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Salón de Juego Alai
Salón de Juego Alai, a casino and gaming hall at Calle Tajonar 7, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain, offering slot machines, betting, and roulette; operated by Alai Recreativos SL (founded 1991), distinct from Basque jai-alai frontons.
Salon des Indépendants
The Salon des Indépendants (Salon des artistes indépendants) is an annual Paris art exhibition since 1884, open to any artist who pays the fee, with no jury and no prizes.
Salon des Refusés
The Salon des Refusés was an 1863 Paris exhibition ordered by Napoleon III to show works rejected by the official Salon's jury, including Manet's scandalous Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie
The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) was a luxury watch fair held in Geneva each January from 1991, later rebranded as Watches and Wonders Geneva.
Salon Kitty
Salon Kitty, or Kitty Schmidt's brothel at Giesebrechtstrasse 11, Berlin-Charlottenburg, was an exclusive Nazi-era bordello allegedly run by the SD under Heydrich and Schellenberg as a bugged espionage center, though no recordings or documents of the spying exist.
Salón Literario
The Salón Literario was a reading and discussion society opened in Buenos Aires in 1837, the founding forum of the intellectuals known as the Generación del 37.
Salón México
Salón México (1949), also known as Salon Mexico, is an Emilio Fernández cabaretera melodrama starring Marga López, with Gabriel Figueroa cinematography, an Ariel for López, and a 1996 remake with María Rojo.
Salona
Salone (Salona, Salonae), Roman capital of the province of Dalmatia at Solin near Split, Croatia, on the Jadro river. Colony from about 48/47 BC, largest ancient town on the eastern Adriatic, destroyed in the early 7th century.
Salonga National Park
Salonga National Park (Parc national de la Salonga), DRC: Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1984), a bonobo and forest elephant stronghold, in danger list 1999-2021, co-managed by ICCN and WWF.
Saloni Aswani
Saloni Aswani (Telugu: సలోని అశ్విని), born Vandana Aswani, is an Indian actress in Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil cinema. Debut Dil Pardesi Ho Gayaa (2003); known for Maryada Ramanna (2010), Bodyguard (2012, SIIMA Award), and Race Gurram (2014).
Saloni Batra
Saloni Batra (born 1987, Delhi) is an Indian actress and singer in Hindi cinema and web series; NIFT Chennai fashion graduate, known for Soni (2018) as Kalpana and as Reet Singh in Animal (2023), returning in Animal Park.
Sālote Tupou III
Sālote Tupou III, born Sālote Mafileʻo Pilolevu Tupou, was Queen of Tonga from 1918 to 1965, its first queen regnant and longest-reigning monarch, known for composing over 100 traditional Tongan songs and poems.
Saloth family
Saloth family (Loth family), the family of Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), Khmer Rouge ruler of Democratic Kampuchea 1975-1979: prosperous Kampong Thom peasants with royal-palace ties, siblings Saloth Nhep, Seng, Chhay, Roeung, Suong, and nephew Saloth Ban, ECCC witness.
Salp
Salps (order Salpida, class Thaliacea) are pelagic tunicate filter feeders with alternating solitary and chain-colony life stages, feeding on plankton under 1–1000 µm and exporting carbon via fast-sinking fecal pellets.
Salp swarm algorithm
The salp swarm algorithm (SSA) is a bio-inspired metaheuristic for optimizing single- and multi-objective continuous functions, proposed by Seyedali Mirjalili and colleagues in Advances in Engineering Software in 2017.
Salp swarm optimization
Salp swarm optimization, also called the Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA), is a population-based metaheuristic proposed by Seyedali Mirjalili and colleagues in 2017 that mimics the chain-forming movement of salps to solve engineering design problems.
Salpausselkä UNESCO Global Geopark
Salpausselkä UNESCO Global Geopark, southern Finland, designated 2022; 4,506 km² across six Päijät-Häme municipalities, protecting the Younger Dryas ice-marginal ridges and eskers formed 12,300–11,600 years ago.
Salpeter time
The Salpeter time is the characteristic e-folding time for black hole growth at the Eddington accretion limit, about 45 million years, named for Edwin Salpeter.
Salpingectomy
Salpingectomy is the surgical removal of a fallopian tube, used to treat tubal disease, as permanent contraception, and to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, which often arises in the tubes.
Salpingitis isthmica nodosa
Salpingitis isthmica nodosa (SIN), diverticulosis of the fallopian tube, is nodular isthmic swelling from epithelial invasion of the tubal muscle wall, first named by Chiari in 1887, strongly linked to infertility and ectopic pregnancy, diagnosed by HSG.
Salpingitis or oophoritis
Salpingitis or oophoritis (salpingo-oophoritis), ICD-11 GA07 / ICD-10 N70: inflammation of the fallopian tube, ovary, or both, usually from ascending gonococcal or chlamydial infection within pelvic inflammatory disease.
Salpingo-oophorectomy
Salpingo-oophorectomy is a gynecological operation removing an ovary together with its attached fallopian tube, on one or both sides, often to treat ovarian disease or reduce cancer risk in BRCA carriers.
Salpingostomy
Salpingostomy is a surgical procedure in which an incision is made into a fallopian tube to remove an ectopic pregnancy while sparing the tube for future fertility.
Salsa (dance)
Salsa (dance): a Latin partner dance family from Cuban son and mambo, named by Fania Records in 1960s New York; danced at 160–220 BPM in Casino, LA On1, NY On2, and Cali styles.
Salsa (music genre)
Salsa is a Cuban son-based dance music developed by Puerto Rican and Cuban musicians in New York City's Latino barrios in the 1960s and 1970s.
Salsa al Parque
Salsa al Parque is a free annual salsa festival held in Simón Bolívar Park in Bogotá, Colombia, created by the city government in 1997 and drawing crowds of up to 170,000.
Salsa brava
Salsa brava, also called salsa dura, is the hard, driving salsa style that took shape in New York City in the late 1960s and dominated the 1970s.
Salsa cubana (music)
Salsa cubana, also called casino, is a Cuban partner dance developed in Havana in the 1950s, danced in a circular style, most often to timba.
Salsa dura
Salsa dura, also called classic salsa or hard salsa, is the hard-driving salsa style that dominated 1970s New York, built on dense horn arrangements, aggressive percussion, and lyrics about barrio life.
Salsa macha
Salsa macha, a Mexican oil-based chili condiment from Veracruz (Orizaba), made of fried dried chilies, garlic, peanuts, sesame, and often vinegar; nuttier and tangier than Chinese chili crisp, with which it is often compared.