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Shishiliza
Shishiliza, born Sebastian Jameson, is a Zimbabwe-born, Botswana-raised producer and one half of the South African amapiano duo Venom & Shishiliza, who broke out in 2022.
Shishimora Dorsa
Shishimora Dorsa is an IAU-approved ridge system (dorsa) on Venus, 800 km across, centered at 37°N, 297°E in quadrangle V-17, named in 1997 for an East Slavic night and dreams deity.
Shishiro Botan
Shishiro Botan (獅白ぼたん) is a Japanese VTuber with hololive under Cover Corp who debuted in August 2020, streams shooter games, hosts the Shishiro Hai tournament, and releases original music.
Shishman dynasty
The Shishman dynasty (Шишмановци) was the last ruling house of the Second Bulgarian Empire, taking the Tarnovo throne in 1323 and ruling until the Ottoman conquest ended it in 1396.
Shishman of Vidin
Shishman of Vidin was a Cuman despot who founded a semi-independent domain around Vidin in the 1280s and the Shishman dynasty, the last royal house of medieval Bulgaria.
Shishunaga dynasty
The Shishunaga dynasty (शिशुनाग वंश) was the third ruling dynasty of Magadha in ancient India, founded by Shishunaga, whose kings conquered Avanti and hosted the Second Buddhist Council.
Shishupala (शिशुपाल)
Shishupala (शिशुपाल) was the Chedi king of the Mahabharata, killed by Krishna with the Sudarshana chakra after his 100th insult at Yudhishthira's Rajasuya; the subject also of Magha's Sanskrit mahakavya Shishupalavadha.
Shishupala Vadha
Shishupala Vadha (शिशुपालवधम्, "the slaying of Shishupala") is a Sanskrit court epic by the poet Magha, retelling how Krishna killed the Chedi king Shishupala at Yudhishthira's Rajasuya sacrifice.
Shisima
Shisima is a traditional two-player abstract strategy game of the Tiriki people of western Kenya: an octagonal 9-point board, three imbalavali pieces per player, four winning lines all through the center, a draw with perfect play.
Shiso
Shiso (Perilla frutescens, zisu, beefsteak plant) is an East Asian mint-family herb used as food and medicine; green PK chemotype eaten fresh, purple PA type medicinal, seed oil ~60% omega-3.
Shisr
Shisr, also written Shisur or Ash Shisar, is an archaeological site in Dhofar, Oman, a frankincense-route caravan station announced in 1992 as the lost city of Ubar, part of the Land of Frankincense World Heritage Site.
Shit
Shit: vulgar English word for excrement, defecation, and figuratively nonsense, trouble, or worthless things. From Old English scītan, Proto-Germanic skit-, PIE skei- "to cut"; originally neutral, taboo from about 1600, not an acronym.
Shitala (शीतला)
Shitala (शीतला), also Sheetala or Shitla Mata, is a Hindu goddess of pox diseases and fevers whose name means "one who cools," worshipped across North India, Bengal, and Nepal.
Shitao
Shitao (石涛, 1642–1707), born Zhu Ruoji into the Ming imperial family, was a Chinese landscape painter and theorist who became a Buddhist monk after the Ming fell.
Shitennō-ji
Shitennō-ji (四天王寺) is a Buddhist temple in Tennōji Ward, Osaka, founded in 593 by Prince Shōtoku as Japan's first official state temple and head temple of the Wasō school.
Shitgaze
Shitgaze, also written shit gaze, is a mid-2000s lo-fi rock microgenre from the Columbus, Ohio DIY scene blending shoegaze, noise rock, and slacker rock; coined in 2005 by Kevin DeBroux, associated with Psychedelic Horseshit and Times New Viking.
Shithead (card game)
Shithead, also called Palace, Karma, Shed, or China Hand, is a shedding/beating card game for 2–5 players with a 3-3-3 deal of face-down, face-up, and hand cards; 2s reset and 10s burn the pile, and the last player holding cards loses.
Shitij Kapur
Shitij Kapur is a psychiatrist and psychopharmacology researcher who has led King's College London as Vice-Chancellor since 2021, known for the aberrant-salience framework of psychosis and research on antipsychotic drugs and dopamine.
ShitKid
ShitKid is the lo-fi anti-pop project of Swedish musician Åsa Söderqvist (born 1992, Kramfors, based in Gothenburg), active 2015–2021 on PNKSLM Recordings and revived from 2023 with Rejected Fish.
Shitong (Generalities on History)
The Shitong (史通) is a work of historiographical criticism in forty-nine pian written by the Tang historian Liu Zhiji in the early eighth century, later called a milestone of Chinese historical composition.
Shitou Lineage of Chan Buddhism
The Shitou Lineage of Chan Buddhism (石头宗) is a Tang-dynasty Chan transmission line founded by Shitou Xiqian, ancestor of the Caodong, Yunmen, and Fayan schools.
Shitouchengzi Ancient City Site
石头城子古城址 (Shitouchengzi ancient city site), a Liao-Jin rammed-earth walled town in Fuyu, Jilin, perimeter 1,922 m; once identified as Liao Ningjiangzhou, now debated; national protected site 2013.
Shitposting
Shitposting, also called shitpost, is posting deliberately absurd, provocative, or low-quality content online to derail discussion or amuse. Defined by Merriam-Webster (verb 1993), documented from Something Awful in 2007, and studied as an alt-right rhetorical tool.
Shitterton
Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis parish, Dorset, England, recorded in Domesday as Scatera or Scetra. Known for its sewer-derived name, its 2010 theft-proof 1.5-tonne Purbeck stone sign, and its 2012 vote as Britain's most unfortunate place name.
Shiupur Mound
Shiupur Mound, officially Hatgauha Dih, is an extensive archaeological mound at Shiupur, Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh, a centrally protected monument of national importance under the ASI Sarnath Circle.
Shiv Dayal Singh
Shiv Dayal Singh (शिव दयाल सिंह), also called Soami Ji Maharaj, was an Indian spiritual teacher born in Agra in 1818 who founded the Radha Soami Satsang.
Shiv I. Grewal
Shiv I. S. Grewal is a molecular biologist who leads a laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, known for showing that heterochromatic gene silencing is inherited epigenetically.
Shiv Kumar Batalvi (ਸ਼ਿਵ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਬਟਾਲਵੀ)
Shiv Kumar Batalvi (ਸ਼ਿਵ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਬਟਾਲਵੀ), 1936-1973, Punjabi romantic poet from Bara Pind Lohtian; youngest Sahitya Akademi Award winner (1967) for the verse play Loona; known as Birha da Sultan.
Shiv Kumar Sarin
Shiv Kumar Sarin is an Indian hepatologist who heads the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi and created the standard classification of gastric varices.
Shiv N. Khanna
Shiv N. Khanna is a physicist known for proposing the superatom concept, the idea that atomic clusters mimic single atoms, during a 39-year career at Virginia Commonwealth University.