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Sixth Street Tao Partners
Sixth Street Tao Partners is a series of Delaware pooled private investment funds managed from Dallas, Texas, by the global investment firm Sixth Street, focused on special situations and direct lending.
Sixth Xhosa War
The Sixth Xhosa War, also called Hintsa's War, was an 1834–1835 frontier conflict in which Xhosa forces under Maqoma invaded the Cape Colony before British retaliation.
Sixth-generation fighter
A sixth-generation fighter is a combat aircraft intended to follow fifth-generation fighters such as the F-22 and F-35, expected to offer deeper stealth, better sensors, and crewed-uncrewed teaming.
Sixth-rate
A sixth-rate was a small Royal Navy sailing warship carrying 20 to 28 guns, the smallest rated vessel in the fleet and never a ship of the line.
Sixtiers
The Sixtiers (Ukrainian: shistdesiatnyky) were a generation of young Ukrainian writers, artists, and filmmakers of the 1960s Khrushchev Thaw who sought to revive national consciousness; repressed after 1965, they fed the later dissident movement.
Sixties Scoop
The Sixties Scoop, also known as the Canada Scoops, was the mass removal of Indigenous children in Canada to non-Indigenous homes from the late 1950s into the 1980s.
Sixto Durán Ballén
Sixto Durán Ballén (1921–2016) was an Ecuadorian architect and politician who served as president of Ecuador from 1992 to 1996, after serving as mayor of Quito from 1970 to 1978.
Sixto Rodriguez
Sixto Diaz Rodriguez (1942-2023), known as Rodriguez, was a Detroit folk-rock singer-songwriter whose albums Cold Fact and Coming from Reality flopped in the US but went platinum in apartheid South Africa, where fans believed he had died on stage until his 1998 rediscovery and the Oscar-winning 2012 film Searching for Sugar Man.
Sixtus I
Sixtus I, spelled Xystus in the oldest documents, was the seventh pope, serving about ten years under Emperor Hadrian; his martyrdom is unproved and was dropped from the 2004 Roman Martyrology.
Sixtus II
Sixtus II (Xystus) was the 24th bishop of Rome, pope from 257 to 258, beheaded in a cemetery on the Appian Way during the Valerian persecution.
Sixtus III
Sixtus III, also spelled Xystus, was the 44th pope, reigning from 432 to 440. He rebuilt the Liberian Basilica as Santa Maria Maggiore, whose mosaics are the oldest surviving program in a Christian church.
Sixty Articles on Agriculture
The Sixty Articles on Agriculture (农业六十条), formally the Regulations on the Work of Rural People's Communes, was the Chinese Communist Party's charter for the people's communes, first drafted in 1961.
Sixty Million Dollar Man (百变星君)
Sixty Million Dollar Man (百變星君, Baak bin sing gwan) is a 1995 Hong Kong sci-fi comedy directed by Yip Wai-Man, produced by Wong Jing, starring Stephen Chow as a playboy rebuilt as a cyborg who transforms into household objects; it earned HK$35.2 million, third in 1995 Hong Kong.
Sixty three
Sixty three (63) is a four-player partnership trick-taking card game, a Pedro variant in the All Fours family; scoring trumps (king 25, three 15, nine 9, pedros 5 each) total 63 points, game to 152.
Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India
The Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India (Constitution 61st Amendment Act, 1988) amended Article 326 to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, adding 3.57 crore voters before the 1989 general election.
Sixx:A.M.
Sixx:A.M. is a Los Angeles hard rock band formed in 2007 by Nikki Sixx, DJ Ashba, and James Michael, originally as the soundtrack to The Heroin Diaries; known for "Life Is Beautiful" and albums through Hits (2021).
Siya Ke Ram (सिया के राम)
Siya Ke Ram (सिया के राम), aka Maryada Purshottam Siya Ke Raam, is a Star Plus Hindi mythological series (2015–2016) retelling the Ramayana from Sita's perspective, starring Ashish Sharma and Madirakshi Mundle, produced by Triangle Film Company.
Siya Kolisi
Siya Kolisi (Siyamthanda Kolisi, born 1991, Zwide, Port Elizabeth) is a South African flanker, first black Springbok captain (2018), and double Rugby World Cup-winning captain (2019, 2023) with 100 Test caps.
Siyaaj K'ahk'
Siyaaj K'ahk', also written Siyaj K'ak', was a warlord who arrived at Tikal on 16 January 378, presided over the king's death, and installed a new dynasty.
Siyah Beyaz Aşk
Siyah Beyaz Aşk (Black and White Love) is a Turkish crime-romance dizi aired on Kanal D, October 16, 2017 to May 28, 2018, 32 episodes, D Yapım, starring İbrahim Çelikkol as hitman Ferhat and Birce Akalay as doctor Aslı.
Siyah Hashiye
Siyah Hashiye (سیاہ حاشیے, "Black Margins") is a 1948 collection of very short sketches by the Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto, depicting the violence of the 1947 Partition of India.
Siyah Qalam
Siyah Qalam (سیاهقلَم, "black pen") is a genre of monochrome ink drawing in Persian art, and a famous group of such works in Istanbul's Topkapı Palace Library.
Siyaj Chan Kʼawiil II
Siyaj Chan Kʼawiil II, also spelled Sihyaj Chan Kʼawiil II and nicknamed Stormy Sky, was a Maya king of the city of Tikal in Guatemala who ruled from 411 to 456.
Siyaj K'ak'
Siyaj K'ak', also written Sihyaj K'ahk', was a Teotihuacan warlord who arrived at Tikal in 378 CE, where the reigning king died the same day.
Siyaka II
Siyaka II (सियक द्वितीय) was a ruler of the Paramara dynasty of Malwa, son of Vairisimha II, whose defeat of Khottiga and sack of Manyakheta around 972 made the Paramaras a sovereign power.
Siyakholwa Kuse
Siyakholwa 'One Way' Kuse (born 2003) is a South African minimumweight boxer, WBC strawweight world champion since May 2026 after beating Melvin Jerusalem; record 10-3-1 (4 KOs).
Siyar a'lam al-nubala
Siyar a'lam al-nubala (سير أعلام النبلاء, "Lives of the Noble Figures") is a biographical dictionary by the hadith scholar al-Dhahabi, covering eminent Muslims to about 1300.
Siyar al-Auliya
Siyar al-Auliya (سیر الاولیاء) is a 14th-century Persian biographical dictionary of the Chishti Sufi masters of India, written by Mir Khurd and considered the most authentic source on the order.
Siyar sha'biyya
Siyar sha'biyya (سيرة شعبية, popular epics) are anonymous Arabic narratives in prose and verse recounting the deeds of heroes and tribes, flourishing in the Mamluk period.
Siyar-ul-Mutakherin
Siyar-ul-Mutakherin (سیر المتاخرین) is a Persian history of 18th-century India written by Sayyid Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba'i in the early 1780s, covering Mughal decline from 1707 to 1781.