ash-Shaʿrānī: …Ṣūfī order known as ash-Shaʿrawīyah and attempted to select the best elements from the diverse and often conflicting world of the Ṣūfīs and the ʿulamāʾ for its operating principles. The order was housed in a well-endowed zāwiyah, a kind of monastery, and had attached to it a school for…

Anatoly Shcharansky is a Soviet dissident, a human-rights advocate who was imprisoned (1977–86) by the Soviet government and then allowed to go to Israel. Shcharansky’s father was a Communist Party member in Ukraine, working for a time on the party newspaper; and Shcharansky himself was a Komsomol

Anatoly Shcharansky is a Soviet dissident, a human-rights advocate who was imprisoned (1977–86) by the Soviet government and then allowed to go to Israel. Shcharansky’s father was a Communist Party member in Ukraine, working for a time on the party newspaper; and Shcharansky himself was a Komsomol

Anatoly Shcharansky: His wife, née Natalya Stiglitz, had also applied for a visa to go to Israel and was allowed to emigrate a day after their marriage in 1974. She adopted the Hebrew name Avital and, until his release, championed his cause from Jerusalem and in her travels abroad. Shcharansky’s…

Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov was a novelist of radical sympathies and one of the greatest of all Russian satirists. A sensitive boy, he was deeply shocked by his mother’s cruel treatment of peasants, which he later described in one of his most important works, Poshekhonskaya starina

Kemerovo, city and administrative centre of Kemerovo oblast (region), south-central Russia. Kemerovo lies along the Tom River near the foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains. The small village of Kemerovo was founded in the 1830s and merged with the village of Shcheglovo in 1918 to form the

Kyiv: Origins and foundation: …by three brothers, Kyi (Kiy), Shchek, and Khoryv (Khoriv), leaders of the Polyanian tribe of the East Slavs. Each established his own settlement on a hill, and these settlements became the town of Kyiv, named for the eldest brother, Kyi; a small stream nearby was named for their sister Lybed…

Shchyokino, city and centre of a rayon (sector), Tula oblast (region), western Russia. Coal mining began in the locality in 1870, exploiting the lignite (brown coal) of the Moscow coalfield; chemical concerns, the product of foreign investment, were also soon established. Shchyokino later developed

Shchyolkovo, city and centre of a rayon (sector), Moscow oblast (region), western Russia. It lies along the Klyazma River a few miles northeast of Moscow. Shchyolkovo was renowned from the 18th century as a centre of handicraft silk weaving, and today it remains a centre of various textile

The Nutcracker, ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The last of his three ballets, it was first performed in December 1892. The story of The Nutcracker is loosely based on the E.T.A. Hoffmann fantasy story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, about a girl who befriends a nutcracker that comes to life on

Mikhail Semenovich Shchepkin was possibly the most influential actor of 19th-century Russia, known for his sensitive and realistic acting. Shchepkin was born a serf and began acting in amateur productions on the estate as a child. After attending public school he joined the Kursk theatre as an

Ukraine: Ukraine on the path to independence: …force led by the writer Yury Shcherbak. (See also environmentalism.)

Rybinsk, city, Yaroslavl oblast (region), northwestern Russia, on the Volga River. The 12th-century village of Rybnaya sloboda became the town of Rybinsk in 1777. Its river port flourished after the opening (1810) of the Mariinsk Waterway, linking the Volga to the Baltic Sea, and again with the

Doctors’ Plot: …had died in 1948, and Alexander S. Shcherbakov (d. 1945), who had been head of the Main Political Administration of the Soviet army, and with attempting to murder several marshals of the Soviet army. The doctors, at least six of whom were Jewish, also were accused of being in the…

Mikhayl Mikhaylovich Shcherbatov was a Russian ideologue, historian, and aristocratic commentator on Russian political and social developments in the 18th century. Shcherbatov was the son of a former governor-general of Moscow and a member of one of the oldest aristocratic families in Russia, and

Fyodor Ippolitovich Shcherbatskoy was a Western authority on Buddhist philosophy, whose most important work was the influential Buddhist Logic, 2 vol. (1930–32). Educated in comparative linguistics, Sanskrit literature, and Indian philosophy, Shcherbatskoy spoke fluently and wrote with ease in six

Ukraine: The period of Khrushchev: …of two figures—Petro Shelest and Volodymyr Shcherbytsky—who between them dominated Ukraine’s political landscape for almost 30 years. The earlier careers of both encompassed party work in regional party organizations. In 1961 Shcherbytsky became chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) of Ukraine. Upon the elevation of Pidhorny to Moscow, in…

Shchyokino, city and centre of a rayon (sector), Tula oblast (region), western Russia. Coal mining began in the locality in 1870, exploiting the lignite (brown coal) of the Moscow coalfield; chemical concerns, the product of foreign investment, were also soon established. Shchyokino later developed

Shchūchīnsk, city, northern Kazakhstan. It is located on Lake Shchuchye, about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of Kökshetaū. It was founded in 1828 as a Cossack settlement and is the centre of a large agricultural area. Shchūchīnsk is also a health resort and the railway station for Kazakhstan’s leading

Shchūchīnsk, city, northern Kazakhstan. It is located on Lake Shchuchye, about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of Kökshetaū. It was founded in 1828 as a Cossack settlement and is the centre of a large agricultural area. Shchūchīnsk is also a health resort and the railway station for Kazakhstan’s leading

Boris Shchukin was a Russian stage and motion-picture actor, particularly well known for his portrayals of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. Shchukin grew up in Kashira and studied at the technical institute in Moscow. After serving in the military in World War I, he went to work for the railroad

Boris Shchukin was a Russian stage and motion-picture actor, particularly well known for his portrayals of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. Shchukin grew up in Kashira and studied at the technical institute in Moscow. After serving in the military in World War I, he went to work for the railroad

Dance (I): …by the Russian textile baron Sergei Shchukin. Shchukin was Matisse’s greatest patron long before the striking colours and radically simplified forms of Matisse’s work were widely appreciated in his native France.

Lenin Mausoleum: It was designed by Alexei Shchusev and completed in 1930.

Shchyokino, city and centre of a rayon (sector), Tula oblast (region), western Russia. Coal mining began in the locality in 1870, exploiting the lignite (brown coal) of the Moscow coalfield; chemical concerns, the product of foreign investment, were also soon established. Shchyokino later developed

Shchyolkovo, city and centre of a rayon (sector), Moscow oblast (region), western Russia. It lies along the Klyazma River a few miles northeast of Moscow. Shchyolkovo was renowned from the 18th century as a centre of handicraft silk weaving, and today it remains a centre of various textile

She, romantic novel by H. Rider Haggard, published in 1887, about two adventurers who search for a supernatural white queen, Ayesha, or “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed,” who is the ruler of a lost African city called Kôr. Ayesha has waited for 2,000 years for the reincarnation of her lover, whom she killed

She, any member of a people distributed in the mountainous areas of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Guangdong provinces of South China. Their language (which is classified as either Hmong-Mien [Miao-Yao] or Sino-Tibetan) appears to be related to that of the Yao, though most She are now

Sheji: …are said to have worshipped She (Soil), for they alone had responsibility for the entire earth and country. This worship was meant to include the five spirits of the earth that resided in mountains and forests, rivers and lakes, tidelands and hills, mounds and dikes, and springs and marshes. Later…

transuranium element: Nihonium and flerovium: …and chemical properties of some superheavy elements. Computer calculations of the character and energy levels of possible valence electrons in the atoms of the elements nihonium and flerovium (elements 113 and 114) have substantiated their placement in the expected positions. Extrapolations of properties from elements with lower numbers to nihonium…

Simone de Beauvoir: L’Invitée (1943; She Came To Stay) describes the subtle destruction of a couple’s relationship brought about by a young girl’s prolonged stay in their home; it also treats the difficult problem of the relationship of a conscience to “the other,” each individual conscience being fundamentally a predator…

Sheji, in ancient Chinese religion, a compound patron deity of the soil and harvests. China’s earliest legendary emperors are said to have worshipped She (Soil), for they alone had responsibility for the entire earth and country. This worship was meant to include the five spirits of the earth that

Lloyd Bacon: Later years of Lloyd Bacon: …Bacon directed his last movie, She Couldn’t Say No. The RKO comedy starred a miscast Robert Mitchum as a doctor who woos an eccentric benefactress (Jean Simmons).

She Done Him Wrong, American romantic comedy film, released in 1933, that helped establish both Mae West and Cary Grant as major movie stars. The film is set in 1890s Manhattan and centres on Lady Lou (played by West), who works at a saloon and is the mistress of its crooked owner, Gus Jordan (Noah

Joy Harjo: In her third collection, She Had Some Horses (1983), she wove prayer-chants and animal imagery into her verse. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994) is concerned with the opposing forces of creation and destruction in modern society. Her other poetry collections include What Moon Drove Me to…

Ossie Davis: …on the Bus (1996) and She Hate Me (2004), and a recurring character in 2004–05 on the series The L Word. The recipients of numerous honours, Davis and Dee were jointly awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1995 and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2004.

Elliott Nugent: …Clive Brook; the musical comedy She Loves Me Not (1934), starring Bing Crosby as a college sophomore who helps hide a murder witness; Love in Bloom (1935), with George Burns and Gracie Allen; and Professor Beware (1938), starring Harold Lloyd, in his penultimate film, as a hapless Egyptologist.

She, any member of a people distributed in the mountainous areas of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Guangdong provinces of South China. Their language (which is classified as either Hmong-Mien [Miao-Yao] or Sino-Tibetan) appears to be related to that of the Yao, though most She are now

Casuarinaceae, the beefwood family of dicotyledonous flowering plants, with two genera (Casuarina, 30 species; Gymnostoma, 20 species) of trees and shrubs, many of which have a distinctly pinelike aspect when seen from afar. They are naturally distributed in tropical eastern Africa, the Mascarene

Rosanne Cash: The critically acclaimed She Remembers Everything was released in 2018 and features collaborations with Kris Kristofferson, Elvis Costello, and T Bone Burnett. Cash’s memoir, Composed, was published in 2010.

She Stoops to Conquer, comedy in five acts by Oliver Goldsmith, produced and published in 1773. This comic masterpiece mocked the simple morality of sentimental comedies. Subtitled The Mistakes of a Night, the play is a lighthearted farce that derives its charm from the misunderstandings which

Dawn Powell: …referred to her next book, She Walks in Beauty (1928), as her first. She Walks in Beauty was set in pre-World War I Ohio. Other novels from this period include The Bride’s House (1929), Dance Night (1930), The Tenth Moon (1932), and The Story of a Country Boy (1934), the…

history of film: The Hollywood studio system: …My Darling Clementine (1946), and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949); Howard Hawks, a master of genres and the architect of a tough, functional “American” style of narrative exemplified in his films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), and The Big Sleep (1946); British émigré

Sir George Etherege: She wou’d if she cou’d, Etherege’s second comedy (1668), failed because of poor acting. It was the first comedy of manners to attain unity of tone by shedding the incongruous romantic verse element.

Jennifer Aniston: …director Peter Bogdanovich’s ensemble farce She’s Funny That Way (2014), in which she portrayed a therapist with few professional boundaries, and Garry Marshall’s paean to motherhood, Mother’s Day (2016). In the animated Storks (2016), she provided the voice of a busy mother. Aniston later starred as a former beauty queen…

Spike Lee: …Lee rebooted his debut hit, She’s Gotta Have It, as a Netflix series. The show brought the main character of Nola Darling to 21st-century Brooklyn as she unapologetically navigates her career as an artist and her relationships with three men; the show was canceled in 2019. Lee then returned to…

Spike Lee: Lee’s feature film debut was She’s Gotta Have It (1986), a prismatic character study about the love life of a contemporary Black woman. Establishing a career-long pattern, Lee not only wrote, produced, directed, and edited the film but also played a key supporting role. The film, which was made on…

Cyndi Lauper: She’s So Unusual: …1983 her first solo album, She’s So Unusual, was released on the CBS imprint Portrait Records. It included the effervescent single “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” the popularity of which was enhanced by its supporting video, which became an MTV favorite. The chart-topping album spawned other hit singles, among…

Mick Jagger: Artist collaborations and other work: …released his first solo record, She’s the Boss, in 1985. The album reached number 6 on the U.K. album chart and number 13 in the United States. The album’s lead single, “Just Another Night,” reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock…

H. Bruce Humberstone: …Vera-Ellen, and Vivian Blaine, and She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952), an entertaining showcase for Virginia Mayo, who starred as a burlesque star turned college student. Ronald Reagan was cast as an English professor in the latter film. After directing several Tarzan films in the late 1950s, Humberstone began…

Linda Hunt: Hunt’s later films included She-Devil (1989), based on a novel by Fay Weldon; the comedy Kindergarten Cop (1990), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; and Altman’s Prêt-à-Porter (1994; Ready to Wear). She voiced Grandmother Willow in the Disney animated feature Pocahontas (1995). She played Commander

Shexian, town, southeastern Anhui sheng (province), China. It is a communications centre in the Xin’an River valley, at a point where the natural route from Hangzhou on the coast of Zhejiang province and Shanghai into northern Jiangxi province joins two routes across the Huang Mountains into the

Casuarinaceae: Some, especially the beefwood (C. equisetifolia, also called she-oak, ironwood, Australian pine, whistling pine, or swamp oak), also are used ornamentally in warm-climate countries, where they have often escaped cultivation and become established in the wild.

She, romantic novel by H. Rider Haggard, published in 1887, about two adventurers who search for a supernatural white queen, Ayesha, or “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed,” who is the ruler of a lost African city called Kôr. Ayesha has waited for 2,000 years for the reincarnation of her lover, whom she killed

Shea Stadium, former multipurpose stadium, located in Queens, New York, that was the home of the professional sports teams the New York Mets of Major League Baseball and the New York Jets of the National Football League. The venue also hosted famous concerts, most notably the Beatles in 1965, as

Jack Shea was an American speed skater who won both the 500- and 1,500-metre races at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. The two gold medals that Shea earned, along with the two won by Irving Jaffee in the 5,000- and 10,000-metre races, gave the Americans a clean sweep of the speed-skating

Jim Shea, Jr. is an American skeleton sledding champion, winner of a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Shea’s grandfather and father were also Olympic athletes. His grandfather Jack Shea became the first double gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Winter Games when he won the 500- and

Jack Shea was an American speed skater who won both the 500- and 1,500-metre races at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. The two gold medals that Shea earned, along with the two won by Irving Jaffee in the 5,000- and 10,000-metre races, gave the Americans a clean sweep of the speed-skating

foundations of mathematics: Intuitionistic logic: …for sets but also for sheaves, which, however, lie beyond the scope of this article.

Gallagher and Shean: …the act of “Gallagher and Shean.” They went separate ways from 1914 to 1920, but in the latter year (at the urging of Shean’s sister Minnie Marx, mother of the Marx Brothers) they rejoined to star in the Shubert Brothers’ Cinderella on Broadway, with huge success. They then appeared in…

Gallagher and Shean: …the act of “Gallagher and Shean.” They went separate ways from 1914 to 1920, but in the latter year (at the urging of Shean’s sister Minnie Marx, mother of the Marx Brothers) they rejoined to star in the Shubert Brothers’ Cinderella on Broadway, with huge success. They then appeared in…

viscosity: …proportional to the rate of shear strain, or rate of deformation, that results. In other words, the shear stress divided by the rate of shear strain is constant for a given fluid at a fixed temperature. This constant is called the dynamic, or absolute, viscosity and often simply the viscosity.…

ship: Structural integrity: …what is known as the shear curve. In turn, the shear curve is integrated over the length to give the bending moment curve—a curve that usually has its maximum near mid-length. A value for bending stress can then be obtained by dividing the maximum bending moment by a beam section…

wind shear: …change is known as a shear line. Wind shear is observed both near the ground and in jet streams, where it may be associated with clear-air turbulence. Vertical wind shear that causes turbulence is closely associated with the vertical and horizontal transport of momentum, heat, and water vapour.

shear modulus, numerical constant that describes the elastic properties of a solid under the application of transverse internal forces such as arise, for example, in torsion, as in twisting a metal pipe about its lengthwise axis. Within such a material any small cubic volume is slightly distorted

viscosity: …proportional to the rate of shear strain, or rate of deformation, that results. In other words, the shear stress divided by the rate of shear strain is constant for a given fluid at a fixed temperature. This constant is called the dynamic, or absolute, viscosity and often simply the viscosity.…

landslide: … within a slope exceed the shear strength (resistance to shearing) of the materials that form the slope.

shear stress, force tending to cause deformation of a material by slippage along a plane or planes parallel to the imposed stress. The resultant shear is of great importance in nature, being intimately related to the downslope movement of earth materials and to earthquakes. Shear stress may occur

fluid mechanics: Stresses in laminar motion: …for the coefficient η is shear viscosity to distinguish it from the bulk viscosity, b, which is defined below. The word shear, however, is frequently omitted in this context.

shear wall, In building construction, a rigid vertical diaphragm capable of transferring lateral forces from exterior walls, floors, and roofs to the ground foundation in a direction parallel to their planes. Examples are the reinforced-concrete wall or vertical truss. Lateral forces caused by

shear wave, transverse wave that occurs in an elastic medium when it is subjected to periodic shear. Shear is the change of shape, without change of volume, of a layer of the substance, produced by a pair of equal forces acting in opposite directions along the two faces of the layer. If the medium

tunnels and underground excavations: Nature of the rock mass: …with claylike material called gouge), shear zones (crushed from shear displacement), altered zones (in which heat or chemical action have largely destroyed the original bond cementing the rock crystals), bedding planes, and weak seams (in shale, often altered to clay). Since these geologic details (or hazards) usually can only be…

Twitch: …with the help of friends Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel, and Kyle Vogt, began to stream his life nonstop, hoping to imitate a Big Brother-style reality show. Justin.tv expanded over the next year to allow anyone with an adequate setup to live stream on the site. By 2008 Justin.tv had accumulated…

coal mining: Origins of longwall mining: …simple continuous machine called the shearer was introduced. Pulled along the face astride the conveyor, the shearer bore a series of disks fitted with picks on their perimeters and mounted on a shaft perpendicular to the face. The revolving disks cut a slice from the coal face as the machine…

Norma Shearer was an American motion-picture actress known for her glamour, charm, sophistication, and versatility. Shearer was dubbed the “First Lady of the Screen” by MGM because of her marriage to Hollywood producer Irving G. Thalberg. Shearer, who had been a child model, won a beauty contest at

Martin Short: Career: …Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal, and Harry Shearer. In I Must Say, Short described his one season on the show as a “roller coaster of elation and anxiety,” adding, “With thirty years’ perspective, I now recognize that I should have allowed myself to step back for a moment and simply exult…

Moira Shearer was a Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her performance as the suicidal ballerina in the ballet film The Red Shoes (1948). Shearer studied at the Sadler’s Wells (later the Royal Ballet) School and with Nicholas Legat in London, danced with the International Ballet in 1941,

Norma Shearer was an American motion-picture actress known for her glamour, charm, sophistication, and versatility. Shearer was dubbed the “First Lady of the Screen” by MGM because of her marriage to Hollywood producer Irving G. Thalberg. Shearer, who had been a child model, won a beauty contest at

dressing table: …London Book of Prices (1788), Thomas Shearer included a design for a dressing stand “with folding tops. . . . The top and bottom fronts are shams, in the back part of the stand is a cistern which receives water from the bason drawer . . . .” The inside…

shearing, in textile manufacturing, the cutting of the raised nap of a pile fabric to a uniform height to enhance appearance. Shearing machines operate much like rotary lawn mowers, and the amount of shearing depends on the desired height of the nap or pile. Shearing may also be applied to create

carnivore: Form and function: Most carnivores have carnassial, or shearing, teeth that function in slicing meat and cutting tough sinews. The carnassials are usually formed by the fourth upper premolar and the first lower molar, working one against the other with a scissorlike action. Cats, hyenas, and weasels, all highly carnivorous, have well-developed carnassials.…

shears, any of numerous large or large-bladed scissors, usually designed for cutting specific materials. See

shearwater, any member of more than a dozen species of long-winged oceanic birds belonging to the family Procellariidae (order Procellariiformes), which also includes the fulmars and the petrels. Typical shearwaters are classified in the genus Puffinus, which has approximately 20 species.

palm: Characteristic morphological features: Most have a sheath, petiole or leafstalk, and blade. Sheaths sometimes are elongate or tubular, and when they appear to form a continuation of the stem, they are referred to as a crownshaft. The petiole is discernible above the sheath as a supporting axis devoid of leaflets.

tendinitis: sheaths of the tendons. These sheaths are composed of thin, filmy tissue that permits the sliding motion of tendons within them. The cause of inflammation is irritation of the sheaths by prolonged or abnormal use of the tendons. Less often it may follow invasion of…

sheath-tailed bat, (family Emballonuridae), any of about 50 bat species named for the way in which the tail protrudes from a sheath in the membrane attached to the hind legs. The term sac-winged refers to the glandular sacs in the wing membranes of several genera. Sheath-tailed bats are found

sheathbill, (family Chionididae), either of two species of white stout-billed Antarctic shorebirds making up genus Chionis (order Charadriiformes), the only bird family confined to south polar regions. It is named for the rough, horny sheath around the base of its bill shielding its nostrils. The

sheathed bacteria, group of microorganisms found widely in nature in slow-running water, many species of which are attached to submerged surfaces. They are characterized by a filamentous arrangement of cells enclosed in a sheath. The sheaths of Leptothrix, Crenothrix, and Clonothrix are variously

Sabaʾ, 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 bce to about the 5th century ce. Its capital, at least in

Gulf of Aden: …the gulf’s terrain is the Sheba Ridge, an extension of the Indian Ocean ridge system, which extends along the middle of the gulf. The rough topography of the ridge includes a well-defined median valley that is continually offset by faults running approximately northeast to southwest. The largest of these faults…

Queen of Sheba was, according to Jewish and Islamic traditions, the ruler of the kingdom of Sabaʾ (or Sheba) in southwestern Arabia. In the biblical account of the reign of King Solomon, she visited his court at the head of a camel caravan bearing gold, jewels, and spices. The story provides

Shebaa Farms, area of land along the border of Lebanon and the Golan Heights (a territory recognized by most of the international community as part of Syria but occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War [1967]) that is claimed by Lebanon, internationally recognized as part of Syria, and occupied by

Afghanistan: Physiographic regions: …strategic importance and include the Shebar Pass, located northwest of Kabul where the Bābā Mountains branch out from the Hindu Kush, and the storied Khyber Pass, which leads to the Indian subcontinent, on the Pakistan border southeast of Kabul. The Badakhshān area in the northeastern part of the central highlands…

Shebeli River, river in eastern Africa, rising in the Ethiopian Highlands and flowing southeast through the arid Ogaden Plateau. The Shebeli River crosses into Somalia north of Beledweyne (Beletwene) and continues south to Balcad, about 20 miles (32 km) from the Indian Ocean, turning southwest

Shebeli River, river in eastern Africa, rising in the Ethiopian Highlands and flowing southeast through the arid Ogaden Plateau. The Shebeli River crosses into Somalia north of Beledweyne (Beletwene) and continues south to Balcad, about 20 miles (32 km) from the Indian Ocean, turning southwest

Sheberghān, town, northern Afghanistan. Sheberghān is situated 80 miles (130 km) west of Mazār-e Sharīf, along the banks of the Safid River. It is surrounded by irrigated agricultural land, and it lies on a main east-west road through northern Afghanistan. Sheberghān was once the capital of an

Shibīn al-Kawm, capital of Al-Minūfiyyah muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Lower Egypt. It lies 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Cairo in the southern Nile River delta. Its centre, 10 miles (16 km) east of the Rosetta Branch of the Nile, is situated on the west side of the Shibīn Canal, which flows north from

Sheberghān, town, northern Afghanistan. Sheberghān is situated 80 miles (130 km) west of Mazār-e Sharīf, along the banks of the Safid River. It is surrounded by irrigated agricultural land, and it lies on a main east-west road through northern Afghanistan. Sheberghān was once the capital of an

Sheboygan, city, seat (1846) of Sheboygan county, eastern Wisconsin, U.S. The city is located along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan River, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Milwaukee. It was established as a fur-trading post in 1818 by William Farnsworth of Green Bay and was settled as a

Shebshi Mountains, mountain range in eastern Nigeria, extending approximately 100 miles (160 km) in a north-south direction between the Benue and Taraba rivers. Its Dimlang (Vogel) Peak is one of the highest points—with an elevation of 6,699 feet (2,042 metres)—in Nigeria, rising above the central