High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sauk Village is a village in Cook County and small parcel south of 231st St. in Will County, Illinois. The population was 10,411 at the 2000 census.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear reservation in the United States in the state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River, 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Augusta, Georgia. The site was built during the 1950s to refine nuclear materials for deployment in nuclear weapons. It covers 310 square miles (800 km2) and employs more than 10,000 people.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Saxon Shore (Latin: litus Saxonicum) was a military command of the late Roman Empire, consisting of a series of fortifications on both sides of the English channel. It was established in the late 3rd century and was led by the "Count of the Saxon Shore". In the late 4th century, his functions were limited to Britain, while the fortifications in Gaul were established as separate commands. Several Saxon Shore forts survive still in east and south-east England.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SC-21 (Surface Combatant for the 21st century) was a program started in 1994 to design land attack ships for the United States Navy. A wide variety of designs were examined, including an arsenal ship with 500 cruise missiles, but eventually a "tumblehome" design of around 16,000 tons with two long-range guns and 128 missile tubes was selected as the DD-21, the Destroyer for the 21st century. However the program was cancelled in November 2001, with a cheaper version of the DD-21 emerging as the DD(X) or Zumwalt class destroyer. It was envisaged that the DD-21 hull would be used for a future air defense cruiser (CG-21), which evolved into the CG(X) program.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scalloway Castle was built from 1599 by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney to tighten his grip on Shetland, Scotland. Its site in Shetland`s then capital, Scalloway, was surrounded by the sea on three sides.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scamilli impares (unequal steps, Fr. escabeaux inegales; Ger. Schutzstege), in architecture, is a term quoted by Vitruvius when referring to the rise given to the stylobate in the centre of the front and sides of a Greek temple.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scanning Joule Expansion Microscopy is a form of scanning probe microscopy heavily based on atomic force microscopy that maps the temperature distribution along a surface. Resolutions down to 10 nm have been achieved and 1 nm resolution is theoretically possible. Thermal measurements at the nanometer scale are of both academic and industrial interest, particularly in regards to nanomaterials and modern integrated circuits.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scarabeo 8 is an ultra deepwater 6th generation semi-submersible drilling rig. It is owned and operated by Saipem. The vessel is registered in Nassau, Bahamas.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scarabeo 9 is a Frigstad D90-type ultra deepwater 6th generation semi-submersible drilling rig. It is owned and operated by Saipem. It was named by Anna Tatka, the wife of Pietro Franco Tali, CEO of Saipem. The vessel is registered in Nassau, Bahamas.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scarborough Town Football Club are an English football club from Scarborough, North Yorkshire. They formed in 2008 following the demise of Scarborough F.C. in 2007, and won two successive championships (Teesside League Division Two and Wearside League) to earn promotion to the Northern Counties East League Division One. However, issues with planning permission caused the NCEL to annul their membership and so the club did not play during the 2010–11 season. They were accepted into the Humber Premier League Division One for the 2011–12 season and won the title at their first attempt, also adding the League Cup and becoming the first Division One side ever to achieve this feat.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schaumburg Flyers were a professional baseball team based in Schaumburg, Illinois, in the United States. The Flyers were to be a charter member of the North American League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, however, the team folded in March 2011, before they began play in the NAL. From the 1999 season to the 2010 season, the Flyers played their home games at Alexian Field, near the Elgin O`Hare Expressway. The team formerly played in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where they were known as the Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks. The team was originally a member of the Northern League from 1993 to 2010.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Schiphol railway station is a major passenger railway station in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. It is located directly beneath the terminal complex of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and is operated by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The station`s six platforms are accessible via twelve escalators and three elevators located in the main concourse of the airport (Schiphol Plaza). The original station was opened in 1978, and the current station was opened in 1995. It connects the airport to Amsterdam and to various others cities in the Netherlands, as well as to Belgium, Germany and France.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Schofields is a station on the Richmond branch of CityRail`s Western Line. It serves the small town of Schofields as well as the outer Sydney suburbs of Rouse Hill, Marsden Park and Kellyville. The station is wheelchair accessible via lifts.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Use of the early medieval Irish ogham alphabet is largely divided between "monumental" epigraphy and "scholastic" use in, or influenced by, manuscript tradition,
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schottky diode (named after German physicist Walter H. Schottky; also known as hot carrier diode) is a semiconductor diode with a low forward voltage drop and a very fast switching action. The cat`s-whisker detectors used in the early days of wireless can be considered primitive Schottky diodes.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Schulz Canal is an artificial waterway in Nundah, Queensland that enters Moreton Bay. There are tributaries that enter the short canal, draining the suburbs of Hendra and Wooloowin in Brisbane`s north east.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schwandbach Bridge is a deck-stiffened reinforced concrete arch bridge near Berne in Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart and completed in 1933.