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Sinnaneunsesang Folk Village
Sinnaneunsesang Folk Village (신나는세상민속촌) is a small theme park in Gwaebeop-dong, Sasang-gu, Busan, South Korea, registered as a business in October 1995, near Sasang station and the Busan Seobu intercity bus terminal.
Sinner (group)
Sinner is a German heavy metal band from Stuttgart formed in the early 1980s around vocalist and bassist Mat Sinner, releasing twenty studio albums before its 2026 farewell record.
Sinner (자필) (2026 film)
Sinner (자필) is a 2026 South Korean crime drama, Hong Sung-min's feature debut, starring Jung Sung-il and Park Ji-hyun. It premiered at the 31st Busan International Film Festival's Korean Cinema Today – Panorama section, about a prosecutor reinvestigating a death row inmate's case after reading her letter.
Sinner Man
"Sinner Man" (Sinnerman) is an African American traditional spiritual about a sinner fleeing divine judgment, first commercially recorded by Les Baxter in 1956, codified by Nina Simone's ten-minute 1965 Pastel Blues version, and adapted by Peter Tosh as reggae's "Downpressor Man".
Sinner's prayer
The sinner's prayer is an evangelistic prayer, worded variously, in which a person repents and asks Jesus Christ to become Lord and Savior, common in American evangelicalism.
Sinners (2025 film)
Sinners is a 2025 American horror film set in 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi. It follows twin brothers who open a juke joint and confront a vampire threat.
Sinners (soundtrack)
Sinners (soundtrack) is the 2025 album for Ryan Coogler's vampire film, also called Sinners: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, executive produced by Ludwig Göransson on Sony Masterworks, 22 tracks, with a separate Sony Classical score; it won Oscars and two Grammys.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a revival sermon by Jonathan Edwards, preached at Enfield on July 8, 1741, during the Great Awakening.
Sînnicolaul Mare
Sînnicolaul Mare (Sânnicolau Mare, Nagyszentmiklós), a town in Timiș County, Romanian Banat, famed for the 1799 find of 23 gold vessels (about 10 kg, Avar-era, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna) and the multi-period Selişte archaeological site.
Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty (中美共同防御条约)
The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, signed in 1954, was a military alliance between the United States and the Republic of China. It committed both parties to defend Taiwan.
Sino-American Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China
The Sino-American Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China, signed January 11, 1943, ended US consular jurisdiction and the US Court for China; effective May 20, 1943.
Sino-Austronesian languages
Sino-Austronesian, Laurent Sagart's proposed macrofamily linking Sinitic and Austronesian, later expanded to Sino-Tibeto-Austronesian (STAN) with Tibeto-Burman. Based on sound correspondences and 61 Old Chinese-Austronesian cognates; criticized by Blust, Li, Wang, Pulleyblank; not accepted by mainstream comparative linguistics.
Sino-British Joint Declaration (中英联合声明)
Sino-British Joint Declaration (中英联合声明), the 1984 UN-registered bilateral treaty under which Britain restored Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 with a 50-year 'one country, two systems' framework, now disputed between the UK and China over its continuing binding force.
Sino-British Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China
The 1943 Sino-British Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China, signed at Chungking on 11 January 1943 alongside a parallel Sino-American treaty, ended British consular jurisdiction, the treaty-port system, and concessions in China, though Hong Kong's New Territories and Tibet remained unresolved.
Sino-Burmese War
The Sino-Burmese War (တရုတ်-မြန်မာ စစ်ပွဲ) was a war between Qing China and Burma's Konbaung dynasty: four failed invasions by the Qianlong Emperor, ending in a 1769 truce.
Sino-French War (中法战争)
Sino-French War (中法战争), 1884–85 conflict between Qing China and France over Vietnam's status. Fuzhou's Fujian Fleet was destroyed in hours, Taiwan blockaded seven months, and the 1885 Treaty of Tientsin ended Chinese suzerainty over Vietnam.
Sino-German Jiaozhou lease convention
The Sino-German Jiaozhou lease convention (中德胶澳租借条约), signed on 6 March 1898, leased Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong to Germany for 99 years, with railway and mining rights that made the province a German sphere of influence.
Sino-Himalayan spruces of section Serrae
The Sino-Himalayan spruces of section Serrae are five East Asian Picea species, including dragon spruce and Taiwan spruce, distinguished by four-sided needles and centered on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
Sino-Indian border dispute
The Sino-Indian border dispute, also called the India-China boundary dispute, is an unresolved Himalayan territorial conflict over Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh along the 3,488 km Line of Actual Control, marked by the 1962 war, the 2020 Galwan clash, and the October 2024 patrolling agreement.
Sino-Indian War
The Sino-Indian War (中印边境战争) was a limited border war between China and India along the disputed Himalayan frontier, opened by a Chinese offensive on 20 October 1962.
Sino-Japanese Basic Treaty of 1940
The Sino-Japanese Basic Treaty of 1940 (汪僞中日基本關係條約), formally the Treaty Concerning Basic Relations between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, was signed at Nanjing on 30 November 1940.
Sino-Japanese peace negotiations (1593–1596)
The Sino-Japanese peace negotiations (명일 화담) were talks between Ming China and Hideyoshi's Japan from 1593 to 1596 during the Imjin War, conducted through Shen Weijing and Konishi Yukinaga.
Sino-Japanese Treaty of Amity of 1871
The Sino-Japanese Treaty of Amity of 1871 (日清修好条規) was an equal friendship and trade treaty signed at Tianjin on 13 September 1871 between Meiji Japan and Qing China.
Sino-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
The Sino-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (日清通商航海条約) was a commercial treaty between Japan and Qing China, signed in Beijing in 1896, giving Japan consular jurisdiction and most-favored-nation treatment.
Sino-Mauritian
Sino-Mauritian refers to Mauritians of Chinese ancestry, descended mostly from Hakka migrants from southern China who settled on the island in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sino-Mongolian border treaty
The Sino-Mongolian border treaty is the agreement signed in Beijing on 26 December 1962 by Zhou Enlai and Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal that delimited the entire 4,673 km China–Mongolia boundary.
Sino-Myanmar Oil Pipeline
The Sino-Myanmar Oil Pipeline (中缅原油管道) is a crude oil pipeline running from Maday Island at Kyaukphyu, Myanmar, to Kunming in China's Yunnan province, opened commercially in 2017.
Sino-Nasal Outcome Test
The Sino-Nasal Outcome Test, or SNOT-22, is a validated 22-item questionnaire that patients with chronic rhinosinusitis complete, scored 0 to 110 with higher scores indicating worse disease.
Sino-Roman relations
Sino-Roman relations, also called Romano-Chinese relations, were indirect contacts between Rome and Han China along Silk Road routes; no direct contact between the empires is confirmed.
Sino-Sikh War
The Sino-Sikh War was an 1841 to 1842 war in western Tibet and Ladakh between the Sikh Empire and Qing China, ending in the Treaty of Chushul.