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Siping
Siping (四平) is a prefecture-level railway hub city in central Jilin province, Northeast China; formerly the village Sipingjie, it grew after the 1902 railway and is known for the Four Battles of Siping (1946–1948).
Siple Island
Siple Island, a snow-covered Antarctic island about 70 mi long in Marie Byrd Land along the Getz Ice Shelf, hosts Mount Siple, a 3,110 m shield volcano, and is named for explorer Paul Siple.
SIPOC
SIPOC is a diagram used in Six Sigma's Define phase to summarize a process as suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers, agreeing scope before detailed flowcharting.
Siponimod
Siponimod (Mayzent), an oral S1P1/S1P5 receptor modulator approved in 2019 for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis, reduces disability progression in active secondary progressive MS per the phase 3 EXPAND trial.
Sippar
Sippar, also known as Abu Habba, was an ancient city in northern Babylonia at Tell Abu Habbah, southwest of Baghdad, seat of the Ebabbar temple of Shamash.
Sippar Old Babylonian archives
The Sippar Old Babylonian archives, also known as the Sippar tablets, are cuneiform tablet finds from the twin towns of Sippar near Baghdad, dating to about 1900–1600 BC, including the largest private archive of the period.
Sippar Sulcus
Sippar Sulcus is a bright-terrain sulcus in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, named for a Babylonian town, noted for caldera-like depressions and evidence of cryovolcanic resurfacing.
Sippenhaft
Sippenhaft, Nazi family liability punishment: relatives of dissidents, especially the 20 July 1944 plotters, were arrested; ordered by Hitler 30 July 1944, administered by Himmler, party, and army agencies.
Sippy Woodhead
Sippy Woodhead (Cynthia Lee Woodhead, later Kantzer, Brennan), American freestyle swimmer born 1964; 1978 world champion at 14, three 200m freestyle world records, 1980 boycott victim, 1984 Olympic silver medalist.
Siprocal
Siprocal, Inc. is a media technology platform formed in March 2023 by merging DigitalReef and Gamers Club, serving publishers, telecom operators, and advertisers across the Americas.
Sips isotherm
The Sips isotherm, also called the Langmuir–Freundlich isotherm, is a three-parameter adsorption equation proposed by Robert Sips in 1948 that combines Langmuir saturation with Freundlich heterogeneity.
Sipsongpanna
Sipsongpanna, also romanized Sipsong Panna or Xishuangbanna, was a Tai Lue kingdom of twelve polities in southernmost Yunnan, China, founded in 1180 and absorbed into the People's Republic of China in the 1950s.
Siptah
Siptah, also known as Ramesses Siptah, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the seventh king of the Nineteenth Dynasty, who acceded at about fourteen and ruled for nearly six years.
Šipti-Ba'lu
Šipti-Ba'lu, also Shipti-Ba'al, was a Canaanite city-state ruler of the mid-14th century BC in the Shephelah, known from the Amarna letters, which accuse him of conspiring against Egypt.
Sipti-Baal
Sipti-Baal, also rendered Shipṭi-Baʿlu, was a Canaanite ruler of the mid-14th century BC known from the Amarna letters, where he denied conspiring against the pharaoh.
Sipunculus nudus
Sipunculus nudus, the common peanut worm (Linnaeus, 1766), an unsegmented sipunculan marine worm of sandy tropical and subtropical coasts; farmed in China (~20,000 t/year), genome 1.75 Gb, phylogenetic placement debated.
Sipura Island
Sipura (Sipora) Island, Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia: smallest of the four main Mentawai islands, site of Tuapejat regency capital, surf breaks like Lance's Right, and high northern tsunami vulnerability.
Siq
The Siq is the narrow natural gorge forming the main eastern entrance to Petra, the ancient Nabataean capital in southern Jordan, running about 1.2 km through sandstone to the Khazneh.
Siqaya and Rifada
Siqaya and Rifada (السقاية والرفادة) were hereditary Quraysh offices of pre-Islamic Mecca responsible for giving water (siqaya) and food (rifada) to pilgrims during the hajj.
Siquijor
Siquijor, also called Isla del Fuego (Island of Fire), is the third smallest island province of the Philippines, in Central Visayas; 343.50 km2, six municipalities, provincial since 1971, known for folk healers and growing tourism.
Sir
Sir: British honorific prefix for baronets, knights bachelor, and knights of the first two classes of orders of chivalry, from Old French sire (Latin senior); also a generic polite address; never used with the surname alone.
Sir (2024 film)
Sir (சார்) is a 2024 Tamil period action drama written and directed by Bose Venkat, starring Vemal as a rural schoolteacher. Released 18 October 2024 by SSS Pictures, presented by Vetrimaaran; streamed on Prime Video from 6 December 2024.
Sir (singer)
SiR (Sir Darryl Farris, born 1986) is an American R&B and neo-soul singer-songwriter from Inglewood, California, signed to Top Dawg Entertainment; albums Seven Sundays, November, Chasing Summer, and Heavy (2024), two Grammy nominations.
Sir (सर) (1993 film)
Sir is a 1993 Hindi-language Bollywood crime drama directed by Mahesh Bhatt for Vishesh Films, starring Naseeruddin Shah as a professor drawn into a Mumbai gang war.
Sir (सर) (2018 film)
Sir (सर), also released as Is Love Enough? Sir, is a 2018 Hindi drama by Rohena Gera, her fiction debut, starring Tillotama Shome and Vivek Gomber in a cross-class Mumbai romance; Cannes Critics' Week, Gan Foundation Award winner.
Sir Algernon Guinness, 3rd Baronet
Sir Algernon Guinness, 3rd Baronet, known as Algy, was an Anglo-Irish racing driver of the Guinness brewing family who won the 1922 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy for voiturettes.
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet (1831–1915) was a Scottish physicist and gunnery expert, a founder of experimental internal ballistics who led Sir W. G. Armstrong's Elswick ordnance works.
Sir Arthur Lewis
Sir Arthur Lewis (1915–1991) was a development economist from Castries, Saint Lucia, who shared the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for pioneering research into economic development.
Sir Austen Chamberlain
Sir Austen Chamberlain was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Chancellor of the Exchequer and as Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929, sharing the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.
Sir Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz, also known as Bernard Katz, was a German-born British biophysicist at University College London who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for establishing how nerve signals pass to muscle.