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Scott MacFarlane (journalist)
Scott MacFarlane is an American broadcast journalist, a CBS News correspondent from 2021 to 2026 known for January 6 Capitol riot coverage, now chief Washington correspondent at MeidasTouch and an independent Substack journalist.
Scottish Rite
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite is a Masonic degree system (4°–32°, honorary 33°) governed by Supreme Councils, originating in France despite its name, with Southern (1801) and Northern (1813) US jurisdictions.
Scout Motto
Scout Motto: "Be Prepared," the motto of the Scout Movement defined by Robert Baden-Powell in Scouting for Boys as readiness in mind and body to do one's duty; used since 1907, shared by WAGGGS, translated into dozens of languages.
Secret society
Secret society: an association keeping membership, purpose, or rituals concealed, from Freemasonry and the Illuminati to African initiation societies and college fraternities; defined by initiation rites, oaths of secrecy, and claimed hidden knowledge.
Serge F. Kovaleski
Serge F. Kovaleski, born Serge Frank Kovaleski in 1961, is a South African-born American investigative reporter who spent nearly two decades at The New York Times.
Shriners
Shriners, or Shriners International (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine), a Masonic fraternity founded 1872 in New York, known for red fezzes and for founding Shriners Children's hospitals in 1922.
Sigma Chi (ΣΧ)
Sigma Chi (ΣΧ) is an international social fraternity founded June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio by seven former Delta Kappa Epsilon members, with over 255,000 living members, Evanston, Illinois headquarters, and a documented record of chapter hazing sanctions.
Siranudh Scott
Siranudh 'Psi' Scott (สิรณัฐ สก๊อต), born 1996, Thai-Scottish marine conservationist and fourth-generation Bhirombhakdi heir to the Singha beer empire; founder of Sea You Strong, endurance swimmer, and in 2026 accuser of his brother Sunit Scott of sexual abuse.
Slavery in India
Slavery in India spans ancient dāsa servitude, Mughal domestic and military slavery, colonial-era abolition by the Indian Slavery Act of 1843, and continuing debt bondage under the 1976 Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act.
Social services
Social services: organized public and voluntary programs delivering cash and in-kind benefits across the life cycle, also called social protection or social security; three pillars (social assistance, social insurance, labour market programs), about 20% of OECD GDP in spending, and persistent non-take-up of eligible benefits.
Sociology of religion
Sociology of religion: the empirical social-scientific study of religion in its social context, founded by Durkheim, Weber, and Marx; central debates cover secularization theory, religious market and rational choice models, and insecurity theory.
Spolok svätého Vojtecha
Spolok svätého Vojtecha (Society of Saint Adalbert, SSV) is the largest and oldest Catholic association in Slovakia, founded in 1870 in Trnava by Andrej Radlinský.
Supreme Eiye Confraternity
Supreme Eiye Confraternity (National Association of Airlords), a Nigerian student confraternity founded at the University of Ibadan in 1965, later classed as a secret cult and organized crime group active in trafficking and fraud.
Swedish Order of Freemasons
Svenska Frimurare Orden, in English the Swedish Order of Freemasons, is Sweden's sovereign Masonic Grand Lodge, formed in 1780 and also operating in western Finland with about 14,000 members.
Team Water
#TeamWater is a creator-led crowdfunding campaign by MrBeast and Mark Rober that raised over $40 million in August 2025 to provide clean water to 2 million people for decades, with WaterAid as lead partner.
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), founded 1951 in the U.S., is a global environmental nonprofit conserving lands and waters in 86 countries and territories, protecting 125M+ acres, with FY2025 revenue over $2 billion, known for easements, water funds, blue bonds, and past controversies.
The TerraMar Project
The TerraMar Project, also called TerraMar, was a 2012–2019 ocean-conservation nonprofit founded and funded by Ghislaine Maxwell, with US 501(c)(3) and UK charity arms; it closed six days after Jeffrey Epstein's July 2019 arrest and gave no recorded grants.
Tina Brown
Tina Brown, born Christina Hambley Brown in 1953, is a British-born journalist and magazine editor who revived Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker before co-founding The Daily Beast.
United Grand Lodge of England
The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) is the governing body of Freemasonry in England, Wales, and overseas districts, formed by the union of two rival grand lodges in 1813.
United States Junior Chamber
United States Junior Chamber (Jaycees, JCI USA), civic and leadership organization founded 1915 in St. Louis by Henry Giessenbier, nationally organized 1920; renamed United States Jaycees 1965; Supreme Court ordered women's admission 1984.
Voluntary association
Voluntary association: a group people join by choice to pursue shared interests, also called a normative organization in Etzioni's typology. Covers Tocqueville's account, legal meaning, social capital research, and modern sector statistics.
WaterAid
WaterAid is an international WASH charity and federation founded in the UK on 21 July 1981 by water industry figures led by David Kinnersley; it works in 22 countries, has reached 28.9 million people with clean water, and co-led the 2025 $40 million #TeamWater campaign.
White's
White's is London's oldest gentlemen's club, founded in 1693 at 37 St James's Street. A men-only, Grade I listed aristocratic institution famous for its historic betting book, closed waiting list, and royal members.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations' food-assistance organization, established in 1961, working in over 120 countries and awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
Writers' Union of Kazakhstan
The Writers' Union of Kazakhstan (Қазақстан Жазушылар одағы) is the only national professional association for poets and authors in Kazakhstan, dating its founding to a 1934 writers' congress.
Yellow journalism
Yellow journalism: sensational 1890s American newspaper style of Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World, named after the Yellow Kid comic, best known for its disputed role in the 1898 Spanish-American War.
Young Global Leaders
Young Global Leaders (YGLs) are members of the World Economic Forum's Forum of Young Global Leaders, founded 2004 (precursor Global Leaders for Tomorrow, 1992); a nomination-only, under-40, three-year leadership program with 1,400+ members from 120+ countries.