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Salobo
Salobo is a large copper-gold mine in the Carajás Mineral Province, Pará, northern Brazil, owned by Vale. It is Brazil's largest copper deposit, producing from an open pit since 2012.
Saloca
Saloca, a Roman road station in Noricum on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Virunum and Aquileia, 11 Roman miles (17.6 km) from Virunum, identified with Krumpendorf, Austria; distinct from any other ancient place of similar name.
Salofa Colles
Salofa Colles is a 250-km-wide group of small hills (colles) on Venus at 63°S, 167°E, IAU-approved in 1997, named for a girl/sea turtle from a Samoan tale; one of 16 named Venusian colles.
Salomacus
Salomacus (Salomacum), an ancient road station of Gallia Aquitania on the Antonine Itinerary road between Burdigala (Bordeaux) and Aquae Tarbellicae (Dax); traditionally identified with Salles, Gironde, an identification now questioned, with a proposed site near Le Barp.
Salome
Salome (שלומית) is the name of two New Testament women: the daughter of Herodias who asked for John the Baptist's head, and a disciple who witnessed Jesus's crucifixion and empty tomb.
Salome (disciple)
Salome, also Mary Salome, is a woman named twice in Mark's Gospel, at the crucifixion and the empty tomb, and venerated in Eastern Christianity as one of the Myrrhbearing Women.
Salome (opera)
Salome (Op. 54) is Richard Strauss's 1905 one-act opera after Oscar Wilde's French play, libretto from Hedwig Lachmann's German translation; premiered in Dresden 9 December 1905, banned at the Met 1907-1934, famed for the Dance of the Seven Veils.
Salome (play)
Salomé is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde, written in French in Paris in 1891–92; the only work Wilde wrote in another language, banned from the British stage until 1930.
Salome Alexandra (שלומציון)
Salome Alexandra (Shelamzion, שלומציון), 140-67 BCE, Hasmonean queen of Judea, wife and successor of Alexander Jannaeus, ruling alone 76-67 BCE; the only legitimate Jewish queen, allied with the Pharisees, mother of Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II.
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907–2007) was a German-born American developmental geneticist who established mammalian developmental genetics, showing that Mendelian genes direct mouse development, and won the 1993 National Medal of Science.
Salóme Gunnarsdóttir
Salóme Gunnarsdóttir (Salóme R. Gunnarsdóttir) is an Icelandic-British actress known as Melaine in The Wheel of Time, Greta in The Lazarus Project, Patricia Wayne in Pennyworth, and the voice of Mary and Maria in Silent Hill 2 (2024).
Salome Jens
Salome Jens (born May 8, 1935, Milwaukee) is an American stage, film, and TV actress, also credited as Miss Salomé Jens; known for Seconds (1966), Angel Baby, and as the Female Changeling on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Salome Salvi
Salome Salvi is a Filipina adult content creator, cam girl, and actress, a UP Fine Arts graduate who inspired Kitty K7, joined Vivamax films and GMA's Black Rider, and advocates decriminalizing sex work.
Salome Zourabichvili (სალომე ზურაბიშვილი)
Salome Zourabichvili (სალომე ზურაბიშვილი), born 1952 in Paris, is a former French diplomat who became Georgia's foreign minister (2004–05) and fifth president (2018–24), its first woman head of state, now recognized by the European Parliament as legitimate president after the disputed 2024 transition.
Salomėja Nėris
Salomėja Nėris, real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė, was a Lithuanian neo-Romantic poet (1904–1945) whose melodic, folk-song-inflected lyrics made her one of the most popular Lithuanian writers.
Salomon (brand)
Salomon is a French sports equipment and footwear brand founded in 1947 in Annecy in the French Alps, known for ski gear and trail running shoes.
Salomon Bochner
Salomon Bochner (1899–1982) was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American mathematician at Princeton and Rice known for work in Fourier analysis, probability theory, several complex variables, and differential geometry.
Salomon Brothers
Salomon Brothers was a New York investment bank founded in 1910 that became the largest dealer of US government securities before a 1991 Treasury auction scandal.
Salomon Eberhard Henschen
Salomon Eberhard Henschen (1847–1930) was a Swedish neurologist who led the proof that the visual center lies in the calcarine cortex, and professor of medicine at Uppsala University from 1882.
Salomon Group
Salomon Group: French outdoor brand founded 1947 in Annecy by François Salomon, known for ski bindings, boots, skis, and trail-running footwear; owned by Amer Sports since 2005, with 2025 sales above $2 billion.
Salomon Kalou
Salomon Armand Magloire Kalou, Ivorian winger born 1985 in Oumé; Feyenoord, Chelsea (2006-2012, 60 goals, Champions League 2012), Lille, Hertha Berlin, Botafogo; 84 Ivory Coast caps, AFCON 2015 winner; retired 2024.
Salomon Levy
Salomon Levy (1926–2016) was an Israeli-born American nuclear engineer who helped develop the boiling water reactor and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
Salomón Rondón
Salomón Rondón (José Salomón Rondón Giménez, born 1989, Caracas), Venezuelan striker for Pachuca and all-time top scorer of Venezuela with 50 goals; ex-Las Palmas, Málaga, Rubin Kazan, West Brom, Newcastle, Everton, River Plate, Real Oviedo.
Salomon Ulmann
Salomon Ulmann (Hebrew שלמה אולמן; 1806–1865) was a French rabbi, born in Saverne, who served as chief rabbi of France from 1853 to 1865 and presided over the 1856 Central Conference of Chief Rabbis.
Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd
Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd [1897] AC 22, House of Lords, 16 November 1896: foundational UK company law case establishing separate corporate personality, holding Aron Salomon's one-man boot company distinct from him and his floating-charge debentures valid.
Salon - Zur Wilden Renate
Salon - Zur Wilden Renate, better known as Wilde Renate or simply Renate, is a nightclub in Berlin's Friedrichshain district, open since 2007 and known for maze-like rooms and marathon parties.
Salon (gathering)
A salon, or literary salon, was a private French gathering, chiefly of the 17th and 18th centuries, where invited guests discussed art, literature, and philosophy under a wealthy woman host.
Salon (Paris)
Salon (Paris): the official juried exhibition of living artists' work in Paris, named for the Louvre's Salon Carré, held from 1667 under the French Academy until state control ended in 1880, followed by the Société des Artistes Français and rival salons.
Salon car
A salon car (German Salonwagen, French voiture salon) is a railway passenger carriage laid out around open salons rather than compartments, built for royalty, governments, and luxury trains.
Salon d'Automne
Salon d'Automne, annual Paris juried art exhibition founded in 1903 by Frantz Jourdain at the Petit Palais; host of the 1905 Fauvism scandal, Cézanne's 1907 retrospective, and modern movements since.