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Silk Stockings
Silk Stockings (1957) is an MGM musical comedy directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, adapted from Cole Porter's 1955 Broadway musical and the 1939 film Ninotchka; Astaire's last MGM film and Mamoulian's final movie.
Silk throwing
Silk throwing: the twisting and doubling of reeled raw silk into substantial yarn by a throwster, using winding, first twist, and cleaning; historically mechanized in Italian hydraulic mills producing organzine warp thread.
Silk trade monopoly (Safavid)
The silk trade monopoly (انحصار ابریشم) was a royal policy of Safavid Iran under which Shah Abbas I made raw silk export a crown monopoly in 1619.
Silk waste
Silk waste (waste silk, silk noil, Schappe) is short, discontinuous silk fiber unfit for reeling, about 11 million tons yearly, respun into spun silk, nonwovens, and regenerated fibroin biomaterials.
Silk Way Rally
The Silk Way Rally is an international rally raid marathon for cars, trucks, and motorcycles, held since 2009 on routes across Russia and neighboring Eurasian countries with Gazprom as main partner.
Silk-producing insects of sericulture
The silk-producing insects of sericulture are the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori and saturniid moths producing tasar, eri, and muga; mulberry silk is about 90 percent of world production.
Silka Luisa
Silka Luisa is an American TV writer, executive producer, and showrunner from Miami, a Columbia MFA graduate (2011). She created and showran Apple TV+'s Shining Girls (2022), adapted from Lauren Beukes's novel, and created Blade Runner 2099 for Prime Video (2026).
SilkAir
SilkAir was a Singapore-based full-service regional airline serving secondary destinations across Asia Pacific from Changi Airport as the regional wing of Singapore Airlines until its full integration in 2021.
SilkAir Flight 185
SilkAir Flight 185 was a Boeing 737 passenger flight from Jakarta to Singapore that crashed near Palembang, Indonesia, on 19 December 1997, killing all 97 passengers and 7 crew.
Silke Gladisch
Silke Gladisch, later Silke Möller (born 1964, Stralsund), East German sprinter; 1987 Rome World champion at 100m and 200m, 1983 relay world champion, 41.37 4x100m world record (1985), Seoul 1988 relay silver.
Silke Hörner
Silke Hörner (Hörner-Schuck), East German breaststroke swimmer born 1965 in Leipzig; double Olympic champion at Seoul 1988 (200 m breaststroke world record 2:26.71, 4×100 m medley relay) and 100 m bronze; set four breaststroke world records; doping allegations never proven.
Silke Knoll
Silke Beate Knoll (born 1967, Rottweil), German sprinter in the 200 m and 4x100 m relay; three Olympics 1988-96, 1994 European relay gold, 1995 World relay bronze, 22 German titles, Eintracht Hamm doping case.
Silke Kraushaar
Silke Kraushaar(-Pielach), German luger born 1970 in Sonneberg; 1998 Nagano Olympic champion in women's singles by 0.002 seconds, with bronze 2002 and silver 2006, five overall World Cup titles.
Silke Launert
Silke Launert, born 1976 in Stadtsteinach, Bavaria, is a German CSU politician, a Bundestag member since 2013 for Bayreuth, and a Parliamentary State Secretary since 2025.
Silke Muller
Silke Muller, more commonly written Silke Müller, is the name shared by several German women: a sprinter, a field hockey player, an author, and an illustrator.
Silke Renk
Silke Renk (Renk-Lange), born 1967 in Querfurt, German javelin thrower; 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion with 68.34 m, 1988 Seoul fifth for East Germany, 1991 World bronze, personal best 71.00 m.
Silkie
Silkie (Chinese Silkie, wugu ji) is a Chinese chicken breed with hair-like hookless feathers, black skin and bones from EDN3 fibromelanosis, five toes, and broody docile temperament; first US standard 1874.
Silkie (musician)
Silkie (Solomon Rose) is a dubstep producer and DJ from Hammersmith, West London, known for a melodic, jazz-influenced style and releases on Deep Medi Musik.
Silkk the Shocker
Silkk the Shocker (Vyshonn King Miller, born 1975, New Orleans) is a rapper, brother of Master P and C-Murder, and a leading No Limit Records artist whose Charge It 2 da Game and Made Man went platinum.
Silko
Silko was a king of the Nobades in Lower Nubia in the first half of the 5th century, known from a Greek victory inscription at Kalabsha.
Silko inscription
The Silko inscription is a 21-line Greek text at Kalabsha in which King Silko records his victories over the Blemmyes in the 5th century AD.
Silko Thomas
Silko Thomas (Silko-Amari Otieno Thomas, born 2004, London) is an English winger, ex-Chelsea academy and England U18, formerly Leicester City and Wigan Athletic loan, now Wycombe Wanderers.
Silko's conquest of Nobatia
Silko's conquest of Nobatia was the 5th-century expulsion of the Blemmyes from the Dodekaschoinos, the Nile valley between the first and second cataracts, by King Silko of the Nobades.
Silko's war against the Blemmyes
Silko's war against the Blemmyes was a series of fifth-century campaigns in which Silko, king of the Nobades, defeated the Blemmyes and united Lower Nubia.
Silkwood
Silkwood (1983) is Mike Nichols's biographical drama starring Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant whistleblower who died in a mysterious 1974 car crash; with Kurt Russell and Cher, five Oscar nominations.
Silkworm rearing and cocoon production
Silkworm rearing and cocoon production is the practice of raising the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori from eggs through larval life to harvested cocoons, fed on mulberry leaves.
Silla (신라)
Silla (신라), one of Korea's Three Kingdoms alongside Goguryeo and Baekje, arose in the southeast from Saroguk of the Samhan, ruled from Gyeongju, allied with Tang China to conquer Baekje (660) and Goguryeo (668), and governed Unified Silla until Goryeo absorbed it in 935.
Silla annexation of Daegaya
The Silla annexation of Daegaya (대가야 멸망) was the conquest of Daegaya, the last major polity of the Gaya confederacy, by the Korean kingdom of Silla in 562.
Silla Bang
Silla Bang (신라방) were self-governing communities of Silla expatriates in Tang China, formed from the 8th century on the Shandong Peninsula and Jianghuai region, anchoring Yellow Sea trade.
Silla Censorate (Sajeongbu)
The Silla Censorate, or Sajeongbu (사정부), was the government office of the Korean kingdom of Silla in charge of supervising and censoring central officials from 659.