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Siliguri Corridor
Siliguri Corridor, or Chicken's Neck: a 60-km strip of northern West Bengal, 20-22 km wide at its narrowest, the only land link between mainland India and its eight northeastern states, bordered by Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and China's Chumbi Valley.
Silinder Pardesi
Silinder Pardesi is a Midlands-based British bhangra singer and composer, front man of the band Pardesi, a pioneering act of the 1980s UK bhangra scene whose breakthrough album was Pump Up The Bhangra.
Siling
Siling (色林错, Siling Co/Selin Co) is Tibet's largest lake, a brackish endorheic lake at ~4,530 m on the central Tibetan Plateau; it expanded ~40% since the 1970s and overflowed into Bam Co in September 2023.
Silinka Vallis
Silinka Vallis is an IAU-approved valley on Mars, named 2006 after a river in Russia; 150.93 km across, centered at 9.13°N, 331.95°E in quadrangle mc11, near Galilaei and Hydaspis Chaos.
Silius Italicus
Silius Italicus, full name Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c. 26–102 CE), was a Roman politician and poet who wrote the Punica, the longest poem surviving in Latin.
Siljan
Siljan, lake in Dalarna, Sweden, seventh largest by area (293 km², max depth 134 m), largest lake in the Siljan Ring, Europe's largest meteorite impact structure, regulated since the 1920s, outlet to Dalälven at Leksand.
Silje Solberg
Silje Solberg-Østhassel (born 1990, Bærum) is a Norwegian handball goalkeeper for Team Esbjerg; Olympic gold 2024, world champion 2015 and 2021, five-time European champion, twin sister of Sanna Solberg-Isaksen.
Silk
Silk, the protein fiber of the Bombyx mori silkworm (sericulture), originated in China around 2700 BCE by tradition, drove the Silk Road, and today totals about 91,415 tonnes of raw silk yearly, mostly from China and India.
Silk (2006 film)
Silk (诡丝, Guisi) is a 2006 Taiwanese sci-fi horror film by Su Chao-pin in which scientists trap a boy's ghost with a Menger Sponge device; Cannes out-of-competition, Golden Horse Best Visual Effects, top-grossing 2006 Taiwanese film.
Silk (character)
Silk (Cindy Moon), Marvel Comics spider-hero created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos, debuted in Amazing Spider-Man (2014); bitten by the same spider as Peter Parker, bunker origin, organic fingertip webbing, Silk-sense, multiple solo series, canceled Amazon TV show.
Silk (TV series)
Silk (BBC One, 2011–2014) is a British legal drama by former barrister Peter Moffat about Shoe Lane Chambers barristers Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) and Clive Reader (Rupert Penry-Jones) competing to become Queen's Counsel, over three series ending 31 March 2014.
Silk Degrees
Silk Degrees is Boz Scaggs' seventh solo album, released February 18, 1976 on Columbia Records. It peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, won a Grammy for "Lowdown," and its session band went on to form Toto.
Silk fibroin
Silk fibroin is the main structural protein of silkworm silk, produced chiefly by Bombyx mori, long used in textiles and surgical sutures and now processed into drug delivery and tissue engineering materials.
Silk fibroin resorbable electronics
Silk fibroin resorbable electronics are electronic devices built on films of silk fibroin protein that dissolve or biodegrade after a programmable lifetime, avoiding removal surgery.
Silk glands and spinnerets
Silk glands and spinnerets are the paired abdominal organs that produce spider silk: glands secrete liquid silk protein, which hardens into thread at the spinnerets' spigots.
Silk in the Indian subcontinent
Silk production and weaving in the Indian subcontinent: India is the world's second-largest silk producer (38,913 MT; mulberry, tasar, eri, muga), while Bangladesh's Rajshahi-centered sericulture employs about 0.65 million people, mostly women.
Silk mill
A silk mill is a facility for processing silk thread into yarn or finished fabric, originating in water-powered Italian mills in the 13th century, like Lombe's Mill.
Silk reeling
Silk reeling is the sericulture process of unwinding continuous filaments from cooked silkworm cocoons and combining several into one raw silk thread wound onto a reel.
Silk Road (2021 film)
Silk Road (2021 film), also called Silk Road: Gebieter des Darknets, is Tiller Russell's Lionsgate crime thriller starring Nick Robinson as darknet drug-market founder Ross Ulbricht and Jason Clarke as a fictional DEA agent, adapted from David Kushner's Rolling Stone article, released February 19, 2021.
Silk Road (marketplace)
Silk Road was a darknet marketplace on Tor using Bitcoin, run by Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts) from February 2011 until FBI seizure on October 1, 2013; it sold mainly drugs, processed about $1.2 billion, and led to Ulbricht's 2015 life sentence.
Silk Road (丝绸之路)
The Silk Road (丝绸之路) was a network of overland trade routes linking China with Central Asia and the Mediterranean, active from the 2nd century BC to the 16th century.
Silk Road Dreamland
Silk Road Dreamland (方特丝路神画), or Fantawild Silk Road Dreamland, is a high-tech cultural theme park in Jiayuguan, Gansu, China, opened July 18, 2019 opposite Jiayuguan Pass, with 45 attractions themed on Silk Road and Great Wall culture.
Silk Road Fund
The Silk Road Fund (丝路基金) is a Chinese state-backed investment company, announced in 2014 with US$40 billion to fund Belt and Road infrastructure and energy projects.
Silk Road Medical
Silk Road Medical was a Sunnyvale, California medical device company that developed TCAR, a minimally invasive procedure to prevent stroke, and was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2024.
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor (UNESCO C 1442), inscribed 2014 by China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan: a 5,000 km Silk Roads section with 33 sites from Chang'an/Luoyang to Zhetysu, used from the 2nd century BC to the 16th century.
Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
The Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor is a UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed in 2023, with 34 component sites in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan along an 866-kilometer Silk Roads route.
Silk Smitha
Silk Smitha (Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, 1960-1996), South Indian film actress of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi cinema; 1980s seduction star of over 400 films, died 1996, subject of The Dirty Picture.
Silk Sonic
Silk Sonic: American retro-soul/R&B duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, formed 2021, named by Bootsy Collins. Debut album An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021) yielded Hot 100 No. 1 "Leave the Door Open" and four 2022 Grammy wins.
Silk Spectre
Silk Spectre, two Watchmen characters by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: Sally Jupiter, original Minutemen-era heroine, and her daughter Laurie Juspeczyk, Doctor Manhattan's partner, inspired by Black Canary, Nightshade, and Phantom Lady.
Silk Stalkings
Silk Stalkings: Stephen J. Cannell's 1991–1999 American crime drama about Palm Beach, Florida homicide detectives, airing on CBS late night and USA Network, 176 episodes, cable's longest-running original drama at cancellation.