SMS Von der Tann

SMS Von der Tann was the first battlecruiser built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), as well as Germany's first major turbine-powered warship. …

SMS Weissenburg

SMS Weissenburg was one of the first ocean-going battleships of the Imperial German Navy. She was the third pre-dreadnought of the Brandenburg class, which also…

SMS Westfalen

SMS Westfalen was one of the Nassau-class battleships, the first four dreadnoughts built for the German Imperial Navy. Westfalen was laid down at AG Weser in Br…

SMS Wittelsbach

SMS Wittelsbach was the lead ship of the Wittelsbach class of pre-dreadnought battleships, built for the Imperial German Navy. She was the first capital ship bu…

SMS Wörth

SMS Wörth ("His Majesty's Ship Wörth") was one of four German pre-dreadnought battleships of the Brandenburg class, built in the early 1890s. The class also inc…

Smyth Report

The Smyth Report (officially Atomic Energy for Military Purposes) is the common name of an administrative history written by the American physicist Henry DeWolf…

Smythe's Megalith

Smythe's Megalith, also known as the Warren Farm Chamber, was a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent.…

Snooker

Snooker (pronounced UK: /ˈsnuːkər/ SNOO-kər, US: /ˈsnʊkər/ SNUUK-ər) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called ba…
Sports

Snoring rail

Snoring rail From The Birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands, 1898 Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classificatio…

Snowy plover

Snowy plover Male in breeding plumage on Morro Strand State Beach, California Conservation status Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) Scientific clas…

Social history of viruses

Young people with polio receiving physiotherapy in the 1950s The social history of viruses describes the influence of viruses and viral infections on human hist…

Society of the Song dynasty

The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Song painter Zhang Shengwen, c. AD 1181–1186; although Buddhism was in decline and under attack by Neo-Confucian critics in the Song er…

Socompa

Socompa is a large stratovolcano (composite volcano) on the border of Argentina and Chile. It has an elevation of 6,051 metres (19,852 ft) and is part of t…

Socrates Nelson

Socrates Nelson (January 11, 1814 – May 6, 1867) was an American businessman, politician, and pioneer who served one term as a Minnesota State Senator from 1859…

Soeara Berbisa

Soeara Berbisa ([suˈara bərˈbisa]; Perfected Spelling: Suara Berbisa; Indonesian for Venomous Voice) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies. Produced…

Soiscél Molaisse

The Soiscél Molaisse (/ˈsiːʃˌkɛl ˌmɒˈlæʃ/ SEESH-kel mo-LASH; 'Gospel of St. Molaisse') is an Irish cumdach (a type of ornamented metal reliquary box or carrying…

Solar eclipse

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially. S…

Solar System

The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the masses that orbit it, most prominently its eight planets, of which Earth is one. The sys…
Science

Solo Man

Solo ManTemporal range: Late Pleistocene 0.117–0.108 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Cast of Skull X at the Hall of Human Origins, Washington, D.C…

Solomon P. Sharp

Solomon Porcius Sharp (August 22, 1787 – November 7, 1825) was an American lawyer and politician, serving as attorney general of Kentucky and a member of t…