Saint Lawrence Seaway The St Lawrence Seaway is the common name for a system of canals that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes as far as Lake Superior. Legally it extends from Montreal to Lake Erie, including the Welland Canal and the Great Lakes Waterway.
	Saint Lucia Saint Lucia is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and south of Martinique. It is also known as the "Helen of the West".
	Saint Martin Saint Martin is a tropical island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 240 km east of Puerto Rico. The 1 E7 m island is divided roughly in half between France and the Netherlands; it is the smallest inhabited land mass in the world that is divided between two nations.
	Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas is the common name for Saint Nicholas of Myra, who had a reputation for secret gift-giving, but is now commonly known as Santa Claus. He lived in 4th century Myra in the Byzantine Empire's Lycia, the modern day Demre in the Antalya province of Turkey.
	Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was a missionary and is regarded as the patron saint of Ireland . He is also the patron saint of excluded people, engineers, and Nigeria, which was evangelism primarily by Irish missionary, especially priests from Saint Patrick's Missionary Society .
	Saint Patrick's Day Saint Patrick's Day is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17. It is a national holiday in the Republic of Ireland; the overseas territory of Montserrat; and the Provinces of Canada of Newfoundland and Labrador.
	Saint Peter Saint Peter, also known as Simon ben Jonah/BarJonah, Simon Peter, Cephas and Kepha — original name Simon or Simeon — was one of the Twelve Apostles whom Jesus chose from among his original Disciple . His life is prominently featured in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.
	Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg listen is a city located in Northwestern Federal District on the River delta of the Neva River at the east end of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is informally known as Piter and was formerly known as Petrograd and Leningrad .
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an independent state of the Caribbean, having a United Kingdom colonial history and now part of the Commonwealth of Nations, and the Caribbean Community community.
	Saintpaulia Saintpaulia is a genus of 20 species of herbaceous perennial plant flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania and adjacent southeastern Kenya in eastern tropical Africa, with a concentration of species in the Nguru mountains of Tanzania.
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	Sake Sake is a Japanese word meaning "alcoholic beverage", which in English language has come to refer to a specific alcoholic beverage brewing mainly from rice, and known in Japan as nihonshu . This article uses the word "sake" as it is used in English.
	Saki Saki was the pen name of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian period society and culture. Saki is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker.
	Salad Salad is a term applied broadly to many food preparations that are a mixture of chopped or sliced ingredients. A salad can be served cold or at room temperature, and it can also form the filling for a sandwich. Though it can be made with meat or Egg , it usually includes at least one raw vegetable or fruit, most often lettuce.
	Salad Burnet Salad Burnet is a plant in the family Rosaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. It is a perennial plant herbaceous plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, typically found in dry grassy meadows, often on limestone soils.
	Salad cream Salad cream is a creamy, yellow condiment similar to mayonnaise. It is most popular in the United Kingdom, where it is used primarily as a salad dressing.
	Saladin Saladin or Salah al-Din was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim warrior from Tikrit, in present day northern Iraq, who founded the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Mecca Hejaz and Diyar Bakr. He was renowned in both the Muslim and Christianity worlds for his leadership and military prowess tempered by his chivalry and merciful nature, during his war against the Crusaders.
	Salal Salal is a leathery-leaved shrub native to western North America. Its dark blue berries are edible, with a unique though bland flavor. Salal berries were a significant food resource for the native people. Locally, salal berries are made into jams and jellies, often combined with Oregon-grape because the tartness of the latter makes up for the mild sweetness of salal.
	Salamander Salamander is the common name applied to approximately 500 amphibian vertebrates with slender bodies, short legs, and long tails . The moist skin of the amphibians limits them to habitats either near water or under some protection on moist ground, usually in a forest. Some species are aquatic throughout life, some take to the water intermittently, and some are entirely terrestrial as adults.
	Salami A salame is a curing sausage of Italy tradition. The name comes from the Italian language verb salare, meaning to salt. Like most fermentation techniques this is an ancient technology though unknown in Dynastic Egypt. It certainly dates back at least to Roman times under the name lucanica.
	Salat Salat, meaning to pray, or to bless, generally refers to prayers that Muslims offer to God and most commonly refers to the five daily ritual prayers in Islam. It is one of the Five Pillars of Islam in Sunni Islam, and one of the ten Branches of Religion in Shi'a Islam.
	Salerno Salerno is a town and a province of Salerno in Campania, south-western Italy, located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The main town of the "Costiera Amalfitana" , it is mostly known in recent history for having hosted the king of Italy, who escaped from Rome in 1943 after Italy negotiated a peace with the Allies in World War II.
	Salic law The Salic law was a body of traditional law to govern the Salian Franks that was codified in the early 6th century, during the reign of Clovis I. Salic law was the basis for the laws of Charlemagne, but by the 12th century, both the Frankish kings and their laws had changed.
	Salicaceae Salicaceae is a family of flowering plants. Recent genetics studies by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 57 genera. In the Cronquist system the Salicaceae was treated in its own order Salicales, and contained only three genera, but APG includes it in the Malpighiales.
	Salicylic acid Salicylic acid is the chemical compound with the formula C6H4CO2H, where the OH group is adjacent to the carboxylic acid group. This colorless crystalline organic acid is widely used in organic synthesis and functions as a plant hormone.
	Salinity Salinity is the saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water. Salinity in Australian English may refer to salt in soil .
	Salisbury Salisbury is a city status in the United Kingdom in Wiltshire, England. The city itself forms the largest part of the Salisbury district. It is also sometimes called New Sarum to distinguish it from the original site of settlement at Salisbury, Old Sarum.
	Salix discolor The Pussy Willow, Salix discolor, is a small, weak-wooded tree, often grown for cut flowers. It is common to the northern forests and wetlands of Canada and Alaska. Its floral buds are a soft silky grey, opening to yellow. When grown for use by florists, it is picked just as the buds expand in spring, but well before opening..
	Sallet The sallet was a war helmet that replaced the bascinet in northern Europe during the mid-15th century. The sallet was close fitting except at the back of the head where it extended and formed a pointed tail. It often rested above an extended gorget called a bevor that protected the wearer's jaw.
	Salmacis Salmacis was a fountain, located near the mausoleum at Halicarnassus. In classical times, it was attributed to "make effeminate all who drink from it" —Strabo XIV.2.16 This was illustrated by Hellenic sculptors, who produced several works depicting a person of dual-gender.
	Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is a United Kingdom-India essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. He lives in London and New York City. Rushdie grew up in a middle class Muslim family in Mumbai . When he was 14 his family moved to Pakistan.
	Salmo See Salmo, British Columbia for the Canadian village of the same name. Salmo Carolus Linnaeus, 1758, is a genus of fish in the salmon family that includes many familiar species of salmon and trout. The type species is the Atlantic salmon, S.
	Salmon Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes. The Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Russian Far East, contains the world's greatest salmon sanctuary.
	Salmon P. Chase Salmon Portland Chase was an United States politician and jurist in the American Civil War era who served as Senator from Ohio, Governor of Ohio, as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the United States.
	Salmon pink Salmon Pink is a very light pink color that resembles the color Salmon. The name is derived from the flesh color of the Pink salmon . The nutrient that imparts the pink flesh color is astaxanthin, that salmon ingest when they feed on other marine organisms, such as krill and small shrimp.
	Salmonberry The Salmonberry of the family Rosaceae is an erect shrub with yellow to orange to red berries. It is related to the raspberry and blackberry. Salmonberries are found in moist forests and stream margins from Alaska to Northern California, especially in the coastal forests, where they are native.
	Salmonella Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteriaceae that causes typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever and foodborne illness. It is motile in nature and produces hydrogen sulfide.
	Salmonidae Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only family of order Salmoniformes. It includes the well-known salmons and trouts; the Atlantic salmons and trouts of genus Salmo give the family and order their names. Together with the closely-related Esociformes , the Salmoniformes comprise superorder Protacanthopterygii.
	Salome Salome or Salom, the Daughter of Herodias, like Dismas, or the various names of the Magi, is a name given to a character in the New Testament, one whose name is not given there itself. She is, however, an entirely historical person, whose name is preserved in non-biblical literature.
	Salpiglossis sinuata Salpiglossis sinuata is a flowering plant in the family Solanaceae, native to southern Chile. It is an annual plant or short-lived perennial plant herbaceous plant growing to 60 cm tall, rarely up to 1 m tall. The leaf are 4-10 cm long, elliptic to lanceolate, with a wavy, lobed or toothed margin.
	Salsify The Goatsbeards or Salsifies are the genus Tragopogon of flowering plants within the family Asteraceae. They include the vegetable called salsify as well as a number of common wild flowers, some of which are usually regarded as weeds. Goatsbeards are forbs growing as biennial plant or perennial plants.
	Salsola Salsola is a genus of herbs, subshrubs, shrubs and small trees in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Africa, Asia, and Europe. They typically grow on flat, often dry and/or somewhat salinity soils, with some species in saltmarshes. Recent genetic studies have however shown that the genus as traditionally circumscribed is paraphyletic, and many species are likely to be transferred to other genera in the future.
	Salsola soda Salsola soda, more commonly known as Opposite Leaved Saltwort, Barba di Frate, Agretti roscana or Liscari sativa is an edible species of the Genus Salsola. It is a small shrub 12" to 18" tall when mature and typically grows in saline soils and locations.
	Salt In chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of cations and anions so that the product is electric charge . These component ions can be inorganic compound as well as organic chemistry and monoatomic as well as polyatomic ions ; they are formed when acids and base react.
	Salt mine A salt mine is an operation involved in the mining of edible salt. Areas known for their salt mines include Khewra in Pakistan, Wieliczka in Poland, Salzkammergut in Austria, Slanic in Romania and Avery Island in Louisiana. Prior to the advent of the internal combustion engine and earth moving equipment, mining salt was one of the most expensive and dangerous of operations.
	Saltbox A Saltbox is a wooden frame house with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back. A Saltbox has just one in the back and two storys in the front. The flat front and central chimney are recognizable features, but the asymmetry of the unequal sides and the long, low rear roof line are the most distinctive features of a Saltbox.
	Saltire A saltire is an X-shaped ordinary in heraldry. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed. A saltorel is a narrow saltire; the term is usually defined as one-half the width of the saltire, and is a relatively recent "innovation". A saltire is couped when it only occupies the middle part of the field, without extending to the edges.
	Salton Sea The Salton Sea is an inland salinity lake, located in the Colorado Desert in Southern California, north of the Imperial Valley. The lake covers a surface area of around 376 square miles, making it the largest lake in California. However, it varies in dimensions and area due to changes in agricultural runoff and rain.
	Saluki akcgroup = Hound | akcstd = altname = Arabian Hound The Saluki is a dog breed of dog that is a member of the sighthound family, that is, hounds that hunt by sight rather than scent.
	Salute A salute is a gesture or other action used to display respect. Salutes are primarily associated with military forces, but other organizations and even general populations use salutes.
	Salvation Army The Salvation Army is a Protestantism evangelicalism Christianity christian denomination founded in 1865 by Methodist ministers William Booth and Catherine Booth. It is more famously known as a charitable organization and social work organization.
	Salvelinus Salvelinus is a genus of Salmonid fish, referring to char or charr. Many fish called trout are members of this genus. Members of this genus may be identified by light spots over a darker body, spots light cream pink or red in color. Scales tend to be small, with 115-200 along lateral line.
	Salvia Salvia is a genus in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is one of three genus commonly referred to as Sage. When used without modifiers, sage generally refers to common sage ; however, it can be used with modifiers to refer to any member of the genus. This genus includes shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annual plant.
	Salvia divinorum Salvia divinorum, also known as Diviner's Sage, Magic Mint, Ska Mara Pastora, or simply Salvia is a powerful psychoactive plant, a member of the Salvia genus and the Lamiaceae Family. It has long been used as an entheogen by the indigenous Mazatec shamans for healing during spirit journeys.
	Salvia leucophylla Salvia leucophylla is an aroma compound Salvia native to the southern coast of California and Baja California, with a range stretching from Santa Maria, California southward, at 50800 m altitude. It is a shrub growing up to 1.5 m tall on dry, open hillsides.
	Salvia pratensis Salvia pratensis is a perennial Salvia in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1-1.5 m tall. The leaf are arranged in opposite pairs, the leaves on the lower part of the stem up to 15 cm long, decreasing in size higher up the stem.
	Salvia spathacea Salvia spathacea is a species of Salvia native to southern and central California. It is a member of the Lamiaceae, or mint family. The sage genus is very large, with approximately 900 species worldwide, of which most are found in the tropical and subtropical Americas.
	Salvinia Salvinia is a genus of ferns, the sole genus in family Salviniaceae. Salvinia is a floating fern, and the Salviniaceae are related to the other water ferns, including the Mosquito fern, Azolla. Some sources include Azolla in Salviniaceae, although the genus is generally given its own family, Azollaceae.
	Salyut The Salyut program was a series of space stations launched by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. The Salyuts were all relatively simple structures consisting of a single main module placed into orbit in a single launch. The program was originally designated the DOS 7-K program, with each Salyut station receiving a designation.
	Salzburg Salzburg is a List of cities and towns in Austria in western Austria and the capital city of the states of Austria of Salzburg . The geographic coordinates of Salzburg are . The city is noted for its baroque architecture and Alps setting.
	Sam Browne belt The Sam Browne belt is a wide belt, usually leather, which is supported by a strap going diagonally over the right shoulder. It is most often seen as part of a military or police uniform. Its origins are uncertain. The earliest known specimen is one from the United States Army which dates to the period of the War of 1812.
	Sam Houston Samuel Houston was a 19th century United States statesman, politician and soldier. The Virginia-born Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as President of the Republic of Texas, United States Senate for Texas after it joined the Union, and finally as governor.
	Sam Shepard Sam Shepard is an United States playwright, writer and actor. He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. His many works are known for being frank and often theatre of the absurd, and for having an authentic sense of the style and sensibility of the gritty modern American west.
	Sam Snead Samuel Jackson "Sam" Snead was one of the top golfers in the world for most of 4 decades. He and two others of the greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, were born within 6 months of each other in 1912. He won a record 82 PGA Tour events and about 70 others worldwide.
	Samaritan Samaritans "Shamerim Yisraelim" are both a religious and an ethnic group. Ethnically, they are descended from a group of inhabitants that have connections to ancient Samaria from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the beginning of the Christian era. Religiously, they are the adherents to Samaritanism, a religion based on the Torah.
	Samarium Samarium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Sm and atomic number 62.
	Samarkand Samarkand is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand Province. The city is most noted for its central position on the Asian Silk Road between China and the west. It is located at latitude 39 39' 15, longitude 66 57' 35E, at an altitude of 702 meters.
	Sambre The Sambre is a river rising in northern France and flowing into southern Belgium.
	Sambucus canadensis Sambucus canadensis is a species of elderberry native to a large area of North America east of the Rocky Mountains, and south through eastern Mexico and Central America to Panama. It grows in a variety of conditions including both wet and dry soils, primarily in sunny locations.
	Sambucus nigra Sambucus nigra is a species of elderberry native to most of Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. It is most commonly called just Elder or Elderberry, but also Black Elder or Common Elder when distinction from other species of Sambucus is needed.