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Sima Guang's Letter to Wang Anshi
Sima Guang's Letter to Wang Anshi (司马光与王介甫书) is a letter of political criticism sent by the Song historian Sima Guang to Wang Anshi, attacking the New Policies of 1069.
sima land-grant system
The sima land-grant system was the ancient Javanese practice of converting rice-field or garden land to tax-exempt status, so royal tax collectors could no longer enter it.
Sima Lang
Sima Lang (司馬朗), courtesy name Boda, was an Eastern Han official who served Cao Cao as Governor of Yanzhou and died in an epidemic during a campaign against Wu.
Sima Qian (司马迁)
Sima Qian (司马迁, c. 145–86 BCE), Western Han court astrologer and imperial secretary under Emperor Wu, compiled the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian), China's first biographical general history: 130 juan covering about 3,000 years from the Yellow Emperor, in five sections that shaped all later Chinese official historiography.
Sima Qian's castration and completion of the Shiji
Sima Qian's castration and completion of the Shiji refers to the Han historian's punishment in 99 BC and his choice to endure it and finish the Shiji.
Sima Shi
Sima Shi (司马师), courtesy name Ziyuan, was a Wei general and statesman who held effective power over the Wei government from his father Sima Yi's death until his own in 255.
Sima Tan
Sima Tan (司馬談, died 110 BC) was a Western Han Grand Historian under Emperor Wu and the father of Sima Qian, who originated the Shiji.
Sima Xiangru
Sima Xiangru (司马相如) was a Han dynasty fu poet and official from Chengdu, known for the Zixu fu and Shanglin fu and his mission to the southwest.
Sima Xiangru's mission to the Southwest Yi
Sima Xiangru's mission to the Southwest Yi (司马相如通西南夷) was a 130 BC Han diplomatic expedition in which Sima Xiangru accepted the submission of southwestern chiefs.
Sima Xin, Dong Yi and the Surrendered Qin Generals
Sima Xin, Dong Yi and the Surrendered Qin Generals (三秦降将集团) were three surrendered Qin generals whom Xiang Yu made kings over Guanzhong after Qin's fall, known as the Three Qins.
Sima Yi
Sima Yi (司馬懿, Zhongda, 179–251) was a Cao Wei statesman and general who seized power in the Gaoping Tombs coup of 249, executed co-regent Cao Shuang, and founded his family's dominance that led to the Jin dynasty.
Sima Zhao
Sima Zhao (司马昭, 211–265) was a general of the Wei dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, known for crushing the rebellion at Shouchun and ordering the conquest of Shu Han in 263.
Simaba cedron
Simaba cedron (cedron, cedrón; now Homalolepis cedron), a Simaroubaceae tree from Costa Rica to South America; bitter quassinoid seeds used traditionally against fevers and snakebite.
SimActive Correlator3D
SimActive Correlator3D is photogrammetry software developed by SimActive Inc. of Montreal, Canada, that generates digital surface models, orthomosaics, point clouds, and 3D models from drone, aircraft, and satellite imagery.
Simak ibn Harb
Simak ibn Harb (سماك بن حرب), kunya Abu al-Mughira, was a Kufan hadith scholar of the tabi'un generation who saw about eighty Companions of Muhammad.
Simandou
Simandou is a 110-kilometer mountain range in Guinea holding one of the world's largest untapped high-grade iron ore deposits, with the first shipment in December 2025.
Simão Sabrosa
Simão Sabrosa (Simão Pedro Fonseca Sabrosa, born 1979, Vila Real) is a Portuguese former left winger who played for Sporting, Barcelona, Benfica, Atlético Madrid, Besiktas, Espanyol, and NorthEast United, won 85 Portugal caps, and is now Benfica's technical director.
Simaro Lutumba
Simaro Lutumba (1938–2019) was a Congolese rumba rhythm guitarist and composer nicknamed the Poet, long-serving vice-president of Franco's TPOK Jazz, whom he later led, and composer of 'Mabele' and 'Maya'.
Simarouba
Simarouba (aceituno, bitterwood) is a genus of six dioecious Neotropical trees in Simaroubaceae, type species Simarouba amara, native from Mexico and Florida to South America, introduced to India, and rich in medicinal quassinoids.
Simaroubaceae
Simaroubaceae, the tree-of-heaven or quassia family, is a pantropical Sapindales family of about 20 genera and 110 species of bitter-barked trees and shrubs, sister to Rutaceae and Meliaceae in the SRM clade.
Simat-Ishtaran
Simat-Ishtaran, also written Šāt-Eštar, was a princess of the Third Dynasty of Ur who married the physician and general Šu-Kabta and managed the Garšana estate alone after his death.
SIMATIC
SIMATIC is the Siemens brand name for its family of industrial automation products, including programmable logic controllers, HMI devices, industrial PCs, and the PCS 7 process control system, engineered in the TIA Portal.
Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı
Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı is a 1936 epic poem by Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet about the 15th-century Ottoman jurist and Sufi Şeyh Bedreddin, who sought an egalitarian social order.
Simazine
Simazine (CAS 122-34-9), a chlorotriazine pre-emergence herbicide introduced in 1956 and first triazine registered in the US, inhibits photosynthesis in weeds; persistent, mobile, detected in groundwater, EU-banned since 2004.
Simba
Simba is the fictional lion protagonist of Disney's The Lion King (1994), son of Mufasa, voiced by Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Matthew Broderick, later Donald Glover in the 2019 remake; exiled after Scar kills his father, he returns as king.
SIMBA (simulation)
SIMBA is a suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation, introduced in 2019 as the successor to Mufasa and run with the Gizmo code.
Simba La Rue
Simba La Rue (Mohamed Lamine Saida, born 2002, Tunis) is an Italian-Tunisian drill and trap rapper based near Como, debut album Tunnel (2024), known for French-inflected lyrics and the Italian trapper-feud convictions.
Simba rebellion
The Simba rebellion was a large 1964 and 1965 uprising in the Congo, led by leftist rebels called Simbas seeking to overthrow the pro-Western central government.
Simba S.C.
Simba S.C. (Simba Sports Club), founded 1936 in Dar es Salaam as Queens, then Eagles and Sunderland, renamed Simba in 1971; Tanzanian giant with 22 league titles, 6 CECAFA cups, home at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, CAF Confederation Cup finalist 2025.
SIMBAD
SIMBAD, the Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data, is an online database of astronomical objects outside the Solar System, run by the CDS in Strasbourg, France.