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Sisa (2025 film)
Sisa (2025) is a Philippine-Myanmar historical thriller written and directed by Jun Robles Lana, starring Hilda Koronel as a spy feigning madness in a 1902 American concentration camp. Premiered at Tallinn Black Nights 2025; Philippine release March 4, 2026.
Sisaket Aquarium
Sisaket Aquarium (ศูนย์แสดงพันธุ์สัตว์น้ำ เทศบาลเมืองศรีสะเกษ) is a municipal public aquarium in Si Sa Ket Province, Thailand, with over 4,000 fish across 101 species, a 24-meter underwater glass tunnel, and Amazon fish displays.
Sisal
Sisal, from Agave sisalana, is a stiff pale leaf fibre native to Mexico's Yucatan, used for rope, twine, and carpets; Brazil, Tanzania, and Kenya lead production of about 234,000 tonnes a year.
Sisal industry in Tanganyika
The sisal industry in Tanganyika was the plantation cultivation of sisal for fiber, introduced under German rule in the 1890s and Tanganyika's leading export until the 1970s.
Sisamnes
Sisamnes, also Sisamnes the Judge, was a royal judge under Persian king Cambyses II who was executed and flayed for taking a bribe; his skin covered the judgment seat on which his son Otanes sat as successor, per Herodotus 5.25.
Sisapo
Sisapo (Sisapone, Sisalone) was an ancient mining city of Hispania, identified with La Bienvenida in Almodóvar del Campo, Ciudad Real, Spain; famed for its cinnabar and minium mines run by the societas sisaponensis and exported to Rome.
Sisavang Vatthana
Sisavang Vatthana, also written Savang Vatthana (1907–1978), was the last king of Laos, reigning from 1959 until the monarchy was abolished in 1975, then dying in a re-education camp.
Sisavang Vong
Sisavang Vong (1885–1959) was a Lao monarch, King of Luang Prabang from 1904 and first king of the unified Kingdom of Laos from 1946 until 1959.
Şişecam
Şişecam (Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları A.Ş.) is a Turkish glass and chemicals manufacturer founded in 1935, producing glassware, flat glass, packaging, and soda ash in 13 countries.
Sisenna
Sisenna Koken, 1896 is an extinct genus of slit-bearing Pleurotomariid gastropods, type species P. turbinata, ranging Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic, mainly Tethyan, classified in Gosseletinidae.
Sisense
Sisense is a business intelligence and analytics software company founded in Israel in 2004 and headquartered in New York, focused on embedding dashboards and AI-powered insights into other companies' products.
Sishu
Sishu (শিশু, "The Child") is a 1903 Bengali poetry collection for children by Rabindranath Tagore, the main source for his English collection The Crescent Moon of 1913.
Sishui
Sishui (泗水) is a county in Jining, Shandong, China, named for the Si River rising at its Quanlin springs; 1091.79 km2, 528,800 residents (2023), 2024 GDP 23.383 billion yuan.
Sisi Stringer
Sisi Stringer, Australian actress born 1997 in Byron Bay, NSW; known as Mileena in Mortal Kombat (2021) and Rose Hathaway in Vampire Academy (2022); also Bloody Hell, Carnifex, Force of Nature: The Dry 2, and Sydney Theatre Company's Purpose (2026).
Sisi-Nubi Oil Field
Sisi-Nubi is a pair of offshore gas and condensate fields about 25 kilometers off the Mahakam Delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, producing gas since 2007.
Sisi, Kephali tou Agiou Antoniou
Sisi, Kephali tou Agiou Antoniou (Kremasma, Boufos): Minoan Bronze Age hill site at Sissi, Lasithi, Crete, 4 km east of Malia. Cemetery used 2650–1800 BCE; palace complex dependent on Malia; excavated since 1960, systematically since 2007.
Sisig
Sisig (sizzling sisig): Filipino Kapampangan dish of chopped pork face, ears, and liver with onions, chili, and calamansi, served on a hot plate; reinvented in 1970s Angeles City by Aling Lucing Cunanan, now a pulutan and heritage dish.
Sisingamangaraja XII
Sisingamangaraja XII, born Patuan Bosar Ompu Pulo Batu, was the last priest-king of the Batak peoples of North Sumatra, leading guerrilla war against the Dutch from 1878 until his death in battle in 1907.
Sisinius
Sisinius, also known as Sisinnius I, was bishop of Constantinople, later counted among the Ecumenical Patriarchs, from 426 to 427, elected by the laity and succeeded by Nestorius.
Sisinius II
Sisinius II (Greek Σισίννιος ὁ Β´) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, consecrated in 996 after a four-year vacancy and serving until his death in 998.
Sisinnius
Sisinnius, a Syrian and the 87th pope, reigned for just twenty days in early 708, dying suddenly after ordering lime prepared to restore the walls of Rome.
Siskel and Ebert
Siskel and Ebert: Gene Siskel (Chicago Tribune) and Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times), rival critics whose TV movie-review show, from Sneak Previews (1975) to Siskel & Ebert, popularized the trademarked thumbs-up/thumbs-down verdict until Siskel's 1999 death.
Siskiwit Lake (Isle Royale)
Siskiwit Lake is the largest inland lake on Isle Royale, Michigan, in Lake Superior, cut off from the big lake about 5,000 years ago; site of the 1850 Siskowit Mining Company steam stamp mill and drumlin fields to its west.
Şişli
Şişli (Turkish district) is a central district on Istanbul's European side, north of Taksim; first settled at Tatavla in the 16th century, municipality since 1984, ranked Türkiye's most developed district, population 261,959 (2025).
Sisodia dynasty of Mewar
The Sisodia dynasty of Mewar (सिसोदिया वंश) was a Rajput ruling house founded by Rana Hamir in 1326, holding Chittor and later Udaipur, and remembered for resisting Mughal rule under Pratap Singh.
Sisodia house of Pratapgarh
The Sisodia house of Pratapgarh (प्रतापगढ़ के सिसोदिया) was the senior branch of the Sisodia Rajputs, descended from the royal house of Mewar, that ruled Pratapgarh state in southeastern Rajasthan from 1561.
Sisomicin
Sisomicin (J01GB08) is an aminoglycoside antibiotic from Micromonospora inyoensis, closely related to gentamicin C1a, with greater activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa; studied in the 1970s–1980s against gentamicin and tobramycin.
Sison
Sison L. is a genus of three accepted Apiaceae species, including stone-parsley (Sison amomum), native from western and southern central Europe to the Mediterranean, with seeds used as flavoring.
Sisonke District Municipality
Sisonke District Municipality (DC43) was a district municipality in southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, seat Ixopo, established 2000 and renamed Harry Gwala District Municipality in May 2014; five local municipalities, agriculture-dominated economy.
Sisowath
Sisowath (ស៊ីសុវត្ថិ) was King of Cambodia from 1904 until his death in 1927, chosen by the French over his brother Norodom's sons; his reign saw Siam return Batdambang and Siemreab in 1907.