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saint
Holy person. In the New Testament, St. Paul used the term to mean a member of the Christian community, but the term more commonly refers to those noted for their holiness and venerated during their lifetimes or after death. In Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, saints are publicly recognized by the church and are considered intercessors with God for the living. They are honored on special feast days, and their remains and personal effects are venerated as relics. Often Christian saints perform miracles in their lifetime, or miracles occur in their names after their death. In Islam, wali ("friend of God") is often translated as saint; in Buddhism, arhats and bodhisattvas are roughly equivalent to saints. Hindu sadhus are somewhat similar. See also canonization.
San
Burmese political leader of the anti). A Buddhist monk, physician, and astrologer in Siam and Burma, he joined an extreme nationalist group dedicated to organizing peasant discontent. Claiming the throne of Burma, he had himself crowned in 1930 and initiated an anti-British revolt in the Tharrawaddy district. The rebels, armed only with spears and swords and charms to make them invulnerable to bullets, were defeated by British troops with machine guns by 1932, and Saya San was hanged. The revolt exposed the precarious and unpopular position of the British in Burma.
Group of peoples now living mainly in and around the Kalahari region of S Africa. San languages belong to the Khoisan family. Two well-known San groups are the !Kung (Ju/'Hoansi) and the G/wi. Traditional San society centers on the nomadic band of related families. San shelters are semicircular structures of branches, twigs, and grass; their equipment is portable, their possessions few and light. They have traditionally hunted using bows and snares, and gathered wild vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Numbering about 50,000, most have been restricted, because of historical and political factors, to harsh, semiarid areas, and work for wages on European farms or serve other Africans, notably the Tswana.
Sanaa
City (pop., 1995 est.: 972,000), capital of Yemen. Located in the W part of the country, it was built on the site of the ancient pre-Islamic stronghold of Ghumdan, traditionally dated to the 1st cent. AD. It was converted to Islam in 632. Nominally under Ottoman sovereignty from 1516, it was effectively controlled by the Zaydi imams from the early 17th cent. to 1872. It became the capital of an independent Yemen after the Ottoman defeat in World War I. In 1990, after Yemen's merger with the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, it became the capital of the unified nation. For many centuries it has been the chief economic, political, and religious center of the Yemen highlands.
sauna
Bath in steam from water thrown on heated stones. Known in ancient times in various places, saunas are most closely identified with the Finnish people, who ...
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