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Simhanada Guggulu
Simhanada Guggulu, a classical Ayurvedic pill of guggulu resin, Triphala, purified sulphur, and castor oil, first in Chakradatta, pharmacopoeial, used mainly for Amavata (rheumatoid arthritis), dose up to 3 g daily.
Simhapura dynasty
The Simhapura dynasty, known to Chinese records as Lam Ap, was the line of kings of Champa centered at Tra Kieu in Vietnam, ruling until 757.
Simhavarman II
Simhavarman II (சிம்மவர்மன்) was a Pallava king of Kanchi in South India who reigned from about 436 to 477 CE and was succeeded by his son Skandavarman.
Simhavishnu
Simhavishnu (சிம்ஹவிஷ்ணு) was a Pallava king who ruled at Kanchi in the late sixth century and is regarded as the true founder of the Pallava dynasty.
Simi (singer)
Simi, born Simisola Bolatito Kosoko (1988), is a Nigerian Afropop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter and sound engineer from Lagos, whose gospel debut Ogaju (2008) led to the Simisola album (2017), the Studio Brat label, and Lost and Found (2024).
Simi Garewal (सिमी गरेवाल)
Simi Garewal (सिमी गरेवाल), born Simrita Garewal 1947, Indian actress of Tarzan Goes to India, Mera Naam Joker, Siddhartha, two-time Filmfare winner, later host of Rendezvous with Simi Garewal.
Simi Valley, California
Simi Valley is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, about 37 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Incorporated in 1969, population 126,356 (2020 census), third largest of the county's ten cities.
Simian
Simian (Simiiformes): the primate infraorder covering all monkeys and apes, including humans; haplorhine, excluding tarsiers; about 307 species, crown age 42.2 million years, split into Platyrrhini and Catarrhini.
Simian foamy virus
Simian foamy virus is a retrovirus of nonhuman primates that spreads to humans through bites, causing a persistent infection with no disease linked to it.
Simiancheng Chengzhi
四面城城址 (Simiancheng town site), a Liao–Jin rammed-earth walled town in Changtu County, Tieling, Liaoning; identified by a 2000 Jin-dynasty stele as the seat of Liao Anzhou and Jin Guiren County; national key cultural relic protection unit since 2013.
Simias
Simias is a monotypic colobine monkey genus holding Simias concolor, the pig-tailed langur or simakobou, endemic to Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, sister to Nasalis, Critically Endangered with 6,700–17,300 individuals.
Simidele Adeagbo
Simidele Adeagbo is a Nigerian skeleton and monobob athlete who at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics became Nigeria's first Winter Olympian and the first African and Black woman to race Olympic skeleton.
Simigwa
Simigwa is the 1975 debut album by Ghanaian highlife musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, fusing highlife with funk and rap-like vocals, and often cited among the earliest commercial rap recordings.
Similarity (geometry)
Similarity in geometry is the relation between figures with the same shape but not necessarily the same size: corresponding angles are equal and corresponding sides are in constant ratio.
Similarity solution
A similarity solution is a partial differential equation solution that keeps its shape under rescaling of variables, reducing the PDE to an ordinary differential equation, as in the Blasius boundary layer.
Similarweb Ltd.
Similarweb Ltd. is an Israeli-founded digital data and analytics company, founded by Or Offer in 2007, that estimates website and mobile app traffic, engagement, and market share.
Simin Behbahani
Simin Behbahani (سیمین بهبهانی), born Siminbar Khalili, was an Iranian poet and activist, born in Tehran in 1927 and died there in 2014, known for renewing the ghazal.
Simin Daneshvar
Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور) was an Iranian novelist, translator, and academic whose Savushun (1969) was the first novel in Persian written by an Iranian woman.
Simin Liu
Simin Liu is a physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large prospective studies of sex hormones and type 2 diabetes, now Distinguished Professor and chair at UC Irvine.
Simina Grigoriu
Simina Grigoriu, married name Kalkbrenner, is a Romanian-born, Toronto-raised techno DJ and producer based in Berlin since 2008; she founded Kuukou Records in 2016 and is married to Paul Kalkbrenner.
Siming Guild Hall (Ningbo Guild)
The Siming Guild Hall (四明公所), also called the Ningbo Guild Hall, was founded in Shanghai in 1797 as a burial and coffin-storage charity for Ningbo merchants.
Simio
Simio is a commercial simulation, production planning, and scheduling software package developed by Simio LLC of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, first released in 2008 and built around object-based modeling.
Simion Bărnuțiu
Simion Bărnuțiu (1808–1864) was a Transylvania-born Romanian jurist, philosopher, and teacher who led the ideological side of the 1848 revolution and later taught law and philosophy at Iași in Moldavia.
Simion Ismailciuc
Simion Ismailciuc (1930-1986), Romanian sprint canoeist, Olympic C2 1000 m gold medalist at Melbourne 1956 with Dumitru Alexe, world champion 1958 and 1963, later coach of Ivan Patzaichin.
Simla Agreement
Simla Agreement (Shimla Accord), India-Pakistan bilateral treaty signed 2 July 1972 by Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the 1971 war; established the Line of Control and committed both states to peaceful bilateral dispute settlement; held in abeyance by Pakistan in 2025.
Simla Conference
Simla Conference 1945: Wavell's meeting with 21 Indian leaders at the Viceregal Lodge, 25 June to 14 July 1945, on reconstituting the Executive Council; it failed over Jinnah's claim to nominate all Muslim members, leading to the 1945–6 elections.
Simla Deputation
The Simla Deputation (شملا وفد) was a meeting at Simla on 1 October 1906, where 35 Muslim leaders led by Agha Khan asked Viceroy Lord Minto for separate Muslim representation.
Simlipal National Park
Simlipal (Similipal) National Park, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India: a 2,750 sq km tiger reserve, UNESCO biosphere reserve, and since April 2025 India's 107th National Park, known for wild melanistic black tigers and the Barehipani and Joranda waterfalls.
Simlish
Simlish is the fictional, largely improvised gibberish language spoken by Sims in The Sims series, created by Will Wright and first heard in SimCopter (1996).
SIMM
A SIMM (Single In-line Memory Module) is a memory module with one row of edge contacts, standard in PCs from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s.