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Silvertown Tunnel
The Silvertown Tunnel is a 1.4 km tolled twin-bore road tunnel under the Thames in east London, opened in April 2025 to relieve congestion at the nearby Blackwall Tunnel.
Silvester Prierias
Silvester Prierias (Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio, c. 1456–1523) was an Italian Dominican Thomist theologian who, as Master of the Sacred Palace in Rome, first attacked Martin Luther in print in 1518.
Silvester Takac
Silvester Takač (Силвестер Такач), born 1940 in Đurđevo, Serbian-Yugoslav footballer and coach: Olympic gold 1960 with Yugoslavia, Vojvodina's 1966 champion and top scorer, later coach of Sochaux and Nice (Coupe de France 1997).
Silvestre Dangond
Silvestre Dangond is a Colombian vallenato singer born in 1980 in Urumita, La Guajira, who has won four Latin Grammy Awards for Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album.
Silvestro Aldobrandini
Silvestro Aldobrandini (1587–1612) was an Italian cardinal deacon, grand-nephew of Pope Clement VIII, created cardinal in 1603 at sixteen and dead at twenty-five, never a cardinal priest.
SILVHIA trial
SILVHIA (Swedish Irbesartan Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Investigation versus Atenolol), NCT00389168: Swedish double-blind trial in 115 hypertensive patients with LVH; irbesartan reduced left ventricular mass more than atenolol (-26 vs -14 g/m2) despite equal blood pressure control.
Silvia Amerio
Silvia Amerio is an Italian experimental particle physicist at the University of Padua who co-authored the 2004 design paper for the ICARUS T600, the first large-scale liquid-argon time-projection chamber, and worked on CDF and LHCb.
Silvia Arber
Silvia Arber, born 1968 in Geneva, is a Swiss neuroscientist at the University of Basel who studies the neuronal circuits controlling movement, and won the Brain Prize in 2022.
Silvia Bosurgi
Silvia Bosurgi (born 1979, Messina) is an Italian water polo forward, Athens 2004 Olympic gold medalist, world champion Fukuoka 2001, and later coach and president of SSD Unime Messina.
Silvia Breher
Silvia Breher, born 1973 in Löningen, is a German CDU politician serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the agriculture ministry and as Federal Government Commissioner for Animal Welfare.
Silvia Colloca
Silvia Colloca (born 1977, Milan) is an Italian-Australian actress, operatic mezzo-soprano, cookbook author, and TV host; known for Verona in Van Helsing (2004) and for SBS/Channel 10 cooking series and seven Penguin cookbooks.
Silvia Corona
Silvia Corona is a 270-km-diameter corona (volcano-tectonic ring structure) on Venus at 12.6N, 355.7E, in quadrangle V-31; IAU-named in 1997 for a Roman earth goddess.
Silvia Corvera
Silvia Corvera is a Mexican-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, studying how adipose tissue development relates to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici (born 1942, Parma) is an Italian feminist scholar and Wages for Housework co-founder, professor emerita at Hofstra University, author of Caliban and the Witch (2004), which links witch-hunts to capitalist primitive accumulation.
Silvia Franceschi
Silvia Franceschi is an Italian cancer epidemiologist whose multicentre studies established HPV as the necessary cause of cervical cancer, leading the Infections and Cancer Epidemiology Group at IARC in Lyon.
Silvia G. Priori
Silvia G. Priori (Silvia Giuliana Priori), born 1960 in Torino, is an Italian cardiologist at the University of Pavia known for genetic research on inherited arrhythmias and gene therapy.
Silvia Manrique
Silvia Manrique Pérez (born 1973, Llodio, Spain) is a retired Spanish field hockey player; she won gold with Spain at Barcelona 1992, scoring the only goal in the 1-0 final win over Australia, and played at Atlanta 1996.
Silvia Navarro
Silvia Navarro (Silvia Angélica Navarro Barva, born 1978, Irapuato) is a Mexican telenovela actress, distinct from Spanish handball goalkeeper and other namesakes. TV Azteca star from Perla (1998), then Televisa leads Mañana es para siempre and Mi corazón es tuyo, Telemundo's La suerte de Loli.
Sílvia Orriols
Sílvia Orriols Serra (born Vic, 1984) is a Catalan far-right, pro-independence politician, founder and leader of Aliança Catalana (2020), mayor of Ripoll since 2023, and a Girona deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia since 2024.
Sílvia Pérez Cruz
Sílvia Pérez Cruz is a Spanish singer-songwriter and actress from Catalonia known for blending jazz, flamenco, and folk traditions, with Goyas in 2017 and 2026.
Silvia Pinal
Silvia Pinal (Silvia Pinal Hidalgo, 1931–2024), Mexican actress of the Golden Age; star of Buñuel's Viridiana, The Exterminating Angel, and Simon of the Desert; TV host of Mujer, casos de la vida real; deputy and Ariel winner.
Silvia Saint
Silvia Saint (Silvie Tomčalová, born 1976, Kyjov) is a Czech former pornographic actress, 1996 Czech Penthouse Pet, 1997 Best Newcomer winner, Uranus Experiment freefall scene, AVN Hall of Fame 2012.
Silvia Salis
Silvia Salis is an Italian politician and former hammer thrower who has been Mayor of Genoa since 2025, elected at the head of a center-left coalition.
Silvia Sperber
Silvia Sperber (Sperber-Seiderer), born 1965 in Erpfting, German sports shooter; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold in small-bore rifle three positions and silver in air rifle; 1983/1984 air rifle team world champion.
Silvia Stroescu
Silvia Stroescu (Silvia Alexandra Stroescu, born 1985, Bucharest) is a Romanian artistic gymnast, 2004 Athens Olympic team gold medalist, 2001 world and 2004 European team champion; later a FIG judge and researcher.
Silvia Vignolini
Silvia Vignolini, born 1981, is an Italian physicist who studies bio-inspired structural color and directs the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
Silvia Zane
Silvia Zane is an astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysics at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, where she has led the Astronomy Group since 2022.
Silvicultural system
A silvicultural system is a planned, rotation-long series of treatments for tending, harvesting, and regenerating a forest stand, combining a regeneration method with intermediate treatments.
Silviculture
Silviculture is the science of controlling forest establishment, growth, composition, and health. Covers even-aged (clearcut, shelterwood, seed-tree) versus uneven-aged (selection) systems, their biodiversity, economic, and carbon trade-offs.
Silvina Bullrich
Silvina Bullrich (1915–1990) was an Argentine novelist, translator, journalist, and screenwriter; her bestseller Los burgueses (1964) sold over 60,000 copies, and she also translated Simone de Beauvoir.