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Saarinen, Eliel

Saarland, Germany

Sabah, Malaysia

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Saber-Tooth Tiger

Sabin, Albert Bruce

Sable

Sachs, Nelly Leonie

Sadat, Anwar al-

Saguaro Cactus

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Saint Augustine, Florida

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Saint Helena

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Saint Louis World's Fair

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Salamandra salamandra

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Salter, Susanna Madora

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Samoa, Independent State of

Sampson, William Thomas

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Sanger, Margaret

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King Saud of Saudi Arabia

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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

SS Savannah

Savannah, Georgia

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Sayers, Gale Eugene

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Scaup, Lesser

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Schick Test

Schley, Winfield Scott

Schurz, Carl

Schweitzer, Albert

Scientific Method
--Galileo Galilei

Scopes Monkey Trial
--Clarence Seward Darrow

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--Surf
--White-Winged

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Scott, Walter

Scott, Winfield

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Sea Turtle, Leatherback

Seattle World's Fair, 1909

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Securities and Exchange Commission

Sedgwick, John

Seed Drill
--Jethro Tull

Seeds

Segovia, Andrés

Selfridge, Thomas Ethelon

Semiconductors
--Jagadish Chandra Bose

Seneca Falls Convention

Senefelder, Aloys

Sepoy Rebellion

Serbia

Serow, Japanese

Sesquicentennial International Exposition

Setophaga ruticilla

Set'tainte

Settlement House Movement
--Laura Jane Addams

Seurat, Georges

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Sevier, John

Seward, William Henry

Sewing Machine
--Elias Howe

Sharett, Moshe

Shark,
--Bramble
--Leopard
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--Whale

Sharon, Ariel

Shays' Rebellion

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Sheldon, Charles Monroe

Sheridan, Philip Henry

Sherman, Roger

Sherman, William Tecumseh

Shoveler,
--Australasian
--Northern

Shredded Wheat
--Henry Drushel Perky

Shreve, Henry Miller

Signal Corps, United States Army

Signoret, Simone

Sika Deer

Sikorsky, Igor

Silicon

Silistra, Bulgaria

Silver

Silvery Checkerspot

Simpson, Jeremiah

Sinclair, Harry Ford

Singleton, Benjamin

Sitta canadensis

Sitting Bull

Skelton, Red

Skink, Great Plains

Skylab Space Station

Slater, Samuel

Slide Rule

Slovakia

Smallpox
--Edward Jenner

Smell

Smetana, Bedrich

Smilodon

Smith, Alfred Emanuel

Smith, Dean Edwards

Smith, John

Smithsonian Institution

Smokey Bear

Smoky Hill River

Snail Kite

Snakes

SNDT Women's University
--Dondo Keshav Karve

Snow Goose

Socialist Party of America
--Eugene Victor Debs

Soda Water
--Joseph Priestley

Solidarity Union
--Lech Walesa

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Somateria
--
fischeri
--
spectabilis

Soo Locks

Sooty Shearwater

Sorin, Edward
--University of Notre Dame

Soto, Hernando de

Sousa, John Philip

South Arabia

South Carolina

South Pole
--Richard Evelyn Byrd

Southampton Slave Revolt

Southern Christian Leadership Conference
--Ralph David Abernathy

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Soviet Union

Spain

SPAM

Spanish-American War

Sparrow, Lincoln's

Spectacled Eider

Spector, (Harvey) Phillip

Spectroscope
--Joseph Fraunhofer

Speke, John Hanning

Sphinx Moths

Spider Crab, Japanese

Spider Monkey, Central American

Spiders

Spielberg, Steven Allan

Spill, Daniel

Spinning Jenny

Spiro Mounds

Spitz, Mark Andrew

Sponges

Spoonbill, Northern

Spotted Garden Eel

Spotted Hyena

Sprig

Sprint Corporation

Spruce Goose

Stamp Act

Standardbred Horse

Standish, Myles

Stanford, Leland

Stanford University
--Leland Stanford

Stanley, Henry
--David Livingstone

Stanton, Edwin McMasters

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Stark, John

Starland Vocal Band

The Star-Spangled Banner

State, United States Department of

Static Electricity
--Otto von Guericke

Statue of Liberty

Steam Engine
--Charles Algernon Parsons
--Denis Papin
--James Watt
--John Stevens
--Newcomen Steam Engine
--Oliver Evans
--William Murdock

Steam Ship
--Charles Algernon Parsons
--John Fitch
--John Stevens
--Robert Fulton
--SS Savannah

Steam Turbine
--Charles Algernon Parsons

Steinhardt, Robert Eugene

Steller Sea Lion

Steller's Eider

Stems

Stephenson, George

Sterne, Nicolas Adolphus

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus von

Stevens, John

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stingray, Orangespot Freshwater

Stone, Harlan Fiske

Stone, Lucy

Stone, Milburn

Stork, European White

Stover, Russell

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Strauss, Joseph Baermann

Streptomycin
--Selman Waksman

Stroud, Robert

Strowger, Almon

Stuart, Gilbert Charles

Sturnella neglecta

Submarine
--John Philip Holland
--Robert Fulton

Suez Canal

Sulfur

Sulfuric Ether
--Crawford Williamson Long
--William T.G. Morton

Sullivan, Arthur Seymour
--Gilbert and Sullivan

Sullivan, John

Sumner, Charles

Sundial

Sunflowers

Sunstar, Purple

Supreme Court of the United States

Surf Scoter

Surinam Toad

Surtsey Island

Surveyor Program

Sutter, John
--California Gold Rush

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Swainson's Hawk

Swan,
--Mute
--Trumpeter
--Tundra
--Whistling

Swansea, Wales

Swayze, John Cameron

Sweden

Sweet Potato

Swift, Gustavus Franklin

Switzer, Veryl

Switzerland