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Saura sect: Hindu sect widely dispersed throughout India in the Gupta and medieval periods; its members worshiped Surya, the sun, as the supreme deity. Surya as the sun was worshiped by Indians from the Vedic period onward for his help in destroying ...
Saura, Carlos: film director who analyzed the spirit of Spain in tragedies and flamenco-dance dramas.
Saurimo: town, northeastern Angola. Located at an elevation of 3,557 feet (1,081 m) above sea level, it is a garrison town and local market centre. Saurimo was formerly named after Henrique de Carvalho, a Portuguese explorer, who visited the region in ...
saurischian: any member of one of the two major lineages of dinosaurs, including birds and all dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to Triceratops. In 1888 paleontologist Harry G. Seeley, a former student of Richard Owen, separated ...
sauropod: any member of the dinosaur subgroup Sauropoda, marked by large size, a long neck and tail, a four-legged stance, and a herbivorous diet. These reptiles were the largest of all dinosaurs and the largest land animals that ever lived.
sauropterygian: any of the aquatic reptiles found as fossils from the Mesozoic Era (248 million to 65 million years ago). Sauropterygians include the nothosaurs, the pistosaurs, and the plesiosaurs, all of which were remarkably well adapted to life in the water.
saury: any of about four species of long, slim marine fishes of the family Scomberesocidae (order Atheriniformes). Sauries are small-up to about 35 cm (14 inches) long-and are characterized by beaklike but weakly toothed jaws and a row of small finlets ...
sausage: meat product made of finely chopped and seasoned meat, which may be fresh, smoked, or pickled and which is then usually stuffed into a casing. Sausages of fish or poultry are also made. The word sausage, from the Latin salsus ...
sausage tree: (Kigelia pinnata), tropical tree, the only species of its genus (family Bignoniaceae). It grows 6 to 12 m (20 to 40 feet) tall and bears sausagelike fruits, 30 to 60 cm (1 to 2 feet) long, which hang down on ...
Sausalito: city, Marin county, western California, U.S. It lies along San Francisco Bay just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was founded in 1838 by William Richardson, who had received a Mexican land grant called Rancho Sausalito, ...
Saussure, Ferdinand de: Swiss linguist whose ideas on structure in language laid the foundation for much of the approach to and progress of the linguistic sciences in the 20th century.
Saussure, Horace Benedict de: Swiss physicist, geologist, and early Alpine explorer who developed an improved hygrometer to measure atmospheric humidity.
Saussure, Nicolas-Theodore de: Swiss chemist and plant physiologist whose quantitative experiments on the influence of water, air, and nutrients on plants laid the foundation for phytochemistry.
Sautrantika: ancient school of Buddhism that emerged in India about the 2nd century BC as an offshoot of the Sarvastivada ("All-Is-Real Doctrine"). The school is so called because of its reliance on the sutras, or words of the Buddha, and its ...
Sautuola, Marcelino de: Spanish amateur geologist and archaeologist who excavated Altamira Cave (named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1985), near Santillana, in northern Spain, which contains the earliest known (c. 13,000-20,000 BC) examples of ...
Sauveur, Albert: Belgian-born American metallurgist whose microscopic and photomicroscopic studies of metal structures make him one of the founders of physical metallurgy.
Sava River: river in the western Balkans. Its basin, 36,960 square miles (95,720 square km) in area, covers much of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and northern Serbia. It rises in the Triglav group of the Julian Alps as two rivers, the Sava Bohinjka ...
Sava, Saint: monk, founder, and first archbishop of the independent Serbian Orthodox church. His policy of recognizing the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople (now Istanbul) ensured the adherence of Serbian Christianity to Eastern Orthodoxy.
Savage River: town, western Tasmania, Australia, between the Savage and Whyte rivers. Iron ore was discovered there in 1877, and in 1965 a Japanese, Australian, and American consortium was formed to develop the opencut iron deposits. The town of Savage River was ...
Savage, Augusta: American sculptor and educator who battled racism to secure a place for African American women in the art world.
Savage, Michael Joseph: statesman who, as New Zealand's first Labour prime minister (1935-40), won public support for his administration's economic recovery and social-welfare programs.
Savage, Richard: English poet and satirist and subject of one of the best short biographies in English, Samuel Johnson's An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744).
Savai'i: westernmost and largest island of Samoa, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is separated from Upolu to the east by the Apolima Strait. Savai'i is about 50 miles (80 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) across at its widest ...
savanna: vegetation type that grows under hot, seasonally dry climatic conditions and is characterized by an open tree canopy (i.e., scattered trees) above a continuous tall grass understory. The largest areas of savanna are found in Africa, South America, Australia, India, ...
Savannah: either of two historic U.S. ships, each representing a landmark in navigation. In 1819 the first Savannah, named for its home port in Georgia (although built in New York) became the first ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean employing steam ...
Savannah: industrial seaport city, seat (1777) of Chatham county, southeastern Georgia, U.S., at the mouth of the Savannah River. Savannah was established in 1733 by James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, who named it for the river. The city was ...
Savannah River: river formed by the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca rivers at Hartwell Dam, Georgia, U.S. It constitutes the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina as it flows southeastward past Augusta and Savannah, Ga., into the Atlantic Ocean after a ...
Savannakhet: town in the central southern panhandle of Laos, on the left bank of the Mekong River. It had a teacher-training school (1911), a public high school (1946), a Buddhist secondary school, a trade school, and the Savannakhet Technical College before ...
Savara: tribe of eastern India. They are distributed mainly in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and Bihar, with total numbers of about 310,000, most of whom are in Orissa.
Savard, Felix-Antoine: French-Canadian priest, poet, novelist, and folklorist whose works show a strong French-nationalist bias and a love of the Canadian landscape.
Savary, Anne-Jean-Marie-Rene, duc de Rovigo: French general, administrator, and trusted servant of Napoleon I.
savate: (Middle French: "old shoe"), French sport of fighting by kicking, practiced until the first half of the 19th century. It occurred mainly among the lower orders of Parisian society. When savate died out, its more skillful elements were combined with ...
Save the Children: any of several independent, voluntary organizations that seek to provide both disaster and long-term aid to disadvantaged children throughout the world. The original organization was founded in Great Britain in 1919 to provide relief to famine-stricken children in Europe after ...
Savelli, Luca: Roman senator who in 1234 led a revolution against Pope Gregory IX to further the commercial interests of the Roman middle class.
Savery, Thomas: English engineer and inventor who built the first steam engine.
Savery, William: American cabinetmaker who was an important member of the group of Philadelphia craftsmen working in the Chippendale style during the 18th century.
Savigny, Friedrich Karl von: German jurist and legal scholar who was one of the founders of the influential "historical school" of jurisprudence. He advocated that the meaning and content of existing bodies of law be analyzed through research into their historical origins and modes ...
Savimbi, Jonas: Angolan politician, the leader of a long-continuing guerrilla insurgency against the postindependence government of Angola.
saving: process of setting aside a portion of current income for future use, or the flow of resources accumulated in this way over a given period of time. Saving may take the form of increases in bank deposits, purchases of securities, ...
savings and loan association: a savings and home-financing institution that makes loans for the purchase of private housing, home improvements, and new construction. Formerly cooperative institutions in which savers were shareholders in the association and received dividends in proportion to the organization's profits, savings ...
savings bank: financial institution that gathers savings, paying interest or dividends to savers. It channels the savings of individuals who wish to consume less than their incomes to borrowers who wish to spend more. This function is served by the savings deposit ...
Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich: revolutionary who violently opposed both the imperial and the Soviet regimes in Russia. He wrote several pseudonymous novels based on his career as a terrorist.
Savo: island in the eastern Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean, just north of Guadalcanal. Rising 1,673 feet (510 metres) from the ocean, the island is 5 miles (8 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide. It has no good anchorages, ...
Savoldo, Giovanni Girolamo: painter of the Brescian school whose style is marked by a quiet lyricism. Scholars believe, because of his preoccupation with clearly defined shapes in light, that Savoldo was influenced by Cima da Conegliano, who also used light with quiet exactitude, ...
Savon, Felix: Cuban heavyweight boxer, who became the second fighter to win three Olympic gold medals in the same weight class and the first to capture six world amateur boxing titles.
Savona: city, seaport, and capital of Savona province, Liguria region, northwestern Italy, on the Riviera di Ponente, southwest of Genoa. First recorded as the Gallo-Roman town of Savo, an ally of Carthage against Rome in 205 BC, it was next noted ...
Savona faience: tin-glazed earthenware made in the 17th and 18th centuries at Savona, Liguria, Italy, and at nearby Genoa and Albissola. It is painted in a highly individual and seemingly artless style.
Savonarola, Girolamo: Italian Christian preacher, reformer, and martyr, renowned for his clash with tyrannical rulers and a corrupt clergy. After the overthrow of the Medici in 1494, Savonarola was the sole leader of Florence, setting up a democratic republic. His chief enemies ...
Savonnerie carpet: French pile floor covering, usually large, whether made at the Savonnerie workshop or made in that manner and style. The Savonnerie factory (on the site of a former soap factory, hence the name) was established in Paris in 1627 at ...
savora: any of a group of 6th-century-AD Jewish scholars who determined the final internal form of the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), a collection of authoritative interpretations and explanations of Jewish oral laws and religious customs. Some experts feel that certain (perhaps ...
savory: (species Satureia hortensis), aromatic annual herb of the mint family (Lamiaceae, or Labiatae), the dried leaves and flowering tops of which are used to flavour many foods, particularly poultry and stuffings. In Germany savory is called the bean herb, but ...