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8ea3c5710dce20a8c792849c07ac7ec0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Bailey | Samuel Bailey | Samuel Bailey
Samuel Bailey, (born 1791, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Jan. 18, 1870, Sheffield), English economist and philosopher remembered for his argument that value is a relationship and implies a particular state of mind.
After working a few years in his father’s business and accumulating a fortune, Bailey f... |
b49450ff07a0fda47ca68a31ad201bf0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Baker | Samuel Baker | Samuel Baker
The founder, Samuel Baker (died 1778), a London bookseller, held his first auction (under his own name) early in 1744, selling an estate library of 457 books. Establishing the firm in York Street and handling further libraries over the years, he went into partnership with George Leigh…
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4e9556c4abb6ad7a4e7a7ad12b0bf4b1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Bamford | Samuel Bamford | Samuel Bamford
Samuel Bamford, (born Feb. 28, 1788, Middleton, Lancashire, Eng.—died April 13, 1872, Harpurhey, Lancashire), English radical reformer who was the author of several widely popular poems (principally in the Lancashire dialect) showing sympathy with the condition of the working class. He became a working... |
156b082b8b5a4281ed4b13a79263cc3a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Blatchford | Samuel Blatchford | Samuel Blatchford
Samuel Blatchford, (born March 9, 1820, New York City—died July 7, 1893, Newport, R.I., U.S.), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1882–93).
Blatchford graduated from Columbia College (later Columbia University) in 1837 and served as private secretary to William H. Seward until att... |
44eebcbe437b6df9ac0dde388da395bd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Bourne | Samuel Bourne | Samuel Bourne
…three albums of well-composed images; Samuel Bourne photographed throughout India (with a retinue of equipment bearers); John Thomson produced a descriptive record of life and landscape in China; and French photographer Maxime Du Camp traveled to Egypt with Gustave Flaubert on a government commission to ... |
bd1e7e7bcb2b27ec8b3726a8e0b37a60 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Butler-English-author-1835-1902 | Samuel Butler | Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler, (born Dec. 4, 1835, Langar Rectory, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died June 18, 1902, London), English novelist, essayist, and critic whose satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the Victorian illusion of eternal progress. The Way of All Flesh (1903), his autobiographical novel, is ge... |
8c8ccc4d6e55c3a23b372afc4e841530 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Clarke | Samuel Clarke | Samuel Clarke
Samuel Clarke, (born Oct. 11, 1675, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.—died May 17, 1729, Leicestershire), theologian, philosopher, and exponent of Newtonian physics, remembered for his influence on 18th-century English theology and philosophy.
In 1698 Clarke became a chaplain to the bishop of Norwich and in 1706 ... |
d67cfecfc7f738c5502bf1a0de141f4d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Crompton | Samuel Crompton | Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton, (born Dec. 3, 1753, Firwood, near Bolton, Lancashire, Eng.—died June 26, 1827, Bolton), British inventor of the spinning mule, which permitted large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread and yarn.
As a youth Crompton spun cotton on a spinning jenny for his family; its defects insp... |
d038465754c62e69a3d801577fed27af | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Doyle-Riddle | Samuel Doyle Riddle | Samuel Doyle Riddle
His owner, Samuel Doyle Riddle, had a long-standing aversion to entering any of his horses in the classic race. Riddle detested racing in the “West” (which for him included Churchill Downs), because it was away from the stomping grounds of high society. Perhaps his most cogent reason…
War Admiral wa... |
3c462b33f764645771500f5fb319dcbb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Gridley-Howe | Samuel Gridley Howe | Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe, (born November 10, 1801, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died January 9, 1876, Boston), American physician, educator, and abolitionist as well as the founding director of the New-England Institution for the Education of the Blind (later known as the Perkins School for the Blind) an... |
d9a65031bcfc801f9abf723762fe5a27 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Henzi | Samuel Henzi | Samuel Henzi
Samuel Henzi, (born 1701, Bern—died July 17, 1749, Bern), principal organizer of the “Henzi conspiracy” (June 1749) that sought to overturn the patrician government of the Swiss canton of Bern.
After service in Italy under the Duke of Modena (1741–43), Henzi returned to his native city, where he became e... |
c5727b3f3d1fc09cc5edad0bb2397154 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Huntington | Samuel Huntington | Samuel Huntington
Samuel Huntington, (born July 3, 1731, Windham, Conn.—died Jan. 5, 1796, Norwich, Conn., U.S.), signer of the Declaration of Independence, president of the Continental Congress (1779–81), and governor of Connecticut. He served in the Connecticut Assembly in 1765 and was appointed as a judge of the S... |
e9343221535cd7d0dc7273653a51eee8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-J-Tilden | Samuel J. Tilden | Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden, (born Feb. 9, 1814, New Lebanon, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 4, 1886, Greystone, N.Y.), lawyer, governor of New York, and Democratic presidential candidate in the disputed election of 1876.
Tilden attended Yale College and the University of the City of New York for brief periods and studied... |
a554b5838d22b4e35eb0f0e78e440aff | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Johnson/The-Lives-of-the-Poets | The Lives of the Poets | The Lives of the Poets
Johnson’s last great work, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (conventionally known as The Lives of the Poets), was conceived modestly as short prefatory notices to an edition of English poetry. When Johnson was approached by some London booksellers in 1777 to ... |
1429c278e0a055d4cdef31664436fb02 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-P-Huntington | Samuel P. Huntington | Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel P. Huntington, in full Samuel Phillips Huntington, (born April 18, 1927, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 24, 2008, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.), American political scientist, consultant to various U.S. government agencies, and important political commentator in national debates on U.S. foreign ... |
214679d039d42f057e17e2604efb9dc7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Smiles | Samuel Smiles | Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles, (born Dec. 23, 1812, Haddington, Berwickshire, Scot.—died April 16, 1904, London), Scottish author best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the “go... |
958a413838964d0156ffdb4f3c18d01e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Wallis | Samuel Wallis | Samuel Wallis
In 1767 Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret followed, but their ships were separated as they entered the Pacific. Wallis reached Tahiti, more of the Tuamotus, and the Society Islands, while Carteret found Pitcairn Island and revisited the Solomons that Mendaña had visited, although he did not so…
Samuel Wal... |
cde9867e0ef005232330212ec231f8f9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Wesley | Samuel Wesley | Samuel Wesley
Samuel Wesley, (born Feb. 24, 1766, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Oct. 11, 1837, London), composer and organist who helped introduce the music of J.S. Bach into England. The son of Charles Wesley, the hymn writer, and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, he began an oratorio, Ruth,... |
ef82577788a555378ef36f9c2fa03b54 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-White-Baker | Sir Samuel White Baker | Sir Samuel White Baker
Sir Samuel White Baker, (born June 8, 1821, London, Eng.—died Dec. 30, 1893, Sanford Orleigh, Devon), English explorer who, with John Hanning Speke, helped to locate the sources of the Nile River.
The son of a merchant, Baker lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius (1843–45) and in Ceylo... |
6c336215dfe42fcd90ff1f05587c32ce | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Whitehall-Putnam | Samuel Putnam | Samuel Putnam
Samuel Putnam, (born Oct. 10, 1892, Rossville, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 15, 1950, Lambertville, N.J.), American editor, publisher, and author, best known for his translations of works by authors in Romance languages.
After incomplete studies at the University of Chicago, Putnam worked for various Chicago ne... |
07d3adf87e44b918f6ee2dabd2f52854 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Wilberforce | Samuel Wilberforce | Samuel Wilberforce
Samuel Wilberforce, (born Sept. 7, 1805, London, Eng.—died July 19, 1873, near Leatherhead, Surrey), British cleric, an Anglican prelate and educator and a defender of orthodoxy, who typified the ideal bishop of the Victorian era. He was a major figure in the preservation of the Oxford Movement, wh... |
f53c27bb41e3563ab4e82009e33e603b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Wilderspin | Samuel Wilderspin | Samuel Wilderspin
…notably by the British educator Samuel Wilderspin, who wrote some of the earliest and most widely disseminated monographs on infant education.
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b905b3b2584e90dcacc4f80a113e7d31 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Wilson | Samuel Wilson | Samuel Wilson
…beef were filled by businessman Samuel Wilson (locally called “Uncle Sam”) of Troy. Government purchasers stamped “U.S. Beef” on the barrels, misinterpreted as “Uncle Sam’s beef”; according to tradition, this gave rise to the popular symbol.
…businessman from Troy, New York, Samuel Wilson, known affectio... |
cade0cff80b5ac0728299f90af34fa35 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Woodhead | Samuel Woodhead | Samuel Woodhead
…that a friend of Dawson’s, Samuel Woodhead, was a confederate, having access to bones and to chemicals for supplying and doctoring the specimens. Another possible participant in the scheme was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest and paleontologist who accompanied Dawson on his first join... |
89a05aca054ceeb4a4489b8671d4fa5e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandro-Botticelli/Late-works | Late works | Late works
An incipient mannerism appears in Botticelli’s late works of the 1480s and in works such as the magnificent Cestello Annunciation (1490) and the small Pietà (late 1490s) now in the Poldi-Pezzoli Museum. After the early 1490s his style changed markedly; the paintings are smaller in scale, the figures in them ... |
1e0261193ca863ad8d5894c801d09bd9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandy-Dennis | Sandy Dennis | Sandy Dennis
…marked the screen debuts of Sandy Dennis and Phyllis Diller. The title of the movie is from a line in the poem “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” by William Wordsworth.
Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis—received Oscar nominations.
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2fb07f5d7c8329766d78e8988a1355d9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sandy-Koufax | Sandy Koufax | Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax, byname of Sanford Koufax, original name Sanford Braun, (born Dec. 30, 1935, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.), American professional baseball player who, despite his early retirement due to arthritis, was ranked among the sport’s greatest pitchers. A left-hander, he pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers in t... |
6d977a4a1a2405c1a6b6dc79e3e58df7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sanford-I-Weill | Sanford I. Weill | Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill, byname Sandy Weill, (born March 16, 1933, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.), American financier and philanthropist whose company, Travelers Group, merged with Citicorp to form Citigroup in 1998—the largest merger in history at the time.
Weill was born to Polish immigrants and was the first in hi... |
9cf9723e37472a5bc496a9f5b13f5d81 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sangoule-Lamizana | Sangoulé Lamizana | Sangoulé Lamizana
) Sangoulé Lamizana, ousted the elected government of Maurice Yaméogo. Lamizana dominated the country’s politics until November 1980, when a series of strikes launched by workers, teachers, and civil servants led to another coup, this time headed by Col. Saye Zerbo.
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3a77bf2531be06f26aab5efef32fe3de | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho | Sangs-rgyas rgya-mtsho | Sangs-rgyas rgya-mtsho
…completed by another great figure, Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho, who in 1679 succeeded as minister regent just before the death of his patron the fifth Dalai Lama. By then a soundly based and unified government had been established over a wider extent than any for eight centuries.
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deba36f1a3e709b8634a5cb2dd4a8125 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sanjo-Sanetomi | Sanjō Sanetomi | Sanjō Sanetomi
Sanjō Sanetomi, in full Kōshaku (Prince) Sanjō Sanetomi, (born Jan. 3, 1838, Kyōto, Japan—died Feb. 18, 1891, Tokyo), radical court noble who was instrumental in the Meiji Restoration (1868), which ended the 264-year domination of Japan by the Tokugawa family and reestablished ruling authority with the... |
ccedfa275c13953eb870130b9eb21097 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sappho-Greek-poet | Sappho | Sappho
Sappho, also spelled (in the Aeolic dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos [Greece]—died c. 570 bce), Greek lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style. She ranks with Archilochus and Alcaeus, among Greek poets, for her ability to impress readers with a lively s... |
6bc1ff942566e48a33286fc21bd29bc4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sara-Adler | Sara Adler | Sara Adler
Sara Adler, née Sara Levitzky, (born 1858, Odessa, Russia—died April 28, 1953, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Russian-born American actress, one of the most celebrated figures in the American Yiddish theatre.
Sara Levitzky was born of a well-to-do Jewish family. She studied singing at the Odessa Conservatory for a ... |
c2d94a6646e9120228218d61abd4cd65 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sara-Blakely | Sara Blakely | Sara Blakely
Sara Blakely, (born February 21, 1971, Clearwater, Florida, U.S.), American inventor and entrepreneur who created Spanx, a brand of body-slimming women’s undergarments, and in 2012 became the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire.
Blakely graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor’s d... |
e4fb183bab4e9c0a11bf28e76786a26f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sara-Payson-Willis-Parton | Sara Payson Willis Parton | Sara Payson Willis Parton
Sara Payson Willis Parton, née Grata Payson Willis, pseudonym Fanny Fern, (born July 9, 1811, Portland, Maine, U.S.—died Oct. 10, 1872, New York, N.Y.), American novelist and newspaper writer, one of the first woman columnists, known for her satiric commentary on contemporary society.
Grata P... |
71e88c3dfecad8b5b4779a4a384a4754 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Brightman | Sarah Brightman | Sarah Brightman
…(“Time to Say Goodbye”) with Sarah Brightman, and both versions became hits. Bocelli’s popularity in the United States grew in 1997 with the release of Romanza—which collected songs from his previous albums and eventually sold more than 15 million copies worldwide—and with repeated PBS airings of his l... |
d1acfc80cabf7d05c6bc6c333c36139f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Frances-Whiting | Sarah Frances Whiting | Sarah Frances Whiting
Sarah Frances Whiting, (born Aug. 23, 1847, Wyoming, N.Y.—died Sept. 12, 1927, Wilbraham, Mass.), American physicist and astronomer who advanced the scientific education of women in the 19th century.
Whiting was the daughter of Joel Whiting, a teacher, and Elizabeth Comstock. In 1865 she graduate... |
a07437975eadf9c302d6cdfd2f8a52eb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Huckabee-Sanders | Sarah Huckabee Sanders | Sarah Huckabee Sanders
…August 18, 2017, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” though it was widely thought that Bannon had been forced to resign.
Huckabee’s daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, w... |
43224cd836ea625a48b817c757ba5546 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Jennings-Duchess-of-Marlborough | Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough | Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough
Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, also called (1689–1702) Countess of Marlborough, (born May 29, 1660, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died Oct. 18, 1744, London), wife of the renowned general John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; her close friendship with Queen Anne bol... |
6c7b896680acea686ff57a092d6c646c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Kirby-Trimmer | Sarah Kirby Trimmer | Sarah Kirby Trimmer
Sarah Kirby Trimmer, whose Fabulous Histories specialized in piety, opposed the presumably free-thinking Rousseau on religious grounds but was in other respects strongly influenced by him. The same is true of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, with her characteristically titled Lessons for Children. But Mary M... |
96d4dd7874319a71db43e215f8763620 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Porter | Sarah Porter | Sarah Porter
Sarah Porter, (born August 16, 1813, Farmington, Connecticut, U.S.—died February 17, 1900, Farmington), American educator and founder of Miss Porter’s School, still one of the leading preparatory schools for girls in the United States.
Porter was a younger sister of Noah Porter, later president of Yale Co... |
2ebc0e356abe3cd6c8159a7903781e9c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Winnemucca | Sarah Winnemucca | Sarah Winnemucca
Sarah Winnemucca, also called Sarah Hopkins Winnemucca or Sally Winnemucca, original name Thoc-me-tony, Thocmectony, or Tocmectone (“Shell Flower”), (born c. 1844, Humboldt Sink, Mexico [now in Nevada, U.S.]—died October 16, 1891, Monida, Montana, U.S.), Native American educator, lecturer, tribal lead... |
a2e75620eb362e9a64a6d7221b8725e0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sasaki-Kojiro | Sasaki Kojirō | Sasaki Kojirō
…1612, against his arch rival Sasaki Kojirō, a swordsman whose skill was reported to be equal to his own. The contest took place on a small island off the coast of Japan. While being rowed out to the dueling site, Musashi fashioned a wooden sword out of an oar. When…
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85bbbb98976154586a8f67980032528b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Satyendra-Prassano-Sinha-1st-Baron-Sinha-of-Raipur | Satyendra Prassano Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur | Satyendra Prassano Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur
Satyendra Prassano Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur, (born June 1864, Raipur, India—died March 6, 1928, Berhampur), Indian lawyer and statesman who had an extremely successful legal career, won high esteem in Indian nationalist circles, and was appointed to high off... |
41ff31f6d57f501f09bb365bc1a0c0e3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saul-Bass | Saul Bass | Saul Bass
Saul Bass, (born May 8, 1920, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died April 25, 1996, Los Angeles, California), American graphic designer and filmmaker who introduced a new art form with his imaginative film title sequences that conveyed the essence of a movie and prepared audiences for what they were about to see.
Bass ... |
7beebfb51bdee22bd2f196332c3ebd82 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saul-Steinberg | Saul Steinberg | Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg, (born June 15 [June 28, New Style], 1914, Râmnicu Sărat, Romania—died May 12, 1999, New York, New York, U.S.), Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his line drawings that suggest elaborate, eclectic doodlings.
Steinberg studied sociology and psychology at the... |
0c574920cc6113577883484d25791993 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saunders-Mac-Lane | Saunders Mac Lane | Saunders Mac Lane
Saunders Mac Lane, (born August 4, 1909, Taftville, Connecticut, U.S.—died April 14, 2005, San Francisco, California), American mathematician who was a cocreator of category theory, an architect of homological algebra, and an advocate of categorical foundations for mathematics.
Mac Lane graduated fro... |
2351a0626ed827f4afb5cc443c59d061 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sawa-Homare | Sawa Homare | Sawa Homare
Sawa Homare, (born September 6, 1978, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese football (soccer) player who led Japan to victory in the 2011 Women’s World Cup.
Sawa’s brother taught her the basics of football. By the time she was 12, she was playing in Japan’s first division, and at 15 she had an immediate impact on the na... |
bce675f66dc0ba9f1f9cdf8219475638 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saya-San | Saya San | Saya San
Saya San, Saya also spelled Hsaya, original name Ya Gyaw, (born Oct. 24, 1876, East Thayet-kan, Shwebo district, Burma [Myanmar]—died Nov. 16, 1931, Tharrawaddy), leader of the anti-British rebellion of 1930–32 in Burma (Myanmar).
Saya San was a native of Shwebo, a centre of nationalist-monarchist sentimen... |
1c820be53e8ce0e90350b6568372fc2e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sayyid-Ahmad-Khan | Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan | Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Sayyid also spelled Syad, orSyed, Ahmad also spelled Ahmed, (born Oct. 17, 1817, Delhi—died March 27, 1898, Alīgarh, India), Muslim educator, jurist, and author, founder of the Anglo-Mohammedan Oriental College at Alīgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, and the principal motivati... |
40f03b75d07b5d98af6f5bbdf55e4183 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sayyid-Amir-Ali | Sayyid Amir Ali | Sayyid Amir Ali
Sayyid Amir Ali, (born April 6, 1849, Cuttack, India—died Aug. 3, 1928, Sussex, Eng.), jurist, writer, and Muslim leader who favoured British rule in India rather than possible Hindu domination of an independent India.
Amir Ali, who traced his ancestry to the Prophet Muhammad’s daughter Fāṭimah, recei... |
b668168ac4d5731272fcb2e6be0d7932 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scipio-Africanus-the-Younger/Destruction-of-Carthage | Destruction of Carthage | Destruction of Carthage
As the war against Carthage dragged on without decisive result, Scipio resolved to return to Rome in 148 to stand for the curule aedileship, but such was his military record and the general disappointment with the conduct of the war that the Roman people wanted to see him in command. Because he ... |
235fb15e6192eaf387762077353d4efc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scott-Allen | Scott Allen | Scott Allen
…the men’s figure skating competition, Scott Allen (U.S.) captured the bronze two days before his 15th birthday, becoming the youngest athlete to win a Winter Games medal. Tragedy struck the men’s downhill as an Australian skier was killed during a practice run. The event was won by Egon Zimmermann (Austria... |
d532a73d268508909b9c1bef470feed7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scott-Carpenter | Scott Carpenter | Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter, in full Malcolm Scott Carpenter, (born May 1, 1925, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.—died October 10, 2013, Denver, Colorado), American test pilot and astronaut who was one of the original seven astronauts in NASA’s Project Mercury and the fourth to be launched into space. As the second U.S. as... |
6982c48eb81c7198cd32ff580cc126d0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scott-E-Fahlman | Scott E. Fahlman | Scott E. Fahlman
…came from American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman on September 19,1982. He suggested that :-) could indicate humorous posts on a message board and :-( could indicate serious posts.
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a409459ac1a6db34e73be5f36bc7567e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scott-Kelly | Scott Kelly | Scott Kelly
Scott Kelly, in full Scott Joseph Kelly, (born February 21, 1964, Orange, New Jersey, U.S.), American astronaut who made four spaceflights, the longest of which lasted 340 days. He is the twin brother of American astronaut and senator Mark Kelly.
Scott Kelly received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engin... |
cf2fd5cdb773835a06e82b84f7ef2128 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scott-McNealy | Scott McNealy | Scott McNealy
…have zero privacy—get over it,” Scott McNealy, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, memorably remarked in 1999 in response to a question at a product show at which Sun introduced a new interactive technology called Jini. Sun’s cheerful Web site promised to usher in the “networked home” of the future, in…
…Willia... |
37d35674e9bd3189bfa1f526e76cdc65 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scottie-Pippen | Scottie Pippen | Scottie Pippen
Scottie Pippen, (born September 25, 1965, Hamburg, Arkansas, U.S.), American professional basketball player who won six National Basketball Association (NBA) titles (1991–93, 1996–98) as a member of the Chicago Bulls.
Pippen played high school basketball but stood just 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 metres) upon g... |
4b6608d3bdd7f0d7ce01b61e92c22f57 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scotty-Moore | Scotty Moore | Scotty Moore
…band consisting of Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore, and bassist Bill Black. Their repertoire consisted of the kind of material for which Presley would become famous: blues and country songs, Tin Pan Alley ballads, and gospel hymns. Presley knew some of this music from the radio, some of it from his…
…with... |
74b07d7d7ee54c69a3e1033218139f54 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sean-F-Lemass | Seán F. Lemass | Seán F. Lemass
Seán F. Lemass, in full Seán Francis Lemass, (born July 15, 1899, Dublin, Ire.—died May 11, 1971, Dublin), Irish patriot and politician, who served as taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland from 1959 to 1966.
As early as the age of 16, Lemass became a freedom fighter in the streets of Dublin, engaging in... |
eceb16665ae85299d4ce6690d1651c75 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastian-Barba-de-Padilla | Sebastián Barba de Padilla | Sebastián Barba de Padilla
…in 1574 by the conquistador Sebastián Barba de Padilla, it was elevated to city status in 1786 and renamed Cochabamba, the Quechua name (Khocha Pampa) for the area, meaning “a plain full of small lakes.” A favourable climate and attractive setting have helped make it one of Bolivia’s largest... |
0bfb1dc1f7b87119b48f0e4f4401e80d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastian-de-Benalcazar | Sebastián de Benalcázar | Sebastián de Benalcázar
Sebastián de Benalcázar, Benalcázar also spelled Belalcázar, or Belaicázar, also called Sebastián Moyano, (born c. 1495, Benalcázar, Spain—died 1551, Cartagena, New Granada [now in Colombia]), Spanish conqueror of Nicaragua, Ecuador, and southwestern Colombia. He captured Quito and founded the... |
9b798023f266ab9d9f94c6508fa5bc1f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastian-Lerdo-de-Tejada | Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada | Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, (born April 25, 1827, Jalapa, Veracruz, Mex.—died April 1889, New York, N.Y., U.S.), president of Mexico from 1872 to 1876.
Lerdo, orphaned and impoverished as a child, struggled to obtain an education and became professor of jurisprudence and rector of the College... |
efcddcafa4e43b6d81776a74da577ea3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastian-Vizcaino | Sebastián Vizcaíno | Sebastián Vizcaíno
…de Henares in 1602 by Sebastián Vizcaíno. Gaspar de Portolá founded a presidio (military post) there on July 16, 1769, and, on the same day, Father Junípero Serra dedicated the first of the California missions (restored 1931). Settlement was confined inside the presidio walls until the 1820s, when r... |
09006f99e800d6db2b8cfdd25801fcd7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastien-Erard | Sébastien Érard | Sébastien Érard
Sébastien Érard, (born April 5, 1752, Strasbourg, Fr.—died Aug. 5, 1831, near Passy), French piano and harp maker whose improvements in both instruments were largely responsible for their modern forms.
The son of a cabinetmaker, Érard was apprenticed to a harpsichord builder in Paris; there, about 177... |
bb244a38e37c52e7ce839a0fb3925e52 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebestyen-Tinodi | Sebestyén Tinódi | Sebestyén Tinódi
Perhaps the most important was Sebestyén Tinódi, by temperament more historian than poet. He described the wars against the Turks with remarkable accuracy, but his verse was monotonous. Péter Ilosvai Selymes was the author of a romance, Az híres nevezetes Toldi Miklósnak jeles cselekedetiről (1574; “Th... |
a4e154abc8c6f9a74dfacae0219f0cc0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Second-False-Dmitry | Second False Dmitry | Second False Dmitry
Although the second False Dmitry bore no physical resemblance to the first, he gathered a large following among Cossacks, Poles, Lithuanians, and rebels who had already risen against Shuysky. He gained control of southern Russia, marched toward Moscow, and established his headquarters (including a f... |
a946cab96a0acaeef095a7714fe17425 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Secundus-of-Tigisi | Secundus of Tigisi | Secundus of Tigisi
The primate of Numidia, Secundus of Tigisi, who had acquired in the previous 40 years the right of consecrating the bishop of Carthage, arrived in Carthage with 70 bishops and in solemn council declared Caecilian’s election invalid. The council then appointed a reader (lector), Majorinus, to replace ... |
356202f5b719b99faf4c9e1ff7ac195f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seiji-Ozawa | Seiji Ozawa | Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa, (born September 1, 1935, Hoten, Manchukuo [now in China]), Japanese American conductor especially noted for his energetic style and his sweeping performances of 19th-century Western symphonic works.
Ozawa showed interest in Western music as a child in Japan and hoped to become a pianist. At ag... |
84ce273eeb3dc05bb1023aaf548d6353 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seiwa | Seiwa | Seiwa
…the throne as the emperor Seiwa at the age of nine. Yoshifusa, thereupon, had himself appointed regent—the first instance in Japanese history of a person not of royal blood being named to this position. This led to the practice of the Fujiwara persuading emperors to retire at a comparatively early…
…mid-9th cent... |
ee39b0a456e9e6dcd81384581bab7f22 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seki-Takakazu | Seki Takakazu | Seki Takakazu
Seki Takakazu, also called Seki Kōwa, (born c. 1640, Fujioka, Japan—died October 24, 1708, Edo [now Tokyo]), the most important figure of the wasan (“Japanese calculation”) tradition (see mathematics, East Asian: Japan in the 17th century) that flourished from the early 17th century until the opening of ... |
b1308531c0db44911ed2539db5711d2e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Selena-American-singer | Selena | Selena
…after the popular Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, was raised in suburban Dallas. Inspired by her mother, an amateur actress, Gomez tried out for a role on the PBS children’s television series Barney & Friends and, as a result, appeared regularly on the program in 2002–04. After making her big-screen deb... |
558b6ad8624d755e036c5e70f8ef6151 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seleucus-IV-Philopator | Seleucus IV Philopator | Seleucus IV Philopator
Seleucus IV Philopator, (born c. 217 bc—died 175 bc), seventh king (reigned 187–175 bc) of the Seleucid dynasty, son of Antiochus III the Great.
Although the empire that Seleucus inherited was not so great as the one over which his father had ruled before the war with Rome (190–189), it was st... |
628810c0e407424639fa45f2ac22e032 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Semseddin-Yaman-Candar | Şemseddin Yaman Candar | Şemseddin Yaman Candar
…dynasty took its name from Şemseddin Yaman Candar, who served in the army of the Seljuq sultan Masʿūd II (reigned 1283–98) and was awarded the Eflani region, west of Kastamonu, in return for his services. Candar’s son Süleyman captured Kastamonu and Sinop and in 1314 accepted the suzerainty of t... |
303f8c1811ac1b5526c8d60842edd975 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Senenmut | Senenmut | Senenmut
The sculptures of Senenmut, steward of Hatshepsut, exemplify the development. At least 23 votive statues (some fragmentary) of this royal favourite are known, exhibiting many different forms.
…Mentuhotep II, the queen’s architect Senenmut designed (c. 1473) a series of colonnades and courts on three levels. Th... |
40f15ef63bd617f0341142474b5373ab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sengzhao | Sengzhao | Sengzhao
…result of the teachings of Sengzhao, Kumarajiva’s disciple, and later of Jizang. Both of these Chinese Madhyamika masters commented on Nagarjuna’s thesis in numerous influential works.
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473f6e7b17adbf5c00dda7bc2f67c736 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Senkei | Senkei | Senkei
…discipline through the influence of Senkei, a Buddhist priest and master of the Ikenobō school.
…introduced by the Ikenobō master Senkei around 1460. The early rikka style symbolized the mythical Mt. Meru of Buddhist cosmology. Rikka represented seven elements: peak, waterfall, hill, foot of the mountain, and t... |
a3a7959a7079e332d9174e6a2638e608 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Senzangakona | Senzangakona | Senzangakona
Shaka was the son of Senzangakona, chieftain of the Zulu, and Nandi, an orphaned princess of the neighbouring Langeni clan. Because his parents belonged to the same clan, their marriage violated Zulu custom, and the stigma of this extended to the child. The couple separated when Shaka was six, and…
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b7d74d2c10e2f7c2d2f972dadf935380 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Serafin-Alvarez-Quintero | Serafín Álvarez Quintero | Serafín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish brothers who collaborated in almost 200 dramas depicting the life, manners, and speech of Andalusia. Serafín Álvarez Quintero (b. March 26, 1871, Utrera, Sevilla, Spain—d. April 12, 1938, Madrid) and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (b. Jan. 20, 1873, Utrera, Sevilla, Spain—d. June 14, 1944, Ma... |
fe60a6c1ca2b3287026d3f390afe6c11 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Serge-Poliakoff | Serge Poliakoff | Serge Poliakoff
Serge Poliakoff, (born Jan. 8, 1906, Moscow—died Oct. 13, 1969, Paris), painter and lithographer, one of the most widely recognized of the abstract colourists who flourished after World War II.
Educated in Moscow and London, he left Russia in 1918 and resided in Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna, and Berlin unt... |
cea8ab29b4f54b53a1a902113b8fe4c5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Bubka | Sergey Bubka | Sergey Bubka
Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian Serhiy Bubka, (born December 14, 1963, Voroshilovgrad, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Luhansk, Ukraine]), Ukrainian athlete, the first pole-vaulter to clear 6.1 metres (20 feet).
Bubka began pole-vaulting at age 9. When his coach, Vitaly Petrov, was transferred to Donetsk, Ukraine, Bubka, ... |
570fdf68db7922e87f50032006d79405 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Ivanovich-Muravyov-Apostol | Sergey Ivanovich Muravyov-Apostol | Sergey Ivanovich Muravyov-Apostol
Sergey Ivanovich Muravyov-Apostol, Muravyov-Apostol also spelled Muravev-apostol, (born Sept. 28 [Oct. 9, New Style], 1796, St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 13 [July 25], 1826, St. Petersburg), Russian army officer and republican, executed for his leading role in the Decembrist (Dek... |
0ea9f0ad0054cb48f8ed80d704c6cf85 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Lukyanenko | Sergey Lukyanenko | Sergey Lukyanenko
Sergey Lukyanenko, in full Sergey Vasilyevich Lukyanenko, (born April 11, 1968, Karatau, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. [now in Kazakhstan]), Russian author of science fiction and fantasy, best known for his six-volume Night Watch series, a seminal body of work in the genre of urban fantasy.
Lukyanenko was the... |
940142185dad593a8dec749a4b6ebe21 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Vasilyevich-Zubatov | Sergey Vasilyevich Zubatov | Sergey Vasilyevich Zubatov
Sergey Vasilyevich Zubatov, (born 1864, Moscow, Russia—died March 15 [March 2, Old Style], 1917, Moscow), tsarist colonel of the Russian gendarmes known for his establishment of a system of surveillance to monitor the activities of revolutionary organizations.
Zubatov became an agent of the... |
b87dab34ad16dd31c289e09eb37ab07a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Yulyevich-Graf-Witte/Legacy | Legacy | Legacy
Witte’s reputation was at first eclipsed through the collapse of tsarism, but he is now appreciated as a successor to Peter I the Great in the drive to modernize a backward empire and as a forerunner of the Communists in the policy of implementing an industrial revolution from above. The “Witte period” of 1892–1... |
5233433dc7004a24e71eb65dee7c3a42 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergius | Sergius | Sergius
Sergius, Russian Sergy, original name Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky, (born Jan. 23, 1867, Arzamas, Novgorod region, Russia—died May 15, 1944, Moscow), theologian and patriarch of Moscow and the Russian Orthodox church who, by his leadership in rallying the church membership in a united effort with the Sovie... |
3e7a3171041c277d9ac3e18d3bbe056c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergius-I | Sergius I | Sergius I
Sergius I, (died Dec. 9, 638, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Tur.]), Greek Orthodox theologian and patriarch of Constantinople (610–638), one of the most forceful and independent churchmen to hold that office, who not only supported the emperor Heraclius (610–641) in the victorious defense of the Eastern Roma... |
776cab226b1a06869fc72243da224cab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergius-IV-pope | Sergius IV | Sergius IV
Sergius IV, original name Pietro Buccaporci, byname Bucca Porci (“Pig’s Snout”), (born, Luna, Tuscany [Italy]—died May 12, 1012, Rome), pope from 1009 to 1012. He became bishop of Albano, Papal States, about 1004. Elected to succeed Pope John XVIII, he was consecrated on July 31, 1009; he changed his name ... |
4d5776825399d9783b368d51268c4b7d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sesostris-II | Sesostris II | Sesostris II
Sesostris II, (flourished 19th century bce), king of ancient Egypt (reigned 1844–37 bce) of the 12th dynasty (1938–c. 1756) who devoted himself to the peaceful exploitation of Nubia, Egypt’s territory to the south, and initiated the development of Al-Fayyūm, a great oasis-like depression west of the Nile ... |
2ec0e785e49ba44cbf220c846bac21ab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Setthathirat-I | Setthathirat I | Setthathirat I
Setthathirat I, also called Sai Setthathirat I, or Setthavong, (born 1534—died 1571, southern Laos), sovereign of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang who prevented it from falling under Burmese domination and whose reign was marked by notable achievements in domestic and foreign affairs.
As the son of King Pho... |
3df2e8e0d2c6d1aadb64337d1d36071b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seve-Ballesteros | Seve Ballesteros | Seve Ballesteros
Seve Ballesteros, in full Severiano Ballesteros, (born April 9, 1957, Pedreña, Spain—died May 7, 2011, Pedreña), Spanish golfer who was one of the sport’s most prominent figures in the 1970s and ’80s. He was known for his flamboyant and imaginative style of play and accumulated more than 85 wins in in... |
a3f4168cb74183035e6484c14f85912a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Severo-Ochoa | Severo Ochoa | Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa, (born Sept. 24, 1905, Luarca, Spain—died Nov. 1, 1993, Madrid), biochemist and molecular biologist who received (with the American biochemist Arthur Kornberg) the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovery of an enzyme in bacteria that enabled him to synthesize ribonucleic ac... |
d12e62d07ecb30a9b876440a1d386996 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sewall-Wright | Sewall Wright | Sewall Wright
Sewall Wright, (born Dec. 21, 1889, Melrose, Mass., U.S.—died March 3, 1988, Madison, Wis.), American geneticist, one of the founders of population genetics. He was the brother of the political scientist Quincy Wright.
Wright was educated at Lombard College, Galesburg, Ill., and at the University of Illi... |
2aed9cb6a1f5741c8ad43a43a02a0e89 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sextus-Afranius-Burrus | Sextus Afranius Burrus | Sextus Afranius Burrus
Sextus Afranius Burrus, (died ad 62), praetorian prefect (51–62) and, with Seneca, the chief adviser of the Roman emperor Nero (reigned 54–68).
Burrus came from Vasio (now Vaison, France). After brief service in the army, he held posts in the households of Livia (the widow of the emperor Augustu... |
d535cc1c390c435645f8913b21095bb4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sextus-Aurelius-Victor | Sextus Aurelius Victor | Sextus Aurelius Victor
The works of Sextus Aurelius Victor and Eutropius, who ably abridged earlier historical works, are fairly accurate and more reliable than the Scriptores historiae Augustae, a collection of imperial biographies of unequal value, undoubtedly composed under Theodosius but for an unknown purpose. Eru... |
af23b36de85547f238463f55e276aa87 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sextus-Empiricus | Sextus Empiricus | Sextus Empiricus
Sextus Empiricus, (flourished 3rd century), ancient Greek philosopher-historian who produced the only extant comprehensive account of Greek Skepticism in his Outlines of Pyrrhonism and Against the Mathematicians.
As a major exponent of Pyrrhonistic “suspension of judgment,” Sextus elaborated the 10 tr... |
565469ec498be6bf12be70fedbd55099 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-Cassel | Seymour Cassel | Seymour Cassel
…wife with a hippie (Seymour Cassel). Originally six hours long, the film was painstakingly edited down over the next two years to slightly more than two hours and released in 1968 to rave reviews. Cassavetes received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay, and Carlin and Cassel were nominated…
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eac60c80e60094a908031ade23d940f1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-Hersh | Seymour Hersh | Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh, in full Seymour Myron Hersh, (born April 8, 1937, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American journalist whose reporting generally focused on the U.S. government and its involvement abroad. He was especially noted for his investigations into the My Lai Massacre and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
He... |
52871a261bf2975d085c75efe558dac0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seyni-Kountche | Seyni Kountché | Seyni Kountché
…later became aide-de-camp to President Seyni Kountché. Extremely loyal to the president, Maïnassara was appointed commander of the Presidential Guard in 1976 and in 1978 was given charge of the army’s prestigious airborne regiment. He held a series of overseas posts, including military attaché to the Ni... |
8ce4936b00878193af4a149cf1a33a83 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shabonee | Shabonee | Shabonee
Shabonee, also spelled Shabbona, (born c. 1775, near Maumee River [Ohio, U.S.]—died July 17, 1859, Morris, Ill., U.S.), Potawatomi Indian chief, hero of a Paul Revere-style ride through northern Illinois in 1832, the purpose of which was to warn white settlers of an imminent Indian raid during the Black Hawk... |
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