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Shruks of Nund Rishi
The Shruks of Nund Rishi are short didactic aphorisms in the Kashmiri language composed by the mystic Sheikh Nur-ud-Din (1378–1440), called Nund Rishi or Sheikh-ul-Alam, which with Lal Ded's vākhs are the earliest surviving Kashmiri poetry.
Shrunken head
A shrunken head, or tsantsa, is a ceremonial trophy made by Amazonian peoples of Ecuador and Peru by shrinking human head skin, until the mid twentieth century.
Shruti (actress)
Shruti (ಶ್ರುತಿ), born Girija in 1975, is a Kannada film actress renamed by Dwarakish after his 1990 film Shruti; a 1990s heroine of 150+ films, twice Karnataka State Best Actress, now in supporting roles and politics.
Shruti Choudhry
Shruti Choudhry is an Indian politician, a Bharatiya Janata Party minister in the Haryana government, and a member of the state Legislative Assembly from Tosham.
Shruti Haasan
Shruti Haasan, born 1986 in Chennai, is an Indian actress, singer, and composer working in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi films. Daughter of Kamal Haasan and Sarika, she debuted as a child in Hey! Ram (2000), sang in Thevar Magan (1992), and stars in Salaar, Coolie, and Peddi.
Shruti Haasan filmography
Shruti Haasan filmography: Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi films of the Indian actress-singer (born 1986, Chennai), from Luck (2009) and 7aum Arivu (2011) to Salaar (2023) and Coolie (2025).
Shruti Kapoor
Shruti Kapoor is an Indian software entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Wingman, a Bengaluru conversation-intelligence startup acquired by Clari in 2022 and rebranded as Clari Copilot.
Shruti Naik
Shruti Naik is an immunologist and stem cell biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for discovering inflammatory memory in skin stem cells.
Shruti Ramachandran
Shruti Ramachandran (ശ്രുതി രാമച്ചന്ദ്രൻ), Indian actress and writer born 1992 in Chennai, works mainly in Malayalam cinema. Debut Njaan (2014); known for Madhuram, Kaanekkaane; won the 2020 Kerala State Film Award for Best Dubbing Artist for Kamala; co-wrote Putham Pudhu Kaalai's Ilamai Idho Idho with husband Francis Thomas.
Shruti Seth (श्रुति सेठ)
Shruti Seth (श्रुति सेठ), born 1977, is an Indian actress, VJ, and casting director known as Jiya Malhotra in Shararat (2003–2006), host of Comedy Circus, and for films Fanaa, Slumdog Millionaire, and Rajneeti.
SHS2 domain inserted in FtsA
The SHS2 domain inserted in FtsA, also known as subdomain 1C, is a protein domain inside the bacterial division protein FtsA that mediates recruiting downstream division proteins like FtsN.
Shtern
Shtern (Yiddish: שטערן, Star) was a Yiddish literary journal published in Minsk from 1925 to 1941, one of the principal periodicals of Soviet Yiddish culture.
Shternberg (Sternberg) (lunar crater)
Shternberg (Sternberg), a 74.36 km impact crater on the lunar far side at 19.38°N, 116.82°W, northwest of Ohm crater; named for Russian astronomer Pavel Shternberg, with satellite crater Shternberg C.
Shtetl (שטעטל)
Shtetl (שטעטל, shtetlekh): Yiddish for "little town"; small pre-WWII Eastern European market towns with large Yiddish-speaking Jewish populations, often Jewish-majority, destroyed in the Holocaust and central to Jewish memory and literature.
Shtetl literature
Shtetl literature is the Yiddish and Hebrew writing set in the shtetl, the small Jewish market town of pre–World War II Eastern Europe, first critiqued and later memorialized by writers.
Shtisel (שטיסל)
Shtisel (שטיסל) is an Israeli Haredi family drama series created by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, set in Jerusalem's Geula neighborhood, aired 2013–2021 in three seasons, an Ophir-winning Netflix international hit.
Shtokavian
Shtokavian (štokavsko narječje) is the major South Slavic dialect group named after the pronoun što, basis of Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Serbian standards, with seven dialects split into Old and Neo-Shtokavian groups.
Shtokman field (Штокмановское месторождение)
Shtokman field (Штокмановское месторождение), a giant Barents Sea gas condensate field 600 km from Murmansk with 3.9 tcm of gas; Gazprom-Total-Statoil consortium suspended development in 2012 over $30 billion costs and US shale gas.
Shtreimel
Shtreimel (Yiddish שטרײַמל, shtrayml): wide donut-shaped fur hat worn by married Hasidic men on Shabbat and holidays; thirteen fur skins symbolize the thirteen attributes of mercy; distinct from the taller black spodik of Gur and the brown kolpik; costs up to 25,000+ shekels.
Shu (Egyptian god)
Shu, ancient Egyptian god of air and wind of the Heliopolitan Ennead, son of Atum, twin of Tefnut, father of Geb and Nut; he separated sky from earth and embodied the breath of life.
Shu brocade
Shu brocade (蜀锦) is a figured silk jacquard brocade woven in Chengdu, Sichuan, the oldest of China's Four Famous Brocades, produced for over two thousand years.
Shu Chien
Shu Chien (钱煦), born 1931 in Beijing, is a Chinese-born American bioengineer and physiologist at UC San Diego known for his work on blood viscosity, blood flow forces, and atherosclerosis.
Shu Code
The Shu Code (蜀科) was a body of law compiled for Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period by Zhuge Liang, Fa Zheng, Yi Ji, Liu Ba, and Li Yan.
Shu Commandery
Shu Commandery (蜀郡) was a Qin commandery carved from the former state of Shu in the Chengdu plain, remaining an imperial unit through the Han dynasty.
Shu Da Xia
Shu Da Xia (蜀大侠) is a Chinese hot pot restaurant chain founded in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 2015, built around a martial-arts theme and hundreds of franchise stores.
Shu Han (蜀汉)
Shu Han (蜀漢), the southwest Chinese state of the Three Kingdoms founded by Liu Bei and ruled 223–263 by Liu Shan, claimed Han restoration, mounted Zhuge Liang's northern expeditions, and fell to Wei's 263 invasion through Yinping.
Shu Hu
Shu Hu (胡澍) is a photoelectrochemist and Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale, known for leading a 2014 Science paper on coating-stabilized photoelectrodes for solar fuels.
Shu Kobayashi
Shu Kobayashi (小林修) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist at the University of Tokyo, known for water-compatible Lewis acid catalysts and continuous-flow synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
Shu Lvhuanghou
Shu Lvhuanghou (述律皇后) was the empress of Liao founder A Baoji, led the government as regent after his death, and cut off her own wrist for his coffin.
Shu Ping
Shu Ping (舒萍) is a Singapore-based businesswoman who co-founded the Haidilao hot pot restaurant chain in 1994 and has chaired its overseas arm, Super Hi International, since 2023.