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Siwelele F.C.
Siwelele F.C., a Bloemfontein-based South African club in the Betway Premiership, formed in 2025 by buying SuperSport United's status; named after Bloemfontein Celtic's supporters, green and white, chaired by Calvin Le John.
Siwidae
Siwidae (시위대) was the principal central army unit of the Korean Empire, formed in 1897 as Emperor Gojong's elite guard and disbanded by Japan in August 1907.
Six (musical)
Six (SIX) is a British pop-concert musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss in which the six wives of Henry VIII compete as a girl group; premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017, a West End and Broadway hit, and 2022 Tony winner for Best Original Score.
Six (TV series)
Six (SIX) is a History channel action drama (2017-2018, 2 seasons, 18 episodes) about a fictional Navy SEAL Team Six squad, created by William Broyles Jr. and David Broyles, starring Walton Goggins, cancelled in June 2018.
Six Abodes of Murugan (ஆறுபடை வீடு)
The Six Abodes of Murugan (ஆறுபடை வீடு, Arupadai Veedu) are six temples of the Hindu god Murugan in Tamil Nadu, India, together forming the principal pilgrimage circuit of Tamil devotion to him.
Six Armies of the North
The Six Armies of the North (北衙六軍) were the Tang dynasty's palace guard armies at Chang'an, made up of the Yulin, Longwu, and Shenwu armies.
Six Arts
The Six Arts (六艺, liuyi) are the six skills of the Zhou aristocratic curriculum, ritual, music, archery, charioteering, writing, and arithmetic, later also the six classics.
Six Boards
The Six Boards (六部) were the six central ministries of Ming dynasty China, each headed by a minister and, after 1380, answering directly to the emperor.
Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder'
Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder' (干校六记, Ganxiao liu ji) is a 1981 memoir cycle by Chinese writer Yang Jiang recounting life at cadre schools during the Cultural Revolution.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is a 1921 three-act play by Luigi Pirandello in which six unfinished characters interrupt a rehearsal.
Six Codes of the Republic of China
The Six Codes of the Republic of China, or Liufa quanshu, are the six principal law codes of the Nationalist government, covering constitution, civil, criminal, and procedural law.
Six Colleges (Yukhak)
The Six Colleges (Yukhak) were the six schools of the Gukjagam, the national academy of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, covering Confucian learning, law, writing, and arithmetic.
Six Controls and Five Equalizations
The Six Controls and Five Equalizations (六筦五均) were economic controls imposed by Wang Mang's Xin dynasty, combining state monopolies with price stabilization and state lending.
Six Days in Fallujah
Six Days in Fallujah is a tactical first-person shooter by Highwire Games and Victura recreating the 2004 Second Battle of Fallujah; originally a 2009 Atomic Games-Konami project, it entered Steam Early Access June 22, 2023.
Six Days, Seven Nights
Six Days, Seven Nights is a 1998 American romantic adventure-comedy directed by Ivan Reitman, in which a magazine editor and a charter pilot are stranded on a deserted island, starring Harrison Ford and Anne Heche.
Six degrees of freedom
Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) is the number of independent parameters needed to specify a rigid body's position and orientation in 3D space: three translational and three rotational.
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (SDOIT) is Dream Theater's sixth studio album, a 2002 Elektra double CD whose 42-minute, eight-section title track portrays six mental health conditions.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: parlor game invented 1994 by Albright College students Fass, Turtle, and Ginelli, linking any actor to Kevin Bacon in six or fewer co-starring films; Bacon number, Endless Games board game, small-world network example.
Six degrees of separation
Six degrees of separation, also called the six handshakes rule, is the idea that any two people are linked by a chain of acquaintances of at most six steps.
Six Degrees of Separation (film)
Six Degrees of Separation is Fred Schepisi's 1993 comedy-drama, John Guare's adaptation of his Tony-winning Broadway play, starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith, and Donald Sutherland as a con artist infiltrates wealthy Manhattanites posing as Sidney Poitier's son.
Six Degrees of Separation (play)
Six Degrees of Separation is John Guare's 1990 play about con man Paul posing as Sidney Poitier's son, based on David Hampton; Broadway 1990-92, 485 performances, Drama Critics' Circle Best Play, filmed 1993.
Six Dynasties poetry
Six Dynasties poetry (六朝詩) is the Chinese verse written from roughly 220 to 589 CE, during the centuries of division between the Han and Sui dynasties.
Six Feet Under (band)
Six Feet Under: American death metal band formed 1993 in Tampa, Florida, by vocalist Chris Barnes (Cannibal Corpse) and guitarist Allen West (Obituary); Metal Blade act known for Haunted (1995), the Graveyard Classics covers series, and groove-heavy death 'n' roll.
Six Feet Under (TV series)
Six Feet Under: HBO drama series (2001–2005, 63 episodes) created by Alan Ball about the Fisher family's Los Angeles funeral home; known for its death-per-episode structure, dark humor, and acclaimed finale "Everyone's Waiting."
Six Flags
Six Flags (NYSE: FUN), North America's largest regional amusement park operator, formed by the July 2024 Cedar Fair merger; 27 amusement parks, 15 water parks, nine resorts; named for the six flags over Texas.
Six Flags AstroWorld
Six Flags AstroWorld was a Houston, Texas theme park opened June 1, 1968 by Roy Hofheinz and run by Six Flags from 1975 until its October 30, 2005 closure; its 104-acre site sold for $77 million and remains largely parking.
Six Flags Fiesta Texas
Six Flags Fiesta Texas, opened as Fiesta Texas in 1992, is a theme park in San Antonio, Texas, built in a former limestone quarry and operated by Six Flags.
Six Flags Great Adventure
Six Flags Great Adventure is a large amusement park in Jackson Township, New Jersey, opened July 1, 1974, with 14 roller coasters, a 350-acre Wild Safari, and adjacent Hurricane Harbor water park; former home of Kingda Ka, with Bakunawa debuting 2027.
Six Flags Great America
Six Flags Great America, opened May 29, 1976 as Marriott's Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, is a Six Flags theme park with 15 coasters including American Eagle, Batman: The Ride, Raging Bull, and record-setting Goliath.
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor is a chain of water parks owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, with separately gated locations including Arlington, Los Angeles (Valencia), Concord, Phoenix, Splashtown, New Jersey, Rockford and Chicago, known for wave pools, lazy rivers and drop-tower slides.