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- (from the article "building construction") ...cement, and stone wafers of granite, marble, or limestone cut with diamond-edged tools. All of these materials are usually backed up by rigid insulation to slow heat transfer. Metal sandwich panels are also used for economy of material; two thin ...
- Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Baron Montagu of Saint Neots
- English admiral who brought Charles II to England at the Restoration in 1660 and who subsequently fought in the Second and Third Dutch Wars. [1 Related Articles]
- Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Baron Montagu Of Saint Neots
- British first lord of the Admiralty during the American Revolution (1776-81) and the man for whom the sandwich was named. [2 Related Articles]
- Sandwina, Katie
- (from the article "physical culture") ...working-class passions by sponsoring world championships in everything from wood chopping to water drinking, and it featured the exploits of pugilist John L. Sullivan and the feats of Louis Cyr and Katie Sandwina (see photograph), billed as the world's strongest ...
- Sandwip Island
- island situated in the Meghna River estuary, southeastern Bangladesh. It is the easternmost island of the Padma River (Ganges [Ganga] River) delta. It is about 25 miles (40 km) long and 3-9 miles (5-15 km) wide and is separated from ...
- sandwort
- (from the article "Caryophyllales") ...and honey, is used in making the confection halvah; G. struthium is found in Europe and the United States and may have some curative effects on certain skin diseases. Arenaria rubra (sandwort) is commonly found in sandy heaths near the ...
- Sandy Creek Association
- (from the article "Baptist") ...Baptist, migrated to Sandy Creek, N.C., in 1755 and initiated a revival that quickly penetrated the entire Piedmont region. The churches he organized were brought together in 1758 to form the Sandy Creek Association. Doctrinally these churches did not differ ...
- Sandys, Duncan
- British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations.
- Sandys, George
- English traveler, poet, colonist, and foreign service career officer who played an important part in the development of English verse, especially of the heroic couplet. A journal of his travels in the Middle East, Relation of a Journey (1615), went ...
- Sandys, Sir Edwin
- a leading Parliamentary opponent of King James I of England and a founder of the colony of Virginia. His activities in Parliament prepared the way for the Parliamentarian movement that eventually deposed and executed James's successor, Charles I.
- Saneyev, Viktor
- Soviet athlete who dominated the triple jump during the late 1960s and '70s. He won four Olympic medals, including three golds. [1 Related Articles]
- Sanfilippo's syndrome
- rare hereditary (autosomal recessive) metabolic disease characterized by severe mental retardation. There are three varieties, each caused by a defect in a different enzyme involved in the breakdown of mucopolysaccharides, a group of substances important in the structure and maintenance ...
- Sanford
- city, seat (1913) of Seminole county, east-central Florida, U.S., on the St. Johns River and Lake Monroe, about 20 miles (30 km) northeast of Orlando. Permanent settlement dates from 1836, when Camp Monroe (late Fort Mellon) was established. A trading ...
- Sanford, Edward T
- associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1923-30).
- Sanford, Isabel
- American actress (b. Aug. 29, 1917, New York, N.Y.-d. July 9, 2004, Los Angeles, Calif.), was best known for her role as Louise ("Weezy") Jefferson in the long-running (1975-85) situation comedy The Jeffersons. Sanford's acting debut was in the American ...
- Sanford, Maria Louise
- American educator remembered for the innovation and inspiration she brought to her teaching.
- Sanford, Mount
- (from the article "Wrangell Mountains") ...Mountains near the border with Yukon Territory, Canada. Many peaks exceed 10,000 feet (3,000 metres), including Mount Blackburn (16,390 feet [4,996 metres]), the highest point in the range, and Mount Sanford (16,237 feet [4,949 metres]). Snowfields drain into glaciers as ...
- Sanford, Terry
- American politician who, as governor of North Carolina (1961-65), promoted racial equality at a time when it was unpopular to do so; he made unsuccessful attempts to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1972 and 1976 and served as ...
- sang de boeuf
- a glossy, rich, bloodred glaze often slashed with streaks of purple or turquoise used to decorate pottery, particularly porcelain. The effect is produced by a method of firing that incorporates copper, a method first discovered by the Chinese of the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Sanga
- (from the article "Congo") ...Also in the south, the Teke inhabit the Bateke Plateau region. In the north, the Ubangi groups inhabit the Congo River basin to the west of Mossaka, while the Binga Pygmies and the Sanga are scattered through the northern Congo ...
- sanga
- (from the article "Mesopotamian religion") The individual temples were usually administered by officials called sangas ("bishops"), who headed staffs of accountants, overseers of agricultural and industrial works on the temple estate, and gudus (priests), who looked after the god as house servants. Among the priestesses ...
- sangaku
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") Juggling, acrobatics, ropedancing, buffoonery, and puppetry-the "hundred entertainments" of China and called sangaku, "variety arts," in Japan-became widely popular as well. During the Heian period (794-1185) professional troupes, ostensibly attached to temples and shrines to draw crowds for festival days, ...
- Sangallo Family
- outstanding family of Florentine Renaissance architects. Its most prominent members were: Antonio da Sangallo the Elder; his older brother Giuliano da Sangallo; Antonio (Giamberti) da Sangallo the Younger, the nephew of Giuliano and Antonio Sangallo the Elder; and Francesco da ...
- Sangallo, Antonio da, the Elder
- (from the article "Sangallo Family") Antonio da Sangallo the Elder (1455-1535), a military architect in his younger years, is best known for the major work of his life, the pilgrimage church of the Madonna di San Biago at Montepulciano, a tiny but important cultural centre ...
- Sangallo, Antonio da, the Younger
- (from the article "Sangallo Family") Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1483-1546) was the most influential architect of his time. He arrived in Rome when he was about 20 and built a town house for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in 1513, and when the Cardinal became Pope ...
- Sangallo, Francesco da
- (from the article "Sangallo Family") Francesco da Sangallo, known as Il Margotta (1494-1576), the son of Giuliano, was primarily a sculptor whose style was characterized by minute detailing. He sculpted the tomb of Bishop Marzi-Medici (1546) in the church of SS. Annunziata, Florence, as well ...
- Sangallo, Giuliano da
- (from the article "Sangallo Family") Giuliano da Sangallo (1445?-1516) was an architect, sculptor, and military engineer whose masterpiece, a church of Greek-cross plan, Sta. Maria delle Carceri in Prato (1485-91), was strongly influenced by Filippo Brunelleschi. It is the purest, most classic expression of that ...
- Sangam literature
- the earliest writings in the Tamil language. The writings are thought to have been produced in three sangams, or literary academies, in Madurai, India, from the 1st to the 4th century AD. The Tolkappiyam, a book of grammar and rhetoric, ... [4 Related Articles]
- Sangama dynasty
- (from the article "Vijayanagar") The first dynasty (the Sangama) lasted until about 1485, when-at a time of pressure from the Bahmani sultan and the raja of Orissa-Narasimha of the Saluva family usurped power. By 1503 the Saluva dynasty had been supplanted by the Tuluva ...
- Sangamon Interglacial Stage
- major division of Pleistocene time and deposits in North America (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Sangamon Interglacial follows the Illinoian Glacial Stage and precedes the Wisconsin Glacial Stage, both periods ...
- Sangamon River
- river in central Illinois, U.S. It rises near Ellsworth in McLean county and flows briefly southeast. It then curves southwest, bending around Decatur, where a dam impounds Lake Decatur, and turns west to pass near Springfield, the state capital, and ...
- Sangareddi
- town, administrative headquarters of Medak district, Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, on the Deccan Plateau near the Manjra River. The town has mainly an agricultural economy (rice, sugarcane, and oilseeds) and is noted for the manufacture of brass, silverware, and ...
- sangat
- (from the article "Sikhism") ...He also replaced the manjis with masands (vicars), who were charged with the care of defined sangats (congregations) and who at least once a year presented the Guru with reports on ...
- Sangay
- (from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") ...(18,714 feet [5,704 metres]), Cotopaxi-the world's highest active volcano-(19,347 feet [5,897 metres]), Chimborazo (20,702 feet [6,310 metres]), Altar (17,451 feet [5,319 metres]), and Sangay (17,158 feet [5,230 metres]). These are included in two ranges connected at intervals by transversal mountain ...
- Sangay National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...small, hard ball back and forth with a bare (or rarely, gloved) fist, a widespread attraction on Sunday afternoons in Quito and San Antonio de Ibarra. National parks and nature preserves, including Sangay National Park in the central Andes (a ...
- Sanger method
- (from the article "DNA sequencing") ...by and named for American molecular biologists Allan M. Maxam and Walter Gilbert, and the Sanger method, discovered by English biochemist Frederick Sanger. In the most commonly used method, the Sanger method, DNA chains are synthesized on a template strand, ...
- Sanger, Eugen
- German rocket propulsion engineer whose projected "antipodal bomber," with a range far greater than that made possible by its fuel capacity alone, greatly interested the major Western governments and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sanger, Frederick
- English biochemist who was twice the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He was awarded the prize in 1958 for his determination of the structure of the insulin molecule. He shared the prize (with Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert) ... [5 Related Articles]
- Sanger, George
- English circus impresario who was the proprietor, with his brother John Sanger, of one of England's biggest circuses in the 19th century. (See also circus: 19th-century developments.) [2 Related Articles]
- Sanger, John
- English circus impresario who was, with his brother George Sanger, the proprietor of one of the largest and most important English circuses in the 19th century. (See also circus: 19th-century developments.) [1 Related Articles]
- Sanger, Larry
- (from the article "Wikipedia") ...bond trader, moved to San Diego, Calif., to establish Bomis, Inc., a Web portal company. In March 2000, Wales founded Nupedia, a free online encyclopaedia, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia was organized like ...
- Sanger, Margaret
- founder of the birth-control movement in the United States and an international leader in the field. She is credited with originating the term birth control. [4 Related Articles]
- Sanggabuwana, Mount
- (from the article "Jawa Barat") The landscape of Jawa Barat is dominated by a chain of volcanoes, both active and extinct, that from west to east includes Mounts Sanggabuwana, Gede, Pangrango, Kendang, and Tjereme. The highest of these peaks rise to elevations of about 10,000 ...
- Sanggan River
- river in Shanxi and Hebei provinces, part of the Hai River system, northwestern China. The Sanggan River is formed from source streams that rise close to Ningwu, near the Great Wall of China, and flows across the dry plateau of ... [1 Related Articles]
- sangha
- Buddhist monastic order, traditionally composed of four groups: monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen. The sangha is a part-together with the Buddha and the dharma (teaching)-of the Threefold Refuge, a basic creed of Buddhism. [8 Related Articles]
- Sangha River
- tributary of the Congo River, formed by the Mambere and Kadei headstreams at Nola, southwestern Central African Republic. The Sangha River flows 140 miles (225 km) south to Ouesso in Congo (Brazzaville), forming part of Cameroon's border with the Central ... [1 Related Articles]
- Sanghamittha
- (from the article "Sri Lanka") ...The king donated the Mahamegha park to the sangha. Meanwhile, the monastery of Mahavihara was established, and it became the prime centre of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Mahendra sent for his sister Sanghamitta, who arrived with a branch of the ...
- Sanghar
- town, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. The town is connected by road with the cities of Hyderabad, Karachi, and Sukkur. Sanghar is a market town and has several cotton-textile factories. The surrounding area consists chiefly of semiarid land, a part of ...
- sanghyang
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") ...receive the spirits of Rangda and the Barong, and it is the spirits themselves that do battle. Thus the performance is actually more a ritual than a piece of theatre. The sanghyang dance is usually performed by ...
- Sangihe Islands
- archipelago off the northeastern tip of Celebes (Sulawesi), Indonesia. The islands extend northward from Celebes for about 160 miles (260 km) and have a total area of 408 square miles (1,056 square km); they are administered from Manado, the capital ...
- Sangkum Reastr Niyum
- (from the article "Norodom Sihanouk") ...Cambodia's independence from France. When French military forces moved back into the region, Sihanouk decided to wait until France's retreat from Indochina, which occurred in 1954. He founded the Sangkum Reastr Niyum ("People's Socialist Community") in January 1955, won a ...
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