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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, also written Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, was a Japanese theoretical physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Feynman and Schwinger for quantum electrodynamics.
Sin-kashid
Sin-kashid (Sîn-kāšid, also written Sin-kasid) was an Amorite king of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia, c. 1865–1833 BC, who took Uruk from Larsa, founded a dynasty, and built a large palace known from over 100 inscriptions.
Sîn-lēqi-unninni
Sîn-lēqi-unninni, also written Sin-leqe-unninni, was a Babylonian exorcist and scholar of Uruk whom tradition credits with compiling the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, probably under the Kassite dynasty.
Sin-magir
Sin-magir (Sîn-māgir) was a king of Isin in southern Mesopotamia, the 14th and penultimate ruler of the First Dynasty of Isin, who reigned 11 years, 1827–1817 BC.
Sin-muballit
Sin-muballit was an Amorite king of Babylon, the fifth ruler of the First Dynasty and father and immediate predecessor of Hammurabi, reigning about 1812 to 1793 BC.
Sîn-Šamaš Temple
Temple of Sin and Shamash at Assur, a double sanctuary to the moon and sun gods in Assyria's religious capital, built by Assurnirari in the 15th century BC, with symmetrical facing shrines; now almost disappeared.
Sin-shar-ishkun
Sin-shar-ishkun (Sîn-šar-iškun) was a son of Ashurbanipal and king of Assyria from the late 620s BC until 612 BC, when he died defending his capital Nineveh against Babylonians and Medes.
Sin-shumu-lishir
Sin-shumu-lishir (Sîn-šumu-līšir) was an Assyrian general and chief eunuch who claimed kingship over Assyria and Babylonia in 626 BC, during the succession crisis after Ashurbanipal, ruling briefly over part of Babylonia.
SIN3A
SIN3A (SIN3 transcription regulator family member A, WITKOS), gene at 15q24.2 encoding a 1,273-aa scaffold of the conserved Sin3/HDAC1-2 co-repressor complex; haploinsufficiency causes Witteveen-Kolk syndrome and 15q24 microdeletion syndrome.
Sina
Sina (新浪) is a Beijing-rooted Chinese internet company formed in 1998 from a merger, operator of the Sina.com news portal and controlling shareholder of Weibo.
Sina Afra
Sina Afra, born 1968, is a Turkish internet entrepreneur based in Istanbul, best known as founder and chief executive of the e-commerce company Markafoni from 2008 to 2014.
Sina Bavari
Sina Bavari is a pharmaceutical scientist and biodefense researcher who led filovirus drug countermeasure research at USAMRIID in Maryland, contributing to remdesivir and the Marburg drug AVI-7288.
Sina Hospital
Sina Hospital (بیمارستان سینا) is a public teaching hospital in central Tehran, founded under Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in the early 1870s and generally described as the oldest hospital in Tehran.
Sina Najmaei
Sina Najmaei is a materials scientist and Research Scientist at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory who studies defects and grain boundaries in two-dimensional semiconductors, especially monolayer MoS2.
Sina-Drums
Sina-Drums, or Sina Döring (born 1999, Marburg, Germany), is a German YouTube drummer known for classic rock drum covers, the Chi Might original albums, and collaborations with Ian Paice, Donovan, and Jim Peterik.
Sinabung
Sinabung (Gunung Sinabung) is a 2,460 m stratovolcano in Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, dormant about 400 years before its 2010 eruption, then erupting 2013–2021 with deadly dome-collapse pyroclastic flows, and re-erupting 31 August 2026.
Sinach
Sinach (born Osinachi Kalu Okoro Egbu) is a Nigerian gospel singer and worship leader at Christ Embassy, best known for "Way Maker" (2015), covered by more than 60 artists.
Šinahuttum
Šinahuttum, also written Sinahuttum and known in Hittite sources as Sanahuitta, was a Bronze Age city in central Anatolia near Hattusa, destroyed by Hattusili I after a five-month siege.
Sinai and Palestine campaign
The Sinai and Palestine campaign (سيناء وفلسطين الحملة) was a First World War campaign fought from 1915 to 1918 between the Ottoman Empire, supported by Germany, and British Empire forces.
Sinai Dorsa
Sinai Dorsa is an IAU-approved ridge system (dorsum) on Mars, adopted 1988 as a classical albedo feature name, about 456.54 km across at 12.77S, 281.08E near Sinai Planum in Tharsis.
Sinai Fossae
Sinai Fossae: IAU-approved system of troughs (fossae) on Mars, 589.15 km across, centered at 14.08S 281.33E, named January 23, 2012 from the classical albedo feature Sinai near Mare Erythraeum.
Sinai insurgency
The Sinai insurgency is an armed conflict in North Sinai, Egypt, between Egyptian forces and jihadist groups, chiefly Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which became ISIS's Sinai Province in 2014, marked by the 2015 Russian airliner bombing and the 2017 al-Rawda Mosque massacre and largely suppressed by 2023.
Sinai mining expeditions of the Old Kingdom
The Sinai mining expeditions of the Old Kingdom, also called the Wadi Maghara expeditions, were state expeditions extracting turquoise and copper in southwest Sinai from Dynasty 3 through Dynasty 5.
Sinai Peninsula
Sinai Peninsula: triangular Egyptian landmass of about 61,000 km² between the Mediterranean, Gulf of Suez, and Gulf of Aqaba; highest peak Mount Catherine (2,637 m); returned to Egyptian sovereignty in 1982 under the 1979 peace treaty.
Sinai Planum
Sinai Planum is a roughly 900-km-diameter Hesperian lava plain on Mars in the Thaumasia plateau, south of Valles Marineris; IAU-approved 1973 as a classical albedo feature name, centered near 13.7S, 272.2E.
Sinai Tholus
Sinai Tholus is a 200 km diameter tholus (dome) on Mars at 15.54 S, 279.97 E, on the Thaumasia Plateau south of Valles Marineris; IAU-approved 2020 from the classical albedo feature Sinai.
Sinaloa
Sinaloa, a northwestern Mexican state with capital Culiacán and 20 municipalities, had 3,026,943 people in 2020. A leading farm exporter, it has been gripped since September 2024 by war between Sinaloa Cartel factions Los Chapitos and Los Mayos, and its US-indicted governor was replaced by an interim one in 2026.
Sinaloa Cartel
Sinaloa Cartel (Cártel de Sinaloa), Mexican drug-trafficking federation founded in the early 1990s by El Chapo Guzmán, El Mayo Zambada, and El Azul; federal, factional structure, Golden Triangle base, CJNG rival, and 2024 internal war after Zambada's arrest.
Sinan (Mercurian crater)
Sinan is a 134 km impact crater on Mercury at 15.46°N, 30.59°W, IAU-named in 1976 for the Turkish architect Joseph Sinan (1489-1588); an old, degraded peak-ring crater crossed by a lobate scarp, distinct from the 490 km Sanai crater.
Sinan Akçıl
Sinan Akçıl is a Turkish composer, singer-songwriter, and producer, born in 1982, who wrote Hadise's Eurovision 2009 hit "Düm Tek Tek" before releasing his own albums.