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Salamat Ali Khan
Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (1934–2001) was a Pakistani classical vocalist of the Sham Chaurasi gharana, famed for the duo he formed with his elder brother Nazakat Ali Khan.
Salamaua–Lae campaign
The Salamaua–Lae campaign was a series of 1943 battles in New Guinea during World War II, in which Australian and US forces captured Salamaua and Lae from Japanese forces.
Salami
Salami: cured, fermented sausage (Italian salame, plural salami) of minced pork, salted, fermented to low pH, dried, and eaten uncooked; distinguished from cooked sausages, with Genoa, pepperoni, and Felino variants and E. coli O157:H7 safety rules.
Salamis, Cyprus
Salamis was an ancient city-kingdom on the east coast of Cyprus, about 6.5 km north of Famagusta, occupied from the 11th century BC to the 7th century AD.
Salammbô
Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in Paris in 1862 and set in ancient Carthage during the Mercenary War that followed the First Punic War.
Salangichthys microdon
Salangichthys microdon (Japanese icefish, shirauo, シラウオ) is a small translucent noodlefish (Salangidae, Osmeriformes) of the Northwest Pacific, up to 10 cm, living in brackish estuaries and lakes and fished commercially; IUCN Least Concern.
Salar Aghili
Salar Aghili (سالار عقیلی; full name Mir Salar Moslemi Aghili) is an Iranian singer of Persian classical music, born in 1977 in Tehran, and the regular vocalist of Iran's National Music Orchestra.
Salar de Atacama
Salar de Atacama is a salt flat in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, hosting the world's largest lithium brine deposit, about 42% of global reserves.
Salar de Maricunga
Salar de Maricunga is a high-altitude salt flat in the Atacama Region of northern Chile, with Chile's second-highest lithium brine concentration after the Salar de Atacama.
Salar de Tara
Salar de Tara is a high-altitude salt flat and Ramsar wetland in the Andes of northern Chile, near San Pedro de Atacama, and the main nesting site of James's flamingo.
Salar de Uyuni
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia's Andean salt flat of about 10,000 km² at 3,650 m altitude, is the world's largest salt flat and largest known lithium deposit, with state lithium production by YLB, major tourism, and acute water-footprint concerns.
Salar Futuro Project
Salar Futuro is a lithium and potassium chloride brine project at the Salar de Atacama in northern Chile, developed by Novandino Litio, the Codelco–SQM alliance company.
Salar Jung I
Salar Jung I (سالار جنگ اول), born Mir Turab Ali Khan, was diwan of Hyderabad State from 1853 to 1883, appointed by Nizam IV and ending his career as regent.
Salar Jung III
Salar Jung III (سالار جنگ سوم), born Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, was diwan of Hyderabad State, appointed in 1912, and built the Salar Jung Museum.
Salar Jung Museum
Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad art museum founded 1951 from the one-man collection of Salar Jung III; Institution of National Importance (1961), 39 galleries, about 43,000 objects, Veiled Rebecca.
Salar Jung's reforms
Salar Jung's reforms (اصلاحات سالار جنگ) were the reorganization of Hyderabad State's revenue, police, and judicial administration by Salar Jung I, Prime Minister from 1853 to 1883.
Salaries in Iran
Salaries in Iran are rial-denominated wages whose dollar value has collapsed under sanctions and currency depreciation; by early 2026 a typical full-time monthly wage was just over $100.
Salaries of government officials in India
Salaries of government officials in India: pay for central employees, MPs, and ministers, set by Central Pay Commissions (7th CPC 2016, 8th CPC 2025), the 1954 MPs' salary Act, Dearness Allowance, and fiscal cost.
Salaries of members of the United Kingdom Parliament
Salaries of UK Parliament members: MPs earn a basic £98,599 from April 2026, set by IPSA since 2011, plus £19,763 for committee chairs and frozen ministerial salaries under the 1975 Act.
Salaries of members of the United States Congress
US congressional salaries: $174,000 base for members since the January 2009 raise, $223,500 Speaker, $193,400 leaders; Ethics Reform Act ECI formula, automatic adjustments denied since 2010.
Salarrué
Salarrué was the pen name of Luis Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué (1899–1975), a Salvadoran writer and painter regarded as a founder of the modern Central American short story.
Salary
A salary is a fixed, predetermined amount of pay an employee regularly receives each pay period, not reduced for variations in work, and legally distinct from hourly wages.
Salary cap
A salary cap, or wage cap, is a collectively negotiated limit on each team's spending on player wages, often set as a share of league revenue in collective bargaining agreements.
Salary system for officials (banlu)
The banlu (班祿) salary system was regular official pay instituted by the Northern Wei dynasty under Emperor Xiaowen in Taihe 8 (484), paid quarterly in silk and grain.
Salaryman (サラリーマン)
Salaryman (サラリーマン) is a Japanese term for a white-collar regular employee at a large company or government office, the emblematic figure of postwar Japan's middle class.
Salash
Salash: a village in Belogradchik municipality, northwestern Bulgaria, near the Serbian border; also an ancient Roman fort (Barrington Atlas 21 E6), the Salash geological Formation, a river, and a Serbian farmstead term.
Salastambha's usurpation in Kamarupa
Salastambha's usurpation in Kamarupa (शालस्तम्भ) was the transfer of power in the kingdom of Kamarupa, in the lower Brahmaputra valley of present-day Assam, from the Varman dynasty to the Mlechchha dynasty founded by Salastambha.
Salat al-Istikharah (صلاة الاستخارة)
Salat al-Istikharah (صلاة الاستخارة), or Istikhara, is a voluntary two-rakʿah Islamic prayer of seeking guidance, taught by the Prophet Muhammad, for choosing between permissible options.
Salavan
Salavan (ສາລະວັນ, Saravane) is a southern Lao province on the Bolaven Plateau, capital Salavan city, 8 districts, a major Arabica coffee producer, Ho Chi Minh Trail wartime history, and UXO contamination.
Salavat
Salavat (Салават), city in Bashkortostan, Russia, on the Belaya River; founded 1948 around petrochemical Combine No. 18, city since 1954, named after hero Salavat Yulayev; about 146,600 residents, third largest in the republic.