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SPECC1L-related hypertelorism syndrome
SPECC1L-related hypertelorism syndrome, formerly Teebi hypertelorism syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder from SPECC1L gene variants, causing widely spaced eyes and birth defects like omphalocele.
Specht module
A Specht module is a module for the symmetric group built from Young tableaux of a given partition shape, introduced by Wilhelm Specht in 1935.
Special (TV series)
Special is an American semi-autobiographical comedy series created by, written by, and starring Ryan O'Connell, adapted from his 2015 memoir and streamed on Netflix from 2019 to 2021.
Special 26
Special 26 is a 2013 Hindi heist thriller directed and written by Neeraj Pandey, starring Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, and Manoj Bajpayee, about con artists posing as CBI officers, based on the 1987 Opera House heist.
Special Activities Center
Special Activities Center (SAC), formerly Special Activities Division, is the CIA Directorate of Operations' covert action arm, running the Special Operations Group for paramilitary missions under presidential findings.
Special administrative regions of China
Special administrative regions of China: Hong Kong (1997) and Macau (1999), highly autonomous territories under "one country, two systems," each with its own Basic Law, currency, customs territory, and common-law or Portuguese-derived legal system.
Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics (Colombia)
The Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics, known as Aerocivil, is Colombia's civil aviation authority, a technical entity under the Ministry of Transport that regulates airspace, provides navigation services, and investigates accidents.
Special agent
Special agent: sworn US criminal-investigator title used since 1872 in the Justice Department and by FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS-CI, Secret Service, and Diplomatic Security Service agents with arrest and warrant authority.
Special Agent Oso
Special Agent Oso, American computer-animated preschool series created by Ford Riley, aired on Playhouse Disney/Disney Channel 2009-2012, 2 seasons, 60 episodes; panda agent-in-training of U.N.I.Q.U.E. voiced by Sean Astin teaches tasks in three steps.
Special Air Service
The Special Air Service (SAS) is the British Army special forces regiment founded by David Stirling in July 1941 for desert raids, re-formed as 22 SAS in 1952, famous for the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege.
Special Air Service Regiment
The Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) is the Australian Army special forces unit raised in 1957, expanded to a regiment in 1964, which served in Borneo, Vietnam, East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq and was the focus of the 2020 Brereton inquiry.
Special Atomic Demolition Munition
The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a man-portable US nuclear backpack weapon built around the W54 warhead, carried by trained soldiers and deployed from 1964 to 1989.
Special Boat Service
The Special Boat Service (SBS) is the Royal Navy's maritime special forces unit within UK Special Forces, formed in 1940 as the Special Boat Section, specialising in littoral operations alongside the SAS.
Special Branch
Special Branch: police intelligence units, originating in London's Metropolitan Police in 1883 to counter Irish republican terrorism, later spread across the Commonwealth; Met unit ended 2006.
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is Australia's multicultural, multilingual national public broadcaster, founded on 1975 experimental ethnic radio stations 2EA and 3EA, established in 1978, with television from 1980 and services in over 60 languages.
Special Bulletin
Special Bulletin (1983) is an NBC television drama directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz, a simulated live newscast of nuclear terrorism in Charleston, S.C.; it won four Emmys.
Special Committee on Decolonization
The Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24, Committee of 24) is a UN General Assembly subsidiary organ, established 1961 by resolution 1654 (XVI), monitoring implementation of the 1960 Declaration on decolonization across the 17 remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories.
Special Conference on Defence
The Special Conference on Defence (Особое совещание по обороне) was a Russian state body, established by Nicholas II in August 1915, that directed the empire's World War I war economy.
Special Conference on State Defense
The Special Conference on State Defense (Особое совещание по государственной обороне) was a Russian body chaired by the War Minister, supervising defense industry and army supply from 1915.
Special Correspondents
Special Correspondents is a 2016 Netflix comedy written and directed by Ricky Gervais, starring Eric Bana, a remake of Envoyés très spéciaux about radio journalists faking Ecuador war reports from Queens; released April 29, 2016, poorly reviewed.
Special Council (Osoboye Soveshchaniye)
The Special Council (Особое совещание, OSO) was a Soviet extrajudicial body of the security organs that sentenced defendants to imprisonment, exile, or death without trial from 1922 until its abolition in 1953.
Special Council of the NKVD
The Special Council of the NKVD (Особое совещание при НКВД) was a Soviet extrajudicial sentencing panel, created in 1934, that could exile, imprison, or execute people without trial.
Special Councils for Defense, Fuel, Food, Transport (1915)
The Special Councils for Defense, Fuel, Food, and Transport (Особые совещания 1915 года) were Russian Empire state institutions created in August 1915 to direct the World War I war economy.
Special Court for Sierra Leone
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) was a UN–Sierra Leone treaty-based hybrid tribunal, signed 16 January 2002, trying those bearing greatest responsibility for civil war crimes since 30 November 1996; four cases, nine convictions, closed December 2013.
Special Data Dissemination Standard
The Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) is a voluntary standard the IMF established in 1996 prescribing how member countries publish economic and financial statistics, created after the Mexican financial crisis.
Special degree for repeat candidates (tefengming)
Tefengming (特奏名) was a Song dynasty privilege granting degrees to candidates who had failed the civil examinations repeatedly, beginning with a grant of 106 degrees in 970.
Special drawing rights
The special drawing right (SDR) is an interest-bearing international reserve asset created by the IMF in 1969; it is not a currency but a potential claim on members' currencies.
Special economic zone
A special economic zone (SEZ), or enterprise area, is a designated area where governments attract industry with tax incentives, distinct regulations, and infrastructure; over 6,000 zones exist worldwide.
Special economic zones of China
China's special economic zones are delineated areas where investors receive preferential tax, customs, and land treatment; the original four, at Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, and Xiamen, date to 1980.
Special education
Special education is specially designed instruction, at no cost to parents, for children with disabilities, guaranteed in the US by IDEA through FAPE, IEPs, and least restrictive environment, and shaped internationally by the 1994 Salamanca Statement on inclusive education.