Shetland Sheepdog, small herding dog developed to control the small sheep, poultry, and ponies of Scotland’s Shetland Islands, the northernmost point of the United Kingdom. Shelties, as they are frequently called, resemble a miniature version of the rough-coated Collie, but it is inaccurate to call

textile: Yarns used in handwork: …used for sweaters and blankets; Shetland yarns, fine, soft, fluffy, and lightweight, frequently two-ply, used for infants’ and children’s sweaters and for shawls; worsted knitting yarn, highly twisted and heavy, differing from worsted fabric by being soft instead of crisp, and suitable for sweaters; and zephyr yarns, either all wool,…

Eduard Shevardnadze was a Georgian politician, who was foreign minister of the Soviet Union (1985–90, 1991) and head of state of Georgia (1992–2003). The son of a Georgian teacher, Shevardnadze became a Komsomol (Young Communist League) member and rose steadily in the hierarchy, becoming first

Eduard Shevardnadze was a Georgian politician, who was foreign minister of the Soviet Union (1985–90, 1991) and head of state of Georgia (1992–2003). The son of a Georgian teacher, Shevardnadze became a Komsomol (Young Communist League) member and rose steadily in the hierarchy, becoming first

Shevaroy Hills, outlying range of the Eastern Ghats, north-central Tamil Nadu state, southern India. The Shevaroy Hills occupy an area of about 150 square miles (390 square km). The highest peaks are in the southwest, reaching 5,231 feet (1,594 metres) at Sanyasimalai (Duff’s Hill) on the Yercaud

Jewish religious year: Months and notable days: …be-Tevet (Fast of Tevet 10) Shevaṭ (January–February) 15 Ṭu bi-Shevaṭ (15th of Shevaṭ: New Year for Trees) Adar (February–March) 13 Taʾanit Esther (Fast of Esther) 14, 15 Purim (Feast of Lots) Nisan (March–April) 15–22 Pesach (Passover)

minyan: …recital of the seven benedictions (shevaʿ berakhot) at a wedding and their repetition on the seven succeeding days require a minyan—with one new member participating each day. During grace after meals, “Our God” is inserted into the introductory invitation when a minyan is present, indicating again that the prayer is…

Ukraine: Cultural institutions: The Shevchenko Scientific Society, established in 1873, was the main Ukrainian scholarly body in western Ukraine until it was forcibly dissolved in 1940, after the Soviet Union occupied the region. It reestablished itself in western Europe and the United States in 1947, and in 1989 the…

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was the foremost Ukrainian poet of the 19th century and a major figure of the Ukrainian national revival. Born a serf, Shevchenko was freed in 1838 while a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. His first collection of poems, entitled Kobzar (1840; “The Bard”),

Isaac ben Solomon Luria: …concepts: tzimtzum (“contraction,” or “withdrawal”), shevirat ha-kelim (“breaking of the vessels”), and tiqqun (“restoration”). God as the Infinite (En Sof) withdraws into himself in order to make room for the creation, which occurs by a beam of light from the Infinite into the newly provided space. Later the divine light…

Mahmud Şevket Paşa was an Ottoman soldier and statesman who, in 1909, suppressed a religious uprising, forced the subsequent deposition of Sultan Abdülhamid II, and served as grand vizier (chief minister) in 1913. Şevket graduated from the Cadet School in Constantinople as a staff captain in 1882.

Shewa, historic kingdom of central Ethiopia. It lies mostly on high plateau country, rising to 13,123 feet (4,000 m) in Mount Ābuyē Mēda. Its modern capital and main commercial centre is Addis Ababa. Shewa is bounded on the northwest by the Blue Nile River and on the southwest by the Omo River; its

shewbread, any of the 12 loaves of bread that stood for the 12 tribes of Israel, presented and shown in the Temple of Jerusalem in the Presence of God. The loaves were a symbolic acknowledgment that God was the resource for Israel’s life and nourishment and also served as Israel’s act of

Shexian, town, southeastern Anhui sheng (province), China. It is a communications centre in the Xin’an River valley, at a point where the natural route from Hangzhou on the coast of Zhejiang province and Shanghai into northern Jiangxi province joins two routes across the Huang Mountains into the

Sheyenne River, river, central North Dakota, U.S. It rises in Sheridan county and flows east past the Spirit Lake Sioux reservation, then south through Valley City, near which Baldhill Dam impounds Lake Ashtabula, and near Lisbon it turns northeast to join the Red River of the North about 10 miles

Islamic arts: Painting: Sulṭān Muḥammad, Sheykhzādeh, Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī, Āqā Mīrak, and Maḥmūd Muṣavvīr continued and modified, each in his own way, the ideal of a balance between an overall composition and precise rendering of details.

Sinan Şeyhi was a poet who was one of the most important figures in early Ottoman literature. Little is known of his life. Besides being a poet, Şeyhi seems to have been a man of great learning and a disciple of the famous Turkish mystic and saint Haci (Hajji) Bayram Veli of Ankara, founder of the

responsa, (“questions and answers”), replies made by rabbinic scholars in answer to submitted questions about Jewish law. These replies began to be written in the 6th century after final redaction of the Talmud and are still being formulated. Estimates of the total number of published responsa,

Aḥa Of Shabḥa: Aḥa’s Sheʾeltot (“Questions,” or “Theses”), published in Venice in 1546, was an attempt to codify and explicate materials contained in the Babylonian Talmud. Written in Aramaic and unique in its organization, the text connects decisions of the Oral Law with those of the Written Law. The…

telecommunications media: SHF-EHF: …to extremely high frequency (SHF-EHF) bands are in the centimetre to millimetre wavelength range, which extends from 3 gigahertz to 300 gigahertz. Typical allocated bandwidths in the SHF band range from 30 megahertz to 300 megahertz—bandwidths that permit high-speed digital communications (up to 1 gigabit per second). In addition…

China: The Zhou feudal system: …ruler’s court as ministers; the shi (roughly translated as “gentlemen”) who served at the households of the feudal lords as stewards, sheriffs, or simply warriors; and, finally, the commoners and enslaved people. The state ruler and the ministers were clearly a superior class, and the commoners and enslaved people were…

Mao Dun: …a trilogy under the title Shi (1930; “Eclipse”), using the pen name Mao Dun, the Chinese term for “contradiction.” The work, dealing with a youth’s involvement in the Northern Expedition, was praised for its brilliant psychological realism. In 1930 he helped found the League of Left-Wing Writers. In the 1930s…

shi, the basic unit of weight in ancient China. The shi was created by Shi Huang Di, who became the first emperor of China in 221 bc and who is celebrated for his unification of regulations fixing the basic units. He fixed the shi at about 60 kg (132 pounds). The modern shi is equivalent to 71.68

Chinese music: Consolidation of earlier trends: …use the five- and seven-syllable-line shi form perfected by Tang writers, which was believed to have been chanted to tunes strictly adhering to the word tones of the Chinese language. The female singers of the teahouses and brothels and the general growth of urban mercantile life inspired the creation of…

An Lushan: An Lushan’s rebellion: …then under Shi Siming’s son, Shi Chaoyi. Finally in 763 it officially came to an end with the defeat and death of Shi Chaoyi. A major role in the defeat of the rebels was played by contingents sent by the Uighurs, who had replaced the Eastern Turks as masters of…

Shi Dakai was one of the leaders of the Taiping Rebellion, the widespread uprising that gripped South China between 1850 and 1864. The most literate of the Taipings, Shi was an avowed enemy of the alien Qing (Manchu) rulers of China. In the early part of the 20th century, he came to be revered as a

Five Dynasties: …when one of its generals, Gaozu (personal name Shi Jingtang), overthrew his master with the aid of the Khitan, a seminomadic people of Inner Asia, and Gaozu established the Hou (Later) Jin dynasty. When Gaozu’s son attempted to halt his tribute payments to the Khitan in 946, they reinvaded North…

Chinese painting: Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) dynasties: …and Ten Kingdoms period by Shi Ke, who was active in Chengdu in the mid-10th century. In his paintings, chiefly of Buddhist and Daoist subjects, he set out in the Chan manner to shock the viewer by distortion and roughness of execution.

Xiongnu: …overthrown by another Xiongnu general, Shi Le, who in 319 had established his own Later Zhao dynasty, which was also short-lived.

China: The chief councillors: Shi Miyuan emerged as the dominant chief councillor. He came from a bureaucratic family background and understood the gentle approach and the importance of accommodating various kinds of bureaucrats in order to achieve a political balance. Promoting on merit and refraining from nepotism, he restored…

Xinyang: …natural route centre on the Shi River, a tributary of the Huai. The Shi has become partially passable for relatively large craft since the construction of the Nanwan Dam, which provides a constant flow of water. To the south the Mingwei Pass (now Pingjing Pass) leads over the Dabie Mountains,…

An Lushan: An Lushan’s rebellion: …then under a former subordinate, Shi Siming, then under Shi Siming’s son, Shi Chaoyi. Finally in 763 it officially came to an end with the defeat and death of Shi Chaoyi. A major role in the defeat of the rebels was played by contingents sent by the Uighurs, who had…

Shi Tingmao is a Chinese diver who dominated in the 3-meter springboard and synchronized 3-meter springboard events at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games and the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Shi won gold medals at two Olympic Games and at multiple FINA (Fédération Internationale de

Shi Tingmao is a Chinese diver who dominated in the 3-meter springboard and synchronized 3-meter springboard events at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games and the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Shi won gold medals at two Olympic Games and at multiple FINA (Fédération Internationale de

Chen Duxiu was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP; 1921) and a major leader in developing the cultural basis of revolution in China. He was removed from his position of leadership in 1927 and was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929. Chen was born to a wealthy family. His father,

Ten Kingdoms, (907–960), period in Chinese history when southern China was ruled by nine small independent kingdoms, with one more small kingdom in the far north. It corresponded generally with the Five Dynasties period, or rule, in the north; and, like the northern period, it was a time of unrest

lokapāla, in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, any of the guardians of the four cardinal directions. They are known in Tibetan as ’jig-rtenskyong, in Chinese as t’ien-wang, and in Japanese as shi-tennō. The Hindu protectors, who ride on elephants, are Indra, who governs the east, Yama the south, Varuṇa

acupressure, alternative-medicine practice in which pressure is applied to points on the body aligned along 12 main meridians (pathways), usually for a short time, to improve the flow of qi (life force). Though often referred to by its Japanese name, shiatsu, it originated in China thousands of

Shiba Inu, breed of dog that originated in Japan some 2,300 years ago for small game and ground bird hunting. A muscular dog, the Shiba Inu is known for its confidence, perkiness, and triangularly set eyes. Its coat is short, plush, and straight, with a stiff outer coat, and may be white mixed with

Shiba Inu, breed of dog that originated in Japan some 2,300 years ago for small game and ground bird hunting. A muscular dog, the Shiba Inu is known for its confidence, perkiness, and triangularly set eyes. Its coat is short, plush, and straight, with a stiff outer coat, and may be white mixed with

Shiba Kōkan was a Japanese artist and scholar of the Tokugawa period who introduced many aspects of Western culture to Japan. He was a pioneer in Western-style oil painting and was the first Japanese to produce a copperplate etching. Kōkan studied painting first with a teacher of the Kanō school,

Shiba Kōkan was a Japanese artist and scholar of the Tokugawa period who introduced many aspects of Western culture to Japan. He was a pioneer in Western-style oil painting and was the first Japanese to produce a copperplate etching. Kōkan studied painting first with a teacher of the Kanō school,

Japan: The establishment of the Muromachi bakufu: …deputies (kanrei) Hosokawa Yoriyuki and Shiba Yoshimasa, gradually overcame the power of the great military governors (shugo) who had been so important in the founding of the new regime. He destroyed the Yamana family in 1391, and, in uniting the Northern and Southern courts, attacked and destroyed the great shugo…

shivah, (Hebrew: “seven”), in Judaism, period of seven days of prescribed mourning that begins immediately after the burial of a parent, a spouse, a child, a brother, or a sister and concludes with sundown on the seventh day. Shivah is not observed on the intervening Sabbath and terminates if a

Afghanistan: Physiographic regions: …strategic importance and include the Shebar Pass, located northwest of Kabul where the Bābā Mountains branch out from the Hindu Kush, and the storied Khyber Pass, which leads to the Indian subcontinent, on the Pakistan border southeast of Kabul. The Badakhshān area in the northeastern part of the central highlands…

Sheberghān, town, northern Afghanistan. Sheberghān is situated 80 miles (130 km) west of Mazār-e Sharīf, along the banks of the Safid River. It is surrounded by irrigated agricultural land, and it lies on a main east-west road through northern Afghanistan. Sheberghān was once the capital of an

Mason City, city, seat (1855) of Cerro Gordo county, northern Iowa, U.S., along the Winnebago River, about 120 miles (195 km) north of Des Moines. The area was inhabited by Winnebago and Sioux peoples when Freemasons arrived to settle the site in 1853; its earlier names were Shibboleth, Masonic

Shebeli River, river in eastern Africa, rising in the Ethiopian Highlands and flowing southeast through the arid Ogaden Plateau. The Shebeli River crosses into Somalia north of Beledweyne (Beletwene) and continues south to Balcad, about 20 miles (32 km) from the Indian Ocean, turning southwest

Arabia, peninsular region, together with offshore islands, located in the extreme southwestern corner of Asia. The Arabian Peninsula is bounded by the Red Sea on the west and southwest, the Gulf of Aden on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south and southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian

Salwa Al Neimi: Shibh al-Jazīrah al-ʿArabiyyah (2012; “The Arabian Peninsula”), Neimi’s second major novel, was semiautobiographical, touching on her own mixed religious background; she had a Christian mother and a Muslim father. In it she expressed her concern for Syria’s future, and she alluded to the oppressive regime…

Sinai Peninsula, triangular peninsula linking Africa with Asia and occupying an area of 23,500 square miles (61,000 square km). The Sinai Desert, as the peninsula’s arid expanse is called, is separated by the Gulf of Suez and the Suez Canal from the Eastern Desert of Egypt, but it continues

Shibīn al-Kawm, capital of Al-Minūfiyyah muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Lower Egypt. It lies 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Cairo in the southern Nile River delta. Its centre, 10 miles (16 km) east of the Rosetta Branch of the Nile, is situated on the west side of the Shibīn Canal, which flows north from

China: Foreign relations: …special maritime trade supervisorates (shibosi, often called trading-ship offices) at three key ports on the southeast and south coasts: Ningbo in Zhejiang for Japanese contacts, Quanzhou in Fujian for contacts with Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, and Guangzhou (Canton) in Guangdong for contacts with Southeast Asia. The frontier and…

Chinese music: Thriving of foreign styles: …the 10 performing divisions, or shibu ji. Of these divisions, one represented instrumentalists from Samarkand, whereas another group came from farther west in Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan). Kashgar, at the mountain pass between the east and the west, sent yet a different group. Musical ensembles were also presented to the…

Li Chunfeng: …edition traditionally referred to as Shibu suanjing (“Ten Mathematical Canons”) was submitted for formal approval to the emperor in 656. Later Li prepared a new calendar, the Linde calendar, which was promulgated in 665 and used until 728. Because of his reputation as a skillful astrologer, some works on divination…

Japan: Aesthetics: …in the Japanese concept of shibui (literally, “astringent”), or refined understatement in all manner of artistic representation. Closely related are the twin ideals of cultivated simplicity and poverty (wabi) and of the celebration of that which is old and faded (sabi). Underlying all three is the notion of life’s transitory…

Sakai Toshihiko was a socialist leader and one of the founders of the Japan Communist Party. Originally a schoolteacher, Sakai became a reporter and in 1903, together with Kōtoku Shūsui, started a weekly paper, the Heimin shimbun (“Peoples News”). Arrested for the espousal of pacifist beliefs

Shishaku Shibusawa Eiichi: His Shibusawa Company became one of the largest of the zaibatsu (financial cartels) in the country, helping establish the close relations between government and business.

Shishaku Shibusawa Eiichi was a Japanese government official who helped establish the reforms that put Japan on a firm financial footing in the Meiji period (1868–1912). His Shibusawa Company became one of the largest of the zaibatsu (financial cartels) in the country, helping establish the close

Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area: Centre and satellites: …of its popularity among teenagers—is Shibuya, to the south; and third is Ikebukuro, to the north. All three lie along the western arc of the Yamanote Line, the railway that circles much of the main part of the city. They bespeak the general tendency of the city to move westward.

Shichi-fuku-jin, (Japanese: “Seven Gods of Luck”), group of seven popular Japanese deities, all of whom are associated with good fortune and happiness. The seven are drawn from various sources but have been grouped together from at least the 16th century. They are Bishamon, Daikoku, Ebisu,

Shichi-go-san, (Japanese: “Seven-Five-Three”), one of the most important festivals for Japanese children, observed annually on November 15. On this date girls of three and seven years of age and boys of five years of age are taken by their parents to the Shintō shrine of their tutelary deity to

Seven Samurai, Japanese action film, released in 1954, that was cowritten and directed by Kurosawa Akira and is acclaimed as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. Seven Samurai is set at the end of the 16th century and centres on an impoverished Japanese village that is at the

Komparu Zenchiku was a nō actor and playwright who also wrote critical works on drama. Zenchiku, who married a daughter of the actor Zeami Motokiyo, was trained in drama by Zeami and Zeami’s son Motomasa. Zenchiku worked and performed in the Nara region and perhaps, therefore, was not as successful

Appalachian Mountains: Physiography: …in the northern area, the Shickshocks (French: Chic-Chocs) and the Notre Dame ranges in Quebec; the Long Range on the island of Newfoundland; the great monadnock (isolated hill of bedrock) of Mount Katahdin in Maine; the White Mountains of New Hampshire;

wenrenhua, ideal form of the Chinese scholar-painter who was more interested in personal erudition and expression than in literal representation or an immediately attractive surface beauty. First formulated in the Northern Song period (960–1127)—at which time it was called shidafuhua—by the

Karachi: People of Karachi: …ancestry, called “Makranis” and “Sheedis,” whose ancestors were taken from Africa to Karachi in the Indian slave trade.

Shidehara Kijūrō was a Japanese diplomat, statesman, and prime minister for a brief period after World War II (1945–46). He was so closely identified with the peaceful foreign policy followed by Japan in the 1920s that this policy is usually referred to as Shidehara diplomacy. Shidehara entered the

Shidehara Kijūrō was a Japanese diplomat, statesman, and prime minister for a brief period after World War II (1945–46). He was so closely identified with the peaceful foreign policy followed by Japan in the 1920s that this policy is usually referred to as Shidehara diplomacy. Shidehara entered the

Arabic literature: The novel: …purpose of earlier examples, but Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’s Al-Sāq ʿalā al-sāq fī mā huwa al-Fāryāq (1855; title translatable as “One Leg over Another [or The Pigeon on the Tree Branch], Concerning al-Fāryāq [Fāris al-Shidyāq]”), which contains a set of maqāmāt, looks to the future in its use of the autobiographical…

gin: Netherlands gins, known as Hollands, geneva, genever, or Schiedam, for a distilling centre near Rotterdam, are made from a mash containing barley malt, fermented to make beer. The beer is distilled, producing spirits called malt wine, with 50–55 percent alcohol content by volume. This product is distilled again with…

Loch Shiel, narrow lake, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland. About 17 miles (28 km) long, it extends ribbonlike from Glenfinnan southwestward and drains into the 3-mile- (5-km-) long River Shiel, which empties into Loch Moidart, a sea loch. The upper reaches of Loch Shiel, toward Glenfinnan,

continental shield, any of the large stable areas of low relief in the Earth’s crust that are composed of Precambrian crystalline rocks. The age of these rocks is in all cases greater than 540 million years, and radiometric age dating has revealed some that are as old as 2 to 3 billion years.

basketry: Uses: …of the Gilbert Islands); and shields, for which basketry is eminently suitable because of its lightness. In addition to clothes themselves, there are numerous basketry accessories: small purses, combs, headdresses, necklaces, bracelets, and anklets. In West Africa there are even chains made of fine links and pendants plaited in a…

heraldry: The shield: The shield is the essential part of an armorial achievement; without it there can be no full heraldic display, except for those of ladies and some senior churchmen, distinctions that call for special treatment. The word shield can be used to describe the coat…

shield fern, any of about 250 species of the fern genus Dryopteris, in the family Dryopteridaceae, with worldwide distribution. Shield ferns are medium-sized woodland plants with bright green, leathery leaves that are several times divided. They have numerous round spore clusters (sori) attached

Dryopteridaceae, the shield fern family, containing 40–50 genera and about 1,700 species, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants). Dryopteridaceae are distributed nearly worldwide but are most diverse in temperate regions and in mountainous areas in the tropics. Most species are

shield law, in the United States, any law that protects journalists against the compelled disclosure of confidential information, including the identities of their sources, or the forced surrender of unpublished written material collected during news gathering, such as notes. There are two main

scutage, (scutage from Latin scutum, “shield”), in feudal law, payment made by a knight to commute the military service that he owed his lord. A lord might accept from his vassal a sum of money (or something else of value, often a horse) in lieu of service on some expedition. The system was

nasturtium: Other species: Shield nasturtium (T. peltophorum) is a climbing plant with orange-red flowers about 2.5 cm (1 inch) long. Canary creeper (T. peregrinum) is a climbing plant with frilly pale yellow flowers.

coat of arms, the principal part of a system of hereditary symbols dating back to early medieval Europe, used primarily to establish identity in battle. Arms evolved to denote family descent, adoption, alliance, property ownership, and, eventually, profession. The origin of the term coat of arms is

Antonio Benítez Rojo: …short-story prize with his volume El escudo de hojas secas (“The Shield of Dry Leaves”).

Mishima Yukio: …of about 80 students, the Tate no Kai (Shield Society), with the aim of preserving the Japanese martial spirit and helping to protect the emperor (the symbol of Japanese culture) in case of an uprising by the left or a communist attack.

volcano: Shield volcanoes: Structures of this type are large dome-shaped mountains built of lava flows. Their name derives from their similarity in shape to a warrior’s shield lying face up. Shield volcanoes are usually composed of basalt. Small shield volcanoes may form rapidly from almost continuous…

continental shield, any of the large stable areas of low relief in the Earth’s crust that are composed of Precambrian crystalline rocks. The age of these rocks is in all cases greater than 540 million years, and radiometric age dating has revealed some that are as old as 2 to 3 billion years.

Forest Whitaker: …member (2006–07) on the show The Shield and starred in the short-lived series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011). Whitaker was praised for his portrayal of White House butler Cecil Gaines in the film Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), and he later played Colonel Weber in the science fiction movie Arrival…

tunneling shield, machine for driving tunnels in soft ground, especially under rivers or in water-bearing strata. The problem of tunneling under a river had defied the engineering imagination for centuries because of the difficulty of preventing mud and water from seeping in and collapsing the

shield-backed katydid, (subfamily Tettigoniinae), any of a group of insects (family Tettigoniidae, order Orthoptera) that are cricketlike in appearance and are named for the enlarged pronotum (dorsal surface of the prothorax), which typically extends to the abdomen. Most shield-backed katydids are

telecommunications media: Multipair cable: …a balanced circuit, called a shielded pair, that benefits from greatly reduced radiation losses and immunity to cross talk interference.

chemical bonding: Lithium through neon: …is referred to as the shielding of the nuclear charge. Next, it is necessary to note that a 2s electron can penetrate through the core (that is, have nonzero probability of being found closer to the nucleus than the bulk of the core electron density). If penetration occurs, the electron…

nuclear reactor: Shielding: An operating reactor is a powerful source of radiation, since fission and subsequent radioactive decay produce neutrons and gamma rays, both of which are highly penetrating radiations. A reactor must have specifically designed shielding around it to absorb and reflect this radiation in order…

Calvin Klein: …advertisements featured the teenaged actress Brooke Shields modeling a pair of blue jeans and proclaiming that “nothing comes between me and my Calvins.” Klein’s underwear advertising—with photographs by Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber and models such as actor Mark Wahlberg—helped position men as sex objects. Other controversial ad campaigns included…

Carol Shields was an American-born Canadian author whose work explores the lives of ordinary people. Her masterpiece, The Stone Diaries (1993), won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Shields grew up in the United States and in 1957 graduated from Hanover College in Indiana. That same year she married and

Mark Shields was an American political columnist and television commentator best known as a pundit on the Cable News Network (CNN) political debate show Capital Gang, which aired from 1988 to 2005, and on The NewsHour, a nightly news program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Shields

And Then There Were None: Cast:

Bay Saint Louis, city, seat (1860) of Hancock county, southern Mississippi, U.S. It lies along Mississippi Sound (an embayment of the Gulf of Mexico) at the entrance to St. Louis Bay, 58 miles (93 km) northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. The site was part of a 1789 Spanish land grant to Thomas

shieldtail snake, (family Uropeltidae), any of 45 species of primitive burrowing snakes endemic to southern India and Sri Lanka. There are eight genera of shieldtail snakes. Of the 30 Indian species, 18 are members of the genus Uropeltis, and of the 15 species found in Sri Lanka, 8 are members of

Robert Shiels was a Scottish poet and editor. Moving to London, where he was a printer, Shiels was employed by Samuel Johnson as an amanuensis on the Dictionary of the English Language. When this work was completed, Shiels, with others, began the compilation of a five-volume The Lives of the Poets

Sir Keith Macpherson Smith and Sir Ross Macpherson Smith: Shiers, as mechanics. They landed at Darwin, Northern Territory, on December 10. Afterward, the brothers were knighted and received a £10,000 prize.

Mikaela Shiffrin is an American Alpine skier who is one of the sport’s dominating athletes. She is a five-time World Cup overall champion (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023), and in 2023 she surpassed Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark’s record of 86 World Cup victories. In addition, Shiffrin has won