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Skol, Vikings
"Skol, Vikings" is the Minnesota Vikings' official fight song, used since the team's founding in 1961; "skol" derives from the Scandinavian "skål," a drinking toast meaning "cheers."
Skolem normal form
Skolem normal form, also known as Skolem standard form, is a form of a first-order logic formula with only universal quantifiers, introduced by Thoralf Skolem in 1920.
Skolemization
Skolemization is a transformation in first-order logic that removes existential quantifiers by replacing their variables with newly introduced Skolem functions, producing a formula satisfiable if and only if the original.
Skolion
A skolion (σκόλιον) is a short ancient Greek drinking song sung in turn by guests at a symposium, with the best-known examples being the anonymous Attic skolia.
Sköll
Sköll (Old Norse Skǫll) is the Norse mythological wolf who pursues the sun goddess Sól and devours her at Ragnarök; brother of Hati, moon-chaser, Ironwood lineage, possibly Fenrir's son.
Skolopoeis
Skolopoeis (Σκολοποεῖς) was an ancient settlement of Ionia near Doğanbey, Turkey, south of Mt. Mykale, mentioned by Herodotus 9.97 for its Eleusinian Demeter sanctuary; its exact site remains unidentified.
Skomoroshina
Skomoroshina (скоморошина) is a Russian comic folk song of the skomorokhy, medieval wandering minstrels, who peaked in the 15th to 17th centuries before Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's 1648 ban.
Skonto FC
Skonto FC, Latvian football club of Riga founded in 1991 by Guntis Indriksons of the Skonto construction group; won 14 straight Latvian titles to 2004 and 15 total before insolvency in December 2016.
Skookum
Skookum is a Chinook Jargon word meaning strong, big, or powerful, from Lower Chehalis skwəkwə́m (ghost, monster). It survives in Pacific Northwest English, Yukon slang, and place names like Skookumchuck Narrows, BC.
Skookumchuck Narrows
Skookumchuck Narrows (stl'ikwu), a tidal narrows near Egmont, BC, joins Sechelt Inlet to Jervis Inlet; its Sechelt Rapids run up to 16–17 knots over a 5 m sill, moving 200 billion gallons per three-metre tide.
Skool Luv Affair
Skool Luv Affair is BTS's second mini album, released February 12, 2014 by Big Hit Entertainment; it closed the school trilogy with the single Boy In Luv, peaked at No. 3 on Billboard World Albums, and re-entered the Billboard 200 at No. 12 in 2020.
Skoonheid
Skoonheid (Beauty), 2011 drama by Oliver Hermanus, first Afrikaans film at Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Queer Palm winner, about a closeted Afrikaner man's obsession ending in violence.
Skopelos
Skopelos (Σκόπελος) is the second largest island of Greece's Northern Sporades, covered in pine forest and known as the main filming location of Mamma Mia! (2008).
Skopin-Shuisky's campaign and death
Skopin-Shuisky's campaign and death covers Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich Skopin-Shuisky's 1609–1610 expedition that broke the siege of Moscow and his death weeks later, widely attributed to poison.
Skopje (Скопје)
Skopje (Скопје), capital and largest city of North Macedonia on the Vardar river; rebuilt after the 1963 earthquake under Kenzo Tange's UN plan, reshaped by the Skopje 2014 project, and home to a third of the country's population.
Skopje Jazz Festival
The Skopje Jazz Festival is a non-profit jazz festival held every autumn in Skopje, North Macedonia. Founded in 1982, it has hosted Ray Charles, Ornette Coleman, and Herbie Hancock.
Skopje Zoo
Skopje Zoo (Зоолошка градина Скопје), founded 1926 under Dr. Stanko Karaman, is the public zoo of Skopje, North Macedonia, in City Park on about 12 hectares with over 500 animals; EAZA candidate member.
Skoptsy (скопцы)
Skoptsy (скопцы), or White Doves, were a Russian religious sect that emerged in the 1770s from the Khlysty and practiced ritual self-castration, surviving persecution until destroyed under Soviet rule.
Skorokhod integral
The Skorokhod integral, also called the Hitsuda–Skorokhod integral, is a stochastic integral extending the Itô integral to non-adapted integrands, introduced by A. V. Skorokhod in 1975.
Škorpion
The Škorpion, also known as the Vz 61 Skorpion, is a Czechoslovak machine pistol designed by Miroslav Rybář, produced at Česká zbrojovka in Uherský Brod from 1963.
Skorpios
Skorpios (Σκορπιός) is a private Ionian island east of Lefkada, Greece, bought by Aristotle Onassis in 1962, site of his 1968 wedding to Jackie Kennedy, sold in 2013 for €117 million to the Rybolovlev family and now being turned into a resort.
Skotoussa (Thessaly)
Skotoussa (Σκοτοῦσσα), ancient city of Pelasgiotis in Thessaly near Agia Triada; known from the 197–185 BC fortification inscription SEG 43.311 and excavations since 2014; distinct from the Macedonian Skotoussa on the Strymon.
Skouriotissa
Skouriotissa (Σκουριώτισσα) is a copper mine in the Solea Valley of Cyprus, worked since at least the ninth century BC and the island's only active copper mine today.
SKP1
SKP1 (S-phase kinase-associated protein 1, aliases OCP2, p19A, TCEB1L) is a human gene at 5q31.1 encoding a 163-amino-acid adaptor that links F-box proteins to CUL1 in SCF ubiquitin ligases.
SKP2
SKP2 (S-phase kinase-associated protein 2) is an F-box protein substrate receptor of the SCF^SKP2 E3 ubiquitin ligase that degrades p27 and p21; an oncogene overexpressed in many cancers and a developing drug target (C1, SZL-P1-41, pevonedistat, SKPer1).
Skradin
Skradin (ancient Scardona) is a small Croatian town on the Krka River in Dalmatia, 19 km north of Šibenik, a former Liburnian port, Roman municipium, bishopric, and Šubić seat, now the gateway to Krka National Park.
Skræling
Skræling (Old Norse skrælingi) is the derogatory Norse term for the indigenous peoples of Vínland and Greenland, first written in the Íslendingabók (c. 1122–33), possibly from skrá 'dry skin', later meaning weak or wretched person in Norwegian.
Skrewdriver
Skrewdriver was an English band formed in Blackpool in 1976 by Ian Stuart Donaldson; originally a punk act on Chiswick, it re-formed in 1982 as the leading white power, Rock Against Communism band tied to the National Front and Blood & Honour, ending with Donaldson's 1993 death.
Skrill
Skrill, formerly Moneybookers, is a digital wallet and e-money service founded in 2001, owned by Paysafe since 2015, and best known for online gambling and forex payments.
Skrilla
Skrilla is Philadelphia rapper Jemille Edwards (born 1999) of Kensington, a "Philly Drill" artist whose 2025 single "Doot Doot (6 7)" spawned the viral "6 7" meme; albums Underworld and Zombie Love Kensington Paradise.