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Saint Kilda: cluster of three small Atlantic islands in the Outer Hebrides group, Western Isles council area, Scotland, situated 110 miles (180 km) from the mainland. The islands, which escaped glaciation during the Ice Age, present a bare rocky interior and sea ...
Saint Kitts and Nevis: state composed of two islands of the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Their combined area is 104 square miles (269 square kilometres). The capital is Basseterre on the island of Saint Kitts.
Saint Laurent, Louis: Canadian statesman and jurist who, as Liberal prime minister in 1948-57, helped to maintain Canadian unity and to bring about reforms.
Saint Laurent, Yves: French fashion designer noted for his popularization of women's trousers for all occasions.
Saint Lawrence: county, northern New York state, U.S., bordered to the northwest by Ontario, Can., the St. Lawrence River constituting the boundary. Lowlands in the northwest rise to a central plateau region with the Adirondack Mountains occupying the southeastern part. The county ...
Saint Lawrence Islands National Park: national park covering an area of mainland, islands, and islets in southeastern Ontario province, Can., on the St. Lawrence River between Kingston and Brockville. The small mainland reservation, called Mallorytown Landing, is 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Brockville. There ...
Saint Lawrence River and Seaway: hydrographic system of east-central North America. It connects the North River (source of the St. Louis River, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, which flows into Lake Superior) with Cabot Strait, leading into the Atlantic Ocean in the extreme east ...
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of: body of water covering about 60,000 square miles (155,000 square km) at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It fringes the shores of half the provinces of Canada and is a gateway to the interior of the entire North ...
Saint Leger: one of the English Triple Crown races and, with the Derby, the Two Thousand Guineas, the One Thousand Guineas, and the Oaks, one of the Classic horse races. The race was established by Colonel Barry Saint Leger in 1776 and ...
Saint Leger, Sir Anthony: English lord deputy of Ireland from 1540 to 1548, 1550 to 1551, and 1553 to 1556. Considered by many historians to be the most able 16th-century English viceroy of Ireland, he maintained peace in that country by upholding the feudal ...
Saint Louis: city, adjacent to but independent of St. Louis county, east-central Missouri, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Mississippi River (bridged there at several points) opposite East St. Louis, Illinois, just south of the confluence of the Missouri ...
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch: morning daily newspaper published in St. Louis, Mo., one of the most prestigious newspapers in the United States and a dominant voice of the lower Middle West.
Saint Louis University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in St. Louis, Mo., U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church. The university comprises the colleges of arts and sciences, philosophy and letters, public service, and health sciences, ...
Saint Louis Zoo: zoo in St. Louis, Mo., U.S. It was one of the first zoos in the world to exhibit animals in naturalistic settings and the site of the first zoo tissue banks for preserving tissues from dead specimens for future scientific ...
Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway Company: railroad with lines in nine southern and central U.S. states before it merged with Burlington Northern, Inc.
Saint Lucia: island state in the Caribbean Sea. The second largest of the Windward group in the Lesser Antilles, it is located about 24 miles (39 kilometres) south of Martinique and some 21 miles northeast of Saint Vincent. Saint Lucia is 27 ...
Saint Lucia Game Reserve: sanctuary on the northeastern coast of KwaZulu/Natal province, South Africa. It encompasses Lake St. Lucia, a shallow, H-shaped lagoon and estuary system. Established in 1897, the reserve has an area of 142 square miles (368 square km). It is subtropical ...
Saint Margaret's Church: church in the London borough of Westminster, since 1614 the official church of the House of Commons. It stands near Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.
Saint Martin: island at the northern end of the Leeward group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The island is hilly and receives about 45 inches (1,140 mm) of rain annually. The southern third is controlled by the Dutch, the ...
Saint Martinville: city, seat (1811) of St. Martin parish, southern Louisiana, U.S. It lies on Bayou Teche, about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Lafayette. Originally known as Poste des Attakapas (for a local Indian tribe), it was settled about 1760. A ...
Saint Mary's: county, southern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a tidewater peninsula bordered by the Patuxent River to the northeast, Chesapeake Bay to the east, the Potomac River to the south, and the Wicomico River to the west. Landmarks include the Patuxent ...
Saint Mary's City: historic district and village, St. Mary's county, southern Maryland, U.S., on St. Mary's River 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Leonardtown, the county seat. Established in 1634 by colonists led by Leonard Calvert and named for the Virgin Mary, it ...
Saint Marylebone: neighbourhood of the City of Westminster, London. Formerly (until 1965) part of the metropolitan borough of St. Marylebone, it is located to the south and west of Regent's Park and north of Mayfair.
Saint Marys River: outlet for Lake Superior, forming part of the boundary between Michigan, U.S., and Ontario, Can. Flowing east, then south, for 70 miles (110 km) into Lake Huron, it is an important link in the St. Lawrence Seaway. At Sault Ste. ...
Saint Michael and Saint George, The Most Distinguished Order of: British order of knighthood founded in 1818 by the Prince Regent, later King George IV, to commemorate the British protectorate over the Ionian islands (now in Greece) and Malta, which came under British rule in 1814.
Saint Michael's Mount: granite island about 400 yards (365 metres) offshore in Mount's Bay on the English Channel, in the western part of the county of Cornwall, England. At low tide only, a natural causeway links the island to the nearby community of ...
Saint Moritz: town, or Gemeinde (commune), Graubunden canton, southeastern Switzerland. Saint Moritz lies in the Oberengadin (Upper Inn Valley) and is surrounded by magnificent Alpine peaks. The town consists of the Dorf (village), the Bad (spa), and the hamlets ...
Saint Nicholas Day: feast day (December 6) of St. Nicholas, patron saint of Russia and Greece, of a number of cities, and of sailors and children, among many other groups. Little is known of the life of the historical Nicholas. He was the ...
Saint Olaf College: private coeducational institution of higher learning in Northfield, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Named for Olaf II, the patron saint of Norway, St. Olaf's School was founded by ...
Saint Patrick's Day: feast day (March 17) of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about ...
Saint Paul: city, capital of Minnesota, U.S., and seat of Ramsey county. Situated in the southeastern part of the state, St. Paul is at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Minnesota River. The city adjoins ...
Saint Paul River: river rising in southeastern Guinea, western Africa. Its source is in the mountains east of Macenta, and its upper reach (the Diani, or Nianda, River) forms part of the border between Guinea and Liberia. It was first sighted by Portuguese ...
Saint Paul's Cathedral: in London, cathedral of the Anglican bishop. It is located within the central City of London, atop Ludgate Hill and northeast of Blackfriars.
Saint Paul's School: one of the major public (i.e., privately endowed) schools in England. It was founded in 1509 by John Colet, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Originally located in the cathedral churchyard, the school was destroyed in ...
Saint Peter Port: chief town, resort, parish, and capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands, located on the east coast of the island of Guernsey where a narrow valley reaches the sea between moderately high cliffs. Early in the 13th century, Castle Cornet was built ...
Saint Peter's Basilica: present basilica of St. Peter's in Rome, begun by Pope Julius II in 1506 and completed in 1615 under Paul V. It is designed as a three-aisled Latin cross with a dome at the crossing, directly above the high altar, ...
Saint Peter's College: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. The college offers undergraduate degree programs in business, computer science, education, health-related ...
Saint Petersburg: city, Pinellas county, west-central Florida, U.S. It is situated at the southern tip of Pinellas Peninsula on Tampa Bay, about 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Clearwater and 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Tampa. These three cities form one ...
Saint Petersburg: city, extreme northwestern Russia. A major industrial and cultural centre and an important port, it lies about 400 miles (640 kilometres) northwest of Moscow and only about 7° south of the Arctic Circle.
Saint Petersburg porcelain: pottery ware produced from 1744 to the present day by the principal Russian factory, the Imperial Porcelain Factory (from 1925, the M.V. Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory), in St. Petersburg. It was established under the patronage of the daughter of Peter ...
Saint Petersburg State University: coeducational state institution of higher learning in St. Petersburg, founded in 1819 as the University of St. Petersburg. During World War II the university was evacuated to Saratov. The university's buildings were severely damaged during the Siege of Leningrad but ...
Saint Stephen: town, Charlotte county, southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, on the St. Croix River at the head of navigation, 71 miles (114 km) west of St. John.
Saint Stephen's Cathedral: cathedral in Vienna that was burned out in the course of the Battle of Vienna in April 1945 and was reconstructed by 1952. Saint Stephen's was established in 1147; only the west facade remains of the late Romanesque edifice that ...
Saint Stephen's Crown: greatly venerated crown of Hungary, the symbol of Hungarian nationhood, without which no sovereign was truly accepted by the Hungarian people. It is made from an 11th-century jeweled circlet of Byzantine style, augmented early in the 12th century by the ...
Saint Swithin's Day: (July 15), one of the several days from which, in folklore, the weather for a subsequent period is dictated. In popular belief, if it rains on St. Swithin's Day, it will rain for 40 days, but, if it is fair, ...
Saint Thomas: chief island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the eastern Caribbean, situated 40 miles (64 km) east of Puerto Rico. With an area of 32 square miles (83 square km), the island rises to a maximum elevation of 1,550 feet ...
Saint Thomas: city, seat of Elgin county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on Kettle Creek, just north of Lake Erie. Founded in 1817 as Sterling, it was renamed after Colonel Thomas Talbot, who made it the capital of the extensive settlement that he founded ...
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: (Feb. 14, 1929), mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era in the United States. Disguising themselves as ...
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: island nation lying within the Lesser Antilles, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It consists of the island of Saint Vincent and of the northern Grenadine Islands, which stretch southward toward Grenada. The island of Saint Vincent lies about 21 miles ...
Saint Vincent de Paul, Daughters of Charity of: see Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Daughters of.
Saint Vincent, Cape: cape, southwesternmost Portugal, forming with Sagres Point a promontory on the Atlantic Ocean. To the Greeks and Romans it was known, from the presence of a shrine there, as the Sacred Promontory. Pastoralism and fishing are the economic mainstays of ...