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Saatchi, Charles: Iraq-born British advertising executive who is perhaps best known as a collector of contemporary art. His brother Maurice (b. June 21, 1946, Baghdad), was a full partner in his advertising concerns.
Saatchi, Maurice: (from the article "The British Election of 2005") Lord Saatchi, the joint chairman of the Conservative Party, acknowledged after the election that the party had concentrated too much on specific populist issues such as tighter immigration controls and not enough on providing a broader vision for Britain. On ...
Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de: Spanish diplomat and man of letters, best known for his anti-Machiavellian emblem book, the Idea de un principe politico cristiano (1640; The Royal Politician), which urged a return to traditional virtues as the remedy for national decadence.
Saavedra Lamas, Carlos: Argentine jurist who in 1936 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his part in ending the Chaco War (1932-35), fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over the northern part of the Gran Chaco region and especially its oil fields.
Saavedra, Angel de, duque de Rivas: Spanish poet, dramatist, and politician, whose fame rests principally on his play Don Alvaro, o la fuerza del sino ("Don Alvaro, or the Power of Fate"), which marked the triumph of Romantic drama in Spain.
Saavedra, Juan de: (from the article "Valparaiso") Valparaiso was founded in 1536 by a conquistador, Juan de Saavedra, who named it for his birthplace in Spain. Colonial buildings have survived a succession of pirate raids, severe storms, fires, and earthquakes. Much of the city was rebuilt after ...
Sab: (from the article "Somalia") ...subclans, combine at a higher level to form clan families. The clan families inhabiting the interfluvial area of southern Somalia are the Rahanwayn and the Digil, which together are known as the Sab. Mainly farmers and agropastoralists, the Sab include ...
Sab'atayn, Ramlat Al-: (from the article "Arabia") ...interior valley cleaving through the jawl, with its lower course reaching the sea under the name Wadi Al-Masilah. In the interior the sand desert of Ramlat As-Sab'atayn lies on the slope descending from Al-Kawr to the Rub' ...
Saba: island of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It lies 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Sint Eustatius, with which it forms the northwestern termination of the inner volcanic arc of the Lesser Antilles. Saba is actually the peak ... [6 Related Articles]
Saba': kingdom in pre-Islamic southwestern Arabia, frequently mentioned in the Bible (notably in the story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba) and variously cited by ancient Assyrian, Greek, and Roman writers from about the 8th century BC to about ... [10 Related Articles]
Saba, Umberto: Italian poet noted for his simple, lyrical autobiographical poems. [1 Related Articles]
Sabadell: city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The city, just north of Barcelona, originated as an Iberian and Roman settlement known as Arragona and became a medieval ...
Sabae: city, Fukui ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the northern end of the Takefu basin. The city first formed around the Buddhist Josho temple and became a post town after 1720. An administrative centre in the late 19th century, it gained ...
Sabaean: (from the article "Sabaean") member of a people of South Arabia in pre-Islamic times, founders of the kingdom of Saba' (q.v.), the biblical Sheba.major referenceArabia, history ofSabaeans
Sabaean: (from the article "South Arabic language") Minaean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, and Hadramawtian are the four known South Arabic dialects of ancient times. The earliest South Arabic inscriptions, dating from the 8th century BCE, are in the Minaean dialect. Sabaean is the dialect of the majority of South ...
Sabah: state of East Malaysia, forming the northern part of the great island of Borneo, and bordered by Sarawak (southwest) and Kalimantan, or Indonesian Borneo (south). Sabah has an 800-900-mile- (1,290-1,450-km-) long, heavily indented coastline that is washed by the South ... [6 Related Articles]
Sabah family: (from the article "Kuwait") ...of the Arabian Peninsula, migrated to the area that is now Kuwait. The foundation of the autonomous sheikhdom of Kuwait dates from 1756, when the settlers decided to appoint a sheikh from the Sabah family (Al Sabah). During the 19th ...
Sabah, Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-: member of the ruling Sabah family of Kuwait and emir (1977-2006). [5 Related Articles]
Sabah, Sheikh Nassar Muhammad al-ahmad al-: (from the article "Kuwait") Area: 17,818 sq km (6,880 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 3,294,000 | Capital: Kuwait | Head of state and government: Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, assisted by Prime Minister Sheikh Nassar Muhammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah |
Sabah, Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Salim al-: Kuwaiti royal as a member of the ruling Sabah family, held a variety of government posts, including minister of the interior (1961-77), minister of defense (1965-77), and prime minister (1978-2003). As prime minister he headed a government-in-exile in Saudi Arabia ... [1 Related Articles]
Sabah, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-: (from the article "Kuwait") Area: 17,818 sq km (6,880 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 3,294,000 | Capital: Kuwait | Head of state and government: Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, assisted by Prime Minister Sheikh Nassar Muhammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah |
Sabah, Su'ad al-: (from the article "Arabic literature") The Kuwaiti poet Su'ad al-Sabah expresses her frustration with the continued echoes of the earlier tradition:I'm bored by ghazal of the dead&elipsis; Sitting down for dinner each night&elipsis;With Jamil Buthaynah&elipsis;Please try to deviate from the text just ...
Sabahattin Ali: (from the article "Turkish literature") Sabahattin Ali was probably the most powerful and effective of the 20th-century short-story writers in Turkey who addressed social themes. He was born into a military family in northern Greece, and he studied and taught in Germany, where his controversial ...
Sabaheddin: (from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...where they helped prepare the ground for revolution by developing a comprehensive critique of the Hamidian system. The most noteworthy among these were Murad Bey, Ahmed Riza, and Prince Sabaheddin. As editor of Mizan ("Balance"), published first in Istanbul (1886) ...
Sabal: (from the article "palm") ...Queensland, Australia, the cassowary ingests fruits and disperses seeds of several rainforest palms (Calamus and Linospadix). The black bear (Ursus americanus) disperses Sabal, Rhapidophyllum hystrix, and Serenoa repens in Florida, U.S. Fruits of Euterpe in northern South America are sought ...
Sabal magothiensis: (from the article "palm") The earliest fossils of palms are leaves of Sabal magothiensis and stems of Palmoxylon cliffwoodensis from the Late Cretaceous, about 80 million years ago. By the middle of the Maastrichtian, some 69 million years ago, pollen supposedly representative of Nypa ...
Sabalan, Mount: (from the article "Ardabil") town, northwestern Iran, 38 miles (61 km) from the Caspian Sea. It stands on an open plain 4,500 feet (1,400 metres) above sea level, just east of Mount Sabalan (15,784 feet [4,811 metres]), where cold spells occur until late spring. ...
sabana: (from the article "Andes Mountains") ...of the Sumapaz Upland the range divides into two, enclosing a large plain 125 miles wide and 200 miles long, often interrupted by small transverse chains that form several upland basins called sabanas that contain about a third of Colombia's ...
Sabanci, Sakip: Turkish businessman and philanthropist (b. April 7, 1933, Akcakaya, Kayseri, Turkey-d. April 10, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey), was regarded as the wealthiest man in Turkey. Known affectionately as "Sakip Aga" (a title of respect), he had the appeal of a populist ...
Sabang: kotamadya (city) and free port, Aceh semiautonomous province, Indonesia. It is situated on the northeastern coast of We Island, off the northern tip of Sumatra. Sabang lies at the northern entrance to the Strait of Malacca and is the first ...
sabar: (from the article "Serer") ...including tree crops. Cattle, sheep, and goats are tended, and trade, conducted in regular markets, is well-developed. Like the Wolof, the Serer are noted for playing the sabar, a traditional drum usually played in ensemble for virtually ...
Sabara: (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...of benefits for oneself. According to Jaimini, Vedic injunctions do not merely prescribe actions but also recommend these actions as means to the attainment of desirable goals. For both Jaimini and Sabara (3rd century), his chief commentator, performance of the ...
Sabara: city, east-central Minas Gerais estado (state), southern Brazil. It is located on the Velhas River, east of Belo Horizonte, the state capital, at an elevation of 2,313 feet (705 metres) above sea level. Made a seat of ...
Sabarmati ashram: (from the article "Gujarat") ...outskirts of Ahmadabad (Ahmedabad), the former capital, largest city in the state, and one of the greatest cotton-textile centres in India. It was there that Mahatma Gandhi built his Sabarmati ashram (asrama; "retreat," or "hermitage") as a headquarters for his ...
Sabas, Saint: Christian Palestinian monk, champion of orthodoxy in the 5th-century controversies over the nature of Christ. He founded the monastery known as the Great Laura of Mar Saba, a renowned community of contemplative monks in the Judaean desert near Jerusalem. This ...
Sabathia, CC: (from the article "Baseball") ...to Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins. Milwaukee's Ryan Braun was narrowly voted NL Rookie of the Year over Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. Beckett topped AL pitchers with 20 victories; however, C.C. Sabathia, with an impressive ratio of 209 strikeouts to only ...
Sabatier, Apollonie: (from the article "Baudelaire, Charles") Between 1852 and 1854 Baudelaire addressed a number of poems to Apollonie Sabatier, celebrating her, despite her reputation as a high-class courtesan, as his madonna and muse, and in 1854 he had a brief liaison with the actress Marie Daubrun. ...
Sabatier, Auguste: French Protestant theologian and educator who helped popularize biblical interpretation by applying methods of historical criticism. He also promoted the development of liberal Protestant theology and the Roman Catholic Modernist movement by his interpretation of Christian doctrine as the symbolism ...
Sabatier, Paul: French organic chemist and corecipient, with Victor Grignard, of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for researches in catalytic organic synthesis, in particular for discovering the use of nickel as a catalyst in hydrogenation (the addition of hydrogen to molecules ... [1 Related Articles]
Sabatier, Paul: French historian and educator who is chiefly remembered for his biography of St. Francis of Assisi.
Sabato, Ernesto: Argentine novelist, journalist, and essayist whose novels are notable for their concern with philosophical and psychological issues and whose political and social studies were highly influential in Argentina in the latter half of the 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
Sabazius: (from the article "religious symbolism and iconography") ...Particular parts of the body and symbolical objects may also be sculpturally represented. They may be the male and female sexual organs (e.g., the linga-yoni in Hinduism); the hand of Sabazius, a Greek god sometimes identified with Dionysus (the god ...
sabbat: (from the article "witchcraft") ...accomplish magical deeds, and to desecrate the crucifix and the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist (Holy Communion). It was also believed that they rode through the air at night to "sabbats" (secret meetings), where they engaged in sexual ...
Sabbatarianism: doctrine of those Christians who believe that Sunday (the Christian Sabbath) should be observed in accordance with the Fourth Commandment, which forbids work on the Sabbath because it is a holy day. Some other Christians have contended that the Fourth ...
Sabbath: (from shavat, "cease," or "desist"), day of holiness and rest observed by Jews from sunset on Friday to nightfall of the following day. The time division follows the biblical story of creation: "And there was evening and there was morning, ... [9 Related Articles]
sabbatical cycle: (from the article "Middle Eastern religion") ...cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22). But since the seasonal pattern is not dependable, the need for order evoked a system of cycles, notably the sabbatical, or seven-year, cycle. The sabbatical year ...
sabbatical leave: (from the article "teaching") Leaves of absence are also more frequent than in other occupations. The sabbatical leave is a widespread practice among universities and is even available in some school systems. Formerly a fully paid leave for study or research every seventh year, ...
sabbatical millennium: (from the article "millennialism") To delay the End and reap the benefits of nonapocalyptic millennialism, theologians placed great weight on the idea of a "sabbatical" millennium. Combining Genesis 1 (six days of travail, then one of sabbath, or rest) with Psalm 90 (1,000 years ...
Sabbatini, Nicola: Italian architect and engineer who pioneered in theatrical perspective techniques. He worked in Pesaro, where he designed the Teatro del Sole, and possibly in Ravenna and Modena. [2 Related Articles]
sabda: (Sanskrit: "sound"), in Indian philosophy, verbal testimony as a means of obtaining knowledge. In the orthodox philosophical systems (darsana), sabda is equated with the authority of the Vedas (most ancient sacred scriptures) as the only infallible testimony, since the Vedas ...
sabdadvaita: (from the article "Bhartrhari") ...of the Vakyapadiya ("Words in a Sentence"), regarded as one of the most significant works on the philosophy of language, earning for him a place for all time in the sabdadvaita (word monistic) school of Indian thought.