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-stan (ـستان)
The Persian toponymic suffix -stan (ـستان, stân) means "land of" or "place of" and appears in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and other Central and South Asian country names; it descends from PIE steh₂- "to stand" and is unrelated to the slang word stan.
.se
.se is the country-code top-level domain for Sweden, registered on 4 September 1986 as one of the first ccTLDs and managed by the Internet Infrastructure Foundation in Stockholm.
.su
.su is a country-code top-level domain registered in 1990 for the Soviet Union, administered by RIPN since 1993 and still open for new registrations despite planned retirement by 2030.
's-Hertogenbosch
's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Dutch city in North Brabant founded by Duke Henry I of Brabant, city rights 1196; water fortress until the 1629 siege, home of Hieronymus Bosch, about 154,000 inhabitants.
'Salem's Lot
'Salem's Lot is Stephen King's second horror novel (Doubleday, October 17, 1975), originally titled Second Coming, set in Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, where writer Ben Mears fights the vampire Kurt Barlow; adapted for screen in 1979, 2004, and 2024.
‘Stailuco’
Stailuco is a toponym on the Tabula Peutingeriana Roman road map, Pannonia, identified with Föttveny (Lébény–Barátföld-puszta, Hungary), Barrington Atlas 20 E2, Pleiades 197527, RE III A.2 (1929).
‘Surontio’
Surontio: ancient road station in Noricum on the Tabula Peutingeriana, between Stiriate and Tartursanis, identified with Trieben im Paltental, Styria, Austria; Barrington Atlas 20 B2, attested 30 BC–AD 640.
" Surfhub " Club
" Surfhub " Club is a surfing sports location in Kapshagay city, Almaty Province, Kazakhstan, on the Kapshagay Reservoir near Konayev; OSM node 12324823495, tagged amenity=training, sport=surfing, distinct from Moroccan, Cape Verdean, and Australian SurfHub businesses.
"Superstar" Billy Graham
"Superstar" Billy Graham (Eldridge Wayne Coleman, 1943–2023), American bodybuilder turned WWE wrestler; ended Bruno Sammartino's WWE Championship reign in 1977; persona template for Hulk Hogan and Jesse Ventura; Hall of Fame 2004.
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding and Steve Cropper's soul ballad, recorded at Stax in November and December 1967 and released January 8, 1968, three days after Redding's final take; the first posthumous No. 1 single in American chart history, four weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, with its famous whistled outro.
*Sarnali
Sarnali (also Sarralis, Sartali) was an ancient Roman road station in Gaul on the Tolosa (Toulouse) to Aginnum (Agen) road, attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana section 1b1 and Barrington Atlas 25 G2; no remains identified.
*Severiacus
Severiacus, a reconstructed Gallo-Roman toponym (BAtlas 14 G1) for a late-antique villa at Sevrier on Lake Annecy, France; estate of a Severus, on the Boutae–Casuaria Roman road, with finds at la Planche.
*Sisciacum
Sisciacum, a conjecturally named Roman villa near Sioussac, Le Vigeois, Corrèze, France (Barrington Atlas 14 G3), known from the 572 testament of Aredius granting its lands to St Martin's monastery; distinct from namesake villages Soizé and Sissac.
*ST Mubang
ST Mubang is the trading name of Jiangxi Mubang High-Tech, a Shanghai-listed company that moved from educational toys into photovoltaic silicon and now faces delisting.
*Sulis
Sulis, Celtic goddess of the Bath hot springs, worshipped in Roman Britain as Sulis Minerva at Aquae Sulis; her temple (60-70 AD) and sacred spring yielded 130 curse tablets, the key archive of Romano-Celtic religion.
& Sons
& Sons (2025) is Pablo Trapero's English-language debut, a drama adapted from David Gilbert's 2013 novel, written with Sarah Polley, starring Bill Nighy as reclusive novelist A.N. Dyer; premiered at TIFF 2025, UK release 21 August 2026. Distinct from the 2026 Telugu film Vishwanath & Sons.
£sd
£sd, or pounds, shillings and pence, from the Latin librae, solidi, and denarii, was Britain's pre-decimal currency: 12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound, until 1971.
Š
Š, š (S with caron, U+0160/U+0161) is a Latin letter marking the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/, native to Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, and Baltic alphabets; encoded in Unicode 1.1 with HTML entity š.
S (programming language)
S, or the S language, is a programming language for statistical computing and graphics developed at Bell Laboratories from the mid-1970s by John Chambers, Rick Becker, and Allan Wilks.
S abscisic acid
S abscisic acid (S-ABA), the active cis-isomer of the plant hormone abscisic acid, is a plant growth regulator used for drought tolerance, fruit ripening, and transplant handling; EU-approved since 2014 and US-registered since 2010.
S Andromedae
S Andromedae, also designated SN 1885A, was a supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy discovered by Ernst Hartwig in 1885, the first supernova observed beyond the Milky Way.
S band
The S band is a portion of the microwave radio spectrum near 10 cm wavelength, roughly 2 to 3 GHz, used for radar and spacecraft communication.
S Capital
S Capital is an Israel-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 by former Sequoia Israel investors, led by Haim Sadger and Aya Peterburg, backing Israeli deep-technology startups.
S Club
S Club (originally S Club 7) is a British pop group created by Simon Fuller in 1998, launched via the BBC series Miami 7, with four UK number-one singles, over 10 million records sold, and a five-piece lineup touring since 2023.
S Club 8
S Club 8 (originally S Club Juniors) were a British pop group formed in 2001 by Simon Fuller as a spin-off of S Club 7, placing six singles in the UK Top Ten before disbanding around 2004-2005.
S corporation
S corporation: a U.S. federal tax election under subchapter S letting qualifying domestic corporations with up to 100 shareholders and one class of stock pass income through to shareholders, avoiding double taxation.
S Doradus
S Doradus is a luminous blue variable star in the Large Magellanic Cloud whose variability, first noticed by Edward Pickering in 1897, defines the S Doradus variable class.
S Lawrence Zipursky
S. Lawrence Zipursky (Stephen Lawrence Zipursky) is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry at UCLA, known for discovering how developing neurons recognize their correct synaptic partners.
S Line (TV series)
S Line (에스라인) is a 2025 Wavve six-episode South Korean fantasy thriller directed by Ahn Joo-young, adapted from Kkomabi's webtoon, in which red lines expose sexual relationships; it won Best Music at Canneseries 2025.
S metolachlor
S-metolachlor (CGA 77102), the S-enantiomer-enriched chloroacetanilide herbicide replacing metolachlor, used for grass weed control in maize and sunflower; EU approval expired January 2024, still a top US herbicide.