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Salem bin Laden
Salem bin Laden was a Saudi businessman, eldest son of construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden, who led the family business until his 1988 death in a plane crash.
Salem college herbarium
Salem College Herbarium, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; founded 1772, the oldest herbarium in the United States. Holds about 1,000 historical and 5,000 modern specimens; nearly lost to beetles in 2010, then restored and digitized.
Salem nuclear power plant
The Salem nuclear power plant, also called the Salem Nuclear Generating Station, is a two-unit nuclear power plant on Artificial Island in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey.
Salem Saberhagen
Salem Saberhagen is the talking black cat familiar of Sabrina Spellman in Archie Comics and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. A warlock sentenced to 100 years as a cat for world domination; created by George Gladir and Dan DeCarlo, voiced by Nick Bakay.
Salem witch trials
Salem witch trials: 1692-93 prosecutions in Massachusetts Bay in which 19 were hanged and Giles Corey pressed to death; a special Court of Oyer and Terminer admitted spectral evidence, making Salem America's defining witch hunt.
Salem–Spencer set
A Salem–Spencer set is a finite set of numbers containing no three-term arithmetic progression. Salem and Spencer proved in 1942 that such sets can be surprisingly large.
Salem, Massachusetts
Salem, Massachusetts: coastal Essex County city founded 1626, second chartered city in the state (1836), population about 45,000. Known for the 1692 witch trials, maritime trade heritage, Salem Maritime National Historical Park, and a $144 million Halloween tourism economy.
Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon: state capital and second largest city, seat of Marion County in the Willamette Valley. Founded 1842 around the Oregon Institute; capital since 1851; population about 181,779 (2025).
Salem, Tamil Nadu
Salem (சேலம்), Tamil Nadu: fifth largest city in the state, headquarters of Salem district, a municipal corporation since 1994 covering 91.34 sq km with 829,267 people (2011), known for textiles, Salem Steel, and sago.
Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)
Salem's Lot (1979) is Tobe Hooper's two-part CBS miniseries adapting Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel, starring David Soul, James Mason, and Reggie Nalder as Barlow; first King TV miniseries, aired November 17 and 24, 1979.
Salem's Lot (film)
Salem's Lot (2024 film), also called 'Salem's Lot, is a New Line Cinema horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1975 novel, written and directed by Gary Dauberman, starring Lewis Pullman, produced by James Wan and Roy Lee, and released on Max October 3, 2024, the third screen adaptation after the 1979 and 2004 miniseries.
Salem/Salumias
Salem/Salumias (Sedima), an ancient place at Tel Shalem (Tell er-Radgha) in the Jordan Valley near Beth-Shean; biblical Salem of Melchizedek, Aenon of John the Baptist, and site of a Roman fort of legio VI Ferrata and Ala VII Phrygum.
Saleng A. Sangma
Saleng A. Sangma, born 1978, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Meghalaya's Tura constituency in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Salento
Salento is the peninsula forming the heel of Italy's Apulia region, anciently called Messapia, Iapygia, or Calabria. Home of the Messapi and their Indo-European Messapic language, later crossed by the Via Traiana Calabra and known for the Barocco Leccese and Griko-speaking Grecìa Salentina.
Salep
Salep is a flour of dried, ground wild orchid tubers used for a hot cinnamon-topped winter drink and maraş dondurma ice cream; distinguished from sahlab substitutes by its glucomannan content, at least 35 source species, and Turkey's export ban.
Salernitana
Salernitana (US Salernitana 1919), Salerno football club founded 19 June 1919, garnet colors, Arechi stadium; two Serie A seasons, 2025 Serie B playout relegation to Serie C, now in Girone C under Serse Cosmi.
Salerno
Salerno (Salernum), Campania city on the Gulf of Salerno, Italy. Roman colony, Lombard principality capital from 849, seat of Europe's oldest medical school, Norman capital under Guiscard, and capital of Italy February–July 1944.
Sales
Sales is the set of activities by which an organization converts qualified opportunities into commercial commitments, through prospecting, qualification, proposal, negotiation, and closing; it sits alongside marketing, which creates demand.
Sales and operations planning
Sales and operations planning (S&OP), also called Sales Inventory Operations Planning, is a monthly cross-functional process balancing demand, supply, and financial plans at the product-family level.
Sales management
Sales management is the business function that plans, directs, and coordinates a firm's personal selling, setting sales goals, analyzing data, and managing territories, quotas, forecasts, and pipelines.
Sales promotion
Sales promotion, also called price promotion, is the use of short-term incentives, such as coupons, rebates, and discounts, offered to consumers or the trade to speed up purchases.
Sales tax
The sales tax, or retail sales tax, is a consumption tax charged as a percentage of the price at retail sale and remitted by the seller to the government.
Sales taxes in Canada
Sales taxes in Canada combine the 5% federal Goods and Services Tax with provincial taxes: harmonized HST rates of 13% to 15% in five provinces, and separate PSTs elsewhere.
Sales taxes in the United States
Sales taxes in the United States are seller-collected taxes on retail sales remitted to state and local governments; 45 states levy them, with no federal sales tax.
Salesforce
Salesforce, also known as Salesforce.com, is an American software company headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff, best known as the leading customer relationship management provider.
Salesforce Agentforce
Salesforce Agentforce is an enterprise platform of autonomous AI agents launched by Salesforce in September 2024, powered by the Atlas Reasoning Engine and priced per conversation or per action.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a Salesforce product family for AI-driven marketing campaigns across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and social, covering three distinct products with incompatible APIs.
Salesforce Platform
Salesforce Platform, formerly Force.com, is a metadata-driven multitenant platform-as-a-service launched in 2007 as one of the world's first PaaS products and the first to offer turnkey multitenancy.
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Salesforce Sales Cloud is Salesforce's sales force automation and CRM application for contact and lead management, forecasting, and workflow automation, the product the company began with in 1999.
Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud, now Agentforce Service, is a customer service software product from Salesforce, launched in 2009, that manages cases, routes inquiries across channels, and supports field technicians.