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Salvador Sobral
Salvador Sobral (Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral), Portuguese jazz and soul singer born 1989 in Lisbon; won Eurovision 2017 for Portugal with "Amar pelos Dois" by sister Luísa Sobral, a record 758 points, months before a heart transplant.
Salvador Solar Plant
The Salvador Solar Plant, also called PV Salvador, is a 70 MW photovoltaic plant in Chile's Atacama Desert, opened in 2014 as the world's largest merchant solar plant.
Salvador Valdés Mesa
Salvador Valdés Mesa is a Cuban politician serving as Vice President of Cuba. An agricultural engineer and former labor leader, he joined the Politburo in 2008.
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador (Salvador da Bahia), capital of Bahia state in northeast Brazil, founded 1549 by Tomé de Sousa; Brazil's first capital 1549–1763, first New World slave market from 1558, UNESCO-listed historic centre since 1985, population about 2.4 million.
Salvadora persica
Salvadora persica, known as Arak or Peelu, is an evergreen shrub or small tree whose twigs are the traditional miswak chewing stick used as a natural toothbrush.
Salvadoran Civil War
Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992), conflict between the Salvadoran government and the FMLN guerrilla front; about 75,000 killed, over $6 billion in US aid, ended by the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords and UN Truth Commission.
Salvadoran colón
The Salvadoran colón was the currency of El Salvador from 1892 until 2001, when the US dollar replaced it in use at a fixed rate of 8.75.
Salvadoran committed poetry
Salvadoran committed poetry (poesía comprometida) is the body of Salvadoran verse written from the 1950s onward as an instrument of social denunciation and political struggle, exemplified by Roque Dalton.
Salvage laryngectomy
Salvage laryngectomy is the surgical removal of the larynx after radiation or chemoradiation for laryngeal cancer has failed, the standard curative option for persistent or recurrent disease.
Salvage logging
Salvage logging is the harvesting of dead, damaged, or dying trees after disturbances such as wildfire, windstorms, and insect outbreaks, to recover economic value that would otherwise be lost.
Salvage radiotherapy
Salvage radiotherapy is radiation treatment delivered to the prostatic fossa after prostatectomy when PSA rises or remains detectable, given at 64-74 Gy and often combined with several months of hormone therapy.
Salvage surgery
Salvage surgery is the resection of persistent or recurrent primary tumors after failed radiotherapy or chemoradiation, performed with curative intent, most studied in head and neck cancer.
Salvage title
A salvage title is a vehicle document marking a car an insurer or owner declared a total loss, repairable or not, and it cannot legally be driven until repaired and re-titled as rebuilt.
Salvage tug
A salvage tug is a large, powerful, seaworthy tug built to perform marine salvage, rescue distressed vessels, and tow disabled ships long distances at speed.
Salvage value
Salvage value, also called residual value or scrap value, is the estimated amount an asset is worth at the end of its useful life, net of disposal costs.
SaLVaRe study
SaLVaRe (Saint Luc Valve registry), NCT02974218, is a prospective single-center registry of mitral, aortic, and tricuspid valve disease at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, enrolling patients since January 2000 and led by Bernhard Gerber.
Salvation
Salvation, also called religious or eternal salvation, is rescue from sin, judgment, or death by a rescuing agent; in Christian theology the rescuer is Christ, and the term extends to goals like moksha and nirvana.
Salvation (2026 film)
Salvation (Kurtuluş) is Emin Alper's 2026 Turkish drama about a village land feud, Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner at Berlinale 2026; distinct from Tom Nicoll's UK debut and Denise Castro's Salvación.
Salvation (Rebecca Black album)
SALVATION is a 2025 seven-track EP, 21 minutes, by American singer Rebecca Black, her second album after Let Her Burn; singles TRUST!, Sugar Water Cyanide, Salvation; Metascore 52, Chorus 58.33.
Salvation (TV series)
Salvation is a CBS science fiction drama (2017-2018), created by Liz Kruger, Craig Shapiro, and Matt Wheeler, about an asteroid 186 days from Earth impact; two seasons, 26 episodes, canceled after mixed reviews and declining ratings.
Salvation Army brass band
Salvation Army brass band: British-style brass bands of The Salvation Army, begun 1878 in Salisbury by Charles Fry and sons; 400 UK bands by 1883, own instrument factory 1889–1972, over 2,500 bands worldwide today.
Salvation in Christianity
Salvation in Christianity, also called Christian soteriology, is the doctrine that God rescues humanity from sin, death, and oppression through Jesus Christ, with details debated for two millennia.
Salvation Mountain
Salvation Mountain is a 50-foot painted adobe hill near Niland, California, built over three decades by folk artist Leonard Knight to proclaim "God is Love."
Salvator
Salvator (southern tegus) is a South American teiid lizard genus revalidated by Harvey et al. 2012, holding three species, S. merianae, S. rufescens, and S. duseni, east of the Andes.
Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)
Salvator Mundi, Latin for "Saviour of the World," is an oil painting of Christ attributed to Leonardo da Vinci around 1500, and the most expensive painting ever sold at auction.
Salvator Rosa
Salvator Rosa (Salvatore Rosa, 1615–1673), Neapolitan Baroque painter, etcher, poet and actor famed for wild sublime landscapes, battles, witchcraft scenes, and satires; a hero of the Romantics.
Salvatore Campione
Salvatore Campione is an Italian-born electrical engineer and nanophotonics researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, recipient of a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Salvatore Cordileone
Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (born 1956, San Diego) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco since 2012, former USCCB marriage-defense chairman, Proposition 8 fundraiser, and 2026 appointee to the Vatican's Apostolic Signatura.
Salvatore Corsitto
Salvatore Corsitto (1913-1999), Italian actor from Canicattini Bagni, Sicily, played undertaker Amerigo Bonasera in The Godfather (1972), delivering the opening 'I believe in America' monologue; his only other credit is the 1973 TV film What Are Best Friends For?
Salvatore De Meo
Salvatore De Meo, born in Fondi in 1971, is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2020.