All articles starting with S
44,216 articles
Shona Murphy
Shona Murphy is a molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Genetics at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, known for work on RNA polymerase II and snRNA genes.
Shona novel
A Shona novel is a novel written in Shona, a Bantu language of Zimbabwe, forming the central genre of written Shona literature. The genre began with Solomon Mutswairo's Feso, published in 1956.
Shona people
The Shona are a cluster of Bantu-speaking peoples of the Zimbabwe plateau (Karanga, Zezuru, Manyika, Ndau, Korekore), about 80.9% of Zimbabwe's 2022 population, with a standardized language, Great Zimbabwe heritage, and ancestor-centered religion.
Shona praise poetry
Shona praise poetry, known in Shona as nhetembo dzemadzinza, is the oral clan praise tradition of the Shona people of Zimbabwe, based on totems and ancestors rather than individuals.
Shonali Bose
Shonali Bose (born 1965, Kolkata) is an Indian film director, writer, and producer of Amu, Margarita with a Straw, and The Sky Is Pink; National Film Award winner and Sundance best-script awardee, distinct from actor Rahul Bose.
Shonan Bakusozoku (湘南爆走族)
Shonan Bakusozoku (湘南爆走族) is a Japanese manga series by Satoshi Yoshida about a high-school biker gang on the Shonan coast, serialized from 1983 and selling over 29 million copies.
Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes, also known as Shonda Lynn Rhimes, is an American television writer, showrunner, and producer who created Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and founded Shondaland.
Shondaland
Shondaland is an American television production company founded by writer and producer Shonda Rhimes in 2004, launched in 2005 with Grey's Anatomy and moved to Netflix in 2017.
Shondrella Avery
Shondrella Dupre Avery, American actress and producer born 1971 in Los Angeles; played LaFawnduh in Napoleon Dynamite (2004) and Candy Taylor on One on One and Cuts; CEO of Glass Slipper Pictures and sickle cell disease advocate.
Shone complex
Shone complex, or Shone syndrome, is a rare congenital heart malformation combining left-sided obstructive lesions: supravalvular mitral membrane, parachute mitral valve, subaortic stenosis, and coarctation of the aorta; incomplete forms are common, treated surgically with lifelong follow-up.
Shōnen bungaku
Shōnen bungaku (少年文学, "boys' literature") is a Japanese term for children's and boys' literature, coined by Iwaya Sazanami in 1891 and later largely replaced by jidō bungaku.
Shonen Jump (magazine)
Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ) is Shueisha's weekly shonen manga anthology, founded 1968, peak circulation 6.53 million in 1994, 7.5 billion cumulative copies, known for reader surveys and Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto.
Shōnen manga (少年漫画)
Shōnen manga (少年漫画), also shonen or shounen manga, is manga published in magazines for boys and teenage males, a demographic category rather than a genre. Key facts: highest-selling manga category; Manga Shōnen founded 1947; Weekly Shonen Jump peaked at 6.5 million copies weekly in the 1990s.
Shōnen shōsetsu
Shōnen shōsetsu (少年小説, "boys' novels") is a Japanese genre of prose fiction for boy readers that took shape in the Meiji era around adventure and historical tales.
Shonentai
Shonentai (少年隊) is a three-member Japanese male idol group formed by Johnny & Associates, made up of Nishikiori, Uekusa, and Higashiyama, which debuted in 1985.
Shoney's
Shoney's, also Shoney's Big Boy, is a Nashville-headquartered American family-dining restaurant chain founded in 1947 in Charleston, West Virginia, famous for its Fresh Food Bar breakfast buffet and hot fudge cake; it grew past 1,300 locations before bankruptcy and now operates fewer than 60 restaurants in about 16 states.
Shoniqua Shandai
Shoniqua Shandai (born 1989) is an American actress, singer, and director known as Angie Wilson on Prime Video's Harlem, a 2024 NAACP Image Award nominee, with film roles in Bodied and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser and singles including Something About You.
Shonkhonil Karagar
Shonkhonil Karagar (শঙ্খনীল কারাগার) is a 1973 Bengali novel by the Bangladeshi writer Humayun Ahmed, the first he wrote though Nondito Noroke was published first.
Shonni J. Silverberg
Shonni J. Silverberg is an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University whose 10-year study of primary hyperparathyroidism shaped international treatment guidelines and co-directs its NIH-funded endocrinology fellowship.
Shono
Shono is a mancala-type board game with two rows of six holes, traditionally played by the Fang people of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon, with rules recorded in 1912.
Shono oxidation
The Shono oxidation of amides is an electrochemical reaction converting a C–H bond adjacent to nitrogen into a C–X bond, first reported by Shono and Matsumura in 1975.
Shōno Shōunsai
Shōno Shōunsai (生野祥雲斎, 1904–1974), real name Shōno Akihei, was a Japanese bamboo craft artist from Beppu who became the first Living National Treasure of bamboo art in 1967.
Shōno: Driving Rain
Shōno: Driving Rain is a color woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, number 46 in his Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, showing travelers caught in a sudden downpour.
Shontel Brown
Shontel Brown, born 1975, is an American Democratic politician serving as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district since November 4, 2021, after serving on the Cuyahoga County Council.
Shontelle
Shontelle (Shontelle Delia Layne) is a Barbadian singer-songwriter from Saint James, Barbados, known for "T-Shirt" (2008), "Impossible" (2010), writing "Roll It Gal" for Alison Hinds, and co-writing Rihanna's "Man Down". She later became an independent artist with the 2022 EP Boomerang.
Shoofly pie
Shoofly pie, a Pennsylvania Dutch molasses pie with crumb topping, believed developed from an 1876 centennial cake; wet-bottom and dry-bottom styles; name origin undocumented.
Shoojit Sircar
Shoojit Sircar, Indian Hindi-cinema director and producer from Kolkata (Rising Sun Films), known for Vicky Donor, Piku, Pink, Gulabo Sitabo, and National Award-winning Sardar Udham; directed I Want to Talk (2024).
Shook Ones Pt. II (Euphoria)
"Shook Ones Pt. II" is the fourth episode of Euphoria season 1, written and directed by Sam Levinson, aired July 7, 2019. Set almost entirely at a town carnival, it reveals Jules's psychiatric-hospital backstory and Nate's catfishing of Jules as "Tyler."
Shool (शूल)
Shool (शूल) is a 1999 Hindi action crime drama directed by Eeshwar Nivas, produced by Ram Gopal Varma and Nitin Manmohan, starring Manoj Bajpayee as an honest Bihar police inspector versus politician Bachhu Yadav; it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi but flopped at the box office.
Shoot 'em up
Shoot 'em up, often shortened to shmup, is a video game genre where the player pilots a ship fighting masses of enemies, peaking in 1980s arcades.