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Siyaram Baba
Siyaram Baba (सियाराम बाबा), Hindu ascetic saint of Bhatyan Ashram, Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, on the Narmada; Hanuman devotee who took only Rs 10 donations; died 11 December 2024, officially aged 94 despite viral claims of 110 to 188 years.
Siyasatnama
The Siyasatnama (سیاستنامه), also known as Siyar al-Muluk, is a Persian manual on statecraft in fifty chapters, written for the Seljuk sultan Malikshah by his vizier Nizam al-Mulk around 1086.
Siyeon
Siyeon (시연), born Lee Si-yeon, is a South Korean singer and main vocalist of the girl group Dreamcatcher, having first debuted in 2014 with MINX before the group's 2017 re-debut.
Siyer-i Nebi
Siyer-i Nebi is a Turkish prose-and-verse biography of the Prophet Muhammad, written in Cairo in 1388 by Mustafa Darir, best known through an illustrated Ottoman copy of 1594–1595 with 814 miniatures.
Siyka Kelbecheva Barbulova
Siyka Kelbecheva Barbulova (Сийка Келбечева-Барбулова), born 1951, Bulgarian rower; Olympic gold in women's coxless pairs at Montreal 1976 and bronze at Moscow 1980, both with Stoyanka Gruycheva.
Siyu
Siyu is a Swahili settlement on Pate Island in Kenya's Lamu Archipelago, a former city-state known for resisting Omani rule and for its 19th-century Siyu Fort.
Siyu Zhang
Siyu Zhang is a Chinese systems neuroscientist who has been Principal Investigator at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine since 2016, studying top-down attention and basal forebrain sleep-wake circuits.
size (Unix)
size is a Unix command-line utility, part of the GNU Binary Utilities, that lists the section sizes and total size of object files, executables, and archives, commonly used after compiling.
Size effect
The size effect in finance is the tendency of small-capitalization stocks to outperform large stocks, first documented by Rolf Banz in 1981 as a challenge to the CAPM.
Size Matters
Size Matters is Helmet's fifth studio album, released October 5, 2004 on Interscope: the first after the 1998 breakup, with Page Hamilton joined by John Tempesta and Chris Traynor, largely written about his breakup with Winona Ryder.
Size zero
Size zero (US size 0, UK size 4) is the smallest conventional numbered women's clothing size, introduced by Nicole Miller in the 1990s, extended to 00 and 000, and emblematic of vanity sizing and thinness debates.
Size-exclusion chromatography
Size-exclusion chromatography, also known as gel filtration chromatography, is a liquid chromatography technique that separates molecules by their hydrodynamic volume, mainly used to determine polymer molar masses and analyze protein aggregates.
Size-specific dose estimate
The size-specific dose estimate (SSDE) is a radiation dose metric for CT that multiplies the scanner-reported CTDIvol by a patient-size conversion factor, introduced in AAPM Report 204 in 2011.
Sizewell
Sizewell is a coastal site in Suffolk, England, hosting three nuclear power stations: the decommissioned Sizewell A, operating Sizewell B, and the twin-reactor Sizewell C under construction.
Sizewell nuclear power plant
The Sizewell nuclear power plant is a site on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, England, hosting the operating Sizewell B reactor and the Sizewell C project.
Sizing
Sizing, also called warp sizing (浆纱), is the textile process of coating warp yarns with size such as starch or PVA to improve weavability, followed by desizing before dyeing.
Sizong
Sizong (嗣宗, 1085–1153) was a Song-dynasty Caodong Chan monk of Xuedou Temple in Qingyuan Prefecture, a dharma heir of Hongzhi Zhengjue known as Zong Baitou.
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead is a landmark anti-apartheid play created by Athol Fugard with actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona, first performed in Cape Town in 1972.
Sizwe Ndlovu
Sizwe Lawrence Ndlovu (born 1980, Johannesburg) is a South African rower who stroked the lightweight four to gold at London 2012, the first Olympic rowing gold for South Africa and Africa; now a coach and Dakar 2026 Chef de Mission.
Sizzla
Sizzla (Sizzla Kalonji, born Miguel Orlando Collins, 1976) is a Jamaican conscious reggae and dancehall artist of the Bobo Ashanti Rastafari branch, known for the 1997 albums Praise Ye Jah and Black Woman & Child and more than 90 albums.
Sizzler
Sizzler: American casual family steakhouse chain founded January 27, 1958 in Culver City, California by Del and Helen Johnson; known for inexpensive steaks, seafood, and the all-you-can-eat salad bar; peaked at 646 units in 1989, filed bankruptcy in 2020, now 74 U.S. units with Thailand and Japan franchises.
Sıhhiye Nezareti
Sıhhiye Nezareti (نظارت صحية) was the Ottoman sanitary administration centered on the Supreme Council of Health, established in 1838 to fight epidemics through quarantine, with foreign delegates later making it a mixed international body.
Sıla
Sıla, born Sıla Gençoğlu in 1980, is a Turkish pop singer and songwriter whose debut single "...Dan Sonra" spent 12 weeks at number 1 in Turkey in 2007.
Şırnak
Şırnak is a province of Turkey in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, bordering Iraq and Syria. Created in 1990 from parts of three older provinces, it was named after its central town.
SJ (railway company)
SJ AB is the Swedish state-owned passenger railway company, formed on 1 January 2001 from Statens Järnvägar and the largest operator of passenger rail services in Sweden.
SJ Rc
The SJ Rc, or Rc locomotive, is a family of ASEA-built electric locomotives for Swedish State Railways from 1967 to 1988, SJ's most numerous class.
SJ Semiconductor (盛合晶微)
SJ Semiconductor (盛合晶微) is a Chinese semiconductor company headquartered in Jiangyin that provides wafer-level advanced packaging and testing, including 2.5D/3D chiplet integration, founded in 2014 by SMIC and JCET.
SJ02
SJ02, sold as Slonva (晟诺娃), is a long-acting follicle-stimulating hormone drug approved in China in August 2025, where one injection replaces the first seven days of daily FSH injections in fertility treatment.
Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin
Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, known as "Mr. SS", is an Indonesian retired three-star general born in Makassar in 1952 who became Indonesia's 27th defense minister under President Prabowo in October 2024.
Sjambok
The sjambok, also known as Mnigolo or Litupa, is a heavy semi-rigid whip from southern Africa, originally cut from rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide and used for driving animals and punishment.