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In the early 1800s, Sacajawea (1784-1812) accompanied Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their historical expedition from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Ocean. Sacajawea is responsible in large part for the success of the expeditio...
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Synthetic organic compound, C7H5NSO3, that is 200–700 times as sweet as cane sugar. The sodium or calcium salt of saccharin is widely used as a diet sweetener. Though approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regula...
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Unicellular Fungi (Yeast Phylum) are one of the most studied single-cell Eukaryotes. Among them, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is perhaps the biological model most utilized for decades in order for scientists to understand the molecular anatomy...
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Nicola Sacco (died 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), Italian-born anarchists, became the subject of one of America's most celebrated controversies and the focus for much of the liberal and radical protest of the 1920s in the Unite...
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The varied phases of Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer's life as a preceptor and later as a lawyer in the service of the duchy of Brunswick, Lüneburg, and Wolfenbüttel were accompanied by many-sided literary ambitions. His religious poetry...
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Sacha Noam Baron Cohen(born Oct. 13, 1971, London, Eng.) With his trio of outrageously ignorant alter egos—Ali G, Borat, and Bruno—British actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen took political incorrectness to new lows, creati...
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(born Feb. 21, 1885, St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 24, 1957, Paris, France) Russian-born French actor and dramatist. Son of the French actor Lucien Guitry (1860–1925), he appeared on the Russian stage with his father's compa...
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1588-c. 1628 Dutch Optician Sacharias Jansen is generally credited with inventing the first compound microscope and may possibly have invented the telescope. A traveling merchant as well as optician, Jansen was a bit of a rogue, involved a...
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Born December 18, 1927, in New York's east Bronx. Sachs grew up in the "railroad" apartment on Jennings Street. "Jennings Street had no trees, birds, or flowers. But it had kids. Every day after school and all day on the weekends, holidays...
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The Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and a Tony--any play which sweeps the three most coveted awards for a given Broadway season secures for its creator a place in twentieth-century theatre history. Such a coup was ...
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Although Edward Sackville-West is probably best remembered as a music critic, he wrote five unusual novels that earned him a place in the history of literature during the 1920s and 1930s. They did not remain in print for long and, with one...
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the power, being, or realm understood by religious persons to be at the core of existence and to have a transformative effect on their lives and destinies. Other terms, such as holy, divine, transcendent, ultimate being (or reality), myste...
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Donne's use of sacred and profane imagery in "To His Mistress Going to Bed" can be considered at times reckless, bordering on the boundary of blasphemy. However, it is also an example of Donne's genius, in that he used complex images of exo...
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Sacred and Profane Love (also called Venus and the Bride) is an oil painting by Titian, painted around 1513-1514. The painting was commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, a secretary to the Venetian Council of Ten (so identified because his coat ...
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Series (ed. Max Müller) published by Oxford University Press. Buddhist volumes are Nos. 10, 11, 13, 17, 19, 20, 21, 35, 36 and 49....
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Sacred Clowns is a 1993 novel by Tony Hillerman. It involves koshares, or sacred clowns, which the book is named after. the story also involves several homicides and the relationship between Jim Chee and Janet Pete. The book involves the ch...
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Sacred Ground may refer to: Sacred Ground (1983 film), starring Tim McIntire and Jack Elam Sacred Ground (album), by McBride & the Ride "Sacred Ground" (song), the title track from the McBride & the Ride album "Sacred Ground" (Star ...
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SOURCE: "Books of the Times: Trading in Misery on a Doomed Slave Ship," in New York Times Book Review, December 23, 1992. In the following review, Mitgang calls Sacred Hunger "a remarkable novel in every way." Reading Sacred Hunger, Barry U...
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Act of offering objects to a divinity, thereby making them holy. The motivation for sacrifice is to perpetuate, intensify, or reestablish a connection between the human and the divine. It is often intended to gain the favour of the god or ...
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Sacrifice Shiokari Pass is a story of severe sacrifice and offering. Through the characters of Nobuo, Kiku, and Yoshikawa, the theme of sacrifice plays a vital role and is shown throughout the entire book. Considering Christian...
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Sacrifices for Achievements During the 1950's my grandfather, Fidencio Sanchez Lopez, migrated into the United States in look of financial capital. My grandfather comes from a ranch located in the Sierras of Mexico. Coming into United St...
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SACRILEGE is typically defined as "violation or theft of the sacred." It originates from the Latin sacrilegium or sacer (sacred) and lego (to gather or to steal). In addition to the literal theft of sacred objects or the viol...
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SAʿDĪ (AH 597?–690/1200?–1291 CE), pen name of Abū ʿAbd Allāh Musharrif (al-Dīn) ibn Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Saʿdī-yi Shīrāzī, Islamic Pe...
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Literally translatable as "serving the great-ism" (or in some sources, "toadyism"), the term sadaejuui has a decisively pejorative meaning to modern Koreans, north and south. It has served throughout the twentie...
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(b. 1940), Japanese baseball player. Oh hit 868 home runs during a 22-year career with the Yomiuri Giants from 1959 to 1980. Born in Tokyo, Oh joined the Giants in 1959 out of Waseda Jitsugyo High School. Originally a pitcher, he was switc...
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International civil servant Sadako Ogata (born 1927) was chosen to serve as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1991. On December 21, 1990, Professor Sadako Ogata was called from her post as dean of the Faculty of Foreign ...
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(1877–1966), Japanese general and politician. Araki Sadao was a general, politician, and leader of the Imperial Way faction (Kodoha, an ultra-nationalist group during the 1930s). A native of Tokyo and a graduate of the Japanese Mili...
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Saddam Hussein (born 1937), the socialist president of the Iraqi Republic beginning in 1979 and strongman of the ruling Baa'th regime beginning in 1968, was known for his political shrewdness and ability to survive conflicts. He led Iraq i...
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The terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, underscored the significance of and threat posed by the al-Qaeda terrorist network, comprised of individuals and groups in approximately 50 countries worldwide. The organiz...
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Member of a Jewish priestly sect that flourished for about two centuries, until the destruction (&AD; 70) of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. Sadducees were generally wealthier, more conservative, and better connected politically than their...
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(1930–1987), Pakistani artist. Sadequain's paintings, in media ranging from oils to felt markers, are evidence of his skillful draftsmanship and imaginative visual vocabulary. Sadequain was born in Amroha, India, to a family ...
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SĀDHUS AND SĀDHVĪS. The term sādhu (feminine, sādhvī) derives from the Sanskrit root sādh (meaning "accomplish") and also has the general sense of "a good or virtuous pe...
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Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be save...
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Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it....
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Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow. The greatest thing you can do for someone is to love them and show them how to love back....
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Psychosexual disorder in which an individual achieves erotic release by being subjected to pain or humiliation. The term is derived from the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a 19th-century Austrian novelist who wrote extensively about th...
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A Victorian woman writer whose voluminous fiction has escaped canonization, Mary Anne Sadlier was famous in her day for didactic, sentimental romances promoting the causes of Catholicism and Irish culture in North America. Henry J. Morgan ...
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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain...
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(2001 pop. 73,000). Japan's fifthlargest island, Sado (Sadogashima), is located in the Sea of Japan, 35 kilometers from the city of Niigata in Honshu. The island is 853 square kilometers. Beginning in the Nara period (710–794...
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Ira Sadoff's initial style and approach to his subjects--his characteristic erasures and retreats--seem largely influenced by the psychological and political zeitgeist reflected in the work of many American poets in the 1970s. Shaped by th...
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Nina Sadur began her career as a playwright. During the latter years of perestroika Sadur's plays were circulated and staged initially at small studio theaters before they were added to the repertoire of more-established theaters. Her play...
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Saeb Erekat is a Palestinian politician. Sourced Saeb Erekat : There is no country in the world where religious and national identities are intertwined. Robert Spencer : Just ask all those secular republics in the Islamic world. Erekat: Pa...
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Saeed Akhtar Mirza is an Indian director and scriptwriter. Sourced I begin with two memories of my childhood. Don't ask me why, because I do not know. Perhaps because it helps to get things started. Ammi:Letter to a Democratic Mother Exter...
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Saek is a member of the Tai family of languages, which are spoken across a wide area of northern Southeast Asia, from northern Vietnam and Southern China in the east to Assam in the west. The family includes Thai and Lao, the national lang...
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz's first book, Calendar of Dust (1991), won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation in 1992, and a year later he received the prestigious Lannan Poetry Fellowship. He has received many other awa...
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Early safes, used primarily by banks, were crude wooden chests with padlocks or boxes covered with sheet iron as a slight protection against fire. Neither posed any serious problem to determined thieves and robbers. In 1844, Frenchman Alex...
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