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Salmokji: Whispering Water
Salmokji: Whispering Water is a 2026 South Korean folk horror film set at the real Salmokji Reservoir. A road-view mapping crew investigates an unidentified figure in the footage.
Salmon
Salmon: anadromous fish including Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Pacific Oncorhynchus species; hatch in rivers, feed at sea, return to natal streams to spawn; major wild fisheries, global aquaculture, and declining wild stocks.
Salmon Arm
Salmon Arm is a city in British Columbia's Southern Interior at the southwest end of Shuswap Lake, incorporated 1905 as a district and 2005 as a city; 19,432 residents in 2021, a Shuswap service hub on the Trans-Canada Highway.
Salmon as food
Salmon as food: flesh of Atlantic (Salmo salar) and Pacific (Oncorhynchus) salmon, eaten fresh, smoked, or canned; low-mercury FDA Best Choice, top traded seafood at 20% of export value, mostly farmed.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) is a British romantic comedy-drama directed by Lasse Hallström, adapted by Simon Beaufoy from Paul Torday's novel, starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Amr Waked; released 2012, 68% Tomatometer.
Salmon hat
Salmon hat: behavior of southern resident orcas in Puget Sound balancing dead salmon on their heads; a 1987 fad that spread across J, K, and L pods, revived by a 2024 photo of J27 Blackberry.
Salmon oil
Salmon oil, the oil of Salmo salar (CAS 68991-43-5, UNII 15NDG5B709), is an EPA- and DHA-rich fish oil sold as a supplement and food ingredient; FDA GRAS Notice GRN 146 (2004) received a no-questions letter.
Salmon P. Chase
Salmon P. Chase (1808–1873), Ohio antislavery lawyer, senator, and governor; Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury 1861–1864 who created the IRS, greenbacks, and national banking; sixth Chief Justice 1864–1873 who presided over Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial.
Salmon patch
Salmon patch (nevus simplex), also called stork bite or angel's kiss, is a benign capillary malformation birthmark present at birth in roughly 30-40% of newborns, appearing as a flat pink-red blanchable patch on the nape, eyelids, or glabella that usually fades within 1-2 years, though about half of nape lesions persist.
Salmon River (Idaho)
The Salmon River, Idaho's "River of No Return," is a 425-mile Snake River tributary through the second-deepest gorge on the continent, with 125 miles designated Wild and Scenic in 1980 and key habitat for threatened Snake River salmon and steelhead.
Salmon River Mountains
Salmon River Mountains: unorganized mountain mass in central Idaho, part of the Idaho Batholith; second largest batholith mountain group, ridges 7,000-9,000 ft, drained by the Salmon River and largely within the Frank Church Wilderness.
Salmon run
Salmon run: the seasonal migration of adult salmon from the ocean back to natal freshwater spawning grounds, also called natal homing. Runs are timed by season; Columbia runs once numbered 10-16 million fish, now collapsed and restored by dam removal.
Salmon shark
The salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) is a large mackerel shark of the North Pacific, one of the principal predators of Pacific salmon, and possibly the most thermoregulating shark.
Salmon-class submarine
The Salmon-class submarine was a class of six United States Navy fleet submarines commissioned in 1937 and 1938, a step toward World War II fleet boats.
Salmonella
Salmonella, a Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae genus (S. bongori, S. enterica; 2,500+ serotypes), causes salmonellosis, about 1.35 million US infections yearly, mostly foodborne, with rising antimicrobial resistance.
Salmonella bacteriophage preparations
Salmonella bacteriophage preparations are lytic phage cocktails used as antimicrobials on meat, poultry, and other foods. Several, including GRN 468, 603, 917, 1038, 1070, and 1163, hold FDA GRAS no-questions letters.
Salmonella enterica
Salmonella enterica, the main disease-causing species of the genus Salmonella alongside S. bongori, has six subspecies and over 2,500 serotypes defined by O and H antigens, causing gastroenteritis, enteric fever, and septicemia.
Salmonella enteritidis
Salmonella Enteritidis, a common non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica serovar causing egg- and poultry-associated salmonellosis; includes the persistent ciprofloxacin-nonsusceptible US strain REPJEG02 with 25,495 PulseNet illnesses since 2016.
Salmonella typhi
Salmonella typhi is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes typhoid fever, infecting only humans through contaminated food and water and sickening about 9 million people yearly.
Salmonella typhimurium
Salmonella typhimurium, formally Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium, is a Gram-negative foodborne bacterium causing gastroenteritis in humans and animals; a broad-host-range pathogen with SPI-1/SPI-2 virulence systems and rising multidrug resistance.
Salmonella virus P22
Salmonella virus P22, also called bacteriophage P22 or Enterobacteria phage P22, is a temperate phage that infects Salmonella Typhimurium. Discovered in 1952, it pioneered generalized transduction.
Salmonellosis
Salmonellosis, also known as Salmonella infection or Salmonella food poisoning, is a bacterial illness causing diarrhea, fever, and abdominal pain, usually from contaminated eggs, meat, poultry, or milk.
Salmoneus (crater on Tethys)
Salmoneus is a 93-km-wide impact crater on Tethys, Saturn's icy moon, at 1.77°S 335.18°E, IAU-approved April 28, 2008 and named for the Greek mythological father of Tyro; it also names the Ste-10 quadrangle of the Cassini Tethys atlas.
Salmonid alphavirus infection
Salmonid alphavirus (SAV), also called salmon pancreas disease virus or sleeping disease virus, is a Togaviridae alphavirus of farmed Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout in Europe, causing pancreas disease and sleeping disease, with six subtypes SAV1–6.
Salmonidae
Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fishes comprising salmons, trouts, whitefishes, and graylings, native to the Northern Hemisphere and widely introduced for sport fishing and aquaculture.
Salmoniformes
Salmoniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes containing Salmonidae, the salmons, trouts, whitefishes, and graylings; placed in Protacanthopterygii, sister to Esociformes, with about 176–275 species depending on circumscription.
Salò
Salò, Italian town and comune in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, on the western shore of Lake Garda; 10,350 residents (2011), historic Magnifica Patria capital and seat of the 1943-45 Italian Social Republic ministries.
Salo (сало) (food)
Salo (сало), also called slanina or slonina, is salt-cured pork back fat eaten across Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and the Baltics; cured 3–14 days with salt, garlic, and pepper, it provides 770–870 kcal per 100 g and keeps without refrigeration.
Salo, Finland
Salo is a city in Southwest Finland between Helsinki and Turku, formed by a merger of ten municipalities in 2009 and long known for radio and mobile phone manufacturing.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) is Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1975 final film, adapting Sade's novel to Mussolini's fascist Republic of Salò, structured on Dante's circles of hell, censored worldwide, and released after his murder.