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Slovakia-related Topics
- SlovakiaSlovakiaThe Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
ISO country code - Slovak crownSlovak korunaIn 1993, coins were introduced in denominations of 10, 20 and 50 haliers, 1, 2, 5 and 10 korunas. The 10 and 20 halier coins were taken out of circulation on 31 December 2003....
, the former currency of Slovakia - .sk.sk.sk is the Internet country code top-level domain for Slovakia. It is administered by SK-NIC a.s. Registrations are only allowed to local entities.Before the split in 1993 former Czechoslovakia used domain .cs.-External links:* * *...
, the internet country code top-level domain for Slovakia - ISO 3166-2:SKISO 3166-2:SKISO 3166-2:SK is the entry for Slovakia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Slovakia, ISO 3166-2 codes are...
, codes for the regions of Slovakia - Slovak languageSlovak languageSlovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
ISO 639ISO 639ISO 639 is a set of standards by the International Organization for Standardization that is concerned with representation of names for language and language groups....
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Other places
- South KoreaSouth KoreaThe Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, a country in East Asia - SaskatchewanSaskatchewanSaskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, a Canadian province/territory code - StockportStockportStockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground southeast of Manchester city centre, at the point where the rivers Goyt and Tame join and create the River Mersey. Stockport is the largest settlement in the metropolitan borough of the same name...
United Kingdom postcode - South Kanara, a district in Karnataka, India
Organizations or Groups
- Sangguniang KabataanSangguniang KabataanThe Sangguniang Kabataan is the governing body in every chapter of the Katipunan ng Kabataan . Each barangay in the Philippines is mandated by law to have its own chapter of the Katipunan ng Kabataan, aging from 15 to 18 years old who resides in their respective barangays for at least 6months...
, a youth organization in the Philippines - SK Corporation, a South Korean conglomerate
- SK WyvernsSK WyvernsSK Wyverns Baseball Club is a South Korean professional baseball team founded in 2000. Based in Incheon, they play their home games at Munhak Baseball Stadium.Their current manager is Man Soo Lee .-History:...
, a South Korean KBO baseball team - SK FoodsSK FoodsSK Foods was a California-based agribusiness company. It was a major producer of tomatoes, producing over half of the US supply at its formation in 2005...
, an American agribusiness company - SK GamingSK GamingSK Gaming is a professional German electronic sports organization founded in 1997 by a small group of Quake players living in Oberhausen. SK Gaming retains teams across different genres and are particularly known for their success in Counter-Strike tournaments...
, an electronic sports team - SK Hand ToolsSK Hand ToolsS-K Hand Tools is a tool company located in Sycamore, Illinois. Major products include sockets and drive tools, wrenches, air tools, and other mechanics' tools; SK has a tool line of over 3500 pieces including wrenches, ratchets, screwdrivers, tool boxes and air tools...
, an American tool manufacturer - Shonen KnifeShonen KnifeShonen Knife, written in Japanese characters as 少年ナイフ, which transliterates as Shōnen Naifu, literally "Boy Knife," is an all-female Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, Japan, in 1981...
. a Japanese rock group - Street Kings, a tagging crew from Gardena, California
Other
- Sam KinisonSam KinisonSamuel Burl "Sam" Kinison was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Kinison was known for his intense, harsh and politically incorrect genre humor...
, a comedian - Søren KierkegaardSøren KierkegaardSøren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...
, a Danish philosopher - Sleater-KinneySleater-KinneySleater-Kinney was an alternative rock band from Portland, Oregon that formed in 1994. Originally formed in Olympia, Washington, the group's name is derived from Sleater-Kinney Road, Interstate 5 off ramp #108 in Lacey, Washington, the location of one of their early practice spaces. They were a...
, an American punk band - Suomen KuvalehtiSuomen KuvalehtiSuomen Kuvalehti is a weekly Finnish magazine, published by Otava every Friday. The magazine has a circulation of 101,000 and its editor is Tapani Ruokanen. Suomen Kuvalehti aims to write broad articles about current topics.The comic strip Blondie regularly appears in the magazine...
, a Finnish magazine - SK (people mover)SK (people mover)The SK is a people mover built by the company Soulé from Bagnères-de-Bigorre. The acronym SK comes from the initials of the production company and of the designer ....
, a people mover - SK channelSK channelSK channels are a subfamily of Ca2+-activated K+ channels. They are so called because of their small single channel conductance, ~10 pS. SK channels are a type of ion channel allowing potassium cations to cross the cell membrane and are activated by an increase in the concentration of...
, a small conductance calcium-activated potassium channel - Shaman KingShaman Kingis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. Shaman King follows the adventures of Yoh Asakura as he attempts to hone his shaman skills to become the Shaman King in the Shaman tournament....
, a manga and anime series - Swanky Kong, a character in the Donkey Kong series
- Super-KamiokandeSuper-KamiokandeSuper-Kamiokande is a neutrino observatory which is under Mount Kamioka near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan...
, a Japanese neutrino detector - Saku KoivuSaku KoivuSaku Antero Koivu is a Finnish professional ice hockey player and an alternate captain of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League . He began his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1995–96 after three seasons with TPS of the Finnish SM-liiga...
, a Finnish ice hockey player - Silicon KnightsSilicon KnightsSilicon Knights is a Canadian video game developer. Founded in 1992 by Denis Dyack, the company is headquartered in St. Catharines, Ontario, Dyack's hometown....
, a Canada-based video game developer
Concepts
- "Stop keying", a prosign used in Morse codeMorse codeMorse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment...
and telecommunications for the deaf - Silent key, an amateur radio operator who has died
- Slater-Koster (J.C. Slater and G.F. Koster), see Atomic orbitalAtomic orbitalAn atomic orbital is a mathematical function that describes the wave-like behavior of either one electron or a pair of electrons in an atom. This function can be used to calculate the probability of finding any electron of an atom in any specific region around the atom's nucleus...
- Sekolah Kebangsaan, a type of school in Malaysia
- The IATA code for Scandinavian Airlines SystemScandinavian Airlines SystemScandinavian Airlines or SAS, previously Scandinavian Airlines System, is the flag carrier of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and the largest airline in Scandinavia....
- StorekeeperStorekeeperStorekeeper is an enlisted rating in the United States Coast Guard; until 2009 it was also a United States Navy rating, the most common supply rate in US Navy vs. CS and SH and very much equivalent to the MOS 92 of the US Army...
, a naval rating in the United States Navy - SK combinator calculus, more commonly known as SKI combinator calculusSKI combinator calculusSKI combinator calculus is a computational system that may be perceived as a reduced version of untyped lambda calculus. It can be thought of as a computer programming language, though it is not useful for writing software...