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Shōtai
Shōtai (昌泰) is the name of a Japanese era equivalent to the years 898 until 901 on the Western calendar. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Shōten
Shōten (笑点) is a Japanese TV comedy program, continuously broadcast on Sunday evenings on Nippon TV since 15 May 1966, the second-longest running TV show in Japan. The show gathers a group of six Japanese rakugo and manzai comedians wearing variously colored kimono sitting in a row, where t..
Shōtetsu
"In poetry there are no teachers. One makes antiquity one's teacher. Provided he steeps his mind in the styles of antiquity and learns his diction from the great poets of old, who can fail to compose good poetry?" --Fujiwara no Teika Shōtetsu (正徹, 1381-1459 CE) was a major Japanese poet during..
Shtadlan
Shtadlan was an intercessor figure who represented interests of the local Jewish community (such as of a town's ghetto) in the Medieval Europe, and worked as a "lobbyist" negotiating for the safety of Jews with the authorities holding power. Typically, a Jewish community (kahal) governed its own i..
Shtarker (Get Smart)
In the 1960s television series Get Smart bumbling KAOS agent Shtarker is Siegfried's sidekick. He was portrayed by actor King Moody. In his youth Shtarker was the all-time track star of the Third Reich. Shtarker is Yiddish slang for a "big, strong guy", or alternately, "tough guy". It is derived ..
Shternberg (crater)
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Shtetl
A shtetl or shtetele (Yiddish: , diminutive form of Yiddish shtot, "town") was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: shtetlach) were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of S..
Shtiebel
A shtiebel (Yiddish: שטייבל, pl. shtiebelekh or shtiebels, meaning "little house") is a place used for communal Jewish prayer. In contrast to a synagogue, a shtiebel is far smaller and approached more casually. It is typically a room in a private home or a place of business which is set aside ..
Shtil'
Space launch vehicle Shtil' (Russian: (Штиль - calm (weather)) is a converted SLBM used for launching artificial satellites into orbit. It is based on the R-29RM designed by State Rocket Center Makayev. The Shtil' is a 3 stage launch vehicle that uses liquid propellant. It is the first launch ..
Shtime
Shtime, Kosovo 2006 Shtime (Albanian) or Štimlje/Штимље (Serbian) is a town located in central Kosovo and the seat of the Shtime municipality. The territory of the municipality covers 134 square kilometers, and it has over 23,000 inhabitants. Demographics Ethnic Composition, Includin..
Shtokavian dialect
Shtokavian or Štokavian (Serbo-Croatian: ) is the primary dialect of the Central South Slavic languages system, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian language. The Štokavian dialect is spoken in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the greater part of Croatia. The Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian ..
Shtokman field
The Shtokman field, one of the world's largest natural gas fields, lies in the Russian portion of the Barents Sea, 600 km north of Kola Peninsula. Its reserves are estimated at 3.2 trillion m³. The sea depth in the area averages about 350 m. Natural gas reserves were discovered in 1988, but th..
Shtora
Shtora is a Russian electro-optical countermeasures suite, designed to disrupt the laser target designation and rangefinders of incoming ATGMs. The system is mounted on the T-80 and T-90 series tanks. Shtora-1 is an electro-optical jammer that jams the enemy's semiautomatic command to line of sigh..
Shtreimel
A Hasidic Jew wearing a Shtreimel A Shtreimel is a fur hat worn by many married Haredi Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, particularly (though not exclusively) members of Haredi Hasidic sects, on the Sabbath and during other holidays and festive occasions. In some families, particularly those native ..
Shtriga
The Shtriga, in Albanian folklore, was a witch that would suck the spirtus vitaé which is the living force of a person out of people at night while they slept, and would then turn into a flying insect. Only the shtriga herself could cure those she had drained (often by spitting in their mouths), an..
Shtufi
Krist Shtufi (born August 22, 1974 in Shpenadi, Prizren, Kosovo) is an Albanian philosopher. He has studied philosophy at the Jesuit Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1993/94. Shtufi moved to Austria in September 1994, and studied philosophy and catholic theology at the Karl-Franzens-Univ..
Shturtzite
Shturtzite (spelled also: Shturtsite, Shturcite, Šturtsite; Bulgarian: Щурците) is a Bulgarian rock music group. They were one of the most successful bands in Bulgaria during the 70's and 80's and still have a lot of supporters, despite the fact that the band has broken up. Contents 1&nbs..
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