pottery: 19th and 20th centuries: Snuff bottles painted with miniature designs were first made toward the end of the 18th century, but most belong to the reign of the Jiajing (1796–1820) and Daoguang (1821–50) emperors. Bowls with circular medallions painted in overglaze colours with yellow or rose grounds are, perhaps,…

snuffbox, small, usually ornamented box for holding snuff (a scented, powdered tobacco). The practice of sniffing or inhaling a pinch of snuff was common in England around the 17th century; and when, in the 18th century, it became widespread in other countries as well, the demand for decorated

snuffbox, small, usually ornamented box for holding snuff (a scented, powdered tobacco). The practice of sniffing or inhaling a pinch of snuff was common in England around the 17th century; and when, in the 18th century, it became widespread in other countries as well, the demand for decorated

Robert Armin was an English actor and playwright best known as a leading comic actor in the plays of William Shakespeare. He performed with the Chamberlain’s Men from approximately 1598 to 1610 and originated some of the most famous comic roles in Elizabethan theatre. Armin was an apprentice to a

snuffer, metal implement used to extinguish the flame of a candle, generally in a form of a scissors (to snuff the flame and cut off the wick) or a hollow cone at the end of a long handle. The earliest surviving example is a silver-gilt snuffer in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dated about

Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State: …devised his encryption program, called Snuffle, in 1990 while he was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. His software converted a one-way “hash function” (one that takes an input string of arbitrary length and compresses it into a finite, usually shorter, string; the function has many uses…

Big Bird: …1971 his best friend was Snuffleupagus, a large four-legged puppet who resembles a woolly mammoth. Until 1985 none of the adult humans on Sesame Street ever saw “Snuffy,” and so they considered him simply a convenient scapegoat for Big Bird when he got in trouble.

Big Bird: …1971 his best friend was Snuffleupagus, a large four-legged puppet who resembles a woolly mammoth. Until 1985 none of the adult humans on Sesame Street ever saw “Snuffy,” and so they considered him simply a convenient scapegoat for Big Bird when he got in trouble.

snowboarding: History of snowboarding: The “Snurfer” got its snappy name from Poppen’s wife, who neatly combined the two words that described the contraption’s purpose: surfing on snow. Poppen’s initial model was just two snow skis bolted together—he later attached a rope to the front for steering. No specialized boots or…

Snyder, county, central Pennsylvania, U.S., located midway between the cities of Williamsport and Harrisburg and bordered to the north by Penns Creek Mountain and to the east by the Susquehanna River. Its ridge-and-valley topography also includes Thick, Jacks, and Shade mountains, while Walker Lake

Native American: Reorganization: The earlier Snyder Act (1924) had extended citizenship to all Indians born in the United States, opening the door to full participation in American civic life. But few took advantage of the law, and a number of states subsequently excluded them from the franchise. During the reorganization…

Samuel A. Alito, Jr.: …opinions was his dissent in Snyder v. Phelps (2011). The case involved a claim of freedom of speech by members of Westboro Baptist Church, who had protested near the funeral of Matthew Snyder, a U.S. Marine, and subsequently were held liable for damages for intentionally inflicting emotional injury on his…

Zack Snyder is an American filmmaker known for directing, writing, and producing highly stylized and visually striking superhero and action films, including the historical war epic 300 (2006), the gritty, dystopian superhero film Watchmen (2009), and the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) Superman origin

Boston Massacre: The killing of Christopher Seider and the end of the rope: Early in 1770, with the effectiveness of the boycott uneven, colonial radicals, many of them members of the Sons of Liberty, began directing their ire against those businesses that had ignored the boycott. The radicals posted signs…

Washington Commanders: …Cooke, were purchased by billionaire Daniel Snyder, whose first decade of ownership was marked by splashy free-agent acquisitions, as well as a four-year return to the sidelines by Gibbs beginning in 2004, but few winning seasons. Behind the standout play of rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III, the team posted a…

Zack Snyder: Career: Snyder’s wife, Deborah Snyder, is a producer who has produced many of his films, including Watchmen, Sucker Punch, 300, Man of Steel, and Batman v Superman, among others. Together with partner Wesley Coller, the Snyders operate a production company called Stone Quarry Productions. In a 2016 interview…

Gary Snyder is an American poet early identified with the Beat movement and, from the late 1960s, an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism. Snyder received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975. Snyder was educated at Reed College (B.A., 1951) in Portland,

Gary Snyder is an American poet early identified with the Beat movement and, from the late 1960s, an important spokesman for the concerns of communal living and ecological activism. Snyder received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975. Snyder was educated at Reed College (B.A., 1951) in Portland,

particle accelerator: History: Courant, and H.S. Snyder of the technique of alternating-gradient focusing (sometimes called strong focusing). Synchrotrons incorporating this principle needed magnets only 1 100 the size that would be required otherwise. All recently constructed synchrotrons make use of alternating-gradient focusing.

Tailhook scandal: Incident: John W. Snyder, for whom Coughlin was an aide, had acknowledged her report but noted that such behaviour was the natural consequence of getting naval aviators drunk. Coughlin filed charges and, when her case moved slowly, she went public with her allegations. A seven-month investigation…

chromatography: Liquid chromatography: The American chemist Lloyd R. Snyder arranged solvents in an eluotropic strength scale based on the chromatographic behaviour of selected solutes on silica. Normal-phase chromatography involves a polar stationary phase and a less polar mobile phase.

Detroit: History of Detroit: Rick Snyder appointed Kevyn Orr, an attorney who had participated in the bankruptcy and restructuring of Chrysler in 2009, to be Detroit’s emergency manager. Orr was granted wide-ranging executive powers to deal with the city’s $19 billion debt, but he was unable to reach an…

Zack Snyder is an American filmmaker known for directing, writing, and producing highly stylized and visually striking superhero and action films, including the historical war epic 300 (2006), the gritty, dystopian superhero film Watchmen (2009), and the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) Superman origin

Frans Snyders was a Baroque artist who was the most-noted 17th-century painter of animals. His subjects included still lifes of markets and pantries (featuring both live animals and dead game), animals in combat, and hunting scenes. A highly skilled painter who was celebrated for his ability to

António Nobre: …he published in his lifetime, Só (1892; “Alone”), inspired by nostalgic memories of a childhood spent in the company of peasants and sailors in northern Portugal. Só combines the simple lyricism of Portuguese traditional poetry with the more refined perceptiveness of Symbolism.

so, in early Japan, a land tax levied by the central government per unit of allotted land. It was introduced during the Taika reforms (645–649 ce) and fully implemented during the Heian period (794–1185). Formally considered a land rental fee, the so was usually paid as a portion of the rice yield.

Shōkadō Shōjō: …calligraphy by reviving the traditional sō (“grass”) writing style—a rapid, cursive script that originated in China and was practiced by a 9th-century Japanese Shingon saint Kōbō Daishi. Using the sō script, Shōkadō inscribed 16 love poems on a six-panelled folding screen covered with gold leaf (Kimiko and John Powers Collection,…

Ikenobō: >so (informal).

Southern Oscillation, in oceanography and climatology, a coherent interannual fluctuation of atmospheric pressure over the tropical Indo-Pacific region. The Southern Oscillation is the atmospheric component of a single large-scale coupled interaction called the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

Paul Simon: Later work and assessment: Simon followed with So Beautiful or So What (2011), an album that was billed as a return to traditional songwriting. If Still Crazy After All These Years was a thirty-something’s commentary on middle age, So Beautiful or So What was a meditation on mortality by an artist approaching…

William Wellman: Films of the early to mid-1930s: …then played the lead in So Big (1932), a truncated version of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. For the remainder of the early 1930s, Wellman made a series of melodramas—with some aerial adventure mixed in—before turning to the pre-Code gem Wild Boys of the Road (1933),…

So Big, novel by Edna Ferber, published in 1924 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1925. The book tells the story of Selina Peake DeJong, a gambler’s daughter with a love of life and a nurturing

Korea: The international power struggle and Korea’s resistance: …leadership of such figures as Seo Jae-Pil (Philip Jaisohn). Returning from many years of exile, Seo organized in 1896 a political organization called the Independence Club (Dongnip Hyeophoe). He also published a daily newspaper named Tongnip sinmun (“The Independent”) as a medium for awakening the populace to the importance of…

Korean literature: Modern literature: 1910 to the end of the 20th century: Sŏ Chŏngju and Pak Tujin are known for their lifelong dedication and contributions to modern Korean poetry. Considered to be the most “Korean” of contemporary poets, Sŏ is credited with exploring the hidden resources of the language, from sensual ecstasy to spiritual quest, from haunting…

Nevil Shute: His major works include So Disdained (1928) and What Happened to the Corbetts (1939), a foretaste of World War II’s bombing of civilians. His later novels—all set in Australia—reflected a growing feeling of despair about the future. A Town Like Alice (1950) dealt with the Pacific theatre of World…

Lewis Allen: The suspenseful So Evil My Love (1948) featured Milland as a con man who seduces a widow (Ann Todd) and manipulates her into assisting him in a scheme involving one of her friends (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Milland also starred in Sealed Verdict (1948), a courtroom melodrama in which…

Reba McEntire: …tour and release albums, including So Good Together (1999), Room to Breathe (2003), Reba: Duets (2007), and Love Somebody (2015). In 2017 she released Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope, which later won a Grammy for best roots gospel album. The following year she was named a Kennedy…

Mike Pence: Vice president: He later published the memoir So Help Me God (2022), which focuses on his time in the White House. Pence largely defended Trump and his presidency, often referring to him as “my friend.”

Korean literature: Early Chosŏn: 1392–1598: Sŏ Kŏ-Jŏng compiled Tongmun sŏn (“Anthology of Korean Literature”) and Tongin shihwa (“Remarks on Poetry by a Man from the East”), in which he summarized and commented on poetry dating from Unified Silla onward. Sŏng Hyŏn’s Yongjae ch’onghwa (“Miscellany of Yongjae”) established the tradition of…

John P. Marquand: …the dislocations of wartime America—So Little Time (1943), Repent in Haste (1945), and B.F.’s Daughter (1946)—but in these his social perceptions were somewhat less keen. He came back to his most able level of writing in his next novel, Point of No Return (1949), a painstakingly accurate social study…

the Guess Who: Post-Bachman years: ” So Long, Bannatyne (1971) followed a year later and included the popular singles “Rain Dance” and “Sour Suite.” A concert album, Live at the Paramount (1972), yielded the Canadian hit “Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon” and led renowned rock critic Lester Bangs to declare “The Guess…

William Maxwell: His 1980 novel So Long, See You Tomorrow returns to the subject of a friendship between two boys, this one disrupted by a parent’s murder of his spouse, then suicide. Despite the subject, Maxwell avoids sensationalism, instead concentrating on the crime’s emotional aftereffects.

Mark Sandrich: So Proudly We Hail (1943) was a change of pace for Sandrich, a grimly patriotic drama about a group of nurses stationed in the Pacific during World War II. The cast included Colbert, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, and Paulette Goddard, who was nominated for an…

King Vidor: Early sound features: So Red the Rose (1935) was a passable Civil War romance starring Margaret Sullavan as a wealthy Southerner who struggles to keep her family’s plantation and Randolph Scott as the pacifist turned Confederate officer she loves. In 1936 Vidor made The Texas Rangers (1936), an…

Richard Brautigan: So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away (1982), the final novel published during Brautigan’s life, is the reminiscence of a 44-year-old man who is haunted by the memory of killing his friend during a hunting accident as a youth and wishes that he had…

Mark Sandrich: …he also made the short So This Is Harris!, which won an Academy Award. Sandrich subsequently focused on feature films. The musical Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933) included several elaborate Busby Berkeley-like numbers. Hips, Hips, Hooray and Cockeyed Cavaliers (both 1934) were popular Bert Wheeler–Robert Woolsey comedies.

Steve Earle: …album Terraplane (2015); the country-leaning So You Wannabe an Outlaw (2017); Guy (2019), a tribute record to Guy Clark; and Ghosts of West Virginia (2020), which features songs he wrote for the Off-Broadway play Coal Country, about a mining disaster. In 2021 Earle released J.T., for which he covered songs…

Be sensible, not emotional.Figuring out how to buy a car means looking beyond the zero-to-sixty acceleration time, or how many miles a battery can go. It’s about deciding whether you really need new wheels, understanding what you can afford, and knowing how to choose between a used car and a new

Alanis Morissette: So-Called Chaos (2004) also failed to re-create the critical and commercial success Morissette had enjoyed in the 1990s. In 2005, 10 years after Jagged Little Pill’s release, Morissette took it on tour as an acoustic act and released an album version, Jagged Little Pill Acoustic…

suona, Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument, the most commonly used double-reed instrument. Similar to the shawm, the suona originated in Arabia; it has been widely used in China since the 16th century. The reed is affixed to a conical wooden body covered by a copper tube with eight finger holes

Svay Riĕng, town, southeastern Cambodia. Svay Riĕng is located on the Vai Koŭ River; it is linked to Phnom Penh, the national capital, to Vietnam, and to neighbouring areas by a national highway. It has a small hospital. The surrounding region is important for its agriculture; rice, corn (maize),

glacier: Mass balance: …a shallow depth; in the soaked zone sufficient melting and refreezing take place to raise the whole winter snow layer to the melting temperature, permitting runoff; and in the superimposed-ice zone refrozen meltwater at the base of the snowpack (superimposed ice) forms a continuous layer that is exposed at the…

Sōami was a Japanese painter, art critic, poet, landscape gardener, and master of the tea ceremony, incense ceremony, and flower arrangement who is an outstanding figure in the history of Japanese aesthetics. Sōami was the grandson and son of the painters and art connoisseurs Nōami and Geiami,

Clactonian industry: …to those produced in the Soan industry of Pakistan and in several sites in eastern and southern Africa. The industry dates from the early part of the Mindel-Riss Interglacial Stage, or Great Interglacial (a major division of the Pleistocene Epoch; the Pleistocene occurred 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago), and is…

Sir John Soane was a British architect notable for his original, highly personal interpretations of the Neoclassical style. He is considered one of the most inventive European architects of his time. In 1768 Soane entered the office of George Dance the Younger, surveyor to the City of London. In

Sir John Soane was a British architect notable for his original, highly personal interpretations of the Neoclassical style. He is considered one of the most inventive European architects of his time. In 1768 Soane entered the office of George Dance the Younger, surveyor to the City of London. In

Billy Crystal: …on the boundary-pushing situation comedy Soap (1977–81). During this period he also made his big-screen debut, in the Joan Rivers-directed Rabbit Test (1978), which was a critical and commercial disappointment. After Soap ended, Crystal landed his own show, The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour (1982), which ran for only five episodes.…

soap and detergent, substances that, when dissolved in water, possess the ability to remove dirt from surfaces such as the human skin, textiles, and other solids. When soap and water are not available for hand washing or when repeated hand washing compromises the natural skin barrier (e.g., causing

Joseph Cornell: Among these were the Soap Bubble Set series; the Pharmacy series, which looked like miniature apothecaries or cabinets of curiosities; the Medici series, which featured reproductions of Italian Renaissance portraits; and the Aviary series, boxes that focused on birds and showed a stylistic shift toward abstraction..

Soap Lake, southernmost in a string of lakes in the Grand Coulee valley, central Washington state, U.S. Volcanic in origin, its water is rich in minerals and salts and is regarded as having medicinal properties. The lake derives its name from the frothy white suds that appear along its shores,

soap opera, broadcast dramatic serial program, so called in the United States because most of its major sponsors for many years were manufacturers of soap and detergents. The soap opera is characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, emphasis on dialogue instead of action, a

soapberry, any member of the genus Sapindus, of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), comprising about 12 species of shrubs and trees native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, the Americas, and islands of the Pacific. The leaves are divided into leaflets, which are arranged along an axis.

Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of flowering plants (order Sapindales), comprising about 145 genera and some 1,925 species. Its members occur mainly in the tropical and subtropical areas of the world and are especially abundant in the American tropics. A number of species produce wood useful for

Sally Field: …later films included the comedies Soapdish (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), and Two Weeks (2006). In Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012), she portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln. She subsequently was cast in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012),

soapfish, any of about 24 species of marine fishes constituting the tribe Grammistini (family Serranidae; order Perciformes), occurring from the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific region. In appearance, they are characterized by a reduced spinous dorsal fin and a slightly protruding lower jaw. The name

talc: …feel accounts for the name soapstone given to compact aggregates of talc and other rock-forming minerals. Dense aggregates of high-purity talc are called steatite.

soapwort, (genus Saponaria), genus of about 40 species of flowering plants in the pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Soapworts are native to Eurasia, with a number of weedy species that have naturalized elsewhere. A few are cultivated for their attractive flowers. Soapworts are annual or perennial

Fernando Pessoa was one of the greatest Portuguese poets, whose Modernist work gave Portuguese literature European significance. From the age of seven Pessoa lived in Durban, S.Af., where his stepfather was Portuguese consul. He became a fluent reader and writer of English. With the hope of

Mário Soares was a Portuguese politician and lawyer who in 1986 became Portugal’s first elected civilian head of state in 60 years; he held the post until 1996. His father, João Lopes Soares, was a liberal republican who was often jailed or exiled during the dictatorship of António de Oliveira

Mário Soares was a Portuguese politician and lawyer who in 1986 became Portugal’s first elected civilian head of state in 60 years; he held the post until 1996. His father, João Lopes Soares, was a liberal republican who was often jailed or exiled during the dictatorship of António de Oliveira

gliding, flight in an unpowered heavier-than-air craft. Any engineless aircraft, from the simplest hang glider to a space shuttle on its return flight to the Earth, is a glider. The glider is powered by gravity, which means that it is always sinking through the air. However, when an efficient

locomotion: Soaring: Gravitational gliding is one of the basic mechanisms of soaring, which is restricted to birds, although birds must obtain their initial elevation by means of flapping flight. The second basic mechanism of soaring involves wind or air currents. Soaring requires that air currents meet…

children’s literature: Criteria: Francesco Soave’s moralistic “Short Stories,” and largely because that literature continued to be composed largely by nonprofessionals, its record has been lacklustre. It took more than a century after the Rev. Francesco to produce a Pinocchio. And only in the 20th century, as typified by…

mouflon, (Ovis aries), small feral sheep (family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla) of Corsica and Sardinia (O. a. musimon) and of Cyprus (O. a. ophion). The mouflon stands about 70 cm (28 inches) at the shoulder and is brown with white underparts. The male has a light, saddle-shaped mark on its back and

John Mayer: Sob Rock (2021) is his eighth studio album. In 2015 Mayer became a member of the touring band Dead & Company, which included some of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead.

tempura: …wheat (udon) or buckwheat (soba) noodles, which are often served cold (zara udon or zara soba) in the hot months of summer.

Japan: Political reform in the bakufu and the han: Chamberlains (soba-yōnin) who handled communications with the senior councillors (rōjū), gained strong powers of authority as his spokesmen when they won the shogun’s confidence. One such man was Tanuma Okitsugu, who rose from chamberlain to be senior councillor under Ieshige’s son, Ieharu, the 10th shogun. Tanuma…

The Heart of a Dog, dystopian novelette by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in Russian in 1925 as Sobachye serdtse. It was published posthumously in the West in 1968, both in Russian and in translation, and in the Soviet Union in 1987. The book is a satirical examination of one of the goals of the October

Sobaek Mountains, largest range of mountains in southern South Korea. The range, 220 miles (350 km) long, stretches southwest from north of Taebaek Mountain (5,121 feet [1,561 meters]) in Gangwon Province to the Goheung Peninsula near Yeosu. Its high mountains, Sobaek (4,760 feet [1,451 meters]),

Sobaek Mountains, largest range of mountains in southern South Korea. The range, 220 miles (350 km) long, stretches southwest from north of Taebaek Mountain (5,121 feet [1,561 meters]) in Gangwon Province to the Goheung Peninsula near Yeosu. Its high mountains, Sobaek (4,760 feet [1,451 meters]),

Sobat River, major tributary of the Nile, joining the Baḥr al-Jabal (Mountain Nile) above Malakal, South Sudan, to form the White Nile. The Sobat is formed by the confluence of its two main headstreams—the Baro and the Pibor—on the Ethiopian border, southeast of Nāṣir, South Sudan. Other Ethiopian

comb pottery: …the emergence of the so-called Sobata pottery, a fusion of comb and the local Jōmon pottery.

Sebek, in ancient Egyptian religion, crocodile god whose chief sanctuary in Fayyūm province included a live sacred crocodile, Petsuchos (Greek: “He Who Belongs to Suchos”), in whom the god was believed to be incarnate. Sebek may have been an early fertility god or associated with death and burial

Sebeknefru, was a queen who ruled as king of ancient Egypt (c. 1763–c. 1760 bce); she was the last ruler of the 12th dynasty (1939–c. 1760 bce). The end of the long reign of Sebeknefru’s father, Amenemhet III, brought her half brother to the throne late in life. When her brother died, the absence

London Zoo: …1972 the zoo added the Sobell Pavilion for apes and monkeys; the structure also houses the zoo’s giant pandas and the Zoo Studies Centre. A summer children’s zoo, originally established in 1938, was reopened in 1994.

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg: Another conspirator, Morton Sobell, a college classmate of Julius Rosenberg, fled to Mexico but was extradited.

Karl Radek was a communist propagandist and early leader of the Communist International who fell victim to Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge of the 1930s. A member of a Galician Jewish family, Radek attended the universities of Kraków and Bern. Having joined the Social Democratic Party of Poland and

Sir Garfield Sobers is a West Indian cricketer, considered by many authorities the most gifted all-around player of all time. As a batsman, he established a record for Test (international) matches by scoring 365 runs, not out, in a single innings (West Indies versus Pakistan, 1957–58 season), a

Sir Garfield Sobers is a West Indian cricketer, considered by many authorities the most gifted all-around player of all time. As a batsman, he established a record for Test (international) matches by scoring 365 runs, not out, in a single innings (West Indies versus Pakistan, 1957–58 season), a

Sir Garfield Sobers is a West Indian cricketer, considered by many authorities the most gifted all-around player of all time. As a batsman, he established a record for Test (international) matches by scoring 365 runs, not out, in a single innings (West Indies versus Pakistan, 1957–58 season), a

Mīrzā Yaḥyā Ṣobḥ-e Azal was the half brother of Bahāʾ Ullāh (the founder of the Bahāʾī faith) and leader of his own Bābist movement in the mid-19th century Ottoman Empire. Yaḥyā was the designated successor of Sayyid Alī Muḥammad, a Shīʿī sectarian leader known as the Bāb (Arabic: “gate,” referring

Saif al-Adel: …reporting to the group’s commander, Muhammad Atef. It is believed that after Atef’s death in 2001, al-Adel succeeded him as head of al-Qaeda’s military planning. In late 2001 al-Adel fled Afghanistan for Iran, where he was detained by Iranian authorities. He spent most of the next decade under house arrest…

Sobhuza I was a Southern African king who reigned from about 1815. He developed the chieftaincy that under his son, Mswati II, was to become the Swazi nation (now Swaziland). Sobhuza was the son of the Ngwane chief Ndvungunye (of the Dlamini clan), whose chieftaincy was situated somewhere near the

Sobhuza II was the king of the Swazi from 1921 and of the Kingdom of Swaziland from 1967 to 1982. His father, King Ngwane V, died when Sobhuza was an infant, and a queen regent ruled during his minority, while he was being educated in Swaziland and at the Lovedale Institute in Cape province, S.Af.

Sobibor, Nazi German extermination camp located in a forest near the village of Sobibór in the present-day Polish province of Lublin. Built in March 1942, it operated from May 1942 until October 1943, and its gas chambers killed a total of about 250,000 Jews, mostly from Poland and occupied areas

Sobibor, Nazi German extermination camp located in a forest near the village of Sobibór in the present-day Polish province of Lublin. Built in March 1942, it operated from May 1942 until October 1943, and its gas chambers killed a total of about 250,000 Jews, mostly from Poland and occupied areas

John III Sobieski was the elective king of Poland (1674–96), a soldier who drove back the Ottoman Turks and briefly restored the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania to greatness for the last time. Sobieski’s ancestors were of the lesser nobility, but one of his great-grandfathers was the famous

Sebek, in ancient Egyptian religion, crocodile god whose chief sanctuary in Fayyūm province included a live sacred crocodile, Petsuchos (Greek: “He Who Belongs to Suchos”), in whom the god was believed to be incarnate. Sebek may have been an early fertility god or associated with death and burial

Slavophile: …theology (with Khomyakov’s theory of sobornost, a spiritual unity and religious community based on a free commitment to Orthodoxy), Russian history, and folklore.

Czech Republic: History of the Czech Republic: …to infighting, and party chairman Bohuslav Sobotka faced down a leadership challenge prior to the start of coalition talks.