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Simeulue

Simeulue is an Indonesian island about 150 kilometers off the west coast of Sumatra and the seat of a regency in Aceh province, centered on Sinabang.

SimFarm

SimFarm (1993) is a Maxis farm-management simulation, a SimCity spinoff for DOS, Mac, and Windows. Players grow 24 crops, raise livestock, manage weather and disasters, and sell harvests; no sequel was made.

Simferopol

Simferopol (Симферополь; Crimean Tatar Aqmescit) is the capital city of Crimea on the Salhyr River, founded under its Greek name in 1784 beside the Tatar Ak-Mechet; about 340,000 people, Crimea's transport hub, annexed by Russia in 2014.

Simge Sağın

Simge Sağın, known as Simge, is a Turkish pop singer born in Istanbul in 1981 who broke through in 2015 with "Miş Miş", a four-week number one.

Simha (సింహ) (film)

Simha (సింహ) is a 2010 Telugu action drama directed by Boyapati Srinu, starring Nandamuri Balakrishna in a dual role with Nayanthara and Sneha Ullal; it grossed over Rs 60 crore and won Balakrishna a Nandi Award.

Simha Bhikshu (Aryasimha; 师子菩提)

Simha Bhikshu (Aryasimha; 师子尊者) is the Buddhist monk counted as the twenty-fourth Indian patriarch in Chan and Zen tradition, said to have been beheaded by a persecuting king, with milk flowing instead of blood.

Simhadri (సింహాద్రి) (2003 film)

Simhadri (సింహాద్రి) is S. S. Rajamouli's 2003 Telugu action drama starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Bhumika Chawla, and Ankitha; a ₹8 crore film that collected about ₹26 crore and made NTR Jr. a top Telugu star.

Simhadri power station

Simhadri power station, also known as Simhadri Super Thermal Power Station, is a 2,000 MW coal-fired power station of NTPC Limited in Andhra Pradesh, India, its first coastal plant.

Simhagiri

Simhagiri (सिंहगिरि) is, by the Sringeri Sharada Peetham's own tradition, the seventh Jagadguru of that Advaita Vedanta matha, reigning from 1038 to 1098 between Jnanagiri and Ishwara Tirtha.

Simhanada Guggulu

Simhanada Guggulu, a classical Ayurvedic pill of guggulu resin, Triphala, purified sulphur, and castor oil, first in Chakradatta, pharmacopoeial, used mainly for Amavata (rheumatoid arthritis), dose up to 3 g daily.

Simhapura dynasty

The Simhapura dynasty, known to Chinese records as Lam Ap, was the line of kings of Champa centered at Tra Kieu in Vietnam, ruling until 757.

Simhavarman II

Simhavarman II (சிம்மவர்மன்) was a Pallava king of Kanchi in South India who reigned from about 436 to 477 CE and was succeeded by his son Skandavarman.

Simhavishnu

Simhavishnu (சிம்ஹவிஷ்ணு) was a Pallava king who ruled at Kanchi in the late sixth century and is regarded as the true founder of the Pallava dynasty.

Simi (singer)

Simi, born Simisola Bolatito Kosoko (1988), is a Nigerian Afropop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter and sound engineer from Lagos, whose gospel debut Ogaju (2008) led to the Simisola album (2017), the Studio Brat label, and Lost and Found (2024).

Simi Garewal (सिमी गरेवाल)

Simi Garewal (सिमी गरेवाल), born Simrita Garewal 1947, Indian actress of Tarzan Goes to India, Mera Naam Joker, Siddhartha, two-time Filmfare winner, later host of Rendezvous with Simi Garewal.

Simi Valley, California

Simi Valley is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, about 37 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Incorporated in 1969, population 126,356 (2020 census), third largest of the county's ten cities.

Simian

Simian (Simiiformes): the primate infraorder covering all monkeys and apes, including humans; haplorhine, excluding tarsiers; about 307 species, crown age 42.2 million years, split into Platyrrhini and Catarrhini.

Simian foamy virus

Simian foamy virus is a retrovirus of nonhuman primates that spreads to humans through bites, causing a persistent infection with no disease linked to it.

Simiancheng Chengzhi

四面城城址 (Simiancheng town site), a Liao–Jin rammed-earth walled town in Changtu County, Tieling, Liaoning; identified by a 2000 Jin-dynasty stele as the seat of Liao Anzhou and Jin Guiren County; national key cultural relic protection unit since 2013.

Simias

Simias is a monotypic colobine monkey genus holding Simias concolor, the pig-tailed langur or simakobou, endemic to Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, sister to Nasalis, Critically Endangered with 6,700–17,300 individuals.

Simidele Adeagbo

Simidele Adeagbo is a Nigerian skeleton and monobob athlete who at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics became Nigeria's first Winter Olympian and the first African and Black woman to race Olympic skeleton.

Simigwa

Simigwa is the 1975 debut album by Ghanaian highlife musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, fusing highlife with funk and rap-like vocals, and often cited among the earliest commercial rap recordings.

Similarity (geometry)

Similarity in geometry is the relation between figures with the same shape but not necessarily the same size: corresponding angles are equal and corresponding sides are in constant ratio.

Similarity solution

A similarity solution is a partial differential equation solution that keeps its shape under rescaling of variables, reducing the PDE to an ordinary differential equation, as in the Blasius boundary layer.

Similarweb Ltd.

Similarweb Ltd. is an Israeli-founded digital data and analytics company, founded by Or Offer in 2007, that estimates website and mobile app traffic, engagement, and market share.

Simin Behbahani

Simin Behbahani (سیمین بهبهانی), born Siminbar Khalili, was an Iranian poet and activist, born in Tehran in 1927 and died there in 2014, known for renewing the ghazal.

Simin Daneshvar

Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور) was an Iranian novelist, translator, and academic whose Savushun (1969) was the first novel in Persian written by an Iranian woman.

Simin Liu

Simin Liu is a physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large prospective studies of sex hormones and type 2 diabetes, now Distinguished Professor and chair at UC Irvine.

Simina Grigoriu

Simina Grigoriu, married name Kalkbrenner, is a Romanian-born, Toronto-raised techno DJ and producer based in Berlin since 2008; she founded Kuukou Records in 2016 and is married to Paul Kalkbrenner.

Siming Guild Hall (Ningbo Guild)

The Siming Guild Hall (四明公所), also called the Ningbo Guild Hall, was founded in Shanghai in 1797 as a burial and coffin-storage charity for Ningbo merchants.