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Silke Gladisch
Silke Gladisch, later Silke Möller (born 1964, Stralsund), East German sprinter; 1987 Rome World champion at 100m and 200m, 1983 relay world champion, 41.37 4x100m world record (1985), Seoul 1988 relay silver.
Silke Hörner
Silke Hörner (Hörner-Schuck), East German breaststroke swimmer born 1965 in Leipzig; double Olympic champion at Seoul 1988 (200 m breaststroke world record 2:26.71, 4×100 m medley relay) and 100 m bronze; set four breaststroke world records; doping allegations never proven.
Silke Knoll
Silke Beate Knoll (born 1967, Rottweil), German sprinter in the 200 m and 4x100 m relay; three Olympics 1988-96, 1994 European relay gold, 1995 World relay bronze, 22 German titles, Eintracht Hamm doping case.
Silke Kraushaar
Silke Kraushaar(-Pielach), German luger born 1970 in Sonneberg; 1998 Nagano Olympic champion in women's singles by 0.002 seconds, with bronze 2002 and silver 2006, five overall World Cup titles.
Silke Launert
Silke Launert, born 1976 in Stadtsteinach, Bavaria, is a German CSU politician, a Bundestag member since 2013 for Bayreuth, and a Parliamentary State Secretary since 2025.
Silke Muller
Silke Muller, more commonly written Silke Müller, is the name shared by several German women: a sprinter, a field hockey player, an author, and an illustrator.
Silke Renk
Silke Renk (Renk-Lange), born 1967 in Querfurt, German javelin thrower; 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion with 68.34 m, 1988 Seoul fifth for East Germany, 1991 World bronze, personal best 71.00 m.
Silkie
Silkie (Chinese Silkie, wugu ji) is a Chinese chicken breed with hair-like hookless feathers, black skin and bones from EDN3 fibromelanosis, five toes, and broody docile temperament; first US standard 1874.
Silkie (musician)
Silkie (Solomon Rose) is a dubstep producer and DJ from Hammersmith, West London, known for a melodic, jazz-influenced style and releases on Deep Medi Musik.
Silkk the Shocker
Silkk the Shocker (Vyshonn King Miller, born 1975, New Orleans) is a rapper, brother of Master P and C-Murder, and a leading No Limit Records artist whose Charge It 2 da Game and Made Man went platinum.
Silko
Silko was a king of the Nobades in Lower Nubia in the first half of the 5th century, known from a Greek victory inscription at Kalabsha.
Silko inscription
The Silko inscription is a 21-line Greek text at Kalabsha in which King Silko records his victories over the Blemmyes in the 5th century AD.
Silko Thomas
Silko Thomas (Silko-Amari Otieno Thomas, born 2004, London) is an English winger, ex-Chelsea academy and England U18, formerly Leicester City and Wigan Athletic loan, now Wycombe Wanderers.
Silko's conquest of Nobatia
Silko's conquest of Nobatia was the 5th-century expulsion of the Blemmyes from the Dodekaschoinos, the Nile valley between the first and second cataracts, by King Silko of the Nobades.
Silko's war against the Blemmyes
Silko's war against the Blemmyes was a series of fifth-century campaigns in which Silko, king of the Nobades, defeated the Blemmyes and united Lower Nubia.
Silkwood
Silkwood (1983) is Mike Nichols's biographical drama starring Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant whistleblower who died in a mysterious 1974 car crash; with Kurt Russell and Cher, five Oscar nominations.
Silkworm rearing and cocoon production
Silkworm rearing and cocoon production is the practice of raising the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori from eggs through larval life to harvested cocoons, fed on mulberry leaves.
Silla (신라)
Silla (신라), one of Korea's Three Kingdoms alongside Goguryeo and Baekje, arose in the southeast from Saroguk of the Samhan, ruled from Gyeongju, allied with Tang China to conquer Baekje (660) and Goguryeo (668), and governed Unified Silla until Goryeo absorbed it in 935.
Silla annexation of Daegaya
The Silla annexation of Daegaya (대가야 멸망) was the conquest of Daegaya, the last major polity of the Gaya confederacy, by the Korean kingdom of Silla in 562.
Silla Bang
Silla Bang (신라방) were self-governing communities of Silla expatriates in Tang China, formed from the 8th century on the Shandong Peninsula and Jianghuai region, anchoring Yellow Sea trade.
Silla Censorate (Sajeongbu)
The Silla Censorate, or Sajeongbu (사정부), was the government office of the Korean kingdom of Silla in charge of supervising and censoring central officials from 659.
Silla de Papa
Silla de Papa (La Silla del Papa), oppidum of Bailo, is an Iron Age hilltop town on the Sierra de la Plata, Tarifa, Cádiz, occupied 10th–1st century BC and abandoned 30–20 BC when its people founded Baelo Claudia.
Silla goldwork
Silla goldwork is the gold ornaments, above all crowns, belts, and earrings, made by the Silla kingdom (57 BCE – 676 CE) and buried in royal mound tombs at Gyeongju.
Silla household registers
The Silla household registers (장적, 帳籍) were the Silla state's master registers of households, land, livestock, and trees by village, used for taxation and labor; the only surviving example records four villages near Cheongju.
Silla law code of 520
The Silla law code of 520 (신라 율령) was a body of law promulgated by King Beopheung in 520, establishing a color-coded hierarchy of official dress.
Silla Millennium Park
Silla Millennium Park (신라밀레니엄파크) is a closed Silla-history theme park in Gyeongju's Bomun Tourist Complex, South Korea. Opened March 30, 2007 after Sambu Construction's long-delayed project; famous for Queen Seondeok filming sets and Ragung hanok hotel; shut since about 2017 amid redevelopment disputes.
Silla seizure of the Han River basin
The Silla seizure of the Han River basin was a 551–553 conquest in which Silla took the Han River region from Goguryeo and then Baekje.
Silla seventeen-rank system
The Silla seventeen-rank system (十七官等) was the seventeen-grade official rank system of the Korean kingdom of Silla, traditionally codified in 520 under King Beopheung, fixing promotion ceilings by birth status.
Silla Six Ministries
The Silla Six Ministries (신라 육부) were six regional polities in the Gyeongju area whose federation founded Silla; after the 6th century they became the capital's six administrative districts.
Silla–Baekje alliance
The Silla–Baekje alliance (나제 동맹, Naje dongmaeng) was a military pact formed in 433 between the Korean kingdoms of Silla and Baekje against Goguryeo's expansion.