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Skulduggery Pleasant
Skulduggery Pleasant is an urban fantasy novel series by Irish writer Derek Landy, beginning in 2007, about a wisecracking skeleton detective and his young partner Valkyrie Cain.
Skull
Skull (cranium): the 22-bone structure of the head, divided into neurocranium and viscerocranium, joined by sutures; protects the brain, forms the face, and anchors clinical topics like fracture, craniosynostosis, and skull lesions.
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is a Yale undergraduate senior secret society founded in 1832 by Russell and Taft; it taps 15 juniors yearly, meets in the 1856 windowless Tomb at 64 High Street, and is distinct from Ubisoft's 2024 video game of the same name.
Skull and Bones (video game)
Skull and Bones (Ubisoft Singapore) is a naval action RPG released February 16, 2024 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Set in the 17th-century Indian Ocean, it began as a Black Flag expansion, took about 10 years, sold at $70 as a 'quadruple-A' live service game, and had lackluster sales.
Skull base reconstruction
Skull base reconstruction is the neurosurgical repair of skull base defects after endoscopic endonasal approaches, using vascularized flaps such as the nasoseptal flap to achieve CSF leak rates below 5%.
Skull fracture
Skull fracture: a break in cranial bones from head trauma. Types include linear, depressed, basilar, and diastatic fractures; CT is the imaging standard, and isolated linear fractures are usually treated conservatively.
Skull Island (TV series)
Skull Island is Legendary Television's 2023 Netflix animated MonsterVerse series, created by Brian Duffield, a sequel to Kong: Skull Island set in the 1990s, following shipwrecked teens including Annie and Charlie stranded with Kong; canceled after one season, continued in comics.
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret), also titled Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, is Van Gogh's 1886 Antwerp oil on canvas, 32.3 × 24.8 cm, at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Skullaryd Moose Park
Skullaryd Moose Park (Skullaryd Älgpark) is a family-run moose and deer park near Eksjö, Småland, Sweden, opened in 2014 by Erik Öster; tractor-drawn safari tours, 230 kr adult admission, Swedish, English, and German guiding.
Skullcandy
Skullcandy, also known as Skullcandy Inc., is an American audio brand founded in 2003 by Rick Alden in Park City, Utah, selling headphones and earbuds rooted in action-sports culture.
Skullgirls
Skullgirls (SG) is a 2012 2D fighting game by Reverge Labs, published by Autumn Games, set in the Canopy Kingdom; later versions include Skullgirls 2nd Encore and the free-to-play mobile Fighting RPG with 300+ fighters.
Skunder Boghossian
Skunder Boghossian (Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian, 1937–2003) was an Ethiopian painter and art teacher, a leading figure of African modernism whose work fused Ethiopian sacred imagery with surrealist and Pan-African traditions.
Skunk
Skunk, family Mephitidae (skunks and stink badgers, genera Mephitis, Conepatus, Spilogale, Mydaus): omnivorous nocturnal carnivores with aposematic black-and-white coloration and anal scent glands spraying thiol-based musk up to about 3 meters; not mustelids.
Skunk Anansie
Skunk Anansie are a British rock band formed in London in 1994 by Skin (Deborah Dyer), Ace, Cass, and Mark Richardson; the punk-funk-metal act scored UK Top 10 albums including Paranoid & Sunburnt (1995), headlined Glastonbury in 1999, and released The Painful Truth in 2025.
Skunk ape
The skunk ape, also called the Florida Bigfoot or swamp ape, is an Everglades cryptid: a foul-smelling ape-like biped reported since the 1960s, unverified by science, tied to Dave Shealy's Ochopee research headquarters and the 2000 Myakka photos.
Skunk Works
Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs, is its secret aircraft design unit founded by Kelly Johnson in 1943, known for the U-2, SR-71, and F-117.
Skunkworks project
A skunkworks project is a small, secret, highly autonomous development effort inside a larger organization, isolated from normal procedures to innovate quickly; the name comes from Lockheed's Skunk Works.
Sky
The sky is the expanse of air and scattered sunlight, or stars at night, seen above Earth's horizon; its colors come from sunlight interacting with the atmosphere.
Sky (2026 film)
Sky (స్కై) is a 2026 Telugu romantic comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Pridhvi Pericharla, starring Murali Krishnam Raju as Vicky and Shruti Shetty as Veena. Released 13 February 2026, UA 13+, Valour Entertainment Studios.
SKY (universities)
SKY is the collective name for South Korea's three most prestigious universities, Seoul National University, Korea University, and Yonsei University, all in Seoul, dominating domestic rankings, admissions, and elite career pipelines.
Sky Above Clouds
Sky Above Clouds is a series of seven oil paintings made by Georgia O'Keeffe between 1960 and 1965, depicting clouds as seen from an airplane window.
Sky Above Clouds IV
Sky Above Clouds IV is a 1965 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe depicting rows of white clouds seen from an airplane, the largest of her career, hanging at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic is a Sky pay TV drama channel launched 1 February 2011 as the UK home of HBO under a £150m output deal; HBO Max's 2026 UK launch ended its exclusivity for new HBO shows.
Sky Blu (rapper)
Sky Blu (Skyler Austen Gordy, born 1986, Los Angeles) is an American rapper, DJ, and grandson of Motown founder Berry Gordy; he co-founded LMFAO with uncle Redfoo in 2006, scored "Party Rock Anthem", and later released solo work as 8ky 6lu.
Sky blue
Sky blue, known in Japanese as sora-iro, is the color of the daytime sky, produced when Rayleigh scattering by air molecules sends blue light to the eye.
Sky Brown (スカイ・ブラウン)
Sky Brown (スカイ・ブラウン), British-Japanese skateboarder and surfer born in Miyazaki, Japan; two-time Olympic park bronze medallist (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) and Britain's youngest Olympic medallist at 13.
Sky burial (བྱ་གཏོར་)
Sky burial (བྱ་གཏོར་, jhator) is a Tibetan funerary practice in which the dead are dismembered on mountaintops and left for vultures, seen as a final act of giving.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 science fiction adventure film set in 1939. It follows a reporter and aviator investigating giant robot attacks.
Sky Castle
Sky Castle (SKY 캐슬) is a 2018 South Korean JTBC satirical black comedy about elite families' obsessive college admissions competition, which became the highest-rated Korean cable drama at the time.
Sky Cinema
Sky Cinema is Sky's pay-TV movie service in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, and Italy, rebranded from Sky Movies on 8 July 2016; formerly a 1990s classic-film channel name, it offers daily premieres, Sky Original films, Paramount+, and Vue tickets.