Scientology. 1955-. Religious/scientific movement founded by Hubbard.

Scott, Walter. 1771-1832. Prolific Scottish Romantic historical novelist. Lady of the Lake 1810; Waverley 1814; Ivanhoe 1819.

Selim I. 1470-1520. Ottoman sultan 1512-. Conquered Egypt, Syria, part of Persia.

Selim III. 1761-1808. Ottoman sultan 1789-1807. Reformed, westernized. Overthrown, murdered.

Semite. Descended of Shem, Noah’s eldest son. Assyrians, Phoenicians, Israelites, Babylonians. Now: Jews, Arabs of S.W. Asia.

Seven Hills of Rome. Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine.

Shakers. 1747-. English celibate communal Quaker sect. 1774 moved to US.

Shamanism. Ancestral religion in Asia, N America. Shamans heal sick, talk to gods.

Sherwood, Robert. 1896-1955. US dramatist. Idiot’s Delight 1936.

Shi’ite. Major Moslem sect believing in Mahdi at the millenium. Official religion of Iran. Sunni. Fatimid. Assassin. Druze. Ali.

Shinto. Japanese state religion 1769-. All things are holy. Ancestor worship.

Sibelius, Jan. 1865-1957. Finnish composer. Finlandia. Symphonies and tone poems evoke feeling of North. Kulervo Symphony 1892.

Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 1846-1916. Polish novelist: Slowo Trilogy 1883-88. Quo Vadis 1896.

Sikhism. NW India monotheistic religion. Meditation exercises to realize God. Nanak.

Sikorsky, Igor. 1889-1972. Ukrainian/US. Invented helicopter, 1939.

Sillitoe, Alan. 1928-. English writer of working class life. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1959.

Sinai Campaign. 1956. Israeli preemptory attack takes Sinai. UN peacekeeping force in Gaza.

Sinclair, Upton. 1878-1968. US novelist, Muckraker. Jungle 1906.

Singer, Isaac. 1811-75. US sewing machine improver 1851. Howe.

Slavophile. 19C Russian intellectual movement. Believed in superiority of Russian culture.

Smollett, Tobias. 1721-71. Scottish humorous novelist. Peregrine Pickle 1751.

Socinianism. 1550-19C Unitarian-like religious sect. Christ divine by function, not nature. 1658 Poland.

Socinus, Laelius. 1525-62. Italian founder of Socinianism.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. 1918-2008. Russian novelist. Expelled 1974. Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1962. Gulag Archipelago 1973.

Spallanzani, Lazzaro. 1729-99. Ended the belief in spontaneous generation of life. Artificial insemination 1780.

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