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Sajjan Raj Vaidya
Sajjan Raj Vaidya (सज्जन राज वैद्य) is a Nepali singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer from Kathmandu, based in New York, known for "Chitthi Bhitra" and as a leading figure of contemporary Nepali pop.
Sajjan Singh of Udaipur
Sajjan Singh (सज्जन सिंह) was the Maharana of Udaipur in Mewar, reigning from 1874 to 1884; placed on the throne at fifteen, he reformed schools, hospitals, and administration.
Sajjha
Sajjha (सज्झ) was a wandering ascetic of another tradition who visited the Buddha at Vulture's Peak near Rajagaha, the interlocutor of the Sajjhasutta (AN 9.8).
Sąjūdis
Sąjūdis, formally Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis, was a Lithuanian political movement founded in Vilnius in 1988 that led the restoration of Lithuania's independence from the Soviet Union, declared in 1990.
Saka
Saka (Old Persian Sakā; Chinese Sai; Greek Sacae): Iranian-speaking nomadic peoples of the first millennium BCE, the Persians' name for the Scythians, with branches from the Black Sea to Khotan and Indo-Scythian kingdoms in India.
Saka conquest of Malwa and Ujjain
The Saka conquest of Malwa and Ujjain was the Indo-Scythian seizure of Malwa in central India, ruled from Ujjain until the Gupta conquest around 400 CE.
Saka era
The Saka era (शक संवत्) is an Indian calendar reckoning whose epoch is AD 78; it became Southern India's chief reckoning and India's official civil calendar in 1957.
Saka-Satavahana wars
The Saka-Satavahana wars (सातवाहन-शक युद्ध) were a prolonged struggle between the Satavahana dynasty of the Deccan and the Western Kshatrapas, fought mainly over the western Deccan and its trade routes.
Saka–Satavahana conflict
The Saka–Satavahana conflict was a series of wars between the Satavahana dynasty of the Deccan and the Saka Western Kshatrapas, in which Gautamiputra Satakarni defeated and killed Nahapana.
Sakae Yagi
Sakae Yagi was a Japanese chemical engineer at the University of Tokyo who headed its chemical engineering department and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.
Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve
Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Thailand's first UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve (designated 1976/1977), in Nakhon Ratchasima Province; 82,315 ha of dry evergreen and dry dipterocarp forest managed by the Sakaerat Environmental Research Station.
Sakai
Sakai (堺) was a self-governing port city on Osaka Bay, ruled by a merchant council and known for Ming trade and firearms manufacture before losing autonomy in the 17th century.
Sakai Hōitsu
Sakai Hōitsu (酒井抱一, 1761–1828) was a Japanese painter, haiku poet, and art scholar from a daimyo family who established the Edo Rinpa school and revived Ogata Kōrin's art.
Sakai Hōitsu's Rimpa revival
Sakai Hōitsu's Rimpa revival was the early 19th-century reconstitution of the Rimpa style of Japanese painting in Edo by Sakai Hōitsu (1761–1828), who published Kōrin's designs and organized the lineage as the Ogata school.
Sakai incident
The Sakai incident (堺事件, Sakai jiken) was an 1868 clash at the port of Sakai, Japan, in which Tosa domain soldiers killed 11 French sailors from the warship Dupleix.
Sakai LNG Terminal
The Sakai LNG Terminal (堺LNGセンター) is a liquefied natural gas terminal in Sakai, Osaka, Japan, operated by Kansai Electric Power and in commercial service since January 2006.
Sakai machishū
The Sakai machishū were the merchant elite of Sakai, whose self-governing council, the kaigōshū (会合衆), directed the town until Toyotomi rule ended its autonomy in 1586.
Sakai Port power station
Sakai Port power station (堺港発電所, Sakaiko hatsudensho) is a 2,000 MW LNG-fired thermal power station of Kansai Electric Power in Sakai, Osaka, opened in 1964 and rebuilt as a highly efficient combined-cycle plant by 2010.
Sakai Tadatsugu
Sakai Tadatsugu (酒井忠次, 1527–1596) was a Japanese Sengoku-period warlord, senior hereditary retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu and first of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa.
Sakai Toshihiko
Sakai Toshihiko (堺利彦) was a Japanese socialist journalist and translator who co-translated the Communist Manifesto in 1904 and became the Japanese Communist Party's first chairman in 1922.
Sakai-Sugimoto model
The Sakai-Sugimoto model is a holographic model of QCD introduced by T. Sakai and S. Sugimoto in 2004, deriving mesons, baryons, and chiral symmetry breaking from brane geometry.
Sakai, Osaka
Sakai (堺市) is a government-designated city in southern Osaka Prefecture, Japan; second largest in the prefecture, area 149.83 km², population about 803,000 (2025), home to the Mozu Kofun Group World Heritage site and Sakai knife craftsmanship.
Sakaide Biomass power station
The Sakaide Biomass power station (坂出バイオマス発電所) is a 75 MW wood-fired power plant in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, burning wood pellets to power about 170,000 households since June 2025.
Sakaide LNG Terminal
The Sakaide LNG Terminal (坂出LNG基地) is an LNG receiving and regasification terminal in Sakaide, Kagawa, Japan, opened in 2010 to fuel Shikoku Electric Power's Sakaide Power Plant.
Sakaide power station
Sakaide power station (坂出発電所) is a 1,385 MW gas- and oil-fired thermal power station in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, owned by Shikoku Electric Power Company.
Sakakibara Yasumasa
Sakakibara Yasumasa (榊原康政) was a Japanese samurai and daimyō who served Tokugawa Ieyasu as a core member of the Tokugawa Four Guardians and lord of Tatebayashi Domain.
Sakalakala Vallavan (2015 film)
Sakalakala Vallavan (2015), also released as Sakalakala Vallavan Appatakkar and formerly titled Appatakkar, is a Tamil action comedy directed by Suraj, starring Jayam Ravi, Trisha, and Anjali, released 31 July 2015 to negative reviews.
Sakalava Kingdoms of Menabe and Boina
The Sakalava Kingdoms of Menabe and Boina were two related kingdoms of the Sakalava people on Madagascar's west coast, ruled from the 1600s to the 1800s.
Sakamata Chloe
Sakamata Chloe (沙花叉クロヱ) is a Japanese VTuber and singer who debuted in 2021 with hololive's sixth generation, Secret Society holoX, and ended streaming in 2025.
Sakami (lake)
Lac Sakami (Lake Sakami) is a 738 km² freshwater reservoir in Eeyou Istchee Baie-James, Quebec, enlarged from 533 km² to feed the Robert-Bourassa plant via diverted Eastmain and Opinaca rivers.