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Sinking, joints and closure in immersed tube tunnels

Sinking, joints and closure in immersed tube tunnels covers how prefabricated tunnel elements are lowered onto the seabed, sealed with Gina and Omega gaskets, and closed at the final joint.

Sinlaku Corona

Sinlaku Corona, a 300 km rimmed-plateau corona on Venus south of the Hecate rift and Zverine Chasma junction, mapped as four flow units fSia–d with a sparsely fractured rim.

Sinlap is an ~80 km impact crater on Titan at 11.3°N, 16.1°W, the only Titan crater observed by both Cassini RADAR and VIMS, with a flat floor, well-preserved ejecta, and a downwind water-ice-rich parabolic halo.

Sinminhoe

Sinminhoe (신민회, New People's Association) was a secret Korean nationalist society founded in Seoul in 1907, attributed to An Chang-ho, that sought to restore Korean sovereignty through education, industry, and publishing.

Sinmu of Silla

Sinmu of Silla (신무왕) was the 45th king of Unified Silla, reigning from the fourth to the seventh month of 839, less than half a year.

Sinmun of Silla

Sinmun of Silla (신문왕), personal name Kim Jeongmyeong, was the 31st king of Silla from 681 to 692, who suppressed an aristocratic revolt and built Unified Silla's institutions.

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin ("We Ourselves") is an all-island Irish republican party seeking a united Ireland. Formerly linked to the Provisional IRA, it won 73 of 105 seats in 1918, ended Dáil abstention in 1986, and now leads Northern Ireland's government.

Sinn Sisamouth (ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត)

Sinn Sisamouth (ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត, 1932, died 1975-1979), the "King of Khmer Music," was a prolific Cambodian singer-songwriter of the 1950s-1970s who blended Khmer music with Western pop and disappeared under the Khmer Rouge.

Oct 22, 2026

Sinn und Form

Sinn und Form is a German-language literary and cultural journal founded in 1949 in East Berlin, regarded as one of the most significant German literary journals.

Sinnaneunsesang Folk Village

Sinnaneunsesang Folk Village (신나는세상민속촌) is a small theme park in Gwaebeop-dong, Sasang-gu, Busan, South Korea, registered as a business in October 1995, near Sasang station and the Busan Seobu intercity bus terminal.

Sep 19, 2026

Sinner (group)

Sinner is a German heavy metal band from Stuttgart formed in the early 1980s around vocalist and bassist Mat Sinner, releasing twenty studio albums before its 2026 farewell record.

Sinner (자필) (2026 film)

Sinner (자필) is a 2026 South Korean crime drama, Hong Sung-min's feature debut, starring Jung Sung-il and Park Ji-hyun. It premiered at the 31st Busan International Film Festival's Korean Cinema Today – Panorama section, about a prosecutor reinvestigating a death row inmate's case after reading her letter.

Sinner Man

"Sinner Man" (Sinnerman) is an African American traditional spiritual about a sinner fleeing divine judgment, first commercially recorded by Les Baxter in 1956, codified by Nina Simone's ten-minute 1965 Pastel Blues version, and adapted by Peter Tosh as reggae's "Downpressor Man".

Sinner's prayer

The sinner's prayer is an evangelistic prayer, worded variously, in which a person repents and asks Jesus Christ to become Lord and Savior, common in American evangelicalism.

Sinners (2025 film)

Sinners is a 2025 American horror film set in 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi. It follows twin brothers who open a juke joint and confront a vampire threat.

Sinners (soundtrack)

Sinners (soundtrack) is the 2025 album for Ryan Coogler's vampire film, also called Sinners: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, executive produced by Ludwig Göransson on Sony Masterworks, 22 tracks, with a separate Sony Classical score; it won Oscars and two Grammys.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a revival sermon by Jonathan Edwards, preached at Enfield on July 8, 1741, during the Great Awakening.

Sînnicolaul Mare

Sînnicolaul Mare (Sânnicolau Mare, Nagyszentmiklós), a town in Timiș County, Romanian Banat, famed for the 1799 find of 23 gold vessels (about 10 kg, Avar-era, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna) and the multi-period Selişte archaeological site.

Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty (中美共同防御条约)

The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, signed in 1954, was a military alliance between the United States and the Republic of China. It committed both parties to defend Taiwan.

Sino-American Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China

The Sino-American Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China, signed January 11, 1943, ended US consular jurisdiction and the US Court for China; effective May 20, 1943.

Sino-Austronesian languages

Sino-Austronesian, Laurent Sagart's proposed macrofamily linking Sinitic and Austronesian, later expanded to Sino-Tibeto-Austronesian (STAN) with Tibeto-Burman. Based on sound correspondences and 61 Old Chinese-Austronesian cognates; criticized by Blust, Li, Wang, Pulleyblank; not accepted by mainstream comparative linguistics.

Sino-British Joint Declaration (中英联合声明)

Sino-British Joint Declaration (中英联合声明), the 1984 UN-registered bilateral treaty under which Britain restored Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 with a 50-year 'one country, two systems' framework, now disputed between the UK and China over its continuing binding force.

Sino-British Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China

The 1943 Sino-British Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China, signed at Chungking on 11 January 1943 alongside a parallel Sino-American treaty, ended British consular jurisdiction, the treaty-port system, and concessions in China, though Hong Kong's New Territories and Tibet remained unresolved.

Sino-Burmese War

The Sino-Burmese War (တရုတ်-မြန်မာ စစ်ပွဲ) was a war between Qing China and Burma's Konbaung dynasty: four failed invasions by the Qianlong Emperor, ending in a 1769 truce.

Sino-French War (中法战争)

Sino-French War (中法战争), 1884–85 conflict between Qing China and France over Vietnam's status. Fuzhou's Fujian Fleet was destroyed in hours, Taiwan blockaded seven months, and the 1885 Treaty of Tientsin ended Chinese suzerainty over Vietnam.

Sino-German Jiaozhou lease convention

The Sino-German Jiaozhou lease convention (中德胶澳租借条约), signed on 6 March 1898, leased Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong to Germany for 99 years, with railway and mining rights that made the province a German sphere of influence.

Sino-Himalayan spruces of section Serrae

The Sino-Himalayan spruces of section Serrae are five East Asian Picea species, including dragon spruce and Taiwan spruce, distinguished by four-sided needles and centered on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.