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Sivasspor

Sivasspor, also known as Sivasspor Kulübü, is a Turkish professional football club based in Sivas and founded in 1967, known for winning the Turkish Cup in 2022 and playing in UEFA competitions.

Sivelestat

Sivelestat (Elaspol, Xiweina; ONO-5046, LY544349) is an intravenous, selective reversible neutrophil elastase inhibitor approved in Japan (2002), South Korea (2005), and China (2020) for SIRS-related acute lung injury/ARDS; efficacy evidence is mixed, strongest in sepsis-related ARDS.

Siverek

Siverek is a district of Şanlıurfa Province, southeastern Turkey, 96 km from Şanlıurfa; 274,588 residents (2024), 4,314 km², 840 m elevation, roughly 7,000 years of settlement, briefly a province 1923–1926.

Siwa Oasis (واحة سيوة)

Siwa Oasis (واحة سيوة) is Egypt's largest and most remote Western Desert oasis, home to the Oracle of Amun visited by Alexander the Great, a Berber-speaking Siwi community, salt lakes, and a 3-billion-EGP water restoration project.

Siwah Facula

Siwah Facula: 220-km bright facula (palimpsest) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede at 7N 143W, IAU-named 1985 for the Siwa oasis oracle of Zeus-Ammon visited by Alexander.

Siwān

Siwān (सिवान) is a district in northwestern Bihar, India, formed in 1972 from Saran district, area 2,219 sq km, population 33.3 lakh (2011), hometown of India's first President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

Siwan Mound

Siwan Mound (Siwan Polar), the Theh Polar archaeological site in Kaithal district, Haryana, India: a centrally protected settlement mound, circa 8th century BC to 2nd century AD, on the Sarasvati river with Painted Grey Ware, Kushan pottery, and Yaudheya coins.

Siwe-palar-huppak

Siwe-palar-huppak, also written Siwe-palar-huhpak, was a sukkalmah, or grand regent, of Elam in the early 2nd millennium BC, a contemporary of Hammurabi who ruled over Mesopotamia for two years.

Siwe-Palar-Khuppak

Siwe-Palar-Khuppak, also spelled Siwe-palar-huppak, was a grand regent (sukkalmah) of Elam who briefly ruled Mesopotamia before an alliance led by Hammurabi of Babylon ended Elamite power in the west.

Siwelele F.C.

Siwelele F.C., a Bloemfontein-based South African club in the Betway Premiership, formed in 2025 by buying SuperSport United's status; named after Bloemfontein Celtic's supporters, green and white, chaired by Calvin Le John.

Siwidae

Siwidae (시위대) was the principal central army unit of the Korean Empire, formed in 1897 as Emperor Gojong's elite guard and disbanded by Japan in August 1907.

Six (musical)

Six (SIX) is a British pop-concert musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss in which the six wives of Henry VIII compete as a girl group; premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017, a West End and Broadway hit, and 2022 Tony winner for Best Original Score.

Six (TV series)

Six (SIX) is a History channel action drama (2017-2018, 2 seasons, 18 episodes) about a fictional Navy SEAL Team Six squad, created by William Broyles Jr. and David Broyles, starring Walton Goggins, cancelled in June 2018.

Six Abodes of Murugan (ஆறுபடை வீடு)

The Six Abodes of Murugan (ஆறுபடை வீடு, Arupadai Veedu) are six temples of the Hindu god Murugan in Tamil Nadu, India, together forming the principal pilgrimage circuit of Tamil devotion to him.

Six Armies of the North

The Six Armies of the North (北衙六軍) were the Tang dynasty's palace guard armies at Chang'an, made up of the Yulin, Longwu, and Shenwu armies.

Six Arts

The Six Arts (六艺, liuyi) are the six skills of the Zhou aristocratic curriculum, ritual, music, archery, charioteering, writing, and arithmetic, later also the six classics.

Six Boards

The Six Boards (六部) were the six central ministries of Ming dynasty China, each headed by a minister and, after 1380, answering directly to the emperor.

Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder'

Six Chapters from My Life 'Downunder' (干校六记, Ganxiao liu ji) is a 1981 memoir cycle by Chinese writer Yang Jiang recounting life at cadre schools during the Cultural Revolution.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is a 1921 three-act play by Luigi Pirandello in which six unfinished characters interrupt a rehearsal.

Six Codes of the Republic of China

The Six Codes of the Republic of China, or Liufa quanshu, are the six principal law codes of the Nationalist government, covering constitution, civil, criminal, and procedural law.

Six Colleges (Yukhak)

The Six Colleges (Yukhak) were the six schools of the Gukjagam, the national academy of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, covering Confucian learning, law, writing, and arithmetic.

Six Controls and Five Equalizations

The Six Controls and Five Equalizations (六筦五均) were economic controls imposed by Wang Mang's Xin dynasty, combining state monopolies with price stabilization and state lending.

Six Days in Fallujah

Six Days in Fallujah is a tactical first-person shooter by Highwire Games and Victura recreating the 2004 Second Battle of Fallujah; originally a 2009 Atomic Games-Konami project, it entered Steam Early Access June 22, 2023.

Six Days, Seven Nights

Six Days, Seven Nights is a 1998 American romantic adventure-comedy directed by Ivan Reitman, in which a magazine editor and a charter pilot are stranded on a deserted island, starring Harrison Ford and Anne Heche.

Six degrees of freedom

Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) is the number of independent parameters needed to specify a rigid body's position and orientation in 3D space: three translational and three rotational.

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (SDOIT) is Dream Theater's sixth studio album, a 2002 Elektra double CD whose 42-minute, eight-section title track portrays six mental health conditions.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: parlor game invented 1994 by Albright College students Fass, Turtle, and Ginelli, linking any actor to Kevin Bacon in six or fewer co-starring films; Bacon number, Endless Games board game, small-world network example.

Six degrees of separation

Six degrees of separation, also called the six handshakes rule, is the idea that any two people are linked by a chain of acquaintances of at most six steps.

Six Degrees of Separation (film)

Six Degrees of Separation is Fred Schepisi's 1993 comedy-drama, John Guare's adaptation of his Tony-winning Broadway play, starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith, and Donald Sutherland as a con artist infiltrates wealthy Manhattanites posing as Sidney Poitier's son.

Six Degrees of Separation (play)

Six Degrees of Separation is John Guare's 1990 play about con man Paul posing as Sidney Poitier's son, based on David Hampton; Broadway 1990-92, 485 performances, Drama Critics' Circle Best Play, filmed 1993.