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Sin Jae Hwan
Sin Jae Hwan (신재환, also Shin Jea-hwan), South Korean artistic gymnast born 1998 in Seoul; won men's vault gold at Tokyo 2020 with 14.783 on a tiebreak over Denis Abliazin, his country's second Olympic gymnastics champion after Yang Hak-seon.
Sin Jun Seop
Sin Jun Seop (신준섭, Shin Joon-Sup), born 1963, South Korean amateur boxer; won 1984 Los Angeles Olympic middleweight gold, beating Virgil Hill 3-2, first Korean Olympic boxing gold; 1986 Asian Games champion; never turned pro.
Sin Nombre
Sin Nombre was a quarterly literary magazine published in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from 1970 to the mid-1980s, founded by Nilita Vientós Gastón after losing control of Asomante.
Sin Nombre virus
Sin Nombre virus (Orthohantavirus sinnombreense), a New World hantavirus identified in the 1993 Four Corners outbreak, is carried by deer mice, causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome with about 35% case fatality, and has no approved vaccine or treatment.
Sin of Sargon
The Sin of Sargon is a fragmentary Neo-Assyrian text in which Sennacherib uses extispicy to find the sin that caused the gods to abandon Sargon II.
Sin Po
Sin Po (新报, Xin Bao) was a Malay-language newspaper for the Chinese community of the Dutch East Indies, published in Batavia (now Jakarta) from 1910 until 1965.
Sin Rip
Sin Rip (신립, 1546–1592) was a Joseon dynasty general, once regarded as Korea's greatest, who commanded the army destroyed at the Battle of Chungju in 1592.
Sin senos no hay paraíso
Sin senos no hay paraíso: 2008 Telemundo telenovela with Carmen Villalobos, adapting Gustavo Bolívar's 2005 novel and Caracol's 2006 Sin tetas no hay paraíso; 169 episodes, aired in 17 countries, sequel Sin senos sí hay paraíso (2016).
Sin senos sí hay paraíso
Sin senos sí hay paraíso is a Telemundo telenovela (2016–2019, four seasons), sequel to Sin senos no hay paraíso and the Sin tetas franchise, following Catalina Marín; a new season premieres November 16, 2026.
Sin Suk-ju
Sin Suk-ju (신숙주, 1417–1475) was a Korean civil official and scholar of the early Joseon dynasty who helped create the Hunminjeongeum alphabet and served as chief state councillor.
Sin Sung-gyeon
Sin Sung-gyeon (신숭겸), originally named Sin Neung-san, was a Goryeo general who helped enthrone Wang Geon in 918 and died in 927 covering the king's escape from defeat.
Sin tax
A sin tax, also called a vice tax or sumptuary tax, is an excise tax on goods harmful to health, such as alcohol, tobacco, and sugary drinks, meant to raise revenue and influence behavior.
Sîn temple (Khorsabad)
Sîn temple (Khorsabad): one of six sanctuaries on the palace terrace of Dur-Sharrukin, dedicated to the god Sin; built under Sargon II, excavated by the Oriental Institute 1932–33, with glazed-brick façade bricks now in Chicago.
Sin Xay
Sin Xay, more fully Sang Sinxay (Lao: ສັງສິນໄຊ), is a Lao epic poem attributed to Pang Kham, dated about 1600, and regarded as Laos' national epic.
Sin-balassu-iqbi
Sîn-balāssu-iqbi was governor of the southern Mesopotamian city of Ur in the seventh century BC, serving under Ashurbanipal and known chiefly from Sumerian building inscriptions recording an extensive building program at Ur.
Sin-eater
A sin-eater was a person paid to eat bread and drink ale over a corpse, taking on the dead person's sins so they could pass into the afterlife.
Sin-Eribam
Sin-Eribam (Sîn-erībam, also written Sin-iribam) was the tenth king of the city-state of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia, ruling for two years, 1842–1841 BC, between Sin-iddinam and Sin-iqišam.
Sin-gamil
Sin-gamil (Sîn-gāmil) was a king of Uruk, modern Warka in Iraq, during the early Old Babylonian period, known from three year names recording his accession and temple dedications.
Sin-iddinam (governor of Larsa)
Sin-iddinam was a high official of the Babylonian king Hammurabi, appointed governor general of Larsa after its conquest in Hammurabi's 30th year, around 1762 BC.
Sin-Iddinam (king of Larsa)
Sîn-iddinam was a king of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia, the ninth ruler of the Larsa Dynasty, who reigned seven years, c. 1849–1843 BC, succeeding Nur-Adad and preceding Sin-iribam.
Sin-Iqisham
Sin-Iqisham (Sîn-iqišam) was a king of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia during the Isin-Larsa period, reigning five years, c. 1841–1836 BC, and recording a victory over Uruk, Kazallu, Elam, and Isin.
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, also written Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, was a Japanese theoretical physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Feynman and Schwinger for quantum electrodynamics.
Sin-kashid
Sin-kashid (Sîn-kāšid, also written Sin-kasid) was an Amorite king of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia, c. 1865–1833 BC, who took Uruk from Larsa, founded a dynasty, and built a large palace known from over 100 inscriptions.
Sîn-lēqi-unninni
Sîn-lēqi-unninni, also written Sin-leqe-unninni, was a Babylonian exorcist and scholar of Uruk whom tradition credits with compiling the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, probably under the Kassite dynasty.
Sin-magir
Sin-magir (Sîn-māgir) was a king of Isin in southern Mesopotamia, the 14th and penultimate ruler of the First Dynasty of Isin, who reigned 11 years, 1827–1817 BC.
Sin-muballit
Sin-muballit was an Amorite king of Babylon, the fifth ruler of the First Dynasty and father and immediate predecessor of Hammurabi, reigning about 1812 to 1793 BC.
Sîn-Šamaš Temple
Temple of Sin and Shamash at Assur, a double sanctuary to the moon and sun gods in Assyria's religious capital, built by Assurnirari in the 15th century BC, with symmetrical facing shrines; now almost disappeared.
Sin-shar-ishkun
Sin-shar-ishkun (Sîn-šar-iškun) was a son of Ashurbanipal and king of Assyria from the late 620s BC until 612 BC, when he died defending his capital Nineveh against Babylonians and Medes.
Sin-shumu-lishir
Sin-shumu-lishir (Sîn-šumu-līšir) was an Assyrian general and chief eunuch who claimed kingship over Assyria and Babylonia in 626 BC, during the succession crisis after Ashurbanipal, ruling briefly over part of Babylonia.
SIN3A
SIN3A (SIN3 transcription regulator family member A, WITKOS), gene at 15q24.2 encoding a 1,273-aa scaffold of the conserved Sin3/HDAC1-2 co-repressor complex; haploinsufficiency causes Witteveen-Kolk syndrome and 15q24 microdeletion syndrome.