Secret Speech. 1956. Khrushchev call for destalinization in USSR leads to Hungarian, Polish uprisings.

Secularism. Humanism. Movement toward “this-worldliness”.

Security Council. UN executive. USA, USSR, China, France, UK, + 10 non-permanent.

Sedan, Battle. 1870. Napoleon III surrenders to Germans. Ends second French Empire.

Seeckt, Hans von. 1866-1936. German general. Secretly rebuilt army after WWI.

Sezession. Groups of artists who seceded from academies in Munich 1892, Vienna 1897, Berlin 1999.

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

Shen Nung. c2800BC. Legendary second Chinese Emperor.

Shere Ali. 1825-79. Emir of Afghanistan. Defeated in Second Afghan War.

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

Shiloh, Battle. 1862. Second American Civil War battle. No clear victor.

Shinran. 1173-1262. Japanese Buddhist. Founded True Pure Land sect.

Six Articles, Statute. 1539-1547. Henry VIII’s statement of Church of England doctrine. Persecuted both adamant Catholics and Protestants.

Social Security. First in Germany: 1883-89. UK 1911; Canada 1927; US 1935-66. Poor Laws. National Insurance.

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

Sparta. 9C BC-396. A dominant Greek city-state 6-4C BC. Peloponnesian War defeated rival Athens. 396 Visigoths destroy.

Spiritualists, Greater World. 1931. Christian sect communicating with the dead.

St Laurent, Louis. 1882-1973 Canadian Liberal Prime Minister 1948-57. St Lawrence Seaway. Old Age Security.

Stair, First earl. 1648-1707. Scottish under-secretary of state to William III. Approved Glencoe Massacre.

Stasi.1949-1990. East German secret police affiliated with KGB.

Stolypin, Pyotr. 1862-1911. Russian Prime Minister 1906-. Used secret police to control revolutionaries. Moderate reforms.

Strang, James. 1813-56. Founded dissident Mormon Strangite sect.

Sunni. Majority orthodox Moslem sect who follow Sunnah, traditional legal, social practices. Shi’ite.

Syracuse, Battle. 480BC Carthage repelled. 415-413BC Critical Athenian defeat in Peloponnesian War. 396, 392 Carthage defeated. 382-75 Defeated by Carthage. 214-211 BC Rome conquers, sacks city.

Targowica, Confederation. 1792. Conservative Poles begin war. Second partition 1793.

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