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salt karst: solution phenomena occurring in rock salt by the action of groundwater. Although rock salt is considerably more soluble in water than is the calcite that forms karst topography, rock salt is impervious, and solution can take place only on the ...
Salt Lake City: state capital and seat (1849) of Salt Lake county, north-central Utah, U.S., on the Jordan River at the southeastern end of Great Salt Lake. The world capital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), it influences the ...
salt marsh: area of low, flat, poorly drained ground that is subject to daily or occasional flooding by salt water or brackish water and that is covered with a thick mat of grasses and such grasslike plants as sedges and rushes. Salt ...
salt nucleus: tiny particle in the atmosphere that is composed of a salt, either solid or in an aqueous solution; it promotes the condensation of water and thus is one form of condensation nucleus (q.v.).
Salt Range: series of hills and low mountains between the valleys of the Indus and Jhelum rivers, located in the northern part of the Punjab region of Pakistan. It derives its name from extensive deposits of rock salt that form one of ...
Salt River: tributary of the Gila River, east-central Arizona, U.S. The Salt River is formed at the confluence of the Black and White rivers on a plateau in eastern Gila county. It flows 200 miles (320 km) in a westerly direction and ...
Salt, As-: town, west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway (often called the As-Salt Road) leading from Amman to Jerusalem. The town is situated in the Al-Balqa' highland, about 2,600-2,750 feet (about 790-840 m) above sea level, and is built ...
Salta: city, capital of Salta provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies in the irrigated Andean valley of Lerma, on a headstream of the Salado River. It was founded in 1582 as San Felipe de Lerma by Hernando de ...
Salta: provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It is bounded to the southwest by Chile, to the north by Bolivia, and to the northeast by Paraguay. The provincial capital is Salta city. In the southwestern part of the province, high ...
Saltaire: early planned industrial settlement near Bradford in Airedale, in what is now Bradford metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It was created in 1853 by the industrialist Sir Titus Salt, a manufacturer of alpaca ...
saltarello: medieval and Renaissance court dance and a folk dance of present-day Rome. In the 14th century the saltarello followed the estampie as an afterdance; a few examples survive in manuscript. In the 15th century it followed the basse danse and ...
Saltash: town ("parish"), Caradon district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. It lies near the English Channel coast, on the west shore of the Tamar estuary, on the opposite side of which lies Plymouth. Saltash is connected to Plymouth by ...
saltbox: in architecture, type of residential building popular in colonial New England, having two stories in front and a single story in the rear and a double-sloped roof that is longer over the rear section.The original clapboard houses of the New ...
saltcellar: receptacle for table salt, usually made of metal or glass. Salt was taken from it with small spoons. From the Middle Ages until at least the 16th century, salt was a relatively expensive commodity and was kept at the table ...
Salten, Felix: Austrian novelist and journalist, author of the children's classic and adult allegory Bambi, a sensitively told subjective story of the life of a wild deer.
Saltillo: city, capital of Coahuila estado ("state"), northeastern Mexico. Lying at the northern edge of the great central plateau at an elevation of 5,246 feet (1,599 m), it has a cool, dry, healthful climate that has made it a summer resort. ...
salting: organizing tactic employed by labour unions. To start the process, a union targets a nonunionized company and encourages some of its members to seek employment there. Once these "salts" have been hired, they initiate efforts to organize nonunion workers from ...
Salto: city, northwestern Uruguay. It is situated on the left bank of the Uruguay River across from Concordia, Arg. Now Uruguay's second largest city (after Montevideo), Salto is the terminus for the shallow-draft vessels that ply the Uruguay River. Its port ...
Salto del Guaira: town, eastern Paraguay. It is situated on the right bank of the Parana River at the Brazil-Paraguay border. Salto del Guaira is the site of one of the earliest colonial settlements in Paraguay, Ciudad Real, which was established in 1556 ...
Salton Sea: saline lake, in the lower Colorado Desert, southern California, U.S. The area that is now the lake was formerly a salt-covered sink or depression (a remnant of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla) about 280 feet (85 metres) below sea level until 1905-06, ...
Saltoposuchus: genus of extinct advanced thecodonts, the reptilian group that gave rise to the dinosaurs, flying reptiles, and birds. Saltoposuchus, a Late Triassic biped (the Triassic Period lasted from 245 to 208 million years ago), was lightly built and about 1.1 ...
saltpetre: any of three naturally occurring nitrates, distinguished as (1) ordinary saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, KNO₃; (2) Chile saltpetre, cubic nitre, or sodium nitrate, NaNO₃; and (3) lime saltpetre, wall saltpetre, or calcium nitrate, Ca(NO₃)₂. These three nitrates generally occur as ...
Saltus, Edgar Evertson: one of the few U.S. novelists who adopted the sophisticated cynicism, art-for-art's-sake credo, and other mannerisms of the European school of Decadents. In his time his novels were popular for their wit and for their shocking, erotic incidents.
Saltykov, Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Graf: novelist of radical sympathies and one of greatest of all Russian satirists.
Saluda: county, west-central South Carolina, U.S. The Saluda River and Lake Murray provide the northern boundary, and the western corner lies within Sumter National Forest. The county consists of a piedmont region of low hills, with large areas forested in pine ...
Saluda River: river rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains, west-central South Carolina, U.S., in North and South forks, which join 10 miles (15 km) northwest of Greenville. The main stream flows southeastward past Pelzer and, after a course of approximately 145 miles ...
saluki: breed of hound whose ancestors may date to 7000 to 6000 BC. Sacred to the Egyptians, who called it the "royal dog of Egypt," the saluki was used to hunt gazelles. Graceful, keen-sighted, and generally hardy, it is a slender, ...
Salus: in Roman religion, the goddess of safety and welfare, later identified with the Greek Hygieia (q.v.). Her temple on the Quirinal at Rome, dedicated in 302 BC, was the scene of an annual sacrifice on August 5.
Salut, Iles du: island group of French Guiana, northeastern South America, in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 mi (13 km) northeast of Kourou, comprising three main islands: Royale, Saint-Joseph, and Diable, the site of the infamous "Devil's Island" penal colony from 1852 to ...
Salutati, Coluccio: Humanist and Florentine chancellor.
Saluzzo: town and episcopal see, Cuneo province, Piemonte (Piedmont) region, northwestern Italy, at the foot of the Alps, southwest of Turin. The seat of the marquesses of Saluzzo from 1142 to 1548, it then passed to France until it was ceded ...
Salvador: city, major port and capital (since 1889) of Bahia state, northeastern Brazil. The country's third largest city, it is situated at the southern tip of a picturesque and bluff-formed peninsula that separates Todos os Santos (All Saints) Bay, a deep ...
salvage: in maritime law, the rescue of a ship or its cargo on navigable waters from a peril that, except for the rescuer's assistance, would have led to the loss or destruction of the property. Under some jurisdictions, aircraft may also ...
salvation: in religion, the deliverance of mankind from such fundamentally negative or disabling conditions as suffering, evil, finitude, and death. In some religious beliefs it also entails the restoration or raising up of the natural world to a higher realm or ...
Salvation Army: international Christian religious and charitable movement organized and operated on a military pattern. The Army is established in more than 80 countries, preaching the gospel in about 112 languages in 16,000 evangelical centres and operating more than 3,000 social welfare ...
Salvelinus: fish genus that includes the popular food and sport fishes known as char, brook trout, lake trout, and Dolly Varden trout (qq.v.).
Salvi, Niccolo: Italian sculptor whose late Roman Baroque masterpiece is the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
Salvia: the sage genus, containing about 700 species of herbaceous and woody plants of the mint family (Lamiaceae), order Lamiales. Some members are important as sources of flavouring.
Salviati, Antonio: Italian glass manufacturer who helped reestablish Murano as a centre of Italian glassworking and was instrumental in stimulating European interest in brightly coloured, ornate pieces of Italian glass.
Salviati, Francesco: painter and designer, one of the leading Mannerist fresco painters of the Florentine-Roman school.
Salviniales: plant order containing two families of tiny ferns that float on water (Salviniaceae and Azollaceae), each consisting of one genus. Salvinia (water spangle, or floating moss) has 10 species, and Azolla (mosquito fern) has 6 species. Roots are present in ...
Salween River: major stream of Southeast Asia and the longest in Myanmar (Burma). Rising in the T'ang-ku-la Mountains, a range of eastern Tibet, the river flows generally south for about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) through Yunnan province, China, and eastern Myanmar, emptying ...
Salyut: any of a series of Soviet space stations (of two designs), launched between 1971 and 1982, that served as living quarters and scientific laboratories or military reconnaissance platforms. The program name Salyut (Russian: "Salute") was chosen to honour cosmonaut Yury ...
Salzburg: Bundesland ("federal state"), west-central Austria. It is bordered by Bavaria (Germany) on the west and north and is bounded by the Bundeslander Oberosterreich on the north and east, Steiermark on the east, Karnten on the south, and Tirol on the ...
Salzburg: city, capital of Salzburg Bundesland (federal state), north-central Austria. It is situated in a level basin on both sides of the Salzach River near the northern foothills of the Alps and the Bavarian (German) border. The historic centre of the ...
Salzgitter: city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies in the foothills of the Harz Mountains, southwest of Braunschweig. The area covers the largest deposit of iron ore in Germany (no longer mined), and in 1937 the ...
Salzillo, Francisco: sculptor, a prolific creator of figures for the Holy Week procession. He is considered by some authorities to be the greatest sculptor in 18th-century Spain and by others as merely an excellent folk artist.
Salzkammergut: region, comprising parts of the Bundeslander (federal states) of Oberosterreich, Steiermark, and Salzburg, north-central Austria. The region consists mainly of the Traun River basin and is renowned for its lake and mountain scenery. Often called the Austrian "Lake District," it ...
Sam and Dave: American vocal duo who were among the most popular performers of soul music in the late 1960s and whose gritty, gospel-drenched style typified the .
Sam Houston State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Huntsville, Texas, U.S. It is part of the Texas State University System. The university includes colleges of arts and sciences, business administration, criminal justice, and education and applied science. In addition to undergraduate ...
Sam Saen Thai: great sovereign of the Lan Xang kingdom of Laos, whose reign brought peace, prosperity, and stability to the kingdom.