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Sinhalese people (සිංහල ජනතාව)
Sinhalese people (සිංහල ජනතාව), Sri Lanka's largest ethnic group: Sinhala-speaking, mostly Theravada Buddhist, 74.12% of the 2024 census population, tracing origins to Prince Vijaya and shaped by caste, kinship, and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism.
Sinharaja Forest Reserve (සිංහරාජ රක්ෂිතය)
Sinharaja Forest Reserve (සිංහරාජ රක්ෂිතය) is Sri Lanka's last viable primary lowland tropical rainforest, an 8,864-ha UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988 with over 60% endemic trees and 19 of 20 endemic birds.
Sini Oil and Gas Field
The Sini Oil and Gas Field is an onshore field in Tabasco, Mexico, discovered in 2012 and operated by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), producing super light crude oil and wet gas.
Sini Siro
Sini Siro (born 2002) is a Finnish speed skater of Seinäjoen Urheilijat who won gold in the mixed NOC team sprint at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics in 2:04.10, and placed 30th, 27th, and =29th in her individual events.
Sinicization
Sinicization (Hanhua 汉化, Zhongguohua 中国化) is the assimilation of non-Chinese peoples into Chinese language and culture, and the contested historiographical theory built on it, covering conquest dynasties, the New Qing History debate, and the CCP's post-2015 Sinicization of religion policy.
Sinigang
Sinigang is the Filipino sour soup or stew, built on pork, beef, fish, shrimp, or chicken with vegetables and a fruit souring agent, usually tamarind; also called sour broth, it is culturally Tagalog and ranked TasteAtlas' best soup in 2021.
Siniša Karan
Siniša Karan (Синиша Каран), born 1962, Serbian jurist and SNSD politician; former RS interior minister, OFAC-sanctioned 2025, and President of Republika Srpska since February 2026 after the snap and rerun elections.
Siniša Mali (Синиша Мали)
Siniša Mali (Синиша Мали), born 1972 in Belgrade, is a Serbian politician and Minister of Finance since 2018, previously Mayor of Belgrade from 2014 to 2018.
Siniša Mihajlović (Синиша Михајловић)
Siniša Mihajlović (Синиша Михајловић), Serbian footballer and coach (1969-2022), European Cup winner with Red Star 1991, Lazio and Inter Serie A winner, Serie A record 28 free-kick goals, later Bologna and Milan coach.
Sinisa Urban
Siniša Urban is a Croatian-born, Canada-raised molecular biologist and Johns Hopkins professor known for discovering the rhomboid proteases, enzymes that cut proteins within the membrane bilayer.
Sinister (film)
Sinister (2012) is a supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson, co-written with C. Robert Cargill, starring Ethan Hawke as true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt, who finds murderous Super 8 reels linked to the deity Bughuul; a $3 million Blumhouse hit grossing about $80 million worldwide.
Sinister 2
Sinister 2 (2015) is a supernatural horror sequel directed by Ciarán Foy, written by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, starring James Ransone and Shannyn Sossamon; Focus Features released it to 14% on Rotten Tomatoes and $27.7 million US gross.
Sinister Six
The Sinister Six is Marvel Comics' Spider-Man supervillain team, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964) under Doctor Octopus with Electro, Kraven, Mysterio, Sandman, and Vulture; membership rotates across re-formations, games, and an unmade 2016 Sony film.
Sinitic languages
Sinitic languages (汉语族), the Chinese branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, about 1.3 billion speakers, comprising 7-10 traditionally recognized groups such as Mandarin, Min, and Yue, largely mutually unintelligible and typologically distinct from Tibeto-Burman.
Sinitta
Sinitta (Sinitta Renay Malone, born 1963, Seattle) is an American-British pop singer, Cowell's first Fanfare Records artist, known for 1980s hits "So Macho" (UK No.2) and "Toy Boy" (UK No.4), Gold albums Sinitta! and Wicked, and later X Factor mentoring.
Sinjai Plengpanich
Sinjai Plengpanich (สินจัย เปล่งพานิช), nicknamed Nok, is a Thai actress born in Bangkok in 1965 who began in film in 1982 and later starred in musicals.
Sinjar Alliance
Sinjar Alliance (Shingal Alliance), a Yazidi armed coalition in Iraq's Sinjar district formed after the August 2014 ISIL massacre; founding member YBŞ, with YJÊ women's units under KCK, collaborating with the PKK's HPG.
Sinjar massacre
Sinjar massacre: ISIS assault on Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq, from August 3, 2014 (also called Shingal genocide); thousands killed, thousands abducted, later recognized by UN investigations as genocide against the Yazidi.
Sinjhoro
Sinjhoro (سنجھورو) is a town and taluka in Sanghar District, Sindh, Pakistan, 12 km west of Sanghar city; 2023 census: 354,709 tehsil residents, 907 sq km, 16.9% urban, 42.0% literacy, and ruins of the Arab capital Mansura within its bounds.
Sinjong of Goryeo
Sinjong of Goryeo (Korean: 신종, 神宗), personal name Wang Tak, was the 20th king of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, reigning 1197 to 1204 as a figurehead under the military ruler Choe Chung-heon.
Sink
A sink is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture supplied by a faucet and drained through a trap, used for washing hands, dishes, and food in kitchens and bathrooms.
Sink Now, Swim Later
Sink Now, Swim Later is the 2025 debut EP by London singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro (Liberty/Capitol, 21 February 2025): eight soul-jazz pop tracks in two halves, SINK and SWIM, with the viral ballad Maybe as centerpiece.
Sink sink
Sink sink is a five-card trick-taking card game played in Niger, a variant of Agram in which the winner of the fifth and last trick wins the game.
Sink the Bismarck!
Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white British war film directed by Lewis Gilbert, based on C. S. Forester's The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck, dramatizing the Royal Navy's 1941 hunt for the German battleship Bismarck, starring Kenneth More.
Sinkevičius Cabinet
The Sinkevičius Cabinet is Lithuania's 21st government, led by Social Democrat Mindaugas Sinkevičius, sworn in 14 July 2026 after a 72-29 Seimas vote; an LSDP-DSVL-LVŽS/AWPL coalition of 75 seats pledging Ukraine support and China normalization.
Sinkhole
Sinkhole (doline): closed ground depression with no external surface drainage, formed by collapse or subsidence into voids dissolved in karst rocks like limestone, gypsum, or salt; types include dissolution, cover-subsidence, and cover-collapse, plus human-induced forms from pumping, construction, and mining.
Sinkhole formation mechanisms and types
Sinkholes form when weak carbonic acid dissolves limestone or soil collapses into cavities; types include dissolution, suffosion, and cover-collapse sinkholes, many triggered by groundwater pumping.
Sinkhole hazard assessment and mitigation
Sinkhole hazard assessment and mitigation is the set of methods for mapping sinkhole susceptibility, confirming site risk, stabilizing ground, and spreading costs through insurance and land-use rules.
Sinkholes as tourist attractions
Sinkhole tourism develops collapsed karst landforms, from sheer-walled Chinese tiankeng to water-filled Yucatán cenotes, as managed visitor sites: lookout parks, extreme-sports venues, swimming holes, and dive locations.
Sinkholes in popular culture
Sinkholes in popular culture examines sinkholes as media spectacle, from the televised 1981 Winter Park, Florida collapse and the 2013 Seffner fatality to documentaries and NBC's La Brea.