Xia Yan was a Chinese writer, journalist, and playwright known for his leftist plays and films. Xia was sent to study in Japan in 1920, and, after his forced return to China in 1927, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. In 1929 he founded the Shanghai Art Theatre, was the first to call for a

Shen Kuo was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and high official whose famous work Mengxi bitan (“Brush Talks from Dream Brook” [Dream Brook was the name of his estate in Jingkou]) contains the first reference to the magnetic compass, the first description of movable type, and a fairly accurate

Shen Kuo was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and high official whose famous work Mengxi bitan (“Brush Talks from Dream Brook” [Dream Brook was the name of his estate in Jingkou]) contains the first reference to the magnetic compass, the first description of movable type, and a fairly accurate

Shen Kuo was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and high official whose famous work Mengxi bitan (“Brush Talks from Dream Brook” [Dream Brook was the name of his estate in Jingkou]) contains the first reference to the magnetic compass, the first description of movable type, and a fairly accurate

Shennong, in Chinese mythology, second of the mythical emperors, said to have been born in the 28th century bce with the head of a bull and the body of a man. By inventing the cart and plow, by taming the ox and yoking the horse, and by teaching his people to clear the land with fire, Shennong

Shen Congwen was an author of fiction and prose who is commonly considered the greatest lyric novelist in modern China. Shen was a member of the Miao ethnic minority. At age 16 he joined a regiment in Yuanling, where he spent the next few years adding to his scanty education and observing the

Shenzong was the temple name (miaohao) of the sixth emperor (reigned 1067–85) of the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China. During his reign some of the greatest intellectual and cultural figures of the era flourished, among them Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo. Under the Shenzong emperor, the radical reformer

Xia Yan was a Chinese writer, journalist, and playwright known for his leftist plays and films. Xia was sent to study in Japan in 1920, and, after his forced return to China in 1927, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. In 1929 he founded the Shanghai Art Theatre, was the first to call for a

Olympic Games: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2010: China’s Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo took first place in pairs to give the country its first gold in figure skating. Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir surprisingly triumphed in the ice dancing event, becoming not only the first non-Europeans to win the Olympic ice dancing…

Mao Dun was a Chinese literary critic and author, generally considered republican China’s greatest realist novelist. Forced to interrupt his schooling in 1916 because he ran out of money, Shen Yanbing became a proofreader at the Commercial Press in Shanghai, the most important publishing house of

Chinese literature: Prose: …romances were Han Yu’s pupil Shen Yazhi and Bai Xingjian, younger brother of the poet Bai Juyi. These prose romances, generally short, were written in the classical prose style for the amusement of the literati and did not reach the masses until some of the popular ones were adapted by…

Nanjing: The early empires: …and the invention (reportedly by Shen Yue, a 6th-century courtier) of the system of determining the four tones of the Chinese language. In philosophy, the so-called qingtan (“pure discourse”) movement, spiritually akin to a form of Daoism, found many adherents who held themselves aloof from politics. Hundreds of Buddhist temples…

Shen Congwen was an author of fiction and prose who is commonly considered the greatest lyric novelist in modern China. Shen was a member of the Miao ethnic minority. At age 16 he joined a regiment in Yuanling, where he spent the next few years adding to his scanty education and observing the

Shen Yun, dance performance group that is based in New York and associated with the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa). The group is known for its strongly anti-communist beliefs and describes itself as an organization that seeks to revive traditional Chinese

Shen Yun, dance performance group that is based in New York and associated with the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa). The group is known for its strongly anti-communist beliefs and describes itself as an organization that seeks to revive traditional Chinese

Shen Zhou was a Chinese artist who was a leading member of a group of scholar-artists later known as the Wu school (after Wu district). Shen was born to an honoured and secure family and enjoyed a long life involved in the learned arts of poetry, painting, and calligraphy. His many paintings reveal

Shenzhen, city, south-central Guangdong sheng (province), southeastern China. It lies along the coast of the South China Sea and immediately north of Hong Kong. In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong. That

Shaanxi, sheng (province) of north-central China. It is bordered by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north, Shanxi province to the east, Henan and Hubei provinces to the southeast, Chongqing municipality and Sichuan province to the south, Gansu province to the west, and the Hui

Shenyang, capital of Liaoning sheng (province), China, and the largest city in the Northeast (formerly Manchuria). It is one of China’s greatest industrial centres. Shenyang is situated in the southern portion of the vast Northeast (Manchurian) Plain just north of the Hun River, a major tributary

William Mitchell: …loss of the navy dirigible Shenandoah in a storm inspired him to publicly accuse the War and Navy departments of “incompetency, criminal negligence, and almost treasonable administration of the national defense.” He was, as he expected, immediately court-martialed, and, after he made the trial a platform for his views, he…

Bronson Howard: …a satire on business, and Shenandoah (1889), which established Charles Frohman as a producer and made a fortune for both producer and author, were also great successes. Howard’s other plays include The Banker’s Daughter (1878), first produced in 1873 as Lillian’s Last Love; Wives (1879); Young Mrs. Winthrop (1882); and…

Shenandoah National Park, preserve of 311 square miles (805 square km) in the Blue Ridge section of the Appalachian Mountains, in northern Virginia, U.S. The park was authorized in 1926 and established in 1935. The park is noted for its scenery, which affords some of the most spectacular panoramic

Shenandoah Valley, part of the Great Appalachian Valley, chiefly in Virginia, U.S. It extends southwestward from the vicinity of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, on the Potomac River and lies between the Blue Ridge to the east and the Allegheny Mountains to the west. Drained by the Shenandoah River,

Shenandoah Valley campaigns, (July 1861–March 1865), in the American Civil War, important military campaigns in a four-year struggle for control of the strategic Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, running roughly north and south between the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains. The South used the

Shenandoah Valley: The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, which opened in 2005, highlights the region’s art, culture, and history. Located in Winchester, Virginia, it is part of a complex that also features gardens and a historic house.

Shaanxi: Resources and power: …the Wei valley, and at Shenfu, near Shenmu and Fugu in the northern part of the province. There are minor coal and oil-shale deposits in the Han basin in the south, where there are also iron-ore deposits. In the north, near the border with Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia, large…

China: …country is the province, or sheng (“secretariat”). The provinces are traceable in their current form to the Tang dynasty (618–907 ce). Over the centuries, provinces gained in importance as centers of political and economic authority and increasingly became the focus of regional identification and loyalty. Provincial power reached its peak…

sheng, Chinese free reed wind instrument consisting of usually 17 bamboo pipes set in a small wind-chest into which a musician blows through a mouthpiece. Each pipe has a free reed, made of metal (or formerly of bamboo or reed), that vibrates to produce sound when a finger hole on the pipe is

Sheng Xuanhuai was a Chinese government official and entrepreneur in the last years of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12), responsible for much of China’s early industrialization. His efforts to nationalize the railroad lines in 1911 touched off the crisis that eventually overthrew the dynasty. In

Chinese zodiac, annual classification system in Chinese culture following the Chinese lunar calendar yingyang li (literally, “heaven-earth”) in which each year in a 12-year cycle is assigned an animal and each animal is associated with a personality that typifies the year and those born during that

Sheng Xuanhuai was a Chinese government official and entrepreneur in the last years of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12), responsible for much of China’s early industrialization. His efforts to nationalize the railroad lines in 1911 touched off the crisis that eventually overthrew the dynasty. In

Liaoning, sheng (province) in the Northeast region of China (formerly called Manchuria). It is bounded to the northeast by the province of Jilin, to the east by North Korea, to the south by the Yellow Sea, to the southwest by the province of Hebei, and to the northwest by the Inner Mongolia

Victory Peak, mountain in the eastern Kakshaal (Kokshaal-Tau) Range of the Tien Shan, on the frontier of Kyrgyzstan and China. It was first identified in 1943 as the tallest peak (24,406 feet [7,439 metres]) in the Tien Shan range and the second highest peak in what was then the Soviet Union; it is

Shengli oil field, oil field in Shandong province, China, one of the country’s major sources of petroleum. Consisting of about 40 small fields, it is located southeast of Beijing, near the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli) and south of the mouth of the Huang He (Yellow River). Teams, brought in from the

Victory Peak, mountain in the eastern Kakshaal (Kokshaal-Tau) Range of the Tien Shan, on the frontier of Kyrgyzstan and China. It was first identified in 1943 as the tallest peak (24,406 feet [7,439 metres]) in the Tien Shan range and the second highest peak in what was then the Soviet Union; it is

Shenyang, capital of Liaoning sheng (province), China, and the largest city in the Northeast (formerly Manchuria). It is one of China’s greatest industrial centres. Shenyang is situated in the southern portion of the vast Northeast (Manchurian) Plain just north of the Hun River, a major tributary

Shengli oil field, oil field in Shandong province, China, one of the country’s major sources of petroleum. Consisting of about 40 small fields, it is located southeast of Beijing, near the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli) and south of the mouth of the Huang He (Yellow River). Teams, brought in from the

Mo Yan: …Sandalwood Death), Shengsi pilao (2006; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out), and Wa (2009; Frog). Wan shu de ren (2020; A Late Bloomer) contains 12 novellas.

Xiao Hong: …finished her novel Shengsichang (The Field of Life and Death). The same year, they went to Shanghai, where Shengsichang was published in 1935 with the renowned writer Lu Xun’s help. Lu Xun praised the novel for its carefully observed depiction of the lives and struggles of ordinary northeasterners. The…

India: Southern Indian kingdoms: His son Shenguttuvan, much eulogized in the poems, also is mentioned in the context of Gajabahu’s rule in Sri Lanka, which can be dated to either the first or last quarter of the 2nd century ce, depending on whether he was the earlier or the later Gajabahu.…

Kangxi was the second emperor (reigned 1661–1722) of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644–1911/12). To the Chinese empire he added areas north of the Amur River (Heilong Jiang) and portions of Outer Mongolia, and he extended control over Tibet. He opened four ports to foreign trade and encouraged the

collapse of the Soviet Union: The coup against Gorbachev: defense council; Oleg Shenin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU); and Gen. Valentin Varennikov, chief of the Soviet Army’s ground forces. They were accompanied by KGB Gen. Yury Plekhanov, chief of security for party and state personnel. Their unexpected…

Taoism: Communal folk Taoism (shenjiao): Popular, or folk, religion is not a separate religious tradition but the wholly unorganized undercurrent of Chinese religious culture from the earliest times, shared by all strata of society. The Chinese have no single name for it; it may be called the religion of…

long: …and the Spiritual Dragon (Shenlong), who controls the rain and winds. In popular belief only the latter two were significant; they were transformed into the Dragon Kings (Longwang), gods who lived in the four oceans, delivered rain, and protected seafarers.

Shennong, in Chinese mythology, second of the mythical emperors, said to have been born in the 28th century bce with the head of a bull and the body of a man. By inventing the cart and plow, by taming the ox and yoking the horse, and by teaching his people to clear the land with fire, Shennong

traditional Chinese medicine: Shennong and the Shennong bencaojing: …in the Shennong bencaojing (Divine Husbandsman’s Classic of Medicine), where he categorized the medicines as superior (nonpoisonous and rejuvenating), medium (having some toxicity based on the dosage and exerting tonic effects), or inferior (poisonous but able quickly to reduce fever and cure indigestion). Although most authorities now agree that…

Shenute was a monastic reformer, abbot of the White Monastery, near Atripe in Upper Egypt, who is regarded as a saint in the Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Church. Shenute entered monastic life as a youth and succeeded his uncle as abbot of the White Monastery in 383. He revived the rule of Pachomius,

Shenouda III was the 117th pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the see of St. Mark. As the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) church of the Oriental Orthodox communion, Shenouda expanded the church’s membership both in Egypt and

Shenute was a monastic reformer, abbot of the White Monastery, near Atripe in Upper Egypt, who is regarded as a saint in the Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Church. Shenute entered monastic life as a youth and succeeded his uncle as abbot of the White Monastery in 383. He revived the rule of Pachomius,

Shenute was a monastic reformer, abbot of the White Monastery, near Atripe in Upper Egypt, who is regarded as a saint in the Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Church. Shenute entered monastic life as a youth and succeeded his uncle as abbot of the White Monastery in 383. He revived the rule of Pachomius,

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet was a Russian poet and translator, whose sincere and passionate lyric poetry strongly influenced later Russian poets, particularly the Symbolist Aleksandr Blok. The illegitimate son of a German woman named Fet (or Foeth) and of a Russian landowner named Shenshin, whose name

Shaanxi, sheng (province) of north-central China. It is bordered by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north, Shanxi province to the east, Henan and Hubei provinces to the southeast, Chongqing municipality and Sichuan province to the south, Gansu province to the west, and the Hui

William Shenstone was a representative 18th-century English “man of taste.” As a poet, amateur landscape gardener, and collector, he influenced the trend away from Neoclassical formality in the direction of greater naturalness and simplicity. From 1745, in response to the current vogue for the

Shenute was a monastic reformer, abbot of the White Monastery, near Atripe in Upper Egypt, who is regarded as a saint in the Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Church. Shenute entered monastic life as a youth and succeeded his uncle as abbot of the White Monastery in 383. He revived the rule of Pachomius,

Shenyang, capital of Liaoning sheng (province), China, and the largest city in the Northeast (formerly Manchuria). It is one of China’s greatest industrial centres. Shenyang is situated in the southern portion of the vast Northeast (Manchurian) Plain just north of the Hun River, a major tributary

Shenzhen, city, south-central Guangdong sheng (province), southeastern China. It lies along the coast of the South China Sea and immediately north of Hong Kong. In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong. That

BYD Co. Ltd. is a Chinese company that develops and manufactures rechargeable batteries, electric vehicles (EVs), rail transit systems, and other new energy technologies. It was founded by Wang Chuanfu in 1995 as the Shenzhen BYD Battery Co. Ltd. and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China. BYD, an

Hong Kong: Drainage: …in the north where the Sham Chun (Shenzhen) River, which forms the boundary between Guangdong and Hong Kong, flows into Deep Bay after collecting a number of small tributaries. Most of the streams are small, and they generally run perpendicular to the northeast-southwest trend of the terrain. The construction of…

Shenzhou, any of a series of Chinese spacecraft, the fifth flight of which carried the first Chinese astronaut into space. Shenzhou is similar in design to the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Like Soyuz, Shenzhou consists of three modules: a cylindrical rear module that contains instrumentation and the

Shenyang, capital of Liaoning sheng (province), China, and the largest city in the Northeast (formerly Manchuria). It is one of China’s greatest industrial centres. Shenyang is situated in the southern portion of the vast Northeast (Manchurian) Plain just north of the Hun River, a major tributary

Shenzhou: …2, was visited only by Shenzhou 11 in late 2016. Two astronauts spent more than 32 days in orbit.

Shenzhou: …first flight to the station, Shenzhou 12, carried three astronauts and docked with Tianhe in June 2021.

Zhai Zhigang: …to space, as commander of Shenzhou 13, on October 15, 2021, with Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu. Shenzhou 13 was the second flight to the Tiangong space station, and Zhai and his fellow crew members spent 182 days in space, a record for the longest Chinese spaceflight. He performed two…

Liu Yang: …2022, as part of the Shenzhou 14 mission with commander Chen Dong and operator Cai Xuzhe. Shenzhou 14 docked with the Tianhe module of the Tiangong space station. Liu and her fellow crew members planned to stay aboard Tiangong for six months and supervise the addition of the Mengtian and…

Shenzhou: On October 15, 2003, Shenzhou 5 carried the first Chinese astronaut, pilot Yang Liwei, on a 21-hour spaceflight. China thus became the third country after Russia and the United States to launch a crewed spacecraft. Shenzhou 6 was launched on October 12, 2005, lasted five days, and carried two…

Shenzhou: Shenzhou 6 was launched on October 12, 2005, lasted five days, and carried two astronauts. Shenzhou 7 was launched on September 25, 2008, and carried three astronauts; one of them, commander Zhai Zhigang, made the first Chinese space walk.

Shenzhou: Shenzhou 7 was launched on September 25, 2008, and carried three astronauts; one of them, commander Zhai Zhigang, made the first Chinese space walk.

Shenzhou: …29, 2011, and the uncrewed Shenzhou 8 automatically docked with Tiangong 1 on November 3, 2011. The first crewed mission to Tiangong 1, Shenzhou 9, launched on June 16, 2012, and carried China’s first woman astronaut, Liu Yang. Shenzhou 8 and 9 were, respectively, China’s first uncrewed and crewed space…

Shenzhou: …crewed mission to Tiangong 1, Shenzhou 9, launched on June 16, 2012, and carried China’s first woman astronaut, Liu Yang. Shenzhou 8 and 9 were, respectively, China’s first uncrewed and crewed space docking. Shenzhou 10, launched on June 11, 2013, carried three astronauts to Tiangong 1 for a two-week mission.…

Wanli was the emperor of China from 1572 to 1620, during the latter portion of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). The Wanli emperor was a recluse whose apparent inattention to government affairs contributed to the abuses of power by provincial officials and other political figures that came to dominate

Shenzong was the temple name (miaohao) of the sixth emperor (reigned 1067–85) of the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China. During his reign some of the greatest intellectual and cultural figures of the era flourished, among them Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo. Under the Shenzong emperor, the radical reformer

Sheol, abode of the dead in the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament). The term can be interpreted to mean either the literal place in which dead people are placed (i.e., in the ground) or the ancient world’s concept of the afterlife as a subterranean “land of gloom and deep darkness” (Book of

Sheopur, town, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated in a plateau region on a small tributary of the Chambal River. The town and fort were founded in 1537 by Gaur Rajputs (a warrior caste) and served as capital of Sheopur princely state. It is now a road junction and rail

Sheopur, town, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated in a plateau region on a small tributary of the Chambal River. The town and fort were founded in 1537 by Gaur Rajputs (a warrior caste) and served as capital of Sheopur princely state. It is now a road junction and rail

Alan B. Shepard, Jr. was the first U.S. astronaut to travel in space. Shepard graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1944 and served in the Pacific during World War II onboard the destroyer Cogswell. He earned his naval aviator wings in 1947, qualified as a test pilot in

Alan B. Shepard, Jr. was the first U.S. astronaut to travel in space. Shepard graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1944 and served in the Pacific during World War II onboard the destroyer Cogswell. He earned his naval aviator wings in 1947, qualified as a test pilot in

Kristen Bell: Early films, TV after Veronica Mars, and personal life: …roles, she began dating actor Dax Shepard; they married in 2013 and have two daughters, Lincoln Bell Shepard (born 2013) and Delta Bell Shepard (born 2014).

caricature and cartoon: England: Bateman, Nicolas Bentley, E.H. Shepard, and Osbert Lancaster. Leech was in a sense the pictorial equivalent of Thackeray (Thackeray was an excellent comic draftsman but better at getting the feel of past time with a comic flavour than at considering his contemporaries other than in words). Leech and…

Francis P. Shepard was an American marine geologist whose pioneering surveys of submarine canyons off the coast of California near La Jolla marked the beginning of Pacific marine geology. Shepard studied geology at Harvard under R.A. Daly and at the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1922). Most of

Francis P. Shepard was an American marine geologist whose pioneering surveys of submarine canyons off the coast of California near La Jolla marked the beginning of Pacific marine geology. Shepard studied geology at Harvard under R.A. Daly and at the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1922). Most of

Matthew Shepard was an American college student who was severely beaten because of his sexual orientation and was left to die in 1998. He was discovered and hospitalized, though he succumbed to his injuries. His death, which was evidence of the physical danger that homosexuals still sometimes faced

Matthew Shepard was an American college student who was severely beaten because of his sexual orientation and was left to die in 1998. He was discovered and hospitalized, though he succumbed to his injuries. His death, which was evidence of the physical danger that homosexuals still sometimes faced

Sir Ranulph Fiennes: …fellow Britons Charles Burton and Oliver Shepard, had a support crew of some three dozen people, including Ginny. They departed from Greenwich, England, in September 1979, attempting to stay as close as possible to the Greenwich meridian as they journeyed southward over land and water, until they reached the coast…

Roger Shepard was an American psychologist and cognitive scientist known for his work in multidimensional scaling, the use of spatial models to show similarities and dissimilarities between data. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University and later worked at Bell Laboratories (1958–66) and taught at

Roger Shepard was an American psychologist and cognitive scientist known for his work in multidimensional scaling, the use of spatial models to show similarities and dissimilarities between data. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University and later worked at Bell Laboratories (1958–66) and taught at

Sam Shepard was an American playwright and actor whose plays adroitly blend images of the American West, Pop motifs, science fiction, and other elements of popular and youth culture. As the son of a career army father, Shepard spent his childhood on military bases across the United States and in

Paul Bunyan: These influenced Esther Shephard, who wrote of the mythic hero in Paul Bunyan (1924). James Stevens, also a lumber publicist, mixed tradition and invention in his version of the story, Paul Bunyan (1925). These books restyled Paul’s image for a wide popular audience; their humour centred on…

The Shepheardes Calender, series of poems by Edmund Spenser, published in 1579 and considered to mark the beginning of the English Renaissance in literature. Following the example of Virgil and others, Spenser began his career with a group of eclogues (short poems usually cast as pastoral

sacred kingship: The king as shepherd: An Egyptian pharaoh once said of himself: “He made me the shepherd of this country.” In Mesopotamia the description of the king as a shepherd was quite frequent; in the 3rd millennium bc the term was applied to Sumerian city princes (e.g., Lugalbanda in…

Shepherdstown: …is based on tourism and Shepherd University. Pop. (2000) 803; (2010) 1,734.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art Is Home to These 12 Notable Paintings: The Shepherd Girl (early 1780s): (Roger Wilson) English artist George Romney was born in Kendal in the Lake District. Almost self-taught as an artist, he moved to London in the 1760s and established himself as one of the most fashionable portrait painters of his day, alongside Joshua…

Shepherd of Hermas, 2nd-century Christian writing that is one of the works representing the Apostolic Fathers (Greek Christian writers of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries). The author, Hermas, is known only through the autobiographical details given in the Shepherd. An enslaved Christian who

Ozark Mountains: …by Harold Bell Wright’s novel The Shepherd of the Hills (1907), which romanticized the Missouri Ozarks. Other economic assets include timber (mainly hardwoods), agriculture (livestock, fruit, and truck farming), and lead and zinc mining.

Henry Hathaway: Early work: In 1941 Hathaway made The Shepherd of the Hills, the first of a number of films to star John Wayne. He then directed a series of World War II dramas, including Sundown (1941), China Girl (1942), and Wing and a Prayer (1944). With Nob Hill (1945), Hathaway ventured into…

Saturn: Orbital and rotational dynamics: …moon, Prometheus, have been dubbed shepherd moons because of their influence on ring particles. During Voyager 1’s flyby, the two bodies were discovered orbiting on either side of the narrow F ring, which itself had been found only a year earlier by Pioneer 11. The moons’ gravitational interactions with the…

Shepherdstown: …is based on tourism and Shepherd University. Pop. (2000) 803; (2010) 1,734.

beaked whale: Natural history: Shepherd’s beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi) is unusual in having numerous small functional teeth.

Terry Pratchett: …and his final Discworld book, The Shepherd’s Crown, was published later that year. In 2017, as per Pratchett’s wishes, his uncompleted works were destroyed—his computer hard drive, which contained as many as 10 unfinished novels, was smashed by a steamroller and then run through a stone crusher.

Tim Winton: …Breath (2008), Eyrie (2013), and The Shepherd’s Hut (2018). He won the Miles Franklin Award three more times: for Cloudstreet (1992), Dirt Music (2002), and Breath (2009). He also wrote several children’s books, including Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo (1990), The Bugalugs Bum Thief (1991), and The Deep

shepherd’s pie, dish of British Isles origin that makes use of vegetables and chopped meat cooked in a casserole topped with or surrounded by mashed potatoes. British cookbooks dating to the 18th century contain recipes for “cottage pie,” the humble dwelling named suggesting the frugal use of