: Nessus' hydra-tainted blood, given to Deianira as a love charm, killed Heracles when he wore it at a sacrifice.
Shirukduh
Shirukduh was a sukkalmah, or grand regent, of Elam, ruling Anshan and Susa in the early 18th century BC as a contemporary of Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria.
Shirvan (شروان)
Shirvan (شروان), a historical region of Eastern Transcaucasia within modern Azerbaijan, capital Shamakhi, ruled by the Shirvanshahs from the 9th century until Shah Tahmasp I abolished their state in 1539.
Shirvan Khanate
The Shirvan Khanate, also called the Shamakhi Khanate (Şirvan xanlığı), was a feudal state in northern Azerbaijan centered on Shamakhi that existed from 1748 to 1820.
Shirvan Nature Reserve
Shirvan Nature Reserve (Şirvan Dövlət Təbiət Qoruğu), a strict state nature reserve in Salyan and Neftchala districts, Azerbaijan, established 30 April 1969 from the Bendovan reserve to protect goitered gazelles and water birds; largely transferred to Shirvan National Park in 2003.
Shirvan power station
Shirvan power station (نیروگاه سیکل ترکیبی شیروان) is a 1,434 MW gas-fired combined cycle power station in Shirvan, North Khorasan, Iran, owned by Khorasan Regional Electric Co.
Shirvan school
The Shirvan school, also called the Azerbaijan or Trans-Caucasian school, is a branch of classical Persian poetry patronized by the Shirvanshah dynasty, peaking in the 12th century with Khaqani and Nizami Ganjavi.
Shirvani Muradov
Shirvani Muradov (Ширвани Мурадов), born 1985 in Dagestan, is a Russian freestyle wrestler who won Olympic gold at 96 kg in Beijing 2008 and the 2007 European title.
Shirvanshahs
The Shirvanshahs (شروانشاهان), meaning "kings of Shirvan," were originally Arab, Persianized rulers of the eastern Caucasian region of Shirvan, governing from 861 until the Safavid conquest ended the dynasty in 1538.
Shisa
The shisa (シーサー) is an Okinawan guardian figure combining lion and dog, placed in open- and closed-mouth pairs at entrances and rooftops to ward off evil.
Shiseido (資生堂)
Shiseido (資生堂), formally Shiseido Company, Limited, is a Japanese multinational cosmetics company founded in Tokyo's Ginza district in 1872, now operating in about 120 countries.
Shisen-Sho
Shisen-Sho (四川省, aka Shisen, Four Rivers, Nikakudori, Mahjong Connect) is a Japanese 1989 Tamtex/Irem solitaire puzzle using mahjong tiles on a flat grid, removing identical pairs linked by a path with at most two turns.
Shish (album)
Shish (SHISH) is the tenth studio album by Portugal. The Man, released November 7, 2025 on their KNIK label via Thirty Tigers. Named for Shishmaref, Alaska, its ten tracks (41:47) are all Alaskan place names, produced by John Gourley and Kane Ritchotte.
Shish-kebab formation
Shish-kebab formation is a flow-induced crystallization mode of polymers in which a central filament of extended chain crystals, the shish, is later overgrown at intervals by chain-folded lamellar platelets, the kebabs.
Shisha
Shisha, also called hookah, narghile, or maassel, is flavored sweetened tobacco smoked through a charcoal-heated waterpipe; the water does not filter toxicants, and one session delivers roughly 100-200 times a cigarette's smoke volume.
Shishaldin
Shishaldin (Sisquk, Agajedan) is a 2,857 m symmetrical basaltic stratovolcano on Unimak Island in the eastern Aleutians, Alaska's Aleutian arc's highest peak, one of its most active volcanoes, with major eruptions in 1999, 2019-2020, and 2023.
SHISHAMO
SHISHAMO is a Japanese three-piece rock band formed in 2010 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, fronted by vocalist-guitarist Miyazaki Asako; it ended activities with a final concert in June 2026.
Shishana
The Shishana (Shishane) is a muzzle-loading flintlock gun with a miquelet mechanism that served as the Ottoman Empire's characteristic soldier's gun from the seventeenth into the nineteenth century.
Shishangmao
Shishangmao (时尚猫) was a Beijing-based hairdressing O2O startup that let users book hairstylists online and shut down in January 2015 after its Series A failed.
Shishapangma (希夏邦马峰)
Shishapangma (希夏邦马峰), also Shisha Pangma or Gosainthan, is Tibet's 8,027 m peak, the 14th highest and only eight-thousander entirely in China; first climbed 2 May 1964, last of the 14 to be climbed.
Shishigatani incident
The Shishigatani incident (鹿ケ谷の陰謀) was an alleged 1177 plot by close retainers of retired emperor Go-Shirakawa to overthrow Taira no Kiyomori, exposed by an informer.